[2.3] build: backport NIX_ATTRS_*_FILE#12026
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This was originally added in NixOS#4770 to support structured attrs in `nix-shell` & `nix develop`: the issue was that it was somewhat awkward to just write those files into a project directory, especially since it'd break in case of multiple `nix-shell` invocations from the same directory. Now the files are written to another, temporary location when using `nix-shell`/`nix develop` and the correct path is referenced by NIX_ATTRS_*_FILE. In `nixpkgs`, it's now common to use these environment variables, however we still fall back to checking to `.attrs.sh` & `.attrs.json` since the minimum Nix version we support is 2.3.17[1] which doesn't have this change. This however makes implementing structured attrs support more complicated than needed[2] and in fact we have a few places where the check for `.attrs.sh`/`.attrs.json` isn't made, so these only break with Nix 2.3[3]. The idea is now to * get this into 2.3.18 * bump minver once again to 2.3.18 in nixpkgs * remove all occurrences of `.attrs.sh`/`.attrs.json` from nixpkgs. [1] https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/blob/f4bd97b8face6dc14b0ce048c20cff7e558c7be2/lib/minver.nix [2] https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/pull/357053/files#diff-791a01ef89c157eb74d9c87ab8cbc3b81e2cf082cab70b8fec3472cd75ce860dR3-R5 [3] NixOS/nixpkgs#357053 (comment)
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Motivation
This was originally added in #4770 to support structured attrs in
nix-shell&nix develop: the issue was that it was somewhat awkward to just write those files into a project directory, especially since it'd break in case of multiplenix-shellinvocations from the same directory. Now the files are written to another, temporary location when usingnix-shell/nix developand the correct path is referenced by NIX_ATTRS_*_FILE.In
nixpkgs, it's now common to use these environment variables, however we still fall back to checking to.attrs.sh&.attrs.jsonsince the minimum Nix version we support is 2.3.17[1] which doesn't have this change.This however makes implementing structured attrs support more complicated than needed[2] and in fact we have a few places where the check for
.attrs.sh/.attrs.jsonisn't made, so these only break with Nix 2.3[3].The idea is now to
.attrs.sh/.attrs.jsonfrom nixpkgs.[1] https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/blob/f4bd97b8face6dc14b0ce048c20cff7e558c7be2/lib/minver.nix
[2] https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/pull/357053/files#diff-791a01ef89c157eb74d9c87ab8cbc3b81e2cf082cab70b8fec3472cd75ce860dR3-R5
[3] NixOS/nixpkgs#357053 (comment)
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