In reply to @jannik:introverts.xyz

Mhhh let me rephrase, the flake.nix has

{
  inputs = {
    # ...
    customPackage.url = "github:jeyemwey/customPackage";
  };
  outputs = { customPackage, ... }: {
    colmena.myHost = {pkgs, ...}: {
      imports = [ ./hosts/myHost ];
      
      services.nginx.virtualHosts."myPackage.example.com".root = "${customPackage.packages."${pkgs.hostPlatform.system}".default}";
    };
  }; 
}

and I can reference the customPackage in the flake outputs function just fine, but I'm not sure how I can reference it in the imports target in ./hosts/myHost/default.nix:

{...}: {
	services.nginx.enable = true;
	services.nginx.virtualHosts."myPackage.example.com" = {
		forceSSL = true;
		enableACME = true;
		
		## TODO: Find way to reference customPackage here
		# root = ...;
	};
}

If that is at all possible? Your answer seems to reference on the inputs of the customPackage which is not what I need here.

I was banging my head around for hours trying to figure out how to get the home-manager nixos module to work with colmena apply.
Question #1 Is it possible to get Colmena and home-manager module to work with one another? (I've read conflicting statements).
Question #2 Assuming it is possible does someone have a working flake using Colmena and home-manager?

My config for my nixos systems using flakes and colmena (this is the commit when I had attempted using home-manager and sops-nix): https://github.com/tracyde/nixos-config/tree/62b5b5810e2e4541a6c147a34ebb640f0bea44ba

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.