These take up 2 GiB every time anything in the minimal installer
changes, or up to 4 GiB per day. We already stopped building Amazon
images in 9426d90c67. Meaningful
installer changes are rare enough, and the couple of days it takes
for them to trickle down to the large channel acceptable enough,
that this is mostly a waste of space.
This should buy enough slack to build `stdenv` on `staging` without
contributing to cache size growth.
Rebuilding images multiple times on the small channels is too expensive
and makes them slower than they could be. Consuming the image from the
full release channel is probably good enough.
openssh tests are very slow (they take ~30 mins because they are not
parallelized). This makes rebuilding (esp. after changes e.g. to
systemd) painful. Putting the tests into a separate derivation solves
this without losing any testing capability.
Debian does the same: https://packages.debian.org/sid/openssh-tests
Eelco has made several early contributions to NixOS including writing
the samba module among other things, but is more or less inactive these
days.
By my brief inspection, he has not committed to the nixos/ tree since
releasing Nix 2.13 in early 2023 and merging a PR to networking tests
slightly before that. A lot of these tests/modules are actually
unmaintained in practice, so we should update the code to reflect the
practical reality so someone can consider picking them up.
Now, it's `nixos.tests.misc.default` and `nixos.tests.misc.lix` since
Lix introduction in #310194.
Signed-off-by: Raito Bezarius <masterancpp@gmail.com>
This commit adds a derivation `gcc-stageCompare` to
`pkgs/test/stdenv/default.nix`.
It is important to always build this derivation whenever building
`stdenv`! Because we are using a Nix-driven bootstrap instead of
gcc's built-in `--enable-bootstrap`, the `gcc` derivation no longer
performs the post-self-compilation sanity check. You must build
this derivation in order to perform that sanity check.
The major benefit of this new approach is that the sanity check
(which involves a third compilation of gcc) can be performed
*concurrently* with all packages that depend on `stdenv`, rather
than serially. Since `stdenv` has very little derivation-level
parallelism it cannot take advantage of more than one or perhaps two
builders. If you have three or more builders this commit will
reduce the time-to-rebuild-stdenv by around 20% (one of three gcc
rebuilds is removed from the critical path, and stdenv's build time
is dominated by roughly 3*gcc + 1*binutils + 1*bison-test-suite).
Co-authored-by: Sandro <sandro.jaeckel@gmail.com>
The ACME module has long been an important part of every nixos server
deployment and we should therefore make sure the tests are working as
expected before allowing a channel bump to happen.
Related: #197443
The aarch64-linux builders on hydra have had a good track in the last
year or so and I think it's a good idea to include them in the default
-small jobset.
This happens in preparation of improving the distribution of the
installer ISOs for aarch64-linux systems and advertise them more
prominently on the homepage.
This reverts commit 7141ab0f0b.
reverting this for now to unblock staging-next
{UNKNOWN}: aggregate job ‘tested’ failed with the error: nixpkgs.tests.packageTestsForChannelBlockers.curl.withCheck.x86_64-linux: does not exist
at /nix/store/9i92scfqz5idhmjrmjnqhrvjgyydzfns-hydra-perl-deps/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.34.0/Catalyst/Model/DBIC/Schema.pm line 526
we can't add 'nixpkgs.curl.tests' to hydra jobs due to 'tests' (and 'passthru') being stripped
TODO: add a function in lib-release.nix to get derivations and add `.x86_64-linux` to them
then we can just point release files to nixpkgs.tests.packageTestsForChannelBlockers instead of
nixpkgs.tests.packageTestsForChannelBlockers.curl.withCheck
IPv6 container support broke a while ago and we didn't notice it. Making
them part of the (small) release test set should fix that. At this point
in time they should be granted the same amount of importance as the
legacy IP tests.
Currently, when building NixOS from a git clone, Nix has to copy
the entire repo at >1GB into the store by default. That is not
necessary and causes a dumping large path message.
If you need the old behaviour for some reason, you will have to
specify it by passing the path to your repo explicitly as the
nixpkgs argument like this:
--arg nixpkgs '{outPath = ./.; revCount = 56789; shortRev = "gfedcba"; }'
Currently there are no tests that depend on the JDK. Since we don't
want a release with a broken JDK, make it an explicit dependency of
the "tested" jobs.
It now strictly evaluates all remaining attributes, preventing
unevaluated thunks that cannot be garbage-collected. It's also applied
to all jobs in Nixpkgs' release.nix.
This reduces hydra-eval-jobs' memory consumption on the 14.12
release-combined jobset from 5.1 GB to 2.0 GB.
