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It's `builtin:fetchurl`, not `builtins:fetchurl`. Change-Id: I2e90fce5feecc75257a5156aee12e0737a525175 Reviewed-on: https://cl.tvl.fyi/c/depot/+/10961 Autosubmit: flokli <flokli@flokli.de> Tested-by: BuildkiteCI Reviewed-by: aspen <root@gws.fyi>
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Why .drvPath differs between Nix and Tvix
Nix and Tvix currently use a different approach when it comes to tracking input references, in order to build the right dependencies in advance. Nix is using string contexts, whereas Tvix is doing reference scanning 1.
There are some real-life cases, for example during nixpkgs bootstrapping, where multiple different fixed-output derivations are written to produce the same hash.
For example, bootstrap sources that are downloaded early are fetched using
a special "builder hack", in which the builder field of the derivation is
populated with the magic string builtin:fetchurl and the builder itself will
perform a fetch, with everything looking like a normal derivation to the user.
These bootstrap sources are later on defined again, once curlis available,
to be downloaded using the standard pkgs.fetchtarball mechanism, but yielding
the same outputs (as the same files are being fetched).
In our reference scanning implementation, this output scanning of FOD will
cause the path of the first derivation producing the given fixed output to be
stored in the inputDrvs field of the derivation, while Nix will point to the
derivation that was actually used.
This doesn't cause any differences in the calculated output paths, as paths to
fixed-output derivations are replaced with a special
fixed:out:${algo}:${digest}:${fodPath} string that doesn't contain the "path
to the wrong derivation" anymore.
As we haven't fully determined if our reference scanning approach is gonna work, and comparing output paths is sufficient to determine equality of the build instructions, this is left as a future work item.