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…'channel:nixpkgs-unstable' -A pkgsCross.x86_64-freebsd.libcpuid For the gory details, check out https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/blob/master/pkgs/os-specifi... and https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/blob/master/pkgs/os-specifi...

comment by Ericson2314 · 2023-07-11 · in Wayland on OpenBSD

Adding it to Nixpkgs.[0] [0] https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/pull/242662

comment by siraben · 2023-07-10 · in Show HN: Find Mullvad VPN servers with the lowest latency

…own test. Gixy is still run when writing any nginx config file with the writer helper function https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/blob/b6cc06826812247fe54655...

comment by SuperSandro2000 · 2023-07-04 · in Hunting for Nginx alias traversals in the wild

NixOS doesn't run Gixy anymore, see https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/pull/209075 .

comment by GlitchMr · 2023-07-04 · in Hunting for Nginx alias traversals in the wild

…to share across workstation/CI/etc. Some example Nix code for building Docker images is here https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/blob/master/pkgs/build-supp...

comment by rgoulter · 2023-06-27 · in The Magic Nix Cache, a GitHub Action for speeding up your Nix workflows

…[1]. It's included in Nixpkgs, actively maintained, and easier to work with IMO. [1]: https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/blob/master/doc/languages-f...

comment by soraminazuki · 2023-06-27 · in The Magic Nix Cache, a GitHub Action for speeding up your Nix workflows

Yes: https://api.github.com/users/<userhandle> From: https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/blob/master/maintainers/mai...

comment by eslaught · 2023-06-24 · in Millions of GitHub repos likely vulnerable to RepoJacking, researchers say

…built and the output can depend on the non-deterministic order that packages are built. Nixpkgs ( https://github.com/nixos/nixpkgs/ ) is a large collection of recipes for existing software. It contains both rules to build software as well…

comment by hackernudes · 2023-06-19 · in My First Impressions of Nix

…to install a package, search for it at https://search.nixos.org And if this doesn't work, go to https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/issues and search for the name (in both open and closed issues and PRs).

comment by drdaeman · 2023-06-19 · in My First Impressions of Nix

…to see a complex python app being packaged in Nix. (disclaimer: it's still rough but it does work) https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/tree/master/pkgs/servers/ho...

comment by lloeki · 2023-06-19 · in My First Impressions of Nix

…default one, which would be reified as its own specific derivation for that package to depend on. https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/blob/master/pkgs/developmen...

comment by lloeki · 2023-06-19 · in My First Impressions of Nix

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story by peter_d_sherman · 2023-06-14 · 0 comments

…in nixpkgs where the idea is to get a mostly-static builds that only depend on libsystem on MacOS. https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/issues/214611 At some point the difference does seem to become mostly "what do you do during linking".

comment by viraptor · 2023-06-08 · in Mergeable libraries [video]

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story by RaitoBezarius · 2023-05-22 · 1 comment

…that Nixlang isn't popular, though. Anecdotally, I consume a lot of software that makes use of Nix. https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs

comment by turboponyy · 2023-05-17 · in The RedMonk Programming Language Rankings: January 2023

…Takes 4m 19s on my M1 Pro. [0] https://github.com/coq-community/fourcolor [1] https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/blob/master/pkgs/developmen...

comment by siraben · 2023-04-07 · in A colorful problem that has long frustrated mathematicians

…the latest Neovim in Nixpkgs Unstable, modulo a week or two. Neovim 0.9 is on its way in right now: https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/pull/225152 Just make sure your user's Nix profile is included in your XDG paths like so, and the .desktop…

comment by pxc · 2023-04-07 · in Neovim 0.9

Some progress on that front: https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/pull/202497

comment by anotherhue · 2023-03-31 · in Immutable Linux distributions

…for it. I'm pretty sure this isn't true. What does upstream emacs have to do for Nix to provide https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/blob/nixos-22.11/pkgs/appli... I will agree though that applications which have their own update mechanism or…

comment by ParetoOptimal · 2023-03-29 · in Ubuntu stops shipping Flatpak by default

