[Nix-dev] Possible breaking changes from staging

[Luca Bruno]

NM 1.0 and GNOME 3.16.1 have been merged into staging. Hopefully we'll get
binaries soon and merge to master. I also hope I didn't break things a lot
;)

Best regards,

On Wed, Apr 22, 2015 at 11:05 AM, Luca Bruno <lethalman88 at gmail.com> wrote:

> In this period I'm working on GNOME 3.16 and NetworkManager 1.0 [1]. In
> addition to that, glib has been bumped.
> I'm currently compiling the PR for staging and then merge it if
> everything works.
>
> Below the possible breakages you must be aware of. These updates are
> necessary to forward our software, we'll fix eventual bugs with the time.
>
> * glib 2.42 -> 2.44
>
> This update is minor yet not entirely trivial. It's probable that
> software using gdbus may break because of bugs fixed in 2.44.
>
> * NM 0.9.8.10 -> 1.0
>
> It's big but shouldn't be breaking anything. In particular, you'll see a
> vboxnet0 interface in nm-applet if you enabled the virtualbox nixos
> service, I hope that will go away with further upstream updates.
>
> We haven't upgraded it until now because previously it showed tons of
> vboxnet interfaces, making the applet unusable.
>
> * GNOME 3.12 -> 3.16
>
> I did my best to keep both 3.12 and 3.16 in our repository, but I won't
> guarantee that 3.12 will keep working as well as before, I won't
> maintain it anymore.
>
> In case you switch to GNOME 3.16, running GTK 3.12 apps will be ugly
> because they broke some css stuff. Therefore I suggest you to add in
> packageOverrides a gnome3 = gnome3_16; and forget about GNOME 3.12, it
> will be dropped as soon as possible.
>
> [1] https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/pull/7357
>
>


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