[Nix-dev] HOWTO: Running NixOps on OS X

[Malcolm Matalka]

Does that mean the bootstrapping VM is not needed at all?  I was under
the impression it was (that some building happened prior to starting the
VM which needs to happen on a build server).

/M

Eelco Dolstra <eelco.dolstra at logicblox.com> writes:

> Hi,
>
> On 25/05/13 13:46, Malcolm Matalka wrote:
>
>> I have created a blog post describing how to go from nothing to a
>> working nixops on OS X.  If you are interested, please try the
>> directions out and let me know if they work for you.  If anything else
>> needs to be corrected, let me know a well.  I'm not sure how to get this
>> information into the nixops manual, but whoever owns it, feel free to
>> integrate this content into it.
>
> Thanks, very useful :-)
>
> Regarding step 5 (setting up distributed builds): this is really something
> NixOps should be able to do automatically on the Mac, since it can just set
> NIX_REMOTE_SYSTEMS to point to the VM it just started (i.e. using the target
> machine to perform builds).