The Nix Hour is a weekly beginner-oriented improvised QA-style lecture on Nix, hosted by Tweag. Here you can bring your questions and we'll answer them with more context, examples, alternatives, tradeoffs and related topics. These meetings are open for anybody to join, but also recorded and uploaded to the Tweag YouTube channel. For more information check out https://discourse.nixos.org/t/the-nix-hour-a-weekly-nix-qa-lecture-by-tweag/22767
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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. Jitsi Meeting to ask questions directly: https://meet.jit.si/nix-hour 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 01:17 From the NixOS gnome download to the channels 03:55 From the channels to the Hydra evaluation 05:26 From the Hydra evaluation to the Nix expression 07:00 Failing to figure out where the attribute is defined when I should've looked at the `nixos` attribute! 09:09 Finding the iso_gnome definition and looking at its module 11:01 Trying to figure out why it doesn't substitute from Hydra prebuilt version 30:10 Trying out Hydra's "reproduce locally" script 34:51 Giving up and instead starting to build a VM with gnome by unrolling imports 39:15 Building the VM using nixos-rebuild, nix-build and nom-build 41:48 While waiting for the build to finish, trying to again see why it didn't substitute before 43:15 Running the VM and fixing the auto-login not working 49:00 Trying to fix the small VM window size