Right now the worst case chain of events for building an ISO on Hydra is
- copy everything to squashfs builder
- run squashfs builder
- download squashfs from builder
- compress squashfs
- upload squashfs to S3
- copy squashfs to ISO builder
- run ISO builder
- download ISO from builder
- compress ISO
- upload ISO to S3
This inlines the squashfs build into the ISO build, which makes it
- copy everything to ISO builder
- run ISO builder
- download ISO from builder
- compress ISO
- upload ISO to S3
Which should reduce queue runner load by $alot per ISO, which we have four of on small channels
(one release, one test per arch) and a lot more than four of on large channels (with various desktops)
Closes#193336Closes#261694
Related to #108984
The goal here was to get the following flake to build and run on
`aarch64-darwin`:
```nix
{ inputs.nixpkgs.url = <this branch>;
outputs = { nixpkgs, ... }: {
checks.aarch64-darwin.default =
nixpkgs.legacyPackages.aarch64-darwin.nixosTest {
name = "test";
nodes.machine = { };
testScript = "";
};
};
}
```
… and after this change it does. There's no longer a need for the
user to set `nodes.*.nixpkgs.pkgs` or
`nodes.*.virtualisation.host.pkgs` as the correct values are inferred
from the host system.
systemd-boot-builder.py calls nix-env --list-generations which creates
$HOME/.nix-defexpr/channels/nixos if it doesn't exist. This would cause a folder
/homeless-shelter to show up in the final image which in turn breaks nix builds
in the target image if sandboxing is turned off (as /homeless-shelter is never
allowed to exist).
Adds a function to wait for a new QMP event with a model filter
so that you can expect specific type of events with specific payloads.
e.g. a guest-reset-induced shutdown event.
Building a python environment with python3Minimal requires hydra
to bootstrap pip and build all packages used in the environment
which would otherwise not be built. This reduces cache re-use and duplicates things.
Also common dependencies normally included in python itself
are not properly checked and can cause hard to debug errors
because everyone just assumes those modules are there.
Aliases exist for a reason. Sure it is nice to make sure that
some aliases aren't used within Nixpkgs, but this creates two problems
which are far worse than your failing to meet your neatness compulsions.
- Users encounter missing attributes, https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/issues/264577
wasting their time, stalling their progress, and even occupying others
time that would be better spent on fixing *real* issues.
- Hydra doesn't treat evaluation errors seriously enough, with the
effect that actual relevant test failures are masked by evaluation
failures such as those caused by this no aliases business.
- We don't even have the infrastructure to get rid of aliases, because
all warnings in package attributes are disallowed by Nixpkgs CI
tooling, last I checked.
Before re-disabling this, make sure that
- An actually helpful deprecation process is in place.
- Aliases are still allowed when `nixos-lib.runTests` and
`pkgs.testers.runNixOSTest` are invoked by external projects.
For instance, `all-tests.nix` could provide such an
override (e.g. with `newScope`).
This is a fixup for c1ae82f448.
nix' `passAsFile` does not create empty files for variables that are
`null`.
This results in the following error for units that have no overrides or
content, but are, e.g. `wantedBy`:
`mv: cannot stat '': No such file or directory`.
Minimal reproducer:
`systemd.units.empty.wantedBy = [ "multi-user.target" ];`
This is often necessary when a unit is loaded in via `systemd.packages`.
