nix-user-chroot
nixpkgs
| nix-user-chroot | nixpkgs | |
|---|---|---|
| 5 | 975 | |
| 263 | 15,753 | |
| 3.4% | 2.8% | |
| 0.0 | 10.0 | |
| 11 months ago | 1 day ago | |
| Rust | Nix | |
| MIT License | MIT License |
Stars - the number of stars that a project has on GitHub. Growth - month over month growth in stars.
Activity is a relative number indicating how actively a project is being developed. Recent commits have higher weight than older ones.
For example, an activity of 9.0 indicates that a project is amongst the top 10% of the most actively developed projects that we are tracking.
nix-user-chroot
- is it possible to install the nix package manager with no root privleges?
-
Zero to Nix, an unofficial, opinionated, gentle introduction to Nix
> There are workarounds but none of them official.
But does it need to be official? Wouldn't that at the same time bloat nix even more? Isn't it enough if core people of the community for example build https://github.com/nix-community/nix-user-chroot ?
> In reality the only easy way to get it done is to use additional non-foss software
That is not true at all. You can use a nix docker image, a 5 line nix file and 2 commands to do a very basic CI pipeline almost anywhere.
-
Rebuild single nixpkg for nix-shell?
I'm using nix-user-chroot.
-
Hacking Anything with GNU Guix
Not sure about guix, but for nixos we have https://github.com/nix-community/nix-user-chroot
-
Install Sway without sudo privilege
You could try nix-user-chroot to install Nix and get Sway (and other stuff) that way - no need to compile it yourself.
nixpkgs
-
Nix: The Breaking Point
I don't think so. The article is probably intended for the Nix community, so the author doesn't need to convince HN that something is going on. If as an outsider you are interested then you need to look into it yourself, the community has no obligation to make their internal conflicts legible to the outside world.
As an outsider myself, it certainly looks like something is going on as more than 20 Nixpkg maintainers left in a week: https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/issues?q=label%3A%228.has%3...
- Maintainers Leaving
-
Air Force picks Anduril, General Atomics to develop unmanned fighter jets
https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/commits?author=neon-sunset
-
Eelco Dolstra's leadership is corrosive to the Nix project
I see two signers in the top 6 displayed on https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/graphs/contributors
-
3rd Edition of Programming: Principles and Practice Using C++ by Stroustrup
For a single file script, nix can make the package management quite easy: https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/blob/master/doc/languages-f...
For example,
```
- NixOS/nixpkgs: There isn't a clear canonical way to refer to a specific package
-
NixOS Is Not Reproducible
Yes, Nix doesn't actually ensure that the builds are deterministic. In fact it works just fine if they aren't. There are packages in nixpkgs that aren't reproducible: https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/issues?q=is%3Aopen+is%3Aiss...
-
The xz attack shell script
I'm not familiar with Bazel, but Nix in it's current form wouldn't have solved this attack. First of all, the standard mkDerivation function calls the same configure; make; make install process that made this attack possible. Nixpkgs regularly pulls in external resources (fetchUrl and friends) that are equally vulnerable to a poisoned release tarball. Checkout the comment on the current xz entry in nixpkgs https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/blob/master/pkgs/tools/comp...
-
Debian Git Monorepo
NixOS uses a monorepo and I think everyone's love it.
I love being able to easily grep through all the packages source code and there's regularly PRs that harmonizes conventions across many packages.
Nixpkgs doesn't include the packaged software source code, so it's a lot more practical than what Debian is doing.
https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs
-
From xz to ibus: more questionable tarballs
In this specific case, nix uses fetchFromGitHub to download the source archive, which are generated by GitHub for the specified revision[1]. Arch seems to just download the tarball from the releases page[2].
[1]: https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/blob/3c2fdd0a4e6396fc310a6e...
[2]: https://gitlab.archlinux.org/archlinux/packaging/packages/ib...
What are some alternatives?
SCALE-MAMBA - Repository for the SCALE-MAMBA MPC system
asdf - Extendable version manager with support for Ruby, Node.js, Elixir, Erlang & more
json-c - https://github.com/json-c/json-c is the official code repository for json-c. See the wiki for release tarballs for download. API docs at http://json-c.github.io/json-c/
Home Manager using Nix - Manage a user environment using Nix [maintainer=@rycee]
nix-portable - Nix - Static, Permissionless, Installation-free, Pre-configured
git-lfs - Git extension for versioning large files
nix.dev - Official documentation for getting things done with Nix.
easyeffects - Limiter, compressor, convolver, equalizer and auto volume and many other plugins for PipeWire applications
nix-installers - Nix installers for legacy distributions (rpm & deb & pacman) [maintainer=@adisbladis]
spack - A flexible package manager that supports multiple versions, configurations, platforms, and compilers.
awesome-nix-hpc - high performance computing related nix resources
waydroid - Waydroid uses a container-based approach to boot a full Android system on a regular GNU/Linux system like Ubuntu.