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Eelco Dolstra 97421eb5ec Refactor settings processing
Put all Nix configuration flags in a Settings object.
2012-07-30 19:55:41 -04:00
Eelco Dolstra d50d7a2874 Whitespace 2012-07-30 17:13:25 -04:00
Eelco Dolstra b7fd2c2822 Use "#pragma once" to prevent repeated header file inclusion 2012-07-18 14:59:03 -04:00
Eelco Dolstra bd50c01972 Ensure that Perl processes delete their entry in the temproots directory
By moving the destructor object to libstore.so, it's also run when
download-using-manifests and nix-prefetch-url exit.  This prevents
them from cluttering /nix/var/nix/temproots with stale files.
2012-03-13 17:07:49 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra 1d487dc6a6 nix-worker: put the pid of the caller in argv[1]
This is useful for debugging.
2012-03-05 19:19:29 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra 893cac1402 * Remove the terminate handler, which was only really needed because
of Berkeley DB (see r8632).
2011-12-14 22:41:10 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra b1eb8f4249 * Get rid of some superfluous error messages if a substituter fails.
* Say "fetch" instead of "substitute".
2011-11-29 13:00:41 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra 993fa94fb4 * Move initialisation of variables like nixConfDir from libmain to
libstore so that the Perl bindings can use it as well.  It's vital
  that the Perl bindings use the configuration file, because otherwise
  nix-copy-closure will fail with a ‘database locked’ message if the
  value of ‘use-sqlite-wal’ is changed from the default.
2011-11-22 17:28:41 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra e6cb3d0a0d * Added a command ‘nix-store --verify-paths PATHS’ to check whether
the contents of any of the given store paths have been modified.
  E.g.

    $ nix-store --verify-path $(nix-store -qR /var/run/current-system)
    path `/nix/store/m2smyiwbxidlprfxfz4rjlvz2c3mg58y-etc' was modified! expected hash `fc87e271c5fdf179b47939b08ad13440493805584b35e3014109d04d8436e7b8', got `20f1a47281b3c0cbe299ce47ad5ca7340b20ab34246426915fce0ee9116483aa'

  All paths are checked; the exit code is 1 if any path has been
  modified, 0 otherwise.
2011-09-06 12:06:30 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra 93227ff65c * Eliminate all uses of the global variable ‘store’ from libstore.
This should also fix:

    nix-instantiate: ./../boost/shared_ptr.hpp:254: T* boost::shared_ptr<T>::operator->() const [with T = nix::StoreAPI]: Assertion `px != 0' failed.

  which was caused by hashDerivationModulo() calling the ‘store’
  object (during store upgrades) before openStore() assigned it.
2011-08-31 21:11:50 +00:00
Ludovic Courtès 5c9e9f732d Add support for the build-timeout' and --timeout' options. 2011-06-30 15:19:13 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra 5a6b039802 * Don't call GC_expand_hp unless we're actually using the garbage
collector.
2011-02-09 22:59:50 +00:00
Ludovic Courtès f1462c208b Use $BDW_GC_LIBS instead of a custom variable. 2011-02-09 21:23:13 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra aeae0beba4 * Clang compatibility fix. Clang actually checks template definitions
when they are defined
2011-02-05 16:29:10 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra d787285af9 * nix-instantiate: return exit status 100 to denote a permanent build
failure.  The build hook can use this to distinguish between
  transient and permanent failures on the remote side.
2010-12-13 16:53:23 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra bdf089f463 * Before a build, show the disk space that the downloaded store paths
will approximately require.
2010-11-17 14:31:42 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra fb9368b5a0 * Sync with the trunk. 2010-11-16 12:49:47 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra 26def5392f * Document Boehm GC support. 2010-10-29 14:44:02 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra 14fbf85380 * Set libgc's initial heap size to 384 MiB to prevent garbage
collection in most cases (and therefore its performance overhead).
2010-10-29 13:11:50 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra e11e6fb1c6 * Handle out of memory condition. 2010-10-28 12:29:40 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra 80e722278c * When using the build hook, distinguish between the stderr of the
hook script proper, and the stdout/stderr of the builder.  Only the
  latter should be saved in /nix/var/log/nix/drvs.
* Allow the verbosity to be set through an option.
* Added a flag --quiet to lower the verbosity level.
2010-08-30 14:53:03 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra 750be19ae8 * Remove "auto" and "guess" as synonyms for 0 in the handling of
build-cores and --cores.  They're superfluous and just complicate
  the parsing.
2010-08-04 12:23:59 +00:00
Peter Simons 8b7f8b56f1 Added support for passing an (impure) NIX_BUILD_CORES variable to build expressions.
This patch adds the configuration file variable "build-cores" and the
command line argument "--cores". These settings specify the number of
CPU cores to utilize for parallel building within a job, i.e. by passing
an appropriate "-j" flag to GNU Make. The default value is 1, which
means that parallel building is *disabled*. If the number of build cores
is specified as 0 (synonymously: "guess" or "auto"), then the actual
value is supposed to be auto-detected by builders at run-time, i.e by
calling the nproc(1) utility from coreutils.

