use default.nix for building

Author: cyber-murmel

README.md

@@ -10,12 +10,7 @@ Set `BOARD_TYPE` to the desired value and run the command as shown below.
 $ export BOARD_TYPE=foobar
 # nixpkgs pinned to master as of Thu Mar 31 08:01:29 2022 -0700
 $ export NIXPKGS="https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/archive/3e481ad.tar.gz"
-$ nix-build '<nixpkgs/nixos>' \
-    -A config.system.build.sdImage \
-    -I nixpkgs=$NIXPKGS \
-    -I nixos-config=./sd-image.nix \
-    -I machine=machines/$BOARD_TYPE \
-    --out-link out-links/$BOARD_TYPE
+$ nix-build -I nixpkgs=$NIXPKGS -I machine=machines/$BOARD_TYPE --out-link out-links/$BOARD_TYPE
 ```
 ### Boards
 `BOARD_TYPE` can be set to the name of any directory in `machines`.
@@ -35,12 +30,7 @@ $ export NIXPKGS=https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/archive/3e481ad.tar.gz
 $ for machine in $(find machines -maxdepth 1 -mindepth 1 -type d)
 do
     export BOARD_TYPE=$(basename $machine);
-    nix-build '<nixpkgs/nixos>' \
-        -A config.system.build.sdImage \
-        -I nixpkgs=$NIXPKGS \
-        -I nixos-config=./sd-image.nix \
-        -I machine=machines/$BOARD_TYPE \
-        --out-link out-links/$BOARD_TYPE
+    nix-build -I nixpkgs=$NIXPKGS -I machine=machines/$BOARD_TYPE --out-link out-links/$BOARD_TYPE
 done
 ```
 

default.nix

@@ -0,0 +1,15 @@
+let
+  lib = import <nixpkgs/lib>;
+  nixos = import <nixpkgs/nixos> {
+    configuration = { ... }: {
+      imports = [
+        <machine/sd-image.nix>
+        <machine/hardware-configuration.nix>
+        ./nixos/configuration.nix
+      ] ++ lib.optionals (builtins.pathExists ./custom.nix) [ ./custom.nix ];
+    };
+  };
+in
+nixos.config.system.build.sdImage // {
+  inherit (nixos) pkgs system config;
+}