nixos-container: Make configuration and state directories configurable

/etc/containers is also used by Podman, Skopeo & other popular
container tooling so we need to be able to move to another
configuration directory.

The state move is not strictly a requirement but is good for consistency.

1 files changed, 9 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/pkgs/tools/virtualization/nixos-container/default.nix b/pkgs/tools/virtualization/nixos-container/default.nix
index 17065a2aa8b9..4d46ec3299b4 100644
--- a/pkgs/tools/virtualization/nixos-container/default.nix
+++ b/pkgs/tools/virtualization/nixos-container/default.nix
@@ -1,4 +1,10 @@
-{ substituteAll, perl, shadow, util-linux }:
+{ substituteAll
+, perl
+, shadow
+, util-linux
+, configurationDirectory ? "/etc/nixos-containers"
+, stateDirectory ? "/var/lib/nixos-containers"
+}:
 
 substituteAll {
     name = "nixos-container";
@@ -9,6 +15,8 @@ substituteAll {
     su = "${shadow.su}/bin/su";
     utillinux = util-linux;
 
+    inherit configurationDirectory stateDirectory;
+
     postInstall = ''
       t=$out/share/bash-completion/completions
       mkdir -p $t