[Nix-dev] How to debug 'error: getting status of ... no such file or directory'?

I have what seems like a straightforward issue with paths, but am not sure how to debug it. I run my usual "update everything" script, which looks like this and is located at /git/hub/nixcfg/install.sh: #!/usr/bin/env bash # Automates rebuilding nixos from my repos. # Takes the same args as

Re: [Nix-dev] mxe on NixOS

Wrapping this thread up: mxe has an environment variable whitelist that was causing the problem. NixOS relies heavily on environment variables (such as PKG_CONFIG_PATH) to utilize /nix/store/*. mxe has the whitelist in order to keep the OS separate from MXE, but it also relies on hard coded paths

[Nix-dev] Nixpkgs [haskell] overlay

Hey, beautiful people! For our own packages (WIP ones and private), we'd like to inject our own stuff into haskellPackages by means of an overlay, maintained as a [git] repository. We want solution to be as transparent as possible while not being a fork of nixpkgs. We imagine some module that

Re: [Nix-dev] vagrant-nixos-plugin

Hello Christian, this is great - I’m looking forward to play with this. > On 01 Sep 2015, at 22:14, Christian Theune wrote: > > Hi, > > even though the "vagrant-nixos” plugin was featured on the Twitter feed > recently - the original author seems to be MIA and Zimbatm

[Nix-dev] vagrant-nixos-plugin

Hi, even though the "vagrant-nixos” plugin was featured on the Twitter feed recently - the original author seems to be MIA and Zimbatm and I want to move forward. We’ve been trying to get in contact for a couple of months now and we thought it’s time to fork and move on. We have created

[Nix-dev] PSA: basic NixOS installer

I wrote a simple script for myself for installing on a UEFI machine. Maybe someone will find it useful: https://github.com/nkaretnikov/nixos-installer The main idea is to allow you to boot with a minimal config, so you could iterate on it, instead of dancing around with a flash drive in case you

[Nix-dev] Custom packages and build-support functions

Hi, While trying to add the image magick php extension to a container as a custom package[1] with the following separate nix expression: with import {}; buildPecl { version = "3.1.2"; name = "imagick-${version}"; sha256 = "14vclf2pqcgf3w8nzqbdw0b9v30q898344c84jdbw2sa62n6k1sj";

Re: [Nix-dev] Trouble packaging llvmlite, Python bindings for LLVM

Hi Thomas, It's good to hear you also gave it a try. I reported the issue https://github.com/numba/llvmlite/issues/93 Freddy On Sun, Aug 30, 2015 at 12:30 PM, Thomas Hunger wrote: > Hi Freddy, > > I ran into the numba segfault as well [1]. I tried to debug the issue with >