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

[Domen Kožar]

Most of the trunk failures is pypy, I hope to find some time to fix the
failing tests.

On Wed, Jul 1, 2015 at 4:09 PM, Mateusz Kowalczyk <fuuzetsu at fuuzetsu.co.uk>
wrote:

> 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 Note: the ZHF page is a little outdated, will try to update it in the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.
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