Currently, kernel config options whose value is "yes" always override
options whose value is "no".
This is not always desired.
Generally speaking, if someone defines an option to have the value
"no", presumably they are disabling the option for a reason, so it's
not always OK to silently enable it due to another, probably unrelated
reason.
For example, a user may want to reduce the kernel attack surface and
therefore may want to disable features that are being enabled in
common-config.nix.
In fact, common-config.nix was already silently enabling options that
were intended to be disabled in hardened/config.nix for security
reasons, such as INET_DIAG.
By eliminating the custom merge function, these config options will
now use the default module option merge functions which make sure
that all options with the highest priority have the same value.
A user that wishes to override an option defined in common-config.nix
can currently use mkForce or mkOverride to do so, e.g.:
BINFMT_MISC = mkForce (option no);
That said, this is not going to be necessary in the future, because
the plan is for kernel config options defined in nixpkgs to use a
lower priority by default, like it currently happens for other module
options.
The notification daemon is just one part of XFCE that is, to the best of
my understanding, not particularly related to it being desktop or not —
for instance, not more related than the session manager or the like.
We are running over 6000 tests by now and they take around 5 minutes
on faster machines and tests alot of components that endusers will not
actually be using. It is sufficient if we run them on package upgrades
and in the passthrough test.
This dependency has been added in 65eae4d, when NixOS switched to
systemd, as a substitute for the previous udevtrigger and hasn't been
touched since. It's probably unneeded as the upstream unit[1] doesn't
do it and I haven't found any mention of any problem in NixOS or the
upstream issue trackers.
[1]: https://gitlab.com/libvirt/libvirt/-/blob/master/src/remote/libvirtd.service.in
This will make it easier to track specifically where queries are being
made from (assuming a `log_line_prefix` that includes `%a` in the
postgres configuration).
The manual mentions how "[config and pkgs] are explained later". Added a link
to where they are explained, and a hint pointing to the NIX_PATH variable.
the nix store may contain hardlinks: derivations may output them
directly, or users may be using store optimization which automatically
hardlinks identical files in the nix store.
The presence of these links are intended to be a 'transparent'
optimization. However, when creating a squashfs image, the image
will be different depending on whether hard links were present
on the filesystem, leading to reproducibility problems.
By passing '-no-hardlinks' to mksquashfs the files are stored
as duplicates in the squashfs image. Since squashfs has support
for duplicate files this does not lead to a larger image.
For more details see
https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/issues/114331
- Actually use the zfsSupport option
- Add documentation URI to lxd.service
- Add lxd.socket to enable socket activatation
- Add proper dependencies and remove systemd-udev-settle from lxd.service
- Set up /var/lib/lxc/rootfs using systemd.tmpfiles
- Configure safe start and shutdown of lxd.service
- Configure restart on failures of lxd.service
- Use --netlink to avoid systemd-udev-settle[1]
- Run daemon in foreground which is preferred with systemd
- Add unit documentation
- Write ExecStart directly, no need for a script
[1]: 52bbd2b80b
The sysfs file /sys/kernel/mm/ksm/run seems to be available as soon as
the kernel has started, so no point in waiting for udev to "settle". If
for some reason it doesn't, we let the unit fail explicitly.
To make it easier to start and stop all GitLab services, introduce
`gitlab.target` which wants all services (meaning they will start with
it) and which all services are part of (meaning they will stop with
it).
Make the config initialization script run in gitlab.service's PreStart
section into two new services, `gitlab-config.service` and
`gitlab-db-config.service`. Other services can then depend on the
config scripts they need instead of unnecessarily depending on
`gitlab.service`. This makes the reason for the configured service
dependencies much clearer and should also reduce the restart time of
the `gitlab` service quite a lot, when triggered manually.
Also, set up stricter service dependencies, using `bindsTo`, to ensure
that if a service fails or is stopped, its dependants are also
stopped. For example, if we're using the `postgresql` service and it's
stopped, `gitlab.service` and `gitlab-sidekiq.service`, which depend on
it to function, should also be stopped.
Launching a container with a private network requires creating a
dedicated networking interface for it; name of that interface is derived
from the container name itself - e.g. a container named `foo` gets
attached to an interface named `ve-foo`.
An interface name can span up to IFNAMSIZ characters, which means that a
container name must contain at most IFNAMSIZ - 3 - 1 = 11 characters;
it's a limit that we validate using a build-time assertion.
This limit has been upgraded with Linux 5.8, as it allows for an
interface to contain a so-called altname, which can be much longer,
while remaining treated as a first-class citizen.
Since altnames have been supported natively by systemd for a while now,
due diligence on our side ends with dropping the name-assertion on newer
kernels.
This commit closes#38509.
systemd/systemd#14467systemd/systemd#17220https://lwn.net/Articles/794289/
The BGRT theme is probably a close as to "FlickerFree" we can
get without https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/pull/74842.
It's more agnostic than the Breeze theme.
We also install all of themes provided by the packages, as it's possible
that one theme needs the ImageDir of another, and they're small files
anyways.
Lastly, how plymouth handles logo and header files is
a total mess, so hopefully when they have an actual release
we won't need to do all this symlinking.