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README.md

@@ -1,5 +1,79 @@
 # Lix NixOS module
 
-See the [beta guide][beta-guide] for details on how to use this:
+See the [official installation guide][install-guide] for details on usage of
+release versions.
+
+[install-guide]: https://lix.systems/install/
+
+See the [beta guide][beta-guide] for a setup guide on how to use HEAD:
 
 [beta-guide]: https://wiki.lix.systems/link/1
+
+## What does this do?
+
+This is an overlay wrapped in a NixOS module that will replace CppNix with Lix
+in nixpkgs. This is useful so that `nixos-rebuild`, `nix-direnv` and similar
+will use Lix.
+
+Optionally, it can build Lix from source.
+
+## Versioning with Lix
+
+The version of this overlay should match the major Lix version, *and* if
+running HEAD, it should be the latest available version of the overlay.
+Changes breaking the overlay are shamelessly done on HEAD, and we expect people
+doing such changes to have prepared corresponding fix commits to make to the
+overlay immediately after submitting their changes. If your build randomly
+broke when updating HEAD, try updating your overlay.
+
+The version of Lix pinned in this flake's `flake.lock` is a version of Lix
+that is expected to work, however if running HEAD, it can be assumed to work
+with HEAD as well if both `lix-nixos-module` and `lix` are the latest version.
+
+## Common pitfalls
+
+Various flake frameworks such as flake-parts and snowfall (and possibly Colmena
+in the future if they do a similar optimization) manage overlays separately
+from NixOS, since they provide `pkgs` pre-imported to NixOS. This saves a
+couple of seconds of evaluation time and resources, but it means that the NixOS
+option `nixpkgs.overlays` **is completely ignored** on these frameworks.
+
+If you are using such a framework, add `overlays.default` to the overlays list
+for said framework.
+
+## Flake structure and usage
+
+The flake here has two inputs of note:
+- `nixpkgs`, *which is unused for most people*. It is purely used for `checks`
+  in developing `lix-nixos-module` itself.
+
+  The installation instructions make it `follows` to make `flake.lock` less
+  confusing, but it is nonetheless unused.
+- `lix`, which determines the version of Lix to do source builds for, if doing
+  source builds.
+
+These are the most relevant outputs for most people:
+
+- `nixosModules.lixFromNixpkgs` - uses Lix from nixpkgs and installs the
+  overlay to use Lix on a NixOS system. This is only useful for a stable
+  version of Lix, and cannot be used for running HEAD.
+- `nixosModules.default` - uses Lix from source and installs the overlay to use
+  Lix on a NixOS system.
+- `overlays.lixFromNixpkgs` - overlay to use Lix from nixpkgs in place of Nix.
+- `overlays.default` - overlay to use Lix from source in place of Nix.
+
+## Non-flake usage
+
+Import `module.nix` or `overlay.nix` as desired, with the arguments `lix`
+(derivation-like attribute set with the Lix sources, or `null` to use Lix from
+nixpkgs) and `versionSuffix` (optional string).
+
+It's desirable to also include a `versionSuffix` like the following while
+building HEAD from source, to have `nix --version` include date and commit
+information. To get such metadata, it depends on which pinning system is in
+use, but `builtins.fetchGit` will provide the necessary metadata for the
+following to work:
+
+```
+versionSuffix = "pre${builtins.substring 0 8 lix.lastModifiedDate}-${lix.shortRev or lix.dirtyShortRev}";
+```

