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Eelco Dolstra c4d7c76b64
Recursive Nix support
This allows Nix builders to call Nix to build derivations, with some
limitations.

Example:

  let nixpkgs = fetchTarball channel:nixos-18.03; in

  with import <nixpkgs> {};

  runCommand "foo"
    {
      buildInputs = [ nix jq ];
      NIX_PATH = "nixpkgs=${nixpkgs}";
    }
    ''
      hello=$(nix-build -E '(import <nixpkgs> {}).hello.overrideDerivation (args: { name = "hello-3.5"; })')

      $hello/bin/hello

      mkdir -p $out/bin
      ln -s $hello/bin/hello $out/bin/hello

      nix path-info -r --json $hello | jq .
    ''

This derivation makes a recursive Nix call to build GNU Hello and
symlinks it from its $out, i.e.

  # ll ./result/bin/
  lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 63 Jan  1  1970 hello -> /nix/store/s0awxrs71gickhaqdwxl506hzccb30y5-hello-3.5/bin/hello

  # nix-store -qR ./result
  /nix/store/hwwqshlmazzjzj7yhrkyjydxamvvkfd3-glibc-2.26-131
  /nix/store/s0awxrs71gickhaqdwxl506hzccb30y5-hello-3.5
  /nix/store/sgmvvyw8vhfqdqb619bxkcpfn9lvd8ss-foo

This is implemented as follows:

* Before running the outer builder, Nix creates a Unix domain socket
  '.nix-socket' in the builder's temporary directory and sets
  $NIX_REMOTE to point to it. It starts a thread to process
  connections to this socket. (Thus you don't need to have nix-daemon
  running.)

* The daemon thread uses a wrapper store (RestrictedStore) to keep
  track of paths added through recursive Nix calls, to implement some
  restrictions (see below), and to do some censorship (e.g. for
  purity, queryPathInfo() won't return impure information such as
  signatures and timestamps).

* After the build finishes, the output paths are scanned for
  references to the paths added through recursive Nix calls (in
  addition to the inputs closure). Thus, in the example above, $out
  has a reference to $hello.

The main restriction on recursive Nix calls is that they cannot do
arbitrary substitutions. For example, doing

  nix-store -r /nix/store/kmwd1hq55akdb9sc7l3finr175dajlby-hello-2.10

is forbidden unless /nix/store/kmwd... is in the inputs closure or
previously built by a recursive Nix call. This is to prevent
irreproducible derivations that have hidden dependencies on
substituters or the current store contents. Building a derivation is
fine, however, and Nix will use substitutes if available. In other
words, the builder has to present proof that it knows how to build a
desired store path from scratch by constructing a derivation graph for
that path.

Probably we should also disallow instantiating/building fixed-output
derivations (specifically, those that access the network, but
currently we have no way to mark fixed-output derivations that don't
access the network). Otherwise sandboxed derivations can bypass
sandbox restrictions and access the network.

When sandboxing is enabled, we make paths appear in the sandbox of the
builder by entering the mount namespace of the builder and
bind-mounting each path. This is tricky because we do a pivot_root()
in the builder to change the root directory of its mount namespace,
and thus the host /nix/store is not visible in the mount namespace of
the builder. To get around this, just before doing pivot_root(), we
branch a second mount namespace that shares its /nix/store mountpoint
with the parent.

Recursive Nix currently doesn't work on macOS in sandboxed mode
(because we can't change the sandbox policy of a running build) and in
non-root mode (because setns() barfs).
2019-11-06 00:52:38 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra b874272f7a
Make --enable-gc the default 2019-11-06 00:46:37 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra d823381c0a
Merge branch 'fix/nix-doctor-output' of https://github.com/bhipple/nix 2019-11-05 16:04:40 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra b4e260d887
Disable shellcheck
It's broken at the moment: https://hydra.nixos.org/build/105746055

Also it pulls in GHC which is a pretty big dependency.
2019-11-05 16:00:30 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra 81a9b93689
Fix manual build 2019-11-05 11:21:32 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra 852554bb16
Merge branch 'nix-repl-e' of https://github.com/zimbatm/nix 2019-11-05 11:20:53 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra 7876027071
Merge pull request #3193 from matthewbauer/patch-11
Update man to show that nix-shell allows --arg
2019-11-05 11:18:24 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra 78b8203e50
Merge pull request #3180 from kevinastock/patch-1
docs: fix upper bound on number of consumed cores
2019-11-05 11:17:02 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra 376802c9b8
Merge pull request #3199 from kevinastock/patch-2
docs: xref doesn't render in title
2019-11-05 11:16:15 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra e1725ba946
Fix VM tests 2019-11-05 11:12:25 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra 6b708711f5
Merge branch 'switch-to-19.09' of https://github.com/Ericson2314/nix 2019-11-05 10:32:11 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra 1b600ecd14
Don't use SOCK_CLOEXEC on macOS
https://hydra.nixos.org/build/105428308
2019-11-05 10:25:09 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra 3770f5c944
Merge pull request #3206 from kevinastock/patch-3
docs: correct default location of log directory
2019-11-04 22:30:07 +01:00
Kevin Stock cea05e5ee7
docs: correct default location of log directory 2019-11-04 16:23:03 -05:00
Eelco Dolstra f5a46ef0b1
Merge pull request #3202 from kraem/master
Update nix eval --help msg to not include deprecated command
2019-11-04 09:34:30 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra 8ec1b1e7b8
Merge pull request #3203 from hvdijk/prefetch-progress
Fix progress bar when nix-prefetch-url is piped.
2019-11-04 09:28:17 +01:00
Harald van Dijk c935ad3f02
Fix progress bar when nix-prefetch-url is piped.
The intent of the code was that if the window size cannot be determined,
it would be treated as having the maximum possible size. Because of a
missing assignment, it was actually treated as having a width of 0.

