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authorBrian Picciano <mediocregopher@gmail.com>2021-09-22 22:04:16 -0600
committerBrian Picciano <mediocregopher@gmail.com>2021-09-22 22:04:16 -0600
commit624a38af2b96040384022413060861c3686447d6 (patch)
treecc65463764ec8114d86ce56c8de074ea274a27fd
parent9655dc6677cbc19d89535430e2b09b0f01c59116 (diff)
update appimages with nix wording
-rw-r--r--static/src/_posts/2021-09-22-building-appimages-with-nix.md37
1 files changed, 18 insertions, 19 deletions
diff --git a/static/src/_posts/2021-09-22-building-appimages-with-nix.md b/static/src/_posts/2021-09-22-building-appimages-with-nix.md
index 956f912..612e601 100644
--- a/static/src/_posts/2021-09-22-building-appimages-with-nix.md
+++ b/static/src/_posts/2021-09-22-building-appimages-with-nix.md
@@ -29,7 +29,7 @@ fulfill the following requirements:
* The builder itself should be deterministic; no matter where it runs it should
produce the same binary given the same input parameters.
-Lacking such a build system we're not able to distribute the program in a way
+Lacking such a build system we're not able to distribute cryptic-net in a way
which "just works"; it would require some kind of configuration, or some kind of
runtime environment to be set up, both of which would be a pain for users. And
lacking a definite build system makes it difficult to move forward on any other
@@ -136,11 +136,11 @@ the `pkgs.buildEnv` used to create the AppDir (see AppDir section below).
## Process Manager
-An important piece of the puzzle for getting our nebula project into an AppImage
-was a process manager. We need something which can run multiple service
-processes simultaneously, restart processes which exit unexpectedly, gracefully
-handle shutting down all those processes, and coalesce the logs of all processes
-into a single stream.
+An important piece of the puzzle for getting cryptic-net into an AppImage was a
+process manager. We need something which can run multiple service processes
+simultaneously, restart processes which exit unexpectedly, gracefully handle
+shutting down all those processes, and coalesce the logs of all processes into a
+single stream.
There are quite a few process managers out there which could fit the bill, but
finding any which could be statically compiled ended up not being an easy task.
@@ -179,11 +179,11 @@ places in the AppDir at `<AppDir-path>/etc/some/conf`.
[These docs](https://docs.appimage.org/packaging-guide/manual.html#ref-manual)
were very helpful for me in figuring out how to construct the AppDir. I then
used the `pkgs.buildEnv` utility to create an AppDir derivation containing
-everything the nebula project needs to run:
+everything cryptic-net needs to run:
```
appDir = pkgs.buildEnv {
- name = "my-AppDir";
+ name = "cryptic-net-AppDir";
paths = [
# real directory containing non-built files, e.g. the pmux config
@@ -229,7 +229,7 @@ generates the AppImage from a created AppDir:
appimagetool,
}:
pkgs.stdenv.mkDerivation {
- name = "program-name-AppImage";
+ name = "cryptic-net-AppImage";
src = appDir;
buildInputs = [ appimagetool ];
@@ -241,24 +241,23 @@ generates the AppImage from a created AppDir:
chmod +w buildAppDir -R
mkdir $out
- # program-name needs to match the desktop file in the AppDir
- appimagetool program-name "$out/program-name-bin"
+ appimagetool cryptic-net "$out/cryptic-net-bin"
'';
}
```
Running that derivation deterministically spits out a binary at
-`result/program-name-bin` which can be executed and run immediately, on any
-system using the same CPU architecture.
+`result/cryptic-net-bin` which can be executed and run immediately, on any
+system using the `x86_46` CPU architecture.
## Fin
-I'm extremely hyped to now have the ability to generate binaries for our nebula
-project that people can _just run_, without them worrying about which
-sub-services that binary is running under-the-hood. From a usability perspective
-it's way nicer than having to tell people to "install docker" or "install nix",
-and from a dev perspective we have a really solid foundation on which to build a
-quite complex application.
+I'm extremely hyped to now have the ability to generate binaries for cryptic-net
+that people can _just run_, without them worrying about which sub-services that
+binary is running under-the-hood. From a usability perspective it's way nicer
+than having to tell people to "install docker" or "install nix", and from a dev
+perspective we have a really solid foundation on which to build a quite complex
+application.
[lastnix]: {% post_url 2021-04-22-composing-processes-into-a-static-binary-with-nix %}
[nix-bundle]: https://github.com/matthewbauer/nix-bundle