Not a very long update for today, because a large part of the team is insanely busy interviewing the always growing stream of candidates for the summer of Nix (which is awesome, keep coming!).
Content-addressed Nix
Content-addressed Nix has now reached a beta quality level, and we’re eager for some testing and feedback!
To prepare for this, @thufschmitt did a bunch of work on the broader Nix ecosystem:
- With the latest nixos-unstable versions, it’s now possible to build everything as content-addressed, just by setting the right config field (#120316 and #120993)
- The
nixUnstableversion has also been updated to bring the latest fixes to the feature to make the testing easier (#121263) - The hydra PR got a number of fixes. Thanks to @edolstra it is now properly deployed at https://hydra.ngi0.nixos.org/jobset/ca-test/nixpkgs (testing a subset of a content-addressed nixpkgs), with an associated binary cache at https://cache.ngi0.nixos.org.
In addition, this “release” process led to finding a few extra bugs, in particular #4764 (probably wontfix), #4766 (with a fix at #4767) and #4768 (fix coming soon).
Nickel
@yannham has been preparing a talk for the coming LambdaJam conference. If you’re lucky enough to have a ticket, don’t miss his presentation!
Trustix
@adisbladis Added a toplevel Makefile and @mmesch rewrote part of the README to make it easier to get started on the project.
Misc.
- @thufschmitt wrote a bunch of minor hydra fixes (#940, #939, #950)
- @edolstra fixed a regression regarding the Nix handling of compressed archives (538575)
And that’s all folks!