[Nix-dev] Modular-nixos branch merged

[Tony White]

On 07/08/2009, Eelco Dolstra <e.dolstra at tudelft.nl> wrote:
> Hi,
>
>  Eelco Dolstra wrote:
>
>  > As far as I'm concerned we can merge the modular-nixos branch into the trunk.
>  > It seems stable enough now, there's almost no development on the trunk anymore,
>  > and I keep forgetting to backport necessary fixes from the branch to the trunk ;-)
>
>  Okay, I've merged the branch.  (Actually I've just replaced the trunk with the
>  branch.)  To update, just do an svn up and run nixos-rebuild.
>
>  Since a few options have been renamed or removed, you may get an error message
>  from nixos-rebuild.  Since nixos-rebuild by default no longer shows context
>  information that shows the offending option name, you need to run nixos-rebuild
>  with the --show-trace flag.  However, that flag has been added in the modular
>  branch, so your current nixos-rebuild won't have it yet.  As a workaround, you
>  can do:
>
>   $ nix-instantiate /etc/nixos/nixos -A system --show-trace
>
>  to see the context information.
>
>  And like I said, the most likely option that you'll need to change in
>  /etc/nixos/configuration.nix is services.xserver.sessionType, which should be
>  replace by something like
>
>   services.xserver.desktopManager = {
>     default = "kde4";
>     kde4 = { enable = true; };
>   };
>
>  Let me know if there any problems.  I hope to update the manual and the NixOS
>  webpage, since they're not exactly up to date ;-)
>
>  Many thanks to Nicolas Pierron in particular for doing most of the modular NixOS
>  work :-)
>
>
>  --
>  Eelco Dolstra | http://www.st.ewi.tudelft.nl/~dolstra/
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Yes! Like a lot. :)
I'm sure I could be on here asking questions about what else is new
and how to use it. :)

Thanks,
Tony