Re: [Nix-dev] golden-cheetah compiling, but not linking against Qt correctly

2017-04-12 Thread Oliver Charles
Peter Hoeg <pe...@hoeg.com> writes: > Hi Oliver, > > On 17-04-10 at 16:31, Oliver Charles wrote: >> Does anyone know what's going on here? Is golden-cheetah doing something >> funky with its build scripts? > > I think it has to do with th

[Nix-dev] golden-cheetah compiling, but not linking against Qt correctly

2017-04-10 Thread Oliver Charles
Hi all, I've been stuck on this for a while. In nixpkgs, we have a golden-cheetah expression. In all-packages.nix: golden-cheetah = libsForQt5.callPackage ../applications/misc/golden-cheetah {}; It builds just fine, but when I try and actually run it: → ./result/bin/GoldenCheetah

Re: [Nix-dev] Banning people from the mailinglist?

2017-04-04 Thread Oliver Charles
Matthias Beyer writes: > We had the systemd conversation endless times now. > > We all know that some people don't like systemd and other ones like > it. > > Can we just ban the (non-constructive) "fuck systemd" people? I > mean... nobody benefits from this kind of

Re: [Nix-dev] Nix-store --repair doesn't seem to be repairing

2017-03-18 Thread Oliver Charles
//github.com/NixOS/nix/issues/995#issue-167190248 > > On Mar 14, 2017 10:26 AM, "Christian Kauhaus" <k...@flyingcircus.io> wrote: > > Am 14.03.2017 um 00:18 schrieb Oliver Charles: > > Hmm, how did you reach that conclusion? > > Re-downloading from a trusted

Re: [Nix-dev] Google Summer of Code 2017

2017-03-15 Thread Oliver Charles
On Wed, Mar 15, 2017 at 12:47 PM Domen Kožar wrote: > We aren't participating in GSOC 2017, because I missed the submission > deadline. > > > That being said, I know people will be disappointed by this. I'm sorry, > I have no excuses really. I was overworked at that time and

Re: [Nix-dev] NixOS 17.03 Beta, 16.09 Security Support Timeline

2017-03-14 Thread Oliver Charles
Linus Heckemann <a...@sphalerite.org> writes: > On 09/03/17 10:26, Oliver Charles wrote: >> sudo: /run/current-system/sw/bin/sudo must be owned by uid 0 and have >> the setuid bit set > > Are you just adding sudo to systemPackages rather than using the option > se

Re: [Nix-dev] Nix-store --repair doesn't seem to be repairing

2017-03-13 Thread Oliver Charles
Hmm, how did you reach that conclusion? On Mon, Mar 13, 2017 at 8:48 AM Christian Kauhaus <k...@flyingcircus.io> wrote: > Am 12.03.2017 um 20:07 schrieb Oliver Charles: > > Any idea what's going on here? > > Looks like the corruption is rather in the sqlite than in the tree.

[Nix-dev] Nix-store --repair doesn't seem to be repairing

2017-03-12 Thread Oliver Charles
Any idea what's going on here? ➜ ~ sudo nix-store --verify-path /nix/store/2s0mb3dfp8bjmdckmzfp1vr3w3kr8s4v-gdbm-1.12 ~ path ‘/nix/store/2s0mb3dfp8bjmdckmzfp1vr3w3kr8s4v-gdbm-1.12’ was modified! expected hash ‘84e441a23c8487315633fcd4a609cb4cb6044c0e82e0c98851fe155a1ae79568’, got ‘1b2101d3abb7

Re: [Nix-dev] nixpkgs > 100k commits

2017-02-03 Thread Oliver Charles
Bas van Dijk writes: > Dear all, > > FYI the nixpkgs repository[1] just went over 100.000 commits! But Git doesn't scale to large repositories! :screaming face emoji: repeated for emphasis. Oh wait, we seem to be doing just fine. Congrats everyone, this is a great

Re: [Nix-dev] Shutting down prs.nix.gsc.io

2017-02-01 Thread Oliver Charles
If you would like any help covering this bill, I'd be happy to contribute. You're doing amazing work and there's no reason you should be out of money for this. In an alternative reality people get paid to write code, you know! ;) On Wed, 1 Feb 2017, 8:23 am zimbatm, wrote:

Re: [Nix-dev] List of companies using NixOS (Sander van der Burg)

2016-12-08 Thread Oliver Charles
We use Nix at https://circuithub.com/ for builds using Hydra, and deploying the build binaries to our Heroku servers. - Ollie On Wed, Dec 7, 2016 at 9:15 PM Thomas Bereknyei wrote: > I'm investigating using NixOS/NixOps/Disnix for quick prototypes as part > of Department of

Re: [Nix-dev] 16.09 beta released

2016-09-12 Thread Oliver Charles
I'm not having any luck here. Mine freezes during init with both unfree ATI drivers and the open source drivers :/ haven't had a chance to look further yet though I'm afraid, but it's unusable for me. Ollie On Mon, 12 Sep 2016, 9:30 a.m. Tomasz Czyż, wrote: > Domen, > >

Re: [Nix-dev] Too many open issues

2016-07-22 Thread Oliver Charles
Agreed. But if the problem is you think old issues are skewing the results/making it hard to find the signal, then can't you just use more intelligent search filters? E.g., things created in the past 3 months. On Fri, Jul 22, 2016 at 10:15 AM Eelco Dolstra wrote: >

Re: [Nix-dev] Too many open issues

2016-07-22 Thread Oliver Charles
What does the number 0 bring us if there are in reality still hundreds of issues? On Fri, 22 Jul 2016, 8:06 a.m. Wout Mertens, wrote: > We have 1238 open issues and 286 open PRs. > > That is just too much to reason about. > > How about using something like

[Nix-commits] [NixOS/nixpkgs] 5da05e: bluejeans: 2.160.49.8 -> 2.160.63.8

2016-07-11 Thread Oliver Charles
gs/commit/65ac26e28a9191cb95410832e2272a1fe1d910e9 Author: Oliver Charles <ol...@ocharles.org.uk> Date: 2016-07-11 (Mon, 11 Jul 2016) Changed paths: M pkgs/applications/networking/browsers/mozilla-plugins/bluejeans/default.nix Log Message: --- Merge pull request #16841 from womfoo/bump/bluej

[Nix-commits] [NixOS/nixpkgs] 5ee480: fish: 2.3.0 -> 2.3.1

2016-07-11 Thread Oliver Charles
l 2016) Changed paths: M pkgs/shells/fish/default.nix Log Message: --- fish: 2.3.0 -> 2.3.1 Commit: e75332dd7e96f8ad33d9e7130b2f977071763c29 https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/commit/e75332dd7e96f8ad33d9e7130b2f977071763c29 Author: Oliver Charles <ol...@ocharles.or

Re: [Nix-dev] Stackage Support Will Be Discontinued

2016-06-09 Thread Oliver Charles
I pin my Haskell packages by using fetchFromGitHub with a specific nixpkgs revisions, and then import the result. The only downside is the Haskell packages linking against things like OpenSSL as you say wouldn't get patched. On Wed, 8 Jun 2016, 8:58 p.m. Teo Klestrup Röijezon,

[Nix-commits] [NixOS/nixpkgs] b3acd8: ghc801.MonadCatchIO-transformers: jailbreak

2016-05-23 Thread Oliver Charles
Branch: refs/heads/master Home: https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs Commit: b3acd8ca3956f888643de91282181656ff48c3fc https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/commit/b3acd8ca3956f888643de91282181656ff48c3fc Author: Oliver Charles <ol...@ocharles.org.uk> Date: 2016-05-23 (Mon, 23 Ma

Re: [Nix-dev] NixOps - secret/credentials management

2016-05-12 Thread Oliver Charles
You're right! I didn't entirely think that one through, shouldn't reply to emails before my morning cup of coffee ;) Ollie On Thu, May 12, 2016 at 9:48 AM Peter Simons wrote: > Hi Oliver, > > > One option is to introduce these credentials as parameters to your > network

