59 lines
3 KiB
Nix
59 lines
3 KiB
Nix
# This file turns the pkgs/by-name directory (see its README.md for more info) into an overlay that adds all the defined packages.
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# No validity checks are done here,
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# instead this file is optimised for performance,
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# and validity checks are done by CI on PRs.
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# Type: Path -> Overlay
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baseDirectory:
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let
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# Because of Nix's import-value cache, importing lib is free
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lib = import ../../lib;
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inherit (builtins)
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readDir
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;
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inherit (lib.attrsets)
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mapAttrs
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mapAttrsToList
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mergeAttrsList
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;
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# Package files for a single shard
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# Type: String -> String -> AttrsOf Path
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namesForShard = shard: type:
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if type != "directory" then
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# Ignore all non-directories. Technically only README.md is allowed as a file in the base directory, so we could alternatively:
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# - Assume that README.md is the only file and change the condition to `shard == "README.md"` for a minor performance improvement.
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# This would however cause very poor error messages if there's other files.
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# - Ensure that README.md is the only file, throwing a better error message if that's not the case.
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# However this would make for a poor code architecture, because one type of error would have to be duplicated in the validity checks and here.
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# Additionally in either of those alternatives, we would have to duplicate the hardcoding of "README.md"
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{ }
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else
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mapAttrs
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(name: _: baseDirectory + "/${shard}/${name}/package.nix")
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(readDir (baseDirectory + "/${shard}"));
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# The attribute set mapping names to the package files defining them
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# This is defined up here in order to allow reuse of the value (it's kind of expensive to compute)
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# if the overlay has to be applied multiple times
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packageFiles = mergeAttrsList (mapAttrsToList namesForShard (readDir baseDirectory));
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in
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# TODO: Consider optimising this using `builtins.deepSeq packageFiles`,
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# which could free up the above thunks and reduce GC times.
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# Currently this would be hard to measure until we have more packages
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# and ideally https://github.com/NixOS/nix/pull/8895
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self: super:
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{
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# This attribute is necessary to allow CI to ensure that all packages defined in `pkgs/by-name`
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# don't have an overriding definition in `all-packages.nix` with an empty (`{ }`) second `callPackage` argument.
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# It achieves that with an overlay that modifies both `callPackage` and this attribute to signal whether `callPackage` is used
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# and whether it's defined by this file here or `all-packages.nix`.
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# TODO: This can be removed once `pkgs/by-name` can handle custom `callPackage` arguments without `all-packages.nix` (or any other way of achieving the same result).
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# Because at that point the code in ./stage.nix can be changed to not allow definitions in `all-packages.nix` to override ones from `pkgs/by-name` anymore and throw an error if that happens instead.
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_internalCallByNamePackageFile = file: self.callPackage file { };
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}
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// mapAttrs
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(name: self._internalCallByNamePackageFile)
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packageFiles
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