Re: [Nix-dev] restarting a mongodb

2015-07-08 Thread Mathijs Kwik
Tomasz Kontusz tomasz.kont...@gmail.com writes: I think you can add `systemd.services.mongodb.requires = [mongo.mount]` to tell systemd to mount (and wait for) /mongo when starting MongoDB. You need `systemd.services.mongodb.after = [mongo.mount]` as well. require does not wait for a

Re: [Nix-dev] multi-user.target must not be After network.target

2015-06-30 Thread Mathijs Kwik
I agree. But please note that network.target doesn't do much and probably cannot fail. It basically _starts_ networking, but does not wait for anything to come up. Either a static ip address for an interface or _starting_ dhcpcd (without waiting for it to acquire a lease or whatever) is enough to

Re: [Nix-dev] patch gnupg 2.1.1

2014-12-24 Thread Mathijs Kwik
We already have the socket activation patch. Karn Kallio just upgraded it. Domen Kožar do...@dev.si writes: In general I'd like to avoid such things and be consistent with upstream. Nix makes is really easy to override such packages for your own use. On Wed, Dec 24, 2014 at 4:29 PM, Karn

[Nix-dev] escaping /* in emacs nix mode

2014-12-21 Thread Mathijs Kwik
Hi all, How do I prevent something like this to screw over emacs' font coloring for nix files? foo = '' rm some/path/*.o ''; bar = ... It seems the /* makes everything after it (including bar) appear as comments. Thanks, Mathijs ___ nix-dev

Re: [Nix-dev] escaping /* in emacs nix mode

2014-12-21 Thread Mathijs Kwik
Ah, that's not too bad. Thanks :) Peter Simons sim...@cryp.to writes: Hi Mathijs, the standard hack to avoid this issue is to write: rm some/path/*.o It sucks, but it works. Peter ___ nix-dev mailing list nix-dev@lists.science.uu.nl

Re: [Nix-dev] ghc-mod depends on Wayland

2014-11-03 Thread Mathijs Kwik
ghc-mod should not have a runtime dependency on emacs at all. At build-time, emacs-nox sounds fine indeed. Andreas Herrmann andreas...@gmx.ch writes: Hello everyone, Recently, I tried to install the ghc-mod package. I was surprised to see that nix-env intended to install a _large_ amount

Re: [Nix-dev] Proposal: Standard installation procedure

2014-10-22 Thread Mathijs Kwik
Have a look at https://github.com/bluescreen303/bluenix/blob/master/jobs.nix It's overly complicated and I'm gonna simplify it, but it does build multiple systems. Ertugrul Söylemez ert...@gmx.de writes: On Mon, 20 Oct 2014 09:50:15 +0200 Eelco Dolstra eelco.dols...@logicblox.com wrote:

[Nix-dev] chromium widevine CDM

2014-09-15 Thread Mathijs Kwik
Hi all, Recently, netflix enabled support for the chrome browser, running on linux. This means it should now be possible to watch netflix without silverlight in pure HTML5 video. This became possible because w3c's controversial EME (encrypted media extensions) which enables netflix to enforce DRM

Re: [Nix-dev] Will there be a systemd replacement at any time inthefuture?

2014-09-02 Thread Mathijs Kwik
I also don't see these issues with journald (on non-SSD systems). I would like to add I absolutely love systemd, as it provides proper dependency management, helping immensely for more dynamic setups where hardware changes should trigger services reconfiguration, or for changing

[Nix-dev] libreoffice build fails without chroot

2014-08-26 Thread Mathijs Kwik
Hi all, I recently built my systems locally using nixpkgs release 2bc609155d31d214b21a509956504a83d184502b I did some stdenv tweaking so everything built from scratch. All was fine, except for libreoffice. I expected my local changes to be the problem at first, but after some investigation got

Re: [Nix-dev] Reminder about nixpkgs branches

2014-07-24 Thread Mathijs Kwik
indeed. On 07/23/2014 11:29 AM, Mathijs Kwik wrote: - staging hasn't been merged for 2 weeks That's good, as there are quite a lot of build regressions ATM. Then they should not have been in staging. Eelco's original email about staging clearly stated staging should be mergeable into master

[Nix-dev] Reminder about nixpkgs branches

2014-07-23 Thread Mathijs Kwik
Some time ago, there was some discussion about stdenv-upgrades and similar long-living branches. I believe we decided: - we would like short-lived, single-issue branches, like: - glibc upgrade - changing the default gcc version. - new packages should just go into master - upgrades that will

Re: [Nix-dev] Fonts

2014-06-10 Thread Mathijs Kwik
Kirill Elagin kirela...@gmail.com writes: Why would anyone ever want to add a font to `sytemPackages`? I think this is a leftover from pre-nixos experiences :) I too, when coming from other distros, initially thought everything you use should go into systemPackages. It's the closest thing to

