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Eelco Dolstra 202683a4fc Use O_CLOEXEC in most places 2016-06-09 16:37:08 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra 5e51ffb1c2 Support sandbox builds by non-root users
This allows an unprivileged user to perform builds on a diverted store
(i.e. where the physical store location differs from the logical
location).

Example:

  $ NIX_LOG_DIR=/tmp/log NIX_REMOTE="local?real=/tmp/store&state=/tmp/var" nix-build -E \
    'with import <nixpkgs> {}; runCommand "foo" { buildInputs = [procps nettools]; } "id; ps; ifconfig; echo $out > $out"'

will do a build in the Nix store physically in /tmp/store but
logically in /nix/store (and thus using substituters for the latter).
2016-06-03 15:59:28 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra 080d607975 Don't call shared_from_this() from a destructor 2016-06-03 14:02:44 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra 4494000e04 LocalStore: Allow the physical and logical store directories to differ
This is primarily to subsume the functionality of the
copy-from-other-stores substituter. For example, in the NixOS
installer, we can now do (assuming we're in the target chroot, and the
Nix store of the installation CD is bind-mounted on /tmp/nix):

  $ nix-build ... --option substituters 'local?state=/tmp/nix/var&real=/tmp/nix/store'

However, unlike copy-from-other-stores, this also allows write access
to such a store. One application might be fetching substitutes for
/nix/store in a situation where the user doesn't have sufficient
privileges to create /nix, e.g.:

  $ NIX_REMOTE="local?state=/home/alice/nix/var&real=/home/alice/nix/store" nix-build ...
2016-06-02 16:02:48 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra 064816ab98 Respect build-use-substitutes 2016-06-02 16:02:48 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra e24e2caaaf Skip substituters with an incompatible store directory 2016-06-01 16:40:49 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra 7850d3d279 Make the store directory a member variable of Store 2016-06-01 16:24:17 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra 57d33013ce Check signatures before downloading the substitute 2016-05-30 15:18:12 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra b66ab6cdbc Fix repair during substitution 2016-05-30 15:18:12 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra 6c75cf69c3 Cleanup: Remove singleton() 2016-05-04 16:16:53 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra 0d4a10e910 Do compression in a sink 2016-05-04 16:16:53 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra dfebfc835f Add a copyStorePath() utility function 2016-05-04 11:01:48 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra aa3bc3d5dc Eliminate the substituter mechanism
Substitution is now simply a Store -> Store copy operation, most
typically from BinaryCacheStore to LocalStore.
2016-04-29 13:57:08 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra 21e9d183cc Really handle carriage return 2016-04-28 14:27:00 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra cc804d0dc6 Handle carriage return 2016-04-25 19:18:45 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra 5761827d5b Show the log tail when a build fails
If --no-build-output is given (which will become the default for the
"nix" command at least), show the last 10 lines of the build output if
the build fails.
2016-04-25 19:18:45 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra 6e1b099279 Remove --print-build-trace
This was added to support Hydra, but Hydra no longer uses it.
2016-04-25 19:18:45 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra 41633f9f73 Improved logging abstraction
This also gets rid of --log-type, since the nested log type isn't
useful in a multi-threaded situation, and nobody cares about the
"pretty" log type.
2016-04-25 19:18:45 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra e0204f8d46 Move path info caching from BinaryCacheStore to Store
Caching path info is generally useful. For instance, it speeds up "nix
path-info -rS /run/current-system" (i.e. showing the closure sizes of
all paths in the closure of the current system) from 5.6s to 0.15s.

This also eliminates some APIs like Store::queryDeriver() and
Store::queryReferences().
2016-04-19 18:52:53 +02:00
Dan Peebles 608b0265e1 Print out all bad references/requisites at once
Also updates tests to check for new information. Fixes #799
2016-04-16 19:58:26 -04:00
Eelco Dolstra 3c1c6b8f00 Set RLIMIT_CORE to 0, infinity in builders
This prevents the builder from being affected by whatever the host
system limits happen to be.
2016-04-14 13:39:14 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra 8cffec8485 Remove failed build caching
This feature was implemented for Hydra, but Hydra no longer uses it.
2016-04-08 18:19:04 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra f398949b40 Make LocalStore thread-safe
Necessary for multi-threaded commands like "nix verify-paths".
2016-04-08 18:07:13 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra e39999ed48 Sign locally-built paths
Locally-built paths are now signed automatically using the secret keys
specified by the ‘secret-key-files’ option.
2016-04-07 15:16:57 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra 9cee600c88 LocalStore: Keep track of ultimately trusted paths
These are content-addressed paths or outputs of locally performed
builds. They are trusted even if they don't have signatures, so "nix
verify-paths" won't complain about them.
2016-03-30 17:35:48 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra 42bc395b63 Eliminate some large string copying 2016-03-04 16:49:56 +01:00
Nathan Zadoks fe2be8f016 build.cc: fs.h doesn't appear to be necessary anymore 2016-03-03 14:11:00 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra 152b1d6bf9 deletePath(): Succeed if path doesn't exist
Also makes it robust against concurrent deletions.
2016-02-24 17:44:55 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra 5ac27053e9 Rename ValidPathInfo::hash -> narHash for consistency 2016-02-16 11:49:12 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra c10c61449f Eliminate the "store" global variable
Also, move a few free-standing functions into StoreAPI and Derivation.

Also, introduce a non-nullable smart pointer, ref<T>, which is just a
wrapper around std::shared_ptr ensuring that the pointer is never
null. (For reference-counted values, this is better than passing a
"T&", because the latter doesn't maintain the refcount. Usually, the
caller will have a shared_ptr keeping the value alive, but that's not
always the case, e.g., when passing a reference to a std::thread via
std::bind.)
2016-02-04 14:28:26 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra d367b8e787 Add build mode to compute fixed-output derivation hashes
For example,

  $ nix-build --hash -A nix-repl.src

will build the fixed-output derivation nix-repl.src (a fetchFromGitHub
call), but instead of *verifying* the hash given in the Nix
expression, it prints out the resulting hash, and then moves the
result to its content-addressed location in the Nix store. E.g

  build produced path ‘/nix/store/504a4k6zi69dq0yjc0bm12pa65bccxam-nix-repl-8a2f5f0607540ffe56b56d52db544373e1efb980-src’ with sha256 hash ‘0cjablz01i0g9smnavhf86imwx1f9mnh5flax75i615ml71gsr88’

The goal of this is to make all nix-prefetch-* scripts unnecessary: we
can just let Nix run the real thing (i.e., the corresponding fetch*
derivation).

