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Eelco Dolstra
0fdf4da0e9 Support cryptographically signed binary caches
NAR info files in binary caches can now have a cryptographic signature
that Nix will verify before using the corresponding NAR file.

To create a private/public key pair for signing and verifying a binary
cache, do:

  $ openssl genrsa -out ./cache-key.sec 2048
  $ openssl rsa -in ./cache-key.sec -pubout > ./cache-key.pub

You should also come up with a symbolic name for the key, such as
"cache.example.org-1".  This will be used by clients to look up the
public key.  (It's a good idea to number keys, in case you ever need
to revoke/replace one.)

To create a binary cache signed with the private key:

  $ nix-push --dest /path/to/binary-cache --key ./cache-key.sec --key-name cache.example.org-1

The public key (cache-key.pub) should be distributed to the clients.
They should have a nix.conf should contain something like:

  signed-binary-caches = *
  binary-cache-public-key-cache.example.org-1 = /path/to/cache-key.pub

If all works well, then if Nix fetches something from the signed
binary cache, you will see a message like:

  *** Downloading ‘http://cache.example.org/nar/7dppcj5sc1nda7l54rjc0g5l1hamj09j-subversion-1.7.11’ (signed by ‘cache.example.org-1’) to ‘/nix/store/7dppcj5sc1nda7l54rjc0g5l1hamj09j-subversion-1.7.11’...

On the other hand, if the signature is wrong, you get a message like

  NAR info file `http://cache.example.org/7dppcj5sc1nda7l54rjc0g5l1hamj09j.narinfo' has an invalid signature; ignoring

Signatures are implemented as a single line appended to the NAR info
file, which looks like this:

  Signature: 1;cache.example.org-1;HQ9Xzyanq9iV...muQ==

Thus the signature has 3 fields: a version (currently "1"), the ID of
key, and the base64-encoded signature of the SHA-256 hash of the
contents of the NAR info file up to but not including the Signature
line.

Issue #75.
2014-01-08 15:42:53 +01:00
Mats Erik Andersson
ecedd9c50c Out-of-tree building of perl modules. 2012-10-10 10:28:33 -04:00
Eelco Dolstra
9cd63d2244 Do some validation of URLs 2012-07-30 17:09:36 -04:00
Eelco Dolstra
4f7bab7db1 Support building with the Perl XS bindings disabled
Since the Perl bindings require shared libraries, this is required on
platforms such as Cygwin where we do a static build.
2012-05-10 19:03:23 -04:00
Eelco Dolstra
cda1fd8ec8 Remove an obsolete hack 2012-05-10 16:56:36 -04:00
Eelco Dolstra
464089365e Fix some 32-bit builds
Perl on some 32-bit systems needs -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64.  See also commit
02f1363e19.
2012-05-04 21:40:56 -04:00
Eelco Dolstra
c6acb219f9 Drop the Perl-specific CFLAGS
This fixes the Darwin build (http://hydra.nixos.org/build/2517380).
Hopefully it doesn't break other builds.
2012-05-04 18:50:34 -04:00
Eelco Dolstra
ddd0ce534a * Don't distribute Store.cc, it's generated automatically by xsubpp. 2012-01-18 16:43:48 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
02f1363e19 * Pass the appropriate flags to GCC when building the Perl bindings.
Without these, Nix fails on 32-bit Linux with Perl 5.14, with a
  rather unhelpful error message:

    Not a CODE reference at /nix/store/n6kpbacn6nn7i3i735v8j3di8aqyl07v-perl-5.14.2/lib/perl5/5.14.2/i686-linux-thread-multi/DynaLoader.pm

  This is likely because the lack of -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 causes
  various Perl structures to not match what the Perl interpreter
  expects.
2012-01-18 16:39:54 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
7ae763e16b * ‘-module’ causes the generated library to have an .so extension on
Mac OS X instead of .dylib, so don't do that.
2012-01-12 14:16:25 +00:00
Ludovic Courtès
c5d9ccd810 perl: Build libNixStore.la with `-module'. 2012-01-11 16:44:42 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
f86fca9b70 * Figure out the extension of dynamic libraries; don't hard-code .so. 2012-01-11 15:41:42 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
a7366a764a * Add a -I flag to the Perl bindings to nix-build and some other
scripts.
* Include the version and architecture in the -I flag so that there is
  at least a chance that a Nix binary built for one Perl version will
  run on another version.
2012-01-05 20:33:46 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
4d0407ba08 * Fix make check. 2011-11-29 13:38:52 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
5bbd693cae * Add an API function exportPaths() that provides the functionality of
‘nix-store --export’.
* Add a Perl module that provides the functionality of
  ‘nix-copy-closure --to’.  This is used by build-remote.pl so it no
  longer needs to start a separate nix-copy-closure process.  Also, it
  uses the Perl API to do the export, so it doesn't need to start a
  separate nix-store process either.  As a result, nix-copy-closure
  and build-remote.pl should no longer fail on very large closures due
  to an "Argument list too long" error.  (Note that having very many
  dependencies in a single derivation can still fail because the
  environment can become too large.  Can't be helped though.)
2011-11-23 15:13:37 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
6761757428 * Use the Store API bindings in nix-copy-closure. 2011-10-11 15:41:13 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
c362e4d718 * Move SSH.pm. 2011-10-11 11:45:36 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
a2a317eb0b * Distribute GeneratePatches.pm. 2011-10-11 09:31:55 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
6fcdbcac20 * Install NixManifest.pm, NixConfig.pm and GeneratePatches.pm under
the Nix:: namespace.
2011-10-10 21:11:08 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
73fe6871c4 * Include the Nix Perl bindings in Nix itself. This will allow the
bindings to be used in Nix's own Perl scripts.

  The only downside is that Perl XS and Automake/libtool don't really
  like each other, so building is a bit tricky.
2011-10-10 18:12:40 +00:00