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installer: allow nar-serve installations
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The goal is to allow the installation and testing of arbitrary Nix
versions. Extend the base installer to accept a `--nar-serve <url>` to
change where Nix is getting installed from.

Once this is merged it should allow to:
1. Pick an evaluation at https://hydra.nixos.org/jobset/nix/master that
   looks healthy
2. Select the installedScript build and find the store path.

Now equipped with all of this, use an instance of nar-serve to fetch the
install script and release tarballs:

    curl -sfL https://nar-serve.numtide.com/nix/store/rkv4yh7pym941bhj0849zqdkg2546bdv-installer-script/install \
      | sh --nar-serve https://nar-serve.numtide.com

Fixes NixOS#4047
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zimbatm committed Nov 21, 2020
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7 changes: 6 additions & 1 deletion flake.nix
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substitute ${./scripts/install.in} $out/install \
${pkgs.lib.concatMapStrings
(system: "--replace '@binaryTarball_${system}@' $(nix --experimental-features nix-command hash-file --base16 --type sha256 ${self.hydraJobs.binaryTarball.${system}}/*.tar.xz) ")
(system:
'' \
--replace '@tarballHash_${system}@' $(nix --experimental-features nix-command hash-file --base16 --type sha256 ${self.hydraJobs.binaryTarball.${system}}/*.tar.xz) \
--replace '@tarballPath_${system}@' ${self.hydraJobs.binaryTarball.${system}}/*.tar.xz \
''
)
[ "x86_64-linux" "i686-linux" "x86_64-darwin" "aarch64-linux" ]
} \
--replace '@nixVersion@' ${version}
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42 changes: 34 additions & 8 deletions scripts/install.in
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Expand Up @@ -25,18 +25,44 @@ require_util() {
}

case "$(uname -s).$(uname -m)" in
Linux.x86_64) system=x86_64-linux; hash=@binaryTarball_x86_64-linux@;;
Linux.i?86) system=i686-linux; hash=@binaryTarball_i686-linux@;;
Linux.aarch64) system=aarch64-linux; hash=@binaryTarball_aarch64-linux@;;
Darwin.x86_64) system=x86_64-darwin; hash=@binaryTarball_x86_64-darwin@;;
# eventually maybe: system=arm64-darwin; hash=@binaryTarball_arm64-darwin@;;
Darwin.arm64) system=x86_64-darwin; hash=@binaryTarball_x86_64-darwin@;;
Linux.x86_64)
hash=@tarballHash_x86_64-linux@
store_path=@tarballPath_x86_64-linux@
system=x86_64-linux
;;
Linux.i?86)
hash=@tarballHash_i686-linux@
store_path=@tarballPath_i686-linux@
system=i686-linux
;;
Linux.aarch64)
hash=@tarballHash_aarch64-linux@
store_path=@tarballPath_aarch64-linux@
system=aarch64-linux
;;
Darwin.x86_64)
hash=@tarballHash_x86_64-darwin@
store_path=@tarballPath_x86_64-darwin@
system=x86_64-darwin
;;
Darwin.arm64)
# eventually maybe: system=arm64-darwin
system=x86_64-darwin
store_path=@tarballPath_x86_64-darwin@
hash=@binaryTarball_x86_64-darwin@
;;
*) oops "sorry, there is no binary distribution of Nix for your platform";;
esac

url="https://releases.nixos.org/nix/nix-@nixVersion@/nix-@nixVersion@-$system.tar.xz"
# Use this command-line option to fetch the tarballs using nar-serve.
if "${1:---nar-serve}"; then
url=${2}${store_path}
shift 2
else
url=https://releases.nixos.org/nix/nix-@nixVersion@/nix-@nixVersion@-$system.tar.xz
fi

tarball="$tmpDir/$(basename "$tmpDir/nix-@nixVersion@-$system.tar.xz")"
tarball=$tmpDir/nix-@nixVersion@-$system.tar.xz

require_util curl "download the binary tarball"
require_util tar "unpack the binary tarball"
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