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Rebuilding the Devbox

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Rebuild and recover your devbox with ease.

Software Engineering#nixos#flake#home-manager#nixos-anywhere#devbox#rebuild#system-management
Authorjohnnymo87
Version1.0.0
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What problem does it solve?

This Skill streamlines maintaining and recovering a NixOS devbox by applying configuration changes and performing full rebuilds when necessary.

Core Features & Use Cases

  • Apply system changes: Use sudo nixos-rebuild switch --flake .#devbox to rebuild the NixOS system after edits in hosts/devbox.
  • Apply user changes: Use home-manager switch --flake .#dev to apply user configuration changes.
  • Full rebuild option: Execute a full rebuild from scratch with nixos-anywhere when the system is corrupted.
  • Update dependencies: Refresh flake inputs with nix flake update and commit changes.

Quick Start

  • Apply system changes after editing hosts/devbox: cd ~/projects/workstation; sudo nixos-rebuild switch --flake .#devbox
  • Apply user changes after editing users/dev/ or assets/: cd ~/projects/workstation; home-manager switch --flake .#dev
  • Full rebuild sequence: From Mac, run nixos-anywhere --flake .#devbox root@devbox; SSH in and run: cd ~/Code/workstation; home-manager switch --flake .#dev

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Name: Rebuilding the Devbox
Download link: https://github.com/johnnymo87/workstation/archive/main.zip#rebuilding-the-devbox

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