When a NixOS system uses flakes, i.e., /etc/nixos/flake.nix exists, it
is impossible to use nixos-rebuild to build a pre-flake
configuration.nix. Of course, one can directly use nix command to
build the configuration, but not everybody remembers the correct nix
options to do that.
With the new option, it is possible to build a pre-flake configuration
with command like this:
nixos-rebuild build-vm -I nixos-config=./vm.nix --no-flake
The option might be useful for people following older pre-flake
tutorials on a flake-based system.
* _7zz: correct license and remove p7zip dependency
The code under Compress/Rar* is licensed under a specific unRAR license
Also Compress/LzfseDecoder.cpp is covered by BSD3
The unRAR code is removed from the `.tar.xz` since the license posits you
agree or remove the code from your hard drive
This adds some complexity to updating 7zz so there is also an update
script
Meta has been updated and tweaked
Source is now downloaded from sourceforge in the `.tar.xz` version to
avoid depending on p7zip
* _7zz: add notice of the license updates and optional unRAR licenced code
If `services.tor.client.enable` is set to false (the default), the `SOCKSPort` option is not added to the torrc file but since Tor defaults to listening on port 9050 when the option is not specified, the tor client is not actually disabled. To fix this, simply set `SOCKSPort` to 0, which disables the client.
Use `mkForce` to prevent potentially two different `SOCKSPort` options in the torrc file, with one of them being 0 as this would cause Tor to fail to start. When `services.tor.client.enable` is set to false, this should always be disabled.
it's really easy to accidentally write the wrong systemd Exec* directive, ones
that works most of the time but fails when users include systemd metacharacters
in arguments that are interpolated into an Exec* directive. add a few functions
analogous to escapeShellArg{,s} and some documentation on how and when to use them.
The current logic assumes that everything that isn't a derivation is a
store path, but it can also be something that's *coercible* to a store
path, like a flake input.
Unnecessary uses of `lib.toDerivation` result in errors in pure evaluation
mode when `builtins.storePath` is disabled.
Also document what a `package` is.
Follow-up on https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/pull/161426.
Explain why having legacy iptables rules installed can lead to confusing
firewall behaviour, and provide some guidance on how to fix this.
