This reverts commit 57961d2b83, reversing
changes made to b04f913afc.
(I.e. this reverts PR #141192.)
While well-intended, this change does unfortunately introduce very
serious regressions that are especially disruptive/noticeable on desktop
systems (e.g. users of Sway will loose their graphical session when
running "nixos-rebuild switch").
Therefore, this change has to be reverted ASAP instead of trying to fix
it in "production".
Note: An updated version should be extensively discussed, reviewed, and
tested before re-landing this change as an earlier version also had to
be reverted for the exact same issues [0].
Fix: #146727
[0]: https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/pull/73871#issuecomment-559783752
By using the new extendModules function to produce the specialisations,
we avoid reimplementing the eval-config.nix logic in reverse and fix
cross compilation support for specialisations in the process.
When cross-compiling, we can't run the runtime shell to check syntax
if it's e.g. for a different architecture. We have two options here.
We can disable syntax checking when cross compiling, but that risks
letting errors through. Or, we can do what I've done here, and change
the syntax check to use stdenv's shell instead of the runtime shell.
This requires the stdenv shell and runtime shell to be broadly
compatible, but I think that's so ingrained in Nixpkgs anyway that
it's fine. And this way we avoid conditionals that check for cross.
Since 03eaa48 added perl.withPackages, there is a canonical way to
create a perl interpreter from a list of libraries, for use in script
shebangs or generic build inputs. This method is declarative (what we
are doing is clear), produces short shebangs[1] and needs not to wrap
existing scripts.
Unfortunately there are a few exceptions that I've found:
1. Scripts that are calling perl with the -T switch. This makes perl
ignore PERL5LIB, which is what perl.withPackages is using to inform
the interpreter of the library paths.
2. Perl packages that depends on libraries in their own path. This
is not possible because perl.withPackages works at build time. The
workaround is to add `-I $out/${perl.libPrefix}` to the shebang.
In all other cases I propose to switch to perl.withPackages.
[1]: https://lwn.net/Articles/779997/
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.
The toplevel derivations of systems that have `networking.hostName`
set to `""` (because they want their hostname to be set by DHCP) used
to be all named
`nixos-system-unnamed-${config.system.nixos.label}`.
This makes them hard to distinguish.
A similar problem existed in NixOS tests where `vmName` is used in the
`testScript` to refer to the VM. It defaulted to the
`networking.hostName` which when set to `""` won't allow you to refer
to the machine from the `testScript`.
This commit makes the `system.name` configurable. It still defaults to:
```
if config.networking.hostName == ""
then "unnamed"
else config.networking.hostName;
```
but in case `networking.hostName` needs to be to `""` the
`system.name` can be set to a distinguishable name.
`$toplevel/system` of a system closure with `x86_64` kernel and `i686` userland should contain "x86_64-linux".
If `$toplevel/system` contains "i686-linux", the closure will be run using `qemu-system-i386`, which is able to run `x86_64` kernel on most Intel CPU, but fails on AMD.
So this fix is for a rare case of `x86_64` kernel + `i686` userland + AMD CPU
This avoids a possible surprise if the user is using `nixpkgs.system`
and `nesting.children`. `nesting.children` is expected to ignore all
parent configuration so we shouldn't propagate the user-facing option
`nixpkgs.system`. To avoid doing so, we introduce a new internal
option for holding the value passed to eval-config.nix, and use that
when recursing for nesting.
The current behavior lets `system` default to
`builtins.currentSystem`. The system value specified to
`eval-config.nix` has very low precedence, so this should compose
properly.
Fixes #80806
Add support for custom device-tree files, and applying overlays to them.
This is useful for supporting non-discoverable hardware, such as sensors
attached to GPIO pins on a Raspberry Pi.
The autoupgrade service defined in `system.autoUpgrade`
(`nixos/modules/installer/tools/auto-upgrade.nix`) doesn't have `su` in
its path and thus yields a warning during the `daemon-reload`.
Specifying the absolute path fixes the issue.
Fixes #47648
or else at least the following config will fail with an evaluation error
instead of an assert
```
{
services.nixosManual.enable = false;
services.nixosManual.showManual = true;
}
```
This fixes an issue with shells like fish that are not fully POSIX
compliant. The syntax `ENV=val cmd' doesn't work properly in there.
This issue has been addressed in #45932 and #45945, however it has been
recommended to use a single shell (`stdenv.shell' which is either
`bash' or `sh') to significantly reduce the maintenance overload in the
future.
See https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/issues/45897#issuecomment-417923464
Fixes #45897
/cc @FRidh @xaverdh @etu
The instructions to install nixos behind a proxy were not clear. While
one could guess that setting http_proxy variables can get the install
rolling, one could end up with an installed system where the proxy
settings for the nix-daemon are not configured.
This commit updates the documentation with
1. steps to install behind a proxy
2. configure the global proxy settings so that nix-daemon can access
internet.
3. Pointers to use nesting.clone in case one has to use different proxy
settings on different networks.
Fixes #28443
Fixed few invocations to `systemctl` to have an absolute path. Additionally add
LOCALE_ARCHIVE so that perl stops spewing warning messages.
This is a standard environment that doesn't contain a C/C++
compiler. This is mostly to prevent trivial builders like runCommand
and substituteAll from pulling in gcc for simple configuration changes
on NixOS.
