To avoid the generated nixos disk images from becoming immune from the
GC, I delete the symlink to the nix store at the end of tests.
`t.Cleanup` runs at the end of a test. I changed this part of the code
to have a separate timer for how long it takes to run NixOS builds, but
I did that by using a subtest. This means that it was creating the NixOS
image, deleting its symlink and then trying to use that symlink to find
the resulting disk image, making the whole thing ineffectual.
This was a mistake. I am reverting this change made in
https://github.com/tailscale/tailscale/pull/2360 to remove this layer of
subtesting.
Signed-off-by: Christine Dodrill <xe@tailscale.com>
This adapts the existing in-process logcatcher from tstest/integration
into a public type and uses it on the side of testcontrol. This also
fixes a bug in the Alpine Linux OpenRC unit that makes every value in
`/etc/default/tailscaled` exported into tailscaled's environment, a-la
systemd [Service].EnviromentFile.
Signed-off-by: Christine Dodrill <xe@tailscale.com>
This puts nix build logs on the filesystem so that we can debug them
later. This also disables nixos unstable until
https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/issues/128783 is fixed.
Signed-off-by: Christine Dodrill <xe@tailscale.com>
Okay, so, at a high level testing NixOS is a lot different than
other distros due to NixOS' determinism. Normally NixOS wants packages to
be defined in either an overlay, a custom packageOverrides or even
yolo-inline as a part of the system configuration. This is going to have
us take a different approach compared to other distributions. The overall
plan here is as following:
1. make the binaries as normal
2. template in their paths as raw strings to the nixos system module
3. run `nixos-generators -f qcow -o $CACHE_DIR/tailscale/nixos/version -c generated-config.nix`
4. pass that to the steps that make the virtual machine
It doesn't really make sense for us to use a premade virtual machine image
for this as that will make it harder to deterministically create the image.
Nix commands generate a lot of output, so their output is hidden behind the
`-verbose-nix-output` flag.
This unfortunately makes this test suite have a hard dependency on
Nix/NixOS, however the test suite has only ever been run on NixOS (and I
am not sure if it runs on other distros at all), so this probably isn't too
big of an issue.
Signed-off-by: Christine Dodrill <xe@tailscale.com>
