Re: [Nix-dev] Fwd: [NixOS] Your organization application has been rejected.

2015-03-02 Thread Jonathan Glines
Well, there's always a budget for unpaid student labor... At least we have a list of potential projects. 2015/03/02 14:59 member MP2E m...@archlinux.us: A shame, ah well. We've got a whole year to try again. :) ___ nix-dev mailing list

Re: [Nix-dev] Fwd: [NixOS] Your organization application has been rejected.

2015-03-02 Thread Raahul Kumar
Disappointing, but perhaps approaching lecturers might be a better bet. There are uni students who would be interested in writing real code for an OS project. Aloha, RK. On Tue, Mar 3, 2015 at 8:02 AM, Jonathan Glines auntie...@gmail.com wrote: Well, there's always a budget for unpaid student

Re: [Nix-dev] Fwd: [NixOS] Your organization application has been rejected.

2015-03-02 Thread member MP2E
A shame, ah well. We've got a whole year to try again. :) ___ nix-dev mailing list nix-dev@lists.science.uu.nl http://lists.science.uu.nl/mailman/listinfo/nix-dev

Re: [Nix-dev] Fetching variable and unpredictable URL download link

2015-03-02 Thread Eelco Dolstra
Hi, On 01/03/15 16:21, Anderson Torres wrote: How can I fetchurl a variable url? When I download a dockapp from Windowmaker site, like http://windowmaker.org/dockapps/?download=wmSMPmon-3.1.tar.gz;, it in fact downloads something like wmSMPmon-${a long string of chars, like a

Re: [Nix-dev] per project env conf

2015-03-02 Thread Aaron Levin
Is there a non-python-specific version that does something similar to `buildPythonPackage`? I use `myEnvFun` fairly extensively and have not found a better replacement. I've seen Brian McKenna use `runCommand dummy { .. }` (see:

Re: [Nix-dev] staging -- master merge imminent

2015-03-02 Thread Vladimír Čunát
On 03/02/2015 10:46 AM, Eelco Dolstra wrote: A few days passed. I merged staging from the libsigsegv change. I didn't know next commits, so I thought better not to merge them. That kind of defeats the purpose of the staging branch, which is to combine mass rebuild changes. See here: Why

Re: [Nix-dev] per project env conf

2015-03-02 Thread Kirill Elagin
I think I figured it out. Here are the steps to get stable nixpkgs: $ nix-channel --remove nixos $ nix-channel --remove nixpkgs $ nix-channel --add https://nixos.org/channels/nixos-14.12 nixos $ nix-channel --update $ ln -s ~/.nix-defexpr/channels/nixos/nixpkgs ~/.nix-defexpr/nixpkgs $

Re: [Nix-dev] per project env conf

2015-03-02 Thread Domen Kožar
Please don't use myEnvFun, it's not documented and superseeded by nix-shell. See Development/Python section in nixpkgs manual: http://nixos.org/nixpkgs/manual/#python On Mon, Mar 2, 2015 at 9:58 AM, Kirill Elagin kirela...@gmail.com wrote: I think I figured it out. Here are the steps to get

Re: [Nix-dev] staging -- master merge imminent

2015-03-02 Thread Eelco Dolstra
Hi, On 01/03/15 22:15, Lluís Batlle i Rossell wrote: If that commit could be merged into master, it would be nice. I'd be able to commit to master instead. We'd better wait a few days for Hydra to catch up a bit: http://hydra.nixos.org/eval/1173079 A few days passed. I merged staging

Re: [Nix-dev] Customizing calibre PYTHONPATH to support plugins...

2015-03-02 Thread Eelco Dolstra
Hi, On 28/02/15 19:10, Michael Alan Dorman wrote: I have a plugin for calibre I would like to use that requires pycrypto. I looked at the derivation for calibre, and it seemed to me that it would be sufficient to override it thusly: calibre = pkgs.stdenv.lib.overrideDerivation

Re: [Nix-dev] nixOS not installing using graphical iso

2015-03-02 Thread Domen Kožar
Could you also post configuration.nix? On Mon, Mar 2, 2015 at 7:18 PM, Tony Su ton...@su-networking.com wrote: I've posted on the following Pastebin http://pastebin.com/QXhLzNLg The installation steps, Followed by the exact error which causes the installation error as follows when the

[Nix-dev] nixOS not installing using graphical iso

2015-03-02 Thread Tony Su
I've posted on the following Pastebin http://pastebin.com/QXhLzNLg The installation steps, Followed by the exact error which causes the installation error as follows when the installation attempts to write to the ext4 partition but recognizes it as an ext2 partition

[Nix-dev] Fwd: [NixOS] Your organization application has been rejected.

2015-03-02 Thread Domen Kožar
Another year to cleanup that wiki page :) -- Forwarded message -- From: no-re...@google-melange.appspotmail.com Date: Mon, Mar 2, 2015 at 7:55 PM Subject: [NixOS] Your organization application has been rejected. To: do...@dev.si Thank you for submitting NixOS's application to

Re: [Nix-dev] nixOS not installing using graphical iso

2015-03-02 Thread Bjørn Forsman
On 2 March 2015 at 19:18, Tony Su ton...@su-networking.com wrote: I've posted on the following Pastebin http://pastebin.com/QXhLzNLg The installation steps, Followed by the exact error which causes the installation error as follows when the installation attempts to write to the ext4

Re: [Nix-dev] nixOS not installing using graphical iso

2015-03-02 Thread Tony Su
Domen, including in the steps I described at the top is a link to another pastebin which contains my configuration file. Bjorn, cool. I'll try modifying now. Tony On Mon, Mar 2, 2015 at 10:56 AM, Bjørn Forsman bjorn.fors...@gmail.com wrote: On 2 March 2015 at 19:18, Tony Su

Re: [Nix-dev] nixOS not installing using graphical iso

2015-03-02 Thread Domen Kožar
I've seen this one too many times, could we detect the problem sooner by distinguishing between a partition and a block device? On Mon, Mar 2, 2015 at 8:23 PM, Arseniy Seroka ars.ser...@gmail.com wrote: The problem is with boot.loader.grub.device = /dev/sda2; Change to

Re: [Nix-dev] nixOS not installing using graphical iso

2015-03-02 Thread Bjørn Forsman
On 2 March 2015 at 20:33, Domen Kožar do...@dev.si wrote: I've seen this one too many times, could we detect the problem sooner by distinguishing between a partition and a block device? Here is one attempt: https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/pull/4310 - Bjørn

Re: [Nix-dev] nixOS not installing using graphical iso

2015-03-02 Thread Tony Su
Sure 'nuff that fixed it... I modified my config file to point Grub to be installed on /dev/sda/ instead of /dev/sda2. I wonder if that might pose an issue if there were multiple suitable formatted partitions on the same disk or if the installer knows how to find the proper partition