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Eelco Dolstra
1511aa9f48 Allow remote builds without sending the derivation closure
Previously, to build a derivation remotely, we had to copy the entire
closure of the .drv file to the remote machine, even though we only
need the top-level derivation. This is very wasteful: the closure can
contain thousands of store paths, and in some Hydra use cases, include
source paths that are very large (e.g. Git/Mercurial checkouts).

So now there is a new operation, StoreAPI::buildDerivation(), that
performs a build from an in-memory representation of a derivation
(BasicDerivation) rather than from a on-disk .drv file. The only files
that need to be in the Nix store are the sources of the derivation
(drv.inputSrcs), and the needed output paths of the dependencies (as
described by drv.inputDrvs). "nix-store --serve" exposes this
interface.

Note that this is a privileged operation, because you can construct a
derivation that builds any store path whatsoever. Fixing this will
require changing the hashing scheme (i.e., the output paths should be
computed from the other fields in BasicDerivation, allowing them to be
verified without access to other derivations). However, this would be
quite nice because it would allow .drv-free building (e.g. "nix-env
-i" wouldn't have to write any .drv files to disk).

Fixes #173.
2015-07-17 17:57:40 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra
f39979c6d3 Make printValue() interruptible
Fixes #572.
2015-07-17 11:33:39 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra
7c9d0a5969 nix-collect-garbage: Handle ENOENT
Don't barf trying to read a link that just got deleted.

Fixes #575.
2015-07-17 11:24:25 +02:00
Guillaume Maudoux
467977f203 Fix the parsing of "$"'s in strings. 2015-07-03 14:09:58 +02:00
Guillaume Maudoux
65e4dcd69b Fix the hack that resets the scanner state. 2015-07-03 13:53:36 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra
dd48c06bb6 Typo 2015-07-02 00:30:16 +02:00
Ludovic Courtès
9aed117395 Preserve supplementary groups of build users
The following patch is an attempt to address this bug (see
<http://bugs.gnu.org/18994>) by preserving the supplementary groups of
build users in the build environment.

In practice, I would expect that supplementary groups would contain only
one or two groups: the build users group, and possibly the “kvm” group.

[Changed &at(0) to data() and removed tabs - Eelco]
2015-07-01 14:57:48 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra
ff4de4cb27 GC: Handle ENOSPC creating/moving to the trash directory
Issue #564.
2015-06-30 21:41:26 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra
2bc9c84327 Use posix_fallocate to create /nix/var/nix/db/reserved 2015-06-22 15:54:55 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra
ba63ec6f39 Make /nix/var/nix/db/reserved bigger
Issue #564.
2015-06-22 15:47:40 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra
65f17cd330 Support URLs in $NIX_PATH
This didn't work (despite claims in the manual), because the colon in
"http://" was parsed as a element separator. So handle "://"
specially.
2015-06-17 16:20:11 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra
b65875f859 Export outputPaths function
This is useful for the new hydra-queue-runner.
2015-06-10 16:17:06 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra
7c4501886d Use std::vector::data() 2015-06-09 10:54:46 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra
b64988bb35 Allow substitutes for builds that have preferLocalBuild set
Not substituting builds with "preferLocalBuild = true" was a bad idea,
because it didn't take the cost of dependencies into account. For
instance, if we can't substitute a fetchgit call, then we have to
download/build git and all its dependencies.

Partially reverts 5558652709 and adds a
new derivation attribute "allowSubstitutes" to specify whether a
derivation may be substituted.
2015-06-04 16:30:22 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra
07d7e7df84 Chown files created for passAsFile
Nixpkgs' writeTextAsFile does this:

  mv "$textPath" "$n"

Since $textPath was owned by root, if $textPath is on the same
filesystem as $n, $n will be owned as root. As a result, the build
result was rejected as having suspicious ownership.

http://hydra.nixos.org/build/22836807
2015-06-04 14:07:43 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra
d8ddf994e7 Don't let unprivileged users repair paths 2015-06-02 02:21:54 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra
7106bb0611 Use StoreAPI::verifyStore() 2015-06-02 02:21:15 +02:00
Ludovic Courtès
b755752f76 Add a ‘verifyStore’ RPC
Hello!

The patch below adds a ‘verifyStore’ RPC with the same signature as the
current LocalStore::verifyStore method.

Thanks,
Ludo’.

>From aef46c03ca77eb6344f4892672eb6d9d06432041 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: =?UTF-8?q?Ludovic=20Court=C3=A8s?= <ludo@gnu.org>
Date: Mon, 1 Jun 2015 23:17:10 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] Add a 'verifyStore' remote procedure call.
2015-06-02 02:14:24 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra
bc51175dc0 Add tarball tests 2015-06-01 16:18:23 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra
da196ec68f Document tarball downloading 2015-06-01 15:14:44 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra
c1323b53e3 Fix fetchurl/fetchTarball 2015-06-01 15:08:09 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra
1c88e100e7 readFile: Check against nul bytes 2015-06-01 15:07:42 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra
920f5fd4dd Fix import-from-derivation in restricted eval mode
This relaxes restricted mode to allow access to anything in the
store. In the future, it would be better to allow access to only paths
that have been constructed in the current evaluation (so a hard-coded
/nix/store/blabla in a Nix expression would still be
rejected). However, note that reading /nix/store itself is still
rejected, so you can't use this so get access to things you don't know
about.
2015-05-22 12:18:23 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra
7a411e01cf Remove dead code 2015-05-22 11:29:22 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra
4ca5a9dcfd nix-collect-garbage: Don't call nix-env
Also, make sure --delete-older-than doesn't delete the current
generation.
2015-05-21 16:28:30 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra
22b1a8d43f Move profiles.{cc,hh} to libstore 2015-05-21 15:42:59 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra
13493ef97c nix-collect-garbage: Call collectGarbage() internally 2015-05-21 15:21:38 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra
4441e4cc13 nix-collect-garbage: Don't barf on unreadable directories
And don't try to delete generations from unwritable directories.
2015-05-21 15:04:05 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra
8d813fe3e0 nix-collect-garbage: Remove redundant call to getFileType 2015-05-21 14:09:34 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra
a1c1bf3a56 Merge branch 'submit/sparse-generation-symlinks' of https://github.com/ctheune/nix 2015-05-21 12:04:54 +02:00
Christian Theune
12a888894b Mis-read Eelko's request to not make this an option: now, let's not make
it an option. :)
2015-05-20 17:29:52 +02:00
Christian Theune
ea39c98d41 Implement alternative to lazy generations:
* only the last generation can be lazy
* depend on the '--lazy-generation' flag to be set
2015-05-19 20:03:36 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra
1529db702b Don't install nix-worker symlink
It has been obsolete since Nix 1.2.

