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The NixOS update has some details: https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/pull/198999 ### Changes between 3.0.6 and 3.0.7 [1 Nov 2022] * Fixed two buffer overflows in punycode decoding functions. A buffer overrun can be triggered in X.509…

comment by buro9 · 2022-11-01 · in OpenSSL 3.0.7 fixes X.509 email address buffer overflows

…hope so! I guess I just gotta wait a few more days for my distro to upgrade the package ( https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/pull/196290 ) - but that's completely fine. What I'd like to ask is whether you consider important the issues that…

comment by kuramitropolis · 2022-10-17 · in Ardour 7.0

There is an ongoing issue in Nixpkgs[0] to package this quine, more help would be appreciated! [0] https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/issues/131492

comment by siraben · 2022-10-06 · in A Ruby program that generates itself through a 128-language quine loop

…nix-shell, which does actually export the right environment variables directly to the shell. [1] https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/blob/master/pkgs/build-supp...

comment by kqbx · 2022-09-21 · in Hacking anything with GNU Guix

…so people can share thier sub circuits and ICs Why not just a github repository? Kind of like https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs

comment by krasin · 2022-09-20 · in JITX (YC S18) launches general availability and announces Series A from Sequoia

…an IDE). Lesson of the day: never use mtimes, they'll bite you in the ass sooner or later! [1] https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/issues/177720 [2] https://reproducible-builds.org/docs/timestamps/ [3] https://github.com/qt/qtdeclarative/commi…

comment by eliaspro · 2022-09-13 · in Mtime comparison considered harmful (2018)

…desires in all but the simplest cases. Don't just take my word for it. Peter Simons also agrees: < https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/commit/3c8b33eee442fd573d47... >

comment by rssoconnor · 2022-09-03 · in We want to make Nix better

…Now, the real "workflow" with nix is look at other setups, or just look at the code: https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/blob/master/nixos/modules/s... And look at the code is the only reliable way to see what exactly is supported. My second…

comment by mamcx · 2022-09-02 · in We want to make Nix better

…[8] - https://github.com/lf-/nix-doc [9] - https://github.com/NixOS/nix [10] - https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs

comment by shiryel · 2022-09-02 · in We want to make Nix better

The standard build functions in Nixpkgs can apply patches, e.g. https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/search?q=patches

comment by chriswarbo · 2022-08-25 · in Fix it, Fork it, Fuck off (2019)

…nothing about Nix or how it works, so maybe you're changing pip's index-url somewhere else.. [0]: https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/blob/master/pkgs/top-level/...

comment by zevisert · 2022-08-18 · in Nixpacks takes a source directory and produces an OCI compliant image

…that release every few months rather than after each pr. Here's one example where I've done it: https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/blob/350fd0044447ae8712392c... since new rust has already been merged and rbspy still has no release with the…

comment by viraptor · 2022-08-17 · in Do not ship work in progress: An open letter

…with few dependencies might look like below let pkgs = import (builtins.fetchTarball { url = "https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/archive/c92ca95afb5043bc6faa0d526460584eccff2277.tar.gz"; }) { }; in pkgs.mkShell { nativeBuildInputs = […

comment by ananthakumaran · 2022-08-12 · in Asdf Performance

…its cmake scripts, because cmake does not honor the cache and tries to download things anyway: https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/blob/901978e1fd43753d56299a... - cardboard didn't require it because meson honors the cache (and Nixpkgs…

comment by AndersonTorres · 2022-08-08 · in Our Roadmap for Nix

…You can take a look at it here, which also explains some of the Fish initialization process: https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/blob/master/nixos/modules/p... and here's where the hooks go in the Fish package, where the comments describe the…

comment by pxc · 2022-08-07 · in Our Roadmap for Nix

…and referenced by nix itself by an arbitrary (versionless) name in a global namespace in this file: https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/blob/master/pkgs/top-level/... That last bit can be avoided by using pinning and flakes, but it's still…

comment by thomastjeffery · 2022-08-06 · in Nix: Taming Unix with Functional Programming

…It also contains the whole nixos operating system and tooling to support all of that. repo: https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs docs: https://nixos.org/manual/nixpkgs/stable/ docs nixos: https://nixos.org/manual/nixos/stable/ This tooling…

comment by phaer · 2022-08-05 · in Nix: Taming Unix with Functional Programming

Also, unlike git-bug, this tool doesn't choke on the github.com/nixos/nixpkgs repository.

comment by octoberfranklin · 2022-08-03 · in PRR – a terminal tool for managing Pull Requests on GitHub

…daemons configured besides CDE itself. But as you mentioned, setting cde.enable is way easier. https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/blob/634141959076a8ab69ca2c...

comment by soraminazuki · 2022-07-26 · in Not So Common Desktop Environment (NsCDE)

…rigor. I hope you will join us at some point. I am confident that you will find it enriching. [1] https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/issues/175875

comment by flurie · 2022-07-21 · in About using Nix in my development workflow

…all the runtime dependencies. So my recommendation would be to actually use Nix, not avoid it. [1]: https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/blob/master/doc/builders/im...

comment by soraminazuki · 2022-07-21 · in About using Nix in my development workflow

…subsequent imports will no longer make outbound HTTP requests. Also this PR to nixpkgs from 2020: https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/pull/79900 > Many users have requested Dhall support for "offline" packages ... The goal of this change is…

comment by infogulch · 2022-07-04 · in StrictYAML

…can see this effect in nixpkgs for example. See how few entries have a rebuild count larger than 10 https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/pulls?q=is%3Apr+is%3Aclosed

comment by viraptor · 2022-06-27 · in We Halved Go Monorepo CI Build Time

…builds. But I assume this would require Bazel's binary cache implementation to be pluggable. [1]: https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/blob/21321a6381fd8d3660fe1c...

comment by mikepurvis · 2022-06-24 · in Incremental Builds for Haskell with Bazel

…You are eligible to use GitHub Copilot for free." that was unexpected but in retrospect https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/ is pretty popular. (Currently 9.8k stars)

comment by kevincox · 2022-06-21 · in GitHub Copilot is generally available

They don't want you forking it for that purpose, either. https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/pull/126326 Is it technically open source? Yes. Is it spiritually open source? No. Is it arrogance and poor management? Along with many ways this…

comment by snapetom · 2022-05-29 · in Home Assistant OS Release 8

I quite like Home Assistant, I really don't like their developers. https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/pull/126326 https://community.home-assistant.io/t/local-dns/178108

comment by deadbunny · 2022-05-29 · in Home Assistant OS Release 8

…large Nix expression spanning thousands of files and somehow manages to be comprehensible. [1]: https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs

comment by soraminazuki · 2022-05-27 · in GNU Guix System

NixOS uses systemd, although wrapped in their own DSL, example: https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/blob/24903b5de2e07cc7b65eae...

comment by jbboehr · 2022-05-27 · in GNU Guix System

…see how to get lots of Arm chipsets to bootstrap with Linux. Specifically, the uboot config file. https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/blob/master/pkgs/misc/uboot... By reading that, you can get a good view into what proprietary blobs and…

comment by tmountain · 2022-05-17 · in My Unholy Battle with a Rock64

…per target system. Depending on the target system it will use qemu, wine, wasmtime or mmixware. https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/blob/111839dcf6e9a8bac6972e...

comment by zimbatm · 2022-04-24 · in Transparently running binaries from any architecture in Linux (2018)

…security issue. PRs that mention CVE do that, but otherwise I couldn't find anything so for example https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/pull/161198 which includes a security fix is still waiting. If they can't pull off the reviews with 577…

comment by viraptor · 2022-04-24 · in How Nix and NixOS get so close to perfect

…communicate them as good as possible. Nixpkg does quite a good job in tracking those issues, imho. https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/issues?q=is%3Aopen+is%3Aiss... is a list of security issues. Most of them generated by automated scans of…

comment by phaer · 2022-04-24 · in How Nix and NixOS get so close to perfect

…https://github.com/NixOS/nix/issues/2925#issuecomment-625855... https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/issues/95903#issuecomment-7...

