In newer versions of Nix (at least on 2.4pre20201102_550e11f) the
`extra-` prefix for config options received a special meaning and the
option `extra-sandbox-paths` isn't recognized anymore. This commit fixes
it.
It doesn't cause a behavior change when using older versions of Nix but
does cause an extra newline to appear in the config, thus changing the
hash.
As the only consequence of isSystemUser is that if the uid is null then
it's allocated below 500, if a user has uid = something below 500 then
we don't require isSystemUser to be set.
Motivation: https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/issues/112647
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.
This reverts commits 9d0de0dc57,
27d2857a99. 'nix ping-store' is an
experimental command so it doesn't work in Nix 2.4 unless you set
'experimental-features = nix-command' in nix.conf.
Instead of making the configuration less portable by hard coding the number of
jobs equal to the cores we can also let nix set the same number at runtime.
This allows you to specify the system-wide flake registry. One use is
to pin 'nixpkgs' to the Nixpkgs version used to build the system:
nix.registry.nixpkgs.flake = nixpkgs;
where 'nixpkgs' is a flake input. This ensures that commands like
$ nix run nixpkgs#hello
pull in a minimum of additional store paths.
You can also use this to redirect flakes, e.g.
nix.registry.nixpkgs.to = {
type = "github";
owner = "my-org";
repo = "my-nixpkgs";
};
A centralized list for these renames is not good because:
- It breaks disabledModules for modules that have a rename defined
- Adding/removing renames for a module means having to find them in the
central file
- Merge conflicts due to multiple people editing the central file
In fact, don't create them at all because Nix does that automatically.
Also remove modules/programs/shell.nix because everything it did is
now done automatically by Nix.
Since version 2.3 (https://github.com/NixOS/nix/pull/2949 which was
cherry-picked to master) Nix issues a warning when --no-net wasn't
passed and there is no network interface. This commit adds the --no-net
flag to the nix.conf check such that no warning is issued.
There are many support questions when people add a new binary cache
and they suddenly lose nixos substitutions.
Most of the users want to keep that, so we're doing a breaking change.
Previously to disable all binary caches one had to do:
nix.binaryCache = [];
Now the same is possible via:
nix.binaryCache = lib.mkForce;
following up #59148
I forgot the default case of the architectures which do not have minor brothers whose code they can run ("westmere" or any of of AMD)
These days build systems are more robust w.r.t. to concurrency.
Most users will have at least two cores in their machines.
Therefore I suggest to increase the number of cores used for building.
fixes #50376
environment.sessionVariables cannot refer to the values of env vars,
and as a result this has caused problems in a variety of scenarios.
One use for these is that they're injected into /etc/profile,
elewhere these are used to populate an 'envfile' for pam
(`pam 5 pam_env.conf`) which mentions use of HOME being
potentially problematic.
Anyway if the goal is to make things easier for users,
simply do the NIX_PATH modification as extraInit.
This fixes the annoying problems generated by the current approach
(#40165 and others) while hopefully serving the original goal.
One way to check if things are borked is to try:
$ sudo env | grep NIX_PATH
Which (before this change) prints NIX_PATH variable with
an unexpanded $HOME in the value.
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This does mean the following won't contain user channels for 'will':
$ sudo -u will nix-instantiate --eval -E builtins.nixPath
However AFAICT currently they won't be present either,
due to unescaped $HOME. Unsure if similar situation for other users
of sessionVariables (not sudo) work with current situation
(if they exist they will regress after this change AFAIK).
This reverts commit 67c8c49177.
'nix run nixos.firefox' is *not* supposed to work - the Nix 2.x
interface attempts to standardize on nixpkgs.*, to get rid of the
nixos/nixpkgs confusion that existed with the channels interface. So
let's not bring that confusion back.
