Re: [Nix-dev] getting started

2009-02-24 Thread Michael Raskin
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Jörg F. Wittenberger wrote: >>> c) gnome-terminal dies, because it's called with a "-ls" argument, which >>> it does not understand. >>> >>>Question: how do I find the call site? >> When is it called in he first place? > > That was my question. Me

Re: [Nix-dev] Re: Merging fix-style branch into the trunk ?

2009-02-24 Thread Nicolas Pierron
On Tue, Feb 24, 2009 at 10:00, Ludovic Courtès wrote: > Hi, > > Nicolas Pierron > writes: > >> On Tue, Feb 24, 2009 at 00:25, Ludovic Courtès wrote: >>> Nicolas Pierron >>> writes: > Main modifications made in this branch: - a few upstart-jobs conversion. - upstart-jobs/default.n

Re: [Nix-dev] applyAndFun again - kernel derivation proposal and example

2009-02-24 Thread Marc Weber
> The merge and the replace function are waiting for an extra argument > which can be define either inside the new argument or inside the > initial version. Yes. But it can also extend the initial version (see the patches example in the kernel derviation) > One thing which is not clear to me is:

Re: [Nix-dev] applyAndFun again - kernel derivation proposal and example

2009-02-24 Thread Nicolas Pierron
Hi Marc, On Tue, Feb 24, 2009 at 03:31, Marc Weber wrote: > To test it simply insert the code somewhere in lib. > > changes: >  no longer using passthru, the "special" names are removed before the >  args are applied to the given funtion. >  The function contains the possibility to pass either a

[Nix-dev] Re: Merging fix-style branch into the trunk ?

2009-02-24 Thread Ludovic Courtès
Hi, Marc Weber writes: >> (BTW, merging this branch will blur revision history, which is >> unpleasant. I would recommend against using git-svn(1) for merges, and >> so does the man page, but I guess it's too late now.) > It's never too late. Another branch could be forked before the merge was

[Nix-dev] Re: Merging fix-style branch into the trunk ?

2009-02-24 Thread Ludovic Courtès
Hi, Nicolas Pierron writes: > On Tue, Feb 24, 2009 at 00:25, Ludovic Courtès wrote: >> Nicolas Pierron >> writes: >>> Main modifications made in this branch: >>> - a few upstart-jobs conversion. >>> - upstart-jobs/default.nix, etc/default.nix are configuration files. >>> - extensible activati

[Nix-dev] Making NTFS and CIFS optional

2009-02-24 Thread Ludovic Courtès
Hello, As I use neither NTFS nor CIFS, I'd prefer it if these filesystems were optional. Currently, they are systematically built as a dependency of `mount' in `system.nix' (and they're not in the channel). Opinions? Thanks, Ludo'. ___ nix-dev mailin