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Author SHA1 Message Date
Tuomas Tynkkynen
269f261c73 installation-cd: Add separate boot entry that has 'nomodeset'
We seem to be in an unfortunate situation: booting without 'nomodeset'
causes hangs when booting on some NVIDIA cards (6948c3ab80), but on the
other hand adding 'nomodeset' prevents X from starting on other hardware
(e.g. issue #10381 and my Thinkpad X250 with an integrated Broadwell GPU).

Attempt to remedy this situation a bit by adding a separate entry in the
ISOLINUX menu (with the non-'nomodeset' being the default).
2015-12-24 20:12:26 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra
af6732e503 nixos autoUpgrade: add a 'dates' option
(cherry picked from commit 80917d2473d321d7a990cf991c6353547976638c)
Originally merged #11808 to release-15.09 directly. Close #11821.
2015-12-19 08:46:13 +01:00
Vladimír Čunát
333d69a5f0 Merge staging into closure-size
The most complex problems were from dealing with switches reverted in
the meantime (gcc5, gmp6, ncurses6).
It's likely that darwin is (still) broken nontrivially.
2015-11-20 14:32:58 +01:00
Arseniy Seroka
a5c0aec680 Merge pull request #10586 from dezgeg/pr-arm-tweaks
nixos: Minor improvements to ARM image expressions
2015-10-25 04:31:03 +03:00
Arseniy Seroka
61910861dc fix spelling 2015-10-25 04:26:49 +03:00
Tuomas Tynkkynen
7671f920f8 ARM: Use linuxPackages_latest in ARMv7 image
4.2 is out now, which includes the pcDuino3 Nano DTB.
2015-10-24 17:32:21 +03:00
Tuomas Tynkkynen
63c3aed442 ARM: Don't disable manual in installation images
Since commits 89e9837 and 5b8dae8 the manual no longer depends on
evaluation of any packages from nixpkgs, so all errors of the form
"Package 'foo' is not supported on 'armv7l-linux'" are gone.
2015-10-24 17:25:55 +03:00
Brian McKenna
fda9d83ddf initrd: add mmc_block to default available modules
mmc_block and sdhci_acpi are both necessary for a Bay Trail Chromebook with an
internal eMMC drive. The sdhci_acpi module is detectable but I can not figure
out a way to check whether the mmc_block module is needed by just looking at
/sys/
2015-10-16 22:20:38 +11:00
Brian McKenna
3ef956eb50 nixos-generate-config: look at mmc_host for device drivers
I needed to add sdhci_acpi and mmc_block to my initrd modules in order to boot
my Chromebook. Looking under /sys/class/mmc_host/*/device/driver/module will
give us the sdhci_acpi dependency.
2015-10-16 17:41:15 +11:00
Charles Strahan
cb38f10d12 nixos-generate-config: detect brcmfmac requirement
This makes the firmware available (or would, if someone switched off
enableAllFirmware). Corresponding kernel module should get auto-loaded.

See #9948. Close #9971.
2015-10-15 13:12:42 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra
e65b8fcebe Fix nixos-upgrade 2015-10-05 09:26:30 +02:00
Tuomas Tynkkynen
86919e2ae4 nixos/auto-upgrade: Reference correct xz output 2015-10-03 14:08:52 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra
ab16b6a837 Merge pull request #10160 from dezgeg/pr-unset-build-hook-in-nixos-install
nixos-install: Don't use NIX_BUILD_HOOK from caller's environment
2015-09-30 23:33:07 +02:00
Tuomas Tynkkynen
725a4d6740 nixos-install: Don't use NIX_BUILD_HOOK from caller's environment
If nixos-install is run on a machine with `nix.distributedBuilds = true`
the installation will fail at some point like this:

Died at /nix/store/4frhrl31cl7iahlz6vyvysy5dmr6xnh3-nix-1.10/libexec/nix/build-remote.pl line 115, <STDIN> line 1.

This is due to `nix.distributedBuilds` setting
NIX_BUILD_HOOK=/nix/store/.../build-remote.pl in the global environment,
which then gets confused in the minimal chroot created by nixos-install.

