[Nix-dev] change in HEAD can render a system unbootable

Michael Alan Dorman mdorman at jaunder.io
Fri Feb 12 13:19:31 CET 2016


And of course, the moment I sent that I see that @peti did so.

Mike.

On Fri, Feb 12, 2016, at 07:18, Michael Alan Dorman wrote:
> Since this is something of a hair-on-fire issue, I wanted to bring it up
> on-list as well as in the bug tracker to make sure it gets some
> exposure.
> 
> As reported in https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/issues/12949, there's a
> recent change in HEAD that requires some significant effort to recover
> from.  It would be good to get the guilty change either reverted or
> amended so it won't break things.
> 
> Mike.
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