This change rework a bit the documentation on networking.sits to explain
what they actually are. In fact, there are three different protocols
being collectively called "SIT", which itself is a nonstandard term.
There is no canonical way to set a system domain name any longer. The one
we previously used was the NIS/YP one, but that is pointless these days.
The hostname is set up through /etc/hostname, but hostname(5) states that
it should only contain 64 7-bit ASCII characters, so it cannot be used
to cover the domain name.
We still support setting the domain name to complete the `fqdn` option
and as a central option to reference the domain name from. If anyone
wants a NIS/YP domain name set, do it yourself..
We then clarify that the domain option has nothing to do with DNS
resolution anymore and search should be configured instead.
Finally explain the purpose of the ndots option in the context of search
domains, since they decide when we stop considering the search domains
when querying names with more than one dot.
The `domainname` utility uses setdomainname (see getdomainname(2)) to
configure the NIS[1] (also known as YP) domain name.
It provided a central directory for various objects that are resolved via
nsswitch in the late 1990s and early 2000s.
It is however not a safe nor common deployment scenario anymore.
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Network_Information_Service
This is first and foremost to provide compat with scripts that call the
hostname executable to retrieve the hostname, an assumptions we probably
should not be breaking.
Format all Nix files using the officially approved formatter,
making the CI check introduced in the previous commit succeed:
nix-build ci -A fmt.check
This is the next step of the of the [implementation](https://github.com/NixOS/nixfmt/issues/153)
of the accepted [RFC 166](https://github.com/NixOS/rfcs/pull/166).
This commit will lead to merge conflicts for a number of PRs,
up to an estimated ~1100 (~33%) among the PRs with activity in the past 2
months, but that should be lower than what it would be without the previous
[partial treewide format](https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/pull/322537).
Merge conflicts caused by this commit can now automatically be resolved while rebasing using the
[auto-rebase script](8616af08d9/maintainers/scripts/auto-rebase).
If you run into any problems regarding any of this, please reach out to the
[formatting team](https://nixos.org/community/teams/formatting/) by
pinging @NixOS/nix-formatting.
In preparation for the deprecation of `stdenv.isX`.
These shorthands are not conducive to cross-compilation because they
hide the platforms.
Darwin might get cross-compilation for which the continued usage of `stdenv.isDarwin` will get in the way
One example of why this is bad and especially affects compiler packages
https://www.github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/pull/343059
There are too many files to go through manually but a treewide should
get users thinking when they see a `hostPlatform.isX` in a place where it
doesn't make sense.
```
fd --type f "\.nix" | xargs sd --fixed-strings "stdenv.is" "stdenv.hostPlatform.is"
fd --type f "\.nix" | xargs sd --fixed-strings "stdenv'.is" "stdenv'.hostPlatform.is"
fd --type f "\.nix" | xargs sd --fixed-strings "clangStdenv.is" "clangStdenv.hostPlatform.is"
fd --type f "\.nix" | xargs sd --fixed-strings "gccStdenv.is" "gccStdenv.hostPlatform.is"
fd --type f "\.nix" | xargs sd --fixed-strings "stdenvNoCC.is" "stdenvNoCC.hostPlatform.is"
fd --type f "\.nix" | xargs sd --fixed-strings "inherit (stdenv) is" "inherit (stdenv.hostPlatform) is"
fd --type f "\.nix" | xargs sd --fixed-strings "buildStdenv.is" "buildStdenv.hostPlatform.is"
fd --type f "\.nix" | xargs sd --fixed-strings "effectiveStdenv.is" "effectiveStdenv.hostPlatform.is"
fd --type f "\.nix" | xargs sd --fixed-strings "originalStdenv.is" "originalStdenv.hostPlatform.is"
```
these changes were generated with nixq 0.0.2, by running
nixq ">> lib.mdDoc[remove] Argument[keep]" --batchmode nixos/**.nix
nixq ">> mdDoc[remove] Argument[keep]" --batchmode nixos/**.nix
nixq ">> Inherit >> mdDoc[remove]" --batchmode nixos/**.nix
two mentions of the mdDoc function remain in nixos/, both of which
are inside of comments.
Since lib.mdDoc is already defined as just id, this commit is a no-op as
far as Nix (and the built manual) is concerned.
In 759ec111 the ping setuid wrapper was removed in favour of giving
permissions to perform ICMP echo requests to all users.
The problem is that the systemd file that was supposed to change the
`net.ipv4.ping_group_range` sysctl is not always installed, specifically
only if systemd.coredump.enable.
In that case the range is "0 1", which is effectively restricts ping to
only root.
This change explicitely sets the range to "0 2^31-1", as systemd does.
The networkd backend logic for setting DHCP= on an interface is bugged
and inconsistent with the scripted logic. Consider this simple NixOS
configuration:
{
networking.useNetworkd = true;
networking.interfaces.eth0.wakeOnLan.enable = true;
}
The default value of networking.useDHCP is true, so we expect our eth0
interface to have DHCP enabled. With the scripted backend, this works.
But the networkd backend generates the following 40-eth0.network file:
[Match]
Name=eth0
[Network]
DHCP=no
IPv6PrivacyExtensions=kernel
This is happening because the wakeOnLan configuration creates a key in
networking.interfaces, and the networkd backend erroneously checks that
instead of for explicitly configured IP addresses as in the scripted
backend. The documentation is also inconsistent across various options.
This change aligns the networkd backend and option documentation to the
actual behavior of the scripted backend, and updates a test to account
for this behavior for both backends.
Adds an option to configure a custom WakeOnLan policy instead of the
hard-coded "magic" policy. To ensure compatibility with current
behavior, "magic" is kept as default.
From systemd 243 release note[1]:
This release enables unprivileged programs (i.e. requiring neither
setuid nor file capabilities) to send ICMP Echo (i.e. ping) requests
by turning on the "net.ipv4.ping_group_range" sysctl of the Linux
kernel for the whole UNIX group range, i.e. all processes.
So this wrapper is not needed any more.
See also [2] and [3].
This patch also removes:
- apparmor profiles in NixOS for ping itself and the wrapped one
- other references for the wrapped ping
[1]: 8e2d9d40b3/NEWS (L6457-L6464)
[2]: https://github.com/systemd/systemd/pull/13141
[3]: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Changes/EnableSysctlPingGroupRange
This change includes some stuff (e.g. reading of the `.real` file,
execution of the wrapper's target) that belongs to the apparmor policy
of the wrapper. This necessitates making them distinct for each wrapper.
The main reason for this change is as a preparation for making each
wrapper be a distinct binary.
Only trigger the privacy address override for a given interface when
that interface is added. Without restricting the rule to the
interface, this command would be run when any interface is added.