Another example:

  $ nix-build --hash -E 'with import <nixpkgs> {}; fetchgit { url = "https://github.com/NixOS/nix.git"; sha256 = "ffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffff"; }'
  ...
  git revision is 9e7c1a4bbd
  ...
  build produced path ‘/nix/store/gmsnh9i7x4mb7pyd2ns7n3c9l90jfsi1-nix’ with sha256 hash ‘1188xb621diw89n25rifqg9lxnzpz7nj5bfh4i1y3dnis0dmc0zp’

(Having to specify a fake sha256 hash is a bit annoying...)
2016-01-31 12:18:09 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra 786046cf13 --option build-repeat: Keep the differing output if -K is given
Similar to 00903fa799. Regardless of -K,
we now also print which output differs.
2016-01-12 18:26:24 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra 00903fa799 --check: Keep the differing output if -K is given
This makes it easier to investigate the non-determinism, e.g.

  $ nix-build pkgs/stdenv/linux -A stage1.pkgs.zlib --check -K
  error: derivation ‘/nix/store/l54i8wlw22656i4pk05c52ngv9rpl39q-zlib-1.2.8.drv’ may not be deterministic: output ‘/nix/store/11a27shh6n2ivi4a7s964i65ql80cf27-zlib-1.2.8’ differs from ‘/nix/store/11a27shh6n2ivi4a7s964i65ql80cf27-zlib-1.2.8-check’

  $ diffoscope /nix/store/11a27shh6n2ivi4a7s964i65ql80cf27-zlib-1.2.8 /nix/store/11a27shh6n2ivi4a7s964i65ql80cf27-zlib-1.2.8-check
  ...
  ├── lib/libz.a
  │   ├── metadata
  │   │ @@ -1,15 +1,15 @@
  │   │ -rw-r--r-- 30001/30000   3096 Jan 12 15:20 2016 adler32.o
  ...
  │   │ +rw-r--r-- 30001/30000   3096 Jan 12 15:28 2016 adler32.o
  ...
2016-01-12 16:44:26 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra 0cad1f8049 --check: Fix "failed to produce output path"
This occured when sandbox building is disabled, at least one output
exists, and at least one other output does not.
2016-01-12 15:13:47 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra 1c57ab8b31 --check: Fix assertion failure when some outputs are missing
E.g.

  $ nix-build pkgs/stdenv/linux/ -A stage1.pkgs.perl --check
  nix-store: src/libstore/build.cc:1323: void nix::DerivationGoal::tryToBuild(): Assertion `buildMode != bmCheck || validPaths.size() == drv->outputs.size()' failed.

when perl.out exists but perl.man doesn't. The fix is to only check
the outputs that exist. Note that "nix-build -A stage1.pkgs.all
--check" will still give a (proper) error in this case.
2016-01-12 14:54:39 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra 458711e4ee Fix "Bad address" executing build hook
This was observed in the deb_debian7x86_64 build:
http://hydra.nixos.org/build/29973215

Calling c_str() on a temporary should be fine because the temporary
shouldn't be destroyed until after the execl() call, but who knows...
2016-01-07 15:10:14 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra 9aac1861f7 Fix some signedness warnings 2016-01-07 14:37:39 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra 02a66b3fd7 nix-store --repair-path: Rebuild if there is no substituter 2016-01-06 22:07:59 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra caaaff3954 Fix --repair failure on multiple-output derivations
If repair found a corrupted/missing path that depended on a
multiple-output derivation, and some of the outputs of the latter were
not present, it failed with a message like

  error: path ‘/nix/store/cnfn9d5fjys1y93cz9shld2xwaibd7nn-bash-4.3-p42-doc’ is not valid
2016-01-06 21:49:32 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra 743e310046 Fix non-Darwin build 2016-01-05 13:31:15 +01:00
Tuomas Tynkkynen f770b9e6c5 libstore: mmap() returns MAP_FAILED, not NULL on failure 2016-01-05 13:26:35 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra 71a93a5f0e Don't allow sandbox profile except in relaxed mode
This makes Darwin consistent with Linux: Nix expressions can't break
out of the sandbox unless relaxed sandbox mode is enabled.

For the normal sandbox mode this will require fixing #759 however.
2016-01-04 20:01:13 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra b8258a4475 Fix regression in passAsFile
Caused by 8063fc497a. If tmpDir !=
tmpDirInSandbox (typically when there are multiple concurrent builds
with the same name), the *Path attribute would not point to an
existing file. This caused Nixpkgs' writeTextFile to write an empty
file. In particular this showed up as hanging VM builds (because it
would run an empty run-nixos-vm script and then wait for it to finish
booting).
2015-12-29 15:28:20 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra 52120123a5 Handle /tmp being a symlink
Hopefully fixes Darwin sandbox regression introduced in
8063fc497a.
2015-12-22 17:16:17 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra f696af0fab Fix bad error message in Darwin chroots 2015-12-22 17:05:29 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra 8f67325a7c Build sandbox support etc. unconditionally on Linux
Also, use "#if __APPLE__" instead of "#if SANDBOX_ENABLED" to prevent
ambiguity.
2015-12-10 11:47:17 +01:00
Bjørn Forsman 65bd82d42a Clarify error message for hash mismatches (again)
This is arguably nitpicky, but I think this new formulation is even
clearer. My thinking is that it's easier to comprehend when the
calculated hash value is displayed close to the output path. (I think it
is somewhat similar to eliminating double negatives in logic
statements.)