To avoid these kinds of issues with build hooks, just disable them in
the chroot.
2015-09-30 23:02:21 +03:00
Eelco Dolstra
3231424c37 Bump fallback Nix store paths 2015-09-30 21:12:46 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra
efed00b55e channel.nix: Fix broken flag to skip substitutes 2015-09-27 21:06:35 +02:00
Tuomas Tynkkynen
8914e1af6d nixos-generate-config: Don't enable vbox guest via deprecated option
Avoids this warning when running `nixos-rebuild switch`:
````
building Nix...
building the system configuration...
trace: Obsolete option `services.virtualboxGuest.enable' is used. It was renamed to `virtualisation.virtualbox.guest.enable'.
````
2015-08-16 00:32:37 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra
43c4756090 Add auto update feature
You can now keep your system up to date automatically by setting:

  system.autoUpgrade.enable = true;

Fixes #7369.
2015-08-07 05:37:31 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra
2cd7c1f198 Unify NixOS and Nixpkgs channel structure
This is primarily to ensure that

  -I nixpkgs=https://nixos.org/channels/nixos-unstable/nixexprs.tar.xz

and

  -I nixpkgs=https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs-channels/archive/nixos-unstable.tar.gz

and

  -I nixpkgs=https://nixos.org/channels/nixpkgs-unstable/nixexprs.tar.xz

behave consistently.

It also allows installing packages via "nix-env -iA nixos.<pkg>"
rather than "nixos.pkgs.<pkg>". It would be even better to allow
"nixpkgs.<pkg>", but that requires a change to nix-channel.

Fixes #7659.
2015-08-05 17:37:11 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra
91e71725d4 Remove some obsolete references to <nixos> 2015-08-05 17:37:08 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra
bb38d9974b Update fallback Nix store paths 2015-08-05 14:34:57 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra
699ba71b50 nixos-install: Source the profile when running inside the chroot 2015-08-05 14:33:18 +02:00
viric
982ce5ed58 Merge pull request #8978 from dezgeg/pr-arm-images
ARM SD card image expressions
2015-07-29 14:13:57 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra
d166c854b6 Add option system.stateVersion
This option requests compatibility with older NixOS releases with
respect to stateful data, in cases where new releases have defaults
that might be incompatible with system state of existing NixOS
deployments. For instance, if we change the default version of
PostgreSQL, existing deployments will break if the new version can't
read databases created by the old version.

So for example, setting

  system.stateVersion = "15.07";

requests that options like services.postgresql.package use defaults
corresponding to the 15.07 release branch. Note that
nixos-generate-config emits this option. (In the future, NixOps may
set system.stateVersion to the NixOS release in use when the machine
was created.)

See also #7939 for another motivating example.
2015-07-27 20:30:09 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra
709470f2c0 Fix tests 2015-07-27 12:47:21 +02:00
Tuomas Tynkkynen
df86813d97 nixos: Add derivations for SD card installation images on ARM
The resulting image can be copied to a SD card with `dd` and is directly
bootable by a suitably configured U-Boot. Though depending on the board, some
extra steps are required for copying U-Boot itself to the SD card.

Inside the image is a partition table, with a FAT32 /boot and a normal
writable EXT4 rootfs. It's possible to directly reuse the SD image's
partition layout and "install" NixOS on the same SD card by replacing
the default configuration.nix and nixos-rebuild, and actually is the
preferred way to use these images. To assist in this installation
method, the boot scripts on the image automatically resize the rootfs
partition to fit the SD card on the first boot.

The SD images come in two flavors; one for the ARMv6 Raspberry Pi,
and one multiplatform image for all the boards supported by the
mainline kernel's multi_v7_defconfig config target. At the moment, these
have been tested on:
    - Raspberry Pi Model B (512MB model)
    - NVIDIA Jetson TK1
    - Linksprite pcDuino3 Nano

To build, run:

nix-build '<nixpkgs/nixos>' -A config.system.build.sdImage \
    -I nixos-config='<nixpkgs/nixos/modules/installer/cd-dvd/sd-image-armv7l-multiplatform.nix>'
2015-07-26 00:31:20 +03:00
Eelco Dolstra
6948c3ab80 Installer: Add nomodeset and blacklist the nouveau driver
I observed a hang at the moment the nouveau driver gets loaded on a
GTX 970.
2015-07-25 19:06:07 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra
174dd0eae7 Fix description of boot.consoleLogLevel 2015-07-25 19:06:07 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra
b1623385d0 nixos-generate-config: Container improvements 2015-07-17 11:27:33 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra
fd06533def nixos-install: Don't barf if btrfs is missing 2015-07-13 17:55:49 +02:00
William A. Kennington III
08ff83eab3 nixos/btrfs: Fix parsing of btrfs subvolume show with btrfsprogs 4.1 2015-07-07 11:34:50 -07:00
William A. Kennington III
4b836fb680 nixos/installer: Add grub2_efi to the store so that it is available to install 2015-07-05 19:11:56 -07:00
aszlig
f9bd72f24c
nixos/iso-image: Allow to customize menu label.
It comes in handy to alter the menu label if you're not building a NixOS
installer image but for example if you want to build a live system and
still want to re-use the iso-image.nix module.

