What is the difference between determinate/determinate, determinate/nix, and determinate/nix-src

[Malix-Labs]

Hello team

I am asking this here because I think such questions should be publically indexed, which Discord doesn't provide; and I didn't find any more relevant publicly indexed place to talk about determinate, given that it has already been flagged as off-topic in NixOS' discourse

What is the difference between https://github.com/DeterminateSystems/determinate, https://github.com/DeterminateSystems/nix, and https://github.com/DeterminateSystems/nix-src ?

It seems a little confusing and I do not see any clear documentation about their differences

[grahamc]

Yeah, good call. It's a bit confusing, especially as our strategy has changed over time.

• DeterminateSystems/nix is where we track the version of upstream Nix we ship in the Determinate Nix Installer. When we stop including upstream Nix in our installer, we'll archive that repository.

• DeterminateSystems/nix-src is where we track the our changes to the Nix part of the source code for Determinate Nix.

• DeterminateSystems/determinate is where we track the version of determinate-nixd to ship to users, paired with its mated version of DeterminateSystems/nix-src, which together produce Determinate Nix.

For users of NixOS and nix-darwin, DeterminateSystems/determinate is the repo/flake they'd use most to get our modules. Users of our installers directly don't need to worry about that repo, and it is just an input to our nix-installer build process.

[lucperkins]

At the moment, I don't feel like Zero to Nix is the right place to document this. This will change in a few months but at the moment Zero to Nix makes no mention of Determinate Nix. But it's worth bearing in mind for the future.

[Malix-Labs]

Okay, thanks a lot guys

And yes I didn't find any mention of it in Zero to Nix either; But I also didn't wanted to post that in Discord because I think it's a good idea to have questions be publically indexed (like what Discourse provide) so it can help more people

[Richochet1]

I am asking this here because I think such questions should be publically indexed

I don't think GitHub issues are indexed properly in search engines

[Malix-Labs]

I have sometimes been able to fix my issues using search engines or LLMs

At least it's better than not having it available at all publically