Layus, That does sound fantastic! Do you think that PR has a reasonable chance of landing in the near future?
Ryan On Thu, Apr 6, 2017 at 12:12 PM, Guillaume Maudoux (Layus) < layus...@gmail.com> 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, ni...@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/c763e168a62a0ef559a1fb9473261459 > And my (yet untested) attempt at PCI passthrough here: > https://gist.github.com/awesomefireduck/1be07805081a4d7a51c527e452b87b26 > 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 <siva...@colimite.fr> > <siva...@colimite.fr> wrote: > > > > Hi Vince, > > Thus quoth ni...@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 > listnix-...@lists.science.uu.nlhttp://lists.science.uu.nl/mailman/listinfo/nix-dev > > > > _______________________________________________ > nix-dev mailing list > nix-dev@lists.science.uu.nl > http://lists.science.uu.nl/mailman/listinfo/nix-dev > >
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