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beatzaplentyandClaude Sonnet 5 ff021ca6f7
Check NixOS configurations / eval-hosts (push) Failing after 53m34s
Consolidate CI on codex-maintenance.sh; clean up dead scripts and docs
Both check-nixos.yml workflows (GitHub + Gitea) now call
scripts/codex-maintenance.sh instead of a hand-rolled eval-only loop,
closing a real gap: CI previously enforced none of the secret grep,
nixpkgs-fmt, or statix checks that codex-maintenance.sh already runs
locally — nothing was stopping that from regressing. One script now
backs both, instead of two copies that can drift from each other.

codex-maintenance.sh itself is extended to cover buildable surface
that wasn't validated anywhere before: packages.x86_64-linux.*, plus
config.system.build.tarball (lxc-* hosts) and
config.system.build.diskoImagesScript (proxmox-*, excluding the
installer's own proxmox-lxc target, which has no disko config).

Also:
- scripts/prepare-host-key.sh: dropped the redundant
  [path-to-nixos-repo] parameter — it always defaults to the repo the
  script itself lives in now, so a second argument never made sense
  after the nix-auto-installer migration.
- Removed prepare.sh (dead pre-disko manual parted/mkfs/mkswap
  partitioning, fully superseded) and
  scripts/create-linode-installer-disk.sh (incomplete draft for an
  abandoned dd-via-rescue-mode approach; Linode hosts already deploy
  fine through the normal auto-installer flow).
- docs/pxe-boot.md: fixed a stale `nixosConfigurations.pxe-boot` eval
  command (pre-refactor flat name, not a real flake attribute
  anymore) and added a cross-reference to docs/auto-installer.md.
- CLAUDE.md/README.md: full documentation pass reconciling this
  session's changes — modules/installer/, modules/pxe-boot/, the
  LXC/Proxmox image-building deployment paths, corrected the
  password-hash/SSH-key locations in the safety-rules section (both
  had drifted to reference files/paths that no longer exist), and
  added session-workflow guidance to prefer targeted host evals over
  full-repo sweeps for incremental changes (explicitly scoped to
  interactive sessions, not CI).

Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01La55Nsss8jZ7ZuzUV9mfot
2026-07-20 07:02:23 +10:00

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#!/usr/bin/env bash
# Generates a new machine's SSH host key ahead of installing it, so
# sops-nix has something to derive an age key from before the target
# ever boots.
#
# Why this is needed: sops-nix derives each host's decryption key from
# its own /etc/ssh/ssh_host_ed25519_key at *activation* time, but that
# activation runs before systemd would otherwise generate this key on
# first boot (sshd-keygen is a normal systemd service gated behind
# multi-user.target; activation scripts run earlier than that). Without
# pre-seeding, secrets — including the root/nixos login password — fail
# to decrypt on the machine's very first boot.
#
# This script only touches your admin workstation and this repo's
# .sops.yaml (it never contacts the target machine). Run it, follow the
# printed next steps, then use the resulting key with the auto-install.sh
# prompt (see modules/installer/common.nix) when you actually install the
# new machine.
set -euo pipefail
repo_root="$(cd "$(dirname "$0")/.." && pwd)"
hostname="${1:?usage: scripts/prepare-host-key.sh <hostname>}"
sops_yaml="${repo_root}/.sops.yaml"
if [[ ! -f "$sops_yaml" ]]; then
echo "ERROR: $sops_yaml not found — is this script still under nixos/scripts/?" >&2
exit 1
fi
keydir="${repo_root}/host-keys"
mkdir -p "$keydir"
keyfile="${keydir}/${hostname}_ssh_host_ed25519_key"
if [[ -f "$keyfile" ]]; then
echo "ERROR: $keyfile already exists. Remove it first if you want to regenerate." >&2
exit 1
fi
nix-shell -p openssh --run "ssh-keygen -t ed25519 -N '' -C '${hostname}' -f '${keyfile}'" >/dev/null
age_pub="$(nix-shell -p ssh-to-age --run "ssh-to-age -i '${keyfile}.pub'")"
cat <<EOF
Generated: ${keyfile}(.pub)
=== 1. Add this line under keys: in ${sops_yaml} ===
- &${hostname} ${age_pub}
=== 2. Add *${hostname} to whichever creation_rules key_groups this host needs ===
(e.g. secrets/common.yaml always; add a per-host secrets/${hostname}.yaml
block too if this host will get its own secrets, same pattern as
nix-cache/server.)
=== 3. Re-encrypt every secrets file you just added it to ===
nix-shell -p sops --run 'sops updatekeys ${repo_root}/secrets/common.yaml'
=== 4. Commit + push this repo so the flake build picks up the new recipient ===
=== 5. Get the key onto the installer, one of two ways ===
a) Rebuild the installer image with all host-keys/ baked in (see
docs/auto-installer.md):
NIXOS_HOST_KEYS_DIR="${keydir}" nix build .#iso --impure
(or .#lxc / .#pxe / .#all — --impure is required since host-keys/
is gitignored and flakes can't see it otherwise)
b) Or, for an image already built without keys, scp it in after boot:
scp ${keyfile}{,.pub} root@<target-ip>:/root/host-keys/
Then continue with /etc/auto-install.sh as normal — it checks
/etc/host-keys (baked in) before /root/host-keys (scp'd) and installs
whichever it finds before running nixos-install.
EOF