Hi @kclejeune, I hope you are doing well. I'm wondering what's your recommendation to upgrade the packages?

Here is what I did, but not sure it's right or wrong

nix flake update
nix build .#host
darwin-rebuild swith --flake .#host

And how about upgrade a single package only? For example I want to upgrade Neovim.

Hi @kclejeune ，

The comma repository has been transfer to nix-community：
https://github.com/nix-community/comma

Hi Kennan,

I've seen your recent improvements, nice nice! Especially the move to Cirrus for aarch64 bulid support.
I had a question for you about these lines:

Do you see any downside in using a fast plugin manager like sheldon compared to wrapping the deployment of plugins in shell.nix like you did?

Hi Kennan,

First of all, thanks a lot for sharing your configuration. I started learning Nix just about a week ago and I'm learning a lot reading through it.

I was curious about your nixos module password. How did you get its hash here

Hi, just came across your config from Reddit and I really like your code structure. I'm new about Nix and trying to simplify your config however I got the issue when building your setup. nix build complain that access path is forbidden at... in restricted mode
I fixed this after doing some research by using --impure argument. You can see it in the following link:
https://github.com/babygau/nix/blob/4d2ab96c65f02059d66a4cad4d71d297d045d46e/modules/home-manager/dotfiles.nix
Currently, I have dotfiles folder with nix inside which is a fork from your config. Atm, I couldn't use sth like ../../../alacritty. Could you please explain to me?

Hi Kennan,

I'm not sure if the below is intentional but if it is then I'm a bit confused as your only home-manager config calling the hm/work.nix is a x86_64-linux.

https://github.com/kclejeune/system/blob/969ac3d513e28d02cb2ce42d00605732fd4bf37c/flake.nix

Hi @kclejeune ,

Thanks for sharing your nix configuration, it is very nice config.
But after bootstrap on my MacBook with nix --extra-experimental-features "nix-command flakes" develop -c sysdo bootstrap --darwin MacBook, it works as expected.

but when I try to use sysdo switch MacBook after update my configuration, it will got this error.

❯ sysdo switch MacBook
> darwin-rebuild switch --flake .#MacBook --show-trace
sh: darwin-rebuild: command not found

To make it work , I need to run this in terminal manually

export PATH="/run/current-system/sw/bin:$PATH"
export PATH="/etc/profiles/per-user/aqua0210/bin:$PATH"

How do you make sysdo work without manually add PATH?

root@customer-portal:/root# history
    1  apt update
    2  apt-get upgrade
    3  apt-get dist-upgrade
    4  apt-get install nix
    6  sudo nano /etc/nix/nix.conf # add experimental-features = nix-command flakes
    7  sudo systemctl restart nix-daemon
    8  nix run nixpkgs#hello

After this, how would I make like a flake or a config file or whatever and be like "ok, I want to add a system user" and then use nix to deploy it/apply it? Or can I not do this because I'm not using NixOS?

Hi, I'm new to nix and I just found your config - thanks for open sourcing it!

I'm trying your configs out on an M3 Macbook and I'm falling at the first hurdle...

I have modified flake.nix to change the username to my local username, but when I run nix run .#sysdo bootstrap it errors out with:

error: flake 'github:kclejeune/system' does not provide attribute 'packages.aarch64-darwin.darwinConfigurations.will@aarch64-darwin.config.system.build.toplevel', 'legacyPackages.aarch64-darwin.darwinConfigurations.will@aarch64-darwin.config.system.build.toplevel' or 'darwinConfigurations.will@aarch64-darwin.config.system.build.toplevel'

and

FileNotFoundError: [Errno 2] No such file or directory: './result/sw/bin/darwin-rebuild'

I am far from competent in nix at the moment, but I would have thought that the configurations would be for <username>@<hostname>, not <username>@<arch>. Should I have made some other modifications within flake.nix?

At the moment I'm just looking to get this up and running, then work my way through the config to customise it to my needs. Starting with a working config would make it a lot easier to learn than the current trial and error I've been going through over the last few days.

Full error:

error: flake 'github:kclejeune/system' does not provide attribute 'packages.aarch64-darwin.darwinConfigurations.will@aarch64-darwin.config.system.build.toplevel', 'legacyPackages.aarch64-darwin.darwinConfigurations.will@aarch64-darwin.config.system.build.toplevel' or 'darwinConfigurations.will@aarch64-darwin.config.system.build.toplevel'
$ ./result/sw/bin/darwin-rebuild switch --flake github:kclejeune/system#will@aarch64-darwin
Traceback (most recent call last):

  File "/nix/store/6c3arqnvmfr2r0p42c9k6vwzydliccmr-sysdo/bin/sysdo", line 331, in <module>
    app()

  File "/nix/store/6c3arqnvmfr2r0p42c9k6vwzydliccmr-sysdo/bin/sysdo", line 137, in bootstrap
    run_cmd(

  File "/nix/store/6c3arqnvmfr2r0p42c9k6vwzydliccmr-sysdo/bin/sysdo", line 72, in run_cmd
    else subprocess.run(cmd, shell=False)
         ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

  File "/nix/store/kqsqlfvvr4gr3q83vl43gprk47rbsc5d-python3-3.11.9/lib/python3.11/subprocess.py", line 548, in run
    with Popen(*popenargs, **kwargs) as process:
         ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

  File "/nix/store/kqsqlfvvr4gr3q83vl43gprk47rbsc5d-python3-3.11.9/lib/python3.11/subprocess.py", line 1026, in __init__
    self._execute_child(args, executable, preexec_fn, close_fds,

  File "/nix/store/kqsqlfvvr4gr3q83vl43gprk47rbsc5d-python3-3.11.9/lib/python3.11/subprocess.py", line 1955, in _execute_child
    raise child_exception_type(errno_num, err_msg, err_filename)

FileNotFoundError: [Errno 2] No such file or directory: './result/sw/bin/darwin-rebuild'

Hi @kclejeune, today I got sometimes to learn me some Nix. Pretty happy with my current config based on yours. Thank you so much for that. However, my today question is, I see you use home-manager to manage user installed packages home.packages = with pkgs; [...];. What make it different from users.users.{name}.packages?

Hi @kclejeune,

For your reference, please see https://github.com/bangedorrunt/nix/tree/flake-parts

Most of my code is trial and error but it worked OK for me. I'm looking forward to hearing your response. Also, your suggestion for any improvement is really appreciated!