The removed lines converted the flake path passed by the command line
from `/some/path` to `git+file:///some/path`.
This technically shouldn't cause any issues, however running
`nixos-rebuild switch` inside a directory `/nix/store` will cause the
switch to fail and leave a partially construct generation (see issue #144811
for details).
By itself this shouldn't be too much of an issue, however thanks to
another issue in `systemd-boot-builder.py` this can leave the system
in a broken state for those using `boot.loader.systemd-boot` (AFAIK the
default), where future `nixos-rebuild switch` will fail
(see issue #93694 for details).
The issue can be fixed by running
`nix-env -p /nix/var/nix/profiles/system --delete-generations old`,
however this makes newbies very confused and it is showing in our
support threads in Matrix and Discourse (see
https://discourse.nixos.org/t/need-help-on-failure-of-building-my-configuration/16842).
Keep in mind this is a workaround. The actual issue seems to be in nix
itself (see: https://github.com/NixOS/nix/issues/5510).
See also #150065 for an alternative fix that caused other issues.
Kudos for @figsoda for figuring out this fix.
I bumped all versions of all packages that we packaged so far (I
hope). We might want to build an update script at some point, there is
a lot of potential for copy & paste errors in these updates.
Laurent’s notes below:
Hello,
New versions of all the skarnet.org packages are available.
The changes are, for the most part, minimal: essentially, the new
versions fix a bug in the build system that made cross-building under
slashpackage more difficult than intended. Very few people should
have been impacted by this bug.
Some packages had a few more bugfixes; and some packages have
additional functionality. No major update; no compatibility break.
The new versions are the following:
skalibs-2.11.1.0 (minor)
nsss-0.2.0.1 (release)
utmps-0.1.1.0 (minor)
execline-2.8.2.0 (minor)
s6-2.11.0.1 (release)
s6-rc-0.5.3.0 (minor)
s6-portable-utils-2.2.3.4 (release)
s6-linux-utils-2.5.1.7 (release)
s6-linux-init-1.0.7.0 (minor)
s6-dns-2.3.5.3 (release)
s6-networking-2.5.1.0 (minor)
mdevd-0.1.5.1 (release)
bcnm-0.0.1.5 (release)
dnsfunnel-0.0.1.3 (release)
smtpd-starttls-proxy-0.0.1.1 (release)
Dependencies have all been updated to the latest versions. They are not
strict: libraries and binaries may build with older releases of their
dependencies, although this is not guaranteed.
You do not need to recompile your s6-rc service databases. To make use
of the new s6-linux-init functionality, however, you will have to
recreate your run-image.
You do not need to restart your supervision tree, unless you're
deleting
your old s6 binaries.
Details of minor package changes follow.
* skalibs-2.11.1.0
----------------
- New function: opendir_at()
* utmps-0.1.1.0
------------
- New binary: utmps-write, a generic utmp client that can write
user-crafted records to the utmp and/or wtmp databases.
* execline-2.8.2.0
----------------
- New -s option to the case binary, enabling fnmatch() (shell)
expression matching instead of regular expression matching.
* s6-rc-0.5.3.0
-------------
- Bundle contents are now read in a "contents.d/" subdirectory, one
file per content, instead of one per line in a "contents" file. In
the same way, service dependencies are now read in a "dependencies.d/"
subdirectory, one file per dependency. Old "contents" and "dependencies"
files are still supported, but deprecated. This change allows better
integration of s6-rc service definitions with package managers.
* s6-linux-init-1.0.7.0
---------------------
- New -S option to s6-linux-init-maker, forcing a sync on halt even
in a container.
* s6-networking-2.5.1.0
---------------------
- SNI wildcarding is implemented, as well as a workaround for a
bearssl bug causing errors on certificate signatures in certain cases.
Enjoy,
Bug-reports welcome.
And happy holidays to you all!
--
Laurent
