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Author SHA1 Message Date
Eelco Dolstra d3eb1cf3bb
build-remote: Don't use a SSH master
This is unnecessary because we make only one connection.
2017-03-03 19:23:20 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra f023f64f40
RemoteStore::addToStore(): Pass content-addressability assertion
... and use this in Downloader::downloadCached(). This fixes

  $ nix-build https://nixos.org/channels/nixos-16.09-small/nixexprs.tar.xz -A hello
  error: cannot import path ‘/nix/store/csfbp1s60dkgmk9f8g0zk0mwb7hzgabd-nixexprs.tar.xz’ because it lacks a valid signature
2017-02-22 16:58:00 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra 6f4682ad36
Merge branch 'nix-copy-closure-c++' of https://github.com/shlevy/nix 2017-02-07 20:47:45 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra f38224e924
copyStorePath(): Don't require signatures for "trusted" stores
For example, SSH stores could be trusted.
2017-02-07 19:29:21 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra fa07558a06
Provide default implementations for a couple of Store methods 2017-02-07 19:29:21 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra c2b0d8749f
exportReferencesGraph: Export more complete info in JSON format
This writes info about every path in the closure in the same format as
‘nix path-info --json’. Thus it also includes NAR hashes and sizes.

Example:

  [
    {
      "path": "/nix/store/10h6li26i7g6z3mdpvra09yyf10mmzdr-hello-2.10",
      "narHash": "sha256:0ckdc4z20kkmpqdilx0wl6cricxv90lh85xpv2qljppcmz6vzcxl",
      "narSize": 197648,
      "references": [
        "/nix/store/10h6li26i7g6z3mdpvra09yyf10mmzdr-hello-2.10",
        "/nix/store/27binbdy296qvjycdgr1535v8872vz3z-glibc-2.24"
      ],
      "closureSize": 20939776
    },
    {
      "path": "/nix/store/27binbdy296qvjycdgr1535v8872vz3z-glibc-2.24",
      "narHash": "sha256:1nfn3m3p98y1c0kd0brp80dn9n5mycwgrk183j17rajya0h7gax3",
      "narSize": 20742128,
      "references": [
        "/nix/store/27binbdy296qvjycdgr1535v8872vz3z-glibc-2.24"
      ],
      "closureSize": 20742128
    }
  ]

Fixes #1134.
2017-01-26 20:41:08 +01:00
Shea Levy bfa41eb671 nix-copy-closure: Implement in C++.
Tests fail currently because the database is not given proper hashes in the VM
2017-01-20 09:47:58 -05:00
Eelco Dolstra 8af062f372 Merge pull request #981 from shlevy/build-remote-c++
build-remote: Implement in C++
2017-01-19 18:21:55 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra b07060688a
Keep track of the exact build start/stop times 2016-12-07 16:09:38 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra 8bdf83f936
Add an option to make non-determinism non-fatal
That is, when build-repeat > 0, and the output of two rounds differ,
then print a warning rather than fail the build. This is primarily to
let Hydra check reproducibility of all packages.
2016-12-07 13:16:06 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra 215b70f51e
Revert "Get rid of unicode quotes (#1140)"
This reverts commit f78126bfd6. There
really is no need for such a massive change...
2016-11-26 00:38:01 +01:00
Guillaume Maudoux f78126bfd6 Get rid of unicode quotes (#1140) 2016-11-25 15:48:27 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra dd77f7d593 Store::computeFSClosure(): Support a set of paths
This way, callers can exploits the parallelism of computeFSClosure()
when they have multiple paths that they need the (combined) closure of.
2016-11-10 17:45:04 +01:00
Shea Levy 167d12b02c build-remote: Implement in C++ 2016-11-10 11:09:15 -05:00
Eelco Dolstra e4655b166c copyClosure() / copyStorePath(): Expose dontCheckSigs
Needed by Hydra.
2016-11-09 19:08:20 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra 4b8f1b0ec0 Merge branch 'ssh-store' of https://github.com/shlevy/nix 2016-11-09 18:57:22 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra d2c58ba605 Restore the CachedFailure status code
The removal of CachedFailure caused the value of TimedOut to change,
which broke timed-out handling in Hydra (so timed-out builds would
show up as "aborted" and would be retried, e.g. at
http://hydra.nixos.org/build/42537427).
2016-10-26 15:02:38 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra fdbbcc4492 Remove addPathToAccessor 2016-10-21 18:09:30 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra 542ae5c8f8 BinaryCacheStore: Optionally write a NAR listing
The store parameter "write-nar-listing=1" will cause BinaryCacheStore
to write a file ‘<store-hash>.ls.xz’ for each ‘<store-hash>.narinfo’
added to the binary cache. This file contains an XZ-compressed JSON
file describing the contents of the NAR, excluding the contents of
regular files.

