The manual mentions how "[config and pkgs] are explained later". Added a link
to where they are explained, and a hint pointing to the NIX_PATH variable.
Previously the .enable option was used to encode the condition as well,
which lead to some oddness:
- In order to encode an assertion, one had to invert it
- To disable a check, one had to mkForce it
By introducing a separate .check option this is solved because:
- It can be used to encode assertions
- Disabling is done separately with .enable option, whose default can be
overridden without a mkForce
For a lot of the work the non-interactive drivers are enough and it is
probably a good idea to keep it accessible for debugging without
touching the Nix expression.
This one occurrence wasn't updated:
$ git grep "nix-build nixos/release.nix -A manual"
nixos/doc/manual/README: nix-build nixos/release.nix -A manual.x86_64-linux
nixos/doc/manual/development/meta-attributes.xml:<screen><prompt>$ </prompt>nix-build nixos/release.nix -A manual</screen>
nixos/doc/manual/development/writing-documentation.xml:<screen>nix-build nixos/release.nix -A manual.x86_64-linux</screen>
This goes through a recent example of 19.09 (because the workflow
should be everchanging, so our example needs to be recent).
Lots of changes, just read idk.
Keeping the VM state test across several run sometimes lead to subtle
and hard to spot errors in practice. We delete the VM state which
contains (among other things) the qcow volume.
We also introduce a -K (--keep-vm-state) flag making VM state to
persist after the test run. This flag makes test-driver.py to match
its previous behaviour.
* nixos/doc: add a section mentioning GitHub team for nixos release managers
This team should be kept up-to-date with each release.
Previously this info had to be grepped from appropriate Discourse thread.
Co-authored-by: worldofpeace <worldofpeace@protonmail.ch>
The standard attrsOf is strict in its *values*, meaning it's impossible to
access only one attribute value without evaluating all others as well.
lazyAttrsOf is a version that doesn't have that problem, at the expense
of conditional definitions not properly working anymore.
This reverts commit eec83d41e3.
This broke hydra evaluation because with this commit submodule values
are allowed to be paths, however the certmgr module uses `either
(submodule ...) path` in its type, meaning it already used paths for
something else which would now be interpreted as a submodule.
While it's a good idea to automate the linting of the python code used
for our tests, I think that it can be quite distracting when hacking on
a NixOS test.
I figured that it might be more convenient to add an option as a
shortcut for this to avoid that everyone needs to dig into the test
driver again.
