flake: don't refetch unmodified inputs by recursive follows

Closes #460

I managed to trigger the issue by having the following inputs (shortened):

    authentik-nix.url = "github:nix-community/authentik-nix";
    authentik-nix.inputs.poetry2nix.inputs.nixpkgs.follows = "nixpkgs";

When evaluating this using

    nix-eval-jobs --flake .#hydraJobs

I got the following error:

    error: cannot update unlocked flake input 'authentik-nix/poetry2nix' in pure mode

The issue we have here is that `authentik-nix/poetry2nix` was written
into the `overrideMap` which caused Nix to assume it's a new input and
tried to refetch it (#460) or errored out in pure mode
(nix-eval-jobs / Hydra).

The testcase unfortunately only involves checking for the output log
and makes sure that something *is* logged on the first fetch so that
the test doesn't rot when the logging changes since I didn't
manage to trigger the error above with the reproducer from #460. In
fact, I only managed to trigger the `cannot update unlocked flake input`
error in this context with `nix-eval-jobs`.

Change-Id: Ifd00091eec9a0067ed4bb3e5765a15d027328807

1 files changed, 55 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/tests/functional/flakes/follow-paths.sh b/tests/functional/flakes/follow-paths.sh
index e91ce87b1..1f824793b 100644
--- a/tests/functional/flakes/follow-paths.sh
+++ b/tests/functional/flakes/follow-paths.sh
@@ -307,3 +307,58 @@ cat <<EOF > $flakeFollowsB/flake.nix
 EOF
 
 nix flake update --flake $flakeFollowsA 2>&1 | grepQuiet "warning: input 'B/C' has an override for a non-existent input 'E'"
+
+# Test for Nested follows cause flake interactions to update the nested input #460
+for letter in {A..E}; do
+    path="flakeFollows${letter}"
+    rm -f "${!path}"/flake.lock
+done
+
+cat <<EOF > $flakeFollowsA/flake.nix
+{
+  inputs = {
+    B.url = "path:$flakeFollowsB";
+    C = {
+      url = "path:$flakeFollowsC";
+      inputs.D.inputs.E.follows = "B";
+    };
+  };
+  outputs = _: {};
+}
+EOF
+
+cat <<EOF > $flakeFollowsB/flake.nix
+{
+  outputs = _: {};
+}
+EOF
+
+cat <<EOF > $flakeFollowsC/flake.nix
+{
+  inputs = {
+    D.url = "path:$flakeFollowsD";
+  };
+  outputs = _: {};
+}
+EOF
+
+cat <<EOF > $flakeFollowsD/flake.nix
+{
+  inputs = {
+    E.url = "path:$flakeFollowsE";
+  };
+  outputs = _: {};
+}
+EOF
+
+# Lockfiles are cleared, initially the dependency needs to be fetched.
+out="$(nix --verbose flake show path:$flakeFollowsA 2>&1)"
+echo "$out"
+[[ "$out" = *$'\n'"fetching path input 'path:"*"/flakeD'"$'\n'* ]]
+
+# But on another flake command it doesn't.
+out="$(nix --verbose flake show path:$flakeFollowsA 2>&1)"
+[[ "$out" != *$'\n'"fetching path input 'path:"*"/flakeD'"$'\n'* ]]
+
+# Make sure the nested override is actually correct in this testcase.
+[[ "$(nix flake metadata path:$flakeFollowsA --json | jq '.locks.nodes.D.inputs.E|.[]' -r)" = "B" ]]