nix-update
archbox
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5 | 4 | |
385 | 127 | |
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8.2 | 0.0 | |
9 days ago | almost 2 years ago | |
Python | Shell | |
MIT License | Apache License 2.0 |
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nix-update
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Accessing contents of non-flake repo input to a flake?
You should instead use the regular fetchGit, fetchFromGitHub etc. fetchers in fairly vanilla code, and yes, that often means dealing with checksums in some form. If you truly just want to yeet the latest revision into place no matter what it is, there are ways to automate that still, such as berberman/nvfetcher, or Mic92/nix-update.
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Will you move from Packer to Lazy ?
Yes, however one downside is that, afaik, the inputs are downloaded eagerly, not lazily. Alternatively there are things like nix-update and nvfetcher.
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How easy would it be to make Nix packages similar to -git packages of the AUR?
or https://github.com/Mic92/nix-update
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Beat way to update an outdated package?
You can also use https://github.com/Mic92/nix-update with a nixpkgs git clone.
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NixOS 21.05 Released
I run [nix-update](https://github.com/Mic92/nix-update/) to update stuff. If you want to package something new, first identify the programming language/buildsystem the project is using and than look for a similar project in nixpkgs.
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.
What are some alternatives?
LazyVim - Neovim config for the lazy
nixGL - A wrapper tool for nix OpenGL application [maintainer=@guibou]
nixos-generators - Collection of image builders [maintainer=@Lassulus]
Home Manager using Nix - Manage a user environment using Nix [maintainer=@rycee]
flake-utils-plus - Use Nix flakes without any fluff.
nix-processmgmt - Experimental Nix-based process management framework
nix-bundle - Bundle Nix derivations to run anywhere!
nixos-config - My NixOS configuration.
config
not-os - An operating system generator, based on NixOS, that, given a config, outputs a small (47 MB), read-only squashfs for a runit-based operating system, with support for iPXE and signed boot.
napalm - Support for building npm packages in Nix and lightweight npm registry [maintainer @jtojnar]