fix(get-platform): NixOS gets Debian engines like any other glibc distro

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Closes #29150

Prisma expects a linux-nixos engine that doesn't exist. But NixOS is glibc and Debian engines run fine with nix-ld. Fix treats NixOS as Debian and finds libssl from NIX_LD_LIBRARY_PATH.

Tiny neighborly fix: Alpine libssl arm wrongly matched 'musl' instead of 'alpine'.

Verified on NixOS 26.05: prisma generate and prisma migrate both work now.

Summary by CodeRabbit

• Bug Fixes
  • NixOS now uses standard Linux binary targets, improving engine compatibility on supported architectures.
  • Library detection on NixOS now checks configured library-path environment variables, and Alpine library paths are detected correctly.
  • Missing or unreadable library directories no longer interrupt platform detection.
  • Removed the NixOS-specific warning for missing custom engine paths. Existing warnings for FreeBSD, OpenBSD, and NetBSD remain.

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Walkthrough

NixOS platform detection now maps to Debian-compatible binary targets while retaining NixOS family metadata. Library lookup reads NixOS loader paths. fetch-engine no longer emits the NixOS custom-engine warning. Tests cover target selection, distro parsing, and library path behavior.

Changes

NixOS platform support

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Map NixOS to a supported binary target packages/get-platform/src/binaryTargets.ts, packages/get-platform/src/getPlatform.ts, packages/get-platform/src/__tests__/parseDistro.test.ts, packages/get-platform/src/__tests__/getPlatform.test.ts	NixOS distro parsing assigns the Debian target and retains NixOS family metadata. The linux-nixos target is removed. Tests cover distro parsing and amd64 and arm64 target selection.
Resolve Linux library paths packages/get-platform/src/getPlatform.ts, packages/get-platform/src/__tests__/getSSLVersion.test.ts	Alpine path matching uses the Alpine family. NixOS library paths use NIX_LD_LIBRARY_PATH followed by LD_LIBRARY_PATH, with empty and duplicate entries omitted. findLibSSL returns undefined for directory-read errors. Tests cover path selection and file-path fallback.
Remove the NixOS download warning packages/fetch-engine/src/download.ts	fetch-engine no longer checks for configured custom engine environment variables to emit the NixOS warning. The warning for the listed BSD platforms remains.

Priority: ➖ Normal

Estimated code review effort: 3 (Moderate) | ~20 minutes

Change: Bug fix · Severity of issue fixed: Medium

Merge Risk: 🔵 Low · up to 6099c

Projects explicitly targeting linux-nixos with custom engines will need to update their configuration to generate successfully. This is a narrow compatibility issue with a straightforward workaround, not a general NixOS blocker.

Architecture Summary

Architecture risk: 🔵 Low · up to 24029

The change affects 2 systems.

Changed systems: packages/get-platform, packages/fetch-engine

Architecture concerns
No architecture-level concerns identified.

Review details

Systems and components

• observed — packages/get-platform (library) was modified; 5 changed files map to changed impact.
• observed — packages/fetch-engine (library) was modified; 1 changed file maps to changed impact.

Before / after behavior

• observed — Modified behavior in packages/fetch-engine/src/download.ts: The allEngineEnvVarsSet import was removed; getBinaryEnvVarPath remains imported.
• observed — Modified behavior in packages/fetch-engine/src/download.ts: Platform detection now keeps only binaryTarget. The NixOS-specific warning, previously shown when os.targetDistro was NixOS and not all configured binary environment variables were set, was removed. The existing warning for FreeBSD 11–15, OpenBSD, and NetBSD remains.
• observed — Modified behavior in packages/get-platform/src/tests/getPlatform.test.ts: Adds a Linux NixOS amd64 test with OpenSSL 3.0.x, expecting debian-openssl-3.0.x and no console log, warning, or error output.
• observed — Modified behavior in packages/get-platform/src/tests/getPlatform.test.ts: Adds a Linux NixOS arm64 test with OpenSSL 3.0.x, expecting linux-arm64-openssl-3.0.x and no console log, warning, or error output.

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❌ Failed checks (2 warnings)

Check name	Status	Explanation	Resolution
Out of Scope Changes check	⚠️ Warning	The pull request changes Alpine library-path matching from musl to alpine and adds Alpine ARM coverage. Issue [#29150] addresses NixOS detection and engine downloads. The linked issue does not est…	Remove the Alpine matching and Alpine ARM changes from this pull request, or link the relevant Alpine issue and move that work to a separate pull request.
Docstring Coverage	⚠️ Warning	Docstring coverage is 40.00% which is insufficient. The required threshold is 80.00%. Docstring coverage is scoped to functions touched by this diff. Analyzed 5 functions across 5 files.	Write docstrings for the functions missing them to satisfy the coverage threshold.

✅ Passed checks (3 passed)

Check name	Status	Explanation
Description Check	✅ Passed	Check skipped - CodeRabbit’s high-level summary is enabled.
Title check	✅ Passed	The title clearly and concisely describes the main change: treating NixOS as a Debian-compatible glibc platform for engine selection.
Linked Issues check	✅ Passed	Issue [#29150] requires Prisma CLI use on NixOS to avoid the unsupported linux-nixos engine target and to detect libssl. The change maps NixOS to target debian, removes linux-nixos from binary t…

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Explanation

The pull request changes Alpine library-path matching from musl to alpine and adds Alpine ARM coverage. Issue [#29150] addresses NixOS detection and engine downloads. The linked issue does not establish an Alpine objective, so this behavior change is unrelated to the linked scope.

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Review comments at @packages/get-platform/src/getPlatform.ts:
- Around line 311-312: Update the loader-path scanning that builds paths from
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🟡 Minor · Preserve linux-nixos for explicit custom-engine configurations. · binaryTargets.ts:18-54

packages/get-platform/src/binaryTargets.ts:18-54
🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win

Preserve linux-nixos for explicit custom-engine configurations.

The base revision accepted linux-nixos as a configured target for custom engines, although it did not provide precompiled NixOS engines. The current knownBinaryTargets list rejects this value during generator validation, so existing schemas with binaryTargets = ["linux-nixos"] fail before custom engine paths are used.

Suggested fix

   | 'linux-musl-arm64-openssl-1.1.x'
   | 'linux-musl-arm64-openssl-3.0.x'
+  | 'linux-nixos'
   | 'linux-static-x64'
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   'linux-musl-arm64-openssl-1.1.x',
   'linux-musl-arm64-openssl-3.0.x',
+  'linux-nixos',
   'linux-static-x64',

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Review comment at @packages/get-platform/src/binaryTargets.ts around lines 18 -
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Add linux-nixos to the BinaryTarget union and the binaryTargets list in
binaryTargets.ts so generator validation accepts it for explicit custom-engine
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