nixpkgs-review-checks

Adds additional checks and more information from build logs and outputs to the reports generated by Mic92/nixpkgs-review.

This project should currently be considered alpha quality software. Some of the additional checks don't work reliable and sometimes even block the shell. There is also currently no way to abort the running shell commands which can be a problem when reviewing hundreds of packages.

Features

• Search through logs to find special keywords that indicate a common error like Ran 0 tests in 0.000s by pytest or stale substituteInPlace
• Sort build failures by failing on master and new failing via hydra-check
• Run nixpkgs-hammering, filter warnings and add them to the report
• Automatically upload logs on build failures to termbin
• Check binaries and shared objects for missing objects and left over debugging symbols
• Block the review shell from closing if there are unstaged changes in nixpkgs
• Filter empty reports and non usefull reports for certain people

Installation

Shadow nixpkgs-review

• The following programs need to be installed in your enviroment if you want to shadow your nixpkgs-review command:
  • ansi2html
  • bc
  • bloaty
  • coreutils
  • curl
  • gawk
  • gh
  • jq
  • hydra-check
  • mdcat
  • nix
  • nixpkgs-hammering
  • pup
  • ripgrep
  • savepagenow

Optionally you can install cached-nix-shell to speedup the start of nixpkgs-review.

• Source nixpkgs-review-checks-hook in your ~/.bashrc.

source ~/source/nixpkgs-review-checks/nixpkgs-review-checks-hook

Invoke nixpkgs-review-checks (Alpha)

If you don't want to change your enviroment you can invoke nixpkgs-review-checks instead of nixpkgs-review. This can also be aliased

alias nixpkgs-review='nixpkgs-review-checks'

Usage

If you opted into shadow the command invoke nixpkgs-review otherwise nixpkgs-review-checks.

Configuration

• $NIXPKGS_REVIEW_CHECKS_DEBUG Set to not post any reports and show debug output
• $NIXPKGS_REVIEW_CHECKS_RUN Set after execution, unset to re-run
• $NIXPKGS_REVIEW_CHECKS_SOURCE Path to the nixpkgs repository to be able to run nixpkgs-review from anywhere
• $NIXPKGS_REVIEW_GITHUB_TOKEN Token to use for gist uploads