Jonas Chevalier

@michaelpj the nix flakes branch actually does a lot of that for you, they replace 80% of what niv does (sorry nmattia), creates a standard entrypoint for repositories, handles `system`...

note that nixpkgs-fmt isn't stable yet, the format is still evolving until the 1.0 is released.

the ETA was last week :) we are running into complications with the core engine. giving it 2 more weeks from now.

The current workaround is to use the `--branch v1.0.0` argument as it's using any git ref under the hood. Then on the nix side, remove the `v` prefix from the...

I am using this if you go to https://nix-community.github.io/nixpkgs-fmt/ and click on "Submit code sample". There is a form in there that maps to https://github.com/nix-community/nixpkgs-fmt/blob/master/.github/ISSUE_TEMPLATE/bug_report.md

There is now a `pre-bootstrap` hook introduced by https://github.com/buildkite/agent/pull/1456 . I think it's intended to validate the environment variables, but it could also be used to quickly clean the filesystem...

If you can set the boot order to first boot on the HDD and then on the CD then it should work. The install script could be executed as a...

Summoning @grahamc, the king of IPXE. See his work at https://github.com/grahamc/packet-nix-builder I think the IPXE route is cleaner since it's really meant for that use-case. The ISO is probably there...

Not that I know of. @Lassulus ?

Maybe it can be added to `nixos-rebuild` since it's nixos related. And `nixos-rebuild` already has the `build-vm` command after all.