Closes #417.
2015-05-19 16:43:33 +02:00
Christian Theune
3d83188702 Enable lazy/sparse allocation of generation symlinks: avoid creating
new generations if a generation already exists.

Alternatively or additionally I propose a mode where only the *last* generation will be sparse.
2015-05-18 08:38:49 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra
a010c0ae05 Fix "error: deriver of path ‘’ is not known" 2015-05-13 18:03:22 +02:00
Rok Garbas
dad754843a cygwin: looks like stdout/stdin are reserved words 2015-05-13 09:37:56 +02:00
Rok Garbas
000de699e9 cygwin: explicitly include required c headers 2015-05-13 09:37:12 +02:00
Shea Levy
71083f9e5e Don't try to map /bin/sh to a store path on non-Linux 2015-05-12 16:36:15 -04:00
Luca Bruno
8972f7c14a nix-collect-garbage: Do not pass an empty argument. Closes #530 2015-05-06 15:17:23 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
6519f06f39 nix-env/nix-instantiate/nix-build: Support URIs
For instance, you can install Firefox from a specific Nixpkgs revision
like this:

  $ nix-env -f 63def04891.tar.gz -iA firefox

Or build a package from the latest nixpkgs-unstable channel:

  $ nix-build https://nixos.org/channels/nixpkgs-unstable/nixexprs.tar.xz -A hello
2015-05-06 14:54:31 +02:00
William A. Kennington III
0705d04dfa nix-collect-garbage: Fix deleting old generations
The call to nix-env expects a string which represents how old the
derivations are or just "old" which means any generations other than
the current one in use. Currently nix-collect-garbage passes an empty
string to nix-env when using the -d option. This patch corrects the call
to nix-env such that it follows the old behavior.
2015-05-06 11:02:36 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra
9451ef3731 Allow URLs in the Nix search path
E.g. to install "hello" from the latest Nixpkgs:

  $ nix-build '<nixpkgs>' -A hello -I nixpkgs=https://nixos.org/channels/nixpkgs-unstable/nixexprs.tar.xz

Or to install a specific version of NixOS:

  $ nixos-rebuild switch -I nixpkgs=63def04891.tar.gz
2015-05-05 17:09:42 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra
35d30d67eb Make downloads interruptable 2015-05-05 14:39:48 +02:00
Luca Bruno
ab2b3d6668 nix-collect-garbage: translate to C++ 2015-04-22 15:08:48 +00:00
Shea Levy
4d652875bd Add the pre-build hook.
This hook can be used to set system-specific per-derivation build
settings that don't fit into the derivation model and are too complex or
volatile to be hard-coded into nix. Currently, the pre-build hook can
only add chroot dirs/files through the interface, but it also has full
access to the chroot root.

The specific use case for this is systems where the operating system ABI
is more complex than just the kernel-support system calls. For example,
on OS X there is a set of system-provided frameworks that can reliably
be accessed by any program linked to them, no matter the version the
program is running on. Unfortunately, those frameworks do not
necessarily live in the same locations on each version of OS X, nor do
their dependencies, and thus nix needs to know the specific version of
OS X currently running in order to make those frameworks available. The
pre-build hook is a perfect mechanism for doing just that.
2015-04-18 16:56:02 -04:00
Shea Levy
fd6774e285 Revert "Add the pre-build hook."
Going to reimplement differently.

This reverts commit 1e4a4a2e9f.
2015-04-18 14:59:58 -04:00
Eelco Dolstra
035aeb9547 Fix using restricted mode with chroots 2015-04-16 18:46:17 +02:00
Shea Levy
1e4a4a2e9f Add the pre-build hook.
This hook can be used to set system specific per-derivation build
settings that don't fit into the derivation model and are too complex or
volatile to be hard-coded into nix. Currently, the pre-build hook can
only add chroot dirs/files.

The specific use case for this is systems where the operating system ABI
is more complex than just the kernel-supported system calls. For
example, on OS X there is a set of system-provided frameworks that can
reliably be accessed by any program linked to them, no matter the
version the program is running on. Unfortunately, those frameworks do
not necessarily live in the same locations on each version of OS X, nor
do their dependencies, and thus nix needs to know the specific version
of OS X currently running in order to make those frameworks available.
The pre-build hook is a perfect mechanism for doing just that.
2015-04-12 12:56:38 -04:00
Eelco Dolstra
4ed2187377 Use cached result if there is a network error 2015-04-09 12:49:13 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra
1fc905ad4c Move curl stuff into a separate file 2015-04-09 12:12:50 +02:00