[Nix-dev] nixos-rebuild issues

[Jan Malakhovski]

Yep, thanks. As I mentioned, I'd done something similar and it'd worked.

On Thu, 20 Dec 2012 17:56:46 -0500
Shea Levy <shea at shealevy.com> wrote:

> I give up! Just remove the new line in the first command.
> 
> On 12/20/2012 05:57 PM, shea at shealevy.com wrote:
> > Gah! Now I definitely look a fool :)
> >
> > # $(nix-build -A system "<nixos>"
> > --no-out-link)/bin/switch-to-configuration test
> > # nixos-rebuild switch/boot/whatever
> >
> > On 2012-12-20 17:52, Shea Levy wrote:
> >> 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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