Currently the tool prints problems right as it is checking the code
without an intermediate error representation. However for various reasons
it would be beneficial to have an intermediate error type:
- It makes the code cleaner, having all errors in one place
- It allows printing the error in different ways, e.g. for a future
--json mode
This commit prepares for an incremental refactoring for an intermediate
error/problem representation. Most notable is that we want to be able to collect
multiple errors/problems and not just exit on the first one.
We introduce the type alias CheckResult and CheckError (later renamed to
NixpkgsProblem), where CheckError allows collecting multiple
CheckErrors using the utility function flatten_check_results (later
renamed to check_result::sequence)
The write_check_result function is only temporarily introduced to help
refactoring, it's removed again in later commits.
Allows detecting whether attributes are overridden in all-packages.nix.
In a future commit we'll use this to detect empty arguments being set in
all-packages.nix and complain about that.
We seem to have enough tests to run into this now:
error: creating symlink from '/private/tmp/nix-build-nixpkgs-check-by-name.drv-0/source/test-tmp/var/nix/gcroots/profiles' to '/private/tmp/nix-build-nixpkgs-check-by-name.drv-0/source/test-tmp/var/nix/profiles': File exists
On Darwin, /tmp is sometimes a symlink to /private/tmp, which couldn't
be handled before:
error: access to canonical path '/private/var/folders/xp/9_ry6h9x6l9gh_g32qspz0_40000gp/T/.tmpFbcNO0' is forbidden in restricted mode
This both fixes that and adds a test to make sure it can't happen again
This introduces the `pkgs/by-name` directory as proposed by RFC 140.
Included are:
- The implementation to add packages defined in that directory to the
top-level package scope
- Contributer documentation on how to add packages to it
- A GitHub Actions workflow to check the structure of it on all PRs
- Better filesystem case-sensitivity heuristic
We shouldn't assume that Linux is always case-sensitive.
- Don't include case-sensitive filename in tree
Was used for tests, but this broke channel updates because there's a
check to make sure there's no case-sensitive files!
https://hydra.nixos.org/build/233371356/nixlog/1
