Re: [Nix-dev] Nix-dev mailing list is moving

2017-07-12 Thread Roni Choudhury via nix-dev
Thanks for the announcement. When do we plan to stop using this list? I want to make sure I am receiving messages on the new list, so some type of test message in the near future would be appreciated :) roni On Wed, Jul 12, 2017 at 8:15 AM Eelco Dolstra via nix-dev < nix-dev@lists.science.uu.nl>

[Nix-dev] conflicting packages / priority values

2017-06-16 Thread Roni Choudhury
>From time to time I see an error message like this: collision between ‘/nix/store/qs8fq5ld2shc0i3fvbs6n0g0k8fypndm-git-2.13.0/bin/git’ and ‘/nix/store/64fjdb4whkf2r5x8xyqf9kkljnk6w59b-git-2.13.0/bin/git’; use ‘nix-env --set-flag priority NUMBER PKGNAME’ to change the priority of one of the confli

Re: [Nix-dev] weird garbage output inside nix-shell

2017-06-14 Thread Roni Choudhury
that one line from my `shell.nix` then everything seems to work ok. Sergiu, thanks again for engaging with me and diving into this issue, it's much appreciated! roni On Wed, Jun 14, 2017 at 4:58 PM Sergiu Ivanov wrote: > Hey Roni, > > Thus quoth Roni Choudhury at 20:55 on Tu

Re: [Nix-dev] weird garbage output inside nix-shell

2017-06-13 Thread Roni Choudhury
On Sun, Jun 11, 2017 at 5:45 AM Sergiu Ivanov siva...@colimite.fr <http://mailto:siva...@colimite.fr> wrote: Thus quoth Roni Choudhury at 17:38 on Sat, Jun 10 2017: > > > > Linus, Sam, and Sergiu - thank you for the suggestions. I did poke > > around in the output f

Re: [Nix-dev] weird garbage output inside nix-shell

2017-06-10 Thread Roni Choudhury
send my shell.nix, would someone else mind trying to use it to see if you can reproduce my strange results? Thanks! roni On Fri, Jun 9, 2017 at 9:40 AM Sergiu Ivanov wrote: > Hello Roni, > > Thus quoth Roni Choudhury at 13:24 on Wed, Jun 07 2017: > > On Wed, Jun 7, 2017 at 12:14

Re: [Nix-dev] weird garbage output inside nix-shell

2017-06-09 Thread Roni Choudhury
answer my other question, that would be great. Thanks! roni > On Tue, Jun 6, 2017, 08:07 Roni Choudhury wrote: > >> Hi all! >> >> I’m using nix-shell to do some development. I have the environment set >> up so I can build my code, but I had a question about invoking p

[Nix-dev] weird garbage output inside nix-shell

2017-06-06 Thread Roni Choudhury
Hi all! I’m using nix-shell to do some development. I have the environment set up so I can build my code, but I had a question about invoking packages not in the shell’s environment. For instance, in that shell, when I run vim, I get output like this: vim: àΠbü : x#í : Error 224711464 vim: }

[Nix-dev] how to find packages by file?

2017-03-15 Thread Roni Choudhury
Hi all- I have some newbie-type questions, I hope that's ok. Right now I am trying to set up a shell.nix file for a project that is not necessarily designed to work under Nix. I'm going about this mainly by dropping into an "empyt" shell, ru nning the build process, observing what fails, then add

Re: [Nix-dev] ImageMagick and xwd

2016-12-06 Thread Roni Choudhury
Glad I could help! roni On Tue, Dec 6, 2016, 3:53 AM Eike wrote: > > Hi Roni, > > thank you so much! This works perfectly. I didn't know about the import > command, this is very convenient. > > Thanks again and kind regards > Eike > > Roni Choudhury writes:

Re: [Nix-dev] ImageMagick and xwd

2016-12-05 Thread Roni Choudhury
Hi Eike- You have to let *convert* know the image type coming in on stdin: *xwd -root | convert xwd:- screenshot.jpg* You may also be interested to know about the *import* command, which comes with ImageMagick: *import -window root screenshot.png* That command will take a screenshot an