This script would always "detect" the "powersave" governor as it is available on
practically all CPUs while the "ondemand" governor is only available on some old
CPUs.
IME the "powersave" governor barely provides any power savings but introduces
massive performance deficits, including noticable stuttering. This is not the
default experience we should offer users, even for those who use laptops.
Use the kernel default (currently "performance", CPU makers may change it in
future) instead.
[Motivation](https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/issues/257817#issuecomment-1741705042):
- Having all the XKB options in the same attribute set clarifies their
relation better than using a common option name prefix ("xkb").
- `services.xserver.layout` is an XKB option, but this is not obvious
from its name. Putting it with the other XKB options clarifies this.
Co-authored-by: Michele Guerini Rocco <rnhmjoj@users.noreply.github.com>
- Move contents of README.md from
nixos/modules/installer/tools/manpages/ to
nixos/doc/manual/contributing-to-this-manual.chapter.md.
- Don't mention DocBook as its obsolete and too specific.
- Rename derivation attribute name of configuration.nix(5) manual page,
both on the `contributing-to-this-manual.chapter.md`, and in other
places.
Since each such `nixos-*` tool has it's own derivation, exposed in pkgs,
There is no point in separating the manuals from the packages. If
someone wishes to have the tools without the manuals, they can use
meta.outputsToInstall to disable the installation of the manpages of
these packages. This Fixes#244450.
After building the target system, `nixos-install` tries to remove `/mnt`
on the target filesystem. And the script may fail without any explanation,
if `/mnt` isn't empty.
This commit makes the installation process carry on even if there are
files under `/mnt`.
See https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/issues/244643.
Although 'lib' isn't needed by the default configuration, new NixOS uses
can get confused when being recommended configuration.nix snippets like
systemd.services.NetworkManager-wait-online.enable = lib.mkForce false;
and have `sudo nixos-rebuild switch` fail with
error: undefined variable 'lib'
swraid support will now only be enabled by default if stateVersion is
older than 23.11. nixos-generate-config will now generate explicit
config for enabling support if needed.
The single option tries to do too much work, which just ends up confusing people.
So:
- don't force the console font, the kernel can figure this out as of #210205
- don't force the systemd-boot mode, it's an awkward mode that's not supported
on most things and will break flicker-free boot
- add a separate option for the xorg cursor scaling trick and move it under the xorg namespace
- add a general `fonts.optimizeForVeryHighDPI` option that explicitly says what it does
- alias the old option to that
- don't set any of those automatically in nixos-generate-config
Guest operating systems inside VMs or containers can't update the host CPU's microcode for obvious security reasons, so setting the `hardware.cpu.*.updateMicrocode` options is pointless.
adding two graphical programs makes a strong assmuption that users will
use a graphical environment.
add a command line program as an alternative suggestion that is easy to
comment in as a first-steps measure.
According to the Unicode Standard, you should use U+2019 RIGHT SINGLE
QUOTATION MARK for apostrophes [1]. Before this change, some of the text
in this repo would use U+2018 LEFT SINGLE QUOTATION MARKs instead.
[1]: https://www.unicode.org/versions/Unicode15.0.0/ch06.pdf#G12411
This moves the creation of the bind mount inside the `nixos-enter`
invocation. The command are executed in an unshared mount namespace, so
they can be run as an unprivileged user.
When installing NixOS in the target filesystem /mnt, paths relative to
configuration.nix in `initrd.secrets` are turned by Nix into absolute
paths that reference /mnt. While building the system derivation works,
installing the bootloader fails because the latter process takes place
inside the chroot environment where /mnt does not exist.
Ideally, we would also build the system within chroot, but this greatly
complicates the matter as it requires manually copying over Nix, its
runtime dependencies and all channels. Possibly, this would also break
several assumptions users have about how nixos-install works.
A simpler and safer (but less neat) solution is to temporarily bind
mount all mount points in /mnt under /mnt/mnt to keep the paths
functional while the bootloader is being installed.
This is essentially the workaround described in issue #73404.
Due to missing `/etc/machine-id` in the new root, systemd-tmpfiles
outputs a bunch of scary warnings like "Failed to replace specifiers in
'/run/log/journal/%m'". We only care about /tmp, so hide them.
`-E` is an alias for `--exclude-prefix=/dev --exclude-prefix=/proc
--exclude-prefix=/run --exclude-prefix=/sys`.
Within #193485 (and the previous changes) the internal structure of the
testing driver was changed. Since then, `makeTest` returns the
attributes for the VM test(s) (including `driverInteractive`) inside a
sub-attribute called `test`, so without this change running
`nixos-build-vms` would fail like this:
error: attribute 'driverInteractive' missing
The `nixos-rebuild` tool calls `get-version-suffix` to figure out the
git revision of the nixpkgs directory if there is a .git.
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2022-24765 made git throw an
error if the .git search logic is not turned off and a user
tries to access a `.git` directory they don’t own (otherwise a
different user could trick them into setting arbitrary git config).
So from now on we should always explicitely set `--git-dir`, which
turns this search logic (and thus the security check) off.
The substr solution assumed a newline to be present.
The new solution will not remove the newline if it goes missing in the future.
Apparently this is idiomatic perl.
Thanks pennae for the suggestion!
Installing Firefox is a good example for a package that could be
installed as a user, since it is a graphical one.
Also use thunderbird as a second example.
Currently we're still using scripted networking by default. A problem
with scripted networking is that having `useDHCP` on potentially
non-existing interfaces (e.g. an ethernet interface for USB tethering)
can cause the boot to hang.
Closes#107908
Not entirely sure when it got broken this time, but when creating a VM
network with `nixos-build-vms(8)`, there are should be the following scripts:
* `$out/bin/nixos-test-driver` which drops into an interactive shell to
interactively perform test steps.
* `$out/bin/nixos-run-vms` which non-interactively starts the VMs from
the network so that one can manually play around in the VM.
The latter also starts an interactive shell for a while now which means
that it does the exact same thing as `nixos-test-driver` which is not
its purpose.
