| 21 Jul 2022 |
 @rendakuenthusiast:imperishable.name | I'm not sure why | 20:44:33 |
| @rendakuenthusiast:imperishable.name | is there a way I can have colmena use --show-trace? | 20:44:43 |
| @rendakuenthusiast:imperishable.name | or in general if I"m trying to deploy something with colmena, is there a way I can get better debug information? | 20:44:58 |
 Zhaofeng Li | Just --show-trace should do it | 20:45:22 |
| Zhaofeng Li | And also use -v to get the full output instead of the spinners | 20:45:40 |
| @rendakuenthusiast:imperishable.name | oh I need to wrap my function call in parens, then it works | 20:48:20 |
| 22 Jul 2022 |
|  Chris Portela joined the room. | 20:51:59 |
| 24 Jul 2022 |
| @rendakuenthusiast:imperishable.name | if I deploy with colmena, and a derivation fails, I see an error message saying that a log should appear at /tmp/nix-build<pkgname> | 06:45:57 |
| @rendakuenthusiast:imperishable.name | and I don't see this file existing, either on my local system or the system colmena should be deploying to | 06:46:11 |
 Winter (she/her) | In reply to @rendakuenthusiast:imperishable.name
if I deploy with colmena, and a derivation fails, I see an error message saying that a log should appear at /tmp/nix-build you'll want to run nix log /nix/store/the.drv, that'll provide build logs | 17:41:16 |
| 25 Jul 2022 |
 @grahamc:nixos.org | can colmena handle a network of mixed architectures? | 15:38:52 |
 Linux Hackerman | yes, using it for that myself :) | 15:39:05 |
| @grahamc:nixos.org | oh sorry, half-asked question | 15:41:05 |
| @grahamc:nixos.org | where I'm also using its flake.nix support | 15:41:12 |
| Linux Hackerman | In reply to @linus:schreibt.jetzt
yes, using it for that myself :) still :D | 15:41:24 |
| @grahamc:nixos.org | yay! can you show an example? I'm a bit confused | 15:41:34 |
| Linux Hackerman | there's not much to it besides setting nixpkgs.system in the node's configuration | 15:42:22 |
| @grahamc:nixos.org | oh! of course! | 15:42:34 |
| @grahamc:nixos.org | thanks | 15:42:35 |
| @grahamc:nixos.org | I was thrown off by the meta.nixpkgs being set | 15:42:43 |
| Linux Hackerman | Yeah, that's only the nixpkgs used to evaluate it though | 15:43:39 |
| @grahamc:nixos.org | makes sense | 15:44:30 |
| Linux Hackerman | something to note is that Colmena's flake support is incomplete, the biggest issue being that it requires impure evaluation. | 15:44:41 |
| Linux Hackerman | That's bitten me before, with it picking up ~/.config/nixpkgs/config.nix | 15:45:00 |
| @grahamc:nixos.org | gotcha | 15:45:16 |
| @grahamc:nixos.org | it also seems to get a bit weird with some secrets support | 15:45:28 |
| @grahamc:nixos.org | and the reboot behavior is not to my taste at the moment :) | 15:45:54 |
| @grahamc:nixos.org | but switching from nixops was almost entirely pain-free | 15:48:11 |
| Linux Hackerman | grahamc (he/him): oh also keep in mind if you haven't encrypted your secrets and you're using flakes with colmena, the secrets are now world-readable in your nix store. | 15:55:41 |
| @grahamc:nixos.org | yeah, luckily they're barely secret | 15:57:29 |
