Check hydra for the build status of a package in a given channel.
Keep in mind that hydra is the NixOS build-farm orchestrator and has more important tasks to do than answering your puny requests. Response time may be in the seconds for each request.
$ nix-shell
$ hydra-check --help
usage: hydra-check [options] PACKAGES...
...
$ hydra-check
Evaluations of jobset nixpkgs/trunk @ https://hydra.nixos.org/jobset/nixpkgs/trunk/evals
⧖ nixpkgs → df76cd6 5h ago ✔ 194306 ✖ 3554 ⧖ 55364 Δ ? https://hydra.nixos.org/eval/1809865
⧖ nixpkgs → 7701a9e 14h ago ✔ 196874 ✖ 5123 ⧖ 51253 Δ ? https://hydra.nixos.org/eval/1809859
⧖ nixpkgs → 7150b43 23h ago ✔ 200232 ✖ 48388 ⧖ 4629 Δ ? https://hydra.nixos.org/eval/1809854
⧖ nixpkgs → ed1b999 1d ago ✔ 200402 ✖ 48482 ⧖ 4319 Δ ? https://hydra.nixos.org/eval/1809850
⧖ nixpkgs → b651050 1d ago ✔ 244082 ✖ 6187 ⧖ 2813 Δ ? https://hydra.nixos.org/eval/1809840
✔ nixpkgs → 85f7e66 2d ago ✔ 246713 ✖ 5963 ⧖ 0 Δ +67 https://hydra.nixos.org/eval/1809829
✔ nixpkgs → fe348e1 2d ago ✔ 246646 ✖ 6015 ⧖ 0 Δ +276 https://hydra.nixos.org/eval/1809822
...
$ hydra-check hello
Build Status for nixpkgs.hello.x86_64-linux on jobset nixos/trunk-combined
✔ hello-2.10 from 2020-03-14 - https://hydra.nixos.org/build/114752982
$ hydra-check hello --arch x86_64-darwin
Build Status for hello.x86_64-darwin on jobset nixpkgs/trunk
✔ hello-2.12.1 from 2023-09-28 - https://hydra.nixos.org/build/236635446
$ hydra-check hello python --channel 19.03
Build Status for nixpkgs.hello.x86_64-linux on jobset nixos/19.03
✔ hello-2.10 from 2019-10-14 - https://hydra.nixos.org/build/103243113
Build Status for nixpkgs.python.x86_64-linux on jobset nixos/19.03
✔ python-2.7.17 from 2020-01-14 - https://hydra.nixos.org/build/110523905
$ hydra-check nixos.tests.installer.simpleUefiGrub --channel 19.09 --arch aarch64-linux
Build Status for nixos.tests.installer.simpleUefiGrub.aarch64-linux on jobset nixos/19.09
✖ (Dependency failed) vm-test-run-installer-simpleUefiGrub from 2020-03-19 - https://hydra.nixos.org/build/115139363
Last Builds:
✖ (Dependency failed) vm-test-run-installer-simpleUefiGrub from 2020-03-18 - https://hydra.nixos.org/build/115135183
✖ (Dependency failed) vm-test-run-installer-simpleUefiGrub from 2020-03-18 - https://hydra.nixos.org/build/115093440
✔ vm-test-run-installer-simpleUefiGrub from 2020-03-18 - https://hydra.nixos.org/build/115073926
✔ vm-test-run-installer-simpleUefiGrub from 2020-03-17 - https://hydra.nixos.org/build/115013869
✖ (Cancelled) vm-test-run-installer-simpleUefiGrub from 2020-03-17 - https://hydra.nixos.org/build/114921818
✔ vm-test-run-installer-simpleUefiGrub from 2020-03-17 - https://hydra.nixos.org/build/114887664
✖ (Timed out) vm-test-run-installer-simpleUefiGrub from 2020-03-16 - https://hydra.nixos.org/build/114881668
...
$ hydra-check ugarit --channel 19.09 --short
Build Status for nixpkgs.ugarit.x86_64-linux on jobset nixos/19.09
✖ (Dependency failed) chicken-ugarit-2.0 from 2020-02-23 - https://hydra.nixos.org/build/108216732
$ hydra-check nixos.containerTarball hello --channel 19.09 --arch i686-linux --json | jq .
