[Nix-dev] Travis experiment on nixpkgs

[Domen Kožar]

Awesome! Could you increase parallel download workers? I'd also run

nix-build pkgs/top-level/release.nix -A tarball

before going for full evaluation of the package.

On Mon, Sep 22, 2014 at 2:45 PM, Georges Dubus <georges.dubus at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Hello everybody
>
> This morning, travis verification of pull requests has been activated. The
> verification is mainly based on nox-review[1], and is still in the
> experimental stage.
>
> nox-review is a tool I wrote this weekend to help review changes in
> nixpkgs and pull requests.
>
> The results might not be completely reliable for now. For example, since
> there might be many packages to rebuild, and travis does not cache built
> derivation, the build might be killed by the 50 minutes timeout. There
> might also be bugs in nox-review.
>
> For now, I invite you to take a look at the build logs, and report me
> things that are broken (by email, or to "madjar" on irc).
>
>
> Ideally, this kind of work would be done by hydra, which is much more
> suitable. However, hydra is quite overwelmed, and isn't really able to
> handle pull requests for now. When the sky gets clearer, it would be nice
> to use hydra instead of travis. Consider the current system a preview of
> what is to come!
>
>
> [1] https://github.com/madjar/nox
>
> --
> Georges Dubus
>
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