Rebase the fork branches and refresh nixpkgs, home-manager, and the
approved ancillary inputs. Update kernel and release metadata, adapt
removed package and Home Assistant options, and keep Determinate Nix
on its tested nixpkgs revision to avoid duplicate Boost patches.
Retire Sharry and its public endpoint because copyparty replaces it.
Document the GitHub mirror gate and require real devshell and system
builds in the upgrade validation workflow.
portcullis is wired over 10G to fergal, which uplinks to jim's spare
SFP+ port. That uplink is untagged VLAN 1, so hi is carried tagged on a
lan-hi VLAN interface: a static assignment at 192.168.68.41 / ::6:1,
resolving through the router VIPs like any other hi client. Its gateway
route outranks the DHCP default, making 10G the preferred path while the
2.5G bootstrap stays as a fallback. Deploy now targets that address.
The hi MTU goes on the .network rather than the .link, since a .link is
only applied at udev device-add -- with it there, et10g-0 stays at 1500
across a switch and lan-hi cannot take 9000.
jim's sfp-spare was tagged into hi and lo out of band to match.
fergal turns out to belong with portcullis rather than to the home
fabric -- it goes to Nikhef when the box does -- so its documentation
moves to the colony site, leaving home/switches.md a short section on
what it borrows from that fabric.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
fergal is an 8-port SFP+ switch on a Realtek RTL9303, running OpenWrt
rather than RouterOS or UniFi. It is not part of the fabric yet, but
its firmware is now built here via astro's nix-openwrt-imagebuilder.
Packages are baked into the image: OpenWrt's package server keeps only
the current build of each feed, so installing at runtime stops working
as soon as the feed moves past the running firmware.
Those feed indexes rotate constantly, and upstream pins only the
indexes -- a mismatch drops evaluation into import-from-derivation,
putting this flake's eval on the network. The openwrt-feeds input pins
expanded per-package hashes instead, in a repository of its own
because they run to hundreds of thousands of generated lines.
Flashing gets a procedure doc and a thin skill pointing at it, the
same split as the box installation and nixpkgs upgrade procedures.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Canonical, agent-agnostic procedure for bringing a new box into the
flake, from a booted installer through to a deployable system, plus a
thin Claude Code skill pointing at it -- same split as the nixpkgs
upgrade procedure.
Records the conventions that were not written down anywhere: sgdisk
plus an LVM PV for the nix and persist volumes, adopting the
installer's SSH host keys so secrets can be encrypted before first
boot, and taking whatever show-hw-config emits that the flake's own
modules do not already set.
Also notes in AGENTS.md that a changed recipient list should be
re-encrypted per file with ragenix --rekey-one; --rekey rewrites every
secret in secrets/ and buries the actual change.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
New bare-metal box headed for Nikhef, intended to take over most of
estuary's colony edge routing. This is the bootstrap config only: the
hardware, the single-NVMe ESP + LVM layout, and enough networking to
boot and be reachable.
It is being staged at home before it is racked, so it has no colony
assignments yet. Every 2.5G port takes DHCP and whichever one is
patched in brings the box up; kea registers the DHCP hostname, so the
deploy node points at portcullis.dyn.h.nul.ie until there is a real
colony FQDN for it.
The host key was adopted from the installer session and seeded onto
the persist volume before first boot, so my.secrets.key could be set
up front -- which makes portcullis a recipient of the user-passwd
secret that my.user declares for every box.
Documented with a box page, a row in the colony site index, and a note
in the colony section of networking.md that the topology is expected
to change once portcullis takes over from estuary.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Notes from bench-testing the Quectel RM500U-EA on tower, bought to
eventually replace stream's Virgin Media WAN. Like the switches and
APs, the module is configured out-of-band and is not referenced by
the flake.
Records what it takes to connect at all: the module must be switched
from its stock NCM composition to MBIM, since under NCM the PDP
context activates but the cdc_ncm link never raises carrier; and the
connect only succeeds with the network-expanded APN read off the
default-attach bearer, as IPv4.
Also flags the two consequences for stream: the SIM is CGNAT so it
cannot carry the public lease stream's WAN currently publishes, and
the bearer reports a /8 that would cover Tailscale's 100.64.0.0/10
if configured literally.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Capture the periodic upgrade of the four nixpkgs channels and
home-manager as a repo doc: check for a NixOS stable bump first, rebase
the devplayer0 fork against upstream (re-verifying the patch stack
against freshly fetched refs), run the update commands, sweep
version-gated TODOs, and review the remaining flake inputs.
Keep the canonical, agent-agnostic procedure in docs/ and point both
AGENTS.md and a thin Claude Code skill at it.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Generate forward and reverse record tables from authoritative AXFRs
while preserving handwritten Markdown outside per-zone markers. Run the
generator in CI and link the reference from the relevant docs.
jackos1998