Cachix installation instructions - binaries (aarch64)

[vcunat]

I do know aarch64 is in trouble, so perhaps that's why the instructions aren't optimal. I tried them

nix-env -iA cachix -f https://cachix.org/api/v1/install

and it started compiling (the GHC bootstrap process), and I really didn't want to wait for that (and perhaps it would even fail due to some issue like above).

Workaround: I looked at the latest Hydra.nixos.org binary for 20.03 and just passed the (locally non-existing) /nix/store path to nix-env -i... and installed in a second.

[domenkozar]

Yeah I've been neglecting aarch64 support for Cachix as nixpkgs has been hitting issues one after another to just get us the tooling.

I plan to release 0.4.0 soon and will then give this another try if we fix the nixpkgs blocker.

[vcunat]

Well, that's why I assumed that defaulting to a working nixpkgs stable branch might be preferable in aarch64 case. (I haven't looked into what you do elsewhere.)

[domenkozar]

Thanks for the report! Newly released 0.5.0 now also has fast install with aarch64 binary and that is now tested for the future releases!