Merge pull request #435 from nix-community/24.11

Use 24.11 release

Author: Mic92

.github/settings.yml

@@ -40,8 +40,8 @@ same directory as `disko-config.nix`.
 ```nix
 # default.nix
 let
-  # replace nixos-24.05 with your preferred nixos version or revision from here: https://status.nixos.org/
-  nixpkgs = fetchTarball "https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/archive/refs/heads/nixos-24.05.tar.gz";
+  # replace nixos-24.11 with your preferred nixos version or revision from here: https://status.nixos.org/
+  nixpkgs = fetchTarball "https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/archive/refs/heads/nixos-24.11.tar.gz";
 in
 import (nixpkgs + "/nixos/lib/eval-config.nix") {
   modules = [ ./configuration.nix ];
@@ -63,7 +63,7 @@ import (nixpkgs + "/nixos/lib/eval-config.nix") {
 
   # Set this to the NixOS version that you have set in the previous step.
   # For more information, see `man configuration.nix` or https://nixos.org/manual/nixos/stable/options#opt-system.stateVersion .
-  system.stateVersion = "24.05";
+  system.stateVersion = "24.11";
 }
 ```
 

docs/howtos/use-without-flakes.md

@@ -7,7 +7,7 @@
 
     # used for testing
     disko = { url = "github:nix-community/disko/master"; inputs.nixpkgs.follows = "nixpkgs"; };
-    nixos-stable.url = "github:NixOS/nixpkgs/nixos-24.05";
+    nixos-stable.url = "github:NixOS/nixpkgs/nixos-24.11";
     nixos-images.url = "github:nix-community/nixos-images";
     nixos-images.inputs.nixos-unstable.follows = "nixpkgs";
     nixos-images.inputs.nixos-stable.follows = "nixos-stable";

flake.lock

@@ -67,7 +67,10 @@ Usage: nixos-anywhere [options] [<ssh-host>]
 Options:
 
 * -f, --flake <flake_uri>
-  set the flake to install the system from.
+  set the flake to install the system from. i.e.
+  nixos-anywhere --flake .#mymachine
+  Also supports variants:
+  nixos-anywhere --flake .#nixosConfigurations.mymachine.config.virtualisation.vmVariant
 * --target-host <ssh-host>
   specified the SSH target host to deploy onto.
 * -i <identity_file>
@@ -486,7 +489,7 @@ runKexec() {
   if [[ $kexecUrl == "" ]]; then
     case "${isArch}" in
     x86_64 | aarch64)
-      kexecUrl="https://github.com/nix-community/nixos-images/releases/download/nixos-24.05/nixos-kexec-installer-noninteractive-${isArch}-linux.tar.gz"
+      kexecUrl="https://github.com/nix-community/nixos-images/releases/download/nixos-24.11/nixos-kexec-installer-noninteractive-${isArch}-linux.tar.gz"
       ;;
     *)
       abort "Unsupported architecture: ${isArch}. Our default kexec images only support x86_64 and aarch64 cpus. Checkout https://github.com/nix-community/nixos-anywhere/#using-your-own-kexec-image for more information."