Signed-off-by: aszlig <aszlig@redmoonstudios.org>
2015-06-28 23:30:17 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra
e5db79a859 Move stuff to modules/profiles/installation-device.nix 2015-06-10 15:28:55 +02:00
Vladimír Čunát
0b68b92062 nixos i18n.consoleFont: choose a different default
Distros often choose Terminus as the default, and it supports some
non-ASCII characters that we use in config. Fixes #8107.
2015-06-09 20:13:42 +02:00
Tuomas Tynkkynen
16165ddc38 install-cd: Include nixos-artwork to fix installer tests
Should fix at least nixos.tests.installer.simple.x86_64-linux
http://hydra.nixos.org/build/23001712:

machine# error: cannot download Encode-Locale-1.03.tar.gz from any mirror
machine# builder for ‘/nix/store/y8gbx2d2fdcvvjy1z53xksfgq66ydlx0-Encode-Locale-1.03.tar.gz.drv’ failed with exit code 1
machine# cannot build derivation ‘/nix/store/y1knci7rix3asnh2b4kfv8jhl2j99xih-perl-Encode-Locale-1.03.drv’: 1 dependencies couldn't be built
machine# cannot build derivation ‘/nix/store/7xspjwh48kg16drv1jjg5cffaqbxbp8p-perl-libwww-perl-6.05.drv’: 1 dependencies couldn't be built
machine# cannot build derivation ‘/nix/store/8qsmz3bbk1jwhh50c3i9700bkmn8ns5c-nss-cacert-3.19.1.drv’: 1 dependencies couldn't be built
machine# cannot build derivation ‘/nix/store/0rgf2l3mdszs4a989ympwc9gk2k8wq6z-nixos-artwork-e71b684.drv’: 1 dependencies couldn't be built
...
2015-06-08 19:12:59 +03:00
William A. Kennington III
514a9fdf87 Merge pull request #8173 from dezgeg/pr-kernel-config
kernel-config: Enable framebuffer console for BIOS systems & /proc/config.gz for ARM
2015-06-07 10:14:51 -07:00
Eelco Dolstra
6bf1853387 Don't include 4 editors in the minimal installation CD
Emphasis on "minimal".
2015-06-04 11:06:44 +02:00
Tuomas Tynkkynen
9c2f2bc893 kernel-config: Enable FB_VESA and FRAMEBUFFER_CONSOLE
Commit 159fed47bc (nixos/grub: Fix video display on efi) changed BIOS
systems to start in non-text mode as well. Enable FB_VESA to get a
framebuffer console on BIOS systems. Change FRAMEBUFFER_CONSOLE to 'y'
instead of the default 'm' to so the user doesn't need to manually load
the fbcon module anymore.

Other distros have similar defaults, at least on Arch:
    CONFIG_FB_VESA=y
    CONFIG_FRAMEBUFFER_CONSOLE=y
and on Ubuntu (12.04):
    CONFIG_FB_VESA=m
    CONFIG_FRAMEBUFFER_CONSOLE=y

Fixes #8139
2015-06-04 11:26:20 +03:00
Luca Bruno
c12e1d7278 minimal-iso: enable nixos-manual 2015-06-02 18:14:45 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra
e98da673e4 nixos-checkout: Add nixpkgs-channels as a remote
This way, you can do things like

  git checkout channels/nixos-14.12

to get the latest tested and built version of NixOS.
2015-05-20 14:16:36 +02:00
lethalman
f2870bd77d Merge pull request #7601 from cstrahan/iso-name-fix
nixos: fix infinite recursion in isoImage.isoName
2015-05-04 10:24:38 +02:00
Steven Shaw
2a8577d7fe Correct spelling 2015-05-03 19:15:03 +10:00
Domen Kožar
ff88f4bcda nixos-install: correctly detect stdin 2015-04-29 18:48:21 +02:00
Ricardo M. Correia
f5e7190572 nixos.system_tarball_pc: Fix evaluation
It was broken due to 57b05765c9.

ZFS requires `networking.hostId` to be set.
2015-04-28 17:15:02 +02:00
Jookia
71910be9ea nixos-install: Fix chroot flag not defaulting to Bash outside NixOS.
Passing the chroot flag to nixos-install without arguments should now give you a
Bash shell as intended rather than try an empty path.

