While trying to figure out how `nix-env`/`nix profile` work I had a hard
time understand how man pages were being installed.
Took me quite some time to figure this out, thought it might be useful
to others too!
diff-index operates on the view that git has of the working tree,
which might be outdated. The higher-level diff command does this
automatically. This change also adds handling for submodules.
fixes#4140
Alternative fixes would be invoking update-index before diff-index or
matching more closely what require_clean_work_tree from git-sh-setup.sh
does, but both those options make it more difficult to reason about
correctness.
The .git/refs/heads directory might be empty for a valid
usable git repository. This often happens in CI environments,
which might only fetch commits, not branches.
Therefore instead we let git itself check if HEAD points to
something that looks like a commit.
fixes#5302
Fixes#6122, which reports a problem with trying to run the installer
under another user (probably: user is not the disk "owner" and thus
can't mount the volume).
This also makes sure that we get the Docker images from the same Hydra
eval, rather than the latest build from job/nix/.../dockerImage, which
may not be the same.
On Nix 2.6 the output of `nix why-depends --all` seems to be somewhat
off:
$ nix why-depends /nix/store/kn47hayxab8gc01jhr98dwyywbx561aq-nixos-system-roflmayr-21.11.20220207.6c202a9.drv /nix/store/srn5jbs1q30jpybdmxqrwskyny659qgc-nix-2.6.drv --derivation --extra-experimental-features nix-command --all
/nix/store/kn47hayxab8gc01jhr98dwyywbx561aq-nixos-system-roflmayr-21.11.20220207.6c202a9.drv
└───/nix/store/g8bpgfjhh5vxrdq0w6r6s64f9kkm9z6c-etc.drv
│ └───/nix/store/hm0jmhp8shbf3cl846a685nv4f5cp3fy-nspawn-inst.drv
| [...]
└───/nix/store/2d6q3ygiim9ijl5d4h0qqx6vnjgxywyr-system-units.drv
└───/nix/store/dil014y1b8qyjhhhf5fpaah5fzdf0bzs-unit-systemd-nspawn-hydra.service.drv
└───/nix/store/a9r72wwx8qrxyp7hjydyg0gsrwnn26zb-activate.drv
└───/nix/store/99hlc7i4gl77wq087lbhag4hkf3kvssj-nixos-system-hydra-21.11pre-git.drv
Please note that `[...]-system-units.drv` is supposed to be a direct
child of `[...]-etc.drv`.
The reason for that is that each new level printed by `printNode` is
four spaces off in comparison to `nix why-depends --precise` because the
recursive `printNode()` only prints the path and not the `tree*`-chars in
the case of `--precise` and in this format the path is four spaces further
indented, i.e. on a newline, but on the same level as the path's children, i.e.
/nix/store/kn47hayxab8gc01jhr98dwyywbx561aq-nixos-system-roflmayr-21.11.20220207.6c202a9.drv
└───/: …1-p8.drv",["out"]),("/nix/store/g8bpgfjhh5vxrdq0w6r6s64f9kkm9z6c-etc.drv",["out"]),("/nix/store/…
→ /nix/store/g8bpgfjhh5vxrdq0w6r6s64f9kkm9z6c-etc.drv
As you can see `[...]-etc.drv` is a direct child of the root, but four
spaces indented. This logic was directly applied to the code-path with
`precise=false` which resulted in `tree*` being printed four spaces too
deep.
In case of no `--precise`, `hits[hash]` is empty and the path itself
should be printed rather than hits using the same logic as for `hits[hash]`.
With this fix, the output looks correct now:
/nix/store/kn47hayxab8gc01jhr98dwyywbx561aq-nixos-system-roflmayr-21.11.20220207.6c202a9.drv
└───/nix/store/g8bpgfjhh5vxrdq0w6r6s64f9kkm9z6c-etc.drv
├───/nix/store/hm0jmhp8shbf3cl846a685nv4f5cp3fy-nspawn-inst.drv
| [...]
└───/nix/store/2d6q3ygiim9ijl5d4h0qqx6vnjgxywyr-system-units.drv
└───/nix/store/dil014y1b8qyjhhhf5fpaah5fzdf0bzs-unit-systemd-nspawn-hydra.service.drv
└───/nix/store/a9r72wwx8qrxyp7hjydyg0gsrwnn26zb-activate.drv
└───/nix/store/99hlc7i4gl77wq087lbhag4hkf3kvssj-nixos-system-hydra-21.11pre-git.drv
It's a second attempt to merge the change. Previous attempt
was reverted in b976b34a5b.
Since then underlying failure exposed by original change was
fixed by https://github.com/NixOS/nix/pull/5354.
Below goes description of original change:
The link failure happens on a system with stable nix-2.3.15
installed in /usr/lib64 (it's libutil.so API differs from master):
```
LANG=C make V=1
g++ -o /home/slyfox/dev/git/nix/src/libstore/libnixstore.so \
-shared -L/usr/lib64 -Wl,--no-copy-dt-needed-entries \
src/libstore/binary-cache-store.o ... src/libstore/uds-remote-store.o \
-lsqlite3 -lcurl -lsodium -pthread -ldl -lseccomp -Wl,-z,defs -Wl,-soname=libnixstore.so
-Wl,-rpath,/home/slyfox/dev/git/nix/src/libutil -Lsrc/libutil -lnixutil
ld: src/libstore/binary-cache-store.o: in function `nix::BinaryCacheStore::BinaryCacheStore(
std::map<std::__cxx11::basic_string<char, std::char_traits<char>, ...
nix/src/libstore/binary-cache-store.cc:30: undefined reference to `nix::readFile(
std::__cxx11::basic_string<char, std::char_traits<char>, std::allocator<char> > const&)' ...
...
```
This happens due to `-L/usr/lib64 -Lsrc/libutil` search path ordering.
The change turns it into `-Lsrc/libutil -L/usr/lib64`.
Closes: https://github.com/NixOS/nix/issues/3087
Robert Hensing
Linus Heckemann
Maximilian Bosch