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Author SHA1 Message Date
Eelco Dolstra
104c252b61 Merge pull request #11279 from rickynils/nixos-rebuild-remote
nixos-rebuild: Add option for building and/or deploying on a remote host
2016-01-04 11:52:25 +01:00
Tobias Geerinckx-Rice
82419575aa btrfsProgs -> canonical btrfs-progs 2016-01-03 20:38:44 +01:00
Rickard Nilsson
ca0c460406 nixos-rebuild: Add option for building and/or deploying on a remote host
This commit adds the options --build-host and --target-host to nixos-rebuild.

--build-host instructs nixos-rebuild to perform all nix builds on the
specified host (via ssh). Build results are then copied back to the
local machine and used when activating the system.

--build-target instructs nixos-rebuild to activate the configuration
not on the local machine but on the specified remote host. Build
results are copied to the target machine and then activated there (via ssh).

It is possible to combine the usage of --build-host and --target-host,
in which case you can perform the build on one remote machine and deploy
the configuration to another remote machine. The only requirement is that
the build host has a working ssh connection to the target host (if the
target is not local), and that the local machine can connect to both
the target and the build host. Also, your user must be allowed to copy
nix closures between the local machine and the target and host machines.

At no point in time are the configuration sources (the nix files) copied
anywhere. Instead, nix evaluation always happens locally
(with nix-instantiate). The drv-file is then copied and realised remotely
(with nix-store).

As a convenience, if only --target-host is specified, --build-host is
implicitly set to that host too. So if you want to build locally and deploy
remotely you have to explicitly set "--build-host localhost".

To activate (test, boot or switch) you need to have root access to the
target host. You can specify this by "--target-host root@myhost".

I have tested the obvious scenarios and they are working. Some of the
combinations of --build-host and --target-host and the various actions might
not make much sense, and should maybe be forbidden (like setting a remote
target host when building a VM), and some combinations might not work at all.
2016-01-01 18:21:59 +01:00
Shea Levy
c26062884b Merge branch 'pr-cd-nomodeset' of git://github.com/dezgeg/nixpkgs 2015-12-24 13:50:26 -05:00
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
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
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
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