The main improvement is that the new message gives an example of a path
that is referenced, which should make it easier to track down. While
there, I also clarified the wording, saying exactly why the paths in
question were illegal.
I started getting these warnings `warning: download buffer is full; consider increasing the 'download-buffer-size' setting` but the documentation does not make it obvious what unit of measurement it accepts.
1. Fix this eval error:
https://hydra.nixos.org/jobset/nix/master#tabs-errors
The dev package output (actually a separate derivation) needs to skip
this for cross just as the main package output does.
2. Deduplicate libs attrset and list.
3. Move `nix-functional-tests` to `checkInputs`.
With the Meson build system, we no longer need a `check` vs
`install-check` distinction, so it is simpler to just keeep
everything in one place.
This allows RemoteStore::addMultipleToStore() to free the Source
objects early (and in particular the associated sinkToSource()
buffers). This should fix#7359. For example, memory consumption of
nix copy --derivation --to ssh-ng://localhost?remote-store=/tmp/nix --derivation --no-check-sigs \
/nix/store/4p9xmfgnvclqpii8pxqcwcvl9bxqy2xf-nixos-system-...drv
went from 353 MB to 74 MB.
Fixes
$ nix copy --derivation --to /tmp/nix /nix/store/...
error: cannot enqueue a work item while the thread pool is shutting down
The ThreadPoolShutDown exception was hiding the reason for the thread
pool shut down, e.g.
error: cannot add path '/nix/store/03sl46khd8gmjpsad7223m32ma965vy9-fix-static.patch' because it lacks a signature by a trusted key
nix-env can read priorities from a derivations meta attributes, but this
only works when installing a nix expression.
nix-env can also install bare store paths, however meta attributes are
not readable in that case. This means that a store path can not be
installed with a specific priority.
Some cases where it is advantageous to install a store path: a remote
host following a `nix copy`, or any time you want to save some
evaluation time and happen to already know the store path.
This PR addresses this shortcoming by adding a --priority flag to
nix-env --install.
