- Make more economic use of the free CI resources by removing redundant build tasks:
- Build unstable pkgs in a single separate task ("pkgs_unstable").
- All stable pkgs are implicitly built by the modules tests.
- The build script (ci/build.sh) can now be executed locally for easier
debugging.
- Use an explicit 'cachix push' command instead of helper/wait-for-network-idle.rb.
This is simpler and more reliable.
currently, nodeinfo has presets/secure-node.nix as a strict
dependency as it requires onion-chef and the 'operatorName' option.
and nix-bitcoin-webindex.nix has nodeinfo as a dependecy.
so don't add nodeinfo and webindex to modules.nix because they will fail on standalone use.
Use buildRustPackage instead of buildRustCrate (via crate2nix).
buildRustPackage builds the whole executable and its libraries in a
single `cargo build` process.
With the create2nix approach each library is built in a separate derivation,
directly using rustc instead of the cargo wrapper.
Benefits of buildRustPackage:
- Much simpler to maintain
- Package derivation evaluates much faster
Benefits of crate2nix:
- Build can be distributed over multiple build hosts
- Better sharing of common dependencies between different builds
- More fine-grained rebuilding on build failures
In nixpkgs buildRustPackage is used for almost all Rust pkgs, it's
also a better fit for our use case.
Jonas Nick
nixbitcoin
Erik Arvstedt
Ian Shipman
Calvin Kim