Warning about future breaking changes is wrong.
- It suggests that the maintainers don't value backwards compatibility.
They do.
- It implies that other parts of Nixpkgs won't ever break. They will.
- It implies that a well-defined "public" interface exists. It doesn't.
- If the reasons above didn't apply, it should have been in the manual
instead.
Breaking changes will come, especially to the interface. That can be the
only way we can make progress without breaking the image _contents_.
I don't think dockerTools is any different from most of Nixpkgs in
these regards.
Docker (via containerd) and the the OCI Image Configuration imply and
suggest, respectfully, that the architecture set in images matches those
of GOARCH in the Go Language document.
This changeset updates the implimentation of getArch in dockerTools to
return GOARCH values, to satisfy Docker.
Fixes: #106695
This provides a /etc/passwd and /etc/group that contain root and nobody.
Useful when packaging binaries that insist on using nss to look up
username/groups (like nginx).
The current nginx example used the `runAsRoot` parameter to setup
/etc/group and /etc/passwd (which also doesn't exist in
buildLayeredImage), so we can now just use fakeNss there and use
buildLayeredImage.
Informational messages belong on stderr, not on stdout and intermixed
with structured output for programmatic use.
Change-Id: I34d094d04460494e9ec8953db7490f4e2292d959
The image tag can be specified or generated from the output hash.
Previously, a generated tag could be recovered from the evaluated
image with some string operations.
However, with the introduction of streamLayeredImage, it's not
feasible to compute the generated tag yourself.
With this change, the imageTag attribute is set unconditionally,
for the buildImage, buildLayeredImage, streamLayeredImage functions.
In https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/pull/58431 the authors ensured that
the resulting layer.tar would always list
/nix/
/nix/store/
first to fully comply to the tar spec. Various refactorings later it is only
ensured to create /nix/ but NOT /nix/store anymore. Instead tar transformed
them to /nix/nix and /nix/nix/store.
Calculating the tarsum after creating a layer is inefficient, since
we have to read the tarball we've just written from the disk.
This commit simultaneously calculates the tarsum while creating the
tarball.
Appending to an existing tar archive repeatedly seems to be a quadratic
operation, since tar seems to traverse the existing archive even using
the `-r, --append` flag. This commit avoids that by passing the list of
files to a single tar invocation.
