Silvan Mosberger

> Team is concerned that such an experimental feature will be used and quickly become a non-experiment and relied upon, making breaking changes more difficult, requiring migration path. Here's a...

> I think it still doesn't address migration paths for multiple store backends, alas. I'm also not entirely sure if I get it, but it could be required that experimental...

@zimbatm @RaitoBezarius @figsoda: What specific branch protections were turned off to make the release work? And were they turned on again afterwards?

This is now implemented in Nixpkgs directly: https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/commit/013acf2396f451c73b6cd6b0148df21cbaa4c165

See https://github.com/NixOS/ofborg/pull/472 which I think is a good solution in this specific case, since the lib tests only need some very basic builders from pkgs

Oh nice, thanks! Note that it doesn't seem to work without an `allowed-updates` entry (the error message could be better): ``` updater | 2024/04/10 21:43:59 ERROR Error during file fetching;...

Nice! Though Git doesn't detect the files as having been renamed. To fix this, could you split this into at least two commits, the first one that just renames the...

Sorry for the late response. Did you [log out and back in again](https://github.com/infinisil/sanix/blob/37b7f370e36f1a1e90f746e0a4f80582058f7d55/README.md#L47)?

See https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/pull/273170

Yeah this can be achieved be e.g. running the setup described twice, but then instead of having two `nix` directories, make both use the same one. The [`nixpkgs/path.nix`](https://github.com/infinisil/sanix/blob/main/nixpkgs/path.nix) file specifies...