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flake-utils-plus
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[Question] When using flakes, can I remove all channels?
You don't need channels to use nix-shell or nix-env. You can generate the Nix path and registry from your flake inputs. flake-utils-plus makes this easy with nix.generateRegistryFromInputs and nix.generateNixPathFromInputs.
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How do I deploy a configuration to a machine with an existing hardware-configuration.nix?
Use flake-utils-plus to easily define multiple systems in flake.nix.and then use the --target-host flag of nixos-rebuild to deploy it remotely.
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Have a shell command in configuration.nix that runs on nixos-rebuild
If you're trying to handle multiple systems with one config a flake is a significantly better option. I would personally recommend looking at flake-utils-plus and specifically this example config.
- Nix Flakes
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Best way to manage multiple home manager configs for both NixOS and non-NixOS systems using flakes?
I looked at some past threads / examples and saw people recommend flake-utils-plus, but after reading the examples I don't understand how I would get home-manager on Darwin or Ubuntu.
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Nix: Taming Unix with Functional Programming
Depending on your specific needs, the channelsConfig (modify arguments passed to Nixpkgs) and overlay tooling in flake-utils-plus may be adequate: https://github.com/gytis-ivaskevicius/flake-utils-plus/tree/...
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What to do...
For flakes you don't have to set up everything manually there are helper libraries, I use flake-utils-plus.
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How shall I install a package not found at https://search.nixos.org/packages?
Converting to flakes is not that hard if you use a good library. The documentation is other people's configs, really.
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I made a thing you can load in Nix repl to get variables from your NixOS configuration
Neat! I've been using flake-utils-plus's implementation until now. https://github.com/gytis-ivaskevicius/flake-utils-plus/blob/master/lib/repl.nix
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How to use a patched nixpkgs locally?
I use flake-utils-plus based configuration to apply patches on top of nixpkgs where overlays don't suffice.
mach-nix
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Installing chatgpt-wrapper
Another way if the above doesn't work is to use mach-nix:https://github.com/DavHau/mach-nix
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How to install pip3
For python, I can highly recommend mach-nix. Makes it really easy to also keep a requirements.txt to stay compatible with non-nix-users.
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Updated ESP-IDF and MicroPython expressions
The ESP32 toolchain is quite cumbersome to install - even under NixOS. The wiki tells you to create a shell.nix that creates a python virtual env at the first execution. I used DavHau's mach-nix to create esp-idf.nix and subsequently micropython-esp32.nix.
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Share your Data Science stack in Nixpkgs
mach-nix and friends are pretty good, but I've found that the expectations of all the commonly-used data science stuff is pretty antithetical to the Nix Way. I'm not sure if it's still the case, but last I tried, Hydra wasn't building CUDA (since it's non-free), so I had to compile that and e.g. TensorFlow and PyTorch. Very painful, even on a beefy system.
- how to install Python packages not yet in the Nix repo?
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Help with installing python packages.
I don't do much Python, but usually everything works just fine with mach-nix. I would try something like this: ``` { pkgs ? import (fetchTarball "https://github.com/nixos/nixpkgs/archive/nixpkgs-unstable.tar.gz") { } }:
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Nix: Taming Unix with Functional Programming
There are some sifferent/new tools for adding your own Python packages these days. It's still not truly solved, but one of these new package generation tools might serve your better:
poetry2nix: https://github.com/nix-community/poetry2nix
dream2nix: https://nix-community.github.io/dream2nix/guides/getting-sta...
mach-nix: https://github.com/DavHau/mach-nix
pip2nix: https://github.com/nix-community/pip2nix
pynixify: https://github.com/cript0nauta/pynixify
The tools available to you at the time (pypi2nix and maybe python2nix, if it was a long time ago) have been abandoned in favor of the newer tools, I think chiefly poetry2nix but I'm not sure.
There's still the Nixpkgs buildPythonPackage stuff, I think, if your goal is to upstream a lib into Nixpkgs. But if you just want to build your own Python applications and vendorize the deps (e.g., for work), you might try one of the tools above, which weren't available 3+ years ago. Maybe Nixy Python users and developers can reply with some of their experiences using those tools :)
- what's the best way to transform nixos into "normal distro"
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How shall I install a Python library/module?
Have a look at mach-nix which is a small utility library for nix to build Python packages declaratively.
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Critique my first overlay (xonsh 0.12.4)
final: prev: { xonsh = prev.xonsh.overrideAttrs (old: rec { version = "0.12.4"; src = final.fetchFromGitHub { owner = "xonsh"; repo = "xonsh"; rev = version; sha256 = "0kdps0gf0767zy0fs6qn39rv4z3x7ck0qz1pzx6962593171yk8b"; }; propagatedBuildInputs = prev.xonsh.propagatedBuildInputs ++ [final.python3Packages.virtualenv]; }); python39 = prev.python39.override { self = prev.python39; packageOverrides = python_final: python_prev: { prompt-toolkit = python_prev.prompt-toolkit.overrideAttrs (old: rec { version = "3.0.29"; src = final.python3Packages.fetchPypi { pname = "prompt_toolkit"; inherit version; sha256 = "sha256-vWQPYOjOzXTw3CSXE9QzrOLdxitl7gf5bTWOCxUrbqc="; }; }); }; }; # Using mach-nix to fetch unpackaged xontrib plugins # adapted from https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/issues/75786#issuecomment-873654103 mach-nix = import (builtins.fetchGit { url = "https://github.com/DavHau/mach-nix/"; ref = "refs/tags/3.4.0"; }) { pkgs = final; }; xonsh_pyenv = final.mach-nix.mkPython { requirements = '' xontrib-fzf-widgets xonsh-direnv ''; }; xonsh_with_plugins = final.xonsh.overrideAttrs (old: { propagatedBuildInputs = old.propagatedBuildInputs ++ final.xonsh_pyenv.python.pkgs.selectPkgs final.xonsh_pyenv.python.pkgs; }); }
What are some alternatives?
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poetry2nix - Convert poetry projects to nix automagically [maintainer=@adisbladis]
flake-utils - Pure Nix flake utility functions [maintainer=@zimbatm]
discord-overlay - [DEPRECATED] A Nixpkgs overlay providing the latest version(s) of the Discord desktop app, automatically updated every 30 minutes
nixGL - A wrapper tool for nix OpenGL application [maintainer=@guibou]
spotify-dl - Downloads songs from your Spotify Playlist
nix-alien - Run unpatched binaries on Nix/NixOS
NixOS-docker - DEPRECATED! Dockerfiles to package Nix in a minimal docker container
lm-evaluation-harness - A framework for few-shot evaluation of language models.
deploy-rs - A simple multi-profile Nix-flake deploy tool.
nix-prefetch-github - Prefetch sources from github for nix build tool