It was introduced in c10fe14 but removed in c4f910f.
It remained such that people with older generations in their boot
entries could still boot those. Given that the parameter hasn't had any
use in quite some years, it seems safe to remove now.
Fixes #60184
It's been 8.5 years since NixOS used mingetty, but the option was
never renamed (despite the file definining the module being renamed in
9f5051b76c ("Rename mingetty module to agetty")).
I've chosen to rename it to services.getty here, rather than
services.agetty, because getty is implemantation-neutral and also the
name of the unit that is generated.
Previously the .enable option was used to encode the condition as well,
which lead to some oddness:
- In order to encode an assertion, one had to invert it
- To disable a check, one had to mkForce it
By introducing a separate .check option this is solved because:
- It can be used to encode assertions
- Disabling is done separately with .enable option, whose default can be
overridden without a mkForce
Previously this option was thought to be necessary to avoid infinite
recursion, but it actually isn't, since the check evaluation isn't fed
back into the module fixed-point.
The old slapd.conf is deprecated. Replace with slapd.d, and use this
opportunity to write some structured settings.
Incidentally, this fixes the fact that openldap is reported up before
any checks have completed, by using forking mode.
This is to ensure that whenever we install the desktop item we also have
the script installed. Prior to b02719a we always had the reference to
the script in the desktop item. Since desktop items are being copied to
home directories and thus "bit rod" over time that absolute path was
removed.
Previously the NixOS-specific configuration for man-db was in the
package itself and /etc/man.conf was completely ignored.
This change moves it to /etc/man_db.conf, making declarative
configuration practical again.
It's now possible to generate the mandb caches for all packages
installed through NixOS `environment.systemPackages` at build-time.
The standard location for the stateful cache (/var/cache/man) is also
configured to allow users to run `mandb` manually if they wish.
Since generating the cache can be expensive the option is off by
default.
Make it clear that the warning is that updatedb will run as root, not
that locate will only run as root. Also explain how to silence the
warning.
Fixes #30864.
Signed-off-by: Anders Kaseorg <andersk@mit.edu>
Running the manual on a TTY is useless in the graphical ISOs and not
particularly useful in non-graphical ISOs (since you can also run
'nixos-help').
Fixes #83157.
* nixos/nixpkgs.nix: Allow just using config in system
This assertion requires system to work properly. We might not have
this in cases where the user just sets config and wants Nixpkgs to
infer system from that. This adds a default for when this happens,
using doubleFromSystem.
* parens
Running haproxy with "DynamicUser = true" doesn't really work, since
it prohibits specifying a TLS certificate bundle with limited
permissions. This revives the haproxy user and group, but makes them
dynamically allocated by NixOS, rather than statically allocated. It
also adds options to specify which user and group haproxy runs as.
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.
This leads to inconsistent results between local builds and
Hydra. Also Nix is not a general purpose language, we shouldn't be
parsing .git from inside Nix code.
