Revert "Merge pull request #253760 from chivay/bootstrap-scrt"

[lovesegfault]

Description of changes

This reverts commit ab66640 (#253760), reversing
changes made to c08b005.

The changes were merged without the associated bootstrap updates, and breaking
with the process for bootstrap changes.

Things done

• Built on platform(s)
  • x86_64-linux
  • aarch64-linux
  • x86_64-darwin
  • aarch64-darwin
• For non-Linux: Is sandbox = true set in nix.conf? (See Nix manual)
• Tested, as applicable:
  • NixOS test(s) (look inside nixos/tests)
  • and/or package tests
  • or, for functions and "core" functionality, tests in lib/tests or pkgs/test
  • made sure NixOS tests are linked to the relevant packages
• Tested compilation of all packages that depend on this change using nix-shell -p nixpkgs-review --run "nixpkgs-review rev HEAD". Note: all changes have to be committed, also see nixpkgs-review usage
• Tested basic functionality of all binary files (usually in ./result/bin/)
• 23.11 Release Notes (or backporting 23.05 Release notes)
  • (Package updates) Added a release notes entry if the change is major or breaking
  • (Module updates) Added a release notes entry if the change is significant
  • (Module addition) Added a release notes entry if adding a new NixOS module
• Fits CONTRIBUTING.md.

[trofi]

Is the process documented anywhere by chance?

I think we had quite a few updates recently to the bootstrap script that did not regenerate binaries. A few examples are:

• 11c8f46
• fed2300
• d7fe0a5
• 86ca0fa
• c6bd37a
• d29b1ec

These were just this year.

[lovesegfault]

It's not documented, it kind of existed when I picked up the function of uploading new bootstrap tarballs, and it's remained in a kind-of-exists way.

Documenting it would be good, but I have not had the time to work on Nix lately, other than uploading new tarballs since if I don't do it, no one will.

@amjoseph-nixpkgs should be able to help/explain the process well, since they've done it quite a few times.

I'm sorry about the state of all this, just trying to do the best with what little time I've got.

[trofi]

Sounds reasonable.

I someone gets to document the process it might be a good idea to change it as well as current process gets us suboptimal result: #253713

[Artturin]

@lovesegfault in #180223 @amjoseph-nixpkgs also used files from hydra and cross-trunk to give you files to upload

Please advice how to proceed.

[asymmetric]

I would be happy to help document this as part of the @NixOS/documentation-team efforts, together with someone who actually knows how it works.

[Artturin]

Reverting the revert #256439