| 27 Jan 2022 |
 @grahamc:nixos.org | you might make it support x86_64-linux and add the "local" feature | 00:52:26 |
| @grahamc:nixos.org | if (step->preferLocalBuild)
features.insert("local");
| 00:53:01 |
 Amanda (she/her) | ah | 00:53:07 |
| Amanda (she/her) | But then it'll also get assigned proper builds as well won't it? Guess I should get around to replacing the fan in that machine anyway... | 00:53:43 |
| @grahamc:nixos.org | it gets a bit tricky with i686 being neede | 00:53:58 |
| @grahamc:nixos.org | if you didn't need that you could make "local" a mandatory feature | 00:54:09 |
| @grahamc:nixos.org | but if you did that then you wouldn't build any i686 locally | 00:54:26 |
| Amanda (she/her) | Hrm, and I've learned through experience you can't have two localhost entries | 00:54:41 |
| @grahamc:nixos.org | and machines are keyed internally based on the hostname | 00:54:46 |
| Amanda (she/her) | Yuuup, that was fun to figure out | 00:55:01 |
| Amanda (she/her) | And you can't do any hostname schenanagins because nix explicitally checks for localhost to bypass the nix store lock loops | 00:55:37 |
| Amanda (she/her) | * And you can't do any hostname schenanagins because nix explicitally checks for localhost to bypass the nix store lock loop | 00:55:39 |
| @grahamc:nixos.org | right, and even more specifically it is keyed based on the sshName which is the hostname, minus users | 00:57:23 |
| @grahamc:nixos.org | ie: no trick like adding i686@localhost and x86_64@localhost entries | 00:57:42 |
| @grahamc:nixos.org | newMachines[machine->sshName] = machine;
| 00:58:34 |
| Amanda (she/her) | WEll, I'll leave this mess as a future-amanda problem, my spoons are gone, so I'll not really be able to motivate enough to do anything further. Thanks for the help so far, grahamc (he/him) -- guess I'll spend tomorrow meownign replacing the fan so that it's safe to build on the machine again | 00:59:15 |
| @grahamc:nixos.org | it is unfortunate this is tricky | 00:59:41 |
| Amanda (she/her) | Apparently nixbuild.net is planning on making it so that fixed-derevation builds are possible to use network somehow, but it's still in the planning phase. Maybe this could light a fire under that | 01:00:29 |
| @grahamc:nixos.org | cool | 01:00:41 |
| @grahamc:nixos.org | they've got a great service | 01:00:46 |
 mei 🌒& | why not 127.0.0.{2,3}? | 01:00:59 |
| Amanda (she/her) | ckie (they/them): nix holds a lock on the store. If you access it remotely, from the same machine, that lock gets double-locked, resulting in a hang | 01:01:34 |
| @grahamc:nixos.org | bool isLocalhost()
{
return sshName == "localhost";
}
| 01:01:34 |
| mei 🌒& | ouch.. at least that sounds pretty easy to patch! | 01:01:52 |
| Amanda (she/her) | nic explicitally checks that isLocalhost to bypass the double-lock problem | 01:02:07 |
| Amanda (she/her) | * nix explicitally checks that isLocalhost to bypass the double-lock problem | 01:02:29 |
| mei 🌒& | you really are in a tight spot then | 01:02:47 |
| @grahamc:nixos.org | yeah, you could patch hydra without much trouble =) | 01:02:54 |
| mei 🌒& | i'm not sure if that's sarcasm | 01:03:43 |
| @grahamc:nixos.org | not sarcasm! | 01:03:51 |
