In reply to @lotallia:matrix.org
This is pretty much exactly what I was looking for! I've done something similar in the past so I think this could work I'll play around with it and see if it works in practice.

Hello, I can't get my remote builder to work with colmena. I added "ssh://quentin@xxx x86_64-linux ~/.ssh/quentin-offen" to my machinesFile but colmena still complains about not being able to build linux things:

error: a 'x86_64-linux' with features {} is required to build '/nix/store/zszyc30901qn2b7kqx6wwp0hxbwm9kzl-haskell-generic-builder-test-wrapper.sh.drv', but I am a 'aarch64-darwin' with features {apple-virt, benchmark, big-parallel, nixos-test}

Quentin Le Guennec: does the following work? ie, does not prompt for password or to accept key fingerprint

sudo su
ssh quentin@xxx

Hi, does anyone have any working example of using colmena in a flake with disko? Passing inputs via specialArgs = {inherit inputs;}; results in error: The option inputs' does not exist.` the minute I use it within a config; even though I've found other users with it working the same way: https://discourse.nixos.org/t/colmena-how-to-push-a-flake-input-into-the-individual-nodes/36332

{
	inputs = {
		nixpkgs.url = "github:NixOS/nixpkgs/nixos-unstable";
		disko.url = "github:nix-community/disko";
	};

	outputs = { nixpkgs, self, ... }@inputs: {
		colmena = {
			meta = {
				nixpkgs = import nixpkgs {
					system = "x86_64-linux";
				};
				specialArgs = {inherit inputs;};
			};
			test = import ./disks.nix;
		};
	};
}

{ inputs, ...}:
{
  inputs.disko.devices = {
    disk = {
      main = {
        device = "/dev/disk/by-id/some-disk-id";
        type = "disk";
        content = {
          type = "gpt";
          partitions = {
            root = {
              size = "100%";
              content = {
                type = "filesystem";
                format = "ext4";
                mountpoint = "/";
              };
            };
          };
        };
      };
    };
  };
}

Hi, does anyone have any working example of using colmena in a flake with disko? Passing inputs via specialArgs = {inherit inputs;}; results in error: The option "inputs" does not exist. the minute I use it within a config; even though I've found other users with it working the same way: https://discourse.nixos.org/t/colmena-how-to-push-a-flake-input-into-the-individual-nodes/36332

{
	inputs = {
		nixpkgs.url = "github:NixOS/nixpkgs/nixos-unstable";
		disko.url = "github:nix-community/disko";
	};

	outputs = { nixpkgs, self, ... }@inputs: {
		colmena = {
			meta = {
				nixpkgs = import nixpkgs {
					system = "x86_64-linux";
				};
				specialArgs = {inherit inputs;};
			};
			test = import ./disks.nix;
		};
	};
}

{ inputs, ...}:
{
  inputs.disko.devices = {
    disk = {
      main = {
        device = "/dev/disk/by-id/some-disk-id";
        type = "disk";
        content = {
          type = "gpt";
          partitions = {
            root = {
              size = "100%";
              content = {
                type = "filesystem";
                format = "ext4";
                mountpoint = "/";
              };
            };
          };
        };
      };
    };
  };
}

Hi, does anyone have any working example of using colmena in a flake with disko? Passing inputs via specialArgs = {inherit inputs;}; results in error: The option "inputs" does not exist. the minute I use it within a config; even though I've found other users with it working the same way: https://discourse.nixos.org/t/colmena-how-to-push-a-flake-input-into-the-individual-nodes/36332

As a minimum config:

{
	inputs = {
		nixpkgs.url = "github:NixOS/nixpkgs/nixos-unstable";
		disko.url = "github:nix-community/disko";
	};

	outputs = { nixpkgs, self, ... }@inputs: {
		colmena = {
			meta = {
				nixpkgs = import nixpkgs {
					system = "x86_64-linux";
				};
				specialArgs = {inherit inputs;};
			};
			test = import ./disks.nix;
		};
	};
}

{ inputs, ...}:
{
  inputs.disko.devices = {
    disk = {
      main = {
        device = "/dev/disk/by-id/some-disk-id";
        type = "disk";
        content = {
          type = "gpt";
          partitions = {
            root = {
              size = "100%";
              content = {
                type = "filesystem";
                format = "ext4";
                mountpoint = "/";
              };
            };
          };
        };
      };
    };
  };
}