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  • NixOS RFC 136 accepted: A plan to stabilize the new CLI and Flakes incrementally
    11 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 12 Aug 2023
    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 )

  • The Curse of NixOS
    35 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 24 Jan 2022
    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...

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Warbo/nix-helpers is an open source project licensed under Creative Commons Zero v1.0 Universal which is not an OSI approved license.

The primary programming language of nix-helpers is Nix.

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