| 12 Aug 2025 |
 c4lliope | eh, configurationLimit=8 helped some but not too much. still a few libreoffices hanging around. I'll run through nix-tree, thanks for the quick help! | 01:12:05 |
| c4lliope | ahhhhhhh
libreoffice does not appear at all in sudo nix-tree. | 01:16:10 |
| c4lliope | nor cef. | 01:16:28 |
 hexa | nix-tree by default loads the current system closure | 01:17:36 |
| c4lliope | I see... fan intensifies | 01:20:54 |
| c4lliope | oh dang, I realize my current profile is 17 GB and my store is 186 GB | 01:22:49 |
| c4lliope | I really assumed the gc would handle this. More to learn, yay. | 01:23:14 |
| c4lliope | I've always been fascinated by these mechanisms so this is amazing. | 01:23:49 |
| c4lliope | oh it's all dev shells:
➜ | ls /tmp/nix-
/tmp/nix-104175-0/ /tmp/nix-104180-0/ /tmp/nix-1512-0/ /tmp/nix-1521-0/
/tmp/nix-19751-0/ /tmp/nix-19756-0/ /tmp/nix-201408-0/ /tmp/nix-201413-0/
/tmp/nix-207111-0/ /tmp/nix-207119-0/ /tmp/nix-211432-0/ /tmp/nix-211437-0/
/tmp/nix-22878-0/ /tmp/nix-22883-0/ /tmp/nix-231193-0/ /tmp/nix-231198-0/
/tmp/nix-71082-0/ /tmp/nix-71107-0/ /tmp/nix-develop-101590-0/ /tmp/nix-develop-102057-0/
/tmp/nix-develop-102406-0/ /tmp/nix-develop-105737-0/ /tmp/nix-develop-106395-0/ /tmp/nix-develop-106774-0/
/tmp/nix-develop-10686-0/ /tmp/nix-develop-107029-0/ /tmp/nix-develop-10716-0/ /tmp/nix-develop-107259-0/
/tmp/nix-develop-107805-0/ /tmp/nix-develop-108268-0/ /tmp/nix-develop-108496-0/ /tmp/nix-develop-108521-0/
/tmp/nix-develop-108842-0/ /tmp/nix-develop-10900-0/ /tmp/nix-develop-109019-0/ /tmp/nix-develop-109291-0/
/tmp/nix-develop-109889-0/ /tmp/nix-develop-110375-0/ /tmp/nix-develop-11091-0/ /tmp/nix-develop-112557-0/
/tmp/nix-develop-11348-0/ /tmp/nix-develop-11434-0/ /tmp/nix-develop-114543-0/ /tmp/nix-develop-11457-0/
/tmp/nix-develop-11498-0/ /tmp/nix-develop-11549-0/ /tmp/nix-develop-11557-0/ /tmp/nix-develop-11564-0/
/tmp/nix-develop-117147-0/ /tmp/nix-develop-11717-0/ /tmp/nix-develop-11835-0/ /tmp/nix-develop-11876-0/
/tmp/nix-develop-120400-0/ /tmp/nix-develop-12069-0/ /tmp/nix-develop-120930-0/ /tmp/nix-develop-121094-0/
/tmp/nix-develop-12173-0/ /tmp/nix-develop-121744-0/ /tmp/nix-develop-121888-0/ /tmp/nix-develop-122456-0/
/tmp/nix-develop-12269-0/ /tmp/nix-develop-122763-0/ /tmp/nix-develop-123602-0/ /tmp/nix-develop-12544-0/
/tmp/nix-develop-125805-0/ /tmp/nix-develop-12676-0/ /tmp/nix-develop-127242-0/ /tmp/nix-develop-127499-0/
/tmp/nix-develop-12767-0/ /tmp/nix-develop-127811-0/ /tmp/nix-develop-128142-0/ /tmp/nix-develop-129319-0/
| 01:34:12 |
| hexa | persistent tmp? 😲 | 01:36:15 |
| c4lliope | uh no...
there are 1664 tmp folders and the oldest is 2025-07-20
I prefix nearly all my commands with nd, nix develop | 01:40:16 |
| hexa | https://github.com/NixOS/nix/issues/5207 | 01:41:13 |
| hexa | lix has this fixed | 01:41:23 |
| hexa | apparently nix 2.30.0 tries to keep deleting | 01:42:20 |
| c4lliope | dude you're a real paladin here, I feel like a wolf-child stumbling into civilization. | 01:42:22 |
| c4lliope | boot.tmp.cleanOnBoot = true; - see ya on the other side. | 01:46:09 |
| c4lliope | sure, the tmp files are cleaned up, no real difference.
I did find a reference in a random gcroot to libreoffice -
of the hundreds of gcroots here, how do I responsibly erase a bunch? | 01:52:18 |
| c4lliope | seems like I can make do based on: https://nixos.org/guides/nix-pills/11-garbage-collector.html | 01:54:32 |
|  @iridiscencia:arcticfoxes.net left the room. | 01:54:47 |
| c4lliope | ➜ disc size /
╭───┬──────┬───────────┬──────────┬───────────┬───────────╮
│ # │ bind │ label │ used │ open │ size │
├───┼──────┼───────────┼──────────┼───────────┼───────────┤
│ 0 │ / │ /dev/dm-0 │ 53.5 GiB │ 169.6 GiB │ 235.1 GiB │
╰───┴──────┴───────────┴──────────┴───────────┴───────────╯
| 02:02:59 |
| c4lliope | huzzah praise be. | 02:03:34 |
| c4lliope | now to load up on https://microvm-nix.github.io/microvm.nix images | 02:04:24 |
|  Josh joined the room. | 16:09:48 |
|  jean-paul. joined the room. | 19:04:13 |
| jean-paul. | How do I convince nix to use a GitHub token for downloading stuff from GitHub? I keep getting rate limited on CI. I already have access-tokens = github.com=... in ~/.config/nix/nix.conf which seems like it should be enough but clearly isn't.
How do I even tell whether it's trying to use a token for authentication or not?
| 19:04:50 |
| jean-paul. | The only thing I can figure out is to put the credentials in /etc/nix/netrc. No variation of access-tokens works as far as I can tell. | 20:01:27 |
 Scrumplex | netrc is going to be your best bet really as its widely supported by a lot of tools, not just curl.
Something along the lines of
machine github.com
login your_username
password ghp_...
machine api.github.com
login your_username
password ghp_...
| 20:42:13 |
| Scrumplex | I am pretty sure access-tokens in nix.conf only affects the builtin fetchers primarly used by the flake subsystem | 20:43:43 |
| jean-paul. | It'd be nice if that were actually documented. The nix.conf docs really make it sound like it's for anything. | 20:59:37 |
| 13 Aug 2025 |
| jean-paul. | Cool, 9% of the time:
/etc/nix/netrc" (line 2, column 9):
unexpected 'a'
expecting comment, "machine", "default", "macdef" or end of input
Exited with code exit status 1
| 11:29:15 |
