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nixpkgs | NUR | |
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962 | 24 | |
15,311 | 1,117 | |
5.7% | 4.9% | |
10.0 | 9.1 | |
about 2 hours ago | 4 days ago | |
Nix | Python | |
MIT License | MIT License |
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nixpkgs
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Combining Nix with Terraform for better DevOps
We’ve noticed that some users have been asking about how to use older versions of Terraform in their Nix setups [1, 2]. This is an example of the diverse needs of people and the importance of maintaining backward compatibility. We hope that nixpkgs-terraform will be a useful tool for these users.
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Nix is a better Docker image builder than Docker's image builder
I think whateveracct was referring to is this link:
https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/blob/master/pkgs/developmen...
What that file is doing, is building a package, and it essentially is a combination of what Makefile and what RPM spec file does.
I don't know if you're familiar with those tools, but if you aren't it takes some time to know them enough to understand what is happening. So why would be different here?
That's doesn't happen in a single thread, but e.g. asynchronous multithreaded code can spit values in arbitrary order, and depending on what you do you can end up with a different result (floating point is just an example). Generally, you can't guarantee reproducibility because there's too much hardware state that can't be isolated even in a VM. Sure, 99% software doesn't depend on it or do cursed stuff like microarchitecture probing during building, and you won't care until you try to package some automated tests for a game physics engine or something like that. What can happen, inevitably happens.
We don't need to be looking for such contrived examples actually, nixpkgs track the packages that aren't reproducible for much more trivial reasons:
https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/issues?q=is%3Aopen+is%3Aiss...
- trim boto3/botocore, to remove all stuff I did not use, that sucker on it's own is over 100MB
The thing is what you need to understand is that the packages are primarily targeting the NixOS operating system, where in normal situation you have plenty of disk space, and you rather want all features to be available (because why not?). So you end up with bunch of dependencies, that you don't need. Alpine image for example was designed to be for docker, so the goal with all packages is to disable extra bells and whistles.
This is why your result is bigger.
To build a small image you will need to use override and disable all that unnecessary shit. Look at zulu for example:
https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/blob/master/pkgs/developmen...
you add alsa, fontconfig (probably comes with entire X11), freetype, xorg (oh, nvm fontconfig, it's added explicitly), cups, gtk, cairo and ffmpeg)
Notice how your friend carefully extracts and places only needed files in the container, while you just bundle the entire zulu package with all of its dependencies in your project.
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Use Ansible to create and start LXD virtual machines
#!/usr/bin/env nix-shell #! nix-shell -i bash #! nix-shell -p sops #! nix-shell -I https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/archive/refs/tags/23.05.tar.gz source config.sh "$@"
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What AI assistants are already bundled for Linux?
NixOS just got tabbyml[1] which is built on llama-cpp. Working on systemsd services the weekend and updating latest tabbyml release which supports rocm in addition to cuda
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Contributing Scrutiny to Nixpkgs
It's easy to open a PR, but not so easy to get someone to actually review it.
There's currently 165 open PRs by first-time contributors adding a new package, some of which have been just sitting there without review comments for years. https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/pulls?q=is%3Apr+label%3A%22...
At least they're meticulously labeled so it's easy to find them.
- I Just Wanted Emacs to Look Nice – Using 24-Bit Color in Terminals
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Going declarative on macOS with Nix and Nix-Darwin
I'm also using NixOS and working on Go projects, and had to deal with out-of-date Go releases. Nixpkgs generally does get the latest Go versions pretty quickly, but only in the unstable channels, they're not backported to NixOS releases. You can just grab that one package out of nixpkgs-unstable or nixos-unstable, like:
(import (fetchTarball "https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/archive/nixpkgs-unstable.tar.gz") {}).go_1_21
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NixOS: Declarative Builds and Deployments
> What exactly would this "cleaner base" look like?
My interpretation would be something like: the abandonment of software that is so poorly designed that it is difficult to package and/or run under Nix.
This commit message (from one of my commits) details some of the struggles supporting Ruby under Nix:
https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/commit/b6c06e216bb3bface40e...
Each of those problems is due to either:
1. Some unmotivated contrivance in Bundler, where the maintainers refused to make their stuff less needlessly broken, or
2. Ruby programmers in general not programming with packaging in mind (haven't touched Ruby/Rails professionally in a while, but when I did, it was par for the course to rsync/capistrano files around -- no one saw the utility of any sort of packaging)
And the two really reinforce each other. Bundler is the de facto way to declare and pin dependencies at the app level, but then Bundler makes it nearly impossible (see the commit message for details) to package software using Bundler, which reinforces the "fuck it, we'll just rsync files around over SSH", which means no one pressures Bundler to Do The Right Thing.
It's the same thing everywhere else. There are complaints elsewhere in this comment section about the nodejs/npm experience on Nix: same underlying problem. The design behind npm is so unnecessarily shit-tacular that it kinda sorta just barely works on its tier 1 platforms. I don't envy the brave souls that have worked on supporting npm packages on Nix.
NUR
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Couple of noob questions
So first, I'm a bit confused about AUR. I'm not aware of what you're describing. I heard about AUR-like repo for Nix (called NUR https://github.com/nix-community/NUR).
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Adding extensions to firefox using home manager
You are trying to install a package from NUR without actually adding it to your flake. Add NUR as an input for you flake and use it's overlay in your configuration.
You need to use nur
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How to install NordVPN onto NixOS
Hi, I'm the author of the PR :) I uploaded it to NUR precisely so that it would be available sooner. However, as I wrote in the thread yesterday, as of this PR one of the components the package was relying on was deprecated. I'm still trying to make it work again using the new buildFHSEnv. However, if you're running 22.11 or haven't updated your local version of nixpkgs beyond that PR, it should still work.
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New BFF
Apart from nixpkgs having many packages, there is also NUR which has even more stuff.
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Using a flake from a GitHub repo
You might also want to publish your sarc utility on NUR, https://nur.nix-community.org/
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Is there NO alternative to the aur?
Nix also has the NUR. I have never needed to use it, while when I used arch I had many AUR packages.
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Anyone figure out how to apply nvidia-patch in nixos?
Follow the NUR installation instructions and it should be in pkgs.nur.repos.arc.packages.nvidia-patch.
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Best practices for organizing code repository for multiple machines? What about deployment?
As for the community repo, there's nur but only 120 people use it.. I think the reason nixpkgs is so big is that the community is pretty accepting of accepting loads of different packages.
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Goodbye Arch, hello sexy new SilverBlue
There is NUR but it has just under 3000 packages, nowhere near AUR
What are some alternatives?
asdf - Extendable version manager with support for Ruby, Node.js, Elixir, Erlang & more
Home Manager using Nix - Manage a user environment using Nix [maintainer=@rycee]
git-lfs - Git extension for versioning large files
easyeffects - Limiter, compressor, convolver, equalizer and auto volume and many other plugins for PipeWire applications
spack - A flexible package manager that supports multiple versions, configurations, platforms, and compilers.
waydroid - Waydroid uses a container-based approach to boot a full Android system on a regular GNU/Linux system like Ubuntu.
nixos - My NixOS Configurations
youtube-dl-gui - A cross-platform GUI for youtube-dl made in Electron and node.js
devshell - Per project developer environments
Emu68 - M68K emulation for AArch64/AArch32
daedalus - The open source cryptocurrency wallet for ada, built to grow with the community