Cross-platform question. I just got a Raspberry Pi and I'm trying to set it up, but right now colmena apply --on cm4 is pushing x86_64 binaries, instead of aarch64 ones. I figured I'm doing something wrong, just not sure what. This is a flake setup and I think the relevant lines are:

{
  outputs = inputs @ { self, nix, nixpkgs, nixpkgs-stable, ... }: {
      colmena = {
        meta = {
          nixpkgs = import inputs.nixpkgs {
            system = "x86_64-linux";
          };
        };

        laptop = import ./laptop.nix;
        cm4 = import ./cm4.nix;
      };
    };
}

In cm4.nix, I have this:

inputs @ { config, pkgs, system, flakes, ... }: {
    imports = [
      ./configuration.nix
    ];
  
    nixpkgs.system = "aarch64-linux";
  };  

Any suggestions of what I'm doing wrong?

In reply to @dmoonfire:matrix.org

Cross-platform question. I just got a Raspberry Pi and I'm trying to set it up, but right now colmena apply --on cm4 is pushing x86_64 binaries, instead of aarch64 ones. I figured I'm doing something wrong, just not sure what. This is a flake setup and I think the relevant lines are:

{
  outputs = inputs @ { self, nix, nixpkgs, nixpkgs-stable, ... }: {
      colmena = {
        meta = {
          nixpkgs = import inputs.nixpkgs {
            system = "x86_64-linux";
          };
        };

        laptop = import ./laptop.nix;
        cm4 = import ./cm4.nix;
      };
    };
}

In cm4.nix, I have this:

inputs @ { config, pkgs, system, flakes, ... }: {
    imports = [
      ./configuration.nix
    ];
  
    nixpkgs.system = "aarch64-linux";
  };  

Any suggestions of what I'm doing wrong?

try

          nixpkgs = import inputs.nixpkgs {
            system = "x86_64-linux";
            crossSystem = "aarch64-linux";
          };

Hello, I have a noob question: I am running NixOS in a LXC container. If I run colmena apply my changes (I added nginx) are applied fine.
If I reboot the container I cannot see nginx any longer until I run colmena apply again.
The docs says that the detail deployment goal is switch, which as far as I understand should persist after a reboot.

I’m very likely missing something obvious but I need some help :)

I am trying to pass the home-manager nixosModule onto a colmena deployed node using the colmena.meta.specialArgs.inputs parameter and setting it equal to the inputs, as described here: https://discourse.nixos.org/t/colmena-how-to-push-a-flake-input-into-the-individual-nodes/36332/2

I keep getting an error during deployment error: The option inputs does not exist. Definition values: ...

I really would love to use home-manager with colmena to deploy all of my machines configurations.

You can see how I set this up in the flake.nix and users/testUser.nix files: https://github.com/tracyde/nixos-config

I would also welcome feedback on how I am starting to configure things, new to the nix ecosystem.