nixos/build-vms: propagate file location #85162
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Motivation for this change
When trying to build a VM using
nixos-build-vms
with a configurationthat doesn't evaluate, an error "at
<unknown-file>
" is usually shown.This happens since the
build-vms.nix
creates a VM-network ofNixOS-configurations that are attr-sets or functions and don't contain
any file information. This patch manually adds the
_file
-attribute totell the module-system which file contained broken configuration:
Things done
sandbox
innix.conf
on non-NixOS linux)nix-shell -p nixpkgs-review --run "nixpkgs-review wip"
./result/bin/
)nix path-info -S
before and after)