Re: Nixpkgs updates

Demi Marie Obenour
2026-02-22T14:25:55Z

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On 2/9/26 14:41, Alyssa Ross wrote:
> Demi Marie Obenour <demiobenour@gmail.com> writes:
>
>> On 2/9/26 03:02, Yureka wrote:
>>> My systems attempted to build a spectrum image against nixpkgs master
>>> last night, and failed because of pkgsMusl.netpbm and pkgsMusl.gdb,
>>> which are known blockers since the GCC 15 updates:
>>>
>>> https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/issues?q=is%3Aissue%20state%3Aopen%20author%3Ayuyuyureka
>>
>> Can those be removed from the closure somehow?
>
> I'm pretty sure I answered a very similar question last time, but just
> in case: it would likely be more ongoing maintenance work to maintain
> closure reducing overrides than it would be to fix the occasional build
> failure of a dependency that is not strictly required, at least until we
> have better tooling for identifying problematic Nixpkgs changes. In
> addition, that larger amount of work would have less overall utility,
> because package fixes benefit other Nixpkgs users, whereas adding to an
> ever-expanding list of local overrides does not.

What would the plan be if Spectrum had already been released?
Not being able to ship security fixes while nixpkgs is fixed
would be bad.
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Sincerely,
Demi Marie Obenour (she/her/hers)

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