Can't use `getoptions` on macOS

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getoptions has a check phase that requires busybox. busybox is only usable on linux.

I can build the derivation if I disable the check phase. What’s the real solution here?

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That sounds pretty reasonable to me for a downstream user.

Upstream you can add conditions to not run the test against the busybox shell on mac OS. Something like:

  checkInputs = [ shellcheck shellspec ksh mksh yash zsh ]
                ++ lib.lists.optional stdenv.isDarwin busybox-sandbox-shell;

  preCheck = ''
    sed -i '/shellspec -s posh/d' Makefile
  '' + lib.string.optionalString stdenv.isDarwin ''
    sed -i "/shellspec -s 'busyox ash'" Makefile
  '';
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I like that upstream fix. I’ll submit a PR for that.

As far as downstream users, I hit my head on this when I tried to add getoptions to my packages list in devenv. I cloned nixpkgs and messed with the nix package to triage but I don’t yet know how I would even share the resulting derivation with my coworkers.

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Nix excels at exactly this type of problem, little downstream fixes to upstream packages. Far better than other distros anyway. You can pretty easily write an override for this:

(pkgs.getoptions.overrideAttrs (old: {
  doCheck = false;
}))

Stick that in your devenv’s package list and it’ll work. The outer brackets are important if it’s in a list, otherwise the function and its argument will be treated as separate elements.

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Wow! Thanks for that tip.

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PR here: getoptions: Don't require busybox on macOS by ryansch · Pull Request #230869 · NixOS/nixpkgs · GitHub

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Example copypasta for others who find this thread:

{ pkgs, ... }:

let
  getoptions = pkgs.getoptions.overrideAttrs (oldAttrs: {
    doCheck = false;
  });
in {
  # https://devenv.sh/packages/
  packages = with pkgs; [
    git
    nodejs-18_x
    yarn
    postgresql_14
    zlib
    libiconv
    tmux
    tmuxPlugins.sensible
    tmuxPlugins.yank
  ] ++ [
    getoptions
  ];
}
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Pull request was just merged!

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