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nixpkgs/installer/nixos-rebuild.sh
Eelco Dolstra ad22e587ab * nixos-rebuild: do a nix-pull on the Nixpkgs channel manifest. I.e., you
don't need to be subscribed to the Nixpkgs channel to get binary downloads.
  This is possible because nix-pull is now pretty fast.

svn path=/nixos/trunk/; revision=9133
2007-08-15 12:01:20 +00:00

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#! @shell@ -e
# What are we supposed to do?
action="$1"
showSyntax() {
# !!! more or less cut&paste from
# system/switch-to-configuration.sh (which we call, of course).
cat <<EOF
Usage: $0 [switch|boot|test|build]
switch: make the configuration the boot default and activate now
boot: make the configuration the boot default
test: activate the configuration, but don't make it the boot default
build: build the configuration, but don't make it the default or
activate it
EOF
exit 1
}
if test -z "$action"; then showSyntax; fi
# Allow the location of NixOS sources and the system configuration
# file to be overridden.
if test -z "$NIXOS"; then NIXOS=/etc/nixos/nixos; fi
if test -z "$NIXOS_CONFIG"; then NIXOS_CONFIG=/etc/nixos/configuration.nix; fi
# Pull the manifests defined in the configuration (the "manifests"
# attribute). Wonderfully hacky.
manifests=$(nix-instantiate --eval-only --xml --strict \
$NIXOS/system/system.nix \
--arg configuration "import $NIXOS_CONFIG" \
-A manifests \
| grep '<string' | sed 's^.*"\(.*\)".*^\1^g')
for i in $manifests; do
NIX_DOWNLOAD_CACHE=/nix/var/nix/channel-cache nix-pull $i || true
done
# Either upgrade the configuration in the system profile (for "switch"
# or "boot"), or just build it and create a symlink "result" in the
# current directory (for "build" and "test").
if test "$action" = "switch" -o "$action" = "boot"; then
nix-env -p /nix/var/nix/profiles/system -f $NIXOS/system/system.nix \
--arg configuration "import $NIXOS_CONFIG" \
--set -A system
pathToConfig=/nix/var/nix/profiles/system
elif test "$action" = "test" -o "$action" = "build"; then
nix-build $NIXOS/system/system.nix \
--arg configuration "import $NIXOS_CONFIG" \
-A system -K -k
pathToConfig=./result
else
showSyntax
fi
# If we're not just building, then make the new configuration the boot
# default and/or activate it now.
if test "$action" = "switch" -o "$action" = "boot" -o "$action" = "test"; then
$pathToConfig/bin/switch-to-configuration "$action"
fi
if test "$action" = "test"; then
cat >&2 <<EOF
Warning: if you remove or overwrite the symlink \`$pathToConfig', the
active system configuration may be garbage collected! This may render
the system inoperable (though a reboot will fix things).
EOF
fi