nix-info from CI

[gustavo-grieco]

Summary by CodeRabbit

• Chores
  • Updated the release workflow to include additional environment information and halt the build process at a specific step. No changes are visible in the user interface.

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Walkthrough

The release workflow was updated so that, before building the echidna package, it now runs a command to display Nix environment information and then intentionally fails the step, preventing the build from executing. No changes were made to any exported or public code entities.

Changes

File(s)	Change Summary
.github/workflows/release.yml	Added nix-info command and an intentional failure before the build.

Poem

A hop and a skip in the CI night,
Nix-info shines its system light.
But just as the build is set to go,
A false command says, "No, no, no!"
The rabbits pause, the build on hold—
Secrets in logs are soon to unfold.
🐇✨

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📒 Files selected for processing (1)

• .github/workflows/release.yml (1 hunks)

⏰ Context from checks skipped due to timeout of 90000ms (3)

• GitHub Check: Build Echidna on windows-latest
• GitHub Check: Build Echidna on macos-13
• GitHub Check: Build Echidna on ubuntu-latest

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💡 Verification agent

❓ Verification inconclusive

Avoid unconditionally failing the build step
The false on line 62 causes this step (and the entire job) to always error out before nix build ever runs—no artifact is produced and downstream releases are blocked. If your goal is merely to capture Nix diagnostics without breaking CI, consider either:

• Removing false and appending || true to the nix-shell invocation, or
• Splitting into two steps: run nix-info in a separate step with continue-on-error: true, then run nix build in the next step.

@@ -59,7 +59,12 @@ jobs:
-      - name: Build dynamic echidna
-        run: |
-          nix-shell -p nix-info --run "nix-info -m"
-          false
-          nix build .#echidna
+      - name: Emit Nix environment info
+        continue-on-error: true
+        run: nix-shell -p nix-info --run "nix-info -m"
+
+      - name: Build dynamic echidna
+        run: nix build .#echidna

---

Split Nix diagnostics from the build to avoid unconditional failure

The false on line 62 forces this step (and the entire job) to error out before nix build ever runs—no artifact is produced and downstream releases are blocked. Separate diagnostics from the build so that Nix info can be emitted without breaking CI, then run the build in a second step.

Files to update:

• .github/workflows/release.yml (around lines 59–67)

Proposed diff:

@@ -59,7 +59,12 @@ jobs:
-      - name: Build dynamic echidna
-        run: |
-          nix-shell -p nix-info --run "nix-info -m"
-          false
-          nix build .#echidna
+      - name: Emit Nix environment info
+        continue-on-error: true
+        run: nix-shell -p nix-info --run "nix-info -m"
+
+      - name: Build dynamic echidna
+        run: nix build .#echidna

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Suggested change

	nix-shell -p nix-info --run "nix-info -m"
	false
	- name: Emit Nix environment info
	continue-on-error: true
	run: nix-shell -p nix-info --run "nix-info -m"
	- name: Build dynamic echidna
	run: nix build .#echidna

🤖 Prompt for AI Agents

In .github/workflows/release.yml around lines 61 to 62, the presence of `false`
causes the step to always fail, preventing the build from running and blocking
downstream releases. To fix this, remove the `false` command and either append
`|| true` to the `nix-shell` command to allow it to fail without breaking the
job, or split this into two separate steps: one to run `nix-info` with
`continue-on-error: true` and another to run the actual `nix build`. This
separation ensures diagnostics run without stopping the build process.