https://github.com/ipfs/kubo/releases/tag/v0.20.0
When creating a repository with `ipfs init`, `--empty-repo=true` is now the default according to the changelog. Modify the NixOS module to reflect this change and fix the `emptyRepo` setting to work with this change.
Fixes https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/issues/223289.
This doesn't reduce the security in any way since it was already possible for normal users to do what I do here and create such a fake repo for themselves and set their $IPFS_PATH variable to it. It was and still is also possible to just use the --api CLI option.
This change just removes the manual setup that would otherwise be required.
We wouldn't need this workaround if https://github.com/ipfs/kubo/pull/9366 was merged but the fix seems to have been ignored upstream. Patching it ourselves seems like a bad idea since the patch has security implications.
When kubo is force killed with `pkill -KILL ipfs` or by systemd-oomd,
it doesn't unmount /ipfs and /ipns. That prevents it
from starting up the next time. So, unmount on postStop.
this converts meta.doc into an md pointer, not an xml pointer. since we
no longer need xml for manual chapters we can also remove support for
manual chapters from md-to-db.sh
since pandoc converts smart quotes to docbook quote elements and our
nixos-render-docs does not we lose this distinction in the rendered
output. that's probably not that bad, our stylesheet didn't make use of
this anyway (and pre-23.05 versions of the chapters didn't use quote
elements either).
also updates the nixpkgs manual to clarify that option docs support all
extensions (although it doesn't support headings at all, so heading
anchors don't work by extension).
Without this commit, unsetting any of the `services.kubo.settings` options does not reset the value back to the default. This commit gets rid of this statefulness.
This is achieved by generating the default config, applying the user specified config options to it and then patching the `Identity` and `Pinning` config options from the old config back in. This new config is then applied using `ipfs config replace`.
The only remaining stateful parts of the config are the `Identity` and `Pinning.RemoteServices` settings as those can't be changed with `ipfs config replace`. `Pinning.RemoteServices` also contains secrets that shouldn't be in the Nix store. Setting these options wasn't possible before as it would result in an error when the daemon tried to start. I added some assertions to guard against this case.
conversions were done using https://github.com/pennae/nix-doc-munge
using (probably) rev f34e145 running
nix-doc-munge nixos/**/*.nix
nix-doc-munge --import nixos/**/*.nix
the tool ensures that only changes that could affect the generated
manual *but don't* are committed, other changes require manual review
and are discarded.
using regular strings works well for docbook because docbook is not as
whitespace-sensitive as markdown. markdown would render all of these as
code blocks when given the chance.
now nix-doc-munge will not introduce whitespace changes when it replaces
manpage references with the MD equivalent.
no change to the manpage, changes to the HTML manual are whitespace only.
the conversion procedure is simple:
- find all things that look like options, ie calls to either `mkOption`
or `lib.mkOption` that take an attrset. remember the attrset as the
option
- for all options, find a `description` attribute who's value is not a
call to `mdDoc` or `lib.mdDoc`
- textually convert the entire value of the attribute to MD with a few
simple regexes (the set from mdize-module.sh)
- if the change produced a change in the manual output, discard
- if the change kept the manual unchanged, add some text to the
description to make sure we've actually found an option. if the
manual changes this time, keep the converted description
this procedure converts 80% of nixos options to markdown. around 2000
options remain to be inspected, but most of those fail the "does not
change the manual output check": currently the MD conversion process
does not faithfully convert docbook tags like <code> and <package>, so
any option using such tags will not be converted at all.
The preStart script for the IPFS service will print parts of the configuration
to stdout (and therefore, the journal) when applying profiles on startup. This
may lead to unwanted disclosure of private information, such as remote pinning
service API keys. Fix by sending stdout to /dev/null.
Apparently this was never properly tested and never worked. When the IPFS repo needs upgrading, the first call to ipfs, which is run before running the migration, fails with the error message "Error: ipfs repo needs migration".
To fix this, simply run the migration before any `ipfs config` calls but don't run it when `dataDir` is empty and we need to call `ipfs init`.
Writing a NixOS test for this would require keeping at least two versions of IPFS in Nixpkgs, which we don't currently do.
