[Nix-dev] btrfs-progs (was: contributing to nixpkgs/nixos)

[Michael Raskin]

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> > That tarball (from the current package) is no longer there and was
> > outdated for a long time. For a long time, other distributions moved
> > to btrfs-progs-unstable, because it was actually more stable and
> > worked with more current features supported by kernel 2.6.37+. Since
> > 2 weeks however, maintenance for btrfs-progs (non-unstable) was
> > resumed and work got integrated again. So maybe we will get a tarball
> > soon. But as stated, the current tarball is gone anyway.
>
>The maintainer of btrfs-progs seems to be Michael Raskin. Michael, do
>you have any opinion in this matter?

I do run BtrFS on my notebook for most partitions and sometimes use 
BtrFS progs. I didn't update NixPkgs to latest git mostly because I 
didn't see if anyone else uses BtrFS (otherwise, it is not worth the 
discussion whether upstream bleeding edge is the right choice).

Currently all allegedely unstable trees I know seem to work quite 
reliably. I would not bet on a sane tarball release in the upcoming
month, so I can either apply a patch or just put my changes from
configurations/ into the main tree.