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

[Andreas Bernauer]

Thank you all for your input. I'll report what worked for me.

-Andreas

On 01/02/15 14:52, Henry Till wrote:
> 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
> <mailto: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
> <mailto: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
> <mailto: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 <http://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
> <mailto: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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