Re: [Nix-dev] Cannot build stdenv-linux-boot on MacOS

2015-01-29 Thread Henry Till
I should also add that you could just as easily check out the revision of the stable channel if you prefer (currently 676e8d7, found at https://nixos.org/channels/nixos-14.12/). -Henry On Thu, Jan 29, 2015 at 11:21 AM, Henry Till henryt...@gmail.com wrote: Hello Andreas, It is definitely

Re: [Nix-dev] exclude $out/lib when building system-path

2015-01-29 Thread Eike
Luca Bruno writes: On 29/01/2015 15:32, Eike wrote: Hi all, I'm building a (java) program that produces a $out/lib folder with some things in it. But it is not a linux program, just using a similiar directory structure. Thus I don't want it to be linked into the environment. Is there an

[Nix-dev] GNU Guix 0.8.1 released

2015-01-29 Thread Ludovic Courtès
We are pleased to announce the release of GNU Guix version 0.8.1, representing 804 commits by 21 people over 2.5 months. • About GNU Guix is a functional package manager for the GNU system. The Guix System Distribution is an advanced distribution of the GNU system. In addition to

Re: [Nix-dev] Tracking down dependencies

2015-01-29 Thread Georges Dubus
The nox-update command (in the nox package) is an attempt to provide such information. It present the dependency tree of the derivation that are about to be installed by nixos-rebuild switch. You can see an example there : https://github.com/madjar/nox#experimental Georges Dubus 2015-01-29 10:49

[Nix-dev] Windowmaker not properly defined.

2015-01-29 Thread Berno Strik
New user of NixOS so bare with me. I'm running NixOS 14.12. First: I've noticed that I can not use: services.xserver.windowManager.windowmaker.enable = true. I get the following error: error: The option 'services.xserver.windowManager.windowmaker' defined in '/etc/nixos/configuration.nix' does

Re: [Nix-dev] Tracking down dependencies

2015-01-29 Thread Andreas Herrmann
On Wednesday 28 January 2015 13:23:08 Thomas Bereknyei wrote: During a recent `nixos-rebuild switch --upgrade` I noticed gtk+ being downloaded from cache. Is there a quick way to discover what is causing that to be needed? [Rather than going through all of my configuration.nix packages

Re: [Nix-dev] Tracking down dependencies

2015-01-29 Thread Thomas Bereknyei
Thanks everyone, it's exactly what I was looking for. On Thu, Jan 29, 2015 at 4:56 AM, Georges Dubus georges.du...@gmail.com wrote: The nox-update command (in the nox package) is an attempt to provide such information. It present the dependency tree of the derivation that are about to be

Re: [Nix-dev] KDE 5 testers wanted!

2015-01-29 Thread Thomas Tuegel
Hello again, Nix community, I am pleased to announce that KDE 5 is available in the nixos-unstable channel. Specifically, we have stable versions of KDE Frameworks 5.5, Plasma 5.1.2, and KDE Applications 14.12.1. (We also have testing versions of Frameworks 5.6 and Plasma 5.2; more on that

[Nix-dev] exclude $out/lib when building system-path

2015-01-29 Thread Eike
Hi all, I'm building a (java) program that produces a $out/lib folder with some things in it. But it is not a linux program, just using a similiar directory structure. Thus I don't want it to be linked into the environment. Is there an option to prevent nix from doing so? I've looked at

Re: [Nix-dev] exclude $out/lib when building system-path

2015-01-29 Thread Luca Bruno
On 29/01/2015 15:32, Eike wrote: Hi all, I'm building a (java) program that produces a $out/lib folder with some things in it. But it is not a linux program, just using a similiar directory structure. Thus I don't want it to be linked into the environment. Is there an option to prevent nix

Re: [Nix-dev] Cannot build stdenv-linux-boot on MacOS

2015-01-29 Thread Henry Till
Hello Andreas, It is definitely possible to use NixOps on OS X without a Linux build machine. I've done it recently by installing NixOps directly from Hydra using nix-install-package, and then using NixOps with a clone of nixpkgs/master in my NIX_PATH (rather than a clone of joelteon/master).

Re: [Nix-dev] A few questions about ARM support and NixOS on a Chromebook

2015-01-29 Thread Lluís Batlle i Rossell
Hello all, I'll try the next days whether I can update the pieces. I'm using native armv5tel, not cross builds, as usual in nixos-on-arm. 1) Build a static busybox that works for the purpose. 2) Build release-14.12 or master 3) Commit the busybox to the bootstrap svn repository (if I am correct)

Re: [Nix-dev] A few questions about ARM support and NixOS on a Chromebook

2015-01-29 Thread Bjørn Forsman
On 29 January 2015 at 22:42, Lluís Batlle i Rossell vi...@viric.name wrote: Hello all, I'll try the next days whether I can update the pieces. I'm using native armv5tel, not cross builds, as usual in nixos-on-arm. Great! 1) Build a static busybox that works for the purpose. 2) Build

Re: [Nix-dev] KDE 5 testers wanted!

2015-01-29 Thread Jascha Geerds
On Thu, Jan 29, 2015, at 15:13, Thomas Tuegel wrote: To enable KDE 5 in NixOS, simply set: services.xserver.desktopManager.kde5.enable = true; Good job, Thomas! It works pretty well on my machine. There are only minor issues but I guess that's due to KDE5 (and not your work). I'll look into

Re: [Nix-dev] KDE 5 testers wanted!

2015-01-29 Thread Thomas Tuegel
On Thu, Jan 29, 2015 at 3:00 PM, Jascha Geerds j...@ekby.de wrote: On Thu, Jan 29, 2015, at 15:13, Thomas Tuegel wrote: To enable KDE 5 in NixOS, simply set: services.xserver.desktopManager.kde5.enable = true; Good job, Thomas! It works pretty well on my machine. There are only minor issues

Re: [Nix-dev] A few questions about ARM support and NixOS on a Chromebook

2015-01-29 Thread Bjørn Forsman
On 29 January 2015 at 23:03, Lluís Batlle i Rossell vi...@viric.name wrote: On Thu, Jan 29, 2015 at 10:58:41PM +0100, Bjørn Forsman wrote: On 29 January 2015 at 22:42, Lluís Batlle i Rossell vi...@viric.name wrote: 1) Build a static busybox that works for the purpose. 2) Build release-14.12