John Ericson

Ok first a confession. I noticed that too; I never actually successful built anything. My first priority was to write the Pill down as I figured (hopefully) corrrect but non-building...

@thufschmitt I figured if the way to build hydra against an incremental build is better documented/polished and we do #1166, we wouldn't have to do this huge step :). I...

~~Should we merge https://github.com/NixOS/hydra/pull/1162 first?~~ Need to read not on my phone, but I like this incrementalism. Good first steps before other cleanups!

@edolstra I think it's instructive per the top of that linked page that John Carmack eventually changed his mind :). These functions are are basically the ones to dedup with...

I would still like to do this. @edolstra did start a more aggressive rewrite to go directly to using the store abstraction (https://github.com/NixOS/hydra/pull/1200). But that PR is still draft, and...

I would like Hydra to act as a remote builder, such that one can just submit ad-hoc jobs from the local CLI. It sounds like that is something that might...

BTW what commit/PR is this new feature on the Nix side? Just want to stay up to date with these things for doc purposes etc.

Thanks!

@edolstra I agree in principle, but I am very afraid of making too many changes too quickly. With this approach, I can *and preserve* things like the fact the the...

Try doing a `nix-channel --add ...`, and see if that creates the file. Normal uses by default have no channels, so I guess nobody bothered to initialized the empty file...