systemd: drop 0016-systemctl-edit-suggest-systemdctl-edit-runtime-on-sy.patch

This is entirely a "usability" patch which as per the new patch policy
is not allowed.
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nikstur
2026-02-08 16:45:01 +01:00
parent ab1dc94dd3
commit 8b5d4b743c
3 changed files with 0 additions and 57 deletions

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@@ -125,17 +125,6 @@
# wait for user services
machine.wait_for_unit("default.target", "alice")
with subtest("systemctl edit suggests --runtime"):
# --runtime is suggested when using `systemctl edit`
ret, out = machine.execute("systemctl edit testservice1.service 2>&1")
assert ret == 1
assert out.rstrip("\n") == "The unit-directory '/etc/systemd/system' is read-only on NixOS, so it's not possible to edit system-units directly. Use 'systemctl edit --runtime' instead."
# editing w/o `--runtime` is possible for user-services, however
# it's not possible because we're not in a tty when grepping
# (i.e. hacky way to ensure that the error from above doesn't appear here).
_, out = machine.execute("systemctl --user edit testservice2.service 2>&1")
assert out.rstrip("\n") == "Cannot edit units interactively if not on a tty."
# Regression test for https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/issues/105049
with subtest("systemd reads timezone database in /etc/zoneinfo"):
timer = machine.succeed("TZ=UTC systemctl show --property=TimersCalendar oncalendar-test.timer")

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@@ -1,45 +0,0 @@
From 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Maximilian Bosch <maximilian@mbosch.me>
Date: Fri, 1 Sep 2023 09:57:02 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] systemctl-edit: suggest `systemdctl edit --runtime` on system
scope
This is a NixOS-specific change. When trying to modify a unit with
`systemctl edit` on NixOS, it'll fail with "Read-only file system":
$ systemctl edit libvirtd
Failed to open "/etc/systemd/system/libvirtd.service.d/.#override.conffa9825a0c9a249eb": Read-only file system
This is because `/etc/systemd/system` is a symlink into the store. In
fact, I'd consider this a feature rather than a bug since this ensures I
don't introduce state imperatively.
However, people wrongly assume that it's not possible to edit units
ad-hoc and re-deploy their system for quick&dirty debugging where this
would be absolutely fine (and doable with `--runtime` which adds a
transient and non-persistent unit override in `/run`).
To make sure that people learn about it quicker, this patch
throws an error which suggests using `--runtime` when running
`systemctl edit` on the system scope.
For the user scope this isn't needed because user-level unit overrides
are written into `$XDG_CONFIG_HOME/systemd/user`.
---
src/systemctl/systemctl-edit.c | 3 +++
1 file changed, 3 insertions(+)
diff --git a/src/systemctl/systemctl-edit.c b/src/systemctl/systemctl-edit.c
index a28180922a..22c9c8fdbd 100644
--- a/src/systemctl/systemctl-edit.c
+++ b/src/systemctl/systemctl-edit.c
@@ -336,6 +336,9 @@ int verb_edit(int argc, char *argv[], void *userdata) {
sd_bus *bus = NULL;
int r;
+ if (!arg_runtime && arg_runtime_scope == RUNTIME_SCOPE_SYSTEM)
+ return log_error_errno(SYNTHETIC_ERRNO(EINVAL), "The unit-directory '/etc/systemd/system' is read-only on NixOS, so it's not possible to edit system-units directly. Use 'systemctl edit --runtime' instead.");
+
if (!on_tty() && !arg_stdin)
return log_error_errno(SYNTHETIC_ERRNO(EINVAL), "Cannot edit units interactively if not on a tty.");

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@@ -242,7 +242,6 @@ stdenv.mkDerivation (finalAttrs: {
./0009-add-rootprefix-to-lookup-dir-paths.patch
./0012-path-util.h-add-placeholder-for-DEFAULT_PATH_NORMAL.patch
./0014-core-don-t-taint-on-unmerged-usr.patch
./0016-systemctl-edit-suggest-systemdctl-edit-runtime-on-sy.patch
# systemd tries to link the systemd-ssh-proxy ssh config snippet with tmpfiles
# if the install prefix is not /usr, but that does not work for us