Only @edolstra and @thufschmitt originally. @tom joining later on.
Reviews
Add support for parsing YAML by NaN-git · Pull Request #7340 · NixOS/nix · GitHub
- Should be experimental
- Eelco left a bunch of comments, good to go once it’s resolved
Discussion
Dmesg-based communication between stores
@tomberek raised an interesting possibility for two derivations to communicate by using the kernel logs (readable in the sandbox, and can be written to by segfaulting for instance). Not a huge deal (we don’t pretend that this kind of things is impossible), but good to know and avoid if we can.
@tomberek will open an issue about it.
Local Overlay Store by Ericson2314 · Pull Request #8397 · NixOS/nix · GitHub
- Looks fairly good overall, and rather small PR for the feature
- Would be nice to extend to support not purely local stores as the underlying one (to enable the CI case). But can be built on top of this later
- Might be suboptimal for some use-cases because “simple” operations like “isValidPath” actually require traversing the whole closure on the underlying store (to bubble-it up to the upper layer).
- Assigned to Eelco for further review