This is a bit of a thorny issue. See, the actual `diskSize` variable is
for the *total* disk size, not for the filesystem!
The automatic numbers are meant to compute the *filesystem* required
space. So we have to add any other reserved space!
We have different requirements for reserved space. E.g. there could be
none (when it's actually a filesystem image). There could also be 1MiB
for alignment for an MBR image, legacy+gpt needs 2MiB, then GPT with an
ESP ("bootSize") needs to take the boot partition and GPT size into
account too!
Though luckily(?) for this latter situation we can cheat! As noted in the
change, `bootSize` is NOT the boot partition size. It is actually the
offset where the target filesystem starts.
Reserved space includes:
- inodes space in use (2 blocks per)
- about 5.2% of the space
The 5.2% reserved space was computed empirically when working on a
previous EXT4 image builder. It seems to stabilize around 5% even for
much larger filesystems.
On some filesystems, `du` without `--apparent-size` will not give the
actual size for a file. Using `--apparent-size` will give us the actual
file size.
Though, this is not actually correct still. 1000 × 1 bytes is not 1000
bytes. It is 1000 × ceil(filesize/blockSize)*blockSize.
So instead of adding up the actual file sizes. We are adding up the
block sizes.
Note that this also changes the builder to work with *bytes*, rather
than with any other units. Doing maths on bytes is less likely to go
awry than doing it on other units.
When performing OCR, some of the Tesseract settings perform better than
others on a variety of different workloads, but they mostly take
~negligible incremental time to run compared to the overhead of running
the ImageMagick filters.
After this commit, we try using all three of the current Tesseract
models (classic, LSTM, and classic+LSTM) to generate output text. This
fixes chromium-90's tests at release-20.09, and should make cases where
you're looking for *specific* text better, with the tradeoff of running
Tesseract multiple times.
To make it sensible to cherrypick this into release-20.09, this doesn't
change the existing API surface for the test driver. In particular,
get_screen_text continues to have the existing behaviour.
Make the revision metadata constant, in order to avoid needless retesting.
The human version (e.g. 21.05-pre) is left as is, because it is useful
for external modules that test with e.g. nixosTest and rely on that
version number.
the nix store may contain hardlinks: derivations may output them
directly, or users may be using store optimization which automatically
hardlinks identical files in the nix store.
The presence of these links are intended to be a 'transparent'
optimization. However, when creating a squashfs image, the image
will be different depending on whether hard links were present
on the filesystem, leading to reproducibility problems.
By passing '-no-hardlinks' to mksquashfs the files are stored
as duplicates in the squashfs image. Since squashfs has support
for duplicate files this does not lead to a larger image.
For more details see
https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/issues/114331
/var/lib/nixos is used by update-users-groups.pl in the activation
script for storing uid/gid mappings. If this has its own mountpoint
(as is the case in some setups with fine-grained bind mounts pointing
into persistent storage), the mappings are written to /var/lib, /var,
or /. These may be backed by a tmpfs or (otherwise ephemeral storage),
resulting in the mappings not persisting between reboots.
The hydra tarball step would fail due to the nodes attribute not being
properly inherited. Since we can't execute all the tests and release
steps locally anymore (thanks to the JSONification and faster hydra
eval) these errors will probably keep in appearing.
This is hopefully the last of those introduced by me test runner
refactoring.
Error was seen on hydra (https://hydra.nixos.org/build/129282411):
> unpacking sources
> unpacking source archive /nix/store/bp95x52h6nv3j8apxrryyj2rviw682k1-source
> source root is source
> patching sources
> autoconfPhase
> No bootstrap, bootstrap.sh, configure.in or configure.ac. Assuming this is not an GNU Autotools package.
> configuring
> release name is nixpkgs-21.03pre249116.1088f059401
> git-revision is 1088f05940
> building
> no Makefile, doing nothing
> running tests
> warning: you did not specify '--add-root'; the result might be removed by the garbage collector
> warning: you did not specify '--add-root'; the result might be removed by the garbage collector
> checking Nixpkgs on i686-linux
> checking Nixpkgs on x86_64-linux
> checking Nixpkgs on x86_64-darwin
> checking eval-release.nix
> trace: `mkStrict' is obsolete; use `mkOverride 0' instead.
> trace: `lib.nixpkgsVersion` is deprecated, use `lib.version` instead!