Re: [Nix-dev] Openssl and fast security updates

2014-06-06 Thread Mathijs Kwik
Alexander Kjeldaas a...@formalprivacy.com writes: On Fri, Jun 6, 2014 at 10:20 AM, Vladimír Čunát vcu...@gmail.com wrote: On 06/06/2014 08:59 AM, Ertugrul Söylemez wrote: When we use priorities generously we could avoid a lot of delay even in less critical cases. The main problem I see

Re: [Nix-dev] Openssl and fast security updates

2014-06-06 Thread Mathijs Kwik
Michael Raskin 7c6f4...@mail.ru writes: When we use priorities generously we could avoid a lot of delay even in less critical cases. The main problem I see is that normally you don't want to release a channel until *all* parts have rebuilt. +1 Rebuilding for a server that runs, say ssh,

Re: [Nix-dev] Openssl and fast security updates

2014-06-06 Thread Mathijs Kwik
Michael Raskin 7c6f4...@mail.ru writes: Calculating the transitive closure for all nixos modules / services run by systemd is one way to prioritize. A populatiry contest could be added to that. Maybe having a channel which is a subset of the main channel and includes at least ssh, apache,

Re: [Nix-dev] Openssl and fast security updates

2014-06-06 Thread Mathijs Kwik
Eelco Dolstra eelco.dols...@logicblox.com writes: Hi, On 06/06/14 13:29, Mathijs Kwik wrote: How are people supposed to use that channel? I don't think I can _add_ a secondary channel which provides a conflicting source (nixos). Switching back and forth doesn't sound easy. Switching

Re: [Nix-dev] Openssl and fast security updates

2014-06-05 Thread Mathijs Kwik
Luca Bruno lethalma...@gmail.com writes: On 05/06/2014 17:49, Shea Levy wrote: Pass in the system derivation and use nix-env --set to switch your system to the resultant derivation. I have used it in the past but only for short periods while waiting for a rebuild. Can't it be done in

Re: [Nix-dev] New website

2014-05-31 Thread Mathijs Kwik
Kirill Elagin kirela...@gmail.com writes: On Sat, May 31, 2014 at 12:19 PM, Michael Raskin 7c6f4...@mail.ru wrote: Carousels with blurbs are often annoying. You start to read and it switches. Just hover it with your mouse and [if it is implemented properly] it won't switch. I've seen

Re: [Nix-dev] haskell ide

2014-05-12 Thread Mathijs Kwik
On 05/11/2014 09:50 AM, Roelof Wobben wrote: but can someone explain to me what holes and missing cases are. Sorry, I missed this part of your question somehow. While I agree with Vladimir that there's already an immense lot to learn with just the basic haskell2010 stuff/concepts, these 2

Re: [Nix-dev] haskell ide

2014-05-12 Thread Mathijs Kwik
On Mon, May 12, 2014 at 11:00 PM, Mateusz Kowalczyk fuuze...@fuuzetsu.co.uk wrote: Honestly I'm not quite sure why this thread ended up on nix-dev rather than haskell-cafe or haskell-beginners. Because we have an opinion about everything :P ___

Re: [Nix-dev] haskell ide

2014-05-12 Thread Mathijs Kwik
features. On Mon, May 12, 2014 at 11:04 PM, Mathijs Kwik math...@bluescreen303.nl wrote: On Mon, May 12, 2014 at 11:00 PM, Mateusz Kowalczyk fuuze...@fuuzetsu.co.uk wrote: Honestly I'm not quite sure why this thread ended up on nix-dev rather than haskell-cafe or haskell-beginners

Re: [Nix-dev] haskell ide

2014-05-12 Thread Mathijs Kwik
On Mon, May 12, 2014 at 11:18 PM, Mateusz Kowalczyk fuuze...@fuuzetsu.co.uk wrote: The downside is the crowd of vim users that complain about basically having to use emacs for Agda ;) Idris does this way better in this respect. Also, for haskell, ghc-mod works with both emacs and vim. So it's

[Nix-dev] network interface naming

2014-05-11 Thread Mathijs Kwik
Hi all, Some time ago, udev changed to stable interface names for networking. So instead of eth0 and eth1 you would get enp0s3 (wired) and wlp1s5 (wireless) for example. And I think there existed a (nixos?) option to stick to the previous behaviour for some time. I recently upgraded an older

Re: [Nix-dev] network interface naming

2014-05-11 Thread Mathijs Kwik
'eth0' (as that's what I used in network.interfaces and other places). Probably systemd-212 became a bit more aggressive about interface naming. Anyway, thanks! On Sun, May 11, 2014 at 10:29:45PM +0200, Mathijs Kwik wrote: Hi all, Some time ago, udev changed to stable interface names

Re: [Nix-dev] haskell ide

2014-05-10 Thread Mathijs Kwik
Roelof Wobben r.wob...@home.nl writes: Hello, I get the impressing that there are a lot of Haskell programmers here. I wonder which ide everyone use except vim and emacs. I find them not well to use. I looked at leksah in the past. It's quite nice for starters. And there's some haskell

