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Gergely Risko c6c024ca6f Fix personality switching from x86_64 to i686
On Linux, Nix can build i686 packages even on x86_64 systems.  It's not
enough to recognize this situation by settings.thisSystem, we also have
to consult uname().  E.g. we can be running on a i686 Debian with an
amd64 kernel.  In that situation settings.thisSystem is i686-linux, but
we still need to change personality to i686 to make builds consistent.
2013-08-26 11:12:35 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra a583a2bc59 Run the daemon worker on the same CPU as the client
On a system with multiple CPUs, running Nix operations through the
daemon is significantly slower than "direct" mode:

$ NIX_REMOTE= nix-instantiate '<nixos>' -A system
real    0m0.974s
user    0m0.875s
sys     0m0.088s

$ NIX_REMOTE=daemon nix-instantiate '<nixos>' -A system
real    0m2.118s
user    0m1.463s
sys     0m0.218s

The main reason seems to be that the client and the worker get moved
to a different CPU after every call to the worker.  This patch adds a
hack to lock them to the same CPU.  With this, the overhead of going
through the daemon is very small:

$ NIX_REMOTE=daemon nix-instantiate '<nixos>' -A system
real    0m1.074s
user    0m0.809s
sys     0m0.098s
2013-08-07 14:02:04 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra a4921b8ceb Revert "build-remote.pl: Enforce timeouts locally"
This reverts commit 69b8f9980f.

The timeout should be enforced remotely.  Otherwise, if the garbage
collector is running either locally or remotely, if will block the
build or closure copying for some time.  If the garbage collector
takes too long, the build may time out, which is not what we want.
Also, on heavily loaded systems, copying large paths to and from the
remote machine can take a long time, also potentially resulting in a
timeout.
2013-07-18 12:52:29 +02:00
Shea Levy 16591eb3cc Allow bind-mounting regular files into the chroot
mount(2) with MS_BIND allows mounting a regular file on top of a regular
file, so there's no reason to only bind directories. This allows finer
control over just which files are and aren't included in the chroot
without having to build symlink trees or the like.

Signed-off-by: Shea Levy <shea@shealevy.com>
2013-07-15 16:01:33 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra 7ccd946407 Don't set $preferLocalBuild and $requiredSystemFeatures in builders
With C++ std::map, doing a comparison like ‘map["foo"] == ...’ has the
side-effect of adding a mapping from "foo" to the empty string if
"foo" doesn't exist in the map.  So we ended up setting some
environment variables by accident.
2013-06-20 18:07:27 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra 5558652709 Don't substitute derivations that have preferLocalBuild set
In particular this means that "trivial" derivations such as writeText
are not substituted, reducing the number of GET requests to the binary
cache by about 200 on a typical NixOS configuration.
2013-06-20 19:26:31 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra 1b6ee8f4c7 Allow hard links between the outputs of a derivation 2013-06-13 17:29:56 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra cd49ee0897 Fix a security bug in hash rewriting
Before calling dumpPath(), we have to make sure the files are owned by
the build user.  Otherwise, the build could contain a hard link to
(say) /etc/shadow, which would then be read by the daemon and
rewritten as a world-readable file.

This only affects systems that don't have hard link restrictions
enabled.
2013-06-13 17:12:24 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra 1e2c7c04b1 Fix assertion failure in canonicalisePathMetaData() after hash rewriting
The assertion in canonicalisePathMetaData() failed because the
ownership of the path already changed due to the hash rewriting.  The
solution is not to check the ownership of rewritten paths.

Issue #122.
2013-06-13 17:12:06 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra 6cc2a8f8ed computeFSClosure: Only process the missing/corrupt paths
Issue #122.
2013-06-13 16:43:20 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra f9ff67e948 In repair mode, update the hash of rebuilt paths
Otherwise subsequent invocations of "--repair" will keep rebuilding
the path.  This only happens if the path content differs between
builds (e.g. due to timestamps).
2013-06-13 14:46:07 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra 2ee9da9e22 In trace messages, don't print the output path
This doesn't work if there is no output named "out".  Hydra didn't use
it anyway.
2013-05-10 00:24:33 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra 6eba05613a Communicate build timeouts to Hydra 2013-05-09 18:39:04 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra 69b8f9980f build-remote.pl: Enforce timeouts locally
Don't pass --timeout / --max-silent-time to the remote builder.
Instead, let the local Nix process terminate the build if it exceeds a
timeout.  The remote builder will be killed as a side-effect.  This
gives better error reporting (since the timeout message from the
remote side wasn't properly propagated) and handles non-Nix problems
like SSH hangs.
2013-05-09 17:17:17 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra 772b70952f Fix --timeout
I'm not sure if it has ever worked correctly.  The line "lastWait =
after;" seems to mean that the timer was reset every time a build
produced log output.

