| 13 Oct 2021 |
 lvkm | you mean, nix build will update all dependencies instead of just adding the new ones? | 08:02:02 |
 balsoft | In reply to @colemickens:matrix.org
well, Cargo does what I suggested per-dep as I understand, so at least users only get changes they'd expect. I think that's what' | 08:02:26 |
| balsoft | * I think that's what's intended to happen with Nix | 08:02:31 |
| lvkm | (i'm not sure if i understand #5112) | 08:02:35 |
| balsoft | If it doesn't that's probably a bug | 08:02:37 |
 colemickens 🏳️🌈 | well, the behavior I just got from TIAS matched what y'all are saying. | 08:03:57 |
| colemickens 🏳️🌈 | so... I feel a bit silly, gonna review my own comments here are bit more closely to see what had been unexpected | 08:04:26 |
| colemickens 🏳️🌈 | well, anyway, that would seem to be the flavor of foot in my mouth, guess I should've reviewed more closely. | 08:08:10 |
| colemickens 🏳️🌈 | I almost feel like the comments from today deserve to be broken out into their own issues as they strike me as potentially more as explicit potential bugs | 08:08:42 |
| colemickens 🏳️🌈 | cc: David Arnold (blaggacao) ^ re your and nrdxp's comments on 5112 | 08:09:49 |
| colemickens 🏳️🌈 | * cc: David Arnold (blaggacao) ^ re your and nrdxp's comments on 5112 - consider splitting them into a new one - I'm not even sure I agree with my original UX complaint there and yours strikes as a potential bug. | 08:10:15 |
 David Arnold (blaggacao) | colemickens 🏳️🌈 agreed. For the flake.lock updating, I would say: the source of truth is flake.nix (the one you're looking at). So if the specification of a package is vague (e.g. pointing to a branch), well then at any given time e.g. "master" means "master" at that given time. | 11:25:07 |
| David Arnold (blaggacao) | If any command does an unexpected update, this is a very exquisite reminder that the spec is flawed.
This behaviour will be very edicative to the ones writing the specs (flake.nix) as their users complain about broken things. | 11:26:38 |
| David Arnold (blaggacao) | * If any command does an unexpected update, this is a very exquisite reminder that the spec is flawed.
This behaviour will be very educative to the ones writing the specs (flake.nix) as their users complain about broken things. | 11:27:09 |
 TyberiusPrime | Can I run an arbitrary github flake as a one liner? | 12:18:52 |
 lourkeur (nix btw) | In reply to @tyberius_prime:matrix.org
Can I run an arbitrary github flake as a one liner? generally speaking yes | 12:19:23 |
| TyberiusPrime | turns out it's as simple as 'nix shell github:/TyberiusPrime/anysnake2?rev=eef5fbe89f685981b7ebf63f695c6c7f42d00892'... | 12:25:00 |
| TyberiusPrime | (which of course fails to compile because I'm trying to stamp the git version into that, and nix doesn't clone the repo, but downloads a tarball :)) | 12:25:20 |
| balsoft | In reply to @tyberius_prime:matrix.org
turns out it's as simple as 'nix shell github:/TyberiusPrime/anysnake2?rev=eef5fbe89f685981b7ebf63f695c6c7f42d00892'... You can omit the rev | 12:25:21 |
| balsoft | Or do it like github:TyberiusPrime/anysnake2/eef5fbe | 12:26:00 |
| TyberiusPrime | I need the rev. | 12:26:08 |
| balsoft | Yeah but you only need the first few chars | 12:26:18 |
| TyberiusPrime | this will be 'read config. If config says to use a different version, respawn as nix shell <correct version here>' | 12:26:24 |
| balsoft | And you can pass revs and branches as the last part of the URI | 12:26:29 |
| balsoft | (unless the branch name contains slashes or other weird stuff, then you need to use URI query syntax and uriencode it) | 12:27:01 |
| TyberiusPrime | In reply to @balsoft:balsoft.ru
Yeah but you only need the first few chars that way lies madness. I don't even want to know what happens on an eventual collision) | 12:27:15 |
| TyberiusPrime | hm "nix shell "git+https://github.com/TyberiusPrime/anysnake2?rev=eef5fbe89f685981b7ebf63f695c6c7f42d00892"
fetching Git repository 'https://github.com/TyberiusPrime/anysnake2'fatal: couldn't find remote ref refs/heads/master" | 12:30:52 |
| TyberiusPrime | is it telling me that it can't handle the default branch being called 'main' | 12:31:04 |
| TyberiusPrime | ? | 12:31:05 |
| balsoft | It can | 12:31:12 |
