nixos-rebuild: allow to override builders #53801
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| root) to be configured as trusted user in nix daemon. This can be | ||
| achived by using the <literal>nix.trustedUsers</literal> nixos option. | ||
| Examples values for that option are described in the | ||
| <literal>Remote builds chapter<literal> in the Nix manual, |
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@grahamc can you help me out with converting this to a cross-reference here?
| Allow to specify remote builders ad-hoc for building the new system. | ||
| This requires user executing <command>nixos-rebuild</command> (usually | ||
| root) to be configured as trusted user in nix daemon. This can be | ||
| achived by using the <literal>nix.trustedUsers</literal> nixos option. |
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nixos options probably also have a special markup?
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as trusted user in nix daemon -> as a trusted user in the Nix daemon.
nixos option -> NixOS option.
| j="$1"; shift 1 | ||
| extraBuildFlags+=("$i" "$j") | ||
| ;; | ||
| --show-trace|--no-build-hook|--keep-failed|-K|--keep-going|-k|--verbose|-v|-vv|-vvv|-vvvv|-vvvvv|--fallback|--repair|--no-build-output|-Q|-j*) |
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--no-build-hook is no longer accepted since nix 2.0.
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There was also an issue related to that. @vcuncat do you remember which one this was? |
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| Allow to specify remote builders ad-hoc for building the new system. | ||
| This requires user executing <command>nixos-rebuild</command> (usually |
Since nix 2.0 the no-build-hook option was replaced by the builders options that allows to override remote builders ad-hoc. Since it is useful to disable remote builders updating nixos without network, this commit reintroduces the option.
Co-Authored-By: Mic92 <Mic92@users.noreply.github.com>
Co-Authored-By: Mic92 <Mic92@users.noreply.github.com>
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Ah indeed, that explains my confusion. |
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@dtzWill yes, plus some documentation, which does not hurt, especially that root is not in the trusted user group by default. |
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Yes indeed, thank you! \o/ |
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This merge broke the build of NixOS manual: https://hydra.nixos.org/build/87335696 |
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Ah, just a trivial typo. I fixed it. |
Since nix 2.0 the no-build-hook option was replaced by the builders options
that allows to override remote builders ad-hoc.
Since it is useful to disable remote builders updating nixos without network,
this commit reintroduces the option.
Motivation for this change
Things done
sandboxinnix.confon non-NixOS)nix-shell -p nox --run "nox-review wip"./result/bin/)nix path-info -Sbefore and after)