The thunderbird derivation is using `buildMozillaMach` these days,
shared with Firefox and Librefox, so it is probably the correct
, although more complicated, successor.
This is preferable because it prevents things like disk corruption (requiring the user to delete the disk image when starting up) that I consistently ran into.
Move the manpage-to-URL mapping to `doc/manpage-urls.json` so that we can
reuse that file elsewhere, and generate the `link-manpages.lua` filter from
that file.
Also modify the Pandoc filter so that it doesn't wrap manpages that are
already inside a link.
Keeping a Lua filter is essential for speed: a Python filter would
increase the runtime `md-to-db.sh` from ~20s to ~30s (but Python is not
to blame; marshalling Pandoc types to and from JSON is a costly operation).
Parsing in Lua seems tedious, so I went with the Nix way.
The new derivation should evaluate only if the old derivation does.
Sadly this means that the old derivation cannot depend on the new one
any more, which was used by xorgserver on Darwin. But this is not a
problem as `overrideAttrs` can (and should) usually be used instead.
This change allowed catching an invalid `meta.platforms` in the linux_rpi
kernels, which use `overrideDerivation`.
The trailing `'` was included by mistake and is not supposed
to be there:
```ShellSession
$ base64 -w0 /etc/ssh/ssh_host_ed25519_key.pub
c3NoLWVkMjU1MTkgQUFBQUMzTnphQzFsWkRJMU5URTVBQUFBSUpCV2N4Yi9CbGFxdDFhdU90RStGOFFVV3JVb3RpQzVxQkorVXVFV2RWQ2Igcm9vdEBuaXhvcwo=
```
The reason it did not cause issues before is because
Nix ignores everything after the `=`:
3dbf9b5af5/src/libutil/util.cc (L1539-L1540)
… so it's harmless but still worth fixing.
- Extensive documentation in NixOS manual
- Deterministic mode that fixes various identifiers relative to disk
partitions and filesystems in ext4 case
- UEFI variable recording
Building the nixpkgs manual currently triggers a bunch of deprecation
warnings, because every attribute in `lib` is evaluated to see if it's
an attrset to generate locations for.
Instead, share the lib subsets to include in the documentation
between `lib-function-docs` and `lib-function-locations` so they can
coordinate.
Also generate the list of sections instead of duplicating it in
`library.xml`.
Presenting an example with a patch (without even providing that patch!) is not ideal. Since `npm pack` now obeys `--ignore-scripts`, we can use that instead.
Avoids confusion: `vim-full`'s build-time features are configurable, but both
`vim` and `vim-full` are *customizable* (in the sense of user configuration).
If all the docs are auto-generated, it should be easier to convert
them to Commonmark.
Co-Authored-By: Valentin Gagarin <valentin.gagarin@tweag.io>
Co-Authored-By: Silvan Mosberger <contact@infinisil.com>
The nixpkgs manual contains references to both sri hash and explicit
sha256 attributes. This is at best confusing to new users. Since the
final destination is exclusive use of sri hashes, see nixos/rfcs#131,
might as well push new users in that direction gently.
Notable exceptions to sri hash support are builtins.fetchTarball,
cataclysm-dda, coq, dockerTools.pullimage, elixir.override, and
fetchCrate. None, other than builtins.fetchTarball, are fundamentally
incompatible, but all currently accept explicit sha256 attributes as
input. Because adding backwards compatibility is out of scope for this
change, they have been left intact, but migration to sri format has been
made for any using old hash formats.
All hashes have been manually tested to be accurate, and updates were
only made for missing upstream artefacts or bugs.
Promote the `maintainers = with maintainers; [ ]` syntax as that is most common
in nixpkgs, and remove the `nix-env` example which doesn't work like that anymore.
The `sparseCheckout` argument allows the user to specify directories or
patterns of files, which Git uses to filter files it should check-out.
Git expects a multi-line string on stdin ("newline-delimited list", see
`git-sparse-checkout(1)`), but within nixpkgs it is more consistent to
use a list of strings instead. The list elements are joined to a
multi-line string only before passing it to the builder script.
