Hi. I'm trying to package "geonetwork-opensource" (
http://geonetwork-opensource.org/) for nix. They distribute the
application's war-file separately, but there's an administrative tool
called "gast" which is only available using their platform-independent
installer. I was able to save an "install.
On Tue, Jun 12, 2012 at 10:09 AM, Lluís Batlle i Rossell
wrote:
> On Tue, Jun 12, 2012 at 11:28:48AM +0200, Ludovic Courtès wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > Bryce L Nordgren skribis:
> >
> > > But it seems that the java-based installer hardcodes /bin/chmod
> inste
I looked around for nix expressions for web applications, but didn't see
any. Web apps tend to be deployed into a server (httpd/tomcat/jetty) but
they also have some configuration which has nothing to do with the server
(database type, host, port, username, password, database name, as well as
other
Whoops, the list fell off the CC at some point. Sorry.
On Wed, 13 Jun 2012 23:40:52 +, Bryce L Nordgren
wrote:
> On Wed, Jun 13, 2012 at 11:17 PM, Florian Friesdorf wrote:
>
> > Did you see:
> >
> > /etc/nixos/nixos/modules/services/web-servers/apache-httpd/
> &g
Drat! On this list, "reply-all" is needed. Sorry.
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From: Bryce L Nordgren
Date: Fri, Jun 22, 2012 at 4:03 PM
Subject: Re: [Nix-dev] Nixpkgs and NixOS moved to GitHub
To: Peter Simons
On Thu, Jun 21, 2012 at 4:03 PM, Peter Simons wrote:
Apologies if this is another dumb question, but I think I don't know
the proper terms to google.
I'm writing an expression (in nixpkgs) for geonetwork-opensource. This
is now working as a maven build. The thing I'm putting in $out, for
the moment, is the maven repository. This contains all of the
> In the Linux kernel development process, the only official tree is Linus'
> kernel tree. Linus only works with a small group of people each maintaining
> a subsystem of the kernel, such as the memory manager, I/O scheduler etc.
> These subsystem maintainers have their own tree (which they regular
On Wed, Jun 27, 2012 at 6:02 AM, Michael Weiss wrote:
> Greetings,
>
> I'd like to derail the discussion about policy and focus on the parts
> about how to reduce the need to agree on policy. As others have pointed
> out, nix is great for having your own cake and I want to know how to
> make the
On Wed, Jun 27, 2012 at 12:16 PM, Shea Levy wrote:
>
> > - On the level of Nix as a package manager, there is a way to roll back
> > everything but GC
> >
> What do you mean, exactly? You can roll back versions of nix, and if you
> use build.nix in the nix source tree you can build each component
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From: Bryce L Nordgren
Date: Wed, Jun 27, 2012 at 3:54 PM
Subject: Re: [Nix-dev] Improving the Developer Experience in the Nix
Community
To: 7c6f4...@mail.ru
On Wed, Jun 27, 2012 at 2:47 PM, Michael Raskin <7c6f4...@mail.ru> wrote:
> >&g
> Continuing with a Java theme: the Java Advanced Imaging interfaces have a
> > (default) pure java implementation as well as a native (accelerated)
> > implementation.
>
> How should this be solved? Try find answers yourself. Its the same
> problem M.R. talked about if buildfarm uses optimiziatio
Specifics aside (because they were just examples, sometimes poor ones), the
point here is that Nix can only express tightly coupled dependencies. Lack
of the ability to correctly express loosely coupled relationships causes
needless rebuilds. It really doesn't matter whether Java has achieved
perfe
On Wed, Jun 27, 2012 at 4:48 PM, Shea Levy wrote:
> Well, to be honest I was more hoping for suggestions about how to
> improve the developer community, policies, etc. rather than technical
> improvements. But ideas for those are always good too, so please keep
> discussing :)
>
Did you see: ht
Arrrgh! This is the only list I'm on where "reply" means reply just to the
sender! Sorry for consistently dropping the list off of replies.
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From: Bryce L Nordgren
Date: Fri, Jun 29, 2012 at 4:48 PM
Subject: Re: [Nix-dev] Improving the Devel
Again I replied only to an individual. D'oh. I sense this is going to be a
pattern with me and this list.
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From: Bryce L Nordgren
Date: Tue, Jul 10, 2012 at 8:53 AM
Subject: Re: [Nix-dev] Fwd: Improving the Developer Experience in the Nix
Communi
Hi list,
I want to suggest something to see what you think.
Nix currently supports a single meaning for its dependency relation, which
essentially can be summed up as "Depends on exact build of". As in, GDAL
GEOS(hash here). This is an enormously
successful model, but it does force you to comple
On Wed, Jul 11, 2012 at 12:53 AM, Mathijs Kwik wrote:
>
> But the same thing cannot be said about
> Ruby (in all fairness: Ruby's main goal never was to be a VM) and most
> other environments. Also, some of these "language/platform environments"
> have optional components. Let's say some imaging
On Wed, Jul 11, 2012 at 2:10 PM, Mathijs Kwik wrote:
> Bryce L Nordgren writes:
>
> > On Wed, Jul 11, 2012 at 12:53 AM, Mathijs Kwik
> wrote:
> >
> > There may be a couple of things I didn't articulate well.
