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| author | Tuomas Tynkkynen <tuomas.tynkkynen@iki.fi> | 2018-09-30 03:18:58 +0300 |
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| committer | Tuomas Tynkkynen <tuomas.tynkkynen@iki.fi> | 2018-09-30 03:18:58 +0300 |
| commit | 74df71bc8b446dd803aed3990a1148f258772f65 (patch) | |
| tree | 24ff3043c6cfc2d19ba0a9f93871ccb388238c6c /nixos/doc/manual/administration | |
| parent | 02658a72760a7d137a3b0e47812da137ad0a8e03 (diff) | |
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Revert "doc: Update section about imperative containers"
This reverts commit f309440ee3b6830fd886f824be81b0fecfba52fc. Breaks manual build: https://nix-cache.s3.amazonaws.com/log/wnjcy6n5f871bpyy9nd06smiz1ggv99c-nixos-manual-combined.drv
Diffstat (limited to 'nixos/doc/manual/administration')
| -rw-r--r-- | nixos/doc/manual/administration/imperative-containers.xml | 22 |
1 files changed, 11 insertions, 11 deletions
diff --git a/nixos/doc/manual/administration/imperative-containers.xml b/nixos/doc/manual/administration/imperative-containers.xml index cfd0e5c172b..9bb62bc2ece 100644 --- a/nixos/doc/manual/administration/imperative-containers.xml +++ b/nixos/doc/manual/administration/imperative-containers.xml @@ -73,7 +73,8 @@ Linux foo 3.4.82 #1-NixOS SMP Thu Mar 20 14:44:05 UTC 2014 x86_64 GNU/Linux </para> <para> - To change the configuration of the container, you can edit + There are several ways to change the configuration of the container. First, + on the host, you can edit <literal>/var/lib/container/<replaceable>name</replaceable>/etc/nixos/configuration.nix</literal>, and run <screen> @@ -86,16 +87,7 @@ 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 ]; - ' - - <para> - 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:ref="https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/issues/40355">the github issue</link> for tracking progress on this issue. - </para> +' # curl http://$(nixos-container show-ip foo)/ <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 3.2 Final//EN">… @@ -105,6 +97,14 @@ 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. + </para> + + <para> Containers can be stopped and started using <literal>nixos-container stop</literal> and <literal>nixos-container start</literal>, respectively, or by using <command>systemctl</command> on the container’s service unit. To |