Is it actually possible to run Nixops on OSX? A client of mine wasn't able to 
build EC2 machines on his OS X laptop today during a demo.

Best,
Graham

> On Jun 7, 2016, at 7:59 AM, Freddy Rietdijk <freddyrietd...@fridh.nl> wrote:
> 
> The nixpkgs-unstable channel, which includes OSX packages, hasn't updated in 
> 25 days whereas the nixos-unstable channel was updated 4 days ago.
> http://howoldis.herokuapp.com/ 
> 
>> On Tue, Jun 7, 2016 at 2:54 PM, Maarten Hoogendoorn <maar...@moretea.nl> 
>> wrote:
>> Ah, I see ;) Now it makes sense.
>> 
>> 2016-06-07 14:42 GMT+02:00 zimbatm <zimb...@zimbatm.com>:
>>> It's possible, the nixpkgs-unstable and nixos-unstable both evolve 
>>> independently as they have different "success" conditions.
>>> 
>>> 
>>>> On Tue, 7 Jun 2016, 13:38 Maarten Hoogendoorn, <maar...@moretea.nl> wrote:
>>>> Ah, that could be very well the cause of this. Is the OS X build lagging 
>>>> behind the NixOS one? I thought if some package was present in the 
>>>> unstable channel, that hydra would have build it and uploaded it to the 
>>>> binary cache?
>>>> 
>>>> 2016-06-07 14:30 GMT+02:00 zimbatm <zimb...@zimbatm.com>:
>>>>> In general I found that there are less packages available from the cache 
>>>>> on OSX. What probably happened is that the packages had to be built. If 
>>>>> doCheck = true then tests are run after the build and this is the default 
>>>>> for python packages.
>>>>> 
>>>>> 
>>>>>> On Tue, 7 Jun 2016, 13:19 Maarten Hoogendoorn, <maar...@moretea.nl> 
>>>>>> wrote:
>>>>>> Hi there,
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> I have been a really happy Nix{,pkgs,os,ops} for some time. In fact, I'm 
>>>>>> writing two intro blog posts about nix during working hours for 
>>>>>> Container Solutions. Since most of the developers that will read the 
>>>>>> blogpost will be running OS X, I've borrowed a spare macbook, and 
>>>>>> installed nix and nixops.
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> To my surprise, this caused python tests to run. Is this the expected 
>>>>>> behavior?
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> Thanks,
>>>>>> Maarten
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