nixpkgs/pkgs/build-support/vm
aszlig 82d88b5bcb
vmTools.commonDebPackages: Add "mawk".
While debugging an issue with running NixOps tests, I found out that the
output from debClosureGenerator is not deterministic.

The reason behind this is the way how Provides and Replaces fields are
handled. I haven't yet found out what's the exact issue, but so far
packages "Provides" are more or less picked at random.

So, running the NixOps Hetzner tests we get either mawk, original-awk or
gawk altering on every invocation.

While for the test it isn't poisionous whether wi have mawk or gawk,
having original-awk certainly is, because live-build only works with
mawk or gawk.

The best solution would obviously be to make debClosureGenerator
deterministic, but in the case of "Provides: awk", we can safely pick
mawk by default, because the latter has a "Priority: required" in its
package description.

This also has the advantage that we can safely cherry-pick this to
release-15.09 because it's very unlikely that we'll break the
debClosureGenerator by adding a dependency to commonDebPackages.

Signed-off-by: aszlig <aszlig@redmoonstudios.org>
2015-10-26 20:56:42 +01:00
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deb
rpm Fix conflict between fedora-release and generic-release 2015-02-12 17:55:29 +01:00
windows Remove references to <nixpkgs> 2014-09-23 15:48:15 +02:00
default.nix vmTools.commonDebPackages: Add "mawk". 2015-10-26 20:56:42 +01:00
test.nix