Nix 2.4 came out on November 1, 2021, and that’s sort of a big deal. It’s been more than two years since the last major Nix release, and there are some pretty important changes. Including some breaking changes, which is why I have waited so long to upgrade. Because I think that, in order to keep using Nix, I’m finally going to have to learn what “flakes” are, and do a bunch of other stuff just to restore the functionality that I was enjoying before. Or maybe not. It might be painless. Let’s find out!
# A survey of software related to the Gemini protocol
This is a collection of Nix packages, either picked from the main Nixpkgs repository or locally hosted. Please submit a patch if you wish to add packages in either form.
Requires Nix with flakes supported and enabled.
=> https://www.tweag.io/posts/2020-05-25-flakes.html
I’m using flakes for my system configuration. Most things are going smoothly, but I’m stuck on one thing. I create a custom pkgs attribute set in flake.nix and then attempt to pass it to nixosSystem for use in all module…