[Nix-dev] deploying nix-built software to non-nix linux systems

[Paul Colomiets]

Hi Anders,

On Tue, Nov 4, 2014 at 1:36 AM, Anders Papitto <anderspapitto at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I'm interested in using nix/nixos to build an application with its
> full set of dependencies, and then deploy it to non-nixos machines as
> a self-contained package (up to and including the system libraries),
> without root privileges. Ideally I would like to not require that any
> nix tools be available on the target system. The perfect workflow
> would be something like
>
> # on any linux system
> $ wget https://some/path/to/my-app.tar.gz
> $ tar -xf my-app.tar.gz
> $ ./my-app/bin/my-app # run the application -> it should not try to
> access anything outside ./my-app
>
> Is this possible? I haven't been able to find any resources on
> deploying to a non-nix systems.
>

Not easily but you can do that in two cases:

1. If you haven't root privileges, but can ask admin to make /nix owned by you

2. If you have recent kernel (>=3.8) with CONFIG_USER_NS enabled
(which is by default),


-- 
Paul