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[Feat]: More sync between nixpkgs version and repo version

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Assessment

Difficulty
4/5
Estimated time
3-5 days
Newbie friendliness
25/100
Issue type
Feature
Clarity
Needs clarification
Activity status
Stale
Tech stack
nixos

Research direction

Start in the nixpkgs repository and compare its package version with the latest code-server release. Investigate the reported Yarn compilation errors and determine the required Nix configuration. Done means the nixpkgs version tracks the latest release and builds successfully.

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Description

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What is your suggestion?

It would be nice if the NixPkgs version is always up-to-date with the latest release.

Why do you want this feature?

In can only install code-server through nix due to some requirements, and I would like to always have the up-to-date version, specially important due to copilot/copilot-chat

Are there any workarounds to get this functionality today?

I can modify the nixpkgs and build it locally.

Are you interested in submitting a PR for this?

I may be interested to maintain nixpkgs version, but when I tried to modify the nixpkgs repository, I failed to compile due to some yarn errors, that I don't know if they are my fault or that this pkg needs to be compiled with some extra nix configs.

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