| 22 Feb 2026 |
 vczf | Is there a reason why the following is not an officially recommended way of installing lix?
nixpkgs.overlays = [(final: prev: {
nix = pkgs.lixPackageSets.stable.lix;
})];
I did this to force disko to use lix and I haven’t run into any broken tooling so far. It sees like a dumb fix that actually works pretty well | 03:47:57 |
 whispers [& it/fae] | there is certain software that breaks with that because it links into e.g. libnixstore | 03:49:00 |
| whispers [& it/fae] | * | 03:49:33 |
| whispers [& it/fae] | but that is something you can do and to my understanding that is what the nixos-module does (https://git.lix.systems/lix-project/nixos-module/src/branch/main/overlay.nix) (though that module is only intended for lix-on-main users) | 03:50:49 |
| whispers [& it/fae] | * | 03:51:03 |
| vczf | Ah I see | 03:52:08 |
| whispers [& it/fae] | * | 03:55:55 |
| 13 May 2024 |
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 mjm | lix is now in nixos-unstable, what's the best way to use it in a NixOS config? | 15:47:41 |
 K900 | nix.package = pkgs.lix | 15:47:54 |
| K900 | Probably | 15:47:58 |
| K900 | Or just keep using the module | 15:48:02 |
 puck | you can use nix.package = pkgs.lix; if you want; but using the overlay will guarantee more updates (tho less binary cache) | 15:48:44 |
| mjm | well, the module/overlay doesn't easily support using the one from nixpkgs | 15:48:44 |
| mjm | i do want more binary cache | 15:49:21 |
| mjm | yeah i guess i'll just do nix.package then | 15:50:43 |
 raitobezarius | to have binary cache and HEAD, we will probably need to track the channels and bolt a lix on there and rebuild with our own CI then push in our binary cache | 17:33:17 |
 Charles | What's lix using as its binary cache? Attic? | 17:34:36 |
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 @tc424:glasgow.social | Last I heard they were using garage as the back end, and think about attic | 17:39:11 |
| @tc424:glasgow.social | I don't know if that means they're just pushing directly into garage's s3 interface for the moment | 17:39:36 |
| @tc424:glasgow.social | * Last I heard they were using garage as the back end, and thinking about attic | 17:39:57 |
| raitobezarius | In reply to @charles:computer.surgery
What's lix using as its binary cache? Attic? garage without attic | 17:41:16 |
| raitobezarius | it's homemade just nix push thingie | 17:41:24 |
| raitobezarius | and nix sign | 17:41:25 |
 Qyriad | yep | 17:44:26 |
| @tc424:glasgow.social | I've just given up on attic due to weird non-deterministic auth problems that nobody else seems to have experienced | 17:44:31 |
| @tc424:glasgow.social | Still half convinced I'm "holding it wrong" somehow | 17:44:49 |
