[Nix-dev] issue with channels and hydra

[Eelco Dolstra]

Hi,

On 08/10/14 11:29, Andreas Herrmann wrote:

> I have an issue with the nix-channel nixpkgs-unstable and hydra.
> For some reason nix refuses to download pre-built binaries and is insisting on building them on my machine.
> 
> My nix-channel (updated just now with nix-channel --update):
>     $ nix-channel --list
>     nixpkgs http://nixos.org/channels/nixpkgs-unstable
> 
> My nixpkgs checkout (should be built according to http://hydra.nixos.org/jobset/nixpkgs/trunk
> ):
>     4b072cfe08e3d6878ac5e6bdbbcdc37e8a70aec9

It hasn't finished building, and it hasn't been mirrored to cache.nixos.org yet.
That's why you're not getting binaries.

The current channel version at http://nixos.org/channels/nixpkgs-unstable/ is
b36095578cd4b12c976c95c18610ddb7d38dcf28, so if you use that, you should get
binaries.

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