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Add 'environment.opt' (similar to 'environment.etc') #99574

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@gytis-ivaskevicius gytis-ivaskevicius commented Oct 4, 2020

Motivation for this change

I'd like to have an environment.etc alternative for /opt folder. Use case: a way to pin some specific folders that are generated by Nix (in my particular use case this is used to integrate with Intellij Idea and multiple JDK's):

  environment.opt = {
    # Main use case would be pinning stuff like NodeJS or Java home folders to make users life easier 
    "jdk8".source = pkgs.jdk8.home;
    "jdk11".source = pkgs.jdk11.home;
  };

The configuration is mostly copy-pasted from etc.nix.
One issue is that /opt folder is created without read permissions (why!?!??!), as a workaround I added chmod within the script. This should probably be handled as whenever /opt folder is generated (but then we run into other issues like migrating from older generations. TL;DR: I don't know what is an appropriate way to handle it)

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  • Tested using sandboxing (nix.useSandbox on NixOS, or option sandbox in nix.conf on non-NixOS linux)
  • Built on platform(s)
    • NixOS
    • macOS
    • other Linux distributions
  • Tested via one or more NixOS test(s) if existing and applicable for the change (look inside nixos/tests)
  • Tested compilation of all pkgs that depend on this change using nix-shell -p nixpkgs-review --run "nixpkgs-review wip"
  • Tested execution of all binary files (usually in ./result/bin/)
  • Determined the impact on package closure size (by running nix path-info -S before and after)
  • Ensured that relevant documentation is up to date
  • Fits CONTRIBUTING.md.

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You can achieve the same with systemd.tmpfiles.rules (L+).

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@symphorien I am not sure what you mean, may I see an example?

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aanderse commented Oct 4, 2020

See https://www.freedesktop.org/software/systemd/man/tmpfiles.d.html

Very roughly something like this:

systemd.tmpfiles.rules = [
  "L+ /opt/jdk-or-whatever - - - - - - ${pkgs.jre}"
];

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Oh great, that sounds exactly what I need. Should this PR be closed? All it would add is a nicer way of implementing it

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aanderse commented Oct 4, 2020

Yes. /etc is very much so managed by NixOS and this flows with the nix philosophy. Managing /opt wouldn't really make sense under this philosophy. Since tmpfiles.d solves your use case nicely we can close this PR.

Thanks!

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