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Eelco Dolstra b9fb372075 Add --update-input flag to update a specific flake input
Typical usage:

  $ nix flake update ~/Misc/eelco-configurations/hagbard --update-input nixpkgs

to update the 'nixpkgs' input of a flake while leaving every other
input unchanged.

The argument is an input path, so you can do e.g. '--update-input
dwarffs/nixpkgs' to update an input of an input.

Fixes #2928.
2020-01-29 23:14:27 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra f68bed7f67 Add flag --override-input to override specific lock file entries
E.g.

  $ nix flake update ~/Misc/eelco-configurations/hagbard \
    --override-input 'dwarffs/nixpkgs' ../my-nixpkgs

overrides the 'nixpkgs' input of the 'dwarffs' input of the top-level
flake.

Fixes #2837.
2020-01-29 18:41:25 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra cc22cf662b Respect lock files of inputs + fine-grained lock file control
When computing a lock file, we now respect the lock files of flake
inputs. This is important for usability / reproducibility. For
example, the 'nixops' flake depends on the 'nixops-aws' and
'nixops-hetzner' repositories. So when the 'nixops' flake is used in
another flake, we want the versions of 'nixops-aws' and
'nixops-hetzner' locked by the the 'nixops' flake because those
presumably have been tested.

This can lead to a proliferation of versions of flakes like 'nixpkgs'
(since every flake's lock file could depend on a different version of
'nixpkgs'). This is not a major issue when using Nixpkgs overlays or
NixOS modules, since then the top-level flake composes those
overlays/modules into *its* version of Nixpkgs and all other versions
are ignored. Lock file computation has been made a bit more lazy so it
won't try to fetch all those versions of 'nixpkgs'.

However, in case it's necessary to minimize flake versions, there now
are two input attributes that allow this. First, you can copy an input
from another flake, as follows:

  inputs.nixpkgs.follows = "dwarffs/nixpkgs";

This states that the calling flake's 'nixpkgs' input shall be the same
as the 'nixpkgs' input of the 'dwarffs' input.

Second, you can override inputs of inputs:

  inputs.nixpkgs.url = github:edolstra/nixpkgs/<hash>;
  inputs.nixops.inputs.nixpkgs.url = github:edolstra/nixpkgs/<hash>;

or equivalently, using 'follows':

  inputs.nixpkgs.url = github:edolstra/nixpkgs/<hash>;
  inputs.nixops.inputs.nixpkgs.follows = "nixpkgs";

This states that the 'nixpkgs' input of the 'nixops' input shall be
the same as the calling flake's 'nixpkgs' input.

Finally, at '-v' Nix now prints the changes to the lock file, e.g.

  $ nix flake update ~/Misc/eelco-configurations/hagbard
  inputs of flake 'git+file:///home/eelco/Misc/eelco-configurations?subdir=hagbard' changed:
    updated 'nixpkgs': 'github:edolstra/nixpkgs/7845bf5f4b3013df1cf036e9c9c3a55a30331db9' -> 'github:edolstra/nixpkgs/03f3def66a104a221aac8b751eeb7075374848fd'
    removed 'nixops'
    removed 'nixops/nixops-aws'
    removed 'nixops/nixops-hetzner'
    removed 'nixops/nixpkgs'
2020-01-24 22:05:11 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra 9f4d8c6170 Pluggable fetchers
Flakes are now fetched using an extensible mechanism. Also lots of
other flake cleanups.
2020-01-21 22:56:04 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra 45b740c18b Use upstream json_fwd.hpp to speed up compilation 2019-10-21 22:11:21 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra c67407172d
Record original flakerefs in the lock file again
If 'input.<name>.uri' changes, then the entry in the lockfile for
input <name> should be considered stale.

Also print some messages when lock file entries are added/updated.
2019-09-18 21:57:57 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra 30ccf4e52d Turn flake inputs into an attrset
Instead of a list, inputs are now an attrset like

  inputs = {
    nixpkgs.uri = github:NixOS/nixpkgs;
  };

If 'uri' is omitted, than the flake is a lookup in the flake registry, e.g.

  inputs = {
    nixpkgs = {};
  };

but in that case, you can also just omit the input altogether and
specify it as an argument to the 'outputs' function, as in

  outputs = { self, nixpkgs }: ...

This also gets rid of 'nonFlakeInputs', which are now just a special
kind of input that have a 'flake = false' attribute, e.g.

  inputs = {
    someRepo = {
      uri = github:example/repo;
      flake = false;
    };
  };
2019-08-30 16:27:51 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra b29cec7697
Don't write lock files if they have dirty inputs 2019-07-12 13:29:54 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra 54aff8430c
Move flake-related stuff to src/libexpr/flake 2019-06-05 16:51:54 +02:00
Renamed from src/libexpr/primops/lockfile.hh (Browse further)