Only show/build a package on the platforms listed in meta.platforms

The function ‘mkDerivation’ now checks whether the current platform
type is included in a package's meta.platform field.  If not, it
throws an exception:

  $ nix-build -A linux --argstr system x86_64-darwin
  error: user-thrown exception: the package ‘linux-3.10.15’ is not supported on ‘x86_64-darwin’

These packages also no longer show up in ‘nix-env -qa’ output.  This
means, for instance, that the number of packages shown on
x86_64-freebsd has dropped from 9268 to 4764.

Since meta.platforms was also used to prevent Hydra from building some
packages, there now is a new attribute meta.hydraPlatforms listing the
platforms on which Hydra should build the package (which defaults to
meta.platforms).
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Eelco Dolstra
2013-11-04 23:31:08 +01:00
parent 8867304b5e
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package).</para></listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry>
<term><varname>platforms</varname></term>
<listitem><para>The list of Nix platform types on which the
package is supported. If this attribute is set, the package will
refuse to build, and wont show up in <literal>nix-env
-qa</literal> output, on any platform not listed
here. An example is:
<programlisting>
meta.platforms = [ "x86_64-linux" "i686-linux" "x86_64-darwin" ];
</programlisting>
The set <varname>lib.platforms</varname> defines various common
lists of platforms types, so its more typical to write:
<programlisting>
meta.platforms = stdenv.lib.platforms.linux ++ stdenv.lib.platforms.darwin;
</programlisting>
</para></listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry>
<term><varname>hydraPlatforms</varname></term>
<listitem><para>The list of Nix platform types for which the Hydra
instance at <literal>hydra.nixos.org</literal> should build the
package. (Hydra is the Nix-based continuous build system.) It
defaults to the value of <varname>meta.platforms</varname>. Thus,
the only reason to set <varname>meta.hydraPlatforms</varname> is
if you want <literal>hydra.nixos.org</literal> to build the
package on a subset of <varname>meta.platforms</varname>, or not
at all, e.g.
<programlisting>
meta.platforms = stdenv.lib.platforms.linux;
meta.hydraPlatforms = [];
</programlisting>
</para></listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry>
<term><varname>broken</varname></term>
<listitem><para>If set to <literal>true</literal>, the package is