[Nix-dev] Zoom package?

2017-07-07 Thread Mark Gardner via nix-dev
Has anyone started packaging Zoom (https://zoom.us/) for NixOS? Mark -- Mark Gardner -- ___ nix-dev mailing list nix-dev@lists.science.uu.nl https://mailman.science.uu.nl/mailman/listinfo/nix-dev

Re: [Nix-dev] PulseAudio

2017-05-09 Thread Mark Gardner
them then start up something that uses pulseaudio. Making progress. Thanks David. ​ Mark -- Mark Gardner -- ___ nix-dev mailing list nix-dev@lists.science.uu.nl https://mailman.science.uu.nl/mailman/listinfo/nix-dev

Re: [Nix-dev] PulseAudio

2017-05-09 Thread Mark Gardner
of ideas, sorry :-( Off the top of my head, I > don't think the no-longer-available wiki page had many more details > relevant to your situation. > ​Thanks for your help. Mark -- Mark Gardner -- ___ nix-dev mailing list nix-dev@lists.scien

Re: [Nix-dev] PulseAudio

2017-05-09 Thread Mark Gardner
ndow that pops up it says "Connection to PulseAudio failed".​ $ nix-env -iA nixos.pamixer installing ‘pamixer-1.3’ building path(s) ‘/nix/store/w21ijfx76xkf2smw6xk1hgvmp9b2h2s0-user-environment’ created 1235 symlinks in user environment $ pamixer --list-sinks Connection error ​ ​Ma

[Nix-dev] PulseAudio

2017-05-09 Thread Mark Gardner
that also...) Mark -- Mark Gardner -- ___ nix-dev mailing list nix-dev@lists.science.uu.nl https://mailman.science.uu.nl/mailman/listinfo/nix-dev

Re: [Nix-dev] Modular config and lists

2017-04-24 Thread Mark Gardner
essly integrate with other options. By default lists will > be concatenated, not overwritten. > ​No I didn't. I was assuming that the lists would conflict. I tried it and it works. (Obviously my nix understanding is still being formed.) ​Mark -- Mark Gardner -- ___

[Nix-dev] Modular config and lists

2017-04-24 Thread Mark Gardner
hat is defined in extraGroup somewhere else but also "libvirtd"? Mark -- Mark Gardner -- ___ nix-dev mailing list nix-dev@lists.science.uu.nl https://mailman.science.uu.nl/mailman/listinfo/nix-dev

Re: [Nix-dev] dnsmasq fails to start

2017-04-20 Thread Mark Gardner
​ ​ Bjørn. That solved the problem. dnsmasq is working now. ​Mark -- Mark Gardner -- ___ nix-dev mailing list nix-dev@lists.science.uu.nl https://mailman.science.uu.nl/mailman/listinfo/nix-dev

[Nix-dev] paths in user's i3 configs broken by upgrade

2017-04-03 Thread Mark Gardner
o work but is still wrong because it points outside of the current-system closure. Mark -- Mark Gardner -- ___ nix-dev mailing list nix-dev@lists.science.uu.nl http://lists.science.uu.nl/mailman/listinfo/nix-dev

Re: [Nix-dev] Help wanted with Nixos on ZFS in an encrypted LUKS volume

2017-04-03 Thread Mark Gardner
networking = { hostName = "nixos"; hostId = "05f35ae3"; # use hostid SPL picked above }; system.stateVersion = "16.09"; } # EOF # time nixos-install 2>&1 | tee install.log # 9m0.236s # reboot Mark -- Mark Gardner -- ___

Re: [Nix-dev] dnsmasq fails to start

2017-03-21 Thread Mark Gardner
q.service: Failed with result 'exit-code'. I have been unsuccessful in figuring out what I am doing wrong. It appears to be something to do with Dbus policy. Anyone running dnsmasq that can give me pointers? Mark -- Mark Gardner -- ___ nix

[Nix-dev] dnsmasq fails to start

2017-03-21 Thread Mark Gardner
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Re: [Nix-dev] nixos-rebuild switch error

2017-03-07 Thread Mark Gardner
ion from Leslie Lamport: "A distributed system is one in which the failure of a computer you didn't even know existed can render your own computer unusable." (In my case not quite unusable but it was a pain as I was attempting to install on a new ma

Re: [Nix-dev] NixOS 16.09 and Firefox Nightly

2017-03-06 Thread Mark Gardner
s me "Congrats! You’re using the latest version of Firefox." Sorry for the confusion. Mark -- Mark Gardner -- ___ nix-dev mailing list nix-dev@lists.science.uu.nl http://lists.science.uu.nl/mailman/listinfo/nix-dev

[Nix-dev] NixOS 16.09 and Firefox Nightly

2017-03-05 Thread Mark Gardner
y security and serious bug fixes). Mark -- Mark Gardner -- ___ nix-dev mailing list nix-dev@lists.science.uu.nl http://lists.science.uu.nl/mailman/listinfo/nix-dev

[Nix-dev] Collisions

2017-03-04 Thread Mark Gardner
ection" http://lists.science.uu.nl/pipermail/nix-dev/2004-November/08.html. But I didn't see a resolution to the problem. What is the correct way to solve this? Mark -- Mark Gardner -- ___ nix-dev mailing list nix-dev@lists.science.uu.nl http://lists.science.uu.nl/mailman/listinfo/nix-dev

Re: [Nix-dev] Accessing cache.nixos.org

2017-03-02 Thread Mark Gardner
On Thu, Mar 2, 2017 at 10:53 AM, Mark Gardner wrote: > I have been having a lot of failures installing and rebuilding lately. The > usual symptom is "", often 6 ("could not resolve host"). > > For example here are some of the errors I am seeing as I attempt an >

[Nix-dev] Accessing cache.nixos.org

2017-03-02 Thread Mark Gardner
rs' from any binary cache Two days ago the problem could be traced to cloudfront.net (AWS US-East-1) having problems, but I don't know why the problems yesterday and today. Anyone know why? Anything I can do about it? Any work arounds? This is stopping me dead in the water... Mark -- M

[Nix-dev] Best Practices on Modularizing Configuration.nix?

