Relative path flakes ("subflakes") are basically fundamentally
broken, since they produce lock file entries like
"locked": {
"lastModified": 1,
"narHash": "sha256-/2tW9SKjQbRLzfcJs5SHijli6l3+iPr1235zylGynK8=",
"path": "./flakeC",
"type": "path"
},
that don't specify what "./flakeC" is relative to. They *sometimes*
worked by accident because the `narHash` field allowed
`fetchToStore()` to get the store path of the subflake *if* it
happened to exist in the local store or in a substituter.
Subflakes are properly fixed in #10089 (which adds a "parent" field to
the lock file). Rather than come up with some crazy hack to make them
work in the interim, let's just disable the only test that depends on
the broken behaviour for now.
Was hoping to leave this enabled for a little while as core community
members test this script out, but Apple's aggressive release timeline
for macOS 15 Sequoia has caught us off-guard here.
It's probably not ideal for a general audience if the script spews all
of this output--and people can still force bash to run in trace mode
if we really need to debug a problem.
Caused by 1d3696f0fb
Without this fix the kept build directory is readable only by root
```
$ sudo ls -ld /comp-temp/nix-build-openssh-static-x86_64-unknown-linux-musl-9.8p1.drv-5
drwx------ root root 60 B Wed Sep 11 00:09:48 2024 /comp-temp/nix-build-openssh-static-x86_64-unknown-linux-musl-9.8p1.drv-5/
$ sudo ls -ld /comp-temp/nix-build-openssh-static-x86_64-unknown-linux-musl-9.8p1.drv-5/build
drwxr-xr-x nixbld1 nixbld 80 B Wed Sep 11 00:09:58 2024 /comp-temp/nix-build-openssh-static-x86_64-unknown-linux-musl-9.8p1.drv-5/build/
```
When `nix fmt` is called without an argument, Nix appends the "." argument before calling the formatter. The comment in the code is:
> Format the current flake out of the box
This also happens when formatting sub-folders.
This means that the formatter is now unable to distinguish, as an interface, whether the "." argument is coming from the flake or the user's intent to format the current folder. This decision should be up to the formatter.
Treefmt, for example, will automatically look up the project's root and format all the files. This is the desired behaviour. But because the "." argument is passed, it cannot function as expected.
As a hacker, I should be able to checkout the repo, and find relevant
information on how to develop in the project somewhere in the top-level.
Either in the README.md, or CONTRIBUTING.md or HACKING.md files.
This PR symlinks the HACKING.md into the right place in the manual.
Fixes
$ nix flake metadata --store /tmp/nix nixpkgs
error: path '/tmp/nix/nix/store/65xpqkz92d9j7k5ric4z8lzhiigxsfbg-source/flake.nix' is not in the Nix store
This has been broken since 598deb2b23.
On macOS, `mkdir("x/')` behaves differently than `mkdir("x")` if `x` is
a dangling symlink (the formed succeed while the latter fails). So make
sure we always strip the trailing slash.
this should make it more obvious how things are related to each other, and also
hopefully expose the historical context without having to say on every
corner that these details are accounting for legacy decisions.
