| 2 Apr 2025 |
emily | sorry, I definitely do not have the time and do not feel I understand the packaging well enough to :( | 20:41:03 |
John Ericson | I guessed I mixed up my metaphors here, what about just on the monolithic package? | 20:42:03 |
John Ericson | (poly package maintenance for systemd is an orthogonal question) | 20:43:04 |
emily | is the idea to keep the monolithic package around? I assumed that we'd want to switch to the componentized one early in 25.11 to shake out any issues well ahead of release | 20:56:43 |
John Ericson | emily: yes, yeah the idea is to get rid it early in the cycle | 20:59:57 |
John Ericson | so we are not in this some position come november | 21:00:02 |
fzakaria | I asked this on twitter but maybe here is a better place. On my MacOS Nix installation (2.26) I'm surprised in my flake project how often I hit:
unpacking 'github:NixOS/nixpkgs/b7ba7f9f45c5cd0d8625e9e217c28f8eb6a19a76' into the Git cache.
| 22:55:51 |
fzakaria | Is this a bug in Nix or something I'm missing. | 22:56:04 |
| 3 Apr 2025 |
John Ericson | * so we are not in this same position come november | 03:12:00 |
| NixOS Moderation Bot banned @cafkafk:fem.gg (<no reason supplied>). | 11:41:55 |
Mic92 | fzakaria: what do you mean by often? is this for the same commit? | 12:16:39 |
Mic92 | I can also recommend: nixpkgs.url = "git+https://github.com/Mic92/nixpkgs?shallow=1&ref=main"; | 12:17:10 |
| @2xsaiko:tchncs.de changed their display name from 2xsaiko to 2xsaiko (moved! @saiko:knifepoint.net). | 12:52:04 |
teto | does the shallow do anything ? I would suspect it's the default | 17:50:38 |
emily | GitHub really doesn't like people doing shallow clones of the same repo repeatedly, fwiw. (they've had other package managers change their update mechanism because of that in the past) | 19:22:16 |
jade_ | i would never recommend this over a tarball input. if it's a nix bug, nix should fix it. | 20:44:34 |