The formulation is inspired / copied from the OpenEmbedded build tool,
bitbake.
2015-12-08 19:50:25 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra 8063fc497a Use deterministic $TMPDIR in sandbox
Rather than using $<host-TMPDIR>/nix-build-<drvname>-<number>, the
temporary directory is now always /tmp/nix-build-<drvname>-0. This
improves bitwise-exact reproducibility for builds that store $TMPDIR
in their build output. (Of course, those should still be fixed...)
2015-12-02 15:04:00 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra 0ab4d905e7 Merge branch 'p/sandbox-rename-minimal' of https://github.com/vcunat/nix 2015-11-25 14:53:42 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra a0f0733413 Fix build failure introduced by #704
Also, make the FreeBSD checks conditional on FreeBSD.
2015-11-25 14:41:19 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra cad40adce5 Merge pull request #704 from ysangkok/freebsd-support
FreeBSD support with knowledge about Linux emulation
2015-11-24 19:24:21 +01:00
Jude Taylor 279fa8f618 reintroduce host deps in tandem with sandbox profiles 2015-11-21 15:57:06 -08:00
Jude Taylor b9b7bb1806 re-fix permissions for GHC 2015-11-19 16:06:21 -08:00
Shea Levy 5deb7fbdfb Merge branch 'sandbox-profiles' of git://github.com/pikajude/nix
Temporarily allow derivations to describe their full sandbox profile.
This will be eventually scaled back to a more secure setup, see the
discussion at #695
2015-11-19 17:44:11 -05:00
Peter Simons 6ad10591ce src/libstore/build.cc: clarify error message for hash mismatches
Nix reports a hash mismatch saying:

  output path ‘foo’ should have sha256 hash ‘abc’, instead has ‘xyz’

That message is slightly ambiguous and some people read that statement
to mean the exact opposite of what it is supposed to mean. After this
patch, the message will be:

  Nix expects output path ‘foo’ to have sha256 hash ‘abc’, instead it has ‘xyz’
2015-11-19 12:42:37 +01:00
janus 8a74a125bc FreeBSD can build Linux 32-bit binaries 2015-11-17 14:16:08 +00:00
Shea Levy 58d2fac91d AutoDelete: Add default constructor with deletion disabled 2015-11-16 05:53:10 -05:00
Shea Levy 4390142315 Use AutoDelete for sandbox profile file 2015-11-15 06:08:50 -05:00
Jude Taylor bd09a4c967 simplify build.cc using modern C++ features 2015-11-14 14:11:03 -08:00
Jude Taylor 4876bb012e simplify build permissions 2015-11-14 14:11:03 -08:00
Jude Taylor 8a7f0dfd68 use per-derivation sandbox profiles 2015-11-14 14:10:43 -08:00
Vladimír Čunát b39622a487 rename chroot to sandbox (fixes #656, close #682)
- rename options but leav old names as lower-priority aliases,
  also "-dirs" -> "-paths" to get closer to the meaning
- update docs to reflect the new names (old aliases are not documented),
  including a new file with release notes
- tests need an update after corresponding changes to nixpkgs
- __noChroot is left as it is (after discussion on the PR)
2015-11-10 22:32:51 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra 8fdd156a65 Add option to verify build determinism
Passing "--option build-repeat <N>" will cause every build to be
repeated N times. If the build output differs between any round, the
build is rejected, and the output paths are not registered as
valid. This is primarily useful to verify build determinism. (We
already had a --check option to repeat a previously succeeded
build. However, with --check, non-deterministic builds are registered
in the DB. Preventing that is useful for Hydra to ensure that
non-deterministic builds don't end up getting published at all.)
2015-11-09 23:16:24 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra 96c2ebf004 Revert "Allow using /bin and /usr/bin as impure prefixes on non-darwin by default"
This reverts commit 79ca503332. Ouch,
never noticed this. We definitely don't want to allow builds to have
arbitrary access to /bin and /usr/bin, because then they can (for
instance) bring in a bunch of setuid programs. Also, we shouldn't be
encouraging the use of impurities in the default configuration.
2015-11-09 21:28:38 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra 5c28943e8f int2String() -> std::to_string() 2015-10-29 13:26:55 +01:00
Jude Taylor 9155fbd386 use nixDataDir instead of appending /share to PREFIX 2015-10-21 14:44:44 -07:00
Jude Taylor 992cda1b11 clarifying comment 2015-10-21 14:39:16 -07:00
Jude Taylor 76f3ba42fd move preBuildHook defaulting to globals.cc 2015-10-21 14:39:08 -07:00
Jude Taylor 2dc8e19a17 restore old DEFAULT_ALLOWED_IMPURE_PREFIXES 2015-10-21 14:38:49 -07:00
Jude Taylor ff6953cb03 Add resolve-system-dependencies.pl 2015-10-21 12:38:52 -07:00
Jude Taylor 6a8cee19b3 fix line reading in preBuildHook 2015-10-21 12:38:52 -07:00
Jude Taylor 1fc0fe1baf remove sandbox defaults into a new file 2015-10-21 12:38:52 -07:00
Jude Taylor d4cac051f7 restore allowed impure prefixes 2015-10-21 12:38:52 -07:00
Jude Taylor 4b8c71b4ef remove an unneeded default impure-dep 2015-10-21 12:38:52 -07:00
Jude Taylor e770f941d6 make sandbox builds more permissive 2015-10-21 12:38:52 -07:00
Jude Taylor 1ea2aa9e99 add a few more permissions 2015-10-21 12:38:52 -07:00
Eelco Dolstra f5b32ff47d Allow builtin fetchurl regardless of the derivation's system attribute 2015-10-21 15:14:42 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra 357d31b339 Fix segfault in builtin fetchurl
The stack allocated for the builder was way too small (32 KB). This is
sufficient for normal derivations, because they just do some setup and
then exec() the actual builder. But for the fetchurl builtin
derivation it's not enough. Also, allocating the stack on the caller's
stack was fishy business.
2015-10-21 15:14:42 +02:00
Tuomas Tynkkynen 2075ec83e3 Allow building ARMv6 stuff on ARMv7
This allows building a Raspberry Pi image on modern, faster boards.
2015-10-08 13:32:28 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra 1abda8e173 nix-store --serve: Implement log size limit 2015-10-06 17:33:30 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra 4ba6bc184c Shut up clang warnings 2015-09-18 01:22:35 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra 73332fd342 Filter build-chroot-dirs entries that conflict with derivation outputs
Fixes https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/issues/9504.

