[Nix-dev] nixos-rebuild issues

[Shea Levy]

Argh, sorry, Thunderbird wrapped where it shouldn't have. For 
clarification, the commands are:

# $(nix-build -A system "<nixos>" 
--no-out-link)/bin/switch-to-configuration test
# nixos-rebuild switch/boot/whatever

On 12/20/2012 05:50 PM, Shea Levy wrote:
> Hi Jan,
>
> This is actually a problem with nix-1.2 client interacting poorly with
> nix-1.1 daemon (https://github.com/NixOS/nix/issues/76). The workaround
> for now is to run the following as root:
>
> # $(nix-build -A system "<nixos>"
> --no-out-link)/bin/switch-to-configuration test
> # nixos-rebuild switch/boot/whatever
>
> Cheers,
> Shea Levy
>
> On 12/20/2012 05:44 PM, Jan Malakhovski wrote:
>> Hello,
>>
>> ~~~~
>> commit a9edaf10ed7570f66f17130c82a4e4170e80bfbb
>> Merge: 5f8647e c6bf1f8
>> Author: aszlig <aszlig at redmoonstudios.org>
>> Date:   Fri Dec 7 18:48:26 2012 +0100
>>
>>       Merge pull request #207 from washort/mysql55
>>       
>>       And sorry to @washort for bugging him too much with the syntax.
>> ~~~~
>>
>> breaks nixos-rebuild for me:
>>
>> ~~~~
>> # nixos-rebuild build --show-trace
>> building Nix...
>> building the system configuration...
>> these derivations will be built:
>> .... long list of derivations ....
>> error: build of `/nix/store/dvv0czxamgsrf01935dz0kxchhsj4zxl-nixos-0.1pre-git.drv!out' failed
>> ~~~~
>> just like that.
>>
>> Commit c6bf1f works fine, all the recent ones tried by bisect failed.
>>
>> Also, today I tried to install NixOS onto a machine behind strict network gateway with a proxy. I forgot to set nix.proxy in configuration.nix while in installer, but after a reboot I couldn't rebuild the system with nixos-rebuild. nixos-rebuild wasn't passing the http_proxy environment varible to the daemon, or so it looked.
>> I tried something like
>> nix-build <nixos> -A system
>> and it, quite unexpectedly, worked.
>>
>> Best regards,
>>     Jan Malakhovski
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