Remove the Build Hook Mechanism, Store Extensions
Contributor: Amrit Amber
The Nix build hook mechanism has been marked for removal since 2017, but it still fills an important gap in Nix's distributed build architecture. In...
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- Total projects
- 7
- Years participating
- 2
- Most recent
- 2026
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Historical projects
Improve CVE - Derivation Matching Accuracy, Data Integrity, and Observability in the Nixpkgs Tracker
Contributor: Darshan Thakare
This project focuses on improving the accuracy, reliability, and observability of the Nixpkgs Security Tracker by addressing key limitations in its...
NixOS vars
Contributor: prescientmoon
NixOS vars allow declaring secrets that live inside (or outside) the nix store in a declarative manner. Vars already have a WIP implementation over...
Enrich Nixpkgs with correct PURLs for accurate SBOMs
Contributor: Tanishq Palandurkar
NixOS is uniquely positioned to generate accurate, reproducible Software Bills of Materials (SBOMs) from its declarative build graph, yet current...
Nix Internals: Use std::filesystem::path for Path
Contributor: siddhantCodes
This document presents the framework for a GSOC'24 project aimed at improving Nix internals by leveraging std::filesystem where applicable,...
Nixpkgs networking library
Contributor: Yurii Shymon
As part of GSoC campaign, I'd like to add a sort of networking library to nixpkgs. Most general-purpose programming languages support network...
evanix: Nix Build Scheduler
Contributor: Sinan Mohd
In evanix we explored making the scheduling of Nix builds more controllable. in particular, we look into implementing constraints such as –max-builds...