[Nix-dev] Hydra no longer sets 'system'?

Eelco Dolstra eelco.dolstra at logicblox.com
Wed Sep 18 17:37:19 CEST 2013


Hi,

On 18/09/13 14:10, Peter Simons wrote:

>  > Maybe you installed the 32-bit version by accident?
> 
> interesting, that is what seems to have happened. How is this possible?
> 
> I subscribed to <http://hydra.nixos.org/jobset/hydra/trunk/channel/latest>
> and ran "nix-env -p /nix/var/nix/profiles/per-user/hydra/profile -i hydra".
> 
> Now, the channel contains binaries for both 32 and 64 bit, but why would
> nix-env pick the 32 bit version even though it's running on a 64 bit system?

Because by default, nix-env doesn't filter packages by system type.  Try adding
"--system-filter x86_64-linux".

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