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Anyone have experience with getting ARM support for this?

I think I'm pretty close to getting this work, though it fails close to the end of build with the following error (sorry for the screen shot)

This is installing Nixos 18.09, the closest issue I could find is this, but I'm not sure how to proceed with debugging this

The building of the manpages for the installImage and installer NixOS options is broken on NixOS 18.09.

Looks like a regression was introduced in 448cbe3#diff-2e716080a08972ecb7adf2548fed7affR176

When useBinaryCache is set to true the default, the value "true" is passed to nix-env causing an error.

Sorry for opening essentially A support request, I'm not sure if this a bug or if I can't figure out how to use it.

I followed the instructions on a nixos 18.09 machine as was able to build the installer, but using the example for how to build an image

with import <nixpkgs> {};

let
  installImageConfig = {
    installImage = {
      nixpkgs.path = ./nixpkgs;
    };
  };
  installImage = (import <nixpkgs/nixos/lib/eval-config.nix> {
    modules = [ modules/install-image.nix
                installImageConfig ];
  }).config.system.build.installImage;
in
  with installImage;
    [ tarball config ]

I ran into a few strange issues.

Following that example exactly, I ran into an error error: cannot coerce a built-in function to a string, at /root/nixos-pxe-installer/modules/install-image.nix:62:20 after playing with the code in nix repl (and using print debugging) I found what happens is that readlink -f doesn't return anything.

If I remove the readlink on line 60, it returns an absolute path, but then I get an error, unable to cd to /root/nixos-pxe-installer/nixpkgs which occurs on line 77.

I assume this script needs the nixpkgs to be in the nix store, so I also tried pre-"realising" the path by changing nixpkgs.path = ./nixpkgs to nixpkgs.path = ${./nixpkgs} which also returns cannot cd to /nix/store/$sha-nixpkgs from line 77.

I also tried running this script as a non-root user, but it had the same behavior. Unfortunately, while I have Linux experience, I have no idea why cd doesn't work and haven't been able to find any reasons for it, so I was hoping you could help guide me to a solution.

Thanks!