[Nix-dev] [Nix-commits] [NixOS/nixpkgs] f823b6: Fix compilation error when using boost 1.5 by pinn...

[Cillian de Róiste]

On Mon, Jul 2, 2012 at 7:28 PM, Lluís Batlle i Rossell <viric at viric.name> wrote:
> On Sun, Jul 01, 2012 at 09:14:10PM -0700, Cillian de Róiste wrote:
>>   Branch: refs/heads/master
>>   Home:   https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs
>>   Commit: f823b6230d7bec7906bdc969d0cb64cc806c997c
>>       https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/commit/f823b6230d7bec7906bdc969d0cb64cc806c997c
>>   Author: Cillian de Róiste <goibhniu at fsfe.org>
>>   Date:   2012-07-01 (Sun, 01 Jul 2012)
>>
>>   Changed paths:
>>     M pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
>>
>>   Log Message:
>>   -----------
>>   Fix compilation error when using boost 1.5 by pinning the boost version to 1.49
>
> Could you please write, the next time, for what package you fix the error? :)

Thanks for the feedback, I assumed the diff would appear beside the
commit message. I will be more explicit in the future. (It was Ardour
3 beta, for anyone casually reading).

> This boost update broke some other programs. Peter said that he wanted to
> remove 1.49 due to some boost upstream decision. How should we proceed? Use a
> boost older than 1.49?

I opened a ticket about this:
https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/pull/29

IIUC Peter only wanted to remove these versions of boost because we're
not using them https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/pull/27 (perhaps there
is more to it, this is the only reference to it that I noticed) so
Eelco decided to keep boost 1.49 since it now has a use.

Cheers,
goibhniu