Re: [Nix-dev] Terminus console font

2014-09-09 Thread Dmitry Malikov
And what is the value of ${pkg} variable there? On 09/09/2014 05:58 AM, 宋文武 wrote: M. P. Ashton d...@imap.cc writes: On Sun, Sep 7, 2014, at 02:20 PM, Dmitry Malikov wrote: Good day. I'm not a huge fan of X server, that why I'm spending my time inside a tty and virtual terminals. Default

[Nix-dev] topgit: make usage of $PAGER more POSIX-compatible

2014-09-09 Thread nixos
topgit: make usage of $PAGER more POSIX-compatible --- diff --git \ a/pkgs/applications/version-management/git-and-tools/topgit/default.nix \ b/pkgs/applications/version-management/git-and-tools/topgit/default.nix index 195f6f3..adeeae9 100644 ---

Re: [Nix-dev] DevOps sprint at gocept/FlyingCircus

2014-09-09 Thread Cillian de Róiste
Hi, This is very exciting news indeed! I'll definitely attend the full sprint (I'll register on meetup later). Looking forward to it! Cheers, Cillian On Mon, Sep 8, 2014 at 11:06 AM, Rok Garbas r...@garbas.si wrote: i think i'll be only able to come for fri/sat maybe i can come for later on

Re: [Nix-dev] topgit: make usage of $PAGER more POSIX-compatible

2014-09-09 Thread Eelco Dolstra
On 09/09/14 10:09, nixos wrote: topgit: make usage of $PAGER more POSIX-compatible Thanks. Could you set the From field to something more descriptive than nixos@... (since this will end up as the Author field in the git commit)? -- Eelco Dolstra | LogicBlox, Inc. | http://nixos.org/~eelco/

[Nix-dev] cross-compile to non-standard nix-store location

2014-09-09 Thread Andreas Herrmann
Hi, I'm using nix in single user mode in a non-standard location (${HOME}/nix/store) on a CentOS host on which I don't have root-access, and which I don't want to flood with lots of build jobs. I'm looking for a good way to cross-compile binaries on my laptop (nix in single user mode in

[Nix-dev] topgit: make usage of $PAGER more POSIX-compatible

2014-09-09 Thread Nick Sauce
topgit: make usage of $PAGER more POSIX-compatible --- diff --git \ a/pkgs/applications/version-management/git-and-tools/topgit/default.nix \ b/pkgs/applications/version-management/git-and-tools/topgit/default.nix index 195f6f3..adeeae9 100644 ---

Re: [Nix-dev] haskell: overriding mtl/any builtin

2014-09-09 Thread Benno Fünfstück
There is no problem overriding `mtl` with a newer version than the one GHC provides assuming we also override all packages depending on mtl. I think this is possible as long as the package using mtl doesn't depend on the GHC api (ghc package), because we cannot override the GHC api package and it

[Nix-dev] Newbie experiences with NixOS

2014-09-09 Thread Gergö Barany
Hi everyone, this is a long mail about some of the issues I ran into when I recently tried to install NixOS 14.04 on my home machine (which is mostly for fun and some software development, but not a server). I ended up not using NixOS for various reasons; I'm trying to give useful feedback, and I

[Nix-dev] Cabal in nix environment producing different binaries

2014-09-09 Thread Richard Wallace
Hello again, I got my nix environment all setup for building our Haskell app and went to deploy it to a development box this morning, only to find out that it wouldn't run. After doing some inspection, it seems that the binary produced in the the nix environment is radically different than out

Re: [Nix-dev] Newbie experiences with NixOS

2014-09-09 Thread Domen Kožar
Hey Gergö, So, here goes. First some very minor comments on the website and the manual, then more serious issues I ran into when trying (and failing) to install some packages I wanted. Thanks for feedback! Website and the manual: - I found it confusing that the manual talks about adding

Re: [Nix-dev] Cabal in nix environment producing different binaries

2014-09-09 Thread Richard Wallace
On Tue, Sep 9, 2014 at 10:53 AM, Mateusz Kowalczyk fuuze...@fuuzetsu.co.uk wrote: On 09/09/2014 06:41 PM, Richard Wallace wrote: Hello again, I got my nix environment all setup for building our Haskell app and went to deploy it to a development box this morning, only to find out that it

Re: [Nix-dev] Newbie experiences with NixOS

2014-09-09 Thread Mateusz Kowalczyk
On 09/09/2014 06:24 PM, Gergö Barany wrote: Hi everyone, this is a long mail about some of the issues I ran into when I recently tried to install NixOS 14.04 on my home machine (which is mostly for fun and some software development, but not a server). I ended up not using NixOS for various

Re: [Nix-dev] Newbie experiences with NixOS

2014-09-09 Thread Mateusz Kowalczyk
On 09/09/2014 07:16 PM, Mateusz Kowalczyk wrote: On 09/09/2014 06:24 PM, Gergö Barany wrote: Hi everyone, this is a long mail about some of the issues I ran into when I recently tried to install NixOS 14.04 on my home machine (which is mostly for fun and some software development, but not a

Re: [Nix-dev] Newbie experiences with NixOS

2014-09-09 Thread Vladimír Čunát
Hi, I address some of the issues you wrote: On 09/09/2014 07:24 PM, Gergö Barany wrote: - I found it puzzling that the package channel is to be set imperatively on the command line rather than in the configuration file. This breaks the nice property of the entire configuration being in

Re: [Nix-dev] Newbie experiences with NixOS

2014-09-09 Thread Vladimír Čunát
:-) Three independent parallel answers. I should have checked before sending. smime.p7s Description: S/MIME Cryptographic Signature ___ nix-dev mailing list nix-dev@lists.science.uu.nl http://lists.science.uu.nl/mailman/listinfo/nix-dev