2025-05-04 Nix team meeting minutes #230

Wednesday triage session

Attendees: @tomberek @edolstra @xokvidium @roberth

Triage

2.26.2 does not correctly add ~/.nix-profile to $PATH on foreign distribution · Issue #12625 · NixOS/nix · GitHub

"error: cannot link '/nix/store/.tmp-link' to '/nix/store/.links/...': File exists" · Issue #7273 · NixOS/nix · GitHub

fetchTree attempts download despite narHash existing in store · Issue #12751 · NixOS/nix · GitHub

Directory permissions not always canonicalized · Issue #12786 · NixOS/nix · GitHub

fetchTarball fails after downloading proton-ge · Issue #10575 · NixOS/nix · GitHub

Assertion failure in `outputsSubstitutionTried` · Issue #10092 · NixOS/nix · GitHub

Regression: Interpretation of unqualified absolute paths in flake inputs (git+file:// ⇒ path:) · Issue #13012 · NixOS/nix · GitHub

Mismatched output path when performing nested build on GitHub Actions · Issue #13167 · NixOS/nix · GitHub

Switch builtins.sort to a custom stable PeekSort by xokdvium · Pull Request #12623 · NixOS/nix · GitHub

Add page size system features by RossComputerGuy · Pull Request #12446 · NixOS/nix · GitHub

Chmod build root to make it read-only by noamraph · Pull Request #11448 · NixOS/nix · GitHub

builtins.catchEvalErrors by mightyiam · Pull Request #12705 · NixOS/nix · GitHub

builtins.catchEvalErrors by mightyiam · Pull Request #12705 · NixOS/nix · GitHub

Idea approved

nix repl: Print which variables are just loaded by kstrafe · Pull Request #11406 · NixOS/nix · GitHub

Add option to include untracked files in git and mercurial fetchers by jfroche · Pull Request #9352 · NixOS/nix · GitHub

Client certificate authentication support for binary caches · Issue #13002 · NixOS/nix · GitHub

Allow specifying settings like lfs.fetchexclude for LFS submodules · Issue #13016 · NixOS/nix · GitHub

Add builtins.canonicalPath · Issue #13111 · NixOS/nix · GitHub

Store `StructuredAttrs` directly in `Derivation` by Ericson2314 · Pull Request #13263 · NixOS/nix · GitHub

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