| 5 Mar 2026 |
 emily | last couple cycles sounds more like OS upgrade to me, though I forget when the last one of those was. | 15:39:42 |
 vcunat | I mean, if it's a nixpkgs change, you could pick a random package and measure the time a year ago and now. | 15:40:30 |
| vcunat | If it's a well measurable difference, then even bisection is viable. | 15:40:50 |
| vcunat | (--first-parent bisection might be relatively low-effort) | 15:41:38 |
| vcunat | (until you hit a staging* merge - and then it's harder to dig inside) | 15:42:18 |
| emily | right. I probably shouldn't get sidetracked investigating right now, was just wondering if there was anything obvious I could correlate with when things started to get slower | 15:42:19 |
| vcunat | * (until you hit the staging* merge containing the regression - and then it's harder to dig inside) | 15:42:34 |
| vcunat | No, I don't think we have that. | 15:42:50 |
 Gaétan Lepage | Learned about this. Good to hear! x86_64-darwin is quite a burden TBH.
Just to be sure, we are expected to "stop caring (as much)" about this platform after the 26.05 branch off, right?
| 18:11:41 |
 Ihar Hrachyshka | for master yes; there will be support for 26.05 for its cycle | 18:12:28 |
 antifuchs | reminds me I should finally disable the aarch64-darwin/x86_64-darwin dual system setup I have on my macs | 18:39:24 |
| 6 Mar 2026 |
 alexfmpe | trying to build pkgsStatic.perl on aarch64-darwin gives me
/nix/store/3zrx6av2d1141igkcn8477cvbfqpcmcf-bash-5.3p9/bin/bash: line 1: ranlib: command not found | 11:55:40 |
| alexfmpe | and sure enough, ranlib is present in nix-shell for perl but not pkgsStatic.perl | 11:56:10 |
| alexfmpe | is this expected? intended? | 11:56:26 |
 symphorien | it's probably prefixed, as it is cross | 13:00:05 |
| symphorien | maybe replace by $RANLIB | 13:00:22 |
|  ragdoc joined the room. | 15:12:36 |
| ragdoc | Greetings. I am currently struggling with getting a package.nix I created tied into my nix-darwin flake.nix. Is this documented somewhere I might have missed? I can build the package manually, but I would prefer to have that happen as part of each darwin-rebuild operation. | 15:20:39 |
 samasaur | as in you have a package.nix file and you have a packages flake output that calls that package, so you can nix build it, but you want to know how to call that package from your nix-darwin configuration? | 15:22:28 |
| samasaur | probably easiest is to just pkgs.callPackage ./relative/path/to/package.nix but you can get it from the flake output with something like inputs.self.packages.${pkgs.stdenv.hostPlatform.system}.my-package | 15:23:38 |
| ragdoc | As in: I can call "nix build..." and end up with a result softlink in the directory where package.nix resides. There is no surrounding additional wrapper/infrastructure for the package beyond that at this point in time. | 15:26:24 |
| ragdoc | Oh, the package.nix uses pkgs.buildGoModule, just in case this matters in terms of dependencies or suchlike. | 15:32:11 |
| samasaur | it shouldn't | 15:33:34 |
| samasaur | I'd need to see the package.nix file/your configuration to be 100% sure, but im pretty confident pkgs.callPackage should work | 15:34:19 |
| samasaur | just stick (pkgs.callPackage ./path/to/package.nix {}) in environment.systemPackages or wherever you want it | 15:34:57 |
| ragdoc | Thanks @samasaur, I'll try that first. Also, for further reading, https://nix.dev/tutorials/callpackage.html looks like a reasonable starting point, I guess. | 15:39:09 |
| ragdoc | Sorry, customer call in progress, and it might take a while. | 15:40:43 |
| ragdoc | I have tried several variants, but keep running into the following:
error: A definition for option `environment.systemPackages."[definition 14-entry 1]"' is not of type `package'.
Unfortunately my searches for this error didn't return a solution so far. Did I miss something painfully obvious?
| 16:57:31 |
| ragdoc | As a side note, I also wonder if the efforts spent on this are worth it, what with x86_64-darwin being discontinued. I'm using an Intel-based Mac. | 17:03:07 |
| samasaur | paste the excerpt of your config where you're trying to call the package? | 17:25:53 |
