[Nix-dev] How to test my service definition without actually "installing" it?

[Arseniy Seroka]

That can help you to answer all your questions :)
https://github.com/jagajaga/nixpkgs/blob/addition/contributing/CONTRIBUTING.md


On 14 May 2015 13:29:14 Matthias Beyer <mail at beyermatthias.de> wrote:

> On 14-05-2015 11:28:24, Luca Bruno wrote:
> > On 14/05/2015 11:18, Matthias Beyer wrote:
> > >
> > >
> > > How do you do that? My approach is nixos-rebuild build-vm as someone
> > > else (I guess it was Lethalman) suggested, but it fails with:
> > >
> > >     $ sudo nixos-rebuild build-vm -I .
> > >     building Nix...
> > >     building the system configuration...
> > >     error: The option `services.taskserver' defined in
> > `/nix/store/sz5aszzk5hn943pcw66iqy5jf21hrws4-nixos/services/taskwarrior.nix'
> > does not exist.
> > >     (use '--show-trace' to show detailed location information)
> > >
> > > unfortunately. Any pointers?
> > That's really about how you added the module and that -I option that is
> > suspiciously wrong.
> >
>
> I got it "running" with
>
>     sudo nixos-rebuild build-vm -I nixpkgs=~/dev/contrib/nixpkgs/ --fallback -j
>     8 --cores 8
>
> but it actually fails to build as dependencies cannot be build. :-(
>
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> Mit freundlichen Grüßen,
> Kind regards,
> Matthias Beyer
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