> trace: warning: lib.readPathsFromFile is deprecated, use a list instead
> trace: Warning: `showVal` is deprecated and will be removed in the next release, please use `traceSeqN`
> trace: lib.zip is deprecated, use lib.zipAttrsWith instead
> checking find-tarballs.nix
> trace: `mkStrict' is obsolete; use `mkOverride 0' instead.
> trace: `lib.nixpkgsVersion` is deprecated, use `lib.version` instead!
> trace: warning: lib.readPathsFromFile is deprecated, use a list instead
> trace: Warning: `showVal` is deprecated and will be removed in the next release, please use `traceSeqN`
> trace: lib.zip is deprecated, use lib.zipAttrsWith instead
> error: while evaluating anonymous function at /build/source/maintainers/scripts/find-tarballs.nix:6:1, called from undefined position:
> while evaluating 'operator' at /build/source/maintainers/scripts/find-tarballs.nix:27:16, called from undefined position:
> while evaluating 'immediateDependenciesOf' at /build/source/maintainers/scripts/find-tarballs.nix:39:29, called from /build/source/maintainers/scripts/find-tarballs.nix:27:44:
> while evaluating anonymous function at /build/source/lib/attrsets.nix:234:10, called from undefined position:
> while evaluating anonymous function at /build/source/maintainers/scripts/find-tarballs.nix:40:37, called from /build/source/lib/attrsets.nix:234:16:
> while evaluating 'derivationsIn' at /build/source/maintainers/scripts/find-tarballs.nix:42:19, called from /build/source/maintainers/scripts/find-tarballs.nix:40:40:
> while evaluating 'canEval' at /build/source/maintainers/scripts/find-tarballs.nix:48:13, called from /build/source/maintainers/scripts/find-tarballs.nix:43:9:
> while evaluating the attribute 'nodes' at /build/source/nixos/lib/testing-python.nix:195:23:
> attribute 'nodes' missing, at /build/source/nixos/lib/testing-python.nix:193:16
> build time elapsed: 0m0.122s 0m0.043s 17m51.526s 0m56.668s
> builder for '/nix/store/96rk3c74vrk6m3snm7n6jhis3j640pn4-nixpkgs-tarball-21.03pre249116.1088f059401.drv' failed with exit code 1
In 5500dc8 we introduced the --keep-vm-state flag and defaulted to that
flag not being set. This lead to the `runInMachine` tests not longer
working and that going unnoticed for quite some time now.
Previously you would be able to override only the QEMU package to be
used in the test runner. Frankly that doesn't help a lot if you are
trying to get a graphical session. The graphical session requires the
option in the NixOS module system to bet set to the correct QEMU
package.
In this commit I moved most of the test node configuration and
transformations into the `mkDriver` function (previously called
`driver`). The motivation was to be able to create a `driver` instance
with a given QEMU package that will be used consistently througout the
test expression.
According to Python documentation [0], `bufsize=1` is only meaningful in
text mode. As we don't pass in an argument called `universal_newlines`,
`encoding`, `errors` or `text` the file objects aren't opened in text
mode, which means the argument is ignored with a warning in Python 3.8.
line buffering (buffering=1) isn't supported in binary mode,
the default buffer size will be used
This commit removes this warning that appared when using
interactive test driver built with `-A driver`. This is done by
removing `bufsize=1` from Popen calls.
The default parameter when unspecified for `bufsize` is `-1` which
according to the documentation will be interpreted as
`io.DEFAULT_BUFFER_SIZE`. As mentioned by a warning, Python already
uses default buffer size when providing `buffering=1` parameter for
file objects not opened in text mode.
[0]: https://docs.python.org/3/library/subprocess.html#subprocess.Popen
For a lot of the work the non-interactive drivers are enough and it is
probably a good idea to keep it accessible for debugging without
touching the Nix expression.
Since we previously stripped down the features of `qemu_test` some of
the features users are used to while running tests through the (impure)
driver didn't work anymore. Most notably we lost support for graphical
output and audio. With this change the `driver` attribute uses are more
feature complete version of QEmu compared to the one used in the pure
Nix builds.
This gives us the best of both worlds. Users are able to see the
graphical windows of VMs while CI and regular nix builds do not have to
download all the (unnecessary) dependencies.
