[Nix-dev] lxqt expressions

[Ellis Whitehead]

Thanks for the suggestion, James.  I just installed a completely clean
system using nixos-unstable plus my patches, and found one error.
Will commit the fix that along with the comment that it worked based
off of the latest nixos-unstable channel.

On Sat, Oct 4, 2014 at 11:57 AM, James Cook <james.cook at utoronto.ca> wrote:
> 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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