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comment by soraminazuki · 2020-11-24 · in GNU Guix 1.2.0

You can also do this in nix. https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/blob/master/pkgs/build-supp...

comment by georgyo · 2020-11-24 · in GNU Guix 1.2.0

For Nix users, here it is packaged[0] [0] https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/pull/104276/files

comment by siraben · 2020-11-19 · in Archive of Lisp Machine, Inc

…since needed to use Homebrew except for casks. [0] "Support for Apple Silicon (aarch64-darwin)" https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/issues/95903

comment by siraben · 2020-11-18 · in Run x86 Apps (including homebrew) in the Terminal on Apple Silicon

Ah, OK, you mean stuff like this, right? https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/pull/85103 I haven't often run into wrapper issues, but when you do it's a pain. So thanks for the pointer, I should probably look at how guix does it.

comment by patrec · 2020-11-13 · in One Week of NixOS

…specific packages before they broke) I'd rather prefer a working and reproducible system. [1]: https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/issues/53834 [2]: https://github.com/hauleth/nix-elixir [3]: https://github.com/NixOS/nix/issues/8 [4]:…

comment by aszlig · 2020-11-08 · in One Week of NixOS

…really? Yes, really. This PR partially reverted this behavior (or rather made it less intrusive): https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/pull/54115/files , but from there you can easily track "rebar3 hermecity patch", which had introduced it.

comment by k32 · 2020-11-08 · in One Week of NixOS

…[3] https://matthewbauer.us/blog/beginners-guide-to-cross.html [4] https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/ [5] https://github.com/r-ryantm

comment by siraben · 2020-11-08 · in One Week of NixOS

…lifespan, that it never will, when the last 5 years of NixOS have been the most active by large: https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/graphs/code-frequency

comment by Shoue · 2020-11-08 · in One Week of NixOS

…enough to work around but I wonder how big the list would've gotten if I hadn't stopped there. [0] https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/issues/9415

comment by dsissitka · 2020-11-08 · in One Week of NixOS

There is something called nixpart: https://github.com/NixOS/nixpart but it's very immature as per as https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/pull/21403 All help is welcomed :).

comment by RaitoBezarius · 2020-11-08 · in One Week of NixOS

…inkscape $< --export-text-to-path --export-pdf=$@ # put into default.nix with import (fetchTarball "https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/archive/7ad5e816faba3f808e2a8815b14d0f023a4e2160.tar.gz") {}; stdenv.mkDerivation { name = "zine-images";…

comment by patrec · 2020-10-28 · in Ninja: A simple way to do builds

…rendering. the skew is not there while editing 2. kdenlive[2] works fine with no audio skew [1]: https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/blob/6b74f99abd2f4c62e8093c... [2]: https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/blob/f6cd17269ea00766319388...

comment by GrantZvolsky · 2020-10-20 · in My Eight-Year Quest to Digitize 45 Videotapes

…optional. As an example, check out ripgrep [1]. It uses `fetchFromGithub` to retrieve the code. [1] https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/blob/3bb54189b0c8132752fff3...

comment by the_duke · 2020-10-16 · in NixCon Live

…package manager of choice (OSX/Linux). Additionally, you automatically get shell completion too! https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/blob/3bb54189b0c8132752fff3... As described in the README, avoiding the 'build' part from Makefiles cut…

comment by thenonameguy · 2020-09-22 · in No script is too simple

https://github.com/nixos/nixpkgs/ Everything, I care about, fully reproducible. I don't mean to "hawk my wares" in what feels like many threads, but seriously, this is a solved problem, despite the continued mess-making of people that…

comment by Ericson2314 · 2020-08-21 · in The software industry is going through the “disposable plastic” crisis

Here is the NixOS patch for xdg-utils: https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/pull/95758

comment by Mic92 · 2020-08-18 · in Mailto: ?attach=~/ parameter allows including arbitrary files on disk

