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authorProfpatsch <mail@profpatsch.de>2022-03-08 18:01:40 +0100
committerProfpatsch <mail@profpatsch.de>2022-03-19 15:13:50 +0100
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nixos-rebuild: add installer test to passthru.tests
When something changes in nixos-rebuild, we must make sure the
installers still work, otherwise it might break existing setups.

The installer tests check whether nixos-rebuild works, so they are a
good lithmus test.
-rw-r--r--pkgs/os-specific/linux/nixos-rebuild/default.nix6
1 files changed, 6 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/pkgs/os-specific/linux/nixos-rebuild/default.nix b/pkgs/os-specific/linux/nixos-rebuild/default.nix
index 08bba5a428d..58712835d60 100644
--- a/pkgs/os-specific/linux/nixos-rebuild/default.nix
+++ b/pkgs/os-specific/linux/nixos-rebuild/default.nix
@@ -5,6 +5,7 @@
 , gnugrep
 , nix
 , lib
+, nixosTests
 }:
 let
   fallback = import ./../../../../nixos/modules/installer/tools/nix-fallback-paths.nix;
@@ -19,4 +20,9 @@ substituteAll {
   nix_i686_linux = fallback.i686-linux;
   nix_aarch64_linux = fallback.aarch64-linux;
   path = lib.makeBinPath [ coreutils gnused gnugrep ];
+
+  # run some a simple installer tests to make sure nixos-rebuild still works for them
+  passthru.tests = {
+    simple-installer-test = nixosTests.installer.simple;
+  };
 }