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

[Vince]

That's pretty neat!


On 10-04-17 22:04, Layus wrote:
> On 10/04/17 19:41, Vince wrote:
>> Benjamin Herr <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> 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 
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>> 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.
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