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Eelco Dolstra f08b14c9d0
nix upgrade-nix: Improve error message if 'nix' is not in a profile
E.g.

  $ nix upgrade-nix
  error: directory '/home/eelco/Dev/nix/inst/bin' does not appear to be part of a Nix profile

instead of

  $ nix upgrade-nix
  error: '/home/eelco/Dev/nix/inst' is not a symlink
2018-08-30 17:14:17 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra ddeda0b62e
Merge branch 'nix-upgrade-profile' of https://github.com/LnL7/nix 2018-08-30 17:10:59 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra 264e66f696
Add simple test for nix upgrade-nix 2018-08-30 17:10:28 +02:00
Daiderd Jordan d85bb4814f
upgrade-nix: resolve profile symlinks
The profile present in PATH is not necessarily the actual profile
location. User profiles are generally added as $HOME/.nix-profile
in which case the indirect profile link needs to be resolved first.

/home/user/.nix-profile -> /nix/var/nix/profiles/per-user/user/profile
/nix/var/nix/profiles/per-user/user/profile -> profile-15-link
/nix/var/nix/profiles/per-user/user/profile-14-link -> /nix/store/hyi4kkjh3bwi2z3wfljrkfymz9904h62-user-environment
/nix/var/nix/profiles/per-user/user/profile-15-link -> /nix/store/6njpl3qvihz46vj911pwx7hfcvwhifl9-user-environment

To upgrade nix here we want /nix/var/nix/profiles/per-user/user/profile-16-link
instead of /home/user/.nix-profile-1-link. The latter is not a gcroot
and would be garbage collected, resulting in a broken profile.

Fixes #2175
2018-08-25 20:50:44 +02:00
Daiderd Jordan 414397759a
upgrade-nix: add --dry-run 2018-08-25 20:25:43 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra 0629601da1
Move EvalState from the stack to the heap
EvalState contains a few counters (e.g. nrValues) that increase
quickly enough that they end up being interpreted as pointers by the
garbage collector. Moving it to the heap makes them invisible to the
garbage collector.

This reduces the max RSS doing 100 evaluations of
nixos.tests.firefox.x86_64-linux.drvPath from 455 MiB to 292 MiB.

Note: ideally, allocations would be much further up in the 64-bit
address space to reduce the odds of an integer being misinterpreted as
a pointer. Maybe we can use some linker magic to move the .bss segment
to a higher address.
2018-06-12 17:49:55 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra 1672bcd230
Move evaluator-specific settings out of libstore 2018-05-30 13:29:50 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra 6fa690291a
Add 'nix upgrade-nix' command
This command upgrades Nix to the latest stable version by installing a
store path obtained from

  https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/raw/master/nixos/modules/installer/tools/nix-fallback-paths.nix

which is the same store path that the installer at
https://nixos.org/nix/install.sh uses.

The upgrade fails if Nix is not installed in a profile (e.g. on NixOS,
or when installed outside of the Nix store).
2018-01-31 16:24:43 +01:00