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…it in. Looks like it should be another great release though, good to see Nix defaulting to 2.0. 1: https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/pull/9250

comment by johnramsden · 2018-04-06 · in NixOS 18.03 “Impala” Released

…nixpkgs not too long ago gained support for programmatically declaring binfmt_misc configuration: https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/commit/c64639b54caa6595f9ef...

comment by EtDybNuvCu · 2018-03-05 · in Nerd Sniped by BINFMT_MISC

…overlay repo that insulates me from the upstream nixpkgs workflow. This was discussed a bit over at https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/issues/27312 but perhaps didn't get enough visibility because I also stubbornly prefer to work on Github…

comment by lukego · 2018-02-23 · in Nix 2.0 Released

…files (e.g. by filename extension) from being visible in builds. This might suit your use case too. https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/blob/master/lib/sources.nix

comment by lukego · 2018-02-23 · in Nix 2.0 Released

Yes, fetchurl will try it: https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/blob/733151b7825ee8840f7437... Edit: It was apparently added in 2007: https://nixos.org/releases/nixpkgs/nixpkgs-0.11/release-note...

comment by ymse · 2018-02-23 · in Nix 2.0 Released

…is tagged[1] but nixpkgs isn't updated yet[2] [1] https://github.com/NixOS/nix/releases/tag/2.0 [2] https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/blob/472dd33ea4905d562d9380...

comment by clhodapp · 2018-02-23 · in Nix 2.0 Released

The easiest way is probably to do following: git clone https://github.com/nixos/nixpkgs cd nixpkgs git checkout origin/nix-2.0 nix-env -i $(nix-build --no-out-link . -A nix)

comment by manveru · 2018-02-23 · in Nix 2.0 Released

Your second point is exactly what happened to me here: https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/issues/9682 Sure, pinning is great, and the ability to ignore versions seems to be a great design goal. Unfortunately, that design goal is shoved down…

comment by thomastjeffery · 2018-02-23 · in Nix 2.0 Released

I don't know about homebrew, but Nix does (not binaries, though). https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs

comment by thomastjeffery · 2017-12-11 · in Homebrew 1.4.0

…for some tasks while with Guile you can perform those operations with Scheme. Nix's Firefox: https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/blob/master/pkgs/applicatio... Guix IceCat: https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/guix.git/tree/gnu/packages...

comment by anon90556382956 · 2017-12-08 · in GNU Guix and GuixSD 0.14.0 released

…for example. Updating a package is a simple as bumping two lines and sending a pull request here: https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs For reference, I’m the (co)maintainer of over 80 packages in Nixpkgs. IIRC, I submitted my first PR within…

comment by cstrahan · 2017-11-23 · in Why we never thank open source maintainers

…images using Nix instead of `docker` (where they can't avoid Docker entirely for whatever reason): https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/blob/2a036ca1a5eafdaed11be1... You can read more about the Docker image building support here (along with…

comment by cstrahan · 2017-10-17 · in What is Nix and why you should try it

…fair bit of interest on the mailing list https://goo.gl/kvNwC1 and raised some money for it as well https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/pull/9250#issuecomment-3208... . I'm pretty sure I read somewhere that it's planned to go in the next…

comment by johnramsden · 2017-10-16 · in What is Nix and why you should try it

It's coming: https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/pull/9250

comment by johnramsden · 2017-10-16 · in What is Nix and why you should try it

…excited for where NixOS is going in the future, especially when declarative user environments https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/pull/9250 (user configuration) with NixUP becomes a thing. I will definitely be coming back to it in the future.

comment by johnramsden · 2017-10-16 · in What is Nix and why you should try it

Here are some links that might help you to get OpenGL work with nix programs on non-NixOS machines: * https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/issues/9415#issuecomment-30... * https://github.com/guibou/nixGL *…

comment by nh2 · 2017-10-15 · in What is Nix and why you should try it

FWIW, I packaged Envoy for NixOS in an evening: https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/blob/dab3272f47f13c2a7442e3... That nets you $ nix-build -A envoy ... and then you're done. Of course, we have a CI server that builds our packages regularly,…

comment by cstrahan · 2017-09-28 · in Envoy: Modern Proxy server with HTTP 1.1 and 2, GRPC supported reverse proxy

