#! /usr/bin/env nix-shell #! nix-shell -i perl -p perl perlPackages.XMLSimple use strict; use List::Util qw(min); use XML::Simple qw(:strict); use Getopt::Long qw(:config gnu_getopt); # Parse the command line. my $path = ""; my $filter = "*"; my $maintainer; sub showHelp { print <’) Examples: \$ nixpkgs-lint -f /my/nixpkgs -p firefox \$ nixpkgs-lint -f /my/nixpkgs -m eelco EOF exit 0; } GetOptions("package|p=s" => \$filter, "maintainer|m=s" => \$maintainer, "file|f=s" => \$path, "help" => sub { showHelp() } ) or exit 1; # Evaluate Nixpkgs into an XML representation. my $xml = `nix-env -f '$path' --arg overlays '[]' -qa '$filter' --xml --meta --drv-path`; die "$0: evaluation of ‘$path’ failed\n" if $? != 0; my $info = XMLin($xml, KeyAttr => { 'item' => '+attrPath', 'meta' => 'name' }, ForceArray => 1, SuppressEmpty => '' ) or die "cannot parse XML output"; # Check meta information. print "=== Package meta information ===\n\n"; my $nrBadNames = 0; my $nrMissingMaintainers = 0; my $nrMissingPlatforms = 0; my $nrMissingDescriptions = 0; my $nrBadDescriptions = 0; my $nrMissingLicenses = 0; foreach my $attr (sort keys %{$info->{item}}) { my $pkg = $info->{item}->{$attr}; my $pkgName = $pkg->{name}; my $pkgVersion = ""; if ($pkgName =~ /(.*)(-[0-9].*)$/) { $pkgName = $1; $pkgVersion = $2; } # Check the maintainers. my @maintainers; my $x = $pkg->{meta}->{maintainers}; if (defined $x && $x->{type} eq "strings") { @maintainers = map { $_->{value} } @{$x->{string}}; } elsif (defined $x->{value}) { @maintainers = ($x->{value}); } if (defined $maintainer && scalar(grep { $_ =~ /$maintainer/i } @maintainers) == 0) { delete $info->{item}->{$attr}; next; } if (scalar @maintainers == 0) { print "$attr: Lacks a maintainer\n"; $nrMissingMaintainers++; } # Check the platforms. if (!defined $pkg->{meta}->{platforms}) { print "$attr: Lacks a platform\n"; $nrMissingPlatforms++; } # Package names should not be capitalised. if ($pkgName =~ /^[A-Z]/) { print "$attr: package name ‘$pkgName’ should not be capitalised\n"; $nrBadNames++; } if ($pkgVersion eq "") { print "$attr: package has no version\n"; $nrBadNames++; } # Check the license. if (!defined $pkg->{meta}->{license}) { print "$attr: Lacks a license\n"; $nrMissingLicenses++; } # Check the description. my $description = $pkg->{meta}->{description}->{value}; if (!$description) { print "$attr: Lacks a description\n"; $nrMissingDescriptions++; } else { my $bad = 0; if ($description =~ /^\s/) { print "$attr: Description starts with whitespace\n"; $bad = 1; } if ($description =~ /\s$/) { print "$attr: Description ends with whitespace\n"; $bad = 1; } if ($description =~ /\.$/) { print "$attr: Description ends with a period\n"; $bad = 1; } if (index(lc($description), lc($attr)) != -1) { print "$attr: Description contains package name\n"; $bad = 1; } $nrBadDescriptions++ if $bad; } } print "\n"; # Find packages that have the same name. print "=== Package name collisions ===\n\n"; my %pkgsByName; foreach my $attr (sort keys %{$info->{item}}) { my $pkg = $info->{item}->{$attr}; #print STDERR "attr = $attr, name = $pkg->{name}\n"; $pkgsByName{$pkg->{name}} //= []; push @{$pkgsByName{$pkg->{name}}}, $pkg; } my $nrCollisions = 0; foreach my $name (sort keys %pkgsByName) { my @pkgs = @{$pkgsByName{$name}}; # Filter attributes that are aliases of each other (e.g. yield the # same derivation path). my %drvsSeen; @pkgs = grep { my $x = $drvsSeen{$_->{drvPath}}; $drvsSeen{$_->{drvPath}} = 1; !defined $x } @pkgs; # Filter packages that have a lower priority. my $highest = min (map { $_->{meta}->{priority}->{value} // 0 } @pkgs); @pkgs = grep { ($_->{meta}->{priority}->{value} // 0) == $highest } @pkgs; next if scalar @pkgs == 1; $nrCollisions++; print "The following attributes evaluate to a package named ‘$name’:\n"; print " ", join(", ", map { $_->{attrPath} } @pkgs), "\n\n"; } print "=== Bottom line ===\n"; print "Number of packages: ", scalar(keys %{$info->{item}}), "\n"; print "Number of bad names: $nrBadNames\n"; print "Number of missing maintainers: $nrMissingMaintainers\n"; print "Number of missing platforms: $nrMissingPlatforms\n"; print "Number of missing licenses: $nrMissingLicenses\n"; print "Number of missing descriptions: $nrMissingDescriptions\n"; print "Number of bad descriptions: $nrBadDescriptions\n"; print "Number of name collisions: $nrCollisions\n";