`eval-system` option overrides just the value of `builtins.currentSystem`.
This is more useful than overriding `system` since you can build these
derivations on remote builders which can work on the given system.
Co-authored-by: John Ericson <John.Ericson@Obsidian.Systems>
Co-authored-by: Valentin Gagarin <valentin.gagarin@tweag.io>
All OS and IO operations should be moved out, leaving only some misc
portable pure functions.
This is useful to avoid copious CPP when doing things like Windows and
Emscripten ports.
Newly exposed functions to break cycles:
- `restoreSignals`
- `updateWindowSize`
* document "Import From Derivation"
Co-authored-by: Robert Hensing <roberth@users.noreply.github.com>
Co-authored-by: John Ericson <git@JohnEricson.me>
Avoid duplicated code, and also avoid "on the fly" path construction
(which makes it harder to keep track of which paths we use).
The factored out code doesn't create the Nix state dir anymore, but this
is fine because other in nix-env and nix-channel does:
- nix-channel: Line 158 in this commit
- nix-env: Line 1407 in this commit
