Re: [Nix-dev] Force nix

2015-05-12 Thread phreedom
On Tuesday, May 12, 2015 05:09:17 Arseniy Seroka wrote: Is there a way to force nix re-download cache (or sources) of derivation and it's dependencies? nix-store --repair-path? it doesn't touch dependencies though ___ nix-dev mailing list

Re: [Nix-dev] i686 Builds?

2015-05-12 Thread Tomasz Kontusz
I'm on x86_64 and use some of those for running games (mostly what the steam package already pulls in, plus a few more that were needed for specific games). The idea to only build them after x86_64 sounds pretty good. Actually, are all packages build together with the tests or only after they

Re: [Nix-dev] i686 Builds?

2015-05-12 Thread Nathan Bijnens
I'm still using i686 on my Atom based NAS. It would be okay for me if only nixos-minimal was build for i686. Nathan. On Tue, May 12, 2015 at 8:34 AM Tomasz Kontusz tomasz.kont...@gmail.com wrote: I'm on x86_64 and use some of those for running games (mostly what the steam package already

[Nix-dev] Fwd: Re: Possible bug in ssh key module

2015-05-12 Thread Tomasz Kontusz
Oops, replied to the wrong address. Wiadomość oryginalna Od: Tomasz Kontusz tomasz.kont...@gmail.com Wysłane: Tue May 12 10:25:21 CEST 2015 Do: Anand Patil anand.prabhakar.pa...@gmail.com Temat: Re: [Nix-dev] Possible bug in ssh key module It would still be nice if the middle

Re: [Nix-dev] Possible bug in ssh key module

2015-05-12 Thread Christian Theune
Hi, correct me if I’m wrong but SSH keys do not have a strong syntax, and aside from “there’s less than ssh-rsa…spacesomethingnonspace there isn’t much you can check for. Specifically as the comment field can contain pretty much anything and you can’t check the key data for validity on a

Re: [Nix-dev] haskell dev environment, ghc non-determinism and binary cache interaction

2015-05-12 Thread Miguel Negrão
Hi Peter Simons simons at cryp.to writes: When diagrams was updated to 1.3 recently, IHaskell was broken because it depends on 1.2. From the sound of it, the best thing you can do is learn how to fix Haskell build errors in Nixpkgs so that you can remedy those issues when you encounter

Re: [Nix-dev] haskell / ghc installation questions

2015-05-12 Thread Miguel Negrão
Hi Charles, Charles cooper.charles.m at gmail.com writes: There is clearly a huge gap in my understanding. How do I get ghc in my config, and how do I install standard haskell packages? Thanks in advance for any and all help. Currently the haskell infrastructure is being transitioned to a new

Re: [Nix-dev] Ctrl-pnfb

2015-05-12 Thread Wout Mertens
That's really a question about Unix in general, not just NixOS. Basically, there are several (a lot) of input methods, but you can cover a lot of them by setting up ~/.inputrc and xkb. See: - http://www.gnu.org/software/bash/manual/html_node/Sample-Init-File.html -

Re: [Nix-dev] Vagrant stuff - images and plugin - still alive?

2015-05-12 Thread Wout Mertens
Yeah, Charles seems to be AWOL for a bit, it would be nice if he merged my PR... Charles? Wout. On Tue, May 12, 2015 at 4:30 PM Christian Theune c...@flyingcircus.io wrote: On 12 May 2015, at 16:19, Christian Theune c...@flyingcircus.io wrote: On 12 May 2015, at 16:11, Christian Theune

Re: [Nix-dev] Possible bug in ssh key module

2015-05-12 Thread Wout Mertens
The build could run a quick check to see if ssh-keygen can read the file? `ssh-keygen -l -f filename` will return an error if it can't read a key in the file (it only checks the first key) On Tue, May 12, 2015 at 10:33 AM Christian Theune c...@flyingcircus.io wrote: Hi, correct me if I’m

Re: [Nix-dev] gold linker in shell.nix

2015-05-12 Thread Nicolas Pierron
Hi Nikita I have not looked precisely on using the gold linker yet, but I guess this might be similar to what I have done with overriding the default compiler in stdenv [1]. You might want to have a look around the stdenvAdapters. [1]

Re: [Nix-dev] per-project nix-shell for Ruby (Gemfile) projects?