Since using flakes disallows the usage of <unstable> (which I use in
some tests), this adds an alternative. By setting specialArgs, all VMs
can get the `unstable` flake input as an arg. This is not possible with
extraConfigurations, as that would lead to infinite recursions.
ecb73fd555 introduced a new keepVmState
CLI flag for test-driver.py. This CLI flags gets forwarded to the
Machine class through create_machine.
It created a regression for the boot tests where __main__ end up not
being evaluated. See
https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/pull/97346#issuecomment-690951837 for
bug report.
Defaulting keepVmState to false when __main__ ends up not being
evaluated.
The previous version of the code would only kick in if the state
directory path pointed at a *file*, which never occurs. Making that
codepath actually work reveals an ordering bug, which this patch fixes
as well.
It also replaces the confusing, imperative case log message "delete VM
state directory" with "deleting VM state directory".
Finally, we hint the user about how to prevent this deletion. IE. by
passing the --keep-vm-state flag.
Bug report:
https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/pull/91046#issuecomment-685568750
Credit goes to Edef for the rebase on top of a recent nixpkgs commit
and for writing most of this commit message.
Co-authored-by: edef <edef@edef.eu>
This reverts commit 1bff6fe17c, reversing
changes made to 2995fa48cb.
There’s presumably nothing wrong with this PR, except that it
conflicts with reverting #96254 which broke several tests (#96699).
Signed-off-by: Anders Kaseorg <andersk@mit.edu>
With the Perl driver, machine.sleep(N) was doing a sleep on the guest
machine instead of the host machine. The new Python test driver however
uses time.sleep(), which instead sleeps on the host.
While this shouldn't make a difference most of the time, it *does*
however make a huge difference if the test machine is loaded and you're
sleeping for a minimum duration of eg. an animation.
I stumbled on this while porting most of all my tests to the new Python
test driver and particularily my video game tests failed on a fairly
loaded machine, whereas they don't with the Perl test driver.
Switching the sleep() method to sleep on the guest instead of the host
fixes this.
Signed-off-by: aszlig <aszlig@nix.build>
This appears to avoid requiring KVM when it’s not available. This is
what I originally though -cpu host did. Unfortunately not much
documentation available from the QEMU side on this, but this appears
to square with help:
$ qemu-system-x86 -cpu help
...
x86 host KVM processor with all supported host features
x86 max Enables all features supported by the accelerator in the current host
...
Whether we actually want to support this not clear, since this only
happens when your CPU doesn’t have full KVM support. Some Nix builders
are lying about kvm support though. Things aren’t too slow without it
though.
Fixes https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/issues/85394
Alternative to https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/pull/83920
- Give a more accurate description of how fileSystems.<name/>.neededForBoot
works
- Give a more detailed description of how fileSystems.<name/>.encrypted.keyFile
works
In 9ac1ab10c9 this library function was
refactored to use mkfs.ext4 instead of cptofs. There are two problems:
If populateImageCommands would create no files (which is fine), a cp
invocation would fail due to missing source arguments.
Another problem is that mkfs.ext4 relies on fakeroot to have sane
uid/gids in the generated filesystem image. This currently doesn't
work for cross compiling.
This modifies the `router` to not give out a range of IP addresses but
only give out a fixed address based on the MAC address using the
`services.dhcpd4.machines` option.
To get access to the MAC address the `qemuNicMac` function is defined
and exported from `qemu-flags.nix`.
By generating a version-5 GUID based on $out (which contains
the derivation hash) and preventing isohybrid from overwriting
the GPT table (which already is populated correctly by xorriso).
Tested by:
* booting from USB disk on a UEFI system
* booting from USB disk on a non-UEFI system
* booting from CD on a UEFI system
* booting from CD on a non-UEFI system
* booting from CD on an OSX system
Also tested that "nix-build ./nixos/release-combined.nix -A
nixos.iso_minimal.x86_64-linux -I nixpkgs=~/nixpkgs-r13y --check"
now succeeds.
Fixes#74047
This was broken in 460c0d6 (PR #90431); now the nixos-unstable channel
should get unblocked.
vcunat modified this commit to use env-var instead of hardcoding /build
Keeping the VM state test across several run sometimes lead to subtle
and hard to spot errors in practice. We delete the VM state which
contains (among other things) the qcow volume.
We also introduce a -K (--keep-vm-state) flag making VM state to
persist after the test run. This flag makes test-driver.py to match
its previous behaviour.
Turns out, on smaller images (~800MiB uncompressed sdcard image size),
the current fudge factor is way too small to even get the system to the
phase where it can resize itself.
