Fix building many things in nix.

Nix 2.30.0 (2025-07-07) changed the build directory from /tmp to /nix/var/nix/builds which broke a number of builds because my ZFS datasets were utf8only. This adds a role to mount tmpfs to /nix/var/nix/builds to restore the old behavior.
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Tom Alexander
2025-10-26 15:05:49 -04:00
parent 24b089a313
commit 888613a229
6 changed files with 45 additions and 3 deletions

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{
config,
lib,
pkgs,
...
}:
{
imports = [ ];
options.me = {
build_in_ram.enable = lib.mkOption {
type = lib.types.bool;
default = false;
example = true;
description = "Whether we want to install build_in_ram.";
};
};
config = lib.mkIf config.me.build_in_ram.enable (
lib.mkMerge [
{
# Nix 2.30.0 (2025-07-07) changed the build directory from /tmp to /nix/var/nix/builds which broke a number of builds because my ZFS datasets were utf8only.
fileSystems."/nix/var/nix/builds" = {
device = "tmpfs";
fsType = "tmpfs";
options = [
"size=40G" # adjust for your situation and needs
"mode=700"
];
};
}
]
);
}