[Nix-dev] Install Nix on OSX, install nixops -> runs python2.7-pytest tests

[Graham Christensen]

Is it actually possible to run Nixops on OSX? A client of mine wasn't able to build EC2 machines on his OS X laptop today during a demo.

Best,
Graham

> On Jun 7, 2016, at 7:59 AM, Freddy Rietdijk <freddyrietdijk at fridh.nl> wrote:
> 
> The nixpkgs-unstable channel, which includes OSX packages, hasn't updated in 25 days whereas the nixos-unstable channel was updated 4 days ago.
> http://howoldis.herokuapp.com/ 
> 
>> On Tue, Jun 7, 2016 at 2:54 PM, Maarten Hoogendoorn <maarten at moretea.nl> wrote:
>> Ah, I see ;) Now it makes sense.
>> 
>> 2016-06-07 14:42 GMT+02:00 zimbatm <zimbatm at zimbatm.com>:
>>> It's possible, the nixpkgs-unstable and nixos-unstable both evolve independently as they have different "success" conditions.
>>> 
>>> 
>>>> On Tue, 7 Jun 2016, 13:38 Maarten Hoogendoorn, <maarten at moretea.nl> wrote:
>>>> Ah, that could be very well the cause of this. Is the OS X build lagging behind the NixOS one? I thought if some package was present in the unstable channel, that hydra would have build it and uploaded it to the binary cache?
>>>> 
>>>> 2016-06-07 14:30 GMT+02:00 zimbatm <zimbatm at zimbatm.com>:
>>>>> In general I found that there are less packages available from the cache on OSX. What probably happened is that the packages had to be built. If doCheck = true then tests are run after the build and this is the default for python packages.
>>>>> 
>>>>> 
>>>>>> On Tue, 7 Jun 2016, 13:19 Maarten Hoogendoorn, <maarten at moretea.nl> wrote:
>>>>>> Hi there,
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> I have been a really happy Nix{,pkgs,os,ops} for some time. In fact, I'm writing two intro blog posts about nix during working hours for Container Solutions. Since most of the developers that will read the blogpost will be running OS X, I've borrowed a spare macbook, and installed nix and nixops.
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> To my surprise, this caused python tests to run. Is this the expected behavior?
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> Thanks,
>>>>>> Maarten
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