Install packages with home-manager

README.md

@@ -129,15 +129,9 @@ installed_packages:
   - go
 ```
 
-For [Nix] packages, it is necessary to specify a command that will verify if it is already installed, most binaries support `--version` or just `version`, eg:
+To have you own dotfiles, just fork the [dotfiles eg. repo] and change the url of `dotfiles_repo` or just change `configure_dotfiles` to false if you do not want it.
 
-```yaml
-nix_packages:
-  - name: git
-    check_cmd: git --version
-  - name: kubectl
-    check_cmd: kubectl version --client
-```
+For [Nix] packages, update your [Home Manager] config on your dotfiles repo.
 
 Other package managers:
 
@@ -152,8 +146,6 @@ npm_packages:
   - name: webpack
 ```
 
-To have you own dotfiles, just fork the [dotfiles eg. repo] and change the url of `dotfiles_repo` or just change `configure_dotfiles` to false if you do not want it.
-
 Any variable can be overridden in **config.yml**; see the supporting roles' documentation for a complete list of available variables.
 
 ### Use with a remote machine

default.config.yml

@@ -14,30 +14,16 @@ installed_packages:
   - podman  # see https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/issues/138423
   - poedit
 
+# Dotfiles (requires git on installed_packages or extra_packages)
+configure_dotfiles: true
+dotfiles_repo: "https://github.com/staticdev/dotfiles-eg.git"
+dotfiles_repo_version: main
+dotfiles_files:
+  - .tmux.conf
+  - .vimrc
+  - .zshrc
+
 install_home_manager: true
-nix_packages:
-  - name: kubectl
-    check_cmd: kubectl version --client
-  - name: helm
-    check_cmd: helm --version
-  - name: k9s
-    check_cmd: k9s version
-  - name: htop
-    check_cmd: htop --version
-  - name: nmap
-    check_cmd: nmap --version
-  - name: thefuck
-    check_cmd: thefuck --version
-  - name: tmux
-    check_cmd: tmux -V
-  - name: vagrant
-    check_cmd: vagrant --version
-  - name: vim
-    check_cmd: vim --version
-  - name: wget
-    check_cmd: wget --version
-  - name: xclip
-    check_cmd: xclip -version
 
 # Install packages from other package managers
 install_extra_packages: true
@@ -58,15 +44,6 @@ npm_packages: []
 # Default is false in favor to podman installation in installed_packages
 install_docker: false
 
-# Dotfiles (requires git on installed_packages or extra_packages)
-configure_dotfiles: true
-dotfiles_repo: "https://github.com/staticdev/dotfiles-eg.git"
-dotfiles_repo_version: main
-dotfiles_files:
-  - .tmux.conf
-  - .vimrc
-  - .zshrc
-
 # Development
 ## Go settings
 golang_developer: true

main.yml

@@ -21,10 +21,6 @@
       ansible.builtin.include_tasks: tasks/packages.yml
       when: install_packages
 
-    - name: Install Home Manager
-      ansible.builtin.include_tasks: tasks/home-manager.yml
-      when: install_home_manager
-
     - name: Install zsh
       ansible.builtin.include_tasks: tasks/zsh.yml
       when: install_zsh
@@ -81,6 +77,10 @@
       when: install_rclone
 
   tasks:
+    - name: Install Home Manager
+      ansible.builtin.include_tasks: tasks/home-manager.yml
+      when: install_home_manager
+
     - name: Install Pycharm
       ansible.builtin.include_tasks: tasks/pycharm.yml
       when: install_pycharm

tasks/home-manager.yml

@@ -7,6 +7,11 @@
   changed_when: false
   ignore_errors: true
 
+- name: Copy Home Manager config from dotifles
+  ansible.builtin.command:
+    cmd: "mv ~/Documents/dotfiles/home-manager ~/.config/"
+    creates: "~/.config/home-manager"
+
 - name: Add Home Manager channel
   when: home_manager_cmd is failed
   ansible.builtin.command: "nix-channel --add https://github.com/nix-community/home-manager/archive/master.tar.gz home-manager"
@@ -27,5 +32,28 @@
   environment:
     PATH: "{{ ansible_env.HOME + '/.nix-profile/bin:$PATH' }}"
     # workaround of https://github.com/nix-community/home-manager/issues/3944
-    USER: "{{ lookup('ansible.builtin.pipe', 'id -un') }}"
+    USER: "{{ lookup('env', 'USER') }}"
+  changed_when: true
+
+# REMOVE DEBUGS
+- name: Display home.nix contents
+  command: cat home.nix chdir=~/.config/home-manager/
+  register: command_output
+
+- name: Print to console
+  debug:
+    msg: "{{command_output.stdout}}"
+
+- name: Print the value of USER
+  ansible.builtin.debug:
+    var: "{{ lookup('env', 'USER') }}"
+
+- name: Activate config
+  when: home_manager_cmd is failed
+  ansible.builtin.command:
+    cmd: "home-manager switch"
+  environment:
+    PATH: "{{ ansible_env.HOME + '/.nix-profile/bin:$PATH' }}"
+    # workaround of https://github.com/nix-community/home-manager/issues/3944
+    USER: "{{ lookup('env', 'USER') }}"
   changed_when: true

tasks/packages.yml

@@ -31,24 +31,3 @@
     line: 'export PATH="{{ ansible_env.HOME }}/.nix-profile/bin:$PATH"'
     insertafter: EOF
     state: present
-
-- name: "Check installation of Nix packages"
-  ansible.builtin.command: "{{ item.check_cmd }}"
-  environment:
-    PATH: "{{ ansible_env.HOME + '/.nix-profile/bin:$PATH' }}"
-  register: package_check_cmd
-  changed_when: false
-  ignore_errors: true
-  loop: "{{ nix_packages }}"
-  loop_control:
-    index_var: package_index
-
-- name: "Install Nix packages"
-  ansible.builtin.command: "nix profile install nixpkgs#{{ item.name }}"
-  environment:
-    PATH: "{{ ansible_env.HOME + '/.nix-profile/bin:$PATH' }}"
-  when: package_check_cmd.results[package_index].failed
-  changed_when: true
-  loop: "{{ nix_packages }}"
-  loop_control:
-    index_var: package_index