One significant use case is adding `passthru.tests` to setup-hooks,
and help increase test coverage for mission-critical setup-hooks.
As `meta`, `passthru` doesn't go into the build script directly.
However, passing an empty set to `passthru` breaks nixpkgs-review
and OfBorg tests, so pass it only when specified.
we will have more testers in the future so they should have their own
location
putting 'testers' in args will also make it simpler to use multiple testers
before
$ nix build ".#whipper.tests.version"
whipper> File "/nix/store/2iiyy58pmm1ys6dy8ycbmmmfm67iakv1-whipper-0.10.0/bin/.whipper-wrapped", line 6, in <module>
whipper> File "/nix/store/2iiyy58pmm1ys6dy8ycbmmmfm67iakv1-whipper-0.10.0/lib/python3.9/site-packages/whipper/__init__.py", line 5, in <module>
note: keeping build directory '/tmp/nix-build-whipper-0.10.0-test-version.drv-7'
after
$ nix build ".#whipper.tests.version"
whipper> Traceback (most recent call last):
whipper> File "/nix/store/2iiyy58pmm1ys6dy8ycbmmmfm67iakv1-whipper-0.10.0/bin/.whipper-wrapped", line 6, in <module>
whipper> from whipper.command.main import main
whipper> File "/nix/store/2iiyy58pmm1ys6dy8ycbmmmfm67iakv1-whipper-0.10.0/lib/python3.9/site-packages/whipper/__init__.py", line 5, in <module>
whipper> from pkg_resources import (get_distribution,
whipper> ModuleNotFoundError: No module named 'pkg_resources'
note: keeping build directory '/tmp/nix-build-whipper-0.10.0-test-version.drv-34'
error: builder for '/nix/store/5lxjicdhwgmjcz9ddlxgq3s3gyaa6lz4-whipper-0.10.0-test-version.drv' failed with exit code 1;
After being rewritten in https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/pull/149731, this hook
can fail on Mach-O binaries. Since patching ELF files on Darwin doesn't make
much sense anyway, we'll mark this as Linux-exclusive.
Add `shellDryRun` to the generic stdenv and substitute it for uses of
`${stdenv.shell} -n`. The point of this layer of abstraction is to add
the flag `-O extglob`, which resolves#126344 in a more direct way.
Add writeStringReferencesToFile, a builder which extracts a string's
references to derivations and paths and writes them to a text file,
removing the input string itself from the dependency graph. This is
useful when you want to make a derivation depend on the string's
references, but not its content (to avoid unnecessary rebuilds, for
example).
`installCheckPhase` is mainly intended for checks that are part of the
upstream package, for our 'own' checks we prefer `passthru.tests`.
This loses running `buf --help`, but I'm not sure how much that adds
on top of `buf --version`?
This fixes#126344, specifically with the goal of enabling overriding the
checkPhase argument. See `design notes` at the end for details.
This allows among other things, enabling bash extension for the `checkPhase`.
Previously using such bash extensions was prohibited by the `writeShellScript`
code because there was no way to enable the extension in the checker.
As an example:
```nix
(writeShellScript "foo" ''
shopt -s extglob
echo @(foo|bar)
'').overrideAttrs (old: {
checkPhase = ''
# use subshell to preserve outer environment
(
export BASHOPTS
shopt -s extglob
${old.checkPhase}
)
'';
})
```
This commit also adds tests for this feature to `pkgs/tests/default.nix`,
under `trivial-overriding`. The test code is located at
`pkgs/build-support/trivial-builders/test-overriding.nix`.
Design notes:
-------------
Per discussion with @sternenseemann, the original approach of just wrapping
`writeTextFile` in `makeOverridable` had the issue that combined with `callPackage`
in the following form, would shadow the `.override` attribute of the `writeTextFile`:
```nix
with import <nixpkgs>;
callPackage ({writeShellScript}: writeShellScript "foo" "echo foo")
```
A better approach can be seen in this commit, where `checkPhase` is moved
from an argument of `writeTextFile`, which is substituted into `buildCommand`,
into an `mkDerivation` argument, which is substituted from the environment
and `eval`-ed. (see the source)
This way we can simple use `.overideAttrs` as usual, and this also makes
`checkPhase` a bit more conformant to `mkDerivation` naming, with respect to
phases generally being overridable attrs.
Co-authored-by: sterni <sternenseemann@systemli.org>
Co-authored-by: Naïm Favier <n@monade.li>
runCommandWith receives an attribute set with options which previously
were positional arguments of runCommand' and a buildCommand. This
allows for overriding the used stdenv freely (so stuff like
llvmPackages.stdenv can be used). Additionally the possibility to change
arguments passed to stdenv.mkDerivation is made more explicit via the
derivationArgs argument.