Re: [Nix-dev] NixOps - secret/credentials management

2016-05-12 Thread Oliver Charles
Hi Tomasz, One option is to introduce these credentials as parameters to your network evaluation: { secretCertificate }: { web = { ... } : ... } Then you will need to set this parameter when you do deployments in order to evaluate the network expression and perform deployments. You could

[Nix-commits] [NixOS/nixpkgs] a36f72: bluejeans: 2.125.24.5 -> 2.155.17.5

2016-05-11 Thread Oliver Charles
gs/commit/e8b3184895aba2ade83aa7f91d86fed5e3fde7f3 Author: Oliver Charles <ol...@ocharles.org.uk> Date: 2016-05-11 (Wed, 11 May 2016) Changed paths: M pkgs/applications/networking/browsers/mozilla-plugins/bluejeans/default.nix Log Message: --- Merge pull request #15387 from womfoo/bluej

Re: [Nix-dev] Source URL breakage – please can we improve the determinism

2016-05-08 Thread Oliver Charles
On Sun, 8 May 2016, 1:19 a.m. J. R. Haigh, wrote: > Dear Nix project leaders, > I don't find NixOS to be very deterministic at all, and it's > nearly always for the same reason: source files on random servers scattered > across the Internet going walkabouts. >

Re: [Nix-dev] break purity

2016-04-24 Thread Oliver Charles
I'm afraid I don't really know what I'm looking at. Can you provide a smaller self-contained example that I can look at? On Sat, Apr 23, 2016 at 8:48 PM stewart mackenzie wrote: > Okay, I'm having a few problems implementing this, if you wouldn't > mind taking a look at this

Re: [Nix-dev] break purity

2016-04-22 Thread Oliver Charles
It's certainly possible, because I just did it with Haskell ;) https://gist.github.com/ocharles/cbd5d7ce63bb570abb86e655f36435ab On Fri, Apr 22, 2016 at 7:16 PM stewart mackenzie wrote: > Yeah, I'm not so sure it's possible because one cannot copy from a > precompiled

Re: [Nix-dev] break purity

2016-04-22 Thread Oliver Charles
Well you don't tie the knot in the expression itself. It's more that the pre-existing artefacts are a function input, and a function output: { stdenv, gcc, etc, artefacts ? null }: { preConfigure = "cp ${artefacts}/* .''; outputs = [ "out" "artefacts" ]; } Then you would nix-build to produce

Re: [Nix-dev] break purity

2016-04-22 Thread Oliver Charles
Something I'm experimenting with here is to actually have these intermediate artefacts be explicitly captured. I would use multiple outputs to have both the normal complete binaries, and another output for .o files and the like. Then you can feed this back in to future builds. Does that help?

Re: [Nix-dev] Hydra jobs from private git repositories

2016-03-25 Thread Oliver Charles
I've had luck just doing `sudo -u hydra -i` on the Hydra machine and setting up id_rsa and friends in ~/.ssh. I think the full path is /var/lib/hydra/.ssh. On Fri, Mar 25, 2016 at 3:19 PM Teo Klestrup Röijezon wrote: > Hi, > > Is there any support for setting up Hydra jobs

Re: [Nix-dev] How to use binaries from other hosts?

2016-03-14 Thread Oliver Charles
On Mon, Mar 14, 2016 at 9:08 AM Matthias Beyer wrote: > Hi, > > I'm on nixos unstable. As racket does not build and my thinkpad takes > hours to > build it, I got myself a debian VM in my university cloud and compiled > racket > there. > > How can I retrieve the closure

Re: [Nix-dev] OpenGL and Nix

2016-03-01 Thread Oliver Charles
The only way I've had luck with NixOS and OpenGL in the past is by building anything that needs OpenGL against the same set of nixpkgs that the system is currently *running* as. Maybe that will help? On Tue, Mar 1, 2016 at 5:01 PM stewart mackenzie wrote: > Hi Herwig, > >

Re: [Nix-dev] nix out of memory

2016-02-29 Thread Oliver Charles
What about hidden directories like .git? You can filter these out. And also, what is du -hsc for the given src directories? On Mon, Feb 29, 2016 at 1:17 PM stewart mackenzie wrote: > I have 50 instances of `src = ./.` each time the ./. points to the > root of a rust project

