[Nix-dev] Hydra down?

[Eelco Dolstra]

Hi,

On 06/02/13 10:51, Peter Simons wrote:

> it appears that Hydra is offline.

Nixos.org is back up.  (Note that this has nothing to do with Hydra.  The Nix
binary cache / tarball mirror uses nixos.org, not hydra.nixos.org.)

> Now, every time I try to install a
> package, nix-env hangs for a long time, probably until it's running into
> some kind of network timeout. It used to be possible to work around this
> issue by running
> 
>   NIX_HASHED_MIRRORS=" " nix-env -i ...
> 
> ..., but it seems like that won't work any more. Is there any other way
> to disable use of the binary cache ad hoc on the command line?

Yes: "--option build-use-substitutes false".

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Eelco Dolstra | LogicBlox, Inc. | http://nixos.org/~eelco/