problem:
Nix only recognizes nixbld users which have nixbld set in extraGroups.
After installation the user was created by activate with group='nixbld'
and extraGroups=[]
After rebooting a conditional shell script fixed this by adding
extraGroups=["nixbld"].
This patches creates the user they way it was in the past with
group='nobody' and extraGroups=["nixbld"].
Another solution would be making nix be aware of the primary group as
well. However this would require everyone to update Nix after updating
NixOS.
svn path=/nixos/trunk/; revision=18985
It fails because nixbldN don't belong to the nixbld group
Manually removing socket file. Somehow the socket is not always created
when rebooting the second time (?) I have to look into that later.
svn path=/nixos/trunk/; revision=18984
expose makeInfo (used by test now)
expose config hack
* Adding tests to release.nix
* fixes
* removing dependency on perl
refactoring details:
Move all configuration modules used by the NixOS installation test script
into one directory.
svn path=/nixos/trunk/; revision=18982
is not on the same partition as /boot (i.e. when
boot.loader.grub.bootDevice is set): just copy the background image
and the font to /boot.
svn path=/nixos/trunk/; revision=18979
modules that should be added to the initrd, but should only be
loaded on demand (e.g. by the kernel or by udev). This is
especially useful in the installation CD, where we now only load the
modules needed by the hardware.
* Enable automatic modprobing by udev in the initrd.
svn path=/nixos/trunk/; revision=18975
automatically loaded by the kernel, load it at boot time.
* Put the ext2 module (which used to be built in) in the initrd to
prevent unexpected breakage.
svn path=/nixos/trunk/; revision=18963
You can run the kvm nixos installation test by:
nix-build --no-out-link tests/test-nixos-install-from-cd.nix
It boots the installed system.
It still fails sshd isn't started (yet)
adding nixos-bootstrapping-archive:
You can install NixOS easily using any live cd now.
See README-BOOTSTRAP-NIXOS
svn path=/nixos/trunk/; revision=18950
has to be "/bin/sh" - other values such as "sh" or "bash" or "$(type
-tP sh)" cause a build error:
LD .tmp_vmlinux1
/nix/store/1yv8i1m76cvwk5w5i5wrk4gj5zyfj6vh-binutils-2.19.1/bin/ld:arch/um/kernel/vmlinux.lds:1: ignoring invalid character `#' in expression
/nix/store/1yv8i1m76cvwk5w5i5wrk4gj5zyfj6vh-binutils-2.19.1/bin/ld:arch/um/kernel/vmlinux.lds:1: syntax error
collect2: ld returned 1 exit status
This is caused by Bash 4.0
(http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=13343).
svn path=/nixpkgs/branches/kernel-config/; revision=18941
* Move kernel patches out of all-packages.nix to
os-specific/linux/kernel/patches.nix.
* Make the kernel config available under $out/config (it's also in
$out/lib/modules/$version/build/.config, but that's kind of hard to
find).
svn path=/nixpkgs/branches/kernel-config/; revision=18937
Michael Raskin