A fast rust tool to check availability of your entire system in caches. It so
to speak "checks the weather" before going to update. Heavily inspired by guix weather.
Note Currently,
nix-weatheronly has first-class support for flakes.
General usage would be like this:
nix-weather --name myhost --config ~/git/my-nixos-configHere, we specify the name of the host, as specified at the flake output
nixosConfiguration, and a path to the NixOS configuration flake.
The basic idea is that we construct a set of all requisites to build the top-level of a NixOS configuration, and then query Nix cache(s) for the narinfo. By doing this in a high concurrency, parallel task runner (i.e. tokio async runtime), and only querying the headers for status codes, we can reach impressive speeds, typically around 45~ network time.
One of the biggest limiting factors regarding speed is building the
config.system.toplevel, and finding the necessary requisites with nix-store.
Caching the requisites is a future goal, so that we only have to build the
toplevel, and then match against its derivation in cache, which should cut
down the nix part of the runtime by ~80%.
For information on contributing, please see CONTRIBUTING.md.