nix-helpers
nvd
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| 8 | - | |
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| 7.5 | - | |
| 2 months ago | - | |
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| Creative Commons Zero v1.0 Universal | - |
Stars - the number of stars that a project has on GitHub. Growth - month over month growth in stars.
Activity is a relative number indicating how actively a project is being developed. Recent commits have higher weight than older ones.
For example, an activity of 9.0 indicates that a project is amongst the top 10% of the most actively developed projects that we are tracking.
nix-helpers
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NixOS RFC 136 accepted: A plan to stabilize the new CLI and Flakes incrementally
Yes, to get Nixpkgs it's much faster to use `fetchTarball`.
You're right that `builtins.fetchTarball` is faster than `builtins.fetchGit` (due to the ridiculous amount of commits in the Nixpkgs repo). I like to keep such definitions in a single, company-wide/project-agnostic git repo (what the Nix Pills series calls the "repository pattern"), and have individual projects import them via `builtins.fetchGit`.
Many years ago we didn't have `builtins.fetchGit`, so had to use the 'fetchgit' function from Nixpkgs instead. That created a chicken-and-egg situation if we wanted to take the Nixpkgs version from some other git repo; hence needing to "bootstrap" via `(import { config = {}; }).fetchgit`, and cross our fingers that `NIX_PATH` wasn't set to some crazy value (which, of course, I would inevitably do... https://github.com/Warbo/haskell-te/blob/24475a229908caa3447... )
Note that we need `config = {};` when importing Nixpkgs to avoid an impurity which tries to read files in $HOME. More recent versions of Nixpkgs also need `overlays = [];` to avoid another impurity (looks like this changed at Nixpkgs 17.03, according to https://github.com/Warbo/nix-helpers/blob/master/nixpkgs.nix )
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The Curse of NixOS
Where nixpkgs2105 is a pinned revision of the Nixpkgs repo, defined in another overlay. My current Nix config has pinned Nixpkgs versions going back to 2016. For example, here's a bunch of such overrides:
https://github.com/Warbo/nix-config/blob/master/overrides/fi...
At the moment I'm using niv to manage the pinned Nixpkgs versions (the 'repoXXXX' entries):
https://github.com/Warbo/nix-helpers/blob/master/nix/sources...
nvd
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First post, here's my home lab and how I use it every day (running Proxmox and NixOS)
And this repo:https://gitlab.com/khumba/nvd
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The Curse of NixOS
There's nothing there that needs flakes (an experimental feature which people should not enable without understanding the implications). You could build a system derivation and run a diff against /run/current-system on it.
For what it's worth, nix-diff has very verbose output (it literally diffs everything that is different in the inputs & outputs). A slightly nicer way to diff systems is nvd[0] (example output[1]) which only shows version changes and added/removed packages.
[0]: https://gitlab.com/khumba/nvd
[1]: https://deploys.tvl.fyi/diff/4xmyvkr9nw0cwkn5q38p0cfc58x3jdy...
- Nix/NixOS package version diff tool
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Can I see what packages have been updated?
And it uses https://gitlab.com/khumba/nvd to diff the revisions
What are some alternatives?
aconfmgr - A configuration manager for Arch Linux
nix-config - Mirror of http://chriswarbo.net/git/nix-config
star-history - The missing star history graph of GitHub repos - https://star-history.com
jk - Configuration as Code with ECMAScript
nix-fpga-tools
nixos-config - Nix configuration for macOS / NixOS with starter templates, step-by-step guides, and more ✨
nixos-beginners-handbook - The missing handbook for NixOS beginners
nixpkgs-config - ~/.config/nixpkgs
impermanence - Modules to help you handle persistent state on systems with ephemeral root storage [maintainer=@talyz]