Packaging Request: Sandstorm.io

[deliciouslytyped]

Sandstorm is an open source
platform for self-hosting web apps

Metadata

• homepage URL: https://sandstorm.io/
• source URL: https://github.com/sandstorm-io/
• license: ?
• platforms: linux, ?

Issues:
sandstorm-io/sandstorm#245

See also:
the discussion at https://freenode.irclog.whitequark.org/sandstorm/2016-03-25#15920336 (I didn't read it yet)
https://github.com/maurer/nixlocal/search?q=language%3Anix+sandstorm&unscoped_q=language%3Anix+sandstorm (the only results are what's present in the IRC log)

[zimbatm]

previous attempt: evils@243d341

[deliciouslytyped]

Great commit message 😂

[MostAwesomeDude]

Upstream is working on ekam at capnproto/ekam#29. I suspect that they may have to learn the hard lesson about giving up their own build system and embracing Nix; OTOH, they would love to see a properly-built Meteor, rather than a prepackaged tarball.

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[ppom0]

Hey, would be great to see Sandstorm.io on Nix! Seems to be a good match.
I see that the upstream ekam issue is closed. Is it possible to package it now?

[zenhack]

@aopom, ekam still doesn't build, but that particular issue is fixed. My most recent attempt is here:

https://github.com/zenhack/ekam-nix

...If you or anyone else wants to take another whack.

[ppom0]

It's strange, because I can get ekam to build on my NixOS host but still can't in its nix sandbox with nix-build.

[zenhack]

Quoting aopom (2021-05-16 20:18:50)

It's strange, because I can get ekam to build on my NixOS host but still can't in its nix sandbox with nix-build.

Yeah, I assume the nix sandbox is messing with the compiler's search path somehow, but haven't pinned down the issue. I updated the revision used in the WIP, but (unsurprisingly) same error.

[garrison]

@zenhack and I have achieved a working build of ekam at https://github.com/zenhack/ekam-nix. There's still a bit of work to do before adding it to nixpkgs, but at least it builds now.

[garrison]

I've opened a pull request to add ekam to nixpkgs: #141064.

[garrison]

I have a work-in-progress at https://github.com/garrison/nixpkgs/tree/sandstorm/pkgs/servers/sandstorm, building on the previous attempt by @evils. It doesn't compile yet.

• Somehow I need to provide static versions of -ldl -lrt -lm -lpthread -lc.
• There are some missing symbols, too:
  • bpf_asm_compile
  • several relating to boringssl (which I expect might be fixed by matching the version precisely to what sandstorm expects)
• #include <sandstorm/seccomp-bpf/filter.h> errors with "file not found"
• node-capnp/capnp.cc errors with 'node.h' file not found

I'll update that branch as I make more progress.

[zenhack]

• filter.h is supposed to be generated by the the build system; I suspect that error is cascading from the bpf_asm_compile one; we build the bpf assembler in-tree, so likely the error is related to linking the assembler.
• I would hazard a guess that the missing node.h is the same thing that's been plaguing our CI, per:
  • Fix the icon font generation sandstorm-io/sandstorm#3576
  • Debugging CI; don't mind me. sandstorm-io/sandstorm#3572

[garrison]

I've moved my work-in-progress to https://github.com/garrison/sandstorm-nix. There I am focusing only on building Sandstorm under nixpkgs, not on integrating into NixOS.

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