Development sandbox does not work on MacOS

[kadaan]

Describe the bug

Development sandbox does not work on MacOS because a number of the Nix packages are not available for MacOS.

1. iproute2: not applicable to MacOS
2. kanidm: not packaged in nix for MacOS, but available in homebrew

[khuedoan]

Thanks for letting me know about this issue, I’ll update the document to reflect that it doesn’t work on macOS. I might add a short instruction on how to create a virtual machine for non-Linux platforms.

[kadaan]

Commenting both out let me get a lot further, to terraform. That said, I ran out of time to go further and don't want to test with my existing cloudfllare account.

Ideally nix would have a kanidm-cli package as that seems to be all you need for the development environment. I was able to adjust your flake.nix to to build a kanidm-cli by adding:

        pkgs = import nixpkgs {
          inherit system;
          config.allowUnfree = true;
       
         #########  Start of addition 
         overlays = [
            (import (
              fetchTarball {
                url = "https://github.com/oxalica/rust-overlay/archive/master.tar.gz";
                sha256 = "sha256:1crrpxl6qvc6kspr7q9x94bham6kpvh4d09ajvraajxpz2hcl2wz";
              })
            )
          ];
        };
        rustPlatform = pkgs.makeRustPlatform {
          cargo = pkgs.rust-bin.stable.latest.minimal;
          rustc = pkgs.rust-bin.stable.latest.minimal;
        };
        kanidm-cli = rustPlatform.buildRustPackage rec {
          pname = "kanidm";
          version = "1.4.3";

          src = pkgs.fetchzip {
            url = "https://github.com/kanidm/kanidm/archive/refs/tags/v${version}.tar.gz";
            hash = "sha256-zI+IPwpkkF67/JSl3Uu+Q1giUN49r/hjvY+/QLqB5eM=";
          };

          nativeBuildInputs = [ pkgs.openssl pkgs.pam ];

          cargoHash = "sha256-l4UNdVvPteqs46Fm7yVgkgplANvkAmb4fooLigXRqZM=";

          cargoRoot = "tools/cli";
          cargoLock = {
            lockFile = "${src}/Cargo.lock";
          };

          cargoBuildFlags = [ "--bin" "kanidm" ];

          postPatch = ''
            ln -s ${src}/Cargo.lock tools/cli/Cargo.lock
          '';

          meta = {
            description = "A simple, secure, and fast identity management platform";
            homepage = "https://github.com/kanidm/kanidm";
            license = pkgs.lib.licenses.mpl20;
            maintainers = [ ];
          };
        };
        #########  End of addition

      in
      with pkgs;
      {

[kadaan]

[kadaan]

What commands are you using out of the iproute2 package?

[khuedoan]

iproute2 is used for the PXE boot setup to provision bare metal servers, I don’t have a macOS machine to test, but for the development sandbox, you might be able to get away without it