Zero to Nix, an unofficial, opinionated, gentle introduction to Nix

Re:Zero to Nix, an unofficial, opinionated, gentle introduct... by cole-h on Monday January 23, 2023 @11:50AM (#34491344)

I don't; my config lives in ~/flake, and I run `nixos-rebuild ... --flake ~/flake` whenever I update it.

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Re:Zero to Nix, an unofficial, opinionated, gentle introduct... by choward on Monday January 23, 2023 @02:01PM (#34493343)

You don't have to specify the nixosConfiguration name (e.g ~/flake#my-configuration)? Do you just name it "default" or something for that to work? I've never tried that.

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Re:Zero to Nix, an unofficial, opinionated, gentle introduct... by Macha on Monday January 23, 2023 @02:12PM (#34493494)

You name it the same as your current system's hostname.

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Re:Zero to Nix, an unofficial, opinionated, gentle introduct... by choward on Monday January 23, 2023 @04:08PM (#34495045)

Oh, I had no idea. I was actually already doing that. Guess I was just being extra verbose on the command line.

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Re:Zero to Nix, an unofficial, opinionated, gentle introduct... by cole-h on Monday January 23, 2023 @02:46PM (#34493939)

Exactly as Macha said, if you name the attribute `nixosConfiguration.<hostname>`, `nixos-rebuild` will look for that attribute implicitly; you can still specify another configuration if you're e.g. in a VM or a live image.

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