2023-04-10 Nix team meeting minutes #47

[fricklerhandwerk]

Attendees: @thufschmitt @edolstra @ericson2314 @roberth @tomberek

Agenda

• Triage
• Reschedule so Western hemisphere people can sleep

Mac failures in CI

• No one can reproduce locally
• @thufschmitt did, it was GC as @edolstra suggested
• Will try a PR (unclear which one?) that might help again

Triage

• 🦦 NixOS 23.05 — Feature Freeze & Release Blockers · Issue #224457 · NixOS/nixpkgs · GitHub

  • We’ll have a hopefully good 2.15 release very soon, and that will make the cut-off.

• Nix cannot run other executables in chroot (No such file or directory) · Issue #7602 · NixOS/nix · GitHub

  • Was a specific concern for the release. @edolstra will take a look.

• Switch from std::regex to boost::regex by yorickvP · Pull Request #7762 · NixOS/nix · GitHub

  • @thufschmitt had talked to @yorickvP, will continue after next NixOS stable so we can use for next Nix release.

• make it possible to add s3 tag to nars when uploading to s3, to allow different retention policy for debug symbols by symphorien · Pull Request #8080 · NixOS/nix · GitHub

  • should be approached more systematically
  • postponed

• Warn when using cached input from filesystem by raboof · Pull Request #8076 · NixOS/nix · GitHub

  • idea approved

• Add user@address:port support by mkg20001 · Pull Request #3425 · NixOS/nix · GitHub

  • idea approved

• Parse TOML timestamps as strings by andreabedini · Pull Request #8120 · NixOS/nix · GitHub

  • idea approved

• Mounted SSH Store by mupdt · Pull Request #7912 · NixOS/nix · GitHub

  • idea approved
  • should be an experimental feature

[RaitoBezarius]

Awesome, thank you for taking a look into the issue (and thank you for all the amazing work again)!