nix-super/src
Maximilian Bosch 93a8a005de
libstore/openStore: fix stores with IPv6 addresses
In `nixStable` (2.3.7 to be precise) it's possible to connect to stores
using an IPv6 address:

  nix ping-store --store ssh://root@2001:db8::1

This is also useful for `nixops(1)` where you could specify an IPv6
address in `deployment.targetHost`.

However, this behavior is broken on `nixUnstable` and fails with the
following error:

  $ nix store ping --store ssh://root@2001:db8::1
  don't know how to open Nix store 'ssh://root@2001:db8::1'

This happened because `openStore` from `libstore` uses the `parseURL`
function from `libfetchers` which expects a valid URL as defined in
RFC2732. However, this is unsupported by `ssh(1)`:

  $ nix store ping --store 'ssh://root@[2001:db8::1]'
  cannot connect to 'root@[2001:db8::1]'

This patch now allows both ways of specifying a store (`root@2001:db8::1`) and
also `root@[2001:db8::1]` since the latter one is useful to pass query
parameters to the remote store.

In order to achieve this, the following changes were made:

* The URL regex from `url-parts.hh` now allows an IPv6 address in the
  form `2001:db8::1` and also `[2001:db8::1]`.

* In `libstore`, a new function named `extractConnStr` ensures that a
  proper URL is passed to e.g. `ssh(1)`:

  * If a URL looks like either `[2001:db8::1]` or `root@[2001:db8::1]`,
    the brackets will be removed using a regex. No additional validation
    is done here as only strings parsed by `parseURL` are expected.

  * In any other case, the string will be left untouched.

* The rules above only apply for `LegacySSHStore` and `SSHStore` (a.k.a
  `ssh://` and `ssh-ng://`).

Unresolved questions:

* I'm not really sure whether we want to allow both variants of IPv6
  addresses in the URL parser. However it should be noted that both seem
  to be possible according to RFC2732:

  > This document incudes an update to the generic syntax for Uniform
  > Resource Identifiers defined in RFC 2396 [URL].  It defines a syntax
  > for IPv6 addresses and allows the use of "[" and "]" within a URI
  > explicitly for this reserved purpose.

* Currently, it's not supported to specify a port number behind the
  hostname, however it seems as this is not really supported by the URL
  parser. Hence, this is probably out of scope here.
2020-12-09 12:23:29 +01:00
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build-remote Lower verbosity for 'Failed to find a machine' message 2020-12-01 13:43:36 +01:00
cpptoml Revert the enum struct change 2020-06-18 22:11:26 +00:00
libexpr Remove 'dist' target 2020-12-03 16:17:58 +01:00
libfetchers fetchMercurial: set HGPLAIN when invoking hg 2020-11-23 16:12:33 +00:00
libmain Ask for confirmation before allowing flake Nix configuration settings 2020-11-26 12:37:23 +01:00
libstore libstore/openStore: fix stores with IPv6 addresses 2020-12-09 12:23:29 +01:00
libutil libstore/openStore: fix stores with IPv6 addresses 2020-12-09 12:23:29 +01:00
nix Split 'nix store add-to-store' into 'add-path' and 'add-file' 2020-12-04 00:59:24 +01:00
nix-build nix-build: Fix #4197 output order regression 2020-11-13 17:49:27 +01:00
nix-channel Remove static variable name clashes 2020-10-06 13:49:20 +02:00
nix-collect-garbage Remove static variable name clashes 2020-10-06 13:49:20 +02:00
nix-copy-closure Remove static variable name clashes 2020-10-06 13:49:20 +02:00
nix-daemon Remove static variable name clashes 2020-10-06 13:49:20 +02:00
nix-env Split out local-fs-store.hh 2020-10-09 20:18:08 +00:00
nix-instantiate Split out local-fs-store.hh 2020-10-09 20:18:08 +00:00
nix-prefetch-url Remove static variable name clashes 2020-10-06 13:49:20 +02:00
nix-store Allow substituting paths when building remotely using ssh-ng:// 2020-11-05 20:12:37 +01:00
resolve-system-dependencies lstat() cleanup 2020-09-23 19:17:28 +02:00