This was masked by the user's shell (usually /bin/bash) being defaulted to by
chroot, and being found since their paths used NixOS conventions.
2015-04-28 06:37:04 -04:00
Jookia
7b37a5f168 nixos-install: Fix password prompt failing outside NixOS.
When bootstrapping from other distributions, nixos-install is unable to find
various tools in the chroot since their paths aren't aware of NixOS conventions.

This makes a small change to existing code by specifying nixpkgs/nixos instead
of just nixos when running nix-instantiate in the chroot. I haven't tested this
outside of bootstrapping, but the same specification is used elsewhere in the
code so I don't see why it wouldn't work.
2015-04-28 06:34:47 -04:00
Charles Strahan
a64e90bdef nixos: fix infinite recursion in isoImage.isoName 2015-04-27 23:10:53 -04:00
Eelco Dolstra
57b05765c9 Don't include ntfs-3g by default
Issue #7117.
2015-04-19 22:06:45 +02:00
aszlig
df31a338dc
nixos-rebuild: Conditionally update channels.
This partially reverts commit 3a4fd0bfc6.

Addresses another concern by @edolstra that users might not want to
update *all* channels. We're now reverting to the old behaviour but
after updating the "nixos" channel, we just check whether the channel
ships with a file called ".update-on-nixos-rebuild" and if it exists, we
update that channel as well.

Other channels than these are not touched anymore.

Signed-off-by: aszlig <aszlig@redmoonstudios.org>
2015-04-13 12:54:19 +02:00
aszlig
3a4fd0bfc6
nixos-rebuild: Update all channels of user root.
Should make it even easier to use custom channels, because whenever the
user does a "nixos-rebuild --upgrade", it will also upgrade possibly
used ("used" as in referenced in configuration.nix) channels besides
"nixos". And if you also ship a channel tied to a particular version of
nixpkgs or even remove the "nixos" channels, you won't run into
unexpected situations where the system is not updating your custom
channels.

Signed-off-by: aszlig <aszlig@redmoonstudios.org>
2015-04-13 00:09:00 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra
a38f130126 Revert "Set stricter permissions on /nix/store"
This reverts commit 066758758e7c0768ff8da51d208cdae0f33b368c because
it breaks NixOS VM tests.
2015-04-07 15:10:41 +02:00
Domen Kožar
42c421adc3 Merge pull request #7180 from jagajaga/fix_generator
Fixing nixos-generate-config
2015-04-07 12:24:04 +02:00
Arseniy Seroka
b11f662617 fix https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/issues/3560 2015-04-05 16:12:14 +03:00
Vladimír Čunát
81fc066900 Merge #4678: nixos iso-image: support USB booting
by using syslinux (i.e. support the dd-method in addition to unetbootin).
@vcunat tidied the PR by squashing closely related changes together.
2015-03-31 15:12:16 +02:00
lethalman
f72b0c43f6 Merge pull request #6762 from lethalman/nixos-install
nixos-install: support -j, --cores and --option. Closes #6755
2015-03-30 18:06:53 +02:00
Vladimír Čunát
299da40f9f iso: make efi FS size adaptive, make deterministic
Fixes #6795.
This was co-authored with @bobvanderlinden.

(cherry picked from commit e19ac248ae59fd327c32b1ae3e37792c22a7c7ac)
Signed-off-by: Domen Kožar <domen@dev.si>

Conflicts:
	nixos/modules/installer/cd-dvd/iso-image.nix
2015-03-29 22:25:41 +02:00
William A. Kennington III
4868649f03 nixos/initrd: Generic library copying 2015-03-28 18:37:29 -07:00
Bob van der Linden
58112832a7 nixos: iso-image: use label "EFIBOOT" for efi.img 2015-03-24 22:15:32 +01:00
Bob van der Linden
f0fd1c9bcf nixos: iso-image: use memtest86 params in syslinux
See also #6593.
2015-03-24 22:15:11 +01:00
Bob van der Linden
9ff9949896 nixos: iso-image: removed com32 entries from syslinux menu
These entries result in incorrect entries when UNetbootin writes
the image to an USB disk.
2015-03-24 22:09:06 +01:00
Bob van der Linden
af68f24003 nixos: iso-image: solve UNetbootin compatiblity
There are a number of hidden restrictions on the syslinux
configuration file that come into play when UNetbootin
compatiblity is desired. With this commit these are documented.
2015-03-24 22:08:52 +01:00
Bob van der Linden
a12ddc1964 nixos: iso-image: use generic boot-loader timeout
Syslinux uses different values than grub for timeout.
It uses 1/10 seconds as its unit and it uses 0 to disable timeouts.

