[Nix-dev] Cannot build stdenv-linux-boot on MacOS

[Wout Mertens]

Note that in order to build packages on the virtual Linux box, you need to
be able to ssh to it as root.
Nixops doesn't set that up for nix-build, which is why it fails to build.
(this may be a security thing, not sure)

So once you deployed and it fails to build, do a "nixops ssh" to the Linux
vm and set up your own ssh key for root login.
After that, nixops deploy will work even when it needs to build things.

Wout.

On Thu, Jan 29, 2015, 5:31 PM Henry Till <henrytill at gmail.com> wrote:

> I should also add that you could just as easily check out the revision of
> the stable channel if you prefer (currently 676e8d7, found at
> https://nixos.org/channels/nixos-14.12/).
>
>
> -Henry
>
>
>
> On Thu, Jan 29, 2015 at 11:21 AM, Henry Till <henrytill at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > Hello Andreas,
> >
> > It is definitely possible to use NixOps on OS X without a Linux build
> machine.  I've done it recently by installing NixOps directly from Hydra
> using "nix-install-package", and then using NixOps with a clone of
> nixpkgs/master in my NIX_PATH (rather than a clone of joelteon/master).
> >
> > Here are some instructions I wrote for doing so:
> > https://gist.github.com/henrytill/ce67b98a5e65452705f5
> >
> > The only thing I would add to these instructions is that you will get
> more binaries from cache.nixos.org if you check out your clone of nixpkgs
> at the same revision as nixos-unstable (currently db75b5d, found at
> https://nixos.org/channels/nixos-unstable/), and, as a result, "nixops
> deploy" will be a much quicker process.
> >
> > -Henry
> >
> >
> >
> > On Wed, Jan 28, 2015 at 4:28 PM, Vladimír Čunát <vcunat at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> > >
> > > Hi.
> > >
> > > On 01/28/2015 08:00 AM, Andreas Bernauer wrote:
> > >>
> > >> error: a ‘x86_64-linux’ is required to build
> > >> ‘/nix/store/6giy9b7xg90p8pqm6f056jqdwdx36jj6-stdenv-linux-boot.drv’,
> but
> > >> I am a ‘x86_64-darwin’
> > >
> > >
> > > (Note: I know very little about NixOps, so I may not be accurate.)
> > > You are attempting to build *linux* packages on a darwin machine. You
> can deploy that way, but you need to add a x86_64-linux machine that will
> build the stuff (even a virtual one). See
> http://nixos.org/nix/manual/#chap-distributed-builds
> > >
> > > I don't know if there's a shortcut that also builds on the machines
> that you deploy to.
> > >
> > >
> > > Vladimir
> > >
> > >
> > >
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