[Nix-dev] [Help] Accidentally removed configuration.nix

[Ryan Trinkle]

Yep, I'm adopting that, too!

On Mon, Apr 10, 2017 at 4:04 PM, Layus <layus.on at gmail.com> wrote:

> On 10/04/17 19:41, Vince wrote:
>
> Benjamin Herr <ben at 0x539.de> <ben at 0x539.de> schreef op 10 april 2017
> 19:17:44 CEST:
>>
>> I've been putting
>>
>>     environment.etc = {
>>         nixos-orig.source = ./.;
>>     };
>>
>> into my configuration.nix and for my still fairly trivial but at least
>> somewhat moduralized config it seems to work out all right.
>>
>>
>> On Thu, 2017-04-06 at 18:12 +0200, Guillaume Maudoux (Layus) wrote:
>>>
>>>  Hi,
>>>
>>>  system.copySystemConfiguration is far from perfect. As soon as you
>>>  modularize your config, you will miss all the other files.
>>>
>>>  If you want a correct system.copySystemConfiguration, you really
>>>  need
>>>  https://github.com/NixOS/nix/pull/709.
>>>  It allows you to snapshot all the sources of a nix derivation, not
>>>  just
>>>  one file.
>>>
>>>  I tested it back then, and it worked pretty well.
>>>
>>>  -- Layus.
>>>
>>>
>>>  On 06/04/17 17:46, nixos at vince.lol wrote:
>>>
>>>>  No I don't have `system.copySystemConfiguration=true` set :-(
>>>>  Luckily I documented my recent efforts in some gists.
>>>>  I managed to install NixOS on ZFS here:
>>>>  https://gist.github.com/awesomefireduck/c763e168a62a0ef559a1fb94732
>>>>  61459
>>>>  And my (yet untested) attempt at PCI passthrough here:
>>>>  https://gist.github.com/awesomefireduck/1be07805081a4d7a51c527e452b
>>>>  87b26
>>>>  There is still some missing, but nothing I can't handle, I guess.
>>>>  This is a great time to enable my ZFS snapshots... :-/
>>>>
>>>>  Does anyone know why `system.copySystemConfiguration` is set to
>>>>  false
>>>>  by default? It seems like it would be better to default this to
>>>>  true,
>>>>  right?
>>>>  Or at least have this listed in the generated config?
>>>>  (`nixos-generate-config`)
>>>>
>>>>  Anyway, I'll be okay, thanks folks!!
>>>>
>>>>  Sincerely,
>>>>  Vince
>>>>  On Thursday, April 6, 2017 4:58 PM, Sergiu Ivanov
>>>>  <sivanov at colimite.fr> <sivanov at colimite.fr> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>  Hi Vince,
>>>>>
>>>>>  Thus quoth  nixos at vince.lol  at 14:12 on Thu, Apr 06 2017:
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>  I acidentally removed my /etc/nixos/configuration.nix is there
>>>>>>  any way
>>>>>>  I can get it back?
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>  Citing directly from:
>>>>>
>>>>>   http://stackoverflow.com/questions/28603773/recover-accidentally
>>>>>  -deleted-configuration-nix-file
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>   '''
>>>>>   system.copySystemConfiguration
>>>>>
>>>>>   If enabled, copies the NixOS configuration file $NIXOS_CONFIG
>>>>>  (usually
>>>>>   /etc/nixos/configuration.nix) to the system store path.
>>>>>
>>>>>   Type:"boolean"
>>>>>
>>>>>   Default:false
>>>>>
>>>>>   Declared by:  <nixpkgs/nixos/modules/system/activation/top-
>>>>>  level.nix>
>>>>>   '''
>>>>>
>>>>>  Do you happen to have this option set to true?
>>>>>
>>>>>  /me goes and sets it to true on his system
>>>>>
>>>>>  --
>>>>>  Sergiu
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>  ------------------------------
>>>>
>>>>  nix-dev mailing list
>>>>  nix-dev at lists.science.uu.nl
>>>>  http://lists.science.uu.nl/mailman/listinfo/nix-dev
>>>
>>>
>>>  ------------------------------
>>>
>>>  nix-dev mailing list
>>>  nix-dev at lists.science.uu.nl
>>>  http://lists.science.uu.nl/mailman/listinfo/nix-dev
>>>
>> What does that do, exactly? The entry at http://nixos.org/nixos/
> options.html#environment.etc.%3Cname?%3E.source is somewhat lacking... I
> made a PR at https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/pull/24707 . If some of you
> could check it out and give me some feedback that’d be great :-) cheers,
> Vince
>
> It defines ./. as the content to be copied into /etc/nixos-orig. This
> means that everything in the same directory as the file where this is
> defined will be copied to the store and made available in /etc/nixos-orig.
> Be careful not to secret files and private keys potentially located there,
> as nixos-rebuild often runs as root and will happily copy them to the store.
>
> -- Layus.
>
> _______________________________________________
> nix-dev mailing list
> nix-dev at lists.science.uu.nl
> http://lists.science.uu.nl/mailman/listinfo/nix-dev
>
>
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <http://lists.science.uu.nl/pipermail/nix-dev/attachments/20170410/1e879993/attachment-0001.html>