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hercules-ci / hercules-ci-agent

https://hercules-ci.com build and deployment agent
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pin nixpkgs and provide cachix for quicker setup #32

Closed domenkozar closed 5 years ago

domenkozar commented 5 years ago

This should spare a couple of minutes for setting up and agent.

roberth commented 5 years ago

This makes upstreaming into nixpkgs a lower priority, so we may merge the for-upstream directory into the other files.

roberth commented 5 years ago

Ideally we'd use the same nix version as the system, but pinning makes that non-obvious. The agent is already set up to build for multiple for multiple NixOS releases, but we'll need to detect in module.nix (or other entrypoints) which pin is appropriate to use. If that's not feasible, the user will have to pick the module version themselves, but that's error prone. Another approach is to require that the user uses our NixOS pin for their deployment, but that's also non-trivial because NixOps uses NIX_PATH.