| 19 Feb 2026 |
 Sandro 🐧 | it should definitely use fetcherVersion 3 | 20:21:53 |
 Sarah Clark | Thank you. Testing that so I can suggest the change in a review | 20:22:32 |
| Sandro 🐧 | I think 2 fixed a general darwin issue which works for most packages but we should definitely straight jump to 3 | 20:22:55 |
| Sarah Clark | Definitely. Confirmed that 3 fixes the issue, will drop a suggested change on the PR | 20:26:37 |
| Sarah Clark | Thanks for your help | 20:27:50 |
| Sarah Clark | That one's ready for merge. | 20:48:03 |
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| 20 Feb 2026 |
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 eveeifyeve | I have a feeling this can be fixed from nix and upstream, so I am posting it here: https://github.com/withastro/astro/issues/13083#issuecomment-3933250227 | 11:37:22 |
 Matthew Hiles | this doesn't seem to be mac specific, why post it here? | 13:13:59 |
| xored | Is actool on apple-sdk? element-desktop is failing to build because of it but I’m not sure if it’s something on my end | 20:36:26 |
 Randy Eckenrode | It probably requires Xcode. | 20:37:27 |
| xored | shoudn't matter what I have on the host, isn't build sandboxed? regardless, I do have xcode ```❯ actool --version
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<!DOCTYPE plist PUBLIC "-//Apple//DTD PLIST 1.0//EN" "http://www.apple.com/DTDs/PropertyList-1.0.dtd">
<plist version="1.0">
<dict>
<key>com.apple.actool.version</key>
<dict>
<key>bundle-version</key>
<string>24506</string>
<key>short-bundle-version</key>
<string>26.2</string>
</dict>
</dict>
</plist>``` <- from apple terminal | 20:39:45 |
| xored | * shoudn't matter what I have on the host, isn't build sandboxed? regardless, I do have xcode
❯ actool --version
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<!DOCTYPE plist PUBLIC "-//Apple//DTD PLIST 1.0//EN" "http://www.apple.com/DTDs/PropertyList-1.0.dtd">
<plist version="1.0">
<dict>
<key>com.apple.actool.version</key>
<dict>
<key>bundle-version</key>
<string>24506</string>
<key>short-bundle-version</key>
<string>26.2</string>
</dict>
</dict>
</plist>
| 20:40:06 |
| xored | ^ from apple terminal
| 20:40:11 |
 toonn | xored: But Nixpkgs doesn't build with Xcode. | 20:50:59 |
| xored | right, so I'm guessing the package is broken? or upstream? coz it's trying to call actool and failing | 20:51:44 |
| xored | that's why I asked if this was something that was part of apple-sdk because i've seen that used beforee | 20:52:16 |
| xored | * that's why I asked if this was something that was part of apple-sdk because i've seen that used before | 20:52:17 |
| toonn | If actool is provided by Xcode then something requiring it can't be built by Nixpkgs. | 20:52:47 |
| xored | that makes perfect sense | 20:53:20 |
| xored | so it's not on my end :( | 20:53:35 |
| 21 Feb 2026 |
| Randy Eckenrode | https://www.phoronix.com/news/KosmicKrisp-2026 | 01:25:04 |
| Randy Eckenrode | Geometry shaders in the next 3~6 months? They’ll pass MoltenVK soon at this rate. | 01:25:27 |
 msgilligan | I received a new Mac Mini M4 today and am looking to do a complete fresh install of macOS, Nix, and all the various Nix tools that I use. I have the following in mind:
- Install Nix with the experimental/beta installer.
- Install (standalone) Home Manager (existing, shared cross-platform configuration)
- Install Nix Darwin
- Setup a Linux Builder with Nix Darwin
- Setup a UTM VM with NixOS w/GUI
| 04:12:01 |
| msgilligan | * I received a new Mac Mini M4 today and am looking to do a complete fresh install of macOS, Nix, and all the various Nix tools that I use. I have the following in mind:
- Install Nix with the experimental/beta installer.
- Install (standalone) Home Manager (existing, shared cross-platform configuration)
- Install Nix Darwin
- Setup a Linux Builder with Nix Darwin
- Setup a UTM VM with NixOS w/GUI
(Oops, I'm still editing this didn't mean to submit, give me a few minutes to finish...)
| 04:12:45 |
| msgilligan | * I received a new Mac Mini M4 today and am looking to do a complete fresh install of macOS, Nix, and all the various Nix tools that I use. I have the following in mind:
- Install Nix with the experimental/beta installer.
- Install (standalone) Home Manager (existing, shared cross-platform configuration)
- Install Nix Darwin
- Setup a Linux Builder with Nix Darwin
- Setup a UTM VM with NixOS w/GUI
- Install NixOS in headless VMs using Lima and https://github.com/nixos-lima
- Have macOS VMs (generally with Nix Darwin) running under UTM for testing, etc.
And I want all of this to be as declarative and reproducible as possible. (Should be weeks of fun!)
Can anyone recommend a guide or even a blog post that presents a big-picture approach to doing this "all-of-the-above" Nix on Mac setup?
| 04:16:30 |
