Dear Nix project leaders,
I don't find NixOS to be very deterministic at all, and it's nearly
always for the same reason: source files on random servers scattered across the
Internet going walkabouts.
Please can we have all source files hosted by the Nix project and all
source URLs in nixpkgs and nixpkgs-channels replaced or accompanied by the
Nix-hosted copies. Ideally there should be a way to specify multiple URLs for
each source file, so both the original and the Nix-hosted locations can be
specified, as well as any other mirrors if there are any.
As for the duration of the hosting, I think that at least every release
build that goes through Hydra to build live images and such should keep hosted
files (source or binary alike) indefinitely. Anything that was not one of these
Hydra builds I don't mind too much if they go missing because I nearly always
stick to the release builds, but it would still be appreciated if all source
files could be hosted indefinitely to aid with binary searches of regressions
or other changes.
Better still, if magnet URIs could be specified and Nix would support
downloading from torrents then it would be very easy to avoid breakage due to
missing source files.
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In this specific instance, please could someone with commit access
resolve this breakage a.s.a.p.?:
https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs-channels/blob/nixos-15.09/pkgs/tools/misc/moreutils/default.nix
Perhaps it could be done by updating it from 0.57 to 0.58 or by finding
it on another mirror somewhere. The Debian source archive at
http://ftp.de.debian.org/debian/pool/main/m/moreutils/ lists 0.47, 0.52, and
0.58, but not 0.57. Moreutils is depended on by Mercurial and Mercurial is a
build dependency of many things, so that one source breakage has broken a lot
of things from building in the head of the NixOS 15.09 release channel branch.
Best regards,
James R. Haigh.
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