be set from the NixOS configuration. For instance, you can say
nixpkgs.config.firefox.enableGeckoMediaPlayer = true;
environment.systemPackages = [ pkgs.firefox ];
but the more interesting application is to apply global overrides to
Nixpkgs throughout NixOS, e.g.
nixpkgs.config.packageOverrides = pkgs:
{ glibc = pkgs.glibc27;
gcc = pkgs.gcc42;
};
would build the whole system with Glibc 2.7 and GCC 4.2. (There are
some issues with "useFromStdenv" in all-packages.nix that need to be
fixed for packages in the stdenv bootstrap though.)
The implementation of this option is kind of evil though due to the
need to prevent a circularity between the evaluation of
nixpkgs.config and the "pkgs" module argument.
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separate module, which just declares a configuration value that
causes the xinetd module to add it to xinetd.conf. Also Nixified
the service declarations to abstract over the inetd implementation.
* Renamed the services.xinetd.tftpd options to services.tftpd. The
fact that the tftpd module uses xinetd is an implementation detail.
* xinetd: use -dontfork to let Upstart monitor it, and use -syslog to
get error messages at startup.
svn path=/nixos/trunk/; revision=16803
* Let ConsoleKit track the current logins instead of pam_console.
Udev now takes care of setting the device permissions to the active
user. This works much better, since pam_console wouldn't apply
permissions to new (hot-plugged) devices. Also, the udev+ConsoleKit
approach supports user switching. (We don't have that for X yet,
but it already works for logins on virtual consoles: if you switch
between different users on differents VCs with Alt+Fn, the device
ownership will be changed automatically.)
svn path=/nixos/trunk/; revision=16743
interface names, use udev's own firmware loader, and dropped the
sndMode option (udev puts all audio devices in the "audio" group, so
users can be added to that group if necessary).
svn path=/nixos/trunk/; revision=16692
initialising network interfaces, etc.) to modules/tasks. This
follows the Upstart terminology: a service is a job that doesn't
usually terminate (e.g. a daemon), while a task is a job that does
some work and then exits.
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passwords is now done in an activation scriptlet rather than an
Upstart job (not tested). BTW, we should get rid of this module and
add support to the users-groups.nix module for creating accounts
with an empty password.
svn path=/nixos/branches/modular-nixos/; revision=15769
modules/programs/pwdutils.
* Renamed config.system.shell to config.users.defaultUserShell and
updated the description to make clear it has to be a non-store
path.
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configuration for specific programs. For instance, ssh.nix provides
the configuration for the SSH client; ssmtp.nix provides the
configuration for the `ssmtp' MTA.
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empty now), do more of bashrc.sh declaratively, and moved nsswitch
generation to modules/config/nsswitch.nix.
svn path=/nixos/branches/modular-nixos/; revision=15754
Non-valid modules are commented inside the generated list.
Move module paths which are not the module directory into the legacy.nix file.
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