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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 824b154ce8 * Release output locks as soon as possible, not when the destructor of
the DerivationGoal runs.  Otherwise, if a goal is a top-level goal,
  then the lock won't be released until nix-store finishes.  With
  --keep-going and lots of top-level goals, it's possible to run out
  of file descriptors (this happened sometimes in the build farm for
  Nixpkgs).  Also, for failed derivation, it won't be possible to
  build it again  until the lock is released.
  
* Idem for locks on build users: these weren't released in a timely
  manner for failed top-level derivation goals.  So if there were more
  than (say) 10 such failed builds, you would get an error about
  having run out of build users.
2009-02-16 09:24:20 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra b682fae9d9 * Build hooks: use nix-store --import. This prevents a redundant
scan for runtime dependencies (i.e. the local machine shouldn't do a
  scan that the remote machine has already done).  Also pipe directly
  into `nix-store --import': don't use a temporary file.
2009-02-02 17:24:10 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra 061141e632 * Make it compile on Debian 4.0 (which doesn't define PER_LINUX32_3GB
in sys/personality.h).
2009-01-27 13:36:59 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra 019176137f * When using a build hook, distinguish between transient failures
(e.g. an SSH connection problem) and permanent failures (i.e. the
  builder failed).  This matters to Hydra (it wants to know whether it
  makes sense to retry a build).
2009-01-13 11:39:09 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra c504d90c11 * Support i686-linux builds directly on x86_64-linux Nix
installations.  This is implemented using the personality() syscall,
  which causes uname to return "i686" in child processes.
2009-01-12 16:30:32 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra 8fce03e0ad * nix-store --verify: repair bad hash fields in the metadata file. 2008-12-16 13:28:18 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra 60ec75048a * Pass --use-atime / --max-atime to the daemon. 2008-12-16 12:23:35 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra 6f6bb1fdea * Delete the chroot if it already exists (e.g. left over from an
interrupted build).
2008-12-15 23:55:11 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra 92cb7c4dfe * Put chroots in the Nix store. This ensures that we can create hard
links to the inputs.
2008-12-12 17:14:57 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra 0008b0006d * Simplify deleting .lock files in /nix/store: just don't delete them
if they belong a path that's currently being built.  This gets rid
  of some Cygwin-specific code.
2008-12-12 17:03:18 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra 2b70a8e7c9 * Detect whether unshare() is available. 2008-12-12 13:41:36 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra 6776a52bb3 * Use a PathSet for the chroot directories so that we don't
accidentally bind-mount a directory twice.
2008-12-12 11:49:42 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra d86bd22d24 * Define _GNU_SOURCE. Hopefully this fixes the build on Debian 4.0
(http://hydra.nixos.org/nixlog/384/1).
2008-12-12 10:20:19 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra ac5478eb52 * Don't provide the whole Nix store in the chroot, but only the
closure of the inputs.  This really enforces that there can't be any
  undeclared dependencies on paths in the store.  This is done by
  creating a fake Nix store and creating bind-mounts or hard-links in
  the fake store for all paths in the closure.  After the build, the
  build output is moved from the fake store to the real store.  TODO:
  the chroot has to be on the same filesystem as the Nix store for
  this to work, but this isn't enforced yet.  (I.e. it only works
  currently if /tmp is on the same FS as /nix/store.)
2008-12-11 18:57:10 +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 5a569509b4 * Provide a minimal /etc/passwd in the chroot to keep some builders
happy.
2008-12-11 17:44:02 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra 7c54f1603f * Do chroot builds in a private namespace. This means that all the
bind-mounts we do are only visible to the builder process and its
  children.  So accidentally doing "rm -rf" on the chroot directory
  won't wipe out /nix/store and other bind-mounted directories
  anymore.  Also, the bind-mounts in the private namespace disappear
  automatically when the builder exits.
2008-12-11 17:00:12 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra 07cdfb09fb * Open the connection to the daemon lazily (on demand) so that
read-only operations (like nix-env -qa) work properly when the
  daemon isn't running.
2008-12-11 14:30:25 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra a0766eca27 * Build on Debian 4.0 (GCC 4.1.1). 2008-12-04 21:07:29 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra 9ac3f5df9c * Propagate --max-silent-time to remote machines. 2008-12-04 16:51:16 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra 909fbb9de1 * When using build hooks, for any nix-store -r build operation, it is
necessary that at least one build hook doesn't return "postpone",
  otherwise nix-store will barf ("waiting for a build slot, yet there
  are no running children").  So inform the build hook when this is
  the case, so that it can start a build even when that would exceed
  the maximum load on a machine.
2008-12-04 14:29:41 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra 82ae85de27 * addToStore() in nix-worker: don't write the NAR dump received from
the client to a temporary directory, as that is highly inefficient.
2008-12-03 18:05:14 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra ff762fb499 * Pass HashType values instead of strings. 2008-12-03 16:10:17 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra 1307b22223 * Made addToStore() a lot more efficient: it no longer reads the path
being copied 3 times in the worst case.  It doesn't run in constant space,
  but it didn't do that anyway.
2008-12-03 15:51:17 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra 64519cfd65 * Unify the treatment of sources copied to the store, and recursive
SHA-256 outputs of fixed-output derivations.  I.e. they now produce
  the same store path:

  $ nix-store --add x
  /nix/store/j2fq9qxvvxgqymvpszhs773ncci45xsj-x

  $ nix-store --add-fixed --recursive sha256 x
  /nix/store/j2fq9qxvvxgqymvpszhs773ncci45xsj-x

  the latter being the same as the path that a derivation

    derivation {
      name = "x";
      outputHashAlgo = "sha256";
      outputHashMode = "recursive";
      outputHash = "...";
      ...
    };

  produces.