Note that this means we may have a non-functional /bin/sh in the
chroot while rebuilding Bash or one of its dependencies. Ideally those
packages don't rely on /bin/sh though.
2015-09-02 14:54:12 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra d711fe8f5e Remove unused variable 2015-09-02 14:46:04 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra e12cf82782 Prevent .chroot from being GC'ed when using LocalStore::buildDerivation()
Fixes #616.
2015-08-24 11:13:31 +02:00
Manolis Ragkousis 26221e44eb Remove unneeded HAVE_UNSHARE.
* src/libstore/build.cc (CHROOT_ENABLED): Remove HAVE_UNSHARE.
2015-08-19 14:11:15 +03:00
Eelco Dolstra 34dfbd9394 Don't include <iostream> before config.h
This breaks the build on 32-bit systems.

http://hydra.nixos.org/build/24373658
2015-08-04 11:12:31 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra 30d19a2bdc Handle debug messages from runChild()
Turns out that "nix-build -vvv" with chroots enabled has been broken
for some time, because some debug message got interpreted as an error.
2015-08-03 18:04:32 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra f3dda728a4 Remove unnecessary parentheses 2015-07-26 12:07:14 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra 1993b10d11 Fix Darwin build
Turns out getgrouplist() is not POSIX.

http://hydra.nixos.org/build/23881243
2015-07-21 14:45:24 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra 0a2bee307b Make <nix/fetchurl.nix> a builtin builder
This ensures that 1) the derivation doesn't change when Nix changes;
2) the derivation closure doesn't contain Nix and its dependencies; 3)
we don't have to rely on ugly chroot hacks.
2015-07-20 04:38:46 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra eda2f36c2a Provide more detailed info about build status to hydra-queue-runner
In particular, hydra-queue-runner can now distinguish between remote
build / substitution / already-valid. For instance, if a path already
existed on the remote side, we don't want to store a log file.
2015-07-20 03:20:03 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra 6bd2c7bb38 OCD: foreach -> C++11 ranged for 2015-07-17 20:13:56 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra 1511aa9f48 Allow remote builds without sending the derivation closure
Previously, to build a derivation remotely, we had to copy the entire
closure of the .drv file to the remote machine, even though we only
need the top-level derivation. This is very wasteful: the closure can
contain thousands of store paths, and in some Hydra use cases, include
source paths that are very large (e.g. Git/Mercurial checkouts).

So now there is a new operation, StoreAPI::buildDerivation(), that
performs a build from an in-memory representation of a derivation
(BasicDerivation) rather than from a on-disk .drv file. The only files
that need to be in the Nix store are the sources of the derivation
(drv.inputSrcs), and the needed output paths of the dependencies (as
described by drv.inputDrvs). "nix-store --serve" exposes this
interface.

Note that this is a privileged operation, because you can construct a
derivation that builds any store path whatsoever. Fixing this will
require changing the hashing scheme (i.e., the output paths should be
computed from the other fields in BasicDerivation, allowing them to be
verified without access to other derivations). However, this would be
quite nice because it would allow .drv-free building (e.g. "nix-env
-i" wouldn't have to write any .drv files to disk).

Fixes #173.
2015-07-17 17:57:40 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra dd48c06bb6 Typo 2015-07-02 00:30:16 +02:00
Ludovic Courtès 9aed117395 Preserve supplementary groups of build users
The following patch is an attempt to address this bug (see
<http://bugs.gnu.org/18994>) by preserving the supplementary groups of
build users in the build environment.

In practice, I would expect that supplementary groups would contain only
one or two groups: the build users group, and possibly the “kvm” group.

[Changed &at(0) to data() and removed tabs - Eelco]
2015-07-01 14:57:48 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra b65875f859 Export outputPaths function
This is useful for the new hydra-queue-runner.
2015-06-10 16:17:06 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra 7c4501886d Use std::vector::data() 2015-06-09 10:54:46 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra b64988bb35 Allow substitutes for builds that have preferLocalBuild set
Not substituting builds with "preferLocalBuild = true" was a bad idea,
because it didn't take the cost of dependencies into account. For
instance, if we can't substitute a fetchgit call, then we have to
download/build git and all its dependencies.

Partially reverts 5558652709 and adds a
new derivation attribute "allowSubstitutes" to specify whether a
derivation may be substituted.
2015-06-04 16:30:22 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra 07d7e7df84 Chown files created for passAsFile
Nixpkgs' writeTextAsFile does this:

  mv "$textPath" "$n"

Since $textPath was owned by root, if $textPath is on the same
filesystem as $n, $n will be owned as root. As a result, the build
result was rejected as having suspicious ownership.

http://hydra.nixos.org/build/22836807
2015-06-04 14:07:43 +02:00
Rok Garbas 000de699e9 cygwin: explicitly include required c headers 2015-05-13 09:37:12 +02:00
Shea Levy 71083f9e5e Don't try to map /bin/sh to a store path on non-Linux 2015-05-12 16:36:15 -04:00
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 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 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 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 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 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 bd91064150 Use $<attr>Path instead of $<attr> for passAsFile 2015-02-17 16:42:54 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra a70d275f3d Allow passing attributes via files instead of environment variables
Closes #473.
2015-02-17 14:42:15 +01:00
Harald van Dijk 5451b8db9d Use pivot_root in addition to chroot when possible
chroot only changes the process root directory, not the mount namespace root
directory, and it is well-known that any process with chroot capability can
break out of a chroot "jail". By using pivot_root as well, and unmounting the
original mount namespace root directory, breaking out becomes impossible.

Non-root processes typically have no ability to use chroot() anyway, but they
can gain that capability through the use of clone() or unshare(). For security
reasons, these syscalls are limited in functionality when used inside a normal
chroot environment. Using pivot_root() this way does allow those syscalls to be
put to their full use.
2015-02-16 12:18:19 +01:00
Shea Levy d66d9e8425 Require linux 3.13 or later for chroot
Fixes #453
2015-02-04 18:15:56 +01:00
Daniel Peebles f46e329a13 Make inputs writeable in the sandbox (builds still can’t actually write due to user permissions) 2015-01-18 23:25:29 -05:00
Shea Levy 79ca503332 Allow using /bin and /usr/bin as impure prefixes on non-darwin by default
These directories are generally world-readable anyway, and give us the two
most common linux impurities (env and sh)
2015-01-13 15:41:46 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra fcf57aad27 SysError -> Error 2015-01-13 11:17:56 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra 100961e370 Don't resolve symlinks while checking __impureHostDeps
Since these come from untrusted users, we shouldn't do any I/O on them
before we've checked that they're in an allowed prefix.
2015-01-13 11:16:32 +01:00
Daniel Peebles f1151a3373 Add basic Apple sandbox support 2015-01-12 12:00:01 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra 27b7b94923 Set /nix/store permission to 1737
I.e., not readable to the nixbld group. This improves purity a bit for
non-chroot builds, because it prevents a builder from enumerating
store paths (i.e. it can only access paths it knows about).
2015-01-08 16:39:07 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra df05f49dcd Fix building on Darwin
Fixes #433.
2015-01-06 10:49:44 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra bd0f362d2f Revive running builds in a PID namespace 2014-12-23 17:25:06 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra b77037b8fd Silence some warnings on GCC 4.9 2014-12-12 17:14:28 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra f52b6c944e Fix some memory leaks 2014-12-12 15:01:16 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra 28f22b4653 Ensure we're writing to stderr in the builder
http://hydra.nixos.org/build/17862041
2014-12-12 14:35:44 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra 4acca1a5b9 Remove chatty message
This broke building with "-vv", because the builder is not allowed to
write to stderr at this point.
2014-12-12 13:43:59 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra ad790022fd Doh 2014-12-12 13:41:00 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra 851b47bd7d Don't do vfork in conjunction with setuid 2014-12-10 18:01:01 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra b5ed5b6e66 Rename function 2014-12-10 17:25:38 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra b7b6e3ddec Build derivations in a more predictable order
Derivations are now built in order of derivation name, so a package
named "aardvark" is built before "baboon".

