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Eelco Dolstra
9e975458b4 * Get rid of the substitutes database table (NIX-47). Instead, if we
need any info on substitutable paths, we just call the substituters
  (such as download-using-manifests.pl) directly.  This means that
  it's no longer necessary for nix-pull to register substitutes or for
  nix-channel to clear them, which makes those operations much faster
  (NIX-95).  Also, we don't have to worry about keeping nix-pull
  manifests (in /nix/var/nix/manifests) and the database in sync with
  each other.

  The downside is that there is some overhead in calling an external
  program to get the substitutes info.  For instance, "nix-env -qas"
  takes a bit longer.

  Abolishing the substitutes table also makes the logic in
  local-store.cc simpler, as we don't need to store info for invalid
  paths.  On the downside, you cannot do things like "nix-store -qR"
  on a substitutable but invalid path (but nobody did that anyway).

* Never catch interrupts (the Interrupted exception).
2007-08-12 00:29:28 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
d71cc503a6 * Don't allocate input files on the stack. 2007-08-07 15:00:13 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
4cad125e08 * Optionally warn about packages that give an assertion failure. 2007-08-06 16:08:09 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
6da6fbfbe9 * Properly keep packages during upgrades. 2007-07-05 20:33:04 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
6d1a1191b0 * Support queryDeriver() in multi-user installations. 2007-06-12 16:53:44 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
9bff7ad728 * Check against creation of GC roots in the store. Those roots don't
work, because findRoots() stops when it encounters a symlink to the
  store.  And of course the store is supposed to be read-only.
2007-06-11 11:36:22 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
bddc83a148 * New builtin function "isFunction". You're not supposed to use it
;-)
* Channels: fix channels that are plain lists of derivations (like
  strategoxt-unstable) instead  of functions (like nixpkgs-unstable).
  This fixes the error message "error: the left-hand side of the
  function call is neither a function nor a primop (built-in
  operation) but a list".
2007-05-16 16:17:04 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
ca00aa1171 * Allow empty argument lists in function definitions (e.g., `{}:
bla').  Also allow trailing commas (`{x, y,}: ...') as a unintented
  consequence.  Hopefully the reduce/reduce conflict won't cause any
  problems.
2007-05-15 12:14:37 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
7046c35843 * Typo (reported by Marc Weber). 2007-05-14 12:16:41 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
e5da9c8803 * Create the database directory if it doesn't exist. 2007-05-07 16:59:19 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
93aefd9fc0 * Give unpacked channels more sensible names than 0, 1, ... They now
get the basename of the channel URL (e.g., nixpkgs-unstable).  The
  top-level Nix expression of the channel is now an attribute set, the
  attributes of which are the individual channels (e.g.,
  {nixpkgs_unstable = ...; strategoxt_unstable = ...}).  This makes
  attribute paths ("nix-env -qaA" and "nix-env -iA") more sensible,
  e.g., "nix-env -iA nixpkgs_unstable.subversion".
2007-05-01 23:16:38 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
a9d15d4f43 * nix-env -i: instead of breaking package ties by version, break them
by priority and version install.  That is, if there are multiple
  packages with the same name, then pick the package with the highest
  priority, and only use the version if there are multiple packages
  with the same priority.

  This makes it possible to mark specific versions/variant in Nixpkgs
  more or less desirable than others.  A typical example would be a
  beta version of some package (e.g., "gcc-4.2.0rc1") which should not
  be installed even though it is the highest version, except when it
  is explicitly selected (e.g., "nix-env -i gcc-4.2.0rc1").

