[Nix-dev] RE: Personal Channel setup

[roconnor at theorem.ca]

my 2 cents is that instead of patching nix-push, which should remain dual 
to nix-pull, perhaps one should patch nix-channel so that

nix-channel --push <something>

does a nix-push and uses curl to upload an tar bzipped expression.

On Wed, 6 Oct 2010, Yury G. Kudryashov wrote:

> Iqbal Ahmed wrote:
>
>> This
>> pushes builds and pushes  a number of hash.nar.bz2 to
>> http://mychannel.com/channel/nar/   and adds
>> http://mychannel.com/channel/MANIFEST and
>> http://mychannel.com/channel/MANIFEST.bz2
>>
>> Then I go to a brand new machine with just nix installed. Tried to
>> subscribe to my personal channel using channel --add.
> Try nix-pull.
>>
>> Is it
>> possible that nix-push can not push nixexprs.tar.bz2?
> Yes. Patches are welcome. Eelco, what do you prefer: nix-push pushing
> nixeprs.tar.bz2, or nix-channel ignoring failure of `nix-prefetch-url
> $nixexprsUrl`?
>
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