Samba with mDNS support requires a recompilation?

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Hello folks, I’ve been setting up a samba share on NixOS and quickly I found out that the share was not discoverable and learnt from the official wiki that I was supposed to use package = pkgs.samba4Full to enable mDNS and make it discoverable.

However that triggered a big recompilation that even included unrelated packages like ceph, which I thought made no sense. I’ve managed to reduce it to just enable mDNS which still triggers a recompilation, but without lots of other dependencies.

Is this expected? It looks to me there should be a simpler path to enabling mDNS on the samba share, even if it were to have a separate package that would also be on the binary cache.

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  1. Only directly accessible packages are cached so samba4Full is build and cached but pkgs.samba.override { enableMDNS = true; } would not be.
  2. pkgs.samba4Full does appear to be cached, could you share what revision of nixpkgs you are using?
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I can test it again when I’m home, but this is my flake.lock.

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Thanks, I didn’t know you could have a flake.nix/flake.lock in a subdirectory.

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It’s not cached because Hydra (the nix build server) failed to build ceph (a dependency of samba4Full).

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