flake.lock

@@ -5,11 +5,11 @@
         "systems": "systems"
       },
       "locked": {
-        "lastModified": 1710146030,
+        "lastModified": 1731533236,
-        "narHash": "sha256-SZ5L6eA7HJ/nmkzGG7/ISclqe6oZdOZTNoesiInkXPQ=",
+        "narHash": "sha256-l0KFg5HjrsfsO/JpG+r7fRrqm12kzFHyUHqHCVpMMbI=",
         "owner": "numtide",
         "repo": "flake-utils",
-        "rev": "b1d9ab70662946ef0850d488da1c9019f3a9752a",
+        "rev": "11707dc2f618dd54ca8739b309ec4fc024de578b",
         "type": "github"
       },
       "original": {
@@ -36,11 +36,11 @@
     "lix": {
       "flake": false,
       "locked": {
-        "lastModified": 1714969435,
+        "lastModified": 1731683711,
-        "narHash": "sha256-HNIT8NiSZ1qrQMQT69Cr1nIhxrIIqHNPqLlmsVdcl18=",
+        "narHash": "sha256-bq21I1EjXJa/s5Rra9J9ot2NkPCnI0F5uNPurwYLdpE=",
-        "rev": "106b95904304e498cc6c72aace705441768ab240",
+        "rev": "c859d03013712b349d82ee6223948d6d03e63a8d",
         "type": "tarball",
-        "url": "https://git.lix.systems/api/v1/repos/lix-project/lix/archive/106b95904304e498cc6c72aace705441768ab240.tar.gz"
+        "url": "https://git.lix.systems/api/v1/repos/lix-project/lix/archive/c859d03013712b349d82ee6223948d6d03e63a8d.tar.gz?rev=c859d03013712b349d82ee6223948d6d03e63a8d"
       },
       "original": {
         "type": "tarball",
@@ -49,11 +49,11 @@
     },
     "nixpkgs": {
       "locked": {
-        "lastModified": 1714906307,
+        "lastModified": 1731676054,
-        "narHash": "sha256-UlRZtrCnhPFSJlDQE7M0eyhgvuuHBTe1eJ9N9AQlJQ0=",
+        "narHash": "sha256-OZiZ3m8SCMfh3B6bfGC/Bm4x3qc1m2SVEAlkV6iY7Yg=",
         "owner": "nixos",
         "repo": "nixpkgs",
-        "rev": "25865a40d14b3f9cf19f19b924e2ab4069b09588",
+        "rev": "5e4fbfb6b3de1aa2872b76d49fafc942626e2add",
         "type": "github"
       },
       "original": {

flake.nix

@@ -8,11 +8,28 @@
   inputs.flakey-profile.url = "github:lf-/flakey-profile";
 
   outputs = inputs@{ self, nixpkgs, lix, flake-utils, flakey-profile, ... }:
-    let versionSuffix = "pre${builtins.substring 0 8 lix.lastModifiedDate}-${lix.shortRev}";
+    let
-    in {
+      lixVersionJson = builtins.fromJSON (builtins.readFile (lix + "/version.json"));
+      versionSuffix = nixpkgs.lib.optionalString (!lixVersionJson.official_release)
+        "-pre${builtins.substring 0 8 lix.lastModifiedDate}-${lix.shortRev or lix.dirtyShortRev}";
+    in
+    {
       inherit inputs;
-      nixosModules.default = import ./module.nix { inherit lix versionSuffix; };
+      nixosModules = {
-      overlays.default = import ./overlay.nix { inherit lix versionSuffix; };
+        # Use a locally built Lix
+        default = import ./module.nix { inherit lix versionSuffix; };
+
+        # Use Lix from nixpkgs
+        lixFromNixpkgs = import ./module.nix { lix = null; };
+      };
+
+      overlays = {
+        # Use a locally built Lix
+        default = import ./overlay.nix { inherit lix versionSuffix; };
+
+        # Use Lix from nixpkgs
+        lixFromNixpkgs = import ./overlay.nix { lix = null; };
+      };
     } // flake-utils.lib.eachDefaultSystem (system:
       let
         pkgs = import nixpkgs {
@@ -30,17 +47,19 @@
       {
         inherit pkgs;
         packages = {
-          default = pkgs.nixVersions.nix_2_18;
+          default = pkgs.nix;
           inherit (pkgs) nix-doc nix-eval-jobs;
         };
 
         packages.system-profile = import ./system-profile.nix { inherit pkgs flakey-profile; };
 
-        nixosTests = pkgs.recurseIntoAttrs (pkgs.callPackage ./test-nixos.nix { lix-module = self.nixosModules.default; });
+        nixosTests = pkgs.recurseIntoAttrs (pkgs.callPackage ./test-nixos.nix { inherit pkgs; lix-module = self.nixosModules.default; });
 
         checks = {
           inherit (self.packages.${system}) default nix-eval-jobs;
+          inherit (pkgs) nixos-option nix-doc;
         } // lib.optionalAttrs (lib.elem system linux64BitSystems) {
+          # wrongMajor intentionally not included here since it is expected to fail
           inherit (self.nixosTests.${system}) it-builds;
         };
       });

