dotfiles
nix-portable
| dotfiles | nix-portable | |
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| 1 | 11 | |
| 0 | 726 | |
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| 4.7 | 7.8 | |
| about 1 year ago | 7 days ago | |
| Nix | Nix | |
| - | MIT License |
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dotfiles
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The Determinate Nix Installer
Now that this binary installer exists I would definitely recommend it.
I’ve deleted Homebrew from my system and I’m now using the same home-manager setup for my macOS laptops as well as my WSL installation on windows.
It’s so great to have the exact same tools and shell configuration installed everywhere.
I have not used flakes yet but if that will help me deal with the differences between my systems I’m definitely for it!
E.g I have a work Mac, personal Mac, personal PC with WSL.
When on my work machine, usernames are different and my Git config should identify me as me, and I shouldn’t have access to my personal credential for personal GitHub, RSA private keys for personal servers, etc.
But all else should be the same.
Mostly there but the credentials part I am still figuring out.
If you want to check it out, it’s here: https://github.com/leonbreedt/dotfiles
Won’t work for you out of the box tho as it depends on private repo for sensitive configs.
nix-portable
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An independent package manager that every hacker deserves
There is also nix-portable (https://github.com/DavHau/nix-portable), which is basically a drop-in replacement for normal nix that does everything required for no-root operation by itself when needed. Just put the single binary in your PATH and it's ready.
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Docker's deleting Open Source images and here's what you need to know
level (/nix/store/)
Yes, for cache hits to happen it has to be this way as far as I remember.
There is a project called nix-portable though that I've seen some HPC users report success with:
https://github.com/DavHau/nix-portable
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The Determinate Nix Installer
Great work Graham and team, I'll be switching to it on OSX.
I wonder if you took a look at some of the modifications done by portable-nix (https://github.com/DavHau/nix-portable), most important ones being:
a) Allowing user to choose the location of the nix folder (for example $HOME/.nix) by using bwrap or proot
- is it possible to install the nix package manager with no root privleges?
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Day 15 with silverblue, loving how rock stable the whole system feels! Exactly the kind of distro i've always wanted.
you can install it and forget about it. yeah the major downside is that you need to disable selinux unless you use nix portable.
- I found this
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I made a nix-portable integration for direnv for my friend who doesn't want to install nix on his machine 😈
Yeah sadly nix-portable doesn't support macOS because of missing kernel features. They are also thinking about docker fallback though: https://github.com/DavHau/nix-portable/issues/23 🤔😋
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Introducing Riff, a Nix-based tool for automatically providing external dependencies to Rust projects
There is this: https://github.com/DavHau/nix-portable but I agree we need an official solution
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We want to make Nix better
Not entirely true, there are many ways in which you can use a custom location and still take advantage of the binary cache. You can do it with chroot, file system namespaces, bind mounts and so on. There's also a nice user friendly tool that does exactly this [1].
[1]: https://github.com/DavHau/nix-portable
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Nix Development Container
This is cool! In a similar vein, it's worth mentioning nix-portable is a thing. Same idea of containerization except it avoids docker. https://github.com/DavHau/nix-portable
What are some alternatives?
nix-installer - Install Nix and flakes with the fast and reliable Determinate Nix Installer, with over 2 million installs.
dream2nix - Simplified nix packaging for various programming language ecosystems [maintainer=@DavHau]
nix-installers - Nix installers for legacy distributions (rpm & deb & pacman) [maintainer=@adisbladis]
arion-compose - Run docker-compose with help from Nix/NixOS
Home Manager using Nix - Manage a user environment using Nix [maintainer=@rycee]
nix-gaming - Gaming on Nix
nix-with-selinux - this project has moved to a new repo. click the link below
nixos-config - Nix configuration for macOS / NixOS with starter templates, step-by-step guides, and more ✨
bob - Bob is a high-level build tool for multi-language projects.
nix - Nix, the purely functional package manager
nixpkgs - Nix Packages collection & NixOS