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Profile generation
Activation strategy
The activation script calls system-manager activate,
which will perform the following actions.
Systemd services
The info about services (name and store path of the service file) is found
in a file called services/services.json in the system-manager configuration directory.
The info about the services that were part of the previous generation is stored
in a state file at /var/lib/system-manager.
We then:
- Compare the list of services present in the current configuration with the ones stored in the state file from the previous generation.
- For all services in the new generation,
create a symlink from
/etc/systemd/system/<service name>to the service file in the nix store. - For all services present in the old generation but not in the new one:
- Stop the service.
- Remove the symlink from
/etc/systemd/system.
- Perform a systemd daemon-reload
- Start the services that are present in this generation and not in the previous one
- Restart services that are present in both
This approach basically ignores the wantedBy option.
A future version might improve upon this, but one of the complexities is that
NixOS does not encode the wantedBy option in the generated unit files, but
rather produces <unit name>.wants directories in the directory that
/etc/systemd/system gets linked to.
Supporting this properly would mean that we need to find a way to register
the wantedBy option on a non-NixOS system in a way such that we can use it.