nix-doc/package.nix

@@ -1,64 +0,0 @@
-# Temporary replacement of the nix-doc package with
-# https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/pull/296523 so that we can have working Lix
-# with nix-doc on 23.11 and 24.05-pre
-#
-# Can be removed when that commit is in 23.11 and 24.05-pre, or 24.05 is
-# released with the commit.
-{ lib
-, stdenv
-, rustPlatform
-, fetchFromGitHub
-, boost
-, nix
-, pkg-config
-# Whether to build the nix-doc plugin for Nix
-, withPlugin ? true
-}:
-
-let
-  packageFlags = [ "-p" "nix-doc" ] ++ lib.optionals withPlugin [ "-p" "nix-doc-plugin" ];
-in
-rustPlatform.buildRustPackage rec {
-  pname = "nix-doc";
-  version = "0.6.5";
-
-  src = fetchFromGitHub {
-    rev = "v${version}";
-    owner = "lf-";
-    repo = "nix-doc";
-    sha256 = "sha256-9cuNzq+CBA2jz0LkZb7lh/WISIlKklfovGBAbSo1Mgk=";
-  };
-
-  doCheck = true;
-  buildInputs = lib.optionals withPlugin [ boost nix ];
-
-  nativeBuildInputs = lib.optionals withPlugin [ pkg-config nix ];
-
-  cargoBuildFlags = packageFlags;
-  cargoTestFlags = packageFlags;
-
-  # Packaging support for making the nix-doc plugin load cleanly as a no-op on
-  # the wrong Nix version (disabling bindnow permits loading libraries
-  # requiring unavailable symbols if they are unreached)
-  hardeningDisable = lib.optionals withPlugin [ "bindnow" ];
-  # Due to a Rust bug, setting -Z relro-level to anything including "off" on
-  # macOS will cause link errors
-  env = lib.optionalAttrs (withPlugin && stdenv.isLinux) {
-    # nix-doc does not use nightly features, however, there is no other way to
-    # set relro-level
-    RUSTC_BOOTSTRAP = 1;
-    RUSTFLAGS = "-Z relro-level=partial";
-  };
-
-  cargoSha256 = "sha256-CHagzXTG9AfrFd3WmHanQ+YddMgmVxSuB8vK98A1Mlw=";
-
-  meta = with lib; {
-    description = "An interactive Nix documentation tool";
-    longDescription = "An interactive Nix documentation tool providing a CLI for function search, a Nix plugin for docs in the REPL, and a ctags implementation for Nix script";
-    homepage = "https://github.com/lf-/nix-doc";
-    license = licenses.lgpl3Plus;
-    maintainers = [ maintainers.lf- ];
-    platforms = platforms.unix;
-    mainProgram = "nix-doc";
-  };
-}

overlay.nix

@@ -1,36 +1,16 @@
 { lix, versionSuffix ? "" }:
 final: prev:
 let
-  boehmgc-patched = ((final.boehmgc.override {
+  lixPackageFromSource = final.callPackage (lix + "/package.nix") ({
-    enableLargeConfig = true;
+    inherit versionSuffix;
-  }).overrideAttrs (o: {
+    stdenv = final.clangStdenv;
-    # cherrypick: boehmgc: disable tests on aarch64-linux
-    # https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/pull/309418
-    doCheck = !((final.stdenv.isDarwin && final.stdenv.isx86_64) || (final.stdenv.isLinux && final.stdenv.isAarch64));
-
-    patches = (o.patches or [ ]) ++ [
-      # for clown reasons this version is newer than the one in lix, we should
-      # fix this and update our nixpkgs pin
-      (prev.path + "/pkgs/tools/package-management/nix/patches/boehmgc-coroutine-sp-fallback.patch")
-    ] ++ final.lib.optionals (final.lib.versionOlder o.version "8.2.6") [
-      # https://github.com/ivmai/bdwgc/pull/586
-      (builtins.path { path = lix + "/boehmgc-traceable_allocator-public.diff"; name = "boehmgc-traceable_allocator-public.patch"; })
-    ];
-  })
-  );
-
-  # This is kind of scary to not override the nix version to pretend to be
-  # 2.18 since nixpkgs can introduce new breakage in its Nix unstable CLI
-  # usage.
-  # https://github.com/nixos/nixpkgs/blob/6afb255d976f85f3359e4929abd6f5149c323a02/nixos/modules/config/nix.nix#L121
-  lixPkg = (final.callPackage (lix + "/package.nix") {
-    versionSuffix = "-lix${versionSuffix}";
-    boehmgc-nix = boehmgc-patched;
   });
 
-  # These packages depend on Nix features that Lix does not support
+  # These packages should receive CppNix since they may link to it or otherwise
-  overridelist_2_18 = [
+  # cause problems (or even just silly mass-rebuilds) if we give them Lix
+  overridelist_upstream = [
     "attic-client"
+    "devenv"
     "nix-du"
     "nix-init"
     "nix-prefetch-git"
@@ -38,48 +18,110 @@ let
     "nurl"
     "prefetch-yarn-deps" # force these onto upstream so we are not regularly rebuilding electron
   ];
-  override_2_18 = prev.lib.genAttrs overridelist_2_18 (
-    name: prev.${name}.override {
-      nix = final.nixVersions.nix_2_18_upstream;
-    });
 
   inherit (prev) lib;
 
