nixos/nextcloud: default createLocally to false

nixos/doc/manual/release-notes/rl-2305.section.md

@@ -227,7 +227,6 @@ In addition to numerous new and upgraded packages, this release has the followin
 
 - [`services.nextcloud.database.createLocally`](#opt-services.nextcloud.database.createLocally) now uses socket authentication and is no longer compatible with password authentication.
   - If you want the module to manage the database for you, unset [`services.nextcloud.config.dbpassFile`](#opt-services.nextcloud.config.dbpassFile) (and [`services.nextcloud.config.dbhost`](#opt-services.nextcloud.config.dbhost), if it's set).
-  - If your database is external, simply set [`services.nextcloud.database.createLocally`](#opt-services.nextcloud.database.createLocally) to `false`.
   - If you want to use password authentication **and** create the database locally, you will have to use [`services.mysql`](#opt-services.mysql.enable) to set it up.
 
 - `protonmail-bridge` package has been updated to major version 3.

nixos/modules/services/web-apps/nextcloud.md

@@ -17,11 +17,12 @@ and optionally supports
 
 For the database, you can set
 [`services.nextcloud.config.dbtype`](#opt-services.nextcloud.config.dbtype) to
-either `sqlite` (the default), `mysql`, or `pgsql`. For the last two, by
+either `sqlite` (the default), `mysql`, or `pgsql`. The simplest is `sqlite`,
-default, a local database will be created and nextcloud will connect to it via
+which will be automatically created and managed by the application. For the
-socket; this can be disabled by setting
+last two, you can easily create a local database by setting
 [`services.nextcloud.database.createLocally`](#opt-services.nextcloud.database.createLocally)
-to `false`.
+to `true`, Nextcloud will automatically be configured to connect to it through
+socket.
 
 A very basic configuration may look like this:
 ```
@@ -30,6 +31,7 @@ A very basic configuration may look like this:
   services.nextcloud = {
     enable = true;
     hostName = "nextcloud.tld";
+    database.createLocally = true;
     config = {
       dbtype = "pgsql";
       adminpassFile = "/path/to/admin-pass-file";

nixos/modules/services/web-apps/nextcloud.nix

@@ -317,7 +317,7 @@ in {
 
       createLocally = mkOption {
         type = types.bool;
-        default = true;
+        default = false;
         description = lib.mdDoc ''
           Create the database and database user locally.
         '';
@@ -741,9 +741,8 @@ in {
     { assertions = [
       { assertion = cfg.database.createLocally -> cfg.config.dbpassFile == null;
         message = ''
-          Using `services.nextcloud.database.createLocally` (that now defaults
+          Using `services.nextcloud.database.createLocally` with database
-          to true) with database password authentication is no longer
+          password authentication is no longer supported.
-          supported.
 
           If you use an external database (or want to use password auth for any
           other reason), set `services.nextcloud.database.createLocally` to

nixos/tests/nextcloud/basic.nix

@@ -43,6 +43,7 @@ in {
         enable = true;
         datadir = "/var/lib/nextcloud-data";
         hostName = "nextcloud";
+        database.createLocally = true;
         config = {
           # Don't inherit adminuser since "root" is supposed to be the default
           adminpassFile = "${pkgs.writeText "adminpass" adminpass}"; # Don't try this at home!

nixos/tests/nextcloud/openssl-sse.nix

@@ -9,6 +9,7 @@ args@{ pkgs, nextcloudVersion ? 25, ... }:
     services.nextcloud = {
       enable = true;
       config.adminpassFile = "${pkgs.writeText "adminpass" adminpass}";
+      database.createLocally = true;
       package = pkgs.${"nextcloud" + (toString nextcloudVersion)};
     };
   };

nixos/tests/nextcloud/with-mysql-and-memcached.nix

@@ -26,6 +26,7 @@ in {
           redis = false;
           memcached = true;
         };
+        database.createLocally = true;
         config = {
           dbtype = "mysql";
           # Don't inherit adminuser since "root" is supposed to be the default

nixos/tests/nextcloud/with-postgresql-and-redis.nix

@@ -25,6 +25,7 @@ in {
           redis = true;
           memcached = false;
         };
+        database.createLocally = true;
         config = {
           dbtype = "pgsql";
           inherit adminuser;