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@telent telent commented Feb 20, 2018

Motivation for this change

Upstream Monit optionally uses OpenSSL to provide HTTPS support in its builtin admin web server. Being able to turn off SSL in Nixpkgs' monit derivation makes it much easier to build Monit on embedded systems - and the resulting package is smaller.

Security implication: if you choose not to build in openssl then you should probably configure Monit to allow HTTP access only from localhost (or over trusted networks only)

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  • Tested using sandboxing (nix.useSandbox on NixOS, or option build-use-sandbox in nix.conf on non-NixOS)
  • Built on platform(s)
    • NixOS
    • macOS
    • other Linux distributions
  • Tested via one or more NixOS test(s) if existing and applicable for the change (look inside nixos/tests)
  • Tested compilation of all pkgs that depend on this change using nix-shell -p nox --run "nox-review wip"
  • Tested execution of all binary files (usually in ./result/bin/)
  • Fits CONTRIBUTING.md.

Upstream Monit optionally uses OpenSSL to provide TLS support in its
builtin admin web server.  Being able to turn off SSL in Nixpkgs'
monit derivation makes it much easier to build Monit on embedded
systems.

Security implication: if you choose not to build in openssl
then you should probably configure Monit to allow access only from
localhost.
@GrahamcOfBorg GrahamcOfBorg added 10.rebuild-darwin: 0 This PR does not cause any packages to rebuild on Darwin. 10.rebuild-linux: 1-10 This PR causes between 1 and 10 packages to rebuild on Linux. labels Feb 20, 2018
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Mic92 commented Feb 20, 2018

maybe you are also interested in NixOS/rfcs#23

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telent commented Feb 21, 2018

maybe you are also interested in NixOS/rfcs#23

Very much so, although I haven't had time to respond to the RFC yet. Just been bringing NixWRT up to date with master so that I can play with the musl support myself.

@bjornfor bjornfor added the 6.topic: cross-compilation Building packages on a different platform than they will be used on label Mar 19, 2018
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Looks good! @Mic92 any objections?

@Mic92 Mic92 merged commit 9d7959d into NixOS:master Apr 21, 2018
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