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Maximilian Bosch ec6bac99cc
nixos/build-vms: propagate file location
When trying to build a VM using `nixos-build-vms` with a configuration
that doesn't evaluate, an error "at `<unknown-file>`" is usually shown.

This happens since the `build-vms.nix` creates a VM-network of
NixOS-configurations that are attr-sets or functions and don't contain
any file information. This patch manually adds the `_file`-attribute to
tell the module-system which file contained broken configuration:

```
$ cat vm.nix
{ vm.invalid-option = 1; }

$ nixos-build-vms vm.nix
error: The option `invalid-option' defined in `/home/ma27/Projects/nixpkgs/vm.nix@node-vm' does not exist.
(use '--show-trace' to show detailed location information)
```
2020-04-13 17:50:13 +02:00
Maximilian Bosch c391343fcd
nixos/nixos-build-vms: switch to python test-driver
In 0945178b3c we decided that Perl-based
VM tests should be deprecated and will be removed between 20.03 and
20.09. So let's switch `nixos-build-vms(8)` to python as well (which is
entirely interactive, so other scripts won't break).

In my experience, the test-driver isn't used most of the time, so this
patch is mainly supposed to get rid of the (probably misleading)
deprecation warning when running `nixos-build-vms`. Apart from that, the
interface for python's test-driver is way nicer.
2020-02-15 19:35:17 +01:00
Maximilian Bosch e998f5140f
nixos-build-vms: pass --option to nix-build
Also simplified the argument parsing to write all currently supported
CLI options into a bash array and pass this to `nix-build`.

Also documented `--option` usage in the corresponding manpage.
2019-02-04 10:46:12 +01:00
Maximilian Bosch b36fa8ef91
nixos-build-vms: fix eval
Previously I got the following error message:

```
error: opening file '/home/ma27/Projects/nixpkgs/nixos/modules/installer/default.nix': No such file or directory
```

Probably related to 6c68fbd4e1.
2018-11-23 13:43:47 +01:00
Léo Gaspard 27a5427526
nixos-build-vms: fix syntax error
Introduced by 6c68fbd4e1
2018-11-13 00:40:07 +09:00
Léo Gaspard 6c68fbd4e1
tests: refactor to carry the package set as an argument
This way, the package set will be possible to pass without re-importing
all the time
2018-11-11 23:11:45 +09:00
Eelco Dolstra b6bac6c144
Revert "Merge pull request #48122 from zimbatm/pkg-nixos-rebuild"
This reverts commit 10addad603, reversing
changes made to 7786575c6c.

NixOS scripts should be kept in the NixOS source tree, not in
pkgs. Moving them around is just confusing and creates unnecessary
code/history churn.
2018-10-16 20:25:44 +02:00
zimbatm 1875344542
nixos-*: init as package
Move all the nixos-* scripts from the nixos distribution as real
packages in the pkgs/ package set.

This allows non-nixos users to run the script as well. For example,
deploying a remote machine with:

    nixos-rebuild --target-host root@hostname --build-host root@hostname
2018-10-16 11:12:36 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra 91e71725d4 Remove some obsolete references to <nixos> 2015-08-05 17:37:08 +02:00
Sander van der Burg 33d99a22ca nixos-build-vms: Fix function invocation to test driver 2014-06-09 13:36:26 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra ef72fcc2aa Map --help flag to "man <command>" for more NixOS commands 2013-10-13 17:35:55 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra 5c1f8cbc70 Move all of NixOS to nixos/ in preparation of the repository merge 2013-10-10 13:28:20 +02:00