[Nix-dev] nixos-in-place - Install NixOS on top of any Linux distro

2015-12-09 Thread jeaye
Folks, In hopes of getting NixOS onto DigitalOcean, and other VPS providers, I've created https://github.com/jeaye/nixos-in-place nixos-in-place can be used for other purposes, outside of VPSs, for installing NixOS on top of any existing distro. However, where it shines is converting existing

Re: [Nix-dev] nixos-in-place - Install NixOS on top of any Linux distro

2015-12-10 Thread jeaye
quite portable. If you're buying a VPS specifically for this purpose, I recommend starting with Debian 8.2.0; I've found Debian to play very nicely with nixos-in-place. Cheers Jeaye ___ nix-dev mailing list nix-dev@lists.science.uu.nl http://lists.science.uu.nl/mailman/listinfo/nix-dev

Re: [Nix-dev] nixos-in-place - Install NixOS on top of any Linux distro

2015-12-10 Thread jeaye
iculty. Cheers, Jeaye > On Wed, Dec 9, 2015, at 08:59 PM, jeaye wrote: > > Folks, > > > > In hopes of getting NixOS onto DigitalOcean, and other VPS providers, > > I've created https://github.com/jeaye/nixos-in-place > > > > nixos-in-place can be used for other

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

2016-01-07 Thread jeaye
I'm not a fan of this at all, for a few reasons. >Each time I want to find a package name I do >* find -name '*name*' >or use github search to locate files in repo. Or you can use https://nixos.org/nixos/packages.html which also links directly to the Nix expression, lists the

Re: [Nix-dev] Perl -> C++

2015-12-30 Thread jeaye
On Wed, Dec 30, 2015 at 04:13:08PM -0500, Kevin Cox wrote: >On Dec 30, 2015 21:21, "Arseniy Seroka" <[1]ars.ser...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> In **my opinion** go is not a good language. And lua is not a language >that is needed in that kind of program. >> > >I have to agree

Re: [Nix-dev] Escape ${ in multiline string

2015-12-29 Thread jeaye
On Tue, Dec 29, 2015 at 12:05:23PM +, 4levels wrote: >Hi Nix Devs, >I'm currently struggling to create a bash script within a nix multiline >string, terminted by double single quotes. >In the bash script, I need to put ${} statements but this is throwing >compile errors

Re: [Nix-dev] NixON initiative

2016-02-28 Thread jeaye
On Sun, Feb 28, 2016 at 03:11:15PM +, Anand Patil wrote: > What about using some kind of JSON notation for this? There are some > mismatches between JSON and Nix primitives; but on the other hand JSON is > easy to parse and generate from every language, and many people are > familiar with it.

Re: [Nix-dev] Fwd: Re: Displaying package parameters

2016-03-05 Thread jeaye
On Mon, Feb 29, 2016 at 11:24:32AM +0100, Jonn Mostovoy wrote: > Wow, very nice! > Maybe people reporting that it doesn't work weren't patient enough to wait > for it to load the entirety of packages ;) If I load the page, wait 5 minutes (should be long enough...), and type 'firefox', I can

Re: [Nix-dev] Typing nix − funding campaign

2017-03-30 Thread Jeaye
Congrats on the funding! As someone who's been looking for more static validation of my Nix expressions, this is an exciting change. I must admit, however, that I wonder if Nix is just not the "right" tool for the job. I didn't see anyone else in this thread mention it, to my surprise, so I'll

Re: [Nix-dev] [Help] Accidentally removed configuration.nix

2017-04-09 Thread Jeaye
On Thu, Apr 06, 2017 at 04:12:03PM +0200, ni...@vince.lol wrote: > Hi all, > > I acidentally removed my /etc/nixos/configuration.nix is there any way I can > get it back? > > Sincerely, > Vince I know you've sorted this out now, but I think it's worthwhile to mention that one of the benefits