Code-server: Nix package

[srid]

Would be really nice to have a NixOS package that makes it easy to run the server with as simple as adding one line of configuration. The nix package will also be installeable on Mac.

[elseym]

had the same thought today, already looking into it together with @Ma27

[sr229]

NixOS packages are just AppImages. @nhooyr stated they won't like to suppprt every use case so build your own deployment solution @srid

[Ma27]

NixOS packages are just AppImages.

I'm afraid that this is wrong. Nix is a package manager for several *NIX systems, but with an entirely different packaging approach. Having a Nix package can be helpful, e.g. if somebody wants to deploy code-server to a NixOS system.

@elseym and I started to have a look at code-server's build system, but we got stuck while trying to install the @coder/* packages into the build environment last friday. We weren't entirely sure how to run the postinstall hooks in the build scripts while building with yarn2nix.

We'll probably come back to this during one of the next weeks and report back, but if somebody wants to take over, feel free :)

[ghuntley]

NixOS packages are just AppImages.

No, that is factually incorrect.

[Ma27]

Btw we actually made a little bit of progress last friday. The current state (squashed, that's why the commit date is still the 16th march) can be viewed here: https://github.com/elseym/nixpkgs/commit/0666bc913fce8561ed3c6fd17afb4a7e7e9f5457 / https://github.com/elseym/code-server/tree/yarn2nix

We failed at the point where we node-gyp was used to build one of the binaries. We assume that either some stuff is missing in the Nix build environment or some prebuilt binary breaks as Nix doesn't have common FHS paths such as /usr.

We'll probably have some time for further investigation in some weeks unless somebody actually beats us :)

[nhooyr]

This should be filed against nixpkgs.

[tscholak]

for those who come here like me and are wondering what the current state of nix integration is:
this has been implemented and merged to nixpkgs in June, see https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/commit/9e3dd2279529128f5aec584874185b86eaff08aa#diff-00df174f3487aabf2cb861648bf866b91f6817c375c00ab635e8207c0b1ce8ed.

[nhooyr]

Thanks for sharing @tscholak

[itlinux]

Hello all,
I know this maybe be a little off topic, since the Live Share is not really open source, but has anyone been able and provide steps to config Live Share with code-server in a docker solution?

Thanks