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Eelco Dolstra 1511aa9f48 Allow remote builds without sending the derivation closure
Previously, to build a derivation remotely, we had to copy the entire
closure of the .drv file to the remote machine, even though we only
need the top-level derivation. This is very wasteful: the closure can
contain thousands of store paths, and in some Hydra use cases, include
source paths that are very large (e.g. Git/Mercurial checkouts).

So now there is a new operation, StoreAPI::buildDerivation(), that
performs a build from an in-memory representation of a derivation
(BasicDerivation) rather than from a on-disk .drv file. The only files
that need to be in the Nix store are the sources of the derivation
(drv.inputSrcs), and the needed output paths of the dependencies (as
described by drv.inputDrvs). "nix-store --serve" exposes this
interface.

Note that this is a privileged operation, because you can construct a
derivation that builds any store path whatsoever. Fixing this will
require changing the hashing scheme (i.e., the output paths should be
computed from the other fields in BasicDerivation, allowing them to be
verified without access to other derivations). However, this would be
quite nice because it would allow .drv-free building (e.g. "nix-env
-i" wouldn't have to write any .drv files to disk).

Fixes #173.
2015-07-17 17:57:40 +02:00
config Add config.guess, config.sub and install-sh 2013-11-25 11:26:02 +00:00
corepkgs Don't rely on __noChroot for corepkgs 2015-03-24 11:15:45 +01:00
doc Typos 2015-06-12 11:02:40 +02:00
misc Add Dockerfile 2015-07-17 11:06:50 +02:00
mk Merge branch 'cygwin-master' of https://github.com/ternaris/nix 2014-12-14 01:49:14 +01:00
perl Handle base-16 NarHash fields in signed .narinfo files 2015-06-03 15:33:17 +02:00
scripts Revert "add the manpath to the installer" 2015-07-01 13:04:15 +02:00
src Allow remote builds without sending the derivation closure 2015-07-17 17:57:40 +02:00
tests Fix the parsing of "$"'s in strings. 2015-07-03 14:09:58 +02:00
.gitignore Add exe, dll to .gitignore 2014-12-15 23:34:13 +08:00
bootstrap.sh bootstrap: Simplify & make more robust. 2011-09-06 12:11:05 +00:00
configure.ac Add dependency on libcurl-dev 2015-03-27 12:27:36 +01:00
COPYING * Change this to LGPL to keep the government happy. 2006-04-25 16:41:06 +00:00
dev-shell Make dev-shell script work on Darwin 2014-07-16 11:53:47 +02:00
INSTALL * Autoconf / Automake configuration and building. 2003-04-04 16:14:56 +00:00
local.mk Install serve-protocol.hh 2015-06-09 11:14:36 +02:00
Makefile nix-collect-garbage: translate to C++ 2015-04-22 15:08:48 +00:00
Makefile.config.in Make libsodium an optional dependency 2015-02-10 11:54:06 +01:00
nix.spec.in Update spec file 2014-09-18 15:42:01 +02:00
README * Install documentation in $(docdir) (i.e. share/doc/nix). 2008-11-19 13:19:09 +00:00
release.nix Debian package: Declare runtime dependency on libsodium13 2015-06-17 10:33:51 +02:00
version Bump 2015-06-15 10:22:35 +02:00

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