There are many support questions when people add a new binary cache
and they suddenly lose nixos substitutions.
Most of the users want to keep that, so we're doing a breaking change.
Previously to disable all binary caches one had to do:
nix.binaryCache = [];
Now the same is possible via:
nix.binaryCache = lib.mkForce;
following up #59148
I forgot the default case of the architectures which do not have minor brothers whose code they can run ("westmere" or any of of AMD)
These days build systems are more robust w.r.t. to concurrency.
Most users will have at least two cores in their machines.
Therefore I suggest to increase the number of cores used for building.
fixes#50376
environment.sessionVariables cannot refer to the values of env vars,
and as a result this has caused problems in a variety of scenarios.
One use for these is that they're injected into /etc/profile,
elewhere these are used to populate an 'envfile' for pam
(`pam 5 pam_env.conf`) which mentions use of HOME being
potentially problematic.
Anyway if the goal is to make things easier for users,
simply do the NIX_PATH modification as extraInit.
This fixes the annoying problems generated by the current approach
(#40165 and others) while hopefully serving the original goal.
One way to check if things are borked is to try:
$ sudo env | grep NIX_PATH
Which (before this change) prints NIX_PATH variable with
an unexpanded $HOME in the value.
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This does mean the following won't contain user channels for 'will':
$ sudo -u will nix-instantiate --eval -E builtins.nixPath
However AFAICT currently they won't be present either,
due to unescaped $HOME. Unsure if similar situation for other users
of sessionVariables (not sudo) work with current situation
(if they exist they will regress after this change AFAIK).
This reverts commit 67c8c49177.
'nix run nixos.firefox' is *not* supposed to work - the Nix 2.x
interface attempts to standardize on nixpkgs.*, to get rid of the
nixos/nixpkgs confusion that existed with the channels interface. So
let's not bring that confusion back.
This fixes a regression introduced in commit
700e21d6da
nix needs ssh on path for the SSH substituter functionality,
not only the distributed builds functionality.
Signed-off-by: Niklas Hambüchen <mail@nh2.me>
Ideally I'd like the whole `nixos`/`nixpkgs` channel distinction to disappear, but this is a step along that path. After a while being in this state, we can stop creating the magic `nixpkgs -> .` symlink inside our `nixos` channel tarballs and simplify that whole mess a bit.
* checks using package providing the nix-daemon that we'll be using
* made optional (unlike some other config checks) "just in case":
since this requires running the new Nix on the builder, this
won't work in a few (AFAIK very uncommon) situations such as
cross-compiling NixOS or using `include` directives in nix.conf
This does rely on Nix2 but not by the builder.
Since we only offer Nix2+ in-tree this should be fine,
and may otherwise be required anyway.
Resolved the following conflicts (by carefully applying patches from the both
branches since the fork point):
pkgs/development/libraries/epoxy/default.nix
pkgs/development/libraries/gtk+/3.x.nix
pkgs/development/python-modules/asgiref/default.nix
pkgs/development/python-modules/daphne/default.nix
pkgs/os-specific/linux/systemd/default.nix
* The environment variables NIX_CONF_DIR, NIX_BUILD_HOOK and
NIX_REMOTE are no longer needed.
* A /bin/sh (from busybox) is provided by default in sandboxes.
* Various options were renamed.
Using the example before this commit resulted in the following error:
```
error: value is a string while a list was expected, at /nix/var/nix/profiles/per-user/root/channels/nixos/nixpkgs/nixos/modules/services/misc/nix-daemon.nix:349:37
```
