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Eelco Dolstra c9f51e8705 Remove corepkgs/config.nix
This isn't used anywhere except in the configure script of the Perl
bindings. I've changed the latter to use the C++ API's Settings object
at runtime.
2020-09-17 10:42:51 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra 87b7b25e13 Clean up the configure script 2019-11-26 22:07:28 +01:00
Jörg Thalheim 2fd8f8bb99 Replace Unicode quotes in user-facing strings by ASCII
Relevant RFC: NixOS/rfcs#4

$ ag -l | xargs sed -i -e "/\"/s/’/'/g;/\"/s/‘/'/g"
2017-07-30 12:32:45 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra ba9ad29fdb
Convert Settings to the new config system
This makes all config options self-documenting.

Unknown or unparseable config settings and --option flags now cause a
warning.
2017-04-13 20:53:23 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra c0745a2531
Merge branch 'remove-perl' of https://github.com/shlevy/nix 2017-03-31 14:13:32 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra 4bb38591e5
Restore cache.nixos.org as the default substituter
Fixes #1283.
2017-03-21 15:06:46 +01:00
Shea Levy f7b7df8d1f Add nix-perl package for the perl bindings 2017-02-07 15:56:32 -05:00
Eelco Dolstra 215b70f51e
Revert "Get rid of unicode quotes (#1140)"
This reverts commit f78126bfd6. There
really is no need for such a massive change...
2016-11-26 00:38:01 +01:00
Guillaume Maudoux f78126bfd6 Get rid of unicode quotes (#1140) 2016-11-25 15:48:27 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra f435f82475 Remove OpenSSL-based signing 2016-05-04 11:01:48 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra 867967265b Remove manifest support
Manifests have been superseded by binary caches for years. This also
gets rid of nix-pull, nix-generate-patches and bsdiff/bspatch.
2016-04-11 16:20:15 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra b8b571cfc1 Include the cache.nixos.org signing key by default 2015-06-01 17:14:03 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra e0def5bc4b Use libsodium instead of OpenSSL for binary cache signing
Sodium's Ed25519 signatures are much shorter than OpenSSL's RSA
signatures. Public keys are also much shorter, so they're now
specified directly in the nix.conf option ‘binary-cache-public-keys’.

The new command ‘nix-store --generate-binary-cache-key’ generates and
prints a public and secret key.
2015-02-04 17:10:31 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra 11849a320e Use proper quotes everywhere 2014-08-20 18:03:48 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra 81628a6ccc Merge branch 'master' into make
Conflicts:
	src/libexpr/eval.cc
2014-01-21 15:30:01 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra 0fdf4da0e9 Support cryptographically signed binary caches
NAR info files in binary caches can now have a cryptographic signature
that Nix will verify before using the corresponding NAR file.

To create a private/public key pair for signing and verifying a binary
cache, do:

  $ openssl genrsa -out ./cache-key.sec 2048
  $ openssl rsa -in ./cache-key.sec -pubout > ./cache-key.pub

You should also come up with a symbolic name for the key, such as
"cache.example.org-1".  This will be used by clients to look up the
public key.  (It's a good idea to number keys, in case you ever need
to revoke/replace one.)

To create a binary cache signed with the private key:

  $ nix-push --dest /path/to/binary-cache --key ./cache-key.sec --key-name cache.example.org-1

The public key (cache-key.pub) should be distributed to the clients.
They should have a nix.conf should contain something like:

  signed-binary-caches = *
  binary-cache-public-key-cache.example.org-1 = /path/to/cache-key.pub

If all works well, then if Nix fetches something from the signed
binary cache, you will see a message like:

  *** Downloading ‘http://cache.example.org/nar/7dppcj5sc1nda7l54rjc0g5l1hamj09j-subversion-1.7.11’ (signed by ‘cache.example.org-1’) to ‘/nix/store/7dppcj5sc1nda7l54rjc0g5l1hamj09j-subversion-1.7.11’...

On the other hand, if the signature is wrong, you get a message like

  NAR info file `http://cache.example.org/7dppcj5sc1nda7l54rjc0g5l1hamj09j.narinfo' has an invalid signature; ignoring

Signatures are implemented as a single line appended to the NAR info
file, which looks like this:

  Signature: 1;cache.example.org-1;HQ9Xzyanq9iV...muQ==

Thus the signature has 3 fields: a version (currently "1"), the ID of
key, and the base64-encoded signature of the SHA-256 hash of the
contents of the NAR info file up to but not including the Signature
line.

Issue #75.
2014-01-08 15:42:53 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra 9285f0aa2b Add a Makefile for the Perl stuff 2013-11-25 16:38:33 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra d059bf48e4 Pass configuration settings to the substituters
Previously substituters could read nix.conf themselves, but this
didn't take --option flags into account.
2012-07-30 16:09:54 -04:00
Eelco Dolstra d287b62b64 Set the User-Agent header to "Nix/<version>" 2012-07-11 18:05:30 -04:00
Eelco Dolstra 099125435f download-from-binary-cache: add nix.conf options 2012-07-09 10:57:28 -04:00
Eelco Dolstra 37f7098464 First attempt at the manifest-less substituter 2012-06-29 18:28:52 -04:00
Eelco Dolstra 4911a10a4e Use XZ compression in binary caches
XZ compresses significantly better than bzip2.  Here are the
compression ratios and execution times (using 4 cores in parallel) on
my /var/run/current-system (3.1 GiB):

  bzip2: total compressed size 849.56 MiB, 30.8% [2m08]
  xz -6: total compressed size 641.84 MiB, 23.4% [6m53]
  xz -7: total compressed size 621.82 MiB, 22.6% [7m19]
  xz -8: total compressed size 599.33 MiB, 21.8% [7m18]
  xz -9: total compressed size 588.18 MiB, 21.4% [7m40]

Note that compression takes much longer.  More importantly, however,
decompression is much faster:

  bzip2: 1m47.274s
  xz -6: 0m55.446s
  xz -7: 0m54.119s
  xz -8: 0m52.388s
  xz -9: 0m51.842s

The only downside to using -9 is that decompression takes a fair
amount (~65 MB) of memory.
2012-06-29 15:24:52 -04:00
Eelco Dolstra 4f7bab7db1 Support building with the Perl XS bindings disabled
Since the Perl bindings require shared libraries, this is required on
platforms such as Cygwin where we do a static build.
2012-05-10 19:03:23 -04:00
Eelco Dolstra 39d45a6b09 * Add a test for nix-channel.
* Refactor the nix-channel unpacker a bit.
2012-01-03 01:51:38 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra ab20af3e6f * build-remote.pl: drop a hard-coded reference to /nix/etc/nix. 2011-11-23 12:21:35 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra 6fcdbcac20 * Install NixManifest.pm, NixConfig.pm and GeneratePatches.pm under
the Nix:: namespace.
2011-10-10 21:11:08 +00:00
Renamed from scripts/NixConfig.pm.in (Browse further)