The multipath-tools package had existed in Nixpkgs for some time but
without a nixos module to configure/drive it. This module provides
attributes to drive the majority of multipath configuration options
and is being successfully used in stage-1 and stage-2 boot to mount
/nix from a multipath-serviced iSCSI volume.
Credit goes to @grahamc for early contributions to the module and
authoring the NixOS module test.
Don't worry, it's is true by default. But I think this is important to
have because NixOS indeed shouldn't need Nix at run time when the
installation is not being modified, and now we can verify that.
NixOS images that cannot "self-modify" are a legitamate
use-case that this supports more minimally. One should be able to e.g. do a
sshfs mount and use `nixos-install` to modify them remotely, or just
discard them and build fresh ones if they are run VMs or something.
The next step would be to make generations optional, allowing just
baking `/etc` and friends rather than using activation scripts. But
that's more involved so I'm leaving it out.
NixOS should be able to support the Nintendo Switch Pro controller for
steam and non-steam at the same time. Currently there are two mutually
exclusive ways to support the Pro Controller: Steam and `hid-nintendo`.
Unfortunately these don't work together, but there's a workaround in
newer versions of `joycond` (described [here](https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Gamepad#Using_hid-nintendo_pro_controller_with_Steam_Games_(with_joycond))). To use this
workaround `hid-nintendo` and `joycond` need to be updated, and the
systemd and udev configuration needs to be made available in NixOS.
This is the first version of the mautrix-facebook module. Due to lack of secret support on NixOS as well as the requirement of a homeserver domain it requires some setup. For completeness here is my working config using NixOps secrets:
```nix
deployment.keys."mautrix-facebook-config.env" = {
text = ''
MAUTRIX_FACEBOOK_APPSERVICE_AS_TOKEN=${secrets.as_token}
MAUTRIX_FACEBOOK_APPSERVICE_HS_TOKEN=${secrets.hs_token}
'';
destDir = "/var/keys";
};
deployment.keys."mautrix-facebook-registration.yaml" = {
text = builtins.toJSON config.services.mautrix-facebook.registrationData;
destDir = "/var/keys";
user = "matrix-synapse";
};
users.users.matrix-synapse.extraGroups = ["keys"];
systemd.services.matrix-synapse.after = ["keys.service"];
systemd.services.matrix-synapse.wants = ["keys.service"];
services.mautrix-facebook = {
enable = true;
settings = {
homeserver.domain = "bots.kevincox.ca";
bridge = {
displayname_template = "{displayname}";
permissions = {
"@kevincox:matrix.org" = "admin";
};
};
};
environmentFile = "/var/keys/mautrix-facebook-config.env";
registrationData = {
as_token = secrets.as_token;
hs_token = secrets.hs_token;
};
};
systemd.services.mautrix-facebook = rec {
wants = ["keys.target"];
after = wants;
};
services.matrix-synapse.app_service_config_files = [
"/var/keys/mautrix-facebook-registration.yaml"
];
```
Previously, the `nix_read_pwd` function was only used for reading the
`dbpassFile`, however it has since been refactored to handle reading
other secret files too. This fixes the message of the exception that is
thrown in the case that the file is not present so that it no longer
refers specifically to the `dbpass` file.
Removes the submodule in favour of using an attrset.
Also:
- Makes better use of nix's laziness in config expansion.
- Makes use of `boolToString` where applicable.
We should discourage users from adding secrets in a way that allows for
them to end up in the globally readable `/nix/store`. Users should use
the `objectstore.s3.secretFile` option instead.
This allows to declaratively configure an S3 class object storage as the
primary storage for the nextcloud service. Previously, this could only
be achieved by manually editing the `config.php`.
I've started testing this today with my own digitalocean nextcloud
instance, which now points to my digitalocean S3-compatible "Space" and
all appears to be working smoothly.
My motivation for this change is my recent discovery of how much cheaper
some S3-compatible object storage options are compared to digitalocean's
"Volume" options.
Implementation follows the "Simple Storage Service" instructions here:
https://docs.nextcloud.com/server/latest/admin_manual/configuration_files/primary_storage.html
I have neglected to implement a submodule for the OpenStack Swift
object storage as I don't personally have a use case for it or a method
to test it, however the new `nextcloud.objectstore.s3` submodule should
act as a useful guide for anyone who does wish to implement it.
The MariaDB version 10.6 doesn't seem supported with current Nextcloud
versions and the test fails with the following error[1]:
nextcloud # [ 14.950034] nextcloud-setup-start[1001]: Error while trying to initialise the database: An exception occurred while executing a query: SQLSTATE[HY000]: General error: 4047 InnoDB refuses to write tables with ROW_FORMAT=COMPRESSED or KEY_BLOCK_SIZE.
According to a support-thread in upstream's Discourse[2] this is because
of a missing support so far.
Considering that we haven't received any bugreports so far - even though
the issue already exists on master - and the workaround[3] appears to
work fine, an evaluation warning for administrators should be
sufficient.
[1] https://hydra.nixos.org/build/155015223
[2] https://help.nextcloud.com/t/update-to-next-cloud-21-0-2-has-get-an-error/117028/15
[3] setting `innodb_read_only_compressed=0`
