diff options
| author | Marek Mahut <marek.mahut@gmail.com> | 2020-08-03 15:56:56 +0200 |
|---|---|---|
| committer | GitHub <noreply@github.com> | 2020-08-03 15:56:56 +0200 |
| commit | 4181ae25bffd50169b3c2ff951db3b7f84afa8c0 (patch) | |
| tree | 9db59ecd7709c8f3e1630017cea273fe8b269203 /nixos/doc | |
| parent | b6c3c725c61f297744cdb8609d87e9e49969bd5e (diff) | |
| parent | 89b9c3ab9201b3a9adf3627b3546f1d9c805c70c (diff) | |
| download | nixpkgs-4181ae25bffd50169b3c2ff951db3b7f84afa8c0.tar nixpkgs-4181ae25bffd50169b3c2ff951db3b7f84afa8c0.tar.gz nixpkgs-4181ae25bffd50169b3c2ff951db3b7f84afa8c0.tar.bz2 nixpkgs-4181ae25bffd50169b3c2ff951db3b7f84afa8c0.tar.lz nixpkgs-4181ae25bffd50169b3c2ff951db3b7f84afa8c0.tar.xz nixpkgs-4181ae25bffd50169b3c2ff951db3b7f84afa8c0.tar.zst nixpkgs-4181ae25bffd50169b3c2ff951db3b7f84afa8c0.zip | |
Merge pull request #94166 from 1000101/bitcoind
release-notes/rl-2009: amend bitcoind incompatibility
Diffstat (limited to 'nixos/doc')
| -rw-r--r-- | nixos/doc/manual/release-notes/rl-2009.xml | 39 |
1 files changed, 30 insertions, 9 deletions
diff --git a/nixos/doc/manual/release-notes/rl-2009.xml b/nixos/doc/manual/release-notes/rl-2009.xml index e03a5f5ce5c..2225619d481 100644 --- a/nixos/doc/manual/release-notes/rl-2009.xml +++ b/nixos/doc/manual/release-notes/rl-2009.xml @@ -544,21 +544,42 @@ systemd.services.nginx.serviceConfig.ReadWritePaths = [ "/var/www" ]; to be used for every display-manager in NixOS. </para> </listitem> - <listitem> + <listitem> <para> The <literal>bitcoind</literal> module has changed to multi-instance, using submodules. - Therefore, it is now mandatory to name each instance, e.g.: + Therefore, it is now mandatory to name each instance. + To use this new multi-instance config with an existing bitcoind data directory and user, + you have to adjust the original config, e.g.: <programlisting> -services.bitcoind = { - enable = true; -}; + services.bitcoind = { + enable = true; + extraConfig = "..."; + ... + }; </programlisting> - requires a name now: + To something similar: <programlisting> -services.bitcoind."example-mainnet" = { - enable = true; -}; + services.bitcoind.mainnet = { + enable = true; + dataDir = "/var/lib/bitcoind"; + user = "bitcoin"; + extraConfig = "..."; + ... + }; </programlisting> + The key settings are: + <itemizedlist> + <listitem> + <para> + <literal>dataDir</literal> - to continue using the same data directory. + </para> + </listitem> + <listitem> + <para> + <literal>user</literal> - to continue using the same user so that bitcoind maintains access to its files. + </para> + </listitem> + </itemizedlist> </para> </listitem> <listitem> |