After RFC-0125 implementation, Determinate Systems was pinged multiple
times to transfer the repository ownership of the tooling to a
vendor-neutral repository.
Unfortunately, this never manifested. Additionally, the leadership of
the NixOS project was too dysfunctional to deal with this sort of
problem. It might even still be the case up to this day.
Nonetheless, nixpkgs is about enabling end users to enact their own
policies. It would be better to live in a world where there is one
obvious choice of bootspec tooling, in the meantime, we can live in a
world where people can choose their bootspec tooling.
The Lix forge possess one fork of the Bootspec tooling:
https://git.lix.systems/lix-community/bootspec which will live its own
life from now on.
Change-Id: I00c4dd64e00b4c24f6641472902e7df60ed13b55
Signed-off-by: Raito Bezarius <masterancpp@gmail.com>
Format all Nix files using the officially approved formatter,
making the CI check introduced in the previous commit succeed:
nix-build ci -A fmt.check
This is the next step of the of the [implementation](https://github.com/NixOS/nixfmt/issues/153)
of the accepted [RFC 166](https://github.com/NixOS/rfcs/pull/166).
This commit will lead to merge conflicts for a number of PRs,
up to an estimated ~1100 (~33%) among the PRs with activity in the past 2
months, but that should be lower than what it would be without the previous
[partial treewide format](https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/pull/322537).
Merge conflicts caused by this commit can now automatically be resolved while rebasing using the
[auto-rebase script](8616af08d9/maintainers/scripts/auto-rebase).
If you run into any problems regarding any of this, please reach out to the
[formatting team](https://nixos.org/community/teams/formatting/) by
pinging @NixOS/nix-formatting.
Previously, all generations for the primary system profile
read their data from the currently active one rather than
their own path, and specialisations in general all used
their parent bootspec rather than their own. This fixes both issues.
This commit still uses the parent path's build date for
specialisations, but this is more minor issue and the times
shouldn't be meaningfully different in most cases anyways.
After final improvements to the official formatter implementation,
this commit now performs the first treewide reformat of Nix files using it.
This is part of the implementation of RFC 166.
Only "inactive" files are reformatted, meaning only files that
aren't being touched by any PR with activity in the past 2 months.
This is to avoid conflicts for PRs that might soon be merged.
Later we can do a full treewide reformat to get the rest,
which should not cause as many conflicts.
A CI check has already been running for some time to ensure that new and
already-formatted files are formatted, so the files being reformatted here
should also stay formatted.
This commit was automatically created and can be verified using
nix-build a08b3a4d19.tar.gz \
--argstr baseRev b32a094368
result/bin/apply-formatting $NIXPKGS_PATH
When installing NixOS on a machine with Windows, the "easiest" solution
to dual-boot is re-using the existing EFI System Partition (ESP), which
allows systemd-boot to detect Windows automatically.
However, if there are multiple ESPs, maybe even on multiple disks,
systemd-boot is unable to detect the other OSes, and you either have to
use Grub and os-prober, or do a tedious manual configuration as
described in the wiki:
https://wiki.nixos.org/w/index.php?title=Dual_Booting_NixOS_and_Windows&redirect=no#EFI_with_multiple_disks
This commit automates and documents this properly so only a single line
like
boot.loader.systemd-boot.windows."10".efiDeviceHandle = "HD0c2";
is required.
In the future, we might want to try automatically detecting this
during installation, but finding the correct device handle while the
kernel is running is tricky.
This reverts commit 4daccf208f
The reverted commit claims that bootctl fails if machine-id is not set.
I can not reproduce this. I think this has since been fixed now that
bootctl has support for arbtirary entry-tokens and not just machine-id.
In the case of NixOS the entry-token is the string "nixos"
Avoid running Python scripts in the root of the package, as this
triggers `os.listdir` on the Nix store directory during import. This
operation can be time-consuming on large store directories
(see issue #283795 for more details).
The issue was initially fixed in #284153 but was reverted in #306339.
Co-authored-by: Sönke Hahn <soenkehahn@gmail.com>
When using `lib.optionals`, the return value of both branches of the
condition get set as a value to the option.
When using `lib.mkIf`, only the positive condition gets set as a value
to the option.
This small distinction is important when dealing with precedence. For
example here, we wanted to set a boot.grub.devices default value with
lib.mkDefault, and that was getting overridden with the empty value of
`lib.optional (cfg.device != "") cfg.device`.
See https://github.com/nix-community/srvos/pull/491#discussion_r1738827651
The general conclusion is that using `lib.mkIf` is preferable to
`lib.optional` or `lib.optionals` when setting values in the NixOS
module system.
Use the store directory for the devicetree package containing the
desired DTB when installing to the ESP. This allows for more than one
NixOS generation containing differing DTBs to coexist on the same ESP
(similar to how we can have multiple kernels & initrds). This change
removes the assumption that the filepath passed to `copy_from_file` is a
file that lives at the toplevel of a nix output path (which prior to the
systemd-boot DTB support was the case for the kernel and initrd
derivations).
Windows with BitLocker and TPM enabled doesn't support boot chaining.
This option activates a special experimental mode in systemd-boot that
tries to detect such systems and, if detected and selected by the user
at the boot menu, set the BootNext EFI variable to it before resetting.
The [Boot Loader Specification](https://uapi-group.org/specifications/specs/boot_loader_specification/)
allows for using a key called "devicetree" for specifying which
devicetree the bootloader should use during boot. With regards to
systemd-boot, this key is used to specify which file should be picked up
from the ESP to install to the EFI DTB Configuration Table. Linux then uses
this Configuration Table to setup the machine. This change is similar to
the one done in https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/pull/295096, where that
change was for adding DTB support to systemd-stub, and this is for
systemd-boot.
