Relying on the built-in UEFI console here was already necessary, so we
are losing nothing by removing the needless `serial` call, which hung
some systems.
This also makes the implementation much easier to understand.
Also, no ugly-font menu anymore!
This helps keep logic simpler, as what we do is forcing text mode, which
means the non-default case is `truthy`, making things easier to digest
in the config file.
Also renaming this option is considered "internal", since it lives only
within the `iso-image` namespace, and also not a breaking change since
it was not part of a stable release.
Which ***anyway*** was not disabled correctly. Following changes will
actually disable it.
What this did was disable the "themed" menu driver, but still continued
relying on the gfxterm infra, which in itself is why things were ugly
and weird.
The `serial` console hangs on some systems. Unknown why.
Anyway, the way this worked right now relied on it telling the user on
the UEFI console how to enable it. So if I understand it correctly, it
will not cause any regression there.
This is not unlikely to happen, given the enthusiasm shown by some users,
but we are not there yet, and this will save them from breaking their system.
This implements proper merging of user-provided values and default
values for the settings option.
Without this, the user must provide a complete configuration file, as
changing a single setting replaces the entire JSON value, rendering the
default values completely useless. In fact, the bridge won't even start
using the default settings.
The DynamicUser mechanism does not allow share the bridge
registration.yaml file with matrix-synapse in any easy way:
1. the mautrix-whatsapp group under which the service runs is not in
/etc/group, so you can't add matrix-synapse to this.
This makes the group read bit on the file useless as the group is
effectively always empty.
2. It's not possible to use ACLs or copy the file during preStart or
postStart because the commands are executed with low priviledges.
By using a normal (static) user/group the secret can be shared with
synapse as follows:
services.matrix_synapse.settings.app_service_config_files =
[ "/var/lib/mautrix-whatsapp/whatsapp-registration.yaml" ];
users.users.matrix-synapse.extraGroups = [ "mautrix-whatsapp" ];
Since #246772, cross compiled NixOS is broken because the DateTime perl
package that was used in the update-users-groups.pl script depends on
Testutf8 which does not cross compile (see #198548).
This PR drops the DateTime dependency in favour of TimePiece, which has
less dependencies and whose closure does cross compile.