E.g.

  {
    "version": 1,
    "root": {
      "type": "directory",
      "entries": {
        "lib": {
          "type": "directory",
          "entries": {
            "Mcrt1.o": {
              "type": "regular",
              "size": 1288
            },
            "Scrt1.o": {
              "type": "regular",
              "size": 3920
            },
          }
        }
      }
      ...
    }
  }

(The actual file has no indentation.)

This is intended to speed up the NixOS channels programs index
generator [1], since fetching gazillions of large NARs from
cache.nixos.org is currently a bottleneck for updating the regular
(non-small) channel.

[1] https://github.com/NixOS/nixos-channel-scripts/blob/master/generate-programs-index.cc
2016-10-21 16:50:28 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra c663b84573 Implement generic Store::queryValidPaths() 2016-10-07 19:20:47 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra 35db4f65a0 Add copyClosure utility function for Hydra 2016-10-07 19:15:25 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra 629ab80022 importPaths(): Fix accessor support for Hydra 2016-10-07 18:13:40 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra 75989bdca7 Make computeFSClosure() single-threaded again
The fact that queryPathInfo() is synchronous meant that we needed a
thread for every concurrent binary cache lookup, even though they end
up being handled by the same download thread. Requiring hundreds of
threads is not a good idea. So now there is an asynchronous version of
queryPathInfo() that takes a callback function to process the
result. Similarly, enqueueDownload() now takes a callback rather than
returning a future.

Thus, a command like

  nix path-info --store https://cache.nixos.org/ -r /nix/store/slljrzwmpygy1daay14kjszsr9xix063-nixos-16.09beta231.dccf8c5

that returns 4941 paths now takes 1.87s using only 2 threads (the main
thread and the downloader thread). (This is with a prewarmed
CloudFront.)
2016-09-16 18:54:14 +02:00
Shea Levy 0f39633290 Factor out the unix domain socket-specific code from RemoteStore 2016-09-02 14:15:04 -04:00
Shea Levy 53b27ddce2 Factor a function to get the store type from a URI out of the main RegisterStoreImplementation 2016-09-02 06:39:29 -04:00
Shea Levy a91954f0c6 Merge openStore and openStoreAt with default arguments 2016-09-02 06:35:48 -04:00
Eelco Dolstra d961c29c9c Mark content-addressed paths in the Nix database and in .narinfo
This allows such paths to be imported without signatures.
2016-08-10 18:05:35 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra 3eb6217508 Add a "root" parameter to local stores
This makes it easier to create a diverted store, i.e.

  NIX_REMOTE="local?root=/tmp/root"

instead of

  NIX_REMOTE="local?real=/tmp/root/nix/store&state=/tmp/root/nix/var/nix" NIX_LOG_DIR=/tmp/root/nix/var/log
2016-08-10 18:05:35 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra ee22a91ab8 makeFixedOutputPath(): Drop superfluous HashType argument 2016-07-26 21:25:52 +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 d64e0c1b64 Make derivationFromPath work on diverted stores 2016-06-02 18:43:36 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra 812c0dfbe2 Allow setting the state directory as a store parameter
E.g. "local?store=/tmp/store&state=/tmp/var".
2016-06-02 16:02:48 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra 7850d3d279 Make the store directory a member variable of Store 2016-06-01 16:24:17 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra c2d27d30cf nix-copy-closure / build-remote.pl: Disable signature checking
This restores the Nix 1.11 behaviour.
2016-05-31 11:48:05 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra e222484401 Re-implement the WantMassQuery property of binary caches 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 538a64e8c3 Add a Store::addToStore() variant that accepts a NAR
As a side effect, this ensures that signatures are propagated when
copying paths between stores.

Also refactored import/export to make use of this.
2016-05-04 16:15:54 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra f435f82475 Remove OpenSSL-based signing 2016-05-04 11:01:48 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra dfebfc835f Add a copyStorePath() utility function 2016-05-04 11:01:48 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra 8e065c6b3e BinaryCacheStore: Make the signing key a parameter 2016-04-29 16:47:20 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra 95d20dfde9 Allow parameters in store URIs
This is to allow store-specific configuration,
e.g. s3://my-cache?compression=bzip2&secret-key=/path/to/key.
2016-04-29 16:26:16 +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 7d14f5c331 Implement S3BinaryCacheStore::queryAllValidPaths()
This allows commands like "nix verify --all" or "nix path-info --all"
to work on S3 caches.