I first tried with 1.05, but it wasn't enough.
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.
These syncs have the goal to transfer host filesystem changes to the VM,
but they have no effect because 1) syncing in the VM can't possibly pull
in host data and 2) 9p is accessing the host filesystem on the cached
layer anyways, so even syncing on the host would have no effect in the
VM.
The test harness provides the commands it wishes to run in Bourne
syntax. This fails if the user uses a different shell. For example,
with fish:
machine.wait_for_unit("graphical-session.target", "alice")
machine # fish: Unsupported use of '='. To run '-u`' with a modified environment, please use 'env XDG_RUNTIME_DIR=/run/user/`id -u`…'
machine # XDG_RUNTIME_DIR=/run/user/`id -u` systemctl --user --no-pager show "graphical-session.target"
machine # ^
machine # [ 16.329957] su[1077]: pam_unix(su:session): session closed for user alice
error: retrieving systemctl info for unit "graphical-session.target" under user "alice" failed with exit code 127
This completes the removal of the nested log feature, which previously
got removed from Nix, Hydra, stdenv and GNU Make. In particular, this
means that the output of VM builds no longer contains a copy of
jQuery.
If a program (e.g. nixos-install) writes more than 1000 lines to
stderr during execute(), then process_serial_output() deadlocks
waiting for the queue to be processed. So use an unbounded queue
instead.
We should probably get rid of the structured log output (log.xml),
since then we don't need the log queue anymore.
This avoids a possible surprise if the user is using `nixpkgs.system`
and `nesting.children`. `nesting.children` is expected to ignore all
parent configuration so we shouldn't propagate the user-facing option
`nixpkgs.system`. To avoid doing so, we introduce a new internal
option for holding the value passed to eval-config.nix, and use that
when recursing for nesting.
Most VM tests have been migrated to use the python test driver
(introduced in #71684), the migration is tracked in #72828 (which also
thankfully uncovered and fixed many currently broken tests)
While increasing the acceptance and adoption of NixOS integration tests
by using a more popular language, there was also nobody willing to do
larger refactors in the currently very convoluted test infrastructure.
We plan to remove the perl infrastructure between the 20.03 and 20.09
release, to be able to do these refactorings.
Some people might be using Perl tests in their internal CI, so print a
warning for 20.03, and give users time to move to the python testing
infrastructure.
According to https://repology.org/repository/nix_unstable/problems, we have a
lot of packages that have http links that redirect to https as their homepage.
This commit updates all these packages to use the https links as their
homepage.
The following script was used to make these updates:
```
curl https://repology.org/api/v1/repository/nix_unstable/problems \
| jq '.[] | .problem' -r \
| rg 'Homepage link "(.+)" is a permanent redirect to "(.+)" and should be updated' --replace 's@$1@$2@' \
| sort | uniq > script.sed
find -name '*.nix' | xargs -P4 -- sed -f script.sed -i
```
The docstring says it uses a directory shared among all vms, although
that doesn't seem necessary for the functionality. However, it does need
to be consistent between the guest and host.
The codec format 'unicode_escape' was introduced in 52ee102 to handle
undecodable bytes in boot menus.
This made the problem worse as unicode chars outside of iso-8859-1
produce garbled output and valid utf-8 strings (such as "\x" ) trigger
decoding errors.
Fix this by using the default 'utf-8' codec and by explicitly ignoring
decoding errors.
This changes the python test driver to match the behavior of the perl
test driver. I.e. the directory mounted into /tmp/shared should be the
same for all machines.
This probably fixes many tests, but I found this while investigating
failures in nixos/tests/ceph-multi-node.nix.
While it's a good idea to automate the linting of the python code used
for our tests, I think that it can be quite distracting when hacking on
a NixOS test.
I figured that it might be more convenient to add an option as a
shortcut for this to avoid that everyone needs to dig into the test
driver again.
The upstream session files display managers use have no concept of sessions being composed from
desktop manager and window manager. To be able to set upstream session files as default
session, we need a single option. Having two different ways to set default session would be confusing,
though, so we decided to deprecate the old method.
We also created separate script for each session, just like we already had a separate desktop
file for each one, and started using displayManager.sessionPackages mechanism to make the
session handling more uniform.
