In a recent change, the path matching was simplified in maintainers.nix.
This revealed a pre-existing logic bug: Packages without `meta.position`
would get an empty string as their file name. The change would then
cause this empty string to always be matched, which lead to maintainer
pings for these packages in seemingly random PRs, when some of their
dependencies were changed.
We should never try to ping maintainers through package aliases, this
can only lead to errors. One example case is, where an attribute is a
throw alias, but then re-introduced in a PR. This would trigger the
throw. By disabling aliases, we can fallback gracefully.
This allows requesting reviewers for pure refactor PRs, which don't
cause a rebuild of the package. This is only possible for by-name,
because only here the package names can be inferred from the filenames.
This adds support to ping maintainers when arbitrary files in by-name
are changed, as long as they still cause a rebuild. For example, this is
the case when changing .json files with version metadata. These were
previously not detected as belonging to the package, and didn't cause
maintainer pings.
The only reason for the additional `lib.hasSuffix` check was, that the
`lib.removePrefix` was broken - it was never adjusted when porting this
from ofborg, so the relative path was wrong and no prefix ever removed,
since no packages are in `ci/`.
This additionally strips the leading `/`, so that `relevantFilenames`
will then have paths starting with `pkgs/...`, similar to how git
reports those paths in the `changedpathsjson` file. This allows simple
equality comparison.
This reverts commit f8210561f3 (ci.eval.compare: turn warnings into errors, 2025-09-16).
It turns out that there are normal math warnings and we don't want to block CI on the math coming out wrong.
The change to use `builtins.storePath` was good - for when the store
path *is* already part of the nix store. In all my tests so far, that
was already the case, because I was iterating on the solution and the
Eval results stayed the same.
But when this is run on a entirely new commit, these the values for
`afterDir` and `combinedDir` are *not* in the store, yet. As part of
running `eval.full` on a new commit they will be created. `eval.full` is
linked up, so that the values passed around there will actually be
derivations, which might not be realized, yet.
Checking whether the input is a path or not fixes this for both cases.
Due to how we pass in existing store paths via CLI arguments for the
diff and combine scripts, Nix didn't register a dependency on the store
paths properly. This meant that some of the derivations that were built,
didn't have the right store paths made available in the sandbox -
leading to all kinds of "not found" errors.
We worked around this in CI by resolving the symlinks to the nix store
beforehand. We tried to work around this locally by storing the nix
store path in BASELINE, but this didn't fully work. By explicitly
registering these store paths as dependencies, this should work across
the board - without any magic required by the caller.
Update the README.md to document what gets returned.
We might in the future split these up into other attrsets but I don't see a usecase for that at the moment.
This indicates that the NixOS test-driver changed and all NixOS tests
have to be rebuilt. It can be used to either re-target to staging or to
batch this with other similar changes, at least.
We can't eval all nixos tests, this would be way too expensive. But we
can evaluate `nixosTests.simple` as an indication whether the nixos test
driver has changed. If that's the case, this means that *all* NixOS
tests need to be rebuilt.
Not all packages that are reported as changed will actually exist on the
platform that the maintainers are colleted on.
This is the case for some attributes that are only available on Darwin
or explicitly set to `null` on Linux. By filtering out packages without
maintainers, these are ignored - and we should potentially get a small
performance improvement as well.
This attribute was supposed to be set on derivations, to make the
release tools recurse into them. The remaining uses were all on regular
attrsets, though, so this is safe to remove.
