| 17 Mar 2024 |
 tomberek | Sounds very much like the catalogs we had been working on. Doing them all is likely too much, but we can make a 1-1 relationship as a starting point, before doing all of history at once. | 14:52:51 |
| tomberek | Do you mean something close to: https://github.com/on-nix/pkgs ? | 14:54:11 |
 willbush | infinisil: is there a way to manually run by-name tests? for example, I was trying cargo run -- --base ./tests/empty-base ./tests/aliases | 14:57:20 |
 infinisil | willbush: Ahh there isn't, I usually do cargo test to run them all | 14:58:55 |
| infinisil | That's actually something I'd love to have improved: Currently when I update error messages, I manually update the error messages in the tests. I'd rather just be able to regenerate them | 14:59:34 |
| infinisil | https://crates.io/crates/insta could do that I believe | 15:00:25 |
| infinisil | (well and running individual tests, kind of related) | 15:00:53 |
| willbush | Ok no problem! I was just wanted to go through each test to make sure I understand why they should pass or fail. However, I can cargo test -- --nocapture and throw some println statements in the cargo tests. | 15:01:13 |
| infinisil | Oh neat, didn't know about that! | 15:07:48 |
| infinisil | Oh neat, yes! | 15:10:06 |
| tomberek | From playing with this idea before, I really recommend having a separation between the kinds of pure/impure, eval/build, snapshots/historical. Mixing them leads to problems each time. | 15:22:55 |
 Growpotkin | I'd echo what Tom said. | 15:42:29 |
| Growpotkin | * I'll echo what Tom said. | 15:42:59 |
 Robert Hensing (roberth) | As long as Nixpkgs and NixOS don't start to depend on such a repo in a way that makes using branches and forks harder, why not. | 18:09:40 |
 @jade_:matrix.org | In reply to @infinisil:matrix.org
Alternatively, consider a more powerful idea of having a meta-Nixpkgs repository, which contains all historical versions of Nixpkgs that were built by Hydra, with all their metadata. This could include things like whether builds succeeded, which versions are available in which channel, what is the latest release, etc. yes yes yes please do it with clever merge commits on a branch | 18:28:40 |
 SomeoneSerge (back on matrix) | I presume there would've already been some discussions on this matter and somebody in this room would know where to redirect me: https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/issues/296544 | 18:34:23 |
 Qyriad | In reply to @jade_:matrix.org
yes yes yes please do it with clever merge commits on a branch that over git notes or something? | 18:35:04 |
| @jade_:matrix.org | In reply to @qyriad:katesiria.org
that over git notes or something? maybe also viable? | 18:35:31 |
| @jade_:matrix.org | but the thing about funny merge commits is that they work natively in bisect | 18:35:53 |
| Qyriad | ahh good point | 18:36:19 |
| infinisil | In reply to @jade_:matrix.org
yes yes yes please do it with clever merge commits on a branch Not sure what kind of merge commits you're thinking of | 18:40:46 |
| @jade_:matrix.org | In reply to @infinisil:matrix.org
Not sure what kind of merge commits you're thinking of merge commits (one parent is the last Hydra run, the other is the current commit of the repo, and you take the tree directly from the current commit) | 18:41:53 |
| @jade_:matrix.org | merge strategy: nothing. it's the identical tree as upstream. | 18:42:23 |
| infinisil | Ahh, so there's a parent chain where each commit is a Hydra eval | 18:42:40 |
| @jade_:matrix.org | In reply to @infinisil:matrix.org
Ahh, so there's a parent chain where each commit is a Hydra eval yeah | 18:42:44 |
| @jade_:matrix.org | that's the idea | 18:42:49 |
| @jade_:matrix.org | i bet this would be a reasonable replacement for usage for channel branches honestly | 18:43:21 |
| @jade_:matrix.org | native git and pretty clean solution | 18:43:36 |
| infinisil | I agree this would solve the channel history problem nicely, an alternative to https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/pull/252057. (though it doesn't solve the channel post-processing problem) | 18:45:30 |
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