Mit Nix wäre das nicht passiert!

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  • libewa@feddit.orgtomemes@lemmy.worldOK
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    1 day ago

    They can, yes. You’ll need an experienced psychologist to diagnose that, probably. At least it’s not me, too insecure to answer honestly, instead thinking about the “socially correct” answer, because mine would be either too telling or a cringe reference.













  • The nixos-unstable channel actually does ensure a minimum set of required packages work: Those that would prevent you from booting. The compiling-from-source is because Hydra (the binary cache) only starts building once a package appears in nixpkgs-unstable, and if it immediately proceeds into nixos-unstable, or one of its dependencies is different there, that build won’t be finished yet. release- and versioned nixos- don’t have that problem, as they have a merge freeze, and are mostly fast-forwarded along unstable.

    What would be good is a mechanism for Hydra to tell you “I tried to build this derivation, and it failed.” For this, Nix first needs to store build failure, and since store paths are input-addressed by default, you can also skip builds that will certainly still fail.