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- Feb 2021
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toraritte.github.io toraritte.github.io
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$ nix-env -i firefox --substituters ssh://alice@avalon This works similar to the binary cache substituter that Nix usually uses, only using SSH instead of HTTP
So a substitute is a built binary for a given derivation, and a substituter is a server (or binary cache) that serves pre-built binaries, right?
Update: in the next line it says that "it will fall back to using the binary cache substituter", so I guess that answers it.
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substitute
this is another key topic. Also:
- substitute vs. substituter => this (I think)
See annotations with the
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When you ask Nix to install a package, it will first try to get it in pre-compiled form from a binary cache. By default, Nix will use the binary cache https://cache.nixos.org; it contains binaries for most packages in Nixpkgs. Only if no binary is available in the binary cache, Nix will build the package from source. So if nix-env -i subversion results in Nix building stuff from source, then either the package is not built for your platform by the Nixpkgs build servers, or your version of Nixpkgs is too old or too new.
binary caches tie in with substitutes somehow; get to the bottom of it. See annotations with the
substitutetag.Maybe this?
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- May 2020
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psyarxiv.com psyarxiv.com
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Higbee, T. (2020, April 17). Mattson, Higbee, Aguilar, Nichols, Campbell, Nix, Reinert, Peck, and Lewis-Digital Materials Tutorial BAP. https://doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/9gwpj
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