feat(dogfood): install nix package manager

[ghuntley]

Internal discussion thread.

[mtojek]

Could you please share a bit more context about this change and fix the link in the description?

[ghuntley]

Could you please share a bit more context about this change and fix the link in the description?

Apologies - I linked to the wrong link. See conversation at #devrandom. I use nix personally and not having access to the nix package manager is causing self-papercuts. Setting sandbox = false is key to enable installation.

[mtojek]

LGTM, thanks for addressing the comments! Feel free to merge if other approvers are 👍 .

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[ghuntley]

Thanks @mafredri and @mtojek for your eyeballs and guidance here.

[mafredri]

Nice work, looking pretty clean! 👍🏻

[mafredri]

Didn't test this, but imagine it should be a bit more portable and avoid adding the entry every startup.

Suggested change

	echo '. /home/coder/.nix-profile/etc/profile.d/nix.sh' >> /home/coder/.bashrc
	bash /opt/nix/install --no-daemon
	bash /opt/nix/install --no-daemon
	if ! grep -q '. ~/.nix-profile/etc/profile.d/nix.sh' ~/.bashrc; then
	echo '. ~/.nix-profile/etc/profile.d/nix.sh' >> ~/.bashrc
	fi

Ultimately, we might want to add this logic into /etc/profile.d/nix.sh and /etc/zsh/zprofile (via Dockerfile) so that it's available in all shells. But that can be done in a separate PR.

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[github-actions]

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