Most stdenv wrappers already work like this -- it allows greater
customisation. We just have to be careful to remove arguments we're
using that shouldn't be passed to stdenv. I've been conservative
here, because fetchcargo checksums shouldn't change lightly.
Before, every docker image had three extra layers:
1. A `closure` layer which is an internal implementation detail of
calculating the closure of the container
2. a `name-config.json` layer which is the images' run-time
configuration, and has no business being *in* the image as a layer.
3. a "bulk-layers" layer which is again and implementation detail
around collecting the image's closure.
None of these layers need to be in the final product.
This allows things like hooks other than postInstall to be passed
through to mkDerivation, which is very useful when customising or
debugging a package.
This reduces the size of Hello World [1] from 3.06 MiB to 678 KiB.
[1] As measured by nix-shell -p 'writers.writeHaskellBin "hello" {} "main = putStrLn \"hello\""' --run 'ls -l `which hello`'
The previous lines were only different in the kind of dependencies but
otherwise exactly the same. It makes the entire thing a bit more
readable by moving this into a function that takes care of this.
We can get rid of a bunch of workarounds that were in the build script
before by just passing on the `crateBin` attribute.
Before we converted the list of attributes to a string only to convert
it back in bash during the build phase. We can do the entire looping
through builds in Nix and thus need no conversion and parsing of
attributes over and over again.
The big part that still remains bash is the heuristic that cargo
introduced and that we can't do at eval time.
That code had been in the derivation for a while but no explanation was
given why that is needed. It might be helpful to our future selfs to
document why things are done the way they are.
The expression is already long and confusing enough without the color
stuff sprinkled in. Moving it to a dedicated file makes sense.
I switched a bit of the color support code to pure Nix since there
wasn't much point in doing that in bash while we can just do it in Nix.
We can just use `lib` instead of `builtins` in all cases but the
`hashString` case. Also changed a few lines to make use of some optional
helpers from lib.
Adding empty variables can lead to this problem:
```diff
wrapProgram \
./pye_menu_shell \
--prefix PATH : /nix/store/4c3z5r6yxsf2cxwwyazhdn92xixn4j5b-python3-3.7.5/bin:/nix/store/b3l3niilvqcxcsbxmd6sgqk1dy1rk81c-pye-menu-1.0/bin:/nix/store/y8j1cfj8d9r5rbbxc22w7hnfjw5f4fd3-cairo-1.16.0-dev/bin:/nix/store/6mg7lfbdh9pgx7pbxr3544qqbrigdl1q-freetype-2.10.1-dev/bin:/nix/store/gpszqcy0xi0lavbbjdq82zkkjp3jbp2a-bzip2-1.0.6.0.1-bin/bin:/nix/store/031c5pk5lzabgmpqpyd46hzi625as6bp-libpng-apng-1.6.37-dev/bin:/nix/store/f8kl7kmpv130aw9zm542p74a3hg0yc13-fontconfig-2.12.6-bin/bin:/nix/store/bqp30vkncmm222mjvwggz0s7p318sflj-expat-2.2.7-dev/bin:/nix/store/w57xa8g4s4aviwmqwgra7m5hwj2b005m-glib-2.60.7-dev/bin:/nix/store/v5d4966ahvfir2hwpv003022f3pb7vik-gettext-0.19.8.1/bin:/nix/store/qpvxhl1jr0fxnrx9idnpdagqs00m5m2z-glib-2.60.7/bin \
--set PYTHONNOUSERSITE true \
--set GDK_PIXBUF_MODULE_FILE /nix/store/7ddlakx6xjczqbfs80xjd14f30fzadws-gdk-pixbuf-2.38.1/lib/gdk-pixbuf-2.0/2.10.0/loaders.cache \
--prefix XDG_DATA_DIRS : /nix/store/0snjc1qg89zqn3v35l9d55xrykh9nj5c-gtk+3-3.24.10/share/gsettings-schemas/gtk+3-3.24.10:/nix/store/b41z51vdv11n6df8ki5vj8dynxw98f9l-gsettings-desktop-schemas-3.32.0/share/gsettings-schemas/gsettings-desktop-schemas-3.32.0:/nix/store/0snjc1qg89zqn3v35l9d55xrykh9nj5c-gtk+3-3.24.10/share/gsettings-schemas/gtk+3-3.24.10 \
- --prefix GST_PLUGIN_SYSTEM_PATH_1_0 : \
+ --prefix GST_PLUGIN_SYSTEM_PATH_1_0 : "" \
--prefix GI_TYPELIB_PATH : /nix/store/0snjc1qg89zqn3v35l9d55xrykh9nj5c-gtk+3-3.24.10/lib/girepository-1.0:/nix/store/z29l5xaaxh1s0697mcldj71ab0zshry1-librsvg-2.44.15/lib/girepository-1.0:/nix/store/pija1xzm7izxfb5m2hvhvlwp1l38ffxa-gobject-introspection-1.60.2/lib/girepository-1.0 \
- --prefix GRL_PLUGIN_PATH :
+ --prefix GRL_PLUGIN_PATH : ""
```
Where the diff is to highlight the problem: we don't have a valid value
for GST_PLUGIN_SYSTEM_PATH_1_0 or GRL_PLUGIN_PATH, and instead of
passing the empy string, the empty string gets unquoted somewhere, so we
end up passing no arguments, thus the parser in wrapProgram takes
--prefix as the argument of GST_PLUGIN_SYSTEM_PATH_1_0, and then
GI_TYPELIB_PATH is missing it's --prefix so wrapProgram complains/dies.
The easiest change is to not add empty arguments to the wrapper
When updating to cpio-2.13 in fe758f5fa3,
a patch from SUSE was dropped. This patch was intended to resolve
CVE-2015-1197, and introduced the '--extract-over-symlink' option to
disable its own effects.
The CVE-2015-1197 was fixed in cpio-2.13 release[1] by other means,
making this patch useless.
Given that this patch is no longer used, we do not need to disable its
effects anymore with the `--extract-over-symlink` argument switch.
This Commit fixes#74984
[1] https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/info-gnu/2019-11/msg00002.html
depmod looks for files modules.order and modules.builtin which are
generated at kernel build time but were previously not passed to
the modules-shrunk derivation
dockerTools.buildImageWithNixDb: export USER
Changes to Nix user detection (./src/nix-channel/nix-channel.cc#L-166)
cause this function to error. Exporting USER fixes this.
I haven't been doing any maintenance for a long time now and not only
do I get notified, it also creates a fake impression that all these
packages had at least one maintainer when in practice they had none.
We shouldn’t force the user to have a C compiler in scope, just
because the derivation is forced to build locally. That can’t be
counted as “lightweight” anymore.
Co-Authored-By: Silvan Mosberger<contact@infinisil.com>
A definition I’ve been copy-pasting everywhere so far, so it’s finally
time to add it to nixpkgs.
I’m using a remote builder for my regular nix builds, so trivial
`runCommand`s which first try a substitution and then copy the inputs
to the builder to run for 0.2s are quite noticable.
If we just always build these, we gain some build time, so let’s make
it easy to switch from remote to local.