{
"nixos.containerTarball": [
{
"icon": "✖",
"success": false,
"status": "Failed",
"timestamp": "2020-03-18T22:02:59Z",
"build_id": "115099119",
"build_url": "https://hydra.nixos.org/build/115099119",
"name": "tarball",
"arch": "i686-linux"
},
{
"icon": "✖",
"success": false,
"status": "Failed",
"timestamp": "2020-03-17T18:10:09Z",
"build_id": "115073178",
"build_url": "https://hydra.nixos.org/build/115073178",
"name": "tarball",
"arch": "i686-linux"
},
...
],
"hello": [
{
"icon": "✔",
"success": true,
"status": "Succeeded",
"timestamp": "2017-07-31T13:28:03Z",
"build_id": "57619684",
"build_url": "https://hydra.nixos.org/build/57619684",
"name": "hello-2.10",
"arch": "i686-linux"
},
{
"icon": "✔",
"success": true,
"status": "Succeeded",
"timestamp": "2017-07-25T03:36:27Z",
"build_id": "56997384",
"build_url": "https://hydra.nixos.org/build/56997384",
"name": "hello-2.10",
"arch": "i686-linux"
},
...
]
}
$ hydra-check --channel=staging-next --eval
info: querying the latest evaluation of --jobset 'nixpkgs/staging-next'
Evaluations of jobset nixpkgs/staging-next @ https://hydra.nixos.org/jobset/nixpkgs/staging-next/evals
⧖ nixpkgs → b2a0e31 1d ago ✔ 42294 ✖ 2447 ⧖ 208458 Δ +18066 https://hydra.nixos.org/eval/1809845
info: no package filter has been specified, so the default filter '/nixVersions.stable' is used for better performance
info: specify another filter with --eval '1809845/<filter>', or force an empty filter with a trailing slash: '1809845/'
Evaluation 1809845 filtered by 'nixVersions.stable' @ https://hydra.nixos.org/eval/1809845?filter=nixVersions.stable
input: nixpkgs
type: Git checkout
value: https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs.git
revision: b2a0e3125e8b373ee2d6480ebd3b8f5c20080796
store_path: /nix/store/54adh6vxi8zf1vpxj2gagwajk3hcrd0x-source
input: officialRelease
type: Boolean
value: false
input: supportedSystems
type: Nix expression
value: [ "x86_64-linux" "aarch64-linux" "x86_64-darwin" "aarch64-darwin" ]
changed_input: nixpkgs
changes: 20741966793c to b2a0e3125e8b
url: https://hydra.nixos.org/api/scmdiff?type=git&rev2=b2a0e3125e8b373ee2d6480ebd3b8f5c20080796&branch=&rev1=20741966793c81f2322645d30bce95d37f63f545&uri=https%3A%2F%2Fgithub.com%2FNixOS%2Fnixpkgs.git
revs: 20741966793c81f2322645d30bce95d37f63f545 -> b2a0e3125e8b373ee2d6480ebd3b8f5c20080796
Queued Jobs:
⧖ (Queued) nixVersions.stable.aarch64-darwin nix-2.24.10 https://hydra.nixos.org/build/277949183
⧖ (Queued) nixVersions.stable.aarch64-linux nix-2.24.10 2024-11-07 https://hydra.nixos.org/build/277629888
⧖ (Queued) nixVersions.stable.x86_64-darwin nix-2.24.10 https://hydra.nixos.org/build/277948312
⧖ (Queued) nixVersions.stable.x86_64-linux nix-2.24.10 2024-11-07 https://hydra.nixos.org/build/277560645
- Rewritten in Rust
- Always prints long outputs with all recent builds unless
--short
is explicitly specified --arch
defaults to the target architecture (instead ofx86_64-linux
all the time)--jobset
explicitly conflicts with--channel
to avoid confusion, as channels are just aliases for jobsets- The
staging
channel / alias is removed asnixos/staging
is no longer active; instead we addstaging-next
as an alias fornixpkgs/staging-next
- The default
unstable
channel points tonixpkgs/trunk
on non-NixOS systems
- Print recent evaluations of the jobset if no package is specified
- Add an
--eval
flag for information about a specific evaluation - Infer the current stable Nixpkgs release (e.g.
24.05
) with a hack - Support standard channel names (e.g.
nixos-unstable
) - Generate shell completions with
--shell-completion SHELL
- Print nicely formatted, colored and aligned tables