[Nix-dev] lxqt expressions

[James Cook]

I've seen similar things with my pull requests.  I think it can often
be blamed on packages that depend on the updated package that no
longer build, often because the source files are no longer available.

The way I see it (but I am not very experienced so take my point of
view with a grain of salt) this is not a problem with the pull
request, but an existing problem with the depending package, unrelated
to the pull request.  We should try to fix these packages or mark them
as broken.  I'm not sure how to monitor this without doing a bunch of
unnecessary downloads periodically, though.

For now, if you can confirm that everything that should work does work
on your own machine, I guess it's fine?

James


On 4 October 2014 09:14, Ellis Whitehead <ellis.whitehead at gmail.com> wrote:
> I submitted a pull request
> (https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/pull/4347) for lxqt 0.7 recently,
> but the builder seems to fail due to random download timeouts
> (https://travis-ci.org/NixOS/nixpkgs/builds/36878166).  A lot of
> packages need to be rebuilt, because I had to set a build flag on
> qt4.8 in order for QSettings to look in the right place for global XDG
> files, due to an acknowledged deficiency in QSettings
> (https://bugreports.qt-project.org/browse/QTBUG-34919).  Is there
> anything I can do to "encourage" Travis to try building again until it
> gets all the downloads?
>
> On Sat, Sep 20, 2014 at 11:27 PM, Ellis Whitehead
> <ellis.whitehead at gmail.com> wrote:
>> For the last two weeks, my three main computers have been running
>> nixos, and I hope it'll work out for the long term.
>>
>> I'd like to try out lxqt, but since it isn't available in nixpkgs yet,
>> I started working on the packages today
>> (https://github.com/ellis/nixpkgs/tree/lxqt/pkgs/desktops/lxqt).
>>
>> Is anyone else working on lxqt?  If not, I'll try to finish it up...
>>
>> Cheers,
>> Ellis
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