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stdenv: Store one package per line in nix-support/propagated-*#27284

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stdenv: Store one package per line in nix-support/propagated-*#27284
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@Ericson2314 Ericson2314 commented Jul 10, 2017

Motivation for this change

This makes those files a bit easier to read. Also, for what it's worth, it brings us one tiny step closer to handling spaces in store paths.

Also, I optimized handling of many transitive deps with read. Probably, not very beneficial, but nice to enforce the pkg-per-line structure. Doing so let me find much dubious code and fix it.

Two misc notes:

  • propagated-user-env-packages also needed to be adjusted as sometimes it is copied to/from the propagated input files.

  • local fd should ensure that file descriptors aren't clobbered during recursion.

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dezgeg commented Jul 10, 2017

Spaces in store paths can never possibly work since you can't escape a space in a #! line (and probably one zillion similar places).

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@dezgeg That's true. I guess take this PR as a matter of style.

This makes those files a bit easier to read. Also, for what it's worth,
it brings us one baby step closer to handling spaces in store paths.

Also, I optimized handling of many transitive deps with read. Probably,
not very beneficial, but nice to enforce the pkg-per-line structure.
Doing so let me find much dubious code and fix it.

Two misc notes:

 - `propagated-user-env-packages` also needed to be adjusted as
   sometimes it is copied to/from the propagated input files.

 - `local fd` should ensure that file descriptors aren't clobbered
   during recursion.
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OK, this is tested.

@Ericson2314 Ericson2314 added the 9.needs: community feedback This needs feedback from more community members. label Jul 10, 2017
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Seems fine to me, though I don't see a huge advantage - these files are not intended for human consumption so the readability is not really important, and as @dezgeg mentioned, whitespace is unlikely to ever work well (also this solution wouldn't support newlines in filenames).

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@edolstra Thanks for the verdict. TBH this was basically me getting side-tracked when working on that previous PR, but I do occasionally read those files by hand---at least when debugging.

@Ericson2314 Ericson2314 merged commit a889454 into NixOS:staging Jul 11, 2017
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