2015-05-12 Thread Rok Garbas
Quoting Linus Arver (2015-05-11 00:52:38) Hello, I am still very new to Nix and NixOS so please bear with me. I followed the instructions in the Nixpkgs manual[1] as well as the original announcement[2] to create a regular Nix package, which I could install by putting minitest =

Re: [Nix-dev] i686 Builds?

2015-05-12 Thread Lluís Batlle i Rossell
My experience is equal with Marco, about memory and my usage of i686. i686 is important for me too. On Tue, May 12, 2015 at 11:43:47AM +0200, Marco Maggesi wrote: I use 32 bit a lot. First of all, I use it on some old machines with 32bit hardware. But, more importantly, I use it regularly on

Re: [Nix-dev] i686 Builds?

2015-05-12 Thread Luke Clifton
+1 This seems like a good idea. On 12 May 2015 at 06:45, William Kennington will...@wkennington.com wrote: Maybe it would make more sense to only build the i686 builds if our tested set of x86_64 binaries build correctly. We would still release with both but it would cut down on a lot of

Re: [Nix-dev] i686 Builds?

2015-05-12 Thread Christian Theune
Hi, same here. Many interpreted languages (like Python) are affected by this as they tend to be quite pointer-happy. As pointer-size doubles from 32bit to 64bit we find that in most applications we have about 70% increase when moving to 64-bit ending up with 1.7 as much memory as before. So

Re: [Nix-dev] haskell dev environment, ghc non-determinism and binary cache interaction

2015-05-12 Thread Miguel Negrão
Hi Peter, Peter Simons simons at cryp.to writes: Hi Miguel, package binary-0.7.4.0 is broken due to missing package array-0.5.0.0-470385a50d2b78598af85cfe9d988e1b, base-4.7.0.2-bfd89587617e381ae01b8dd7b6c7f1c1, bytestring-0.10.4.0-d6f1d17d717e8652498cab8269a0acd5, ...

Re: [Nix-dev] i686 Builds?

2015-05-12 Thread Marco Maggesi
I use 32 bit a lot. First of all, I use it on some old machines with 32bit hardware. But, more importantly, I use it regularly on virtuabox and xen virtual machines. In my experience, for most of my use cases the 32bit require less memory (which is often not abundant on virtual instances) and it

Re: [Nix-dev] Force nix

2015-05-12 Thread Arseniy Seroka
That's what I need. Thank you! 2015-05-12 9:28 GMT+03:00 phree...@yandex.ru: On Tuesday, May 12, 2015 05:09:17 Arseniy Seroka wrote: Is there a way to force nix re-download cache (or sources) of derivation and it's dependencies? nix-store --repair-path? it doesn't touch dependencies though

Re: [Nix-dev] i686 Builds?

2015-05-12 Thread Tomasz Kontusz
By amd32 do you mean amd64 with 32 bit pointers? Lluís Batlle i Rossell vi...@viric.name napisał: amd32 should be ready in the kernel and gcc/glibc. We just need someone to prepare nix/nixpgks/nixos for this. :) On Tue, May 12, 2015 at 12:05:29PM +0200, Christian Theune wrote: Hi, same here.

Re: [Nix-dev] haskell dev environment, ghc non-determinism and binary cache interaction

2015-05-12 Thread Peter Simons
Hi Miguel, Ok, because of this I have decided to not use binary cache in case I have to build packages locally later. that's an unusual strategy, IMHO. It's fine to use a binary cache, you should just avoid using more than one. It seems to me that the haskell packages are now essentially

Re: [Nix-dev] i686 Builds?

