Don't worry, it's is true by default. But I think this is important to
have because NixOS indeed shouldn't need Nix at run time when the
installation is not being modified, and now we can verify that.
NixOS images that cannot "self-modify" are a legitamate
use-case that this supports more minimally. One should be able to e.g. do a
sshfs mount and use `nixos-install` to modify them remotely, or just
discard them and build fresh ones if they are run VMs or something.
The next step would be to make generations optional, allowing just
baking `/etc` and friends rather than using activation scripts. But
that's more involved so I'm leaving it out.
Before this commit, the `flake` option was typed with `types.unspecified`.
This type get's merged via [`mergeDefaultOption`](ebb592a04c/lib/options.nix (L119-L128)), which has a line
```nix
else if all isFunction list then x: mergeDefaultOption loc (map (f: f x) list)
```
`lib.isFunction` detects an attrs in the shape of `{__functor = ...}` as
a function and hence this line substitutes such attrs with a function
(f: f x).
If now, a flake input has a `__functor` as it's output, this will
coerce the once attrs to a function. This breaks a lot of things later
in the stack, for example a later `lib.filterAttrs seive <LAMBDA>` will
fail for obious reasons.
According to @infinisil, `types.unspecified` is due to deprecation. In
the meantime this PR provides a specific fix for the specific problem
discovered.
In newer versions of Nix (at least on 2.4pre20201102_550e11f) the
`extra-` prefix for config options received a special meaning and the
option `extra-sandbox-paths` isn't recognized anymore. This commit fixes
it.
It doesn't cause a behavior change when using older versions of Nix but
does cause an extra newline to appear in the config, thus changing the
hash.
As the only consequence of isSystemUser is that if the uid is null then
it's allocated below 500, if a user has uid = something below 500 then
we don't require isSystemUser to be set.
Motivation: https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/issues/112647
Commit 5395397f removed the assertions from the buildMachines to
ensure that either system or systems is set for each buildmachine.
This patch re-implements those assertions.
The symptom is that if both system and systems are omitted, then the
/etc/machines file has the wrong number of columns and any attempt to
run a `nix` operation that has to perform a build will fail with a
`strtoull` exception.
The `platform` field is pointless nesting: it's just stuff that happens
to be defined together, and that should be an implementation detail.
This instead makes `linux-kernel` and `gcc` top level fields in platform
configs. They join `rustc` there [all are optional], which was put there
and not in `platform` in anticipation of a change like this.
`linux-kernel.arch` in particular also becomes `linuxArch`, to match the
other `*Arch`es.
The next step after is this to combine the *specific* machines from
`lib.systems.platforms` with `lib.systems.examples`, keeping just the
"multiplatform" ones for defaulting.
This reverts commits 9d0de0dc57,
27d2857a99. 'nix ping-store' is an
experimental command so it doesn't work in Nix 2.4 unless you set
'experimental-features = nix-command' in nix.conf.
Instead of making the configuration less portable by hard coding the number of
jobs equal to the cores we can also let nix set the same number at runtime.
This allows you to specify the system-wide flake registry. One use is
to pin 'nixpkgs' to the Nixpkgs version used to build the system:
nix.registry.nixpkgs.flake = nixpkgs;
where 'nixpkgs' is a flake input. This ensures that commands like
$ nix run nixpkgs#hello
pull in a minimum of additional store paths.
You can also use this to redirect flakes, e.g.
nix.registry.nixpkgs.to = {
type = "github";
owner = "my-org";
repo = "my-nixpkgs";
};
A centralized list for these renames is not good because:
- It breaks disabledModules for modules that have a rename defined
- Adding/removing renames for a module means having to find them in the
central file
- Merge conflicts due to multiple people editing the central file
In fact, don't create them at all because Nix does that automatically.
Also remove modules/programs/shell.nix because everything it did is
now done automatically by Nix.
Since version 2.3 (https://github.com/NixOS/nix/pull/2949 which was
cherry-picked to master) Nix issues a warning when --no-net wasn't
passed and there is no network interface. This commit adds the --no-net
flag to the nix.conf check such that no warning is issued.
There are many support questions when people add a new binary cache
and they suddenly lose nixos substitutions.
Most of the users want to keep that, so we're doing a breaking change.
Previously to disable all binary caches one had to do:
nix.binaryCache = [];
Now the same is possible via:
nix.binaryCache = lib.mkForce;
following up #59148
I forgot the default case of the architectures which do not have minor brothers whose code they can run ("westmere" or any of of AMD)
These days build systems are more robust w.r.t. to concurrency.
Most users will have at least two cores in their machines.
Therefore I suggest to increase the number of cores used for building.
fixes#50376
environment.sessionVariables cannot refer to the values of env vars,
and as a result this has caused problems in a variety of scenarios.
One use for these is that they're injected into /etc/profile,
elewhere these are used to populate an 'envfile' for pam
(`pam 5 pam_env.conf`) which mentions use of HOME being
potentially problematic.
Anyway if the goal is to make things easier for users,
simply do the NIX_PATH modification as extraInit.
This fixes the annoying problems generated by the current approach
(#40165 and others) while hopefully serving the original goal.
One way to check if things are borked is to try:
$ sudo env | grep NIX_PATH
Which (before this change) prints NIX_PATH variable with
an unexpanded $HOME in the value.
-------
This does mean the following won't contain user channels for 'will':
$ sudo -u will nix-instantiate --eval -E builtins.nixPath
However AFAICT currently they won't be present either,
due to unescaped $HOME. Unsure if similar situation for other users
of sessionVariables (not sudo) work with current situation
(if they exist they will regress after this change AFAIK).
This reverts commit 67c8c49177.
'nix run nixos.firefox' is *not* supposed to work - the Nix 2.x
interface attempts to standardize on nixpkgs.*, to get rid of the
nixos/nixpkgs confusion that existed with the channels interface. So
let's not bring that confusion back.
This fixes a regression introduced in commit
700e21d6da
nix needs ssh on path for the SSH substituter functionality,
not only the distributed builds functionality.
Signed-off-by: Niklas Hambüchen <mail@nh2.me>
Ideally I'd like the whole `nixos`/`nixpkgs` channel distinction to disappear, but this is a step along that path. After a while being in this state, we can stop creating the magic `nixpkgs -> .` symlink inside our `nixos` channel tarballs and simplify that whole mess a bit.
* checks using package providing the nix-daemon that we'll be using
* made optional (unlike some other config checks) "just in case":
since this requires running the new Nix on the builder, this
won't work in a few (AFAIK very uncommon) situations such as
cross-compiling NixOS or using `include` directives in nix.conf
This does rely on Nix2 but not by the builder.
Since we only offer Nix2+ in-tree this should be fine,
and may otherwise be required anyway.
Resolved the following conflicts (by carefully applying patches from the both
branches since the fork point):
pkgs/development/libraries/epoxy/default.nix
pkgs/development/libraries/gtk+/3.x.nix
pkgs/development/python-modules/asgiref/default.nix
pkgs/development/python-modules/daphne/default.nix
pkgs/os-specific/linux/systemd/default.nix
* The environment variables NIX_CONF_DIR, NIX_BUILD_HOOK and
NIX_REMOTE are no longer needed.
* A /bin/sh (from busybox) is provided by default in sandboxes.
* Various options were renamed.
Using the example before this commit resulted in the following error:
```
error: value is a string while a list was expected, at /nix/var/nix/profiles/per-user/root/channels/nixos/nixpkgs/nixos/modules/services/misc/nix-daemon.nix:349:37
```
