[Nix-dev] Game of the day, spot the difference between master and staging

2015-06-26 Thread Luca Bruno
So today staging finally restarted building stuff on hydra, thanks to whoever was involved in fixing this. Then I noticed that some packages are failing to build, for example the ecl compiler. It fails like this, nix-build -A ecl: configure.ac: error: no proper invocation of AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE

Re: [Nix-dev] /usr/lib64/libstdc++.so.6: version `GLIBCXX_3.4.15' not found trying to install on RHEL 6.5

2015-06-26 Thread Tuomas Tynkkynen
On 06/25/2015 11:35 PM, Alex Vorobiev wrote: ... $ bash (curl https://nixos.org/nix/install) ... initialising Nix database... /nix/store/l598bgyrflylmfxr7c889jcs5amflrsp-nix-1.9/bin/nix-store: /usr/lib64/libstdc++.so.6: version `GLIBCXX_3.4.15' not found (required by

[Nix-dev] [monitor.nixos.org]: Monitor generates patches where the subject does not fit the new scheme

2015-06-26 Thread Matthias Beyer
Hi, just wanted to report this: monitor.nixos.org generates patches which do not fit the new scheme of how to name package update commits. Someone fix this please, as I'm developing a script[0] which uses monitor.nixos.org to generate commits and I want to develop it even further so one can

Re: [Nix-dev] [monitor.nixos.org]: Monitor generates patches where the subject does not fit the new scheme

2015-06-26 Thread Pascal Wittmann
On 06/26/2015 04:55 PM, Matthias Beyer wrote: just wanted to report this: monitor.nixos.org generates patches which do not fit the new scheme of how to name package update commits. Maybe I missed something, but how does this new scheme looks like and where was it announced? signature.asc

Re: [Nix-dev] /usr/lib64/libstdc++.so.6: version `GLIBCXX_3.4.15' not found trying to install on RHEL 6.5

2015-06-26 Thread Eelco Dolstra
Hi, On 26/06/15 12:23, Kirill Elagin wrote: This basically means that Nix expects a different version of libstdc++. Well, the Nix binary tarball includes a copy of libstdc++, so that shouldn't be a problem. It's more likely that (as Tuomas suggested) LD_LIBRARY_PATH is causing a different

Re: [Nix-dev] NixOS and NixOps on server : testimonials here ?

2015-06-26 Thread Aycan İrican
On 25 Jun 2015, at 18:35, Fabien Bourgeois fab...@yaltik.com wrote: Le 24/06/2015 15:56, Aycan İrican a écrit : [...] I prefere stable branch on production systems mainly for low maintenance cost. Thanks. Seems reasonable to me. With virtual testing before, should I expect some rough

Re: [Nix-dev] Idea: Add a user group in the github organization

2015-06-26 Thread Matthias Beyer
On 26-06-2015 17:03:03, Matthias Beyer wrote: On 26-06-2015 19:53:16, stewart mackenzie wrote: Please read pieter hintjens culture and empire, specifically chapter 2 light of spheres. Good contributors should be promoted quickly before they move off onto other projects. Yes if you

Re: [Nix-dev] [monitor.nixos.org]: Monitor generates patches where the subject does not fit the new scheme

2015-06-26 Thread Matthias Beyer
On 26-06-2015 17:01:03, Pascal Wittmann wrote: On 06/26/2015 04:55 PM, Matthias Beyer wrote: just wanted to report this: monitor.nixos.org generates patches which do not fit the new scheme of how to name package update commits. Maybe I missed something, but how does this new scheme looks

Re: [Nix-dev] Idea: Add a user group in the github organization

2015-06-26 Thread Matthias Beyer
On 26-06-2015 19:53:16, stewart mackenzie wrote: Please read pieter hintjens culture and empire, specifically chapter 2 light of spheres. Good contributors should be promoted quickly before they move off onto other projects. Yes if you choose to use nixos you aren't going anywhere quickly

Re: [Nix-dev] [monitor.nixos.org]: Monitor generates patches where the subject does not fit the new scheme

2015-06-26 Thread Eelco Dolstra
Hi, On 26/06/15 17:30, Matthias Beyer wrote: just wanted to report this: monitor.nixos.org generates patches which do not fit the new scheme of how to name package update commits. Maybe I missed something, but how does this new scheme looks like and where was it announced?

Re: [Nix-dev] mkDefault behaviour

2015-06-26 Thread Eelco Dolstra
Hi, On 26/06/15 20:40, Joel Moberg wrote: Sorry this had nothing to do with mkDefault. But I would still like to know why this is happening and why I need to build extra packages. This is because the minimal profile has this line: environment.noXlibs = mkDefault true; which in turn

Re: [Nix-dev] mkDefault behaviour

2015-06-26 Thread Joel Moberg
Sorry this had nothing to do with mkDefault. But I would still like to know why this is happening and why I need to build extra packages. On Fri, Jun 26, 2015 at 8:22 PM, Joel Moberg joel.mob...@gmail.com wrote: Hi all I have a question about this expression, also here (

Re: [Nix-dev] Game of the day, spot the difference between master and staging

2015-06-26 Thread Vladimír Čunát
Hi. On 06/26/2015 09:37 AM, Luca Bruno wrote: This is the game of the day, kudos to whoever is able to spot the difference. Have fun! The error messages seem the same on master (Hydra logs), so I believe it fails all the same but the error isn't ignored anymore due to #7524. Vladimir

[Nix-dev] Problems setting Japanese input method

2015-06-26 Thread Eric Sagnes
Hello, I am having some hard time making Japanese input working in Nixos. I tried: 1. fcitx + anthy (via fcitx-with-plugin package) - Working in Xterm. - Not working in applications like firefox, terminator, konsole, etc. .xprofile: export GTK_IM_MODULE=fcitx export QT_IM_MODULE=fcitx export

Re: [Nix-dev] /usr/lib64/libstdc++.so.6: version `GLIBCXX_3.4.15' not found trying to install on RHEL 6.5

2015-06-26 Thread Kirill Elagin
This basically means that Nix expects a different version of libstdc++. You can use `objdump` or `readelf` on your library to find out which version you have. Your options are upgrading (or downgrading which is less likely) gcc (which provides this library) or building Nix yourself using gcc that

Re: [Nix-dev] Idea: Add a user group in the github organization

2015-06-26 Thread Luca Bruno
On 26/06/2015 13:53, stewart mackenzie wrote: Please read pieter hintjens culture and empire, specifically chapter 2 light of spheres. Good contributors should be promoted quickly before they move off onto other projects. Yes if you choose to use nixos you aren't going anywhere quickly but

Re: [Nix-dev] Idea: Add a user group in the github organization

2015-06-26 Thread stewart mackenzie
Please read pieter hintjens culture and empire, specifically chapter 2 light of spheres. Good contributors should be promoted quickly before they move off onto other projects. Yes if you choose to use nixos you aren't going anywhere quickly but nonetheless it's an important hat tip to