home-manager: support a few extra pass-through options

These options will be passed through to the `nix-build` tool.

1 files changed, 13 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/home-manager/home-manager b/home-manager/home-manager
index 86adde1e5d0..2e7f8c72ebd 100644
--- a/home-manager/home-manager
+++ b/home-manager/home-manager
@@ -423,6 +423,14 @@ function doHelp() {
     echo "  -n           Do a dry run, only prints what actions would be taken"
     echo "  -h           Print this help"
     echo
+    echo "Options passed on to nix-build(1)"
+    echo
+    echo "  --cores NUM"
+    echo "  --keep-failed"
+    echo "  --keep-going"
+    echo "  --max-jobs NUM"
+    echo "  --show-trace"
+    echo
     echo "Commands"
     echo
     echo "  help         Print this help"
@@ -490,7 +498,11 @@ while [[ $# -gt 0 ]]; do
         -n|--dry-run)
             export DRY_RUN=1
             ;;
-        --show-trace)
+        --max-jobs|--cores)
+            PASSTHROUGH_OPTS+=("$opt" "$1")
+            shift
+            ;;
+        --keep-failed|--keep-going|--show-trace)
             PASSTHROUGH_OPTS+=("$opt")
             ;;
         -v|--verbose)