[Nix-dev] Ordering the downloads of nixos-rebuild

[Lluís Batlle i Rossell]

I also wanted since long that the lists of derivations to be built were sorted
by build order, and not alphabetically by nix store path. 

I can't help you, Anderson - I just add my request to yours. :)

On Fri, Sep 26, 2014 at 06:44:51AM -0300, Anderson Torres wrote:
> Hello, boys! I have a question...
> 
> My internet connection is not so good, and I want to know how can I
> put some ordering on "nixos-rebuild switch" downloads. My idea is to
> make it download the more heavier, disk/network-consuming packages
> (texlive, kdelibs etc) first.
> 
> There is some way to do it?
> 
> Or even, to produce a simple machine-generated URL list, to use it
> later in a command like "wget -c -i package-list.txt", without even
> modify nix-store?
> 
> My inspiration here is a pkgsrc command, I don't rememeber perfectly now...
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