2015-05-12 Thread Lluís Batlle i Rossell
On Tue, May 12, 2015 at 01:21:59PM +0200, Eelco Dolstra wrote: On 12/05/15 12:49, Lluís Batlle i Rossell wrote: Yes. Maybe it got renamed... It used to be named 'amd32'. It's called x32: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/X32_ABI Thank you! So this thread could end up in an extra nixos

Re: [Nix-dev] sbcl image executables and patch-elf

2015-05-12 Thread Eike
Hi Tomas, thank you for the explanation. I'm not familiar at all with the C world as you just saw. Regards Eike Tomas Hlavaty tomas.hlav...@knowledgetools.de writes: Hi Eike, I just found out that this is the strip utility from binutils and I'm wondering how it can do such a harm… strip

Re: [Nix-dev] i686 Builds?

2015-05-12 Thread Vladimír Čunát
Hi. On 05/12/2015 12:45 AM, William Kennington wrote: Maybe it would make more sense to only build the i686 builds if our tested set of x86_64 binaries build correctly. This seems the best suggestion I know of now. It shouldn't be difficult to implement, and it also makes important x86_64

Re: [Nix-dev] i686 Builds?

2015-05-12 Thread Lluís Batlle i Rossell
Yes. Maybe it got renamed... It used to be named 'amd32'. On Tue, May 12, 2015 at 12:45:36PM +0200, Tomasz Kontusz wrote: By amd32 do you mean amd64 with 32 bit pointers? Lluís Batlle i Rossell vi...@viric.name napisał: amd32 should be ready in the kernel and gcc/glibc. We just need someone

Re: [Nix-dev] Vagrant stuff - images and plugin - still alive?

2015-05-12 Thread Christian Theune
Hi, I contacted a few people and got zimbatm to react. I’m trying to get his 14.12 branch working. I’ll also have a look at the one from cstrahan. Additionally I created the wiki page in case someone would like to join me in the effort: https://nixos.org/wiki/Vagrant_boxes

Re: [Nix-dev] Vagrant stuff - images and plugin - still alive?

2015-05-12 Thread Christian Theune
On 12 May 2015, at 16:19, Christian Theune c...@flyingcircus.io wrote: On 12 May 2015, at 16:11, Christian Theune c...@flyingcircus.io wrote: Hi, I contacted a few people and got zimbatm to react. I’m trying to get his 14.12 branch working. I’ll also have a look at the one from

Re: [Nix-dev] Vagrant stuff - images and plugin - still alive?

2015-05-12 Thread Charles Strahan
Hey, just pulled those PRs. (If GitHub has a way to see pending PRs for all of one's repos, I'm not aware of it...) -Charles On Tue, May 12, 2015, at 03:33 PM, Wout Mertens wrote: Yeah, Charles seems to be AWOL for a bit, it would be nice if he merged my PR... Charles? Wout. On Tue, May

Re: [Nix-dev] haskell dev environment, ghc non-determinism and binary cache interaction

2015-05-12 Thread Miguel Negrão
Hi Peter, Peter Simons simons at cryp.to writes: Ok, because of this I have decided to not use binary cache in case I have to build packages locally later. that's an unusual strategy, IMHO. It's fine to use a binary cache, you should just avoid using more than one. Isn't the issue in

Re: [Nix-dev] i686 Builds?

2015-05-12 Thread Lluís Batlle i Rossell
amd32 should be ready in the kernel and gcc/glibc. We just need someone to prepare nix/nixpgks/nixos for this. :) On Tue, May 12, 2015 at 12:05:29PM +0200, Christian Theune wrote: Hi, same here. Many interpreted languages (like Python) are affected by this as they tend to be quite

Re: [Nix-dev] i686 Builds?

2015-05-12 Thread Eelco Dolstra
On 12/05/15 12:49, Lluís Batlle i Rossell wrote: Yes. Maybe it got renamed... It used to be named 'amd32'. It's called x32: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/X32_ABI -- Eelco Dolstra | LogicBlox, Inc. | http://nixos.org/~eelco/ ___ nix-dev mailing list