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libcmd/installables: force re-evaluation of cached failures 
I think that it's not very helpful to get "cached failures" in a wrong
`flake.nix`. This can be very confusing when debugging a Nix expression.
See for instance NixOS/nixpkgs#118115.

In fact, the eval cache allows a forced reevaluation which is used for
e.g. `nix eval`.

This change makes sure that this is the case for `nix build` as well. So
rather than

    λ ma27 [~/Projects/exp] → ../nix/outputs/out/bin/nix build -L --rebuild --experimental-features 'nix-command flakes'
    error: cached failure of attribute 'defaultPackage.x86_64-linux'

the evaluation of already-evaluated (and failed) attributes looks like
this now:

    λ ma27 [~/Projects/exp] → ../nix/outputs/out/bin/nix build -L --rebuild --experimental-features 'nix-command flakes'
    error: attribute 'hell' missing

           at /nix/store/mrnvi9ss8zn5wj6gpn4bcd68vbh42mfh-source/flake.nix:6:35:

                5|
                6|     packages.x86_64-linux.hello = nixpkgs.legacyPackages.x86_64-linux.hell;
                 |                                   ^
                7|
    (use '--show-trace' to show detailed location information)
2021-04-19 19:51:04 +02:00
.github Bump cachix/cachix-action from v9 to v10 2021-04-12 05:21:11 +00:00
config Update config.guess for proper arm64 macOS detection 2020-12-02 19:14:34 -06:00
contrib function-trace: always show the trace 2019-09-18 23:23:21 +02:00
doc/manual Revert "[prerequisites]: add JSON lib dependency" 2021-04-05 21:29:04 +01:00
m4 autoconf: Fix C++17 detection not working on Ubuntu 16.04. 2019-07-03 04:32:25 +02:00
maintainers set Content-Type to "text/plain" for install script 2020-08-20 13:21:22 +02:00
misc Add some missing clean-files 2020-10-18 20:32:59 +02:00
mk Merge pull request #4582 from puckipedia/cppflags 2021-03-01 13:08:14 +01:00
nix-rust Remove 'dist' target 2020-12-03 16:17:58 +01:00
perl Make sodium a required dependency 2021-01-06 17:56:53 +01:00
scripts Merge pull request #4532 from abathur/macos_nixbld_ids 2021-03-25 10:35:56 +01:00
src libcmd/installables: force re-evaluation of cached failures 2021-04-19 19:51:04 +02:00
tests Merge branch 'build-with-strictDeps' of https://github.com/hercules-ci/nix 2021-04-15 14:15:21 +02:00
.dir-locals.el .dir-locals.el: Set c-block-comment-prefix 2020-07-10 11:21:06 +02:00
.editorconfig Add .editorconfig 2017-06-05 22:57:28 +01:00
.gitignore Generate separate manpages for each nix subcommand 2020-12-02 23:23:23 +01:00
.version Revert "Bump version to 3.0" 2020-10-26 11:30:18 +01:00
bootstrap.sh bootstrap: Simplify & make more robust. 2011-09-06 12:11:05 +00:00
configure.ac Drop unused tar dependency 2021-04-15 13:57:04 +02:00
COPYING * Change this to LGPL to keep the government happy. 2006-04-25 16:41:06 +00:00
default.nix Simplify shell.nix and default.nix 2020-06-17 19:21:46 +02:00
flake.lock flake.lock: Update 2021-02-26 16:03:39 +01:00
flake.nix Merge branch 'build-with-strictDeps' of https://github.com/hercules-ci/nix 2021-04-15 14:15:21 +02:00
local.mk Remove 'dist' target 2020-12-03 16:17:58 +01:00
Makefile Move command plugin interface to libnixcmd 2021-01-26 06:22:24 -05:00
Makefile.config.in Drop libbz2 / zlib / lzma dependency + style fixes 2021-04-15 13:55:22 +02:00
precompiled-headers.h Config: Use nlohmann/json 2020-08-20 11:02:16 +02:00
README.md README: fix link to hacking guide 2020-12-28 09:30:14 -08:00
shell.nix Add back flake-compat shell.nix 2020-07-17 14:58:59 +00:00

README.md

Nix

Open Collective supporters Test

Nix is a powerful package manager for Linux and other Unix systems that makes package management reliable and reproducible. Please refer to the Nix manual for more details.

Installation

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

$ curl -L https://nixos.org/nix/install | sh

Information on additional installation methods is available on the Nix download page.

Building And Developing

See our Hacking guide in our manual for instruction on how to build nix from source with nix-build or how to get a development environment.

Additional Resources

License

Nix is released under the LGPL v2.1.