Remove the tarball job

Source tarballs are not very useful anymore. People who want to build
from source can also just build from the Git repository. Once upon a
time, the source tarball also saved users from needing a few
dependencies (e.g. bison and flex) but those are dwarfed by the other
dependencies, so it's no longer worth it.

Note: the release script should be updated to copy the vendoredCrates
tarball.

release-common.nix

@@ -34,7 +34,7 @@ rec {
       "--with-sandbox-shell=${sh}/bin/busybox"
     ];
 
-  tarballDeps =
+  buildDeps =
     [ bison
       flex
       libxml2
@@ -43,10 +43,8 @@ rec {
       docbook_xsl_ns
       autoconf-archive
       autoreconfHook
-    ];
 
-  buildDeps =
-    [ curl
+      curl
       bzip2 xz brotli zlib editline
       openssl pkgconfig sqlite
       libarchive

release.nix

@@ -8,11 +8,14 @@ let
 
   pkgs = import nixpkgs { system = builtins.currentSystem or "x86_64-linux"; };
 
+  version =
+    builtins.readFile ./.version
+    + (if officialRelease then "" else "pre${toString nix.revCount}_${nix.shortRev}");
+
   jobs = rec {
 
     # Create a "vendor" directory that contains the crates listed in
-    # Cargo.lock, and include it in the Nix tarball. This allows Nix
-    # to be built without network access.
+    # Cargo.lock. This allows Nix to be built without network access.
     vendoredCrates =
       let
         lockFile = builtins.fromTOML (builtins.readFile nix-rust/Cargo.lock);
@@ -55,48 +58,6 @@ let
         '';
 
 
-    tarball =
-      with pkgs;
-
-      with import ./release-common.nix { inherit pkgs; };
-
-      releaseTools.sourceTarball {
-        name = "nix-tarball";
-        version = builtins.readFile ./.version;
-        versionSuffix = if officialRelease then "" else "pre${toString nix.revCount}_${nix.shortRev}";
-        src = nix;
-        inherit officialRelease;
-
-        buildInputs = tarballDeps ++ buildDeps ++ propagatedDeps;
-
-        postUnpack = ''
-          (cd $sourceRoot && find . -type f) | cut -c3- > $sourceRoot/.dist-files
-          cat $sourceRoot/.dist-files
-        '';
-
-        preConfigure = ''
-          (cd perl ; autoreconf --install --force --verbose)
-          # TeX needs a writable font cache.
-          export VARTEXFONTS=$TMPDIR/texfonts
-        '';
-
-        distPhase =
-          ''
-            cp -prd ${vendoredCrates}/vendor/ nix-rust/vendor/
-
-            runHook preDist
-            make dist
-            mkdir -p $out/tarballs
-            cp *.tar.* $out/tarballs
-          '';
-
-        preDist = ''
-          make install docdir=$out/share/doc/nix makefiles=doc/manual/local.mk
-          echo "doc manual $out/share/doc/nix/manual" >> $out/nix-support/hydra-build-products
-        '';
-      };
-
-
     build = pkgs.lib.genAttrs systems (system:
 
       let pkgs = import nixpkgs { inherit system; }; in
@@ -105,20 +66,21 @@ let
 
       with import ./release-common.nix { inherit pkgs; };
 
-      releaseTools.nixBuild {
-        name = "nix";
-        src = tarball;
+      stdenv.mkDerivation {
+        name = "nix-${version}";
 
-        outputs = [ "out" "dev" ];
+        src = nix;
+
+        outputs = [ "out" "dev" "doc" ];
 
         buildInputs = buildDeps;
 
         propagatedBuildInputs = propagatedDeps;
 
         preConfigure =
-          # Copy libboost_context so we don't get all of Boost in our closure.
-          # https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/issues/45462
           ''
+            # Copy libboost_context so we don't get all of Boost in our closure.
+            # https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/issues/45462
             mkdir -p $out/lib
             cp -pd ${boost}/lib/{libboost_context*,libboost_thread*,libboost_system*} $out/lib
             rm -f $out/lib/*.a
@@ -126,6 +88,10 @@ let
               chmod u+w $out/lib/*.so.*
               patchelf --set-rpath $out/lib:${stdenv.cc.cc.lib}/lib $out/lib/libboost_thread.so.*
             ''}
+
+            ln -sfn ${vendoredCrates}/vendor/ nix-rust/vendor
+
+            (cd perl; autoreconf --install --force --verbose)
           '';
 
         configureFlags = configureFlags ++
@@ -137,10 +103,17 @@ let
 
         installFlags = "sysconfdir=$(out)/etc";
 
+        doCheck = true;
+
         doInstallCheck = true;
         installCheckFlags = "sysconfdir=$(out)/etc";
 
         separateDebugInfo = true;
+
+        preDist = ''
+          mkdir -p $doc/nix-support
+          echo "doc manual $doc/share/doc/nix/manual" >> $doc/nix-support/hydra-build-products
+        '';
       });
 
 
@@ -149,11 +122,21 @@ let
       let pkgs = import nixpkgs { inherit system; }; in with pkgs;
 
       releaseTools.nixBuild {
-        name = "nix-perl";
-        src = tarball;
+        name = "nix-perl-${version}";
+
+        src = nix;
 
         buildInputs =
-          [ jobs.build.${system} curl bzip2 xz pkgconfig pkgs.perl boost ]
+          [ autoconf-archive
+            autoreconfHook
+            jobs.build.${system}
+            curl
+            bzip2
+            xz
+            pkgconfig
+            pkgs.perl
+            boost
+          ]
           ++ lib.optional (stdenv.isLinux || stdenv.isDarwin) libsodium;
 
         configureFlags = ''
@@ -173,7 +156,6 @@ let
 
       let
         toplevel = builtins.getAttr system jobs.build;
-        version = toplevel.src.version;
         installerClosureInfo = closureInfo { rootPaths = [ toplevel cacert ]; };
       in
 
@@ -243,8 +225,9 @@ let
       with import ./release-common.nix { inherit pkgs; };
 
       releaseTools.coverageAnalysis {
-        name = "nix-build";
-        src = tarball;
+        name = "nix-coverage-${version}";
+
+        src = nix;
 
         enableParallelBuilding = true;
 
@@ -349,7 +332,7 @@ let
               (system: "--replace '@binaryTarball_${system}@' $(nix --experimental-features nix-command hash-file --base16 --type sha256 ${binaryTarball.${system}}/*.tar.xz) ")
               systems
             } \
-            --replace '@nixVersion@' ${build.${builtins.head systems}.src.version}
+            --replace '@nixVersion@' ${version}
 
           echo "file installer $out/install" >> $out/nix-support/hydra-build-products
         '';
@@ -357,11 +340,10 @@ let
 
     # Aggregate job containing the release-critical jobs.
     release = pkgs.releaseTools.aggregate {
-      name = "nix-${tarball.version}";
+      name = "nix-${version}";
       meta.description = "Release-critical builds";
       constituents =
-        [ tarball
-          build.i686-linux
+        [ build.i686-linux
           build.x86_64-darwin
           build.x86_64-linux
           build.aarch64-linux

shell.nix

@@ -7,7 +7,7 @@ with import ./release-common.nix { inherit pkgs; };
 (if useClang then clangStdenv else stdenv).mkDerivation {
   name = "nix";
 
-  buildInputs = buildDeps ++ propagatedDeps ++ tarballDeps ++ perlDeps ++ [ pkgs.rustfmt ];
+  buildInputs = buildDeps ++ propagatedDeps ++ perlDeps ++ [ pkgs.rustfmt ];
 
   inherit configureFlags;