Note that the timeout is now per build, as documented ("the maximum
number of seconds that a builder can run").
2013-04-23 18:04:59 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra 934cf2d1f4 Nix daemon: respect build timeout from the client 2013-04-23 16:59:06 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra 258897c265 Complain if /homeless-shelter exists 2013-04-04 11:16:26 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra bdd4646338 Revert "Prevent config.h from being clobbered"
This reverts commit 28bba8c44f.
2013-03-08 01:24:59 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra 28bba8c44f Prevent config.h from being clobbered 2013-03-07 23:55:55 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra 5526a282b5 Security: Don't allow builders to change permissions on files they don't own
It turns out that in multi-user Nix, a builder may be able to do

  ln /etc/shadow $out/foo

Afterwards, canonicalisePathMetaData() will be applied to $out/foo,
causing /etc/shadow's mode to be set to 444 (readable by everybody but
writable by nobody).  That's obviously Very Bad.

Fortunately, this fails in NixOS's default configuration because
/nix/store is a bind mount, so "ln" will fail with "Invalid
cross-device link".  It also fails if hard-link restrictions are
enabled, so a workaround is:

  echo 1 > /proc/sys/fs/protected_hardlinks

The solution is to check that all files in $out are owned by the build
user.  This means that innocuous operations like "ln
${pkgs.foo}/some-file $out/" are now rejected, but that already failed
in chroot builds anyway.
2013-02-26 02:30:19 +01:00
Ludovic Courtès 5ea138dc4b Enable chroot support on old glibc versions. 2013-02-19 10:19:11 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra 536c85ea49 Store build logs in /nix/var/log/nix/drvs/<XX>
...where <XX> is the first two characters of the derivation.
Otherwise /nix/var/log/nix/drvs may become so large that we run into
all sorts of weird filesystem limits/inefficiences.  For instance,
ext3/ext4 filesystems will barf with "ext4_dx_add_entry:1551:
Directory index full!" once you hit a few million files.
2013-01-17 15:47:26 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra def5160b61 Clear any immutable bits in the Nix store
Doing this once makes subsequent operations like garbage collecting
more efficient since we don't have to call makeMutable() first.
2013-01-03 12:59:23 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra 299141ecbd If a substitute closure is incomplete, build dependencies, then retry the substituter
Issue #77.
2013-01-02 12:38:28 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra 1b3a78a459 Automatically fall back if the references of a substitute are not substitutable
Fixes #77.
2013-01-02 12:00:26 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra b7629778ef Allow mounting a path in a different location in the chroot
Fixes #24.
2012-12-29 23:04:02 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra fbf0b2fa45 Kill the build hook rather than shutting it down cleanly
Waiting for the hook to shut down cleanly sometimes seems to lead to
hangs.
2012-12-19 11:47:42 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra 228ea7c2f9 Revert brain fart
This reverts commit cc511fd65b.
2012-12-18 20:43:47 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra cc511fd65b Check for potential infinite select() loops when building 2012-12-18 18:50:05 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra 8d8d47abd2 Only substitute wanted outputs of a derivation
If a derivation has multiple outputs, then we only want to download
those outputs that are actuallty needed.  So if we do "nix-build -A
openssl.man", then only the "man" output should be downloaded.
Likewise if another package depends on ${openssl.man}.

