From ec6bac99cc3c7094ea9fa3d1eff2764be245e861 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Maximilian Bosch <maximilian@mbosch.me>
Date: Mon, 13 Apr 2020 17:43:44 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] nixos/build-vms: propagate file location

When trying to build a VM using `nixos-build-vms` with a configuration
that doesn't evaluate, an error "at `<unknown-file>`" is usually shown.

This happens since the `build-vms.nix` creates a VM-network of
NixOS-configurations that are attr-sets or functions and don't contain
any file information. This patch manually adds the `_file`-attribute to
tell the module-system which file contained broken configuration:

```
$ cat vm.nix
{ vm.invalid-option = 1; }

$ nixos-build-vms vm.nix
error: The option `invalid-option' defined in `/home/ma27/Projects/nixpkgs/vm.nix@node-vm' does not exist.
(use '--show-trace' to show detailed location information)
```
---
 .../modules/installer/tools/nixos-build-vms/build-vms.nix  | 7 ++++++-
 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/nixos/modules/installer/tools/nixos-build-vms/build-vms.nix b/nixos/modules/installer/tools/nixos-build-vms/build-vms.nix
index 90f0702f7173..0c9f8522cc12 100644
--- a/nixos/modules/installer/tools/nixos-build-vms/build-vms.nix
+++ b/nixos/modules/installer/tools/nixos-build-vms/build-vms.nix
@@ -3,7 +3,12 @@
 , networkExpr
 }:
 
-let nodes = import networkExpr; in
+let
+  nodes = builtins.mapAttrs (vm: module: {
+    _file = "${networkExpr}@node-${vm}";
+    imports = [ module ];
+  }) (import networkExpr);
+in
 
 with import ../../../../lib/testing-python.nix {
   inherit system;