The reason for this change is simply to avoid the following messages
that are unnecessary and can be confusing (and these messages will be
repeated for each submodule):
hint: Using 'master' as the name for the initial branch. This default branch name
hint: is subject to change. To configure the initial branch name to use in all
hint: of your new repositories, which will suppress this warning, call:
hint:
hint: git config --global init.defaultBranch <name>
hint:
hint: Names commonly chosen instead of 'master' are 'main', 'trunk' and
hint: 'development'. The just-created branch can be renamed via this command:
hint:
hint: git branch -m <name>
With this change the behaviour remains unchanged (apart from the
suppressed "warning" in the console output of course) and therefore this
doesn't cause any hashes to change and by default nix-prefetch-git uses
the "fetchgit" branch anyway (branchName can be set to override the
default):
Switched to a new branch 'fetchgit'
For that reason the initial branch name doesn't matter anyway and since
we're not relying on / hardcoding "master" we could simply switch to
"main" (which seems most common nowadays). See [0] for more details on
why this wouldn't break anything.
However, since the initial branch name doesn't matter and to avoid any
additional risks it was "decided" to keep using "master" (s. #113313).
[0]: https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/pull/113313#issuecomment-780589516
API change:
`cargoParallelTestThreads` suggests that this attribute sets the
number of threads used during tests, while it is actually a boolean
option (use 1 thread or NIX_BUILD_CORES threads). In the hook, this
is replaced by a more canonical name `dontUseCargoParallelTests`.
The previous commit stopped systemd from looking for system units in
/etc/systemd-mutable/system, which was a Dysnomia-specific path.
While this script doesn't seem to be used anywhere inside nixpkgs (also
not in the gone-since #110799 Dysnomia), its fallback mode (when
/etc/systemd/system is read-only) did write units to that
Dysnomia-specific path, which systemd now doesn't look at anymore.
It might be up for another debate on whether systems with read-only
/etc/systemd/system should probably just use /run/systemd/system, and
not some NixOS-specific paths, as such conditions can happen on other
distros too, but let's pick the other NixOS-specific path
/nix/var/nix/profiles/default/lib/systemd/system for now, which is
probably better than a path that surely is never looked at.
- API change: remove the `target` argument of `buildRustPackage`, the
target should always be in sync with the C/C++ compiler that is used.
- Gathering of binaries has moved from `buildPhase` to `installPhase`,
this simplifies the hook and orders this functionality logically
with the installation logic.
This caused shebangs that were already store paths to be rewritten.
Introduced by ab4c359822 in #94642
Example difference:
$ echo "hello world" | tail -c+3
llo world
$ str="hello world"; echo ${str:3}
lo world
/usr/bin/env seems to be no longer be present in the sandbox. This means
that fetchcvs would fail with a “not found error” whenever CVS_RSH was
necessary.
We fix this by simply setting the current $SHELL as shebang.
Alternatively also setting it to /bin/sh statically would be possible.
4a5c49363a added some more commands after
`extraPostFetch` but concatenated them without a separating newline.
Which means, that since that commit
fetchzip { ..., extraPostFetch = ''rm -f "$out"/some-file''; }
now actually runs the following shell command
rm -f "$out"/some-file"chmod -R a-w "$out"
thus deleting "$out". Which is very unfortunate.
Especially since this actually happens on master for all `fetchFromBitbucket`
derivations. But since the results are fixed-output users bulding with hydra
cache enabled are not hitting this for not recently updated derivations yet.