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…top of the build dependency tree. Some more relevant links about replacing glibc specifically: * https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/issues/50329 * https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/issues/129595 If you want to replace things system-wide…

comment by nh2 · 2022-01-24 · in The Curse of NixOS

…with the new ones [2]. [1] https://search.nixos.org/options?channel=21.11&show=system.r... [2] https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/blob/fad04722fc3d692e3511e5...

comment by watusername · 2022-01-24 · in The Curse of NixOS

…with an example [1]. The only missing part is a rendered HTML with the same information. [1] https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/blob/master/pkgs/build-supp...

comment by ghostwriter · 2022-01-24 · in The Curse of NixOS

Nice to see this has an advertised Nix build! I hope to return to https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/pull/72366 at some point, so all arches can be built similarly!

comment by Ericson2314 · 2022-01-19 · in OpenGOAL: Port of Jak and Daxter, written in GOAL, a custom Lisp by Naughty Dog

…systems or using weird docker file hacks by hand. Here's some idea of what the syntax looks like: https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/blob/master/pkgs/build-supp...

comment by f0e4c2f7 · 2022-01-18 · in Containerize Go and SQLite with Docker

…interesting set of yak shaves. I've been following the progress of the most active NixOS developer: https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/issues/101651

comment by smorgusofborg · 2022-01-15 · in The RISC-V Experience

There is an issue on Nixpkgs to package this absolute (but beautiful) monster of a package.[0] [0] https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/issues/131492

comment by siraben · 2022-01-11 · in Quines (Self-Replicating Programs)

…"trying" to get Anbox working on NixOS (It's currently broken on 5.x kernels but should be fixed by https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/pull/102341 ) so that's why I know that Anbox is the "same" as this.

comment by carlhjerpe · 2022-01-04 · in Android in Docker without QEMU/emulator

…(e.g. It's been fixed, and the workaround wasn't difficult before that, but I'd run into this https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/issues/56348 ). - Nix is weird; so, sometimes when it's not doing what you want, it can be difficult to figure…

comment by rgoulter · 2021-12-26 · in Bingo – The missing package manager for Go binaries (Homebrew for “go install”)

…done automatically), and you get reproducibility for free (at least in the build environment.) [0] https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/pull/151871/files

comment by siraben · 2021-12-26 · in Bingo – The missing package manager for Go binaries (Homebrew for “go install”)

…some of the tradeoffs Nixpkgs developers have faced when it comes to handling Qt and KDE packaging: https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/issues/86369 https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/pull/54525 https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/pull/44047 I…

comment by pxc · 2021-12-19 · in Bottles: GUI front end to run Windows software on Linux

…Hopper Disassembler [2][3] does. That's probably the reason why GNUStep is absent in Homebrew. [1]: https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/blob/1cfd83e859002d1f053bb3... [2]: https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/blob/a0dbe47318bbab7559ffbf... [3]:…

comment by soraminazuki · 2021-12-13 · in GNUstep: Open-source, Object-oriented, Cross-platform Development Environment

I made https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/pull/149523 to kick off nix-build -A pkgsStatic.llvmPackages.clang-unwrapped Which built all the other deps just fine, but failed buildling LLVM with CONFIGURE_LLVM_NATIVE. That seems easy enough to…

comment by Ericson2314 · 2021-12-08 · in A proposal to start “llvm-libc” (2020)

…are due to uutils not implementing GNU extensions, some of which can get pretty involved. [0] https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/pull/116274 [1] https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/pull/116274#issuecomment-85... [2]…

comment by siraben · 2021-12-06 · in Uutils: an attempt at writing cross-platform CLI utilities in Rust

…'{ foo = "bar"; }' and a specialised version for known use-cases like nixpkgs.lib.nameValuePair ( https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/blob/e9e53499b26ad98ac97f97... ) (mentioned in a sibling) Linters could then spot when such functions are…

comment by chriswarbo · 2021-12-02 · in Tvix: We Are Rewriting Nix

…fit your needs", compiling from source is not a big deal since Docker caches output artifacts. [0]: https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/issues/93327

comment by lolpython · 2021-11-30 · in Will Nix Overtake Docker?

