The Nix Hour

Currently Playing: The Nix Hour #39 [removing channels from NixOS]

Questions can only be asked by voice or chat in the meeting: https://meet.jit.si/nix-hour Vote for the new Nix Hour time here: https://discourse.nixos.org/t/poll-nix-hour-iteration-3-new-date-and-time/30968 The Nix Hour is an open beginner-oriented Q&A-style lecture on Nix, where you can bring your questions and we’ll answer them with more context, examples, alternatives, tradeoffs and related topics. Matrix room for questions, feedback and notifications: https://matrix.to/#/%23nix-hour:matrix.org Issue tracker for asynchronous questions: https://github.com/tweag/nix-hour/issues Previous sessions playlist: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLyzwHTVJlRc8yjlx4VR4LU5A5O44og9in For more information and updates, check out https://discourse.nixos.org/t/the-nix-hour-a-weekly-nix-qa-lecture-by-tweag/22767 00:00 Intro, new Nix hour time 00:28 Q: How to get rid of channels on NixOS system 02:19 Nix installation script internals 06:46 Looking for NIX_PATH default value 12:54 Removing NIX_PATH on NixOS 18:12 Finding where ~/.nix-defexpr/channels in NIX_PATH comes from 23:16 Disabling nix.channel.enable in NixOS configuration 24:40 How nixPath default text is generated in manual 30:52 When was nix.channel created 33:06 https://nixpk.gs 33:52 Tracking down channel source by git-revision 37:59 https://channels.nix.gsc.io (outdated) 40:03 Nix channel status https://status.nixos.org 41:39 Development branches in Hydra 42:51 Hydra job sources 45:44 Evaluation errors in Hydra 46:21 Packages marked as broken after Zero Hydra Failure 51:54 Nix registry 58:04 Outro, next week Thu, 18:00 CEST