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| author | Arian van Putten <aeroboy94@gmail.com> | 2018-10-05 15:48:41 +0200 |
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| committer | Arian van Putten <aeroboy94@gmail.com> | 2018-10-05 18:36:56 +0200 |
| commit | bb31835b1d2d1933a6c1d2cb196491ba1efa9233 (patch) | |
| tree | 35cad7036650d11756b166c60e1ad0c783bc226d /nixos/doc | |
| parent | 3624bb536244ea99f9f9a6d18ff00bbe4a5204af (diff) | |
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Revert "Revert "Revert "doc: Update section about imperative containers"""
nixos-container can now execute nix commands again inside the container This reverts commit 9622cd3b38ddbc7faa4cac2a48dbd70bd99570d0.
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| -rw-r--r-- | nixos/doc/manual/administration/imperative-containers.xml | 18 |
1 files changed, 9 insertions, 9 deletions
diff --git a/nixos/doc/manual/administration/imperative-containers.xml b/nixos/doc/manual/administration/imperative-containers.xml index fa380477f6cb..9bb62bc2ece9 100644 --- a/nixos/doc/manual/administration/imperative-containers.xml +++ b/nixos/doc/manual/administration/imperative-containers.xml @@ -73,7 +73,8 @@ Linux foo 3.4.82 #1-NixOS SMP Thu Mar 20 14:44:05 UTC 2014 x86_64 GNU/Linux </para> <para> - To change the configuration of the container, you can edit + There are several ways to change the configuration of the container. First, + on the host, you can edit <literal>/var/lib/container/<replaceable>name</replaceable>/etc/nixos/configuration.nix</literal>, and run <screen> @@ -86,7 +87,8 @@ Linux foo 3.4.82 #1-NixOS SMP Thu Mar 20 14:44:05 UTC 2014 x86_64 GNU/Linux <xref linkend="opt-services.httpd.enable"/> = true; <xref linkend="opt-services.httpd.adminAddr"/> = "foo@example.org"; <xref linkend="opt-networking.firewall.allowedTCPPorts"/> = [ 80 ]; - ' +' + # curl http://$(nixos-container show-ip foo)/ <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 3.2 Final//EN">… </screen> @@ -95,13 +97,11 @@ Linux foo 3.4.82 #1-NixOS SMP Thu Mar 20 14:44:05 UTC 2014 x86_64 GNU/Linux </para> <para> - Note that in previous versions of NixOS (17.09 and earlier) one could also - use all nix-related commands (like <command>nixos-rebuild switch</command>) - from inside the container. However, since the release of Nix 2.0 this is not - supported anymore. Supporting Nix commands inside the container might be - possible again in future versions. See - <link xlink:href="https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/issues/40355">the github - issue</link> for tracking progress on this issue. + Alternatively, you can change the configuration from within the container + itself by running <command>nixos-rebuild switch</command> inside the + container. Note that the container by default does not have a copy of the + NixOS channel, so you should run <command>nix-channel --update</command> + first. </para> <para> |