{findutils,gnumake,gzip,less}: adopt, cleanup

[mdaniels5757]

This should help #416200 a bit.

Passthru tests for gzip will fail until #474203 makes its way to master.

Things done

• Verified 0 rebuilds.
• Fits CONTRIBUTING.md, pkgs/README.md, maintainers/README.md and other READMEs.

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[mdaniels5757]

On second thought, I don't want to have this merged with the passthru.test failing, and don't want to wait for staging.

So, I will drop the commit with the passthru test, and make a separate PR once the issue is resolved one way or another.

For posterity, the patch I am dropping is:

Details

From c916e1d95f383f18daaf5b0037edf90a18824d67 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Michael Daniels <mdaniels5757@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 25 Dec 2025 17:28:41 -0500
Subject: [PATCH] gzip: add passthru test

---
 pkgs/tools/compression/gzip/default.nix | 11 +++++++++++
 1 file changed, 11 insertions(+)

diff --git a/pkgs/tools/compression/gzip/default.nix b/pkgs/tools/compression/gzip/default.nix
index a9661f71339f..f83e17bdaaac 100644
--- a/pkgs/tools/compression/gzip/default.nix
+++ b/pkgs/tools/compression/gzip/default.nix
@@ -6,6 +6,10 @@
   updateAutotoolsGnuConfigScriptsHook,
   runtimeShellPackage,
   directoryListingUpdater,
+  # Tests
+  gzip,
+  less,
+  perl,
 }:

 # Note: this package is used for bootstrapping fetchurl, and thus
@@ -45,6 +49,12 @@ stdenv.mkDerivation (finalAttrs: {
     "ZLESS_PROG=zless"
   ];

+  nativeCheckInputs = [
+    less
+    perl
+  ];
+  doCheck = false;
+
   # Many gzip executables are shell scripts that depend upon other gzip
   # executables being in $PATH.  Rather than try to re-write all the
   # internal cross-references, just add $out/bin to PATH at the top of
@@ -62,6 +72,7 @@ stdenv.mkDerivation (finalAttrs: {
   '';

   passthru = {
+    tests.makecheck = gzip.overrideAttrs { doCheck = true; };
     updateScript = directoryListingUpdater {
       inherit (finalAttrs) pname version;
       url = "https://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/gzip/";
--
2.51.2

[nixpkgs-ci]

Successfully created backport PR for release-25.11:

• [Backport release-25.11] {findutils,gnumake,gzip,less}: adopt, cleanup #474817

[zowoq]

@mdaniels5757 Please test your changes first. The updateScripts for findutils and gzip don't even evaluate. Please either fix or revert as it is blocking the update bot from ingesting new packages with updateScripts.

[mdaniels5757]

Reverting, apologies. I had thought that the eval workflow would catch issues with the updateScript and the bootstrap process, but clearly not. Will definitely test these manually in the future.

[zowoq]

Thanks for the quick response, appreciated.