Robert Hensing

Nixpkgs lib tests update

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# Motivation Nixpkgs currently has a failing test in - https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/pull/285264 This might be a regression. # This PR The goal of this PR is to update the Nixpkgs pin...

Support hexadecimal and octal syntax for integers

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**Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe.** Some configuration formats support hex or octal syntax. It would be nice if those numbers were easily expressed in Nix...

`__curPos` keyword is undocumented

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## Problem `__curPos` keyword is undocumented ## Proposal Add to - Language constructs - Constants: a link to the subsection in Language consturcts, because readers might expect to find it...

Make output paths/hashes indifferent to possible CA/FOD origin of sources

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**Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe.** We can't currently swap out an `inputSrcs` derivation input for an `inputDrvs` input derivation input and get the same output...

Using libgit for deduplication yields drastically worse eval performance

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Using libgit for deduplication yields a very simple implementation but drastically worsens eval performance. I've [mentioned this](https://github.com/NixOS/nix/pull/6530#issuecomment-1412565948) before in the "Source tree abstraction" PR. A current benchmark confirms these results:...

Improve gitignoreFilter for use with flakes

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https://github.com/hercules-ci/gitignore.nix/blob/master/docs/gitignoreFilter.md - Better example - Flake - Promote in README - Improve flake attributes / interface if needed - Convenience function for `.flakeignore`? - `flakeModule`?

digga tries to do something clever by loading all inputs' overlays, but fails

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## Expected Behavior - Do not load the overlays of all inputs. Not appropriate for a framework, as it's O(n), and makes a single overlay strict in all overlays. -...

## Description of changes Help users find what they need to run NixOS tests. Follow-up to - https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/pull/282401#issuecomment-1976373687 ## Things done - Built on platform(s) - [x] x86_64-linux - [...

**Observations** Some contributors are skeptical about the `nix.dev` separation. - https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/pull/272183#discussion_r1416593597 It would be nice for that information to be discoverable, and easy for anyone (but especially us) to refer...

This seems like something we should disable in all cases, as DHCP is not really a container level concern, and as far as I know the container runtime should configure...