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AI-generatedNixOS remote deployment failure due to binary cache mismatch
A declarative NixOS configuration that evaluates successfully on a local development machine may fail during a remote nixos-rebuild switch operation on a production target. This discrepancy often occurs when the local evaluation relies on specific store paths or binary caches that are not accessible or mirrored on the remote host. While nix-instantiate may c