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Changelog

2026-08-03

• Added presets/security/corporate-ca.nix (nix-darwin) and enabled it on the lookingglass host to trust a corporate TLS-intercepting proxy's root CA. Behind the corp network, Nix fetches failed with SSL peer certificate ... self-signed certificate in certificate chain (19) because Nix's stock Mozilla CA bundle doesn't contain the interception root. The module appends the cert to security.pki.certificateFiles, which rebuilds /etc/ssl/certs/ca-certificates.crt (read by both the Nix daemon and, via NIX_SSL_CERT_FILE, client-side flake fetches).

  The cert is kept out of this public repo and referenced by absolute path. It is passed as a string (not a Nix path literal) so pure flake evaluation doesn't read it at eval time, and it lives at a root-owned, world-readable path because the unprivileged nixbld build user cannot traverse $HOME (mode 0750) to read it at build time.

  One-time setup on a machine behind the proxy:

  # 1. Extract the self-signed corporate root from any TLS connection it MITMs
  #    (the last cert in the chain, subject == issuer). Any HTTPS host works:
  echo | openssl s_client -connect example.com:443 -servername example.com \
    -showcerts 2>/dev/null \
    | awk '/BEGIN CERT/{c++} c==2' > /tmp/CorpCA.pem
  openssl x509 -in /tmp/CorpCA.pem -noout -subject -issuer   # sanity check
  
  # 2. Install to the root-owned path the config points at:
  sudo install -d -m 0755 -o root -g wheel /etc/ssl/corp-ca
  sudo install -m 0644 -o root -g wheel /tmp/CorpCA.pem \
    /etc/ssl/corp-ca/CorpCA.pem
  
  # 3. Bootstrap the first rebuild (which must fetch inputs over the proxy)
  #    with a combined bundle, then it's permanent:
  cat /etc/ssl/certs/ca-certificates.crt /etc/ssl/corp-ca/CorpCA.pem \
    > /tmp/combined-ca.crt
  NIX_SSL_CERT_FILE=/tmp/combined-ca.crt nh darwin switch . --configuration lookingglass
  

• Fixed the zellij-session fish function in presets/programs/zellij.nix truncating the session name (derived from the target directory basename) to 20 characters. Zellij names each session's Unix-domain IPC socket $TMPDIR/zellij-<uid>/<version>/<name>, and on macOS the socket path is capped at 103 bytes. The /var/folders/... $TMPDIR prefix consumes ~79 of those, leaving only ~24 chars for the name, so switching into directories with long basenames overflowed the socket path. Because switch-session had already detached from the current session by the time the new one failed to bind, the failure took down the entire terminal instead of erroring gracefully.

2026-07-25

• Added jjui config generation to jujutsu.nix in Home Manager to include custom GitHub ruleset bypass commands (ctrl+b and ctrl+shift+b).
• Added overlays/cheetah3.nix to disable pythonMetadataCheckPhase for cheetah3. This fixes an issue where the NixOS rebuild fails for sabnzbd due to importlib.metadata.PackageNotFoundError: No package metadata was found for cheetah3 during the Python package evaluation in nixos-unstable.

2026-07-20

• Added overlays/paho-mqtt.nix to disable paho-mqtt's flaky, socket-based test suite. Its checkPhase hangs in the Nix sandbox and times out with a KeyboardInterrupt after ~150s, which was breaking the flame rebuild (paho-mqtt is pulled in transitively, e.g. via mealie). The override is applied through pythonPackagesExtensions so it covers every Python package set.