[Nix-dev] Configuring mirror sites for fetchurl
Hi all, When doing a "nixos-rebuild switch" for 15.09, nix wanted to download updated texlive sources, which are many gigabytes in size. This wouldn't be a problem, if the mirror site didn't default to an Australian one, which is a very slow choice for the where I am, the UK. I tried exporting NIX_MIRRORS_debian=ftp://ftp.de.debian.org/debian/ and then running nixos-rebuild, but this had no affect. I am doing something wrong? Should I report a bug? Many thanks, Tim ___ nix-dev mailing list nix-dev@lists.science.uu.nl http://lists.science.uu.nl/mailman/listinfo/nix-dev
[Nix-dev] Some package outputs not linked into the system profile
Hi all, Last weekend I installed my first full NixOS system on my Thinkpad and overall everything went relatively smoothly (I was brave enough to try the unstable channel). I added all desired packages to environment.systemPackages to start with, but have since noticed that not all build outputs have been linked into the system profile /run/current-system/sw and are thus not in my path. For example, the poppler-utils package results in symlinks in bin and lib if installed into my user profile via nix-env, but under the system profile I can see only the library symlinks under lib. I've also noticed this with other packages, e.g. none of the gtk themes in gnome-themes-standard show up in share under the system profile, but they do under the user profile. Can this behaviour be easily explained? The workaround is obvious, but it would be nice to understand what is going on. Many thanks, Tim ___ nix-dev mailing list nix-dev@lists.science.uu.nl http://lists.science.uu.nl/mailman/listinfo/nix-dev
