This moves nixos-containers into its own package so that it can be
relied upon by other packages/systems. This should make development
using dynamic containers much easier.
When using `--ensure-unique-name`, don't needlessly append `"-0"` if the
container name is already unique.
This is especially helpful with NixOps since when it deploys to a
container it uses `--ensure-unique-name`. This means that the container
name will never match the deployment host due to the `"-0"`. Having the
container name and the host name match isn't exactly a requirement, but
it's nice to have and a small change.
This tells the sad tale of @the-kenny who had bind-mounted his home
directory into a container. After doing `nixos-container destroy` he
discovered that his home directory went from "full of precious data" to
"no more data".
We want to avoid having similar sad tales in the future, so this now also
check this in the containers VM test.
Signed-off-by: aszlig <aszlig@redmoonstudios.org>
This allows creating a container from an existing system store path,
which is especially nice for NixOps-deployed hosts because they don't
need a Nixpkgs tree anymore.
By default, socat only waits 0.5s for the remote side to finish after
getting EOF on the local side. So don't close the local side, instead
wait for socat to exit when the remote side finishes.
http://hydra.nixos.org/build/10663282
Using pkgs.lib on the spine of module evaluation is problematic
because the pkgs argument depends on the result of module
evaluation. To prevent an infinite recursion, pkgs and some of the
modules are evaluated twice, which is inefficient. Using ‘with lib’
prevents this problem.