The reason the width could not be determined was because it was obtained
from stdout, not stderr, even though the printing was done to stderr.

This commit addresses both issues.
2019-11-03 21:46:59 +00:00
kraem dcd7a26063
Update nix eval --help msg to not include deprecated command 2019-11-03 18:47:28 +01:00
Kevin Stock 808cb6444e
docs: xref doesn't render in title
The `post-build-hook` text currently appears in the index, but not on the actual title line of the section, this follows the pattern used in a previous section to get a reference into a title.
2019-11-02 17:55:53 -04:00
Matthew Bauer f1d4ba2afd
Update man to show that nix-shell allows --arg 2019-11-01 13:25:15 -04:00
Eelco Dolstra 06f9364e5f
Merge pull request #3192 from ng-0/ng0/issue3186
include netinet/in.h in src/nix/main.cc
2019-11-01 16:17:30 +01:00
ng0 b811bd2172 include netinet/in.h in src/nix/main.cc
Fixes #3186
2019-11-01 14:09:42 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra 6c8d0133ef
Merge pull request #3187 from Mic92/travis
travis: enable linux builds
2019-10-31 17:40:57 +01:00
Jörg Thalheim f1782642d3
travis: enable linux builds
Also disable email to not notify the whole NixOS community about build failures
2019-10-31 16:37:33 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra 6bff1aa46d
Merge pull request #3182 from bhipple/fixup/comments
Minor updates to inline comments
2019-10-31 14:14:35 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra 4e840fc541
Merge pull request #3179 from dtzWill/fix/struct-class-mismatch-minor
minor: fix mismatch of struct/class forward decl of 'Source'
2019-10-31 14:03:04 +01:00
Benjamin Hipple 80d5ec6ff4 Minor updates to inline comments
Add missing docstring on InstallableCommand. Also, some of these were wrapped
when they're right next to a line longer than the unwrapped line, so we can just
unwrap them to save vertical space.
2019-10-31 05:56:37 -04:00
Kevin Stock 99aac72a16
docs: fix upper bound on number of consumed cores 2019-10-30 16:53:04 -04:00
Will Dietz 0e9b72e097 minor: fix mismatch of struct/class forward decl of 'Source'
Fixes the following warning and the indicate potential issue:

src/libstore/worker-protocol.hh:66:1: warning: class 'Source' was previously declared as a struct; this is valid, but may result in linker errors
under the Microsoft C++ ABI [-Wmismatched-tags]

(cherry picked from commit 6e1bb04870b1b723282d32182af286646f13bf3c)
2019-10-30 14:39:01 -05:00
Eelco Dolstra e5319a87ce
queryPathInfoUncached(): Return const ValidPathInfo 2019-10-29 13:53:04 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra 992a2ad475
Move addToStoreFromDump to Store 2019-10-29 13:38:24 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra 05819d013f
Don't create a Store in processConnection() 2019-10-29 13:36:19 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra 63b99af85a
Move Unix domain socket creation to libutil
Also drop multithread-unfriendly hacks like doing a temporary
chmod/umask.
2019-10-29 13:30:51 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra 2d37e88319
Move most of the daemon implementation to libstore 2019-10-29 13:25:33 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra 95c727caef
Remove the check against concurrent builds in the same process 2019-10-29 12:43:20 +01:00
Jonas Chevalier 9a25059656
findDerivationFilename: add FIXME 2019-10-28 21:40:02 +01:00
Jonas Chevalier d407f4d15f
nix repl: also handle lambda edit 2019-10-28 21:37:22 +01:00
Jonas Chevalier 3774fe55fd
editorFor: take a pos object instead 2019-10-28 21:36:34 +01:00
Jonas Chevalier ec448f8bb6
libexpr: findDerivationFilename return Pos instead of tuple 2019-10-28 21:29:54 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra f7ce80f90a
Factor out linkOrCopy() 2019-10-27 18:19:13 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra f1c0b2c0e1
Add O(1)-memory copyPath() function 2019-10-27 18:18:58 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra 3913afdd69
Simplification 2019-10-27 18:00:09 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra 0e459d79a6
Merge branch 'issue-3147-inNixShell-arg' of https://github.com/hercules-ci/nix 2019-10-27 17:10:19 +01:00
Robert Hensing 9d612c393a Add inNixShell = true to nix-shell auto-call
This is an alternative to the IN_NIX_SHELL environment variable,
allowing the expression to adapt itself to nix-shell without
triggering those adaptations when used as a dependency of another
shell.

Closes #3147
2019-10-27 13:16:02 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra e012384fe9
Merge branch 'tojson-tostring-fix' of https://github.com/mayflower/nix 2019-10-27 12:18:35 +01:00
Robin Gloster e583df5280
builtins.toJSON: fix __toString usage 2019-10-27 10:15:51 +01:00
John Ericson 70cab0587d Switch to nixpkgs 19.09 2019-10-25 07:23:05 -04:00
Eelco Dolstra 2f96a89646 install-multi-user.sh: Remove unused variables
https://hydra.nixos.org/build/104119659
2019-10-23 21:24:21 +02:00
Jonas Chevalier 59c7249769
libexpr: add findDerivationFilename
extract the derivation to filename:lineno heuristic
2019-10-23 17:21:16 +02:00
Jonas Chevalier 207a537343
libutil: add editorFor heuristic 2019-10-23 16:48:28 +02:00