makeOverridable is very careful to ensure the arguments to the
overridden function are the same as the input function. As a result,
the arguments of hello.override are exactly the same as the original
arguments of the hello function that produced the derivation.
However, callPackagesWith calls makeOverridable with a lambda that
does not propagate the arguments. The override function for a package
instantiated with callPackagesWith will not have the original
arguments.
For example:
nix-repl> lib.functionArgs hello.override
{ callPackage = false; fetchurl = false; hello = false; lib = false; nixos = false; stdenv = false; testers = false; }
nix-repl> lib.functionArgs openssl.override
{ }
By copying the arguments onto the inner lambda before passing it to
makeOverridable, we can make callPackage and callPackages behave the
same.
nix-repl> lib.functionArgs openssl.override
{ buildPackages = false; coreutils = false; cryptodev = false; enableSSL2 = true; enableSSL3 = true; fetchurl = false; lib = false; perl = false; removeReferencesTo = false; static = true; stdenv = false; withCryptodev = true; withPerl = true; }
This allows for adding new, conditionally set, derivation attributes
to an existing derivation without changing any output paths in the
case where the condition is not met.
It is useful that all (or almost all) .nix files in nixpkgs at least
parse since it allows for checking syntax in the repository
programmatically without evaluating anything.
This doesn't change uniq. Why not?
- In NixOS it seems that uniq is only used with
simple types that are fully checked by t.check.
- It exists for much longer and is used more widely.
- I believe we should deprecate it, because unique was
already better.
- unique can be a proving ground.
Type: either ints.positive (enum ["auto"])
Before: positive integer, meaning >0 or value "auto" (singular enum)
After: positive integer, meaning >0, or value "auto" (singular enum)
Currently, the `lib/tests/modules.sh` test checks the output of
`nix-instantiate --eval` without `--json`, which outputs an unspecified
human-readable format.
This patch modifies `modules.sh` to use the `--json` output instead, to
be robust against future changes to `nix-instantiate` output.
This commit temporarily adds pkgs/test/release to the
lib/tests/release.nix test suite, because ofborg already knows about
that entry point.
We should move the list of test entry points out of ofborg and into
a central place in nixpkgs:
https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/issues/272591
Once we do that we won't need to have this ugly kludge in an
inappropriate place.
A more efficient sort in some cases, and often convenient.
This exposes `lib.lists.sortOn` immediately on `lib`, because it is
a sibling of `sort`, which is already present there.
Omitting it would lead to more confusion, and worse outcomes.
There's no confusion about the types `sort` or `sortOn` operate on.
Haskell agrees about the type for `sortOn`, and it is in its `base`.
This type is necessary to have correct merging behavior for
`allowUnfreePredicate` and `allowInsecurePredicate`
Co-authored-by: Robert Hensing <roberth@users.noreply.github.com>
The aws-sdk-cpp tests are flaky.
Since pull requests to staging cause nix to be rebuilt, this means
that staging PRs end up getting false CI failures due to whatever is
flaky in the AWS SDK tests. Since none of our CI needs to (or
should be able to) contact AWS S3, let's just omit it all. Bonus:
the tests build way faster.
For transforming back between lists and attrsets, it makes sense to have
a quasi-inverse of `builtins.listToAttrs` available as a library
function.
Co-authored-by: Silvan Mosberger <github@infinisil.com>
Co-authored-by: Robert Hensing <roberth@users.noreply.github.com>
To maintain backwards compatibility, this can't be changed in the Nix language.
We can however ensure that the version Nixpkgs has the more intuitive behavior.
What it does: line and column level *declaration* position information:
$ nix repl .
nix-repl> :p nixosConfigurations.micro.options.environment.systemPackages.declarationPositions
[ { column = 7; file = "/nix/store/24aj3k7fgqv3ly7qkbf98qvphasrw9nb-source/nixos/modules/config/system-path.nix"; line = 63; } ]
Use cases:
- ctags over NixOS options, as will be presented at NixCon 2023 ;)
- improving the documentation pages to go to the exact line of the
declarations.
Related work:
- https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/pull/65024
This one does it for all *definitions* rather than declarations, and
it was not followed through with due to performance worries.
- https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/pull/208173
The basis for this change. This change is just a rebase of that one.
I split it out to add the capability before adding users of it, in
order to simplify review. However, the ctags script in there is a
sample user of this feature.
Benchmarks: conducted by evaluating my own reasonably complex NixOS
configuration with the command:
`hyperfine -S none -w 1 -- "nix eval .#nixosConfigurations.snowflake.config.system.build.toplevel.outPath"`
```
Benchmark 1: nix eval .#nixosConfigurations.snowflake.config.system.build.toplevel.outPath
Time (mean ± σ): 8.971 s ± 0.254 s [User: 5.872 s, System: 1.388 s]
Range (min … max): 8.574 s … 9.327 s 10 runs
Benchmark 1: nix eval .#nixosConfigurations.snowflake.config.system.build.toplevel.outPath
Time (mean ± σ): 8.766 s ± 0.160 s [User: 5.873 s, System: 1.346 s]
Range (min … max): 8.496 s … 9.033 s 10 runs
```
Summary of results: it seems to be in the noise, this does not cause any
visible regression in times.
Added basic generators.toGitINI test.
Mostly taken from 958c06303f/tests/modules/programs/git/git.nix.
The ${"\t} escape is used so that the lines aren't recognized as "Wrong
indent style".
mkOption does not require a `type` argument and does not set the
resulting attribute if it is not given. Consequently, we need to be
prepared to merge options that have no type information.
Having the current bash hash present in the nixpkgs tree makes Nix
detect bash as a runtime dependency of nixpkgs, which in turns messes up
`fetchFromGitHub` due to https://github.com/NixOS/nix/issues/6660
toLosslessStringMaybe is not used by anything other than lib/tests,
so it can be private to that file.
I don't think this function was terribly well thought-through. If
people start using it, we will become permanently dependent on the
ability to test platforms for equality. It also makes the
elaboration process more fragile, because it encourages code outside
of nixpkgs to become sensitive to the minute details of how
elaboration happens.
This will let us make assertions involving _module.args.pkgs, which
is not an option but a value attribute, and therefore doesn't have
its own highestPrio to inspect. The new function gives us that info.
We already have examples for these, but since we didn't actually
recognise the doubles, it wasn't possible to build any packages for
them without setting allowUnsupportedSystem.
Previously it would fail with
error: attribute 'nonexistent' missing
at nixpkgs/lib/filesystem.nix:29:10:
28| if dirOf path == path then "directory"
29| else (readDir (dirOf path)).${baseNameOf path};
| ^
30|
Previously this function couldn't handle / being passed, it would throw
an error:
error: attribute '' missing
at nixpkgs/lib/filesystem.nix:24:20:
23| */
24| pathType = path: (readDir (dirOf path)).${baseNameOf path};
| ^
25|
Consequently this also fixes the
lib.filesystem.{pathIsDirectory,pathIsRegularFile} functions.
