Since fdf32154fc, we no longer allow
missing modules in the initrd. Unfortunately since before this commit,
the modules-closure script would also fail on missing firmware, which
is a very common case (e.g. xhci-pci.ko.xz lists renesas_usb_fw.mem as
dependent firmware). Fix this by only issuing a warning instead.
This was already fixed on non-Darwin, but the fix missed that it was
also reintroduced for the Darwin code path at the same time.
Fixes: dd5d2482c9 ("emacs: Fix accidental double wrapping")
Warning about future breaking changes is wrong.
- It suggests that the maintainers don't value backwards compatibility.
They do.
- It implies that other parts of Nixpkgs won't ever break. They will.
- It implies that a well-defined "public" interface exists. It doesn't.
- If the reasons above didn't apply, it should have been in the manual
instead.
Breaking changes will come, especially to the interface. That can be the
only way we can make progress without breaking the image _contents_.
I don't think dockerTools is any different from most of Nixpkgs in
these regards.
`buildRustPackage` currently accepts `cargoSha256` as a hash for
vendored dependencies. This change adds `cargoHash` which accepts SRI
hashes, setting `outputHashAlgo` to `null`.
The hash mismatch message still uses `cargoSha256` as an example,
which it probably should until we completely switch to SRI hashes.
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.)
