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[Question] Will nix-flatpak ever be upstreamed to nixpkgs?
Will nix-flatpak every be upstreamed to nixpkgs? There has been no offical statement on the wiki and I am curious, of course I dont expect anyone to like, do the work for me, I am just asking out of curiosity, because on the wiki there has been talks of the secure boot module being up-streamed, and many other modules, nix-flatpak makes more sense to be up streamed than any of them. Are there any plans to upstream this?
I find this very unlikely. nix-flatpak and other nix flatpak management solutions (that I've found, anyway) don't seem to be 100% reproducible in the nix way.
I am not involved with nixos/nixpkgs development, but I don't see a path to upstream.
The approach followed by nix-flatpak does indeed break reproducibility guarantees that nix provides. This project is more more similar (in spirit) to nix-darwin, which also exists as a standalone product.
Would enforcing commit hashes to pin the flatpaks to a specific version still break reproducubility? I skimmed through the code and it seems that it would guarantee that flatpak installs the exact packages between to invocations.
Thank you for this package!
Hey @mainrs
Would enforcing commit hashes to pin the flatpaks to a specific version still break reproducubility?
Pinning packages should help with reproducbility, to the degree of which specific versions ( commit hashses) are available in the remote.
nix-flatpak does support pinning a specific package version,
but could probably benefit from better integration with masking (https://github.com/gmodena/nix-flatpak/issues/154).
Right now if you pin a commit with nix-flatpak and manually run a flatpak update, the pinning will be ignored.
I skimmed through the code and it seems that it would guarantee that flatpak installs the exact packages between to invocations.
Yes; modulo bugs nix-flatpak should provide idempotent, side-effect free installations.
Thank you for this package!
Glad you find it useful!
Did anyone notice this PR => https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/pull/347605
