Available as Home-Manager Module

[nickgarber]

Hiya :)

Would you be open to enabling support for configuring and using Garden from Home-Manager [1], which is a declarative user-config manager within the Nix ecosystem?

I'd be interesting in contributing or supporting this with your guidance.

Home-Manager provides a wide array of configuration options [2] but nothing at all to manage git repos - in this way, it seems Garden and Home-Manager are extremely complementary to each other.

For my purposes, I'd like to use Home-Manager to install Garden, Push/Sync my Garden config file, and perhaps even (optionally) apply that garden config on login.

Happy to discuss more and thanks so much for the project!

[1] https://nix-community.github.io/home-manager/index.html
[2] https://nix-community.github.io/home-manager/options.html

[davvid]

Garden now includes a flake.nix file so it should be possible to install garden using home manager. Let me know if there's anything more that can be done to facilitate using garden alongside home manager.

[davvid]

We have a fully-functioning flake.nix (thanks @jordilin) so I'm going to close this issue out as completed. Let me know if there's anything else we can do here from your perspective nonetheless.

[jordilin]

Well, with home-manager you can actually build garden using a derivation and make it widely available across repos without the need to run a nix shell (flake.nix).

For example, if you setup this in a folder /path/to/home-manager/derivations/garden.nix

garden.nix

{ lib, fetchFromGitHub, rustPlatform }:

rustPlatform.buildRustPackage rec {
  pname = "garden";
  version = "v1.8.0";

  src = fetchFromGitHub {
    owner = "garden-rs";
    repo = "garden";
    rev = version;
    hash = "sha256-+hcjHuJvqxkp+5FikVb8+mpU6rObC4xkMj/NBZDYTrQ=";
  };
  cargoHash = "sha256-12X4bMDAQTLZfiPSbY9cPXB8cW1L0zYrts5F5CXzV7Y=";
}

Note 1: hashes hash and cargoHash above are for v.1.8.0 specifically. One could set them to lib.fakeHash; let the build fail with the error specifying the right hash, paste the correct hash and rebuild.
Note 2: If tests fail due to missing git in your build environment, one can set this up with doCheck = false.

you can activate the derivation above in your home.nix with

home.nix

{ config, pkgs, ... }:
    let garden =  pkgs.callPackage ./derivations/garden.nix {};
in
{
   home.packages = [
       garden
  ]
}