| 23 Oct 2021 |
 b12f | You'd need health or ready checks however, the complexity could become too big to justify the effort | 21:38:05 |
 genadij.udarov | Hey, I'm very new to nixos, let alone devos. I've stumbled upon a note[1] in the documentation: It is convenient to have the template living at /etc/nixos so you can simply sudo nixos-rebuild switch from anywhere on the system, but it is not required.
So my question is, how would this work? Should I place contents of devos/* in /etc/nixos/, or should I add the devos folder to /etc/nixos/devos and refernce it somehow from /etc/nixos/configuration.nix?
Btw, thanks for awesome work on Devos, I love it!
[1] https://devos.divnix.com/start/from-nixos.html
| 21:48:11 |
| b12f | Ive got my repository at `~/Workspace/os` and then symlink the directory to /etc/nixos | 21:50:04 |
| b12f | Works really well | 21:50:09 |
| genadij.udarov | So rm -rf /etc/nixos && ln -s /some/where /etc/nixos, right? Thanks for a quick reply! | 21:51:13 |
 David Arnold (blaggacao) | genadij.udarov the not-so-irrelevant difference between devos and "traditional" nixos is that devos uses flakes. Flakes are repositories. Repositories live in two places: remote & your local checkout. | 22:17:54 |
| David Arnold (blaggacao) | Where you choose to place a local checkout doesn't matter at all. | 22:18:11 |
| David Arnold (blaggacao) | ~/Workspace/devos is good. Or just ~/devos. | 22:18:46 |
| David Arnold (blaggacao) | I organize my local checkputs like so:
~/src/github.com/blaggacao/...
| 22:19:11 |
| David Arnold (blaggacao) | I use ghq for that, but since recently there is a tool called gst (ghost) in nixpkgs that does the same but a little better still (havn't had the chance to switch, yet). | 22:20:06 |
| David Arnold (blaggacao) | How does the devos repo know to which host to deploy to, you might ask. | 22:20:48 |
| David Arnold (blaggacao) | deploy-rs does it via the IP of that host. | 22:21:05 |
| David Arnold (blaggacao) | (& ssh) | 22:21:16 |
| genadij.udarov | Makes sense. My main confusion was how to run nixos-rebuild switch from any dir (which was mentioned in the docs I've linked) | 22:21:51 |
| David Arnold (blaggacao) | Oh, you'd be able to run bud ... (ask bud --help). | 22:23:10 |
| David Arnold (blaggacao) | (within the devshell of that repo) | 22:23:20 |
| David Arnold (blaggacao) | Currently those are "smart" wrappers. Unfortunately, they are not yet ported to deploy-rs to have the benefit of a unified and easy to maintain /explain codepath. | 22:24:08 |
| genadij.udarov | Yeah, I'm able to run that.
Is the statement It is convenient to have the template living at /etc/nixos so you can simply sudo nixos-rebuild switch from anywhere on the system, but it is not required. outdated? | 22:24:31 |
| David Arnold (blaggacao) | Yes! Definitly! Please do your first PR 😆 | 22:25:07 |
| genadij.udarov | Removing that line would be enough, right? | 22:25:42 |
| David Arnold (blaggacao) | Yep, I'd say so. | 22:26:06 |
| genadij.udarov | Here's a PR: https://github.com/divnix/devos/pull/393
I hope to extend the docs and/or code once I'll get familiar with the system. One thing in particular, which was PITA, was that running bud with wrong args doesn't print any error. | 22:40:23 |
| 24 Oct 2021 |
 @teutat3s:pub.solar | I think I've come across the nixos-option garbage collector bug (that should be fixed in devos but we didn't downstream the fix up until now) | 00:15:05 |
| @teutat3s:pub.solar | https://github.com/divnix/devos/issues/138 | 00:15:20 |
| @teutat3s:pub.solar | ❯ nixos-option -I nixpkgs=/nix/store/37gmnpdbgcfhfd577ijm1b0yxaxp2pwk-source/lib/compat boot.loader
terminate called after throwing an instance of 'nix::EvalError'
what(): cannot import '/nix/store/bc0cqsq1fklw4k61y5v3xinalshrfz8k-6mfkswqi67m35qwv0vh7kpk8rypbl2rq-source/flake.nix', since path '/nix/store/bc0cqsq1fklw4k61y5v3xinalshrfz8k-6mfkswqi67m35qwv0vh7kpk8rypbl2rq-source' is not valid, at /nix/store/0n6nqnb6b6cs3hjqprq9k10a1nc2rgiy-source/default.nix:134:19
zsh: abort (core dumped) nixos-option -I -I boot.loader
| 00:15:27 |
| @teutat3s:pub.solar | how do I convince it to re-evaluate and put a new hashed entry of the missing file into the store? | 00:16:14 |
| @teutat3s:pub.solar | this is a fix I've now applied, too. it still tries to access the old gc'ed path though
https://github.com/divnix/devos/commit/8a590c9fefa893dd738bc3161052ac9ea5c72c80 | 00:17:48 |
 ultranix | for devops what's the workflow for public repositories, say on github. do you make a bot that rebuilds nixos machines with the proper keys using agenix, when a commit is added? | 05:22:59 |
| ultranix | i was thinking of doing that but never have before, so far i have only built the machines locally and deployed | 05:23:24 |
| b12f | basic PR, only removing git-crypt for now https://github.com/divnix/devos/pull/395 | 17:38:51 |
