keep the os closer to nixos and move custom bits into the sdk (at least for now)

README.md

@@ -1,10 +1,10 @@
-Cycle OS build scripts
+OS Image build scripts
 ======================
 
 Cycle's OS is based on [NixOS](http://nixos.org), a linux distribution with a purely functional
 package manager. 
 
-These scripts build .box images that can be used by [vagrant](http://vagrantup.com), and ISO images that can be installed on bare metal.
+These scripts build .box images that can be used by [vagrant](http://vagrantup.com) for development, and other images suitable for production.
 
 See [CycleSDK](https://bitbucket.org/oxdi/cycle-sdk) for the complete development environment (which makes use of the images generated here).
 
@@ -16,31 +16,27 @@ First install [packer](http://packer.io) and [virtualbox](https://www.virtualbox
 
 Then:
 
-```
+```bash
 packer build template.json
 ```
 
 The .box image is now ready to go. Install it into Vagrant via:
 
-```
-vagrant box add cycle64 cycle64-virtualbox.box
-```
-
 Updating the public box image
 -----------------------------
 
-`s3put` is handy command line wrapper for copying files to Amazon S3, it's part of the [boto](https://github.com/boto/boto) library.
+`s3put` is handy tool for copying files to Amazon S3, it's part of the [boto](https://github.com/boto/boto) library.
 
 Install boto:
 
-```
+```bash
 pip install boto
 ```
 
 Push the .box image to S3 via s3put
 
-```
-s3put -a $AWS_ID -s $AWS_KEY -b oxdi -g public-read --prefix `pwd` cycle64-virtualbox.box
+```bash
+s3put -a $AWS_ID -s $AWS_KEY -b oxdi -g public-read --prefix `pwd` cycle-xx.xx-x86_64-virtualbox.box
 ```
 
 The box will then be available at http://amazonaws.com/oxdi/cycle64-virtualbox.box

nixos/configuration.nix

@@ -1,7 +1,10 @@
 { config, pkgs, ... }:
 
 {
-  imports = [ ./hardware-configuration.nix ];
+  imports = [ 
+    ./hardware-configuration.nix 
+    ./sdk.nix
+  ];
 
   # Use the GRUB 2 boot loader.
   boot.loader.grub.enable = true;
@@ -14,7 +17,7 @@
   # Enable the OpenSSH daemon.
   services.openssh.enable = true;
 
-  # Virtualbox guess
+  # Virtualbox guest
   services.virtualbox.enable = true;
 
   # Enable DBus
@@ -35,8 +38,6 @@
   # Default packages
   environment.systemPackages = with pkgs; [
     git
-    subversion
-    vim
   ];
 
   # Creates a "vagrant" users with password-less sudo access

nixos/sdk.nix

@@ -0,0 +1,5 @@
+{ config, pkgs, ... }:
+
+{
+	# add sdk configure here
+}

scripts/postinstall.sh

@@ -2,22 +2,11 @@
 
 set -e
 
-# Checkout our nixpkg tree
-git config --global http.sslVerify false
-NIXREPO=/etc/nixos
-# (cd $NIXREPO && git clone http://github.com/oxdi/nixpkgs.git)
-
 # Update and initialize our new configuration
-# nixos-rebuild -I nixos=$NIXREPO/nixpkgs/nixos -I nixpkgs=$NIXREPO/nixpkgs switch
-nixos-rebuild switch
+nix-channel --remove nixos
+nix-channel --add http://nixos.org/channels/nixos-unstable nixos
+nixos-rebuild switch --upgrade
 
-# Cleanup any previous generations and delete old packages that can be
-# pruned.
-for x in `seq 0 2` ; do
-    nix-env --delete-generations old
-    nix-collect-garbage -d
-done
+# Cleanup any previous generations and delete old packa
+nix-collect-garbage -d
 
-# Zero out the disk (for better compression)
-# dd if=/dev/zero of=/EMPTY bs=1M
-# rm -rf /EMPTY

template.json

@@ -22,9 +22,9 @@
       "guest_additions_mode": "disable",
       "guest_os_type": "Linux_64",
       "http_directory": "nixos",
-      "iso_checksum": "48395b4bd21675703c87cfae1feb68ed",
+      "iso_checksum": "e6193d70d283d05795cb07422689d1cd",
       "iso_checksum_type": "md5",
-      "iso_url": "http://releases.nixos.org/nixos/unstable/nixos-14.02pre38596.1dd0e05/nixos-minimal-14.02pre38596.1dd0e05-x86_64-linux.iso",
+      "iso_url": "http://releases.nixos.org/nixos/13.10/nixos-13.10.35608.1e7192a/nixos-minimal-13.10.35608.1e7192a-x86_64-linux.iso",
       "shutdown_command": "sudo shutdown -h now",
       "ssh_username": "root",
       "ssh_key_path": "keys/install.key",
@@ -47,7 +47,7 @@
   "post-processors": [
     {
       "type": "vagrant",
-      "output": "cycle64-{{.Provider}}.box"
+      "output": "cycle-13.10-x86_64-{{.Provider}}.box"
     }
   ]
 }