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Eelco Dolstra 04170d06bf nix-copy-closure: Fix race condition
There is a long-standing race condition when copying a closure to a
remote machine, particularly affecting build-remote.pl: the client
first asks the remote machine which paths it already has, then copies
over the missing paths. If the garbage collector kicks in on the
remote machine between the first and second step, the already-present
paths may be deleted. The missing paths may then refer to deleted
paths, causing nix-copy-closure to fail. The client now performs both
steps using a single remote Nix call (using ‘nix-store --serve’),
locking all paths in the closure while querying.

I changed the --serve protocol a bit (getting rid of QueryCommand), so
this breaks the SSH substituter from older versions. But it was marked
experimental anyway.

Fixes #141.
2014-07-10 11:58:59 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra 42eb4afd7a Simplify getting use-ssh-substituter from untrusted users 2014-02-26 13:58:46 +01:00
Shea Levy df5de9dfd7 Add use-ssh-substituter setting.
It defaults to false and can be overridden by RemoteStore.

Untested currently, just quickly put this together
2014-02-26 13:32:47 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra a9d99ab55f download-via-ssh: Use readStorePath 2014-02-14 12:31:10 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra 4db572062c download-via-ssh: Show where we're downloading from 2014-02-14 12:20:12 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra dba33d4018 Minor style fixes 2014-02-14 11:48:42 +01:00
Shea Levy 62eb9eb76d Remove relic of old code
Signed-off-by: Shea Levy <shea@shealevy.com>
2014-02-12 07:27:45 -05:00
Shea Levy 7438f0bc2b error messages start in lowercase
Signed-off-by: Shea Levy <shea@shealevy.com>
2014-02-12 07:26:35 -05:00
Shea Levy 2246aa77d2 Remove using declarations from download-via-ssh
Signed-off-by: Shea Levy <shea@shealevy.com>
2014-02-12 07:22:36 -05:00
Shea Levy c89d6b9b63 nix-store --serve: Use a versioned protocol
Signed-off-by: Shea Levy <shea@shealevy.com>
2014-02-10 07:43:13 -05:00
Shea Levy 78d979567f Clarify comment
Signed-off-by: Shea Levy <shea@shealevy.com>
2014-02-10 06:43:29 -05:00
Shea Levy 64e23d0a38 Add download-via-ssh substituter
This substituter connects to a remote host, runs nix-store --serve
there, and then forwards substituter commands on to the remote host and
sends their results to the calling program. The ssh-substituter-hosts
option can be specified as a list of hosts to try.

This is an initial implementation and, while it works, it has some
limitations:

* Only the first host is used
* There is no caching of query results (all queries are sent to the
  remote machine)
* There is no informative output (such as progress bars)
* Some failure modes may cause unhelpful error messages
* There is no concept of trusted-ssh-substituter-hosts

Signed-off-by: Shea Levy <shea@shealevy.com>
2014-02-08 00:13:33 -05:00