Hmm, I can't make it work :(

In reply to @palo:xaos.space
but I'm just using outputs.colmena.$hostname.config.system.toplevel.drvPath in my case I guess. I haven't seen this colmenaOptions and colmenaModules so far.

Hmm, so sad. But true, it's hard to understand how to evaluate the system outside colmean.

I'll look into getting a makeHive WIP going this week. There are a few things I want to do:

• Support for colmena.lib.makeHive which the user will use for their .#colmenaHive output. Should make it easier for people to evaluate outside of Colmena as well as enable alternative eval logic like divnix/std.
• Cleaner solution to https://github.com/zhaofengli/colmena/issues/78, allowing keyFile with relative paths to be used in a flake context without having the key files to be tracked by git.
• Dejank the key services: https://github.com/zhaofengli/colmena/pull/119

why doesn't colmena pass pkgs to the default in flakes mode? (and how can I break/trace from colmena eval? it mostly sigaborts on me)

[INFO ] Enumerating nodes...
error: anonymous function at /nix/store/slfh70c84zn9fc9h27spd5b2yaf3hlp7-source/lib/vm/configuration.nix:1:1 called without required argument 'pkgs'

       at /nix/store/slfh70c84zn9fc9h27spd5b2yaf3hlp7-source/lib/colmena/default.nix:17:20:

           17|   defaults = args: import ../vm/configuration.nix args;
             |                    ^
           18| }

why doesn't colmena pass pkgs to the defaults in flakes mode? (and how can I break/trace from colmena eval? it mostly sigaborts on me)

[INFO ] Enumerating nodes...
error: anonymous function at /nix/store/slfh70c84zn9fc9h27spd5b2yaf3hlp7-source/lib/vm/configuration.nix:1:1 called without required argument 'pkgs'

       at /nix/store/slfh70c84zn9fc9h27spd5b2yaf3hlp7-source/lib/colmena/default.nix:17:20:

           17|   defaults = args: import ../vm/configuration.nix args;
             |                    ^
           18| }

In reply to @farcaller:matrix.org
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why doesn't colmena pass pkgs to the defaults in flakes mode? (and how can I break/trace from colmena eval? it mostly sigaborts on me)

[INFO ] Enumerating nodes...
error: anonymous function at /nix/store/slfh70c84zn9fc9h27spd5b2yaf3hlp7-source/lib/vm/configuration.nix:1:1 called without required argument 'pkgs'

       at /nix/store/slfh70c84zn9fc9h27spd5b2yaf3hlp7-source/lib/colmena/default.nix:17:20:

           17|   defaults = args: import ../vm/configuration.nix args;
             |                    ^
           18| }

Where does these args come from? Is configuraton.nix a file that is expected to be loaded by imports (not import) by the nixos-module system?

In reply to @palo:xaos.space

Where does these args come from? Is configuraton.nix a file that is expected to be loaded by imports (not import) by the nixos-module system?

I would use the specialArgs parameter to pass datadir. You can use the same configuration if you use a let block and define it as variable or something.

In reply to @palo:xaos.space

I would use the specialArgs parameter to pass datadir. You can use the same configuration if you use a let block and define it as variable or something.

https://colmena.cli.rs/unstable/reference/meta.html#specialargs and https://github.com/nix-community/nixos-generators/blob/master/flake.nix#L29

In reply to @farcaller:matrix.org

In reply to @palo:xaos.space

I would use the specialArgs parameter to pass datadir. You can use the same configuration if you use a let block and define it as variable or something.

yeah, that's what I do in the generator config. I don’t think I can do the same with colmena, though

Yes you can :D

In reply to @yuka:yuka.dev
Probably lib.functionArgs is used on this function somewhere

In reply to @palo:xaos.space

https://colmena.cli.rs/unstable/reference/meta.html#specialargs and https://github.com/nix-community/nixos-generators/blob/master/flake.nix#L29

In reply to @ronnypfannschmidt:matrix.org
Are there any plans to support deployment of nixosSystem declarations in a flake?

A couple updates:

• More work was done on separating the evaluation logic from the deployment logic, with the new colmenaHive output being the integration point that ties the two halves together. Colmena can now deploy from the colmenaHive output which should be an already-evaluated hive generated by colmena.lib.makeHive (or your own logic!). Example here. cc David Arnold (blaggacao) Yureka (she/her)
• Flake-enabled deployments now use nix copy and the new SSH store protocol (ssh-ng://) for copying closures to remote hosts.