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nix/build: add --rebuild option #3761

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@Ma27 Ma27 commented Jun 29, 2020

Occasionally, nix-build --check is fairly helpful and I'd like to be
able to use this feature for flakes that need to be built with nix build as well.

cc @edolstra

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FRidh commented Jul 9, 2020

I think nix build --check (the new UI) would be confusing, since flakes have tests denoted as checks.

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bhipple commented Jul 9, 2020

We could perhaps adopt the --challenge name from guix, which does the same thing.

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Ma27 commented Jul 9, 2020

That's a nice suggestion! I just wanted to ask for a better idea since I couldn't come up with a non-verbose alternative to --check.

@FRidh @edolstra do you agree with --challenge? If yes, I'd change my PR accordingly.

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FRidh commented Jul 9, 2020

In #3750 it is suggested to have a separate command for it, nix challenge.

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Ma27 commented Jul 9, 2020

I'd be fine with this as well.

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Ma27 commented Jul 11, 2020

I should note though that if we add a nix challenge-command we should try to reach feature-parity with guix challenge which also supports e.g. comparing build products to the results from binary caches. Also it's directly possible to introspect the differences of store-paths with tools such as diffoscope (https://guix.gnu.org/manual/en/html_node/Invoking-guix-challenge.html).

Thus I also have to revoke my 👍 for --challenge, using this name would IMHO create too much confusion for people who also know guix.

Implementing such a feature would cost fairly much additional time I cannot invest atm. However I'd like to have this feature for the nix-command as well (to test flakes) which is why I'd suggest to either merge this PR as-is or to rename --check to something more suitable first (e.g. to --rebuild, better suggestions are welcome).

@FRidh @edolstra thoughts?

@Ma27 Ma27 changed the base branch from flakes to master July 17, 2020 16:50
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Ma27 commented Jul 17, 2020

Rebased onto master and tested again. @edolstra anything missing to get this merged? :)

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Ma27 commented Jul 26, 2020

@edolstra I think that nix build --check is the best solution for now (as it's consistent with nix-build --check) and as I've pointed out, we'd need to do way more stuff to implement nix challenge (I'm happy to do so, but in another PR), so can we merge this now?

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@Ma27 Yeah, I think it's better to rename it to --rebuild, since "check" is rather ambiguous (check what? re-run the checkPhase?). It could even be a top-level command, i.e. nix rebuild.

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Ma27 commented Jul 31, 2020

@edolstra I like --rebuild, will change it now.

It could even be a top-level command, i.e. nix rebuild.

I don't think that's a good idea. I'm fairly sure that people will start to confuse this with nixos-rebuild :-)

Also, rather than nix rebuild we probably want to implement sth. like nix challenge (see #3761 (comment) for that) with a few more features.

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Note that challenge is really a bad name, I'm sure most people can't guess what it would do.

check is a bit vague, but at least it gives some constraints to what it could do.

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Ma27 commented Jul 31, 2020

@domenkozar well, the challenge thing is something to be discussed when we're about to implement sth like #3750. Right now I only want something like nix-build --check for the new nix command.

Occasionally, `nix-build --check` is fairly helpful and I'd like to be
able to use this feature for flakes that need to be built with `nix
build` as well.
@Ma27 Ma27 changed the title nix/build: add --check option nix/build: add --rebuild option Jul 31, 2020
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Ma27 commented Jul 31, 2020

@edolstra updated accordingly.

@edolstra edolstra merged commit 935723e into NixOS:master Jul 31, 2020
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Thanks!

@Ma27 Ma27 deleted the nix-command-build-check branch July 31, 2020 15:34
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