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authorMaximilian Bosch <maximilian@mbosch.me>2023-06-27 14:58:29 +0200
committerGitHub <noreply@github.com>2023-06-27 14:58:29 +0200
commit559fd7ffe7a8cb61b11bec081f14ce3c3ffb210d (patch)
tree8e4eb2b78febb64cb7bbf7b35c542369cb81a9a5 /src/libmain/shared.cc
parent8e770dac9f68162cfbb368e53f928df491babff3 (diff)
nix flake check: improve error message if overlay is not a lambda (#8582)
* nix flake check: improve error message if overlay is not a lambda Suppose you have an overlay like this { inputs = { /* ... */ }; outputs = { flake-utils, ... }: flake-utils.lib.eachDefaultSystem (system: { overlays.default = final: prev: { }; }); } then `nix flake check` (correctly) fails because `overlays` are supposed to have the structure `overlays.<name> = final: prev: exp`. However, the error-message is a little bit counter-intuitive: error: overlay does not take an argument named 'final' While one might guess where the error actually comes from because the trace above says `… while checking the overlay 'overlays.x86_64-linux'` this is still pretty confusing because it complains about an argument not being named `final` even though that's evidently the case. With this change, the error-message actually makes it clear what's wrong: [ma27@carsten:~/Projects/nix/tmp]$ nix flake check --extra-experimental-features 'nix-command flakes' path:$(pwd) error: … while checking flake output 'overlays' at /nix/store/clgblnxx003hyrq8qkz5ab6kgqkck6qc-source/flake.nix:4:5: 3| outputs = { ... }: { 4| overlays.x86_64-linux.snens = final: prev: { | ^ 5| kek = throw "snens"; … while checking the overlay 'overlays.x86_64-linux' at /nix/store/clgblnxx003hyrq8qkz5ab6kgqkck6qc-source/flake.nix:4:5: 3| outputs = { ... }: { 4| overlays.x86_64-linux.snens = final: prev: { | ^ 5| kek = throw "snens"; error: overlay is not a lambda, but a set instead
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