| 21 Jan 2026 |
 Katalin 🔪 | or like the build dir or whatever | 13:21:06 |
 Steve | I checked: it's the home-directory of root in /etc/passwd on macOS. My user is missing in this file. I tried to add it manually, but no change. | 13:21:25 |
| Katalin 🔪 | I'm talking about /homeless-shelter | 13:21:38 |
 K900 | I would recommend setting up a Linux builder with nix-darwin | 13:21:50 |
 Ihar Hrachyshka | In the link, when they disable Rosetta, the numbers are now aligned. Great achievement but like ... without Rosetta what's the point? | 13:21:57 |
| K900 | And then running the actual nixos config build on that | 13:21:57 |
| Katalin 🔪 | the user is missing because this is not managed in passwd | 13:22:01 |
| Katalin 🔪 | your user, that is | 13:22:04 |
| K900 | Because doing this natively on Darwin is probably not worth it | 13:22:08 |
| Katalin 🔪 | it's managed in open directory | 13:22:11 |
 eveeifyeve | I will benchmark it on decent hardware M4 Macbook pro first with everything pretty much closed, just to see if it's worth it. | 13:23:44 |
| Katalin 🔪 | anyway here's my theory on what's going on: the package build sets HOME=/build explicitly, expecting that to be the build dir, which it is on linux, but it isn't on darwin | 13:23:52 |
| eveeifyeve | * I will benchmark it on decent hardware M4 Macbook pro first with everything pretty much closed, just to see if it's worth it first. | 13:23:59 |
| Katalin 🔪 | and then whatever prints this message picks it up and says "this is garbage, let me reset it again" | 13:24:07 |
| Katalin 🔪 | and this isn't a problem on linux because there the correct path is indeed /build | 13:24:26 |
| Steve | OK. I'll try that. Thanks. | 13:24:47 |
| Katalin 🔪 | remove your user from /etc/passwd again btw. | 13:25:17 |
| Steve | I did already. Thanks :) | 13:26:03 |
| Katalin 🔪 | okay, turns out this message comes from nix itself, so this is wrong | 13:28:12 |
| Katalin 🔪 | but yeah whatever. do what K900 said | 13:28:28 |
| Steve | I have another linux X86 machine. I'll use this. Thanks @everyone for your support ! | 13:29:32 |
| Katalin 🔪 | that works too | 13:30:02 |
 Austin Horstman | 
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| Austin Horstman | left it on overnight.. yikes | 14:00:27 |
 Randy Eckenrode | Swift was even worse. | 14:02:01 |
| Randy Eckenrode | I say increase the Hydra timeout for Firefox to 24h or something like that. | 14:02:24 |
| Austin Horstman | Alright, was curious what changed recently. If that's expected it's good to know. agree that it would need an adjustment on build server if its going to be the new length of builds for it | 14:03:55 |
| Ihar Hrachyshka | I'm also looking at enabling pgo... | 14:16:15 |
| Ihar Hrachyshka | Austin Horstman: note that community builder is limited to cores (2 per job?) so it's very slow for firefox regardless. | 14:29:46 |
| eveeifyeve | How long did swift take you? I am curious.. | 14:29:48 |
