build-remote.pl: Use ‘nix-store --serve’ on the remote side

This makes things more efficient (we don't need to use an SSH master
connection, and we only start a single remote process) and gets rid of
locking issues (the remote nix-store process will keep inputs and
outputs locked as long as they're needed).

It also makes it more or less secure to connect directly to the root
account on the build machine, using a forced command
(e.g. ‘command="nix-store --serve --write"’). This bypasses the Nix
daemon and is therefore more efficient.

Also, don't call nix-store to import the output paths.

1 files changed, 36 insertions, 60 deletions

diff --git a/perl/lib/Nix/CopyClosure.pm b/perl/lib/Nix/CopyClosure.pm
index 131f0b5a4..f701a7c8a 100644
--- a/perl/lib/Nix/CopyClosure.pm
+++ b/perl/lib/Nix/CopyClosure.pm
@@ -3,76 +3,27 @@ package Nix::CopyClosure;
 use strict;
 use Nix::Config;
 use Nix::Store;
+use Nix::SSH;
 use List::Util qw(sum);
 use IPC::Open2;
 
 
-sub readN {
-    my ($bytes, $from) = @_;
-    my $res = "";
-    while ($bytes > 0) {
-        my $s;
-        my $n = sysread($from, $s, $bytes);
-        die "I/O error reading from remote side\n" if !defined $n;
-        die "got EOF while expecting $bytes bytes from remote side\n" if !$n;
-        $bytes -= $n;
-        $res .= $s;
-    }
-    return $res;
-}
-
-
-sub readInt {
-    my ($from) = @_;
-    return unpack("L<x4", readN(8, $from));
-}
-
-
-sub writeString {
-    my ($s, $to) = @_;
-    my $len = length $s;
-    my $req .= pack("L<x4", $len);
-    $req .= $s;
-    $req .= "\000" x (8 - $len % 8) if $len % 8;
-    syswrite($to, $req) or die;
-}
-
-
-sub copyTo {
-    my ($sshHost, $sshOpts, $storePaths, $compressor, $decompressor,
+sub copyToOpen {
+    my ($from, $to, $sshHost, $storePaths, $compressor, $decompressor,
         $includeOutputs, $dryRun, $sign, $progressViewer, $useSubstitutes) = @_;
 
-    $useSubstitutes = 0 if $dryRun;
+    $useSubstitutes = 0 if $dryRun || !defined $useSubstitutes;
 
     # Get the closure of this path.
     my @closure = reverse(topoSortPaths(computeFSClosure(0, $includeOutputs,
         map { followLinksToStorePath $_ } @{$storePaths})));
 
-    # Start ‘nix-store --serve’ on the remote host.
-    my ($from, $to);
-    my $pid = open2($from, $to, "ssh $sshHost @{$sshOpts} nix-store --serve --write");
-
-    # Do the handshake.
-    eval {
-        my $SERVE_MAGIC_1 = 0x390c9deb; # FIXME
-        my $clientVersion = 0x200;
-        syswrite($to, pack("L<x4L<x4", $SERVE_MAGIC_1, $clientVersion)) or die;
-        die "did not get valid handshake from remote host\n" if readInt($from) != 0x5452eecb;
-        my $serverVersion = readInt($from);
-        die "unsupported server version\n" if $serverVersion < 0x200 || $serverVersion >= 0x300;
-    };
-    if ($@) {
-        chomp $@;
-        warn "$@; falling back to old closure copying method\n";
-        return oldCopyTo(\@closure, @_);
-    }
-
     # Send the "query valid paths" command with the "lock" option
     # enabled. This prevents a race where the remote host
     # garbage-collect paths that are already there. Optionally, ask
     # the remote host to substitute missing paths.
-    syswrite($to, pack("L<x4L<x4L<x4L<x4", 1, 1, $useSubstitutes, scalar @closure)) or die;
-    writeString($_, $to) foreach @closure;
+    syswrite($to, pack("L<x4L<x4L<x4", 1, 1, $useSubstitutes)) or die;
+    writeStrings(\@closure, $to);
 
     # Get back the set of paths that are already valid on the remote host.
     my %present;
@@ -115,22 +66,47 @@ sub copyTo {
 
     } else {
         exportPaths(fileno($to), $sign, @missing);
-        close $to;
     }
 
     readInt($from) == 1 or die "remote machine \`$sshHost' failed to import closure\n";
 }
 
 
+sub copyTo {
+    my ($sshHost, $sshOpts, $storePaths, $compressor, $decompressor,
+        $includeOutputs, $dryRun, $sign, $progressViewer, $useSubstitutes) = @_;
+
+    # Connect to the remote host.
+    my ($from, $to);
+    eval {
+        ($from, $to) = connectToRemoteNix($sshHost, $sshOpts);
+    };
+    if ($@) {
+        chomp $@;
+        warn "$@; falling back to old closure copying method\n";
+        return oldCopyTo(@_);
+    }
+
+    copyToOpen($from, $to, $sshHost, $storePaths, $compressor, $decompressor,
+               $includeOutputs, $dryRun, $sign, $progressViewer, $useSubstitutes);
+
+    close $to;
+}
+
+
 # For backwards compatibility with Nix <= 1.7. Will be removed
 # eventually.
 sub oldCopyTo {
-    my ($closure, $sshHost, $sshOpts, $storePaths, $compressor, $decompressor,
+    my ($sshHost, $sshOpts, $storePaths, $compressor, $decompressor,
         $includeOutputs, $dryRun, $sign, $progressViewer, $useSubstitutes) = @_;
 
+    # Get the closure of this path.
+    my @closure = reverse(topoSortPaths(computeFSClosure(0, $includeOutputs,
+        map { followLinksToStorePath $_ } @{$storePaths})));
+
     # Optionally use substitutes on the remote host.
     if (!$dryRun && $useSubstitutes) {
-        system "ssh $sshHost @{$sshOpts} nix-store -r --ignore-unknown @$closure";
+        system "ssh $sshHost @{$sshOpts} nix-store -r --ignore-unknown @closure";
         # Ignore exit status because this is just an optimisation.
     }
 
@@ -140,8 +116,8 @@ sub oldCopyTo {
     # target having this option yet.
     my @missing;
     my $missingSize = 0;
-    while (scalar(@$closure) > 0) {
-        my @ps = splice(@$closure, 0, 1500);
+    while (scalar(@closure) > 0) {
+        my @ps = splice(@closure, 0, 1500);
         open(READ, "set -f; ssh $sshHost @{$sshOpts} nix-store --check-validity --print-invalid @ps|");
         while (<READ>) {
             chomp;