Blueprint should not assume certain things about the environment

[itsvic-dev]

• Certain distros do not have a /usr/local directory (such as NixOS), or even a /usr/bin! (NixOS has it, but it only contains env) Because of this, the blueprint alias does not get installed if /usr/local/bin is not present or if it's not writable to by the current user.
• The installer falls apart anywhere outside of /var/www/pterodactyl. A safer assumption would be setting FOLDER="$(dirname $0)". chore: don't use ::f placeholders #40
• When setting up symlinks to .blueprint, Blueprint will create absolute links. If the panel directory is renamed, Blueprint will partially break. Use relative symlinks instead of absolute ones/hardlinks #30

[prplwtf]

In all honestly, I doubt people would run Pterodactyl on NixOS.

[itsvic-dev]

In all honestly, I doubt people would run Pterodactyl on NixOS.

I do -- but that's not the point. Point is, Blueprint shouldn't assume certain things about the environment. Another one is, Blueprint assumes that www-data is the owner of the panel directory. Doesn't break anything, but is annoying nonetheless.

[Ahwxorg]

Works on my machine

[Ahwxorg]

In all seriousness:

@prplwtf we/you could just add a simple if-statement, or tell people that NixOS is unsupported? Also possible to make the directories a variable and define the variable using a interactive script?

[prplwtf]

Non-standard directory support has been implemented since ages ago.

Non-standard file ownership has been implemented recently, but is waiting for the next release.

[itsvic-dev]

Non-standard directory support has been implemented since ages ago.

It's a bit wonky in my experience. When running with _FOLDER set, it breaks. Running it a second time, with or without _FOLDER, gets it to actually install.
This still doesn't address my initial complaint that the directory can change, and you should avoid absolute symlinks.

Non-standard file ownership has been implemented recently, but is waiting for the next release.

Glad to hear that.

we/you could just add a simple if-statement, or tell people that NixOS is unsupported?

This isn't a NixOS-specific issue. If the user running Blueprint does not have write permissions to /usr/local/bin, it will also fail to install the blueprint tool, as was the case for me as I was running it as myself, not as root.

[prplwtf]

We could switch to a .env-like config file for Blueprint which would store settings like these in a readable manner:

For the "blueprint" command issue, we could just add a statement to check from a list of directories, and if it exists, place it in there.

[prplwtf]

_FOLDER functionality has now been removed in commit 6faa0c3 in favor of ✨ sed commands ✨.

[0x7d8]

@prplwtf couldnt this be solved by making a shell alias for blueprint on environments that dont have the directories?

[prplwtf]

@itsvic-dev

Checking in; are there any changes you'd like to see implemented in the next version?

[itsvic-dev]

@itsvic-dev

Checking in; are there any changes you'd like to see implemented in the next version?

not sure