[Nix-dev] Zero Hydra Failures (ZHF) project

[Florian Friesdorf]

Great success! \o/

Thank you for doing that!

Domen Kožar <domen at dev.si> writes:
> During the NixOS Sprint in Ljubljana I worked on ZHF project, mostly
> tackling python packages. I'm still fighting with pypy and sqlite3, but in
> general we should be down to around 300 failing builds for NixOS.
>
> What's left are mostly kernelPackages and some haskell/ocaml stuff.
> http://hydra.nixos.org/eval/1149989#tabs-still-fail
>
>
> On Fri, Aug 29, 2014 at 5:38 PM, Luca Bruno <lethalman88 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Progress: we started having 10248 failures, then at 12 Aug 8028 failures,
>> and now 6126 failures. I'd like to thank everybody. Let's keep up the good
>> work!
>> Many of the python packages got banned from being built with different
>> versions of python (e.g. python2 packages that don't build on python3).
>> Same goes for haskell packages. Thanks for the work!
>>
>> However a big chunk are failing on darwin. The reason is common to many
>> darwin packages (also python packages):
>>
>> pbuilding ppm2tiff
>> tiffgt.c:38:20: fatal error: GL/gl.h: No such file or directory
>>  # include <GL/gl.h>
>>                     ^
>> compilation terminated.
>>
>> In the libtiff package specifically, which causes the failure of a bunch
>> of dependent packages. I hope darwin users can spend some time fixing this
>> inconvenient issue.
>>
>> Another big chunk of failing packages are the pypy ones, due to failing
>> pypy urllib.
>>
>> Fixing these two issues alone should drop the red numbers a lot.
>>
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