Re: [Nix-dev] Gutenprint cups drivers

2014-06-02 Thread Jonas Hörsch
Hi Marc, (and others), Thanks for the mails you sent me in reply to my support request [1] in February, I tried to follow them as good as I could. But, since there was a pull request, which allegedly would enable me to use the new gutenprint necessary for my Canon PIXMA MG5200 printer, I had sett

[Nix-dev] Gutenprint cups drivers

2014-02-01 Thread Jonas Hörsch
hello everyone, can anybody explain to me or give me some hints on how to use any gutenprint print drivers? there are the packages gutenprint and gutenprintBin. both are happy being added to services.printing.drivers. none of them seems to add anything to the share/cups/model directory of cups-pr

Re: [Nix-dev] wiki entry on how to add a large file into the nix store

2013-09-13 Thread Jonas Hörsch
On Fri, Sep 13 2013, Marc Weber wrote: > No, but it suggests this instead which probably yields the same store > path?: > nix-store --add-fixed sha256 jdk-6u45-linux-x64.bin oh cool. yes, it does yield the same path as nix-prefetch-url. together with the observation, that "nix-store --add" also

Re: [Nix-dev] wiki entry on how to add a large file into the nix store

2013-09-13 Thread Jonas Hörsch
to summarize i don't understand, why: # nix-store --add test.mp4 stores into /nix/store/z3wnqmfzqfmz5gis55bvymx3jbpgx7s5-test.mp4 which coincides with # nix-store --print-fixed-path --recursive sha256 \ $(nix-hash --type sha256 --base32 test.mp4) test.mp4 against # nix-prefetch-url file:/

Re: [Nix-dev] wiki entry on how to add a large file into the nix store

2013-09-13 Thread Jonas Hörsch
On Fri, Sep 13 2013, Marc Weber wrote: > The main difference is that prefetch-url can read from http and the > other only works with files? that doesn't explain why # nix-store --add test.mp4 /nix/store/z3wnqmfzqfmz5gis55bvymx3jbpgx7s5-test.mp4 and # nix-prefetch-url file://$(pwd)/test.mp4

[Nix-dev] wiki entry on how to add a large file into the nix store

2013-09-13 Thread Jonas Hörsch
hi everyone, i want to add more or less the following howto to the wiki. there is just one question remaining, which i'd like to sort out beforehand, namely what is the distinction between nix-store --add and nix-prefetch-url and the resulting store paths? would anyone care to enlighten me? tha

[Nix-dev] getconf PATH

2013-06-02 Thread Jonas Hörsch
hej, i've just been debugging emacs remote editing per ssh onto a nixos machine, and found that emacs fails to find the correct path on the remote machine and then errors out on missing the ls command. for determining the correct value of PATH it invokes getconf PATH. on nixos and archlinux this

Re: [Nix-dev] kbuildsococa4 & calligra

2013-04-21 Thread Jonas Hörsch
/mime" ]; to configuration.nix. this lets krita, okular and gwenview work like expected. only plugins as in gwenview's plugin menu don't show up. am i doing evil stuff, which will hunt me later? Jonas Hörsch ___ nix-dev