Fixes #399.
2014-11-24 16:50:46 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra 9e3389c337 Don't create unnecessary substitution goals for derivations 2014-11-24 16:50:46 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra 35aad73bb6 Fix message 2014-11-17 01:00:39 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra 8cfe939b0f Don't use ADDR_LIMIT_3GB
This gives 32-bit builds on x86_64-linux more memory.
2014-11-14 14:16:20 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra bab8d9b52a Make ~DerivationGoal more reliable 2014-11-12 11:35:53 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra 11aef17a77 Remove comments claiming we use a private PID namespace
This is no longer the case since
524f89f139.
2014-10-29 15:49:34 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra d98bfcbf81 On Linux, disable address space randomization 2014-09-17 17:21:13 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra d37d012774 Settings: Add bool get() 2014-09-17 15:18:13 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra b72e93bca8 Add disallowedReferences / disallowedRequisites
For the "stdenv accidentally referring to bootstrap-tools", it seems
easier to specify the path that we don't want to depend on, e.g.

  disallowedRequisites = [ bootstrapTools ];
2014-08-28 18:57:13 +02:00
Gergely Risko fd61069a42 Introduce allowedRequisites feature 2014-08-28 18:23:55 +02:00
Joel Taylor b224ac1520 fix disappearing bash arguments 2014-08-21 23:17:50 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra 524f89f139 Use unshare() instead of clone()
It turns out that using clone() to start a child process is unsafe in
a multithreaded program. It can cause the initialisation of a build
child process to hang in setgroups(), as seen several times in the
build farm:

The reason is that Glibc thinks that the other threads of the parent
exist in the child, so in setxid_mark_thread() it tries to get a futex
that has been acquired by another thread just before the clone(). With
fork(), Glibc runs pthread_atfork() handlers that take care of this
(in particular, __reclaim_stacks()). But clone() doesn't do that.

Fortunately, we can use fork()+unshare() instead of clone() to set up
private namespaces.

See also https://www.mail-archive.com/lxc-devel@lists.linuxcontainers.org/msg03434.html.
2014-08-21 14:08:09 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra 11849a320e Use proper quotes everywhere 2014-08-20 18:03:48 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra 373fad75e1 Add some color 2014-08-20 16:50:17 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra 954188af27 Filter Nix-specific ANSI escape sequences from stderr
The Nixpkgs stdenv prints some custom escape sequences to denote
nesting and stuff like that. Most terminals (e.g. xterm, konsole)
ignore them, but some do not (e.g. xfce4-terminal). So for the benefit
of the latter, filter them out.
2014-08-20 14:30:01 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra 029424d17d Make hook shutdown more reliable 2014-08-19 17:47:30 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra 632f989b51 Doh 2014-08-18 11:35:50 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra c160ead82f Reduce verbosity 2014-08-17 19:11:50 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra 42e9ad8fd1 Propagate remote timeouts properly 2014-08-17 19:09:03 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra daccd68999 Refactor 2014-08-04 18:02:29 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra d5a076c36f Add option ‘build-extra-chroot-dirs’
This is useful for extending (rather than overriding) the default set
of chroot paths.
2014-08-04 18:00:00 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra 4d73e2e893 Get rid of "killing <pid>" message for unused build hooks 2014-08-04 17:27:45 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra 51485dcda2 Remove ugly hack for detecting build environment setup errors 2014-08-01 19:38:21 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra 4c4b219c07 Call commonChildInit() before doing chroot init
This ensures that daemon clients see error messages from the chroot
setup.
2014-08-01 19:29:03 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra 50dc1f5b71 Restore default SIGPIPE handler before invoking ‘man’
Fixes NixOS/nixpkgs#3410.
2014-07-31 10:31:17 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra ee3c5d7916 Revert old useBuildHook behaviour 2014-07-19 02:25:47 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra e196eecbe6 Allow $NIX_BUILD_HOOK to be relative to Nix libexec directory 2014-07-11 13:55:06 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra 43b64f5038 Remove tabs 2014-07-10 17:32:21 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra 8e9140cfde Refactoring: Move all fork handling into a higher-order function
C++11 lambdas ftw.
2014-07-10 16:58:09 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra 7911e4c27a Remove maybeVfork 2014-07-10 13:35:44 +02:00
Danny Wilson ae6b631dc4 Fix compile errors on Illumos 2014-04-03 17:39:57 +02:00
Ludovic Courtès e7720aa10a Make sure /dev/pts/ptmx is world-writable
While running Python 3’s test suite, we noticed that on some systems
/dev/pts/ptmx is created with permissions 0 (that’s the case with my
Nixpkgs-originating 3.0.43 kernel, but someone with a Debian-originating
3.10-3 reported not having this problem.)

There’s still the problem that people without
CONFIG_DEVPTS_MULTIPLE_INSTANCES=y are screwed (as noted in build.cc),
but I don’t see how we could work around it.
2014-04-03 13:42:45 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra 1c2550a2ae boost::shared_ptr -> std::shared_ptr 2014-03-30 00:49:23 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra acb8facbbc Fix potential segfault in waitForInput()
Since the addition of build-max-log-size, a call to
handleChildOutput() can result in cancellation of a goal.  This
invalidated the "j" iterator in the waitForInput() loop, even though
it was still used afterwards.  Likewise for the maxSilentTime
handling.

