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

[Henry Till]

Recently, I haven't had any problems with building and SSH keys when doing
"nixops deploy" to a VM on OS X after using the setup process outlined in
my first email to this thread.

-Henry

On Sun, Feb 1, 2015 at 2:23 AM, Wout Mertens <wout.mertens at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> 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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