symlinkJoin can break (silently) when the passed paths contain symlinks
to directories. This should work now.
Down-side: when lib/tmpfiles.d doesn't exist for some passed package,
the error message is a little less explicit, because we never get
to the postBuild phase (and symlinkJoin doesn't provide a better way):
/nix/store/HASH-NAME/lib/tmpfiles.d: No such file or directory
Also, it seemed pointless to create symlinks for whole package trees
and using only a part of the result (usually very small part).
Since systemd 246, these are only installed by systemd if
HAVE_SYSV_COMPAT is true, which only is the case if you set
sysvinit-path and sysvrcnd-path (which we explicitly unset in the
systemd derivation for quite some time)
- Give a more accurate description of how fileSystems.<name/>.neededForBoot
works
- Give a more detailed description of how fileSystems.<name/>.encrypted.keyFile
works
This lets users do sneaky things before systemd starts, and
permanently affect the environment in which systemd runs. For example,
we could start systemd in a non-default network namespace by setting
the systemdExecutable to a wrapper script containing:
#!/bin/sh
ip netns add virtual
touch /var/run/netns/physical
mount -o bind /proc/self/ns/net /var/run/netns/physical
exec ip netns exec virtual systemd
_note: the above example does literally work, but there are unresolved
problems with udev and dhcp._
Fixes error
Can't use an undefined value as an ARRAY reference at /nix/store/...-install-grub.pl line 642, <FILE> line 5.
with `/boot/grub/state` being:
```
grub
2.04
no
/dev/sda
/boot
```
I am not sure where the trailing empty line can come from; the script does not
seem to write it. In any case, now we handle that situation as well.
Further, ensure that `extraGrubInstallArgs` defaults to the empty array
if its key is not present in the `jsonState`.
For example, turns the error
cannot copy /nix/store/g24xsmmsz46hzi6whv7qwwn17myn3jfq-grub-2.04/share/grub/unicode.pf2 to /boot
into the more useful
cannot copy /nix/store/g24xsmmsz46hzi6whv7qwwn17myn3jfq-grub-2.04/share/grub/unicode.pf2 to /boot: Read-only file system
Useful for when you need to build grub modules into your grub kernel
to get a working boot, as shown in the added example.
To store this new value, we switch to more structural JSON approach.
Using one line per value to store in `/boot/grub/state` gets really messy when
the values are arrays, or even worse, can contain newlines (escaping would be
needed). Further, removing a value from the file would get extra messy
(empty lines we'd have to keep for backwards compatibility).
Thus, from now on we use JSON to store all values we'll need in the future.
nixos/tests/initrd-openvpn: Add test for openvpn in the initramfs
The module in this commit adds new options that allows the
integration of an OpenVPN client into the initrd.
This can be used e.g. to remotely unlock LUKS devices.
This commit also adds two tests for `boot.initrd.network.openvpn`.
The first one is a basic test to validate that a failing connection
does not prevent the machine from booting.
The second test validates that this module actually creates a valid
openvpn connection.
For this, it spawns three nodes:
- The client that uses boot.initrd.network.openvpn
- An OpenVPN server that acts as gateway and forwards a port
to the client
- A node that is external to the OpenVPN network
The client connects to the OpenVPN server and spawns a netcat instance
that echos a value to every client.
Afterwards, the external node checks if it receives this value over the
forwarded port on the OpenVPN gateway.
This can be used to explicitly specify a specific dtb file, relative to
the dtb base.
Update the generic-extlinux-compatible module to make use of this option.
Some bootloaders might not properly detect the model.
If the specific model is known by configuration, provide a way to
explicitly point to a specific dtb in the extlinux.conf.
