[Nix-dev] Hydra not building a package, fetchSubmodules fault?

[Mateusz Kowalczyk]

On 06/07/2014 06:43 AM, Bjørn Forsman wrote:
> On 7 June 2014 05:23, Mateusz Kowalczyk <fuuzetsu at fuuzetsu.co.uk> wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> I packaged the PSP emulator called PPSSPP a while ago and it has been in
>> nixpkgs for little over a week[1]. When I try to nix-env -i PPSSPP
>> however my system tells me that it will build it rather than fetch it.
> 
> I think, in this case, it is because the package lacks meta.platforms.
> (I don't know why vice is built, even though it lacks meta.platforms.)
> 
> Another reason for such behaviour is that the channel lags git master.
> Check the version of your channel sources with nixos-version, the last
> part of the version number output is the git commit id.
> 
> Best regards,
> Bjørn Forsman
> 

I explicitly added platforms and Hydra now builds it[1]. Good call
although I still don't know why vice is being built without platforms.

[1]: http://hydra.nixos.org/build/11771215
-- 
Mateusz K.