Infinite recursion at /nix/var/nix/profiles/per-user/root/channels/nixos/lib/modules.nix while building Rust crate

anon22412468 · October 19, 2020, 6:59am

I’m trying to provision Rust crate into NixOS. I found a way to do this, in NixPkgs documentation(I’m referring to Nixpkgs 23.11 manual | Nix & NixOS), so I built my .nix config this way:

{ pkgs, rustPlatform, stdenv, fetchFromGitHub, ... }:
rustPlatform.buildRustPackage rec {
  pname = "webhook-server";
  version = "0.1.4";

  src = fetchFromGitHub {
    owner = "Nukesor";
    repo = "webhook-server";
    rev = 0.1.4;
    sha256 = "1iga3320mgi7m853la55xip514a3chqsdi1a1rwv25lr9b1p7vd3";
  };

  cargoSha256 = "17ldqr3asrdcsh4l29m3b5r37r5d0b3npq1lrgjmxb6vlx6a36qh";
  verifyCargoDeps = true;

  meta = with stdenv.lib; {
    description = "Trigger program/script execution on your server via http calls";
    homepage = https://github.com/nukesor/webhook-server;
    license = licenses.mit;
    maintainers = [ maintainers.nukesor ];
    platforms = platforms.all;
  };
}

But when I’m trying to nixos-rebuild switch, I receive this:

error: infinite recursion encountered, at /nix/var/nix/profiles/per-user/root/channels/nixos/lib/modules.nix:217:28
(use '--show-trace' to show detailed location information)

What is the problem and how to avoid it? As far as I investigated, the main reason of infinite recursion appearance is improper usage of nixpkgs.overlays, but there’s no such thing in my case

NobbZ · October 19, 2020, 7:41am

How and where are you referring your “package”?

anon22412468 · October 19, 2020, 7:42am

Nowhere, yet. I’m just trying to make NixPkgs to build it

NobbZ · October 19, 2020, 7:43am

How?

Where have you stored that file?

Why do you expect it to be built by a nixos-rebuild?

anon22412468 · October 19, 2020, 7:45am

Ah, I got your point. This config file is named webhook-server.nix, placed in /etc/nixos/ and reffered in /etc/nixos/configuration.nix:

imports = [
    ./hardware-configuration.nix
    ./networking.nix # generated at runtime by nixos-infect
    ./webhook-server.nix
  ];

NobbZ · October 19, 2020, 7:55am

It’s not a module, you can’t use it that way, it’s a “package”, and the way it’s written, you need to use callPackage on it and put it to your systemPackages.

anon22412468 · October 19, 2020, 8:00am

Could you please provide an example? I tried adding this snippet to configuration.nix

webhook-server = pkgs.callPackage ./webhook-server.nix {
  }

but that’s not syntactically correct

NobbZ · October 19, 2020, 11:17am

Something like this:

{pkgs, ... }:

let
  webhookServer = pkgs.callPackage ./webhook-server.nix {};
in {
  environment.systemPackages = [ webhookServer ];
}

or (if you prefer to not have a let binding):

{pkgs, ... }:

{
  environment.systemPackages = [ (pkgs.callPackage ./webhook-server.nix {}) ];
}

PS: when you say it is “not syntactically correct”, you really should provide more context and the error message.

anon22412468 · October 19, 2020, 11:37am

Thanks. That worked. I’ve tried similar solution, but mine was without round parenthesis

anon22412468 · October 19, 2020, 3:02pm

How do I invoke this package inside .nix configs?
Tried using ${pkgs.webhook-server}/bin/webhook-server, but that didn’t work

NobbZ · October 19, 2020, 3:58pm

What do you mean by “invoking”?

