paulperegud / dotfiles

custom linux config files - using nix and gnu stow

Dotfiles

This is paulperegud's dotfiles. It tries to provide both semi-permanent configuration and semi-permanent application versions. It supplies install.sh script, which sets up most apps and configs using Nix, Stow and myrepos. This config makes use of gpg encryption to store some sensitive information in the public github. For more details read private/README.md.

It was originally inspired by xero's dotfiles.

Installation

git clone https://github.com/paulperegud/dotfiles.git $HOME/dotfiles
$HOME/dotfiles/install.sh

Installer assumes the following:

• either Ubuntu or NixOs
• Posix-compatible shell
• installed curl, ssh and bzcat

Testing

Local test can be run with Docker:

make build
make test

This will build an ubuntu image, clone newest dotfiles repo in it and try to run install and uninstall scripts (with private stuff replaced with anonymized versions).

Included configs and apps

Currently it installs configuration for:

• awesome
• compton
• myrepos (to manage dotfile dependencies)
• git
• zile
• xmodmap (maps CapsLock to Control)
• emacs (Spacemacs)

It installs nix as user-level package manager if nix-env is not found.

It installs the following binaries from Nixpkgs:

• stow
• mr
• zile
• ag
• ghc
• compton
• emacs

Properties

By depending on nixpkgs, it can keep at bay versions of most-used utilities even if system package manager updates something. Currently it uses master of nixpkgs, hence it will install whatever version of a binary is defined there. In future it is planned to pin commit id of nixpkgs to ensure stable binaries versions.

It uses Spacemacs, which brings in a lot of packages from all kinds of *ELPAs, so versions there are also not predictable.

If you want to see a hardcore approach to version stability of user environment, please check out https://github.com/nilcons/ceh