Do folks recommend auto updating their local clone of the Jovian-NixOS repo?

[jkotran]

Hello,

First: A hearty kudos, bravo, and thank you to the developers. I had a functioning Steam setup on my NixOS PC. I added Jovian for GameScope/Big Picture and my games perform better. Thank you for sharing your time and your talent.

Second: I run a classic channels NixOS configuration. I manually cloned the Jovian NixOS repo to my machine at /etc/nixos/jovian-nixos and imported it in my configuration.nix.
Do folks recommend auto updating my local clone of the repo, manually cloning occasionally, or set it once and forget get it?
I imagine flakes would auto update me, but I wanted to ask to see what folks are doing.

Third: I documented a cookbook for the public at NixOS Wiki: https://nixos.wiki/wiki/Jovian_NixOS
Let me know if it's redundant or can be improved.

Best,

Joe Kotran

[K900]

Generally you probably want to add Jovian as a channel, and update it as you would your other channels, or, preferably, use a locking tool like flakes, niv or any other.

[jkotran]

Thank you for the tip. I haven't learned adding other channels. I'll do my homework. That'll save me the manual git clone.

[jkotran]

@K900 I read getting-started.md > Configuring the software. How do I determine the revision?

One way to do so is by using fetchTarball in the imports of your configuration.

{ config, lib, pkgs, ... }:

{
imports = [
(
# Put the most recent revision here:
let revision = "xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx"; in
builtins.fetchTarball {
url = "https://github.com/Jovian-Experiments/Jovian-NixOS/archive/${revision}.tar.gz";
# Update the hash as needed:
sha256 = "sha256:0000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000";
} + "/modules"
)

/* ... */
];

/* ... */
}

I tried this, but I don't know what I'm doing:

git clone http://forgejo.kotran.us:3000/jkotran/Jovian-NixOS.git jovian-nixos

cd jovian-nixos

git tag -l

git branch -r

I recall reading that user guide... I couldn't determine the revision so I resorted to a manual git clone.

Thank you again

[K900]

https://github.com/Jovian-Experiments/Jovian-NixOS/commits/development/, click "copy full SHA" next to the latest commit.

[jkotran]

You're the best! I was looking for a Release instead of a Commit. Got it now.

[phanirithvij]

Hello @jkotran I see many contributions on nixos.wiki by you. I hope you can contribute to the official wiki.nixos.org instead, just a suggestion.