nixos-augsburg-sprint-2016-11

nixos-sprint

paul and me visisted the augsburger openlab again!

projects

profpatsch

• package draw.io
  • ✔ build with ant
• ✔ Initialize package tests

uwap

• Quassel + qt4 doesn’t support postgresql as database backend
  • ✔ Add an option to the quassel service to allow the qt5 version
• “nixify” postfix configuration
  • ✔ main.cf https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/pull/20218

christine

• ✔ add maildev: https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/pull/20162
• ✔ removed django 1.5: https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/pull/20195
• ✔ nodejs cleanup: https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs-channels
• ✔ hadoop: removed hardcoded path: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HADOOP-13797

paul, michael & qknight

• ✔ started nextcloud packaging
• ✔ leaps: packaged with tests: https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/commit/47d81ed3473f33cfb48f2be079f50cdfac60f1e7
• ✔ made https://github.com/QuiteRSS/quiterss work on nixos, https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/pull/20245

• fixed nixcloud.io email system so that qknight can use thunderbird with STARTTLS and submission

   submissionOptions = {
     "smtpd_tls_security_level" = "encrypt";
     "smtpd_sasl_auth_enable" = "yes";
     "smtpd_client_restrictions" = "permit_sasl_authenticated,reject";
     "smtpd_sasl_type" = "dovecot";
     "smtpd_sasl_path" = "private/auth";
   };

• LXC: Unprivileged container with NixOS as guest and as host:
  • ✔ LXC container ist started as root that spawnes the LXC as user 100000 which is unprivileged on the host
  • ✔ shared read only store with the host
  • ✔ container can be build and updated on the host with nix-env

summary

this sprint was awesome. we got so many things to work!