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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

…files, but for example for zsh there's loads of things you can configure in the configuration.nix: https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/blob/master/nixos/modules/p... (Found this by googling "nixpkgs zsh") You can still override stuff in your…

comment by tinco · 2016-02-05 · in NixOS on Digital Ocean

…that LLVM was being used inside Mesa. However, the only time I actually noticed it was when I hit https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/issues/11467 last week

comment by chriswarbo · 2016-01-11 · in Llvmpipe: The Jitted OpenGL software renderer inside Mesa

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story by akavel · 2016-01-06 · 0 comments

…If you've ever been frustrated with your package manager or build tools, give nix a shot! [1] https://github.com/nixos/nixpkgs

comment by smilliken · 2015-12-10 · in Stack and Nix = portable reproducible builds

…support coming in Nix for building standard layered Docker containers in a fully deterministic way: https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/pull/11156 The deterministic properties of Guix and NixOS allow some amazing things. I personally prefer…

comment by trishume · 2015-12-08 · in Environment containers in GNU Guix

…track of all active clients and servers. * https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=89847 * https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/issues/7633 Related problems are what to do when one cannot shut down one's log daemon because the only way to…

comment by JdeBP · 2015-11-02 · in Busybox removes support for systemd

…are, admittedly, some kinks on master, though I have a PR to make things much, much more robust: https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/pull/8612 Unfortunately, while Bundler is generally a great, useful piece of software, there are aspects of…

comment by cstrahan · 2015-08-31 · in Ruby on Guix

For NixOS it looks like there was some work on reproducible builds, but it seems to have stalled: https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/pull/2281

comment by dkubb · 2015-08-21 · in Lots of progress for Debian's reproducible builds

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story by sridca · 2015-08-11 · 0 comments

https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/tree/master/nixos If you had bothered looking in the wiki everything is listed there.

comment by sondr3 · 2015-06-13 · in NixOS Linux

It does, but it's not in it's own repo, it's in nixpkgs at https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/tree/master/nixos

comment by davidrusu · 2015-06-13 · in NixOS Linux

…about taking pull requests). Looks like gnome3 is packaged now, I'll have to give it another shot: https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/blob/master/nixos/modules/s...

comment by xiaomai · 2015-06-12 · in NixOS Linux

I've updated NixOS to include 2.0.0-1: https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/commit/fe6ec3d13a1554458e64... - any way we can get it mentioned on the website?

comment by thoughtpolice · 2015-04-14 · in RethinkDB 2.0 is now production ready

I don't know much about the nix language, but it looks to me like the gpgme support is optional: https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/blob/master/pkgs/applicatio...

comment by barkmadley · 2015-01-05 · in NixOS and Stateless Deployment

…jinja). I'll continue to follow and learn more about Nix, but anxiously awaiting my epiphany. [1] https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/blob/1a504e3fb72fab10799cf0...

comment by retr0h · 2015-01-04 · in NixOS and Stateless Deployment

FYI: NixOS source is hosted on github: https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs

comment by iElectric2 · 2015-01-04 · in NixOS and Stateless Deployment

> But what is wrong with Gnome-Terminal? The dependencies: https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/blob/master/pkgs/desktops/g... If you're using Gnome, you probably have those already so it's no big deal. The same goes for Konsole in KDE:…

comment by chriswarbo · 2014-11-26 · in St – simple terminal

Very easy. git clone git://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs.git cd nixpkgs nix-build -A packagename Building the dependencies is completely automated. For more information, see the nixpkgs contributor's guide: http://nixos.org/nixpkgs/manual/ Note…

comment by Doji · 2014-11-18 · in GNU Guix 0.8 released

Can you clarify what's wrong with nixpkgs? https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs Granted, it's not yet perfect, but my experience with it so far has left me very impressed.

comment by Doji · 2014-11-18 · in GNU Guix 0.8 released

Nix is attempting to be the solution you're looking for. Look at the nixpkgs repository: https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs You will see packages for tons of stuff, including: * Python packages from PyPi:…

comment by Doji · 2014-11-18 · in GNU Guix 0.8 released

…and you just need to look at the Github [1] to see that NixOS is maintained quite actively. [1] https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/commits/master

comment by aristidb · 2014-08-30 · in We're building the GNU system [pdf]

…was able to create simple packages after a couple days. You can find many examples in nixpkgs, e.g. https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/blob/master/pkgs/applicatio... Is that not AwesomeWM btw? There are some rough edges around package…

comment by pmahoney · 2014-04-29 · in The Nix project – Atomic upgrades, rollbacks and multi-user package management

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story by iElectric2 · 2014-04-29 · 0 comments

…but only tried Deb a few times. I'd argue it's way easier. Here is an example of packaged nginx https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/blob/master/pkgs/servers/ht... In a nutshell, you need to know the following: - be familiar with basics of Nix…

comment by iElectric2 · 2013-12-15 · in I'm giving a talk at FOSDEM: NixOS, declarative configuration Linux distribution