2017-02-27 Thread Mark Gardner
asily create a configuration for a new machine (and put it in the repo too) without a lot of hand work? Mark -- Mark Gardner -- ___ nix-dev mailing list nix-dev@lists.science.uu.nl http://lists.science.uu.nl/mailman/listinfo/nix-dev

Re: [Nix-dev] Auto upgrade

2017-02-24 Thread Mark Gardner
tead of an experimental branch? Mark -- Mark Gardner -- ___ nix-dev mailing list nix-dev@lists.science.uu.nl http://lists.science.uu.nl/mailman/listinfo/nix-dev

[Nix-dev] Auto upgrade

2017-02-24 Thread Mark Gardner
How stable is my system likely to be if I set "system.autoUpgrade.enable = true;" if I am on the stable channel (16.09)? How likely will a it be that an upgrade will cause problems? Do I even need to worry? Mark -- Mark Gardner -- ___ nix-d

Re: [Nix-dev] How to ensure that a directory exists via configuration.nix

2017-02-10 Thread Mark Gardner
On Fri, Feb 10, 2017 at 11:11 AM, David Izquierdo wrote: > Is there any reason not to use `mkdir -p`, to spare yourself the if? ​Didn't think of it...? :-) Mark -- Mark Gardner -- ___ nix-dev mailing list nix-dev@lists.science.uu

Re: [Nix-dev] How to ensure that a directory exists via configuration.nix

2017-02-10 Thread Mark Gardner
Once again, thanks Layus! For the benefit of others, here is what I put in my configuration.nix: system.activationScripts = { mnt = { text = ''if [ ! -d /mnt ] ; then mkdir /mnt; fi"; deps = []; }; }; Mark -

Re: [Nix-dev] How to ensure that a directory exists via configuration.nix

2017-02-09 Thread Mark Gardner
Thanks layus. I spent several hours looking for the answer but never looked at the system.activationScripts option. Mark -- Mark Gardner -- ___ nix-dev mailing list nix-dev@lists.science.uu.nl http://lists.science.uu.nl/mailman/listinfo/nix-dev

[Nix-dev] How to ensure that a directory exists via configuration.nix

2017-02-09 Thread Mark Gardner
o this (or anything else that one might put in rc.local)? Mark -- Mark Gardner -- ___ nix-dev mailing list nix-dev@lists.science.uu.nl http://lists.science.uu.nl/mailman/listinfo/nix-dev

Re: [Nix-dev] Remapping Console Key Bindings

2017-02-01 Thread Mark Gardner
I ended up taking a different approach: i18n.consoleUseXkbConfig = true; services.xserver.xkbOptions = "ctrl:nocaps"; This seems to be working just fine. (I don't have caps lock anymore but it is used infrequently so I am OK with that.) Thanks everyone for their help. Mark -

Re: [Nix-dev] Remapping Console Key Bindings

2017-01-30 Thread Mark Gardner
m thankful for rollback! :-) ​ > A better way is: > 1. dumpkeys > /etc/nixos/keys.map > 2. Edit keys.map and change keycode 58 from Caps_Lock to Control. > 3. In configuration.nix: i18n.consoleKeyMap = ./keys.map; > ​This makes sense. I will try it when I

Re: [Nix-dev] Remapping Console Key Bindings

2017-01-14 Thread Mark Gardner
= Control > ''); > > It works for the US keyboard layout. If you use another layout, you > might want to edit the output of dumpkeys ("kbd" package) yourself, and > load that file as i18n.consoleKeyMap. > ​Thank you Rodney. That is exactly what I needed. Mark -

Re: [Nix-dev] Remapping Console Key Bindings

2017-01-05 Thread Mark Gardner
uld make it work for console as well but it doesn't. (I am not sure what it does...) Thus, I am still at a loss on how to remap the keys on the console (short of copying the existing console keymap, modifying it as per the sed commands in the original email, and setting i18n.consoleKeyma

[Nix-dev] Remapping Console Key Bindings

2017-01-05 Thread Mark Gardner
I have been unable to figure out what to put in configuration.nix to implement the behavior I am used to under Debian. The contents of /etc/kdb/remap are sed commands for remapping the CapsLock key to Control and the right Control key to CapsLock: # This turns caps lock into control s/keycode 58

Re: [Nix-dev] Usability: Nixpkg > NixOS

2016-12-15 Thread Mark Gardner
uot;golang" to help > search. > ​ ​Just like "Go" -> "golang", we can promote "Nix" -> "nixpkg". ​ > I bought the nixpkg.com domain just in case and am happy to transfer it > to the nix foundation. > ​Is there any reason we shouldn&#

[Nix-dev] NixOS UEFI+LUKS+LVM or UEFI+LUKS+ZFS

2016-09-27 Thread Mark Gardner
timately, I want to use ZFS. I am only using LVM to figure out where the problem lies. Apparently the problem is related to LUKS.) Mark -- Mark Gardner -- ___ nix-dev mailing list nix-dev@lists.science.uu.nl http://lists.science.uu.nl/mailman/listinfo/nix-dev