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haskellPackages.Spock marked as broken #81205

Closed KristianBalaj closed 4 years ago

KristianBalaj commented 4 years ago

Describe the bug Package Spock is marked as broken. What are the actual steps to solve this issue when I want to use the package in my project? And what is the reason of this? (I'm new to nix and haskell so I'm looking for answers.)

To Reproduce Running this command: nix-shell -p "haskellPackages.ghcWithPackages (pkgs: [pkgs.Spock])"

results in this output: error: Package ‘Spock-0.13.0.0’ in /nix/store/hl5404ba6gp3hn8z9a56g06zprzmdzdx-nixpkgs-20.09pre214374.1fe82110feb/nixpkgs/pkgs/development/haskell-modules/hackage-packages.nix:18438 is marked as broken, refusing to evaluate.

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vcunat commented 4 years ago

You can bypass the evaluation check

env NIXPKGS_ALLOW_BROKEN=1 some-nix-command

but the thing is there for you to avoid having to build and fail:

builder for '/nix/store/55x59089ncp5iyjcaagj374zhgv964wr-superbuffer-0.3.1.1.drv' failed with exit code 1; last 10 log lines:
    die', called at libraries/Cabal/Cabal/Distribution/Simple/Configure.hs:950:20 in Cabal-2.4.0.1:Distribution.Simple.Configure
    configureFinalizedPackage, called at libraries/Cabal/Cabal/Distribution/Simple/Configure.hs:460:12 in Cabal-2.4.0.1:Distribution.Simple.Configure
    configure, called at libraries/Cabal/Cabal/Distribution/Simple.hs:596:20 in Cabal-2.4.0.1:Distribution.Simple
    confHook, called at libraries/Cabal/Cabal/Distribution/Simple/UserHooks.hs:67:5 in Cabal-2.4.0.1:Distribution.Simple.UserHooks
    configureAction, called at libraries/Cabal/Cabal/Distribution/Simple.hs:178:19 in Cabal-2.4.0.1:Distribution.Simple
    defaultMainHelper, called at libraries/Cabal/Cabal/Distribution/Simple.hs:115:27 in Cabal-2.4.0.1:Distribution.Simple
    defaultMain, called at Setup.hs:2:8 in main:Main
  Setup: Encountered missing dependencies:
  QuickCheck <2.13
cannot build derivation '/nix/store/dpkyr1bkr4wb3rrpd0v98j0ahvjjc3bl-Spock-core-0.13.0.0.drv': 1 dependencies couldn't be built
builder for '/nix/store/nl5nlj0213qppkh2gjifg8wc95dzskfb-stm-hamt-1.2.0.4.drv' failed with exit code 1; last 10 log lines:
    die', called at libraries/Cabal/Cabal/Distribution/Simple/Configure.hs:950:20 in Cabal-2.4.0.1:Distribution.Simple.Configure
    configureFinalizedPackage, called at libraries/Cabal/Cabal/Distribution/Simple/Configure.hs:460:12 in Cabal-2.4.0.1:Distribution.Simple.Configure
    configure, called at libraries/Cabal/Cabal/Distribution/Simple.hs:596:20 in Cabal-2.4.0.1:Distribution.Simple
    confHook, called at libraries/Cabal/Cabal/Distribution/Simple/UserHooks.hs:67:5 in Cabal-2.4.0.1:Distribution.Simple.UserHooks
    configureAction, called at libraries/Cabal/Cabal/Distribution/Simple.hs:178:19 in Cabal-2.4.0.1:Distribution.Simple
    defaultMainHelper, called at libraries/Cabal/Cabal/Distribution/Simple.hs:115:27 in Cabal-2.4.0.1:Distribution.Simple
    defaultMain, called at Setup.hs:2:8 in main:Main
  Setup: Encountered missing dependencies:
  primitive ==0.7.*, primitive-extras ==0.8.*
cannot build derivation '/nix/store/36xa374nnj5nq1c7lwas7jwddmfnlv2q-stm-containers-1.1.0.4.drv': 1 dependencies couldn't be built
cannot build derivation '/nix/store/lk1sy9c6dm2g5akq4g2m26wm6whj704y-Spock-0.13.0.0.drv': 2 dependencies couldn't be built
KristianBalaj commented 4 years ago

Yeah I've tried it to run with the allowBroken = true flag and got the same result - build failed because of missing dependencies.

Any solution there?

rnhmjoj commented 4 years ago

Spock is unmaintained and has been broken for at least two stackage LTS releases, there's not much NixOS can do about this. See this issue: https://github.com/agrafix/Spock/issues/149.

If you really need it you can override the package to use the (never released) 0.13.0.2 version. I recovered from a backup the override I used until last year and converted it to a (modern) overlay. I haven't tested it but it should still work:

super: self: {

haskellPackages = super.haskellPackages.override {
  overrides = hself: hsuper: with self.haskell.lib; {
    # Remove unecessary constraint
    superbuffer = overrideCabal hsuper.superbuffer (drv: {
      postPatch = "sed -i 's#QuickCheck < 2.10#QuickCheck < 2.13#' superbuffer.cabal";
      broken = false;
    });

    # Force update on LTS 13.2
    Spock = overrideCabal hsuper.Spock (drv: {
      version = "0.13.0.2";
      src = "${self.fetchFromGitHub {
        owner  = "agrafix";
        repo   = "Spock";
        rev    = "1ba2ac810321eacdf11fc99eed1c0a83e14e79d0";
        sha256 = "0b4yacnz25392bb6mlp5binj4kzrxn4gqa5vwg9l937ijp4g4kk8";
      }}/Spock";
      broken = false;
    });
    Spock-core = overrideCabal hsuper.Spock-core (drv: {
      version = "0.13.0.2";
      src = "${self.fetchFromGitHub {
        owner  = "agrafix";
        repo   = "Spock";
        rev    = "1ba2ac810321eacdf11fc99eed1c0a83e14e79d0";
        sha256 = "0b4yacnz25392bb6mlp5binj4kzrxn4gqa5vwg9l937ijp4g4kk8";
      }}/Spock-core";
      broken = false;
    });
  };
};

}

Btw, if you're starting a new project give servant a try.

KristianBalaj commented 4 years ago

Great @rnhmjoj! Thank you for the explanation. Currently, as a noob user of the nix tooling I'm gonna use a package that is maintained. :)

rnhmjoj commented 4 years ago

I'm closing the issue since it's not really a NixOS problem.