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Eelco Dolstra
d4dcffd643
Add pure evaluation mode
In this mode, the following restrictions apply:

* The builtins currentTime, currentSystem and storePath throw an
  error.

* $NIX_PATH and -I are ignored.

* fetchGit and fetchMercurial require a revision hash.

* fetchurl and fetchTarball require a sha256 attribute.

* No file system access is allowed outside of the paths returned by
  fetch{Git,Mercurial,url,Tarball}. Thus 'nix build -f ./foo.nix' is
  not allowed.

Thus, the evaluation result is completely reproducible from the
command line arguments. E.g.

  nix build --pure-eval '(
    let
      nix = fetchGit { url = https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs.git; rev = "9c927de4b179a6dd210dd88d34bda8af4b575680"; };
      nixpkgs = fetchGit { url = https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs.git; ref = "release-17.09"; rev = "66b4de79e3841530e6d9c6baf98702aa1f7124e4"; };
    in (import (nix + "/release.nix") { inherit nix nixpkgs; }).build.x86_64-linux
  )'

The goal is to enable completely reproducible and traceable
evaluation. For example, a NixOS configuration could be fully
described by a single Git commit hash. 'nixos-rebuild' would do
something like

  nix build --pure-eval '(
    (import (fetchGit { url = file:///my-nixos-config; rev = "..."; })).system
  ')

where the Git repository /my-nixos-config would use further fetchGit
calls or Git externals to fetch Nixpkgs and whatever other
dependencies it has. Either way, the commit hash would uniquely
identify the NixOS configuration and allow it to reproduced.
2018-01-16 19:23:18 +01:00
Will Dietz
84d9e213d2 fetchGit.sh: Test we don't "corrupt" cache if invoke w/o git avail 2018-01-09 08:58:19 -06:00
Will Dietz
2e6f06c37e fetchGit: Fix handling of local repo when not using 'master' branch
Add tests checking this behavior.
2017-12-22 15:29:52 -06:00
Shea Levy
eedbc4e06c
fetchGit: Ignore tarballTtl if rev is set and not in the repo.
Fixes #1697.
2017-11-24 06:09:24 -05:00
Eelco Dolstra
d7da6c9ea9
fetchGit/fetchMercurial: Fix directory inclusion check
E.g. the existence of .gitignore would cause .git to be included.
2017-11-21 19:34:46 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra
fd10f6f241
Show when tests are skipped
Also, don't depend on tput (ncurses). It's really not needed since
ANSI escape sequences have been standardized for 35 years or so.
2017-11-07 12:09:57 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra
ee6ac38848
fetchGit/fetchMercurial: Filter out directories with untracked files 2017-11-03 13:55:31 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra
4dee01da7c
fetchGit: Add a test 2017-11-03 13:55:30 +01:00