[Nix-dev] hydra build failures

[Domen Kožar]

It's really sad to me that we have Nix as a core tool to solve packaging
problems and then we don't even release hydra and claim minimum versions
required for it's dependencies.

It gives a really bad taste to anyone who tries Nix stack and gets bitten
on such trivial problem we claim to solve.



On Wed, Oct 14, 2015 at 12:57 PM, Eelco Dolstra <eelco.dolstra at logicblox.com
> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> On 14/10/15 12:39, Christian Theune wrote:
>
> >> You need to update Nixpkgs to get the latest unstable Nix version,
> which Hydra
> >> requires.
> >
> > Ah, thanks. I didn’t think about *that* :)
> >
> > To learn something from this: what was the indicator to notice?
>
> Hydra build failures in C++ code are almost always due to an outdated Nix.
> In
> this case it complained about a missing member of nix::BuildResult.
>
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