| 18 Dec 2025 |
 helle (just a stray cat girl) | I do like the idea of somehow making libfetchers non-blocking, but uh, rearchitecturing that is going to be fun | 12:24:12 |
 KFears (they/them) | In reply to @helle:tacobelllabs.net
yeah, we need to fix and document a bunch of the builtins..... I have an open (and unfinished) CL on builtin builders, want to take a look? | 12:24:13 |
| helle (just a stray cat girl) | not at the moment, spoons low, discussing things and reading docs is doable, reading code requires keeping too much weird context | 12:24:54 |
| helle (just a stray cat girl) | yes, me reading libfetchers source was a little silly | 12:25:36 |
| helle (just a stray cat girl) | I've done sillier fixes on Lix while in a bad state honestly, but uh | 12:26:33 |
| helle (just a stray cat girl) | trivial doc fixes because I like reading how users interact with stuff, now those I can make in nearly any state | 12:39:00 |
 kloenk | the let me see right now as sitting is good right now to eehh devshell needs so long pipeline :p | 14:09:02 |
 Rutile (Commentator2.0) feel free to ping | what exactly are these two lines testing? (i esp don't get the first one)
nix-instantiate --strict --eval -E "!((import (fetchTree { type = \"tarball\"; url = \"file://$tarball\"; narHash = \"$hash\"; })) ? submodules)" >&2
nix-instantiate --strict --eval -E "!((import (fetchTree { type = \"tarball\"; url = \"file://$tarball\"; narHash = \"$hash\"; })) ? submodules)" 2>&1 | grep 'true'
| 17:15:28 |
| Rutile (Commentator2.0) feel free to ping | cc: ma27 (you added those lines) | 17:18:41 |
 ma27 | don't remember adding those, but the first makes sure that there's no 'submodules' key in the attrset from the fetchtree call, no? | 17:21:21 |
| Rutile (Commentator2.0) feel free to ping | tarball.sh lines 50 and 51
in a commit called "merge legacy fetchGit-builtin with generic fetchTree-function" | 17:22:57 |
| Rutile (Commentator2.0) feel free to ping | am mostly confused as to why the stdout is piped into the stderr, when no check / grep is being done in the first place | 17:23:40 |
| Rutile (Commentator2.0) feel free to ping | * tarball.sh lines 50 and 51
in a commit called "merge legacy fetchGit-builtin with generic fetchTree-function"
rev f7424384 | 17:24:10 |
| ma27 | oh no, sins from my youth🫠 | 17:28:04 |
| ma27 | maybe it was just a debig statement to get output that I dodn't removed and passed through review? | 17:28:28 |
| Rutile (Commentator2.0) feel free to ping | https://gerrit.lix.systems/c/lix/+/4790
the complaining about TMPDIR not being set and tarball.sh failing have an end! | 17:49:37 |
| Rutile (Commentator2.0) feel free to ping | * https://gerrit.lix.systems/c/lix/+/4790
the days of complaining about TMPDIR not being set and tarball.sh failing have an end! | 17:49:45 |
| Rutile (Commentator2.0) feel free to ping | https://buildkite.com/lix-project/lix/builds/7143/steps/canvas?jid=019b329a-3fa3-4367-a2bd-8eb464bed0fd
uhhh what? | 18:28:12 |
| 19 Dec 2025 |
| kloenk | wonder right now if it would make sense to add default values to the get*Attr functions (lix/libfetchers/attrs.hh). Could use that for the tarball striproot CL right now | 19:15:14 |
| Rutile (Commentator2.0) feel free to ping | https://gerrit.lix.systems/c/lix/+/4790
can we get a review | 20:18:21 |
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| 20 Dec 2025 |
| kloenk | ah I blind (*noticed maybeGetBoolAttr) | 09:23:37 |
| helle (just a stray cat girl) | I wonder if we should be aliassing it as fetchArchive but that is a further thing, it has for years supported more than just tarballs | 11:42:28 |
| helle (just a stray cat girl) | but erm open wondering, for ux sensibility and doc logic | 11:43:08 |
| helle (just a stray cat girl) | like, this would be an alias, just because fetchTarball applied to an ISO feels like utter nonsense | 14:52:14 |
| kloenk | reading the lix-doc code right now out of interest. First this is technically 3 as _:3 is valid (according to the repl). But also huh funny, if I name the input it gets parsed as an invalid url (e.g. a:a or also a:3) | 22:30:53 |
| 21 Dec 2025 |
| ma27 | is something off with Lix CI currently?
Getting regularlyt errors like
error: failed to read compressed data (truncated input)
and
error: interrupted by the user
| 13:34:28 |
 raitobezarius | Which architecture? | 13:36:17 |
| ma27 | https://buildkite.com/lix-project/lix/builds/7175#019b4088-c1f5-417f-825a-a95537ac1d99 (darwin)
https://buildkite.com/lix-project/lix/builds/7175#019b4088-c22a-4aca-805f-0ca14d68a79c (probably x86_64-linux?) | 13:37:01 |
| raitobezarius | Thanks, we definitely need to investigate this | 13:39:11 |
