| 12 Aug 2021 |
 @d4hines:matrix.org | David Arnold (blaggacao): are you talking about my issue of how do I deploy my home-manager config still, or a different topic? | 21:26:38 |
 David Arnold (blaggacao) | yes, bud has a convenience script for it | 21:26:56 |
| David Arnold (blaggacao) | (but it's also a trick question, beware 😂) | 21:27:25 |
 ultranix | sigh, makes no sense | 21:27:48 |
| David Arnold (blaggacao) | * yes, bud has a convenience script for it -- https://github.com/divnix/bud/blob/main/scripts/hm-home.bash | 21:27:49 |
| @d4hines:matrix.org | I don't understand. home-manager has a command switch that does the thing. So I just need to invoke it in the right context. I'm looking for a one-line shell command. | 21:28:06 |
| ultranix | ive spend many attempts on upgrading and using the digga format but to no avail. i'll have to try from scratch without my commits i guess | 21:28:42 |
 @timdeh:matrix.org | guess we have to do a better job with the docs? digga.divnix.com | 21:29:16 |
| ultranix | i am trying to upgrade it from when it was called nixflk | 21:29:37 |
| David Arnold (blaggacao) | In reply to @d4hines:matrix.org
I don't understand. home-manager has a command switch that does the thing. So I just need to invoke it in the right context. I'm looking for a one-line shell command. the realization of the portable config hasn't made it upstream yet, though. | 21:29:45 |
 @kraftnix:matrix.org | oh wow thats a big upgrade | 21:29:57 |
| ultranix | or suites actually, shortly after suites were used | 21:30:11 |
| @d4hines:matrix.org | What was I doing here then?
nix run github:nix-community/home-manager --no-write-lock-file -- switch --flake .#d4hines
?
| 21:30:17 |
| David Arnold (blaggacao) | d4hines: that means it doas not natively understand (yet): "$FLAKEROOT#homeConfigurationsPortable.$ARCH.\"$USER\".activationPackag | 21:30:35 |
| David Arnold (blaggacao) | * d4hines: that means it doas not natively understand (yet): "$FLAKEROOT#homeConfigurationsPortable.$ARCH.\"$USER\".activationPackage | 21:30:41 |
| David Arnold (blaggacao) | there is an upstream issue with discussions, one sec... | 21:31:29 |
| David Arnold (blaggacao) | https://github.com/nix-community/home-manager/issues/2161 | 21:32:03 |
| ultranix | kraftnix: taking a break, will check again tonight. thank you for the help so far | 21:32:42 |
| David Arnold (blaggacao) | In reply to @ultranix:matrix.org
kraftnix: taking a break, will check again tonight. thank you for the help so far I'm also running hot with a nix ssh issue I have 😂 | 21:33:38 |
| @d4hines:matrix.org | If we can unwind the stack a bit:
- I'm trying to get the simplest setup that has flakes + home-manager + zsh enabled (if possible 😆 - I'm very close to giving up on zsh with home-manager and just manually installing it in Arch).
- nrdxp 's suggestion was an overlay to fix the home-manager/nix-pkgs incompatibility.
- I implemented it here: https://github.com/d4hines/beth/blob/46ba9712110e164d4fe963d525511ce0d9bc86d3/flake.nix#L11-L17, but it doesn't work. I'm a total Nix noob so I probably did something wrong.
- David Arnold (blaggacao) suggested I use digga as an easier way to consume overlays.
- I wanted to try it out, but deploying a digga.mkFlake on my system seems to be aspirational right now.
I feel like there's something dead easy I could do to fix this. Any ideas what that would be? I'm not sure using Digga is it yet.
| 21:37:51 |
| @timdeh:matrix.org | let me pull your flake and see if I can find the issue | 21:39:02 |
| @kraftnix:matrix.org | In reply to @ultranix:matrix.org
kraftnix: taking a break, will check again tonight. thank you for the help so far Ok, it's 100% an emacs issue, I spliced down your profile until and simply adding/removing user.profiles.emacs from your user makes the issue appear/disappear.
i don't use emacs, or understand how their overlay works but that's your current issue.
if you haven't heard about bud before I highly recommend checking it out, specifically how it helped me quickly find your issue was doing
bud repl
nix-repl> Flake.nixosConfigurations.arrakis.config.system.path
error: The option `home-manager.users.tgunnoe.inputs' does not exist. Definition values:
- In `/nix/store/493yp6hb6mc186mgi2h2m9kddq5dwk3y-source/users/tgunnoe': { }
«derivation
# comment out your emacs profile
nix-repl> :r
Loading '/nix/store/q35fmyf6l8d5gc7khgmpqzj84q6l6wlj-repl.nix'...
Added 4 variables.
nix-repl> Flake.nixosConfigurations.arrakis.config.system.path
«derivation /nix/store/0xg5n34l73p7h03wsi5ixl7ijlpm1j6h-system-path.drv»
allows for very quick debugging
| 21:39:08 |
| @kraftnix:matrix.org | honestly bud repl is da shit 👍️ David Arnold (blaggacao) | 21:40:17 |
| @timdeh:matrix.org | Yeah, I tried to lure some emacers into the DevOS community at some point a few months back, because the Emacs user story isn't really great in general, even on NixOS proper. | 21:40:24 |
| @timdeh:matrix.org | I tried to help, but since I don't use it personally, it's a bit hard to find the time. | 21:40:48 |
| David Arnold (blaggacao) | In reply to @d4hines:matrix.org
If we can unwind the stack a bit:
- I'm trying to get the simplest setup that has flakes + home-manager + zsh enabled (if possible 😆 - I'm very close to giving up on zsh with home-manager and just manually installing it in Arch).
- nrdxp 's suggestion was an overlay to fix the home-manager/nix-pkgs incompatibility.
- I implemented it here: https://github.com/d4hines/beth/blob/46ba9712110e164d4fe963d525511ce0d9bc86d3/flake.nix#L11-L17, but it doesn't work. I'm a total Nix noob so I probably did something wrong.
- David Arnold (blaggacao) suggested I use digga as an easier way to consume overlays.
- I wanted to try it out, but deploying a digga.mkFlake on my system seems to be aspirational right now.
I feel like there's something dead easy I could do to fix this. Any ideas what that would be? I'm not sure using Digga is it yet.
upfront investment is a bit more involved, but tailing compound interests are considerable 🐿️ | 21:40:48 |
| @kraftnix:matrix.org | I have looked at emacs a few times, and using evil-mode seems like it would be a nice an OK entry into it as a vimmer, but it's such a commitment, it's like taking my shell and turning it into an OS. I'm quite happy with my vim+tmux+zsh setup, it's really org-mode and a few other things that have emacs calling to me. | 21:41:46 |
| @timdeh:matrix.org | Indeed. A comparable org mode in vim would be stellar | 21:43:02 |
| @d4hines:matrix.org | In reply to @blaggacao:matrix.org
upfront investment is a bit more involved, but tailing compound interests are considerable 🐿️ I don't doubt it! But I've carved out a set block of time to make an effort at using Nix for my day-to-day workstation. I don't think learning (and possibly waiting for/developing new features for) the DevOS family of tools will fit into that time. My hope is that if I can get something working reliably, I can learn the cool stuff little by little. | 21:43:52 |
| @timdeh:matrix.org | well I'm building your hm config now, we'll see if I can track down the issue | 21:44:44 |
