| 15 Dec 2025 |
 helle (just a stray cat girl) | and by "for now" I mean some point in the next few weeks to months, my physical health situation is leaving me uh, kind of low on energy overall | 19:40:45 |
 Unhooked Spirits | I've got two questions about https://git.lix.systems/lix-project/lix/src/branch/main/docker.nix - is this the right space to ask them, or should I move over to #offtopic? | 19:40:57 |
| helle (just a stray cat girl) | this is probably the right space :3 | 19:41:17 |
 neobrain | Ohh interesting, I'll take a look at this. Thanks! | 19:44:07 |
| helle (just a stray cat girl) | if you have specific issues, ask in offtopic, there are ways to also make it manage your system profile on a non-nixos system, which can be useful | 19:44:54 |
| Unhooked Spirits | yayy ok. Um, in writing up my questions, I realized that I need to make minimal reproductions to make sure it's not a me issue, so I'll be back later once I've done that! | 20:06:31 |
 vczf | Does anybody know how to force disko to use lix instead of hardcoded nix? It’s not in pkgs.lixPackageSets.stable | 20:11:35 |
| vczf | I know it’s using cppnix because it doesn’t register “pipe-operator” (and wants “pipe-operators”) | 20:13:26 |
| vczf | https://github.com/nix-community/disko/blob/master/package.nix | 20:14:12 |
| helle (just a stray cat girl) | https://lix.systems/add-to-config/ mentions how to rewire it manually via an overlay | 20:30:57 |
| helle (just a stray cat girl) | you can adapt this to the scenario of using this with a flake, etc (idk how you are using disko) | 20:31:23 |
 Qyriad | In reply to @aloisw:julia0815.de
Also I think they need to be somewhere in /nix/var/nix/gcroots. yep | 20:33:53 |
| helle (just a stray cat girl) | (there are some other very silly options, like https://wiki.lix.systems/books/lix-contributors/page/running-lix-main but without running main, which has been a support headache before, so please don't) | 20:37:22 |
| helle (just a stray cat girl) | I should fix a tiny bit of that wiki page honestly, it doesn't really show some of the ways of running main on non-nixos | 20:38:06 |
| helle (just a stray cat girl) | even though iirc at one point I was the only dev doing either non-NixOS or non-MacOS :P and running into all the fun bugs | 20:38:29 |
| vczf | Thanks. I didn’t need an overlay, just to set nix to lix in my callPackage invocation, but I didn’t know I could do that there | 20:48:09 |
| vczf | A little confused that my nix.package config elsewhere isn’t carrying over to the callPackage invocation however | 20:49:27 |
| vczf | * A little confused that my nix.package config elsewhere isn’t carrying over to the callPackage invocation however
Edit: it’s the way I’m instantiating nixpkgs I think | 20:51:17 |
 Lotte (it/its)/Cinny (she/her) | yeah ofc | 20:53:59 |
| Lotte (it/its)/Cinny (she/her) | then i guess i found a “how the fuck did this ever work” bug in hydra lmao | 20:54:28 |
| helle (just a stray cat girl) | insufficiently tight sandboxing usually | 20:55:28 |
| Lotte (it/its)/Cinny (she/her) | ah no | 20:58:23 |
| Lotte (it/its)/Cinny (she/her) | so hydra-queue-runner creates files under /nix/var/nix/gcroots/hydra | 20:58:38 |
| Lotte (it/its)/Cinny (she/her) | named after derivations that it want to keep | 20:58:46 |
| Lotte (it/its)/Cinny (she/her) | the problem is that they are empty files…not symlinks | 20:58:54 |
| Lotte (it/its)/Cinny (she/her) | however it used to create symlinks instead. yet the code hasn’t changed at all. what the fuck | 20:59:35 |
| 16 Dec 2025 |
| vczf | * A little confused that my nix.package config elsewhere isn’t carrying over to the callPackage invocation however
Edit: it’s the way I’m instantiating nixpkgs I think
Edit’: I confused nix.package (daemon version etc) for pkgs.nix (default “stable” nix for hydra etc). So unless I overlay lix as pkgs.nix (bad idea probably?) I have to explicitly set nix to lix in disko’s package, or accept running pkgs.nix for disko as is and just add pipe-operators experimental feature flag | 00:45:21 |
 aloisw | In reply to @helle:tacobelllabs.net
even though iirc at one point I was the only dev doing either non-NixOS or non-MacOS :P and running into all the fun bugs What is your system? | 06:23:57 |
| helle (just a stray cat girl) | In reply to @aloisw:julia0815.de
What is your system? I have Lix on top of Arch mainly (though that is going out the quickest) and then also on Debian and Devuan (no systemd nakes for fun, fully works with only minor gotchas btw) systems | 06:44:20 |
| helle (just a stray cat girl) | though my main system these day is a newer laptop running nixoa as that was also all on hardware so old my iteration time was 20 minutes on lix build and test | 06:45:29 |
