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

[Michael Sperber]

Shea Levy <shea at shealevy.com> writes:

> 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.

So I get this:

jellaby> nix-env -u --option build-use-substitutes false
upgrading ‘nix-1.8’ to ‘nix-1.9pre4021_f46e329’
[...]
building path(s) ‘/nix/store/8x6hblrx1vhsmvizy7sd2pga9bs4p5i0-nix-1.9pre4021_f46e329.tar.xz’

trying http://hydra.nixos.org/build/18964230/download/4/nix-1.9pre4021_f46e329.tar.xz
  % Total    % Received % Xferd  Average Speed   Time    Time     Time  Current
                                 Dload  Upload   Total   Spent    Left  Speed
  0     0    0     0    0     0      0      0 --:--:-- --:--:-- --:--:--     0curl: (22) The requested URL returned error: 404 Not Found
error: cannot download nix-1.9pre4021_f46e329.tar.xz from any mirror
builder for ‘/nix/store/s9kay9xyhf5m4jbsy903vpicxd8xc117-nix-1.9pre4021_f46e329.tar.xz.drv’ failed with exit code 1
cannot build derivation ‘/nix/store/8smbiia3yq6ygb29mb5k1xh8569cvasc-nix-1.9pre4021_f46e329.drv’: 1 dependencies couldn't be built
error: build of ‘/nix/store/8smbiia3yq6ygb29mb5k1xh8569cvasc-nix-1.9pre4021_f46e329.drv’ failed

Am I doing something wrong or should I file an issue?

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Regards,
Mike