Unfortunately, this requires some ugly hackery: when querying the
contents of the bucket, we don't want to have to read every .narinfo
file. But the S3 bucket keys only include the hash part of each store
path, not the name part. So as a special exception
queryAllValidPaths() can now return store paths *without* the name
part, and queryPathInfo() accepts such store paths (returning a
ValidPathInfo object containing the full name).
2016-04-21 17:53:47 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra 451ebf24ce Cache path info lookups in SQLite
This re-implements the binary cache database in C++, allowing it to be
used by other Store backends, in particular the S3 backend.
2016-04-20 14:12:38 +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
Eelco Dolstra d1b0909894 BinaryCacheStore::readFile(): Return a shared_ptr to a string
This allows readFile() to indicate that a file doesn't exist, and
might eliminate some large string copying.
2016-04-15 15:39:48 +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 05fbc606fc nix verify-paths: Add ‘--sigs-needed <N>’ flag
This specifies the number of distinct signatures required to consider
each path "trusted".

Also renamed ‘--no-sigs’ to ‘--no-trust’ for the flag that disables
verifying whether a path is trusted (since a path can also be trusted
if it has no signatures, but was built locally).
2016-04-07 15:16:57 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra d0f5719c2a Add "nix copy-sigs" command
This imports signatures from one store into another. E.g.

  $ nix copy-sigs -r /run/current-system -s https://cache.nixos.org/
  imported 595 signatures
2016-04-05 16:39:23 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra 3d119f0a3b Improve the SQLite wrapper API
In particular, this eliminates a bunch of boilerplate code.
2016-03-30 15:50:45 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra 374198ad6d Move signature support from NarInfo to ValidPathInfo 2016-03-24 11:41:00 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra bb1034316d Don't overload dumpPath() 2016-03-22 14:21:45 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra 712b616a84 Move signatures from NarInfo to ValidPathInfo
This allows queryPathInfo() to return signatures.
2016-03-21 18:05:47 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra 1c5f73f529 Add Store::dumpPath() method
This allows applying nix-store --verify-path to binary cache stores:

  NIX_REMOTE=https://cache.nixos.org nix-store --verify-path /nix/store/s5c7...
2016-03-21 17:55:57 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra 00a75b1cd2 Fix another mismatched tag
http://hydra.nixos.org/build/33279570
2016-03-14 15:32:34 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra af7cdb1096 BinaryCacheStore: Remove publicKeyFile argument
The public key can be derived from the secret key, so there's no need
for the user to supply it separately.
2016-03-04 17:45:22 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra 5a8455c85e Provide function required by Hydra 2016-03-02 18:21:48 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra 68a5414982 Make store implementations pluggable
This for instance allows hydra-queue-runner to add the S3 backend
at runtime.
2016-03-02 15:46:07 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra cca4a8dc1a importPaths(): Optionally add NARs to binary cache accessor
This enables an optimisation in hydra-queue-runner, preventing a
download of a NAR it just uploaded to the cache when reading files
like hydra-build-products.
2016-03-02 15:46:07 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra 1042c10fd0 Add NAR / Store accessor abstraction
This is primary to allow hydra-queue-runner to extract files like
"nix-support/hydra-build-products" from NARs in binary caches.
2016-02-25 17:43:19 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra 28e7e29abd Eliminate reserveSpace flag 2016-02-24 17:44:55 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra 263187a2ec Move BinaryCacheStore / LocalBinaryCacheStore from Hydra
So you can now do:

  $ NIX_REMOTE=file:///tmp/binary-cache nix-store -qR /nix/store/...
2016-02-24 14:48:16 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra 5ac27053e9 Rename ValidPathInfo::hash -> narHash for consistency 2016-02-16 11:49:12 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra c8f4d89a34 Expose the export magic value and move LocalStore::queryReferences to Store 2016-02-15 15:01:26 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra d089372565 Add function to extract hash part of a store path 2016-02-15 15:01:26 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra ae4a3cfa03 Move addPermRoot into Store 2016-02-11 16:14:42 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra fa7cd5369b StoreAPI -> Store
Calling a class an API is a bit redundant...
2016-02-04 14:48:42 +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 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 1abda8e173 nix-store --serve: Implement log size limit 2015-10-06 17:33:30 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra eadb86f447 nix-collect-garbage: Revive --max-freed
Fixes #609.
2015-08-21 13:57:53 +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 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
Ludovic Courtès b755752f76 Add a ‘verifyStore’ RPC
Hello!