Re: [Nix-dev] haskell ide

2014-05-10 Thread Mathijs Kwik
the language and might even obscure things. On Sat, May 10, 2014 at 10:24 PM, Roelof Wobben r.wob...@home.nl wrote: Mathijs Kwik schreef op 10-5-2014 21:23: As Haskell is moving more and more towards the interactive refinements style of programming (like Agda and Idris have) by supporting things

Re: [Nix-dev] Libreoffice fails to build

2014-04-26 Thread Mathijs Kwik
if things are broken, they should be fixed, instead of worked around :) Aloha, RK. On Sat, Apr 26, 2014 at 9:59 PM, Mathijs Kwik math...@bluescreen303.nlwrote: Raahul Kumar raahul.ku...@gmail.com writes: Thanks Kirill, that solved the temp problem. What would be nicer is if Nixos used

Re: [Nix-dev] Cinnamon update to 2.2

2014-04-18 Thread Mathijs Kwik
Roelof Wobben r.wob...@home.nl writes: Hello, I need to update Cinnamon to version 2.2 Arch and Fedora have already updated it so the old patches cannot be found. Arch (and probably Fedora as well) keep a full history of their build scripts and patches. For example:

Re: [Nix-dev] python3.4-bedup-20140206 doesn't build

2014-04-17 Thread Mathijs Kwik
Raahul Kumar raahul.ku...@gmail.com writes: Hi guys, I tried to get bedup running, refuses to build. Any idea what's wrong with this package? Yes, I copied the private github url and used nix-prefetch-git locally. Should be fixed now. exporting g...@github.com:g2p/bedup.git (rev

Re: [Nix-dev] Deduplication

2014-04-14 Thread Mathijs Kwik
Raahul Kumar raahul.ku...@gmail.com writes: Thanks Kirill, I'll go email the BTRFS devs, see if they have a fix for this hardlink issue. Anyone else got a workaround for the dedup issue with Btrfs and nixos? I think you misunderstood the output. There are X files with equal contents out of

Re: [Nix-dev] Cinnamon 2.2.0

2014-04-12 Thread Mathijs Kwik
Roelof Wobben r.wob...@home.nl writes: Hello, I saw that in the last few hours everything of Cinnamon is updated to 2.2.0. Is it wise to stay on the 2.0.14 version and update till everything is ported or it is wise to update everything to the new version and port that version. If the

Re: [Nix-dev] systemPackages vs. services.dbus.packages

2014-04-08 Thread Mathijs Kwik
Vladimír Čunát vcu...@gmail.com writes: On 04/07/2014 11:36 AM, Kirill Elagin wrote: So, the question is: what is the purpose of having services.dbus.packages if those configs are considered anyway due to packages being in systemPackages? AFAIK there are cases where packages are not put

Re: [Nix-dev] systemPackages vs. services.dbus.packages

2014-04-08 Thread Mathijs Kwik
will cause them to be installed. I do not want each and every dbus-providing package to get installed and activated. -- Кирилл Елагин On Tue, Apr 8, 2014 at 11:29 PM, Mathijs Kwik math...@bluescreen303.nlwrote: Vladimír Čunát vcu...@gmail.com writes: On 04/07/2014 11:36 AM, Kirill

Re: [Nix-dev] Repo for incomplete/unmaintained work

2014-04-05 Thread Mathijs Kwik
Shea Levy s...@shealevy.com writes: Hi all, Currently we have quite a lot of unmaintained, broken, or work-in progress components in nixpkgs. It would be great if we could get to the point where everything in nixpkgs was expected to work and be maintained, but part of that I think is having

Re: [Nix-dev] after install problem

2014-04-05 Thread Mathijs Kwik
Roelof Wobben r.wob...@home.nl writes: Roelof Wobben schreef op 5-4-2014 18:27: Hello, I booted from the minmal cd and installed according to the manual, On the configuration.nix I enabled X and KDE. But after the reboot it started up and I see the prompt. I tried startx but then I see a

Re: [Nix-dev] chromium fails to build

2014-04-01 Thread Mathijs Kwik
Bjørn Forsman bjorn.fors...@gmail.com writes: Hi all, Does anyone know what's up with the failing chromium build? I reverted the upgrade for file locally. This fixes chromium. http://hydra.nixos.org/build/9819641/nixlog/1/tail-reload Build error: building

Re: [Nix-dev] ntp monlist ddos vulnerability

2014-02-24 Thread Mathijs Kwik
with a big fat warning description. Please let me know. On Mon, Feb 24, 2014 at 5:27 PM, Mathijs Kwik math...@bluescreen303.nl wrote: Hi all, Our ntpd version (stable, 2011) contains a feature called 'monlist', which is enabled by default. This feature has recently been abused by huge ntp

Re: [Nix-dev] ntp monlist ddos vulnerability

2014-02-24 Thread Mathijs Kwik
Eelco Dolstra eelco.dols...@logicblox.com writes: On 24/02/14 17:27, Mathijs Kwik wrote: Our ntpd version (stable, 2011) contains a feature called 'monlist', which is enabled by default. This feature has recently been abused by huge ntp-amplification ddos attacks. AFAIK, this commit works

