otherwise, eval fails when the experimental no-url-literals feature is activated
unquoted urls are discouraged after https://github.com/NixOS/rfcs/pull/45
This fixes e.g. building the rpm of patchelf as in
pkgs/build-support/vm/test.nix. The glob won't work if there are
multiple spec files but I don't think rpmbuild would work in that case
either.
These gave missing attribute errors. They should have been written as
strings in ae9337179b.
Fixes: ae9337179b ("vm: deprecate phases")
Fixes: 52b10ee872 ("vmTools refactor: don't use huge `with pkgs;`")
These are usually set up by systemd, but there's no systemd in the
VM. /dev/fd is required for <(...) syntax in bash, and I'm sure lots
of things depend on the stdin/stdout/stderr links as well.
The current name is misleading: it doesn't contain cli arguments,
but several constants and utility functions related to qemu.
This commit also removes the use of `with import ...` for clarity.
The `platform` field is pointless nesting: it's just stuff that happens
to be defined together, and that should be an implementation detail.
This instead makes `linux-kernel` and `gcc` top level fields in platform
configs. They join `rustc` there [all are optional], which was put there
and not in `platform` in anticipation of a change like this.
`linux-kernel.arch` in particular also becomes `linuxArch`, to match the
other `*Arch`es.
The next step after is this to combine the *specific* machines from
`lib.systems.platforms` with `lib.systems.examples`, keeping just the
"multiplatform" ones for defaulting.
By default, Perl versions since 5.8.1 use randomization to make hashes
resistant to complexity attacks.
That randomization makes building VM images such as ubuntu1804x86_64
non-deterministic because the (imported) derivations built by
deb/deb-closure.pl are not stable.
This can easily be observed by repeating the following sequence of
commands and noting the path of the image's .drv:
nix-instantiate -E '(import <nixpkgs> {}).vmTools.diskImageFuns.ubuntu1804x86_64 {}'
nix-store --delete /nix/store/*ubuntu-18.04-bionic-amd64.nix
One source of non-determinism is the handling of Provides/Replaces,
which depends on the order of iteration over %packages. Here is a
diff showing the corresponding change in output:
>>> awk
-virtual awk: using original-awk
- original-awk: libc6 (>= 2.14)
+virtual awk: using mawk
+ mawk: libc6 (>= 2.14)
- mawk: libc6 (>= 2.14)
->>> libc6
This patch sorts packages by name for Provides/Replaces processing,
which seems to result in stable output.
(If the above turns out not to be sufficient, one could also set the
PERL_HASH_SEED and PERL_PERTURB_KEYS environment variables, documented
in 'perlrun', to disable Perl's built-in randomization. Complexity
attacks are not an issue as we control and trust all inputs.)
Originally this was meant to support other Windows versions than just
Windows XP, but before I actually got a chance to implement this I left
the project that I implemented this for.
The code has been broken for years now and I highly doubt anyone is
interested in resurrecting this (including me), so in order to make this
less of a maintenance burden for everybody, let's remove it.
Signed-off-by: aszlig <aszlig@nix.build>
xchg is advertised as a bidirectional exchange dir, but file content
transfer from host to VM fails due to caching:
If a file is read in the VM and then modified on the host, subsequent
re-reads in the VM can yield old, cached data.
This is caused by the use of 9p's cache=loose mode that is explicitly
meant for read-only mounts.
9p doesn't provide any suitable cache modes, so fix this by disabling
caching.
Also, remove a now unnecessary sync in the test driver.
