tvl-depot/nix/emptyDerivation/emptyDerivation.nix
Profpatsch cdfae7de48 feat(nix/emptyDerivation) add emptyDerivation
The most trivial of all derivations. It is more useful than it looks.

Can be used to bind nix expressions (e.g. test suites) to a
derivation, so that `nix-build` does not crap itself.

Change-Id: I61c24d8c129c9505733161207f3c30e820f5b15e
Reviewed-on: https://cl.tvl.fyi/c/depot/+/665
Reviewed-by: tazjin <mail@tazj.in>
2020-06-28 17:59:46 +00:00

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{ stdenv, pkgs, getBins }:
# The empty derivation. All it does is touch $out.
# Basically the unit value for derivations.
#
# In addition to simple test situations which require
# a derivation, we set __functor, so you can call it
# as a function and pass an attrset. The set you pass
# is `//`-merged with the attrset before calling derivation,
# so you can use this to add more fields.
let
bins = getBins pkgs.s6-portable-utils [ "s6-touch" ]
// getBins pkgs.execline [ "importas" "exec" ];
emptiness = {
name = "empty-derivation";
# TODO(Profpatsch): can we get system from tvl?
inherit (stdenv) system;
builder = bins.exec;
args = [
bins.importas "out" "out"
bins.s6-touch "$out"
];
};
in (derivation emptiness) // {
# This allows us to call the empty derivation
# like a function and override fields/add new fields.
__functor = _: overrides:
derivation (emptiness // overrides);
}