When running `nix develop` for a package, Nix records the stdenv
environment with NIX_LOG_FD set. That is, when the actual development
shell runs, it uses the functions that attempt to log to NIX_LOG_FD, but
this variable is not actually set.
As a workaround, check whether NIX_LOG_FD is set at runtime.
Example (before this change):
```console
$ nix develop --file . bash
$ echo "${NIX_LOG_FD-unset}"
unset
$ runPhase unpackPhase
bash: "$NIX_LOG_FD": Bad file descriptor
Running phase: unpackPhase
unpacking source archive /nix/store/v28dv6l0qk3j382kp40bksa1v6h7dx9p-bash-5.2.tar.gz
bash: "$NIX_LOG_FD": Bad file descriptor
source root is bash-5.2
bash: "$NIX_LOG_FD": Bad file descriptor
setting SOURCE_DATE_EPOCH to timestamp 1663942708 of file bash-5.2/y.tab.h
```
After this change:
```console
$ nix develop --file . bash
$ runPhase unpackPhase
Running phase: unpackPhase
unpacking source archive /nix/store/v28dv6l0qk3j382kp40bksa1v6h7dx9p-bash-5.2.tar.gz
source root is bash-5.2
setting SOURCE_DATE_EPOCH to timestamp 1663942708 of file bash-5.2/y.tab.h
```
Without the change `runPhase` fails on tarballs like
`diffoscope-269` that contain single top-level `-269` root as:
diffoscope> unpacking source archive /nix/store/p620nidkm73vrp0z6kk5krmrm4vg7bxd-diffoscope-269.tar.bz2
diffoscope> source root is -269
diffoscope> setting SOURCE_DATE_EPOCH to timestamp 1717143039 of file ./-269/tests/utils/versions.py
diffoscope> chmod: invalid mode: ‘-269’
diffoscope> Try 'chmod --help' for more information.
Currently `diffoscope-269` has a `sourceRoot = "./-269";` workaround to
bypass the failure.
Most Linux distributions are enabling this these days and it does
protect against real world vulnerabilities as demonstrated by
CVE-2018-16864 and CVE-2018-16865.
Fix#53753.
Information on llvm version support gleaned from
6609892a2d68e07da3e5092507a730
Information on gcc version support a lot harder to gather,
but both 32bit and 64bit arm do appear to be supported
based on the test suite.
A second take at eb28e5e72e, which was reverted for the extra logging
during the internals of `nix-shell -p`. This commit does the same
logging, but to $NIX_LOG_FD instead, which is echoed during any normal
build, but not during the internals of `nix-shell -p`.
[1]: eb28e5e72e
This fixes using inputDerivation on derivations that are fixed-output.
Previously:
```
nix-repl> drv = runCommand "huh" { outputHash = "sha256-47DEQpj8HBSa+/TImW+5JCeuQeRkm5NMpJWZG3hSuFU="; outputHashAlgo = "sha256"; outputHashType = "flat"; } "touch $out"
nix-repl> drv.inputDerivation
«derivation /nix/store/d8mjs6cmmvsr1fv7psm6imis5pmh9bcs-huh.drv»
nix-repl> :b drv.inputDerivation
error: fixed output derivation 'huh' is not allowed to refer to other store paths.
You may need to use the 'unsafeDiscardReferences' derivation attribute, see the manual for more details.
```
Fixes: https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/issues/304209
Nixpkgs tries to print a helpful message when it blocks unfree packages,
but the suggestion is subtly broken. The predicate only matches on the
package's name, but the suggestion includes the full name-version pair.
Fixed by formatting the message with the same function as the predicate.
This issue arises because check-meta defines its own local getName with
semantics divergent from lib.getName. The former includes the version,
the latter does not.
Example Before:
Alternatively you can configure a predicate to allow specific packages:
{ nixpkgs.config.allowUnfreePredicate = pkg: builtins.elem (lib.getName pkg) [
"obsidian-1.5.12"
];
}
Example After:
Alternatively you can configure a predicate to allow specific packages:
{ nixpkgs.config.allowUnfreePredicate = pkg: builtins.elem (lib.getName pkg) [
"obsidian"
];
}
Fixes#303116
checkValidity has the responsibility to check if a derivation's attributes are valid.
Previously it also had the overloaded task of creating a subset of meta attributes:
- unfree
- broken
- unsupported
- insecure
Not only is this overloading strange, these attributes were only ever consumed by `commonMeta`.
This change makes checkValidity _only_ check for validity, and removes the creation of any meta attributes from `checkValidity` and moves them to `commonMeta`.
This is technically a breaking change but I don't expect any external nixpkgs consumers to rely on these implementation details.