Re: [Nix-dev] nix out of memory

2016-02-29 Thread Oliver Charles
To expand on that, my understanding is that whenever you refer to a local path, that entire path is loaded and held in memory. On Mon, Feb 29, 2016 at 12:12 PM Vladimír Čunát wrote: > On 02/29/2016 12:47 PM, stewart mackenzie wrote: > > What is the reason for dumping a very

Re: [Nix-dev] Signed git

2016-02-26 Thread Oliver Charles
You can only point to something if you can sign that pointer. Just telling me a narinfo without any more information (that is, signing that) puts us back to square one. On Fri, Feb 26, 2016 at 10:06 AM Vladimír Čunát <vcu...@gmail.com> wrote: > On 02/26/2016 09:55 AM, Oliver Char

Re: [Nix-dev] Signed git

2016-02-26 Thread Oliver Charles
I don't think S3 is looking for accountability but reproducibility. With nothing signed it's unclear what you should really be expecting for the release ISOs. Signed SHAs and the like give us a way to say "I am releasing this version, and you have a way to check that 'I' really said it". On Fri,

Re: [Nix-dev] How to set up your own Hydra server (video tutorial)

2016-02-22 Thread Oliver Charles
On Wed, Feb 17, 2016 at 10:25 AM zimbatm wrote: > One question that was raised, does anyone know why the hydra modules > aren't part of nixpkgs ? Any organisation who wants to adopt nixos is going > to need it's own hydra, the easiest the setup the wider the adoption. > I

Re: [Nix-dev] Including binary-only derivation in nixops deploy.

2016-02-12 Thread Oliver Charles
If you're saying you want to install something knowing only the Nix store path, you can do: { type = "derivation"; name = "whatever"; outputName = "out"; outPath = builtins.storePath "/nix/store/deadbeefdeadbeef"; } This will attempt to lookup the given store path in binary substitution

Re: [Nix-dev] Notes and ideas about the Nix-UI proposal

2016-01-25 Thread Oliver Charles
On Mon, Jan 25, 2016 at 3:46 PM Thomas Hunger wrote: > The most common mistake I make is: > > nix-env -iA pythonPackages.ipython > error: attribute ‘pythonPackages’ in selection path > ‘pythonPackages.ipython’ not found > (should be nix-env -iA nixpkgs.pythonPackages.ipython)

Re: [Nix-dev] Notes and ideas about the Nix-UI proposal

2016-01-23 Thread Oliver Charles
`nix do`? :) On Sat, Jan 23, 2016 at 4:59 PM Matthias Beyer wrote: > Hi, > > On 23-01-2016 17:39:09, Christian Theune wrote: > > > > I like the direction where this is going a lot. A big +1 from my side. > > Same here. > > > > > As a suggestion to the transactional

Re: [Nix-dev] Flattening pkgs tree in nixpkgs/pkgs

2016-01-08 Thread Oliver Charles
On Fri, Jan 8, 2016 at 3:53 PM Domen Kožar <do...@dev.si> wrote: > Going for attribute set names is hard, since we have many aliases. > > We had a discussion about this at NixCon (I think Oliver Charles has the > notes). > Yep, I lead that sesison but unfortunately have

Re: [Nix-dev] Which is the best way to reload all network configurations? (dhcpclient etc)

2015-12-14 Thread Oliver Charles
Does systemctl restart network.target work? On Thu, Dec 10, 2015 at 10:21 AM Marco Maggesi wrote: > Hi, > > I'm not confident with the systemd infrastructure. > > Which is the best way to shutdown/restart/reload the whole network > infrastructure? > (interfaces,

Re: [Nix-dev] Publish All of Hackage

2015-11-20 Thread Oliver Charles
On Fri, Nov 20, 2015 at 1:58 PM Shea Levy wrote: > The problem with doing this with import-from-derivation is we still > need the hashes of every tarball ahead of time (though that's much > smaller than all of hackage, and we really just need the hash of the > file that

