Add script to configure nix-cache as substituter/remote builder on Debian clients

Non-NixOS machines with just the Nix package manager installed have no
module system to pick up modules/nix-cache/client.nix, so this edits
/etc/nix/nix.conf directly (extra-substituters/extra-trusted-public-keys,
plus the SSH remote-builder config once the nixremote key is installed),
falling back to cache.nixos.org when nix-cache is unreachable.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
This commit is contained in:
2026-07-20 15:07:04 +00:00
co-authored by Claude Sonnet 5
parent 19f076bba1
commit 23b910a011
2 changed files with 186 additions and 0 deletions
+14
View File
@@ -101,6 +101,20 @@ Beyond `codex-setup.sh`/`codex-maintenance.sh` above, `scripts/` also has:
- `scripts/env.sh` — shared config (`PROXMOX_HOST`, storage pool, bridge,
default cores/memory) sourced by `create-proxmox-resource.sh`. Add new
cross-script config here instead of duplicating it per-script.
- `scripts/configure-nix-cache-client.sh [--dry-run] [--no-remote-builder]
[--no-restart]` — the non-NixOS equivalent of
`modules/nix-cache/client.nix`/`remote-builder-client.nix`, for a plain
Debian machine with the Nix package manager (not NixOS) already
installed: run as root *on that machine* to add nix-cache as a
substituter in `/etc/nix/nix.conf` (`https://cache.nixos.org/` kept as
fallback) via `extra-substituters`/`extra-trusted-public-keys` so it
layers on top of whatever's already there instead of clobbering it, and,
if `/root/.ssh/nixremote` is already present (see docs/nix-cache.md
"Remote builder SSH keys"), configures it as a distributed-build
machine too and trusts nix-cache's SSH host key in
`/etc/ssh/ssh_known_hosts`. Idempotent (re-running replaces its own
marked block rather than duplicating it); restarts `nix-daemon` by
default so the change takes effect immediately.
- `scripts/bump-nixpkgs-release.sh` — bumps `flake.nix`'s `nixpkgs.url`/
`home-manager.url` in place. Exists because flake input URLs can't
reference `variables.nix` (confirmed empirically — `nix flake metadata`