| 20 Mar 2025 |
|  srp changed their display name from Seraphim Pardee to srp. | 03:19:04 |
 elikoga | In reply to @laauurraa:matrix.org
Would it be possible to add something to the nixpkgs search interface to link or show like a red/yellow/green bubble per platform about how "stable" it is? Whether builds have errors etc? Nobody built it yet, so it's not there | 11:39:34 |
| elikoga | * Nobody built that integration yet, so it's not there | 11:39:47 |
| elikoga | I don't believe that it's trivial to link the different projects without pulling your hair out in frustration | 11:41:06 |
|  distrostu (Jono) joined the room. | 16:20:06 |
| distrostu (Jono) | I'm having issues with github auth when updating my flake
[jono@dobro:~/sync/configs/nix]$ nix flake update --flake .
error:
… while updating the lock file of flake 'git+file:///home/jono/sync/configs?dir=nix'
… while updating the flake input 'disko'
… while fetching the input 'github:nix-community/disko'
error: unable to download 'https://api.github.com/repos/nix-community/disko/commits/HEAD': HTTP error 401
response body:
{
"message": "Bad credentials",
"documentation_url": "https://docs.github.com/rest",
"status": "401"
}
(base)
if I directly curl that https://api.github.com/repos/nix-community/disko/commits/HEAD
I get a 200.
I have a feeling there is some expired access token on my system, but I dont think I set one and I'm not sure where it would be?
| 16:20:31 |
| distrostu (Jono) | * I'm having issues with github auth when updating my flake
[jono@dobro:~/sync/configs/nix\]$ nix flake update --flake .
error:
… while updating the lock file of flake 'git+file:///home/jono/sync/configs?dir=nix'
… while updating the flake input 'disko'
… while fetching the input 'github:nix-community/disko'
error: unable to download 'https://api.github.com/repos/nix-community/disko/commits/HEAD': HTTP error 401
response body:
{
"message": "Bad credentials",
"documentation_url": "https://docs.github.com/rest",
"status": "401"
}
(base)
if I directly curl that https://api.github.com/repos/nix-community/disko/commits/HEAD
I get a 200.
I have a feeling there is some expired access token on my system, but I dont think I set one and I'm not sure where it would be?
| 16:21:05 |
| 21 Mar 2025 |
 emily | TIL: outputs = import ./function.nix; is not allowed | 11:38:19 |
| emily | wonder if that's a bug | 11:38:24 |
 remi-gelinas | In flake.nix? That's expected, it's not a real Nix file | 11:39:00 |
| elikoga | There's quite a bit of restrictions on the flake.nix format that people complain about sometimes | 11:39:06 |
| emily | for inputs I expect that by now, yes | 11:39:10 |
| emily | for outputs I don't think there is any rational point | 11:39:16 |
| emily | and the error seems like it's probably just an implementation bug | 11:39:24 |
| emily | ("expected a function but got a thunk") | 11:39:31 |
| elikoga | No that sounds like the format restriction+bad error messages | 11:39:46 |
| emily | oh, I guess it's because outputs's arguments get introspected to define inputs 🙃 | 11:39:47 |
| emily | when you don't explicitly list them | 11:39:56 |
| emily | (and it uses the registry inputs, which are pinned by default in some setups, so pretty footgunny) | 11:40:11 |
| elikoga | There was a little bit of a change wrt registry inputs recently one sec | 11:40:32 |
| elikoga | https://github.com/NixOS/nix/pull/12068
Only the global registry is used(?) | 11:41:15 |
 @rosssmyth:matrix.org | You can do eta expansion outputs = inputs: import ./function.nix inputs; | 14:11:38 |
| @rosssmyth:matrix.org | Which tbh shows how silly the restriction is | 14:14:20 |
 joepie91 🏳️🌈 | wait. what? | 16:46:55 |
| elikoga | It's a Nix file with a specific format, where normal Nix files are just files that contain a nix value, Nix Flakes also have syntactic restrictions on the inputs&outputs level. | 16:48:24 |
| elikoga | * It's a Nix file with a specific format, where normal Nix files are just files that contain a nix value, flake.nix also has syntactic restrictions on the inputs&outputs level. | 16:48:36 |
| joepie91 🏳️🌈 | then why does it end in .nix if it is not a freeform Nix file?! | 16:49:15 |
| elikoga | ? | 16:49:28 |
| joepie91 🏳️🌈 | like, I'm sure those syntactic restrictions have a purpose, but it seems very expectation-breaking for a .nix file to suddenly expect essentially a different format because it happens to be a flake.nix | 16:49:54 |
| elikoga | ? | 16:50:09 |
