2024-11-06 Nix team meeting minutes #192

[roberth]

Wednesday triaging meeting turned work session

In this meeting, we’ve completed the switch to meson

Attendees: @roberth @tomberek @Mic92 @Ericson2314

Triage

No issue

aarch64-linux build fails on nix flake show test

Decision: harmless, disable test for now

Nix should not depend on Nix · Issue #11741 · NixOS/nix · GitHub

Works as intended automatically thanks to meson. Tested by @Mic92.

Preparations for 2.25

Remove the old make-based build system by Ericson2314 · Pull Request #11804 · NixOS/nix · GitHub

• Flaky test, restarted
  • Possible solution: do not build the cert in a derivation, as that’s not reproducible, partially cached => produce in testScript instead.

Restore input substitution by edolstra · Pull Request #11701 · NixOS/nix · GitHub

• @roberth will review. Idea was approved and impl coming along

Fix cross manual by roberth · Pull Request #11820 · NixOS/nix · GitHub

Opened.

[asymmetric]

Perhaps worth mentioning that 11804 got temporarily reverted.

[Ericson2314]

Remove old make (attempt 2) by edolstra · Pull Request #11850 · NixOS/nix · GitHub and now it’s back