-  prefetch-npm-deps-args = lib.functionArgs prev.prefetch-npm-deps.override;
+  csi = builtins.fromJSON ''"\u001b"'';
-in
+  orange = "${csi}[35;1m";
-override_2_18 //
+  normal = "${csi}[0m";
-{
+  warning = ''
+    ${orange}warning${normal}: You have the lix overlay included into a nixpkgs import twice,
+    perhaps due to the NixOS module being included twice, or because of using
+    pkgs.nixos and also including it in imports, or perhaps some unknown
+    machinations of a complicated flake library.
+    This is completely harmless since we have no-op'd the second one if you are
+    seeing this message, but it would be a small style improvement to fix
+    it :)
+    P.S. If you had some hack to fix nixos-option build failures in your
+    configuration, that was caused by including an older version of the lix
+    overlay twice, which is now mitigated if you see this message, so you can
+    delete that.
+    P.P.S. This Lix has super catgirl powers.
+  '';
+  wrongMajorWarning = ''
+    ${orange}warning${normal}: This Lix NixOS module is being built against a Lix with a
+    major version (got ${lixPackageToUse.version}) other than the one the
+    module was designed for (expecting ${supportedLixMajor}). Some downstream
+    packages like nix-eval-jobs may be broken by this. Consider using a
+    matching version of the Lix NixOS module to the version of Lix you are
+    using.
+  '';
+
+  maybeWarnDuplicate = x: if final.lix-overlay-present > 1 then builtins.trace warning x else x;
+
+  versionJson = builtins.fromJSON (builtins.readFile ./version.json);
+  supportedLixMajor = lib.versions.majorMinor versionJson.version;
+  lixPackageToUse = if lix != null then lixPackageFromSource else prev.lix;
+  # Especially if using Lix from nixpkgs, it is plausible that the overlay
+  # could be used against the wrong Lix major version and cause confusing build
+  # errors. This is a simple safeguard to put in at least something that might be seen.
+  maybeWarnWrongMajor = x: if !(lib.hasPrefix supportedLixMajor lixPackageToUse.version) then builtins.trace wrongMajorWarning x else x;
+
+  # It is not enough to *just* throw whatever the default nix version is at
+  # anything in the "don't give lix" list, we have to *also* ensure that we
+  # give whatever upstream version as specified in the callPackage invocation.
+  #
+  # Unfortunately I don't think there is any actual way to directly query that,
+  # so we instead do something extremely evil and guess which version it
+  # probably was. This code is not generalizable to arbitrary derivations, so
+  # it will hopefully not make us cry, at least.
+  useCppNixOverlay =
+    lib.genAttrs overridelist_upstream (
+      name:
+      if (lib.functionArgs prev.${name}.override ? "nix") then
+        let
+          # Get the two common inputs of a derivation/package.
+          inputs = prev.${name}.buildInputs ++ prev.${name}.nativeBuildInputs;
+          nixDependency = lib.findFirst
+            (drv: (drv.pname or "") == "nix")
+            final.nixVersions.stable_upstream # default to stable nix if nix is not an input
+            inputs;
+          nixMajor = lib.versions.major (nixDependency.version or "");
+          nixMinor = lib.versions.minor (nixDependency.version or "");
+          nixAttr = "nix_${nixMajor}_${nixMinor}";
+          finalNix = final.nixVersions.${nixAttr};
+        in
+        prev.${name}.override {
+          nix = finalNix;
+        }
+      else prev.${name}
+    );
+
+  overlay = useCppNixOverlay // {
+    lix-overlay-present = 1;
     # used for things that one wouldn't necessarily want to update, but we
     # nevertheless shove it in the overlay and fixed-point it in case one *does*
     # want to do that.
     lix-sources = import ./pins.nix;
 
