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gchristensen >
sphalerite, samueldr, andi-, I'm ordering a raspberry pi 3 B for someone getting started on hacking nixos on it
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samueldr >
don't forget UART cable :)
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gchristensen >
beyond a SD card, power supply, HDMI cable, and UART, anything else?
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samueldr >
a case will help keep it safe(r)
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gchristensen >
ok, got a case
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andi- >
or FTD1 (as the chinese clones are called)
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samueldr >
(I forgot to get a case for my pine 64, luckily it ships in a plastic box, which can be re-purposed ecologically into a case)
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andi- >
gchristensen: you might want one that has a jumper for 3.3V and 5V
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andi- >
otherwise you'll resolder it later on (or probably not?) :-)
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gchristensen >
nice
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gchristensen >
ok I'll do thath
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gchristensen >
I'd rather support adafruit anyway
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gchristensen >
thanks y'all :)
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gchristensen >
it is LnL don't mention it around him.
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samueldr >
I've used that same cable on orange pi pc, and pine64, if it makes any difference :)
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gchristensen >
gotta go for a while
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gchristensen >
perfect
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andi- >
why amazon.de? Aren't you in the NYC area? :P
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gchristensen >
LnL is in belgium :)
00:12
* andi-
waits on staging going into master to continue the openjdk/gcj endeavour..
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gchristensen >
finding the proper parts isn't so much harder in a foreign languag
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gchristensen >
andi- / samueldr here?
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gchristensen >
anything else a newbie would need?
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samueldr >
(looking)
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samueldr >
you'll have trouble with the power adapter
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samueldr >
well, european plug!
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gchristensen >
its for a person in Belgium :)
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samueldr >
oh, hum, then verify if they are using the same plugs as they do in germany, but then they are used to that
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samueldr >
ah, "for someone getting started"
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samueldr >
I misread you earlier and though that they somehow were buying it for you
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gchristensen >
ahh no
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gchristensen >
ok, I'll do these and it'll be a good enough start I think
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samueldr >
only thing missing is serial
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gchristensen >
isn't that the second one?
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samueldr >
I might be missing something here, but I don't see one
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samueldr >
oh, two URLs, gotcha
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gchristensen >
oh... weird, it says it can't be shipped to belgium
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samueldr >
yes, definitely looks the part, and since they list raspberry pi in the description, I'd assume it's the same thing as the "adafruit 954" cable
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samueldr >
isn't there a belgian amazon?
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gchristensen >
dunno
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gchristensen >
back soon
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samueldr >
looks like they don't have an amazon
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samueldr >
(if you're wondering, being from Québec, my first language is french)
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gchristensen >
_phew_ ordered
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gchristensen >
thanks, samueldr
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samueldr >
you're welcome
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gchristensen >
I donated 25eur to the nixos foundation as a thank-you for your help :)
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gchristensen >
(by adding 25 euro to the 100 euro donation I was going to make on LnL's behalf)
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gchristensen >
hi orivej
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gchristensen >
it uses the nixos netboot config, which uses the nixos installer config... I'd like to get away form that
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gchristensen >
a big reason is it uses unionfs with a ro layer and a rw layer
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gchristensen >
it seems the rw layer is a tmpfs, but it doesn't have to be -- we can reformat the hardware disk on each boot
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gchristensen >
of course if you'd like access send a PR :)
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orivej >
I don't think that the underlying layer matters for Go tests. Thanks for the invitation, I'll consider it!
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gchristensen >
so you think unionfs isn't the cause here?
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orivej >
err, the fs of the urnderlying layer. unionfs is the cause, but tmpfs is not
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gchristensen >
sure, but I mean I'd love to even ditch the unionfs totally
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gchristensen >
it is causing performance problems
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orivej >
I though unionfs-fuse does not add significant overhead, but I may be wrong.
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gchristensen >
it seems to
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LnL >
what about doing something like clever's kexec thing
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LnL >
that can repartition the entire disk and install from scratch
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orivej >
from inside the netbooted box? this should be possible, but we could just boot complete qemu images instead
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gchristensen >
orivej: the root of the problem here is a unionfs, and go doesn't like being compiled in a unionfs?
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sphalerite >
trying to get remote builds working, are there any env variables other than NIX_REMOTE_SYSTEMS and NIX_BUILD_HOOK I need to set?
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gchristensen >
with the daemon?
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orivej >
it compiles, but the test that it can create hardlinks fails, because apparently it can't on unionfs
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LnL >
NIX_CURRENT_LOAD and the dir has to exist
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orivej >
after the hardlink call the file is created but it does not appear to be a hardlink
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sphalerite >
gchristensen: figured I'd try to get it working as root without the daemon first
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gchristensen >
sphalerite: are you not on nixos?
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sphalerite >
LnL: alright… it still doesn't seem to be offloading them thoguh
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sphalerite >
gchristensen: I am
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gchristensen >
did my instructions not work?
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sphalerite >
your instructions?
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LnL >
sphalerite: did you setup known hosts?
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sphalerite >
LnL: yes! known-hosts was the issue, thanks
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sphalerite >
gchristensen: cool, I'll have a look at that, thanks
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gchristensen >
cool
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sphalerite >
hm, is /etc/profile not sourced on non-interactive logins via SSH…
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sphalerite >
how can I get the remote (debian) machine to find nix when SSHing non-interactively in that case?
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LnL >
I use command= with a separate key, but bashrc should also work
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sphalerite >
yaaaaay it's working by the looks of it!
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sphalerite >
oh huh I didn't even mean to ask in here, I thought I was in #nixos haha
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sphalerite >
oh well, still got the problem solved!
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