When using `documentation.nixos.includeAllModules = true;` with external
modules, the string context might contain dependencies to derivations
and so `toFile` refuses to evaluate;
```
error: in 'toFile': the file 'options.xml' cannot refer to derivation outputs, at
[...]/nixpkgs/nixos/lib/make-options-doc/default.nix:89:16
```
This is not an issue when using `writeText` (instead of manually
stripping the context).
The SLIM project is abandoned and their last release was in 2013.
Because of this it poses a security risk to systems, no one is working
on it or picked up maintenance. It also lacks compatibility with systemd
and logind sessions. For users, there liikely isn't anything like slim
that's as lightweight in terms of dependencies.
we previously immediately returned the first commands output, and didn't
execute any of the other commands.
Now, return the last commands output.
This should be documented in the method docstring.
Condition seems to be inverted. Crash and shutdown only make sense, when
the machine is booted; i.e. we return immediately otherwise.
In the Perl test driver this is:
return unless $self->{booted};
This reverts commit e9bf955fd6. We use
nixos-install to ensure that make-disk-image produces the same result
as a regular installation (9802da517f)
and to reduce code duplication. If there is something broken in
nixos-install, it should be fixed there.
Introduce new functions which allows modules to define options where,
if the input is an attrset and the output is JSON, the user can define
arbitrary secrets.
Because the copy process inside the VM does not reliably
give "No space" error message leaving the user wondering what
went wrong:
unable to create directory /mnt/0000fe01///nix/store/yknzxx7w2ck9p30k81gpi5yfjlrq41lr-libsecret-0.18.7/share/locale/ro: Success
[ 5.462365] reboot: Restarting system
error processing entry /build/root/nix/store/yknzxx7w2ck9p30k81gpi5yfjlrq41lr-libsecret-0.18.7/share/locale/ro, aborting
error processing entry /build/root/nix/store/yknzxx7w2ck9p30k81gpi5yfjlrq41lr-libsecret-0.18.7/share/locale, aborting
error processing entry /build/root/nix/store/yknzxx7w2ck9p30k81gpi5yfjlrq41lr-libsecret-0.18.7/share, aborting
error processing entry /build/root/nix/store/yknzxx7w2ck9p30k81gpi5yfjlrq41lr-libsecret-0.18.7, aborting
error processing entry /build/root/nix/store, aborting
error processing entry /build/root/nix, aborting
builder for '/nix/store/fsdvqxq92iai7f3w8wcsncgfwag7cj2l-libvirtd-ssh-image.drv' failed with exit code 228
Motivation is to support other repositories containing nixos
modules that would like to generate options documentation:
- nix-darwin
- private repos
- arion
- ??
When IPXE tests were added, an option was added for configuring only
the frontend, and the backend configuration was dropped entirely. This
caused most installer tests to fail.
We differentiate between modules and baseModules in the
VM builder for NixOS tests. This way, nesting.children, eventhough
it doesn't inherit from parent, still has enough config to
actually complete the test. Otherwise, the qemu modules
would not be loaded, for example, and a nesting.children
statement would not evaluate.
Before this change `man 5 configuration.nix` would only show options of modules in
the `baseModules` set, which consists only of the list of modules in
`nixos/modules/module-list.nix`
With this change applied and `documentation.nixos.includeAllModules` option enabled
all modules included in `configuration.nix` file will be used instead.
This makes configurations with custom modules self-documenting. It also means
that importing non-`baseModules` modules like `gce.nix` or `azure.nix`
will make their documentation available in `man 5 configuration.nix`.
`documentation.nixos.includeAllModules` is currently set to `false` by
default as enabling it usually uncovers bugs and prevents evaluation.
It should be set to `true` in a release or two.
This was originally implemented in #47177, edited for more configurability,
documented and rebased onto master by @oxij.
Fixes#5185856e12aae54 ends up passing config to pkgs. Unfortunately this might be null and pkgs/top-level/default.nix assumes it is an attrset. To fix this, we just make the default for config = {}. Thanks to @kristoff3r for tracking this down.
/cc @domenkozar
See #49441 for an earlier attempt, which was subsequently reverted. I am
assuming that doubling the time will be sufficient if the machine is
overloaded since so many of the tests already pass at 5 minutes, while
still not holding back failures for needlessly long.
cleanSource does not appear to work correctly in this case. The path
does not get coerced to a string, resulting in a dangling symlink
produced in channel.nix. Not sure why, but this
seems to fix it.
Fixes#51025.
