This is a follow up to my post on nix vanity store paths. Check it out if you want to jazz-up your /nix/store paths with some vanity prefixes ✨.| Farid Zakaria’s Blog
I am seeing this weird issue that confuses me. Basically realizing a derivation gives a store output. Asking for the deriver for that derivation doesn’t return the same derivation. huh? ❯ nix-store --realize /nix/store/cizs4p15n8m10amjppslimb71s2c6vg0-ruby-3.1.5.drv warning: you did not specify '--add-root'; the result might be removed by the garbage collector /nix/store/c4bdx4dja3h06xg1ksv3f51alp5a44li-ruby-3.1.5 /nix/store/q5gsd06fvsx43liny95w2jmh32cf3w4y-ruby-3.1.5-devdoc ❯ nix-store...| NixOS Discourse
I have a package that has some dependencies. nix-store -qR /nix/store/... One of the dependencies: /nix/store/53wi068kjrqfr2j0hzcxhbw2xaa990jr-bash-4.4-p23 Trying to get its derivation with: nix-store --query --deriver /nix/store/53wi... yields: /nix/store/2amas84m6w99q8lazd9fww6zrkakv6f9-bash-4.4-p23.drv This derivation, however, does not exist on my computer. Despite having in the nix.conf option (which is on by default, but just in case) to keep derivation files. So I thought of regett...| NixOS Discourse