comment by abathur · 2022-04-19 · in Nixery – Docker images on the fly with Nix

…one place (which we see with Nix), but the happy path should be 100% transparent to the user. [1]: https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/pulls

comment by zamalek · 2022-04-13 · in A Dotfile History

…target, universal build command) are pretty easy to do in Nix (see readTree[5], magrathea[6]). [0]: https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs [1]: https://code.tvl.fyi/about/nix/buildGo [2]: https://cs.tvl.fyi/depot/-/blob/ops/besadii/default.nix…

comment by tazjin · 2022-04-08 · in Turborepo 1.2: High-performance build system for monorepos

…http://nixos.org/channels/nixos-unstable/nixexprs.tar.xz) {}, pinned ? import (fetchTarball https://github.com/nixos/nixpkgs/archive/ca2ba44cab47767c8127d1c8633e2b581644eb8f.tar.gz) {}, git ? import (fetchGit { url =…

comment by lloeki · 2022-04-05 · in Switching from pyenv, rbenv, goenv and nvm to asdf

…community so you could always ask if you're stuck. [1]: https://nixos.org/guides/nix-pills/ [2]: https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs

comment by soraminazuki · 2022-04-05 · in Switching from pyenv, rbenv, goenv and nvm to asdf

…more than 80,000. Edit: it seems to be the largest software repo according to this (2020) [1]. [0] https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs [1] https://discourse.nixos.org/t/nixpkgs-has-been-the-largest-r...

comment by Asdrubalini · 2022-03-31 · in The Delusions of Debian

There is an example of doing this in the docker-tools examples! https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/blob/master/pkgs/build-supp...

comment by flurie · 2022-03-16 · in How to make Docker images even smaller

…me many examples when trying to figure out how to write packages for a particular language. [1]: https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs

comment by soraminazuki · 2022-03-15 · in How to Learn Nix

…with random versions of packages. I also knew that the SHA for chromium had to match what was here: https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/commit/a1c5e5bc40749652503c... . So if chromium wasn't the issue, the problem would have to lie elsewhere.…

comment by smasher164 · 2022-03-05 · in Reproducible Builds in February 2022

…prepare to get your hands dirty fixing some packages. https://github.com/NixOS/nix/issues/6113 https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/pull/160554 The ability to compile everything simply just from one file is amazingly powerful though, and makes…

comment by Cloudef · 2022-02-19 · in Nix: An idea whose time has come

…ideas taken as a whole (instead of iteratively) could be combined into something far greater. [1]: https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/commits/master [2]: https://github.com/dhall-lang/dhall-lang/blob/master/standar...

comment by zamalek · 2022-02-19 · in Nix: An idea whose time has come

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Ask HN: Does NixOS live up to its promise?

story by tiffanyh · 2022-02-06 · 4 comments

…publicly NixOS but they indicated they planned to insist the same against Fedora and Gentoo too: https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/pull/126326 That behaviour kind of makes it hard to trust that it won't lead to the next Marak situation.

comment by Macha · 2022-02-02 · in Run Your Home on a Raspberry Pi

…this [1], this [2], and that, but it did not work. Tried Homebrew and it worked like a charm. [1] https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/issues/95903 [2] https://github.com/nix-community/home-manager/issues/2266

comment by zekrioca · 2022-02-02 · in Containers are not just for Kubernetes

…manager calculates the hash for the unpacked contents of GitHub archives for this precise reason. https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/issues/32997

comment by soraminazuki · 2022-02-01 · in Ask HN: GitHub Download Hash Change?

…reddit.com/r/linux/comments/shxq12/comment/hv5by... [1]: https://github.com/Mic92/nixpkgs-review [2]: https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/pull/144730#pullrequestrevi... [3]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Memoization [4]:…

comment by jonringer117 · 2022-02-01 · in Installing Every Arch Package

…gotten round to the 2021 update, but that should get rid of the annoying 32-bit dependencies. [1]: https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/blob/1e643a385290e54947594a...

comment by kwohlfahrt · 2022-01-25 · in The Curse of NixOS