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Fix nix-cache retry storms and lxc creation in create-proxmox-resource.sh
Two independent problems found while actually running the script: 1. nix build/nix-shell retry each unreachable substituter/builder up to 5x with backoff, per store path -- with nix-cache down this compounds into minutes of noise. scripts/env.sh gains nix_extra_opts(), which probes http://nix-cache and nixremote@nix-cache:22 once via plain curl/TCP (bypassing Nix's own retry logic entirely -- confirmed nix store ping still retries 5x even with a short connect-timeout) and exports the decision so create-proxmox-resource.sh and the sync-host-keys.sh subprocess it shells out to both reuse it instead of probing independently. 2. The actual failure: "archive contains no configuration file". pct restore expects a vzdump backup archive with embedded config; config.system.build.tarball is a plain CT template tarball -- wrong Proxmox mechanism entirely. Fixed to pct create against it as a vztmpl template instead, uploaded to /var/lib/vz/template/cache/ rather than /var/lib/vz/dump/. This same wrong claim had propagated into docs/auto-installer.md, README.md, and CLAUDE.md from when the script was first written -- corrected everywhere. Also: checks for an already-uploaded image on the node (fixed <flake_target>.tar.xz/.raw naming) before building, skipping build+upload entirely if found (--force-rebuild to always rebuild). Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01La55Nsss8jZ7ZuzUV9mfot
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@@ -86,12 +86,16 @@ Beyond `codex-setup.sh`/`codex-maintenance.sh` above, `scripts/` also has:
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has.
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- `scripts/create-proxmox-resource.sh` — builds a `lxc-*`/`proxmox-*`
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target's tarball/disk image and creates it on a real Proxmox node
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(`pct restore` / `qm create`+`importdisk`), or reconfigures an existing
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resource's cores/memory/disk size (`--modify`, always requires typing the
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VMID back to confirm). Refuses to create a target whose host identity
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already has a real deployment elsewhere (`variables.nix`'s
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`deployedTargets`) unless `--allow-duplicate-host` is passed.
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`--dry-run` throughout both modes.
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(`pct create` against the tarball as a CT template / `qm create`+
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`importdisk`), or reconfigures an existing resource's cores/memory/disk
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size (`--modify`, always requires typing the VMID back to confirm).
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Checks for an already-uploaded image on the node before building
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(`--force-rebuild` to skip that and always rebuild), and probes
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nix-cache's substituter/remote-builder reachability once up front rather
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than letting every `nix build` call retry against it individually.
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Refuses to create a target whose host identity already has a real
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deployment elsewhere (`variables.nix`'s `deployedTargets`) unless
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`--allow-duplicate-host` is passed. `--dry-run` throughout both modes.
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- `scripts/env.sh` — shared config (`PROXMOX_HOST`, storage pool, bridge,
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default cores/memory) sourced by `create-proxmox-resource.sh`. Add new
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cross-script config here instead of duplicating it per-script.
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@@ -153,8 +157,10 @@ removing a host.
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from `flake.nix`. `lxc.nix` has no hardware-configuration counterpart since
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containers share the host kernel; instead it imports nixpkgs' own
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`virtualisation/proxmox-lxc.nix`, which gives every `lxc-*` host a
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`config.system.build.tarball` output (`pct restore`-ready, no install step
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— see `docs/auto-installer.md`).
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`config.system.build.tarball` output — a plain rootfs tarball, used as a
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`pct create ... vztmpl` CT template (**not** `pct restore`, which expects
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`vzdump` backup-archive metadata this doesn't have), no install step —
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see `docs/auto-installer.md`.
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- `modules/build-types/*.nix` — what a system is for:
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minimal/server/docker/gui/pxe-boot/nix-cache.
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- `modules/common/configuration.nix` — base NixOS config imported by every
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