Who makes Nix packages?

agile_squirrel@lemmy.ml to nixos@lemmy.ml – 12 points – 1 years ago

I'm new to Nix and wanted to get my feet wet by using the Nix package manager. However, I wasn't sure how these packages were made. Are these packaged by the community? Who do I need to "trust" when installing these packages? In general, I was looking for info on how nix packages are made and maintained.

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How are packages marked as insecure? I assume that's from some sort of automatic build process? Is that done in Hydra (https://hydra.nixos.org/)? Or is that from manual, or a lack of manual review?

Manually.

There have been efforts to automate this partially but they've stalled.

I'll be honest, I have no idea. Sometimes, I get nagged that a package is insecure, and it seems reasonable like an old version of Electron, and then I just sigh and add it to my list of packages to ignore that warning on.

I didn't find anything concrete, but it seems that a package is automatically marked insecure if it has a dependency that has a known CVE. I wonder how that is done.