I've seen similar things with my pull requests. I think it can often be blamed on packages that depend on the updated package that no longer build, often because the source files are no longer available.
The way I see it (but I am not very experienced so take my point of view with a grain of salt) this is not a problem with the pull request, but an existing problem with the depending package, unrelated to the pull request. We should try to fix these packages or mark them as broken. I'm not sure how to monitor this without doing a bunch of unnecessary downloads periodically, though. For now, if you can confirm that everything that should work does work on your own machine, I guess it's fine? James On 4 October 2014 09:14, Ellis Whitehead <[email protected]> wrote: > I submitted a pull request > (https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/pull/4347) for lxqt 0.7 recently, > but the builder seems to fail due to random download timeouts > (https://travis-ci.org/NixOS/nixpkgs/builds/36878166). A lot of > packages need to be rebuilt, because I had to set a build flag on > qt4.8 in order for QSettings to look in the right place for global XDG > files, due to an acknowledged deficiency in QSettings > (https://bugreports.qt-project.org/browse/QTBUG-34919). Is there > anything I can do to "encourage" Travis to try building again until it > gets all the downloads? > > On Sat, Sep 20, 2014 at 11:27 PM, Ellis Whitehead > <[email protected]> wrote: >> For the last two weeks, my three main computers have been running >> nixos, and I hope it'll work out for the long term. >> >> I'd like to try out lxqt, but since it isn't available in nixpkgs yet, >> I started working on the packages today >> (https://github.com/ellis/nixpkgs/tree/lxqt/pkgs/desktops/lxqt). >> >> Is anyone else working on lxqt? If not, I'll try to finish it up... >> >> Cheers, >> Ellis > _______________________________________________ > nix-dev mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.science.uu.nl/mailman/listinfo/nix-dev _______________________________________________ nix-dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.science.uu.nl/mailman/listinfo/nix-dev
