Add declarative config options for Syncthing

Anomalocaridid commented 1 year ago

Description

The syncthing service can be declaratively configured at the OS level using the various nixpkgs options under services.syncthing. However, Home Manager lacks equivalents for all except for the bare minimum, which makes declaratively configuring syncthing from userspace significantly more difficult.

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charlot-shaw commented 11 months ago

I also would appreciate better configuration for syncthing via home-manager.

Although I have the option to manage it at the system level, I find it a clash of expectations that I need to have the system administrator pick out what folders I, the user, can sync and with whom.

It's that or do some bodge with home.file, which is not great.

Thymelizabeth commented 9 months ago

Syncthing has just changed to using $XDG_STATE_DIR by default, which could change things.

MattSturgeon commented 6 months ago

Looks like NixOS does this fairly imperatively;

At build time it generates an updateConfig shell script, which does most of its work by calling Syncthing's REST API (at localhost:8384) using curl.

This shell script then gets run by one of the systemd services.

I don't see any reason why the NixOS solution couldn't be ported to home-manager more-or-less as-is?

TheHans255 commented 5 months ago

+1 for this. In particular, I can't set up Syncthing as a system level service because I need to have two separate instances of Syncthing running on the same computer for different users.

HPRIOR commented 4 months ago

+1 would like to declare my config and share between linux and mac environments with home-manager

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