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Revert "doc: Update section about imperative containers"
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dezgeg committed Sep 30, 2018
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</para>

<para>
To change the configuration of the container, you can edit
There are several ways to change the configuration of the container. First,
on the host, you can edit
<literal>/var/lib/container/<replaceable>name</replaceable>/etc/nixos/configuration.nix</literal>,
and run
<screen>
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<xref linkend="opt-services.httpd.enable"/> = true;
<xref linkend="opt-services.httpd.adminAddr"/> = "foo@example.org";
<xref linkend="opt-networking.firewall.allowedTCPPorts"/> = [ 80 ];
'

<para>
Note that in previous versions of NixOS (17.09 and earlier) one could
also use all nix-related commands (like <command>nixos-rebuild switch</command>)
from inside the container. However, since the release of Nix 2.0 this
is not supported anymore. Supporting Nix commands inside the
container might be possible again in future versions. See
<link xlink:ref="https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/issues/40355">the github issue</link> for tracking progress on this issue.
</para>
'

# curl http://$(nixos-container show-ip foo)/
&lt;!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 3.2 Final//EN">…
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<filename>/etc/nixos/configuration.nix</filename>.
</para>

<para>
Alternatively, you can change the configuration from within the container
itself by running <command>nixos-rebuild switch</command> inside the
container. Note that the container by default does not have a copy of the
NixOS channel, so you should run <command>nix-channel --update</command>
first.
</para>

<para>
Containers can be stopped and started using <literal>nixos-container
stop</literal> and <literal>nixos-container start</literal>, respectively, or
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