From 7998cdd44842e36523c46b51356807b9a0894f75 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: =?UTF-8?q?J=C3=B6rg=20Thalheim?= <joerg@thalheim.io>
Date: Thu, 28 Mar 2024 12:16:44 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] nixos-generate: switch to new nix build command for better
 logs

nix-build doesn't print any logs when performs derivation looks up,
which might look like the build stalled.
---
 nixos-generate | 4 ++--
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/nixos-generate b/nixos-generate
index 6d66640..d0f954e 100755
--- a/nixos-generate
+++ b/nixos-generate
@@ -139,7 +139,7 @@ while [[ $# -gt 0 ]]; do
 done
 
 if ! $has_outlink; then
-  nix_build_args+=(--no-out-link)
+  nix_build_args+=(--no-link)
 fi
 
 if [[ -z $format_path ]]; then
@@ -174,7 +174,7 @@ fi
 formatAttr=$(nix-instantiate "${nix_args[@]}" --eval --json -A config.formatAttr | jq -r .)
 fileExtension=$(nix-instantiate "${nix_args[@]}" --eval --json -A config.fileExtension | jq -r .)
 
-out=$(nix-build "${nix_args[@]}" "${nix_build_args[@]}" -A "config.system.build.$formatAttr")
+out=$(nix build --extra-experimental-features nix-command -L --print-out-paths --file "${nix_args[@]}" "${nix_build_args[@]}" "config.system.build.$formatAttr")
 
 if [[ -z $run ]]; then
   # show the first file, ignoring nix-support