The ability to substitute inputs was removed in #10612 because it was
broken: with user-specified inputs containing a `narHash` attribute,
substitution resulted in an input that lacked the attributes returned
by the real fetcher (such as `lastModified`).
To fix this, we introduce a new input attribute `final`. If `final =
true`, fetching the input cannot add or change any attributes.
We only attempt to substitute inputs that have `final = true`. This is
implied by lock file entries; we only write a lock file if all its
entries are "final".
The user can specified `final = true` in `fetchTree`, in which case it
is their responsibility to ensure that all attributes returned by the
fetcher are included in the `fetchTree` call. For example,
nix eval --impure --expr 'builtins.fetchTree { type = "github"; owner = "NixOS"; repo = "patchelf"; final = true; narHash = "sha256-FSoxTcRZMGHNJh8dNtKOkcUtjhmhU6yQXcZZfUPLhQM="; }'
succeeds in a store path with the specified NAR hash exists or is
substitutable, but fails with
error: fetching final input '{"final":true,"narHash":"sha256-FSoxTcRZMGHNJh8dNtKOkcUtjhmhU6yQXcZZfUPLhQM=","owner":"NixOS","repo":"patchelf","type":"github"}' resulted in different input '{"final":true,"lastModified":1718457448,"narHash":"sha256-FSoxTcRZMGHNJh8dNtKOkcUtjhmhU6yQXcZZfUPLhQM=","owner":"NixOS","repo":"patchelf","rev":"a0f54334df36770b335c051e540ba40afcbf8378","type":"github"}'
Known behavior changes:
- `MemorySourceAccessor`'s comparison operators no longer forget to
compare the `SourceAccessor` base class.
Progress on #10832
What remains for that issue is hopefully much easier!
Progress on #5638
There are still a global fetcher and eval settings, but they are pushed
down into `libnixcmd`, which is a lot less bad a place for this sort of
thing.
Continuing process pioneered in
52bfccf8d8.
