Re: [Nix-dev] Nix expressions and latest packages

2015-03-30 Thread Nicolas Pierron
Hi, On Mon, Mar 30, 2015 at 1:06 AM, 胡雨軒 wrote: > The documentation says Nix conceptually builds package from source but > relies on stores (some package caches) to download already built packages. Indeed, the way this works is that we hash the recipe (including its dependencies) and this hash i

Re: [Nix-dev] Nix expressions and latest packages ( "胡 雨軒"'s message of "Mon, 30 Mar 2015 01:06:04 +0200")

2015-03-30 Thread Tomas Hlavaty
Hi 胡雨軒 胡雨軒 writes: > The documentation says Nix conceptually builds package from > source but relies on stores (some package caches) to download > already built packages. So there is some set of fixed package > versions and system update depends on the store update pace, > doesn't it? yes. But

[Nix-dev] Nix expressions and latest packages

2015-03-29 Thread 胡雨軒
​Hello, it's been a while I've been interested in nix package manager and I come now with a couple of questions. The documentation says Nix conceptually builds package from source but relies on stores (some package caches) to download already built packages. So there is some set of fixed package v