Re: [Nix-dev] nixops data deployment

2013-11-01 Thread Rok Garbas
Quoting Moritz Ulrich (2013-11-01 22:24:05) > The correct way would be adding the data to the nix-store. This way > you'd get all the benefits of Nix(OS): Atomic upgrades, easy switching > between configurations, rollbacks, etc. > > Nix (the language) supports some functions to accomplish this: >

Re: [Nix-dev] nixops data deployment

2013-11-01 Thread Moritz Ulrich
The correct way would be adding the data to the nix-store. This way you'd get all the benefits of Nix(OS): Atomic upgrades, easy switching between configurations, rollbacks, etc. Nix (the language) supports some functions to accomplish this: - builtins.readFile reads a file and returns the conte

[Nix-dev] nixops data deployment

2013-11-01 Thread Tim Barbour
I understand that one advantage of nixops is being able to deploy a set of services atomically, possibly including data that is needed by the services. What is the recommended way to get nixops to deploy some data for a service at the same time it deploys the service ? I would like to be able to