Re: [Nix-dev] Builder for ati-drivers-14.12 failed after kernel update to linux 4.0?

2015-05-09 Thread Matthias Beyer
I guess I'm willing to try patching the driver. Can you guide me how to? I'd apply this[0] patch, which is from the thread you linked. [0]: https://bugs.gentoo.org/attachment.cgi?id=402514action=diff On 09-05-2015 08:38:00, Kirill Elagin wrote: The cr4 functions should be easy to fix, they

Re: [Nix-dev] Best practives for handling setuid build inputs

2015-05-09 Thread Kirill Elagin
First of all, you should realise that it is not possible to handle this on the side of Nix/Nixpkgs. The user is free to build any expression he likes and it follows that it is insecure for Nix to produce any kind of suid binaries. You can see how [NixOS does this](

Re: [Nix-dev] Builder for ati-drivers-14.12 failed after kernel update to linux 4.0?

2015-05-09 Thread Vladimír Čunát
Hi, it's common that proprietary drivers fail to compile after kernel update. Typically it's easiest to search for a patch in other distros. Vladimir smime.p7s Description: S/MIME Cryptographic Signature ___ nix-dev mailing list