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.