Re: [Nix-dev] Publish All of Hackage

2015-11-20 Thread Oliver Charles
On Fri, Nov 20, 2015 at 1:51 PM Daniel Peebles wrote: > The downside of this approach is that generating the entire Haskell >> package set is actually kind of expensive, and we probably wouldn't want >> to impose those costs onto random users who just wants to have XMonad

Re: [Nix-dev] Publish All of Hackage

2015-11-20 Thread Oliver Charles
On Thu, Nov 19, 2015 at 11:14 AM Peter Simons wrote: > One issue is that checking that ~50MB file into Nixpkgs might be a bad > idea, because it sets a dangerous precedent. Arguably, if we check all > of Hackage into Nixpkgs, then we cannot reasonably say *no* to someone > who

Re: [Nix-dev] Oliver Charles Talk

2015-11-18 Thread Oliver Charles
Hi Stewart, Glad you liked the talk! I will be tidying things up - probably tomorrow - and publishing a blog post on this, and I should be able to have an accompanying Github repository of relevant code. Keep an eye on https://ocharles.org.uk/blog (there are RSS feeds if you use a feed reader).

Re: [Nix-dev] Logo improvement ideas

2015-09-11 Thread Oliver Charles
On Thu, Sep 10, 2015 at 1:35 PM Tim Cuthbertson wrote: > If nobody authoritative wants to set up a poll, I can certainly do one :) > I'm a little bit busy at the moment, but as long as we're not in a hurry... > > To prevent overwhelming people with options, and after letting

Re: [Nix-dev] Meetup in London ?

2015-07-19 Thread Oliver Charles
Hi z, We did have a meetup in London once - I gave a talk which is on YouTube here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pxRSgjPyvqQ As NixOS is still fairly niche, we felt it made sense to have the meetup maybe twice a year. I'm not sure about plans for the next one, but there is certainly interest!

Re: [Nix-dev] Automount for usb thumb drives / other external drives

2015-07-19 Thread Oliver Charles
I've packaged udevil and devmon now. When it reaches the channels, you should be able to just add `services.devmon.enable = true;`, though I haven't been able to test it as my system config doesn't build against HEAD as bumblebee-project.org is down... I can confirm that udevil and devmon at

Re: [Nix-dev] nixos service using privileged ports as a non-root user

2015-06-04 Thread Oliver Charles
I believe the User option in systemd unit configuration should do this. See the systemd.service man page - all options can be used in NixOS On 4 Jun 2015 10:05 pm, Ganesh Sittampalam gan...@earth.li wrote: Hi, I'm adding a service - darcsden - to NixOS that is designed to run as a non-root

Re: [Nix-dev] Nix loves Haskell: the video

2015-05-22 Thread Oliver Charles
Great work peti - this will be really useful as another resource to give to people who want to get started with Haskell and Nix :) - Ollie On Sat, May 23, 2015 at 1:07 AM, Mateusz Kowalczyk fuuze...@fuuzetsu.co.uk wrote: On 05/22/2015 10:38 PM, Peter Simons wrote: Hi folks, Rok Garbas

Re: [Nix-dev] Use Haskell for Shell Scripting

2015-01-30 Thread Oliver Charles
Not sure if you're serious, but the last time we considered even rewriting the scripts in C, people were mostly against that. However, I guess with this the major opposition (can't read the source code easily) goes away, because you can still cat the scripts. However, I'd imagine that the startup

Re: [Nix-dev] A Journey into the Haskell NG infrastructure: Part I

2015-01-10 Thread Oliver Charles
This looks really good! Nice work :) -- ocharles On 10 Jan 2015 15:19, Peter Simons sim...@cryp.to wrote: Hi, It would be nice to have an example of how to use shell.nix and default.nix together. starting with Nixpkgs version 11ac18a, you can do the following. 1) To create an

Re: [Nix-dev] Announcing support for GHCJS

2015-01-06 Thread Oliver Charles
Ertugrul Söylemez ert...@gmx.de writes: Hi everybody, I was going to try it out and found the compiler itself, but couldn't figure out how to make a derivation for a JS package. Is there any documentation on that? If not, in which files should I look? Something like ghcjsWithPackages and

Re: [Nix-dev] Breaking changes log

2014-12-17 Thread Oliver Charles
One thing I really like is Gentoo's news feature - which seems to be discussed in detail at http://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/GLEP:42. Maybe something like that is what you're envisioning? -- ocharles On Wed, Dec 17, 2014 at 1:27 PM, Wout Mertens wout.mert...@gmail.com wrote: Would it be nice if we

Re: [Nix-dev] What does `self` mean in the function `ghcWithPackages`?