The environment variable $NIX_BUILD_CORES is available to builders, but
the contents of that variable does *not* influence the hash that goes
into the $out store path, i.e. the number of build cores to be utilized
can be changed at will without requiring any re-builds.
2010-06-23 14:34:08 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra f3b8833a48 * Drop the dependency on the ATerm library. 2010-04-19 14:51:58 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra efc7a579e8 * Don't use the ATerm library for parsing/printing .drv files. 2010-04-19 13:46:58 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra 10e8b1fd15 * Finished the ATerm-less parser. 2010-04-12 23:33:23 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra 4d6ad5be17 * Don't use ATerms for the abstract syntax trees anymore. Not
finished yet.
2010-04-12 18:30:11 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra 4e17be7981 * Revert r19797, and use a simpler solution: just don't monitor build
hooks for silence.  It's unnecessary because the remote nix-store
  command is already monitoring the real build.
2010-02-03 21:38:41 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra f859a8d3c3 * While waiting for a lock, print a sign of life every 5 minutes.
This prevents remote builders from being killed by the
  `max-silent-time' inactivity monitor while they are waiting for a
  long garbage collection to finish.  This happens fairly often in the
  Hydra build farm.
2010-02-03 21:22:57 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra f0c0277970 * On startup, set the default SIGCHLD handler. This is so that Nix
works correctly in weird environments where the SIGCHLD handler is
  set to "ignore".
2010-01-12 12:22:38 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra 9b8fda796b * Templatise getIntArg / string2Int. 2009-11-24 12:26:25 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra f2c3fc5191 * Don't show trace information by default (`--show-trace' to enable).
NixOS evaluation errors in particular look intimidating and
  generally aren't very useful.  Ideally the builtins.throw messages
  should be self-contained.
2009-06-30 13:28:29 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra 0e6f604178 * Install some headers in the right location. 2009-03-05 14:57:50 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra 60cb7de336 * Allow options from the Nix config file to be overriden from the
command line (e.g. "--option build-use-chroot true").
2009-02-27 11:04:41 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra 652817046b * Revert r13150: now that we use private namespaces for the chroot, we
don't have to put the chroot in /nix/var/nix/chroots anymore.
  They're back in /tmp now.
2008-12-11 17:52:34 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra a519bb0635 * Some somewhat ad hoc mechanism to allow the build farm to monitor
build progress.
2008-11-12 11:08:27 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra 709b55ee02 * Put the chroots under /nix/var/nix/chroots to reduce the risk of
disasters involving `rm -rf' on bind mounts.  Will try the
  definitive fix (per-process mounts, apparently possible via the
  CLONE_NEWNS flag in clone()) some other time.
2008-10-29 15:34:48 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra a1d310b6b5 * `nix-store --realise': print what paths will be built/downloaded,
just like nix-env.
* `nix-store --realise': --dry-run option.
2008-08-04 13:44:46 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra 03427e76f1 * querySubstitutablePathInfo: work properly when run via the daemon.
* --dry-run: print the paths that we don't know how to build/substitute.
2008-08-04 11:44:50 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra 8bc591a6f0 * Use the copy-from-other-stores substituter by default. Of course,
it only does something if $NIX_OTHER_STORES (not really a good
  name...) is set.
* Do globbing on the elements of $NIX_OTHER_STORES.  E.g. you could
  set it to /mnts/*/nix or something.
* Install substituters in libexec/nix/substituters.
2008-07-18 13:05:10 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra 5af84139a8 * --max-freed: support values >= 4 GB. 2008-06-18 15:20:33 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra d3aa183beb * Garbage collector: option `--max-freed' to stop after at least N
bytes have been freed, `--max-links' to stop when the Nix store
  directory has fewer than N hard links (the latter being important
  for very large Nix stores on filesystems with a 32000 subdirectories
  limit).
2008-06-18 14:20:16 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra f351834f77 * nix-worker: clean up the temporary root for the worker processes
in /nix/var/nix/temproots.
2008-06-14 16:03:02 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra c370755583 * Flag `--no-build-hook' to disable distributed builds.
* queryDeriver in daemon mode: don't barf if the other side returns an
  empty string (which means there is no deriver).
2007-11-16 16:15:26 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra 9e975458b4 * Get rid of the substitutes database table (NIX-47). Instead, if we
need any info on substitutable paths, we just call the substituters
  (such as download-using-manifests.pl) directly.  This means that
  it's no longer necessary for nix-pull to register substitutes or for
  nix-channel to clear them, which makes those operations much faster
  (NIX-95).  Also, we don't have to worry about keeping nix-pull
  manifests (in /nix/var/nix/manifests) and the database in sync with
  each other.

