Tony Cheneau @tcheneau@linuxrocks.online
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Here is the derivation to anyone interested: https://github.com/tcheneau/mynixpkgs/tree/master/pkgs/zed-free
Strace, ltrace and LD_DEBUG environment variable were my friends!
So, I wanted to open a Zed encrypt (secure) archive, but Zed encrypt was not packaged in Nixpkgs (and thus available on NixOS). I could have used a virtual machine to install the provided Debian package, but it would have been over in 30 minutes. Instead, I decided to write a derivation: library path overwrite, library preload, C code for overloading syscalls and change hardcoded path, wrapper scripts: in short, it just works! It took about ~9 hours of work. Totally worth it. #shavingtheyak
@jens
HELP!
The situation is out of control, and there's no escape!
As many of you know I like to keep my worlds separate. I don't like bringing my work life, home or political life together. Which I have to thank the people on LR for keeping the local timeline mostly free from politics. We never stopped any decision or even had the need too. With that said I needed a place to vent about politics so I setup another instance dedicated for just that. If anyone would like to join your more than welcome. The instance is https://tavern.today
Sadly, it was not packaged on NixOS, so the next natural step was to write a derivation for it (NixOS name for a package). After a while, I found that I wasn't doing it in the right way but I still wanted to do it my way (added an extra couple hours). Finally, I got a working derivation and could finally start the docker-compose YAML file with podman-compose: I now have AWX running and don't know what to do next! So, quick question: am I the only one to always go for shortcuts like that? (2/2)
So it all started because I watched a video from Jeff Geerling about Ansible/AWX (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iKmY4jEiy_A). It made me want to test AWX. First step: I started investigating the docker-compose setup he talked about in his video. Then I remembered that I wanted to use podman instead of docker (because it's supposed to be a drop-in replacement!). So I looked for a tool for that and stumbled upon podman-compose (https://github.com/containers/podman-compose). (1/2)
Quite obviously, on NixOS, it's just one line of config to enable it:
services.autorandr.enable = true;
and "nixos-rebuild switch" away!
I just found out about autorandr and it completely made my day: you can save screen profiles that are automatically loaded when there is a screen connected/disconnected (and it can even call scripts on changes).
Happy New Year (and thank you all for welcoming me earlier today!).
First toot: hello everyone on linuxrocks ! Thank you in advance for the warm welcome. 😉
(Tooting from NixOS, because, what else ?)
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