…create wrappers, but those have thus far been shell scripts causing trouble at times on e.g. OSX. https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/pull/95569 I found it easy to get up to speed and do something useful with it. The language is also in my…

comment by FRidh · 2020-08-16 · in Nim – Python-like statically-typed compiled language

…dependencies, which can be done by the following: let pkgs = import (builtins.fetchTarball { url = "https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/archive/48dfc9fa97d762bce28cc8372a2dd3805d14c633.tar.gz"; sha256 = "0mqq9hchd8mi1qpd23lwnwa88s67ac257k60hsv…

comment by euank · 2020-08-13 · in Docker update ToS: Image retention limits imposed on free accounts

I really need to get back to https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/pull/82131 so we can build on Linux or BSD, for Linux or BSD, in all 4 combinations. Eventually I want equivalent, NixOS userland, choose kernel on boot. Nevermind the merits of…

comment by Ericson2314 · 2020-07-13 · in Tutorial sites treating FreeBSD like a Linux distro

…Rust-based packages in nixpkgs use buildRustPackage , which does not follow this approach [1]. [1] https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/issues/89563

comment by danieldk · 2020-06-27 · in Dynamic linking

Example repository of a project that's invested in using GitHub: https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs Discussion on /r/github: https://www.reddit.com/r/github/comments/hei81f/ Personally I think it's an improvement on mobile - finally the…

comment by qqii · 2020-06-23 · in Ask HN: Thoughts on new GitHub layout?

…is much longer [2] but I think that's because it's actually building the software from source. 1: https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/blob/master/pkgs/applicatio... 2: https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/guix.git/tree/gnu/packages...…

comment by cbaines · 2020-06-15 · in Guix Further Reduces Bootstrap Seed to 25%

…popular than Arch anytime soon either. [0]: https://guix.gnu.org/blog/2018/bootstrapping-rust/ [1]: https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/pull/85542 [2]: https://guix.gnu.org/manual/en/html_node/Invoking-guix-chall... [3]:…

comment by qqii · 2020-06-15 · in Guix Further Reduces Bootstrap Seed to 25%

…gemath.org/html/en/installation/conda.html#sec... [2] https://hub.docker.com/r/sagemath/sagemath/ [3] https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/blob/master/pkgs/applicatio...

comment by infokiller · 2020-06-14 · in SageMath – Open-Source Mathematical Software System

…to generate ec2 image, basd on your configuration.nix[1] You can also generate other images[2] [1] https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/blob/master/nixos/maintaine... [2] https://github.com/nix-community/nixos-generators edit: I believe you…

comment by takeda · 2020-06-03 · in A Nix terminology primer by a newcomer

…frameworks. This combined allows you to create packages with minimal effort most of the time. [1]: https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs

comment by soraminazuki · 2020-06-03 · in A Nix terminology primer by a newcomer

…in /etc and running other stuff as root? In contrast, this was my first contribution to Nixpkgs: https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/commit/0b8efd8724e59964bad0... Easily as reproducible as anything Debian, and apart from installing Nix it…

comment by Athas · 2020-06-02 · in Building binary deb packages: a practical guide

…it just uses a plain string (interpolated with variables via Nix) into the writeText wrapper. [0]: https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/blob/de493bd74921139860624e... [1]: https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/blob/de493bd74921139860624e...

comment by jbboehr · 2020-05-22 · in What Is Nix?

…use Nix for this as well, but I'm not terribly familiar with using Nix on foreign distros. [0]: https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/blob/de493bd74921139860624e... [1]: https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/blob/de493bd74921139860624e...

comment by jbboehr · 2020-05-21 · in What Is Nix?

…properties of the language allow to define how to build specific program in a declarative way. [1] https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/blob/master/pkgs/servers/sq...

comment by takeda · 2020-05-21 · in What Is Nix?

…and Nix generates actual config. Here[1] is example of how PostgreSQL is configured. [1] https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/blob/master/nixos/modules/s...

comment by takeda · 2020-05-21 · in What Is Nix?

…loads the sshd package and calls a function, which returns a systemd unit with the right filenames. https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/blob/master/nixos/modules/s...

comment by geofft · 2020-05-21 · in What Is Nix?

