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GitHub disabled the xz repo, making it a bit more difficult for nix to revert to an older version. They've made a fix, but it will take several more days for th

GitHub disabled the xz repo, making it a bit more difficult for nix to revert to an older version. They've made a fix, but it will take several more days for the build systems to finish rebuilding the ~220,000 packages that depend on the bootstrap utils.

kreetx 2y ago
Here is the discussion https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/issues/300055 https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/issues/300055
account42 2y ago
Lol they shouldn't be relying on GitHub in the first place.
- rrrix1 2y ago
  What should they be relying on instead? Maybe rsync everything to an FTP server? Or Torrents? From your other comments, you seem to think no one should ever use GitHub for anything.