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| # Evaluate testFlake which includes: | ||
| # - Parent flake checks (package builds for all systems) | ||
| # - VM integration tests (Ubuntu variants on x86_64-linux) | ||
| flake_dir = "./testFlake" |
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That's a great pattern. I didn't know buildbot-nix was configurable like that :)
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Users consuming system-manager as a flake input only need the package, lib, and modules - not the test infrastructure. By moving VM tests to a subflake, the main flake stays minimal with nixpkgs as its only input. This separation enables CI to run fast package checks independently from slow VM tests, and provides proper flake.lock version pinning for test dependencies like nix-vm-test (replacing the inline fetchTarball). Future test dependencies (e.g., sops-nix for compatibility testing in #270) can be added to testFlake without touching the main flake.
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Users consuming system-manager as a flake input only need the package, lib, and modules - not the test infrastructure. By moving VM tests to a subflake, the main flake stays minimal with nixpkgs as its only input.
This separation enables CI to run fast package checks independently from slow VM tests, and provides proper flake.lock version pinning for test dependencies like nix-vm-test (replacing the inline fetchTarball).
Future test dependencies (e.g., sops-nix for compatibility testing in #270) can be added to testFlake without touching the main flake.