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nix
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NixOS 21.05 Released
I was able to make the switch over cold turkey after ~9 years of ArchLinux.
By sheer happenstance, I blogged earlier this week about one particular killer feature that doesn't get enough air time: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27344677
My not-flake-yet configuration can be found at https://github.com/rraval/nix
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Nix solves the package manager ejection problem
> How do NixOS users typically manage software that is not a Nix package
By writing a Nix package for it (I don't mean for this to sound flippant, tone is a bit hard to convey over text).
For example I have this alpha quality rust binary that I'm developing but I also want a stable version installed at the OS level. I write a Nix package and simply compose it into my overall NixOS configuration alongside the more official Nixpkgs: https://github.com/rraval/nix/blob/master/git-nomad.nix
> like a source code tarball where you would traditionally run configure && make && make install?
Nix has a bunch of defaults that make a conventional package like this straightforward.
Here's a package for a vanilla C binary + library that does the `autoreconf && ./configure && make && make install` dance: https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/blob/master/pkgs/tools/secu...
It's almost a little misleading because the actual steps are largely inherited from the defaults, you can read more about `stdenv.mkDerivation` here: https://nixos.org/guides/nix-pills/fundamentals-of-stdenv.ht...
watchlog
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Use the 'Tail' Command to Monitor Everything
I found myself doing this as well and decided to write a simple tool to do it "automatically" for me.
You still can't use it with less, but at least it allows you to mark "segments" of the log without switching to that window and mashing enter.
https://gitlab.com/kevincox/watchlog
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NixOS 21.05 Released
In general it is very nice. A common method is you create a `default.nix` file in the project you are working on and use tools that manage the deps for you. For example:
Rust+Cargo: https://gitlab.com/kevincox/watchlog/-/blob/22c877065f763b3d...
Node+NPM: https://gitlab.com/kevincox/kevincox-web-compiler/-/blob/9fa...
My only Ruby project is private but I just rolled my own with:
export "GEM_HOME=$out"
- Show HN: A CLI tool for understanding the time of a log message
What are some alternatives?
napalm - Support for building npm packages in Nix and lightweight npm registry [maintainer @jtojnar]
poetry2nix - Convert poetry projects to nix automagically [maintainer=@adisbladis]
Home Manager using Nix - Manage a user environment using Nix [maintainer=@rycee]
lnav-formats - Extra log file format descriptions for the lnav log file reader
NixOS-docker - DEPRECATED! Dockerfiles to package Nix in a minimal docker container
cw - The best way to tail AWS CloudWatch Logs from your terminal
nixGL - A wrapper tool for nix OpenGL application [maintainer=@guibou]
config
runix
nixpkgs - Nix Packages collection & NixOS
nixos-generators - Collection of image builders [maintainer=@Lassulus]
nixos-shell - Spawns lightweight nixos vms in a shell