Re: [Nix-dev] Missing documentation

2015-02-16 Thread Ertugrul Söylemez
Regarding --register-validity, it's a bit of internal command that I'm not sure should be documented. But yeah, ‘exportReferencesGraph’ shouldn't refer to it :-) Well, it is apparently a helpful utility when you change core parts of NixOS, when you create your own Nix-based distribution or

Re: [Nix-dev] Missing documentation

2015-02-16 Thread Mikey Ariel
On 16 Feb 2015, at 17:04, Ertugrul Söylemez ert...@gmx.de I believe everything should be documented at least in a technical manual. But there is nothing wrong with putting a note there: Regular users should not need to use this command. I wouldn't be in such a hurry to document things

Re: [Nix-dev] Why are there so many branches in the nixpkgs repo

2015-02-16 Thread Matthias Beyer
Hi nixos maintainers, what do you think about removing the old branches, as listed below (I guess all before 12-2014 or something) should be removed,... On 14-02-2015 13:47:40, Bjørn Forsman wrote: List of all nixpkgs branches, sorted by date, and with the name of the commiter that pushed the

Re: [Nix-dev] Missing documentation

2015-02-16 Thread Ertugrul Söylemez
I believe everything should be documented at least in a technical manual. But there is nothing wrong with putting a note there: Regular users should not need to use this command. I wouldn't be in such a hurry to document things in this manner , because the basic assumption is if it's

Re: [Nix-dev] Why are there so many branches in the nixpkgs repo

2015-02-16 Thread Domen Kožar
I disagree, even if branches are old, we should not just delete them. We could go over a list of those that are merged (git branch -r --merged master), but still for example 'upstart' is a branch that was taken before systemd has replaced it. Maybe it should be a tag. On Mon, Feb 16, 2015 at

Re: [Nix-dev] Disallowed host while building Python packages?

2015-02-16 Thread Jeffrey David Johnson
Nevermind, of course that would be how it works because input hashes and all. Thanks! I probably should have gone to bed and come back to it in the morning. Semi-related: if I generate some packages with python2nix do they go in pkgs/top-level/python-packages.nix or

Re: [Nix-dev] ZSH Completions for Nix, NixOS, NixOps

2015-02-16 Thread Rok Garbas
Quoting Spencer Whitt (2015-02-17 02:52:51) Hello All, I've written a fairly complete set of ZSH completions for Nix, NixOS, and NixOps. You can find them here: https://github.com/spwhitt/nix-zsh-completions These are still a work in progress so expect rough edges and please submit

Re: [Nix-dev] Disallowed host while building Python packages?

2015-02-16 Thread Rok Garbas
hi, Quoting Jeffrey David Johnson (2015-02-16 22:13:31) Nevermind, of course that would be how it works because input hashes and all. Thanks! I probably should have gone to bed and come back to it in the morning. usually i forget to add Paste as buildInputs, since its sometimes required to

[Nix-dev] ZSH Completions for Nix, NixOS, NixOps

2015-02-16 Thread Spencer Whitt
Hello All, I've written a fairly complete set of ZSH completions for Nix, NixOS, and NixOps. You can find them here: https://github.com/spwhitt/nix-zsh-completions These are still a work in progress so expect rough edges and please submit issues. They are already extremely useful though, so

Re: [Nix-dev] Why are there so many branches in the nixpkgs repo

2015-02-16 Thread Marc Weber
We could go over a list of those that are merged (git branch -r --merged master), but still for example 'upstart' is a branch that was taken before systemd has replaced it. Maybe it should be a tag. I made the suggestion that too experimental branches / new ideas etc could be submitted to

Re: [Nix-dev] Missing documentation

2015-02-16 Thread Domen Kožar
The best way to find out might be to use git blame and see commit history. On Mon, Feb 16, 2015 at 3:49 PM, Ertugrul Söylemez ert...@gmx.de wrote: +1 to doc fixes! :-) I'll gladly help with peer review for the content or whatever I can within the prose capacity :-) Nobody else? I would

Re: [Nix-dev] Missing documentation

2015-02-16 Thread Ertugrul Söylemez
+1 to doc fixes! :-) I'll gladly help with peer review for the content or whatever I can within the prose capacity :-) Nobody else? I would just do it, but at the very least I need an explanation of the missing parts. signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: [Nix-dev] Missing documentation

2015-02-16 Thread Ertugrul Söylemez
+1 to doc fixes! :-) I'll gladly help with peer review for the content or whatever I can within the prose capacity :-) Nobody else? I would just do it, but at the very least I need an explanation of the missing parts. The best way to find out might be to use git blame and see commit

Re: [Nix-dev] Missing documentation

2015-02-16 Thread Eelco Dolstra
Hi, On 16/02/15 16:02, Ertugrul Söylemez wrote: +1 to doc fixes! :-) I'll gladly help with peer review for the content or whatever I can within the prose capacity :-) Nobody else? I would just do it, but at the very least I need an explanation of the missing parts. The best way to find

Re: [Nix-dev] Documentation about releases?

2015-02-16 Thread James Cook
Thanks for the link. Based on the item announce EOL of previous releases, I guess that means release-14.12 is the only one we're maintaining. On 15 February 2015 at 03:14, Domen Kožar do...@dev.si wrote: Also see https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/issues/4442 On Sun, Feb 15, 2015 at 9:34 AM,

Re: [Nix-dev] Disallowed host while building Python packages?

2015-02-16 Thread Rok Garbas
Quoting Jeffrey David Johnson (2015-02-16 04:56:35) I've had this happen a couple times now when trying to build Python packages. An error like: Searching for paste Note: Bypassing https://pypi.python.org/simple/paste/ (disallowed host; see http://bit.ly/1dg9ijs for details). Couldn't

[Nix-dev] [haskell NG] Override package

2015-02-16 Thread YCH
Hello, I'm very happily learning Haskell with nix-shell and haskell-ng environment. In comparison to previous 'haskell', there is no problem at all. But I've found problem that hdevtools does not see related build-depends options in cabal file. https://github.com/bitc/hdevtools/issues/38 So I

Re: [Nix-dev] Delays on ssh connection

2015-02-16 Thread Carles Pagès
It was on 14.12 rev139ead2, and I don't think my configuration.nix has anything special. I later updated to latest 14.12 from channel and had to reboot with 'alt+sysreq+b', since not even a proper reboot would work, with such a message: feb 13 14:36:04 pica systemd[1]: Requested transaction