Re: [Nix-dev] Re: Building an old GHC for a new Cabal...

2010-05-12 Thread Jason Dusek
age within a package" is a concept unfamiliar to me. -- Jason Dusek Linux User #510144 | http://counter.li.org/ ___ nix-dev mailing list nix-dev@cs.uu.nl https://mail.cs.uu.nl/mailman/listinfo/nix-dev

Re: [Nix-dev] Re: Building an old GHC for a new Cabal...

2010-05-12 Thread Jason Dusek
2010/05/12 Yury G. Kudryashov : > You should use nix-env -i -A ... to select the needed cabal. It seems that `-A' wants me to specify an "attribute". What is an attribute? -- Jason Dusek Linux User #510144 | http://counter.li.org/ _

Re: [Nix-dev] Re: Building an old GHC for a new Cabal...

2010-05-12 Thread Jason Dusek
k there must be a typo in there somewhere as "myCollection" is in not in the nix example file. -- Jason Dusek Linux User #510144 | http://counter.li.org/ ___ nix-dev mailing list nix-dev@cs.uu.nl https://mail.cs.uu.nl/mailman/listinfo/nix-dev

[Nix-dev] Building an old GHC for a new Cabal...

2010-05-12 Thread Jason Dusek
0.9 /nix/store/qr4hwvbrbpvfx3r9c596grdf3sssbk6f-curl-7.19.7 /nix/store/s60nzmp97k010vxp6hi9j3dbc4pz939w-openssl-0.9.8n I do have GHC 6.10 still installed; but why does it not build against the new GHC? Should I delete the `.drv' files? Perhaps these cache something about which GHC to build

Re: [Nix-dev] Updating haskell packages to ghc 6.12.2?

2010-05-03 Thread Jason Dusek
y looks like the best available tool for managing GHC installations; I ended up setting up a Gentoo machine just so I could have a managed install of 6.12 but now that I know about this I can use 6.12 on Ubuntu, CentOS, Macs and so on without introducing unmanaged cruft that I&#x

Re: [Nix-dev] Updating haskell packages to ghc 6.12.2?

2010-04-30 Thread Jason Dusek
Where is GHC 6.12.2 availabe for NixOS? I have the 'unstable' package collection: http://nixos.org/releases/nixpkgs/channels/nixpkgs-unstable/ and only that channel but seemingly no 6.12: :; nix-env -qa '*' | egrep 'ghc6\.12' I updated my cha

Re: [Nix-dev] Re: RPM now includes NIX executables

2010-04-01 Thread Jason Dusek
of installations, is very appealing. -- Jason Dusek ___ nix-dev mailing list nix-dev@cs.uu.nl https://mail.cs.uu.nl/mailman/listinfo/nix-dev

Re: [Nix-dev] Re: Managing users, configuration files and filesystem mounts.

2010-02-05 Thread Jason Dusek
2010/02/05 Ludovic Courtès : > Jason Dusek writes: > > I am curious as to how Nix manages users and groups outside > > of NixOS. > > Normally, all users and groups are declared in NixOS. > > Users (actually sysadmins) can specify a list in the > ‘users.e

[Nix-dev] Managing users, configuration files and filesystem mounts.

2010-02-05 Thread Jason Dusek
it right this minute -- I'm looking at managing CentOS boxen. Maybe I'll have to use Bcfg2 or Puppet for the time being to manage users and other system global configuration. -- Jason Dusek ___ nix-dev mailing list nix-dev@cs.uu.nl https://mail.cs.uu.nl/mailman/listinfo/nix-dev