There are no users of it in main tree and recent merge
of multiple outputs branch makes it obsolete for private trees
too.
At the time hook was created, recently merged multiple output
branch was relying on passing flags to autotools to split
outputs, which obviously wasn't working for other build systems
Scatter output was taking different approach where files were
moved out from a build tree based on known paths, which is more
or less what current multiple-outputs.sh hook is able to do too.
A nix specific set of tools for converting icon files
that are not in a freedesktop ready format.
I plan on using these tools for both `keepass` and
`retroarch` packages. It may benifit many other packages.
- the default --docdir is typically DATAROOTDIR/doc/pkgName
- I saw no other way than to employ some magic to guess this `pkgName`
- user can override it by setting $shareDocName
I supplied meta.outputsToInstall automatically in all
mkDerivation products, but some packages still don't use it.
The reported case: jekyll -> bundlerEnv -> buildEnv -> runCommand.
The /nix path in 4d200538 of the layer tar didn't exist for some
packages, such as cacert. This is because cacert just creates an /etc
directory and doesn't depend on any other /nix paths. If we tried
putting this directory in the tar and using overlayfs with it, we'd get
"Invalid argument" when trying to remove the directory.
We now check whether the closure is non-empty before telling tar to
store the /nix directory.
Fixes#14710.
There were two sources of non-determinisim coming into the images. The
first was tar mtimes, the second was pigz/gzip times.
An example image now passes with the --check flag.
I think the intention of this functionality was to provide a simple
alternative to the "runAsRoot" and "contents" attributes.
The implementation caused very slow builds of Docker images. Almost all
of the build time was spent in IO for tar, due to tarballs being
created, immediately extracted, then recreated. I had 30 minute builds
on some of my images which are now down to less than 2 minutes. A couple
of other users on #nix IRC have observed similar improvements.
The implementation also mutated the produced Docker layers without
changing their hashes. Using non-empty tarballs would produce images
which got cached incorrectly in Docker.
I have a commit which just fixes the performance problem but I opted to
completely remove the tarball feature after I found out that it didn't
correctly implement the Docker Image Specification due to the broken
hashing.
This is to avoid unwanted side effects when installing a wrapped emacs in the environment:
* All executables in the dependencies become available in the user environment
* All site-lisp binaries in the dependencies become accessible to unwrapped emacs
Also, both bin and site-lisp would generate conflicts so installing a wrapped emacs becomes really cumbersome
