Re:GitHub Packages Is Down
by mananaysiempre on Wednesday March 01, 2023 @09:27AM
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You presume incorrectly. GitHub Packages, the package registry and binary hosting service, does not even support Nix. As for GitHub in general—
The binary hosting at https://cache.nixos.org/ is independent of GitHub, and so are the old-style channels at https://channels.nixos.org/. The new-style flake registry used to be fetched from GitHub but has now been moved to https://channels.nixos.org/flake-registry.json. Admittedly in a new-style situation you’re likely to be using unlocked flake references that refer to GitHub (e.g. Nixpkgs), but it’s on you to lock them and pull them into your Nix store in that case.
Of course, you also get GitHub references for upstreams that host their code there, but that’s the case for almost any distro(’s build system) except for the oldest of the old-timers which host the source for the whole distro on their own infrastructure, like Debian. (I happen think the old-timers are right here, but that’s beside the point.)
The binary hosting at https://cache.nixos.org/ is independent of GitHub, and so are the old-style channels at https://channels.nixos.org/. The new-style flake registry used to be fetched from GitHub but has now been moved to https://channels.nixos.org/flake-registry.json. Admittedly in a new-style situation you’re likely to be using unlocked flake references that refer to GitHub (e.g. Nixpkgs), but it’s on you to lock them and pull them into your Nix store in that case.
Of course, you also get GitHub references for upstreams that host their code there, but that’s the case for almost any distro(’s build system) except for the oldest of the old-timers which host the source for the whole distro on their own infrastructure, like Debian. (I happen think the old-timers are right here, but that’s beside the point.)