The multipath-tools package had existed in Nixpkgs for some time but
without a nixos module to configure/drive it. This module provides
attributes to drive the majority of multipath configuration options
and is being successfully used in stage-1 and stage-2 boot to mount
/nix from a multipath-serviced iSCSI volume.
Credit goes to @grahamc for early contributions to the module and
authoring the NixOS module test.
The cacert package can now generate p11-kit-compatible output itself,
as well as generating the correct set of outputs for fully-joined
and unbundled "traditional" outputs (in standard PEM and
OpenSSL-compatible formats).
Don't worry, it's is true by default. But I think this is important to
have because NixOS indeed shouldn't need Nix at run time when the
installation is not being modified, and now we can verify that.
NixOS images that cannot "self-modify" are a legitamate
use-case that this supports more minimally. One should be able to e.g. do a
sshfs mount and use `nixos-install` to modify them remotely, or just
discard them and build fresh ones if they are run VMs or something.
The next step would be to make generations optional, allowing just
baking `/etc` and friends rather than using activation scripts. But
that's more involved so I'm leaving it out.
I realized quite recently that running a test VM - as documented in the
manual - like
QEMU_NET_OPTS='hostfwd=tcp::8080-:80' ./result/bin/nixos-run-vms
doesn't work anymore on `master`. After bisecting I realized that the
introduction of a forward-port option[1] is the problem since it adds a
trailing comma even if no forwarding options are specified via
`virtualisation.forwardPorts`. In that case, the networking options
would look like `-netdev user,id=user.0,,hostfwd=tcp::8080-:80' which
confused QEMU and thus the VM refused to start.
Now, the trailing comma is only added if additional port forwards are
specified declaratively.
[1] b8bfc81d5b
The `$(</path/to/file)`-expansion appears verbatim in the cmdline of
`nextcloud-occ` which means that an unprivileged user could find
sensitive values (i.e. admin password & database password) by monitoring
`/proc/<pid>/cmdline`.
Now, these values don't appear in a command line anymore, but will be
passed as environment variables to `nextcloud-occ`.
* Linkify documentation about objectstore-feature rather than only
mentioning it.
* Use `<literal>` where it makes sense.
* Remove unnecessary `Whether to load` from `enableImagemagick` because
`mkEnableOption` already prepends `Whether to enable` to the given
description.
NixOS should be able to support the Nintendo Switch Pro controller for
steam and non-steam at the same time. Currently there are two mutually
exclusive ways to support the Pro Controller: Steam and `hid-nintendo`.
Unfortunately these don't work together, but there's a workaround in
newer versions of `joycond` (described [here](https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Gamepad#Using_hid-nintendo_pro_controller_with_Steam_Games_(with_joycond))). To use this
workaround `hid-nintendo` and `joycond` need to be updated, and the
systemd and udev configuration needs to be made available in NixOS.
We have no usecase for manually/selectively starting or stopping VLANs
in integration tests.
By starting and stopping the VLANs with the constructor and destructor
of VLAN objects, we remove the obligation and complexity to maintain
network lifetime separately.
