0.159.5: [ERROR] encountered 23 errors resolving licenses, unable to generate output

[bbigras]

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While trying to build 0.159.5 on nixos, I get:

error: unable to synthesize license expression for 'pet 0.1.0': no `license` specified, and no license files were found

error: unable to synthesize license expression for 'pet-conda 0.1.0': no `license` specified, and no license files were found

error: unable to synthesize license expression for 'pet-core 0.1.0': no `license` specified, and no license files were found

error: unable to synthesize license expression for 'pet-env-var-path 0.1.0': no `license` specified, and no license files were found

error: unable to synthesize license expression for 'pet-fs 0.1.0': no `license` specified, and no license files were found

error: unable to synthesize license expression for 'pet-global-virtualenvs 0.1.0': no `license` specified, and no license files were found

error: unable to synthesize license expression for 'pet-homebrew 0.1.0': no `license` specified, and no license files were found

error: unable to synthesize license expression for 'pet-jsonrpc 0.1.0': no `license` specified, and no license files were found

error: unable to synthesize license expression for 'pet-linux-global-python 0.1.0': no `license` specified, and no license files were found

error: unable to synthesize license expression for 'pet-mac-commandlinetools 0.1.0': no `license` specified, and no license files were found

error: unable to synthesize license expression for 'pet-mac-python-org 0.1.0': no `license` specified, and no license files were found

error: unable to synthesize license expression for 'pet-mac-xcode 0.1.0': no `license` specified, and no license files were found

error: unable to synthesize license expression for 'pet-pipenv 0.1.0': no `license` specified, and no license files were found

error: unable to synthesize license expression for 'pet-poetry 0.1.0': no `license` specified, and no license files were found

error: unable to synthesize license expression for 'pet-pyenv 0.1.0': no `license` specified, and no license files were found

error: unable to synthesize license expression for 'pet-python-utils 0.1.0': no `license` specified, and no license files were found

error: unable to synthesize license expression for 'pet-reporter 0.1.0': no `license` specified, and no license files were found

error: unable to synthesize license expression for 'pet-telemetry 0.1.0': no `license` specified, and no license files were found

error: unable to synthesize license expression for 'pet-venv 0.1.0': no `license` specified, and no license files were found

error: unable to synthesize license expression for 'pet-virtualenv 0.1.0': no `license` specified, and no license files were found

error: unable to synthesize license expression for 'pet-virtualenvwrapper 0.1.0': no `license` specified, and no license files were found

error: unable to synthesize license expression for 'pet-windows-registry 0.1.0': no `license` specified, and no license files were found

error: unable to synthesize license expression for 'pet-windows-store 0.1.0': no `license` specified, and no license files were found

2024-10-30 17:47:15.748950005 +00:00:00 [ERROR] encountered 23 errors resolving licenses, unable to generate output
error: builder for '/nix/store/w1chfvxc1xqw56ckhsakkn2x1928fap9-zed-editor-0.159.5.drv' failed with exit code 1;
       last 25 log lines:
       > error: unable to synthesize license expression for 'pet-mac-xcode 0.1.0': no `license` specified, and no license files were found
       >
       > error: unable to synthesize license expression for 'pet-pipenv 0.1.0': no `license` specified, and no license files were found
       >
       > error: unable to synthesize license expression for 'pet-poetry 0.1.0': no `license` specified, and no license files were found
       >
       > error: unable to synthesize license expression for 'pet-pyenv 0.1.0': no `license` specified, and no license files were found
       >
       > error: unable to synthesize license expression for 'pet-python-utils 0.1.0': no `license` specified, and no license files were found
       >
       > error: unable to synthesize license expression for 'pet-reporter 0.1.0': no `license` specified, and no license files were found
       >
       > error: unable to synthesize license expression for 'pet-telemetry 0.1.0': no `license` specified, and no license files were found
       >
       > error: unable to synthesize license expression for 'pet-venv 0.1.0': no `license` specified, and no license files were found
       >
       > error: unable to synthesize license expression for 'pet-virtualenv 0.1.0': no `license` specified, and no license files were found
       >
       > error: unable to synthesize license expression for 'pet-virtualenvwrapper 0.1.0': no `license` specified, and no license files were found
       >
       > error: unable to synthesize license expression for 'pet-windows-registry 0.1.0': no `license` specified, and no license files were found
       >
       > error: unable to synthesize license expression for 'pet-windows-store 0.1.0': no `license` specified, and no license files were found
       >
       > 2024-10-30 17:47:15.748950005 +00:00:00 [ERROR] encountered 23 errors resolving licenses, unable to generate output
       For full logs, run 'nix log /nix/store/w1chfvxc1xqw56ckhsakkn2x1928fap9-zed-editor-0.159.5.drv'.

Environment

Zed: v0.158.2 (Zed)
OS: Linux Wayland nixos 24.11
Memory: 31.1 GiB
Architecture: x86_64
GPU: AMD Radeon RX 6700 XT (RADV NAVI22) || radv || Mesa 24.2.4

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[PedroHLC]

Cc @osiewicz who added the dependency back at #19576

Note: the error happens when running https://github.com/zed-industries/zed/blob/main/script/generate-licenses

[osiewicz]

The script does pass locally for me as well as on CI, so I'm not sure what's up.

[niklaskorz]

Nixpkgs uses a newer version of cargo-about (0.6.4) than what's installed by generate-licenses (0.6.1), that's the only difference on top of my mind

[niklaskorz]

Use the allowBroken option If the license information of these packages is not important, you can use the allowBroken option when building Nix to ignore these errors. You can add the --allow-broken parameter to the command line, or set it in the Nix configuration:

nixpkgs.config.allowBroken = true;

In addition, homebrew is not very friendly to Mac. You can choose Servbay to try, which is more professional than homebrew on Mac

None of that is relevant to the issue at hand

[niklaskorz]

Nixpkgs uses a newer version of cargo-about (0.6.4) than what's installed by generate-licenses (0.6.1), that's the only difference on top of my mind

That doesn't seem to be it, running generate-licenses with cargo-about 0.6.4 outside of Nix works fine. Instead, it looks like the problem is cargo-about trying to fetch the LICENSE file directly from the crate's respective git repository, which it cannot do in an isolated (network-less) build environment. I wonder why it attempts to do so at all though, as the license for these crates is already specified in zed-licenses.toml.

Upstream issue: EmbarkStudios/cargo-about#246