In dry run mode, new derivations can't be create, so running the command on anything that has not been evaluated before results in an error message of the form `don't know how to build these paths (may be caused by read-only store access)`.
For comparison, the classical `nix-build --dry-run` doesn't use read-only mode.
Closes#1795
(cherry picked from commit 54525682df707742e58311c32e9c9cb18de1e31f)
“packages” was probably meant to be “packages.${system}.” but that
is already listed in `getDefaultFlakeAttrPathPrefixes` in `installables`,
which is probably why no one noticed it was broken.
It currently fails with the following error:
error: flake 'git+file://…' does not provide attribute 'devShells.x86_64-linuxhaskell', 'packages.x86_64-linux.haskell', 'legacyPackages.x86_64-linux.haskell' or 'haskell'
For git+file and path flakes, chdir to flake directory so that phases
that expect to be in the flake directory can run
Fixes https://github.com/NixOS/nix/issues/3976
With this, we don't have to copy the entire .drv closure to the
destination store ahead of time (or at all). Instead, buildPaths()
reads .drv files from the eval store and copies inputSrcs to the
destination store if it needs to build a derivation.
Issue #5025.
In particular, this now works:
$ nix path-info --eval-store auto --store https://cache.nixos.org nixpkgs#hello
Previously this would fail as it would try to upload the hello .drv to
cache.nixos.org. Now the .drv is instantiated in the local store, and
then we check for the existence of the outputs in cache.nixos.org.
It supports functions as well. Also change `package` to
`derivation` because it operates at the language level and does
not open the derivation (which would be useful but not nearly
as much).
It does not operate on a derivation and does not return a
derivation path. Instead it works at the language level,
where a distinct term "package" is more appropriate to
distinguish the parent object of `meta.position`; an
attribute which doesn't even make it into the derivation.
Fill `NIX_CONFIG` with the value of the current Nix configuration before
calling the nix subprocesses in the repl
That way the whole configuration (including the possible
`experimental-features`, a possibly `--store` option or whatever) will
be made available.
This is required for example to make `nix repl` work with a custom
`--store`
Fill `NIX_CONFIG` with the value of the current Nix configuration before
calling the post-build-hook.
That way the whole configuration (including the possible
`experimental-features`, a possibly `--store` option or whatever) will
be made available to the hook
Pass the current experimental features using `NIX_CONFIG` to the various
Nix subprocesses that `nix repl` invokes.
This is quite a hack, but having `nix repl` call Nix with a subprocess
is a hack already, so I guess that’s fine.
Robert Hensing
Maximilian Bosch