Hi, I use NixOS as my daily driver and currently researching on nix. I am interested to help with nix.
Thanks, Riya On Sun, 26 Nov 2023, 16:47 Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek, <zbys...@in.waw.pl> wrote: > Hi! > > I'm looking for co-maintainers for nix. > > We had a plan to add support for nix to mkosi, but it has been put on ice > (*), > so my main motivation and use-case went away. But I prepared a package for > nix, > i.e. the big binary that is used to build and manage NixOS systems (**). > The > compilation and packaging of the program is one thing, but then some > decisions > need to be made about how the package is integrated with the rest of the > system: > nix has a whole-system mode and a per-user mode, and a bunch of different > service files… Since I'm not going to use it myself, and I don't know all > the > details, I would love to have somebody who is interested in NixOS to help > with > that part. There have been a few requests for nix packaging over the > years, so I > hope that there might be some interest in this. > > Right now the package is available from copr (**), but I'd like to submit > it for > review with a comaintainer. I packaged lowdown (***), a required > dependency. > Tests are disabled because "rapidtest" dependency is not available. > > (*) Mkosi expects an FHS-adhereing system, and nixos is very much about not > doing that, so mkosi would need to have a lot of special-casing for nixos, > and > it just doesn't seem worth it. > (**) https://copr.fedorainfracloud.org/coprs/zbyszek/nixos/ > (***) https://src.fedoraproject.org/rpms/lowdown > > Zbyszek > -- > _______________________________________________ > devel mailing list -- devel@lists.fedoraproject.org > To unsubscribe send an email to devel-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org > Fedora Code of Conduct: > https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ > List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines > List Archives: > https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/devel@lists.fedoraproject.org > Do not reply to spam, report it: > https://pagure.io/fedora-infrastructure/new_issue >
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