Re: [Nix-dev] Security channel proposal

2014-09-26 Thread Christian Theune
On 26. Sep2014, at 18:55, Domen Kožar wrote: > > > On Fri, Sep 26, 2014 at 6:53 PM, Christian Theune wrote: > > On 25. Sep2014, at 20:00, Domen Kožar wrote: > > > Note that from business perspective server admin usually wants to do > > following two things: > > > > 1) to be notified if an

Re: [Nix-dev] Security channel proposal

2014-09-26 Thread Domen Kožar
On Fri, Sep 26, 2014 at 6:53 PM, Christian Theune wrote: > > On 25. Sep2014, at 20:00, Domen Kožar wrote: > > > Note that from business perspective server admin usually wants to do > following two things: > > > > 1) to be notified if any of software packages has a security vuln > > 2) to take au

Re: [Nix-dev] Security channel proposal

2014-09-26 Thread Christian Theune
On 25. Sep2014, at 20:00, Domen Kožar wrote: > Note that from business perspective server admin usually wants to do > following two things: > > 1) to be notified if any of software packages has a security vuln > 2) to take automated/manual actions to upgrade ONLY those packages and not > bump

Re: [Nix-dev] Ordering the downloads of nixos-rebuild

2014-09-26 Thread Lluís Batlle i Rossell
I also wanted since long that the lists of derivations to be built were sorted by build order, and not alphabetically by nix store path. I can't help you, Anderson - I just add my request to yours. :) On Fri, Sep 26, 2014 at 06:44:51AM -0300, Anderson Torres wrote: > Hello, boys! I have a questi

Re: [Nix-dev] Best way to install a bunch of old Python packages

2014-09-26 Thread Marc Weber
I once tried https://gitorious.org/nixpkgs-python-overlay. Like nixpkgs-overlay and hack-nix this uses a different approach: a) dump everything from pypi into a format readable by nix b) use a package description to assemble derivations on the fly. This is using a simple brute force solver, if

Re: [Nix-dev] Best way to install a bunch of old Python packages

2014-09-26 Thread Paul Colomiets
Hi, On Fri, Sep 26, 2014 at 1:01 PM, Jascha Geerds wrote: > Is there another alternative project to get the job done? > There are also: https://github.com/proger/python2nix https://github.com/tailhook/reqtxt2nix But they doesn't handle dependencies either :) I use the latter (which I'm also a

[Nix-dev] Best way to install a bunch of old Python packages

2014-09-26 Thread Jascha Geerds
What is the best way in NixOS to install a bunch of old Python 2.6 packages? Most of them aren't inside nixpkgs and especially not in the correct version. All I have is a single requirements.txt file (in a "pip" readable format). I've found two tools: [garbas' pypi2nix] https://github.com/garbas/

[Nix-dev] Ordering the downloads of nixos-rebuild

2014-09-26 Thread Anderson Torres
Hello, boys! I have a question... My internet connection is not so good, and I want to know how can I put some ordering on "nixos-rebuild switch" downloads. My idea is to make it download the more heavier, disk/network-consuming packages (texlive, kdelibs etc) first. There is some way to do it?