| 2 Apr 2024 |
 Miles Dyson | I got lost trying to figure out what Musnix is. | 04:13:06 |
| Miles Dyson | What is it? | 04:13:09 |
| Miles Dyson | . . . but I am still trying to understand how to setup revision control for my config files. | 04:14:02 |
| Miles Dyson | There is still a bit of basic system administration that needs to be established. | 04:15:37 |
 @fractivore:cyberia.club | In reply to @technicus:matrix.org
What is it? It's this: https://github.com/musnix/musnix
Basically it's a repo that has options to make configuring NixOS for audio work easier. | 04:15:39 |
| @fractivore:cyberia.club | In reply to @technicus:matrix.org
. . . but I am still trying to understand how to setup revision control for my config files. This isn't exactly the right channel for that, but may I take it you're new to git? | 04:16:15 |
| Miles Dyson | In reply to @fractivore:cyberia.club
This isn't exactly the right channel for that, but may I take it you're new to git? My git knowledge is just enough. | 04:19:33 |
| Miles Dyson | Can I have the config files in a non root directory? | 04:21:02 |
| @fractivore:cyberia.club | In reply to @technicus:matrix.org
Can I have the config files in a non root directory? You can. There's a few ways of doing it, including home-manager (which I haven't bothered to learn yet myself), using flakes and specifying a flake to build from on the command line, or perhaps just manually copying your config files from your non-root repo to their normal rootful location. I personally just have a git repo in my root /etc/nixos, which is probably not recommended, but 🤷♂️ | 04:24:05 |
| @fractivore:cyberia.club | If you just want to get started with the music stuff, don't worry about getting "the right" kind of revision control setup. You could just manually upload the files to github and figure out a fancier way later if you need to. | 04:25:25 |
| @fractivore:cyberia.club | When it comes to secrets files, absolutely keep those outside of your repo. Ultimately you need something other than git and NixOS to manage your secrets. You can use agenix to encrypt your secrets files or whatever, but even then you still have to manage your private key. My advice? Use a password manager for that. | 04:27:44 |
