| 18 Jan 2026 |
 Randy Eckenrode | https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/pull/481408 fixes it on staging-next. | 20:30:17 |
 vcunat | Why not tag it as backport-release-25.11 directly? | 20:34:53 |
|  isabel changed their profile picture. | 20:43:58 |
 Arian | Heya I'm super confused
https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/pull/475079 was opened on 29.12.2025 and merged on 10.01.2026
https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/pull/474788 was merged on 28.12.2025
the 258.3 bump still didn't land on 25.11
Did I miss the window by a few seconds? | 22:05:22 |
| Arian | At this rate , given that the next staging-next-25.11 iteration will take at least a week; it means it'll take ~5 weeks from merge to landing in a channel. That feels long. What could I have done differently to speed this up? Should I have proactively asked to include it in the previous staging-next cycle manually? | 22:15:48 |
| Arian | * At this rate , given that the next staging-next-25.11 iteration will take at least a week; it means it'll take ~5 weeks from merge to landing in a channel. That feels way too long. What could I have done differently to speed this up? Should I have proactively asked to include it in the previous staging-next cycle manually? | 22:15:58 |
 hexa | make sure we have more people fixing darwin problems | 22:26:52 |
| hexa | and prune nixpkgs | 22:26:59 |
 mdaniels5757 | You missed it by either a day or a few hours, depending on whether you are counting from https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/pull/475079/changes/847f6e97a3b8eb3d0ee39b035468fecb9b2d1cf6 or https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/pull/475079/changes/488bd0cc3f63fab0c24c69dfeff2db38d8a3e9f1. | 22:28:45 |
 Grimmauld (any/all) | can we make non-minimal systemd somehow not a mass-rebuild maybe? systemdMinimal and systemdLibs will always go to staging, but i wonder if the big systemd has to. | 22:28:51 |
| hexa | if you want it in it's best to talk to people in this room | 22:30:06 |
| hexa | missing a cycle is expensive indeed | 22:30:16 |
| hexa | there are options to delay the start of a cycle or merge things into an active cycle | 22:32:53 |
 Mic92 | I wonder if we can convince upstream to restructure systemd into meson submodules. It's also not nice for normal package managers to have dependency cycles | 22:33:53 |
| Arian | hot take. maybe we should only support darwin on unstable and not on the release branches. Those release branches are for NixOS after all. Having NixOS updates delayed because of darwin feels backwards | 23:03:40 |
 Winter | didn’t we have release branch jobsets for darwin | 23:04:52 |
| Arian | yeh we have https://hydra.nixos.org/jobset/nixpkgs/nixpkgs-25.11-darwin but we don't have a separate staging-25.11 flow for just darwin iirc? | 23:06:13 |
 Fabián Heredia | https://hydra.nixos.org/build/318935477
Can someone cancel this build? Seems to be stuck printing OOM in the tail, been running for 15 hrs :C | 23:13:27 |
 emily | huh? nixpkgs-YY.MM-darwin exists | 23:18:50 |
| emily | there are lots of users of stable branches on Darwin | 23:19:03 |
| hexa | Redacted or Malformed Event | 23:27:20 |
| 19 Jan 2026 |
| Randy Eckenrode | I didn’t think that would work for some reason. | 00:19:11 |
| * Randy Eckenrode raises his hand. | 00:20:41 |
 Sergei Zimmerman (xokdvium) | This applies a fix to nix 2.33 with glibc 2.42 https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/pull/481478 and also disables flaky aarch64-darwin tests since we haven’t come to a good resolution. I’ll try go get around ~tomorrow to sensing those to 25.11 too | 01:23:50 |
| Sergei Zimmerman (xokdvium) | * This applies a fix to nix 2.33 with glibc 2.42 https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/pull/481478 and also disables flaky aarch64-darwin tests since we haven’t come to a good resolution. I’ll try go get around ~tomorrow to sending those to 25.11 too | 01:24:25 |
| Fabián Heredia | This should fix some of the breakage on staging-next related to glibc 2.42: https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/pull/481503 | 02:29:11 |
| Fabián Heredia | Currently building | 02:29:18 |
| vcunat |
there are lots of users of stable branches on Darwin
So far I don't see anyone complaining that it lags on a 10 days old commit. (because issues in Nix itself)
| 07:06:49 |
| vcunat | It's not really possible to separate staging* for the platforms. We only have one master branch and one release-25.11 branch. | 07:07:55 |
| vcunat | And changing that approach would seem really complicated. | 07:08:20 |
