| 19 Oct 2025 |
Alyssa Ross | If you want to be very thorough you can gate between !lib.systems.equals stdenv.buildPlatform stdenv.hostPlatform but I don't expect we support any libcs where the answer wouldn't be yes | 10:20:15 |
Alyssa Ross | * If you want to be very thorough you can gate behind !lib.systems.equals stdenv.buildPlatform stdenv.hostPlatform but I don't expect we support any libcs where the answer wouldn't be yes | 10:20:23 |
matthewcroughan | wasm? | 10:20:38 |
matthewcroughan | https://github.com/virtualsquare/vde-2 | 10:21:45 |
matthewcroughan | huh | 10:21:46 |
matthewcroughan |
- With VDE it is possible to create a virtual network of UML machines running
on several real computer
| 10:21:52 |
matthewcroughan | I wonder if we could make a VM test driver that is powered by UML instead of qemu | 10:22:05 |
matthewcroughan | it doesn't look like the thing I need to patch is actually in the vde2 source tree though | 10:22:49 |
matthewcroughan | there is no config.h there | 10:23:01 |
matthewcroughan | ah it's a generated one postConfigure | 10:23:18 |
matthewcroughan | https://github.com/virtualsquare/vde-2/blob/master/CMakeLists.txt#L284 | 10:23:22 |
Grimmauld (any/all) | wait whats the difference between lib.systems.equals and == ? | 10:24:07 |
matthewcroughan | readability I guess? :D | 10:24:18 |
Puna | https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/pull/238331 | 10:26:53 |
matthewcroughan | Now the pytest issue, I don't know how I cna fix that | 10:26:57 |
matthewcroughan | because I thought I already had fixed it in my override | 10:27:08 |
matthewcroughan | # https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/pull/451506
python3 = super.python3.override {
packageOverrides = pyfinal: pyprev: {
pytest = pyprev.pytest.overrideAttrs {
dontWrapPythonPrograms = false;
};
};
};
| 10:27:52 |
Puna | * https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/pull/238331
function equality in Nix is unreliable, and the elaborated platform attrsets contain functions | 10:28:49 |
matthewcroughan | But when the VM test gets invoked, somehow this goes out the window | 10:33:01 |
matthewcroughan |  Download image.png | 10:33:10 |
matthewcroughan | Like the above overlay works fine for the nixos system, but not for a vmtest of that same config | 10:35:04 |
matthewcroughan | It's so weird, it's like the test framework is ignoring my overlays | 10:42:18 |
matthewcroughan | # See https://nixos.org/manual/nixpkgs/unstable/#tester-invalidateFetcherByDrvHash
# or doc/build-helpers/testers.chapter.md
nixosTest =
let
/*
The nixos/lib/testing-python.nix module, preapplied with arguments that
make sense for this evaluation of Nixpkgs.
*/
nixosTesting = (
import ../../../nixos/lib/testing-python.nix {
inherit (stdenv.hostPlatform) system;
inherit pkgs;
extraConfigurations = [
(
{ lib, ... }:
{
config.nixpkgs.pkgs = lib.mkDefault pkgsLinux;
}
)
];
}
);
in
test:
let
loadedTest = if builtins.typeOf test == "path" then import test else test;
calledTest = lib.toFunction loadedTest pkgs;
in
nixosTesting.simpleTest calledTest;
| 10:43:50 |
matthewcroughan | 🧠| 10:43:55 |
matthewcroughan | Yeah I don't think there's a way to fix that with an overlay | 10:54:27 |
matthewcroughan | that pytest thing broke a lot | 10:54:39 |
matthewcroughan | I found that -Oz makes a minimal systemd closure 20M -> 18M | 11:22:34 |
matthewcroughan | I now wonder what space saving effect that could have on the rest of the system if it were applied globally | 11:22:52 |
matthewcroughan |  Download image.png | 11:51:05 |
matthewcroughan | weird, why does the systemd initrd depend on two util-linux? | 11:51:14 |