In reply to @antifuchs:asf.computer
what are people's thoughts on rime.cx? it seems down, isn't allowlisted in restricted mode by default & ... does http:// URLs only, for a thing that's essentially trust-on-first-use? Is that considered safe?

In reply to @janik0:matrix.org

Heyo 👋
I have a flake with two outpus, one is nixosModules and the other one is a lib output. And in the lib output I deine some functions that I would like to use in the nixosModules. The flake looks something like this:

{
  description = "A very basic flake";

  inputs = {
    nixpkgs.url = "github:NixOS/nixpkgs/nixos-unstable";
  };


  outputs = { self, nixpkgs }: {
    nixosModules = rec {
      myModule = import ./nixos;
      default = myModule;
    };
    lib = ./lib;
  };
}

and I'm not quite sure how the wiring for this would work.
I looked at the nixpkgs flake which does lib = lib.extend(some over complicated looking stuff)
Can someone point me in the right direction?

do you actually want to refer to your lib or die you mean to import it first?

if import, then just import it in a let in and pass it to both your modules and lib. something like

outputs = { self, nixpkgs }: {
  nixosModules = rec {
    default = myModule;
  }
}

In reply to @janik0:matrix.org

Heyo 👋
I have a flake with two outpus, one is nixosModules and the other one is a lib output. And in the lib output I deine some functions that I would like to use in the nixosModules. The flake looks something like this:

{
  description = "A very basic flake";

  inputs = {
    nixpkgs.url = "github:NixOS/nixpkgs/nixos-unstable";
  };


  outputs = { self, nixpkgs }: {
    nixosModules = rec {
      myModule = import ./nixos;
      default = myModule;
    };
    lib = ./lib;
  };
}

and I'm not quite sure how the wiring for this would work.
I looked at the nixpkgs flake which does lib = lib.extend(some over complicated looking stuff)
Can someone point me in the right direction?

do you actually want to refer to your lib or die you mean to import it first?

if import, then just import it in a let in and pass it to both your modules and lib. something like
(woops one moment hit enter too soon)

outputs = { self, nixpkgs }: {
  nixosModules = rec {
    default = myModule;
  }
}

In reply to @antifuchs:asf.computer
what are people's thoughts on rime.cx? it seems down, isn't allowlisted in restricted mode by default & ... does http:// URLs only, for a thing that's essentially trust-on-first-use? Is that considered safe?

do you actually want to refer to your lib or die you mean to import it first?

if import, then just import it in a let in and pass it to both your modules and lib. something like
(woops one moment hit enter too soon)

outputs = { self, nixpkgs }: let
    lib = import ./lib;
  in {
  nixosModules = rec {
    myModule = import ./nixos { inherit lib; };
    default = myModule;
  };
  inherit lib;
}

do you actually want to refer to your lib or die you mean to import it first?

if import, then just import it in a let in and pass it to both your modules and lib. something like

outputs = { self, nixpkgs }: let
    lib = import ./lib;
  in {
  nixosModules = rec {
    myModule = import ./nixos { inherit lib; };
    default = myModule;
  };
  inherit lib;
}

do you actually want to refer to your lib or die you mean to import it first?

if import, then just import it in a let in and pass it to both your modules and lib. something like

outputs = { self, nixpkgs }: let
    lib = import ./lib;
in {
  nixosModules = rec {
    myModule = import ./nixos { inherit lib; };
    default = myModule;
  };
  inherit lib;
}

In reply to @mib:kanp.ai

do you actually want to refer to your lib or die you mean to import it first?

if import, then just import it in a let in and pass it to both your modules and lib. something like

outputs = { self, nixpkgs }: let
    lib = import ./lib;
in {
  nixosModules = rec {
    myModule = import ./nixos { inherit lib; };
    default = myModule;
  };
  inherit lib;
}

In reply to @crtified:crtified.me
Or you use self.lib in the module

In reply to @mib:kanp.ai

do you actually want to refer to your lib or die you mean to import it first?

if import, then just import it in a let in and pass it to both your modules and lib. something like

outputs = { self, nixpkgs }: let
    lib = import ./lib;
in {
  nixosModules = rec {
    myModule = import ./nixos { inherit lib; };
    default = myModule;
  };
  inherit lib;
}

In reply to @crtified:crtified.me
https://gist.github.com/CRTified/69f83b3c1eef037413a400566e583cd3 Note that the externalModule.nix contains a function taking self which returns the usual module (which is a function in config, lib, ...)

In reply to @janik0:matrix.org
thank you for this ❤️

In reply to @crtified:crtified.me
Oh, if you need the proper name for that concept: It's a Closure - more obvious with the external module

In reply to @janik0:matrix.org
I'll look into that later. I gave myself the challenge of getting a deeper understating of the nix lang and nixos module system so I'm Implementing a dns libary a module which gives necessary meta information to generate something like a octodns config.

In reply to @janik0:matrix.org
I think this works, but I also need pass in the nixpkgs lib and the magic nixosModules config attribute somehow

In reply to @crtified:crtified.me
https://gist.github.com/CRTified/69f83b3c1eef037413a400566e583cd3