Re: [Nix-dev] nixos update and running "make check" on autoconf

2008-08-05 Thread Michael Raskin
You overestimate organizational level of nixpkgs maintenance. Ideally, every update should be built and tested separately on all supported platforms. Well, it doesn't happen - and no infrastructure is in place for detailed testing. Most version updates are done like "nix-prefeth-url" + build

Re: [Nix-dev] nixos update and running "make check" on autoconf

2008-08-05 Thread Marc Weber
There is one automake-1.10 check which fails on my machine.. Haven't had the time to investigate why If I'm correct, by installing >autoconf in nixos, we should know already that it works, removing the need >to run "make check" on every machine on which the update of nixos is >installe

[Nix-dev] nixos update and running "make check" on autoconf

2008-08-05 Thread Merijn de Jonge
Hi, I'm just running "nixos-checkout; nixos-rebuild switch" and discover that part of the update consists of running "make check" on automake. This takes so much time... for such a small utility... Why is "make check" being executed anyway? If I'm correct, by installing autoconf in nixos, we shoul