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author | Graham Christensen <graham@grahamc.com> | 2018-09-29 20:37:11 -0400 |
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committer | Graham Christensen <graham@grahamc.com> | 2018-09-29 20:43:06 -0400 |
commit | 9622cd3b38ddbc7faa4cac2a48dbd70bd99570d0 (patch) | |
tree | 292ff541ba2c5cc3af81b6cfba267d37ce201fbc /nixos | |
parent | 243e28bc96db0827eebfe2769de7e4393f791ca0 (diff) |
Revert "Revert "doc: Update section about imperative containers""
I fixed the problem. This reverts commit 74df71bc8b446dd803aed3990a1148f258772f65.
Diffstat (limited to 'nixos')
-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 9bb62bc2ece9e..fa380477f6cba 100644 --- a/nixos/doc/manual/administration/imperative-containers.xml +++ b/nixos/doc/manual/administration/imperative-containers.xml @@ -73,8 +73,7 @@ Linux foo 3.4.82 #1-NixOS SMP Thu Mar 20 14:44:05 UTC 2014 x86_64 GNU/Linux </para> <para> - There are several ways to change the configuration of the container. First, - on the host, you can edit + To change the configuration of the container, you can edit <literal>/var/lib/container/<replaceable>name</replaceable>/etc/nixos/configuration.nix</literal>, and run <screen> @@ -87,8 +86,7 @@ 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> @@ -97,11 +95,13 @@ Linux foo 3.4.82 #1-NixOS SMP Thu Mar 20 14:44:05 UTC 2014 x86_64 GNU/Linux </para> <para> - 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. + 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. </para> <para> |