The patch below adds a ‘verifyStore’ RPC with the same signature as the
current LocalStore::verifyStore method.

Thanks,
Ludo’.

>From aef46c03ca77eb6344f4892672eb6d9d06432041 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: =?UTF-8?q?Ludovic=20Court=C3=A8s?= <ludo@gnu.org>
Date: Mon, 1 Jun 2015 23:17:10 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] Add a 'verifyStore' remote procedure call.
2015-06-02 02:14:24 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra 7ea6ecf855 addToStore(): Take explicit name argument 2015-03-25 17:06:12 +01:00
Ludovic Courtès 8fb8c26b6d Add an 'optimiseStore' remote procedure call. 2014-09-01 23:53:26 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra 1c2550a2ae boost::shared_ptr -> std::shared_ptr 2014-03-30 00:49:23 +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 b09b87321c nix-store --export: Export paths in topologically sorted order
Fixes #118.
2013-05-23 14:55:36 -04:00
Eelco Dolstra 2754a07ead nix-store -q --roots: Respect the gc-keep-outputs/gc-keep-derivations settings
So if a path is not garbage solely because it's reachable from a root
due to the gc-keep-outputs or gc-keep-derivations settings, ‘nix-store
-q --roots’ now shows that root.
2012-12-20 18:41:44 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra 0a7084567f Add a ‘--repair’ flag to nix-instantiate
This allows repairing corrupted derivations and other source files.
2012-10-03 15:09:18 -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 e94806d030 Merge branch 'master' into no-manifests 2012-08-27 11:09:07 -04:00
Eelco Dolstra 01d56c1eec Drop the block count in the garbage collector 2012-08-01 22:34:46 -04:00
Eelco Dolstra 967d066d8e nix-store --gc: Make ‘--max-freed 0’ do the right thing
That is, delete almost nothing (it will still remove unused links from
/nix/store/.links).
2012-08-01 19:14:58 -04:00
Eelco Dolstra 8c79100839 Merge branch 'master' into no-manifests 2012-07-26 15:14:33 -04:00
Eelco Dolstra b7fd2c2822 Use "#pragma once" to prevent repeated header file inclusion 2012-07-18 14:59:03 -04:00
Eelco Dolstra fe241ece29 Merge branch 'master' into no-manifests 2012-07-18 10:47:59 -04:00
Eelco Dolstra ccc52adfb2 Add function queryPathFromHashPart()
To implement binary caches efficiently, Hydra needs to be able to map
the hash part of a store path (e.g. "gbg...zr7") to the full store
path (e.g. "/nix/store/gbg...kzr7-subversion-1.7.5").  (The binary
cache mechanism uses hash parts as a key for looking up store paths to
ensure privacy.)  However, doing a search in the Nix store for
/nix/store/<hash>* is expensive since it requires reading the entire
directory.  queryPathFromHashPart() prevents this by doing a cheap
database lookup.
2012-07-17 18:55:39 -04:00
Eelco Dolstra 09a6321aeb Replace hasSubstitutes() with querySubstitutablePaths()
querySubstitutablePaths() takes a set of paths, so this greatly
reduces daemon <-> client latency.
2012-07-11 17:52:18 -04:00
Eelco Dolstra 58ef4d9a95 Add a function queryValidPaths()
queryValidPaths() combines multiple calls to isValidPath() in one.
This matters when using the Nix daemon because it reduces latency.
For instance, on "nix-env -qas \*" it reduces execution time from 5.7s
to 4.7s (which is indistinguishable from the non-daemon case).
2012-07-11 11:08:47 -04:00
Eelco Dolstra 667d5f1936 Rename queryValidPaths() to queryAllValidPaths() 2012-07-11 10:49:04 -04:00
Eelco Dolstra eb3036da87 Implement querySubstitutablePathInfos() in the daemon
Also removed querySubstitutablePathInfo().
2012-07-11 10:43:24 -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 4bc4da331a Reserve some disk space for the garbage collector
We can't open a SQLite database if the disk is full.  Since this
prevents the garbage collector from running when it's most needed, we
reserve some dummy space that we can free just before doing a garbage
collection.  This actually revives some old code from the Berkeley DB
days.

Fixes #27.
2012-05-29 22:59:12 -04:00
Eelco Dolstra 8be1979f1a Remove the --max-links GC option
We don't need this anymore now that current filesystems support more
than 32,000 files in a directory.
2012-03-26 20:00:02 +02:00
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 194d21f9f6 * Sync with the trunk. 2011-12-16 23:33:01 +00:00