There are a number of hidden restrictions on the syslinux
configuration file that come into play when UNetbootin
compatiblity is desired. With this commit these are documented.
This changes the bootloader for iso generation from Grub to
syslinux. In addition this adds USB booting support, so that
"dd" can be used to burn the generated ISO to USB thumbdrives
instead of needing applications like UnetBootin.
The group is specified using a singleton list, so the loaOf merging is
done by iterating through the list items with imap, so it enumerates
every element and sets that as the default "name" attribute.
From lib/types:143:
name = elem.name or "unnamed-${toString defIdx}.${toString elemIdx}";
So, people get groups like "unnamed-X.Y" instead of "mpd".
Signed-off-by: aszlig <aszlig@redmoonstudios.org>
Reported-by: devhell <"^"@regexmail.net>
Tested-by: devhell <"^"@regexmail.net>
It now strictly evaluates all remaining attributes, preventing
unevaluated thunks that cannot be garbage-collected. It's also applied
to all jobs in Nixpkgs' release.nix.
This reduces hydra-eval-jobs' memory consumption on the 14.12
release-combined jobset from 5.1 GB to 2.0 GB.
If you power off your machine frequently, you could miss the execution
of some snapshots.
This is more troublesome the more infrequently the snapshots are
triggered. For example, monthly snapshots only execute at exactly
midnight on the first day of the month. If you only have your
machine powered on at that time with probability 50%, then half the
snapshots won't be triggered.
This means that if you wanted to keep 3 monthly snapshots, then instead
of keeping 3 months' worth of snapshotted data as you expected, you would
end up with snapshots spanning back 6 months.
Adding the "Persistent = yes" option to auto-snapshot timer units makes
a missed snapshot execute when booting up the machine.
Otherwise, in certain cases, snapshots of infrequently-modified
filesystems can be kept for a much longer time than the user would
normally expect, and cause a large amount of extra disk space to be
consumed.
Also added flag to snapshot filesystems in parallel by default.
I've also added a configuration option for zfs-auto-snapshot flags, so
that the user can override them.
For example, the user may want to append --utc to the list of default
options, so that the snapshot names don't cause name conflicts or
apparent time reversals due to daylight savings or timezone changes.
Fixes the useless collisions in the system path.
The 64bit and 32bit variants have the same files, hence
it's pointless to put the 32bit pulseaudio in systemPackages.
The nixbld group doesn't need read permission, it only needs write and
execute permission.
(cherry picked from commit 066758758e7c0768ff8da51d208cdae0f33b368c)
Rather than using openssl to hash the password at build time, and hence
leaving the plaintext password world-readable in the nix store, we can
instead hash the password in the nix expression itself using
builtins.hashString.
