Handling of the string length condition in should_update
was broken, as evident with the log message
> leaving systemd-boot 246 in place (250.4 is not newer)
Discussion with @mweinelt came to the conclusion
that Python's "<" operator already does what we need,
so the should_update function can be dropped.
Fixes a30de3b849
Raw logs are stored in a versioned binary format and must be update with
atopconvert(1) upon atop version updates.
Failure to do so results in atop.service startup failure as I found out
the hard way after the "atop: 2.6.0 -> 2.7.1"[0] bump:
```
May 31 01:49:25 <hostname> sh[2269709]: existing file /var/log/atop/atop_20220531 has incompatible header
May 31 01:49:25 <hostname> sh[2269709]: (created by version 2.6 - current version 2.7)
May 31 01:49:25 <hostname> systemd[1]: atop.service: Main process exited, code=exited, status=7/NOTRUNNING
```
Convert logs in `ExecStartPre` and replace them iff updated.
This is to avoid changing original modification times upon every service
start and thus work against atop's log rotation (see existing
`ExecStartPre`).
0: https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/pull/175180#issuecomment-1141546487
systemd-247 provides a mechanism called LoadCredential for secrets and
it is better than environment file. See the section of Environment=
in the manual of systemd.exec for more information.
Some options in config.yaml need values to be strings, which currently
can be used with environmentFile but not loadCredential. But it's
possible to use loadCredential for those options, e.g. we can
substitute their values in ExecStart, but not in ExecStartPre due to
[1].
[1]: https://github.com/systemd/systemd/issues/19604
Prior to this patch:
$ nix-instantiate --eval -E '
> with import ./. {
> localSystem.config = "aarch64-unknown-linux-musl";
> };
> (nixos {}).config.nixpkgs.localSystem.config
> '
"aarch64-unknown-linux-gnu"
Because only the system triple was being passed through, the Musl part
of the system specification was lost. This patch fixes various
occurrences of NixOS evaluation when a Nixpkgs evaluation is already
available, to pass through the full elaborated system attribute set,
to avoid this loss of precision.
Since, 4ddc78818e systemd-boot-builder
is broken in two ways:
* if no systemd-boot is currently installed *and* the NIXOS_INSTALL_BOOTLOADER
env variable is not set, it will try to run "bootctl update", which will fail
* if the currently installed systemd-boot version is newer than the version
we're about to install, it will also try to run "bootctl update", which will fail
This patch changes the behaviour,
* for the first case to still fail, but not even bother to try running
"bootctl update" and instead erroring out with an exception
* for the second case to leave the newer version in place, restoring
the pre - 4ddc78818e behaviour
To do the proper version check a new "should_update" helper function was introduced,
mimicing the compare_product C function from bootctl. If the following systemd
issue gets resolved, we would have a nice way to get rid of this function:
> https://github.com/systemd/systemd/issues/23450
This change allows to again switch to a different NixOS configuration which contains
an older systemd-boot.
Co-authored-by: Martin Weinelt <mweinelt@users.noreply.github.com>
