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> Not sure how Nix doesn’t win the readability contest Not sure how you can be serious. https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/blob/d600f006643e074c2ef1d7... buildGoDir() { local d; local cmd; cmd="$1" d="$2" . $TMPDIR/buildFlagsArray echo "$d"…

comment by yencabulator · 2025-07-19 · in Trying Guix: A Nixer's impressions

To celebrate - getting rid of `libCross` ( https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/pull/414321 and https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/pull/414573 ) - making `gccNgPackages` ( https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/pull/414299 ) I wrote this blog post…

comment by Ericson2314 · 2025-07-15 · in Compiler Bootstrapping in Nixpkgs

…[0] https://search.nixos.org/packages?channel=25.05&from=0&size=... [1] Should be this one https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/pull/351205

comment by kekebo · 2025-07-10 · in Thunderbird 140 “Eclipse”

…to any system that has existed for decades. Lots of systems have disabled eg Nix in 2017 [1] [1] https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/commit/dff0ba38a243603534c9...

comment by justincormack · 2025-06-25 · in Deep Down the Rabbit Hole: Bash, OverlayFS, and a 30-Year-Old Surprise

…or some version broke things) ``` #! nix-shell -i bash -p "cowsay" '(import (fetchTarball { url=" https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/archive/eb090f7b923b1226e8b... sha256 = "15iglsr7h3s435a04313xddah8vds815i9lajcc923s4yl54aj4j";})…

comment by loremm · 2025-06-25 · in Fun with uv and PEP 723

…and NixOS usage. As an example, take a look at this section of the Rust documentation in Nixpkgs: https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/blob/master/doc/languages-f... So even if you're relatively new to Nix, as long as you are reading the…

comment by jchw · 2025-06-07 · in Why We're Moving on from Nix

…source of their commit based versioning complaint/issue, i.e the commits in question are probably https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs versions if they aren't maintaining their own overlay of derivations. This is in contrast to systems that…

comment by jpgvm · 2025-06-07 · in Why We're Moving on from Nix

Patch to disable built-in telemetry: https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/pull/382568/files

comment by 3np · 2025-04-25 · in Devenv 1.6: Extensible Ad-Hoc Nix Environments

Noticed it wasn't on Nixpkgs, so... https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/pull/399843

comment by tombert · 2025-04-18 · in Defold: cross-platform game engine

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Amazon Q CLI: now available in Nix unstable

story by alDuncanson · 2025-04-07 · 0 comments

…get upstreamed into NixOS proper, eventually. I always thought InitWare would be good for that. See https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/issues/26850 --- we've been discussing this before NixBSD existed, even!

comment by Ericson2314 · 2025-04-03 · in InitWare, a portable systemd fork running on BSDs and Linux

…these build instructions, called derivations. Here's an example for a moderately complex one: https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/blob/master/pkgs/applicatio... https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/blob/master/pkgs/applicatio... As you can see,…

comment by jowea · 2025-03-29 · in Malware found on NPM infecting local package with reverse shell

…disabled by default[2]. [1]: https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/customizing-firefox-usi... [2]: https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/blob/nixos-24.11/pkgs/appli...

comment by 418tpot · 2025-03-15 · in A look at Firefox forks

…more time digging into your findings — hoping it results in me finding a solution to my setup! [0] https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/blob/master/pkgs/applicatio...

comment by heywoodlh · 2025-03-03 · in Nvidia GPU on bare metal NixOS Kubernetes cluster explained

…specific (eg. big "builder" images) and would probably require a completely separate blog post. [1] https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/blob/63f0da03a3b2c323ea924b...

comment by rokgarbas · 2025-02-27 · in Nix and Containers: Why Not Both?

…feels like in that space anyway. My Nim journey was stalled by this bug in its nix toolchain: https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/issues/308593 . I guess that's the price we pay for straying from the beaten path.

comment by __MatrixMan__ · 2025-02-26 · in A possible future of Python in the browser

…will be checked by Gixy[2]. The build will actually fail if Gixy finds any issues. [1]: https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/blob/nixos-24.11/nixos/modu... [2]: https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/blob/nixos-24.11/pkgs/build...

comment by ProfDreamer · 2025-02-16 · in Gixy: Nginx Configuration Static Analyzer

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Nixpkgs: Reverting commit that disables telemetry of a package

story by goranmoomin · 2025-02-14 · 0 comments

…labels indicating the required amounts of rebuilds, e. G., rebuild-darwin:1-10. See for example https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/pull/377186 with the rebuild-darwin:5001+ label.

comment by c0balt · 2025-02-14 · in Is NixOS truly reproducible?

https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/pull/372170 is a promising step towards running multiple instances of a service with separate configurations and decoupling from systemd.

comment by jackwilsdon · 2025-01-31 · in Sixos: A nix OS without systemd [video]

…reasons that I decided to not to use HA, but this certainly left a really bad taste in my mouth. 1. https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/pull/126326#issuecomment-86...

comment by zzyzxd · 2025-01-25 · in How I Use Home Assistant in 2025

…of those ecosystems). For example, for the `steam` program (not package - the package is a dummy): https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/blob/master/nixos/modules/p... and then look for "lib.mk".

comment by Philpax · 2025-01-15 · in Nix – Death by a Thousand Cuts

I believe https://github.com/nixos/nixpkgs/pull/372196 fixes this if you are using systemd-networkd. It was merged to master last week and made it to unstable branches ( https://nixpk.gs/pr-tracker.html?pr=372196 ).

