playwright-driver: use upstream chromium build

[NyCodeGHG]

This makes playwright always use the upstream recommended chromium version.
I think this is necessary, because chromium updates get backported, which can (and will) break playwright versions on stable, as well as chromium always moving a bit ahead of playwright and we can't expect to delay a browser update for playwright.

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  • sandbox = true
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Command: nixpkgs-review pr 383876

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x86_64-linux

⏩ 4 packages marked as broken and skipped:

• froide
• froide.dist
• python312Packages.froide
• python312Packages.froide.dist

❌ 8 packages failed to build:

• python312Packages.great-tables
• python312Packages.great-tables.dist
• python312Packages.shiny
• python312Packages.shiny.dist
• python313Packages.great-tables
• python313Packages.great-tables.dist
• python313Packages.shiny
• python313Packages.shiny.dist

✅ 11 packages built:

• pinnwand
• pinnwand.dist
• playwright-test
• python312Packages.django-filingcabinet
• python312Packages.django-filingcabinet.dist
• python312Packages.pytest-playwright
• python312Packages.pytest-playwright.dist
• python313Packages.django-filingcabinet
• python313Packages.django-filingcabinet.dist
• python313Packages.pytest-playwright
• python313Packages.pytest-playwright.dist

[kalekseev]

I don't have a strong opinion on this topic but maybe we should just use chromium from playwright bundle as we do for the rest of the browsers (and now for chromium headless shell as well). We can also provide some utility to build custom set of browsers, eg.

playwright-browsers.withBrowsers(b: [
  b.chromium-headless-shell
  b.chromium-from-nixpkgs
  # b.chromium-bundled
  b.firefox, 
  ...
])

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Command: nixpkgs-review pr 383876

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⏩ 6 packages marked as broken and skipped:

• froide
• froide-govplan
• froide-govplan.dist
• froide.dist
• python312Packages.froide
• python312Packages.froide.dist

✅ 19 packages built:

• pinnwand
• pinnwand.dist
• playwright-test
• python312Packages.django-filingcabinet
• python312Packages.django-filingcabinet.dist
• python312Packages.great-tables
• python312Packages.great-tables.dist
• python312Packages.pytest-playwright
• python312Packages.pytest-playwright.dist
• python312Packages.shiny
• python312Packages.shiny.dist
• python313Packages.django-filingcabinet
• python313Packages.django-filingcabinet.dist
• python313Packages.great-tables
• python313Packages.great-tables.dist
• python313Packages.pytest-playwright
• python313Packages.pytest-playwright.dist
• python313Packages.shiny
• python313Packages.shiny.dist

[phaer]

In favor of this! Chromium was the only browser we supported for playwright for quite a while, until #298944 was merged.

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@kalekseev's suggestion of playwright-browsers.withBrowsers also makes sense to me, as the current mechanism could use a cleanup after so many iterations, but that doesn't need to happen in this PR IMO.

[phaer]

LGTM!

But such a change is probably "breaking" in a sense, so maybe lets wait until the 25.05 branch off with a merge?

[NyCodeGHG]

LGTM!

But such a change is probably "breaking" in a sense, so maybe lets wait until the 25.05 branch off with a merge?

Browser updates also get backported, so this would leave 25.05 users still with a potentially broken playwright + chromium combo. I would prefer to still get this into 25.05

[phaer]

I am a pretty new committer, so don't have much experience with that. But I think the process to get this into 25.05 is do to a backport right after?

[NyCodeGHG]

Only if the branch-off already happened, which didn't happen yet: #390768

[nixpkgs-ci]

Successfully created backport PR for release-25.05:

• [Backport release-25.05] playwright-driver: use upstream chromium build #408861

[aaronmondal]

FYI I believe the hash for x86_64-linux is wrong:

{
  inputs.nixpkgs.url = "github:nixos/nixpkgs?ref=nixos-unstable";
  outputs = { self, nixpkgs }: {
    packages.x86_64-linux.default = nixpkgs.legacyPackages.x86_64-linux.playwright-test;
  };
}

nix run

error: hash mismatch in fixed-output derivation '/nix/store/87wxmfp51hmr4fjciww25q9bwv321l50-source.drv':
         specified: sha256-9bK8HOGoQY5kYYfJypYHeuAoVlXIh/1tv1IsXPpUTpA=
            got:    sha256-7oQQCAIt1VJiMNFEJO40K8oENK/L0BICXm2D/3fZ8bA=
error: 1 dependencies of derivation '/nix/store/d6272la60vczdwnf9hr8lpzy49hm77kz-playwright-chromium.drv' failed to build
error: 1 dependencies of derivation '/nix/store/snrv9319cwjldcd8drl1dajxp2qxi41x-playwright-browsers.drv' failed to build
error: 1 dependencies of derivation '/nix/store/1d62fxvpmwn3x8paddpgfxsrzh4kr86d-nix-shell-env.drv' failed to build

Edit: Whoops already fixed on master: #409116