[Nix-dev] NixOS 14.11 branch-off delayed for a few days

[Raahul Kumar]

I also had issues that I now believe were radeon related that prevented me
from installing Nixos on my new machine :<. So it affects multiple people,
who probably just gave up on Nix and never filed bug reports.

On Mon, Nov 24, 2014 at 3:59 PM, James Cook <james.cook at utoronto.ca> wrote:

> I labelled a new bug with the 14.11 milestone, because it's a
> show-stopper on my system: X11 doesn't work with (I think) the open
> source radeon driver.  https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/issues/5101
>
> Unfortunately I might not have much time to dig into it over the next
> week, so it might be impractical to fix it for the 14.11 release.  But
> I'm all ears if anyone has ideas for me to try.
>
> James
>
> On 21 November 2014 at 12:24, Luca Bruno <lethalman88 at gmail.com> wrote:
> > I don't think the networkmanager PR should be blocked by those
> documentation
> > issues. Also renaming the systemd service from NetworkManager to
> > network-manager  is out of question for the release. The documentation
> > issues are not part of that PR and shouldn't be fixed by that PR. So if
> the
> > installer with NM works for you please merge.
> >
> > On Fri, Nov 21, 2014 at 9:16 PM, Domen Kožar <domen at dev.si> wrote:
> >>
> >> Hi all,
> >>
> >> http://hydra.nixos.org/jobset/nixpkgs/staging is currently building
> bash
> >> and glibc bumps and once the jobset finishes and proofs it has no major
> >> failures, it's going to be merged into master.
> >>
> >> Expect that to happen in next couple of days followed by release-14.11
> >> branch created.
> >>
> >> You have time until then to get any features into the master.
> >>
> >> I know aszlig is working on chromium fixes (PDF, printing, ...), Here
> is a
> >> list of potential regressions we should consider fixing until the
> release:
> >>
> >> - nixos-rebuild / install-grub.pl broken in current master
> >>   https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/issues/4236
> >>
> >> - [nixos] Cannot set password after turning off users.mutableUsers
> >>   https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/issues/3788
> >>
> >> - ISO boot: frequent graphics problems
> >>   https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/issues/4659
> >>
> >> - kde installer: enable networkmanager
> >>   https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/issues/4659
> >>
> >> Besides that, I would love if someone volunteer to document in nixpkgs
> >> manual following functionality with some clear examples:
> >>
> >> - mkDerivation additions over derivation function (passthru,
> >> overrideDerivaton, override, allowUnfreePredicate and other useful
> functions
> >> used over the codebase
> >> - ~/.nixpkgs/config.nix support
> >>
> >> Any takers?
> >>
> >> Domen
> >>
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