[Nix-dev] github triggered builds

[Maarten Hoogendoorn]

Unfortunately this does not really help with sharing derivations that have
been built before.

2017-05-09 10:02 GMT+02:00 zimbatm <zimbatm at zimbatm.com>:

> Travis CI also has support for nix builds and might be easier to setup.
>
> On Mon, 8 May 2017, 18:17 Tomasz Czyż, <tomasz.czyz at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> https://nixos.org/hydra/
>>
>> and
>>
>> https://github.com/hercules-ci/hercules ( looks like still in heavy
>> development but maybe usable :))
>>
>> 2017-05-08 18:14 GMT+01:00 Harmen <harmen at lijzij.de>:
>>
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> I'm trying to see how I can make my build processes easier with nix. So
>>> far
>>> it's going pretty good and it's fun, although there was a lot of
>>> searching
>>> online for scattered documents.
>>>
>>> Want I want to do (as the first thing to change to nix in production) is
>>> to
>>> port the building of some docker images I use for testing. The idea is to
>>> have docker images build, tagged with their branch they come from, when
>>> someone
>>> pushes something. The building and pushing an sich work. The .nix files
>>> live in
>>> the repo, and with a `make docker` the image is build and uploaded. I'm
>>> very
>>> happy to be able to build docker images without actually having to use
>>> docker
>>> ;)
>>>
>>> So, what would be the recommended way to trigger the building process?
>>> I'm
>>> currently using drone.io, but that works with containers. It works with
>>> nix,
>>> when I give it the nixos/nix docker image, but building a node project
>>> takes
>>> about 5 minutes, and drags in way too much from cache.nixos.org. I
>>> tried to
>>> have it make a local nix binary-cache, but there are some problems
>>> there, but
>>> drone also just doesn't fit the problem nicely.  Nix solves the problem
>>> of
>>> versioning so much nicer than containers that I would prefer to use
>>> something
>>> simpler. Hydra could work, but I'm a bit intimidated by that, and would
>>> like to
>>> have something simpler for now.
>>>
>>> The LT;DR: question: is there a simple nix based build system which can
>>> be
>>> triggered via git{hub,lab} hooks?
>>>
>>>
>>> Thanks!
>>> Harmen
>>> (If there is a better place to ask this, let me know)
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>>
>>
>>
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