pkgs/by-name: Enable gradual migration checks and add run-local.sh

.github/workflows/check-by-name.yml

@@ -1,5 +1,7 @@
 # Checks pkgs/by-name (see pkgs/by-name/README.md)
 # using the nixpkgs-check-by-name tool (see pkgs/test/nixpkgs-check-by-name)
+#
+# When you make changes to this workflow, also update pkgs/test/nixpkgs-check-by-name/scripts/run-local.sh adequately
 name: Check pkgs/by-name
 
 # The pre-built tool is fetched from a channel,
@@ -20,6 +22,9 @@ jobs:
     # The default of 6 hours is definitely too long
     timeout-minutes: 10
     steps:
+      # This step has to be in this file,
+      # because it's needed to determine which revision of the repository to fetch,
+      # and we can only use other files from the repository once it's fetched.
       - name: Resolving the merge commit
         env:
           GH_TOKEN: ${{ github.token }}
@@ -72,124 +77,20 @@ jobs:
           ref: ${{ env.mergedSha }}
           # Fetches the merge commit and its parents
           fetch-depth: 2
-      - name: Determining PR git hashes
+      - name: Checking out base branch
         run: |
-          # For pull_request_target this is the same as $GITHUB_SHA
-          echo "baseSha=$(git rev-parse HEAD^1)" >> "$GITHUB_ENV"
-
-          echo "headSha=$(git rev-parse HEAD^2)" >> "$GITHUB_ENV"
+          base=$(mktemp -d)
+          git worktree add "$base" "$(git rev-parse HEAD^1)"
+          echo "base=$base" >> "$GITHUB_ENV"
       - uses: cachix/install-nix-action@7ac1ec25491415c381d9b62f0657c7a028df52a7 # v24
-      - name: Determining channel to use for dependencies
-        run: |
-          echo "Determining the preferred channel to use for PR base branch $GITHUB_BASE_REF"
-          if [[ "$GITHUB_BASE_REF" =~ ^(release|staging|staging-next)-([0-9][0-9]\.[0-9][0-9])$ ]]; then
-              # Use the release channel for all PRs to release-XX.YY, staging-XX.YY and staging-next-XX.YY
-              channel=nixos-${BASH_REMATCH[2]}
-              echo "PR is for a release branch, preferred channel is $channel"
-          else
-              # Use the nixos-unstable channel for all other PRs
-              channel=nixos-unstable
-              echo "PR is for a non-release branch, preferred channel is $channel"
-          fi
-          # Check that the channel exists. It doesn't exist for fresh release branches
-          if ! curl -fSs "https://channels.nixos.org/$channel"; then
-            # Fall back to nixos-unstable, makes sense for fresh release branches
-            echo "Preferred channel $channel could not be fetched, falling back to nixos-unstable"
-            channel=nixos-unstable
-          fi
-          echo "channel=$channel" >> "$GITHUB_ENV"
-      - name: Fetching latest version of channel
-        run: |
-          echo "Fetching latest version of channel $channel"
-          # This is probably the easiest way to get Nix to output the path to a downloaded channel!
-          nixpkgs=$(nix-instantiate --find-file nixpkgs -I nixpkgs=channel:"$channel")
-          # This file only exists in channels
-          rev=$(<"$nixpkgs"/.git-revision)
-          echo "Channel $channel is at revision $rev"
-          echo "nixpkgs=$nixpkgs" >> "$GITHUB_ENV"
-          echo "rev=$rev" >> "$GITHUB_ENV"
-      - name: Fetching pre-built nixpkgs-check-by-name from the channel
-        run: |
-          echo "Fetching pre-built nixpkgs-check-by-name from channel $channel at revision $rev"
-          # Passing --max-jobs 0 makes sure that we won't build anything
-          nix-build "$nixpkgs" -A tests.nixpkgs-check-by-name --max-jobs 0
+      - name: Fetching the tool
+        run: pkgs/test/nixpkgs-check-by-name/scripts/fetch-tool.sh "$GITHUB_BASE_REF" result
