What’s in a Nix store path https://lobste.rs/s/hw3kpz #nix
https://fzakaria.com/2025/03/28/what-s-in-a-nix-store-path

Ekapkgs, a poly-repo fork of Nixpkgs https://lobste.rs/s/bks2qz #nix
https://nixcademy.com/posts/ekala-project/

@ironicbadger & @ChrisLAS - if y’all are going to do a segment on #Immich kiosk, I’d be happy to preemptively share what I’ve got going with it. to;dr is a little pi-sized “digital photo frame” on my desk & a 65” tv near my front door that has digital art via Immich kiosk and a home dashboard that can be switched to with the push of a zigbee button. The TV and an old tiny Lenovo to run it were acquired for free. The Pi one is all #Nix-ified too.

dear internet, i have a nixos with an efi-only partition and i want to do luks unlock via ssh from inside initrd. when setting network settings into `boot.initrd.network` and ssh config (with host keys in /boot/efi) into `boot.initrd.network.ssh`, i do not get any action in stage 1 attempting to either bring up the network nor launch SSH. i get the normal systemd-udev prompt for the luks passphrase. any ideas?
#nixos #nix

Nix vanity store paths https://lobste.rs/s/pxt8lj #nix
https://fzakaria.com/2025/03/27/nix-vanity-store-paths

Short blog post on how to authenticate your NixOS deployments with comin: https://lewo.abesis.fr/posts/authenticate-nixos-deployments/

Announcing #Aux Foundation, a binary bootstrap chain for #Nix!

https://forum.auxolotl.org/t/aux-foundation-is-now-available/885

Announcing the `v1.0.0` release of #Aux Lib, a fully-featured #Nix library with its own module system.

https://forum.auxolotl.org/t/aux-lib-v1-0-0-is-now-available/883

Mark your calendars! #NixCon 2025 is set:
Where: OST, Rapperswil-Jona, Switzerland
When: September 5-7, 2025 (Fri-Sun)

Tag your fellow Nix fans, spread the word, and let’s make this the best NixCon yet! More details here: https://discourse.nixos.org/t/nixcon-2025-5-7-september-in-rapperswil-jona-switzerland/62255
#Nix #NixOS

Sécurix, a NixOS-based secure operating system tailored for small to medium-sized teams https://lobste.rs/s/9tmwpa #nix
https://github.com/cloud-gouv/securix

Casual #NixOS Meetup in Vienna! Join an informal NixOS meetup to chat about all things #Nix & NixOS!

April 7, 2025 | 18:00 | GT_, Augasse 2-6, 1090 Wien
https://discourse.nixos.org/t/community-calendar/18589/195

Nice, lib.packagesFromDirectoryRecursive now supports nested scopes!

packagesFromDirectoryRecursive transforms a directory tree of packages into a nested attribute set of derivations. You can use it to manage a package set in a similar way to by-name in nixpkgs (without the sharding part). The package files in tree must be suitable for callPackage.

Subdirectories in the tree result in nested attribute sets. In the following example, packages d, e and f will be in a nested attribute set called my-namespace.

my-packages
├── a.nix
├── b.nix
├── c
│  ├── my-extra-feature.patch
│  ├── package.nix
│  └── support-definitions.nix
└── my-namespace
   ├── d.nix
   ├── e.nix
   └── f
      └── package.nix

Previously, this would only use one scope (my-packages), so e could only depend on d as my-packages.d. With the introduction of nested scopes, e can refer to d within the same scope directly.

PR: https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/pull/392800

function doc on noogle (which isn't yet updated for the new behavior): https://noogle.dev/f/lib/packagesFromDirectoryRecursive

Want #cloudnative but with the power of #declarative configuration? The recoverability of #transactions for system configuration?

Wednesday it's the online #guix meet-up! With a great talk by @paulbutgold
about running docker / oci containers using the Guix configuration system.

His Gocix project has #prometheus, #grafana, #forgejo, #conduit and #traefik examples.

Meet-up details:

https://www.meetup.com/guix-social/events/306340848/

[current mood: https://xkcd.com/349/ ]

I need someone who already has an account on https://git.lix.systems/ to file a bug report for me. I have repeatedly tried to create an account and the email confirmation email just never shows up.

I would also accept "manual creation of a non-github-based account" for me (as per the FAQ). No, I can't use Matrix to ask for one. I don't want to talk about that.

on to the next #nix puzzle

(for arbitrary nixos system configuration including disko-based declarative partitioning, how to enable generating *both* test VMs and installers? the obvious answer would seem to be "nixos-generators" but `nixosGenerate { format = "vm-nogui"; ... }` ignores disko configuration inside the `...`.)

#Nix question: Is there any way at all to make "nix run" not insist on everything being committed to git? I want to be able to test my changes *before* I commit them.

#guix social talk this week by @paulbutgold on self-hosting @forgejo using #oci / #docker #containers

His Gocix project brings the power of declarative configuration to running container services.

Details on the Wiki or register at the Meetup:

- https://libreplanet.org/wiki/Group:Guix/GuixSocial

- https://www.meetup.com/guix-social/events/306340848/

@fnat

Nix derivations by hand https://lobste.rs/s/sff5iz #nix
https://fzakaria.com/2025/03/23/nix-derivations-by-hand