stdenv/check-meta: Advertise the NIXPKGS_ALLOW_* environment variables #81990
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Advertises the relevant NIXPKGS_ALLOW_* environment variable in the error message that is presented whenever someone tries to build a broken, unfree, or insecure package, or tries to build a package on an unsupported system.
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Motivation for this change
This seemed like a reasonable addition whose absence has bothered me for a while.
What’s new
The error raised when trying to build a package marked as broken, insecure or unfree, or that is not supported on your system, will tell you about the environment variable you can set to ignore the error. Example:
Things done
sandboxinnix.confon non-NixOS linux)nix-shell -p nixpkgs-review --run "nixpkgs-review wip"Tested execution of all binary files (usually inN/A./result/bin/)Determined the impact on package closure size (by runningN/Anix path-info -Sbefore and after)