The tricky part is that different derivations can depend on different
outputs of a given derivation, so we may need to restart the
corresponding derivation goal if that happens.
2012-11-26 17:15:09 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra 46a369ad95 Make "nix-build -A <derivation>.<output>" do the right thing
For example, given a derivation with outputs "out", "man" and "bin":

  $ nix-build -A pkg

produces ./result pointing to the "out" output;

  $ nix-build -A pkg.man

produces ./result-man pointing to the "man" output;

  $ nix-build -A pkg.all

produces ./result, ./result-man and ./result-bin;

  $ nix-build -A pkg.all -A pkg2

produces ./result, ./result-man, ./result-bin and ./result-2.
2012-11-26 15:39:10 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra f794465ca8 Disable use of vfork()
vfork() is just too weird.  For instance, in this build:

  http://hydra.nixos.org/build/3330487

the value fromHook.writeSide becomes corrupted in the parent, even
though the child only reads from it.  At -O0 the problem goes away.
Probably the child is overriding some spilled temporary variable.

If I get bored I may implement using posix_spawn() instead.
2012-11-15 19:35:18 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra 8541d27fce Don't use std::cerr in a few places
Slightly scared of using std::cerr in a vforked process...
2012-11-15 15:01:02 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra ea89df2b76 Use vfork() instead of fork() if available
Hopefully this reduces the chance of hitting ‘unable to fork: Cannot
allocate memory’ errors.  vfork() is used for everything except
starting builders.
2012-11-09 18:00:33 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra 198dbe7fa1 Remove some redundant close() calls
They are unnecessary because we set the close-on-exec flag.
2012-11-09 16:58:51 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra 10dcee99ed Remove the quickExit function 2012-11-09 16:42:10 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra 4c34d384e6 If hashes do not match, print them in base-32 for SHA-1/SHA-256
Fixes #57.
2012-10-23 18:05:50 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra e345182055 Shorten the names of temporary build directories 2012-10-11 14:03:06 -04:00
Eelco Dolstra 2bbc4a214e nix-env: Support ‘--repair’ flag 2012-10-03 15:35:42 -04:00
Eelco Dolstra a807edfae8 Handle repairing paths that are in build-chroot-dirs 2012-10-03 11:20:16 -04:00
Eelco Dolstra a3f205b249 When repairing a derivation, check and repair the entire output closure
If we find a corrupted path in the output closure, we rebuild the
derivation that produced that particular path.
2012-10-03 10:38:09 -04:00
Eelco Dolstra 2001895f3d Add a --repair flag to ‘nix-store -r’ to repair derivation outputs
With this flag, if any valid derivation output is missing or corrupt,
it will be recreated by using a substitute if available, or by
rebuilding the derivation.  The latter may use hash rewriting if
chroots are not available.
2012-10-02 17:13:46 -04:00
Eelco Dolstra 9958bd6992 Add operation ‘nix-store --repair-path’
This operation allows fixing corrupted or accidentally deleted store
paths by redownloading them using substituters, if available.

Since the corrupted path cannot be replaced atomically, there is a
very small time window (one system call) during which neither the old
(corrupted) nor the new (repaired) contents are available.  So
repairing should be used with some care on critical packages like
Glibc.
2012-10-02 14:08:59 -04:00
Eelco Dolstra e666e1156f Handle octal escapes in /proc/self/mountinfo 2012-09-28 21:39:30 -04:00
Eelco Dolstra f406288cc7 Print a more descriptive error message if setting up the build environment fails 2012-09-28 21:37:02 -04:00
Eelco Dolstra b9c2b4d5b4 Remove setting of the immutable bit
Using the immutable bit is problematic, especially in conjunction with
store optimisation.  For instance, if the garbage collector deletes a
file, it has to clear its immutable bit, but if the file has
additional hard links, we can't set the bit afterwards because we
don't know the remaining paths.

So now that we support having the entire Nix store as a read-only
mount, we may as well drop the immutable bit.  Unfortunately, we have
to keep the code to clear the immutable bit for backwards
compatibility.
2012-09-19 16:17:54 -04:00
Eelco Dolstra 76e88871b2 Templatise tokenizeString() 2012-09-19 15:43:23 -04:00
Eelco Dolstra 00092b2d35 Keep build directory if not all expected outputs were produced
Fixes issue #123 in Nixpkgs.
2012-09-18 10:11:42 -04:00
Eelco Dolstra e56f71edaf In startBuilder(), only print the new paths we're building 2012-09-13 10:06:24 -04:00
Eelco Dolstra 479e9172b3 Build hook: Pass the timeout to the remote builder
Note that this will only work if the client has a very recent Nix
version (post 15e1b2c223), otherwise the
--option flag will just be ignored.

Fixes #50.
2012-09-12 12:18:14 -04:00