Re: [Nix-dev] ntp monlist ddos vulnerability

2014-02-24 Thread Mathijs Kwik
sorry for the noise, we are fine. The link in your commit explains it. noquery does the trick indeed. On Mon, Feb 24, 2014 at 7:22 PM, Mathijs Kwik math...@bluescreen303.nl wrote: Eelco Dolstra eelco.dols...@logicblox.com writes: On 24/02/14 17:27, Mathijs Kwik wrote: Our ntpd version

[Nix-dev] haskellPackages_ghc763_profiling

2014-02-06 Thread Mathijs Kwik
Hi all, Before nixos, I remember that enabling profiling in .cabal/config lead to double compilation times, because things got compiled twice. Once normal/optimized, and once with profiling info. With nixos, I wired haskellPackages to haskellPackages_ghc763_profiling through packageOverrides,

Re: [Nix-dev] Nixpkgs monitor moved!

2014-01-13 Thread Mathijs Kwik
I have seen these commits. Is there anything we (maintainers) should do to get our packages monitored? Some extra meta info to help discovery? And thanks phreedom for creating this! I think this will eventually save a lot of time for everyone. Rob Vermaas rob.verm...@gmail.com writes: Hi

[Nix-dev] /tmp

2014-01-06 Thread Mathijs Kwik
Hi all, Is there a way to tell nix(-daemon) to build somewhere other than /tmp ? I'm currently using a tmpfs there, but for big rebuilds(stdenv) this won't do. Make the tmpfs too small and big builds will run out of space. Make the tmpfs too large and hit swap, rendering the system unusable for

[Nix-dev] overriding node packages

2013-12-23 Thread Mathijs Kwik
Hi all, It seems the way we currently handle nodePackages has become a bit monolithic, making it very hard to override the stuff that gets generated by npm2nix. 2 simple reasons why one wants to override: - Add an optional dependency (runtime check) - Patch/disable tests (that got enabled by

Re: [Nix-dev] [***SPAM***] Re: Fix libreoffice build

2013-12-22 Thread Mathijs Kwik
I tried 0.5.0, 0.5.1 and 0.7.0 but they all have the same issue. This patch fixes the problem for all of them, but as libreoffice advises the use of 0.3.0 (which we had), we better stick to that. On Sun, Dec 22, 2013 at 1:50 AM, phree...@yandex.ru wrote: I seem to have failed to notice that I

Re: [Nix-dev] npm prepublish hook

2013-12-10 Thread Mathijs Kwik
On Tue, Dec 10, 2013 at 3:01 PM, Shea Levy s...@shealevy.com wrote: maintaining a manual list, as unfortunate as that sounds. Hopefully this will be fixed soon in most packages. For packages that are installed from a tarball (which is most), issues with read-only paths shouldn't come up. If

Re: [Nix-dev] npm prepublish hook

2013-12-10 Thread Mathijs Kwik
I'm not gonna push broken stuff :) On Tue, Dec 10, 2013 at 3:23 PM, Shea Levy s...@shealevy.com wrote: On 12/10/2013 09:16 AM, Mathijs Kwik wrote: On Tue, Dec 10, 2013 at 3:01 PM, Shea Levy s...@shealevy.com wrote: maintaining a manual list, as unfortunate as that sounds. Hopefully

[Nix-dev] branches and rebuilds

2013-12-09 Thread Mathijs Kwik
Hi all, I would like to give my opinion on the current flow we seem to have and would like to hear your opinions. I've been trying to find my own flow of staying up-to-date, submitting changes and keeping my unplanned nix-improvement/fixing time below a certain level. To do this, I've been

Re: [Nix-dev] add xslt to a derivation

2013-12-04 Thread Mathijs Kwik
$ grep 'xslt.*=' pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix libxslt = callPackage ../development/libraries/libxslt { }; docbook_xml_xslt = docbook_xsl; first result On Wed, Dec 4, 2013 at 1:31 PM, Roelof Wobben rwob...@hotmail.com wrote: when compiling cinnamon-control-center I see this message:

Re: [Nix-dev] gnome-menus

2013-12-04 Thread Mathijs Kwik
inherit it from gnome2 or gnome3 On Wed, Dec 4, 2013 at 1:54 PM, Roelof Wobben rwob...@hotmail.com wrote: How can I add this the best to a derivation. Just add gnome_menus do not work. You will see this error : error: an anonymous function at

Re: [Nix-dev] what is wrong with this ?

