Back in 2013, update-mime-database started using fdatasync() to write out
its changes after processing each file in /share/mime, with the reasoning
that a corrupted database from an interruption midway would be
problematic for applications[1]. Unfortunately, this caused a
significant regression in the time required to run update-mime-database:
commonly from under a second to half a minute or more.
This delay affects the time required to build system-path on NixOS, when
xdg.mime.enable is true (the default). For example, on one of my systems
system-path builds in ~48 seconds, 45 of which are update-mime-database.
This makes rapidly building new system configurations not fun.
This commit disables the calls to fdatasync(). update-mime-database
checks an environment variable, PKGSYSTEM_ENABLE_FSYNC, to determine
whether it should sync, and we can set this to false. system-path
already only has whatever filesystem commit guarantees that the Nix
builder provides. Furthermore, there is no risk of a failed MIME
database update messing up existing packages, because this is Nix.
(This issue was also reported at and discussed by Debian, Red Hat, and
Gentoo at least.)
[1] https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=70366
This is actually very useful. Allows you to test switch-to-configuration
nesting.children is still currently still broken as it will throw
away 'too much' of the config, including the modules that make
nixos tests work in the first place. But that's something for
another time.
Upstream provides a much more featureful desktop entry file. If we use
that we take advantage of all of those features and don't have to maintain it
ourselves.
As a oneshot service, if the startup failed it would never be attempted again.
This is problematic when peer's addresses require DNS. DNS may not be reliably available at
the time wireguard starts. Converting this to a simple service with Restart
and RestartAfter directives allows the service to be reattempted, but at
the cost of losing the oneshot semantics.
Signed-off-by: Maximilian Bosch <maximilian@mbosch.me>
It's tempting to think patchShebangs supports multiple arguments.
Without this patch it just silently ignores all but the first. Now it
patches the shebangs in all of its arguments.
Fixes: #57695
