Upstream lix-nixos-module (at least the majority of it) to nixpkgs

jade commented

2025-02-07 23:48:20 +00:00

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This needs to be done in a way that we can continue to be able to inject new versions of lix into it (if only because it is useful to be able to run older or newer lixes on nixpkgs on purpose), but the majority of this module is error checking and can be gotten rid of. After doing this upstreaming to nixpkgs, this module will still exist for running lix HEAD, but it will remove the majority of the usage and ideally even the Lix HEAD one will reuse the majority of that code, just replacing lix and nix-eval-jobs.

The new module should be placed in such a place that it breaks the overall nixpkgs CI green-ness if it is jacked (e.g. if someone puts in busted dependency cycles like the nix-prefetch-git/rust one that happened recently).

This needs to be done in a way that we can continue to be able to inject new versions of lix into it (if only because it is useful to be able to run older or newer lixes on nixpkgs on purpose), but the majority of this module is error checking and can be gotten rid of. After doing this upstreaming to nixpkgs, this module will still exist for running lix HEAD, but it will remove the majority of the usage and ideally even the Lix HEAD one will reuse the majority of that code, just replacing lix and nix-eval-jobs. The new module should be placed in such a place that it breaks the overall nixpkgs CI green-ness if it is jacked (e.g. if someone puts in busted dependency cycles like the nix-prefetch-git/rust one that happened recently).

jade added this to the Release engineering (releng) project

2025-02-07 23:48:20 +00:00

rbt commented

2025-02-21 19:34:14 +00:00

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NB Anyone interested in doing this should talk to @raito about it

rbt referenced this issue

2025-02-21 19:38:46 +00:00

Add "latest release" branch #39

rbt commented

2025-02-22 01:28:10 +00:00

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Right now we have several "excluded" packages which always want CppNix to avoid massive rebuilds + errors (some of them link against CppNix headers directly, for example). We can make these use an explicit cppnix package to help all Nix implementation maintainers with testability: https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/pull/384099

Right now we have several "excluded" packages which always want CppNix to avoid massive rebuilds + errors (some of them link against CppNix headers directly, for example). We can make these use an explicit `cppnix` package to help all Nix implementation maintainers with testability: https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/pull/384099

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Upstream lix-nixos-module (at least the majority of it) to nixpkgs #54