/cc @elvishjericco
Since 113a6b9325 the test driver
explicitly ensures if the node names won't break the resulting Perl
script at runtime. This slightly improves the correctness of the error
message.
These names are referenced by Perl variables inside the testing
frameworks which don't allow chars like `-` as character inside. An exemplary
expression may look like this:
```
{
x11-vm = {
services.xserver.enable = true;
};
}
```
This expression evaluates, e.g. when running `nixos-build-vms`, but when
trying to run `./result/bin/nixos-run-vms`, an error like this occurs:
```
starting VDE switch for network 1
running the VM test script
error: Can't modify subtraction (-) in scalar assignment at (eval 17) line 1, at EOF
Bareword "test" not allowed while "strict subs" in use at (eval 17) line 1.
Can't modify subtraction (-) in scalar assignment at (eval 17) line 1, at EOF
Bareword "test" not allowed while "strict subs" in use at (eval 17) line 1.
vde_switch: EOF on stdin, cleaning up and exiting
cleaning up
```
This can be very confusing for beginners, this change breaks evaluation
if such names are used for machines.
This is to try and squeeze more lost space from the image, so that hydra
starts building it again.
The fsck previous to the resize2fs is required so resize2fs works.
The one afterwards is a sanity check.
Using `-M` from resize2fs will not give much saved space due to a known
(in the manual) issue.
```
[samueldr@aarch64:~/nixpkgs]$ ls -lh result-*/*/*.img
-r--r--r-- 1 root root 2.2G Jan 1 1970 result-original/sd-image/nixos-sd-image-18.09.git.a7fd431-aarch64-linux.img
-r--r--r-- 1 root root 2.1G Jan 1 1970 result-M/sd-image/nixos-sd-image-18.09.git.a7fd431-aarch64-linux.img
-r--r--r-- 1 root root 1.9G Jan 1 1970 result-slimmed/sd-image/nixos-sd-image-18.09.git.a7fd431-aarch64-linux.img
```
```
[samueldr@aarch64:~/nixpkgs]$ nix path-info -S ./result-original
/nix/store/c8k9n78gylx293rjh762fr05a069kxp2-nixos-sd-image-18.09.git.a7fd431-aarch64-linux.img 3844125000
[samueldr@aarch64:~/nixpkgs]$ nix path-info -S ./result-slimmed
/nix/store/962238skj5mnzhrsmjy23dyzmxk77sp4-nixos-sd-image-18.09.git.a7fd431-aarch64-linux.img 3447473208
```
Rationale
---------
Currently, tests are hard to discover. For instance, someone updating
`dovecot` might not notice that the interaction of `dovecot` with
`opensmtpd` is handled in the `opensmtpd.nix` test.
And even for someone updating `opensmtpd`, it requires manual work to go
check in `nixos/tests` whether there is actually a test, especially
given not so many packages in `nixpkgs` have tests and this is thus most
of the time useless.
Finally, for the reviewer, it is much easier to check that the “Tested
via one or more NixOS test(s)” has been checked if the file modified
already includes the list of relevant tests.
Implementation
--------------
Currently, this commit only adds the metadata in the package. Each
element of the `meta.tests` attribute is a derivation that, when it
builds successfully, means the test has passed (ie. following the same
convention as NixOS tests).
Future Work
-----------
In the future, the tools could be made aware of this `meta.tests`
attribute, and for instance a `--with-tests` could be added to
`nix-build` so that it also builds all the tests. Or a `--without-tests`
to build without all the tests. @Profpatsch described in his NixCon talk
such systems.
Another thing that would help in the future would be the possibility to
reasonably easily have cross-derivation nix tests without the whole
NixOS VM stack. @7c6f434c already proposed such a system.
This RFC currently handles none of these concerns. Only the addition of
`meta.tests` as metadata to be used by maintainers to remember to run
relevant tests.
Referencing modulesPath in NixOS configurations can cause evaluation
errors in restricted mode. If used as `${modulesPath}` (as in all
use-sites in nixpkgs) the modules subtree is copied into its own store
path. Access to this path will be forbidden in restricted mode.
Converting to a string solves this issue.
`${builtins.toString modulesPath}` will point to a subdirectory of the
nixpkgs tree out of which evalModules is called.
This change converts modulesPath to a string by default so that the
call-site doesn't have to anymore.
Take two of #40708 (4fe2898608).
