Deploying nixos machines from macos

[v-morlock]

Hi,

I'm trying to deploy my Colmena config (which works perfectly fine when deploying from another nixos machine) but I couldn't get either --build-on-target nor nixos remote builds to work.

The error with --build-on-target was seemingly related to buildNpmPackage and looked as follows:

[ERROR]   stderr)   Downloaded memchr v2.6.3
[ERROR]   stderr)   Downloaded futures-macro v0.3.28
[ERROR]   stderr)   Downloaded winreg v0.50.0
[ERROR]   stderr)   Downloaded nom v7.1.3
[ERROR]   stderr) Error: unknown error
[ERROR]   stderr) 
[ERROR]   stderr) Caused by:
[ERROR]   stderr)     [55] Failed sending data to the peer
[ERROR]   stderr) error: builder for '/nix/store/z9szs6wqg0hr5m57ri8in10vm31qaxji-terminal-ui-npm-deps.drv' failed with exit code 1

While my remote-build config produced the following error:

error: a 'x86_64-linux' with features {} is required to build '/nix/store/kbwsn8viw2mkjjs9zryfgpbpiixx9pc3-alsoft.conf.drv', but I am a 'aarch64-darwin' with features {benchmark, big-parallel, nixos-test}

My config looked like this:

./hive.nix

  meta = {
    nixpkgs = import (fetchTarball "https://nixos.org/channels/nixos-23.05/nixexprs.tar.xz") { };
    allowApplyAll = false;
    machinesFile = ./machines;
  };

./machines

ssh://root@xx.xx.xx.xx x86_64-linux

Do you have any hint how I can get this to work?

[v-morlock]

I could fix remote-building by adding myself to "trusted-users". The issue with "--build-on-target" persists - any ideas?

[Pablo1107]

My user is in the trusted-users array but I get the same error, do you know why that can happen?