Allow substituting paths when building remotely using ssh-ng://

Until now, it was not possible to substitute missing paths from e.g.
`https://cache.nixos.org` on a remote server when building on it using
the new `ssh-ng` protocol.

This is because every store implementation except legacy `ssh://`
ignores the substitution flag passed to `Store::queryValidPaths` while
the `legacy-ssh-store` substitutes the remote store using
`cmdQueryValidPaths` when the remote store is opened with `nix-store
--serve`.

This patch slightly modifies the daemon protocol to allow passing an
integer value suggesting whether to substitute missing paths during
`wopQueryValidPaths`. To implement this on the daemon-side, the
substitution logic from `nix-store --serve` has been moved into a
protected method named `Store::substitutePaths` which gets currently
called from `LocalStore::queryValidPaths` and `Store::queryValidPaths`
if `maybeSubstitute` is `true`.

Fixes #2770

flake.nix

@@ -12,7 +12,7 @@
       versionSuffix =
         if officialRelease
         then ""
-        else "pre${builtins.substring 0 8 (self.lastModifiedDate or self.lastModified)}_${self.shortRev or "dirty"}";
+        else "pre${builtins.substring 0 8 (self.lastModifiedDate or self.lastModified or "19700101")}_${self.shortRev or "dirty"}";
 
       officialRelease = false;
 
@@ -117,6 +117,7 @@
 
         nix = with final; with commonDeps pkgs; (stdenv.mkDerivation {
           name = "nix-${version}";
+          inherit version;
 
           src = self;
 

src/libstore/daemon.cc

@@ -274,8 +274,17 @@ static void performOp(TunnelLogger * logger, ref<Store> store,
 
     case wopQueryValidPaths: {
         auto paths = worker_proto::read(*store, from, Phantom<StorePathSet> {});
+
+        SubstituteFlag substitute = NoSubstitute;
+        if (GET_PROTOCOL_MINOR(clientVersion) >= 27) {
+            substitute = readInt(from) ? Substitute : NoSubstitute;
+        }
+
         logger->startWork();
-        auto res = store->queryValidPaths(paths);
+        if (substitute) {
+            store->substitutePaths(paths);
+        }
+        auto res = store->queryValidPaths(paths, substitute);
         logger->stopWork();
         worker_proto::write(*store, to, res);
         break;

src/libstore/remote-store.cc

@@ -259,6 +259,9 @@ StorePathSet RemoteStore::queryValidPaths(const StorePathSet & paths, Substitute
     } else {
         conn->to << wopQueryValidPaths;
         worker_proto::write(*this, conn->to, paths);
+        if (GET_PROTOCOL_MINOR(conn->daemonVersion) >= 27) {
+            conn->to << (settings.buildersUseSubstitutes ? 1 : 0);
+        }
         conn.processStderr();
         return worker_proto::read(*this, conn->from, Phantom<StorePathSet> {});
     }

src/libstore/store-api.cc

@@ -522,6 +522,28 @@ void Store::queryPathInfo(const StorePath & storePath,
 }
 
 
+void Store::substitutePaths(const StorePathSet & paths)
+{
+    std::vector<StorePathWithOutputs> paths2;
+    for (auto & path : paths)
+        if (!path.isDerivation())
+            paths2.push_back({path});
+    uint64_t downloadSize, narSize;
+    StorePathSet willBuild, willSubstitute, unknown;
+    queryMissing(paths2,
+        willBuild, willSubstitute, unknown, downloadSize, narSize);
+
+    if (!willSubstitute.empty())
+        try {
+            std::vector<StorePathWithOutputs> subs;
+            for (auto & p : willSubstitute) subs.push_back({p});
+            buildPaths(subs);
+        } catch (Error & e) {
+            logWarning(e.info());
+        }
+}
+
+
 StorePathSet Store::queryValidPaths(const StorePathSet & paths, SubstituteFlag maybeSubstitute)
 {
     struct State

src/libstore/store-api.hh

@@ -360,6 +360,11 @@ protected:
 
 public:
 
+    /* If requested, substitute missing paths. This
+       implements nix-copy-closure's --use-substitutes
+       flag. */
+    void substitutePaths(const StorePathSet & paths);
+
     /* Query which of the given paths is valid. Optionally, try to
        substitute missing paths. */
     virtual StorePathSet queryValidPaths(const StorePathSet & paths,

src/libstore/worker-protocol.hh

@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@ namespace nix {
 #define WORKER_MAGIC_1 0x6e697863
 #define WORKER_MAGIC_2 0x6478696f
 
-#define PROTOCOL_VERSION 0x11a
+#define PROTOCOL_VERSION 0x11b
 #define GET_PROTOCOL_MAJOR(x) ((x) & 0xff00)
 #define GET_PROTOCOL_MINOR(x) ((x) & 0x00ff)
 

src/nix-store/nix-store.cc

@@ -830,29 +830,8 @@ static void opServe(Strings opFlags, Strings opArgs)
                     for (auto & path : paths)
                         store->addTempRoot(path);
 
-                /* If requested, substitute missing paths. This
-                   implements nix-copy-closure's --use-substitutes
-                   flag. */
                 if (substitute && writeAllowed) {
-                    /* Filter out .drv files (we don't want to build anything). */
+                    store->substitutePaths(paths);
-                    std::vector<StorePathWithOutputs> paths2;
-                    for (auto & path : paths)
-                        if (!path.isDerivation())
-                            paths2.push_back({path});
-                    uint64_t downloadSize, narSize;
-                    StorePathSet willBuild, willSubstitute, unknown;
-                    store->queryMissing(paths2,
-                        willBuild, willSubstitute, unknown, downloadSize, narSize);
-                    /* FIXME: should use ensurePath(), but it only
-                       does one path at a time. */
-                    if (!willSubstitute.empty())
-                        try {
-                            std::vector<StorePathWithOutputs> subs;
-                            for (auto & p : willSubstitute) subs.push_back({p});
-                            store->buildPaths(subs);
-                        } catch (Error & e) {
-                            logWarning(e.info());
-                        }
                 }
 
                 worker_proto::write(*store, out, store->queryValidPaths(paths));