I just switched one of my systems over to NixOS from Arch and so far it seems interesting. One question I had is regarding the nix-shell. So I get the basic concept of it and that it allows creating a shell that has packages installed with that shell making ideal for dev environments. I’ve even seen talks where the suggest nix-shells over docker/podman, my question is how is persistent data (like databases) handled?

  • onlinepersona@programming.devEnglish
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    6 months ago

    mariadb doesn’t get backgrounded? Are you sure? Are you able to type commands and see their output? Also, what happens when putting set -x at the start of your shell hook? You should see the last line printed e.g MYSQL_PID=12345

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