* Idem for nix-env -u, only the semantics are a bit trickier since we
  also need to take into account the priority of the currently
  installed package (we never upgrade to a lower priority, unless
  --always is given).
2007-05-01 20:33:18 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
cbfac2fdcc * Set a terminate() handler to ensure that we leave the BDB
environment cleanly even when an exception is thrown from a
  destructor.  We still crash, but we don't take all other Nix
  processes with us.
2007-05-01 15:16:17 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
644946feed * Make --verify more interruptable. 2007-05-01 13:21:05 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
bd1f66453a * `nix-env -q --xml --meta' to show all meta attributes. 2007-05-01 11:30:52 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
e20f0da22c * Doh. 2007-04-30 18:41:27 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
89c1d2b202 * Package flag "keep" that prevents a package from being removed from
a user environment by an install or upgrade action.  This is
  particularly useful if you have a version installed that you don't
  want to upgrade (e.g., because the newer versions are broken).
  Example:

    $ nix-env -u zapping --dry-run
    (dry run; not doing anything)
    upgrading `zapping-0.9.6' to `zapping-0.10cvs6'

    $ nix-env --set-flag keep true zapping

    $ nix-env -u zapping --dry-run
    (dry run; not doing anything)

  However, "-e" will still uninstall the package.  (Maybe we should
  require the keep flag to be explicitly set to false before it can be
  uninstalled.)
2007-04-27 23:48:14 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
b7f0f65c19 * nix-env -q now has a flag --prebuilt-only (-b<) that causes nix-env
to show only those derivations whose output is already in the Nix
  store or that can be substituted (i.e., downloaded from somewhere).
  In other words, it shows the packages that can be installed “quickly”,
  i.e., don’t need to be built from source.
2007-04-26 14:20:31 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
5f2492eaec * New primop "throw <string>" to throw an error. This is like abort,
only thrown errors are caught by the top-level derivation evaluation
  in nix-env -qa / -i.
2007-04-16 15:03:19 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
0a8eeea9d8 * Remove a warning. 2007-04-16 14:45:25 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
ae7990cc88 * Work around a bug in Apple's GCC preprocessor. 2007-03-30 13:24:35 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
17b506c0c7 * Handle ECONNRESET from the client. Also, don't abort() if there are
unexpected conditions in the SIGPOLL handler, since that messes up
  the Berkeley DB environment (which a client must never be able to
  trigger).
2007-03-28 15:46:21 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
803cb6e3b9 * Override the setuid helper using NIX_SETUID_HELPER. 2007-03-20 22:04:25 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
8ab229ddf2 * Terminate build hooks and substitutes with a TERM signal, not a KILL
signal.  This is necessary because those processes may have joined
  the BDB environment, so they have to be given a chance to clean up.
  (NIX-85)
2007-03-19 12:48:45 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
b2b6cf3fc8 * Undocumented option `gc-check-reachability' to allow reachability
checking to be turned off on machines with way too many roots.
2007-03-19 09:16:47 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
917e06bf63 * Delete the output paths before invoking the build hook. 2007-03-07 15:53:11 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
db1973d012 * Look for the openssl program at compile time. If not found, call
openssl through $PATH at runtime.
2007-03-01 13:30:46 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
b4a040e52b * Don't check the signature unless we have to. 2007-03-01 12:30:24 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
2ea3bebc23 * Doh! The deriver can be empty. 2007-02-27 23:18:57 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
044b6482c1 * Greatly reduced the amount of stack space used by the Nix expression
evaluator.  This was important because the NixOS expressions started
  to hit 2 MB default stack size on Linux.