       - name: Running nixpkgs-check-by-name
         run: |
-          echo "Checking whether the check succeeds on the base branch $GITHUB_BASE_REF"
-          git checkout -q "$baseSha"
-          if baseOutput=$(result/bin/nixpkgs-check-by-name . 2>&1); then
-            baseSuccess=1
-          else
-            baseSuccess=
-          fi
-          printf "%s\n" "$baseOutput"
-
-          echo "Checking whether the check would succeed after merging this pull request"
-          git checkout -q "$mergedSha"
-          if mergedOutput=$(result/bin/nixpkgs-check-by-name . 2>&1); then
-            mergedSuccess=1
-            exitCode=0
+          if result/bin/nixpkgs-check-by-name --base "$base" .; then
+            exit 0
           else
-            mergedSuccess=
-            exitCode=1
+            exitCode=$?
+            echo "To run locally: ./maintainers/scripts/check-by-name.sh $GITHUB_BASE_REF https://github.com/$GITHUB_REPOSITORY.git"
+            exit "$exitCode"
           fi
-          printf "%s\n" "$mergedOutput"
-
-          resultToEmoji() {
-            if [[ -n "$1" ]]; then
-              echo ":heavy_check_mark:"
-            else
-              echo ":x:"
-            fi
-          }
-
-          # Print a markdown summary in GitHub actions
-          {
-            echo "| Nixpkgs version | Check result |"
-            echo "| --- | --- |"
-            echo "| Latest base commit | $(resultToEmoji "$baseSuccess") |"
-            echo "| After merging this PR | $(resultToEmoji "$mergedSuccess") |"
-            echo ""
-
-            if [[ -n "$baseSuccess" ]]; then
-              if [[ -n "$mergedSuccess" ]]; then
-                echo "The check succeeds on both the base branch and after merging this PR"
-              else
-                echo "The check succeeds on the base branch, but would fail after merging this PR:"
-                echo "\`\`\`"
-                echo "$mergedOutput"
-                echo "\`\`\`"
-                echo ""
-              fi
-            else
-              if [[ -n "$mergedSuccess" ]]; then
-                echo "The check fails on the base branch, but this PR fixes it, nicely done!"
-              else
-                echo "The check fails on both the base branch and after merging this PR, unknown if only this PRs changes would satisfy the check, the base branch needs to be fixed first."
-                echo ""
-                echo "Failure on the base branch:"
-                echo "\`\`\`"
-                echo "$baseOutput"
-                echo "\`\`\`"
-                echo ""
-                echo "Failure after merging this PR:"
-                echo "\`\`\`"
-                echo "$mergedOutput"
-                echo "\`\`\`"
-                echo ""
-              fi
-            fi
-
-            echo "### Details"
-            echo "- nixpkgs-check-by-name tool:"
-            echo "  - Channel: $channel"
-            echo "  - Nixpkgs commit: [$rev](https://github.com/${GITHUB_REPOSITORY}/commit/$rev)"
-            echo "  - Store path: \`$(realpath result)\`"
-            echo "- Tested Nixpkgs:"
-            echo "  - Base branch: $GITHUB_BASE_REF"
-            echo "  - Latest base branch commit: [$baseSha](https://github.com/${GITHUB_REPOSITORY}/commit/$baseSha)"
-            echo "  - Latest PR commit: [$headSha](https://github.com/${GITHUB_REPOSITORY}/commit/$headSha)"
-            echo "  - Merge commit: [$mergedSha](https://github.com/${GITHUB_REPOSITORY}/commit/$mergedSha)"
-          } >> "$GITHUB_STEP_SUMMARY"
-
-          exit "$exitCode"

maintainers/scripts/README.md

@@ -9,6 +9,10 @@ What follows is a (very incomplete) overview of available scripts.
 
