Hi, On 30/03/14 23:01, Ben Franksen wrote:
> (2) It seems impossible to install NixOS w/o installing the boot loader. You can set: boot.loader.grub.device = "nodev"; to prevent the installation of GRUB in the MBR while still generating a GRUB configuration in /boot that might be used for chainloading. It should be possible to install on a partition as well, but that might not work with GRUB 2 due to the increased size (never tried). You can try GRUB 1 instead: boot.loader.grub.version = 1; > (3) I love the declarative approach to system configuration. However, for a > newcomer it is hard to find out how to configure his favorite packages. What > options are there and how can I set them? Unfortunately, we currently lack a way to enumerate Nixpkgs configuration options (as opposed to NixOS options, which are in the configuration.nix manpage and the manual). > (4) How do I fix something if it is broken? Note I don't want to upgrade my > whole NixOS configuration to the unstable branch (as all the documentation > suggests), just make one or two fixes in certain packages (e.g. the nedit > package is currently broken, when starting the binary it crashes with some > X11 bad opcode error). I expected the nixpkgs repository to have a 'stable' > branch so I could check that out and work from there but such a branch seems > not to exist. How else can I replace/fix/change the nix expression for a > single package, leaving the rest of the system as is? As you already found out, release-13.10 is the Git branch corresponding to the current stable release. -- Eelco Dolstra | LogicBlox, Inc. | http://nixos.org/~eelco/ _______________________________________________ nix-dev mailing list nix-dev@lists.science.uu.nl http://lists.science.uu.nl/mailman/listinfo/nix-dev