The codec format 'unicode_escape' was introduced in 52ee102 to handle
undecodable bytes in boot menus.
This made the problem worse as unicode chars outside of iso-8859-1
produce garbled output and valid utf-8 strings (such as "\x" ) trigger
decoding errors.
Fix this by using the default 'utf-8' codec and by explicitly ignoring
decoding errors.
While it's a good idea to automate the linting of the python code used
for our tests, I think that it can be quite distracting when hacking on
a NixOS test.
I figured that it might be more convenient to add an option as a
shortcut for this to avoid that everyone needs to dig into the test
driver again.
The upstream session files display managers use have no concept of sessions being composed from
desktop manager and window manager. To be able to set upstream session files as default
session, we need a single option. Having two different ways to set default session would be confusing,
though, so we decided to deprecate the old method.
We also created separate script for each session, just like we already had a separate desktop
file for each one, and started using displayManager.sessionPackages mechanism to make the
session handling more uniform.
When using `documentation.nixos.includeAllModules = true;` with external
modules, the string context might contain dependencies to derivations
and so `toFile` refuses to evaluate;
```
error: in 'toFile': the file 'options.xml' cannot refer to derivation outputs, at
[...]/nixpkgs/nixos/lib/make-options-doc/default.nix:89:16
```
This is not an issue when using `writeText` (instead of manually
stripping the context).
The SLIM project is abandoned and their last release was in 2013.
Because of this it poses a security risk to systems, no one is working
on it or picked up maintenance. It also lacks compatibility with systemd
and logind sessions. For users, there liikely isn't anything like slim
that's as lightweight in terms of dependencies.
we previously immediately returned the first commands output, and didn't
execute any of the other commands.
Now, return the last commands output.
This should be documented in the method docstring.
Condition seems to be inverted. Crash and shutdown only make sense, when
the machine is booted; i.e. we return immediately otherwise.
In the Perl test driver this is:
return unless $self->{booted};
This reverts commit e9bf955fd6. We use
nixos-install to ensure that make-disk-image produces the same result
as a regular installation (9802da517f)
and to reduce code duplication. If there is something broken in
nixos-install, it should be fixed there.
Introduce new functions which allows modules to define options where,
if the input is an attrset and the output is JSON, the user can define
arbitrary secrets.