A deprecation warning is emitted if a (multi-line) string is passed to
`sparseCheckout`, but for the time being it is still accepted.
It gives a warning on the lazy-trees branch of Nix
(NixOS/nix#6530)
one of these was also giving me an error (the one in lib/trivial probably)
```
$ nix build
warning: applying 'toString' to path '/home/artturin/nixgits/my-nixpkgs/nixos/modules/installer/sd-card/sd
-image-aarch64.nix' and then accessing it is deprecated, at /home/artturin/nixgits/my-nixpkgs/lib/modules.
nix:349:99
warning: applying 'toString' to path '/home/artturin/nixgits/my-nixpkgs/.git' and then accessing it is dep
recated, at /home/artturin/nixgits/my-nixpkgs/lib/sources.nix:35:32
warning: applying 'toString' to path '/home/artturin/nixgits/my-nixpkgs/nixos/modules/system/etc/etc.nix'
and then accessing it is deprecated, at «stdin»:0
warning: applying 'toString' to path '/home/artturin/nixgits/my-nixpkgs/nixos/modules/system/etc/etc-activ
ation.nix' and then accessing it is deprecated, at «stdin»:0
warning: applying 'toString' to path '/home/artturin/nixgits/my-nixpkgs/nixos/modules/installer/sd-card/sd
-image-aarch64.nix' and then accessing it is deprecated, at «stdin»:0
error: cannot decode virtual path '/nix/store/virtual0000000000000000000000005-source'
(use '--show-trace' to show detailed location information)
```
A tricky thing about FreeBSD is that there is no stable ABI across
versions. That means that putting in the version as part of the config
string is paramount.
We have a parsed represenation that separates name versus version to
accomplish this. We include FreeBSD versions 12 and 13 to demonstrate
how it works.
https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/pull/89885 ensures that fetches are
done securely (i.e. without `--insecure`) when the `hash` parameter is one of
the four special "fake" hashes. However the manual was not updated in that PR.
This commit updates the manual to account for the already-merged changes from
that PR.
Co-authored-by: Valentin Gagarin <valentin.gagarin@tweag.io>
Previously we had an assert that would complain when nugetDeps wasnt set,
which also didnt allow any passthru attributes (like fetch-deps) to be
build. That causes a cycle where you need nugetDeps to fetch the nuget
deps, but arent able to build the script to do so.
This was removed to simplify configuration. One could create a function that converts the plug format to vim native package format (only plugin system supported for neovim) and upstream it to nixpkgs if that's an issue
it is possible to maintain an out of tree list of neovim plugins with this method
Update doc/languages-frameworks/vim.section.md
Co-authored-by: Sandro <sandro.jaeckel@gmail.com>
This was a source of massive confusion for me when I first learned my way around nixpkgs' rust machinery. I seek to save others from that confusion.
* `buildRustPackage` should have been named `buildRustPackageUsingCargo`
* `buildRustCrate` should have been named `buildRustPackageUsingNix`
It is, unfortunately, too late to fix this. Let's do the next best thing and make the names `buildRustPackage` and `buildRustCrate` very prominent in the documentation, so readers see immediately that they need to learn the following jargon:
* `buildRustPackage` means "build this Rust crate by calling `cargo` in one (or two) monolithic derivations"
* `buildRustCrate` means "build this Rust crate by calling `rustc` in one derivation for each crate"
Fixes#186752. This adds buildVMMemorySize (defaults to 512 MiB) to
buildImage, which is passed to vm.runInLinuxVM. This is needed for
larger base images, which may otherwise cause container build failures
due to OOM in the VM.
Python package sets can be overridden by overriding an interpreter
and passing in `packageOverrides = self: super: {...};`. This is fine
in case you need a single interpreter, however, it does not help you
when you want to override all sets.
With this change it is possible to override all sets at once by
appending a list of "extensions" to `pythonPackagesExtensions`.
