[Nix-dev] nix-cache no longer available

[Eelco Dolstra]

Hi,

Nicolas Pierron wrote:

> On Sun, Oct 11, 2009 at 18:54, Richard Woodbury <rpwoodbu at mybox.org> wrote:
>> As of at least yesterday, http://nixos.org/releases/nix-cache no longer
>> exists, which means binary substitutions are not available for Nix channels.
> 
> Nix channels are now generated by the new buildfarm (hydra)

For most users it's better to use the regular Nixpkgs channel, as always at

   http://nixos.org/releases/nixpkgs/channels/nixpkgs-unstable

since it's rather faster than the Hydra channels, which are generated on the
fly, and the Hydra server might well become overloaded if too many people used
it :-).  This is an automatically generated mirror (every 15 minutes) of the
Hydra channel.

> I was not aware of a stable channel yet.

There has always been a stable channel:

  http://nixos.org/releases/nixpkgs/channels/nixpkgs-stable

but given the infrequency of stable releases most users are better off with the
unstable channel.

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