Re: [Nix-dev] Providing more explicit nix installation instructions

2013-01-25 Thread Eelco Dolstra
Hi, On 25/01/13 05:11, Florian Friesdorf wrote: > I'm not sure about security implications, but it feels like one should > do both with `-H`. Yes, doing sudo without any flags will almost always screw things up. I'd even suggest using "sudo -i" to be really sure you get the right environment.

Re: [Nix-dev] Providing more explicit nix installation instructions

2013-01-24 Thread Florian Friesdorf
Vladimír Čunát writes: >>> # Now this is the problem: >>> $ sudo nix-channel --add http://nixos.org/channels/nixpkgs-unstable >>> >>> That created the file $HOME/.nix-channels in my USER home, but with >>> owner root. Obviously not the correct behavior. The following `sudo >>> nix-channel --upda

Re: [Nix-dev] Providing more explicit nix installation instructions

2013-01-14 Thread Vladimír Čunát
On 01/14/2013 12:54 PM, Florian Friesdorf wrote: Ellis Whitehead writes: (..) Sometimes things have worked out, sometimes they haven't. Usually, the documentation lacks a bit of explicit (sometimes vital) detail. Since I'll probably go through this processes occasionally in the future, I'd be

Re: [Nix-dev] Providing more explicit nix installation instructions

2013-01-14 Thread Florian Friesdorf
Hi Ellis, Ellis Whitehead writes: > (..) > Sometimes things have worked out, sometimes they haven't. Usually, > the documentation lacks a bit of explicit (sometimes vital) detail. > Since I'll probably go through this processes occasionally in the > future, I'd be willing to add my findings to

[Nix-dev] Providing more explicit nix installation instructions

2013-01-12 Thread Ellis Whitehead
Over the past couple months, I've installed nix about ten times on various systems, where the underlying system was either ubuntu, archlinux, centos, mac os x, or directly nixos. I've also set it up for administration through a user account, via sudo, and for multiple users. Sometimes things have