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this post was submitted on 14 Jan 2024
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also motherfucker, those versions are compatible! no shit there’s no downtime for a hotfix upgrade. we got into this mess upgrading from 0.18.4 to 0.19.2 cause nobody seemed to think the upgrade process through in any detail
for anyone interested, the hack that NixOS uses to fix the asset path is here. the config we’re running predates that, and we may not be able to use that hack with a flakeified
lemmy-ui
(which is what makes it a hack — usingsrc.rev
like that is brittle and feels like it breaks Nix’s abstractions. maybe using git hashes like this is actually a bad fucking idea, huh? and the real fucked up part is, the UI knows its version so they could use that, but they woke up and chose jank)