  GCC is really dumb about stack space: it just adds up all the local
  variables and temporaries of every scope into one huge stack frame.
  This is really bad for deeply recursive functions.  For instance,
  every `throw Error(format("error message"))' causes a format object
  of a few hundred bytes to be allocated on the stack.  As a result,
  every recursive call to evalExpr2() consumed 4680 bytes.  By
  splitting evalExpr2() and by moving the exception-throwing code out
  of the main functions, evalExpr2() now only consumes 40 bytes.
  Similar for evalExpr().
2007-02-27 19:10:45 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
adce01a8d0 * When NIX_SHOW_STATS=1, show the amount of stack space consumed by
the Nix expression evaluator.
2007-02-27 17:28:51 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
ddde8e2f32 * Handle EINTR in select(). 2007-02-22 18:15:29 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
7f6161ab3a * Flush cout to show progress. 2007-02-21 23:08:55 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
0db450024d * Export/import many paths in one go. 2007-02-21 23:00:31 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
9da367b7d5 * `nix-store -qR' and friends: print the paths sorted topologically
under the references relation.  This is useful for commands that
  want to copy paths to another Nix store in the right order.
2007-02-21 22:45:10 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
881feb9698 * Flag --print-invalid' in nix-store --check-validity' to print out
which paths specified on the command line are invalid (i.e., don't
  barf when encountering an invalid path, just print it).  This is
  useful for build-remote.pl to figure out which paths need to be
  copied to a remote machine.  (Currently we use rsync, but that's
  rather inefficient.)
2007-02-21 17:57:59 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
65f195f4c7 * Check that the file containing the secret key is secret. 2007-02-21 17:51:10 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
bdadb98de8 * `nix-store --import' now also works in remote mode. The worker
always requires a signature on the archive.  This is to ensure that
  unprivileged users cannot add Trojan horses to the Nix store.
2007-02-21 17:34:02 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
0f5da8a83c * Support exportPath() in remote mode. 2007-02-21 16:34:00 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
dc7d594776 * importPath(): set the deriver.
* exportPath(): lock the path, use a transaction.
2007-02-21 16:23:25 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
43c4d18c6a * nix-store --import': import an archive created by nix-store
--export' into the Nix store, and optionally check the cryptographic
  signatures against /nix/etc/nix/signing-key.pub.  (TODO: verify
  against a set of public keys.)
2007-02-21 15:45:32 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
46e0919ced * `nix-store --export --sign': sign the Nix archive using the RSA key
in /nix/etc/nix/signing-key.sec
2007-02-21 14:31:42 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
b824a1daee * Start of `nix-store --export' operation for serialising a store
path.  This is like `nix-store --dump', only it also dumps the
  meta-information of the store path (references, deriver).  Will add
  a `--sign' flag later to add a cryptographic signature, which we
  will use for exchanging store paths between build farm machines in a
  secure manner.
2007-02-20 23:17:20 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
46605fb4f5 * Fix 64-bit compiler warnings. 2007-02-06 20:03:53 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
451dbf687f * nix-env now maintains meta info (from the `meta' derivation
attribute) about installed packages in user environments.  Thus, an
  operation like `nix-env -q --description' shows useful information
  not only on available packages but also on installed packages.

* nix-env now passes the entire manifest as an argument to the Nix
  expression of the user environment builder (not just a list of
  paths), so that in particular the user environment builder has
  access to the meta attributes.
  
* New operation `--set-flag' in nix-env to change meta info of
  installed packages.  This will be useful to pass per-package
  policies to the user environment builder (e.g., how to resolve
  collision or whether to disable a package (NIX-80)) or upgrade
  policies in nix-env (e.g., that a package should be "masked", that
  is, left untouched by upgrade actions).  Example:

  $ nix-env --set-flag enabled false ghc-6.4
2007-02-02 01:52:42 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
f52de527c7 * Doh! 2007-01-29 15:55:49 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
b618fa6eb6 * computeStorePathForText: take the references into account when
computing the store path (NIX-77).  This is an important security
  property in multi-user Nix stores.

