Pull nixpkgs as tarball from channels.nixos.org#61
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It comes with IPv6 support, no rate-limiting and is well distributed thanks to Fastly.
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Apparently you can pass a branch like The whole flake registry repo lacks documentation & tests and is GitHub-brained. Disappointing. Very little templating on the tarball URL would be able to complement the branch functionality. |
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Btw I think we can make an improvement here - PR incoming. There's actually a bit of undocumented resolution hackery that will help us a lot. (Though I feel like knowledge of this particular feature has been bestowed on a cursed few). |
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Superseded by #62 |
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Actually working solution for #61. Don't even ask what "exact" is doing here, but it's load-bearing for this to work. Stuff like `nix flake metadata nixpkgs/nixos-26.05` uses the channel tarballs, while `nix flake metadata nixpkgs/master` falls back to `github:nixos/nixpkgs/master`.
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It comes with IPv6 support, no rate-limiting and is well distributed thanks to Fastly.
I'm frankly not sure if this is correct,
./ci.shworks.