  The downside is that there is some overhead in calling an external
  program to get the substitutes info.  For instance, "nix-env -qas"
  takes a bit longer.

  Abolishing the substitutes table also makes the logic in
  local-store.cc simpler, as we don't need to store info for invalid
  paths.  On the downside, you cannot do things like "nix-store -qR"
  on a substitutable but invalid path (but nobody did that anyway).

* Never catch interrupts (the Interrupted exception).
2007-08-12 00:29:28 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra cbfac2fdcc * Set a terminate() handler to ensure that we leave the BDB
environment cleanly even when an exception is thrown from a
  destructor.  We still crash, but we don't take all other Nix
  processes with us.
2007-05-01 15:16:17 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra ae7990cc88 * Work around a bug in Apple's GCC preprocessor. 2007-03-30 13:24:35 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra e418976107 * Option --argstr for passing string arguments easily. (NIX-75) 2007-01-14 12:32:44 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra 215505bb46 * Removed chroot support. 2007-01-13 17:54:01 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra 9dbfe242e3 * Kill a build if it has gone for more than a certain number of
seconds without producing output on stdout or stderr (NIX-65).  This
  timeout can be specified using the `--max-silent-time' option or the
  `build-max-silent-time' configuration setting.  The default is
  infinity (0).