2013-12-01 Thread Mathijs Kwik
Roelof Wobben rwob...@hotmail.com writes: I need gnome-common as a dependency. So i add this to all-packages.nix : cinnamon = recurseIntoAttrs { cjs = callPackage ../desktops/cinnamon/cjs.nix { }; cinnamon-desktop = callPackage ../desktops/cinnamon/cinnamon-desktop.nix{

Re: [Nix-dev] NixOS 13.10

2013-11-01 Thread Mathijs Kwik
https://github.com/bluescreen303/nixpkgs/commit/e5bcb378fae0e38379b0b365ab2a2431ae5d6c07 On Fri, Nov 1, 2013 at 11:10 AM, Oliver Charles ol...@ocharles.org.uk wrote: On 10/31/2013 11:07 PM, Mathijs Kwik wrote: Congratulations on another great milestone :) It will be interesting to see how

Re: [Nix-dev] NixOS 13.10

2013-11-01 Thread Mathijs Kwik
oops, linked to own fork, ah well :) it's the same thing On Fri, Nov 1, 2013 at 11:51 AM, Mathijs Kwik math...@bluescreen303.nl wrote: https://github.com/bluescreen303/nixpkgs/commit/e5bcb378fae0e38379b0b365ab2a2431ae5d6c07 On Fri, Nov 1, 2013 at 11:10 AM, Oliver Charles ol...@ocharles.org.uk

[Nix-dev] type for path-or-string ?

2013-10-31 Thread Mathijs Kwik
Hi all, I used to put local/relative paths in my openssh.authorizedKeys.keyFiles. Basically, I store the public ssh keys in the git repo that contains my configuration.nix so I point to them by [ ./laptop.pub ./server.pub ] However, the type for this option got set to listOf str, breaking my

Re: [Nix-dev] NixOS 13.10

2013-10-31 Thread Mathijs Kwik
Congratulations on another great milestone :) It will be interesting to see how this stable experiment goes. But together with the new nixos-rebuild profiles, I think this will be very smooth. On Thu, Oct 31, 2013 at 11:59 PM, Eelco Dolstra eelco.dols...@logicblox.com wrote: Hi, I'm pleased to

Re: [Nix-dev] configuring xdg-open

2013-10-05 Thread Mathijs Kwik
Mathijs Kwik wrote: Hi all, I'm running a custom i3 desktop setup with some kde base apps. When I click a pdf file in dolpin, kde correctly launches okular to view the file. However, using xdg-open to open the file leads to my web browser (conkeror) trying to download the file. I googled

[Nix-dev] configuring xdg-open

2013-10-04 Thread Mathijs Kwik
Hi all, I'm running a custom i3 desktop setup with some kde base apps. When I click a pdf file in dolpin, kde correctly launches okular to view the file. However, using xdg-open to open the file leads to my web browser (conkeror) trying to download the file. I googled a bit on xdg-open and it

Re: [Nix-dev] Clear all

2013-09-22 Thread Mathijs Kwik
Stewart Mackenzie setor...@gmail.com writes: Mathijs Kwik math...@bluescreen303.nl wrote: You can go a step further and define multiple sub-profiles. For example 1 you typically use during c development. And another for haskell development, and yet another for an experimental python3

Re: [Nix-dev] Clear all

2013-09-21 Thread Mathijs Kwik
See http://nixos.org/wiki/Howto_keep_multiple_packages_up_to_date_at_once That way, you install (and upgrade) only 1 package through nix-env and keep everything in there. To clean up: nix-env -q | xargs nix-env -e Then install your my-env package. Regarding your second question: Depends on who

Re: [Nix-dev] Fwd: Dealing with dbus

2013-09-16 Thread Mathijs Kwik
treat them some special way. On Fri, Sep 13, 2013 at 3:23 PM, Sergey Mironov grr...@gmail.com wrote: not replyed to all by mistake -- Forwarded message -- From: Sergey Mironov grr...@gmail.com Date: 2013/9/13 Subject: Re: [Nix-dev] Dealing with dbus To: Mathijs Kwik math

Re: [Nix-dev] Dealing with dbus

2013-09-10 Thread Mathijs Kwik
Sergey Mironov ier...@gmail.com writes: This kind of thing touches the boundaries between nixpkgs and nixos. First of all, I think your usecase should be handled by systemd. Systemd knows about dbus, knows which services exist and their dbus names. It is capable of handling requirements/ordering

[Nix-dev] libreoffice java impurity

2013-09-03 Thread Mathijs Kwik
Hi all, When starting libreoffice, I get this notice (on CLI): javaldx: Could not find a Java Runtime Environment! Warning: failed to read path from javaldx After installing openjre to my profile, this message no longer appears. So we should probably wrap libreoffice so it can find java in its

Re: [Nix-dev] libreoffice java impurity

2013-09-03 Thread Mathijs Kwik
Lluís Batlle i Rossell vi...@viric.name writes: On Tue, Sep 03, 2013 at 09:27:58AM +0200, Mathijs Kwik wrote: When starting libreoffice, I get this notice (on CLI): javaldx: Could not find a Java Runtime Environment! Warning: failed to read path from javaldx After installing openjre

