Move #Nextcloud-packages to the new directory structure `pkgs/by-name` in #NixOS #nixpkgs ♻️ https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/pull/498519

Part of my work for @nextcloud and @synyx

#NixOS / #nixpkgs questions: I'm running against nixos-unstable. Home Manager has a "news" feature that tells me when things change in ways I might care about. Does anyone have a cunning way to get notified about changes to the Nixpkgs and NixOS release notes?

I can write my own monitoring script, but if there's a way of doing this that doesn't require reinventing this particular wheel, that'd be preferable!

Does anbody know what files i need to remove except `/var/lib/stalwart-mail` to completely scrub it off the system? I had a test ]nstance running and want to use it prosuctively, but don't want to upgrade from and old version across 3 point releases manually.

Maybe @stalwartlabs ?

#NixOS #NixPkgs #StalwartMail

AirPlay support is coming to Music Assistant on NixOS 👏 I'm stoked

https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/pull/492341

#nixos #nixpkgs #homeassistant #musicassstant

PR number 500k soon in #nixpkgs

My next big thing in #nixpkgs: building librusty_v8, a dependency of deno, from source. I’m finally happy with my PR. let’s see what the maintainers say :) https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/pull/489526

#NixOS #deno

Good morning,
does someone have an guide for how I can create an package for NixOS? I'm currently scripting my configuration for the plasma-manager and have seen, that my themes are not packaged.

I'm a beginner at NixOS btw. ;)

#NixOS #nixpkgs #nixosflakes

Plan to remove minIO from nixpkgs: https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/issues/490996

#minio #s3 #nixos #nixpkgs

It's been fun, it feels like a new superpower to "quickly fix something and send a PR". It's also a super dangerous rabbit hole generator, because now that it's easy to fix stuff, it's very tempting to do so… 🐇

My prototype has some rough edges:

It clones the latest commit, which doesn't always compile using the #nixpkgs setup (but it seems reasonable to check whether the bug is still there).

And invoking the phases of the nixpkgs stdenv manually can be tricky. https://nixos.org/manual/nixpkgs/stable/#sec-building-stdenv-package-in-nix-shell

You'd roughly need to:

- Figure out which program is currently focused
- Figure out the Git repo of this software
- Clone it into a temporary directory
- Set up the required tools to start hacking on it and compile it

As a quick prototype, I wrote a li'l Bash script that does some of these things. It makes heavy use of #nix and #nixpkgs:

https://codeberg.org/blinry/view-source-button

I enters a "dev shell" with the required tools already in the PATH, and even sets up a Git remote to start contributing. :D

@polyfloyd that's the idea of #NixOS, which is basically what happens if someone took the ideas of #Flatpak, #Snap and #Docker and consequently made it into the default packaging (#nixpkgs) and deployment (#nixpkg) method for anything beyond the bare minimum OS!

I think what irks me the most about the understaffed darwin (= macOS) maintainers situation in #nixpkgs is not only that it forces pure Linux users to look out for darwin quirks and thus invest a significant amount of time in darwin maintenance, but also that a significant amount of the business value of DetSys, Flox and similar #Nix-based developer tools companies comes from this work. As a 50% darwin user (and maintainer) I'm grateful but still feel remorse about the unfairness.

I've created https://github.com/nixos/nixpkgs/issues/490996 for @nixos_org to discuss the discontinuation of minio and how to deal with it in nixpkgs

#nixos #minio #nixpkgs

Just found that there was a last Christmas gift remaining in my stocking!

#nixpkgs on @radicle
Big guns entered the chat!
Our fantasies soon to be a reality!

https://github.com/NixOS/infra/issues/678

These people never rest! 😂
#git #nixos

Security Advisory: Privilege escalation to the `CAP_NET_RAW` capability via the `programs.captive-browser` NixOS module (CVE-2026-25740)

https://discourse.nixos.org/t/security-advisory-privilege-escalation-to-the-cap-net-raw-capability-via-the-programs-captive-browser-nixos-module-cve-2026-25740/75162

#security #nixpkgs #nixos

Why didn't anyone tell me that #lix is in #nixpkgs now and that I can use it without even having to include it in my flake inputs!?!!

Security Advisory: Database and filestore publicly accessible with default Odoo configuration (CVE-2026-25137)

https://discourse.nixos.org/t/security-advisory-database-and-filestore-publicly-accessible-with-default-odoo-configuration-cve-2026-25137/74894

#security #nixpkgs #nixos

Such an amazing effort by @mynacol to compile #Zotero from source in :nixos: nixpkgs. This will make it possible to easily try out Zotero patches or even make your own version with custom changes. Power of Nix! 💪

https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/pull/483099

#nix #nixos #nixpkgs

@nixos_org @nzbr

While we're on the topic: work on minimal-bootstrap in #nixpkgs has actually been picked up again since this thesis was written (October 2025).

Not only that but, as of a few hours ago, the PR implementing the last step of hooking it up to become the actual bootstrap stdenv in Nixpkgs has been merged!

https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/pull/479322

#fullsourcebootstrap #reproduciblebuilds #stage0 #minimalbootstrap #bootstrappablebuilds

FOSDEM 2026 is this weekend and DetSys software engineer Tristan Ross will be speaking on Saturday about SBOMs for #Nix.

The talk will cover:

- What SBOMs are
- What SBOMs can realistically do
- The ideal SBOM
- How we can improve #Nixpkgs

If you care about reproducibility, provenance, and putting Nix at the forefront of modern supply chain security, this one’s well worth attending in person or watching on the livestream.

🔗 https://fosdem.org/2026/schedule/event/8SNMXT-describing_nix_closures_using_sboms/

#fosdem #fosdem2026 #fosdem26