[Nix-dev] nixos-unstable channel update!

[Kirill Elagin]

Ah! I was thinking about nixpkgs-unstable! Sorry.

I’d still like to know what happened to nixos-unstable, so looking forward
for the post-mortem write up.


On Sat, Apr 11, 2015 at 2:42 PM Arseniy Seroka <senia00 at gmail.com> wrote:

>   As far as I can see, current nixos-unstable channel refers to commit
> from 9th of April.
>
> On 11 April 2015 14:35:26 Kirill Elagin <kirelagin at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> I wasn’t aware of problems with channels updates, so could anyone explain
>> in a few lines what was going on?
>>
>> Some weeks ago I needed a more recent version of nixpkgs than the one
>> that was available on the channel, so I picked the most successful
>> evaluation of nixpkgs:trunc, checked it out locally and setup binary caches
>> to point to hydra. Then I rebuilt my whole environment from this checkout
>> and have been using it ever since.
>> Now, when I heard that the channel was updated, I decided to give it a
>> shot, updated channels and… nothing changed. So I checked the hashes and,
>> turns out, the channel was updated to exactly the same commit that I was
>> successfully using (i.e. nothing had to be built locally) for weeks.
>>
>> So, what exactly wasn’t working?
>>
>> On Fri, Apr 10, 2015 at 6:43 PM Domen Kožar <domen at dev.si> wrote:
>>
>>> Yes, it's mainly about establishing the feedback loop without too much
>>> spam.
>>>
>>> On Fri, Apr 10, 2015 at 11:42 AM, Peter Simons <simons at cryp.to> wrote:
>>>
>>>> One obvious improvement, IMHO, would be to send Hydra failure
>>>> notifications
>>>> from the test job to this mailing list to make sure we are aware of
>>>> failures
>>>> within a relatively short time after the commit that caused them.
>>>>
>>>> Best regards,
>>>> Peter
>>>>
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