Anyway, as you havent made webhook-server an overlay or anything else, there won’t be a webhook-server attribute in pkgs.

anon22412468 · October 21, 2020, 9:42am

I rewritten my package configs, using hints, you gave me there: Build GoLang code provided not as Go module

webhook.nix

{ pkgs, ... }:
{
  nixpkgs.overlays = [(self: super: {
    webhook-server = self.callPackage ./webhook-server.nix {};
  })];    
}

webhook-server.nix

{ pkgs, rustPlatform, stdenv, fetchFromGitHub, ... }:
rustPlatform.buildRustPackage rec {
  pname = "webhook-server";
  version = "0.1.4";

  src = fetchFromGitHub {
    owner = "Nukesor";
    repo = "webhook-server";
    rev = "0.1.4";
    sha256 = "1iga3320mgi7m853la55xip514a3chqsdi1a1rwv25lr9b1p7vd3";
  };

  cargoSha256 = "1ykq82pi537qnzx7rj7njh6nmknygz22yd40sljfrayly9yhdran";
  verifyCargoDeps = true;

  meta = with stdenv.lib; {
    description = "Trigger program/script execution on your server via http calls";
    homepage = https://github.com/nukesor/webhook-server;
    license = licenses.mit;
    maintainers = [ maintainers.nukesor ];
    platforms = platforms.all;
  };
}

Crate build process was successful, but it seems that no binary was produced. Am I again doing something wrong?
I was expecting to see webhookserver binary at /nix/store/hmxq76cj8hdfxzcj9an08q3n37nw0ws2-webhook-server-0.1.4/bin, but there were no such thing
There’s only rg binary in there

NobbZ · October 21, 2020, 11:23am

As far as I remember the pname has to match the binary name, though that might be missremembering and confusing different language builders and their internals, I sadly can’t test it today anymore, as I’m only on mobile internet and don’t want to download the rust platform

Half of my city is offline…

anon22412468 · October 21, 2020, 12:32pm

Half of my city is offline…
I’m sorry to hear that

What is the difference between name and pname?

Tried setting pname to webhookserver, but that’s not worked(((

NobbZ · October 21, 2020, 2:47pm

Okay, I was able to look at it. Even though my city is still under “black out”, I went to the office as I have a certification scheduled this evening and I strictly need steady internet for it…

Even though it is still building, I have learned the following so far…

The sha256 passed to fetchFromGitHub matches the sha256 of the ripgrep sources which have already been in my store, therefore no error. Using pkgs.lib.fakeSha256 I was able to determine 0cndr8r5z64rkgvzkjxz3kf40yi7nq42as6hrfcq9ip02a3wazpz as correct. Thats why I like to pass an additional name attribute to fetch* functions.
The rev needs to be v0.1.4
Of course I had to adjust the cargoSha256 as well.
Non local pathes as in the meta.homepage attribute are deprecated as far as I know, you should a string there.

NobbZ · October 21, 2020, 3:22pm

Okay, this version built something that had a bin/webhook:

{ pkgs, rustPlatform, stdenv, fetchFromGitHub, ... }:
rustPlatform.buildRustPackage rec {
  pname = "webhook-server";
  version = "0.1.4";

  src = fetchFromGitHub {
    owner = "Nukesor";
    repo = "webhook-server";
    rev = "v0.1.4";
    sha256 = "0cndr8r5z64rkgvzkjxz3kf40yi7nq42as6hrfcq9ip02a3wazpz";
  };

  cargoSha256 = "1g2y0xa471b9mbyfgf58dwd75fscybr7acmsc794jzrgcs90m6ma";
  verifyCargoDeps = true;

  meta = with stdenv.lib; {
    description = "Trigger program/script execution on your server via http calls";
    homepage = "https://github.com/nukesor/webhook-server";
    license = licenses.mit;
    maintainers = [ maintainers.nukesor ];
    platforms = platforms.all;
  };
}

Sadly it doesn’t seem to have a --version flag :

./result/bin/webhookserver --version
15:20:13 [INFO] Init settings file
15:20:13 [INFO] Parsing config files
15:20:13 [INFO] Checking path: "/etc/webhook_server.yml"
15:20:13 [INFO] Checking path: "/home/demo/.config/webhook_server.yml"
15:20:13 [INFO] Checking path: "./webhook_server.yml"
Error: missing field `webhooks`

anon22412468 · October 22, 2020, 10:24am

Thanks. That works