  Note that this changes the store paths of derivations (since the
  derivation aterms are added using addTextToStore), but not most
  outputs (unless they use builtins.toFile).
2007-01-29 15:51:37 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
c558b1583c * Don't capitalise the primop functions. 2007-01-29 15:15:37 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
18e6096105 * Organise primops.cc a bit better. 2007-01-29 15:11:32 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
7349bd0176 New primitives:
* `sub' to subtract two numbers.
* `stringLength' to get the length of a string.
* `substring' to get a substring of a string.  These should be enough
  to allow most string operations to be expressed.
2007-01-29 14:23:09 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
7dedbd896a * filterSource: pass strings to the predicate function instead of
paths.  Paths can have unexpected semantics.
2007-01-29 13:32:50 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
84a84afb0e * Nasty: Glibc clears the TMPDIR environment variable in setuid
programs, so if a builder uses TMPDIR, then it will fail when
  executed through nix-setuid-helper.  In fact Glibc clears a whole
  bunch of variables (see sysdeps/generic/unsecvars.h in the Glibc
  sources), but only TMPDIR should matter in practice.  As a
  workaround, we reinitialise TMPDIR from NIX_BUILD_TOP.
2007-01-24 13:31:20 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
fac63d6416 * exportReferencesGraph: work on paths within store paths as well. 2007-01-23 16:57:43 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
71ceb1c161 * Handle multiple indirect symlinks when loading a Nix expression. 2007-01-15 14:50:25 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
e4b0666f8e * builtins.filterSource: pass the type of the file ("regular",
"directory", "symlink") as the second argument to the filter
  predicate.
2007-01-15 08:54:51 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
63f3ce6d9a * `nix-store --verify': revive checking the referrers table. This is
important to get garbage collection to work if there is any
  inconsistency in the database (because the referrer table is used to
  determine whether it is safe to delete a path).
* `nix-store --verify': show some progress.
2007-01-14 17:28:30 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
8f67b35886 * Make the garbage collector more resilient to certain consistency
errors: in-use paths now cause a warning, not a fatal error.
2007-01-14 16:24:49 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
e418976107 * Option --argstr for passing string arguments easily. (NIX-75) 2007-01-14 12:32:44 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
afe23b5f38 * nix-pack-closure: store the top-level store paths in the closure.
* nix-unpack-closure: extract the top-level paths from the closure and
  print them on stdout.  This allows them to be installed, e.g.,
  "nix-env -i $(nix-unpack-closure)".  (NIX-64)
2007-01-13 19:50:42 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
f25f900045 * Allow multiple --attr / -A arguments in nix-build / nix-instantiate
(NIX-74).
2007-01-13 18:25:30 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
215505bb46 * Removed chroot support. 2007-01-13 17:54:01 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
f23dcdd603 * Canonicalise ASTs in `nix-instantiate --eval': remove position
info, sort attribute sets.
2007-01-13 16:17:07 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
05879db628 * Memoize strict evaluation. 2007-01-13 15:41:54 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
5011588459 * printTermAsXML: treat derivations specially; emit an element
<derivation outPath=... drvPath=...> attrs </derivation>.  Only emit
  the attributes of any specific derivation only.  This prevents
  exponententially large XML output due to the absense of sharing.
2007-01-13 15:11:10 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
792878af91 * Make printing an expression as XML interruptible. 2007-01-13 14:48:41 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
11158028be * Cleanup. 2007-01-13 14:21:49 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
1073b1780a * Remove debug message. 2006-12-13 14:29:05 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
a3e6415ba8 * New primop builtins.filterSource, which can be used to filter files
from a source directory.  All files for which a predicate function
  returns true are copied to the store.  Typical example is to leave
  out the .svn directory:

    stdenv.mkDerivation {
      ...
      src = builtins.filterSource
        (path: baseNameOf (toString path) != ".svn")
        ./source-dir;
      # as opposed to
      #   src = ./source-dir;
    }

  This is important because the .svn directory influences the hash in
  a rather unpredictable and variable way.
2006-12-12 23:05:01 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
b438d37558 * In dumpPath(): pass a function object that allows files to be
selectively in/excluded from the dump.
2006-12-12 21:51:02 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
7ace29dae7 * New operation `nix-env --set' which sets a user environment to a
single derivation specified by the argument.  This is useful when we
  want to have a profile for a single derivation, such as a server
  configuration.  Then we can just say (e.g.)

  $ nix-env -p /.../server-profile -f server.nix --set -A server

  We can't do queries or upgrades on such a profile, but we can do
  rollbacks.  The advantage over -i is that we don't have to worry
  about other packages having been installed in the profile
  previously; --set gets rid of them.
2006-12-12 19:06:02 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
1a7e88bbd9 * New built-in function `builtins.attrNames' that returns the
names of the attributes in an attribute set.
2006-12-12 16:14:31 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
b17677462c * Use lchown() instead of chown() in canonicalisePathMetaData(). This
matters when running as root, since then we don't use the setuid
  helper (which already used lchown()).
  
