| 15 Apr 2025 |
 ststefa | If I may, I could post my flake.nix | 18:36:29 |
| ststefa | * Hey there! The nixos-infect works quite nicely, thanks again!
Now when I try to apply to the aarch64-linux node from my aarch64-darwin using colnema (using deployment.buildOnTarget), it will somehow not "activate the profile".
I don't quite get what that means :-/
I tried:
colmena apply --reboot --force-replace-unknown-profiles
I get:
failure) Unexpected active profile: Profile(StorePath("/nix/store/0pi9dwfl661k77k8zvacz1h7ikj2hlsi-nixos-system-arm-1-24.11.716947.26d499fc9f1d"))
Any ideas? Maybe this is a noob-trap?
If I run without "--reboot" then colmena will finish without errors, but none of my changes seems to get applied.
| 18:40:57 |
| ststefa | * Hey there! The nixos-infect works quite nicely, thanks again!
Now when I try to apply to the aarch64-linux node from my aarch64-darwin using colnema (using deployment.buildOnTarget), it will somehow not "activate the profile".
I don't quite get what that means :-/
I tried:
colmena apply --reboot --force-replace-unknown-profiles
I get:
failure) Unexpected active profile: Profile(StorePath("/nix/store/0pi9dwfl661k77k8zvacz1h7ikj2hlsi-nixos-system-arm-1-24.11.716947.26d499fc9f1d"))
Any ideas? Maybe this is a noob-trap?
If I run without "--reboot" then colmena will finish without errors, but none of my changes seems to get applied.
| 18:41:30 |
| ststefa | Ah, I think I'm a step closer. After the apply, sshd gets killed on the remote. But if I try a command which I declared in colmena (using a console), it's available. However, after a reboot, everything is back to the state before colmena ran. Looks like the new profile is somehow not set as the active profile? | 18:57:42 |
| ststefa | Hm, is grub somehow hardcoded in colmena? Asking because I did my experiments with systemd-boot systems | 19:17:29 |
| ststefa | Ah, I think I did a mess with systemd-boot (on the system) vs. grub (in my flake) | 19:31:07 |
 dish1892 | Did you use the hardware-config.nix from the system where you installed nix on? (With nixinfect) | 19:54:33 |
| ststefa | No, I didn‘t grasp that the colmena deployment process is entirely unrelated to the „nixos-rebuild approach. Now that makes sense. But it also means that I should somehow collect the /etc/nixos/configuration.nix plus imported files and base my colmenas input on that, no? Is there maybe a clever workflow to do that? Or is there a better approach? | 21:04:12 |
| ststefa | My goal would be to build a fully automated workflow which is agnostic to any pre-existing state/config | 21:09:14 |
| 16 Apr 2025 |
 dustee | i can build this configuration with nixos-rebuild but colmena throws infinite recursion, is there a way to fix it?
{
inputs,
...
}: {
imports = [
# this file configures some third party module and the imported function requires inputs as a consequence
(import "${inputs.my-flake}/modules-profiles/some-app-configs/default-with-inputs.nix")
];
… while evaluating the module argument `inputs'
error: infinite recursion encountered
| 22:21:50 |
| dustee | * i can build this nixos host configuration with nixos-rebuild but colmena throws infinite recursion, is there a way to fix it?
{
inputs,
...
}: {
imports = [
# this file configures some third party module and the imported function requires inputs as a consequence
(import "${inputs.my-flake}/modules-profiles/some-app-configs/default-with-inputs.nix")
];
… while evaluating the module argument `inputs'
error: infinite recursion encountered
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| clara | Hi! I'm trying to evaluate the colmena hosts from a flake, but I'm running into some issues. My goal is to have a JSON with nodes & their configs. I tried to run `colmena eval -E "{ nodes, ... }: nodes --experimental-flake-eval`, but ran into issues since it's trying to serialize a function into JSON.
I ran into https://github.com/zhaofengli/colmena/issues/43 which seems to indicate what I'm looking for is not possible, but I was wondering if anyone knew of a way. | 13:58:07 |
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| 8 May 2025 |
 ixxie | Hey folks,
Does anybody have a nice example of how to organize a repo with code for both initialising new host (e.g. with nixos-anywhere) and provisioning with colmena afterwards?
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 dantefromhell | In reply to @ixxie:matrix.org
Hey folks,
Does anybody have a nice example of how to organize a repo with code for both initialising new host (e.g. with nixos-anywhere) and provisioning with colmena afterwards?
I built mine with terranix and divnix/hive.
Might be slightly over engineered but I have a need for maintaining multiple environments at once. so the overengineering helps 🤣 | 20:53:40 |
| 10 May 2025 |
 Shyim | Redacted or Malformed Event | 09:07:29 |
 Valodim | In reply to @ixxie:matrix.org
Hey folks,
Does anybody have a nice example of how to organize a repo with code for both initialising new host (e.g. with nixos-anywhere) and provisioning with colmena afterwards?
The simple way is: have a "blank" nixosConfiguration in your flake that contains a simplified basic installation, run nixos-anywhere, then deploy as a specific host via colmena | 11:00:49 |
