The Nix package manager can be installed on Freebsd using Podman
Its also possible to enable flakes in the Podman container
which allows you to pin all the dependencies to a specific version for an application
Its also possible to pin applications to a specific git commit as well
You can run nix develop in the same directory as the flake.nix file
which creates a shell with all the dependencies needed to run the application
Nixos has the largest software repo on Linux
You cant use the Nix Podman container with Nvidia/Cuda
because the nvidia-libs on the Linuxulator are built with a different glib version
However a use case is creating dev environment for different languages
such as c, rust etc
Or installing applications that have a web interface like Invidious
or gui applications that arent available on Freebsd
At the moment i have enabled flakes in the container which is running as root like this this
After entering the container with the Podman run command listed above
You have to disable the sandbox so it works with the Linuxulator syscalls
Im just working on create Dockerfile and compose.yaml files
to run the container as a non root user
And create a flakes directory to store all the flakes files
which would be mounted from Freebsd so the flakes are stored on the Freebsd side for persistent storage
Also a working directory that would be mounted from Freebsd
into the container for file access
I should be able to enable Wayland/X11 support for gui applications
and pulseaudio/pipewire for audio
The advantage is you could have one Nix podman container
which you could use with different flakes to create reproducible dev environments
Is also easy to create a project on github with the Dockerfile and compose.yaml files
and some flake files, so you could just clone the project and be ready to go
It would also mean you wouldnt have to set up Poudrire to enable options for packages
that arent the enabled by default
Having access to all the nix packages on Freebsd
would gives us access to a lot more software
Any thoughts, feedback
Applications you would like to be able to run i could create flake file for
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doas podman run -it --os linux --network host nixos/nixIts also possible to enable flakes in the Podman container
which allows you to pin all the dependencies to a specific version for an application
Its also possible to pin applications to a specific git commit as well
You can run nix develop in the same directory as the flake.nix file
which creates a shell with all the dependencies needed to run the application
Nixos has the largest software repo on Linux
You cant use the Nix Podman container with Nvidia/Cuda
because the nvidia-libs on the Linuxulator are built with a different glib version
However a use case is creating dev environment for different languages
such as c, rust etc
Or installing applications that have a web interface like Invidious
or gui applications that arent available on Freebsd
At the moment i have enabled flakes in the container which is running as root like this this
After entering the container with the Podman run command listed above
Code:
mkdir -p /root/.config/nix
echo "experimental-features = nix-command flakes" >> /root/.config/nix/nix.confYou have to disable the sandbox so it works with the Linuxulator syscalls
Code:
echo "sandbox = false" >> /etc/nix/nix.conf
echo "filter-syscalls = false" >> /etc/nix/nix.confIm just working on create Dockerfile and compose.yaml files
to run the container as a non root user
And create a flakes directory to store all the flakes files
which would be mounted from Freebsd so the flakes are stored on the Freebsd side for persistent storage
Also a working directory that would be mounted from Freebsd
into the container for file access
I should be able to enable Wayland/X11 support for gui applications
and pulseaudio/pipewire for audio
The advantage is you could have one Nix podman container
which you could use with different flakes to create reproducible dev environments
Is also easy to create a project on github with the Dockerfile and compose.yaml files
and some flake files, so you could just clone the project and be ready to go
It would also mean you wouldnt have to set up Poudrire to enable options for packages
that arent the enabled by default
Having access to all the nix packages on Freebsd
would gives us access to a lot more software
Any thoughts, feedback
Applications you would like to be able to run i could create flake file for