[Nix-dev] Possible breaking changes from staging

[Luca Bruno]

So guys all the stuff quoted below happened, it's all in master. Hopefully
NM 1.0 won't break your desktop too much. In case it does, please report an
issue to nixpkgs. Thanks all for the hard work.

Best regards,

On Wed, Apr 22, 2015 at 11:05 AM, Luca Bruno <lethalman88 at gmail.com> wrote:

> In this period I'm working on GNOME 3.16 and NetworkManager 1.0 [1]. In
> addition to that, glib has been bumped.
> I'm currently compiling the PR for staging and then merge it if
> everything works.
>
> Below the possible breakages you must be aware of. These updates are
> necessary to forward our software, we'll fix eventual bugs with the time.
>
> * glib 2.42 -> 2.44
>
> This update is minor yet not entirely trivial. It's probable that
> software using gdbus may break because of bugs fixed in 2.44.
>
> * NM 0.9.8.10 -> 1.0
>
> It's big but shouldn't be breaking anything. In particular, you'll see a
> vboxnet0 interface in nm-applet if you enabled the virtualbox nixos
> service, I hope that will go away with further upstream updates.
>
> We haven't upgraded it until now because previously it showed tons of
> vboxnet interfaces, making the applet unusable.
>
> * GNOME 3.12 -> 3.16
>
> I did my best to keep both 3.12 and 3.16 in our repository, but I won't
> guarantee that 3.12 will keep working as well as before, I won't
> maintain it anymore.
>
> In case you switch to GNOME 3.16, running GTK 3.12 apps will be ugly
> because they broke some css stuff. Therefore I suggest you to add in
> packageOverrides a gnome3 = gnome3_16; and forget about GNOME 3.12, it
> will be dropped as soon as possible.
>
> [1] https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/pull/7357
>
>


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