In response to PR #5772.
2015-03-24 22:03:30 +01:00
Bob van der Linden
8d092270d2 nixos: iso-image: use syslinux bootloader for USB booting support
This changes the bootloader for iso generation from Grub to
syslinux. In addition this adds USB booting support, so that
"dd" can be used to burn the generated ISO to USB thumbdrives
instead of needing applications like UnetBootin.
2015-03-24 22:01:04 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra
224d0d5302 Set stricter permissions on /nix/store
The nixbld group doesn't need read permission, it only needs write and
execute permission.

(cherry picked from commit 066758758e7c0768ff8da51d208cdae0f33b368c)
2015-03-18 10:58:08 +01:00
Luca Bruno
fe6b0b15e6 nixos-install: support -j, --cores and --option. Closes #6755 2015-03-11 16:47:44 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
a574065a81 nixos-rebuild: Add ‘dry-activate’ command
‘nixos-rebuild dry-activate’ builds the new configuration and then
prints what systemd services would be stopped, restarted etc. if the
configuration were actually activated. This could be extended later to
show other activation actions (like uids being deleted).

To prevent confusion, ‘nixos-rebuild dry-run’ has been renamed to
‘nixos-rebuild dry-build’.
2015-03-09 16:50:59 +01:00
Peter Simons
263a49be20 Merge pull request #5704 from eduarrrd/nixos-version
Add option to display git revision to nixos-version
2015-02-20 16:35:56 +01:00
Domen Kožar
b83433cdd1 Remove gui (see #6207), use nixui instead 2015-02-08 10:47:58 +01:00
William A. Kennington III
42a6ac5209 nixos/iso: Increase efi image size to 15M 2015-02-07 20:38:24 -08:00
Eelco Dolstra
53710c752a nixos-rebuild: Update fallback code to update Nix 2015-01-27 18:58:20 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra
b9c4569b6b nixos-install: Create /root with 700 permission 2015-01-15 18:37:55 +01:00
Eduard Bachmakov
86cd055477 Add option to display git revision to nixos-version
Example use case: git checkout `nixos-version --hash`
2014-12-27 21:43:04 +01:00
Domen Kožar
a4961f09f6 Merge pull request #5390 from abbradar/nixos-isntall
nixos-install: fix -I flag
2014-12-23 18:15:14 +01:00
Nicolas B. Pierron
6a7971bee7 Merge pull request #5416 from nbp/nixos-option-include
nixos-option: Support -I option
2014-12-21 15:11:11 -08:00
Nicolas B. Pierron
974edc5056 nixos-option: Use <nixpkgs/nixos> instead of <nixpkgs>. 2014-12-21 01:33:06 +01:00
Nicolas B. Pierron
82a5f54c0d nixos-option: Support -I option. 2014-12-20 20:30:19 +01:00
Nicolas B. Pierron
c9682a22ff nixos-option: Produce nicer error messages in case of typos. 2014-12-20 19:52:28 +01:00
Nicolas B. Pierron
640428d3c5 nixos-option: Handle 'attrsOf submodule' options. 2014-12-20 19:16:43 +01:00
Nicolas B. Pierron
cd2f7ce9f9 nixos-option: Improve error messages to avoid reporting internal location and traces. 2014-12-19 23:00:52 +01:00
Nicolas B. Pierron
b2abfe54b3 nixos-option: Print derivation outPath within attribute sets and list, when the strict mode is used. 2014-12-19 23:00:00 +01:00
Nicolas B. Pierron
9db6a84f0b nixos-option: Print the outPath of derivation for option values. 2014-12-19 22:33:24 +01:00
Nikolay Amiantov
22eb0e22d3 nixos-install: fix -I flag 2014-12-18 22:43:40 +03:00
Domen Kožar
432490e319 fix users.mutableUsers = false; install in iso
(cherry picked from commit 9bc8bcbbdcc7cac98686877f09315bb749627732)
Signed-off-by: Domen Kožar <domen@dev.si>
2014-12-18 12:18:49 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra
bed675f400 nixos-generate-config: Don't emit networking.hostId
Systemd already generates /etc/machine-id. So there is no need to
generate another unique host identifer.
2014-12-15 17:03:28 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra
0d3a229baa nixos-generate-config: Add time zone 2014-12-15 16:55:03 +01:00
Domen Kožar
48a282b913 http://nixos.org -> https://nixos.org
(cherry picked from commit 78bb17dd22e4da4e3810fbc78185d73bb25ea73e)
Signed-off-by: Domen Kožar <domen@dev.si>
2014-12-14 11:26:45 +01:00
aszlig
cf7f15c92c
nixos-install: Pass CA cert bundle to chroot.
Since we're using HTTPS for the binary cache (introduced in faf0797) by
default, the binary cache should also be available during installation.

