Nixpkgs: Packagekit not compiling with Nix-backend enabled

Created on 17 Dec 2016 · 10Comments · Source: NixOS/nixpkgs

Issue description

packagekit won't compile on my machines, fixed it for myself temporarily by disabling the nix backend. would be nice to have a working nix backend on nixos. discussion was started at https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/pull/21157.

long story short:
build-error: http://hastebin.com/tiyomifipe.log (by @bendlas)
commit that probably breaks it: https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/commit/c94454a45a7410f9fdd84896c693c1c4df5e10f1 (by @matthewbauer)

Steps to reproduce

rebuild system with current master (with packagekit pulled in by anything ;) )

Technical details

System: 17.03.git.0b65f85 (Gorilla) (on a custom branch, where nix-backend is disabled atm - rebased on todays master)

bug GNOME

Source

ikervagyok

Most helpful comment

With Nix flakes caching support, I think we can get much better performance with this. I will work on updating this soon.

matthewbauer on 11 May 2020

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All 10 comments

Yeah so I'm mostly waiting for 1.12 to hit nix stable. Hopefully won't be too much longer.

matthewbauer on 21 Apr 2017

What is the status of this, @matthewbauer?

jtojnar on 22 Mar 2018

It's on my todo list... There were some breaking changes in the Nix bindings, but I can look into fixing them now that Nix 2.0 is out.

matthewbauer on 22 Mar 2018

👍4

Would anyone else like to adopt maintainership of PackageKit? I have authored https://github.com/hughsie/PackageKit/commit/f31ab6e8636b991e867a6adcd5dc5cda521f0830 which should fix this (although it's not extensively tested). It will hopefully be released soon. Ideally someone could integrate the new nix search & its JSON db here, but I haven't looked at it.

matthewbauer on 17 Jun 2018

🎉2

I would be willing to maintain it, but will not be able to contribute to the further integration until later in the summer.

jtojnar on 17 Jun 2018

Has anyone looked at this recently? I'm curious what the current state of packagekit is

benley on 11 Jan 2019

Well, packagekit at least builds w/Nix these days, tested while updating to 1.1.13 but likely has built for some time now. (cc #77498).

Not sure status of packagekit service when enabling the nix backend (which the NixOS module presently sets to test_noop--somethign like this should enable the right backends, for testing?)... anyone know its status?