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topic: fetchZip exceeds hydra output size limit #56

Closed evils closed 5 months ago

evils commented 11 months ago

mostly from here: https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/issues/255657

fetchZip unpacks the source but the unpacked source exceeds the hydra size limit so even though the package that uses the source outputs something way below the limit, it can't be built on hydra

additionally it may be interesting to look at fetchFromGitHub -> fetchZip -> fetchurl -> maybe even mirrors? (and how the software heritage foundation could factor into this?)

and when one may want to stop stuff from buildng on Hydra (and how to do so) when to set up your own cache and maybe even talk about the prospects for P2P stores?

infinisil commented 5 months ago

We're going to cover this topic in this weeks Nix Hour on Wednesday 15:00 CEST! If you or anybody else has any extra questions about this topic, either: