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Apache-2.0 or MIT | MIT License |
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Autodafe: "freeing your freeing your project from the clammy grip of autotools."
> Are we talking about the same autotools?
Yes. Instead of figuring out how to do something particular with every single software package, I can do a --with-foo or --without-bar or --prefix=/opt/baz-1.2.3, and be fairly confident that it will work the way I want.
Certainly with package managers or (FreeBSD) Ports a lot is taken care of behind the scenes, but the above would also help the package/port maintainers as well. Lately I've been using Spack for special-needs compiles, but maintainer ease also helps there, but there are still cases one a 'fully manual' compile is still done.
> Suffice it to say, I prefer to work with handwritten makefiles.
Having everyone 'roll their own' system would probably be worse, because any "mysteriously failure" then has to be debugged specially for each project.
Have you tried Spack?
* https://spack.io
* https://spack.readthedocs.io/en/latest/
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FreeBSD has a(nother) new C compiler: Intel oneAPI DPC++/C++
Well, good luck with that, cause it's broken.
Previous release miscompiled Python [1]
Current release miscompiles bison [2]
[1] https://github.com/spack/spack/issues/38724
[2] https://github.com/spack/spack/issues/37172#issuecomment-181...
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Essential Command Line Tools for Developers
gh is available via Homebrew, MacPorts, Conda, Spack, Webi, and as a…
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The Curious Case of MD5
> I can't count the number of times I've seen people say "md5 is fine for use case xyz" where in some counterintuitive way it wasn't fine.
I can count many more times that people told me that md5 was "broken" for file verification when, in fact, it never has been.
My main gripe with the article is that it portrays the entire legal profession as "backwards" and "deeply negligent" when they're not actually doing anything unsafe -- or even likely to be unsafe. And "tech" knows better. Much of tech, it would seem, has no idea about the use cases and why one might be safe or not. They just know something's "broken" -- so, clearly, we should update.
> Just use a safe one, even if you think you "don't need it".
Here's me switching 5,700 or so hashes from md5 to sha256 in 2019: https://github.com/spack/spack/pull/13185
Did I need it? No. Am I "compliant"? Yes.
Really, though, the main tangible benefit was that it saved me having to respond to questions and uninformed criticism from people unnecessarily worried about md5 checksums.
- Spack Package Manager v0.21.0
- Show HN: FlakeHub – Discover and publish Nix flakes
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Nixhub: Search Historical Versions of Nix Packages
[1] https://github.com/spack/spack/blob/develop/var/spack/repos/...
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Cython 3.0 Released
In Spack [1] we can express all these constraints for the dependency solver, and we also try to always re-cythonize sources. The latter is because bundled cythonized files are sometimes forward incompatible with Python, so it's better to just regenerate those with an up to date cython.
[1] https://github.com/spack/spack/
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Linux server for physics simulations
You want to look at the tools used for HPC systems, these are generally very well tried and tested and can be setup for single machine usage. Remote access - we use ssh, but web interfaces such as Open On Demand exist - https://openondemand.org/. For managing Jobs, Slurm is currently the most popular option - https://slurm.schedmd.com/documentation.html. For a module system (to load software and libraries per user), Spack is a great - https://spack.io/. You might also want to consider containerisation options, https://apptainer.org/ is a good option.
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Simplest way to get latest gcc for any platform ?
git clone https://github.com/spack/spack.git ./spack/bin/spack install gcc
Home Manager using Nix
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Cosmic Desktop: Hammering Out New Cosmic Features
It's probably overkill for what you are trying to do. But I have been using home-manager [0] as a way to quickly restore my working environment.
[0] https://nix-community.github.io/home-manager/
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How do I actually update home-manager?
$ home-manager --version 23.05 $ nix-channel --add https://github.com/nix-community/home-manager/archive/release-23.11.tar.gz home-manager $ nix-channel --update $ nix-shell '' -A install [...] All done! The home-manager tool should now be installed and you can edit /home/MY-USERNAME/.config/home-manager/home.nix to configure Home Manager. Run 'man home-configuration.nix' to see all available options. $ home-manager --version 23.05
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Possible to use KDE plugins on nixos?
Unfortunately until we find more volunteers in this area, it is hard to see status quo changing. See also https://github.com/nix-community/home-manager/issues/607 and this ongoing project https://github.com/pjones/plasma-manager
- Exclude packages in home manager
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An Overview of Nix in Practice
> Channels are, AFAIU, a reference to some point-in-time/commit/version of nixpkgs
It's not specifically nixpkgs, but any Nix code generally.
Per the Nix manual[0]:
> Channels are a mechanism for referencing remote Nix expressions and conveniently retrieving their latest version.
e.g. home-manager's suggested channel is just the github tarball for the relevant branch[1]:
nix-channel --add https://github.com/nix-community/home-manager/archive/master.tar.gz home-manager
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Fake recruiter Lazarus lured aerospace employee with trojanized coding challenge
It sounds like you'd benefit a lot from Nix/NixOS [1], if not just home-manager[2].
1. https://nixos.org/
2. https://github.com/nix-community/home-manager
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Noob question: Where home-manager config after installed on archlinux
nix-channel --add https://github.com/nix-community/home-manager/archive/master.tar.gz home-manager nix-channel --update nix-shell '' -A install
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Need help on home manager neovim config
I'm using flakes and home manager and not really sure how to go about managing my neovim configuration. I've read through some other posts, github issues, and various articles trying to suss out a good way to do this. Reading through other people's configs and posts was somewhat helpful but there is a lot going on I don't understand and everyone's examples I've seen vary wildly.
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Recurring 'Home Manager not found' Error After Running nix-collect-garbage"
Said store path contains the home-manager repo. After the home-manager run, the store path is recreated.
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I want to like NixOS but... I can't and I need some help
I can't answer all your questions, but home-manager does have a dconf module that would probably be better to use than that external tool. Everything inside the options block are the things you can pass to the dconf module.
What are some alternatives?
HomeBrew - 🍺 The missing package manager for macOS (or Linux)
Ansible - Ansible is a radically simple IT automation platform that makes your applications and systems easier to deploy and maintain. Automate everything from code deployment to network configuration to cloud management, in a language that approaches plain English, using SSH, with no agents to install on remote systems. https://docs.ansible.com.
nixpkgs - Nix Packages collection & NixOS
GNU Stow - GNU Stow - mirror of savannah git repository occasionally with more bleeding-edge branches
nix-processmgmt - Experimental Nix-based process management framework
nixos-flake-example - This is a demo NixOS config, with optional flakes support. Along with notes on why flakes is useful and worth adopting.
NixOS-WSL - NixOS on WSL(2) [maintainer=@nzbr]
ohpc - OpenHPC Integration, Packaging, and Test Repo
emacs-overlay - Bleeding edge emacs overlay [maintainer=@adisbladis]
NixOS-docker - DEPRECATED! Dockerfiles to package Nix in a minimal docker container
chezmoi - Manage your dotfiles across multiple diverse machines, securely.