2023-03-23 Nix team meeting minutes #43

[fricklerhandwerk]

Attendees: @edolstra @Ericson2314 @thufschmitt @roberth

Agenda

• triage (30 min)
• briefly collect feedback on the 5 month report draft (15 min)
  • Authors not here, discussion postponed. Team members assigned to indivudally read async before next meeting.
• discussion (15 min)

Triage

• New profile location breaks home-manager · Issue #7930 · NixOS/nix · GitHub

  • to discuss

• added meson support by p01arst0rm · Pull Request #3160 · NixOS/nix · GitHub

  • there is an RFC: https://github.com/NixOS/rfcs/pull/132
  • we will wait for outcomes and come back to it when there is progress

• docker: publish images to ghcr.io by baloo · Pull Request #8066 · NixOS/nix · GitHub

  • The NixOS Foundation is in the process of applying to the Docker OSS program, so less of a priority
  • postponed until there is more clarity on that application

• Documentation: list experimental features in manual by peeley · Pull Request #7798 · NixOS/nix · GitHub

  • Idea approved, assigned to @edolstra

• `nix derivation add`, `show-derivation` -> `derivation show` by Ericson2314 · Pull Request #7887 · NixOS/nix · GitHub

  • idea approved, assigned to @roberth

• distributed builds require a trusted remote user · Issue #2789 · NixOS/nix · GitHub

  • @ericson2314 has a WIP implementation fixing it. Will come back to it later.

• Track parsing and evaluation activities by jfroche · Pull Request #7247 · NixOS/nix · GitHub

  • Is this useful? What’s the purpose/use-case of these activities?

• System-agnostic builders · Issue #6697 · NixOS/nix · GitHub

  • postponed

• Garbage collect a closure · Issue #7239 · NixOS/nix · GitHub

  • @ericson2314: Seems tricky to implement
  • @thufschmitt: Actually I did — it is just full trace but delete less than could be, just as we do for a single file delete

• Allow CLI to pass environment variables to daemon by dramforever · Pull Request #5890 · NixOS/nix · GitHub

  • postponed, waiting for author

Discussion

• New profile location breaks home-manager · Issue #7930 · NixOS/nix · GitHub

  • decided on a behavior for nix-collect-garbage -d
  • Fix root channels location by thufschmitt · Pull Request #8073 · NixOS/nix · GitHub

• Auto-generate store documentation by edolstra · Pull Request #8084 · NixOS/nix · GitHub

  • (discussion on how to rework the interface for consistency)
  • @edolstra will continue working on this