Re: [Nix-dev] bup - test suite

2013-09-01 Thread Mathijs Kwik
I no longer use bup. People that do can probably just revert your change locally. I would like to warn you for bup though. I've used it for daily backups for at least half a year. While it never gave any errors, I noticed that repositories broke after some time somehow. As in: they must probably

Re: [Nix-dev] bup - test suite

2013-09-01 Thread Mathijs Kwik
On Sun, Sep 1, 2013 at 3:00 PM, Marc Weber marco-owe...@gmx.de wrote: Excerpts from Mathijs Kwik's message of Sun Sep 01 14:51:09 +0200 2013: I would like to warn you for bup though. I've used it for daily backups for at least half a year. Well - I guess you should have started a new repo each

Re: [Nix-dev] Libreoffice update to 4.0.5.2

2013-09-01 Thread Mathijs Kwik
Domen Kožar do...@dev.si writes: Hi all, I've updated libreoffice to latest stable (released few days ago). Thanks for this! libreoffice probably isn't the easiest package to maintain :) There are two caveats though: - Due to help being translated to so many packages total size when

Re: [Nix-dev] Libreoffice update to 4.0.5.2

2013-09-01 Thread Mathijs Kwik
On Sun, Sep 1, 2013 at 7:04 PM, Domen Kožar do...@dev.si wrote: On Sun, Sep 1, 2013 at 6:59 PM, Mathijs Kwik math...@bluescreen303.nl wrote: Domen Kožar do...@dev.si writes: Hi all, I've updated libreoffice to latest stable (released few days ago). Thanks for this! libreoffice

Re: [Nix-dev] Treating emacs24-nox as an alternative to emacs

2013-09-01 Thread Mathijs Kwik
Danie Roux li...@danieroux.com writes: Hi all, How do I mark/alternative/indicate that emacs24-nox=emacs for any package that requires emacs? This for example still wants to fetch all of X: nix-env --dry-run -iA nixpkgs.emacs24-nox nixpkgs.mu mu has a dependency on emacs and I don't

Re: [Nix-dev] Treating emacs24-nox as an alternative to emacs

2013-09-01 Thread Mathijs Kwik
, Mathijs Kwik math...@bluescreen303.nl wrote: Danie Roux li...@danieroux.com writes: mu has a dependency on emacs and I don't know how to make it believe that emacs24-nox satisfies that dependency. You should probably use packageOverrides, see the nixpkgs.config option

Re: [Nix-dev] What monitoring tools do you currently prefer?

2013-08-31 Thread Mathijs Kwik
Thanks for the tips. I will look into datadog probably, although I was hoping to uncloud myself a bit by moving more stuff to my own infrastructure ;) On Wed, Aug 28, 2013 at 11:54 AM, Domen Kožar do...@dev.si wrote: It is worth mentioning datadog (as aggregation server) builds upon very strong

Re: [Nix-dev] SECURITY: default SSH host keys are weak

2013-08-23 Thread Mathijs Kwik
I currently only have an ecdsa host key and would like to keep it that way. This patch would give me a dsa key too which I don't want. On Fri, Aug 23, 2013 at 7:28 PM, Eelco Dolstra eelco.dols...@logicblox.com wrote: Hi, On 23/08/13 18:05, Peter Simons wrote: I am in favor of changing the

Re: [Nix-dev] SECURITY: default SSH host keys are weak

2013-08-23 Thread Mathijs Kwik
, 2013 at 8:36 PM, Eelco Dolstra eelco.dols...@logicblox.com wrote: Hi, On 23/08/13 20:25, Mathijs Kwik wrote: I currently only have an ecdsa host key and would like to keep it that way. This patch would give me a dsa key too which I don't want. The ssh client prefers ECDSA host keys over DSA

[Nix-dev] where did hydra's tested view go?

2013-08-17 Thread Mathijs Kwik
It was quite useful to find out if the channel has issues. ___ nix-dev mailing list nix-dev@lists.science.uu.nl http://lists.science.uu.nl/mailman/listinfo/nix-dev

[Nix-dev] packageOverrides for tests

2013-08-11 Thread Mathijs Kwik
Hi all, I wanted to try running some nixos tests locally when I noticed my package overrides don't get applied. This leads to testing a different system config than what would be installed. With some tracing, I found that (nixos)/lib/build-vms imports nixpkgs using config = {}, but with that

Re: [Nix-dev] Fwd: Hardened Linux kernel with grsec/PaX + AppArmor

2013-08-07 Thread Mathijs Kwik
Hi Ricardo, It has been some time I've looked into these security-hardening systems, but I was under the impression that grsecurity, selinux and apparmor were somewhat competative solutions for the same problems. I know there are some differences (path-based vs inode based) and that grsecurity

[Nix-dev] x-updates

2013-08-02 Thread Mathijs Kwik
Hi all, I just had to push a non-X-related package to x-updates because it needs llvm 3.3. This is probably a sign that things got tangled a bit. We can either: - provide multiple versions for llvm in master - avoid package upgrades that depend on llvm 3.3 - merge x-updates soon I know

Re: [Nix-dev] .so file containing INPUT(...)

