#!/usr/bin/env bash # # I believe there are a few ways to do this: # # 1. My current way, using a minimal /etc/nixos/configuration.nix that just imports my config from my home directory (see it in the gist) # 2. Symlinking to your own configuration.nix in your home directory (I think I tried and abandoned this and links made relative paths weird) # 3. My new favourite way: as @clot27 says, you can provide nixos-rebuild with a path to the config, allowing it to be entirely inside your dotfies, with zero bootstrapping of files required. # `nixos-rebuild switch -I nixos-config=path/to/configuration.nix` # 4. If you uses a flake as your primary config, you can specify a path to `configuration.nix` in it and then `nixos-rebuild switch —flake` path/to/directory # As I hope was clear from the video, I am new to nixos, and there may be other, better, options, in which case I'd love to know them! (I'll update the gist if so) # A rebuild script that commits on a successful build set -e PACKAGES_FLAG="-p" for arg in "$@"; do if [[ "$arg" == "$PACKAGES_FLAG" ]]; then nix-channel --update UPDATE_PACKAGES=true else UPDATE_PACKAGES=false fi done # Edit your config #$EDITOR configuration.nix # cd to your config dir #pushd ~/dotfiles/nixos/ # Early return if no changes were detected (thanks @singiamtel!) if git diff --quiet '*.nix' && [ "$UPDATE_PACKAGES" = "false" ]; then echo "No changes detected, exiting." #popd exit 0 fi # Autoformat your nix files #alejandra . &>/dev/null \ # || ( alejandra . ; echo "formatting failed!" && exit 1) # Shows your changes git diff -U0 '*.nix' echo "NixOS Rebuilding..." # Rebuild, output simplified errors, log trackebacks if [ -f ./flake.nix ]; then nixos-rebuild switch --flake /home/jchenry/nixos#default &>nixos-switch.log || (cat nixos-switch.log | grep --color error && exit 1) else nixos-rebuild switch &>nixos-switch.log || (cat nixos-switch.log | grep --color error && exit 1) fi # Get current generation metadata current=$(nixos-rebuild list-generations | grep current) # Commit all changes witih the generation metadata git commit -am "$current" # Back to where you were #popd # Notify all OK! #notify-send -e "NixOS Rebuilt OK!" --icon=software-update-available