2014-12-16 Thread Oliver Charles
On Tue, Dec 16, 2014 at 11:01 AM, Vladimír Čunát wrote: On 12/16/2014 03:30 AM, Carlo Nucera wrote: In the line `packages = pkgs self;` what does `self` refer to? Obviously, ``self`` is the parameter of the whole haskell-packages.nix top-level function (line 58 in recent master version).

Re: [Nix-dev] force nix-build without binary caches?

2014-12-01 Thread Oliver Charles
On Mon, Dec 1, 2014 at 11:21 AM, Domen Kožar do...@dev.si wrote: nix-build --option binary-caches Rob Vermaas rob.verm...@gmail.com writes: Or use (taken from 'man nix.conf'): build-use-substitutes If set to true (default), Nix will use binary substitutes if available.

Re: [Nix-dev] About 14.11 release

2014-10-22 Thread Oliver Charles
On Wed, Oct 22, 2014 at 4:42 PM, Eelco Dolstra eelco.dols...@logicblox.com wrote: #739 - meta.license and meta.licenses standardisation - Same here, I think unless there's any work being done already, it can be delayed. In my opinion, some other issues / pull requests are release

Re: [Nix-dev] Will there be a systemd replacement at any time in the future?

2014-09-01 Thread Oliver Charles
I believe at one point the 'jobs' attribute was intended to abstract over the idea of running a service, but I believe this was mostly dropped as no one is interested in building our own buggy/limited version of systemd. ___ nix-dev mailing list

Re: [Nix-dev] Nix users going to Haskell Hackathon in Berlin?

2014-07-15 Thread Oliver Charles
That's fairly easy for me to get to, and I wouldn't mind going to Berlin again. Hopefully I can make this! - ocharles On 14 Jul 2014 18:34, Peter Simons sim...@cryp.to wrote: Hi guys, does anyone else intend to visit the Berlin Haskell Hackathon? | Dear Haskellers, | | another Haskell

Re: [Nix-dev] @nixpkg

2014-06-30 Thread Oliver Charles
On 30/06/14 00:38, Steven Shaw wrote: :). I didn't want to promote the nixpkgs but Nix the package (management) system. Are you aware of https://twitter.com/nixos_org and https://twitter.com/nixostips ? Is there a need for a third account? I'm all for more publicity, but there is a risk of

Re: [Nix-dev] Writing a Nix evaluator in Haskell

2014-06-29 Thread Oliver Charles
On 29/06/14 01:03, John Wiegley wrote: Since the Nix language is such a nice and simple pure functional language, I thought it would be nice to have tooling support for it in Haskell, to aid writing lint utilities, etc. As such, I've started a project call hnix which will implement a parser

[Nix-dev] Using Hydra for all or nothing channels

2014-06-27 Thread Oliver Charles
Hello, We've just started trialing Hydra at work and are very impressed with the results - it's a lovely bit of kit! I feel we'd be able to use it even better if there was a way to have what I'm calling all or nothing channels. We have a jobset that consists of the following jobs: * frontend -

Re: [Nix-dev] Move to GHC 7.8.2

2014-05-27 Thread Oliver Charles
I should point out that I've since got everything with working with GHC 7.8, and we've in fact now switched work's compiler to be 7.8. On Tue, May 27, 2014 at 8:20 PM, John Wiegley jo...@newartisans.com wrote: Oliver Charles ollie writes: At work, we still can't build with GHC 7.8.2

Re: [Nix-dev] Move to GHC 7.8.2

2014-05-07 Thread Oliver Charles
On Wed, May 7, 2014 at 11:54 AM, Peter Simons sim...@cryp.to wrote: Hi Oliver, At work, we still can't build with GHC 7.8.2 because various dependencies are still broken. do you have a list of packages that are still causing trouble? No concrete list because one breakage tends to

Re: [Nix-dev] cannot install java

2014-04-16 Thread Oliver Charles
This may have been related to nixos.org being down. Maybe try again now and see if things are better? - ocharles On Wed, Apr 16, 2014 at 1:37 PM, Kirill Elagin kirela...@gmail.com wrote: Well, it says that hashes didn't match. You can download the file yourself and find out what's going on.

