Congrats! It took me three months to get everything running the way I wanted. Now I run a bunch of machines off of a single flake, managing family and friend's machines too. Next is moving my server over to nixos. Read through the wiki and site, get on the nixos discord or matrix site, ask questions, use the discourse, and when you feel confident nixos-rebuild switch --flake .#!
this post was submitted on 03 Oct 2023
13 points (93.3% liked)
nixos
1262 readers
6 users here now
All about NixOS - https://nixos.org/
founded 4 years ago
The --flake .# is redundant, just FYI ;)
There's a difference. Without it, it loads the flake from /etc/nixos/flake.nix instead of the current directory. (What is redundant is the #, you can just write --flake .)
Yeah, true, valid point.
Guess I never thoughg about rebuilding from anywhere not /etc/nixos
Also, depending on how the flake is setup, you might also have to add .#, at least for the initial run. After that .# can evaluate which host is being rebuilt.
@zonsopkomst@lemmy.ml @ck_ haha, on lemmy, I was trying to add .#\, but \ kept getting deleted. Markdown??
FYI you can do:
nixos-rebuild switch --flake git+https://yourgithost.com/yourrepo
The nix wiki, packages an options pages are all I need most of the time.
Documentation isn't stellar IMHO: I end up reading the nixpkgs sources most often than not (it probably depends on what you are doing, though)
@canute @nixos Lookup for
nix for impatient
https://fasterthanli.me/series/building-a-rust-service-with-nix
ryantm s posts and repo