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…the PR tracker is dead... But the last nixos-unstable bump was two days ago, so it’s there.) [1] https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/commit/4e15c4a8ad30c02d6c26...

comment by mananaysiempre · 2024-07-17 · in NVIDIA Transitions Fully Towards Open-Source Linux GPU Kernel Modules

…nixos provides are based on the files in this repo https://github.com/aaronp24/nvidia-versions See: https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/blob/9355fa86e6f27422963132... You could also opt to use the latest driver instead of stable:…

comment by SushiHippie · 2024-07-17 · in NVIDIA Transitions Fully Towards Open-Source Linux GPU Kernel Modules

Am I missing something? NixOS has had it since April https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/commits/nixos-unstable/pkgs...

comment by anotherhue · 2024-07-10 · in Zed on Linux Is Here

…builds. For example most distros ship a PGO optimized build of Python while nixos does not. [0] https://github.com/nixos/nixpkgs [1] https://cache.nixos.org/

comment by SushiHippie · 2024-06-28 · in Meta LLM Compiler: neural optimizer and disassembler

…done a lot of the work. [2] [1] https://elephly.net/posts/2017-01-09-bootstrapping-haskell-p... [2] https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/pull/227914

comment by rssoconnor · 2024-06-21 · in The Pre-Scheme Restoration

…for Nix/NixOS. The package set is continuously built by a CI system and made publicly available: https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs#continuous-integration-and-...

comment by c0balt · 2024-06-16 · in I've compared nearly all Rust crates.io crates to contents of their Git repos

I love nix on macOS. But one word of caution: nix uses a very outdated, EOL’d, macOS SDK ( https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/issues/101229 ).

comment by madmax96 · 2024-06-14 · in Brew-Nix: a flake automatically packaging all homebrew casks

…fast and supports rendering EPUBs too. EDIT: there's also this https://sioyek.info/ found thanks to https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/blob/9d13dbb1ef2d0a6a6788d5...

comment by SSLy · 2024-06-08 · in LaTeX is the first PDF/UA-2 compliance accessible PDF producer

…benefit from some rearchitecture. [1] Which happened yesterday with an ethernet card configuration: https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/blob/nixos-24.05/nixos/modu...

comment by tombert · 2024-06-03 · in Show HN: Brioche – A new Nix-like package manager

…run podman as root (1) [0]. What is very scary and defeat the purpose of rootless containers. - [0] https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/issues/259770

comment by sunshine-o · 2024-05-28 · in Linux virtual machines, with a focus on running containers

…search "bevy" on the Nixpkgs GitHub repo and see what comes up. I found a derivation that does: https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/blob/master/pkgs/games/jump... 3. If you use flakes, you should keep the flake "schema" handy. There are a lot…

comment by jchw · 2024-05-21 · in Enlightenmentware

…SSH key to Zimbabwe's government's website (don't run this!): let pkgs = import (fetchTarball "https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/archive/0ef56bec7281e2372338f2dfe7c13327ce96f6bb.tar.gz") {}; in builtins.fetchurl…

comment by CyberShadow · 2024-05-16 · in Ilya Sutskever to leave OpenAI

…nix-shell -p tracexec This will drop you into a shell where `tracexec` is installed. [1]: https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/pull/310158

comment by nh2 · 2024-05-08 · in Show HN: Tracexec – TUI for tracing execve and pre-exec behavior

…situation has been addressed. But the memory of my experience remains, and then I see things like https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/pull/126326 which make it look like that same rejection of the larger ecosystem dynamic is still alive and…

comment by mindslight · 2024-05-06 · in Monitoring energy usage with smart plugs, Prometheus and Grafana

…about the bazillion git branches and GitHub PRs. I started this GitHub issue about 4 years ago: https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/issues/93327 The more time goes by, the more convinced I am that all of the problems I have with Nix stem from…

comment by thomastjeffery · 2024-05-06 · in Lix is a modern, delicious implementation of the Nix package manager

…down that Docker path in the first place. Here's the same dynamic on an associated project in 2021: https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/pull/126326 If anyone chimes in and says they've been running Home Assistant from nixpkgs (where I am now)…

comment by mindslight · 2024-05-05 · in Monitoring energy usage with smart plugs, Prometheus and Grafana

