Is tarballs.nixos.org stuck at 19.09?

xworld21 · June 15, 2021, 7:10pm

Hi,

Hoping this is the right place. I got the feeling that tarballs.nixos.org was not getting updated, and after some searching I have noticed this line:

github.com

NixOS/infra/blob/014895e4efe894f5dd4d026b78ab86bbecf38488/modules/tarball-mirror.nix#L14


      
          #
          # Note: this service expects AWS credentials for uploading to
          # s3://nixpkgs-tarballs in /home/tarball-mirror/.aws/credentials.
          
          
{ config, lib, pkgs, ... }:
          
          
with lib;
          
          
let
          
          
  nixosRelease = "19.09";
          
          
in
          
          
{
          
          
  users.extraUsers.tarball-mirror =
              { description = "Nixpkgs tarball mirroring user";
                home = "/home/tarball-mirror";
                isNormalUser = true;
              };

Does that mean that the tarballs haven’t been updated since 19.09, by any chance? Shouldn’t this be updated at every release?

Related: Auto-maintaining of hashed mirrors.

vcunat · June 16, 2021, 7:14am

Yes, I think you’re right. Also it’s pulling from a repo that’s not updated anymore (git://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs-channels.git)

I’d probably file an issue, but let’s wait here for some time.

Using nixos-unstable channel would avoid this maintenance, but I expect the point was to reduce the uploaded amount a bit.

vcunat · July 27, 2021, 8:31pm

I believe this is fixed now (for 21.05). I checked a new tarball by

nix-build -A somePackage.src --check
# checking outputs of [...]
# trying http://tarballs.nixos.org/sha256/[...]

xworld21 · July 27, 2021, 10:15pm

Indeed! Thanks for pointing out --check. I just did a test myself on texlive and it’s fetching from tarballs.nixos.org. Good news.

github.com

NixOS/infra/blob/281f56308477b4b7e02df907981746abfaf4dd77/modules/tarball-mirror.nix#L14


      
          #
          # Note: this service expects AWS credentials for uploading to
          # s3://nixpkgs-tarballs in /home/tarball-mirror/.aws/credentials.
          
          
{ config, lib, pkgs, ... }:
          
          
with lib;
          
          
let
          
          
  nixosRelease = "21.05";
          
          
in
          
          
{
          
          
  users.extraUsers.tarball-mirror =
              { description = "Nixpkgs tarball mirroring user";
                home = "/home/tarball-mirror";
                isNormalUser = true;
              };

nixinator · March 27, 2023, 7:38am

does this need bumping again?

vcunat · March 27, 2023, 8:08am

I incidentally moved the thing further, but the indicated problem isn’t the only one. Now there’s some issue around AWS credentials. I have no knowledge about such things so I had just asked others in but got no reaction so far.

vcunat · January 28, 2024, 8:26am

It seems to be working now, 23.11