[Nix-dev] Zero Hydra Failures on staging and master

[Mateusz Kowalczyk]

On 07/01/2015 01:01 PM, Luca Bruno wrote:
> Hello dear nixers,
> 
> our first and latest ZHF run was very successful. We were able to drop
> hydra failures from 6000+ failures to almost zero failures! [1]
> Because the next NixOS stable release will hopefully happen the next
> month, I'd like to focus on getting the number of failures low again,
> prioritizing staging for the few next days, and then on master.
> 
> == Current staging ==
> 
> the latest staging evaluation on hydra is going to have more than 3000
> failures [2], compared to about 2500 of trunk [3].
> 
> This is mostly due to the fact that staging has seen a great change:
> failures of build hooks are not ignored anymore. Hence most of those new
> failures are easily fixable, like a mkdir $out/bin to be changed to
> mkdir -p $out/bin, or something like that.
> 
> I invite everyone to contribute to ZHF on staging, well not going to
> zero, but at least fix packages that previously built (even wrongly) on
> master without this change.
> If you find a package that is hard to fix, probably it's not a breakage
> due to this change.
> 
> == Future master ==
> 
> Also, once staging will be merged in master, I invite everyone to fix
> all the failures on hydra in order to release a better new NixOS stable
> release.
> 
> Best regards,
> 
> Note: the ZHF page is a little outdated, will try to update it in the
> next days, unless someone else does before me.
> 
> [1] https://nixos.org/wiki/Zero_Hydra_Failures
> [2] http://hydra.nixos.org/jobset/nixpkgs/staging
> [3] http://hydra.nixos.org/jobset/nixpkgs/trunk
> 
> 

There are many packages that are failing on darwin, some of them with me
listed as maintainer.

Is there a darwin machine with nix setup that nixpkgs contributors could
ssh into to try and debug those packages?

-- 
Mateusz K.