[Nix-dev] nix-cache no longer available

[Richard Woodbury]

Thanks again, Eelco; that fixed that particular problem.  However, I've hit another snag.  I've seen that I must upgrade to the latest "nix" package from stable 
before even having a chance of parsing the Nix expressions in unstable... otherwise I get this:

$ nix-env -qa firefox
error: while evaluating the function at `/home/rpwoodbu/.nix-defexpr/channels/nixpkgs_unstable/pkgs/applications/video/MPlayer/trunk.nix', line 2:
while evaluating the attribute `jackaudio' at `/home/rpwoodbu/.nix-defexpr/channels/nixpkgs_unstable/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix', line 8447:
...
while evaluating the function at `/home/rpwoodbu/.nix-defexpr/channels/nixpkgs_unstable/pkgs/lib/attrsets.nix', line 38:
attribute `isString' missing

If I upgrade to nix-0.13pre15214, that is fixed, but I get another problem:

$ nix-env -qa firefox
error: undefined variable `gtkLibs', in `/home/rpwoodbu/.nix-defexpr/channels/nixpkgs_unstable/pkgs/applications/graphics/gimp/plugins/default.nix'

I see that the "gimpPlugins" expression in .../top-level/all-packages.nix used to be commented out in stable, but is no longer, and seems to be causing grief 
because gtkLibs is not contained in stdenv like .../gimp/plugins/default.nix expects.  This should be easy to fix.

Richie

On Monday 12 October 2009, Eelco Dolstra wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Richard Woodbury wrote:
> > Thanks for that, Eelco.  I am now able to work.
> >
> > I had also wanted to try the unstable release, but every time I try
> > "nix-channel --update" with that in my list, it fails on trying to bunzip
> > nixexprs.tar.bz2.  Verified with my locally installed tools:
> >
> > $ wget
> > "http://nixos.org/releases/nixpkgs/channels/nixpkgs-unstable/nixexprs.tar
> >.bz2" ...
> > $ file nixexprs.tar.bz2
> > nixexprs.tar.bz2: data
> > $ bunzip2 nixexprs.tar.bz2
> > bunzip2: nixexprs.tar.bz2 is not a bzip2 file.
>
> Thanks.  The lzma and bzip2 tarballs were getting swapped around somewhere
> :-) This has been fixed now.


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