Enhance Nix configuration: update backup file extension, add SSHFS and bind mounts for user directories, and introduce rebuild script for improved management

hosts/common/core/default.nix

@@ -41,7 +41,7 @@ in
   # Force home-manager to use global packages
   home-manager.useGlobalPkgs = true;
   # If there is a conflict file that is backed up, use this extension
-  home-manager.backupFileExtension = "bk";
+  home-manager.backupFileExtension = "homeManagerBackupFileExtension";
   # home-manager.useUserPackages = true;
 
   ## Overlays ##

hosts/nixos/vm/hardware.nix

@@ -8,7 +8,9 @@
   modulesPath,
   ...
 }:
-
+let
+  username = config.hostSpec.username;
+in
 {
   imports = [
     (modulesPath + "/profiles/qemu-guest.nix")
@@ -41,11 +43,33 @@
     extraModulePackages = [ ];
   };
 
-  fileSystems."/" = {
-    device = "/dev/disk/by-uuid/a0b82536-3087-410a-b283-60ea10811ef5";
-    fsType = "ext4";
-  };
+  fileSystems = {
+    "/" = {
+      device = "/dev/disk/by-uuid/a0b82536-3087-410a-b283-60ea10811ef5";
+      fsType = "ext4";
+    };
 
+    "/pool" = {
+      device = "${username}@104.40.4.24:/pool";
+      fsType = "sshfs";
+      options = [
+        "defaults"
+        "reconnect"
+        "_netdev"
+        "allow_other"
+        "identityfile=/home/${username}/.ssh/pve"
+      ];
+    };
+
+    "/home/${username}/git" = {
+      fsType = "none";
+      device = "/pool/git";
+      options = [
+        "bind"
+        "nofail"
+      ];
+    };
+  };
   swapDevices = [ ];
 
   # Enables DHCP on each ethernet and wireless interface. In case of scripted networking

scripts/rebuild.fish

@@ -0,0 +1,73 @@
+#!/usr/bin/env fish
+
+function red
+    # Usage: red <message> [<command-string>]
+    printf "\033[31m[!] %s \033[0m\n" $argv[1]
+    if test (count $argv) -ge 2
+        # If there's a second argument, we eval it and print in red as well
+        printf "\033[31m[!] %s \033[0m\n" (eval "$argv[2]")
+    end
+end
+
+function green
+    # Usage: green <message> [<command-string>]
+    printf "\033[32m[+] %s \033[0m\n" $argv[1]
+    if test (count $argv) -ge 2
+        printf "\033[32m[+] %s \033[0m\n" (eval "$argv[2]")
+    end
+end
+
+function yellow
+    # Usage: yellow <message> [<command-string>]
+    printf "\033[33m[*] %s \033[0m\n" $argv[1]
+    if test (count $argv) -ge 2
+        printf "\033[33m[*] %s \033[0m\n" (eval "$argv[2]")
+    end
+end
+
+# Build switch arguments
+set switch_args "--show-trace" "--impure" "--flake"
+
+# Check first argument
+if test (count $argv) -gt 0 -a "$argv[1]" = "trace"
+    set switch_args $switch_args "--show-trace"
+else if test (count $argv) -gt 0
+    set HOST $argv[1]
+else
+    set HOST (hostname)
+end
+
+# Append flake and host switch
+set switch_args $switch_args ".#$HOST" "switch"
+
+green "====== REBUILD ======"
+
+# Check if `nh` exists
+if type -q nh
+    find ~ -type f -name "*.homeManagerBackupFileExtension" -delete
+    set -x REPO_PATH (pwd)
+    nh os switch . -- --impure --show-trace
+else
+    find ~ -type f -name "*.homeManagerBackupFileExtension" -delete
+    sudo nixos-rebuild $switch_args
+end
+
+# If successful
+if test $status -eq 0
+    green "====== POST-REBUILD ======"
+    green "Rebuilt successfully"
+
+    # Check for a clean git working directory
+    if git diff --exit-code >/dev/null
+        and git diff --staged --exit-code >/dev/null
+        # Check if the current HEAD commit is already tagged as buildable
+        if git tag --points-at HEAD | grep -q buildable
+            yellow "Current commit is already tagged as buildable"
+        else
+            git tag buildable-(date +%Y%m%d%H%M%S) -m ''
+            green "Tagged current commit as buildable"
+        end
+    else
+        yellow "WARN: There are pending changes that would affect the build succeeding. Commit them before tagging"
+    end
+end

shell.nix

@@ -0,0 +1,28 @@
+# Shell for bootstrapping flake-enabled nix and other tooling
+{
+  pkgs ?
+    # If pkgs is not defined, instantiate nixpkgs from locked commit
+    let
+      lock = (builtins.fromJSON (builtins.readFile ./flake.lock)).nodes.nixpkgs.locked;
+      nixpkgs = fetchTarball {
+        url = "https://github.com/nixos/nixpkgs/archive/${lock.rev}.tar.gz";
+        sha256 = lock.narHash;
+      };
+    in
+    import nixpkgs { overlays = [ ]; },
+  ...
+}:
+{
+  default = pkgs.mkShell {
+    nativeBuildInputs = builtins.attrValues {
+      inherit (pkgs)
+
+        nix
+        home-manager
+        nh
+        git
+        bats # for bash testing
+        ;
+    };
+  };
+}