Thanks for the suggestion, James. I just installed a completely clean system using nixos-unstable plus my patches, and found one error. Will commit the fix that along with the comment that it worked based off of the latest nixos-unstable channel.
On Sat, Oct 4, 2014 at 11:57 AM, James Cook <[email protected]> wrote: > 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