 ## Metadata
 
+### `check-by-name.sh`
+
+An alias for `pkgs/test/nixpkgs-check-by-name/scripts/run-local.sh`, see [documentation](../../pkgs/test/nixpkgs-check-by-name/scripts/README.md).
+
 ### `get-maintainer.sh`
 
 `get-maintainer.sh [selector] value` returns a JSON object describing

maintainers/scripts/check-by-name.sh

@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+../../pkgs/test/nixpkgs-check-by-name/scripts/run-local.sh

pkgs/by-name/README.md

@@ -112,12 +112,11 @@ There's some limitations as to which packages can be defined using this structur
 
 CI performs [certain checks](../test/nixpkgs-check-by-name/README.md#validity-checks) on the `pkgs/by-name` structure.
 This is done using the [`nixpkgs-check-by-name` tool](../test/nixpkgs-check-by-name).
-The version of this tool used is the one that corresponds to the NixOS channel of the PR base branch.
-See [here](../../.github/workflows/check-by-name.yml) for details.
 
-The tool can be run locally using
+You can locally emulate the CI check using
 
-```bash
-nix-build -A tests.nixpkgs-check-by-name
-result/bin/nixpkgs-check-by-name .
 ```
+$ ./pkgs/test/nixpkgs-check-by-name/scripts/run-local.sh master
+```
+
+See [here](../../.github/workflows/check-by-name.yml) for more info.

pkgs/test/nixpkgs-check-by-name/scripts/README.md

@@ -0,0 +1,26 @@
+# CI-related Scripts
+
+This directory contains scripts used and related to the CI running the `pkgs/by-name` checks in Nixpkgs. See also the [CI GitHub Action](../../../../.github/workflows/check-by-name.yml).
+
+## `./run-local.sh BASE_BRANCH [REPOSITORY]`
+
+Runs the `pkgs/by-name` check on the HEAD commit, closely matching what CI does.
+
+Note that this can't do exactly the same as CI,
+because CI needs to rely on GitHub's server-side Git history to compute the mergeability of PRs before the check can be started.
+In turn when running locally, we don't want to have to push commits to test them,
+and we can also rely on the local Git history to do the mergeability check.
+
+Arguments:
+- `BASE_BRANCH`: The base branch to use, e.g. master or release-23.11
+- `REPOSITORY`: The repository to fetch the base branch from, defaults to https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs.git
+
+## `./fetch-tool.sh BASE_BRANCH OUTPUT_PATH`
+
+Fetches the Hydra-prebuilt nixpkgs-check-by-name to use from the NixOS channel corresponding to the given base branch.
+
+This script is used both by [`./run-local.sh`](#run-local-sh-base-branch-repository) and CI.
+
+Arguments:
+- `BASE_BRANCH`: The base branch to use, e.g. master or release-23.11
+- `OUTPUT_PATH`: The output symlink path for the tool

pkgs/test/nixpkgs-check-by-name/scripts/fetch-tool.sh

@@ -0,0 +1,47 @@
+#!/usr/bin/env bash
+# Fetches the prebuilt nixpkgs-check-by-name to use from
+# the NixOS channel corresponding to the given base branch
+
+set -o pipefail -o errexit -o nounset
+
+trace() { echo >&2 "$@"; }
+
+if (( $# < 2 )); then
+    trace "Usage: $0 BASE_BRANCH OUTPUT_PATH"
+    trace "BASE_BRANCH: The base branch to use, e.g. master or release-23.11"
+    trace "OUTPUT_PATH: The output symlink path for the tool"
+    exit 1
+fi
+baseBranch=$1
+output=$2
+
+trace -n "Determining the channel to use for PR base branch $baseBranch.. "
