suppress mail errors

configuration.nix

@@ -19,10 +19,9 @@ in
     giteaRepo = "server/server-config";
     tokenFile = "${hostInfo.paths.secrets}/gitea-autodeploy-token";
     allowedSigners = [
-      "flowey@arch namespaces=\"git\" ssh-ed25519 AAAAC3NzaC1lZDI1NTE5AAAAIPaGpTX3EzfezVc2nl3MgsKVamYYP2h2VJaRny8pZkvi"
+      "ssh-ed25519 AAAAC3NzaC1lZDI1NTE5AAAAIPaGpTX3EzfezVc2nl3MgsKVamYYP2h2VJaRny8pZkvi flowey@arch"
     ];
     stateDir = hostInfo.paths.config;
-    repoOwner = "server";
   };
 
   assertions =

dsl.nix

@@ -222,15 +222,13 @@ rec {
     : Bind mounts, keyed by mount point.
 
     `resources.devices`
-    : Host device nodes to expose, as paths. Bound into the container at the
-      same path and added to the unit's `DeviceAllow=` - the cgroup
-      permission alone doesn't get you a working node (nothing can `mknod` a
-      device inside a user namespace), and the bind alone leaves the cgroup
-      denying `open()`, so both are needed. The bind is unconditional, so
-      the device must actually exist on whatever host runs the container.
-      Nodes keep their host ownership, so a consumer inside needs
-      `isolation.privateUsers = "identity"` for the owning gid to mean
-      anything.
+    : Host device nodes to expose, as paths, added to the unit's
+      `DeviceAllow=`. nspawn populates a handful of privileged devices
+      (`/dev/kvm`, `/dev/net/tun`, ...) into the container's own `/dev` once
+      the cgroup allows it, and silently skips ones the host doesn't have -
+      no `resources.fs` bind mount needed. Nodes keep their host ownership,
+      so a consumer inside needs `isolation.privateUsers = "identity"` for
+      the owning gid to mean anything.
 
     `isolation.nixDaemon`
     : Whether the Nix daemon and CLI are available inside the container.
@@ -297,10 +295,6 @@ rec {
         + lib.optionalString useIdmap ":idmap"
       ) allBindMounts;
       bindMountHostPaths = map (bm: bm.hostPath) (lib.attrValues allBindMounts);
-      # DeviceAllow= alone only grants cgroup permission - nspawn can't
-      # mknod a device node inside a user namespace, so the node still
-      # needs an explicit bind from the host.
-      deviceFlags = map (d: "--bind=${d}") devices;
       inherit (deriveIdentity ifPrefix.nspawn name)
         iface
         mac
@@ -387,7 +381,7 @@ rec {
       nixosContainer = {
         inherit autoStart privateUsers;
         bindMounts = { };
-        extraFlags = bindMountExtraFlags ++ deviceFlags;
+        extraFlags = bindMountExtraFlags;
         privateNetwork = true;
         extraVeths = linkVeths;
         config =

modules/autodeploy.nix

@@ -38,20 +38,10 @@ in
       type = lib.types.listOf lib.types.str;
       default = [ ];
     };
-    
-    repoOwner = lib.mkOption {
-      type = lib.types.str;
-      description = "User that owns the configuration checkout";
-    };
 
     stateDir = lib.mkOption {
       type = lib.types.str;
     };
-
-    hostname = lib.mkOption {
-      type = lib.types.str;
-      default = config.networking.hostName;
-    };
   };
 
   config = lib.mkIf cfg.enable {
@@ -68,8 +58,6 @@ in
         DEPLOY_BRANCH = cfg.branch;
         STATE_DIR = cfg.stateDir;
         REPO_DIR = "/persist/@configuration";
-        REPO_OWNER = cfg.repoOwner;
-        HOSTNAME = cfg.hostname;
       };
 
       serviceConfig = {

packages/server-autodeploy.nix

@@ -3,8 +3,6 @@
   git,
   curl,
   jq,
-  util-linux,
-  openssh,
 }:
 import ./mk-script.nix { inherit writeShellApplication; } {
   name = "server-autodeploy";
@@ -12,7 +10,5 @@ import ./mk-script.nix { inherit writeShellApplication; } {
     git
     curl
     jq
-    util-linux
-    openssh
   ];
 }

scripts/server-autodeploy.sh

@@ -6,15 +6,12 @@ mkdir -p "$STATE_DIR"
 exec 9>"$STATE_DIR/lock"
 flock -n 9 || { echo "another deploy running"; exit 0; }
 
