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nixos-container can now execute nix commands again inside the container

This reverts commit 9622cd3b38.
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Arian van Putten 2018-10-05 15:48:41 +02:00
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nixos/doc/manual/administration/imperative-containers.xml
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@ -73,7 +73,8 @@ Linux foo 3.4.82 #1-NixOS SMP Thu Mar 20 14:44:05 UTC 2014 x86_64 GNU/Linux
</para>
<para>
To change the configuration of the container, you can edit
There are several ways to change the configuration of the container. First,
on the host, you can edit
<literal>/var/lib/container/<replaceable>name</replaceable>/etc/nixos/configuration.nix</literal>,
and run
<screen>
@ -86,7 +87,8 @@ Linux foo 3.4.82 #1-NixOS SMP Thu Mar 20 14:44:05 UTC 2014 x86_64 GNU/Linux
<xref linkend="opt-services.httpd.enable"/> = true;
<xref linkend="opt-services.httpd.adminAddr"/> = "foo@example.org";
<xref linkend="opt-networking.firewall.allowedTCPPorts"/> = [ 80 ];
'
'
# curl http://$(nixos-container show-ip foo)/
&lt;!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 3.2 Final//EN">…
</screen>
@ -95,13 +97,11 @@ Linux foo 3.4.82 #1-NixOS SMP Thu Mar 20 14:44:05 UTC 2014 x86_64 GNU/Linux
</para>
<para>
Note that in previous versions of NixOS (17.09 and earlier) one could also
use all nix-related commands (like <command>nixos-rebuild switch</command>)
from inside the container. However, since the release of Nix 2.0 this is not
supported anymore. Supporting Nix commands inside the container might be
possible again in future versions. See
<link xlink:href="https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/issues/40355">the github
issue</link> for tracking progress on this issue.
Alternatively, you can change the configuration from within the container
itself by running <command>nixos-rebuild switch</command> inside the
container. Note that the container by default does not have a copy of the
NixOS channel, so you should run <command>nix-channel --update</command>
first.
</para>
<para>