[Nix-dev] nss_ldap crashing

2013-05-16 Thread Lluís Batlle i Rossell
Hello, we've been trying to update an old nixos with upstart (glibc 2.13) to master, and it's our ldap server. Some weird pieces were crashing (nscd, sshd, samba), while all work fine in the old system. I've seen nss_ldap is pretty old (2009 latest, 2008 that of nixpkgs), and redhad has some fix

Re: [Nix-dev] Stable NixOS releases

2013-05-16 Thread Marc Weber
Can we talk about the details - how to actually name branches? I propose having the names: - "next" receiving tested breaking updates (thus is what is master now) - "stable" receiving non breaking updates only - this will be aliased to 2013-Q2 - 2013-Q1 receiving non breaking update only older sta

Re: [Nix-dev] Haskell packages in the binary cache broken?

2013-05-16 Thread Karn Kallio
Looking at the end of your stage-4 log we see that a build failed because containers-0.4.2.1-75f143aa39a3e77a1ce2300025bdd8ce is missing. That is part of ghc, and the nix hash of your ghc-wrapper is vlx3ikjjxlfvqjjlx74cg07p79y43mdq, which agrees with the Hydra trunk: http://hydra.nixos.org/bu

Re: [Nix-dev] Stable NixOS releases

2013-05-16 Thread Vladimír Čunát
On 05/16/2013 12:31 PM, Peter Simons wrote: Now, steps (1) and (2) are easy. Step (3) is hard, because it's an on-going effort that someone needs to pay attention to constantly. Also, propagating changes from master into the release branch can be difficult, because the commits in question may de

Re: [Nix-dev] Stable NixOS releases

2013-05-16 Thread Peter Simons
Hi Eelco, > It would be good to have stable releases that get bug fixes for a > certain amount of time. For instance, we could make a stable release > every 3 months or so, named (Ubuntu-style) ., e.g. 13.06, > 13.09, and so on. let me try to translate this goal into actions that need to be t

Re: [Nix-dev] firefox elf-hack

2013-05-16 Thread Mathijs Kwik
Hrm, That proves to be harder than I hoped. I got it to build, but it won't start yet (but gives no errors/warnings). So I will have to dig deeper. On Wed, May 15, 2013 at 3:05 PM, Eelco Dolstra wrote: > Hi, > > On 15/05/13 13:55, Mathijs Kwik wrote: > >> Our current expression for firefox [1]