There are some guys working on a new k8s module for NixOS. https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/pull/25426

comment by webster23 · 2017-09-18 · in Why we started CoreOS

…to change[0]. I don't know about couch but it has 2.0 and the change to 2.1 shouldn't be big. [0] https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/commit/c699694cbf4400480fe4...

comment by DiThi · 2017-09-14 · in Why I Fell in Love with Arch Linux (2015)

…Nix promises (and in fact there is at least one open issue to add full deterministic builds to Nix https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/issues/9731 )

comment by xorbyte · 2017-08-14 · in “Packages should be reproducible” added to Debian Policy

…dbname=postgres"; }; }; } BTW the postage devs were very helpful in fixing packaging issues. [1] https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/pull/27796

comment by vdijkbas · 2017-07-31 · in Postage – A fast replacement for pgAdmin

…it's one of the worst thing I've ever had to deploy. [0]: Well, it's not pulled there, but it's at https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/pull/27159 if you're interested.

comment by roblabla · 2017-07-07 · in What’s Next for Gitlab CI: Auto DevOps

…wants the death of privileged ports. When I proposed this for NixOS I wasn't exactly well received: https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/issues/11908#issuecomment-2...

comment by rnhmjoj · 2017-07-06 · in Privileged Ports Are Expensive (2016)

…frankly awful to write in any other language that I know of... like this, to take a random example: https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/blob/master/pkgs/applicatio...

comment by mbrock · 2017-04-23 · in [ -z $var ] works unreasonably well

Packages: https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/tree/release-17.03 * Nix packages can be extended via overlays https://nixos.org/nixpkgs/manual/#sec-overlays-install * GCC = 5.4.0, systemd = 232. Linux kernel = 4.9 * Packages in nixpkgs can be…

comment by rdtsc · 2017-04-01 · in New NixOS 17.03 Release

…not correspond to actual keys, b) nixpkgs doesn't actually contain any of these identifiers anymore https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/issues/14897

comment by chriswarbo · 2017-03-20 · in Three Months of Go, from a Haskeller’s perspective (2016)

…https://github.com/LnL7/nix-darwin You can find the implementation of the nginx service here: https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/blob/master/nixos/modules/s...

comment by rnhmjoj · 2017-02-14 · in Hosting Multiple HTTPS Domains from the Same Server with Let's Encrypt and Nginx

NixOS developers thought a recent change to the nvidia drivers caused the issue: https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/pull/22304#issuecomment-279...

comment by grhmc · 2017-02-12 · in Fix the GitHub Dark Menubar

…could easily be modified to point to an different address on the web to stay more up-to-date. [1] https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/blob/711a42e03aa44439142bb8...

comment by jonafato · 2017-02-09 · in Introducing Keybase Chat

…have a bit of time to describe your bugs, I'd really appreciate it if you filed a bug on the issue tracker (github.com/nixos/nixpkgs.)

comment by grhmc · 2017-01-03 · in Finding an Alternative to Mac OS X

…https://nixos.org/nixpkgs/manual/#chap-language-support ) on such a wide variety of platforms (e.g. https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/tree/master/pkgs/os-specifi... ).

comment by chriswarbo · 2016-11-17 · in Portable systemd services

This, for example: https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/issues/18778 I support the idea of declarative configuration and dependencies, but I also realize that this is a very very hard thing to do, when each language have its own preferred…

comment by atemerev · 2016-11-11 · in Running Docker in production for 6 months

Related: enabling debug symbols for all packages by default (in a separated output): https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/issues/18530

comment by secure · 2016-10-03 · in NixOS 16.09 released

…optimize your code aggressively enough although you gave it -Ofast, check out this issue [0]. [0] https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/issues/18995 Yeah. The devs believed it was okay to make gcc -O2 by default and impossible to override from…

comment by jxy · 2016-10-03 · in NixOS 16.09 released

…describing the build/install process, so they can be version controlled (e.g. there's a big repo at https://github.com/nixos/nixpkgs ). Dependencies, build environments, etc. are fully specified by the package and isolated from each other,…

comment by chriswarbo · 2016-09-14 · in Show HN: Cross-platform dependency manager using bash and cmake

