Not entirely sure when it got broken this time, but when creating a VM
network with `nixos-build-vms(8)`, there are should be the following scripts:
* `$out/bin/nixos-test-driver` which drops into an interactive shell to
interactively perform test steps.
* `$out/bin/nixos-run-vms` which non-interactively starts the VMs from
the network so that one can manually play around in the VM.
The latter also starts an interactive shell for a while now which means
that it does the exact same thing as `nixos-test-driver` which is not
its purpose.
since fc614c37c6 nixos needs access to its
own path (<nixpkgs/nixos>) to evaluate a system with documentation.
since documentation is enabled by default almost all systems need such
access, including the installer tests. nixos-install however does not
ensure that a channel exists in the target store before evaluating the
system in that store, which can lead to `path is not valid` errors.
`mktemp` tries to use the `TMPDIR` from `nixos-install` outside of the
`chroot` instead of `/tmp` inside the `chroot` and fails. For some
reason the `TMPDIR` is being passed through the `chroot` call.
I haven't tested if other environment variables are being passed through
that shouldn't be.
This commit encapsulates the involved domain into classes and
defines explicit and typed arguments where untyped dicts where used.
It preserves backwards compatibility through legacy wrappers.
This reverts commit 6f6b2cdc98.
Version wasn't updated, and apparently a patch didn't apply. Let's do
this upgrade properly, in a PR, but for now I'm reverting so we don't
have a broken nix package in master.
Since 03eaa48 added perl.withPackages, there is a canonical way to
create a perl interpreter from a list of libraries, for use in script
shebangs or generic build inputs. This method is declarative (what we
are doing is clear), produces short shebangs[1] and needs not to wrap
existing scripts.
Unfortunately there are a few exceptions that I've found:
1. Scripts that are calling perl with the -T switch. This makes perl
ignore PERL5LIB, which is what perl.withPackages is using to inform
the interpreter of the library paths.
2. Perl packages that depends on libraries in their own path. This
is not possible because perl.withPackages works at build time. The
workaround is to add `-I $out/${perl.libPrefix}` to the shebang.
In all other cases I propose to switch to perl.withPackages.
[1]: https://lwn.net/Articles/779997/
This option can be set to disable installer tools like nixos-rebuild,
nixos-install, and nixos-generate-config (as well as more). This is
nice when a system is not expected to be rebuild or reconfigure itself
such as in a stateless PXE setup, as well as other embedded scenarios.
Note, that the system can still be updated, but it must either get
nixos-rebuild from another source, or, for embedded systems, be
upgraded by another machine like:
nix copy "$system" --to "ssh://root@<host>" && ssh "root@<host>"
"nix-env -p /nix/var/nix/profiles/system --set $system && $system/bin/switch-to-configuration switch".
Along with other options, this allows removing Perl from a closure.
For example:
{
boot.enableContainers = false;
environment.defaultPackages = [];
system.disableInstallerTools = true;
}
should not include Perl.
This reverts commit aab534b894 & uses the
driverInteractive attribute for the test driver instead.
This has the same effect but removes the extra module in the
nixos-build-vms code.
