These environment variables allow using fetchgit with git:// URLs using
the SOCKS proxy technique described in 'Using Git with a SOCKS proxy':
http://www.patthoyts.tk/blog/using-git-with-socks-proxy.html
Briefly, GIT_PROXY_COMMAND is set to a script which invokes connect[1],
which reads SOCKS_PROXY, which might be pointing to a local instance of
'ssh -D'.
[1] pkgs/tools/networking/connect
Building packages requires package-build.el from Melpa, but installing
packages only requires package.el. Packages from ELPA are already built,
so there is no need to involve package-build.el.
When building a package from a Melpa recipe file, get the Emacs package
name from the recipe. Nix is more restrictive about packages names than
Emacs, so the Nix name for a package is sometimes different.
Checking file contents is redundant in this case, because we will go
ahead anyway, regardless of whether the content is the same.
Signed-off-by: aszlig <aszlig@redmoonstudios.org>
Originally wanted to include ignoreCollisions in cups-progs, but I think
it's better if we use ignoreCollisions only if there are _real_
collisions between files with different contents.
Of course, we also check whether the file permissions match, so you get
a collision if contents are the same but the permissions are different.
Signed-off-by: aszlig <aszlig@redmoonstudios.org>
For instance, a binary like libfoo.so will cause a symlink
lib/debug/libfoo.so.debug -> .build-id/<build-ID>.debug to be
created. This is primarily useful for use with eu-addr2line, if you
know the name of a binary and the relative address, but not the build
ID.
Unfortunately, yesterday Nix got reverted to a version with broken
passAsFile implementation on some Hydra machines, so we have corrupted
files again. (E.g. http://hydra.nixos.org/build/29777678.) Forcing
another gratuitous rebuild to get rid of them.
(cherry picked from commit 75974d9220b8397c736ada76fb24eb934fa62f6c)
Also fix the hash in goPackages.inflect, the only user of the fetcher ATM.
Closes#12002 (different `inflect` fix), fixes#12012.
Using fetchzip-derived functions is likely more efficient than fetchhg,
and it's lighter on dependencies (hash is the same as with fetchhg in this case).
fetchbzr always uses the derivation name `bzr-export`. nix-prefetch-bzr
should use the same name for its output. This avoids duplicate downloads
and problems with forbidden characters in bazaar repository names.
Fixes#10819. emacsWithPackages will know its own package set. This
requires it to be in a package set, rather than at the top level, so it
lives in emacsPackagesNg.
This seems to be the root cause of the random page allocation failures
and @wizeman did a very good job on not only finding the root problem
but also giving a detailed explanation of it in #10828.
Here is an excerpt:
The problem here is that the kernel is trying to allocate a contiguous
section of 2^7=128 pages, which is 512 KB. This is way too much:
kernel pages tend to get fragmented over time and kernel developers
often go to great lengths to try allocating at most only 1 contiguous
page at a time whenever they can.
From the error message, it looks like the culprit is unionfs, but this
is misleading: unionfs is the name of the userspace process that was
running when the system ran out of memory, but it wasn't unionfs who
was allocating the memory: it was the kernel; specifically it was the
v9fs_dir_readdir_dotl() function, which is the code for handling the
readdir() function in the 9p filesystem (the filesystem that is used
to share a directory structure between a qemu host and its VM).
If you look at the code, here's what it's doing at the moment it tries
to allocate memory:
buflen = fid->clnt->msize - P9_IOHDRSZ;
rdir = v9fs_alloc_rdir_buf(file, buflen);
If you look into v9fs_alloc_rdir_buf(), you will see that it will try
to allocate a contiguous buffer of memory (using kzalloc(), which is a
wrapper around kmalloc()) of size buflen + 8 bytes or so.
So in reality, this code actually allocates a buffer of size
proportional to fid->clnt->msize. What is this msize? If you follow
the definition of the structures, you will see that it's the
negotiated buffer transfer size between 9p client and 9p server. On
the client side, it can be controlled with the msize mount option.
What this all means is that, the reason for running out of memory is
that the code (which we can't easily change) tries to allocate a
contiguous buffer of size more or less equal to "negotiated 9p
protocol buffer size", which seems to be way too big (in our NixOS
tests, at least).
After that initial finding, @lethalman tested the gnome3 gdm test
without setting the msize parameter at all and it seems to have resolved
the problem.
The reason why I'm committing this without testing against all of the
NixOS VM test is basically that I think we can only go better but not
worse than the current state.
Signed-off-by: aszlig <aszlig@redmoonstudios.org>
Previously is was assumed that bash was in the path when calling the
environment setup script. This changes all of the references of bash to
be absolute paths so that the user doesn't have to worry about the
environment they call it with.
