A reproduce script includes a logline that may resemble:
> using these flags: --arg nixpkgs { outPath = /tmp/build-137689173/nixpkgs/source; rev = "fdc872fa200a32456f12cc849d33b1fdbd6a933c"; shortRev = "fdc872f"; revCount = 273100; } -I nixpkgs=/tmp/build-137689173/nixpkgs/source --arg officialRelease false --option extra-binary-caches https://hydra.nixos.org/ --option system x86_64-linux /tmp/build-137689173/nixpkgs/source/pkgs/top-level/release.nix -A
These are passed along to nix-build and that's fine and dandy, but you can't just copy-paste this as is, as the `{}` introduces a syntax error and the value accompanying `-A` is `''`.
A very naive approach is to just `printf "%q"` the individual args, which makes them safe to copy-paste. Unfortunately, this looks awful due to the liberal usage of slashes:
```
$ printf "%q" '{ outPath = /tmp/build-137689173/nixpkgs/source; rev = "fdc872fa200a32456f12cc849d33b1fdbd6a933c"; shortRev = "fdc872f"; revCount = 273100; }'
\{\ outPath\ =\ /tmp/build-137689173/nixpkgs/source\;\ rev\ =\ \"fdc872fa200a32456f12cc849d33b1fdbd6a933c\"\;\ shortRev\ =\ \"fdc872f\"\;\ revCount\ =\ 273100\;\ \}
```
Alternatively, if we just use `set -x` before we execute nix-build, we'll get the whole invocation in a friendly, copy-pastable format that nicely displays `{}`-enclosed content and preserves the empty arg following `-A`:
```
running nix-build...
using this invocation:
+ nix-build --arg nixpkgs '{ outPath = /tmp/build-138165173/nixpkgs/source; rev = "e0e4484f2c028d2269f5ebad0660a51bbe46caa4"; shortRev = "e0e4484"; revCount = 274008; }' -I nixpkgs=/tmp/build-138165173/nixpkgs/source --arg officialRelease false --option extra-binary-caches https://hydra.nixos.org/ --option system x86_64-linux /tmp/build-138165173/nixpkgs/source/pkgs/top-level/release.nix -A ''
```
By moving the tests subdirectory to t, we gain the ability to run `yath
test` with no arguments from inside `nix develop` in the root of the
the repo.
(`nix develop` is necessary in order to set the proper env vars for
`yath` to find our test libraries.)
This makes the test faster (by removing it and replacing it with a
`TestScmInput` module that exports the `testScmInput` subroutine). Now,
all the input tests can be run in parallel.
Some of the `tests/jobs/*-update.sh` scripts were "broken" (e.g. tests
failed for various reasons on my machine), so I fixed those up as well.
Co-authored-by: gustavderdrache <gustavderdrache@gmail.com>
This will make it easier to track specifically where queries are being
made from (assuming a `log_line_prefix` that includes `%a` in the
postgres configuration).
projects.xml and declarative-projects.xml were merged with xmllint, and
then I ran that to convert files
for i in *.xml; do pandoc -s -f docbook -t markdown $i -o ${i/xml/md}; done
The queue runner used to special-case `localhost` as a remote builder:
Rather than using the normal remote-build (using the
`cmdBuildDerivation` command), it was using the (generally less
efficient, except when running against localhost) `cmdBuildPaths`
command because the latter didn't require a privileged Nix user (so made
testing easier − allowing to run hydra in a container in particular).
However:
1. this means that the build loop can follow two discint code paths depending
on the setup, the irony being that the most commonly used one in production
(the “non-localhost” case) isn't the one used in the testsuite (because all
the tests run against a local store);
2. It turns out that the “localhost” version is buggy in relatively obvious
ways − in particular a failure in a fixed-output derivation or a hash
mismatch isn't reported properly;
3. If the “run in a container” use-case is indeed that important, it can be
(partially) restored using a chroot store (which wouldn't behave excactly
the same way of course, but would be more than good-enough for testing)