NixOS has it packaged, reproducibly I presume? https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/blob/8a308775674e178495767d...

comment by anotherhue · 2021-11-30 · in Google Chromium, sans integration with Google

…, and NixOS, but the services part still needs more PR reviews: https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/pull/133984 (full disclosure, I'm the author of this PR)

comment by julm · 2021-11-26 · in Code.gouv.fr: Why Etalab's Free Software Pole Uses Sourcehut

…clunky and time consuming. For example: this is how a package is installed from a .deb using nix: https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/blob/nixos-19.09/pkgs/tools... If Arch can do it in two commands, so should NixOS, just with two lines of…

comment by alufers · 2021-11-22 · in How to Learn Nix

No experience with ruby but nixpkgs has sections for many languages. See ruby: https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/blob/master/doc/languages-f... . Also a quick search on the NixOS wiki gives this: https://nixos.wiki/wiki/Packaging/Ruby .…

comment by 42jd · 2021-11-22 · in How to Learn Nix

…NixOS's few drawbacks, and I think deduplication could solve that pretty much completely. Details: https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/issues/89380

comment by nh2 · 2021-11-19 · in Elfshaker: Version control system fine-tuned for binaries

…I use NixOS which generates my sshd_config. By default, NixOS: * Disables root login via password: https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/blob/8605fbd737e526c40ff8f0... * Sets ciphers according to Mozilla's recommendations:…

comment by kangaroopouch · 2021-11-08 · in Simple SSH Security

…much finer grained than something like Nix. For example, the NixPkg for abseil-py is defined here: https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/blob/nixos-21.05/pkgs/devel... The BUILD files for abseil-py are found in the repo. Something you'll notice…

comment by gravypod · 2021-11-07 · in Reflecting on the Shake Build System

…technology advancement / alienating division of labor. (This is why I spend so much time on https://github.com/nixos/nixpkgs/ to untangle our great open source commons and make even in it's totality it graspable!), but "everyone gets to be…

comment by Ericson2314 · 2021-11-01 · in Pre-industrial workers had a shorter workweek than today's (1991)

…use, it seems like a really bad idea to deprecate it from a pragmatic point of view. [1]: https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/search?l=Nix&q=which

comment by soraminazuki · 2021-10-28 · in Debian's Which Hunt

…blog post uses oci.virtualisation. Upstream PR to turn openvscode-server into an expression is at https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/issues/140344#issuecomment-... .

comment by ghuntley · 2021-10-28 · in Reflections on software development from anywhere on an iPad

…Any time you need a package that's not in nixpkgs, feel free to submit a packaging request for it: https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/issues/new/choose (Issues -> New Issue -> Packaging Request) Especially if you explain that it's a popular…

comment by SkyMarshal · 2021-10-16 · in NixOS and the Art of OS Configuration (2018)

https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/issues/131486 leave a thumbs-up on the packaging request if you care about it.

comment by ris · 2021-10-16 · in NixOS and the Art of OS Configuration (2018)

…OpenBSD works too, I might spin up a VM and see... [0] https://github.com/NixOS/nix/issues/3280 [1] https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/pull/81459 [2] https://github.com/LnL7/nix-darwin

comment by bpye · 2021-10-14 · in OpenBSD 7.0

…Epkg with dependencies these days is https://docs.brew.sh/Homebrew-on-Linux . :-) Or maybe Nixpkgs: https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs ? Deployment-wise I've already done the Bash script writing thing to help a friend automate his deployment…

comment by no_circuit · 2021-10-12 · in Ask HN: Solo-preneurs, how do you DevOps to save time?

…they're facing. I think the mentality extends to more than just fixing linker issues, e.g. this https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/issues/9656 At the end of the day, I much prefer trusting upstream than having to trust packagers to do…

comment by totony · 2021-10-10 · in Nix-GUI: Make NixOS usable for non-technical users through settings / GUI

…there and you’ll probably get some good feedback before publishing. https://discourse.nixos.org/ https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/issues

comment by SkyMarshal · 2021-10-10 · in Nix-GUI: Make NixOS usable for non-technical users through settings / GUI