That PR attempted to bidirectionally default `config.nixpkgs.system` and
`config.nixpkgs.localSystem.system` to each be updated by the other. But
this is not possible with the way the module system works. Divergence in
certain cases in inevitable.
This PR is more conservative and just has `system` default `localSystem`
and `localSystem` make the final call as-is. This solves a number of
issues.
- `localSystem` completely overrides `system`, just like with nixpkgs
proper. There is no need to specify `localSystem.system` to clobber the
old system.
- `config.nixpkgs.localSystem` is exactly what is passed to nixpkgs. No
spooky steps.
- `config.nixpkgs.localSystem` is elaborated just as nixpkgs would so
that all attributes are available, not just the ones the user
specified.
The remaining issue is just that `config.nixpkgs.system` doesn't update
based on `config.nixpkgs.localSystem.system`. It should never be
referred to lest it is a bogus stale value because
`config.nixpkgs.localSystem` overwrites it.
Fixes#46320
toPath has confusing semantics and is never necessary; it can always
either just be omitted or replaced by pre-concatenating `/.`. It has
been marked as "!!! obsolete?" for more than 10 years in a C++
comment, hopefully removing it will let us properly deprecate and,
eventually, remove it.
I ended up with a corrupted image with the debugfs contraption once, and
given I couldn't reproduce the problem I suppose that happens if the
filesystem of the builder runs out of space.
At least in this instance fsck could detect it, so let's add it as a
sanity check.
The ability to specify "-drive if=scsi" has been removed in QEMU version
2.12 (introduced in 3e3b39f173).
Quote from https://wiki.qemu.org/ChangeLog/2.12#Incompatible_changes:
> The deprecated way of configuring SCSI devices with "-drive if=scsi"
> on x86 has been removed. Use an appropriate SCSI controller together
> "-device scsi-hd" or "-device scsi-cd" and a corresponding "-blockdev"
> parameter instead.
So whenever the diskInterface is "scsi" we use the new way to specify
the drive and fall back to the deprecated way for the time being. The
reason why I'm not using the new way for "virtio" and "ide" as well is
because there is no simple generic way anymore to specify these.
This also turns the type of the virtualisation.qemu.diskInterface option
to be an enum, so the user knows which values are allowed but we can
also make sure the right value is provided to prevent typos.
I've tested this against a few non-disk-related NixOS VM tests but also
the installer.grub1 test (because it uses "ide" as its drive interface),
the installer.simple test (just to be sure it still works with
"virtio") and all the tests in nixos/tests/boot.nix.
In order to be able to run the grub1 test I had to go back to
8b1cf100cd (which is a known commit where
that test still works) and apply the QEMU update and this very commit,
because right now the test is broken.
Apart from the tests here in nixpkgs, I also ran another[1] test in
another repository which uses the "scsi" disk interface as well (in
comparison to most of the installer tests, this one actually failed
prior to this commit).
All of them now succeed.
[1]: 9b5a119972/tests/system/kernel/bfq.nix
Signed-off-by: aszlig <aszlig@nix.build>
Cc: @edostra, @grahamc, @dezgeg, @abbradar, @ts468
Following legacy packing conventions, `isArm` was defined just for
32-bit ARM instruction set. This is confusing to non packagers though,
because Aarch64 is an ARM instruction set.
The official ARM overview for ARMv8[1] is surprisingly not confusing,
given the overall state of affairs for ARM naming conventions, and
offers us a solution. It divides the nomenclature into three levels:
```
ISA: ARMv8 {-A, -R, -M}
/ \
Mode: Aarch32 Aarch64
| / \
Encoding: A64 A32 T32
```
At the top is the overall v8 instruction set archicture. Second are the
two modes, defined by bitwidth but differing in other semantics too, and
buttom are the encodings, (hopefully?) isomorphic if they encode the
same mode.
The 32 bit encodings are mostly backwards compatible with previous
non-Thumb and Thumb encodings, and if so we can pun the mode names to
instead mean "sets of compatable or isomorphic encodings", and then
voilà we have nice names for 32-bit and 64-bit arm instruction sets
which do not use the word ARM so as to not confused either laymen or
experienced ARM packages.
[1]: https://developer.arm.com/products/architecture/a-profile
exportReferencesGraph is deprecated and doesn't have the generated
initial Nix database contain the SHA256 of the contents of the store
paths, which breaks various things under Nix 2.0.
