My host does no longer provide any node or npm or yarn.
Project are partially migrated to shell.nix already.
I still need to migrate all projects. But I'm not working to much on
frontend and don't need to re compile assets to often, so no worries.

Some stuff will not work anymore, e.g. coc within neovim needs nodejs.
That's broken for now, but I don't care to much, not sure whether I used
it at all.

That will be part of neovim migration to home-manager / nix.

2022-02-09 21:16:13 +01:00

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nixpkgs / nix home-manager

I currently use Ubuntu and installed nix alongside. This repository contains my personal ~/.config/nixpkgs folder, for sharing, inspiration and retrieving feedback.

This includes home.nix to maintain home-manager, see: https://nix-community.github.io/home-manager/index.html

Disclaimer

This is my personal setup for my local laptop running Ubuntu. I share this for free so everyone can have a look and inspiration or provide feedback to me.

This is not intended to be used by anyone else just by copy and pasting or cloning.

Installation

Install (clone) into ~/.config/nixpkgs.

Install home-manager see: https://nix-community.github.io/home-manager/index.html Execute home-manager switch

Usage

Add packages to home.nix and run home-manager switch.

Folder structure

The folder overlays contains overlays for nix itself. E.g. alter packages like patching.

The folder home is related to extras for home-manager. It has the following sub folder:

home/files Holds configuration files. home-manager doesn't provide modules for all programs. Those files can be added via xdg.configFile.

home/modules Holds nix modules. Not all programs provide modules out of the box. I add my own here, which I might create PRs for in future.

home/programs Holds home-manager programs. entries. Each file corresponds to a single program. Each file is loaded within home.nix.

home/services Holds home-manager services. entries. Each file corresponds to a single service. Each file is loaded within home.nix.

Update

The following will update the whole system and clean things up:

nix-channel --update \
   && home-manager switch \
   && home-manager expire-generations '-30 days' \
   && nix-env --delete-generations +5 \
   && nix-store --gc

This will update the channel (fetch state of nixpkgs). It then will update system. Delete old generations. And run garbage collection.

Manual changes

List of manual needed changes for various reasons.

.desktop files seem not to be supported by home-manager yet. They need to manually be linked, e.g.:
```
cd ~/.local/share/applications && ln -s ~/.nix-profile/share/applications/* .
```

Todos

Migrate neovim
Migrate ssh config (I don't really like to expose customer server names and configs to outer world, how to handle?)
Migrate PGP?
- Right now I've installed gnupg2, gnupg, gpg on ubuntu
Migrate firefox (with geckodriver), thunderbird, ungoogled chromium
Begin migrating local development to execute php. On a per customer project. Use flakes? Most are more or less the same, maybe provide a general flake inside this repo which can be used by projects? Also include psysh
Maybe PR upstream: ./home/modules/programs/languagetool.nix.
Migrate other system configurations like keyboard?!
Begin migrating further configuration, e.g. php fpm pools and apache config (Again I don't like customer internals in public repo, how to handle?) Does that work? I guess nix (home-manager) shouldn't write outside of user home. Maybe within vm as preparation of switch to nix os?
Migrate desktop environment (is that possible? I select it within ubuntu login screen, guess it needs to be installed or registered somwhere in ubuntu) i3-wm, i3, i3lock-color

Ideas

Maybe I can have a private channel which provides more sensitive info like customer related things and is referenced from here? I then can make that repo private but keep this one here public?

Resources

Some resources I found useful (in no particular order):

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