| 25 Nov 2023 |
 @bzzm3r:matrix.org | While I'm not sure I can make it to weekly meetings (anxiety), I think I'm slowly clobbering together enough to eventually contribute more documentation. | 20:56:40 |
| 26 Nov 2023 |
 infinisil | In reply to @bzzm3r:matrix.org
I made an attempt to switch from a flakes based NixOS configuration, to a npins managed standard configuration.nix based one. I almost got there, but couldn't figure out the last trick (getting nixos-rebuild to use the pinned packages instead of whatever it has in store). I found various bits of information about it on the internet (in the context of niv, which I think is mostly applicable here, but ultimately couldn't figure out the last little bit (getting nixos-rebuild switch to work), and I am conceptually lost enough now that the most I can do is write out a Discourse post discussing the situation, and hoping for the best.
So, for now, I am tucking my tail between my legs and trotting off back to flakes.nix. The solution might lie in simply doing a live reboot from an iso that is built that is built using an npins managed nixpkgs from the start (rather than rebuild switching into it).
But yeah, I can see why you'd just continue carrying on with flakes.nix, if yours is already quite complicated (mine isn't, it's just a glorified pinned entrypoint into my configuration modules).
Yeah nixos-rebuild really can't do that, which is why I wrote a small wrapper in https://github.com/infinisil/sanix | 07:03:14 |
| infinisil | I wrote this exactly for what you were trying :) | 07:04:42 |
 @olafklingt:matrix.org | where do i find the functions pkgs.nixos and pkgs.path in the nixpkgs manual? only found nixos but pkgs.path nowhere. | 13:54:26 |
| infinisil | olaf: When you're looking for Nixpkgs docs, the question shouldn't be "Where is", but rather "Is there" xD | 18:39:04 |
| infinisil | Sounds like PR material to me! | 18:39:31 |
| @olafklingt:matrix.org | Yes it should be in nixpkgs manual. | 18:43:11 |
| @olafklingt:matrix.org | I added a commit to the vm tutorial pr with a detailed description of the reproducable command. It's not finished yet but i would like to know if it is the right direction to add such a description. https://github.com/NixOS/nix.dev/pull/807/commits/ff5c7fad92acc9deb4fcd40d39eeb9300cd41cfa | 18:49:22 |
| infinisil | https://discourse.nixos.org/t/announcing-nixlang-wiki/36049 😕 | 19:08:23 |
 sterni | just one more separate documentation resource just one more I promise it’s gonna fix it | 19:33:23 |
| @bzzm3r:matrix.org | In reply to @infinisil:matrix.org
Yeah nixos-rebuild really can't do that, which is why I wrote a small wrapper in https://github.com/infinisil/sanix 🤩 | 23:49:51 |
| 27 Nov 2023 |
 asymmetric | idk if this is the first outside contribution to nrd, but it's a good validation of the choice of moving to python that we got one, imo! https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/pull/269942 | 15:36:38 |
| 28 Nov 2023 |
|  curtismchale joined the room. | 15:47:32 |
| curtismchale | In reply to @infinisil:matrix.org
https://discourse.nixos.org/t/announcing-nixlang-wiki/36049 😕 I saw this and wondered if there was something I could do to help the official docs team. So I'm here now as an experienced dev, but NixOS neophyte. Maybe I can help document stuff when I get stuck because the docs seem to have some decent assumed knowledge that I don't currently have. | 15:49:18 |
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