Probably fixes #231.  At least it gets rid of the valgrind warnings.
2014-03-29 22:14:11 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra 90dc50b07c restoreSIGPIPE(): Fill in sa_mask
Issue #231.
2014-03-29 20:20:14 +01:00
Ludovic Courtès 24cb65efc3 Make /dev/kvm optional
The daemon now creates /dev deterministically (thanks!).  However, it
expects /dev/kvm to be present.

The patch below restricts that requirement (1) to Linux-based systems,
and (2) to systems where /dev/kvm already exists.

I’m not sure about the way to handle (2).  We could special-case
/dev/kvm and create it (instead of bind-mounting it) in the chroot, so
it’s always available; however, it wouldn’t help much since most likely,
if /dev/kvm missing, then KVM support is missing.
2014-03-21 17:27:19 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra 1017bd68ea Set up a private /dev/pts in the chroot 2014-02-27 23:35:23 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra 3fd01b171a Set up a minimal /dev in chroots
Not bind-mounting the /dev from the host also solves the problem with
/dev/shm being a symlink to something not in the chroot.
2014-02-27 23:17:53 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra 29cde917fe Fix deadlock in SubstitutionGoal
We were relying on SubstitutionGoal's destructor releasing the lock,
but if a goal is a top-level goal, the destructor won't run in a
timely manner since its reference count won't drop to zero.  So
release it explicitly.

Fixes #178.
2014-02-27 13:34:13 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra 8129cf33d9 Slight simplification 2014-02-18 10:46:30 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra 1aa19b24b2 Add a flag ‘--check’ to verify build determinism
The flag ‘--check’ to ‘nix-store -r’ or ‘nix-build’ will cause Nix to
redo the build of a derivation whose output paths are already valid.
If the new output differs from the original output, an error is
printed.  This makes it easier to test if a build is deterministic.
(Obviously this cannot catch all sources of non-determinism, but it
catches the most common one, namely the current time.)

For example:

  $ nix-build '<nixpkgs>' -A patchelf
  ...
  $ nix-build '<nixpkgs>' -A patchelf --check
  error: derivation `/nix/store/1ipvxsdnbhl1rw6siz6x92s7sc8nwkkb-patchelf-0.6' may not be deterministic: hash mismatch in output `/nix/store/4pc1dmw5xkwmc6q3gdc9i5nbjl4dkjpp-patchelf-0.6.drv'

The --check build fails if not all outputs are valid.  Thus the first
call to nix-build is necessary to ensure that all outputs are valid.

The current outputs are left untouched: the new outputs are either put
in a chroot or diverted to a different location in the store using
hash rewriting.
2014-02-18 01:01:14 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra b6def5b542 Make --repair work on Darwin
Mac OS X doesn't allow renaming a read-only directory.

http://hydra.nixos.org/build/9113895
2014-02-17 23:09:48 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra dfbcb7c403 Refactoring 2014-02-17 23:04:52 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra 71adb090f0 When using a build hook, only copy missing paths 2014-02-17 22:58:21 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra 69fe6c58fa Move some code around
In particular, do replacing of valid paths during repair later.  This
prevents us from replacing a valid path after the build fails.
2014-02-17 22:25:15 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra 00d30496ca Heuristically detect if a build may have failed due to a full disk
This will allow Hydra to detect that a build should not be marked as
"permanently failed", allowing it to be retried later.
2014-02-17 14:15:56 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra 94f9c14d52 Fix some clang warnings 2014-01-21 18:29:55 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra 11cb4bfb25 Fix checking of NAR hashes
*headdesk*
*headdesk*
*headdesk*

So since commit 22144afa8d, Nix hasn't
actually checked whether the content of a downloaded NAR matches the
hash specified in the manifest / NAR info file.  Urghhh...
2014-01-08 17:35:49 +01:00
Domen Kožar 485f4740ee wording 2014-01-06 11:38:24 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra c5b8fe3151 Print a trace message if a build fails due to the platform being unknown 2013-12-05 14:31:57 -05:00
Eelco Dolstra a478e8a7bb Remove nix-setuid-helper
AFAIK, nobody uses it, it's not maintained, and it has no tests.
2013-11-14 11:57:37 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra b29d3f4aee Only show trace messages when tracing is enabled 2013-09-02 12:01:04 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra efe4289464 Add an option to limit the log output of builders
This is mostly useful for Hydra to deal with builders that get stuck
in an infinite loop writing data to stdout/stderr.
2013-09-02 11:58:18 +02:00
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
Eelco Dolstra 5e2ffd0b8a Fix "non-zero padding" error
Probably it's not a good idea to pass a temporary object to
StringSource.
2012-09-11 19:09:01 -04:00
Eelco Dolstra 8cf672091e Support building a derivation if some outputs are already valid (non-chroot case)
This uses scary hash rewriting.

Fixes #21.
2012-09-11 18:39:22 -04:00
Eelco Dolstra 9dbda2b3fe Remove debug line 2012-09-11 17:05:35 -04:00
Eelco Dolstra a2785b7391 Support building a derivation if some outputs are already valid
This handles the chroot and build hook cases, which are easy.
Supporting the non-chroot-build case will require more work (hash
rewriting!).

Issue #21.
2012-09-11 16:59:59 -04:00
Eelco Dolstra cfd968dd94 Fix stupid type error in calling std::max 2012-08-27 14:17:13 -04:00
Eelco Dolstra e94806d030 Merge branch 'master' into no-manifests 2012-08-27 11:09:07 -04:00
Eelco Dolstra d950cfe70b Check if MS_PRIVATE is defined
http://hydra.nixos.org/build/2955671
2012-08-20 15:55:49 -04:00
Eelco Dolstra 56e30e161c In the chroot, make all mounted filesystems private
This is required on systemd, which mounts filesystems as "shared"
subtrees.  Changes to shared trees in a private mount namespace are
propagated to the outside world, which is bad.
2012-08-20 15:27:30 -04:00
Eelco Dolstra f0eab0636b Don't bind-mount /proc since we mount our own 2012-08-20 15:27:00 -04:00
Eelco Dolstra 862c4c5ec5 Fix 1755 permission on temporary directories left behind by ‘-K’ 2012-08-19 16:32:42 -04:00
Eelco Dolstra 01d56c1eec Drop the block count in the garbage collector 2012-08-01 22:34:46 -04:00
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 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 73acb8b836 Let build.cc verify the expected hash of a substituter's output
Since SubstitutionGoal::finished() in build.cc computes the hash
anyway, we can prevent the inefficiency of computing the hash twice by
letting the substituter tell Nix about the expected hash, which can
then verify it.
2012-07-27 12:16:02 -04:00
Eelco Dolstra fbf59d95f6 Remove more tabs 2012-07-27 10:56:33 -04:00
Eelco Dolstra b4ea83249b Remove trailing whitespace / tabs 2012-07-27 09:59:18 -04:00
Eelco Dolstra 8c79100839 Merge branch 'master' into no-manifests 2012-07-26 15:14:33 -04:00
Eelco Dolstra 3a4623afbb Set permissions on temporary build directories to 0700
Fixes #39.
2012-07-26 15:04:40 -04:00
Eelco Dolstra 6193105710 Automatically optimise the Nix store when a new path is added
Auto-optimisation is enabled by default.  It can be turned off by
setting auto-optimise-store to false in nix.conf.
2012-07-23 17:14:15 -04:00
Eelco Dolstra fe241ece29 Merge branch 'master' into no-manifests 2012-07-18 10:47:59 -04:00
Eelco Dolstra 3a9fdf2747 Return an exit code of 100 for cached failed builds
Exit code 100 should be returned for all permanent failures.  This
includes cached failures.

