nixpkgs-review-checks

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

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-hammer
  • 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