Eelco Dolstra
Eelco Dolstra
**Describe the bug** For instance, hitting Ctrl-C during ``` nix eval --impure --expr 'builtins.fetchurl "s3://highlighter-public/405b3ba02ccb2f07ec6aba9f233d4194.mp4?region=ap-southeast-2"' ``` does nothing. **Steps To Reproduce** **Expected behavior** Nix should exit with `error: interrupted by...
# Motivation This allows `nix copy` to atomically copy a store path and point a profile to it, without the risk that the store path might be GC'ed in between....
**Describe the bug** Currently the help text for `MixProfile` just says ``` · --profile path The profile to operate on. ``` which is generic and not very helpful. It should...
E.g. ```nix { inputs.foo = { url = ./../foo; }; } ``` This is primarily useful when you have multiple flakes in the same repository. However this means that we...
**Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe.** Currently, we only maintain the DWARF debuginfo index (https://cache.nixos.org/debuginfo) for store paths that are part of NixOS/Nixpkgs releases. This means...
After running the Determinate installer's uninstall, the `_nixbld*` users still existed. (This causes attempts to run the upstream installer to fail, see https://github.com/NixOS/nix/issues/12343.) For some reason, `_nixbld*` users are in...
Deadline: 31 October 2025
## Motivation The Git fetcher returns a `rev` of `0000...` for dirty workdirs. This caused `isLocked()` to consider such inputs to be locked, which is incorrect. (Probably the fetcher shouldn't...
## Motivation This reverts commit 9cc8be26747a0206613421a1ba1c3b1f54212e8b since magic-nix-cache works again (thanks @jchv). See https://github.com/DeterminateSystems/magic-nix-cache/pull/139. ## Context --- Add :+1: to [pull requests you find important](https://github.com/NixOS/nix/pulls?q=is%3Aopen+sort%3Areactions-%2B1-desc). The Nix maintainer team uses...
## Motivation This allows them to not skip some tests that require a home directory (like anything that uses the fetcher cache). Also, don't try to access cache.nixos.org in the...