| 5 Dec 2025 |
 emily | question is how much work it'd be compared to maintaining a stable branch - and how many tooling improvements we'd need | 11:04:37 |
| emily | I hate dealing with compat and multiple versions, but if it was sufficiently streamlined and we had processes that reliably cleaned those up over time, it might be nicer than dealing with branches. | 11:05:39 |
| emily | (and even "safe" backports on stable branches do break people's deployments, sometimes) | 11:06:30 |
 lennart | (gonna catchup on backlog soonish :} ) | 11:11:27 |
| lennart | ok caught up: could anyone reading this who has an opinion, please reply if a
👍️ if they think, I should follow through with a discourse post, to open up this discussion
👎️ if they think, the status quo is OK and works as intended
thanks! | 12:50:56 |
| lennart | * ok caught up: could anyone reading this who has an opinion, please react if a
👍️ if they think, I should follow through with a discourse post, to open up this discussion
👎️ if they think, the status quo is OK and works as intended
thanks! | 12:51:03 |
| lennart | * ok caught up: could anyone reading this who has an opinion, please react if a
👍️ if they think, I should follow through with a discourse post, to open up this discussion
👎️ if they think, the status quo is OK and works as intended (no post)
thanks! | 12:51:17 |
| lennart | I really am undecided and don't have enough insight into this topic | 12:51:50 |
| lennart | * ok caught up: could anyone reading this who has an opinion, please react if a
👍️ if they think, I should follow through with a discourse post, to open up this discussion
👎️ if they think, no further post is needed
thanks! | 12:53:39 |
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| 8 Dec 2025 |
 raboof | I see there's no staging-next-25.11 - does that just mean the current staging-25.11 will become staging-next-25.11? when? is there anything in particular I can do to help that along? :) | 15:53:22 |
 Vladimír Čunát | We have that branch in progress now:
https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/pull/468267 | 15:56:12 |
| Vladimír Čunát | The general workflow is described at
https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/blob/master/CONTRIBUTING.md#staging | 15:57:02 |
| Vladimír Čunát | (hopefully well enough - or we should fix it there) | 15:57:18 |
| raboof | huh must've missed a 'fetch' | 15:59:10 |
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| 11 Dec 2025 |
| Vladimír Čunát | https://discourse.nixos.org/t/github-labels-for-upgrade-dealbreaker-regressions/72800 | 17:17:54 |
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| Sergio Besana | Hello all, I tried to upgrade to 25.11 with nix-channel --add https://channels.nixos.org/nixos-25.11 nixos and I'm getting the following error - error: file 'nixpkgs/nixos' was not found in the Nix search path (add it using $NIX_PATH or -I)
followed by more identical errors - can somebody help me? many thanks | 15:48:02 |
 hexa | did you run nix-channel --update? | 15:57:29 |
| hexa | and what does echo $NIX_PATH look like? | 15:58:06 |
| hexa | * and what does echo $NIX_PATH look like? | 15:58:10 |
| Sergio Besana | it's now working - thank you ... I'm a little newbie by the way :-) | 16:10:49 |
| 13 Dec 2025 |
| Sergio Besana | how many time it takes to upgrade ? the terminal is working since 3 hours... and draining gigabytes of space from the HD . | 10:01:27 |
