Flakes Blocker for Org Users: Github ratelimit and need for flake mirroring

[trofi]

@TLATER

You’d have to patch nix, which you can just do. Are you asking how to apply patches to stuff deployed with NixOS (simple, pkgs.nix.overrideAttrs (_: { patches = [ <path-to-patch> ]; }), but where to put that depends on what and how you’re deploying) or just how to patch software in general?

Unfortunately overrideAttrs does not work for nix today (due to nix not being a single source package). nix.package = pkgs.nix.appendPatches is a new way to apply patches: https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/pull/375856#issuecomment-2666009897

[waffle8946]

@pwaller

As soon as they do something like nix build nixpkgs#foo or nix build nixpkgs/nixios-unstable#foo or nix build nixpkgs/ab123ef#foo this breaks, no?

No. The tarball is a flake. When using flakes to build your NixOS config, NixOS configures the registry entry for nixpkgs appropriately.

Rather than making assumptions, I suggest you try it.