[Nix-dev] Deploying Steam in NixOS

[Aristid Breitkreuz]

Hi Sander,

This is really awesome. I had vague plans to eventually do the same things,
but I'm glad you beat me to the punch. :) This will surely also make
packaging other proprietary binary software much easier - for those cases
where patchelf is not enough. One thing that seems like it would be worth
adding would be with NixOS aid... a setuid wrapper that immediately after
starting the chroot drops the privileges again.

By the way, Aszlig also had a packaging effort for Steam.


Cheers,

Aristid


2013/9/14 Sander van der Burg - EWI <S.vanderBurg at tudelft.nl>

>  Hello Nixers seeking some entertainment!
>
> I also did an attempt to make Steam working in NixOS. I have used a chroot
> approach and for me it seems to work fine. I was capable of deploying and
> running Half-Life, Half Life 2, Portal and Counter Strike and they all seem
> to work fine on both on my desktop machine (with NVIDIA GPU) and notebook
> (with Intel GPU).
>
> More details:
>
>
> http://sandervanderburg.blogspot.com/2013/09/composing-fhs-compatible-chroot.html
>
> (Just search for tl;dr if you're too impatient :P)
>
> We may need to tweak the environment a bit to get other Steam games
> working that I don't know of, but the ones that I bought all seem to work.
>
> Best,
>
> Sander
>
>
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