2013-07-31 Thread Mathijs Kwik
Ludo, as you are maintainer for ncurses in nixpkgs, can you shed a light on this? https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/blob/master/pkgs/development/libraries/ncurses/default.nix#L44 On Sat, Jul 27, 2013 at 8:14 PM, Mathijs Kwik math...@bluescreen303.nlwrote: Hi all, I'm upgrading the expression

Re: [Nix-dev] .so file containing INPUT(...)

2013-07-31 Thread Mathijs Kwik
Why whould you want to do this instead of using a symlink? On Wed, Jul 31, 2013 at 12:31 PM, Eelco Dolstra eelco.dols...@logicblox.com wrote: Hi, On 27/07/13 20:14, Mathijs Kwik wrote: I'm upgrading the expression for wine to the latest version and investigating some (optional

[Nix-dev] .so file containing INPUT(...)

2013-07-27 Thread Mathijs Kwik
Hi all, I'm upgrading the expression for wine to the latest version and investigating some (optional) dependencies wine claims to be missing. One of these is ncurses. Tracing the configure phase I found that our libncurses.so is a text file containing INPUT(-lncursesw) From the ncurses

Re: [Nix-dev] .so file containing INPUT(...)

2013-07-27 Thread Mathijs Kwik
I think wine uses ncurses for dos/cli based programs. On Sat, Jul 27, 2013 at 8:19 PM, Vladimír Čunát vcu...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, thanks for looking at wine. On 07/27/2013 08:14 PM, Mathijs Kwik wrote: I'm upgrading the expression for wine to the latest version and investigating some

[Nix-dev] [nixpkgs] upgrade to haskell-mode 13.07 (emacs) requires small config change

2013-07-21 Thread Mathijs Kwik
Hi all, If you use emacs with haskell-mode, you should make a small adjustment: -(load haskell-site-file) +(load haskell-mode-autoloads) There are some more options available now as well that require activation. Announcement:

Re: [Nix-dev] firefox 21 font rendering

2013-06-20 Thread Mathijs Kwik
From the screenshots, it's clear that firefox 21 uses subpixel rendering. The 20 screenshot only has grayscale anti-aliasing. To me, the 21 rendering (in your screenshots) looks much better, sharper, clearer. But there are times when subpixel rendering does not work out well. - On a VGA output -

Re: [Nix-dev] firefox 21 font rendering

2013-06-20 Thread Mathijs Kwik
On Thu, Jun 20, 2013 at 2:20 PM, Vladimír Čunát vcu...@gmail.com wrote: On 06/20/2013 02:07 PM, Mathijs Kwik wrote: From the screenshots, it's clear that firefox 21 uses subpixel rendering. The 20 screenshot only has grayscale anti-aliasing. To me, the 21 rendering (in your screenshots

Re: [Nix-dev] firefox upgrade (20 - 21) breaks search box

2013-06-16 Thread Mathijs Kwik
What branch/revision are you on? This is supposed to be fixed by https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/commit/1fb979b4f553a457948c3d95d34642a3f1a664b5 Let me know if it didn't fix it for you On Sun, Jun 16, 2013 at 1:29 PM, Petar Bogdanovic pe...@smokva.net wrote: Hi, the problem seems to be

[Nix-dev] some fixes for multiple-outputs

2013-06-16 Thread Mathijs Kwik
Hi all, I tried to build a next-generation system: - stdenv-fixes - x-updates - multiple-outputs I got quite far, most server-stuff (LAMP) builds and after some patching/fixing, most GUI stuff builds too (gtk and qt at least). I needed to do a few fixes, but I'm not confident they are the best

Re: [Nix-dev] [Nix-commits] [NixOS/nixpkgs] 5fb93b: firefox: enable the (enabled by default) elf hack

2013-06-10 Thread Mathijs Kwik
, Jun 09, 2013 at 11:59:17PM -0700, Mathijs Kwik wrote: Branch: refs/heads/master Home: https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs Commit: 5fb93bd27ecbaf684c57f626daf1e52eebd02712 https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/commit/5fb93bd27ecbaf684c57f626daf1e52eebd02712 Author: Mathijs Kwik math

Re: [Nix-dev] Stable NixOS releases

2013-05-21 Thread Mathijs Kwik
On Tue, May 14, 2013 at 1:26 PM, Eelco Dolstra eelco.dols...@logicblox.com wrote: Hi all, I would like to propose making periodic stable releases of NixOS. Currently we only have an unstable channel that tracks the master branches of NixOS and Nixpkgs. The fact that these branches receive

Re: [Nix-dev] firefox elf-hack

2013-05-16 Thread Mathijs Kwik
Hrm, That proves to be harder than I hoped. I got it to build, but it won't start yet (but gives no errors/warnings). So I will have to dig deeper. On Wed, May 15, 2013 at 3:05 PM, Eelco Dolstra eelco.dols...@logicblox.com wrote: Hi, On 15/05/13 13:55, Mathijs Kwik wrote: Our current

