On Mon, Dec 12, 2011 at 10:29 PM, Michael Raskin <[email protected]> wrote: > <[email protected]> > <[email protected]>) > Mime-Version: 1.0 > Content-type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" > >>>>The maintainer of btrfs-progs seems to be Michael Raskin. Michael, do >>>>you have any opinion in this matter? >>> >>> I do run BtrFS on my notebook for most partitions and sometimes use >>> BtrFS progs. I didn't update NixPkgs to latest git mostly because I >>> didn't see if anyone else uses BtrFS (otherwise, it is not worth the >>> discussion whether upstream bleeding edge is the right choice). >>> >>> Currently all allegedely unstable trees I know seem to work quite >>> reliably. I would not bet on a sane tarball release in the upcoming >>> month, so I can either apply a patch or just put my changes from >>> configurations/ into the main tree. >> >>Waiting a little more is fine with me, upstream seems to be wrapping >>up and working towards a stable release (maybe we will finally have >>btrfsck :). > > They are working towards btrfsck for a few years now...
I know, I still have 2 partition images waiting to recover when that day comes ;) > > I hope they don't hit another proof of Edward Shishkin being right in > the process. > >>However, I do feel that packages that don't build (because their >>source tarball isn't available anymore) are a concern. >>It's nice to have binaries backing up most installs, but I would like >>to be able to build from source no matter what. > > Could you link me a precise revision? I just don't use git, so I would > prefer to apply a patch. Or I can commit what I use. Just commit what you use until an official tarball gets out. My concern with sources being unavailable is not just this package. it's just something I need to keep in mind for now that can get in the way of rebuilding my full system using just a backup of /etc/nixos. > >>Does hydra keep mirrored copies of sources around for every binary it serves? >>And I guess it won't build the same package every night if no inputs >>change, so if sources become unavailable, won't maintainers notice? > > Hydra keeps sources for some time, but they are not GC-pinned. > > > _______________________________________________ nix-dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.science.uu.nl/mailman/listinfo/nix-dev
