Eelco Dolstra
1c4fd9b25d
nixos-install: Run in a separate UTS namespace
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This prevents the activation script from clobbering our hostname.
2014-05-09 13:25:53 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra
61bdad6775
nixos-install: Don't bind-mount all of /etc
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We only need a copy of /etc/resolv.conf for networking, and
/etc/{passwd,group} for building.
2014-05-09 00:52:02 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra
3ef8d6ad5c
nixos-install: Add operation --chroot
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"nixos-install --chroot" runs a command (by default a login shell) in
a chroot inside the NixOS installation in /mnt. This might useful for
poking around a new installation.
2014-05-09 00:52:02 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra
4fc151b5a3
nixos-install: Ask the user to set a root password
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This removes the need to have an initially empty root password.
2014-05-09 00:52:02 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra
8919d736a0
nixos-install: Don't copy the bootstrap Nix if it's already there
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This makes re-running nixos-install a bit faster.
2014-05-09 00:52:02 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra
22f102cbdc
nixos-install: Assume the build user group is "nixbld"
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The build user group is always "nixbld", so no need to detect it.
2014-05-09 00:52:02 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra
171d43ba4f
nixos-install: Run in a private mount namespace
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This ensures that all mounts are automatically cleaned up.
2014-05-09 00:52:02 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra
e0e656ef46
nixos-install: Don't pass --show-trace by default
2014-05-09 00:51:48 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra
30180e8a24
Fix incorrect comment
2014-05-08 12:29:59 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra
ef72fcc2aa
Map --help flag to "man <command>" for more NixOS commands
2013-10-13 17:35:55 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra
31203732b3
Update the release expressions and the channel generators
2013-10-10 13:28:22 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra
5c1f8cbc70
Move all of NixOS to nixos/ in preparation of the repository merge
2013-10-10 13:28:20 +02:00