Software patches in NixOS for fun and productivity
Software patches in NixOS for fun and productivity 25 January 2026, in Olivier’s log After using NixOS for more than a year, one aspect that I didn’t expect to enjoy was software patching. In previous systems, my patches usually became stale (since I never manually pulled the latest release to re-apply my patch). With NixOS, I “just” have to integrate the patches into my config, to ensure that the patch is re-applied to every upgrade. I hope that this shortlist of patching techniques may help you maintain your own patches! (or at least help my future self when facing such situations) Patching code when I am impatient I daily drive a git TUI called Lazygit. I initially couldn’t push/pull over ssh, because the PIN-prompt of my tpm-based ssh-key wasn’t properly handled. I opened a PR in the…