Re: [Nix-dev] lens 4 transition plan?

2014-02-19 Thread Oliver Charles
Gergely Risko gerg...@risko.hu writes: Hi, Peter: I saw that you started to upgrade stuff to lens 4, e.g. linear 1.6 requires it and in nixpkgs lens is now correctly overridden to version 4 for that package. However I wanted to ask for your transition plan/timeframe regarding this change?

Re: [Nix-dev] Fixing module arguments (PROPOSAL MAY BREAK EXISTING NIXOS CONFIGS, PLEASE READ)

2014-02-19 Thread Oliver Charles
Shea Levy s...@shealevy.com writes: Hi Shea, The Easy Solution - In my opinion the whole project is young enough that we are not yet at a stage where we have to live with things being difficult to work with. I think most people who are using NixOS in real deployments are aware

Re: [Nix-dev] Google Summer of Code 2014

2014-02-14 Thread Oliver Charles
Domen Kožar do...@dev.si writes: Hi all, Google Summer of Code is a program organized by Google giving organizations in open source opportunity to pay students to work on open source projects. Many successful students become contributors after the projects ends. Also, participating in GSOC

Re: [Nix-dev] Fosdem: room reservation for community discussion

2014-02-02 Thread Oliver Charles
Domen Kožar do...@dev.si writes: Hey all, I've reserved a room for us at H.3.227 at 13h today. Everyone is welcome to join and discuss nix stack. Great, thanks Domen! I'm going to be at the MirageOS talk at 13h, but I'll stop by after that (assuming the talk isn't full, anyway). - ocharles

Re: [Nix-dev] Maintainership

2014-01-28 Thread Oliver Charles
Shea Levy s...@shealevy.com writes: * If a package is unmaintained, it can be removed with minimal notice. This will require some time under the new idea of maintainership before it can be fairly put into place, but Eelco had the suggestion that no maintainers could be treated

Re: [Nix-dev] FOSDEM: any plans for Saturday evening?

2014-01-27 Thread Oliver Charles
Cillian de Róiste cillian.deroi...@gmail.com writes: It looks like we have 4-6 people interested. That's great! I guess we don't really need to make a reservation, just go to a part of town with a lot of restaurants, but if anyone has a suggestion for a restaurant or bar all the better. The

Re: [Nix-dev] FOSDEM: any plans for Saturday evening?

2014-01-22 Thread Oliver Charles
Cillian de Róiste cillian.deroi...@gmail.com writes: Hi, Since there will be quite a few NixOS and Guix folks at FOSDEM it would be great to meet up. Is there some interest in arranging dinner / drinks on Saturday evening? I'd love this! Just out of interest, which of us will be going? -

Re: [Nix-dev] Nixops on headless server

2013-12-24 Thread Oliver Charles
On 23/12/13 20:06, Marco Maggesi wrote: I started from scratch. This is the interaction. Thanks a lot, M. [maggesi@o0dom0:~/Devel/nixconfs/minicloud]$ nixops create ./logical.nix ./physical-vbox.nix --name minicloud created deployment 'aa84379e-6c0c-11e3-8dd5-bfd6a9bb84eb'

Re: [Nix-dev] Say hello to GHC 7.7.20131202

2013-12-04 Thread Oliver Charles
On 12/04/2013 12:01 AM, Peter Simons wrote: Yo Haskell programmers, I've just updated ghcHEAD to a reasonably up-to-date Git snapshot, and it works quite well. In the interest of doubling compile times for everyone trying to use it, haskellPackages_ghcHEAD now has full shared-library

Re: [Nix-dev] Nixpkgs-monitor. New milestone: patches

2013-11-28 Thread Oliver Charles
On 11/28/2013 12:57 PM, phree...@yandex.ru wrote: On Thursday, November 28, 2013 10:44:21 AM Vladimír Čunát wrote: On 11/28/2013 10:42 AM, Sergey Mironov wrote: 2013/11/28 Vladimír Čunát vcu...@gmail.com: https://vdmvtkitqc3grub6.onion.to/ How can you not remember it :-D Awesome! But.