* Fix a tricky race condition: if we kill the build user before the
  child has done its setuid() to the build user uid, then it won't be
  killed, and we'll potentially lock up in pid.wait().  So also send a
  conventional kill to the child.
2006-12-08 15:44:00 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra a82d80ddeb * Move setuidCleanup() to libutil. 2006-12-07 16:40:41 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra 751f6d2157 * nix-setuid-helper: allow running programs under a different uid. 2006-12-06 17:29:10 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra a9c4f66cfb * Allow unprivileged users to run the garbage collector and to do
`nix-store --delete'.  But unprivileged users are not allowed to
  ignore liveness.
* `nix-store --delete --ignore-liveness': ignore the runtime roots as
  well.
2006-12-05 02:18:46 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra d27a73b1a9 * In addPermRoot, check that the root that we just registered can be
found by the garbage collector.  This addresses NIX-71 and is a
  particular concern in multi-user stores.
2006-12-05 00:34:42 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra 0130ef88ea * Daemon mode (`nix-worker --daemon'). Clients connect to the server
via the Unix domain socket in /nix/var/nix/daemon.socket.  The
  server forks a worker process per connection.
* readString(): use the heap, not the stack.
* Some protocol fixes.
2006-12-04 17:17:13 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra 1e16d20655 * Install the worker in bindir, not libexecdir.
* Allow the worker path to be overriden through the NIX_WORKER
  environment variable.
2006-12-04 13:09:16 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra 9322b399f3 * Doh. 2006-12-03 20:41:22 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra f4279bcde0 * Don't run setuid root when build-users is empty.
* Send startup errors to the client.
2006-12-03 16:25:19 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra 35247c4c9f * Removed `build-allow-root'.
* Added `build-users-group', the group under which builds are to be
  performed.
* Check that /nix/store has 1775 permission and is owner by the
  build-users-group.
2006-12-03 15:32:38 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra 84d6459bd5 * Use setreuid if setresuid is not available. 2006-12-03 14:32:22 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra 536595b072 * Remove most of the old setuid code.
* Much simpler setuid code for the worker in slave mode.
2006-12-02 15:45:51 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra e2ef5e07fd * Refactoring. There is now an abstract interface class StoreAPI
containing functions that operate on the Nix store.  One
  implementation is LocalStore, which operates on the Nix store
  directly.  The next step, to enable secure multi-user Nix, is to
  create a different implementation RemoteStore that talks to a
  privileged daemon process that uses LocalStore to perform the actual
  operations.
2006-11-30 17:43:04 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra 0541ddc7e3 * Turn off synchronisation between C and C++ I/O functions. This
gives a huge speedup in operations that read or write from standard
  input/output.  (So libstdc++'s I/O isn't that bad, you just have to
  call std::ios::sync_with_stdio(false).)  For instance, `nix-store
  --register-substitutes' went from 1.4 seconds to 0.1 seconds on a
  certain input.  Another victory for Valgrind.
2006-11-18 18:56:30 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra 4ad6fb7ea3 * Fix setuid builds. 2006-09-27 21:04:07 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra bafc1690fc * Move setuid stuff to libutil.
* Install libexpr header files.
2006-09-04 22:55:28 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra 2382a729e0 * Don't need extern "C". 2006-09-04 21:50:39 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra 75068e7d75 * Use a proper namespace.
* Optimise header file usage a bit.
* Compile the parser as C++.
2006-09-04 21:06:23 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra aab8812732 * Store the Nix libraries in ${libdir}/nix instead of ${libdir}. 2006-09-04 15:12:24 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra 547b119f25 * Support singleton values and nested lists again in `args', but print
a warning.
2006-08-29 15:40:49 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra d19b6521fc * New configuration setting `build-max-jobs' which sets the default
for the `-j' flag (i.e., the maximum number of jobs to execute in
  parallel).  Useful on multi-processor machines.
2006-08-10 20:19:13 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra a4273156c4 * Use $(libexecdir) to find find-runtime-roots.pl. 2006-07-20 13:21:37 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra d51aede4af * Allow the canonical system name to be specified at runtime in the
Nix config file.
2006-07-06 15:30:37 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra b5988004d6 * Support for srcdir != builddir (NIX-41). 2006-05-12 11:47:45 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra fdea084c36 * Allow `make check' to work in directories that have symlink
components.
2006-03-10 22:27:26 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra d822bf32e4 * Close the database before the destructor runs. 2006-03-01 16:36:35 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra 5b527901ae * dirOf: return "/", not "", for paths in the root directory. Fixes NIX-26. 2006-01-09 14:52:46 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra 9311ab76a5 * Install signal handlers for SIGTERM and SIGHUP. This ensures that
Nix is properly shut down when it receives those signals.  In
  particular this ensures that killing the garbage collector doesn't
  cause a subsequent database recovery.
2005-11-04 15:34:09 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra 32282abcea * Beginning of secure multi-user Nix stores. If Nix is started as
root (or setuid root), then builds will be performed under one of
  the users listed in the `build-users' configuration variables.  This
  is to make it impossible to influence build results externally,
  allowing locally built derivations to be shared safely between
  users (see ASE-2005 paper).

  To do: only one builder should be active per build user.
2005-10-17 15:33:24 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra 4c20a08293 * Build dynamic libraries. 2005-07-22 14:52:45 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra a37338815d * A GC setting `gc-keep-outputs' to specify whether output paths of
derivations should be kept.
2005-02-01 22:07:48 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra dcc37c236c * nix-store, nix-instantiate: added an option `--add-root' to
immediately add the result as a permanent GC root.  This is the only
  way to prevent a race with the garbage collector.  For instance, the
  old style

    ln -s $(nix-store -r $(nix-instantiate foo.nix)) \
      /nix/var/nix/gcroots/result

  has two time windows in which the garbage collector can interfere
  (by GC'ing the derivation and the output, respectively).  On the
  other hand,

    nix-store --add-root /nix/var/nix/gcroots/result -r \
      $(nix-instantiate --add-root /nix/var/nix/gcroots/drv \
        foo.nix)

  is safe.

