[Nix-dev] Re: Hydra impurity reminder

[Yury G. Kudryashov]

Michael Raskin wrote:

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>> Another nice feature would be sending the output of the configure phase.
>> I see that sometimes nix people upgrade packages without local rebuilds
>> (e.g., "big fat KDE upgrade"). Sometimes a package fails to find an
>> optional dependency, and nobody notices this untill someone needs the
>> feature.
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> If only it weren't a ton of not-so-useful spam... Most of the time
> "missing optional dependency" message is not in the last 10 lines (even
> more so - not in the first 10 lines). So it is impossible to see this at
> glance; and if you are going to read carefully, you can just click the
> Hydra build log link.
What about replacing all /nix/store/* with /nix/store/name-only, and sending 
diff of two logs?
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> What can be a nice idea, though, is sending out "disappeared run-time
> dependencies", checking by name (without hash and version)...
Or checking for "buildInput is neither a runtime dependency nor a build 
system".