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Eelco Dolstra
2b70a8e7c9 * Detect whether unshare() is available. 2008-12-12 13:41:36 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
9122dcecbb * We can't use string objects in signal handlers because they might
allocate memory, which is verboten in signal handlers.  This caused
  random failures in the test suite on Mac OS X (triggered by the spurious
  SIGPOLL signals on Mac OS X, which should also be fixed).
2008-12-12 12:59:27 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
6776a52bb3 * Use a PathSet for the chroot directories so that we don't
accidentally bind-mount a directory twice.
2008-12-12 11:49:42 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
d86bd22d24 * Define _GNU_SOURCE. Hopefully this fixes the build on Debian 4.0
(http://hydra.nixos.org/nixlog/384/1).
2008-12-12 10:20:19 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
ac5478eb52 * Don't provide the whole Nix store in the chroot, but only the
closure of the inputs.  This really enforces that there can't be any
  undeclared dependencies on paths in the store.  This is done by
  creating a fake Nix store and creating bind-mounts or hard-links in
  the fake store for all paths in the closure.  After the build, the
  build output is moved from the fake store to the real store.  TODO:
  the chroot has to be on the same filesystem as the Nix store for
  this to work, but this isn't enforced yet.  (I.e. it only works
  currently if /tmp is on the same FS as /nix/store.)
2008-12-11 18:57:10 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
652817046b * Revert r13150: now that we use private namespaces for the chroot, we
don't have to put the chroot in /nix/var/nix/chroots anymore.
  They're back in /tmp now.
2008-12-11 17:52:34 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
5a569509b4 * Provide a minimal /etc/passwd in the chroot to keep some builders
happy.
2008-12-11 17:44:02 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
7c54f1603f * Do chroot builds in a private namespace. This means that all the
bind-mounts we do are only visible to the builder process and its
  children.  So accidentally doing "rm -rf" on the chroot directory
  won't wipe out /nix/store and other bind-mounted directories
  anymore.  Also, the bind-mounts in the private namespace disappear
  automatically when the builder exits.
2008-12-11 17:00:12 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
07cdfb09fb * Open the connection to the daemon lazily (on demand) so that
read-only operations (like nix-env -qa) work properly when the
  daemon isn't running.
2008-12-11 14:30:25 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
a0766eca27 * Build on Debian 4.0 (GCC 4.1.1). 2008-12-04 21:07:29 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
cd16d5dc3d * Doh. 2008-12-04 17:56:12 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
5b949241a5 * Build some 64-bit RPMs/Debs. 2008-12-04 17:54:14 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
67958f21df * Be sure to clean up the daemon if the test fails. 2008-12-04 16:55:22 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
d91dc086bb 2008-12-04 16:51:36 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
9ac3f5df9c * Propagate --max-silent-time to remote machines. 2008-12-04 16:51:16 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
bcfe98acff * Prefer building on a remote machine over a local machine. This
makes more sense for the build farm, otherwise every nix-store
  invocation will lead to at least one local build.  Will come up with
  a better solution later...
2008-12-04 16:35:47 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
9850262a72 * Build RPMs, Debs, coverage analysis. 2008-12-04 15:25:28 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
909fbb9de1 * When using build hooks, for any nix-store -r build operation, it is
necessary that at least one build hook doesn't return "postpone",
  otherwise nix-store will barf ("waiting for a build slot, yet there
  are no running children").  So inform the build hook when this is
  the case, so that it can start a build even when that would exceed
  the maximum load on a machine.
2008-12-04 14:29:41 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
5dfba0b4db * Force allocation of a pseudo-terminal to clean up the remote
nix-store process when the connection is interrupted.
2008-12-04 13:36:52 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
9ccdb80de3 * Don't ignore errors from writing to stderr. That way, when
nix-store -r (or some other operation) is started via ssh, it will
  at least have a chance of terminating quickly when the connection is
  killed.  Right now it just runs to completion, because it never
  notices that stderr is no longer connected to anything.  Of course
  it would be better if sshd would just send a SIGHUP, but it doesn't
  (https://bugzilla.mindrot.org/show_bug.cgi?id=396).
2008-12-04 13:13:31 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
9fd9c4c635 * Support multiple system types per remote machine, e.g. a machine
list like

    root@example.org x86_64-linux /root/.ssh/id_buildfarm 1
    root@example.org i686-darwin  /root/.ssh/id_buildfarm 1

