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Shea Levy 4d652875bd Add the pre-build hook.
This hook can be used to set system-specific per-derivation build
settings that don't fit into the derivation model and are too complex or
volatile to be hard-coded into nix. Currently, the pre-build hook can
only add chroot dirs/files through the interface, but it also has full
access to the chroot root.

The specific use case for this is systems where the operating system ABI
is more complex than just the kernel-support system calls. For example,
on OS X there is a set of system-provided frameworks that can reliably
be accessed by any program linked to them, no matter the version the
program is running on. Unfortunately, those frameworks do not
necessarily live in the same locations on each version of OS X, nor do
their dependencies, and thus nix needs to know the specific version of
OS X currently running in order to make those frameworks available. The
pre-build hook is a perfect mechanism for doing just that.
2015-04-18 16:56:02 -04:00
Shea Levy fd6774e285 Revert "Add the pre-build hook."
Going to reimplement differently.

This reverts commit 1e4a4a2e9f.
2015-04-18 14:59:58 -04:00
Shea Levy 9b1866b721 Merge branch 'add-manpath' of git://github.com/mmerickel/nix 2015-04-16 21:57:41 -04:00
Eelco Dolstra 035aeb9547 Fix using restricted mode with chroots 2015-04-16 18:46:17 +02:00
Michael Merickel 76f985b92d add the manpath to the installer 2015-04-12 20:30:47 -04:00
Shea Levy 1e4a4a2e9f Add the pre-build hook.
This hook can be used to set system specific per-derivation build
settings that don't fit into the derivation model and are too complex or
volatile to be hard-coded into nix. Currently, the pre-build hook can
only add chroot dirs/files.

The specific use case for this is systems where the operating system ABI
is more complex than just the kernel-supported system calls. For
example, on OS X there is a set of system-provided frameworks that can
reliably be accessed by any program linked to them, no matter the
version the program is running on. Unfortunately, those frameworks do
not necessarily live in the same locations on each version of OS X, nor
do their dependencies, and thus nix needs to know the specific version
of OS X currently running in order to make those frameworks available.
The pre-build hook is a perfect mechanism for doing just that.
2015-04-12 12:56:38 -04:00
Eelco Dolstra 4ed2187377 Use cached result if there is a network error 2015-04-09 12:49:13 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra 1fc905ad4c Move curl stuff into a separate file 2015-04-09 12:12:50 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra c1f04fae35 Implement a TTL on cached fetchurl/fetchTarball results
This is because we don't want to do HTTP requests on every evaluation,
even though we can prevent a full redownload via the cached ETag. The
default is one hour.
2015-04-09 11:55:36 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra 60340ce3e2 Implement caching of fetchurl/fetchTarball results
ETags are used to prevent redownloading unchanged files.
2015-04-09 11:42:04 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra 1711679ea5 Revert /nix/store permission back to 01775
This broke NixOS VM tests.

Mostly reverts 27b7b94923,
5ce50cd99e,
afa433e58c.
2015-04-07 13:21:26 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra afa433e58c Chroot builds: Provide world-readable /nix/store
This was causing NixOS VM tests to fail mysteriously since
5ce50cd99e. Nscd could (sometimes) no
longer read /etc/hosts:

open("/etc/hosts", O_RDONLY|O_CLOEXEC) = -1 EACCES (Permission denied)

Probably there was some wacky interaction between the guest kernel and
the 9pfs implementation in QEMU.
2015-04-02 16:59:40 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra be1ff23352 Add dependency on libcurl-dev
http://hydra.nixos.org/eval/1179370
2015-03-27 12:27:36 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra 000b5a000f Add fetchTarball builtin
This function downloads and unpacks the given URL at evaluation
time. This is primarily intended to make it easier to deal with Nix
expressions that have external dependencies. For instance, to fetch
Nixpkgs 14.12:

  with import (fetchTarball https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs-channels/archive/nixos-14.12.tar.gz) {};

Or to fetch a specific revision:

  with import (fetchTarball 2766a4b44e.tar.gz) {};

