[Nix-dev] How to build all of nixpkgs?

[Freddy Rietdijk]

If I am correct Hydra first checks which jobs evaluate, and then builds
those. It checks using the findJobs function in this file
https://github.com/NixOS/hydra/blob/master/src/hydra-eval-jobs/hydra-eval-jobs.cc

On May 22, 2017 17:35, "Bjørn Forsman" <bjorn.forsman at gmail.com> wrote:

> On 22 May 2017 at 17:21, Tomasz Czyż <tomasz.czyz at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Look there, that's how all packages are build by CI:
> > http://hydra.nixos.org/jobset/nixpkgs/trunk#tabs-configuration
> > It uses pkgs/top-level/release.nix to build all of that.
> > Also it passes nixpkgs. So maybe you need to do something like
>
> I have looked there. That's why I'm wondering what magic Hydra does,
> because I cannot get this thing to work with nix-build:
>
> $ nix-build -I nixpkgs=/path/to/my/nixpkgs pkgs/top-level/release.nix
> error: value is a set while a Boolean was expected
>
> $ nix-build pkgs/top-level/release.nix --arg nixpkgs \"./.\" --arg
> officialRelease false
> error: value is a set while a Boolean was expected
>
> Please let me know if you manage to build that with nix-build.
>
> Best regards,
> Bjørn Forsman
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