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  1. People conserved with the configuration concerns notes in the article should check out https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs
    comment by rudolph9 · 2020-02-26 · in The Slippery Slope of Docker Dev Environments
  2. I see, was not aware of it, although perhaps it might be possible to do it now: https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/pull/67232
    comment by takeda · 2020-02-11 · in I Was Wrong about Nix
  3. …) interesting. However, it might not be the best experience at the moment for the Raspberry Pi 4 ( https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/issues/63720 ).
    comment by choward · 2020-02-05 · in End-of-Life Announcement for CoreOS Container Linux
  4. There is a hack to patch only essential component of a system without rebuilding all dependent pkgs : https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/blob/master/pkgs/build-supp... .
    comment by xfer · 2020-02-02 · in Revisiting how we put together Linux systems (2014)
  5. …script (written in bash) was accidentally quadratic because of quadratic append-to-strings ( https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/issues/27609); and that was despite NixOS having many competent bash programmers. When scripts grow, these things…
    comment by nh2 · 2020-02-02 · in Writing Safe Shell Scripts (2019)
  6. …ESR starting with NixOS 20.03: https://discourse.nixos.org/t/firefox-on-19-09-could-be-mark... https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/pull/72126
    comment by danieldk · 2020-01-12 · in OpenBSD won't update Firefox, advises users to switch to ESR
  7. …ad-hoc packages for multiple versions, and it's ultimately what has been done for Firefox. [1]: https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/pull/72126
    comment by rnhmjoj · 2020-01-11 · in OpenBSD won't update Firefox, advises users to switch to ESR
  8. Here's a concrete example: https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/blob/master/pkgs/applicatio... Maybe the three most noteworthy things are: 1. it's not hard to write your own nix expression 2. you get a reproducible build 3. there are very…
    comment by patrec · 2019-11-27 · in Homebrew 2.2
  9. I think its a coincidence. Check nodejs commit history: https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/commits/f3282c8d1e0ce6ba5d9... there are minor versions also
    comment by huevo5050 · 2019-11-12 · in My Python Development Environment, 2020 Edition
  10. …it. Amazing tool. Occasionally I still run into weird non-deterministic issues with builds, though: https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/issues/71178 You'd think "pinning" a python version + channel would avoid this.
    comment by silviogutierrez · 2019-11-12 · in My Python Development Environment, 2020 Edition
  11. …wireless networking via wpa_supplicant, as well as the actual package build of wpa_supplicant: https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/blob/nixos-19.09/nixos/modu... https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/blob/nixos-19.09/pkgs/os-sp... Because they're…
    comment by evil-olive · 2019-10-21 · in Attempting to Use GNU Guix
  12. …true for a long time, but we do actually have a bootstrapped openjdk for arm since a few months: https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/pull/65247
    comment by timokau · 2019-10-20 · in Bazel 1.0
  13. …Does anyone know offhand which nixos component we should file a bug against? Is it https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs ?
    comment by sn · 2019-10-10 · in NixOS 19.09
  14. …which is still gcc7). EDIT: nix just updated to gcc 9.2.0. I was using a slightly outdated release: https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/pull/66836
    comment by singron · 2019-08-28 · in GCC null pointer check removed
  15. …aren't reproducible (the binaries might differ) - but NixOS is ~98% reproducible already[2]! [1]: https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/ [2]: https://r13y.com
    comment by tazjin · 2019-08-17 · in Nixery: Transparently build and serve containers using Nix
  16. …build complex projects in Nix and maintain them. (edit) An example of binary packages in Nixpkgs: https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/blob/master/pkgs/developmen...
    comment by swdunlop · 2019-08-13 · in Why GNU/Linux Viruses Are Fairly Uncommon
  17. …me to switch, in fact. [0] https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/522822/different-me... [1] https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/issues/36759 [2] https://aur.archlinux.org/cgit/aur.git/tree/PKGBUILD?h=autor... [3]…
    comment by mkingston · 2019-08-12 · in Ask HN: Configuration Management for Personal Computer?
