| 5 Apr 2025 |
 Divya | : Hello! I wanted to know how Nix packages GHC, does it bootstrap it entirely? How do you guys change the process when GHC changes build systems from 9.4 to 9.6 (from make to hadrian)? | 08:13:52 |
| Divya | I'm from Guix's Haskell team, trying to learn how you guys do it so that we can improve our Haskell situation :) | 08:14:37 |
 K900 | That's more of a #Nixpkgs / NixOS contributions question | 08:14:48 |
| K900 | Or maybe the Haskell room | 08:14:51 |
| K900 | (I think we have a Haskell room?) | 08:15:00 |
| K900 | Also @maralorn or @sterni probably know | 08:15:11 |
| Divya | In reply to @k900:0upti.me
That's more of a #Nixpkgs / NixOS contributions question Okay, apologies! | 08:16:14 |
 emily | it's bootstrapped from bindist, but yeah see #haskell:nixos.org | 08:16:23 |
| emily | I think full source bootstrap of GHC is still largely theoretical | 08:16:35 |
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| 6 Apr 2025 |
 Las | I’m doing nix derivation show, then changing it a bit, then nix derivation add, but when I nix build my changed drv, it just outputs the drv as the output instead of building it? Bug somewhere? I assume the issue is my changes aren’t valid but I don’t get any errors and the documentation isn’t quite clear on it. | 11:14:26 |
| Las | I assume it’s my placeholder paths? | 11:14:48 |
| Las | Honestly it’s not clear to me why the output path is in the derivation at all | 11:18:56 |
| Las | Doing content addressed drvs only btw | 11:19:11 |
