Travis A. Everett

https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/pull/167905, which reorganized resholve's Nix API a bit, landed in unstable this week. Since you have public uses, I prepared a quick PR to migrate them in case it's helpful.

scripting decrypt with password from password manager?

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I'm working towards cutting as much interaction out of my bootstrap process as possible. I fiddled with ways to pass a decrypt password straight to yadm but it looks like...

nix-build --help fails with invalid nix.conf

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It looks like nix-build's help flag can't be used without a valid config (even though the message for an invalid config tells you to check the help). Clipping original comment...

doc: add install test info to hacking.md

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@Artturin [suggested](https://github.com/NixOS/nix/pull/6639#issuecomment-1151841848) _someone_ document installer testing (added in #4549, updated in at least #4577) in hacking.md. I'm a little ambivalent about doing this because it underscores everything _else_ about generating...

Close the gap between installer platforms generated by CI and release?

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https://github.com/NixOS/nix/pull/4549 introduced Nix installer tests to the CI run. The list of platforms that the installers are generated for is fine for the CI test (which is currently just covering...

fragile PATH assumptions exposed by `test/fixtures/bats/update_path_env.bats`

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_edit: after a brain vacation, I fixed the PR link below :)_ Hi all, I'm the current maintainer for the bats package in [nixpkgs](https://github.com/nixos/nixpkgs). While reviewing [the PR to update...

Flow for nominating a project you don't control?

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I'm doing a little work this afternoon to set up an app that that hasn't had a release in 4 years. It seems to work for my purpose, but it...

browse/exploration-oriented views of projects?

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Aside from the list of most-recently-added projects, I couldn't find a non-search interface. Apologies if I've just missed it. I think browse/exploration-oriented views could add a lot of value for...

targeting git repos with a nonstandard name/path?

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It would be nice to be able to point mgitstatus at nonstandard git repos. My personal use-case is the yadm dotfile manager https://github.com/TheLocehiliosan/yadm, which is uses a distinct path. Typically...

package name/namespace

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No strong personal opinion, but I noticed the "complexity" name is already colonized in a few of the big repos (https://repology.org/project/complexity/versions) and figured it was worth a mention while this...