* nix-build: use `--add-root' to prevent GC races.
2005-02-01 12:36:25 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra 207bdcbe86 * Automatically remove temporary root files. 2005-01-31 21:20:59 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra 22cfdfa246 * Use NIX_STORE environment variable to locate the store (in addition
to NIX_STORE_DIR) so that Nix invocations in builders in `make
  check' work correctly if the store doesn't exist.
2005-01-28 13:19:16 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra 96de272b48 * Renamed normalise.cc' -> build.cc', `storeexprs.cc' ->
`derivations.cc', etc.
* Store the SHA-256 content hash of store paths in the database after
  they have been built/added.  This is so that we can check whether
  the store has been messed with (a la `rpm --verify').
* When registering path validity, verify that the closure property
  holds.
2005-01-19 16:39:47 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra 9530cc3170 * Start move towards SHA-256 hashes instead of MD5.
* Start cleaning up unique store path generation (they weren't always
  unique; in particular the suffix ("-aterm-2.2", "-builder.sh") was
  not part of the hash, therefore changes to the suffix would cause
  multiple store objects with the same hash).
2005-01-14 13:51:38 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra a69534fc21 * Drop ATmake / ATMatcher also in handling store expressions. 2004-10-29 11:22:49 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra f4d44a0026 * Allow certain operations to succeed even if we don't have write
permission to the Nix store or database.  E.g., `nix-env -qa' will
  work, but `nix-env -qas' won't (the latter needs DB access).  The
  option `--readonly-mode' forces this mode; otherwise, it's only
  activated when the database cannot be opened.
2004-10-25 14:38:23 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra 3ade3e7721 * Revert r1594 - it didn't solve the problem. Instead add
svn-revision to distributions, which should fix it.
2004-10-25 13:51:34 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra 2248becfd3 * Make sure that the prerelease version is included in `--version'. 2004-10-25 12:15:50 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra dcc433de47 * Operation `--delete-generations' to delete generations of a
profile.  Arguments are either generation number, or `old' to delete
  all non-current generations.  Typical use:

  $ nix-env --delete-generations old
  $ nix-collect-garbage

* istringstream -> string2Int.
2004-09-10 13:32:08 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra 47f87072ad * A very dirty hack to make setuid installations a bit nicer to use.
Previously there was the problem that all files read by nix-env
  etc. should be reachable and readable by the Nix user.  So for
  instance building a Nix expression in your home directory meant that
  the home directory should have at least g+x or o+x permission so
  that the Nix user could reach the Nix expression.  Now we just
  switch back to the original user just prior to reading sources and
  the like.  The places where this happens are somewhat arbitrary,
  however.  Any scope that has a live SwitchToOriginalUser object in
  it is executed as the original user.

* Back out r1385.  setreuid() sets the saved uid to the new
  real/effective uid, which prevents us from switching back to the
  original uid.  setresuid() doesn't have this problem (although the
  manpage has a bug: specifying -1 for the saved uid doesn't leave it
  unchanged; an explicit value must be specified).
2004-09-09 21:12:53 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra 5396304c73 * Use setre[ug]id() instead of setres[ug]id(), since the former is
more common than the latter (which exists only on Linux and
  FreeBSD).  We don't really care about dropping the saved IDs since
  there apparently is no way to quiry them in any case, so it can't
  influence the build (unlike the effective IDs which are checked by
  Perl for instance).
2004-09-09 15:55:31 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra e043fc7d0b * Set the umask to known value (0022). This is important in a
setuid installation, since the calling user may have a more fascist
  umask (say, 0077), which would cause the store objects built by Nix
  to be unreadable to anyone other than the Nix user.
2004-09-09 14:16:02 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra 8f58733ef1 * The gid should also match. 2004-08-20 15:47:58 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra 1c90fabccc * Unbreak programs that are not setuid (such as nix-hash). 2004-08-20 15:31:46 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra e77fbe0fa2 * On systems that have the setresuid() and setresgid() system calls to
set the real uid and gid to the effective uid and gid, the Nix
  binaries can be installed as owned by the Nix user and group instead
  of root, so no root involvement of any kind is necessary.

  Linux and FreeBSD have these functions.
2004-08-20 15:22:33 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra 2d35116c13 * Setuid support for sharing a Nix installation between multiple
users.

