[Nix-dev] issue with channels and hydra

[Eelco Dolstra]

Hi,

On 08/10/14 13:17, Andreas Herrmann wrote:

>> The current channel version at http://nixos.org/channels/nixpkgs-unstable/
>> is b36095578cd4b12c976c95c18610ddb7d38dcf28, so if you use that, you should
>> get binaries.
> Hmm, that one still has the old bash 4.2 p49, which doesn't work for me,
> because my host system has newer patches and the corresponding environment
> crashes the nix bash [1]. I think I need at least p51. I'll try to get along
> with 14.04-small for now.
> 
> Is there a way to make nix download from a not fully evaluated jobset?

You can use hydra.nixos.org as a binary cache server by passing the option

  --option extra-binary-caches http://hydra.nixos.org

But this should only be done as a last resort, because hydra.nixos.org is slow
and overloaded already :-)

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