Last good Nixpkgs for Weston+nouveau? archive

I came this commit hash to terwiz[m] on IRC, who is trying to figure out
what the last version of Spectrum that worked on their NUC with Nvidia
graphics is.

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+<section xmlns="http://docbook.org/ns/docbook" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink" xml:id="sec-running-nixos-tests">
+  <title>Running Tests</title>
+  <para>
+    You can run tests using <literal>nix-build</literal>. For example,
+    to run the test
+    <link xlink:href="https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/blob/master/nixos/tests/login.nix"><literal>login.nix</literal></link>,
+    you just do:
+  </para>
+  <programlisting>
+$ nix-build '&lt;nixpkgs/nixos/tests/login.nix&gt;'
+</programlisting>
+  <para>
+    or, if you don’t want to rely on <literal>NIX_PATH</literal>:
+  </para>
+  <programlisting>
+$ cd /my/nixpkgs/nixos/tests
+$ nix-build login.nix
+…
+running the VM test script
+machine: QEMU running (pid 8841)
+…
+6 out of 6 tests succeeded
+</programlisting>
+  <para>
+    After building/downloading all required dependencies, this will
+    perform a build that starts a QEMU/KVM virtual machine containing a
+    NixOS system. The virtual machine mounts the Nix store of the host;
+    this makes VM creation very fast, as no disk image needs to be
+    created. Afterwards, you can view a log of the test:
+  </para>
+  <programlisting>
+$ nix-store --read-log result
+</programlisting>
+</section>