On 9 May 2016 at 20:21, Eelco Dolstra wrote:
> * The mirroring script only copies tarballs of packages in the Nixpkgs Hydra
> jobset. Since moreutils is not part of the jobset, it's not mirrored. This can
> be fixed by adding a meta.platforms attribute to moreutils.
Thank you! (Completely fo
Hi,
On 08/05/16 02:19, J. R. Haigh wrote:
> Dear Nix project leaders, I don't find NixOS to be very deterministic at all,
> and it's nearly always for the same reason: source files on random servers
> scattered across the Internet going walkabouts.
We have a content-addressed tarball mirror at h
On Sun, 8 May 2016 18:11:09 +0300 Игорь Пашев
wrote:
> Can't be nix cache used for this? Source tarballs are kind of
> derivation too.
Somehow I was under the impression that the output of
"fetchFromUrl" or "fetchFromGit" was also a result worth storing in the
nix-store. And thus also part of th
We have also run into this issue with spotify and similar unfree /
non-redistributable packages. The consensus last time we had upstream URLs
disappear was that it is not permissible to cache and redistribute even the
original source.
There may be a partial solution for this problem, but it will n
Can't be nix cache used for this? Source tarballs are kind of derivation too.
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On 8 May 2016 at 02:19, J. R. Haigh wrote:
> Dear Nix project leaders,
> I don't find NixOS to be very deterministic at all, and it's nearly
> always for the same reason: source files on random servers scattered across
> the Internet going walkabouts.
> Please can we have all sou
On Sun, 8 May 2016, 1:19 a.m. J. R. Haigh, wrote:
> Dear Nix project leaders,
> I don't find NixOS to be very deterministic at all, and it's
> nearly always for the same reason: source files on random servers scattered
> across the Internet going walkabouts.
>
While I agree this is a pro
Its definitely annoying.
There's discussion about it involving ipfs.
One stopgap solution is to rollback just for only that package. You can do
that with nix-env -f on a tar.gz archive of nixpkgs from a commit hash on
github.
On 08/05/2016 10:19 AM, "J. R. Haigh" wrote:
> Dear Nix project leade
Dear Nix project leaders,
I don't find NixOS to be very deterministic at all, and it's nearly
always for the same reason: source files on random servers scattered across the
Internet going walkabouts.
Please can we have all source files hosted by the Nix project and all
source UR
