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.
/tmp/ecstatic-euler-mAFGV7
% /home/joerg/git/nix/build/subprojects/nix/nix repl
Nix 2.25.0
Type :? for help.
after doing rm /tmp/ecstatic-euler-mAFGV7 this will result in:
nix-repl> :lf .
error: cannot determine current working directory: No such file or directory
Before it would make the repl crash
/tmp/clever-hermann-MCm7A9
% /home/joerg/git/nix/build/subprojects/nix/nix repl
Nix 2.25.0
Type :? for help.
nix-repl> :lf .
error: filesystem error: cannot get current path: No such file or directory
Before:
nix-env % ./src/nix/nix eval --impure --expr 'let f = builtins.readDir "/nix/store/hs3yxdq9knimwdm51gvbs4dvncz46f9d-hello-2.12.1/foo"; in f' --show-trace
error: filesystem error: directory iterator cannot open directory: No such file or directory [/nix/store/hs3yxdq9knimwdm51gvbs4dvncz46f9d-hello-2.12.1/foo]
After:
error:
… while calling the 'readDir' builtin
at «string»:1:9:
1| let f = builtins.readDir "/nix/store/hs3yxdq9knimwdm51gvbs4dvncz46f9d-hello-2.12.1/foo"; in f
| ^
error: reading directory '/nix/store/hs3yxdq9knimwdm51gvbs4dvncz46f9d-hello-2.12.1/foo': No such file or directory
this should make it more obvious how things are related to each other, and also
hopefully expose the historical context without having to say on every
corner that these details are accounting for legacy decisions.
Prior to this commit, the unit contained this line:
ExecStart=@share/nix-daemon nix-daemon --daemon
which caused systemd to complain:
Failed to restart nix-daemon.service: Unit nix-daemon.service has a bad unit file setting.
See system logs and 'systemctl status nix-daemon.service' for details.
and had this in the unit output:
Sep 03 13:34:59 scadrial systemd[1]: /etc/systemd/system/nix-daemon.service:10: Neither a valid executable name nor an absolute path: share/nix-daemon
Sep 03 13:34:59 scadrial systemd[1]: nix-daemon.service: Unit configuration has fatal error, unit will not be started.
(Notice how it's trying to execute `share/nix-daemon`, which is unlikely
to exist.)
Now with this commit, the path to the daemon binary is properly set:
ExecStart=@/nix/store/lcbx6d8gzznf3z3c8lsv9jy3j6c67x6r-nix-2.25.0pre20240903_dirty/bin/nix-daemon nix-daemon --daemon
