| 4 Feb 2022 |
 Zhaofeng Li | In reply to @winterqt:nixos.dev
Zhaofeng Li: why do you exit with 0 when the file doesn't exist in https://github.com/zhaofengli/colmena/pull/51/files#diff-c5cb072f3843e65103369a68e92494e5ab2915080d0930c0c4fd6b7cb2620a96R502? * The service is supposed to die when the key file ceases to exist. The activation of the service is triggered by the path unit. | 00:19:12 |
| Zhaofeng Li | * The service is supposed to die when the key file doesn't exist or ceases to exist. The activation of the service is triggered by the path unit. | 00:19:36 |
 Winter (she/her) | In reply to @zhaofeng:zhaofeng.li
The service is supposed to die when the key file doesn't exist or ceases to exist. The activation of the service is triggered by the path unit. got it.
why Restart = "on-failure"; btw? | 00:27:38 |
| Winter (she/her) | like, when would it want to be restarted? if inotifywait fails? | 00:27:53 |
| Zhaofeng Li | In reply to @winterqt:nixos.dev
like, when would it want to be restarted? if inotifywait fails? Yes | 00:28:02 |
| Winter (she/her) | got it, thanks | 00:28:22 |
| Zhaofeng Li | You can also take a look at NixOps' implementation which uses inotifywait both ways: https://github.com/NixOS/nixops/blob/ce1c57ec104636954296c229468bb65fa4ec7f8d/nix/keys.nix#L234-L262 | 00:28:54 |
| Zhaofeng Li | If the key file doesn't exist, the service is stuck in "activating" (ExecStartPre) with an infinite timeout | 00:29:39 |
| Winter (she/her) | In reply to @zhaofeng:zhaofeng.li
If the key file doesn't exist, the service is stuck in "activating" (ExecStartPre) with an infinite timeout so did you go the path unit route for simplicity? | 00:33:43 |
| Zhaofeng Li | In reply to @winterqt:nixos.dev
so did you go the path unit route for simplicity? Yeah, feels cleaner to me, though path units don't support deactivation so I still ended up doing an inotifywait in the service itself. | 00:35:57 |
 Linux Hackerman | In reply to @buckley310:matrix.org
because colmena was created before flakes were stable Flakes still isn't stable. | 08:39:16 |
| Linux Hackerman | That's why it's guarded behind experimental-features, breaking changes can still happen. | 08:45:39 |
 Buckley | That' true. | 15:17:37 |
| Buckley | I just mean like, the output attribute name for machine configs probably isnt going to change anymore now, so that aspect has stabilized | 15:18:35 |
| Buckley | But yeah, flakes, totally not officially "stable" yet. | 15:19:04 |
 CRTified | Buckley: Regarding your colmena/nixosConfigurations-shim, how did you get it working at all? My flakes don't have an extraArgs.modules attribute, so I seem to be missing something. The configs build properly with nixos-rebuild --flake .#hostname build | 17:46:12 |
| Buckley | Each machine should have the extraArga attribute, not the flake itself. Not sure if that’s what you mean | 17:47:23 |
| CRTified | In reply to @buckley310:matrix.org
So I'm curious. In my setup my servers all exist inside of my flake outputs.nixosConfigurations, and my outputs.colmena is just a stub that consumes nixosConfigurations and emits a colmena configuration. Is anyone else doing it this way, or just me? I really like the portability of keeping my hosts in nixosConfigurations imports = value.extraArgs.modules;
This does not work, due to extraArgs.modules missing
| 17:48:19 |
| Buckley | what happens if you run these terminal commands in your repo?
$ nix repl
nix-repl> :lf .
nix-repl> nixosConfigurations.<hostname>.extraArgs.modules
| 17:49:41 |
| CRTified | Same error as when running colmena build:
error: attribute 'modules' missing
at «string»:1:1:
1| nixosConfigurations.mailbox.extraArgs.modules
| ^
2|
| 17:50:33 |
| Buckley | 🤔 | 17:51:08 |
| Buckley | dunno | 17:51:39 |
| Buckley | are you on unstable or 21.11 ? | 17:51:44 |
| CRTified |
- system:
"x86_64-linux"
- host os:
Linux 5.16.2, NixOS, 22.05 (Quokka)
- multi-user?:
yes
- sandbox:
yes
- version:
nix-env (Nix) 2.6.0pre20211217_6e6e998
If it helps
| 17:51:47 |
| CRTified | Unstable | 17:51:51 |
| CRTified | $ nix --version
nix (Nix) 2.6.0pre20211217_6e6e998
| 17:52:12 |
| Buckley | im on 21.11. i wonder if they changed something? 🤔 | 17:52:17 |
| Buckley | oh im on nix 2.4 as well | 17:52:23 |
| CRTified | AFAIK, extraArgs in nixpkgs.lib.nixosSystem got deprecated 🤔 | 17:52:44 |
| Buckley | 🎉 i guess i need to figure out how else to do this then | 17:53:06 |
