# Provide an initial copy of the NixOS channel so that the user # doesn't need to run "nix-channel --update" first. { config, lib, pkgs, ... }: with lib; let # This is copied into the installer image, so it's important that it is filtered # to avoid including a large .git directory. # We also want the source name to be normalised to "source" to avoid depending on the # location of nixpkgs. # In the future we might want to expose the ISO image from the flake and use # `self.outPath` directly instead. nixpkgs = lib.cleanSource pkgs.path; # We need a copy of the Nix expressions for Nixpkgs and NixOS on the # CD. These are installed into the "nixos" channel of the root # user, as expected by nixos-rebuild/nixos-install. FIXME: merge # with make-channel.nix. channelSources = pkgs.runCommand "nixos-${config.system.nixos.version}" { preferLocalBuild = true; } '' mkdir -p $out cp -prd ${nixpkgs.outPath} $out/nixos chmod -R u+w $out/nixos if [ ! -e $out/nixos/nixpkgs ]; then ln -s . $out/nixos/nixpkgs fi ${optionalString (config.system.nixos.revision != null) '' echo -n ${config.system.nixos.revision} > $out/nixos/.git-revision ''} echo -n ${config.system.nixos.versionSuffix} > $out/nixos/.version-suffix echo ${config.system.nixos.versionSuffix} | sed -e s/pre// > $out/nixos/svn-revision ''; in { # Pin the nixpkgs flake in the installer to our cleaned up nixpkgs source. # FIXME: this might be surprising and is really only needed for offline installations, # see discussion in https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/pull/204178#issuecomment-1336289021 nix.registry.nixpkgs.to = { type = "path"; path = nixpkgs; }; # Provide the NixOS/Nixpkgs sources in /etc/nixos. This is required # for nixos-install. boot.postBootCommands = mkAfter '' if ! [ -e /var/lib/nixos/did-channel-init ]; then echo "unpacking the NixOS/Nixpkgs sources..." mkdir -p /nix/var/nix/profiles/per-user/root ${config.nix.package.out}/bin/nix-env -p /nix/var/nix/profiles/per-user/root/channels \ -i ${channelSources} --quiet --option build-use-substitutes false \ ${optionalString config.boot.initrd.systemd.enable "--option sandbox false"} # There's an issue with pivot_root mkdir -m 0700 -p /root/.nix-defexpr ln -s /nix/var/nix/profiles/per-user/root/channels /root/.nix-defexpr/channels mkdir -m 0755 -p /var/lib/nixos touch /var/lib/nixos/did-channel-init fi ''; }