[Nix-dev] NixOS "small" channel

[Wout Mertens]

Just to let you know I'm doing a happy dance right now :-)

Great stuff!

Wout.
On Sep 30, 2014 2:27 AM, "Eelco Dolstra" <eelco.dolstra at logicblox.com>
wrote:

> Hi,
>
> Since last week there is a new NixOS channel:
>
>   https://nixos.org/channels/nixos-14.04-small
>
> This is a variant of the regular NixOS 14.04 channel mainly intended for
> servers
> that need fast security updates. It differs from the regular 14.04 channel
> in
> the following ways:
>
> * It builds way, way fewer packages. In particular, there is no desktop
> stuff,
> and no gazillion Python/Perl/Haskel/... packages.
>
> * It has fewer release-critical tests. For instance, it doesn't require
> any of
> the X11 tests to succeed.
>
> * It only builds x86_64 binaries.
>
> These properties mean that the channel can update in about 2-3 hours after
> a Git
> commit that causes a full rebuild, rather than several days. The downside
> is
> that nixos-rebuild may need to build more stuff from source than with the
> regular channel.
>
> To switch an existing system to this channel:
>
>   $ nix-channel --add https://nixos.org/channels/nixos-14.04-small nixos
>   $ nixos-rebuild switch --upgrade
>
> The channel currently builds a fairly arbitrary set of packages. These are
> defined here:
>
>
> https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/blob/release-14.04/nixos/release-small.nix
>
> Feel free to add/suggest additional packages.
>
> The Hydra jobset is:
>
>   http://hydra.nixos.org/jobset/nixos/release-14.04-small
>
> and the status of the release-critical jobs is here:
>
>
> http://hydra.nixos.org/job/nixos/release-14.04-small/tested#tabs-constituents
>
> --
> Eelco Dolstra | LogicBlox, Inc. | http://nixos.org/~eelco/
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