Fixes #34.
2012-07-17 15:55:30 -04:00
Eelco Dolstra 6c01fb4d68 Update Nix 1.1 release notes 2012-07-17 10:06:20 -04:00
Eelco Dolstra 53b24f3518 Allow disabling log compression 2012-07-17 09:40:12 -04:00
Eelco Dolstra 425cc612ad build.cc: Don't use hasSubstitute()
Instead make a single call to querySubstitutablePathInfo() per
derivation output.  This is faster and prevents having to implement
the "have" function in the binary cache substituter.
2012-07-08 18:39:24 -04:00
Eelco Dolstra 11800e6198 download-from-binary-cache: parallelise fetching of NAR info files
Getting substitute information using the binary cache substituter has
non-trivial latency overhead.  A package or NixOS system configuration
can have hundreds of dependencies, and in the worst case (when the
local info cache is empty) we have to do a separate HTTP request for
each of these.  If the ping time to the server is t, getting N info
files will take tN seconds; e.g., with a ping time of 0.1s to
nixos.org, sequentially downloading 1000 info files (a typical NixOS
config) will take at least 100 seconds.

To fix this problem, the binary cache substituter can now perform
requests in parallel.  This required changing the substituter
interface to support a function querySubstitutablePathInfos() that
queries multiple paths at the same time, and rewriting queryMissing()
to take advantage of parallelism.  (Due to local caching,
parallelising queryMissing() is sufficient for most use cases, since
it's almost always called before building a derivation and thus fills
the local info cache.)

For example, parallelism speeds up querying all 1056 paths in a
particular NixOS system configuration from 116s to 2.6s.  It works so
well because the eccentricity of the top-level derivation in the
dependency graph is only 9.  So we only need 10 round-trips (when
using an unlimited number of parallel connections) to get everything.

Currently we do a maximum of 150 parallel connections to the server.
Thus it's important that the binary cache server (e.g. nixos.org) has
a high connection limit.  Alternatively we could use HTTP pipelining,
but WWW::Curl doesn't support it and libcurl has a hard-coded limit of
5 requests per pipeline.
2012-07-06 19:08:20 -04:00
Eelco Dolstra 1aba0bf0fa nix-store -r: do substitutions in parallel
I.e. when multiple non-derivation arguments are passed to ‘nix-store
-r’ to be substituted, do them in parallel.
2012-06-27 16:58:15 -04:00
Eelco Dolstra 42f5a2fc29 Mount an empty /dev/shm tmpfs in the chroot
This ensures that whatever the builder writes in /dev/shm is
automatically cleaned up.
2012-06-27 09:52:27 -04:00
Eelco Dolstra 3ee208516f Check the return code of the clone() call 2012-06-27 09:52:06 -04:00
Eelco Dolstra 1db38ae81b When using chroots, use a private PID namespace
In a private PID namespace, processes have PIDs that are separate from
the rest of the system.  The initial child gets PID 1.  Processes in
the chroot cannot see processes outside of the chroot.  This improves
isolation between builds.  However, processes on the outside can see
processes in the chroot and send signals to them (if they have
appropriate rights).

Since the builder gets PID 1, it serves as the reaper for zombies in
the chroot.  This might turn out to be a problem.  In that case we'll
need to have a small PID 1 process that sits in a loop calling wait().
2012-06-25 15:45:16 -04:00
Eelco Dolstra 5489086456 Use a private UTS namespace to provide a deterministic host/domain name to builders
In chroot builds, set the host name to "localhost" and the domain name
to "(none)" (the latter being the kernel's default).  This improves
determinism a bit further.

P.S. I have to idea what UTS stands for.
2012-06-25 14:12:17 -04:00
Eelco Dolstra 723a68c826 Improve error message 2012-06-23 00:57:14 -04:00
Eelco Dolstra 7ffa523fd1 In chroot builds, use a private SysV IPC namespace
This improves isolation a bit further, and it's just one extra flag in
the unshare() call.

P.S. It would be very cool to use CLONE_NEWPID (to put the builder in
a private PID namespace) as well, but that's slightly more risky since
having a builder start as PID 1 may cause problems.
2012-06-23 00:51:40 -04:00
Eelco Dolstra df716c98d2 In chroot builds, use a private network namespace
On Linux it's possible to run a process in its own network namespace,
meaning that it gets its own set of network interfaces, disjunct from
the rest of the system.  We use this to completely remove network
access to chroot builds, except that they get a private loopback
interface.  This means that:

- Builders cannot connect to the outside network or to other processes
  on the same machine, except processes within the same build.

- Vice versa, other processes cannot connect to processes in a chroot
  build, and open ports/connections do not show up in "netstat".

- If two concurrent builders try to listen on the same port (e.g. as
  part of a test), they no longer conflict with each other.

