[Nix-dev] nix-channel --update

Mathijs Kwik mathijs at bluescreen303.nl
Mon Sep 17 23:40:58 CEST 2012


Cool, I'm anxious to learn what new goodies you have dreamed up for us :)

For the moment, I found that nix-pull manually still does the trick.

binary-cache substituter... I saw some errors related to that earlier
(undefined "Unauthorized" in /nix/store/.....-binary-cache, something
like that), which was why I emptied by manifests dir in the first
place.

But nothing serious all in all =)

On Mon, Sep 17, 2012 at 11:31 PM, Eelco Dolstra
<eelco.dolstra at logicblox.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On 17/09/12 17:06, Mathijs Kwik wrote:
>
>> I'm using nix-1.2pre2910_b674665, as Eelco mentioned using nixUnstable
>> is needed on the systemd branch.
>>
>> When I use nix-channel --update, it seems only the nixexprs are
>> retrieved, not the MANIFEST.
>> I (thought I) had some trouble with manifests lately, so I removed
>> everything in /nix/var/nix/manifests and hoped it would get
>> regenerated by updating the channel, but it seems only an empty sqlite
>> database (10k) gets created, lock and journal are 0 bytes.
>
> Ah yes, those are the wonderful features you get living on the bleeding edge :-)
>  The latest nixUnstable has the new "binary cache substituter" which basically
> makes the old manifest-based substituter obsolete.  I wanted to send an
> announcement but didn't get around to it yet, will do so later.
>
> --
> Eelco Dolstra | LogicBlox, Inc. | http://nixos.org/~eelco/
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