Build is failing about neovim-nightly-overlay HOT 11 CLOSED

If you're using flakes, you can work around this issue by specifying the input as follows:

inputs.neovim-nightly-overlay = {
  url = "github:nix-community/neovim-nightly-overlay";
  # Pin to a nixpkgs revision that doesn't have NixOS/nixpkgs#208103 yet
  inputs.nixpkgs.url = "github:nixos/nixpkgs?rev=fad51abd42ca17a60fc1d4cb9382e2d79ae31836";
};

This is obviously only meant as a temporary workaround.

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Feel free to make a PR here.

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I tried building the flake in neovim/neovim/contrib by hand and it worked, so the issue seems to be somewhere else.

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I managed to build by going back to "72ff8b1ca0331a8735c1eeaefb95c12dfe21d30a" and then bumping the neovim-flake to the latest, so the issue seems to be with ninxpkgs, should we keep that version (or use nixpkgs-stable instead of unstable?)

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I have submitted a patch to neovim directly: neovim/neovim#21711

The actual cause of this is rather convoluted, so I'm not sure if the upstream patch will be accepted or not.

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Thanks for the tip.

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I would rather have this patched here nix-community/neovim-nightly-overlay rather than upstream. Other neovim core contributors accepted to upstream a flake.nix but I dont want to overload them with unnecessary churn.

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I would rather have this patched here nix-community/neovim-nightly-overlay rather than upstream. Other neovim core contributors accepted to upstream a flake.nix but I dont want to overload them with unnecessary churn.

I actually think now it will be better to upstream it and update upstream's flake.lock.

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I actually think now it will be better to upstream it and update upstream's flake.lock.

this is a bit short on explanation. The neovim repo is for neovim development, the flake over there is best effort and shouldn't be adapted to whatever patches are added in nixpkgs. I thought this was what this repo was for: check that neovim nightly works with unstable and if not:

• either pin to the latest working neovim/nixpkgs combination
• or patch neovim's declaration so that it works.

Btw the reproducibility patch has been merged and will therefore disappear from nixpkgs in the next release.

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Why was this closed?

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I do not remember doing that, like at all. Sorry.

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