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…a cross-compile target (1 and 2) in Nixpkgs[1][2]. [0] https://github.com/toltec-dev/toolchain [1] https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/pull/102503 [2] https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/pull/105432

comment by siraben · 2021-09-08 · in PaperTerm Concept, An e-paper remote terminal device

…and no source files changed (which happens most of the time), the build on master is instant. [1] https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/blob/ce38fecabe49a76fcd08d0...

comment by takeda · 2021-08-25 · in Building Container Images with Nix

…I should have specified -- it is glibc 2.32-48 . This the source specifying how glibc is built: https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/blob/97c5d0cbe76901da0135b0... . I've amended the article so that it says `glibc` rather than `libc`, and…

comment by rostayob · 2021-08-17 · in Speeding up atan2f

…work. For larger packages it'll handle cross-compilation of dependencies and linking. See [1]. [0] https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/pull/131310 [1] https://nix.dev/tutorials/cross-compilation

comment by siraben · 2021-08-09 · in Emu68: M68K Emulation for ARM

…for machines used in a business setting. Looks like there’s slow but steady progress being made: https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/pull/53901 .

comment by ochoseis · 2021-07-30 · in NixOS on the Framework

…a Haskell package failed, and sure enough the culprit was a glibc update from 2.31 to 2.32. [0] https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/issues/107358

comment by siraben · 2021-07-29 · in Finding a kernel regression in half an hour with git bisect run (2018)

…has just happened in Nix, with comments like "neovim does not work on m1" 2 weeks ago ( https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/issues/95903#issuecomment-8... ). it works just fine in homebrew. - when installing it on a new mac, you need to use…

comment by ztcfegzgf · 2021-07-21 · in A surprisingly common error users make when installing Brew

…led me to open my first PR with nixpkgs [1]. Thanks for convincing me to give it another shot! [1]: https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/pull/130402

comment by gpanders · 2021-07-16 · in macOS Nix setup: an alternative to Homebrew (2020)

https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/blob/master/lib/systems/exa... for examples of the platforms we support today. https://nix.dev/tutorials/cross-compilation#cross-compilatio... for an approachable introduction. Currently we just support…

comment by Ericson2314 · 2021-07-16 · in Valve Steam Deck

…got to that point. If these things were causing you difficulties, perhaps you dodged a bullet. [1] https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/blob/af65c312fb1b7dd93a7881... [2] https://nixos.org/download.html#nix-quick-install [3]…

comment by takeda · 2021-07-15 · in macOS Nix setup: an alternative to Homebrew (2020)

I realize that the current naming is confusing, so while writing a tutorial I opened https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/issues/126949 that hopefully gets us to a naming scheme that's more consistent with the triplets in cross compilation…

comment by domenkozar · 2021-07-14 · in macOS Nix setup: an alternative to Homebrew (2020)

…and not native compilation, you will have to build a lot more. All "pkgsCross" systems are found in https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/blob/master/lib/systems/exa...

comment by samueldr · 2021-07-14 · in macOS Nix setup: an alternative to Homebrew (2020)

…used inside Nix module systems when they enable configuration of services like MySQL, e.g., here: https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/blob/nixos-21.05/nixos/modu... Hope that helps!

comment by pxc · 2021-07-13 · in macOS Nix setup: an alternative to Homebrew (2020)

…Unfortunately Nix doesn't support aarch64 yet, only x86_64... It seems to be coming though: https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/issues/95903

comment by rahen · 2021-07-13 · in macOS Nix setup: an alternative to Homebrew (2020)

…S6 uses the service-directory to store state-files in the same directory (no /etc-/var split). 1: https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/pull/122844

comment by GuidoW · 2021-06-27 · in Avoiding Complexity with Systemd

…too, if you want. 0: https://matrix.to/#/#nixos-on-arm:nixos.org 1: https://discourse.nixos.org/ 2: https://github.com/NixOS/Nixpkgs/issues

comment by samueldr · 2021-06-24 · in Mobile NixOS

…us experiment with more unusual ideas like a uutils-based stdenv[1] instead of GNU coreutils. [0] https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/issues/123095 [1] https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/pull/116274

comment by siraben · 2021-06-21 · in Nixos-unstable’s ISO_minimal.x86_64-Linux is 100% reproducible

…talk about "verifiable builds" instead. [0]: https://edolstra.github.io/pubs/phd-thesis.pdf [1]: https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/issues/9731

comment by Foxboron · 2021-06-20 · in Nixos-unstable’s ISO_minimal.x86_64-Linux is 100% reproducible

…that NixOS is one of the most up-to-date distros out there. [1]: https://github.com/r-ryantm [2]: https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/pull/126326 [3]: https://repology.org/repositories/graphs

comment by soraminazuki · 2021-06-20 · in Licenses alone do not govern behavior in open source

…policy to drop packages when the relationship to the upstream is beyond repairing [2]. [2]: https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/pull/126326#issuecomment-86...

comment by ninjin · 2021-06-20 · in Licenses alone do not govern behavior in open source

…not particularly owed anything. I really, really, really think it needs to be kept that way. [1]: https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/commit/bacbc48c

comment by jchw · 2021-06-20 · in Licenses alone do not govern behavior in open source

…why they don't think that any of the proposed solutions would have addressed their concerns. [0] https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/pull/126326#issuecomment-86...

comment by mijoharas · 2021-06-14 · in “Please don't add any of my stuff to this project”

…also enable tests[2], when possible, on Python packages to ensure they are packaged correctly. [0] https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/pull/126326#issuecomment-86... [1] https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/pull/126326#issuecomment-86... [2]…

comment by siraben · 2021-06-14 · in “Please don't add any of my stuff to this project”

…some of my packages because of your question, so will file a similar request with them. https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/pull/126326#issuecomment-86...

