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This patch adds handling of a directory becoming a symlink in /etc. Before this patch, the directory wasn't removed and then symlinking failed, which caused directory not being updated at all. The idea for the patch goes to @abbradar at https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/issues/16978#issuecomment-232921903: > A heuristic idea for this -- a function `isStatic :: Path -> Bool`: > > * if path `/etc/foo` is a file, return True iff it's a symlink to `/etc/static/foo`. > * if path is a directory, return True iff for all items in it `isStatic` is True. > > On any conflicts, if old path is static, it's safe to replace and/or > delete stale. Otherwise make a backup and notify the user via a > journal entry and console output. The only difference here -- it will not replace user configs. This also fixes https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/issues/16978.
Nixpkgs is a collection of packages for the Nix package manager. It is periodically built and tested by the hydra build daemon as so-called channels. To get channel information via git, add nixpkgs-channels as a remote:
% git remote add channels git://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs-channels.git
For stability and maximum binary package support, it is recommended to maintain
custom changes on top of one of the channels, e.g. nixos-16.03 for the latest
release and nixos-unstable for the latest successful build of master:
% git remote update channels
% git rebase channels/nixos-16.03
For pull-requests, please rebase onto nixpkgs master.
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