The original attempt at this introduced a regression; this commit
reverts the revert and fixes the regression.
This reverts commit 3e151d4d77.
Fix to the regression:
flakeref: fix handling of `?dir=` param for flakes in subdirs
As reported in #419[1], accessing a flake in a subdir of a Git
repository fails with the previous commit[2] applied with the error
error: unsupported Git input attribute 'dir'
The problem is that the `dir`-param is inserted into the parsed URL if a
flake is fetched from the subdir of a Git repository. However, for the
fetching part this isn't even needed. The fix is to just pass `subdir`
as second argument to `FlakeRef` (which needs a `basedir` that can be
empty) and leave the parsedURL as-is.
Added a regression test to make sure we don't run into this again.
[1] lix-project/lix#419
[2] e22172aaf6b6a366cecd3c025590e68fa2b91bcc,
originally 3e151d4d77
Change-Id: I2c72d5a32e406a7ca308e271730bd0af01c5d18b
This reverts commit 35eec921af.
Reason for revert: Regressed nix-eval-jobs, and it appears to be this change is buggy/missing a case. It just needs another pass.
Code causing the problem in n-e-j, when invoked with `nix-eval-jobs --flake '.#hydraJobs'`:
```
n-e-j/tests/assets » ../../build/src/nix-eval-jobs --meta --workers 1 --flake .#hydraJobs
warning: unknown setting 'trusted-users'
warning: `--gc-roots-dir' not specified
error: unsupported Git input attribute 'dir'
error: worker error: error: unsupported Git input attribute 'dir'
```
```
nix::Value *vRoot = [&]() {
if (args.flake) {
auto [flakeRef, fragment, outputSpec] =
nix::parseFlakeRefWithFragmentAndExtendedOutputsSpec(
args.releaseExpr, nix::absPath("."));
nix::InstallableFlake flake{
{}, state, std::move(flakeRef), fragment, outputSpec,
{}, {}, args.lockFlags};
return flake.toValue(*state).first;
} else {
return releaseExprTopLevelValue(*state, autoArgs, args);
}
}();
```
Inspecting the program behaviour reveals that `dir` was in fact set in the URL going into the fetcher. This is in turn because unlike in the case changed in this commit, it was not erased before handing it to libfetchers, which is probably just a mistake.
```
(rr) up
3 0x00007ffff60262ae in nix::fetchers::Input::fromURL (url=..., requireTree=requireTree@entry=true) at src/libfetchers/fetchers.cc:39
warning: Source file is more recent than executable.
39 auto res = inputScheme->inputFromURL(url, requireTree);
(rr) p url
$1 = (const nix::ParsedURL &) @0x7fffdc874190: {url = "git+file:///home/jade/lix/nix-eval-jobs",
base = "git+file:///home/jade/lix/nix-eval-jobs", scheme = "git+file", authority = std::optional<std::string> = {[contained value] = ""},
path = "/home/jade/lix/nix-eval-jobs", query = std::map with 1 element = {["dir"] = "tests/assets"}, fragment = ""}
(rr) up
4 0x00007ffff789d904 in nix::parseFlakeRefWithFragment (url=".#hydraJobs", baseDir=std::optional<std::string> = {...},
allowMissing=allowMissing@entry=false, isFlake=isFlake@entry=true) at src/libexpr/flake/flakeref.cc:179
warning: Source file is more recent than executable.
179 FlakeRef(Input::fromURL(parsedURL, isFlake), getOr(parsedURL.query, "dir", "")),
(rr) p parsedURL
$2 = {url = "git+file:///home/jade/lix/nix-eval-jobs", base = "git+file:///home/jade/lix/nix-eval-jobs", scheme = "git+file",
authority = std::optional<std::string> = {[contained value] = ""}, path = "/home/jade/lix/nix-eval-jobs", query = std::map with 1 element = {
["dir"] = "tests/assets"}, fragment = ""}
(rr) list
174
175 if (pathExists(flakeRoot + "/.git/shallow"))
176 parsedURL.query.insert_or_assign("shallow", "1");
177
178 return std::make_pair(
179 FlakeRef(Input::fromURL(parsedURL, isFlake), getOr(parsedURL.query, "dir", "")),
180 fragment);
181 }
```
Change-Id: Ib55a882eaeb3e59228857761dc1e3b2e366b0f5e
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
Maximilian Bosch
jade