From reading the implementation you might wonder why a list is used, and
not
`lib.composeExtensions`? The reason is the latter requires knowledge of
the library function. This approach should be easier for most users
as it is similar to how we append to lists of e.g. inputs or patches
when overriding a derivation.
This section was broken out into its own file in efb55d2a42 but
apparently never actually got included anywhere.
Since then a more detailed section on using unfree packages has been
introduced.
Copied the introduction and removed the rest of the file.
This change mimics existing strip{All,Debug}List variables to
allow special stripping directories just for Target.
The primary use case in mind is gcc where package has to install
both host and target ELFs. They have to be stripped by their own
strip tools accordingly.
Co-authored-by: Rick van Schijndel <Mindavi@users.noreply.github.com>
Co-authored-by: Sandro <sandro.jaeckel@gmail.com>
Fixed a few grammatical issues. Was uncertain how to address Treesitter, as the homepage itself is inconsistent, using all combinations of Treesitter, Tree-sitter, treesitter and tree-sitter.
Sometimes I want to pass a different implementation of `mkNugetDeps`.
For example in private repos, it can be handy to use `__noChroot = true`
and bypass the deps.nix generation altogether. Or some Nuget packages
ship with ELF binaries that need to be patched, and that's best done as
soon as possible.
Currently `buildPerlPackage` prefixes the Perl version to the package's
`pname`, which results in `nix run` not being able to work for any
packages build with it out of the box. This commit corrects that and
phases out the ability to set `name` directly, as well as refactors the
code to not require `cleanedAttrs`.
The example snippet will fail with this error as it is not self contained and
assumes `shadowSetup` was given:
$ nix-build docker-image.nix
error: undefined variable 'shadowSetup' at docker-image.nix:20:7
Instead use the full reference to `shadowSetup` in the example so it will work
as stated.
This commit clarifies that the meaning of the `meta.sourceProvenance`
field is independent of and unaffected by the value of the
`meta.license` field. This is based on the intent of the RFC author
as expressed here:
https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/pull/161098#issuecomment-1081270201
This clarification is added for two reasons:
1. If in the future there should be some disagreement about what
`sourceProvenance` to assign to a package, this may help resolve
the disagreement. Any interpretation of `sourceProvenance` which
is influenced by the `meta.license` is clearly an incorrect
interpretation.
2. If it should turn out that it is impossible to disentangle
`sourceProvenance` from `meta.license`, this would indicate the
need for changes to the `sourceProvenance` scheme. That change
might be as simple as replacing the sentence added by this commit
with some other sentence explaining how the two fields influence
each other.
This commit implements the recommendation made in the paragraph of
this comments which begins with "Please say this explicitly...":
https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/pull/161098#issuecomment-1081309089
- put `findlib` in `buildInputs` of `mkCoqDerivation` to make sure `coq` packages find their ocaml plugin dependencies,
- use `propagatedBuildInputs` to make sure ocaml plugin dependencies are in path,
- updated `coqPackage.heq` (broken url),
- fixed use of `DESTDIR` and `COQMF_COQLIB` in mkCoqDerivation,
- adding `COQCORELIB` environement variable to put ocaml plugin files in the right place,
- make `metaFetch` available from `coqPackages`
- use propagatedBuildInputs to make sure ocaml plugin stuff is in path
- updated coqPackage.heq (broken url)
- fixed use of `DESTDIR` and `COQMF_COQLIB` in mkCoqDerivation
- adding `COQCORELIB` environement variable to put ocaml plugin files in the right place
- make metaFetch available from `coqPackages`
this is not an actual sync, but rather the manual taking the leading role.
right now it does not make sense to actually change `patch-shebangs.sh`
as that would cause a rebuild of the entire universe.
we should figure out how to keep them aligned with minimal effort both
in terms of maintenance as well as navigation for readers.
There are many different versions of the `cudatoolkit` and related
cuda packages, and it can be tricky to ensure they remain compatible.
