Re: [Nix-dev] Overriding top level /nix directory

2015-05-08 Thread Eelco Dolstra
Hi, On 07/05/15 20:20, Tyson Whitehead wrote: I don't see any easy way to get this though. This leaves me wondering if a new primop to expose the running toolsets value for the store and state directories is the way to go. Nix 1.9 adds a builtins.storeDir constant. In builders, you can use

[Nix-dev] Overriding top level /nix directory

2015-05-07 Thread Tyson Whitehead
I'm working on getting Nix onto our clusters to augment our standard CentOS 6 stack as a shared NFS mounted store. I've reset the top level /nix directory to be on one of our shared storage systems (config.nix.storeDir and config.nix.stateDir). For the most part this has worked pretty well.