…etc. This causes the same sort of "works on my machine" headaches that Nix was meant to solve. See https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/blob/master/pkgs/top-level/... I avoid this by importing Nixpkgs via a wrapper, which defaults to calling…

comment by chriswarbo · 2023-03-18 · in 20 years of Nix

The nix option for it was added in 2017: https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/pull/32946 If you find it important, I'd encourage opening a PR to ask for flambda to be enabled by default at https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/issues/new/choose .…

comment by ParetoOptimal · 2023-03-06 · in Nix-Powered Development with OCaml

Are you using flakes? AFAIK `command-not-found` does not work with them. See https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/issues/171054 and https://discourse.nixos.org/t/why-isnt-there-an-official-bui... `nix-index` is a flake-compatible alternative:…

comment by jml7c5 · 2023-03-02 · in Nix journey part 0: Learning and reference materials

…NetBSD/pkgsrc is another one of the few that does well, albeit with a less-fancy design [3]. [1]: < https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/blob/96c0fdeb6accc9f76f1887... > [2]: < https://packages.gentoo.org/packages/media-video/ffmpeg > [3]: <…

comment by OmarAssadi · 2023-03-02 · in Nix journey part 0: Learning and reference materials

…but it goes nowhere. Does anyone have a working link to teams_1.5.00.23861_amd64.deb? According to https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/blob/nixos-22.11/pkgs/appli... the hash is supposed to be sha256-h0YnCeJX//l4TegJVZtavV3HrxjYUF2Fa5KmaYmZW8E…

comment by daef · 2023-02-22

…packages require patching for various sources of nondeterminism, and this is an ongoing effort: https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/labels/6.topic%3A%20reprodu... )

comment by mikepurvis · 2023-02-21 · in Haiku package management

…itself builds properly now.[1] So it definitely could be a viable alternative in the future. [0] https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/pull/116274 [1] https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/pull/116274#issuecomment-85...

comment by siraben · 2023-02-13 · in Reimplementing the Coreutils in a modern language (Rust)

…do, I'd suggest dropping me a line so I don't do anything drastic to the package or module. [0] https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/pull/176835 [1] https://github.com/nix-community/poetry2nix

comment by williamvds · 2023-02-06 · in Ask HN: Is anyone successfully self-hosting Firefox Sync?

…into a shell.nix file for reasons that aren't entirely clear to me (and I had to hunt it down from https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs myself instead of finding docs or a bug report): astunparse = super.astunparse.overridePythonAttrs (old: {…

comment by gaganyaan · 2023-01-29 · in Ask HN: What Next After Ubuntu?

Looks useful on big repositories! https://github.com/nixos/nixpkgs/ would be a great benchmark for a tool like this :) One of the larger repos on github, close to half a million commits by a large set of contributors to thousands of files.

comment by phaer · 2023-01-29 · in Show HN: Git Heat Map – a tool for visualising git repo activity for each file

…much a self-documented boolean. But when I'm in the general situation you describe, I tend to just search github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs in order to figure out usage, if it's not documented elsewhere already. Here is an example for isLinux…

comment by capableweb · 2023-01-23 · in Zero to Nix, an unofficial, opinionated, gentle introduction to Nix

…enabled it), as MAC addresses via `networking.interfaces.<name>.macAddress` are set through it: https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/blob/65e07f20cf04f5db9921dc... kstenerud: I assume you tried that option? Edit: ah, you caught that in an edit…

comment by winterqt · 2023-01-15 · in Ubuntu 22.04 LTS servers and phased apt updates

…network devices, used by systemd-udevd(8) and in particular its net_setup_link builtin”. [1] https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/blob/65e07f20cf04f5db9921dc... [2] https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/blob/65e07f20cf04f5db9921dc... [3]…

comment by mananaysiempre · 2023-01-15 · in Ubuntu 22.04 LTS servers and phased apt updates

…them. FYI the GNU Make in Nixpkgs doesn't have this problem, since it patches the reference https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/blob/nixos-22.11/pkgs/devel... Nixpkgs also provides wrappers/shims around Python, etc. but is also patches all #!…

comment by chriswarbo · 2023-01-11 · in Surprising Consequences of macOS’s Environment Variable Sanitization