…no matter how experienced Nix developer you are. See my first package I started to maintain: https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/blob/master/pkgs/developmen... These 23 lines of nix will fetch the package with the given tag from GitHub, check…

comment by pimeys · 2021-10-08 · in XMonad – The Automated Tiling WM

…from non-Nix setups. - You could install it on NixOS by specifying these options in your config https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/blob/release-21.05/nixos/mo... (they're also listed at https://nixos.org/manual/nixos/stable/options but that…

comment by chriswarbo · 2021-10-04 · in Building with Nix on Replit

…compared to conventional package managers. See the Chrome example in the NixOS Wiki[2]. [1]: https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/blob/master/pkgs/applicatio... [2]: https://nixos.wiki/wiki/Overlays

comment by soraminazuki · 2021-10-03 · in Building with Nix on Replit

…channel? E.g., let newerPkgs = import (builtins.fetchGit { name = "release-21.05-pkgs"; url = "https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/"; ref = "refs/heads/release-21.05"; rev = "8d6407e5a442e5e2fc50c3ca36411b6995afbc17"; }) {}; in and then…

comment by callahad · 2021-09-29 · in Spaces launch in Element

…on what should be done to improve experience, but nix's codebase may not be conductive to that https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/issues/93327#issuecomment-7... and nix contributors don't even see this as an issue…

comment by dmitriid · 2021-09-21 · in Ditch your version manager

…the derivation hadn't been written to be reusable what you can do is to copy this whole directory https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/tree/nixos-21.05/pkgs/devel... to your local project and import the nix files locally. In this case, some of…

comment by Arkh4m · 2021-09-21 · in Ditch your version manager

…of available versions. Quote: "in NixPkgs we choose to restrict the number of maintained versions", https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/issues/93327#issuecomment-6... So it's already worse than the hypothetical "what if rvm don't have a…

comment by dmitriid · 2021-09-21 · in Ditch your version manager

…that you need to find this hash, and there's no way to do it. See this issue and discussion there: https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/issues/93327

comment by dmitriid · 2021-09-21 · in Ditch your version manager

…about, that no one should install historical versions etc. BTW, another issues linked is from 2015 https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/issues/9682 Given that my question never got an answer in HN (not until I had a discussion with the…

comment by dmitriid · 2021-09-21 · in Ditch your version manager

…to learn to read Nix expressions. The original expression that builds all ruby versions is here: https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/blob/6120ac5cd201f6cb593d1b... Here's an example that shows how to build a customized version for NodeJS…

comment by Arkh4m · 2021-09-20 · in Ditch your version manager

Looks like you are right. Relevant issue: https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/issues/93327

comment by ducktective · 2021-09-20 · in Ditch your version manager

…at least 18 years. You'd think there would be easy answers to these questions by now. [1] Example, https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/blob/master/pkgs/top-level/...

comment by dmitriid · 2021-09-20 · in Ditch your version manager

…on ubuntu today and you read the blog post a whole later you'll probably get a newer version. [1] https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs

comment by rvanlaar · 2021-09-20 · in Ditch your version manager

…uby2.7-doc/hirsute-updates,hirsute-updates,hirsute-security,hirsute-security 2.7.2-4ubuntu1.2 all [2] https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/commit/5f9f17cc11caa07e4a9f...

comment by rvanlaar · 2021-09-20 · in Ditch your version manager

…I fear this is the standard response I'd get from HA devs if I ever dare file an issue. [1]: https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/pull/126319#issuecomment-86... [2]: https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/pull/126326#issuecomment-86...

comment by soraminazuki · 2021-09-18 · in Home Assistant – open-source home automation

…why their package manager is the way it is. pip doesn't seem to offer very good support for that: https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/pull/126326#issuecomment-86... (I don't use pip so I don't know enough to comment on it) The NixOS also…

comment by kop316 · 2021-09-16 · in Home Assistant – open-source home automation

…To the point that they will threaten to relicense their own software: https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/pull/126326#issuecomment-86... And when they ask about it: https://community.home-assistant.io/t/consider-to-avoid-addi... It

comment by kop316 · 2021-09-16 · in Home Assistant – open-source home automation

…you need to to is to actually pin it to a specific commit and keep track of it in your VCS. [1] https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs [2] https://r13y.com

comment by watusername · 2021-09-16 · in Erase your darlings: immutable infrastructure for mutable systems