+if [[ "$baseBranch" =~ ^(release|staging|staging-next)-([0-9][0-9]\.[0-9][0-9])$ ]]; then
+  # Use the release channel for all PRs to release-XX.YY, staging-XX.YY and staging-next-XX.YY
+  preferredChannel=nixos-${BASH_REMATCH[2]}
+else
+  # Use the nixos-unstable channel for all other PRs
+  preferredChannel=nixos-unstable
+fi
+
+# Check that the channel exists. It doesn't exist for fresh release branches
+if curl -fSs "https://channels.nixos.org/$preferredChannel"; then
+    channel=$preferredChannel
+    trace "$channel"
+else
+    # Fall back to nixos-unstable, makes sense for fresh release branches
+    channel=nixos-unstable
+    trace -e "\e[33mWarning: Preferred channel $preferredChannel could not be fetched, using fallback: $channel\e[0m"
+fi
+
+trace -n "Fetching latest version of channel $channel.. "
+# This is probably the easiest way to get Nix to output the path to a downloaded channel!
+nixpkgs=$(nix-instantiate --find-file nixpkgs -I nixpkgs=channel:"$channel")
+trace "$nixpkgs"
+
+# This file only exists in channels
+trace -e "Git revision of channel $channel is \e[34m$(<"$nixpkgs/.git-revision")\e[0m"
+
+trace -n "Fetching the prebuilt version of nixpkgs-check-by-name.. "
+nix-build -o "$output" "$nixpkgs" -A tests.nixpkgs-check-by-name -j 0 >/dev/null
+realpath "$output" >&2

pkgs/test/nixpkgs-check-by-name/scripts/run-local.sh

@@ -0,0 +1,67 @@
+#!/usr/bin/env bash
+
+set -o pipefail -o errexit -o nounset
+
+trace() { echo >&2 "$@"; }
+
+tmp=$(mktemp -d)
+cleanup() {
+    # Don't exit early if anything fails to cleanup
+    set +o errexit
+
+    trace -n "Cleaning up.. "
+
+    [[ -e "$tmp/base" ]] && git worktree remove --force "$tmp/base"
+    [[ -e "$tmp/merged" ]] && git worktree remove --force "$tmp/merged"
+
+    rm -rf "$tmp"
+
+    trace "Done"
+}
+trap cleanup exit
+
+
+repo=https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs.git
+
+if (( $# != 0 )); then
+    baseBranch=$1
+    shift
+else
+    trace "Usage: $0 BASE_BRANCH [REPOSITORY]"
+    trace "BASE_BRANCH: The base branch to use, e.g. master or release-23.11"
+    trace "REPOSITORY: The repository to fetch the base branch from, defaults to $repo"
+    exit 1
+fi
+
+if (( $# != 0 )); then
+    repo=$1
+    shift
+fi
+
+if [[ -n "$(git status --porcelain)" ]]; then
+    trace -e "\e[33mWarning: Dirty tree, uncommitted changes won't be taken into account\e[0m"
+fi
+headSha=$(git rev-parse HEAD)
+trace -e "Using HEAD commit \e[34m$headSha\e[0m"
+
+trace -n "Creating Git worktree for the HEAD commit in $tmp/merged.. "
+git worktree add --detach -q "$tmp/merged" HEAD
+trace "Done"
+
+trace -n "Fetching base branch $baseBranch to compare against.. "
+git fetch -q "$repo" refs/heads/"$baseBranch"
+baseSha=$(git rev-parse FETCH_HEAD)
+trace -e "\e[34m$baseSha\e[0m"
+
+trace -n "Creating Git worktree for the base branch in $tmp/base.. "
+git worktree add -q "$tmp/base" "$baseSha"
+trace "Done"
+
+trace -n "Merging base branch into the HEAD commit in $tmp/merged.. "
+git -C "$tmp/merged" merge -q --no-edit "$baseSha"
+trace -e "\e[34m$(git -C "$tmp/merged" rev-parse HEAD)\e[0m"
+
+"$tmp/merged/pkgs/test/nixpkgs-check-by-name/scripts/fetch-tool.sh" "$baseBranch" "$tmp/tool"
+
+trace "Running nixpkgs-check-by-name.."
+"$tmp/tool/bin/nixpkgs-check-by-name" --base "$tmp/base" "$tmp/merged"