[Nix-dev] firefox elf-hack

2013-05-15 Thread Mathijs Kwik
Hi all, Our current expression for firefox [1] contains the --disable-elf-hack configureFlag. By default this hack is enabled and is supposed to improve performance [2]. After a bit of googling, I found that old versions of firefox had issues with this hack, so probably this is the reason it got

Re: [Nix-dev] firefox elf-hack

2013-05-15 Thread Mathijs Kwik
[1] https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/blob/master/pkgs/applications/networking/browsers/firefox/20.0.nix#L138 [2] http://glandium.org/blog/?p=1177 On Wed, May 15, 2013 at 1:55 PM, Mathijs Kwik math...@bluescreen303.nl wrote: Hi all, Our current expression for firefox [1] contains the --disable

Re: [Nix-dev] Stable NixOS releases

2013-05-14 Thread Mathijs Kwik
Eelco Dolstra eelco.dols...@logicblox.com writes: Hi all, I would like to propose making periodic stable releases of NixOS. Currently we only have an unstable channel that tracks the master branches of NixOS and Nixpkgs. The fact that these branches receive potentially major changes at

Re: [Nix-dev] Stable NixOS releases

2013-05-14 Thread Mathijs Kwik
On Tue, May 14, 2013 at 3:54 PM, Marc Weber marco-owe...@gmx.de wrote: Excerpts from phreedom's message of Tue May 14 15:44:24 +0200 2013: It isn't only about production. I'm sure that we managed to scare away some newbie users with a temporarily broken master branch. I don't understand why,

Re: [Nix-dev] Stable NixOS releases

2013-05-14 Thread Mathijs Kwik
On Tue, May 14, 2013 at 5:33 PM, Eelco Dolstra eelco.dols...@logicblox.com wrote: Hi, On 14/05/13 14:25, Mathijs Kwik wrote: I would prefer a 3 months cycle. 6 months is quite long, making upgrades (possibly) harder to do. Agree. OTOH, there is the question of how long release branches

[Nix-dev] I broke btrfs :(

2013-05-13 Thread Mathijs Kwik
Good evening all. It appears I've broken btrfs root booting. The upgraded version needs 2 more libraries (or a static build). I can just have the nixos btrfs module copy these to ramdisk, but I believe I remember some automatic functionality that did this, or at least detect this type of

Re: [Nix-dev] I broke btrfs :(

2013-05-13 Thread Mathijs Kwik
ah, then that's probably the thing I remembered. For now I will just build a static binary. Thanks On Mon, May 13, 2013 at 11:01 PM, Eelco Dolstra eelco.dols...@logicblox.com wrote: Hi, On 13/05/13 22:42, Mathijs Kwik wrote: It appears I've broken btrfs root booting. The upgraded version

[Nix-dev] cron's timezone

2013-04-18 Thread Mathijs Kwik
Hi all, I recently upgraded an old (pre-systemd) system. After the upgrade, I noticed that cronjobs started running at the wrong time (UTC). My configuration.nix contains: '' time.timeZone = Europe/Amsterdam; '' And I verified that /etc/systemd/system/cron.service contains: '' [Service]

Re: [Nix-dev] [Nix-commits] [NixOS/nixpkgs] fd7630: vlc: enable support for the opus codec

2013-04-08 Thread Mathijs Kwik
: On Sun, Apr 07, 2013 at 11:38:24PM -0700, Mathijs Kwik wrote: Branch: refs/heads/master Home: https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs Commit: fd76305a9b81325bf044e9689574215d95e86f8c https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/commit/fd76305a9b81325bf044e9689574215d95e86f8c Author: Mathijs Kwik

[Nix-dev] read-only store on its own filesystem

2013-03-03 Thread Mathijs Kwik
Hi all, I have my /nix/store on a separate filesystem. It seems that because of this, the new read-only store functionality does not work. In stage-2-init.sh (line 53): if [ -n @readOnlyStore@ ]; then if ! mountpoint -q /nix/store; then mount --bind /nix/store /nix/store

Re: [Nix-dev] Node.JS package and build inputs

2013-02-04 Thread Mathijs Kwik
Sander van der Burg - EWI s.vanderb...@tudelft.nl writes: Hi everyone, Lately, I'm using Node.js and I wanted to create a package that requires some of the NodeJS modules that we have defined in node-packages.nix. However, when I add them to buildInputs, they cannot be found. Of

Re: [Nix-dev] Who and when, Fosdem 2013

2013-01-31 Thread Mathijs Kwik
Picknix? :D On Thu, Jan 31, 2013 at 2:44 PM, Eelco Dolstra eelco.dols...@logicblox.com wrote: Hi, On 29/01/13 19:14, Lluís Batlle i Rossell wrote: finally I can reach Fosdem on Saturday afternoon, and be there until Monday. Yay! I'll be at FOSDEM from Saturday morning (or so) till Sunday

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