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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

Table of Contents

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 loaded via biuiltins.readFile or linked via home.file..

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.

home/systemd

Holds custom definitions for systemd services. 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-store --gc

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

Todos

No particular order:

  • Migrate ./home/services/languagetool.nix to a custom module (maybe PR upstream).
  • Migrate other local configurations (inspect ~/.config folder) All other dotfiles in home dir are already migrated :yay:
  • Migrate zsh
  • Migrate ssh config (I don't really like to expose customer server names and configs to outer world, how to handle?)
  • Migrate PGP?
  • Migrate other tools from local system (which are not part of above migrations)
  • Migrate other systemd services.
  • Migrate other system configurations like keyboard?!
  • Migrate desktop environment (is that possible? I select it within ubuntu login screen, guess it needs to be installed or registered somwhere in ubuntu)
  • 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?)
  • Switch to stable channels

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):