[Nix-dev] announce: nixpkgs-dev-utils scripts

[Marc Weber]

Hi list,

I wrote a bunch of bash scripts:
http://gitorious.org/nixpkgs-dev-utilities

It contains 3 scripts:

# this shows differing .drv files used to build both .drv files you have
# to pass
nixpkgs-dev-utils-diff-drvs

# runs some santy checks on current directory - falling back to
# /etc/nixo/nixpkgs. You can use it to sanity check your commits
nixpkgs-dev-utils-nixpkgs-check

# This let's you run a nix-instantiate command creating a .drv file
# twice. Both .drv files will be compared.
nixpkgs-dev-utils-rebuild-check

The rebuild-check outputs this if you modify the make-wrapper.sh
scripts.sh and ask it to evaluate openoffice by
using the command "nix-instantiate -A openoffice -f $NIXPKGS/default.nix"

  /nix/store/rwrm809cwbfbg9p2cr75lic0wjh0v5vq-openoffice.org-3.2.0.drv
  /nix/store/n4r2vpg8hn7whx0ap0sdkwmdm88fn0v1-openoffice.org-3.2.0.drv
  390
  390
  differ: xmlto-0.0.23.drv 418lfpf3lwl581sn3p5m4kgb4k0ic8vs 4nmj647hh8mkqdbpyf109h601k1vyjjr
  differ: ant-jdk-1.6.0_20.drv 8c1v2h7q75sp78z3vvkilfirnxdlq26l z7s9xzwjzxb73jdbg6vbhp67ygj0d4a3
  differ: builder.sh n9d9y8jnfbk9apyq6r4w8npmy8wh01pi rwm702w2d6mg3jk4s316sbb2z1p7558a
  differ: libXtst-1.1.0.drv wxdl12i7ghajbw2lq4k5qkf1kyay3rif 9fkksr21m8bsmkcg473qdpngi67ia30n
  differ: hook.drv 1ms1c0i34nlkv7hrr8frlmyk3ark9sb6 gr84fxirbnm4v4pj26ih43rs1c402jv2
  differ: jdk-1.6.0_20.drv ss8gh9cvxhrxbfrb6rl58dac9xk53wg7 zz7lrdv9jxh20f6cxrn9aq1wmmlkg1kr
  differ: libXi-1.3.drv 13xnik8k13mdpq1m8y688dl238ii9hw1 xkg0vhj1r9n8mq23gv8qgjdlmjjv9d5b
  differ: openoffice.org-3.2.0.drv rwrm809cwbfbg9p2cr75lic0wjh0v5vq n4r2vpg8hn7whx0ap0sdkwmdm88fn0v1
  differ: make-wrapper.sh f7cvz47hky5nq0aq5kn81bpyq3j4djd7 dqr0i7ybhgs0kjgsf8y0mlbvwf80nmpy


This script is meant to be used to figure out whether a less important
fix should go to stdenv-updates or into trunk.

I still don't know which packages to take care off when running this
script ? What do you suggest? Can I ask nix-instantiate to evaluate all
names found in an attr such as pkgs-all/release.nix ?

Can you have a quick glance at them ? I'd like to add those scripts to
nixpkgs one day.

Of course if you belong to the nix-developer group you an commit to this
repository.

Marc Weber