On 10/04/17 19:41, Vince wrote:
Benjamin Herr <b...@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, 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/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 <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 Ican 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@lists.science.uu.nlhttp://lists.science.uu.nl/mailman/listinfo/nix-dev------------------------------------------------------------------------ nix-dev mailing list nix-dev@lists.science.uu.nlhttp://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.
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