Nix, package manager migration. Defaults to nixpkgs as specified at `nix` installation. #20

bjgavilanes · 2024-12-10T02:39:24Z

The main reason about this migration is explained at 7891ace. It resumes to point out we need a way to provide a stable/maintained development environtment. In that commit, too, explains a tentative roadmap, if this PR gets merge.

At commit 52b06c8, added nix-related information to the README.md

Commits 7b10016 and aa022ad are the formatter and linting process. I would like to point out that biome has partial support to HTML and supersets, but that can be easily fix using dprint, a rust-based formatter with integrations; so we use biome just as linter.

Linter, formatter, and related tools will get managed in their own PR.

Setting up a task runner -- I'm debating wether to use make, as God intented, or just a rust-based make-inspired alternative, as the young lads out there do.

Nix is a package manager --such as apt-- based on nix, a functional programming language. We can use nix to declare global dependencies of this project -- such as pnpm and biome --; as well as project-specific. The main reason I'm looking to use nix in this repo is I'll be able to make reproducible development environtments, declare and pin dependencies, to ensure a local-first CI pipeline. We can even containerized such workflow, allowing is to deploy, almost, everywhere. This is the first step of our nix integration. In this commit, there's a `shell.nix` file that deploys our development environtment. It currently pins to nixpkgs repository that you configured when you installed NixOS or Nix. This file was generated using `lorri` (https://github.com/nix-community/lorri/) and we intend to deploy the next toolkit: lorri, for shell.nix and related files management, direnv, for automatic integration to shell.nix -- and .envrc / .env -- npins, to pin specific dependency, a-la package-lock.json

IvanM9 · 2024-12-10T17:11:11Z

Hi Brayen!

I have these problems when running nix-shell:

I was testing on arch linux and debian

If the user hasn't configure a nix-channel yet, `nix-shell` invocation won't work for it expectas a <nixpkgs> channel -- that the user hasn't configured!-- This fixes that.

bjgavilanes · 2024-12-10T22:20:28Z

Hi, @IvanM9!, thank you for your input.

The problem is nix-shell is looking for channel; that's, the registry of nix and nix-related packages -- this is like adding a repo in Debian -- but is not declared.

At cf4d5f8, I tagged the lastes stable release at nix-shell, now this should work as expected.

Sure, this can be fixed at user side, adding channels using nix-channel command, but we intend for this to be a plug-and-play setting.

Let me know if this helps you!,
Brayen

bjgavilanes · 2024-12-10T22:27:09Z

This is a great resource on how to install nix in imperative distribution:

https://nix-community.github.io/nix-installers/

It supports deb, pacman and rpm. We should consider writing a script for this to be setup.

mkShellNoCC is a variant that doesn't ships a C compiler. Also, remove bashInteractive as dependency. This changes provide us a leaner development environtment.

IvanM9 · 2024-12-11T02:15:15Z

Works, but still sometimes there are problems with the daemon :(

bjgavilanes · 2024-12-11T02:19:27Z

Yes, that may be a problem with Debian installation. As soon as I get to office, I'll troubleshoot it back. Can you access to `biome` and related development tools? Thank you!, Brayen El mar., 10 de diciembre de 2024 11:15 p. m., Iván Manzaba < ***@***.***> escribió:

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IvanM9 · 2024-12-11T02:25:04Z

Yes, works

IvanM9 · 2024-12-11T17:08:05Z

README.md

Hi @bjgavilanes

Please include instructions on what to do when there is a problem with the nix daemon.

bjgavilanes · 2024-12-11T19:11:37Z

Hello!,

On Wed Dec 11, 2024 at 2:08 PM -03, Iván Manzaba wrote: @IvanM9 approved this pull request. On README.md: Hi @bjgavilanes Please include instructions on what to do when there is a problem with the nix daemon.

Sure. I'll troubleshoot it first; but, yes. As soon as I get into office, I'll push a commit.

bjgavilanes · 2024-12-27T00:24:44Z

I haven't troubleshot problem in debian installation -- I know Arch Linux and Void Linux repo install do okay, I've done it --

I'll update README and point out potential problems / solutions. And I don't like it, but I'll make more obvious that upstream install -- a curl into sh pipe X.X -- would be best bet for anyone not having native package manager support for nix.

I have thunk deeply about this. I'll dockerize -- throught podman! -- nix workflow, for best compatibility... But that'll get done in another PR.

bjgavilanes · 2024-12-27T01:36:25Z

I'm using distrobox to troubleshoot debian nix problem.

I haven't been able to reproduce problem with nix-daemon as @IvanM9 has pointed out.

(ins)📦[bjgavilanes@debian www]$ nix-shell 
unpacking 'https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/tarball/nixos-24.11' into the Git cache...
these 44 paths will be fetched (49.76 MiB download, 235.27 MiB unpacked):
  /nix/store/nrl5m466dwdscvavf1nqzdnqhszjyy9n-acl-2.3.2
  /nix/store/nmq6s9l9zlym3qjx76zzrqbp05a63y90-attr-2.5.2
  /nix/store/p6k7xp1lsfmbdd731mlglrdj2d66mr82-bash-5.2p37
  /nix/store/2bpqfzq78d0li8hn21flnpydnmkngw3k-biome-1.9.4
  /nix/store/hl3iw85v12gh9mwgvr9yfgjgy0rk81hb-bzip2-1.0.8

Altought, reading history log shows

  489  sudo apt-get update
# (...)
  495  sudo apt install nix-setup-systemd

That I did and apt-get and then apt invocation. I don't believe this is the problem, but will try to install nix as documented in the README.