-  nixVersions = prev.nixVersions // rec {
+    lix = maybeWarnWrongMajor (maybeWarnDuplicate lixPackageToUse);
-    # FIXME: do something less scuffed
+
-    nix_2_18 = lixPkg;
+    nixVersions = prev.nixVersions // {
-    stable = nix_2_18;
+      stable = final.lix;
-    nix_2_18_upstream = prev.nixVersions.nix_2_18;
+      stable_upstream = prev.nixVersions.stable;
     };
 
     nix-eval-jobs = (prev.nix-eval-jobs.override {
       # lix
-    nix = final.nixVersions.nix_2_18;
+      nix = final.lix;
-  }).overrideAttrs (old: {
+    }).overrideAttrs (old:
+      let src = final.lix-sources.nix-eval-jobs;
+      in {
+        version = "2.92.0-lix-${builtins.substring 0 7 src.rev}";
+
         # FIXME: should this be patches instead?
-    src = final.lix-sources.nix-eval-jobs;
+        inherit src;
 
         mesonBuildType = "debugoptimized";
 
         ninjaFlags = old.ninjaFlags or [ ] ++ [ "-v" ];
-  });
-
-  # support both having and missing https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/pull/304913
-  prefetch-npm-deps =
-    if (prefetch-npm-deps-args ? nix) || (prefetch-npm-deps-args == {})
-    then prev.prefetch-npm-deps.override {
-      nix = final.nixVersions.nix_2_18_upstream;
       }
-    else prev.prefetch-npm-deps;
+    );
 
-  nix-doc = prev.callPackage ./nix-doc/package.nix { withPlugin = false; };
+    nix-doc = prev.nix-doc.override { withPlugin = false; };
-}
+  };
+in
+# Make the overlay idempotent, since flakes passing nixos modules around by
+  # value and many other things make it way too easy to include the overlay
+  # twice
+if (prev ? lix-overlay-present) then { lix-overlay-present = 2; } else overlay

pins.json

@@ -1 +1 @@
-{"nix-eval-jobs": {"kind": "tarball", "rev": "02bcbe0c0eb829cc268e9f5c595047f609da9693", "nar_hash": "sha256-v0uj3ZbpSQYz84YGkadDXCZjHBk2xJwHBLY3pkdPrvY=", "locked_url": "https://git.lix.systems/api/v1/repos/lix-project/nix-eval-jobs/archive/02bcbe0c0eb829cc268e9f5c595047f609da9693.tar.gz?rev=02bcbe0c0eb829cc268e9f5c595047f609da9693", "url": "https://git.lix.systems/lix-project/nix-eval-jobs/archive/main.tar.gz"}}
+{"nix-eval-jobs": {"kind": "tarball", "rev": "912a9d63319e71ca131e16eea3348145a255db2e", "nar_hash": "sha256-6xMxT2duVMO6fo1AXfTjqh7LW3ZmNiHw6kBaAhweLGo=", "locked_url": "https://git.lix.systems/api/v1/repos/lix-project/nix-eval-jobs/archive/912a9d63319e71ca131e16eea3348145a255db2e.tar.gz?rev=912a9d63319e71ca131e16eea3348145a255db2e", "url": "https://git.lix.systems/lix-project/nix-eval-jobs/archive/main.tar.gz"}}

pins.nix

@@ -14,11 +14,13 @@ let
           narHash = args.nar_hash;
         }
     else if kind == "tarball" then
-      builtins.fetchTarball
+      args // {
-        {
+        outPath = builtins.fetchTarball {
           name = "source";
           url = args.locked_url;
           sha256 = args.nar_hash;
-        } else builtins.throw "unsupported input type ${kind}";
+        };
+      }
+    else builtins.throw "unsupported input type ${kind}";
 in
 builtins.mapAttrs (_: fetchPin) pins

test-nixos.nix

@@ -1,17 +1,32 @@
-{ nixos, lix-module }:
+{ pkgs, nixos, lix-module }:
 let
+  pkgs' = import pkgs.path {
+    inherit (pkgs) system;
+  };
   configs = {
     it-builds = nixos ({ ... }: {
+      imports = [ lix-module ];
       documentation.enable = false;
       fileSystems."/".device = "ignore-root-device";
       boot.loader.grub.enable = false;
       system.stateVersion = "24.05";
     });
 
+    # Intentionally provoke the wrong major version.
+    # Does assume that the module is one major ahead of the release; the main
+    # purpose here is a manual testing fixture.
+    wrongMajor = pkgs'.nixos ({ ... }: {
+      imports = [ (import ./module.nix { lix = null; }) ];
+      documentation.enable = false;
+      fileSystems."/".device = "ignore-root-device";
+      boot.loader.grub.enable = false;
+      system.stateVersion = "24.05";
+    });
   };
 in
 {
   inherit configs;
 
   it-builds = configs.it-builds.config.system.build.toplevel;
+  wrongMajor = configs.wrongMajor.config.system.build.toplevel;
 }

version.json

@@ -0,0 +1,3 @@
+{
+    "version": "2.92.0-dev"
+}