In the previous attempt to add this feature, I had forgotten to add the
new tests to tests/default.nix, which meant I believed the feature
worked when it did not. Additionally, real world testing shows that if
the path does not exist on the remote already, that nix build --store
will not work and will throw the following error: 'path '/nix/store/foo'
is required, but there is no substituter that can build it' To fix this,
I've decided to use nix copy --derivation and then nix-store --realise
on the remote. A lot of refactoring is needed to make this codebase
presentable anyway, so this hack is fine for now, though it is
admittedly an unclean implementation.
This creates and uses a function named mkNixinateTest which takes a
buildOn argument. This expects to be either "local" or "remote". This
means we can make a test for both use cases of Nixinate. One where we
build on the remote machine, and one where we build locally and push to
the remote machine. These tests are then added to the top level of the
tests folder and are imported by the flake.nix
This initializes ./test/default.nix which is referred to by the
flake.nix under the `checks` attribute. This default.nix should point to
all future tests, where they can be looked up and ran like:
nix build .#checks.x86_64-linux.vmTest
The test included is a simple NixOS VM Test. It uses Nixinate to deploy
a machine with `services.nginx.enable = true` set, and tests whether
nginx.service is started and reachable after deployment.
