The NixOS 21.03 release has been delayed to 21.05. See NixOS/rfcs#80.
There are two instances of 21.03 which have been left as is, since they
are in stateVersion comparisons. This will ensure that existing user
configurations which refer to 21.03 will continue to work.
Important changes:
- The 'isync' compatibility wrapper was removed.
- The Master/Slave configuration keywords where deprecated and should be
replaced with Far/Near. All users should update their configuration
file accordingly. It's a trivial change and the old Master/Slave
keywords will still work for now but result in the following message:
Notice: Master/Slave are deprecated; use Far/Near instead.
Co-authored-by: Sandro <sandro.jaeckel@gmail.com>
By default, restic determines the location of the cache based on the XDG
base dir specification, which is `~/.cache/restic` when the environment
variable `$XDG_CACHE_HOME` isn't set.
As restic is executed as root by default, this resulted in the cache being
written to `/root/.cache/restic`, which is not quite right for a system
service and also meant, multiple backup services would use the same cache
directory - potentially causing issues with locking, data corruption,
etc.
The goal was to ensure, restic uses the correct cache location for a
system service - one cache per backup specification, using `/var/cache`
as the base directory for it.
systemd sets the environment variable `$CACHE_DIRECTORY` once
`CacheDirectory=` is defined, but restic doesn't change its behavior
based on the presence of this environment variable.
Instead, the specifier [1] `%C` can be used to point restic explicitly
towards the correct cache location using the `--cache-dir` argument.
Furthermore, the `CacheDirectoryMode=` was set to `0700`, as the default
of `0755` is far too open in this case, as the cache might contain
sensitive data.
[1] https://www.freedesktop.org/software/systemd/man/systemd.unit.html#Specifiers
Since release 20.09 `rngd.enable` defaults to false, so this setting is redundant.
Also fix the `qemu-quest` section of the manual that incorrectly claimed
that `rngd` was enabled.
OSS Emulation is considered incomplete so disabling it by default.
Using user level alsa-oss library (nix-env -iA nixos.alsaOss) over
this kernel module is recommended.
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.
Enabling the profile can lead to hard-to-debug issues, which should be
warned about in addition to the cost in features and performance.
See https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/issues/108262 for an example.
androidenv did not previously write license files, which caused certain
gradle-based Android tools to fail. Restructure androidenv's list of
Android packages into a single repo.json file to prevent duplication
and enable us to extract the EULA texts, which we then hash with
builtins.hashString to produce the license files that Android gradle
tools look for.
Remove includeDocs and lldbVersions, as these have been removed
from the Android package repositories.
Improve documentation and examples.
* Content of `programlisting` shouldn't be indented, otherwise it's
weirdly indented in the output.
* Use `<xref linkend=.../>` in the release notes: then users can
directly go to the option documentation when reading release notes.
* Don't use docbook tags in `mkRemovedOptionModule`: it's only used
during evaluation where docbook isn't rendered.
This reverts commit f19b7b03a0, reversing
changes made to 572a864d02.
Sorry. I pushed the wrong staging-next (the one that had my master
merged in). This was not intended.
There are two use case for this flag:
1. NixOS developer usually use a nixpkgs checkout for development.
Copying nixpkgs everytime when rebuilding NixOS is way to slow, even
with NVME disks.
2. Folks migrating from impure configuration in a sufficient complex
infrastructure need this flag to gradually migrate to NixOS flakes.
