[Nix-dev] Hydra notifications in case of evaluation errors (was:SVN commit: nix - r28129 - innixpkgs/trunk/pkgs:development/libraries/afflib top-level)

[Michael Raskin]

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>Hydra didn't build anything:
>
> | Cannot evaluate the Nix expression containing the jobs:
> | error: getting status of `/nix/store/jn59f9yddq4lpp3jhmkhav4f0ia7q6zx-nixpkgs-r28132/pkgs/development/compilers/llvm/svn-head.nix': No such file or directory
> | (use `--show-trace' to show detailed location information)
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>This behavior should probably be improved. If a commit breaks evaluation
>altogether, a notification should be send out, say, to this list? That
>would ensure that developers notice these kind of oversights quickly.

It does send notices that nixpkgs tarball check failed

This time it probably sent the notice when I was only looking through
my Nix-related email as I was away, and then my commit broke evaluation
even more.