let lib = import ./default.nix; inherit (builtins) attrNames isFunction; in rec { /* `overrideDerivation drv f' takes a derivation (i.e., the result of a call to the builtin function `derivation') and returns a new derivation in which the attributes of the original are overriden according to the function `f'. The function `f' is called with the original derivation attributes. `overrideDerivation' allows certain "ad-hoc" customisation scenarios (e.g. in ~/.nixpkgs/config.nix). For instance, if you want to "patch" the derivation returned by a package function in Nixpkgs to build another version than what the function itself provides, you can do something like this: mySed = overrideDerivation pkgs.gnused (oldAttrs: { name = "sed-4.2.2-pre"; src = fetchurl { url = ftp://alpha.gnu.org/gnu/sed/sed-4.2.2-pre.tar.bz2; sha256 = "11nq06d131y4wmf3drm0yk502d2xc6n5qy82cg88rb9nqd2lj41k"; }; patches = []; }); For another application, see build-support/vm, where this function is used to build arbitrary derivations inside a QEMU virtual machine. */ overrideDerivation = drv: f: let newDrv = derivation (drv.drvAttrs // (f drv)); in addPassthru newDrv ( { meta = drv.meta or {}; passthru = if drv ? passthru then drv.passthru else {}; } // (drv.passthru or {}) // (if (drv ? crossDrv && drv ? nativeDrv) then { crossDrv = overrideDerivation drv.crossDrv f; nativeDrv = overrideDerivation drv.nativeDrv f; } else { })); makeOverridable = f: origArgs: let ff = f origArgs; overrideWith = newArgs: origArgs // (if builtins.isFunction newArgs then newArgs origArgs else newArgs); in if builtins.isAttrs ff then (ff // { override = newArgs: makeOverridable f (overrideWith newArgs); overrideDerivation = fdrv: makeOverridable (args: overrideDerivation (f args) fdrv) origArgs; }) else if builtins.isFunction ff then { override = newArgs: makeOverridable f (overrideWith newArgs); __functor = self: ff; overrideDerivation = throw "overrideDerivation not yet supported for functors"; } else ff; /* Call the package function in the file `fn' with the required arguments automatically. The function is called with the arguments `args', but any missing arguments are obtained from `autoArgs'. This function is intended to be partially parameterised, e.g., callPackage = callPackageWith pkgs; pkgs = { libfoo = callPackage ./foo.nix { }; libbar = callPackage ./bar.nix { }; }; If the `libbar' function expects an argument named `libfoo', it is automatically passed as an argument. Overrides or missing arguments can be supplied in `args', e.g. libbar = callPackage ./bar.nix { libfoo = null; enableX11 = true; }; */ callPackageWith = autoArgs: fn: args: let f = if builtins.isFunction fn then fn else import fn; auto = builtins.intersectAttrs (builtins.functionArgs f) autoArgs; in makeOverridable f (auto // args); /* Like callPackage, but for a function that returns an attribute set of derivations. The override function is added to the individual attributes. */ callPackagesWith = autoArgs: fn: args: let f = if builtins.isFunction fn then fn else import fn; auto = builtins.intersectAttrs (builtins.functionArgs f) autoArgs; finalArgs = auto // args; pkgs = f finalArgs; mkAttrOverridable = name: pkg: pkg // { override = newArgs: mkAttrOverridable name (f (finalArgs // newArgs)).${name}; }; in lib.mapAttrs mkAttrOverridable pkgs; /* Add attributes to each output of a derivation without changing the derivation itself. */ addPassthru = drv: passthru: let outputs = drv.outputs or [ "out" ]; commonAttrs = drv // (builtins.listToAttrs outputsList) // ({ all = map (x: x.value) outputsList; }) // passthru; outputToAttrListElement = outputName: { name = outputName; value = commonAttrs // { inherit (drv.${outputName}) outPath drvPath type outputName; }; }; outputsList = map outputToAttrListElement outputs; in commonAttrs.${drv.outputName}; /* Strip a derivation of all non-essential attributes, returning only those needed by hydra-eval-jobs. Also strictly evaluate the result to ensure that there are no thunks kept alive to prevent garbage collection. */ hydraJob = drv: let outputs = drv.outputs or ["out"]; commonAttrs = { inherit (drv) name system meta; inherit outputs; } // lib.optionalAttrs (drv._hydraAggregate or false) { _hydraAggregate = true; constituents = map hydraJob (lib.flatten drv.constituents); } // (lib.listToAttrs outputsList); makeOutput = outputName: let output = drv.${outputName}; in { name = outputName; value = commonAttrs // { outPath = output.outPath; drvPath = output.drvPath; type = "derivation"; inherit outputName; }; }; outputsList = map makeOutput outputs; drv' = (lib.head outputsList).value; in lib.deepSeq drv' drv'; }