No tomorrow could be BSD and Nix https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/pull/82131

comment by Ericson2314 · 2020-05-20 · in What Is Nix?

…to get blas... so I guess a few bugs [1] are expected. Otherwise I've been really impressed. https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/issues/88449

comment by ninetax · 2020-05-20 · in What Is Nix?

Yeah, there is a giant repo of package definitions at https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs . Those definitions tell nix how to build everything from the ground up.

comment by throwaway894345 · 2020-05-20 · in What Is Nix?

…also collected some info about which other distros already have it on-by-default and since when: https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/pull/85119 dropwatch is very useful, I used it to debug interruptions of our VPN setup between servers.

comment by nh2 · 2020-05-20 · in Watch Where the Linux Kernel Drops a Packet

…targetPkgs.SDL2.all ]; Also just was doing some overdue cross cleanups with pkg-config https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/pull/87705

comment by Ericson2314 · 2020-05-13 · in Pinephone first steps

…as an image for Windows Subsystem for Linux. Looks like it's been an open issue for awhile. https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/issues/30391 Seems someone may have figured it out - https://github.com/Trundle/NixOS-WSL

comment by ShamelessC · 2020-05-07 · in A Gentle Introduction to the Nix Family (2019)

…more complex. As someone who as actually started about reproducing BSD bootstraps declaritively ( https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/pull/82131/files ) they are way more entangled than they need to be, so Theo de Raadt has no ground to stand…

comment by Ericson2314 · 2020-05-04 · in Re: Integrating "safe" languages into OpenBSD? (2017)

…Ryzen 3000 series CPUs are known to have issues with systemd while booting ( which affect nixos https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/issues/64443 ). And the fact that it works for the author helps me deciding that 3700x suits my needs and…

comment by chakerb · 2020-04-26 · in My NixOS Desktop Flow

…packages. I've found NixOS compares pretty well with other Linux distributions in that regard. https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs

comment by jml7c5 · 2020-04-26 · in My NixOS Desktop Flow

…is only informally defined as an attribute set with an attribute type with the value derivation : https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/blob/2cd8c35c1fdfdb773df7ec... I am pretty sure that instantiating a derivation probably requires more…

comment by danieldk · 2020-04-26 · in My NixOS Desktop Flow

…this. P.S. On the other hand, I succeeded creating a minimal Docker image using magicpak[2]. [1]: https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/tree/master/pkgs/developmen... [2]: https://github.com/coord-e/magicpak

comment by aeurielesn · 2020-04-26 · in My NixOS Desktop Flow

…spread across a varying set of directories, you end up with this wrapper for every GCC invocation: https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/blob/master/pkgs/build-supp... And this just doesn't sit well with me:…

comment by ylyn · 2020-04-26 · in My NixOS Desktop Flow

NixOS already did this at https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/issues/74516

comment by htfy96 · 2020-04-24 · in Two Months with Powershell on a Unix

…depends on postgresql, and that's all what's needed. Here's definition of psycopg2 from NixPkgs: https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/blob/master/pkgs/developmen... (the highlighted part is the only thing that's needed everything else is just…

comment by takeda · 2020-04-16 · in My experience with NixOS

…development might also be slightly frustrating if you are used to installing things globally. [0] https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/blob/master/pkgs/applicatio...

comment by therein · 2020-04-15 · in My experience with NixOS

…ttps://nixos.org/nixos/packages.html?channel=nixos-19.09 [2] https://github.com/NixOS/nix#license [3] https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/blob/master/COPYING [4] https://guix.gnu.org/about/

comment by kalium-xyz · 2020-04-15 · in My experience with NixOS

…run your k8 cluster if you are insane (or have the $$$ for salaries) enough to run your own k8. See https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/blob/master/nixos/modules/s... Specifically "services.kubernetes.apiserver.enable = true" My strong…

comment by ghuntley · 2020-04-13 · in Erase your darlings: immutable infrastructure for mutable systems