stdenv.mkDerivation: add support for env attrset#76732
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stdenv.mkDerivation: add support for env attrset#76732
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Please note that this won't fix too much leaf-pkgs, those appear to be pretty broken as those don't have an `out`-output.
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anything that helps with __structuredAttrs is ok in my book. |
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I marked this as stale due to inactivity. → More info |
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env attrset added in #175649 |
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Was having lists in env automatically have toString run on them ever considered? |
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Motivation for this change
For
__structuredAttrs, we want to distinguish regular structured variables from string-coercible variables that will be exported to the environment. The environment variables will be passed tomkDerivationas attributes of theenvattribute set.To lower the review workload of the
__structuredAttrsPR, we have decided to make theenvmechanism available as a vanguard. Until the support for__structuredAttrsis implemented, the content of theenvattrset will be merged into the attrset passed tomkDerivation.The content of the attributes in
envis checked for validity and conflicts with the rest ofmkDerivationattributes. The current mechanism should produce the same derivations as the original, thus require no rebuilds.This change is backwards compatible for now, as Nix does not allow attrsets to be passed to derivation without
__structuredAttrsenabled, and the current mechanism handles the non-attrsets as before. We reserve the right to requireenvto be attrset in the future.Only the first commit is important, the rest is cherry-picked from #72074.
cc @globin @Ericson2314 @Ma27