…to quickly try out this new pager! I know I'll be following along to see how it develops. :) -- 1: https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/pull/209034

comment by pxc · 2023-01-05 · in Show HN: Ov – feature rich terminal pager

…nginx is bit complicated[0], in general, it's fairly easy to set up new systemd services. [0]: https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/blob/nixos-22.11/nixos/modu...

comment by jbboehr · 2023-01-02 · in VanillaOS: Immutable Ubuntu-Based Linux

…[3] https://gitweb.gentoo.org/repo/gentoo.git/tree/app-editors/v... [4] https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/blob/master/pkgs/applicatio... [5] https://nixos.org/manual/nixpkgs/stable/#ssec-controlling-ph...

comment by roland-s · 2023-01-01 · in Setting up my new laptop: Nix style

…around Nix code is much, much easier in comparison. Everything you need is in a single repo, https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs , and written in a JSON-like language. Many people also claim that Nix is hard because it requires a functional…

comment by soraminazuki · 2022-12-25 · in Nix and NixOS, my pain points

…for the long-term, but it seemed so odd that this was preventing anything from going to unstable. ( https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/issues/159612 )

comment by toastal · 2022-12-25 · in Nix and NixOS, my pain points

…have a concept akin to use-flags, which is what distinguishes Gentoo from Linux from Scratch, see https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/issues/12877 . The fact that Nix doesn't have these is also one reason why it's easier to cache than Gentoo…

comment by filmor · 2022-12-23 · in Nix on the Steam Deck

…to install a specific version - not git commit or git tag, version - of a package is the problem. https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/issues/93327 Nix before flakes used channels, each with a flat global namespace. Flakes are intended to sit…

comment by thomastjeffery · 2022-12-22 · in Devbox 0.2.0: Automatic Nix installer, plugins, and background services

…of different versions in nixpkgs. For example, postgres currently has 11 through 15 available ( https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/blob/e7f345ca81f4f5513c4e73... ). Nodejs has 14, 16, 18, and 19 ( https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/blob/e7f345c…

comment by Smaug123 · 2022-12-21 · in Devbox 0.2.0: Automatic Nix installer, plugins, and background services

…to restrict Nix fixed output derivation which would make impossible the buildGoModule "hack". [1] https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/issues/84826 [2] https://www.tweag.io/blog/2020-06-18-software-heritage/

comment by lewo · 2022-12-14 · in Building Go programs with Nix flakes

…for resource/security isolation, and some NixOS modules use them where possible, for example: https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/blob/8d559672bedd54034b711d...

comment by nh2 · 2022-12-04 · in NixOS 22.11 “Raccoon”

…tractable with most OSs. If you like to test my changes, you can read more about my approach here: https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/pull/203750 For testing I distribute Nvidia as documented here: https://github.com/jhvst/jhvst.github.io/blo…

comment by Jhsto · 2022-12-01 · in NixOS 22.11 “Raccoon”

…driver currently which breaks connecting external displays on X11 depending on your hardware. See https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/issues/199024 and the comments of https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/pull/165188 . Also setting Coolbits…

comment by pongo1231 · 2022-12-01 · in NixOS 22.11 “Raccoon”

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story by todsacerdoti · 2022-11-30 · 2 comments

I started working on https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/pull/82131 because the idea that different kernel => reshuffled userland is a stupid an a massive source of unneeded switching costs. I am not mad at Linux, but monoliths at the 10M LoC…

comment by Ericson2314 · 2022-11-07 · in Migrate from Linux to FreeBSD

…no alternatives available). There's a PR hopefully landing soon in nixpkgs to add freebsd building: https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/pull/82131 I was wondering if there's a builder at some point, it may improve the compatibility for the…

comment by viraptor · 2022-11-07 · in Migrate from Linux to FreeBSD

Alas, nixos does not support homed: https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/issues/91243

comment by VTimofeenko · 2022-11-02 · in Hard User Separation with NixOS

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story by peter_d_sherman · 2022-11-02 · 0 comments