This patch also adds a ‘fetchurl’ builtin that downloads but doesn't
unpack its argument. Not sure if it's useful though.
2015-03-25 17:29:09 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra 7ea6ecf855 addToStore(): Take explicit name argument 2015-03-25 17:06:12 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra 5114a07d95 Improve setting the default chroot dirs 2015-03-24 11:57:46 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra fd89f97be9 Add the closure of store paths to the chroot
Thus, for example, to get /bin/sh in a chroot, you only need to
specify /bin/sh=${pkgs.bash}/bin/sh in build-chroot-dirs. The
dependencies of sh will be added automatically.
2015-03-24 11:52:34 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra 5ce50cd99e Tighten permissions on chroot directories 2015-03-24 11:35:53 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra 6f0c6e20e0 Don't rely on __noChroot for corepkgs
This doesn't work anymore if the "strict" chroot mode is
enabled. Instead, add Nix's store path as a dependency. This ensures
that its closure is present in the chroot.
2015-03-24 11:15:45 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra b005e63ccf Disable scanning for interior pointers
This may remove the "Repeated allocation of very large block"
warnings.
2015-03-19 20:10:08 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra 726f7f7fc9 Fix Boehm API violation
We were calling GC_INIT() after doing an allocation (in the baseEnv
construction), which is not allowed.
2015-03-19 20:02:37 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra da6b704b19 Check return values from malloc/strdup 2015-03-19 14:11:35 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra fa47279440 Print some Boehm GC stats 2015-03-18 16:24:54 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra 7a84143910 valueSize(): Take into account list/bindings/env size 2015-03-18 14:41:28 +01:00
Daniel Hahler e659978ced Fix typos: s/the the/the/ 2015-03-06 16:43:22 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra 17c71334e1 forceValueDeep: Add to error prefix 2015-03-06 15:10:12 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra 5badc8f975 Improve error message 2015-03-06 14:24:08 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra 9f3eb56b46 Reduce verbosity in build-remote.pl 2015-03-04 16:27:42 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra 71b0a3a86b Add option to hide display of missing paths 2015-03-04 15:43:04 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra 75ede65e3d Don't use vfork() before clone()
I'm seeing hangs in Glibc's setxid_mark_thread() again. This is
probably because the use of an intermediate process to make clone()
safe from a multi-threaded program (see
524f89f139) is defeated by the use of
vfork(), since the intermediate process will have a copy of Glibc's
threading data structures due to the vfork(). So use a regular fork()
again.
2015-03-04 15:13:10 +01:00
Shea Levy c2699be93b Merge branch 'allow-system-library' of git://github.com/copumpkin/nix
Make the default impure prefix include all of /System/Library
2015-03-03 15:01:09 -05:00
Dan Peebles 336c4270c6 Make the default impure prefix (not actual allowed impurities!) include all of /System/Library, since we also want PrivateFrameworks from there and (briefly) TextEncodings, and who knows what else. Yay infectious impurities? 2015-03-02 23:01:24 -05:00
Dan Peebles 66d612f1da Allow local networking in the darwin sandbox to appease tests 2015-03-02 22:55:42 -05:00
Eelco Dolstra cffa7f80ab Typo 2015-02-23 16:02:50 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra 885bebf13b More graceful fallback for chroots on Linux < 2.13 2015-02-23 15:54:31 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra 99897f6979 Use chroots for all derivations
If ‘build-use-chroot’ is set to ‘true’, fixed-output derivations are
now also chrooted. However, unlike normal derivations, they don't get
a private network namespace, so they can still access the
network. Also, the use of the ‘__noChroot’ derivation attribute is
no longer allowed.

Setting ‘build-use-chroot’ to ‘relaxed’ gives the old behaviour.
2015-02-23 15:54:31 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra 15d2d3c34e Add restricted evaluation mode
If ‘--option restrict-eval true’ is given, the evaluator will throw an
exception if an attempt is made to access any file outside of the Nix
search path. This is primarily intended for Hydra, where we don't want
people doing ‘builtins.readFile ~/.ssh/id_dsa’ or stuff like that.
2015-02-23 15:54:31 +01:00
Shea Levy 47bdc52c1b Merge branch 'gh-476-fix-install-script' of git://github.com/jramnani/nix
sometimes cd prints to stdout
2015-02-22 12:00:51 -05:00
Shea Levy a8494de0be Merge branch 'docs/channels-path' of git://github.com/iElectric/nix 2015-02-22 11:59:38 -05:00
Domen Kožar 7bd8299c6c fixes https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/issues/6485 2015-02-22 08:39:29 -08:00
Eelco Dolstra c33244d7c1 Merge branch 'tilde-paths' of https://github.com/shlevy/nix 2015-02-19 14:55:06 +01:00
Shea Levy c4653afbcd tilde paths: The rest of the string has to start with a slash anyway 2015-02-19 08:52:13 -05:00
Shea Levy e3e38a048e tilde paths: construct the entire path at parse time 2015-02-19 08:51:21 -05:00
Shea Levy 4b7c9f834c tilde paths: get HOME at parse time 2015-02-19 08:49:10 -05:00
Eelco Dolstra 9bedd9b09b Remove obsolete reference to ~ operator 2015-02-19 14:41:22 +01:00
Shea Levy 4646e94610 ExprConcatStrings: canonicalize concatenated paths 2015-02-19 08:39:25 -05:00
Eelco Dolstra 175935e053 FIXMEs 2015-02-19 14:10:33 +01:00
Shea Levy e0953d53de Allow the leading component of a path to be a ~ 2015-02-19 08:05:16 -05:00
Eelco Dolstra 1816ac0db1 Escape arguments to nix-shell #! scripts 2015-02-18 20:13:53 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra dc7e8fae48 Support passing command line arguments to nix-shell #! scripts 2015-02-18 15:55:18 +01:00