…we've recently merged a branch for hardened compiler flags. This is mainly for server security. https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/pull/12895

comment by iElectric2 · 2016-08-23 · in Reflections on NixOS

Good news! Hardened NixOS isn't far: https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/pull/12895 :). I've been watching/waiting for that for a while myself, and the progress on that ticket has been encouraging enough that I've started building out NixOS…

comment by frio · 2016-08-09 · in Purely Functional Linux with NixOS [video]

…sort on deps is) 1. library of mainly FP prelude functions and few fix-point combinators, https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/tree/master/lib 2. Nixpkgs itself https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/tree/master/pkgs 3. NixOS module system: maybe…

comment by Ericson2314 · 2016-06-26 · in Infrastructure Software is Dead

Is NixOs ready for prime time? I came away a bit dismayed after playing with it a while last weekend. https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/issues/16321

comment by AlexCoventry · 2016-06-24 · in Containers vs. Config Management

There's many variations of this issue open. See https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/issues/3382 for an example. Most are still not closed and have been open for long enough that it doesn't seem hopeful that they'll be fixed soon.

comment by curun1r · 2016-05-31 · in My Experience with Nix on OS X

You can browse available Nix packages here: https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/tree/master/pkgs ...and search here if you're looking for something in particular: https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/blob/master/pkgs/top-level/...

comment by zachrose · 2016-05-25 · in Nix as OS X Package Manager

…love to try to switch to Nix again sometimes. People in ##nix-darwin are super-nice, also! :-) [1]: https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/pull/15029 [2]: https://nixos.org/nixpkgs/manual/#users-guide-to-the-haskell...

comment by sirn · 2016-05-25 · in Nix as OS X Package Manager

…reason to ditch the antiquated Homebrew, and switch to the cross platform Nix: http://nixos.org/nix https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs https://blog.errright.com/switching-from-homebrew-to-nix/

comment by cstrahan · 2016-04-25 · in Homebrew now sends usage information to Google Analytics

…to be built with the new version. So that would mostly solve the problem you're talking about. https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/blob/master/pkgs/top-level/... (Sorry for being light on details; typing from phone)

comment by cstrahan · 2016-04-18 · in GoBGP: BGP Implemented in Go

Once https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/pull/14711 is merged, the images might also be binary deterministic (depending on what packages you use).

comment by iElectric2 · 2016-04-15 · in Cheap Docker images with Nix

…in a functional language (think build recipes). there is a central repository of recipes on github: https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/tree/master/pkgs but you can make your own, and eventually make a pull request. They are more similar to…

comment by gosub · 2016-04-04 · in Apricity OS: A Beautiful Arch Linux Distro

…We're not perfect either, but we generally do a much better job at keeping our shit up to date: https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/blob/master/pkgs/misc/scree... If there's something you need that's outdated, a fix is as trivial as opening…

comment by cstrahan · 2016-04-02 · in “This version of XScreenSaver is very old. Please upgrade”

Well, with enough manual tweaking it ought to be. You may also be interested in https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/pull/7701 which cuts down in unintentional dependencies.

comment by Ericson2314 · 2016-04-02 · in NixOS 16.03 Released

I can't provide you a full solution, but here are the hints: - gcc5 definition: https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/blob/master/pkgs/top-level/... - Old cc wrapper with a custom libc option https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/blob/master/pkgs/top…

comment by nuopnu · 2016-04-02 · in NixOS 16.03 Released

This looks relevant: https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/pull/10851

comment by tvon · 2016-04-02 · in NixOS 16.03 Released