rambox package broken

[tbaumann]

Describe the bug

bin/rambox is ambiguous and a dead link (home manager)

Steps To Reproduce

Upgrade system

flake input

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

Errors during home manager build

user-environment> building '/nix/store/svklgckg4x6dwv0rk2387dvfqj9ndc6m-user-environment.drv'
user-environment> building '/nix/store/w1bpdzl18xx9qi3w1f02ycd3nqssqp34-user-environment.drv'
user-environment> warning: creating dangling symlink `/nix/store/0yqc9crcjb7yxkrv6s2lyp1nh7wcz325-user-environment//bin/rambox' -> `/nix/store/b7dag4b8pw284n568bjyic43sirgq3zc-home-manager-path/bin/rambox' -> `/nix/store/8r52v102hh7pkz0l1ayw42hxvs0bwwss-rambox-2.3.1/bin/rambox'
hm_.manpath> building '/nix/store/2xb7dq2dk4y5bg78pr4z35474gxsdnxn-hm_.manpath.drv'
user-environment> created 999 symlinks in user environment
user-environment> warning: creating dangling symlink `/nix/store/k63s29yrv4zslspm4c2l63b1pdkq0nyr-user-environment//bin/rambox' -> `/nix/store/hpag5z01vq7ccnlz2chylb9kif8qsqr0-home-manager-path/bin/rambox' -> `/nix/store/8r52v102hh7pkz0l1ayw42hxvs0bwwss-rambox-2.3.1/bin/rambox'
user-environment> created 1021 symlinks in user environment

 find /nix/store/8r52v102hh7pkz0l1ayw42hxvs0bwwss-rambox-2.3.1/
/nix/store/8r52v102hh7pkz0l1ayw42hxvs0bwwss-rambox-2.3.1/
/nix/store/8r52v102hh7pkz0l1ayw42hxvs0bwwss-rambox-2.3.1/bin
/nix/store/8r52v102hh7pkz0l1ayw42hxvs0bwwss-rambox-2.3.1/bin/rambox
/nix/store/8r52v102hh7pkz0l1ayw42hxvs0bwwss-rambox-2.3.1/share
/nix/store/8r52v102hh7pkz0l1ayw42hxvs0bwwss-rambox-2.3.1/share/applications
/nix/store/8r52v102hh7pkz0l1ayw42hxvs0bwwss-rambox-2.3.1/share/applications/rambox.desktop
/nix/store/8r52v102hh7pkz0l1ayw42hxvs0bwwss-rambox-2.3.1/share/icons
/nix/store/8r52v102hh7pkz0l1ayw42hxvs0bwwss-rambox-2.3.1/share/icons/hicolor
/nix/store/8r52v102hh7pkz0l1ayw42hxvs0bwwss-rambox-2.3.1/share/icons/hicolor/256x256
/nix/store/8r52v102hh7pkz0l1ayw42hxvs0bwwss-rambox-2.3.1/share/icons/hicolor/256x256/apps
/nix/store/8r52v102hh7pkz0l1ayw42hxvs0bwwss-rambox-2.3.1/share/icons/hicolor/256x256/apps/rambox.png

› ls -l /nix/store/8r52v102hh7pkz0l1ayw42hxvs0bwwss-rambox-2.3.1/bin/rambox
lrwxrwxrwx root root 12 B Thu Jan  1 00:00:01 1970  /nix/store/8r52v102hh7pkz0l1ayw42hxvs0bwwss-rambox-2.3.1/bin/rambox ⇒ rambox-2.3.1

The binary is here

nix-config/nix on  main [!+?⇡] 
› ls -l /nix/store/00yijzfivyivv83i6l0a3jf7l7a3hzib-rambox-2.3.1/bin/rambox-2.3.1 
lrwxrwxrwx root root 62 B Thu Jan  1 00:00:01 1970  /nix/store/00yijzfivyivv83i6l0a3jf7l7a3hzib-rambox-2.3.1/bin/rambox-2.3.1 ⇒ /nix/store/fi94zgbib3sj75m93kgby7d4wziaa7j5-rambox-2.3.1-bwrap

nix-config/nix on  main [!+?⇡] 
› ls -l /nix/store/00yijzfivyivv83i6l0a3jf7l7a3hzib-rambox-2.3.1/bin/rambox-2.3.1
lrwxrwxrwx root root 62 B Thu Jan  1 00:00:01 1970  /nix/store/00yijzfivyivv83i6l0a3jf7l7a3hzib-rambox-2.3.1/bin/rambox-2.3.1 ⇒ /nix/store/fi94zgbib3sj75m93kgby7d4wziaa7j5-rambox-2.3.1-bwrap

nix-config/nix on  main [!+?⇡] 
› ls -l /nix/store/fi94zgbib3sj75m93kgby7d4wziaa7j5-rambox-2.3.1-bwrap 
.r-xr-xr-x root root 4.0 KB Thu Jan  1 00:00:01 1970  /nix/store/fi94zgbib3sj75m93kgby7d4wziaa7j5-rambox-2.3.1-bwrap

I can launch that and it works.

Expected behavior

The home manager bin/rambox symlink should point to the right derivative I think the whole reason why it doesn't work is because bin/rambox has become ambiguous.

› ls -l /nix/store/*-rambox-2.3.1*/bin/rambox
lrwxrwxrwx root root 12 B Thu Jan  1 00:00:01 1970  /nix/store/00yijzfivyivv83i6l0a3jf7l7a3hzib-rambox-2.3.1/bin/rambox ⇒ rambox-2.3.1
lrwxrwxrwx root root 12 B Thu Jan  1 00:00:01 1970  /nix/store/8r52v102hh7pkz0l1ayw42hxvs0bwwss-rambox-2.3.1/bin/rambox ⇒ rambox-2.3.1
lrwxrwxrwx root root 12 B Thu Jan  1 00:00:01 1970  /nix/store/myg6hc9jknq2zayy2i8z15v793yjfqd7-rambox-2.3.1/bin/rambox ⇒ rambox-2.3.1

The middle one is the dead link

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Metadata

› nix-shell -p nix-info --run "nix-info -m"
 - system: `"x86_64-linux"`
 - host os: `Linux 6.8.7, NixOS, 24.05 (Uakari), 24.05.20240427.2b1f64b`
 - multi-user?: `yes`
 - sandbox: `yes`
 - version: `nix-env (Nix) 2.18.2`
 - nixpkgs: `/nix/store/f5n79magaxc51b2pvpbdwp6yh26i2wmz-source`

[tbaumann]

I think I confused myself. It's not ambiguous. Just broken in the last generation of the derivative.

nixpkgs/pkgs/applications/networking/instant-messengers/rambox/default.nix

Line 29 in c5e4e2b

ln -sf rambox-${version} $out/bin/${pname}

forces the symlink.

[nazarewk]

looks like something must have changed in extracting appimages resulting in different structure