unfree overlay rebuild glibc in ms-dotnettools.*

[UnReversed]

So after creating first time overlay inspired by discussion in #99 nix want to rebuild glibc and coreutils

afected extensions:

• ms-dotnettools.csdevkit
• ms-dotnettools.csharp

overlay

{inputs, ...}: {
  vscode-packages = final: _prev: {
    pkgs-ext = import inputs.nixpkgs {
      system = final.system;
      config.allowUnfree = true;
      overlays = [inputs.nix-vscode-extensions.overlays.default];
    };
  };
}

my overlay
vscode config

[deemp]

nix want to rebuild glibc and coreutils

@UnReversed please explain what it means. Show logs with nix -vv. If possible, provide a flake where you can reproduce the issue.

[deemp]

@UnReversed also, please check #99 (comment)

[UnReversed]

nix want to rebuild glibc and coreutils

@UnReversed please explain what it means. Show logs with nix -vv. If possible, provide a flake where you can reproduce the issue.

sorry for not being too precise, i meant that nix compiles glibc and coreutils from source

MRE

{
  description = "test";

  inputs = {
    nixpkgs.url = "github:NixOS/nixpkgs/nixos-unstable";

    home-manager = {
      url = "github:nix-community/home-manager";
      inputs.nixpkgs.follows = "nixpkgs";
    };

    nix-vscode-extensions = {
      url = "github:nix-community/nix-vscode-extensions";
      inputs.nixpkgs.follows = "nixpkgs";
    };
  };

  outputs = {
    nixpkgs,
    home-manager,
    nix-vscode-extensions,
    ...
  }: let
    homeconfig = {pkgs, ...}: {
      nixpkgs = {
        overlays = [
          nix-vscode-extensions.overlays.default
        ];
        config = {
          allowUnfree = true;
        };
      };

      home = {
        username = "test";
        homeDirectory = "/home/test";
        stateVersion = "23.11";
      };

      programs.vscode = {
        enable = true;
        profiles.default = {
          extensions = with pkgs.vscode-marketplace; [
            ms-dotnettools.csdevkit
            ms-dotnettools.csharp
          ];
        };
      };
    };
  in {
    homeConfigurations = {
      "test@test" = home-manager.lib.homeManagerConfiguration {
        pkgs = nixpkgs.legacyPackages.x86_64-linux;
        modules = [
          homeconfig
        ];
      };
    };
  };
}

@UnReversed also, please check #99 (comment)

changing to

    overlays = [
      inputs.nix-vscode-extensions.overlays.default
    ];

yields no differences, still tries to compile glibc and coreutils

[apockill]

I have a question, do you think this would be related to the errors I get now after running nix flake update && nixos-rebuild --flake ...

       error: Package ‘vscode-extension-ms-vscode-remote-remote-containers-0.404.0’ in /nix/store/yfybm0g8vx6k22f3m0pw72fmzrlis2kv-64lxq5kn85vglf3xhbh0zxjj8hin3m42-source/pkgs/applications/editors/vscode/extensions/default.nix:3645 has an unfree license (‘unfree’), refusing to evaluate.

       a) To temporarily allow unfree packages, you can use an environment variable
          for a single invocation of the nix tools.

            $ export NIXPKGS_ALLOW_UNFREE=1

          Note: When using `nix shell`, `nix build`, `nix develop`, etc with a flake,
                then pass `--impure` in order to allow use of environment variables.

       b) For `nixos-rebuild` you can set
         { nixpkgs.config.allowUnfree = true; }
       in configuration.nix to override this.

       Alternatively you can configure a predicate to allow specific packages:
         { nixpkgs.config.allowUnfreePredicate = pkg: builtins.elem (lib.getName pkg) [
             "vscode-extension-ms-vscode-remote-remote-containers"
           ];
         }

       c) For `nix-env`, `nix-build`, `nix-shell` or any other Nix command you can add
         { allowUnfree = true; }
       to ~/.config/nixpkgs/config.nix.

I set allowUnfree already in multiple locations, to no avail. Is this a bug?

[deemp]

@UnReversed have you set substituters? Does your machine have Internet access?

Unfortunately, I'm not a NixOS user; hence, I can only ask some generic questions.

Could you please try to reproduce your issue in GitHub Actions?

[deemp]

@apockill perhaps you should check the Overlay section.

[UnReversed]

sorry for delay

@UnReversed have you set substituters? Does your machine have Internet access?

yes i have

and i check when it was last working

• csdevkit works for 727429d one commit before adding to removed.nix
• csharp 47c6dc7 one commit before adding to removed.nix

and then they started "working" after 7efef14 but with building coreutils and glibc

Could you please try to reproduce your issue in GitHub Actions?

i could try to do this

[deemp]

@UnReversed are there problems if you use the latest commit of this repo?

[deemp]

Seems like ms-dotnettools.vscode-dotnet-runtime is also affected.

• See Build failure ms-dotnettools.vscode-dotnet-runtime #116 (comment)