| 8 May 2025 |
 WeetHet | Now that infra supports lockable tarballs for channel releases, what do you think about adding a channel:name flakeref pointing to channels.nixos.org/name/nixexprs.tar.xz?
Is it too much coupling?
| 20:09:03 |
 @leona:leona.is | I (not part of the nix team nor associated with nix development) wouldn't like the name "channel:" for this, as the concept of a channel is far greater than Nixpkgs and therefore anything channel.nixos.org offers | 20:39:51 |
| 9 May 2025 |
 dramforever | even though it's debatable whether it would be good to add it to flakes, there is precedence for e.g. channel: urls already being that | 01:42:03 |
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| 11 May 2025 |
| WeetHet | Yep, for example:
nix-instantiate channel:nixpkgs-unstable hello --log-format multiline
[4.4/30.4 MiB DL]
downloading 'https://nixos.org/channels/nixpkgs-unstable/nixexprs.tar.xz'
| 13:59:32 |
| WeetHet | * Yep, for example:
$ nix-instantiate channel:nixpkgs-unstable hello --log-format multiline
[4.4/30.4 MiB DL]
downloading 'https://nixos.org/channels/nixpkgs-unstable/nixexprs.tar.xz'
| 13:59:38 |
| WeetHet | * Yep, for example:
$ nix-instantiate channel:nixpkgs-unstable -A hello --log-format multiline
[4.4/30.4 MiB DL]
downloading 'https://nixos.org/channels/nixpkgs-unstable/nixexprs.tar.xz'
| 13:59:59 |
| WeetHet | https://github.com/NixOS/nix/issues/13168
Let's see what people think | 14:07:35 |
| 12 May 2025 |
 fzakaria | Whose familiar with SourceAccessor in CppNix ?
We were seeing divergent failures for missing files; I was seeing "FileNotFoundError" and Shahar "Dawn" Or (mightyiam) was seeing "SysError" (although not in unit tests).
We've rebased and it's gone away but it's bugging me not knowing the difference.
| 15:58:50 |
| fzakaria | My best guess -- is his Nix build was picking a different SourceAccessor. Mine seemed to be picking PosixSourceAccessor. | 15:59:27 |
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| 13 May 2025 |
 John Ericson | Eelco: if (settings.buildHook.get().empty() || !worker.tryBuildHook || !useDerivation) return rpDecline; | 19:31:48 |
| John Ericson | do you know what !useDerivation is needed? | 19:31:56 |