  If the configure flag `--enable-setuid' is used, the Nix programs
  nix-env, nix-store, etc. are installed with the setuid bit turned on
  so that they are executed as the user and group specified by
  `--with-nix-user=USER' and `--with-nix-group=GROUP', respectively
  (with defaults `nix' and `nix').

  The setuid programs drop all special privileges if they are executed
  by a user who is not a member of the Nix group.

  The setuid feature is a quick hack to enable sharing of a Nix
  installation between users who trust each other.  It is not
  generally secure, since any user in the Nix group can modify (by
  building an appropriate derivation) any object in the store, and for
  instance inject trojans into binaries used by other users.

  The setuid programs are owned by root, not the Nix user.  This is
  because on Unix normal users cannot change the real uid, only the
  effective uid.  Many programs don't work properly when the real uid
  differs from the effective uid.  For instance, Perl will turn on
  taint mode.  However, the setuid programs drop all root privileges
  immediately, changing all uids and gids to the Nix user and group.
2004-08-20 14:49:05 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra 1eddee59f2 * The default verbosity level of all Nix commands is now lvlInfo.
* Builder output is written to standard error by default.
  * The option `-B' is gone.
  * The option `-Q' suppresses builder output.

The result of this is that most Nix invocations shouldn't need any
flags w.r.t. logging.
2004-08-18 12:19:06 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra 91dc023665 * Added a switch `--fallback'. From the manual:
Whenever Nix attempts to realise a derivation for which a closure is
  already known, but this closure cannot be realised, fall back on
  normalising the derivation.

  The most common scenario in which this is useful is when we have
  registered substitutes in order to perform binary distribution from,
  say, a network repository.  If the repository is down, the
  realisation of the derivation will fail.  When this option is
  specified, Nix will build the derivation instead.  Thus, binary
  installation falls back on a source installation.  This option is
  not the default since it is generally not desirable for a transient
  failure in obtaining the substitutes to lead to a full build from
  source (with the related consumption of resources).
2004-06-28 10:42:57 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra b113edeab7 * A flag `--keep-going / -k' to keep building goals if one fails, as
much as possible.  (This is similar to GNU Make's `-k' flag.)

* Refactoring to implement this: previously we just bombed out when
  a build failed, but now we have to clean up.  In particular this
  means that goals must be freed quickly --- they shouldn't hang
  around until the worker exits.  So the worker now maintains weak
  pointers in order not to prevent garbage collection.

* Documented the `-k' and `-j' flags.
2004-06-25 15:36:09 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra a8306cb98f * The build hooks used to implement distributed builds can now be run
in parallel.  Hooks are more efficient: locks on output paths are
  only acquired when the hook says that it is willing to accept a
  build job.  Hooks now work in two phases.  First, they should first
  tell Nix whether they are willing to accept a job.  Nix guarantuees
  that no two hooks will ever be in the first phase at the same time
  (this simplifies the implementation of hooks, since they don't have
  to perform locking (?)).  Second, if they accept a job, they are
  then responsible for building it (on the remote system), and copying
  the result back.  These can be run in parallel with other hooks and
  locally executed jobs.

  The implementation is a bit messy right now, though.  

* The directory `distributed' shows a (hacky) example of a hook that
  distributes build jobs over a set of machines listed in a
  configuration file.
2004-05-13 19:14:49 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra efa5fa1a91 * A switch `-j NUMBER' to set the maximum number of parallel jobs (0 =
no limit).
* Add missing file to distribution.
2004-05-12 14:20:32 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra 8c0b42f857 * An quick and dirty hack to support distributed builds. 2004-05-12 09:35:51 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra c8d3882cdc * True parallel builds. Nix can now run as many build jobs in
parallel as possible (similar to GNU Make's `-j' switch).  This is
  useful on SMP systems, but it is especially useful for doing builds
  on multiple machines.  The idea is that a large derivation is
  initiated on one master machine, which then distributes
  sub-derivations to any number of slave machines.  This should not
  happen synchronously or in lock-step, so the master must be capable
  of dealing with multiple parallel build jobs.  We now have the
  infrastructure to support this.

