| 6 Aug 2025 |
 cleverca22 | the flake.nix needs to be able to request that on its own | 04:29:26 |
 dramforever | you also can't use github: for this | 04:30:02 |
| cleverca22 | yeah, that does seem to work | 04:30:03 |
| cleverca22 | dramforever: https://github.com/NixOS/nix/issues/13698 if you want to add any other comments or follow it | 04:37:07 |
| cleverca22 | also added a TLDR, 2 sets of shell commands, where it fails to build twice with one
but succeeds the build with both on the other | 04:43:52 |
| cleverca22 | the only difference, is the order of the nix build's | 04:43:59 |
 emily | In reply to @cleverca22:matrix.org
for an input you can do it
but for self, you cant you can | 13:23:19 |
| emily | a cursed syntax was added for it | 13:23:24 |
| emily | involves multiple clones too | 13:23:30 |
| emily | inputs.self.submodules | 13:23:37 |
| emily | doesn't work with Lix | 13:23:49 |
| cleverca22 | looks | 13:24:01 |
| emily | In reply to @dramforever:matrix.org
however it's not, if you generate a tarball from git+file submodules become nothing, if you grab a tarball from github submodules become empty directories there's also like... the cursed subst stuff | 13:24:55 |
| cleverca22 | yep, that does work on another much simpler project! | 13:28:02 |
| cleverca22 | https://github.com/librerpi/lk-overlay/commit/3b64ee1600063bf968f413dc6b600ca413f77252
that was very simple! | 13:28:55 |
| cleverca22 | now to test on the original problem..... | 13:29:09 |
| cleverca22 | [clever@amd-nixos:~/apps/vali/pcsx-redux]$ nix flake show
warning: Git tree '/home/clever/apps/vali/pcsx-redux' is dirty
fatal: '/home/clever/apps/vali/pcsx-redux/third_party/ELFIO' does not appear to be a git repository
fatal: Could not read from remote repository.
Please make sure you have the correct access rights
and the repository exists.
warning: could not read HEAD ref from repo at 'file:///home/clever/apps/vali/pcsx-redux/third_party/ELFIO', using 'master'
fatal: '/home/clever/apps/vali/pcsx-redux/third_party/ELFIO' does not appear to be a git repository
fatal: Could not read from remote repository.
| 13:29:47 |
| cleverca22 | it seems to entirely break things if you dont have the submodules cloned | 13:29:56 |
| cleverca22 | but if you git submodule update --init --recursive, it does seem to make progress... | 13:33:09 |
| cleverca22 | unsure how it will behave with a github: though, that will need more testing | 13:33:41 |
| cleverca22 | hmmmm, but now CI fails:
error: unexpected flake input attribute 'submodules', at /nix/store/9v6yq23xyzhciq4d6w2w4qy66mv4bfaw-source/flake.nix:8:5 | 14:40:12 |
| cleverca22 | because CI runs 2.24.9 and doesnt understand that flag | 14:41:44 |
| emily | if you can use git subtrees | 14:46:14 |
| emily | your life will be a lot easier | 14:46:19 |
| cleverca22 | problem is convincing an upstream repo to entirely change how they manage things, when i will likely never be returning as a contributor | 14:55:47 |
| cleverca22 | bumping the nix version in the github action does fix the last error | 14:56:05 |
| emily | well if they ship a flake they should probably care about flake UX | 15:01:46 |
| emily | but I guess it depends on how Nix-y the project is | 15:01:56 |
| cleverca22 | given that it refuses to build when used as a flake input (because of the above issues), i think its just one nix user, that hasnt tested things fully | 15:35:41 |
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