From e5cbc2b86b980f71416015491ffc5c266283850d Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Daniel Barlow <dan@telent.net>
Date: Sat, 23 Dec 2023 23:53:47 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] WIP add systemConfiguration "install" command

which copies the init stuff (whatever it is) from store to /persist
instead of making liminix-rebuild have to know what the files are.

This is principally to ease making a system configuration in /mnt or
similar when operating in a rescue/recovery scenario, and we
don't want to liminix-rebuild because it will reboot
---
 pkgs/min-copy-closure/liminix-rebuild.sh | 2 +-
 pkgs/systemconfig/default.nix            | 5 +++++
 2 files changed, 6 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/pkgs/min-copy-closure/liminix-rebuild.sh b/pkgs/min-copy-closure/liminix-rebuild.sh
index f13be053..faa230e8 100755
--- a/pkgs/min-copy-closure/liminix-rebuild.sh
+++ b/pkgs/min-copy-closure/liminix-rebuild.sh
@@ -12,7 +12,7 @@ fi
 if toplevel=$(nix-build "$@" -A outputs.systemConfiguration --no-out-link); then
     echo systemConfiguration $toplevel
     min-copy-closure $target_host $toplevel
-    $ssh_command $target_host cp -v -fP $toplevel/bin/* $toplevel/etc/* /persist
+    $ssh_command $target_host $toplevel/bin/install
     $ssh_command  $target_host "sync; source /etc/profile; reboot"
 else
     echo Rebuild failed
diff --git a/pkgs/systemconfig/default.nix b/pkgs/systemconfig/default.nix
index a18800e3..e15e1bc8 100644
--- a/pkgs/systemconfig/default.nix
+++ b/pkgs/systemconfig/default.nix
@@ -80,5 +80,10 @@ in attrset:
       cp $closure/store-paths $out/etc/nix-store-paths
       $STRIP --remove-section=.note  --remove-section=.comment --strip-all makedevs -o $out/bin/activate
       ln -s ${s6-init-bin}/bin/init $out/bin/init
+      cat > $out/bin/install <<EOF
+      #!/bin/sh
+      cp -v -fP $out/bin/* $out/etc/* \''${1-/}/persist
+      EOF
+      chmod +x $out/bin/install
     '';
   }