[Nix-dev] libreoffice build fails without chroot

2014-08-27 Thread Michael Raskin
Unfortunately, I don't have the exact error message anymore, but it was related to running tests that wanted to write to /var/empty, which was disallowed in non-chroot. LibreOffice expression per se has no mentions of /var/empty, however. Neither has LibreOffice source. But it could be used by

[Nix-dev] RFC: three dying pull requests (let's keep them alive)

2014-08-27 Thread Daniel Peebles
I've noticed a bit of a pattern recently on the nix github and wanted to try to stop it before Shea Levy decided this sort of work wasn't worth his time anymore. I'm not proposing that we insta-merge all his changes, but can anyone interested at least chime in with feedback so that these pull

[Nix-dev] Keeping nixpkgs up to date

2014-08-27 Thread Mateusz Kowalczyk
Hi, Some weeks ago the nixpkgs monitor[1] started to work again and the numbers there are worrying. I inline the numbers at the bottom. Now, there are 2000+ outdated packages with maintainers listed and 1000 outdated without maintainers at all (and the 1600 whose status we don't know). Even if

Re: [Nix-dev] RFC: three dying pull requests (let's keep them alive)

2014-08-27 Thread John Wiegley
Daniel Peebles pumpkin...@gmail.com writes: I've noticed a bit of a pattern recently on the nix github and wanted to try to stop it before Shea Levy decided this sort of work wasn't worth his time anymore. I'm not proposing that we insta-merge all his changes, but can anyone interested at

Re: [Nix-dev] RFC: three dying pull requests (let's keep them alive)

2014-08-27 Thread Shea Levy
We've been using the fully-modular branch + modular nixops at zalora for months: github.com/zalora/nixpkgs github.com/zalora/nixops. Recursive nix is unused because it was unfinished and it was too much potential work to keep going without some sign it would be merged. On Wed, Aug 27, 2014 at

Re: [Nix-dev] RFC: three dying pull requests (let's keep them alive)

2014-08-27 Thread John Wiegley
Shea Levy s...@shealevy.com writes: Recursive nix is unused because it was unfinished and it was too much potential work to keep going without some sign it would be merged. Then I vote for a review of recursive nix, and to merge in the other two as they stand. Can you help me understand

[Nix-dev] Error packaging tilda (about gettext, glade and expat)

2014-08-27 Thread Anderson Torres
Hello, Nixers! I need some help here. I am trying to package Tilda[1], a quake-like terminal emulator. The expressions are here on my private Nixpkgs branch [2]. But I found an error. Here is an eternal pastebin [3]. I used an nix-shell, and after running 'sh autogen.sh', I ran a simple 'make'

Re: [Nix-dev] RFC: three dying pull requests (let's keep them alive)

2014-08-27 Thread Raahul Kumar
One note: * edolstra https://github.com/edolstra * commented on Feb 28 https://github.com/NixOS/nix/pull/213#issuecomment-36334864 Probably best to do it after 1.7. So Eelco is okay with a merge of recursive nix. https://github.com/NixOS/nix/pull/213 I'm impressed by the volume of work Shea

[Nix-dev] how to get a hydra / github branch?

2014-08-27 Thread Gergely Risko
Hi, I'm doing some compile time optimizations on the stdenv closures. For example GCC 4.8 doesn't use PPL anymore, so that can be removed altogether. But I would like to have a nixos/nixpkgs branch where I can commit my changes and a hydra build running on my branch, so I can see if I cause