mirage/nixos

[Richard Mortier <Richard.Mortier@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

all;

been fiddling about with this for a while, and have now got to the stage where 
i can install opam, mirari, mirage-www, etc on nixos, and run the mirage 
website via mir-www.  

all done using nixops (used to be called charon -- the nix deployment system) 
and virtualbox on osx; i'll hopefully try pushing the image to ec2 at some 
point as that's supposed to be pretty straightforward too. i would expect that 
doing similar things on linux either with virtualbox or with a local install of 
nix should be straightforward though.

i don't yet have this as automated as i'd like: there are some path impurities 
in various opam packages (ocamlfind and lwt in particular) which mean several 
environment variables need setting appropriately. i haven't managed to encode 
that kind of thing in the nix derivations yet -- so the process is to install 
nixops, to create the VM image, and then to login and run opam by hand. i will 
also try to sort that out soon.

a Makefile encoding most of this, plus a README, is at 
<https://github.com/mor1/mirage-nixos>

i may not get back to this before monday now (exams to set, conext reviews to 
do, ashes test match to go to ;)

-- 
Cheers,

R.




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