Testing updated install steps and automated install script

flake.nix

@@ -67,6 +67,20 @@
     # configure lib
     lib = nixpkgs.lib;
 
+    # Systems that can run tests:
+     supportedSystems = [
+       "aarch64-linux"
+       "i686-linux"
+       "x86_64-linux"
+     ];
+
+    # Function to generate a set based on supported systems:
+    forAllSystems = inputs.nixpkgs.lib.genAttrs supportedSystems;
+
+    # Attribute set of nixpkgs for each system:
+    nixpkgsFor = forAllSystems (system:
+      import inputs.nixpkgs { inherit system; });
+
   in {
     homeConfigurations = {
       user = home-manager.lib.homeManagerConfiguration {
@@ -107,6 +121,17 @@
         };
       };
     };
+
+    packages = forAllSystems (system:
+      let pkgs = nixpkgsFor.${system}; in
+      {
+        default = self.packages.${system}.install;
+
+        install = pkgs.writeShellApplication {
+          name = "install";
+          text = builtins.readFile ./install.sh;
+        };
+      });
   };
 
   inputs = {

install.org

@@ -3,7 +3,30 @@
 
 These are just some simple install notes for myself (in-case I have to reinstall unexpectedly).
 
-** Install Notes for Myself
+** Automated Install Script (Experimental)
+I wrote a quick automated install script at [[./install.sh][install.sh]]. It essentially just runs the following manual install steps and hardens the security of the system-level (root configuration) files using [[./harden.sh][harden.sh]].
+
+I'll eventually™ add the ability to supply arguments to this script as well.
+
+It can either be run after cloning the dotfiles to =~/.dotfiles= with:
+#+BEGIN_SRC sh :noeval
+git clone https://gitlab.com/librephoenix/nixos-config.git ~/.dotfiles
+~/.dotfiles/install.sh
+#+END_SRC
+
+or it can be run directly from git using nix-run:
+#+BEGIN_SRC sh :noeval
+nix-run gitlab:librephoenix/nixos-config
+#+END_SRC
+
+At this time, this only works on an existing NixOS install.
+
+Future plans:
+- [ ] Be able to install directly from NixOS iso
+- [ ] Be able to install just home-manager config to a non-NixOS Linux distro
+- [ ] ??? (open up an issue if you think there is anything else I should try to figure out)
+
+** Manual Install Notes
 To get this running on a NixOS system, start by cloning the repo:
 #+BEGIN_SRC sh :noeval
 git clone https://gitlab.com/librephoenix/nixos-config.git ~/.dotfiles
@@ -11,8 +34,7 @@ git clone https://gitlab.com/librephoenix/nixos-config.git ~/.dotfiles
 
 To get the hardware configuration on a new system, either copy from =/etc/nixos/hardware-configuration.nix= or run:
 #+BEGIN_SRC sh :noeval
-cd ~/.dotfiles
-sudo nixos-generate-config --show-hardware-config > system/hardware-configuration.nix
+sudo nixos-generate-config --show-hardware-config > ~/.dotfiles/system/hardware-configuration.nix
 #+END_SRC
 
 Also, if you have a differently named user account than my default (=emmet=), you /must/ update the following lines in the let binding near the top of the [[./flake.nix][flake.nix]]:
@@ -30,41 +52,14 @@ There are many more config options there that you may also want to change as wel
 
 Once the variables are set, then switch into the system configuration by running:
 #+BEGIN_SRC sh :noeval
-cd ~/.dotfiles
-sudo nixos-rebuild switch --flake .#system
+sudo nixos-rebuild switch --flake ~/.dotfiles#system
 #+END_SRC
 
-Home manager can be installed with:
+Home manager can be installed and the configuration activated with:
 #+BEGIN_SRC sh :noeval
-nix-channel --add https://github.com/nix-community/home-manager/archive/master.tar.gz home-manager
-nix-channel --update
-nix-shell '<home-manager>' -A install
+nix run home-manager/master -- switch --flake ~/.dotfiles#user
 #+END_SRC
 
-If home-manager starts to not cooperate, it may be because the unstable branch of nixpkgs is in the Nix channel list.  This can be fixed via:
-#+BEGIN_SRC sh :noeval
-nix-channel --add https://nixos.org/channels/nixpkgs-unstable
-nix-channel --update
-#+END_SRC
-
-Home-manager may also not work without re-logging back in after it has been installed.
-
-Once home-manager is running, my home-manager configuration can be installed with:
-#+BEGIN_SRC sh :noeval
-cd ~/.dotfiles
-home-manager switch --flake .#user
-#+END_SRC
-
-This loads in my convenience script =phoenix= (still a WIP), which replaces frequently used nix and nixos commands with more user friendly ones, namely:
-- =phoenix sync= to build and switch system and home configuration
-  - =phoenix sync system= to build and switch only system configuration
-  - =phoenix sync user= to build and switch only home configuration
-- =phoenix update= to update flake inputs
-- =phoenix gc= to garbage collect
-  - If no argument is given, it cleans anything older than 30 days
-  - If a time argument is supplied (i.e. 10d), it cleans stuff older than that (10 days in this example)
-  - If the argument =full= is given, it deletes /all/ previous generations
-
 ** FAQ
 *** =home-manager switch --flake .#user= Command Fails
 If it fails with something to the effect of "could not download {some image file}" then that just means that one of my themes is having trouble downloading the background image. To conserve on space in the repo, my themes download the relevant wallpapers directly from their source, but that also means that if the link is broken, =home-manager switch= fails.

install.sh

@@ -0,0 +1,13 @@
+#!/bin/sh
+
+# Automated script to install my dotfiles
+
+nix-shell -p git --command "git clone https://gitlab.com/librephoenix/nixos-config ~/.dotfiles"
+sudo nixos-generate-config --show-hardware-config > ~/.dotfiles/system/hardware-configuration.nix
+if [ -z "$EDITOR" ]; then
+    EDITOR=nano;
+fi
+$EDITOR ~/.dotfiles/flake.nix;
+sudo nixos-rebuild switch --flake ~/.dotfiles#system;
+nix run home-manager/master -- switch --flake ~/.dotfiles#user;
+sudo ~/.dotfiles/harden.sh;