The file that is defined in SSL_CERT_FILE outside of the chroot is
copied over to /tmp/ca-cert.crt inside the chroot, so we have an
absolute path we can reference during nixos-install. However, this might
end up with the file not being cleaned up properly from outside of the
store, but neither would be /tmp/root so the cleanup issue needs to be
solved in another place (or commit to be more exact).

Signed-off-by: aszlig <aszlig@redmoonstudios.org>
2014-12-12 03:03:14 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra
faf0797c0c Use https://cache.nixos.org 2014-12-09 13:38:46 +01:00
aszlig
444987193e
nixos: Rename virtualbox to virtualboxGuest.
Especially new users could be confused by this, so we're now marking
services.virtualbox.enable as obsolete and defaulting to
services.virtualboxGuest.enable instead. I believe this now makes it
clear, that this option is for guest additions only.

Signed-off-by: aszlig <aszlig@redmoonstudios.org>
2014-11-27 18:42:22 +01:00
Domen Kožar
85daeeb222 Merge pull request #4639 from lethalman/installer-nm
kde installer: enable networkmanager. Closes #3433
2014-11-21 22:29:10 +01:00
Bjørn Forsman
8835d932b1 nixos-generate-config: add 'lib' to module template
The NixOS manual says modules have the following signature:
 { config, lib, pkgs, ... }:

But our generated configuration.nix file lacks the 'lib' part. Add it.
2014-11-17 17:13:36 +01:00
wmertens
0b34eb1493 Allow starting a shell on stage 1 failure
When people copy the ISO to USB it can happen that the root device isn't known. Having a shell greatly improves that situation.
2014-11-15 00:14:26 +01:00
wmertens
dda62c451c Re-enable ZFS in installer image
Hopefully #4807 fixes http://hydra.nixos.org/build/16883184
2014-11-13 10:31:15 +01:00
Ricardo M. Correia
7a7bf8368e nixos-generate-config: Configure networking.hostId by default
The host id value gets generated by reading a 32-bit value from
/dev/urandom.

This makes programs that rely on a correct host id more reliable.

It also makes using ZFS more seamless, as you don't need to configure
the hostId manually; instead, it becomes part of your config from the
moment you install NixOS.
2014-11-12 22:31:50 +01:00
Ricardo M. Correia
e9affb4274 nixos: Add system-wide option to set the hostid
The old boot.spl.hostid option was not working correctly due to an
upstream bug.

Instead, now we will create the /etc/hostid file so that all applications
(including the ZFS kernel modules, ZFS user-space applications and other
unrelated programs) pick-up the same system-wide host id. Note that glibc
(and by extension, the `hostid` program) also respect the host id configured in
/etc/hostid, if it exists.

The hostid option is now mandatory when using ZFS because otherwise, ZFS will
require you to force-import your ZFS pools if you want to use them, which is
undesirable because it disables some of the checks that ZFS does to make sure it
is safe to import a ZFS pool.

The /etc/hostid file must also exist when booting the initrd, before the SPL
kernel module is loaded, so that ZFS picks up the hostid correctly.

The complexity in creating the /etc/hostid file is due to having to
write the host ID as a 32-bit binary value, taking into account the
endianness of the machine, while using only shell commands and/or simple
utilities (to avoid exploding the size of the initrd).
2014-11-12 22:31:49 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra
433a845081 Disable zfs in the ISO for now
It's giving zpool-import.service errors.

