NixOS Support

[devindudeman]

Hello there,

Any chance you could add Goose to the nix package manager?

Thank you!

[michaelneale]

@devindudeman so you can install it with nix? It isn't in any package managers yet, but that would be cool

[devindudeman]

Yeah I'd love it available here!

As more developers move towards declarative package management, having Goose available as a Nix package would allow seamless integration into NixOS configurations and home-manager setups.

[amackillop]

I can take this

[suderman]

I found this and it works on my NixOS.

[amackillop]

Nice probably just have to port that over to nixpkgs

[suderman]

Something like it anyway. I am not experienced with Rust but can see his nix package is fetching a cargo lock file from his own URL. I guess because the lock file is not included in the goose repo? I noticed this when trying to bump up to the next version.

[amackillop]

I did find it odd that there is no Cargo.lock as typically it is included for application/binary projects and excluded for libraries.

#942

[f15u]

Yesterday someone make a package request: NixOS/nixpkgs#378090

[michaelneale]

yeah I can't remember why we didn't do cargo lock

[fusion44]

There is now a PR to include Goose in nixpks:
NixOS/nixpkgs#378111

Please thumb up the PR so it gets merged faster

[DavidDelebecque]

Hi,

OVHcloud Engineering team tried NixOS.
Providing this image presents some difficulties:

• images available from NixOS are not cloud ready (with the exception of AMI – unsuitable for us)
• while it was possible to create working NixOS from ubuntu24.04 via NIXOS_LUSTRATE, it might be non-trivial to properly handle cloud-init in such image. We didn't get it to work during triage.
• packages channels are marked with specific versions, or "unstable" – not ideal situation, "latest" or "stable" would be highly preferable for automation"

Based on our priorities, we decided to wait for NIxOS integration into OVHcloud image catalog.
As you may already know, some talks are ongoing on NixOS side about creating cloud images :
https://discourse.nixos.org/t/a-cloudinit-image-for-use-in-proxmox/27519
https://discourse.nixos.org/t/nixos-cloud-images-available/41814
NixOS/nixpkgs#307287

We will keep on following this topic and evaluate the best timing for NIxOS integration.

Thanks

[baxen]

This looks merged upstream, thanks everyone for the contributions!