Eelco has made several early contributions to NixOS including writing
the samba module among other things, but is more or less inactive these
days.
By my brief inspection, he has not committed to the nixos/ tree since
releasing Nix 2.13 in early 2023 and merging a PR to networking tests
slightly before that. A lot of these tests/modules are actually
unmaintained in practice, so we should update the code to reflect the
practical reality so someone can consider picking them up.
In https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/pull/142747, the implementation
behind Machine.execute() has been changed to pipe all the command's
output into base64 on the guest machine.
Unfortunately this means that base64 is blocking until stdout is closed,
which in turn means that we now need to make sure that whenever we run a
program in background via "&" we also need to make sure to close stdout,
which we do by redirecting stdout to stderr.
Signed-off-by: aszlig <aszlig@nix.build>
In commit a61ca0373b (#100267), the avahi
test expression got an additional attribute, but instead of wrapping the
function, the attributes were introduced by nesting the function one
level deeper.
To illustrate this:
Before: attrs: <testdrv>
After: newattrs: attrs: <testdrv>
So when instantiating tests.avahi.x86_64-linux from nixos/release.nix we
get "value is a function while a set was expected" instead of the
derivation.
I simply re-passed the attributes to make-test-python.nix, since the
function already allows (via "...") arbitrary attributes to be passed.
The reason why I'm pushing this directly to master is because evaluation
for the test is already broken and the worst that could happen here is
that things are *still* broken.
Signed-off-by: aszlig <aszlig@nix.build>
Cc: @flokli, @doronbehar
You can now run a test in the nixos/tests directory directly using
nix-build, e.g.
$ nix-build '<nixos/tests/login.nix>' -A test
This gets rid of having to add the test to nixos/tests/default.nix.
(Of course, you still need to add it to nixos/release.nix if you want
Hydra to run the test.)