http://hydra.nixos.org/build/16883184
2014-11-12 15:32:21 +01:00
Luca Bruno
7885c2ed12 Revert "nixos: iso-image: use syslinux bootloader for USB booting support"
This reverts commit 455db168b3.
2014-11-08 14:33:27 +01:00
Luca Bruno
e3611709d6 Revert "nixos: installation: make installation ISOs USB bootable"
This reverts commit b7f6a138b1.
2014-11-08 14:33:27 +01:00
Peter Simons
b5fed52c43 Merge pull request #4238 from wkennington/master.boost
Make boost 156 the default
2014-11-03 23:03:01 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra
f496c3cbe4 Obsolete security.initialPassword
You can now set users.extraUsers.root.initialHashedPassword instead.
2014-11-03 12:36:56 +01:00
William A. Kennington III
5ae216558f jfsrec: Remove derivation 2014-11-02 17:22:27 -08:00
Bob van der Linden
b7f6a138b1 nixos: installation: make installation ISOs USB bootable 2014-11-02 17:35:16 +01:00
Bob van der Linden
455db168b3 nixos: iso-image: use syslinux bootloader for USB booting support
This changes the bootloader for iso generation from Grub to
syslinux. In addition this adds USB booting support, so that
"dd" can be used to burn the generated ISO to USB thumbdrives
instead of needing applications like UnetBootin.
2014-11-02 17:35:16 +01:00
Luca Bruno
6bb278659f kde installer: enable networkmanager. Closes #3433 2014-11-02 15:23:22 +01:00
William A. Kennington III
8636d93f54 Merge pull request #4213 from wkennington/master.zfsiso
[Dont Merge] nixos-iso: Add zfs / btrfs to supportedFilesystems
2014-10-25 18:01:17 -07:00
Luca Bruno
e553e27f48 kde installer: Add gparted, nixos manual and konsole in the desktop 2014-10-23 18:59:25 +02:00
Aristid Breitkreuz
bda39ae4de remove unused parameter from nixos module that is causing trouble with nixops 1.2 2014-10-19 14:10:28 +02:00
William A. Kennington III
5118dcf4fb nixos-iso: Add zfs / btrfs to supportedFilesystems 2014-10-14 20:24:43 -07:00
Eelco Dolstra
05163e99db nixos-rebuild: Don't pass -K by default 2014-09-10 14:57:26 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra
1a9c27c092 Typo 2014-09-08 13:58:44 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra
585983bc95 Merge remote-tracking branch 'origin/staging'
Conflicts:
	pkgs/applications/version-management/subversion/default.nix
2014-09-08 11:42:09 +02:00
Domen Kožar
18d9904433 nixos-option: fixes as suggested by @nbp 2014-09-06 20:59:14 +02:00
Vladimír Čunát
06fea81c6e Merge recent master into staging
Hydra: ?compare=1150594
2014-09-06 16:52:45 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra
1f7c775910 Remove unrar from the installation CD since it's unfree 2014-09-05 14:25:17 +02:00
Luca Bruno
a1ded5c20e nixos-install: use absolute path when running passwd in chroot 2014-09-03 23:12:40 +02:00
Luca Bruno
59ad713288 nixos-install: set umask 0022 2014-09-03 23:12:40 +02:00
Domen Kožar
2e97c06999 nixos-option: enable all flags by default and make output a bit readable cc @nbp 2014-09-03 22:08:25 +02:00
William A. Kennington III
1b63a1b75e nixos/iso-image: Fix grub-mkimage requiring a prefix 2014-09-03 09:26:44 -07:00
William A. Kennington III
87b6232f3a nixos/generate-config: Don't interpret btrfs subvols as bind mounts 2014-09-02 09:16:13 -07:00
William A. Kennington III
7fae423522 nixos/generate-config: Support detecting nested subvolumes 2014-09-02 09:16:13 -07:00
William A. Kennington III
36614ff3e2 Revert "Revert "Merge pull request #2449 from wkennington/master.grub""
This reverts commit 94205f5f21.

Conflicts:
	nixos/modules/system/boot/loader/grub/install-grub.pl
2014-09-02 09:16:13 -07:00
Peter Simons
1c0d15b90e Merge branch 'origin/master' into staging.
Conflicts:
	pkgs/development/libraries/ffmpeg/2.x.nix
	pkgs/development/libraries/serf/default.nix
2014-09-02 12:31:03 +02:00
Michael Raskin
94205f5f21 Revert "Merge pull request #2449 from wkennington/master.grub"
This reverts commit 469f22d717, reversing
changes made to 0078bc5d8f.

Conflicts:
	nixos/modules/installer/tools/nixos-generate-config.pl
	nixos/modules/system/boot/loader/grub/install-grub.pl
	nixos/release.nix
	nixos/tests/installer.nix

I tried to keep apparently-safe code in conflicts.
2014-08-31 12:58:37 +04:00
Vladimír Čunát
e51f73652d Merge recent master into staging
Hydra: ?compare=1149952

Conflicts:
	nixos/doc/manual/configuration.xml (changed split file)
	nixos/modules/config/users-groups.nix (choosing filterNull instead of inline definition)
	pkgs/development/libraries/readline/readline6.3.nix (auto-solved)
2014-08-30 10:04:02 +02:00
William A. Kennington III
4428178847 nixos/generate-config: Fix indentation 2014-08-29 12:19:13 -07:00
William A. Kennington III
36a47733a2 nixos-generate-config: Detect btrfs subvolumes 2014-08-28 13:35:37 -07:00
William A. Kennington III
940c57e4e8 nixos/ova: Grub uuid detection is broken when generating the ova 2014-08-28 13:35:36 -07:00
aszlig
8a56a55bb4
nixos/manual: Use literalExample when feasible.
Should bring most of the examples into a better consistency regarding
syntactic representation in the manual.