  18. …give NixOS a go some time. For any other WSL users here, it's worth keeping an eye on this issue: https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/issues/30391 (NixOS being packaged up as a WSL distro).
    comment by crispinb · 2019-08-12 · in Ask HN: Configuration Management for Personal Computer?
  19. …of nixpgs. Like this: let nixpkgs = builtins.fetchTarball { name = "nixpkgs-upstream"; url = https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/archive/a835adc10cb813d214a9069361d94a2a3f8eb3a5.tar.gz; sha256 = "0h4lacvqmk356ihc7gnb44dni6m5qza23vlgl6w6jdhr9pj…
    comment by cwp · 2019-07-21 · in Flakes – Proposed mechanism to package Nix expressions into composable entities
  20. I believe some operating systems have patches to get around this problem? See https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/pull/61076 for example.
    comment by spindle · 2019-06-15 · in ZFS on Linux 0.8.1 Released
  21. …into the same determinism issues. Here's the latest update to the hack, moving from MD5 to SHA1: https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/commit/ed8f3b5fa3cebfc3662a...
    comment by Scaevolus · 2019-06-07 · in Abusing SHA-1 collisions for Chromium updates
  22. …that aren't in the image itself, since they are assumed to exist on the host system. See https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/pull/51060 for an example.
    comment by Pneumaticat · 2019-05-22 · in Linux apps that run anywhere
  23. Yes, they do have an agenda, because how else you explain patches like this: https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/blob/1137200d6b7fcf8fc401b5... Note that they didn't fork the project under some different name, they shipped it like this under…
    comment by h91wka · 2019-05-18 · in The struggles of an open source maintainer
  24. …added the per-package ‘maintainers’ field in Nixpkgs [0] and removed it in Guix [1]. :-) [0] https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/commit/7b7ed8f1af447f7d2ddb... [1] https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/guix.git/commit/?id=154f1f... In Guix we…
    comment by civodul · 2019-05-03 · in GNU Guix 1.0
  25. …is often more up-to-date than Arch Linux even, due to the high number of Nix developers. [1] https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs
    comment by nextos · 2019-05-03 · in GNU Guix 1.0
  26. …GitHub might be more reliable and better fit to server a huge amount of users than savannah... [0]: https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs [1]: https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/guix.git/
    comment by vbrandl · 2019-05-02 · in GNU Guix 1.0
  27. …some network configuration[2]. [1]: https://nixos.org/nixos/manual/index.html#sec-nixos-tests [2]: https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/blob/master/nixos/tests/nat...
    comment by rnhmjoj · 2019-04-24 · in QEMU v4.0.0 released
  28. I'm working on Nixpkgs support for WASI cross compilation here: https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/pull/56555
    comment by matthewbauer · 2019-04-23 · in Show HN: WAPM – Package Manager for WebAssembly
  29. …For example, as matthewbauer commented below, Nix can support WebAssembly as a compilation target: https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/pull/56555
    comment by catern · 2019-04-23 · in Show HN: WAPM – Package Manager for WebAssembly
  30. …functionalities of those examples are packaged separately, I checked just to be sure: wireguard: https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/blob/master/pkgs/tools/netw... virtualbox: https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/blob/master/pkgs/applicatio...…
    comment by danharaj · 2019-03-13 · in A rant about NixOS
  31. …later download the built binary from the NixOS cache so you don't have to build it yourself. [1]: https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/blob/fce8f26af6ef8209c7d282...
