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 a weekly beginner-oriented improvised 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. Feel free to ask questions using the live chat, or even ask questions directly by joining the meeting: https://meet.jit.si/nix-hour. Alternatively ask questions ahead of time by opening an issue in https://github.com/tweag/nix-hour 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 weekly time 01:08 Q: nixpkgs PR with master merged into PR 03:24 Trying to remove merge commits with rebase 08:20 Cherry picking commits manually 10:37 Pushing changes 11:53 x10an14's solution for rebase 15:32 Q: do you still use nixus? 16:21 nixus configuration demonstration 19:11 nixus: custom modules 20:14 nixus: SSH 21:33 Q: nixus and flakes 33:38 Track down warning about replaceChars 36:57 Issues in nix-hour repository 37:43 Q: How to depend on kerberos in nixpkgs 39:06 Aliases in nixpkgs 40:38 Nix-implementation of attribute typo suggestions 44:32 callPackage implementation of the same 45:48 Q: How to know where and which files to install 47:44 postgresqlTestHook 53:55 Q: nixpkgs PR summary and description information 57:40 Signoff