Supporting OpenBSD and Chimera Linux

Development
1

Hi,

Any plans to add support for OpenBSD (and FreeBSD) and Chimera Linux?

- AM

2

I don’t remember any movement on the FreeBSD nor OpenBSD recently.

As for Chimera Linux… does the official Nix installer work?

3

I’ve heard due to Chimera using OpenBSD userland and musl, Nix doesn’t work on it seamlessly.

4

You’ve heard that? Share a link?

5

Here are a couple of links/workarounds about the problem:

Also some packages in nixpkgs such as 1Password and CLion depend on glibc which is not present in Chimera, so if we install them using Nix, they crash when executed. I am not sure if they can be patched to work using musl.

-AM

6

I use Chimera Linux with nix installed, it works perfectly fine. The installer even allows multi-user setup, you just need to write a simple dinit unit to support the daemon.

The issues you may face are GUI apps and you need nixGL for that.

7

I just tried installing it by running:

sh <(curl --proto '=https' --tlsv1.2 -L https://nixos.org/nix/install) --daemon

and it failed:

...
#
# perhaps not important
#
---- warning! ------------------------------------------------------------------
We did not detect systemd on your system. With a multi-user install
without systemd you will have to manually configure your init system to
launch the Nix daemon after installation.

Do you want to proceed with a multi-user installation?
[y/n] y

...

---- sudo execution ------------------------------------------------------------
I am executing:

    $ sudo groupadd -g 30000 --system nixbld

Create the Nix build group, nixbld

env: groupadd: No such file or directory

---- oh no! --------------------------------------------------------------------
Oh no, something went wrong. If you can take all the output and open
an issue, we'd love to fix the problem so nobody else has this issue.

:(

We'd love to help if you need it.

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