  This does change the output path for such fixed-output derivations.
  Fortunately they are quite rare.  The most common use is fetchsvn
  calls with SHA-256 hashes.  (There are a handful of those is
  Nixpkgs, mostly unstable development packages.)
  
* Documented the computation of store paths (in store-api.cc).
2008-12-03 15:06:30 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra a55113411f * Nix daemon: reload the configuration file after forking (NIX-100). 2008-11-20 12:25:11 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra e13da525a7 * Files in the info directory starting with "." are temporary files
and don't indicate path validity.
2008-11-19 16:27:07 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra 6fedb7aa0f * Restore SIGPIPE to SIG_DFL when running the builder. This prevents
subtle and often hard-to-reproduce bugs where programs in pipes
  either barf with a "Broken pipe" message or not, depending on the
  exact timing conditions.  This particularly happened in GNU M4 (and
  Bison, which uses M4).
2008-11-14 15:46:45 +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 96598e7b06 * Pass the --no-build-output flag to the daemon. 2008-11-11 15:11:10 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra 4166b11a53 * Add /dev/pts to the default nix.conf. 2008-11-11 14:59:20 +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
Ludovic Courtès c98ea254dc libstore: Always mount `/dev/pts' individually.
This fixes problems such as Tcl's PTY handling:

  ERROR: The system has no more ptys.  Ask your system administrator to
  create more.
2008-10-16 21:04:32 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra 9d6d50269b * Bug fix for building on some old installations (contributed by Pjotr). 2008-10-16 14:16:03 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra f32fef1b07 * GC option `--max-atime' that specifies an upper limit to the last
accessed time of paths that may be deleted.  Anything more recently
  used won't be deleted.  The time is specified in time_t,
  e.g. seconds since 1970-01-01 00:00:00 UTC; use `date +%s' to
  convert to time_t from the command line. 

  Example: to delete everything that hasn't been used in the last two
  months:

  $ nix-store --gc -v --max-atime $(date +%s -d "2 months ago")
2008-09-17 14:52:35 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra 4af2fdba6d * Typo. 2008-09-17 13:00:55 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra c987061aa4 * Some refactoring. Better output with `-v' for --use-atime. 2008-09-17 12:54:07 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra 7ab68961e4 * Garbage collector: added an option `--use-atime' to delete paths in
order of ascending last access time.  This is useful in conjunction
  with --max-freed or --max-links to prefer deleting non-recently used
  garbage, which is good (especially in the build farm) since garbage
  may become live again.

  The code could easily be modified to accept other criteria for
  ordering garbage by changing the comparison operator used by the
  priority queue in collectGarbage().
2008-09-17 10:02:55 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra 7718b19389 * Explicitly set PWD to prevent problems with chroot builds. In
particular, dietlibc cannot figure out the cwd because the inode of
  the current directory doesn't appear in .. (because getdents returns
  the inode of the mount point).
2008-08-27 17:20:25 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra 9cc0da8453 * Create a /tmp with 1777 permission in the chroot. Some builders
need a writable /tmp (they don't respect $TMPDIR).
2008-08-27 16:03:03 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra d06be428f6 * Disable chroot builds for fixed-output derivations so that we don't
need /etc in the chroot (in particular, /etc/resolv.conf for
  fetchurl).  Not having /etc/resolv.conf in the chroot is a good
  thing, since we don't want normal derivations to download files.
2008-08-25 15:49:22 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra b428adc267 * Strip off the `.nix' suffix from the attribute name for files in
~/.nix-defexpr,  otherwise the attribute cannot be selected with the
  `-A' option.  Useful if you want to stick a Nix expression directly
  in ~/.nix-defexpr.
2008-08-25 13:31:57 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra db4f4a8425 * Backward compatibility check to prevent nixos-rebuild from barfing
when upgrading Nix.
2008-08-14 13:02:19 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra c03b729319 * Increase the sleep periods a bit to make the test less likely to
fail on slow machines.  Of course it would be better if this test
  wasn't timing dependent...
2008-08-14 09:26:30 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra 98b07466fb * Better error checking of the data from the substituters. 2008-08-05 10:57:53 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra 5adbb0aabe * build.cc: only use a substituter if it returns info for a path. 2008-08-04 13:15:35 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra c4f98941ed * nix-env --dry-run: show the total size of the substituter
downloads.
2008-08-04 12:29:04 +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 3c92ea399d * Make nix-env --dry-run print the paths to be substituted correctly
again.  (After the previous substituter mechanism refactoring I
  didn't update the code that obtains the references of substitutable
  paths.)  This required some refactoring: the substituter programs
  are now kept running and receive/respond to info requests via
  stdin/stdout.
2008-08-02 12:54:35 +00:00