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NixOS
- There is controversy about flakes, rather use channels (e.g. with niv)
Build and Switch
Directly change to new config, make it default:
sudo nixos-rebuild -I nixos-config=yodaTux/configuration.nix switch
Install Home Manager with niv
Easy dependency management for Nix projects.
Nix is a very powerful tool for building code and setting up environments. niv complements it by making it easy to describe and update remote dependencies (URLs, GitHub repos, etc). It is a simple, practical alternative to Nix flakes.
[Home Manager] allows declarative configuration of user specific (non global) packages and dotfiles.
To avoid breaking users' configurations, Home Manager is released in branches corresponding to NixOS releases ( e.g.
release-23.05).Home Manager provides both the channel-based setup and the flake-based one.
Check your channel:
sudo nix-channel --list
#=> nixos https://nixos.org/channels/nixos-23.05
Use the corresponding branch:
niv add nix-community/home-manager -n home-manager -b release-23.05
disko and nixos-anywhere
- Introductive presentation: https://pad.lassul.us/cccamp-workshop
- disko: https://github.com/nix-community/disko
- nixos-anywhere: https://github.com/numtide/nixos-anywhere/
TODO
General Notes
Nix Pills
It provides a tutorial introduction into the Nix package manager and Nixpkgs package collection, in the form of short chapters called 'pills'.
Thesis
There are two (?) theses about Nix. One is https://edolstra.github.io/pubs/phd-thesis.pdf
Search for packages
TODOS
- FDE remote SSH unlock: https://nixos.wiki/wiki/Remote_LUKS_Unlocking
Automount Encrypted Drive
- Generate and add keyfile to LUKS device
- luksOpen and mount drive, e.g. to
/mnt/data1 - Re-generate hardware configuration:
sudo nixos-generate-config --dir yodaTux