Adding the hostSuffix to the end of the derivation's name is problematic
since some stuff, including user facing programs like nix-env rely on
the behavior of parseDrvName instead of pname and version.
builtins.parseDrvName currently thinks that the cross compilation target
added via hostSuffix is part of the version. This has the practical
consequence for example that nix-env would think a cross compiled
derivation would be an updated version of a native derivation of the
same package and version — breaking user's profiles.
We can easily prevent this by moving the hostSuffix in between pname and
version. In case name is passed to mkDerivation this is of course not
possible and we are forced to fall back to the old behavior.
This change could serve as a replacement for the migitation we
introduced with the -static appendix to pname in order to avoid
confusion between nix and nixStatic as outlined in the comment added
with this commit.
Support `mainProgram` as an attribute of `meta` for packages.
This is an attribute used by [`nix
run`](https://nixos.org/manual/nix/unstable/command-ref/new-cli/nix3-run.html#description)
to customize the main program of a package.
For example, `pkgs.neovim` provides a `/bin/nvim` executable which users
would (almost certainly) prefer `nix run` to execute instead of a
non-existing `/bin/neovim`.
Signed-off-by: Ana Hobden <operator@hoverbear.org>
Add a config field `contentAddressedByDefault` and an associated
environment variable `NIXPKGS_CA_BY_DEFAULT` to make every nixpkgs
derivation content-addressed by default
This was removed in e29b0da9c7, because
it was felt it was ambiguous whether isBSD should remove Darwin.
I think it should be reintroduced. Packages sometimes have their own
concepts of "is BSD" e.g. Lua, and these almost never include Darwin,
so let's keep Darwin excluded.
Without a way to say "is this BSD", one has to list all flavours of
BSD seperately, even though fundamentally they're still extremely
similar. I don't want to have to write the following!
stdenv.isFreeBSD || stdenv.isNetBSD || stdenv.isOpenBSD || stdenv.isDragonFlyBSD
Additionally, we've had stdenv.hostPlatform.isBSD this whole time, and
it hasn't hurt anything.
Unify the logic for constructing the name from pname and version and
modifying the name in case a host suffix needs to appended. This allows
us to modify the construction of name from pname and version without
having to duplicate it in two places.
4e9dc46dea re-enabled hardening for Musl,
which is good.
Though static builds for ARM fail in various ways
- cross armv7l static does not build
- cross aarch64 static produces segfaulting dynamically linked binaries
- native aarch64 static also produces segfaulting dynamically linked binaries
It seems that for native x86_64-linux, static builds are fine though.
This works around the issue by removing PIE from the hardening flags,
keeping all other hardening flags. This is an improvement (I think) from
before 4e9dc46d.
Fixes#114953
* stdenv/check-meta: change to allowlist and blocklist
* Update pkgs/stdenv/generic/check-meta.nix
Co-authored-by: Graham Christensen <graham@grahamc.com>
Since the deprecation is fairly recent, we should warn by default.
Also fix the wording of the comment: stdenv.lib will be removed for the 21.11
release, not just deprecated (as it already is deprecated).
