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Reason: keep ci directory in sync - https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/pull/431450#issuecomment-3209546418 This requires that we have a modules directory, in which case the easy and robust solution is to only port the addition parts of the refactor. It's about as easy as a .keep file, but more useful. This means that some duplication is created, but we avoid backporting the changes to the documentation generation, which is a somewhat complex component I'd rather not touch until these changes have been proven out on unstable.
CI support files
This directory contains files to support CI, such as GitHub Actions and Ofborg.
This is in contrast with maintainers/scripts which is for human use instead.
Pinned Nixpkgs
CI may need certain packages from Nixpkgs.
In order to ensure that the needed packages are generally available without building, pinned.json contains a pinned Nixpkgs version tested by Hydra.
Run update-pinned.sh to update it.
ci/nixpkgs-vet.sh BASE_BRANCH [REPOSITORY]
Runs the nixpkgs-vet tool on the HEAD commit, closely matching what CI does.
This can't do exactly the same as CI, because CI needs to rely on GitHub's server-side Git history to compute the mergeability of PRs before the check can be started.
In turn, when contributors are running this tool locally, we don't want to have to push commits to test them, and we can also rely on the local Git history to do the mergeability check.
Arguments:
BASE_BRANCH: The base branch to use, e.g. master or release-24.05REPOSITORY: The repository from which to fetch the base branch. Defaults to https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs.git.
Branch classification
For the purposes of CI, branches in the NixOS/nixpkgs repository are classified as follows:
- Channel branches
nixos-ornixpkgs-prefix- Are only updated from
masterorrelease-branches, when hydra passes. - Otherwise not worked on, Pull Requests are not allowed.
- Long-lived, no deletion, no force push.
- Primary development branches
release-prefix andmaster- Pull Requests required.
- Long-lived, no deletion, no force push.
- Secondary development branches
staging-prefix,haskell-updatesandpython-updates- Pull Requests normally required, except when merging development branches into each other.
- Long-lived, no deletion, no force push.
- Work-In-Progress branches
backport-,revert-andwip-prefixes.- Deprecated: All other branches, not matched by channel/development.
- Pull Requests are optional.
- Short-lived, force push allowed, deleted after merge.
Some branches also have a version component, which is either unstable or YY.MM.
ci/supportedBranches.js is a script imported by CI to classify the base and head branches of a Pull Request.
This classification will then be used to skip certain jobs.
This script can also be run locally to print basic test cases.