…it certainly looks like something is going on as more than 20 Nixpkg maintainers left in a week: https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/issues?q=label%3A%228.has%3... It's fine to ask if someone can explain what is going on, it's a waste of…

comment by depr · 2024-04-29 · in Nix: The Breaking Point

…For 1gbit: Ubiquiti Edgerouter ER-4 and ER-6; both have SFP cages for fiber optic transcievers https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/pull/194153 https://store.ui.com/us/en/products/er-4

comment by karma_pharmer · 2024-04-25 · in Sysadmin friendly high speed Ethernet switching

https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/commits?author=neon-sunset

comment by colinsane · 2024-04-25 · in Air Force picks Anduril, General Atomics to develop unmanned fighter jets

I see two signers in the top 6 displayed on https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/graphs/contributors

comment by progval · 2024-04-23 · in Open letter to the NixOS foundation

…asked the PR author if they can make the maintainer name the same as their GitHub username. https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/pull/120729#discussion_r621... And this exploded. Way out of proportion. Some were pouncing on the member who made…

comment by soraminazuki · 2024-04-22 · in Open letter to the NixOS foundation

For a single file script, you can avoid managing environments by using a nix shebang: https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/blob/master/doc/languages-f...

comment by e44858 · 2024-04-19 · in 3rd Edition of Programming: Principles and Practice Using C++ by Stroustrup

…In fact it works just fine if they aren't. There are packages in nixpkgs that aren't reproducible: https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/issues?q=is%3Aopen+is%3Aiss...

comment by oessessnex · 2024-04-07 · in NixOS Is Not Reproducible

…vulnerable to a poisoned release tarball. Checkout the comment on the current xz entry in nixpkgs https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/blob/master/pkgs/tools/comp...

comment by threePointFive · 2024-04-02 · in The xz attack shell script

…(as they never used the release tarball directly from upstream but built from GitHub sources). See: https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/issues/300055 and: https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/pull/300028 It's also worth noting that Guix is…

comment by pxc · 2024-04-02 · in From xz to ibus: more questionable tarballs

…the specified revision[1]. Arch seems to just download the tarball from the releases page[2]. [1]: https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/blob/3c2fdd0a4e6396fc310a6e... [2]: https://gitlab.archlinux.org/archlinux/packaging/packages/ib...

comment by 1una · 2024-04-02 · in From xz to ibus: more questionable tarballs

…often requires changes synchronized across many packages, so it really makes things simpler. https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs I think it's important to add that they both have the biggest number of packaged software and the most up-to-date…

comment by paulgdp · 2024-04-02 · in Debian Git Monorepo

Here is the discussion https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/issues/300055

comment by kreetx · 2024-04-01 · in Backdoor in upstream xz/liblzma leading to SSH server compromise

…do depend on xz, which, if built, requires pulling the source from GitHub (see the default.nix: https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/blob/nixos-unstable/pkgs/to... ) It's not the vulnerability that's a problem right now (NixOS was protected by…

comment by 1attice · 2024-03-30 · in GitHub Disabled the Xz Repo

…does not show a direct dependency. 0: https://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2024/03/29/4 1: https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/tree/master/pkgs/tools/netw...

comment by anotherhue · 2024-03-30 · in GitHub Disabled the Xz Repo

…right? I'm currently trying to package for nixpkgs[0] and am using Firefox for the checkPhase. [0]: https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/pull/283878

comment by n8henrie · 2024-03-25 · in Monolith – CLI tool for saving complete web pages as a single HTML file

I think whateveracct was referring to is this link: https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/blob/master/pkgs/developmen... What that file is doing, is building a package, and it essentially is a combination of what Makefile and what RPM spec file…

comment by takeda · 2024-03-16 · in Nix is a better Docker image builder than Docker's image builder

…that fail to reproduce for much more trivial reasons. There aren't many of them, but they exist: https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/issues?q=is%3Aopen+is%3Aiss...

comment by orbital-decay · 2024-03-16 · in Nix is a better Docker image builder than Docker's image builder

…you will need to use override and disable all that unnecessary shit. Look at zulu for example: https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/blob/master/pkgs/developmen... you add alsa, fontconfig (probably comes with entire X11), freetype, xorg (oh,…

comment by takeda · 2024-03-16 · in Nix is a better Docker image builder than Docker's image builder

Systemd service PR posted to nixpkgs https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/pull/292873

comment by ghthor · 2024-03-02 · in Ask HN: What AI assistants are already bundled for Linux?

