Re: [Nix-dev] Bundling nix-expressions with source code

2013-01-25 Thread Rickard Nilsson
Den 2013-01-24 23:01:03 skrev Vladimír Čunát : > On 01/24/2013 04:13 PM, Rickard Nilsson wrote: >> OK, I see why that is not feasible. The reason I ask, is that it seems >> reasonable that a Nix-aware upstream package developer should be able >> to define how the package should be built (dependenc

Re: [Nix-dev] Building separate nixos/nixpkgs in the same nix build

2013-01-25 Thread Rickard Nilsson
Den 2013-01-24 19:00:16 skrev Eelco Dolstra : > Hi, > > On 24/01/13 18:19, Rickard Nilsson wrote: > >> I've looked at Charon, but it seems all configurations and machines must >> use the same nixos and nixpkgs there? > > As far as I can see the only problem is the references in > nixos/lib/eval-c

Re: [Nix-dev] Providing more explicit nix installation instructions

2013-01-25 Thread Eelco Dolstra
Hi, On 25/01/13 05:11, Florian Friesdorf wrote: > I'm not sure about security implications, but it feels like one should > do both with `-H`. Yes, doing sudo without any flags will almost always screw things up. I'd even suggest using "sudo -i" to be really sure you get the right environment.

[Nix-dev] how to disable tests

2013-01-25 Thread Christopher Howard
Hi. I'm trying to build emacs-24.2, but I can't because guile-2.0.7 won't build. One test failed. Personally, I don't care. (Coming from a Gentoo background, I know that half the packages out there with unit tests will fail their tests even though the software works fine, which is why tests are not

Re: [Nix-dev] how to disable tests

2013-01-25 Thread Marc Weber
Excerpts from Christopher Howard's message of Sat Jan 26 01:36:14 +0100 2013: > Hi. I'm trying to build emacs-24.2, but I can't because guile-2.0.7 > won't build. One test failed. Personally, I don't care. There is always the option to fix a test .. so eventually also talk about the error. You don