In reply to @linus:schreibt.jetzt
if you set deployment.buildOnTarget for a machine, or pass --build-on-target on the command line, it will instead build directly on the host that's being deployed (though in the case of your workstation it will still end up being built on your workstation because that's what's being deployed)

I'm trying to switch to use doas instead of sudo, but I'm getting this:

.dotfiles on  main [!+] ⊥ doas colmena apply-local
error: getting the HEAD of the Git tree '/home/isaac/.dotfiles' failed with exit code 1:
       error: executing 'git': No such file or directory

(use '--show-trace' to show detailed location information)
thread 'main' panicked at 'called `Result::unwrap()` on an `Err` value: ChildFailure { exit_code: 1 }', src/command/apply_local.rs:95:55
note: run with `RUST_BACKTRACE=1` environment variable to display a backtrace

I've tried adding deployment.privilegeEscalationCommand = ["doas"]; but still same result.

In reply to @zhaofeng:zhaofeng.li
Have you tried `--evaluator streaming`? It makes evaluation actually parallel using nix-eval-jobs. It's not the default yet but may be soon

In reply to @ask-yourself:matrix.org

I'm trying to switch to use doas instead of sudo, but I'm getting this:

.dotfiles on  main [!+] ⊥ doas colmena apply-local
error: getting the HEAD of the Git tree '/home/isaac/.dotfiles' failed with exit code 1:
       error: executing 'git': No such file or directory

(use '--show-trace' to show detailed location information)
thread 'main' panicked at 'called `Result::unwrap()` on an `Err` value: ChildFailure { exit_code: 1 }', src/command/apply_local.rs:95:55
note: run with `RUST_BACKTRACE=1` environment variable to display a backtrace

I've tried adding deployment.privilegeEscalationCommand = ["doas"]; but still same result.

In reply to @linus:schreibt.jetzt
does just colmena apply-local work now?

Also this is current doas conf:

{user, ...}: {
  security = {
    doas = {
      enable = true;
      extraRules = [
        {
          keepEnv = true;
          noPass = true;
          users = ["${user}"];
        }
      ];
    };
    sudo.enable = true;
  };
}

In reply to @linus:schreibt.jetzt
has the eval-node-limit heuristic improved? Without an explicit limit it at least used to completely blow my laptop up

In reply to @ask-yourself:matrix.org
deployment.privilegeEscalationCommand = ["doas"]; is also set.

The output of colmena apply-local is:

.dotfiles on  main [!+] ⊥ colmena apply-local
[WARN ] Colmena was not started by root. This is probably not going to work.
[WARN ] Hint: Add the --sudo flag.
warning: Git tree '/home/isaac/.dotfiles' is dirty
[INFO ] Using flake: git+file:///home/isaac/.dotfiles
warning: Git tree '/home/isaac/.dotfiles' is dirty
warning: Git tree '/home/isaac/.dotfiles' is dirty
        🕖 7s 2 succeeded
desktop ✅ 6s Evaluated desktop
        ❌ 7s Failed: Child process exited with error code: 1
desktop ✅ 6s Evaluated desktop
desktop ✅ 0s Built "/nix/store/cagxgr77kc1ip1f31fx9y1f5xq23mk68-nixos-system-desktop-23.05pre-git"
desktop ✅ 0s Pushed system closure
desktop ❌ 0s Activation failed: Child process exited with error code: 1
[ERROR] Failed to deploy to desktop - Last 3 lines of logs:
[ERROR]  created)
[ERROR]    state) Running
[ERROR]  failure) Child process exited with error code: 1
[ERROR] Failed to complete requested operation - Last 1 lines of logs:
[ERROR]  failure) Child process exited with error code: 1
[ERROR] -----
[ERROR] Operation failed with error: Child process exited with error code: 1

In reply to @zhaofeng:zhaofeng.li
colmena apply-local --sudo should work