- `cudaPackages` is now a package set with `cudatoolkit`, `cudnn`, `cutensor`, `nccl`, as well as `cudatoolkit` split into smaller packages ("redist");
- expressions should now use `cudaPackages` as parameter instead of the individual cuda packages;
- `makeScope` is now used, so it is possible to use `.overrideScope'` to set e.g. a different `cudnn` version;
- `release-cuda.nix` is introduced to easily evaluate cuda packages using hydra.
This commit describes the "->" notation for dependency types in
greater detail, and uses g++ to provide examples of all six cases
(although the host->target and target->target examples are a bit
artificial).
It also adds three more rows to the table for the "->*" dependency
types for non-compiler-like packages; these dependency types were
already present in the documentation but the "*" was not really
explained.
Lastly, this commit adds a hyperlink to the table from the place where
it is mentioned in the "specifying dependencies" chapter.
Allows restricting patches to a specific subdirectory, à la
`git diff --relative=subdir`.
This cannot be done (cleanly) currently because the `includes` logic
happens *after* `stripLen` is applied, so we can't match on `subdir/*`.
This change adds a `relative` argument that makes this possible by
filtering files before doing any processing, and setting `stripLen` and
`extraPrefix` accordingly.
The current wrapper only includes vim, gvim and the man pages
(optionally). This rewrite distinguishes two scenarios, which I expect
cover the majority of use cases:
- standalone mode, when `name != "vim"`, means the user already has a
vim in scope and only wants to add a customized version with a
different name. In this case we only include wrappers for `/bin/*vim`.
- non-standalone mode, when `name == "vim"`, means the user expects a
normal vim package that uses the specified configuration. In this case
we include everything in the original derivation, with wrappers for
all the executables that accept a vimrc.
types.optionSet has been deprecated for almost 10 years now
(0e333688ce)! A removal
was already attempted in 2019
(27982b408e), but it was promptly
reinstantiated since some third-party uses were discovered
(f531ce75e4).
It's finally time to remove it for good :)
Conflict in pkgs/development/libraries/libvirt/default.nix
required manual adjustments. The fetched patch is already in src.
I checked that libvirt builds.
The documentation for this diagram explains that the blue arrows are
automatic processes which happen every six hours. There is no
explanation about how the purple arrows happen or how often.
As a new contributor to nixpkgs, I incorrectly assumed that the purple
arrows were also automatic processes (they aren't), which left me sort
of confused about what the whole scheme was accomplishing.
Recently I went through the github history to see how often these
events happen, and realized that the purple arrows are (a) triggered
manually by a nixpkgs project member and (b) happen much, much, much
less frequently than every six hours.
Now everything makes a lot more sense. I suggest the wording change
in this commit, or something similar, to save future contributors the
same confusion that I experienced.
Few things going on in this commit:
Do not print "Building subPakage $pkg" message if actually going to skip the
package. This was confusing to me when I was trying to figure out how to set
excludedPackages and seeing the "Building subpackage $pkg" messages for
packages I wanted to skip. Turns out this messages was being printed before
checking if we actually wanted to build the package and not necessarily that my
excludedPackages was wrong.
Make go-packages look a little bit more like go-modules, by adding testdata to
the default list of excluded packages.
This commit also does some setup outside the buildGoDir function so that we
avoid checking `excludedPackages` for every package and cut down the number
of grep calls by half since we always want at least one grep for the default
excludedPackages, might as well just add to the patterns being checked.
Finally, adds documentation for usage of excludedPackages and subPackages. I
had to read the implementation to figure out how to correctly use these
function arguments since there was no documentation and different uses in the
code base. So this commit documents usage of the arguments.
The current doc is wildly out of touch with reality. A regex search shows
the following stats.
```
Style example Frequency Regex used
nix-2-5: 8 [a-zA-Z]-[0-9]+(-[0-9]+)+ =
nix-2_5: 17 [a-zA-Z]-[0-9]+(_[0-9]+)+ =
nix_2_5: 689 [a-zA-Z]_[0-9]+(_[0-9]+)+ =
nix_2-5: 1 [a-zA-Z]_[0-9]+(-[0-9]+)+ =
```
