# This file turns the pkgs/by-name directory (see its README.md for more info) into an overlay that adds all the defined packages. # No validity checks are done here, # instead this file is optimised for performance, # and validity checks are done by CI on PRs. # Type: Path -> Overlay baseDirectory: let # Because of Nix's import-value cache, importing lib is free lib = import ../../lib; inherit (builtins) readDir ; inherit (lib.attrsets) mapAttrs mapAttrsToList mergeAttrsList ; # Package files for a single shard # Type: String -> String -> AttrsOf Path namesForShard = shard: type: if type != "directory" then # Ignore all non-directories. Technically only README.md is allowed as a file in the base directory, so we could alternatively: # - Assume that README.md is the only file and change the condition to `shard == "README.md"` for a minor performance improvement. # This would however cause very poor error messages if there's other files. # - Ensure that README.md is the only file, throwing a better error message if that's not the case. # However this would make for a poor code architecture, because one type of error would have to be duplicated in the validity checks and here. # Additionally in either of those alternatives, we would have to duplicate the hardcoding of "README.md" { } else mapAttrs (name: _: baseDirectory + "/${shard}/${name}/package.nix") (readDir (baseDirectory + "/${shard}")); # The attribute set mapping names to the package files defining them # This is defined up here in order to allow reuse of the value (it's kind of expensive to compute) # if the overlay has to be applied multiple times packageFiles = mergeAttrsList (mapAttrsToList namesForShard (readDir baseDirectory)); in # TODO: Consider optimising this using `builtins.deepSeq packageFiles`, # which could free up the above thunks and reduce GC times. # Currently this would be hard to measure until we have more packages # and ideally https://github.com/NixOS/nix/pull/8895 self: super: { # This attribute is necessary to allow CI to ensure that all packages defined in `pkgs/by-name` # don't have an overriding definition in `all-packages.nix` with an empty (`{ }`) second `callPackage` argument. # It achieves that with an overlay that modifies both `callPackage` and this attribute to signal whether `callPackage` is used # and whether it's defined by this file here or `all-packages.nix`. # TODO: This can be removed once `pkgs/by-name` can handle custom `callPackage` arguments without `all-packages.nix` (or any other way of achieving the same result). # Because at that point the code in ./stage.nix can be changed to not allow definitions in `all-packages.nix` to override ones from `pkgs/by-name` anymore and throw an error if that happens instead. _internalCallByNamePackageFile = file: self.callPackage file { }; } // mapAttrs (name: self._internalCallByNamePackageFile) packageFiles