> >
> > 1] I don't see these new sem
I'm not saying you shouldn't. But the current build system finds out
> about the breakage, so the maintainer can investigate and put the extra
> dependency there. You have to understand that most package expressions
> are probably created as a bare minimum, just adding the stuff the
> builder/insta
On Thu, Jul 12, 2012 at 12:40 PM, Mathijs Kwik wrote:
> That's not what I was talking about, the python expression didn't change
> in my example. Just a (made up) underlying graphics library.
> That triggers a python rebuild, which can't use the new gfx version, so
> it builds without bindings for
On Fri, Jul 13, 2012 at 12:46 AM, Mathijs Kwik wrote:
> Bryce L Nordgren writes:
>
> > On Thu, Jul 12, 2012 at 12:40 PM, Mathijs Kwik
> wrote:
>
> Your quest seems to not really lead to special/new/powerful properties,
> just saves a few cpu cycles, while (if not used
On Sat, Jul 21, 2012 at 10:15 AM, Florian Friesdorf wrote:
> On Sat, 21 Jul 2012 18:10:23 +0200, Marc Weber
> wrote:
> > Excerpts from Florian Friesdorf's message of Sat Jul 21 17:50:55 +0200
> 2012:
> > > how do we get all packages using a derivation (e.g. python27) either
> > > directly or indi
If I could ask the dumb question...Certainly a particular build has only
one derivation (the "deriver" in the manifest), but can a derivation have
more than one build? I notice that "References" in the manifest refers to
other builds, not to other derivations. I assume there's a reason for the
dist
I don't know how to do a pull request for a single commit on github, or I'd
just do it there. It's trying to pull in all the changes on my development
branch.
https://github.com/bnordgren/nixpkgs-1/commit/837fbd82897eb53cf7237f4badaf49adcd6d3445
This commit only has one thing not related to addin
I note that the most recent patch for openssh hpn support is for 5.9p1 and
the current openssh release is at 6.1p1. The patch doesn't apply cleanly
against current sources. Also, the old URL for the patch is no longer
working (upstream is apparently using a file manager called "Remository"
which do
On Fri, Oct 5, 2012 at 1:39 AM, Lluís Batlle i Rossell wrote:
> On Fri, Oct 05, 2012 at 12:57:40AM +0000, Bryce L Nordgren wrote:
> > I did make a patch against 6.1p1 by manually entering the 3 rejected
> hunks.
> > My limited testing with both 5.9p1 and 6.1p1 quickly led to sta
Hi all.
I packaged drupal (sort of). I have a tarball with all the files in the
standard drupal distribution + all the modules I need for my site. My
apache submodule nix expression extracts this tarball and fills in the
basic parameters (database type/username/password; public and private
upload
I ran nix-store -qR /nix/store/...-php-5.3.15 and discovered linux headers
for the wrong kernel version. (This is a different store location than you
likely have because I compiled PHP with ldap support.) I tried different
php versions...back to 5.3.6 and up to 5.3.18 with the same result.
The off
I just tried to update a six month old nixos distribution and ran into a
wall. At one point in time, I was getting parse errors. Then I did a
nix-env -i nix to get a new version of the package manager. Now it seems
that no matter what I do, some file somewhere causes a "error: cannot start
worker (
Urgh. Sorry about private reply.
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From: Bryce L Nordgren
Date: Fri, Mar 8, 2013 at 8:08 AM
Subject: Re: [Nix-dev] nix-env and nixos-rebuild cannot start workers
To: Vladimír Čunát
On Fri, Mar 8, 2013 at 2:06 AM, Vladimír Čunát wrote:
> Hi,
>
Again with the private reply.
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From: Bryce L Nordgren
Date: Fri, Mar 8, 2013 at 11:25 AM
Subject: Re: [Nix-dev] nix-env and nixos-rebuild cannot start workers
To: Vladimír Čunát
On Fri, Mar 8, 2013 at 2:06 AM, Vladimír Čunát wrote:
> What
On Mon, Mar 18, 2013 at 3:46 PM, Bjørn Forsman wrote:
>
> Hm... I thought NixOS had atomic upgrades? Or, if things broke anyway,
> that it would be fixable without using external tools. What's going
> on?
>
My best guess is that something became messed up with a behind-the-scenes
database file. Th
Why not make a Nix friendly solution to NixOS stable?
1] Make a reference to a particular git branch/commit in the nix store.
2] Retrieve the reference;
3] Build the system off of the nix expressions in the reference.
Currently, Nix lacks a way to uniquely reference the complete Nix
expression fr
Hello.