For the record, I'm testing in debian-unstable

distrobox list
ID           | NAME                 | STATUS             | IMAGE                         
6c613be53703 | debian               | Up 35 minutes      | docker.io/library/debian:unstable

Using distrobox

distrobox --version
distrobox: 1.8.0

bjgavilanes · 2024-12-27T01:48:23Z

So, I remove nix-setup-systemd and then sudo apt autoremove

(ins)📦[bjgavilanes@debian ~]$ sudo apt remove nix-setup-systemd
The following packages were automatically installed and are no longer required:
  bash-static             libdbi-perl
  libarchive13t64         liblowdown1
  libboost-context1.83.0  libsodium23
  libcpuid17              libwww-curl-perl
  libdbd-sqlite3-perl     nix-bin
Use 'sudo apt autoremove' to remove them.

REMOVING:
  nix-setup-systemd

Summary:
  Upgrading: 0, Installing: 0, Removing: 1, Not Upgrading: 5
  Freed space: 36.9 kB

Continue? [Y/n] 
(ins)📦[bjgavilanes@debian ~]$ sudo apt autoremove
REMOVING:                       
  bash-static      libboost-context1.83.0  libdbd-sqlite3-perl  liblowdown1  libwww-curl-perl
  libarchive13t64  libcpuid17              libdbi-perl          libsodium23
# (...)

And then perform apt-get as documented in README. I worked, as previously reported.

I began to think that maybe it did work because distrobox was communicating with my host-machine's nix-daemon.service, but no!

● nix-daemon.service - Nix Daemon
     Loaded: loaded (/etc/systemd/system/nix-daemon.service; linked; preset: ignored)
    Drop-In: /nix/store/qxahi9pkgfdanxj2bfswvn44cx9wk21v-system-units/nix-daemon.service.d
             └─overrides.conf
     Active: active (running) since Wed 2024-12-25 03:03:13 -03; 1 day 19h ago
 Invocation: 276ff05ef67b4ef7b77d94f1b9c202a6
TriggeredBy: ● nix-daemon.socket
       Docs: man:nix-daemon
             https://nixos.org/manual
   Main PID: 1726 (nix-daemon)
         IP: 330.3M in, 4.1M out
         IO: 358M read, 1.7G written
      Tasks: 2 (limit: 1048576)
     Memory: 607.9M (peak: 870.2M swap: 3.4M swap peak: 3.5M)
        CPU: 2min 5.834s
     CGroup: /system.slice/nix-daemon.service
             └─1726 nix-daemon --daemon

Dec 26 15:04:41 natja nix-daemon[1726]: accepted connection from pid 130001
# (...)
Dec 26 22:42:18 natja nix-daemon[1726]: accepted connection from pid 190377, user bjgavilanes (trusted)

As last resource, I can troubleshoot in a Debian VM... However, I would advise to reinstall nix. Preferably, using upstream method IF local package manager installation still doesn't work.

bjgavilanes · 2024-12-27T01:56:49Z

According to this thread you can fix problem with nix-daemon.socket by adding your user to the nix-users group. I added that e information to the README, too.

IvanM9 · 2024-12-30T17:13:44Z

Still having problems :(
I tried again on Arch and Debian

bjgavilanes · 2024-12-31T03:18:03Z

On Mon Dec 30, 2024 at 2:14 PM -03, Iván Manzaba wrote: Still having problems :( I tried again on Arch and Debian

Thank you for your assistance. I'll troubleshoot in a VM ASAP. I'll continue development for our tooling at #21 PR. I'll update README to globally install `biome` and `dprint`. Also, I'll began a `make` scheme from that PR. Thanks!, Brayen

bjgavilanes added 4 commits December 9, 2024 22:07

feat(nix): add nix-related information to the README

52b06c8

ci: biome check --fix

7b10016

lint: biome check --fix --unsafe to useNodejsImportProtocol

aa022ad

bjgavilanes requested review from davcortez and IvanM9 December 10, 2024 02:40

bjgavilanes self-assigned this Dec 10, 2024

bjgavilanes added the enhancement New feature or request label Dec 10, 2024

fix(nix): tag latest stable for nix-shell deployment

cf4d5f8

If the user hasn't configure a nix-channel yet, `nix-shell` invocation won't work for it expectas a <nixpkgs> channel -- that the user hasn't configured!-- This fixes that.

feat(nix): mkShell to mkShellNoCC

cfa0dc9

mkShellNoCC is a variant that doesn't ships a C compiler. Also, remove bashInteractive as dependency. This changes provide us a leaner development environtment.

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Hi @bjgavilanes

Please include instructions on what to do when there is a problem with the nix daemon.

Merge branch 'main' into nixpkgs_migration

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chore: update README point out nix-daemon.socket fix

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