How to show all the required `allowUnfreePredicate` at once?

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I don’t want to use nixpkgs.config.allowUnfree = true; because I want to keep track every unfree packages on my system, so i use

nixpkgs.config.allowUnfreePredicate = pkg: builtins.elem (lib.getName pkg) [ "unfreelistitem" ];

instead.

However, cuda contain a lot of unfree packages, something like

[
  "cuda-merged"
  "cuda_cuobjdump"
  "cuda_gdb"
  "cuda_nvdisasm"
  "cuda_nvcc"
  "cuda_cccl"
  "cuda_cudart"
   #...
]

so when everytime I run nixos-rebuild switch, it only prompt one of it in the error message, which is very time consuming for me to add them in the list.
How can I get all of it at once? Thanks!

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I think --keep-going will try (and fail) to build them all before quitting?

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--keep-going is for builds, I don’t know of a method to power through eval errors.

4

Try evaluating with GitHub - nix-community/nix-eval-jobs: Parallel nix evaluator with a streamable json output [maintainers @Mic92, @adisbladis]

5

iirc that just shows the same errors $JOBS times, it doesn’t actually parallelise eval.

6

Well, then in general you could write your own code to recurse through the cuda subtree and find the relevant package names.

But for Cuda you can also use nixpkgs/pkgs/development/cuda-modules/_cuda/lib/cuda.nix at 1a133b4464859f6e8fe2c9b2f72d52fcb3ffe3b5 · NixOS/nixpkgs · GitHub