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

[Domen Kožar]

Yes it's possible. If it for some reason doesn't work, please provide a
http://sscce.org and open an issue :)

On Tue, Jun 7, 2016 at 4:19 PM, Graham Christensen <graham at grahamc.com>
wrote:

> 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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