On Mon, 20 Feb 2012 20:06:12 +0100, Eelco Dolstra <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> On 20/02/12 19:52, Peter Simons wrote:
> 
> > Modified the Python 2.7 expression so that the interpreter has unconditional
> > OpenSSL support. Having OpenSSL available at the time the core interpreter 
> > is
> > built enables all kinds of important crypto features (i.e. additional 
> > hashlib
> > algorithms, etc.) that otherwise won't be available.
> 
> I agree with this change, but I think we should put it in the stdenv branch
> since we'll be merging that branch in a few days anyway.  So I've reverted it
> for now.
> 
> P.S. with changes like this happening on a nearly daily basis now, the Nixpkgs
> channel seems to be permanently lagging behind the trunk, making it rather
> difficult to upgrade NixOS.  And our poor buildfarm doesn't have the resources
> to do full rebuilds of three Nixpkgs branches (trunk, stdenv, libpng15).  It's
> clearly time for a different model.  For one, the Nixpkgs channel shouldn't be
> auto-updated to a revision until Hydra has finished all builds for that 
> revision.

I have a cosmetical commit to remove the read-only empty site-packages
of python. How is hydra deciding what to build? If I push it now to
stdenv-updates, would it trigger another build of python or be together
with the ssl commit?

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