[Nix-dev] using finished packages

[Eelco Dolstra]

Hi,

tachermourir wrote:

> The last rebuild on my laptop causes the building an OpenOffice.
> I have an old laptop (Toshiba M70) and building OpenOffice takes
> more then 6 hours... (512Mb RAM + 2Gb swap)
> 
> Also I am going to install NixOS on an older Desktop soon.
> I am afraid how long it will take to build OO.org there.
> 
> As far as I know buildfarm have to build OO.org, but since the last build
> failed even finished packages is not available.

The Nixpkgs build is up to date again
(http://nixos.org/releases/nixpkgs/nixpkgs-0.12pre13286-8w1akylz/).

BTW, it is always possible to install a binary package from an older version of
Nixpkgs using nix-install-package, e.g.

$ nix-install-package --url --non-interactive \
http://nixos.org/releases/nixpkgs/nixpkgs-0.12pre13286-8w1akylz/pkgs/openoffice.org-2.4.1-i686-linux.nixpkg

The URLs can be found on any Nixpkgs release page.

-- 
Eelco Dolstra | http://www.st.ewi.tudelft.nl/~dolstra/