The impending release of macOS 15 Sequoia will break many existing nix
installs on macOS, which may lead to an increased number of people who
are looking to try to reinstall Nix without noticing the open/pinned
issue (#10892) that explains the problem and outlines how to migrate
existing installs.
These admonitions are a short-term measure until we are over the hump
and support volumes dwindle.
Was hoping to leave this enabled for a little while as core community
members test this script out, but Apple's aggressive release timeline
for macOS 15 Sequoia has caught us off-guard here.
It's probably not ideal for a general audience if the script spews all
of this output--and people can still force bash to run in trace mode
if we really need to debug a problem.
Caused by 1d3696f0fb
Without this fix the kept build directory is readable only by root
```
$ sudo ls -ld /comp-temp/nix-build-openssh-static-x86_64-unknown-linux-musl-9.8p1.drv-5
drwx------ root root 60 B Wed Sep 11 00:09:48 2024 /comp-temp/nix-build-openssh-static-x86_64-unknown-linux-musl-9.8p1.drv-5/
$ sudo ls -ld /comp-temp/nix-build-openssh-static-x86_64-unknown-linux-musl-9.8p1.drv-5/build
drwxr-xr-x nixbld1 nixbld 80 B Wed Sep 11 00:09:58 2024 /comp-temp/nix-build-openssh-static-x86_64-unknown-linux-musl-9.8p1.drv-5/build/
```
When `nix fmt` is called without an argument, Nix appends the "." argument before calling the formatter. The comment in the code is:
> Format the current flake out of the box
This also happens when formatting sub-folders.
This means that the formatter is now unable to distinguish, as an interface, whether the "." argument is coming from the flake or the user's intent to format the current folder. This decision should be up to the formatter.
Treefmt, for example, will automatically look up the project's root and format all the files. This is the desired behaviour. But because the "." argument is passed, it cannot function as expected.
As a hacker, I should be able to checkout the repo, and find relevant
information on how to develop in the project somewhere in the top-level.
Either in the README.md, or CONTRIBUTING.md or HACKING.md files.
This PR symlinks the HACKING.md into the right place in the manual.
This fixes the warning
$ nix eval --store /tmp/nix --expr 'builtins.fetchTree { type = "git"; url = "https://github.com/DeterminateSystems/attic"; ref = "fixups-for-magic-nix-cache"; rev = "635753a2069d4b8228e846dc5c09ad361c75cd1a"; }'
warning: could not update mtime for file '/home/eelco/.cache/nix/gitv3/09788h9zgba5lbfkaa6ija2dvi004jwsqjf5ln21i2njs07cz766/refs/heads/fixups-for-magic-nix-cache': error: changing modification time of '"/home/eelco/.cache/nix/gitv3/09788h9zgba5lbfkaa6ija2dvi004jwsqjf5ln21i2njs07cz766/refs/heads/fixups-for-magic-nix-cache"': No such file or directory
When we're fetching by rev, that file doesn't necessarily exist, and we
don't care about it anyway.
Fixes
$ nix flake metadata --store /tmp/nix nixpkgs
error: path '/tmp/nix/nix/store/65xpqkz92d9j7k5ric4z8lzhiigxsfbg-source/flake.nix' is not in the Nix store
This has been broken since 598deb2b23.
On macOS, `mkdir("x/')` behaves differently than `mkdir("x")` if `x` is
a dangling symlink (the formed succeed while the latter fails). So make
sure we always strip the trailing slash.