  This is possible when the Nix installation on example.org itself has
  remote builds enabled.
2008-12-04 12:20:06 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
63b8f09d8d 2008-12-04 10:45:47 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
f8713e1287 * Dirty hack to make nix-push work properly on derivations: the
derivation should be a source rather than a derivation dependency of
  the call to the NAR derivation.  Otherwise the derivation (and all
  its dependencies) will be built as a side-effect, which may not even
  succeed.
2008-12-04 10:40:41 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
82ae85de27 * addToStore() in nix-worker: don't write the NAR dump received from
the client to a temporary directory, as that is highly inefficient.
2008-12-03 18:05:14 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
5eaf644c99 * A simple API for parsing NAR archives. 2008-12-03 17:30:32 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
cdee317419 * Backwards compatibility. 2008-12-03 17:02:29 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
d95b68fde3 2008-12-03 16:15:38 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
ff762fb499 * Pass HashType values instead of strings. 2008-12-03 16:10:17 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
1307b22223 * Made addToStore() a lot more efficient: it no longer reads the path
being copied 3 times in the worst case.  It doesn't run in constant space,
  but it didn't do that anyway.
2008-12-03 15:51:17 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
64519cfd65 * Unify the treatment of sources copied to the store, and recursive
SHA-256 outputs of fixed-output derivations.  I.e. they now produce
  the same store path:

  $ nix-store --add x
  /nix/store/j2fq9qxvvxgqymvpszhs773ncci45xsj-x

  $ nix-store --add-fixed --recursive sha256 x
  /nix/store/j2fq9qxvvxgqymvpszhs773ncci45xsj-x

  the latter being the same as the path that a derivation

    derivation {
      name = "x";
      outputHashAlgo = "sha256";
      outputHashMode = "recursive";
      outputHash = "...";
      ...
    };

  produces.

  This does change the output path for such fixed-output derivations.
  Fortunately they are quite rare.  The most common use is fetchsvn
  calls with SHA-256 hashes.  (There are a handful of those is
  Nixpkgs, mostly unstable development packages.)
  
* Documented the computation of store paths (in store-api.cc).
2008-12-03 15:06:30 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
09bc0c502c * Install the release notes. 2008-11-29 00:31:39 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
5d4eb9dd07 * Moved the build farm job for building Nix to the Nix tree. 2008-11-26 01:13:29 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
0c478d2f4d * Ignore carriage returns. 2008-11-25 02:30:35 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
5024bde8f4 * Handle prematurely ended logfiles, i.e. make sure we emit enough
close tags.
2008-11-25 01:06:15 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
2ab09a55cf * Bump the version number. 2008-11-20 21:51:58 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
6bbff48079 2008-11-20 17:22:42 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
b8eb32f4d2 * Urgh. 2008-11-20 16:42:52 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
bba87589cc 2008-11-20 16:28:04 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
f3e2e6076a 2008-11-20 16:10:55 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
53cca4a445 2008-11-20 16:06:13 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
4213b8d8ec * Urgh. 2008-11-20 15:44:59 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
eb86b6f5a5 2008-11-20 15:08:39 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
3d2035ea86 * Blindly doing a replacement of occurences of $bindir (when running
the tests) is a bad idea when $bindir = /usr and some programs (like
  perl) live there.  Fortunately it doesn't seem to be needed anymore.
2008-11-20 15:08:34 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
285d26374a * Don't set the prefix to /nix by default, rather use the Autoconf
default of /usr/local.  However, localstatedir and storedir are set
  to /nix/var/nix and /nix/store respectively unless they're
  explicitly overriden.
2008-11-20 14:14:35 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
a55113411f * Nix daemon: reload the configuration file after forking (NIX-100). 2008-11-20 12:25:11 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
c202523e53 2008-11-20 12:01:05 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
aab530e971 * Primop builtins.storePath for declaring a store path as a
dependency.  `storePath /nix/store/bla' gives exactly the same
  result as `toPath /nix/store/bla', except that the former includes
  /nix/store/bla in the dependency context of the string.

  Useful in some generated Nix expressions like nix-push, which now
  finally does the right thing wrt distributed builds.  (Previously
  the path to be packed wasn't an explicit dependency, so it wouldn't
  be copied to the remote machine.)
2008-11-19 23:26:19 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
60564410ef * Patterns. 2008-11-19 17:50:25 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
2668a43388 2008-11-19 17:27:52 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
63ccd72496 * Updated the manual. 2008-11-19 17:00:32 +00:00