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authorMaximilian Bosch <maximilian@mbosch.me>2019-08-24 16:52:17 +0200
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nixos/treewide: drop dependencies to `keys.target`
The `keys.target` is used to indicate whether all NixOps keys were
successfully uploaded on an unattended reboot. However this can cause
startup issues e.g. with NixOS containers (see #67265) and can block
boots even though this might not be needed (e.g. with a dovecot2
instance running that doesn't need any of the NixOps keys).

As described in the NixOps manual[1], dependencies to keys should be
defined like this now:

``` nix
{
  systemd.services.myservice = {
    after = [ "secret-key.service" ];
    wants = [ "secret-key.service" ];
  };
}
```

However I'd leave the issue open until it's discussed whether or not to
keep `keys.target` in `nixpkgs`.

[1] https://nixos.org/nixops/manual/#idm140737322342384
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@@ -291,6 +291,26 @@
        configuration while being better type-checked and mergeable.
      </para>
    </listitem>
+   <listitem>
+    <para>
+     No service depends on <literal>keys.target</literal> anymore which is a systemd
+     target that indicates if all <link xlink:href="https://nixos.org/nixops/manual/#idm140737322342384">NixOps keys</link> were successfully uploaded.
+     Instead, <literal>&lt;key-name&gt;-key.service</literal> should be used to define
+     a dependency of a key in a service. The full issue behind the <literal>keys.target</literal>
+     dependency is described at <link xlink:href="https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/issues/67265">NixOS/nixpkgs#67265</link>.
+    </para>
+    <para>
+     The following services are affected by this:
+     <itemizedlist>
+      <listitem><para><link linkend="opt-services.dovecot2.enable"><literal>services.dovecot2</literal></link></para></listitem>
+      <listitem><para><link linkend="opt-services.nsd.enable"><literal>services.nsd</literal></link></para></listitem>
+      <listitem><para><link linkend="opt-services.softether.enable"><literal>services.softether</literal></link></para></listitem>
+      <listitem><para><link linkend="opt-services.strongswan.enable"><literal>services.strongswan</literal></link></para></listitem>
+      <listitem><para><link linkend="opt-services.strongswan-swanctl.enable"><literal>services.strongswan-swanctl</literal></link></para></listitem>
+      <listitem><para><link linkend="opt-services.httpd.enable"><literal>services.httpd</literal></link></para></listitem>
+     </itemizedlist>
+    </para>
+   </listitem>
   </itemizedlist>
  </section>