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9 Oct 2025
@b:chreekat.netchreekatWell I know there are extension fields supported in .cabal files , but I don't know if cabal2nix knows or cares about them. (Extension fields are only documented in one place to my knowledge: https://cabal.readthedocs.io/en/stable/file-format-changelog.html#cabal-version-1-1-4)10:51:38
@sternenseemann:systemli.orgsterni
In reply to @ivy:faggot.sh
is there a way to define arbitrary variables in a .cabal file that are maintained in the outputted 2nix
no. (what for?)
12:33:02
@ivy:faggot.shivyokay ill add some and then add to cabal 2nix12:35:33
@ivy:faggot.shivyi want to track the verson of the karabiner driver in kmonad upstream12:36:07
@ivy:faggot.shivyill patch cabal2nix and do a pr for that for extension fields (i am very experienced with haskell)12:36:43
@ivy:faggot.shivyshould these x- fields be put into passthru or to the derivation itself12:41:22
@ivy:faggot.shivyi’m feeling passthru therefore i should write a passthru field to derivation adt12:42:05
@ivy:faggot.shivy idk what do yall think 12:42:18
@ivy:faggot.shivybut also could be cool to pass through to extra attributes12:45:48
@sternenseemann:systemli.orgsterniwell does kmonad even set these x-fields? would Hackage preserve them?13:05:49
@sternenseemann:systemli.orgsterniin principle seems like a feasible idea, passthru seems about right though x-revision should continue to be treated specially probably13:06:51
@sternenseemann:systemli.orgsterniwonder what other x- fields exist in the wild13:07:13
@ivy:faggot.shivynot yet it does, i will make it tho13:10:16
@ivy:faggot.shivyafter i do that cabal2nix change ill do a run on hackage2nix and see what packages change13:10:48
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After upgrading nix version from 2.28.4 -> 2.28.5 I am getting this error:

error:
       … while calling the 'derivationStrict' builtin
         at <nix/derivation-internal.nix>:37:12:
           36|
           37|   strict = derivationStrict drvAttrs;
             |            ^
           38|

       … while evaluating derivation 'ghc-shell-for-packages-0'
         whose name attribute is located at /nix/store/yhvvk386srxffsd7369j28lkfaav1bwp-source/pkgs/stdenv/generic/make-derivation.nix:480:13

       … while evaluating attribute 'NIX_GHC' of derivation 'ghc-shell-for-packages-0'
         at /nix/store/yhvvk386srxffsd7369j28lkfaav1bwp-source/pkgs/development/haskell-modules/generic-builder.nix:999:13:
          998|             ) "${buildPackages.glibcLocales}/lib/locale/locale-archive";
          999|             "NIX_${ghcCommandCaps}" = "${ghcEnv}/bin/${ghcCommand}";
             |             ^
         1000|             "NIX_${ghcCommandCaps}PKG" = "${ghcEnv}/bin/${ghcCommand}-pkg";

       (stack trace truncated; use '--show-trace' to show the full, detailed trace)

       error: builder for '/nix/store/7wdsyrqbm6dna640gz7sibp4i66cr9xz-cabal2nix-yesod-form.drv' failed with exit code 1;
       last 3 log lines:
       > *** parsing cabal file: /nix/store/kbv83vqvvc3gczpfz84jycrcp00yx81y-source/yesod-form/yesod-form: withBinaryFile: does not exist (No such file or directory)
       > $ nix-prefetch-url --unpack file:///nix/store/kbv83vqvvc3gczpfz84jycrcp00yx81y-source/yesod-form
       > cabal2nix: nix-prefetch-url: createProcess: posix_spawnp: does not exist (No such file or directory)
       For full logs, run:
         nix log /nix/store/7wdsyrqbm6dna640gz7sibp4i66cr9xz-cabal2nix-yesod-form.drv

Any known solution?

19:30:50
@maralorn:maralorn.demaralornAre you sure this is because of a nix update? Seems kinda unlikely.19:32:31
@maralorn:maralorn.demaralornCan you share the command you ran?19:32:49
@maralorn:maralorn.demaralornMaybe a tree listing of /nix/store/kbv83vqvvc3gczpfz84jycrcp00yx81y-source can be informative.19:34:26
@m1-s:matrix.orgm1-s

I had declared the flake input as github:yesodweb/yesod?dir=yesod-form and it seems that this notation has changed with the nix version update. https://github.com/NixOS/nix/pull/12801

So not related to haskell. Thanks for the quick reaction!

19:49:49
10 Oct 2025
@ivy:faggot.shivy the cabal2nix shell keeps failing because it keeps compiling ghc then filling my computer 02:28:39
@maralorn:maralorn.demaralorn sterni: Wolfgang Walther I had an insanely busy last two weeks and my boss just decided to give our huge infra structure update (ghcjs 8.6 -> ghc+wasm 9.12) into production this evening. So I am rather confident that I won’t succeed doing anything on our PR. 15:57:03
@maralorn:maralorn.demaralornBut I guess we are kinda flying blind because of a rebuild right now anyway?15:58:39
@sternenseemann:systemli.orgsterni I fixed everything except for HLS pretty much 🫠 18:25:52
@maralorn:maralorn.demaralornAnd how broken is that?^^18:26:20
@maralorn:maralorn.demaralornAs in is that hls 2.11 or 2.12?18:27:07
@maralorn:maralorn.demaralornHm, still 2.11. So I wasn’t really expecting any breakage.18:37:54
@maralorn:maralorn.demaralornBut we will see.18:37:58

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