On Fri, Apr 23, 2010 at 01:04:02PM +0400, Yury G. Kudryashov wrote: > Eelco Dolstra wrote: > > > Hi, > > > >> I propose to use /var/run/firmware:/root/test-firmware path, and symlink > >> /var/run/firmware to /nix/store/hash-firmware. /nix/store/hash-firmware > >> will contain symlinks to all files in hardware.firmware directory. This > >> will not allow us to modify the set of firmware files symlinked to > >> /var/run/firmware after the system is built, but for emergency case we'll > >> have impure /root/test-firmware path. > > > > Sounds good, but to improve the atomicity of switching to a new > > configuration, you could use /var/run/current-system/firmware instead of > > /var/run/firmware (and then create a "firmware" symlink in the "system" > > derivation). > Actually, I've commited /etc/firmware yesterday. Of course, /etc/firmware > will be symlinked to /etc/static/firmware.
/etc/static/ is a special place for etc files almost directly set in the nixos expression tree. I don't think you want to go through /etc/static. In any case, I prefer the /var/run/current-system/firmware path. _______________________________________________ nix-dev mailing list [email protected] https://mail.cs.uu.nl/mailman/listinfo/nix-dev
