it may be what the license handling code does, but it's confusing and not very useful
Co-authored-by: Adam Joseph <54836058+a-m-joseph@users.noreply.github.com>
Instead of requiring the platforms be equal, use `isCompatible` to
determine if we can execute tests. The upside of this is that we now
can execute tests for natively cross compiled package sets like
pkgsStatic, pkgsLLVM and pkgsCross.musl64 etc.
the motivation for this is to simplify stdenv and ease the job of
reviewers due to them needing to tell contributors about the defacto
rule that configureFlags should be a list of strings
This warning logs when a package has no maintainers. It will stay silent
if `meta.maintainers` is not set at all, only complaining when it is an
empty list. In the future a separate warning could be added to allow for
that stricter behavior. Or this warning could be changed.
This will allow for adding more validity types in the future, such as a
warning type. (which is in the next commit in this series)
This is NOT a breaking change because validity.valid is never exposed
outside of `stdenv.mkDerivation`.
This isn't really desirable in general, but given that Nix itself
currently relies on this behaviour and that we don't want to break
backwards compatibility we should support it for now, maybe
deprecating it in the future.
This change is prompted by the following, admittedly cursed tarball:
```
> curl https://registry.npmjs.org/char-regex/-/char-regex-1.0.2.tgz 2>/dev/null \
| tar -ztv
drw-rw-rw- 0/0 0 2020-02-18 10:50 package
-rw-rw-rw- 0/0 297 2020-02-18 10:50 package/index.d.ts
-rw-rw-rw- 0/0 1920 2020-02-18 10:50 package/index.js
-rw-rw-rw- 0/0 1092 2020-01-31 11:31 package/LICENSE
-rw-rw-rw- 0/0 937 2020-02-18 10:51 package/package.json
-rw-rw-rw- 0/0 713 2020-02-18 10:50 package/README.md
```
The minimal reproducer for the issue is the following derivation trying
to work around the uid 0 issue with `dontMakeSourcesWritable = true`:
```nix
{ stdenv, fetchurl }:
stdenv.mkDerivation {
name = "test";
src = fetchurl {
sha1 = "d744358226217f981ed58f479b1d6bcc29545dcf";
url = "https://registry.npmjs.org/char-regex/-/char-regex-1.0.2.tgz";
};
dontMakeSourcesWritable = true;
installPhase = ''
cp -R . $out
'';
}
```
This currently fails in the following way:
```
these derivations will be built:
/nix/store/pc3jbydl0xcc8nrndf5xkf7hdhpgpb41-test.drv
building '/nix/store/pc3jbydl0xcc8nrndf5xkf7hdhpgpb41-test.drv'...
unpacking sources
unpacking source archive /nix/store/v9p98kqplf4kflmy91p0687xlvr6klb1-char-regex-1.0.2.tgz
source root is package
find: 'package/index.d.ts': Permission denied
find: 'package/index.js': Permission denied
find: 'package/LICENSE': Permission denied
find: 'package/package.json': Permission denied
find: 'package/README.md': Permission denied
/nix/store/6c47azxacncswc1pllzj28zfzqw40d7c-stdenv-linux/setup: line 1311: cd: package: Permission denied
builder for '/nix/store/pc3jbydl0xcc8nrndf5xkf7hdhpgpb41-test.drv' failed with exit code 1
error: build of '/nix/store/pc3jbydl0xcc8nrndf5xkf7hdhpgpb41-test.drv' failed
```
As you can see, the issue is that `$sourceRoot` isn't executable,
prohibiting the call to `cd`. This can be fixed by running
`chmod +x "${sourceRoot}"` before `cd` regardless of
`dontMakeSourcesWritable` in `unpackPhase` since if `chmod` fails, `cd`
would fail as well and we are out of options.
Verified that the workaround works locally.
Another thing to investigate is investigating if we should use
`--no-same-owner` for `tar` and if it helps in this case as well.
See also <https://github.com/Profpatsch/yarn2nix/issues/56>.
Flake users that use a command like `nix build nixpkgs#hello` on a
broken/insecure package will not be able to use an environment variable
to override that behavior, unless they pass `--impure` to the command.
Co-authored-by: pkharvey <kayharvey@protonmail.com>
