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authorLudovic Courtès <ludo@gnu.org>2013-03-02 15:14:22 +0100
committerLudovic Courtès <ludo@gnu.org>2013-03-02 15:14:22 +0100
commit11a7ceb9e804c63a22e4bc0ce2a3c302d7ecb18e (patch)
treed735f9f28da9971f872f609fcca33b40d5586fe7 /release.nix
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release.nix: Build outside of a chroot.
* release.nix (unchroot): New function. (jobs)[tarball, build, build_disable_daemon]: Use it.
Diffstat (limited to 'release.nix')
-rw-r--r--release.nix26
1 files changed, 19 insertions, 7 deletions
diff --git a/release.nix b/release.nix
index 369d54ed96..aed99717df 100644
--- a/release.nix
+++ b/release.nix
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
/* GNU Guix --- Functional package management for GNU
- Copyright (C) 2012 Ludovic Courtès <ludo@gnu.org>
+ Copyright (C) 2012, 2013 Ludovic Courtès <ludo@gnu.org>
This file is part of GNU Guix.
@@ -26,6 +26,15 @@ let
succeedOnFailure = true;
keepBuildDirectory = true;
+ # Run the given derivation in outside of a chroot. This hack is used on
+ # hydra.gnu.org where we want Guix derivations to run in a chroot that lacks
+ # /bin, whereas Nixpkgs relies on /bin/sh.
+ unchroot =
+ let pkgs = import nixpkgs {}; in
+ drv: pkgs.lib.overrideDerivation drv (args: {
+ __noChroot = true;
+ });
+
# The Guile used to bootstrap the whole thing. It's normally
# downloaded by the build system, but here we download it via a
# fixed-output derivation and stuff it into the build tree.
@@ -44,7 +53,8 @@ let
jobs = {
tarball =
- let pkgs = import nixpkgs {}; in
+ unchroot
+ (let pkgs = import nixpkgs {}; in
pkgs.releaseTools.sourceTarball {
name = "guix-tarball";
src = <guix>;
@@ -55,12 +65,13 @@ let
[ "--with-libgcrypt-prefix=${pkgs.libgcrypt}"
"--localstatedir=/nix/var"
];
- };
+ });
build =
{ system ? builtins.currentSystem }:
- let pkgs = import nixpkgs { inherit system; }; in
+ unchroot
+ (let pkgs = import nixpkgs { inherit system; }; in
pkgs.releaseTools.nixBuild {
name = "guix";
buildInputs = with pkgs; [ guile sqlite bzip2 libgcrypt ];
@@ -83,13 +94,14 @@ let
inherit succeedOnFailure keepBuildDirectory
buildOutOfSourceTree;
- };
+ });
build_disable_daemon =
{ system ? builtins.currentSystem }:
- let
+ unchroot
+ (let
pkgs = import nixpkgs { inherit system; };
build = jobs.build { inherit system; };
in
@@ -101,7 +113,7 @@ let
# the chroot.
preConfigure = "export NIX_REMOTE=daemon";
__noChroot = true;
- });
+ }));
# Jobs to test the distro.
distro = {