[Nix-dev] Please test NixOS/nixpkgs.git on darwin

[Henry Till]

I've updated the wiki with new instructions:

https://nixos.org/wiki/Nix_on_OS_X

-Henry


On Tue, Feb 3, 2015 at 12:52 PM, Daniel Peebles <pumpkingod at gmail.com>
wrote:
>
> Not much I can think of, but I'm on my phone and can't check now. Perhaps
some of our patches to individual packages will affect Linux, and some of
those packages might be used by the Linux stdenv bootstrap. Definitely
something we should look out for and batch up.
>
>
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> On Feb 3, 2015, at 12:24, Shea Levy <shea at shealevy.com> wrote:
>
> Sure, tonight works. This sounds great! Besides the patches to
cc-wrapper, are there any changes you expect to hit linux stdenv?
>
> On Feb 3, 2015, at 5:07 PM, Daniel Peebles <pumpkingod at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> I think we can pull it off this or next week, with a few people
contributing to testing the semantically meaningful PRs we break into
chunks.
>
> Fully agree on your proposed workflow, but I've been pretty undisciplined
so far. For the current big merge, my plan was to break my history into
major chunks along the following lines (not necessarily in this order):
> - LLVM 3.5
> - Assorted minor Mac-flavored patches to cc-wrapper (hook to detect
frameworks in buildInputs, etc.)
> - A large collection of source builds for Apple-specific stuff from
opensource.apple.com. I've bundled them together in a subdirectory to make
it a fairly clean independent PR
> - The actual bootstrapped stdenv using clang and my bootstrap tools
archive. If there are trust issues with people pulling in my binaries, we
can regenerate them, but it'll be a bit of a pain to do sensibly. We should
definitely shift the binary bootstrap tools off my Dropbox, either way :)
> - A whole load of assorted patches to individual packages to make them
work with clang and/or Darwin (should probably be broken up further into
smaller categories of breakage being fixed, since there are patterns)
>
> I think those are the main categories of PR, and I was planning on
squashing my messy git history into roughly that shape in the next few days.
>
> Once we've rewritten that history, I'm quite happy to be more disciplined
in my commits to make them merge more easily.
>
> Want to talk this evening (probably won't be home until 10:30 eastern) on
##nix-Darwin about specifics? I need people to help break out individual
parts (e.g., clang)
>
> Thanks,
> Dan
>
>
> On Feb 3, 2015, at 10:13, Shea Levy <shea at shealevy.com> wrote:
>
> As far as I know, there is still a lot of churn on pure darwin.
>
> Dan, if we wanted to merge pure darwin soon (say, maybe this or next
week) could you a) get it ready in time and b) adopt a new workflow where
future major changes were made and merged in single-feature chunks? I want
to avoid a long-term situation where a lot of unconnected changes come in
as a set and switch to a feature branch model once pure-darwin is in.
>
> ~Shea
>
> On Feb 3, 2015, at 3:03 PM, Wout Mertens <wout.mertens at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Ouch. So users on 10.10 should use Zalora and disable hydra binaries?
>
> Perhaps we should fast-track the pure-darwin builds. It works swimmingly
on my system, and looks like the current Darwin situation is not tenable.
So anything in pure-darwin that breaks Linux would be good to find early.
>
> On Tue Feb 03 2015 at 4:00:48 PM Shea Levy <shea at shealevy.com> wrote:
>>
>> I’m not sure about butters. Either way a single cache will not do the
trick, as until pure-darwin lands binaries will be specific to the version
of OS X they are compiled for. In particular, the zalora cache builds for
10.10.
>>
>> On Feb 3, 2015, at 2:59 PM, Wout Mertens <wout.mertens at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> I see that the darwin machine butters is online (and idle) in Hydra,
does that mean the zalora cache is no longer needed for nixpkgs on Darwin?
>>
>> On Tue Feb 03 2015 at 3:51:47 PM Domen Kožar <domen at dev.si> wrote:
>>>
>>> :beers:
>>>
>>> On Tue, Feb 3, 2015 at 3:40 PM, Shea Levy <shea at shealevy.com> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> Hi all,
>>>>
>>>> For a while now, there has been a lot of work to improve darwin
support on the master branch of joelteon’s nixpkgs fork. With the latest
staging merge, the core of that work is now on upstream master. The rest of
the changes available on joelteon’s fork are very disparate, and it is not
clear whether or why they are all needed, so I’d like to request that those
who have been working off of the fork test their setups against upstream
now. If something is still not working, please at least open an issue, but
if you can find the relevant fix on the fork and port it as a PR that would
be greatly appreciated.
>>>>
>>>> Hopefully we can soon move on from that fork entirely and have further
changes (including the ongoing pure-darwin work) done directly against
upstream master.
>>>>
>>>> Thanks,
>>>> Shea
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