Re: [Nix-dev] who has a idea how to solve this

2013-11-26 Thread Oliver Charles
On 11/26/2013 06:21 PM, Roelof Wobben wrote: See bug report : https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/issues/1279 Roelof I may be a minority, but I think a lot of us are subscribed to the Github repository directly, and already get notifications when issues are reported. I don't think it's

Re: [Nix-dev] Packaging Foreman

2013-11-19 Thread Oliver Charles
On 11/19/2013 09:03 AM, Alex Berg wrote: As part of the Heroku Toolbelt, I need to make a Nix package for Foreman. I am following the instructions to Install from Source [1]. The instructions say that it has many package requirements: gcc-c++ git libvirt-devel mysql-devel pg-devel

Re: [Nix-dev] NixOS 13.10

2013-11-01 Thread Oliver Charles
On 10/31/2013 11:07 PM, Mathijs Kwik wrote: Congratulations on another great milestone :) It will be interesting to see how this stable experiment goes. But together with the new nixos-rebuild profiles, I think this will be very smooth. What are the new nixos-rebuild profiles? Where could I

Re: [Nix-dev] Dashes in haskell-packages

2013-10-08 Thread Oliver Charles
On 10/08/2013 10:37 AM, Pascal Wittmann wrote: On 10/08/2013 11:24 AM, Daniel Hlynskyi wrote: Hello. There is a convention to convert haskell packages names to camelCase when they contain dashes. But Nix now can dashes. So what convention should I use when submitting new haskell packages to

Re: [Nix-dev] Deploying Steam in NixOS

2013-09-13 Thread Oliver Charles
Very cool! Is this the approach you're suggesting we take with steam, and abandon hope of doing it outside chroot? On 13 Sep 2013 23:36, Sander van der Burg - EWI s.vanderb...@tudelft.nl wrote: Hello Nixers seeking some entertainment! I also did an attempt to make Steam working in NixOS. I

Re: [Nix-dev] Deploying Steam in NixOS

2013-09-13 Thread Oliver Charles
On 09/14/2013 12:35 AM, Marc Weber wrote: Excerpts from Oliver Charles's message of Sat Sep 14 01:29:44 +0200 2013: Very cool! Is this the approach you're suggesting we take with steam, and abandon hope of doing it outside chroot? What's wrong about a chroot? Everything else could be a lot

Re: [Nix-dev] What monitoring tools do you currently prefer?

2013-08-31 Thread Oliver Charles
At work we're happily using statsd and graphite, along with logster. On 31 Aug 2013 09:35, Mathijs Kwik math...@bluescreen303.nl wrote: Thanks for the tips. I will look into datadog probably, although I was hoping to uncloud myself a bit by moving more stuff to my own infrastructure ;) On

Re: [Nix-dev] nixos-install building FLAC and failing

2013-06-14 Thread Oliver Charles
I also got this error while installing a new Linode. I fixed it by reverting to the previous version of FLAC. On 13 Jun 2013 23:23, Malcolm Matalka mmata...@gmail.com wrote: I'm trying to install NixOS on another Linode host, and I'm running into something odd during 'nixos-install'. Despite

Re: [Nix-dev] 'unit' derivations

2013-03-29 Thread Oliver Charles
On 03/29/2013 09:55 AM, Sergey Mironov wrote: Hi, I've noticed lots of derivations called 'unit' during last update. Please explain what do they mean? Thanks in advance, Sergey I believe these are all units for systemd. Each unit (e.g., display-manager.unit) has its own derivation. -