On Wed, Oct 26, 2011 at 05:47:49PM -0400, Paul Dufresne wrote: > Having problems downloading the MANIFEST.bz2 file on nixpkgs-unstable > with my 56k modem (I always get curl error 18, between 0% and 50% of > the 19Mb file), I downloaded on a computer with high-speed Internet, > along the nixexprs.tar.bz2, on my usb key in a directory called > MyChannel. > > I then used nix-channel ---add [directory-path] > followed by nix-channel --update. > > Things seems to have got fine. > > But seeing that nix-env -qa '*' > or nix-env -i hello > look to take much than one or two minutes to give any results, I > killall nix-env and rebegin: > > sudo nix-env -i -v hello > Well I guess the -v ... which seems to show me what it is doing. > > It seems that it need to evaluate all the nix expressions in the > unstable packages.While doing this, top reports that it eats about 72% > of my memory (256Mb Physical + 256Mb virtual).
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