  TODO: substitutes are currently broken.
2004-05-11 18:05:44 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra 256eeab711 * Allow the location of the store etc. to be specified using
environment variables.
* Started adding some automatic tests.
* Do a `make check' when building RPMs.
2004-05-04 12:15:30 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra f8cd904e05 * Disallow the Nix store or any of its parents from being symlinks.
This is because the contents of these symlinks are not incorporated
  into the hashes of derivations, and could therefore cause a mismatch
  between the build system and the target system.  E.g., if
  `/nix/store' is a symlink to `/data/nix/store', then a builder could
  expand this path and store the result.  If on the target system
  `/nix/store' is not a symlink, or is a symlink that points somewhere
  else, we have a dangling pointer.

  The trigger for this change is that gcc 3.3.3 does exactly that (it
  applies realpath() to some files, such as libraries, which causes
  our impurity checker to bail out.)

  An annoying side-effect of this change is that it makes it harder to
  move the Nix store to a different file system.  On Linux, bind
  mounts can be used instead of symlink for this purpose (e.g., `mount
  -o bind /data/nix/store /nix/store').
2004-03-27 17:58:04 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra 777e13b94b * Nix now has three different formats for the log information it
writes to stderr:
  
  - `pretty': the old nested style (default)
  - `escapes': uses escape codes to indicate nesting and message
    level; can be processed using `log2xml'
  - `flat': just plain text, no nesting

  These can be set using `--log-type TYPE' or the NIX_LOG_TYPE
  environment variable.
2004-03-22 20:53:49 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra 0dfdafdf6d * Allow linking against an external Berkeley DB / ATerm library. 2004-02-16 16:37:16 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra f34de12140 * Allow the location of the store to be specified (--with-store-dir).
* Do not create stuff in localstatedir when doing `make install'
  (since we may not have write access).  In general, installation of
  constant code/data should be separate from the initialisation of
  mutable state.
2004-02-16 15:23:19 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra 76c0e85929 * The environment variable NIX_ROOT can now be set to execute Nix in a
chroot() environment.
* A operation `--validpath' to register path validity.  Useful for
  bootstrapping in a pure Nix environment.
* Safety checks: ensure that files involved in store operations are in
  the store.
2004-02-14 21:44:18 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra d9f30fe7c7 * Sort `nix-env -q' output by derivation name.
* `--version' flag for all commands.
* Manual updates.
2004-02-02 10:51:54 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra 291030b900 * Remove debug message. 2004-01-15 20:58:44 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra 447089a5f6 * Catch SIGINT to terminate cleanly when the user tries to interrupt
Nix.  This is to prevent Berkeley DB from becoming wedged.

  Unfortunately it is not possible to throw C++ exceptions from a
  signal handler.  In fact, you can't do much of anything except
  change variables of type `volatile sig_atomic_t'.  So we set an
  interrupt flag in the signal handler and check it at various
  strategic locations in the code (by calling checkInterrupt()).
  Since this is unlikely to cover all cases (e.g., (semi-)infinite
  loops), sometimes SIGTERM may now be required to kill Nix.
2004-01-15 20:23:55 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra ff9af107d3 * Option `-B' to always show the output of builders, regardless of
verbosity level.
2004-01-13 16:35:43 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra 833f2fc92d * GCC 2.95 compatibility. 2003-12-22 16:40:46 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra 078e20885e * Help text for all (non-script) programs, so no more:
$ nix-instantiate --help
error: unknown flag `--help`
Try `nix-instantiate --help' for more information.

:-)
2003-12-01 15:55:05 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra 66c115ef5f * More `make dist' fixes. 2003-11-25 13:01:21 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra 9898746ef3 * nix-env: a tool to manage user environments.
* Replace all directory reading code by a generic readDirectory()
  function.
2003-11-19 17:27:16 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra 9f0f020929 * libnix -> libstore. 2003-11-18 10:55:27 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra 8798fae304 * Source tree refactoring. 2003-11-18 10:47:59 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra 15801c88fa * Turned the msg() and debug() functions into macros, since they
turned out to be a huge performance bottleneck (the text to printed
  would always be evaluated, even when it was above the verbosity
  level).  This reduces fix-ng execution time by over 50%.

  gprof(1) is very useful. :-)
2003-11-09 10:35:45 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra ff31324278 * Ignore options passed to the aterm library. 2003-11-03 18:21:53 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra c62433751d * Finished refactoring the tree. 2003-10-20 10:05:01 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra 53e376d836 * Refactored the source tree. 2003-10-20 09:20:11 +00:00