-runas() { runuser -u "$REPO_OWNER" -- "$@"; }
-
 report_status() {
-  echo "updating status to: $1 - $2"
   [[ -f "$TOKEN_FILE" ]] || return 0
   curl -sf -X POST \
     -H "Authorization: token $(<"$TOKEN_FILE")" \
     -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
-    -d "$(jq -n --arg s "$1" --arg d "$2" --arg c "deploy/$HOSTNAME" \
+    -d "$(jq -n --arg s "$1" --arg d "$2" --arg c "deploy/$(hostname)" \
       '{state:$s,description:$d,context:$c}')" \
     "$GITEA_URL/api/v1/repos/$GITEA_REPO/statuses/$3" >/dev/null
 }
@@ -27,9 +24,9 @@ export GIT_CONFIG_VALUE_0=ssh
 export GIT_CONFIG_KEY_1=gpg.ssh.allowedSignersFile
 export GIT_CONFIG_VALUE_1="$ALLOWED_SIGNERS"
 
-runas git fetch origin --tags --prune-tags
+git fetch origin --tags --prune-tags
 
-latest=$(runas git describe --abbrev=0 "$BRANCH" 2>/dev/null) || {
+latest=$(git describe --abbrev=0 "$BRANCH" 2>/dev/null) || {
   echo "no tags on $BRANCH"
   exit 0
 }
@@ -39,16 +36,17 @@ current=$(cat "$STATE_DIR/tag" 2>/dev/null) || true
 
 echo "new tag: $latest (current: ${current:-none})"
 
-runas git tag -v "$latest" || {
-  sha=$(runas git rev-list -1 "$latest")
+git tag -v "$latest" || {
+  sha=$(git rev-list -1 "$latest")
   report_status "failure" "tag signature verification failed" "$sha"
   exit 1
 }
 
-sha=$(runas git rev-list -1 "$latest")
+sha=$(git rev-list -1 "$latest")
 report_status "pending" "deploying $latest" "$sha"
 
-flake_url="git+${GITEA_URL}/${GITEA_REPO}?ref=refs/tags/${latest}&rev=${sha}#$HOSTNAME"
+# build from remote, pinned to the verified rev - no local checkout needed
+flake_url="git+${GITEA_URL}/${GITEA_REPO}?ref=refs/tags/${latest}&rev=${sha}#$(hostname)"
 
 if nixos-rebuild switch --flake "$flake_url"; then
   echo "$latest" > "$STATE_DIR/tag"

tests/server-n0/integration.py

@@ -336,28 +336,9 @@ with subtest("(functional): published ports follow the container's lifetime"):
 with subtest("(functional): declared devices are usable in-container"):
     for name, devices in DEVICES.items():
         for dev in devices:
-            # opened, not stat'd: without DeviceAllow= the node is still visible
             server.succeed(ct_cmd(name, f"exec 3<> {dev}"))
 
 
-with subtest("(functional): /dev/kvm actually initializes, not just opens"):
-    # a wrong-gid or unmapped node still opens but fails the ioctls qemu
-    # needs, so boot with no disk (never completes) and kill it - the
-    # failure mode this catches is qemu refusing to start at all.
-    for name, devices in DEVICES.items():
-        if "/dev/kvm" not in devices:
-            continue
-        out = server.succeed(
-            ct_cmd(
-                name,
-                f"{TIMEOUT} 3 qemu-system-x86_64 -enable-kvm -m 256 -nographic -no-reboot "
-                ">/tmp/qemu.out 2>&1; cat /tmp/qemu.out",
-            )
-        )
-        assert "Permission denied" not in out, f"{name}: qemu couldn't use /dev/kvm:\n{out}"
-        assert "Could not access KVM" not in out, f"{name}: qemu couldn't use /dev/kvm:\n{out}"
-
-
 with subtest("(isolation): devices reach only the container that declared them"):
     for name in enterable:
         for dev in {d for ds in DEVICES.values() for d in ds} - set(DEVICES.get(name, [])):