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Diffstat (limited to 'nixos')
-rw-r--r-- | nixos/doc/manual/release-notes/rl-1903.xml | 8 | ||||
-rw-r--r-- | nixos/lib/make-system-tarball.sh | 2 | ||||
-rw-r--r-- | nixos/modules/system/etc/make-etc.sh | 15 | ||||
-rw-r--r-- | nixos/modules/system/etc/setup-etc.pl | 12 |
4 files changed, 29 insertions, 8 deletions
diff --git a/nixos/doc/manual/release-notes/rl-1903.xml b/nixos/doc/manual/release-notes/rl-1903.xml index 7ccbf65dd46a..3e42294a5f87 100644 --- a/nixos/doc/manual/release-notes/rl-1903.xml +++ b/nixos/doc/manual/release-notes/rl-1903.xml @@ -459,6 +459,14 @@ </listitem> <listitem> <para> + Symlinks in <filename>/etc</filename> are now relative instead of absolute, + so that the links can be followed if the NixOS installation is not mounted as filesystem root. + In particular, this makes <filename>/etc/os-release</filename> adhere to + <link xlink:href="https://www.freedesktop.org/software/systemd/man/os-release.html">the standard</link>. + </para> + </listitem> + <listitem> + <para> Flat volumes are now disabled by default in <literal>hardware.pulseaudio</literal>. This has been done to prevent applications, which are unaware of this feature, setting their volumes to 100% on startup causing harm to your audio hardware and potentially your ears. diff --git a/nixos/lib/make-system-tarball.sh b/nixos/lib/make-system-tarball.sh index 1a0017a1799a..6bce8fb0eea5 100644 --- a/nixos/lib/make-system-tarball.sh +++ b/nixos/lib/make-system-tarball.sh @@ -40,7 +40,7 @@ for ((n = 0; n < ${#objects[*]}; n++)); do symlink=${symlinks[$n]} if test "$symlink" != "none"; then mkdir -p $(dirname ./$symlink) - ln -s $object ./$symlink + ln -s --relative ./$object ./$symlink fi done diff --git a/nixos/modules/system/etc/make-etc.sh b/nixos/modules/system/etc/make-etc.sh index 1ca4c3046f0e..9c0520e92fc2 100644 --- a/nixos/modules/system/etc/make-etc.sh +++ b/nixos/modules/system/etc/make-etc.sh @@ -10,6 +10,11 @@ users_=($users) groups_=($groups) set +f +# Create relative symlinks, so that the links can be followed if +# the NixOS installation is not mounted as filesystem root. +# Absolute symlinks violate the os-release format +# at https://www.freedesktop.org/software/systemd/man/os-release.html +# and break e.g. systemd-nspawn and os-prober. for ((i = 0; i < ${#targets_[@]}; i++)); do source="${sources_[$i]}" target="${targets_[$i]}" @@ -19,14 +24,14 @@ for ((i = 0; i < ${#targets_[@]}; i++)); do # If the source name contains '*', perform globbing. mkdir -p $out/etc/$target for fn in $source; do - ln -s "$fn" $out/etc/$target/ + ln -s --relative "$fn" $out/etc/$target/ done else - + mkdir -p $out/etc/$(dirname $target) if ! [ -e $out/etc/$target ]; then - ln -s $source $out/etc/$target + ln -s --relative $source $out/etc/$target else echo "duplicate entry $target -> $source" if test "$(readlink $out/etc/$target)" != "$source"; then @@ -34,13 +39,13 @@ for ((i = 0; i < ${#targets_[@]}; i++)); do exit 1 fi fi - + if test "${modes_[$i]}" != symlink; then echo "${modes_[$i]}" > $out/etc/$target.mode echo "${users_[$i]}" > $out/etc/$target.uid echo "${groups_[$i]}" > $out/etc/$target.gid fi - + fi done diff --git a/nixos/modules/system/etc/setup-etc.pl b/nixos/modules/system/etc/setup-etc.pl index eed20065087f..6cbf0e17793d 100644 --- a/nixos/modules/system/etc/setup-etc.pl +++ b/nixos/modules/system/etc/setup-etc.pl @@ -4,6 +4,7 @@ use File::Copy; use File::Path; use File::Basename; use File::Slurp; +use File::Spec; my $etc = $ARGV[0] or die; my $static = "/etc/static"; @@ -12,7 +13,13 @@ sub atomicSymlink { my ($source, $target) = @_; my $tmp = "$target.tmp"; unlink $tmp; - symlink $source, $tmp or return 0; + # Create relative symlinks, so that the links can be followed if + # the NixOS installation is not mounted as filesystem root. + # Absolute symlinks violate the os-release format + # at https://www.freedesktop.org/software/systemd/man/os-release.html + # and break e.g. systemd-nspawn and os-prober. + my $rel = File::Spec->abs2rel($source, dirname $target); + symlink $rel, $tmp or return 0; rename $tmp, $target or return 0; return 1; } @@ -30,7 +37,8 @@ sub isStatic { if (-l $path) { my $target = readlink $path; - return substr($target, 0, length "/etc/static/") eq "/etc/static/"; + my $rel = File::Spec->abs2rel("/etc/static", dirname $path); + return substr($target, 0, length $rel) eq $rel; } if (-d $path) { |