Nixpkgs unstable got a working build today and when I went to update I got a lot of major updates, but found an incompatibility between the Linux kernel at 5.3 and VirtualBox at 6.0.10.
I tracked down this bug in VirtualBox https://www.virtualbox.org/ticket/18783 which patches the compile error I was seeing during my update. Fortunately I was able to just point directly at 5.2 kernel and resolve my issue. I was wondering what the practice is here, nixpkgs was the first place I looked when I ran into the issue.
Would opening a nixpkgs bug be the right thing here to track that issue and be a search target for anyone who might run into the same thing?
Thanks @peterhoeg that’s a great point about adding the patch. I gave it a try this morning but it’s not applying cleanly so I suspect I might have to alter the patch to make it apply. I’ll give it another shot later.