* Also check for an obscure security problem on platforms that don't
  have lchown.  Then we can't change the ownership of symlinks, which
  doesn't matter *except* when the containing directory is writable by
  the owner (which is the case with the top-level Nix store directory).
2006-12-09 20:02:27 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
5f681988f2 * Use deletePathWrapped() in more places. 2006-12-09 00:26:24 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
fa33303146 * Goal cancellation inside the waitForInput() loop needs to be handled
very carefully, since it can invalidate iterators into the
  `children' map.
2006-12-08 18:41:48 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
06c4929958 * Some refactoring.
* Throw more exceptions as BuildErrors instead of Errors.  This
  matters when --keep-going is turned on.  (A BuildError is caught
  and terminates the goal in question, an Error terminates the
  program.)
2006-12-08 17:26:21 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
9dbfe242e3 * Kill a build if it has gone for more than a certain number of
seconds without producing output on stdout or stderr (NIX-65).  This
  timeout can be specified using the `--max-silent-time' option or the
  `build-max-silent-time' configuration setting.  The default is
  infinity (0).

* Fix a tricky race condition: if we kill the build user before the
  child has done its setuid() to the build user uid, then it won't be
  killed, and we'll potentially lock up in pid.wait().  So also send a
  conventional kill to the child.
2006-12-08 15:44:00 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
d3fe6ab024 * Also for convenience, change the ownership of the build output even
in case of failure.
2006-12-08 00:19:50 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
096194ab29 * Remove ancient terminology. 2006-12-07 23:58:36 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
6833e8bbe8 * When keeping the temporary build directory (-K), change the owner
back to the Nix account.
2006-12-07 23:27:40 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
e24d0201c2 * Doh! 2006-12-07 22:07:05 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
2819eb36a4 * Be less verbose. 2006-12-07 21:43:35 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
4ca01065c3 * Rename all those main.cc files. 2006-12-07 20:47:30 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
d03f0d4117 * Check for lchown. 2006-12-07 18:51:11 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
c3286ec020 * Don't count on the Pid deconstructor to kill the child process,
since if we're running a build user in non-root mode, we can't.  Let
  the setuid helper do it.
2006-12-07 17:52:58 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
a82d80ddeb * Move setuidCleanup() to libutil. 2006-12-07 16:40:41 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
f76fdb6d42 * If not running as root, let the setuid helper kill the build user's
processes before and after the build.
2006-12-07 16:33:31 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
ec23ecc64d * In the garbage collector, if deleting a path fails, try to fix its
ownership, then try again.
2006-12-07 15:54:52 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
a0a43c3206 * When not running as root, call the setuid helper to change the
ownership of the build result after the build.
2006-12-07 15:18:14 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
6a07ff1ec0 * Change the ownership of store paths to the Nix account before
deleting them using the setuid helper.
2006-12-07 14:14:35 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
7d8cf316ee * Pass the actual build user to the setuid helper. 2006-12-07 11:27:32 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
a45c498e4e * If Nix is not running as root, call the setuid helper to start the
builder under the desired build user.
2006-12-07 00:42:30 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
813a7c65c9 * Sanity check. 2006-12-07 00:19:27 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
6a8e60913a * Move killUser() to libutil so that the setuid helper can use it. 2006-12-07 00:16:07 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
79875c5e42 * Change the ownership of the current directory to the build user. 2006-12-06 23:52:25 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
62ab131412 * Verify that the desired target user is in the build users group (as
specified in the setuid config file).
2006-12-06 23:15:26 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
f07ac41656 * Check that the caller is allowed to call the setuid helper. The
allowed uid is specified in a configuration file in
  /etc/nix-setuid.conf.
2006-12-06 22:45:41 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
ef281b93c2 * Fix the safety check. 2006-12-06 20:18:29 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
6e5ec1029a * Get rid of `build-users'. We'll just take all the members of
`build-users-group'.  This makes configuration easier: you can just
  add users in /etc/group.
2006-12-06 20:00:15 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
751f6d2157 * nix-setuid-helper: allow running programs under a different uid. 2006-12-06 17:29:10 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
9f0efa6611 * Start of the setuid helper (the program that performs the operations
that have to be done as root: running builders under different uids,
  changing ownership of build results, and deleting paths in the store
  with the wrong ownership).
2006-12-06 01:24:02 +00:00