@GrahamcOfBorg eval

you also need to remove the meta.broken = true entries, you only changed what gets fed into hackage2nix

i don't understand. the only place i know is the file that says not to edit that i thought gets fixed by what i did when hackag2nix runs daily. :( speaking of hackage2nix... i can't get it to work. https://github.com/NixOS/cabal2nix/tree/master/hackage2nix following those instructions it fails to build and i couldn't figure out a way to make it work. i'm trying to fix a bunch of copilot packages and arduino-copilot... i had it working but then i think more things broke. sigh

the generated file is what nixpkgs actually evaluates. So your build will fail until also edit it.

'm trying to fix a bunch of copilot packages and arduino-copilot... i had it working but then i think more things broke. sigh

you could also fix your nixpkgs to before the commit was introduced. Eventually this will stabilize again

'm trying to fix a bunch of copilot packages and arduino-copilot... i had it working but then i think more things broke. sigh

you could also fix your nixpkgs to before the commit was introduced. Eventually this will stabilize again

i had to add an older version of bimap. i edited the hackage-packages.nix manually to add it but i wanted to test if this was right and couldn't run ./update-nixpkgs. and last time i tried on the newest commit there was something else in addition to bimap that didn't match. :|

default-package-overrides:
  # copilot 3.1 needs bimap 0.3.*
  - bimap ==0.3.3
  # pandoc-2.9 does not accept the 0.3 version yet
  - doclayout < 0.3
  # LTS Haskell 14.23

I'll defer to @peti or @cdepillabout to determine the right way forward

i'll do whatever i can to make it work but i'm not sure what to do either. it's probably easier to figure out on freenode or something than this anyway. if anyone's on there i'm DigitalKiwi or any method listed here is fine too https://mostlyabsurd.com/contact/#socialize-with-me

you also need to remove the meta.broken = true entries, you only changed what gets fed into hackage2nix

That's fine; 'hackage-packges.nix` will be re-generated automatically based on those changed configuration files. See https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KLhkAEk8I20 for further details.

@peti Just for clarification, is it generally okay for people to edit hackage-packages.nix by hand to mark a package as not broken, as long as they make sure to also edit configuration-hackage2nix.nix and mark the package as not broken?

I was under the impression that we don't want people to edit hackage-packages.nix (even to simply mark packages as non-broken at the same time they are marked non-broken in configuration-hackage2nix.nix) because it occasionally causes merge conflicts.

However, if the file is completely regenerated automatically, maybe this isn't actually a concern?

The good thing about marking something as non-broken in hackage-packages.nix as well is that you can build the package with ofborg as a double check that it actually builds.

i had to add an older version of bimap. i edited the hackage-packages.nix manually to add it but i wanted to test if this was right and couldn't run ./update-nixpkgs. and last time i tried on the newest commit there was something else in addition to bimap that didn't match. :|

default-package-overrides:
  # copilot 3.1 needs bimap 0.3.*
  - bimap ==0.3.3
  # pandoc-2.9 does not accept the 0.3 version yet
  - doclayout < 0.3
  # LTS Haskell 14.23

i figured out something that worked and opened an issue. I prefer PRs to issues, but I can make a PR if it's wanted. :) NixOS/cabal2nix#443

@Kiwi Thanks for working through this and getting upstream updated! Keep an eye on the haskell-updates branch, which should get the update for hookup within a day or so (assuming it has already been updated on Hackage).