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    Streamline your GitHub Actions dependencies using Nix nix practices testing determinate.systems
    grahamc avatar via grahamc 11 months ago |
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      zimbatm avatar zimbatm 11 months ago | link

      Even better would be to have a step that “activates” the nix environment.

      - name: "Load environment"
  run: nix develop -c bash -c 'echo $PATH' > "$GITHUB_PATH"
# Now you can use all the dependencies
- name: prettier --write
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        pmc avatar pmc 11 months ago | link

        PATH isn’t the only environment variable nix develop sets, especially when compilers and things like pkg-config are involved

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        abathur avatar abathur 11 months ago | link

        Can do something similar for makefile dependencies. I wrote a little about it in https://t-ravis.com/post/nix/nix-make/ (using nix-shell) but basically:

        export PATH := $(shell nix-shell -p hello --run 'echo $$PATH')

.PHONY: all
all:
	@echo nice hello
	hello --version
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          fstamour avatar fstamour 11 months ago | link

          Oh that’s a nice trick

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      voyd avatar voyd 11 months ago | link

      Some links are broken, for example the one to action.yml

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        usrme avatar usrme 11 months ago | link

        Came to mention this as well. The flakes link actually directs to a Notion page containing the same post…

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      l0b0 avatar l0b0 11 months ago | link

      The giant amount of magic going on behind the scenes of even a simple Actions workflow is one of the main reasons I prefer GitLab and the like. You control the container and the commands, and can easily run things locally. Even easier if you’re just using Nix, where you don’t even need the container. Example.