# The `splicedPackages' package set, and its use by `callPackage` # # The `buildPackages` pkg set is a new concept, and the vast majority package # expression (the other *.nix files) are not designed with it in mind. This # presents us with a problem with how to get the right version (build-time vs # run-time) of a package to a consumer that isn't used to thinking so cleverly. # # The solution is to splice the package sets together as we do below, so every # `callPackage`d expression in fact gets both versions. Each# derivation (and # each derivation's outputs) consists of the run-time version, augmented with a # `nativeDrv` field for the build-time version, and `crossDrv` field for the # run-time version. # # We could have used any names we want for the disambiguated versions, but # `crossDrv` and `nativeDrv` were somewhat similarly used for the old # cross-compiling infrastructure. The names are mostly invisible as # `mkDerivation` knows how to pull out the right ones for `buildDepends` and # friends, but a few packages use them directly, so it seemed efficient (to # @Ericson2314) to reuse those names, at least initially, to minimize breakage. # # For performance reasons, rather than uniformally splice in all cases, we only # do so when `pkgs` and `buildPackages` are distinct. The `actuallySplice` # parameter there the boolean value of that equality check. lib: pkgs: actuallySplice: let defaultBuildScope = pkgs.buildPackages // pkgs.buildPackages.xorg; # TODO(@Ericson2314): we shouldn't preclude run-time fetching by removing # these attributes. We should have a more general solution for selecting # whether `nativeDrv` or `crossDrv` is the default in `defaultScope`. pkgsWithoutFetchers = lib.filterAttrs (n: _: !lib.hasPrefix "fetch" n) pkgs; defaultRunScope = pkgsWithoutFetchers // pkgs.xorg; splicer = buildPkgs: runPkgs: let mash = buildPkgs // runPkgs; merge = name: { inherit name; value = let defaultValue = mash.${name}; buildValue = buildPkgs.${name} or {}; runValue = runPkgs.${name} or {}; augmentedValue = defaultValue // (lib.optionalAttrs (buildPkgs ? ${name}) { nativeDrv = buildValue; }) // (lib.optionalAttrs (runPkgs ? ${name}) { crossDrv = runValue; }); # Get the set of outputs of a derivation getOutputs = value: lib.genAttrs (value.outputs or (lib.optional (value ? out) "out")) (output: value.${output}); in # Certain *Cross derivations will fail assertions, but we need their # nativeDrv. We are assuming anything that fails to evaluate is an # attrset (including derivation) and thus can be unioned. if !(builtins.tryEval defaultValue).success then augmentedValue # The derivation along with its outputs, which we recur # on to splice them together. else if lib.isDerivation defaultValue then augmentedValue // splicer (getOutputs buildValue) (getOutputs runValue) # Just recur on plain attrsets else if lib.isAttrs defaultValue then splicer buildValue runValue # Don't be fancy about non-derivations. But we could have used used # `__functor__` for functions instead. else defaultValue; }; in lib.listToAttrs (map merge (lib.attrNames mash)); splicedPackages = if actuallySplice then splicer defaultBuildScope defaultRunScope // { # These should never be spliced under any circumstances inherit (pkgs) pkgs buildPackages __targetPackages buildPlatform targetPlatform hostPlatform; } else pkgs // pkgs.xorg; in { # We use `callPackage' to be able to omit function arguments that can be # obtained `pkgs` or `buildPackages` and their `xorg` package sets. Use # `newScope' for sets of packages in `pkgs' (see e.g. `gnome' below). callPackage = pkgs.newScope {}; callPackageWithOutput = pkgs.newScopeWithOutput {}; callPackages = lib.callPackagesWith splicedPackages; newScope = extra: lib.callPackageWith (splicedPackages // extra); newScopeWithOutput = extra: lib.customisation.callPackageWithOutputWith (splicedPackages // extra); }