…tabbyml release which supports rocm in addition to cuda [1] https://github.com/TabbyML/tabby [2] https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/pull/291744

comment by ghthor · 2024-03-02 · in Ask HN: What AI assistants are already bundled for Linux?

…adding a new package, some of which have been just sitting there without review comments for years. https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/pulls?q=is%3Apr+label%3A%22... At least they're meticulously labeled so it's easy to find them.

comment by yorwba · 2024-02-24 · in Contributing Scrutiny to Nixpkgs

…at least Python 2.6, and I think I remember seeing it before then: $ LC_ALL=C NIX_PATH=nixpkgs=https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/archive/release-13.10.tar.gz nix-shell -p python26 --run 'python -c "from __future__ import braces"' File…

comment by endgame · 2024-02-16 · in Uv: Python packaging in Rust

…more difficult. Related threads: https://www.mail-archive.com/tramp-devel@gnu.org/msg05953.ht... https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/issues/220187

comment by ParetoOptimal · 2024-01-31 · in I just wanted Emacs to look nice – Using 24-bit color in terminals

I recently ported this to Nix if anyone is itching to try it. https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/pull/237151

comment by anotherhue · 2024-01-18 · in DJGPP

export LC_ALL=C nix-shell -I nixpkgs=https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/archive/2322899a1fa85f6547004b2829af81e7b444f506.tar.gz -p openssh ssh -V OpenSSH_6.1p1, OpenSSL 1.0.0i 19 Apr 2012 Note that the first stable release of nixpkgs was in…

comment by john-shaffer · 2024-01-15 · in Timeline to remove DSA support in OpenSSH

…just grab that one package out of nixpkgs-unstable or nixos-unstable, like: (import (fetchTarball "https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/archive/nixpkgs-unstable.tar.gz") {}).go_1_21 where you had `pkgs.go` before (in your shell.nix or…

comment by dnr · 2024-01-15 · in Going declarative on macOS with Nix and Nix-Darwin

…commit message (from one of my commits) details some of the struggles supporting Ruby under Nix: https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/commit/b6c06e216bb3bface40e... Each of those problems is due to either: 1. Some unmotivated contrivance in…

comment by cstrahan · 2024-01-15 · in NixOS: Declarative Builds and Deployments

It's definitely misleading because nixpkgs takes it to an extreme: https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/tree/master/doc/languages-f... Most Haskell packages are not included in the AUR and haskellPackages alone makes up over 17,000 packages on…

comment by throwup238 · 2024-01-10 · in Flakes aren't real and cannot hurt you: using Nix flakes the non-flake way

…tread from the happy path but it seems most of my work requires tools way off the happy path. [1] https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/issues/56814

comment by throwup238 · 2024-01-09 · in Flakes aren't real and cannot hurt you: using Nix flakes the non-flake way

This is already done in nixos for daemons: https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/blob/65a62c9f75dc97714f836c... and that's on top of the usual stuff systemd exposes. Then you get firejail for more custom apps. You still need that layer and…

comment by viraptor · 2023-12-25 · in Fedora 40 Plans To Unify /usr/bin and /usr/sbin

Bootstrapping GCC is not hard at all: https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/blob/master/pkgs/developmen... (there are a ton of infrequently-used options in there; if you ignore them what's left is quite simple. replace all the options with…

comment by crotchfire · 2023-12-19 · in Progress toward a GCC-based Rust compiler

…the time some distributions like NixOS just patched the EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL out of the Linux kernel ( https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/pull/61076/commits/7b77c27c... ) which could even be totally legal for redistribution as the GPL probably…

comment by nisa · 2023-12-18 · in ZFS Profiling on Arch Linux

…to whatever version the channel provides. For many dev workflows, that's not enough control. See https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/issues/93327 (which grew from https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/issues/9682 )

comment by ForkMeOnTinder · 2023-12-17 · in Dev onboarding, then and now

…explicitly set ClassicBondedOnly=false need to change it, that could've been a lot clearer. [1] https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/blob/3dda6d5ed56af34534dd4c... [2] https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-4311-1

comment by l0b0 · 2023-12-16 · in Bluetooth keystroke-injection in Android, Linux, macOS and iOS