| 11 Jul 2022 |
 Linux Hackerman | colmena isn't currently able to evaluate purely | 13:57:26 |
| Linux Hackerman | https://github.com/zhaofengli/colmena/blob/ac8852dcdf7ab6e9524600518414a63dbfb115b1/src/nix/evaluator/nix_eval_jobs.rs#L85 | 13:57:55 |
 Jairo Llopis | But then how to get json output from one script into it as an argument? 🤔 | 14:01:07 |
| 14 Jul 2022 |
|  tylerjl joined the room. | 21:26:34 |
| tylerjl | Hey hey - is there a good way to consume a nixosConfiguration from something like a flake output to feed into colmena? I'd love to pull a host's config out of something like my flake that uses digga/devos and feed it into colmena to apply to the host | 21:29:38 |
 Buckley | my config used to do that | 22:29:55 |
| Buckley | looking through code history for the exact way... | 22:30:59 |
 CRTified | I've written my method in an gh issue, one moment | 22:31:51 |
| Buckley | https://github.com/buckley310/nixos-config/blob/95f13eadfaae9a48c9e2cd4323417ba0eab36625/lib/deploy.nix#L96-L105 | 22:32:13 |
| CRTified | https://github.com/zhaofengli/colmena/issues/60#issuecomment-1047199551 here's mine | 22:32:47 |
| Buckley | yeah, his imports colmena and adds the module to the machines. i have my own little shim thing (sconfig.deployment) instead. pick your poison :D | 22:33:52 |
| tylerjl | Ah, those are both great and should get me to where I need, I really appreciate it | 22:34:50 |
| Buckley | at some point i stopped doing this as a performance optimization. by building the machine in the flake as nixosConfiguration, then feeding it to colmena to build it again, theres some overhead | 22:35:13 |
| Buckley | its not much if you just have a couple machines | 22:35:32 |
| tylerjl | Yeah, this is all personal infra / should be < 30 hosts at max | 22:35:52 |
| tylerjl | nixosSystem is sort of a new one to me, is that significantly different than a flake nixosConfiguration? | 22:36:12 |
| Buckley | i have 10 servers and I felt it was enough overhead to change it. | 22:37:06 |
| tylerjl | Hm, some of my hosts are aarch64 so I could very well end up with a lot of overhead if I keep building them through binfmt. I'll keep that in mind | 22:37:51 |
| Buckley | nixpkgs.lib.nixosSystem ? | 22:38:12 |
| tylerjl | Oh, wait, yeah, nixosSystem is the "type" that you feed into a nixosConfiguration (I think). Makes sense | 22:39:17 |
| Buckley | nixosSystem is a function that generates what goes in nixosConfigurations | 22:39:53 |
| 15 Jul 2022 |
 garionion | hi, is there a way to upload single files or whole directories with colmena? | 07:44:22 |
| CRTified | In reply to @garionion:entr0py.de
hi, is there a way to upload single files or whole directories with colmena? This is more nix-like, but you can generally add files and directories to the nix store and copy them over by referencing them in your config. The easiest target is /etc/, but you are generally free to do as you wish by e.g. linking with systemd.tmpfiles.rules or writing a custom systemd service. Note that this approach is not suitable for secrets, as they're in the world-readable store. For these, use colmena's deployment.keys. | 08:36:34 |
| CRTified | In reply to @garionion:entr0py.de
hi, is there a way to upload single files or whole directories with colmena? * This is more nix-related, but you can generally add files and directories to the nix store and copy them over by referencing them in your config. The easiest target is /etc/, but you are generally free to do as you wish by e.g. linking with systemd.tmpfiles.rules or writing a custom systemd service. Note that this approach is not suitable for secrets, as they're in the world-readable store. For these, use colmena's deployment.keys. | 08:36:56 |
| garionion | uhh, your right, i totally forgot about that (i already use it on my laptop ^^) | 08:37:50 |
| garionion | thank you ^-^ | 08:37:55 |
| CRTified | No problem 🙂 | 08:38:04 |
| 17 Jul 2022 |
|  rendakuenthusiast joined the room. | 04:28:23 |
| rendakuenthusiast | I'm getting a "child process was killled by signal 11" error when I try to use colmena to remove a specific piece of configuration from a remote machine, not sure how to debug | 04:29:16 |
| rendakuenthusiast | specifically this happens when I try to remove a vhost from an nginx config | 04:29:45 |
