[Nix-dev] Creating offline installation image

[James Cook]

If the versions are not too far apart, then it's possible for only a
few store hashes to change.

James

On 28 March 2015 at 16:45, Arseniy Seroka <ars.seroka at gmail.com> wrote:
> I think that if they are different, many things will have different hash.
> But as I can see, lot's of store's elements were already copied.
>
> 2015-03-29 2:37 GMT+03:00 James Cook <jcook at cs.berkeley.edu>:
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>> On 28 March 2015 at 13:47, Arseniy Seroka <ars.seroka at gmail.com> wrote:
>> > My installation-cd-minimal.nix [1]
>> >
>> > What I do:
>> >
>> > Running qemu with generated image
>> > Checking that I can run vlc, teamviewer, dropbox, openbox etc (also
>> > Xserver
>> > is running)
>> > Making partition on hard drive
>> > Mounting to /mnt
>> > Editing /mnt/etc/nixos/configuration.nix to [2]
>> > Running nixos-install
>> >
>> > What I'm getting [3]
>> >
>> > Adding to installation-cd-minimal.nix
>> >    xlibs.xf86videovmware
>> >    xlibs.xf86videovesa
>> >    xlibs.xf86videointel
>> >    xlibs.xf86videoati
>> > doesn't affect installation.
>> >
>> > Ideas? :-(
>> >
>> > [1] https://gist.github.com/jagajaga/b41475f097b0e0b58865
>> > [2] https://gist.github.com/jagajaga/b91cb0deb04042dbd40f
>> > [3] https://gist.github.com/jagajaga/2a78535bdb9bb6c53b2a
>>
>> Could the nixpkgs version used to generate the installation image be
>> different from the nixpkgs version used by nixos-install?  I don't
>> know how the second one is determined; I guess it gets copied from
>> somewhere when you generate the image.
>>
>> James
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> --
> Sincerely,
> Arseniy Seroka