The nix store more-or-less requires o+rx on all parent directories.
This is primarily because nix runs builders in a uid/gid mapped
user-namespace, and those builders have to be able to operate on the nix
store.
This check is especially helpful because nix does not produce a helpful
error on its own (rather, creating directories and such works, it's not
until 'mount --bind' that it gets an EACCES).
Helps users who run into this opaque error, such as in #67465.
Possibly fixes that issue if bad permissions were the only cause.
'nix build' is an experimental command so we shouldn't use it
yet. (nixos-rebuild also uses 'nix', but only when using flakes, which
are themselves an experimental feature.)
nix build should store it's temporary files on target filesystem.
This should fix 'No space left on device' on systems
with low amount of RAM when there is a need to build something
like Linux kernel
For imports, it is better to use ‘modulesPath’ than rely on <nixpkgs>
being correctly set. Some users may not have <nixpkgs> set correctly.
In addition, when ‘pure-eval=true’, <nixpkgs> is unset.
When trying to build a VM using `nixos-build-vms` with a configuration
that doesn't evaluate, an error "at `<unknown-file>`" is usually shown.
This happens since the `build-vms.nix` creates a VM-network of
NixOS-configurations that are attr-sets or functions and don't contain
any file information. This patch manually adds the `_file`-attribute to
tell the module-system which file contained broken configuration:
```
$ cat vm.nix
{ vm.invalid-option = 1; }
$ nixos-build-vms vm.nix
error: The option `invalid-option' defined in `/home/ma27/Projects/nixpkgs/vm.nix@node-vm' does not exist.
(use '--show-trace' to show detailed location information)
```
Instead of making the configuration less portable by hard coding the number of
jobs equal to the cores we can also let nix set the same number at runtime.
In 0945178b3c we decided that Perl-based
VM tests should be deprecated and will be removed between 20.03 and
20.09. So let's switch `nixos-build-vms(8)` to python as well (which is
entirely interactive, so other scripts won't break).
In my experience, the test-driver isn't used most of the time, so this
patch is mainly supposed to get rid of the (probably misleading)
deprecation warning when running `nixos-build-vms`. Apart from that, the
interface for python's test-driver is way nicer.
In some cases, /dev/stderr may not point to a sensible location. For
example, running nixos-enter inside a systemd unit where the unit's
StandardOutput and StandardError are set to be sockets. In these
cases, this line would fail.
Piping to fd2 directly works just as well, even under strange and
twisted executions.
Co-authored-by: Michael Bishop <michael.bishop@iohk.io>
"master" is not a valid SHA-1 commit hash, and it's not even
necessarily the branch used. 'nixos-version --revision' now returns an
error if the commit hash is not known.
When installing a fresh NixOS system it occasionally happens that you
encounter issues that are rather hard to track down since
`nixos-install(8)` doesn't provide any debugging flags.
This patch adds `-L` to force `nix build` to display the build-log on
stderr and `-v` to increase the log-level of Nix.
1. This makes aggregates of submodules (including the very important
"nixos-option users.users.<username>" case) behave the same way as any
other you-need-to-keep-typing-to-get-to-an-option-leaf (eg:
"nixos-option environment").
Before e0780c5:
$ nixos-option users.users.root
error: At 'root' in path 'users.users.root': Attribute not found
An error occurred while looking for attribute names. Are you sure that 'users.users.root' exists?
After e0780c5 but before this change, this query just printed out a raw
thing, which is behavior that belongs in "nix eval", "nix-instantiate
--eval", or "nix repl <<<":
$ nixos-option users.users.root
{
_module = {
args = { name = "root"; };
check = true;
};
createHome = false;
cryptHomeLuks = null;
description = "System administrator";
...
After this change:
$ nixos-option users.users.root
This attribute set contains:
createHome
cryptHomeLuks
description
extraGroups
group
hashedPassword
...
2. For aggregates of other types (not submodules), print out the option
that contains them rather than printing an error message.
Before:
$ nixos-option environment.shellAliases.l
error: At 'l' in path 'environment.shellAliases.l': Attribute not found
An error occurred while looking for attribute names. Are you sure that 'environment.shellAliases.l' exists?
After:
$ nixos-option environment.shellAliases.l
Note: showing environment.shellAliases instead of environment.shellAliases.l
Value:
{
l = "ls -alh";
ll = "ls -l";
ls = "ls --color=tty";
}
...
