Today, I was about to add an attribute to the lib attribute of nixpkgs using a nixpkgs overlay. I thought that this is as straight forward as adding regular packages directly in an overlay. This wasn’t my first time using overlays, but my first time adding something to lib. There Read more…
In this blog post, I’m going to show you briefly how you can compile an out-of-tree Linux kernel module in Nix. I use regular Nix for that and no Nix flakes. However, with flakes, the approach is similar. Background Knowledge An out-of-tree Linux kernel module is a standalone piece of Read more…
In this blog post, I explain how to test a single NixOS module in CI. By single NixOS module, I mean a module that provides some options and configurations, but itself is not a valid NixOS configuration. The use case is to have a common module (in a git repository) Read more…