    comment by Shoue · 2019-03-10 · in Winding down my Debian involvement
  32. Nix / NixOS[1], and Gentoo[2] also use monorepos with some provision for overlays. 1: https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs 2: https://github.com/gentoo/gentoo
    comment by samdoshi · 2019-03-10 · in Winding down my Debian involvement
  33. …some commentary on the nix team hoping to adopt some of the work being done by debian et al here: https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/issues/9731
    comment by vishvananda · 2019-03-05 · in Debian Buster will only be 54% reproducible, while we could be at 90%
  34. …library magically compatible with each other. Feel free to close issues like this one if I'm wrong: https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/issues/30551
    comment by exogen · 2019-02-19 · in Why I Write CSS in JavaScript
  35. …already contain reusable functions which do this, e.g. 'fetchPypi', 'buildPythonPackage', etc. https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/blob/master/doc/languages-f... > But most system package managers are platform specific, which is not really…
    comment by chriswarbo · 2019-02-13 · in The State of Python Packaging
  36. …distribution (OpenJDK), due to an erroneous merge that Git applied without warning or conflict : https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/commit/5d0ef3fd900769e82175... To repeat the issue: I basically broke a build on our Linux distribution when…
    comment by aseipp · 2019-02-05 · in Pijul for Git users
  37. One of the largest open source repositories ever: https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs
    comment by pmeunier · 2019-02-05 · in Pijul for Git users
  38. You might be interested in this PR: "[nixpkgs] elementary: init a 5.0 Juno" https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/pull/48637 I'm actively trying to build some cool things with Nix/NixOS and then write up a series of blog posts. Several recent…
    comment by colemickens · 2018-11-17 · in Elementary OS – Fast, open, privacy-respecting replacement for Windows and macOS
  39. …the ISO that you link to (nixos-graphical-18.09.776. 6a3f5bcb061 -x86_64-linux) and get this URL: https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/commits/6a3f5bcb061 And the ISO URL from NixOS.org ([...]/nixos-graphical-18.09.1023. 06fb0253afa…
    comment by colemickens · 2018-11-03 · in NixOS – Purely Functional Linux Distribution
  40. …interesting about the security update process for NixOS, is that it's an open collaborative effort: https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/issues/23334 More eyeballs are definitely needed for handling security issues, especially since LWN…
    comment by joepie91_ · 2018-11-02 · in NixOS – Purely Functional Linux Distribution
  41. …get a security update in a shared-library out to multiple slow-to-build packages quickly. 1: https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/blob/master/pkgs/build-supp... The existing way is to use replaceDependency(), which takes an input as an already…
    comment by aidenn0 · 2018-11-02 · in NixOS – Purely Functional Linux Distribution
  42. …The whole BitTorrent test is a 116-line Nix expression that's eminently pleasant to read: https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/blob/49a6964a4250d98644da61...
    comment by mbrock · 2018-11-02 · in NixOS – Purely Functional Linux Distribution
  43. …commit that has all your desired versions and pin it that way. with import (builtins.fetchTarball https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/archive/9a5f7b1630c138a82cb... ) {}; This way, all your versions of packages will be pinned to this specific…
    comment by kiloreux · 2018-10-06 · in NixOS 18.09 Jellyfish Released
  44. …It's fairly bespoke and tuned to our own needs. The source code for the Perl driver is here: https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/blob/f148c5c4a1ffa353836bfd... It can even do multi-machine test setups as another comment pointed out, and it's…
    comment by aseipp · 2018-08-18 · in An EPYC NixOS Build Farm
  45. …heard of it before. It seams pretty useful. The link to plasma tests is provided in the article. https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/blob/49a6964a4250d98644da61...
    comment by O_H_E · 2018-08-18 · in An EPYC NixOS Build Farm
  46. …now that Julia is getting ready for prime time and Nix is steadily gaining more and more users: https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/issues/20649
    comment by bagsvaerd70 · 2018-08-09 · in Julia 1.0
  47. I packaged it up for Nix, though it might need an update. https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/pull/33853
    comment by tomberek · 2018-05-31 · in Teleport 2.6 Released
  48. …the binaries that the Apache project has already built and run patchelf on them to make them work. https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/blob/master/pkgs/applicatio...
    comment by davexunit · 2018-05-16 · in The sad state of sysadmin in the age of containers (2015)
  49. …yet. (And maybe for things we can't build from source, as much as I try to stay away from those.) https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/pull/33371
    comment by pxc · 2018-04-07 · in NixOS 18.03 Released
  50. …there are official binaries at https://nixos.org/nixos/download.html , which I believe are built by https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/blob/master/nixos/maintaine... . You can then either replace the images as needed, or redeploy in place.…
    comment by Nullabillity · 2018-04-06 · in NixOS 18.03 Released