This commit effectively makes it impossible to upgrade to nixUnstable
with nix-env without mucking about with priorities, as you can't
uninstall the old nix transactionally with the new nix and if you
uninstall the old one first you no longer have nix at your disposal to
install the new one.
This reverts commit 9711aac642.
Main change: glibc: 2.25-x -> 2.26-y, containing security fixes,
and various features and deprecations. Unfortunately, some of the
latter still cause (transitively) a couple hundred newly failing jobs.
I'm not delaying anymore, so that we have the security fix on master.
I mainly patched gcc, llvm and icu, but I can't fix everything...
* pgadmin: use https homepage
* msn-pecan: move homepage to github
google code is now unavailable
* pidgin-latex: use https for homepage
* pidgin-opensteamworks: use github for homepage
google code is unavailable
* putty: use https for homepage
* ponylang: use https for homepage
* picolisp: use https for homepage
* phonon: use https for homepage
* pugixml: use https for homepage
* pioneer: use https for homepage
* packer: use https for homepage
* pokerth: usee https for homepage
* procps-ng: use https for homepage
* pycaml: use https for homepage
* proot: move homepage to .github.io
* pius: use https for homepage
* pdfread: use https for homepage
* postgresql: use https for homepage
* ponysay: move homepage to new site
* prometheus: use https for homepage
* powerdns: use https for homepage
* pm-utils: use https for homepage
* patchelf: move homepage to https
* tesseract: move homepage to github
* quodlibet: move homepage from google code
* jbrout: move homepage from google code
* eiskaltdcpp: move homepage to github
* nodejs: use https to homepage
* nix: use https for homepage
* pdf2djvu: move homepage from google code
* game-music-emu: move homepage from google code
* vacuum: move homepae from google code
The configure script calls nix-instantiate, which fails if /nix/var
doesn't exist (e.g. in a sandbox). This caused a bogus Nix::Config
module to be generated, causing issues in Hydra.
The key distinction I'm drawing is that there's a component that deals
with the store of the machine being built, and another component for
the store building it. The inner part of it assumes nothing from the
builder (doesn't need chroot or root powers) so it can run comfortably
inside a Nix build, as well as nixos-rebuild. I have some upcoming work
that will use that to significantly speed up and streamline image builds
for NixOS, especially on virtualized hosts like EC2, but it's also a
reasonable speedup on native hosts.
The most complex problems were from dealing with switches reverted in
the meantime (gcc5, gmp6, ncurses6).
It's likely that darwin is (still) broken nontrivially.
You can now pass
separateDebugInfo = true;
to mkDerivation. This causes debug info to be separated from ELF
binaries and stored in the "debug" output. The advantage is that it
enables installing lean binaries, while still having the ability to
make sense of core dumps, etc.
(My OCD kicked in today...)
Remove repeated package names, capitalize first word, remove trailing
periods and move overlong descriptions to longDescription.
I also simplified some descriptions as well, when they were particularly
long or technical, often based on Arch Linux' package descriptions.
I've tried to stay away from generated expressions (and I think I
succeeded).
Some specifics worth mentioning:
* cron, has "Vixie Cron" in its description. The "Vixie" part is not
mentioned anywhere else. I kept it in a parenthesis at the end of the
description.
* ctags description started with "Exuberant Ctags ...", and the
"exuberant" part is not mentioned elsewhere. Kept it in a parenthesis
at the end of description.
* nix has the description "The Nix Deployment System". Since that
doesn't really say much what it is/does (especially after removing
the package name!), I changed that to "Powerful package manager that
makes package management reliable and reproducible" (borrowed from
nixos.org).
* Tons of "GNU Foo, Foo is a [the important bits]" descriptions
is changed to just [the important bits]. If the package name doesn't
contain GNU I don't think it's needed to say it in the description
either.
