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Author SHA1 Message Date
Andrea Bedini
3c78920f73
Parse TOML timestamps (#8120)
Currently `fromTOML` throws an exception when encountering a timestamp
since the Nix language lacks a way to represent them.

This patch changes this beaviour and makes `fromTOML` parse timestamps as
attrsets of the format

  { _type = "timestamp"; value = "1979-05-27T07:32:00Z"; }

This is guarded by an experimental feature flag to leave room for iterating on the representation.
2023-06-09 11:53:18 +02:00
John Ericson
668377f217 TextHashMethod -> TextIngestionMethod, gate with XP feature
I suppose we can use `dynamic-derivations` for the few things we neeed.
2023-04-17 19:02:45 -04:00
John Ericson
d41e1bed5e Experimentally allow forcing nix-daemon trust; use this to test
We finally test the status quo of remote build trust in a number of
ways. We create a new experimental feature on `nix-daemon` to do so.

PR #3921, which improves the situation with trustless remote building,
will build upon these changes. This code / tests was pull out of there
to make this, so everything is easier to review, and in particular we
test before and after so the new behavior in that PR is readily apparent
from the testsuite diff alone.
2023-04-17 13:06:21 -04:00
John Ericson
53d0836347 Assemble experimental feature docs outside of Nix itself
Instead of constructing a markdown list in C++ (which involved all sorts
of nasty string literals), export some JSON and assemble it with the
manual build system.

Besides following the precedent set with other dumped data, this is a
better separate of content and presentation; if we decide for example we
want to display this information in a different way, or in a different
section of the manual, it will become much easier to do so.
2023-04-04 22:57:11 -04:00
John Ericson
32d72b1696 Add more API docs to experimental-features.hh 2023-04-02 18:57:46 -04:00
John Ericson
2585bcaa50 Rework a few things with the experimental features list
- Use struct not `std::pair`, designated initializers

- Use `constexpr` array that we can index by enum tag

- It no longer segfaults; not sure why.
2023-04-02 18:17:45 -04:00
John Ericson
b2c9315bf2 Merge remote-tracking branch 'upstream/master' into list-experimental-features 2023-04-02 16:21:38 -04:00
John Ericson
f4ab297b31 Ensure all headers have #pragma once and are in API docs
`///@file` makes them show up in the internal API dos. A tiny few were
missing `#pragma once`.
2023-03-31 23:19:44 -04:00
John Ericson
abd5e7dec0 Extend internal API docs, part 2
Picking up from #8111.

Co-authored-by: Eelco Dolstra <edolstra@gmail.com>
2023-03-31 23:01:40 -04:00
Noah Snelson
d1d1ae7a3b Documentation: list experimental features in manual
Lists all current experimental features in the `nix.conf` manual.
2023-03-27 17:12:49 -07:00
Naïm Favier
15f7fa59be
unsafeDiscardReferences
Adds a new boolean structured attribute
`outputChecks.<output>.unsafeDiscardReferences` which disables scanning
an output for runtime references.

    __structuredAttrs = true;
    outputChecks.out.unsafeDiscardReferences = true;

This is useful when creating filesystem images containing their own embedded Nix
store: they are self-contained blobs of data with no runtime dependencies.

Setting this attribute requires the experimental feature
`discard-references` to be enabled.
2023-01-03 17:19:16 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra
128910ba23 Separate cgroup support from auto-uid-allocation
The new experimental feature 'cgroups' enables the use of cgroups for
all builds. This allows better containment and enables setting
resource limits and getting some build stats.
2022-11-18 10:39:28 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra
6c6eff8ac4 Remove the SystemdCgroup feature 2022-11-10 17:24:12 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra
b95faccf03 Merge remote-tracking branch 'origin/master' into auto-uid-allocation 2022-11-03 17:43:40 +01:00
Tom Bereknyei
7a04fb1c56 repl: add repl-flake experimental feature for gating 2022-05-20 08:20:00 -04:00
Eelco Dolstra
a3c6c5b1c7 nix profile: Support overriding outputs 2022-05-03 15:00:34 +02:00
Yorick van Pelt
ebf2fd76b1
Add custom to_json and from_json functions for ExperimentalFeature
nix show-config --json was serializing experimental features as ints.
nlohmann::json will automatically use these definitions to serialize
and deserialize ExperimentalFeatures.

Strictly, we don't use the from_json instance yet, it's provided for
completeness and hopefully future use.
2022-04-20 15:41:01 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra
8bd9ebf52c Error: Remove unused sname() method 2022-04-08 11:31:51 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra
5cd72598fe Add support for impure derivations
Impure derivations are derivations that can produce a different result
every time they're built. Example:

  stdenv.mkDerivation {
    name = "impure";
    __impure = true; # marks this derivation as impure
    outputHashAlgo = "sha256";
    outputHashMode = "recursive";
    buildCommand = "date > $out";
  };

Some important characteristics:

* This requires the 'impure-derivations' experimental feature.

* Impure derivations are not "cached". Thus, running "nix-build" on
  the example above multiple times will cause a rebuild every time.

* They are implemented similar to CA derivations, i.e. the output is
  moved to a content-addressed path in the store. The difference is
  that we don't register a realisation in the Nix database.

* Pure derivations are not allowed to depend on impure derivations. In
  the future fixed-output derivations will be allowed to depend on
  impure derivations, thus forming an "impurity barrier" in the
  dependency graph.

* When sandboxing is enabled, impure derivations can access the
  network in the same way as fixed-output derivations. In relaxed
  sandboxing mode, they can access the local filesystem.
2022-03-31 13:43:20 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra
f902f3c2cb Add experimental feature 'fetch-closure' 2022-03-24 21:33:33 +01:00
John Ericson
dc92b01885 Merge remote-tracking branch 'upstream/master' into auto-uid-allocation 2022-02-28 23:54:20 +00:00
regnat
af99941279 Make experimental-features a proper type
Rather than having them plain strings scattered through the whole
codebase, create an enum containing all the known experimental features.

This means that
- Nix can now `warn` when an unkwown experimental feature is passed
  (making it much nicer to spot typos and spot deprecated features)
- It’s now easy to remove a feature altogether (once the feature isn’t
  experimental anymore or is dropped) by just removing the field for the
  enum and letting the compiler point us to all the now invalid usages
  of it.
2021-10-26 07:02:31 +02:00