Adding a NUR (Nix User Repository!)

[vsoch]

Hi! I'd like to install packages from a NUR: https://nur.nix-community.org/repos/rseops/ and just doing devbox add didn't work. I'm fairly new to this ecosystem, so apologizes in advance if I'm missing something obvious!

$ devbox add nur.repos.rseops.caliper
Error: package nur.repos.rseops.caliper not found

How do I tell devbox about this set of NUR repos? There are quite a few good packages there.

Update: this thread might have helpful hints for how we'd add it directly to nix: https://discourse.nixos.org/t/introducing-nur-the-nix-user-repostory-share-all-your-nix-expressions/431/5

Many thanks!

[loreto]

Hi @vsoch ,

Thanks for making this suggestion. We currently only install packages from nixpkgs (https://search.nixos.org/packages).

But I could imagine supporting a notation like the one you outlined to allow installing packages from other sources as well. Let me discuss with the team to see what we can do.

Best, Daniel

[vsoch]

Awesome thank you! This would be hugely appreciated.

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[elf-pavlik]

I noticed that https://www.nixhub.io/packages/dagger is very old There is a NUR package https://github.com/dagger/nix

It would be nice to have it supported in devbox.

[mionita1980]

@elf-pavlik

There you go:

create a file called devbox.json with content

{
    "$schema":  "https://raw.githubusercontent.com/jetpack-io/devbox/0.16.0/.schema/devbox.schema.json",
    "packages": [
        "github:dagger/nix#packages.x86_64-linux.dagger",
    ],
}

And run it:

$ devbox shell -c .
Info: Ensuring packages are installed.
✓ Computed the Devbox environment.
Starting a devbox shell...

(devbox) $ dagger version
dagger v0.19.8 (image://registry.dagger.io/engine:v0.19.8) linux/amd64

[elf-pavlik]

Thank you @mionita1980 now I see it in the docs: https://www.jetify.com/docs/devbox/guides/using-flakes#using-a-flake-from-github%E2%80%8B