packaging of nix
by Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek
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