comment by supurbly · 2021-06-14 · in “Please don't add any of my stuff to this project”

Related context: https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/pull/126319 In response to "not having the latest": Generally we (nixpkgs) lag behind a bit, as managing ~60-100k packages takes some time. But as long as the process to build a package…

comment by jonringer117 · 2021-06-14 · in “Please don't add any of my stuff to this project”

If I understand you, they offered that very thing in https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/pull/126326#issuecomment-86... and it first wasn't answered, and then was dismissed with "This was already answered. Please don't repack my source in…

comment by miloignis · 2021-06-14 · in “Please don't add any of my stuff to this project”

https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/pull/126326#issuecomment-86... says why pinning and pulling from pypi wouldn't work

comment by dd82 · 2021-06-14 · in “Please don't add any of my stuff to this project”

…support that or accept that burden. Especially as I don't see a good repacking reason in this case. https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/pull/126326#issuecomment-86...

comment by aynyc · 2021-06-14 · in “Please don't add any of my stuff to this project”

The package author has gone on to open issues for their other Python packages too - https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/issues/created_by/frenck - currently five open (and locked) issues.

comment by Arnavion · 2021-06-14 · in “Please don't add any of my stuff to this project”

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story by waon · 2021-06-14 · 348 comments

…March 12: https://chromereleases.googleblog.com/2021/03/stable-channel... Version bump in nixpkgs: https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/commit/5f8b95113983c8f31d63... on March 13 (one day later) Released in nixos-unstable on Mar 16 11:11:22…

comment by dnr · 2021-06-03 · in NixOS 21.05

…(2) One of your inputs will be github:NixOS/nixpkgs/release-21.05, which means the release-21.05 branch of github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs. The lockfile will ensure this follows the latest version (3) In your flake, include your system…

comment by squiggleblaz · 2021-06-03 · in NixOS 21.05

…s://chromereleases.googleblog.com/2021/02/stable-channel... The commits updating them in nixpkgs are: https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/commit/5b6d3c4b13e50540d044... https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/commit/4fe69d33aeb6dac647e4... The first…

comment by dnr · 2021-06-02 · in NixOS 21.05

https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/blob/master/pkgs/applicatio... I believe this is the package you are talking about. The significant part is basically bash, so it should be readable without nix knowledge as well. And yeah it basically…

comment by kaba0 · 2021-06-02 · in NixOS 21.05

…needs to be updated immediately, you can help out by running this script and opening a PR. [1]: https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/blob/master/pkgs/applicatio... --- Now, back to point, security issues are not "neglected" in NixOS, and most…

comment by soraminazuki · 2021-06-02 · in NixOS 21.05

The show's happening here now: https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/issues/95903 https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/pull/125184 https://github.com/NixOS/nix/pull/4867 There's also not-directly-related cross-functional need here on the install…

comment by lloeki · 2021-06-02 · in NixOS 21.05

https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/pull/105026 this was recently merged so that should start rapidly improving.

comment by Ericson2314 · 2021-06-02 · in NixOS 21.05

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story by mfsch · 2021-06-01 · 1 comment

…vanilla C binary + library that does the `autoreconf && ./configure && make && make install` dance: https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/blob/master/pkgs/tools/secu... It's almost a little misleading because the actual steps are largely…

comment by rraval · 2021-05-31 · in Nix solves the package manager ejection problem

Every programming language on Nix , where Nix specifically means https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs The ambiguity versus "*nix" as shorthand for Linux/Unix is unfortunate, but here we are. :)

comment by callahad · 2021-05-25 · in Replit now supports every programming language in Nix

Neat, if it gets added to nixpkgs it will be available on Replit! https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs

comment by cbrewster · 2021-05-24 · in Replit now supports every programming language in Nix

…appreciate that. We’re working on a Nix recipe to make it easier on MacOS, making some progress https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/pull/116233

comment by jmercouris · 2021-05-20 · in Show HN: Nyxt Browser 2.0.0

…probably a better way to do this that doesn't trigger a merge conflict Well if you want to try Nix, https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/blob/9dba669e8a53f00114b53d... right out of the box :D

comment by Ericson2314 · 2021-05-17 · in Apple Music Announces Spatial Audio and Lossless Audio

https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/blob/master/pkgs/os-specifi... well, we've been taking some baby steps towards being kernel-agnostic. That's one way to tackle this.

comment by Ericson2314 · 2021-05-02 · in FVWM and the quest for a comfortable NetBSD desktop

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story by ingve · 2021-04-29 · 0 comments

…does not look as positive as described by this comment: - if you have an M1 mac, it does not work ( https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/issues/95903 ) - if you have an intel mac, when you install it, you have to add the…

comment by ztcfegzgf · 2021-04-26 · in Remote code execution in Homebrew by compromising the official Cask repository

…there has been interest in something like this for many years, but it's never quite come together: https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/issues/26067 I wouldn't assume it's just around the corner or inevitable. It is a really exciting…

comment by pxc · 2021-04-21 · in WinGet is terrible, I want AppGet back

…on a M1 Mac (see [1] and references therein) I prefer the experience to brew for the moment. [1] https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/issues/116341

comment by lorenzfx · 2021-04-20 · in The Changelog – Into the Nix Ecosystem

…the magic of Nix. For example, the topic of versions has been argued about for over five years : https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/issues/9682

comment by thomastjeffery · 2021-04-09 · in Nix is the ultimate DevOps toolkit

…project has its own default.nix that might look something like this: { pkgs ? import (fetchTarball "https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/archive/cd63096.tar.gz") { } } : with pkgs; let mypackage = callPackage ./mypackage.nix { stdenv = stdenv;…

comment by otabdeveloper4 · 2021-04-09 · in Nix is the ultimate DevOps toolkit