archbox
napalm
archbox | napalm | |
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4 | 2 | |
127 | 101 | |
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0.0 | 6.1 | |
almost 2 years ago | 4 months ago | |
Shell | Nix | |
Apache License 2.0 | MIT License |
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archbox
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Sharing a new idea for steamOS
I also found this project which streamlines the process a little https://github.com/lemniskett/archbox
you mean something like archbox? https://github.com/lemniskett/archbox
- I currently use Arch exclusively, advice on getting a second laptop?
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NixOS 21.05 Released
If you don't mind the storage penalty, it looks pretty convenient to set up an Arch Linux chroot and use packages from the AUR when you need to: https://github.com/lemniskett/archbox/blob/master/NIXOS_INST...
Nixpkgs itself is several times the size of the base Arch Linux package collection, and by ‘non-unique’ package count, Nixpkgs is also much larger than the AUR. In addition to Nixpkgs, you can find Nix packages in several community ‘overlays’ for Nixpkgs as well as Nix's own user repositories.
You can check to see whether everything you currently use/need is conveniently available for NixOS in a comprehensive-ish way through the combination of these two web search tools:
• for Nixpkgs/NixOS: https://search.nixos.org/packages?channel=21.05
• for NUR: https://nur.nix-community.org/
NixOS also includes native Flatpak support.
Fwiw, packaging most things for Nix is very easy. I left Arch in ~2010 because at the time the package management stack and default repos on Arch basically sucked compared to most distros I'd used and liked, and from then on I decided that if I wanted software that wasn't in my distro's repos I'd just package it myself. After taking a little time to learn the tools on whatever distro I was using, I never missed Arch or the AUR. Compared to other distros, packaging normal software from source is usually exceptionally easy on NixOS.
If I were you I'd just dive right in and hit Nix's channel on Matrix with the Nixpkgs manual in hand if I found something I wanted to use that wasn't already packaged. But you can fall back on the options outlined above.
napalm
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niv, naersk, napalm: moving on
I created https://github.com/nmattia/napalm/issues/34 and https://github.com/nmattia/naersk/issues/183 to move them to nix-community
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NixOS 21.05 Released
Sure. NPM is the easy case because the package-lock.json file can easily be read by Nix and contains hashes for all of the packages. This means that simply be importing the file into Nix you can have a reproducible build. No Nix-specific maintenance required.
In the linked case I use this library to manage that https://github.com/nmattia/napalm (in that example I use master but for production I would pin a version). It simply parses the package-lock.json, downloads the packages and uses npm to build the node_modules folder. It also provides some convenient functions for building packages with "bin" files or just linking node_modules inside a build.
Note that this is more for project development. It doesn't use the "system" packages (intentionally) for Node, it fetches whatever versions you have specified from NPM. Nix will only provide the "native" stuff like Node and NPM themselves and any native libraries.
What are some alternatives?
nixGL - A wrapper tool for nix OpenGL application [maintainer=@guibou]
Home Manager using Nix - Manage a user environment using Nix [maintainer=@rycee]
nix - A declaratively managed computing environment for rraval
nix-processmgmt - Experimental Nix-based process management framework
naersk - Build Rust projects in Nix - no configuration, no code generation, no IFD, sandbox friendly.
nix-update - Swiss-knife for updating nix packages.
nixos-shell - Spawns lightweight nixos vms in a shell
nixos-config - My NixOS configuration.
flake-utils-plus - Use Nix flakes without any fluff.
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