The Nix Hour

Currently Playing: The Nix Hour #50 [packaging Vim plugin, renaming VScodium binary]

Questions can only be asked by voice or chat in the meeting: https://meet.zrh.init7.net/nix-hour. The Nix Hour is an open beginner-oriented Q&A-style lecture on Nix, where you can bring your questions and we’ll answer them with more context, examples, alternatives, tradeoffs and related topics. Matrix room for questions, feedback and notifications: https://matrix.to/#/%23nix-hour:matrix.org Issue tracker for asynchronous questions: https://github.com/tweag/nix-hour/issues Previous sessions playlist: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLyzwHTVJlRc8yjlx4VR4LU5A5O44og9in For more information and updates, check out https://discourse.nixos.org/t/the-nix-hour-a-weekly-nix-qa-lecture-by-tweag/22767 00:00 Intro 00:18 Q: How to fix buffer overflwow in rsync on NixOS 01:23 How packages in nixpkgs compare to other distros 03:08 Using Nix on other distros to reproduce packaging issues 06:42 Technical difficulties 07:30 Q: Package of GitLab Duo for neovim 09:06 Looking at packaging/installing instructions in sources 10:23 Checking out existing neovim plugins in nixpkgs 14:01 Following docs on adding new plugin to nixpkgs 14:56 Adding new plugin to the list 17:20 Runnign vimPluginsUpdater 23:06 Troubleshooting vimPluginsUpdater 36:52 Q: Back to rsync on Arch 37:54 Q: fix Nix after update on macOS 42:11 Q: Overriding VSCodium to change binary path 44:05 Technical difficulties 44:37 Checking out VSCodium package sources 46:28 Wrapping package with shell script, writeShellScriptBin https://nixos.wiki/wiki/Nix_Cookbook#Wrapping_packages 48:41 Wrapping package with symlink tree, symlinkJoin 50:48 Using postBuild in symlinkJoin to patch files 52:28 Replacing text in files with substituteInPlace 59:25 Outro