Re: [Nix-dev] Let's switch the default shell in Nixpks / NixOS to csh

2015-04-02 Thread Ertugrul Söylemez
This makes me wonder whether maybe we should switch all shell scripting in Nixpkgs to csh? Wouldn't that solve a lot of problems? I've heard experts say that csh is generally considered superior for scripting tasks because of its more intuitive syntax. I really dislike csh's syntax, and that

Re: [Nix-dev] What's wrong with staging?

2015-04-02 Thread Domen Kožar
Maybe. How much though? On Thu, Apr 2, 2015 at 9:36 PM, Peter Simons sim...@cryp.to wrote: Hi Domen, I'm cancelling staging until nixos-combined catches up and updates the channel. We have too many other jobset going in the way that have way lower priority (we had up to 100k builds

Re: [Nix-dev] What's wrong with staging?

2015-04-02 Thread Peter Simons
Hi Domen, I'm cancelling staging until nixos-combined catches up and updates the channel. We have too many other jobset going in the way that have way lower priority (we had up to 100k builds scheduled few days ago..) maybe we should increase the number of shares allotted to

Re: [Nix-dev] Use GHC 7.10.1 as default Haskell compiler in nixpkgs

2015-04-02 Thread Peter Simons
Hi Ertugrul, The last time I tried to switch, Nix started to build everything from source, including GHC, even with the options described in the Haskell NG thread. what architecture do you use? Is it i686-linux by any chance? I'm asking because Hydra isn't building binaries for that

Re: [Nix-dev] Use GHC 7.10.1 as default Haskell compiler in nixpkgs

2015-04-02 Thread Ertugrul Söylemez
The last time I tried to switch, Nix started to build everything from source, including GHC, even with the options described in the Haskell NG thread. what architecture do you use? Is it i686-linux by any chance? I'm asking because Hydra isn't building binaries for that platform at the

Re: [Nix-dev] Use GHC 7.10.1 as default Haskell compiler in nixpkgs

2015-04-02 Thread Ertugrul Söylemez
If you haven't migrated to Haskell NG yet ... now would be a good time to do it. (I'm looking at you, Agda.) I'm currently forced to work on a rather weak machine, so building from source is prohibitively expensive. Is there a very short summary of how to do it and still get binary packages?

Re: [Nix-dev] Use GHC 7.10.1 as default Haskell compiler in nixpkgs

2015-04-02 Thread member MP2E
Speaking as someone that has been bitten by the non-deterministic package IDs many times, I'm fully in favor of switching over to GHC 7.10.1 and removing the old infrastructure. If there's anything I can do to help the transition, let me know On Thu, Apr 2, 2015 at 4:51 PM, Peter Simons

Re: [Nix-dev] What's wrong with staging?

2015-04-02 Thread Peter Simons
Hi Domen, Maybe. How much though? right now, nixos:trunk-combined uses 2.24% of the available shares. If we'd like to dedicate 10% instead, then we'd have to assign 7284 shares. This should give the job a huge boost, while still leaving a lot of bandwidth for the rest. Best regards, Peter

[Nix-dev] What am I doing wrong with ssh-substitutor-hosts?

2015-04-02 Thread Jeffrey David Johnson
I've got two computers with nixos, and I can ssh between them without a password. But if I do a nixos-rebuild with `--option ssh-substitutor-hosts hostname` they still just download everything from cache.nixos.org. I think I have the sshServe set up in my configuration.nix: # nixServeKeys are

[Nix-dev] What's wrong with staging?

2015-04-02 Thread Peter Simons
http://hydra.nixos.org/jobset/nixpkgs/staging shows 25,000 aborted build jobs. Is that state intentional in any way? Or can I (or someone else) restart those builds? Peter ___ nix-dev mailing list nix-dev@lists.science.uu.nl

Re: [Nix-dev] Let's switch the default shell in Nixpks / NixOS to csh

2015-04-02 Thread Lukas Epple
Hello, I think we should replace the shell and systemd by emacs or a common lisp implementation. Kind regards, Lukas Am 02.04.2015 um 00:26 schrieb Peter Simons sim...@cryp.to: Hi guys, the default builder in Nixpkgs (and pretty much all other shell code in all our packages)

Re: [Nix-dev] What's wrong with staging?

2015-04-02 Thread Domen Kožar
I'm cancelling staging until nixos-combined catches up and updates the channel. We have too many other jobset going in the way that have way lower priority (we had up to 100k builds scheduled few days ago..) Once nixos-combined updates the channel, I'll restart staging (hopefully today?) Domen

[Nix-dev] About gettext and expat

2015-04-02 Thread Luca Bruno
Gettext is currently depending only on libc. Gettext is an input to gcc, so that's a very important dependency. However gtk 3.16 now requires gettext to process xml files like glade files, and that requires xml support via expat. Gettext is currently compiled so that it finds expat with dlopen,

Re: [Nix-dev] Use GHC 7.10.1 as default Haskell compiler in nixpkgs

2015-04-02 Thread Peter Simons
Hi guys, I believe that we should switch our default compiler to GHC 7.10.1 within the next three or four weeks -- assuming that no major bug is discovered in that compiler. It is true that this update will break some packages, but GHC versions prior to 7.10.x are a disaster for distributions