Commits on Nov 20, 2020

1. pythonPackages: add new 'seccomp' library …

   As requested in #99553. Closes #99553.
   
   Libraries that install python modules as part of the build are
   problematic, because they either
   
     - only support a single python version, because the input for
       pythonPackages gets fixed in all-packages.nix, or
   
     - need to be rebuild the underlying C code for *every* python version
       resulting in libfoo-python37, libfoo-python38, and so on
   
   We would prefer to use the second approach because it works correctly
   for all versions of python. However, it creates duplicate copies of
   libseccomp.so and that can be expensive. Instead we 'deduplicate' the
   copies of libseccomp.so by
   
     - attaching a new $pythonsrc output to the libseccomp deriv, and
     - exposing a new 'seccomp' package in python-packages.nix using
       libseccomp as input, and
     - having a custom python.nix derivation that builds the cython
       extension using libseccomp to get the python source and the
       package version
   
   This means we build 1 copy of the seccomp python package, one for each
   version of python, but all of those packages refer to a single instance
   of the libseccomp C library, giving us the best of both worlds.
   
   NOTE: because this requires changing the postInstall of libseccomp, it
   requires a mass rebuild.
   
   Signed-off-by: Austin Seipp <aseipp@pobox.com>

   

   thoughtpolice authored and FRidh committed Nov 20, 2020
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