This was inspired by the "PrivateNetwork" flag in systemd.
2012-06-23 00:28:35 -04:00
Eelco Dolstra f5398d374b Compress build logs on the fly using bzip2 2012-05-30 10:12:29 -04:00
Eelco Dolstra 2c26985835 Add option ‘build-keep-log’ to enable/disable writing of build logs
Fixes #26.
2012-05-29 16:42:05 -04:00
Eelco Dolstra db5b86ef13 * Add an option ‘build-use-substitutes’, which can be set to ‘false’
to disable use of substitutes; i.e., force building from source.
  Fixes Nix/221.
2012-04-30 19:15:34 -04:00
Eelco Dolstra 46cdc6ad51 Handle EPERM when creating a hard link for the chroot
There is a race condition when doing parallel builds with chroots and
the immutable bit enabled.  One process may call makeImmutable()
before the other has called link(), in which case link() will fail
with EPERM.  We could retry or wrap the operation in a lock, but since
this condition is rare and I'm lazy, we just use the existing copy
fallback.

Fixes #9.
2012-04-30 10:58:04 -04:00
Eelco Dolstra 31e34fcf93 Close almost all file descriptors in the builder
This regression was accidentally introduced in
35355fc1fc.
2012-04-15 00:20:32 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra f2467eb6a0 On Linux, pretend we're building on Linux 2.6
Setting the UNAME26 personality causes "uname" to return "2.6.x",
regardless of the kernel version.  This improves determinism in
a few misbehaved packages.
2012-04-05 13:03:19 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra 35355fc1fc Set the close-on-exec flag on file descriptors 2012-03-05 20:29:00 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra 7b22bec252 Don't leak a file descriptor in commonChildInit() 2012-03-05 20:28:09 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra 1c94524458 Fix an uninitialised variable
The variable ‘useChroot’ was not initialised properly.  This caused
random failures if using the build hook.  Seen on Mac OS X 10.7 with Clang.
Thanks to KolibriFX for finding this :-)
2012-03-01 16:06:49 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra 6fe13e6aba Fix chroots builds
Chroots are initialised by hard-linking inputs from the Nix store to
the chroot.  This doesn't work if the input has its immutable bit set,
because it's forbidden to create hard links to immutable files.  So
temporarily clear the immutable bit when creating and destroying the
chroot.

Note that making regular files in the Nix store immutable isn't very
reliable, since the bit can easily become cleared: for instance, if we
run the garbage collector after running ‘nix-store --optimise’.  So
maybe we should only make directories immutable.
2012-02-18 01:23:52 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra d5a5a83ad4 Use data() instead of c_str() where appropriate 2012-02-09 18:27:45 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra b1004f40f7 * Reject a build if there is a cycle among the outputs. This is
necessary because existing code assumes that the references graph is
  acyclic.
2011-12-30 14:47:14 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra 8c42a8c8ff * Make sure that lock files are cleaned up properly when building
through the build hook.
2011-12-25 16:38:37 +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
Rob Vermaas 4e1ea17052 nix: add /etc/hosts with localhost entry to chroot builds. 2011-11-21 15:19:51 +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
Eelco Dolstra b2027f70d9 * Fix a huuuuge security hole in the Nix daemon. It didn't check that
derivations added to the store by clients have "correct" output
  paths (meaning that the output paths are computed by hashing the
  derivation according to a certain algorithm).  This means that a
  malicious user could craft a special .drv file to build *any*
  desired path in the store with any desired contents (so long as the
  path doesn't already exist).  Then the attacker just needs to wait
  for a victim to come along and install the compromised path.

  For instance, if Alice (the attacker) knows that the latest Firefox
  derivation in Nixpkgs produces the path

    /nix/store/1a5nyfd4ajxbyy97r1fslhgrv70gj8a7-firefox-5.0.1

  then (provided this path doesn't already exist) she can craft a .drv
  file that creates that path (i.e., has it as one of its outputs),
  add it to the store using "nix-store --add", and build it with
  "nix-store -r".  So the fake .drv could write a Trojan to the
  Firefox path.  Then, if user Bob (the victim) comes along and does

    $ nix-env -i firefox
    $ firefox

  he executes the Trojan injected by Alice.

  The fix is to have the Nix daemon verify that derivation outputs are
  correct (in addValidPath()).  This required some refactoring to move
  the hash computation code to libstore.
2011-07-20 18:10:47 +00:00
Ludovic Courtès 5c9e9f732d Add support for the build-timeout' and --timeout' options. 2011-06-30 15:19:13 +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 d7ca6f44eb * Update some comments. 2010-12-13 13:19:46 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra a3883cbd28 * Store the size of a store path in the database (to be precise, the
size of the NAR serialisation of the path, i.e., `nix-store --dump
  PATH').  This is useful for Hydra.
2010-11-16 17:11:46 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra bf0dde9597 * Always print hook output on stderr, even if --no-build-output is
set.
* In the build hook, print a trace message to allow Hydra to pick up
  the name of the remote machine used for the build.
2010-08-31 12:36:24 +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 766f708418 * Experimental feature: allow a derivation to tell the build hook that
it requires a certain feature on the build machine, e.g.

    requiredSystemFeatures = [ "kvm" ];

  We need this in Hydra to make sure that builds that require KVM
  support are forwarded to machines that have KVM support.  Probably
  this should also be enforced for local builds.
2010-08-27 13:18:13 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra e437b08250 * Made the build hook mechanism more efficient. Rather than starting
the hook every time we want to ask whether we can run a remote build
  (which can be very often), we now reuse a hook process for answering
  those queries until it accepts a build.  So if there are N
  derivations to be built, at most N hooks will be started.
2010-08-25 20:44:28 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra f58f51f380 * Handle the unlikely case where a derivation has no dependencies at
all.
2010-08-24 11:45:44 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra 587dc8aa00 * Sync with the trunk. 2010-08-04 17:48:29 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra 7f893b7a43 * Allow derivations to hint that they should not be built remotely
using the build hook mechanism, by setting the derivation attribute
  "preferLocalBuild" to true.  This has a few use cases:

  - The user environment builder.  Since it just creates a bunch of
    symlinks without much computation, there is no reason to do it
    remotely.  In fact, doing it remotely requires the entire closure
    of the user environment to be copied to the remote machine, which
    is extremely wasteful.

  - `fetchurl'.  Performing the download on a remote machine and then
    copying it to the local machine involves twice as much network
    traffic as performing the download locally, and doesn't save any
    CPU cycles on the local machine.
2010-08-04 12:13:58 +00:00
Peter Simons a17071fef1 Include <cstring> to ensure that strcpy(), strlen(), and memset() are declared.
An "using namespace std" was added locally in those functions that refer to
names from <cstring>. That is not pretty, but it's a very portable solution,
because strcpy() and friends will be found in both the 'std' and in the global
namespace.
2010-06-24 17:51:04 +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