Thanks to @devhell for reporting.

Signed-off-by: aszlig <aszlig@redmoonstudios.org>
2014-08-27 23:41:15 +02:00
Jaka Kranjc
1d67ea1ce3 nixos-install.sh: added --root parameter
Previously:
- setting the mountpoint was only possible through an environment variable
- a discrepancy from nixos-generate-config, which has --root
2014-08-24 17:40:20 +02:00
Vladimír Čunát
d4e9fd2a90 Merge recent master into staging
Hydra: ?compare=1148749

Conflicts (easy):
	nixos/modules/virtualisation/containers.nix
2014-08-21 15:09:31 +02:00
aszlig
6ebe4a6a52
nixos-install: Fix copying symlink resolv.conf.
On some non-NixOS systems (for example those using "resolvconf"),
/etc/resolv.conf is a symlink. So let's dereference when copying hasts
and resolv.conf.

Signed-off-by: aszlig <aszlig@redmoonstudios.org>
2014-08-17 06:46:41 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra
a323d146b7 Add user attribute isNormalUser
This is shorthand for setting group, createHome, home, useDefaultShell
and isSystemUser.
2014-08-15 02:16:04 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra
785ed2b528 Don't silently ignore errors from the activation script 2014-08-15 02:14:34 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra
e68b0c7f5f Mount unionfs-fuse filesystems using the normal fileSystems option 2014-07-30 16:04:15 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra
f94f659a31 Don't require a device for tmpfs filesystems 2014-07-30 13:18:33 +02:00
Shea Levy
b3cfb9084b Get all lib functions from lib, not pkgs.lib, in modules 2014-07-02 12:28:18 -04:00
Michael Raskin
77314b7eb2 Merge pull request #2888 from nilcons/no-random-arch-downgrades
Fix nixos-rebuild.sh to depend on Nix
2014-06-30 12:47:17 +04:00
William A. Kennington III
86711e4120 nixos-iso: Re-enable new kernel iso images (close #2839) 2014-06-17 21:23:52 +02:00
Bjørn Forsman
aff4394be6 nixos-generate-config: fix nix-env example command
An escape char is needed to prevent "$ nix" from being evaluated and
expanded to an empty string. With this change the resulting text is

  $ nix-env -qaP | grep wget

instead of

  -env -qaP | grep wget
2014-06-12 21:18:21 +02:00
Gergely Risko
068c7fd037 Fix nixos-rebuild.sh to depend on Nix
And therefore always choose the correct architecture for the rebuilt
system regardless for the PATH setting of the user.
2014-06-10 20:13:47 +02:00
Sander van der Burg
33d99a22ca nixos-build-vms: Fix function invocation to test driver 2014-06-09 13:36:26 +02:00
William A. Kennington III
ab29b6527f nixos-iso: Use a simpler disk label
When formatting a nixos usb using my windows machine I noticed that the
disk labeling using periods was not compatible with my linux kernel /
udev recognition. When labeling a volume NIXOS_14.10 under Windows, it would
show up as NIXOS_14_10 on NixOS. This meant that /dev/root would never come
up at boot time, preventing the livecd from starting.

This patch works around this issue by eliminating any special characters
other than underscores. The previous versioning didn't seem all that
useful, especially when consdering there are many different version of
the year.month named iso.
2014-06-08 15:53:45 -05:00
Eelco Dolstra
5e364503d5 NixOS ISO: Don't use a unionfs for /
We don't need a unionfs on /, we only need a tmpfs.
2014-05-21 15:55:50 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra
1e2291f23a nixos-install: Fix running it after again the activation script 2014-05-21 15:55:49 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra
48768f3129 NixOS ISO: Set empty root password 2014-05-21 12:04:08 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra
e135e6b35b nixos-install: Copy /etc/hosts
http://hydra.nixos.org/build/11130069
2014-05-21 11:20:33 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra
1c4fd9b25d nixos-install: Run in a separate UTS namespace
This prevents the activation script from clobbering our hostname.
2014-05-09 13:25:53 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra
61bdad6775 nixos-install: Don't bind-mount all of /etc
We only need a copy of /etc/resolv.conf for networking, and
/etc/{passwd,group} for building.
2014-05-09 00:52:02 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra
3ef8d6ad5c nixos-install: Add operation --chroot
"nixos-install --chroot" runs a command (by default a login shell) in
a chroot inside the NixOS installation in /mnt. This might useful for
poking around a new installation.
2014-05-09 00:52:02 +02:00