comment by bdd · 2025-01-14 · in Nix – Death by a Thousand Cuts

…put the version in the name, like SDL2 or python3.11. I started this GitHub issue a long time ago: https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/issues/93327 . Somewhere buried inside may lie the answer to your question. Either way, I have mostly given…

comment by thomastjeffery · 2025-01-14 · in Nix – Death by a Thousand Cuts

…have no desire to ever use anything but NixOS, but it's a little less impressive for desktop. [1] https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/pull/366367

comment by tombert · 2025-01-14 · in Nix – Death by a Thousand Cuts

…[3] https://github.com/openzfs/openzfs-docs/commit/4fb5fb694f44c... [4] https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/issues/214871 [5] https://github.com/openzfs/openzfs-docs/issues/531 [6] https://github.com/openzfs/openzfs-docs/issues/531#i

comment by FrostKiwi · 2025-01-14 · in Nix – Death by a Thousand Cuts

…to make the least wrong decision at run time. I don't think it should be a packaging concern. https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/issues/357736

comment by anotherhue · 2025-01-13 · in Fedora 42 Looks to Ship Optimized Executables for Different x86_64 Capabilities

nixpkgs PR: https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/pull/368404

comment by l0b0 · 2024-12-27 · in Ghostty 1.0

…made the connection. So now it is configured to fetch every 12 hours. I believe that is fair. [0] https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/blob/d70bd19e0a38ad4790d391...

comment by e3bc54b2 · 2024-12-24 · in Feed readers which don't take "no" for an answer

…the nix package for the CLI, I'd appreciate it. The whole Deno thing is foreign territory for me. https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/blob/81629effd3f7e0cea0c1cf...

comment by n8henrie · 2024-12-21 · in Singlefile: A web extension to save a complete web page into a single HTML file

NixOS packaging request if anybody would like to contribute: https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/issues/366543

comment by srid · 2024-12-20 · in Grayjay Desktop App

NixOS has switched to virtiofs 4 days ago: https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/pull/362081 Not all use-cases are faster with virtiofs.

comment by zimbatm · 2024-12-17 · in Make your QEMU faster (2022)

…: https://github.com/dpjudas/SurrealEngine Quick start instructions also pull UT from the archive https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/pull/337069

comment by anotherhue · 2024-11-20 · in Epic Allows Internet Archive to Distribute Unreal and Unreal Tournament Forever

I opened a PR for it: https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/pull/356310 In the meantime you can also add packages that aren't yet in nixpkgs using pkgs.callPackage.

comment by flowingfocus · 2024-11-16 · in Show HN: Scooter – Interactive find and replace in the terminal

…that VM for x86_64 packages and builds. I have a WIP PR for Rosetta AOT caching on NixOS as well: https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/pull/330829

comment by arianvanp · 2024-11-12 · in M4 Mac mini's efficiency

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Release Schedule for NixOS 24.11

story by peter_d_sherman · 2024-11-04 · 0 comments

…support MPS, and MoltenVK will be able to use Metal 3 features if your system supports them. [1]: https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/pull/346043 [2]: https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/pull/350384

comment by kenada · 2024-10-27 · in NixOS is not reproducible

…live in the repo by default anyway, so that's already supported, just not as random /etc location. https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/tree/master/pkgs/by-name/aw...

comment by viraptor · 2024-10-26 · in NixOS is not reproducible

…present, they are still within a relatively controllable range. See https://reproducible.nixos.org/ https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/issues?q=sort%3Aupdated-des... I would also thank @anthk for introducing people to Guix. As a late sibling…

comment by Aleksana · 2024-10-26 · in NixOS is not reproducible

…have the one they want. This isn't really true. One version of nixpkgs (i.e. a specific commit of https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs ) generally has one version of every package and other packages from the same nixpkgs version depending on…

comment by matrss · 2024-10-14 · in The state of GNU/Linux and a case against shared object libraries

…Phosh because it's badly packaged on NixOS. Maybe one day I'll take a stab at fixing their package. https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/issues/278204

comment by bsimpson · 2024-10-14 · in Furilabs Linux Phone

…so perhaps that is ok, but it is a lot more work than the 5 years you get (free) with Ubuntu/Debian https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/branches/active

comment by steeleduncan · 2024-10-02 · in NixOS is a good server OS, except when it isn't

…live systems too, with the unfortunate requirement that it'll call your system an installer: https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/issues/338738

comment by rendaw · 2024-10-02 · in NixOS is a good server OS, except when it isn't

…https://tracy.nereid.pl/ [2]: https://github.com/wolfpld/tracy/releases/latest/download/tr... [3]: https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/blob/nixos-24.05/pkgs/devel...

comment by jchw · 2024-09-22 · in Logging all C++ destructors, poor mans run-time tracing

Hopefully coming soon to your favourite distro: https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/issues/341665 :)

comment by l0b0 · 2024-09-13 · in I won't be renewing my Pinboard subscription

…way. Hope this helps! [1]: https://flyingcircus.io/en/about-us/blog-news/details-view/t... [2]: https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/blob/72936c3bf6272f05922812...

comment by nh2 · 2024-09-13 · in 2M users but no money in the bank

…said .... tough cookies all round. And to answer your final question, there's a patch available. https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/pull/340885

comment by elorm · 2024-09-10 · in Nix 2.24 is vulnerable to (remote) privilege escalation

…so. I just build it using a container and push the binary version to the node with coral tpu. [1]: https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/issues/188719

comment by VTimofeenko · 2024-09-08 · in Why I self host my servers and what I've recently learned

…this sophisticated. Here's some cool ones: - check that Firefox can open a page and play sounds: https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/blob/master/nixos/tests/fir... - check that you can install NixOS with full disk encryption and boot into it:…

comment by rnhmjoj · 2024-09-04 · in Interactive NixOS Tests

…executed perfectly, but I was also able to make many desperately needed cleanups in turn. [1]: https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/pull/245243

comment by infinisil · 2024-09-04 · in Interactive NixOS Tests