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Charles Strahan 9c6328a7bf nix-env: document --set option 2015-05-19 11:00:15 +02:00
Christian Theune 3d83188702 Enable lazy/sparse allocation of generation symlinks: avoid creating
new generations if a generation already exists.

Alternatively or additionally I propose a mode where only the *last* generation will be sparse.
2015-05-18 08:38:49 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra a010c0ae05 Fix "error: deriver of path ‘’ is not known" 2015-05-13 18:03:22 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra 9233ac7c56 Merge pull request #537 from garbas/master
cygwin fixes
2015-05-13 10:30:30 +02:00
Rok Garbas dad754843a cygwin: looks like stdout/stdin are reserved words 2015-05-13 09:37:56 +02:00
Rok Garbas 000de699e9 cygwin: explicitly include required c headers 2015-05-13 09:37:12 +02:00
Shea Levy 71083f9e5e Don't try to map /bin/sh to a store path on non-Linux 2015-05-12 16:36:15 -04:00
Luca Bruno 8972f7c14a nix-collect-garbage: Do not pass an empty argument. Closes #530 2015-05-06 15:17:23 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra 6519f06f39 nix-env/nix-instantiate/nix-build: Support URIs
For instance, you can install Firefox from a specific Nixpkgs revision
like this:

  $ nix-env -f 63def04891.tar.gz -iA firefox

Or build a package from the latest nixpkgs-unstable channel:

  $ nix-build https://nixos.org/channels/nixpkgs-unstable/nixexprs.tar.xz -A hello
2015-05-06 14:54:31 +02:00
William A. Kennington III 0705d04dfa nix-collect-garbage: Fix deleting old generations
The call to nix-env expects a string which represents how old the
derivations are or just "old" which means any generations other than
the current one in use. Currently nix-collect-garbage passes an empty
string to nix-env when using the -d option. This patch corrects the call
to nix-env such that it follows the old behavior.
2015-05-06 11:02:36 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra 9451ef3731 Allow URLs in the Nix search path
E.g. to install "hello" from the latest Nixpkgs:

  $ nix-build '<nixpkgs>' -A hello -I nixpkgs=https://nixos.org/channels/nixpkgs-unstable/nixexprs.tar.xz

Or to install a specific version of NixOS:

  $ nixos-rebuild switch -I nixpkgs=63def04891.tar.gz
2015-05-05 17:09:42 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra 35d30d67eb Make downloads interruptable 2015-05-05 14:39:48 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra deb8668a0e nix-shell: Fix uninitialized value warning 2015-05-05 14:19:58 +02:00
aszlig 1f795f9f44
tests: Fix wrong channel name in nix-channel.sh.
The $channelName variable passed to the channel builder is the last
portion of the URL and while that works in the previous test for
channels prior to #519, it doesn't work if the last portion is
nixexprs.tar.bz2.

Signed-off-by: aszlig <aszlig@redmoonstudios.org>
2015-04-29 03:18:32 +02:00
Shea Levy 96dcc006e9 Merge branch 'nix-channel-tarballs' of git://github.com/copumpkin/nix 2015-04-27 19:07:43 -04:00
Eelco Dolstra 4bbcfaf87f Merge pull request #522 from lethalman/nix-collect-garbage
nix-collect-garbage: translate to C++
2015-04-22 19:36:52 +02:00
Luca Bruno ab2b3d6668 nix-collect-garbage: translate to C++ 2015-04-22 15:08:48 +00:00
Dan Peebles 8a84bd8c8b Support tarballs in nix channel URLs 2015-04-20 00:34:29 -04:00
Shea Levy 4d652875bd Add the pre-build hook.
This hook can be used to set system-specific per-derivation build
settings that don't fit into the derivation model and are too complex or
volatile to be hard-coded into nix. Currently, the pre-build hook can
only add chroot dirs/files through the interface, but it also has full
access to the chroot root.

The specific use case for this is systems where the operating system ABI
is more complex than just the kernel-support system calls. For example,
on OS X there is a set of system-provided frameworks that can reliably
be accessed by any program linked to them, no matter the version the
program is running on. Unfortunately, those frameworks do not
necessarily live in the same locations on each version of OS X, nor do
their dependencies, and thus nix needs to know the specific version of
OS X currently running in order to make those frameworks available. The
pre-build hook is a perfect mechanism for doing just that.
2015-04-18 16:56:02 -04:00
Shea Levy fd6774e285 Revert "Add the pre-build hook."
Going to reimplement differently.

This reverts commit 1e4a4a2e9f.
2015-04-18 14:59:58 -04:00
Shea Levy 9b1866b721 Merge branch 'add-manpath' of git://github.com/mmerickel/nix 2015-04-16 21:57:41 -04:00
Eelco Dolstra 035aeb9547 Fix using restricted mode with chroots 2015-04-16 18:46:17 +02:00
Michael Merickel 76f985b92d add the manpath to the installer 2015-04-12 20:30:47 -04:00
Shea Levy 1e4a4a2e9f Add the pre-build hook.
This hook can be used to set system specific per-derivation build
settings that don't fit into the derivation model and are too complex or
volatile to be hard-coded into nix. Currently, the pre-build hook can
only add chroot dirs/files.

