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Kier Davis 9fad70f1de boinc service: use an FHS environment While BOINC itself is open source, many of the project applications it runs are not. Additionally, these project applications are checksummed before they are run, so they can't be patched. This means we can't make the project applications find required binaries/libraries on a NixOS system. The solution is therefore to make said binaries and libraries appear in the expected locations, by wrapping BOINC in an FHS-compatible environment [1]. An `extraEnvPackages` is also added to allow more packages to be added into this environment. The documentation for this option describes some practical use cases for it. [1] https://nixos.org/nixpkgs/manual/#sec-fhs-environments Version 2: fixed Docbook list formatting, minor rewording Version 3: rebase onto master (`9c048f4fb6`) Version 4: fix usage of targetPkgs argument to buildFHSUserEnv	2017-11-24 00:41:29 +00:00
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client.nix	boinc service: use an FHS environment	2017-11-24 00:41:29 +00:00

While BOINC itself is open source, many of the project applications
it runs are not. Additionally, these project applications are
checksummed before they are run, so they can't be patched. This
means we can't make the project applications find required binaries/libraries
on a NixOS system. The solution is therefore to make said binaries
and libraries appear in the expected locations, by wrapping BOINC
in an FHS-compatible environment [1].

An `extraEnvPackages` is also added to allow more packages to
be added into this environment. The documentation for this option
describes some practical use cases for it.

[1] https://nixos.org/nixpkgs/manual/#sec-fhs-environments

Version 2: fixed Docbook list formatting, minor rewording

Version 3: rebase onto master (9c048f4fb6)

Version 4: fix usage of targetPkgs argument to buildFHSUserEnv

2017-11-24 00:41:29 +00:00

client.nix boinc service: use an FHS environment 2017-11-24 00:41:29 +00:00