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Improve documentation for stateVersion
The meaning of stateVersion often leads to a lot of confusion. This commit trys to improve that situation.
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# extraGroups = [ "wheel" ]; # Enable ‘sudo’ for the user.
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# };
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# This value determines the NixOS release with which your system is to be
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# compatible, in order to avoid breaking some software such as database
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# servers. You should change this only after NixOS release notes say you
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# should.
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# This value determines the NixOS release from which the default
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# settings for stateful data, like file locations and database versions
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# on your system were taken. It‘s perfectly fine and recommended to leave
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# this value at the release version of the first install of this system.
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# Before changing this value read the documentation for this option
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# (e.g. man configuration.nix or on https://nixos.org/nixos/options.html).
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system.stateVersion = "${config.system.nixos.release}"; # Did you read the comment?
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}
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configuration defaults in a way incompatible with stateful
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data. For instance, if the default version of PostgreSQL
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changes, the new version will probably be unable to read your
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existing databases. To prevent such breakage, you can set the
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existing databases. To prevent such breakage, you should set the
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value of this option to the NixOS release with which you want
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to be compatible. The effect is that NixOS will option
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to be compatible. The effect is that NixOS will use
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defaults corresponding to the specified release (such as using
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an older version of PostgreSQL).
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It‘s perfectly fine and recommended to leave this value at the
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release version of the first install of this system.
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Changing this option will not upgrade your system. In fact it
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is meant to stay constant exactly when you upgrade your system.
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You should only bump this option, if you are sure that you can
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or have migrated all state on your system which is affected
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by this option.
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'';
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};
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