flake-info: remove broken NIXOS_CHANNELS check (#586)

Fixing it would be undesirable.

Co-authored-by: Rok Garbas <rok@garbas.si>

flake-info/default.nix

@@ -1,5 +1,4 @@
 { pkgs ? import <nixpkgs> {}
-, nixosChannels ? {}
 }:
 pkgs.rustPlatform.buildRustPackage rec {
   name = "flake-info";
@@ -34,7 +33,6 @@ pkgs.rustPlatform.buildRustPackage rec {
     cp -rt "$out" assets
 
     wrapProgram $out/bin/flake-info \
-      --set NIXOS_CHANNELS '${builtins.toJSON nixosChannels}' \
       --prefix PATH : ${pkgs.pandoc}/bin
   '';
 }

flake-info/src/bin/flake-info.rs

@@ -3,13 +3,10 @@ use flake_info::commands::NixCheckError;
 use flake_info::data::import::Kind;
 use flake_info::data::{self, Export, Source};
 use flake_info::elastic::{self, ElasticsearchError, ExistsStrategy};
-use lazy_static::lazy_static;
 use log::{error, info, warn};
-use serde::Deserialize;
 use sha2::Digest;
 use std::io;
 use std::path::PathBuf;
-use std::str::FromStr;
 use structopt::{clap::ArgGroup, StructOpt};
 use thiserror::Error;
 use tokio::fs::File;
@@ -190,9 +187,6 @@ enum FlakeInfoError {
     #[error("Nix check failed: {0}")]
     NixCheck(#[from] NixCheckError),
 
-    #[error("Nixos Channel `{0}` not among the allowed Channels set by NIXOS_CHANNELS ({:?}", .1.channels)]
-    UnknownNixOSChannel(String, NixosChannels),
-
     #[error("Getting flake info caused an error: {0:?}")]
     Flake(anyhow::Error),
     #[error("Getting nixpkgs info caused an error: {0:?}")]
@@ -225,8 +219,6 @@ async fn run_command(
             Ok((exports, ident))
         }
         Command::Nixpkgs { channel } => {
-            NIXOS_CHANNELS.check_channel(&channel)?;
-
             let nixpkgs = Source::nixpkgs(channel)
                 .await
                 .map_err(FlakeInfoError::Nixpkgs)?;
@@ -241,8 +233,6 @@ async fn run_command(
             Ok((exports, ident))
         }
         Command::NixpkgsArchive { source, channel } => {
-            NIXOS_CHANNELS.check_channel(&channel)?;
-
             let ident = (
                 "nixos".to_string(),
                 channel.to_owned(),
@@ -397,48 +387,3 @@ async fn push_to_elastic(
 
     Ok(())
 }
-
-/// Information about allowed and default nixos channels.
-/// Typyically passed by environment variable NIXOS_CHANNELS.
-/// Used to filter the input arguments for `flake-info nixpkgs` and `flake-info nixpkgs-archive`
-#[derive(Clone, Debug, Deserialize)]
-struct NixosChannels {
-    channels: Vec<Channel>,
-}
-
-#[derive(Clone, Debug, Deserialize)]
-struct Channel {
-    branch: String,
-}
-
-impl NixosChannels {
-    fn check_channel(&self, channel: &String) -> Result<(), FlakeInfoError> {
-        self.channels
-            .iter()
-            .find(|c| &c.branch == channel)
-            .map_or_else(
-                || Ok(()),
-                |_| {
-                    Err(FlakeInfoError::UnknownNixOSChannel(
-                        channel.clone(),
-                        self.clone(),
-                    ))
-                },
-            )
-    }
-}
-
-impl FromStr for NixosChannels {
-    type Err = serde_json::Error;
-
-    fn from_str(s: &str) -> Result<Self, Self::Err> {
-        serde_json::from_str(s)
-    }
-}
-
-lazy_static! {
-    static ref NIXOS_CHANNELS: NixosChannels = std::env::var("NIXOS_CHANNELS")
-        .unwrap_or("".to_string())
-        .parse()
-        .unwrap();
-}

flake.nix

@@ -85,7 +85,7 @@
         in rec {
 
           packages.default = packages.flake-info;
-          packages.flake-info = import ./flake-info { inherit pkgs nixosChannels; };
+          packages.flake-info = import ./flake-info { inherit pkgs; };
           packages.frontend = import ./frontend { inherit pkgs nixosChannels version; };
           packages.nixosChannels = nixosChannelsFile;