The specific use case for this is systems where the operating system ABI
is more complex than just the kernel-supported system calls. For
example, on OS X there is a set of system-provided frameworks that can
reliably be accessed by any program linked to them, no matter the
version the program is running on. Unfortunately, those frameworks do
not necessarily live in the same locations on each version of OS X, nor
do their dependencies, and thus nix needs to know the specific version
of OS X currently running in order to make those frameworks available.
The pre-build hook is a perfect mechanism for doing just that.
2015-04-12 12:56:38 -04:00
Eelco Dolstra 4ed2187377 Use cached result if there is a network error 2015-04-09 12:49:13 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra 1fc905ad4c Move curl stuff into a separate file 2015-04-09 12:12:50 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra c1f04fae35 Implement a TTL on cached fetchurl/fetchTarball results
This is because we don't want to do HTTP requests on every evaluation,
even though we can prevent a full redownload via the cached ETag. The
default is one hour.
2015-04-09 11:55:36 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra 60340ce3e2 Implement caching of fetchurl/fetchTarball results
ETags are used to prevent redownloading unchanged files.
2015-04-09 11:42:04 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra 1711679ea5 Revert /nix/store permission back to 01775
This broke NixOS VM tests.

Mostly reverts 27b7b94923,
5ce50cd99e,
afa433e58c.
2015-04-07 13:21:26 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra afa433e58c Chroot builds: Provide world-readable /nix/store
This was causing NixOS VM tests to fail mysteriously since
5ce50cd99e. Nscd could (sometimes) no
longer read /etc/hosts:

open("/etc/hosts", O_RDONLY|O_CLOEXEC) = -1 EACCES (Permission denied)

Probably there was some wacky interaction between the guest kernel and
the 9pfs implementation in QEMU.
2015-04-02 16:59:40 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra be1ff23352 Add dependency on libcurl-dev
http://hydra.nixos.org/eval/1179370
2015-03-27 12:27:36 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra 000b5a000f Add fetchTarball builtin
This function downloads and unpacks the given URL at evaluation
time. This is primarily intended to make it easier to deal with Nix
expressions that have external dependencies. For instance, to fetch
Nixpkgs 14.12:

  with import (fetchTarball https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs-channels/archive/nixos-14.12.tar.gz) {};

Or to fetch a specific revision:

  with import (fetchTarball 2766a4b44e.tar.gz) {};

This patch also adds a ‘fetchurl’ builtin that downloads but doesn't
unpack its argument. Not sure if it's useful though.
2015-03-25 17:29:09 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra 7ea6ecf855 addToStore(): Take explicit name argument 2015-03-25 17:06:12 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra 5114a07d95 Improve setting the default chroot dirs 2015-03-24 11:57:46 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra fd89f97be9 Add the closure of store paths to the chroot
Thus, for example, to get /bin/sh in a chroot, you only need to
specify /bin/sh=${pkgs.bash}/bin/sh in build-chroot-dirs. The
dependencies of sh will be added automatically.
2015-03-24 11:52:34 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra 5ce50cd99e Tighten permissions on chroot directories 2015-03-24 11:35:53 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra 6f0c6e20e0 Don't rely on __noChroot for corepkgs
This doesn't work anymore if the "strict" chroot mode is
enabled. Instead, add Nix's store path as a dependency. This ensures
that its closure is present in the chroot.
2015-03-24 11:15:45 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra b005e63ccf Disable scanning for interior pointers
This may remove the "Repeated allocation of very large block"
warnings.
2015-03-19 20:10:08 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra 726f7f7fc9 Fix Boehm API violation
We were calling GC_INIT() after doing an allocation (in the baseEnv
construction), which is not allowed.
2015-03-19 20:02:37 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra da6b704b19 Check return values from malloc/strdup 2015-03-19 14:11:35 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra fa47279440 Print some Boehm GC stats 2015-03-18 16:24:54 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra 7a84143910 valueSize(): Take into account list/bindings/env size 2015-03-18 14:41:28 +01:00
Daniel Hahler e659978ced Fix typos: s/the the/the/ 2015-03-06 16:43:22 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra 17c71334e1 forceValueDeep: Add to error prefix 2015-03-06 15:10:12 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra 5badc8f975 Improve error message 2015-03-06 14:24:08 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra 9f3eb56b46 Reduce verbosity in build-remote.pl 2015-03-04 16:27:42 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra 71b0a3a86b Add option to hide display of missing paths 2015-03-04 15:43:04 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra 75ede65e3d Don't use vfork() before clone()
I'm seeing hangs in Glibc's setxid_mark_thread() again. This is
probably because the use of an intermediate process to make clone()
safe from a multi-threaded program (see
524f89f139) is defeated by the use of
vfork(), since the intermediate process will have a copy of Glibc's
threading data structures due to the vfork(). So use a regular fork()
again.
2015-03-04 15:13:10 +01:00
Shea Levy c2699be93b Merge branch 'allow-system-library' of git://github.com/copumpkin/nix
Make the default impure prefix include all of /System/Library
2015-03-03 15:01:09 -05:00
Dan Peebles 336c4270c6 Make the default impure prefix (not actual allowed impurities!) include all of /System/Library, since we also want PrivateFrameworks from there and (briefly) TextEncodings, and who knows what else. Yay infectious impurities? 2015-03-02 23:01:24 -05:00