A modern, delicious implementation of the Nix package manager, focused on correctness, usability, and growth — and committed to doing right by its community
Go to file
Maximilian Bosch 35eec921af
libfetchers: make attribute / URL query handling consistent
The original idea was to fix lix#174, but for a user friendly solution,
I figured that we'd need more consistency:

* Invalid query params will cause an error, just like invalid
  attributes. This has the following two consequences:

  * The `?dir=`-param from flakes will be removed before the URL to be
    fetched is passed to libfetchers.

  * The tarball fetcher doesn't allow URLs with custom query params
    anymore. I think this was questionable anyways given that an
    arbitrary set of query params was silently removed from the URL you
    wanted to fetch. The correct way is to use an attribute-set
    with a key `url` that contains the tarball URL to fetch.

  * Same for the git & mercurial fetchers: in that case it doesn't even
    matter though: both fetchers added unused query params to the URL
    that's passed from the input scheme to the fetcher (`url2` in the code).
    It turns out that this was never used since the query parameters were
    erased again in `getActualUrl`.

* Validation happens for both attributes and URLs. Previously, a lot of
  fetchers validated e.g. refs/revs only when specified in a URL and
  the validity of attribute names only in `inputFromAttrs`.

  Now, all the validation is done in `inputFromAttrs` and `inputFromURL`
  constructs attributes that will be passed to `inputFromAttrs`.

* Accept all attributes as URL query parameters. That also includes
  lesser used ones such as `narHash`.

  And "output" attributes like `lastModified`: these could be declared
  already when declaring inputs as attribute rather than URL. Now the
  behavior is at least consistent.

  Personally, I think we should differentiate in the future between
  "fetched input" (basically the attr-set that ends up in the lock-file)
  and "unfetched input" earlier: both inputFrom{Attrs,URL} entrypoints
  are probably OK for unfetched inputs, but for locked/fetched inputs
  a custom entrypoint should be used. Then, the current entrypoints
  wouldn't have to allow these attributes anymore.

Change-Id: I1be1992249f7af8287cfc37891ab505ddaa2e8cd
2024-06-22 14:42:43 +02:00
.github .github: clean up stale things and wrong references 2024-06-12 15:34:23 -07:00
bench Add benchmarking scripts 2024-04-08 19:50:24 -07:00
clang-tidy clang-tidy: work with angle brackets and external projects 2024-05-24 02:22:58 +00:00
contrib function-trace: always show the trace 2019-09-18 23:23:21 +02:00
doc repl: implement tab completing :colon commands 2024-06-17 13:08:02 +00:00
lix-doc lix-doc: don't chomp bold headings off 2024-05-15 15:24:03 -07:00
maintainers releng: automatically add to the summary page 2024-06-15 18:46:18 -07:00
meson packaging: rename nixexpr -> lixexpr and so on 2024-05-23 16:45:23 -06:00
misc Misc workaround removals since 24.05 upgrade 2024-06-12 15:34:23 -07:00
nix-support Move version to a JSON file so we can have release names 2024-06-06 15:08:12 -07:00
perl Move version to a JSON file so we can have release names 2024-06-06 15:08:12 -07:00
releng releng: fix broken manifest from 2.90-rc1 2024-06-16 13:34:04 -07:00
scripts remove the autoconf+Make buildsystem 2024-05-07 17:04:30 -06:00
src libfetchers: make attribute / URL query handling consistent 2024-06-22 14:42:43 +02:00
subprojects/aws_sdk build: fix static aws-cpp-sdk 2024-05-30 00:40:25 -06:00
tests libfetchers: make attribute / URL query handling consistent 2024-06-22 14:42:43 +02:00
.clang-format Add pre-commit checks 2024-03-29 22:57:40 -07:00
.clang-tidy Add basic clang-tidy config 2024-03-29 20:26:38 -07:00
.dir-locals.el .dir-locals.el: Set c-block-comment-prefix 2020-07-10 11:21:06 +02:00
.editorconfig add editorconfig for markdown 2024-05-24 02:22:44 +00:00
.envrc Set MAKEFLAGS=-j and GTEST_BRIEF in .envrc 2024-03-28 18:17:28 -07:00
.gitignore Put into place initial release engineering 2024-06-06 20:53:08 -07:00
boehmgc-coroutine-sp-fallback.diff [resubmit] flake: update nixpkgs pin 23.11->24.05 (+ boehmgc compat changes) 2024-06-12 15:34:22 -07:00
CONTRIBUTING.md chore: re-work the contribution guide 2024-05-07 01:28:35 +00:00
COPYING Add pre-commit checks 2024-03-29 22:57:40 -07:00
default.nix Format Nix code with nixfmt 2024-04-08 13:00:00 -07:00
docker.nix releng: support multiarch docker images 2024-06-09 20:33:24 -07:00
flake.lock [resubmit] flake: update nixpkgs pin 23.11->24.05 (+ boehmgc compat changes) 2024-06-12 15:34:22 -07:00
flake.nix Merge pull request #10799 from hercules-ci/safer-tab-completion 2024-06-16 04:03:32 +00:00
justfile justfile: remove --quiet from just test 2024-05-24 02:22:25 +00:00
meson.build build: make UBSan work :) 2024-06-18 19:25:58 -07:00
meson.options build: expose option to enable or disable precompiled std headers 2024-06-06 12:46:26 -06:00
package.nix packaging: Move binaryTarball to a passthru attr in package.nix 2024-06-13 15:14:22 -07:00
README.md chore: rebrand Nix to Lix when it makes sense 2024-06-01 20:31:24 +02:00
shell.nix shell.nix: conform to documentation 2024-05-27 16:47:40 +02:00
treefmt.toml Format Nix code with nixfmt 2024-04-08 13:00:00 -07:00
version.json version: update to 2.91-dev for main 2024-06-15 18:46:18 -07:00

Lix

Lix is an implementation of Nix, a powerful package management system for Linux and other Unix systems that makes package management reliable and reproducible.

Read more about us at https://lix.systems.

Installation

On Linux and macOS the easiest way to install Lix is to run the following shell command (as a user other than root):

$ curl -sSf -L https://install.lix.systems/lix | sh -s -- install

For systems that already have a Nix implementation installed, such as NixOS systems, read our install page

Building And Developing

See our Hacking guide in our manual for instruction on how to to set up a development environment and build Lix from source.

Additional Resources

License

Lix is released under the LGPL v2.1.