I'm still wrapping my brain around Nix/Nixos/nixpkgs. I have a concept in
my head which is so basic it's probably been had before, so I was hoping
that someone could set me straight relatively easily.
I understand you have a stdenvNative environment, which essentially allows
you to use the
I guess you could write 80% succesful converter of Debian packages into
> Nix expressions, but that would be a lot of work.
>
More or less, I was thinking of Nix expressions to control some external
packaging mechanism (apt, makechrootpkg/pacman, rpmbuild/rpm) rather than
trying to convert the rec
On Tue, Dec 6, 2011 at 4:36 AM, Michael Raskin <7c6f4...@mail.ru> wrote:
> >For context, my near term interest is to control an ArchLinux environment
> >1] rollback capability
> >2] better closure determination for "point upgrades" (individual
> packages).
> >3] Automatic rebuilds of "customized"
On Thu, Jan 5, 2012 at 5:32 AM, Rickard Nilsson
wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On Tue, 03 Jan 2012 15:47:23 +0100, Florian Friesdorf
> wrote:
> > Hi Rickard,
> >
> > On Tue, 04 Oct 2011 11:45:14 +0200, "Rickard Nilsson"
> > wrote:
> >> > However in your case
> >> > http://mawercer.de/~marc/minimal-install-
Newbie question here: I noted that simply enabling services.postgresql in
the configuration.nix file installed version 8.3.4. My (possibly ignorant
and misguided) attempt to change which version was installed results in a
postgresql service which hangs on startup. Configuration.nix snippet:
serv
I did some more rooting around. First, postgresql 9.0.5 was dying because
the database files were initialized with postgresql 8.3.4. Then I deleted
/var/db/postgresql, killed the "hung" pre-start init process and did a
"start postgresql". Now the server is dying because it cannot load
pg_hba.conf (
Attached, pls find the patch for latest version in postgresql 9.0.x series.
I found out why my postgresql84 and postgresql90 services were crashing.
The default value for services.postgresql.authentication is mal-formed for
these two versions. Apparently, it works fine for postgresql83.
The last
I'm currently trying to get postgis 2.0.0 alpha 4 (w/raster and topology
support) packaged on nix. I'm hitting something about libtool's behavior
that I just don't understand, and it seems pretty nix specific. I'm
posting here to see if there's a "well known" libtool/nix quirk that will
short-circ
I've been beating my head against a wall trying to get postgis 2.0.0 alpha4
to compile on Nixos for the past couple of days. I've narrowed my problem
down to "anything which tries to link against gdal using libtool will
fail." I made a super simple gdal test program (print gdal version then
exit) t
The following two patches are to address some issues I had trying to setup
an ftp server with btrfs.
vsftpd.patch :
Patched to create an "upload" directory with the correct permissions if
cfg.anonymousUser is true and cfg.anonymousUploadEnable is also true.
Previously, an upload directory would ha
On Sat, Feb 25, 2012 at 12:45 AM, Mathijs Kwik wrote:
> On Fri, Feb 24, 2012 at 5:41 PM, Bryce L Nordgren
> wrote:
> >
> >
> > Tried that. No go. Correct me if I'm wrong, but I think initrd is
> "stage1"
> > and filesystems.nix, as an upstart j
Stumbled across this concept today:
http://static.usenix.org/events/usenix06/tech/full_papers/muniswamy-reddy/muniswamy-reddy_html/
If I read this correctly, the nix store is conceptually equivalent to a
provenance-aware storage system in the context of a "build" workflow,
implemented on top of a
On Mon, Feb 27, 2012 at 10:12 PM, Marc Weber wrote:
> And then? Do the same as current buildfarm does? Duplicate work by
> building subversion revisions?
>
This dovetails pretty well with some thoughts which have recently been
hounding me. Currently, you have a generic nixpkgs tree for individua
On Sat, Feb 25, 2012 at 7:33 PM, Bryce L Nordgren wrote:
>
> Can you give it a try and report back here (don't forget to cc nix-dev)?
>
>
The patch didn't work as it stood. The modprobe line immediately before the
"btrfs device scan" line is required. N
2012/2/28 Lluís Batlle i Rossell
>
> Adding only "btrfs" will fail; I've had to add [ "btrfs" "zlib_deflate"
> "libcrc32c" "crc32c" ] to the boot.initrd for btrfs to load fine.
>
eep. not using modprobe? I had been assuming that the mechanism used to
load kernel modules would pick up dependen
I made these to start fiddling with the "appliance" concept. They are
"rebased" every hour. They're not official in any way, but if you don't
already have access to the subversion repo (or if you want to do things
relevant to a local installation rather than something which should be
applied to eve
Mine are rebased hourly by an otherwise idle machine in my office. However,
my "focus" tends to drift to competing projects and two months from now I
may not notice that it breaks.
On Wed, Feb 29, 2012 at 6:42 PM, Marc Weber wrote:
> Mine is "rebased" = updated once a day. But pushing to gitorio
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