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These are all the meetings we have in "Nix announcements" (part of the organization "NixOS"). Click into individual meeting pages to watch the recording and search or read the transcript.

19 Dec 2022

0:10 Intro
0:41 Format Nix code with: nix fmt
1:19 Impure derivations (experimental feature)
4:20 Trace verbose
4:51 Debugger (experimental fetature)
6:43 Nix search exclude flag
7:39 Towards more portable nix
9:06 Outro
  • 2 participants
  • 10 minutes
nix
experimental
debugging
introduction
program
version
install
packages
format
binaries
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14 Mar 2022

An overview of changes in Nix 2.7.0.

https://discourse.nixos.org/t/nix-2-7-0-released/18072

Chapters:
00:00 Intro
00:14 Welcome
00:34 Bug fixes and performance
02:15 Changes in flake.nix format
06:50 Extended nix bundle support
09:30 Command line suggestions
10:05 nix store ping verbosity
11:10 sourcehut flake input type
12:18 nix profile remove verbosity
13:03 Final comments
13:28 Outro
  • 2 participants
  • 14 minutes
nyx270
version
package
nyxnxconfig
knicks
optimizations
profile
flake
steadily
cpu
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29 Jan 2022

An overview of changes in Nix 2.6.0.

https://nixos.org/blog/announcements.html#nix-2.6.0

Chapters:
00:00 Intro
00:10 Welcome
01:24 builtins.zipAttrsWith
03:12 builtins.fromTOML
04:10 :show-trace in REPL
05:44 nix store copy-logs
08:07 Resolve flake root from anywhere int he project
10:20 commit-lockfile-summary
12:12 docker run -ti nixos/nix:master
13:45 Final comments
14:52 Outro

Links:
Nix 2.6 eval improvements - https://zimbatm.com/notes/nix-26-eval-improvement
Use builtins.zipAttrsWith in nixpkgs - https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/commit/2dcae7d82f5ef0b373413d2fbfc1001141561c74
Improvemed builtins.fromTOML PR - https://github.com/NixOS/nix/pull/5795
New TOML library used - https://github.com/ToruNiina/toml11
Resolve project root PR from subfolders - https://github.com/NixOS/nix/pull/5720
Custom update lockfile message - https://github.com/NixOS/nix/commit/3e5a9ad7ff15e5263d8b31288095ebd2e489b8e1

Happy hacking!
  • 2 participants
  • 16 minutes
packages
version
latest
incremental
nixos
optimization
development
announce
mix
nyx
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