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2015-07-20nix-copy-closure: Add -v flagEelco Dolstra
And make exportPath() less spammy by default.
2015-06-03NamingEelco Dolstra
2015-03-04Reduce verbosity in build-remote.plEelco Dolstra
2014-11-12build-remote.pl.in: Add some more trace messagesEelco Dolstra
This allows hydra-build to keep track of the actual build time (so excluding time required to copy closures around).
2014-09-05build-remote.pl: UTF-8-decode errorsEelco Dolstra
2014-09-05Fix build-remote.plEelco Dolstra
Apparently, turning on utf8 encoding on stderr changes its flushing behaviour, causing sendReply to not send anything. http://hydra.nixos.org/build/13944384
2014-08-29Shut up "Wide character" warnings in Perl scriptsEelco Dolstra
2014-08-20Use proper quotes everywhereEelco Dolstra
2014-08-17Propagate remote timeouts properlyEelco Dolstra
2014-08-17build-remote.pl: Provide defaults for $NIX_CURRENT_LOAD and $NIX_REMOTE_SYSTEMSEelco Dolstra
2014-07-24nix-copy-closure: Drop --bzip2, --xz, --show-progressEelco Dolstra
These are too difficult to implement via nix-store --serve. ‘--show-progress’ could be re-implemented fairly easily via a sink/source wrapper class.
2014-07-24Remove obsolete SSH master connection codeEelco Dolstra
2014-07-24Implement nix-copy-closure --from via nix-store --serveEelco Dolstra
2014-07-24build-remote.pl: Be less verbose on failing buildsEelco Dolstra
2014-07-12build-remote.pl: Fix build logEelco Dolstra
2014-07-11build-remote.pl: Use ‘nix-store --serve’ on the remote sideEelco Dolstra
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.
2013-09-18build-remote.pl: Don't use substituters on the remoteEelco Dolstra
It's kinda pointless to check substituters on the remote side, since we just checked them locally.
2013-07-18Revert "build-remote.pl: Enforce timeouts locally"Eelco Dolstra
This reverts commit 69b8f9980f39c14a59365a188b300a34d625a2cd. 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.
2013-07-11build-remote.pl: Move "building ..." message to a better placeEelco Dolstra
2013-05-29build-remote.pl: Remove meaningless signing when importing the output pathsEelco Dolstra
The "$UID != 0" makes no sense: if the local side has write access to the Nix store (which is always the case) then it doesn't matter if we're root - we can import unsigned paths either way.
2013-05-23build-remote.pl: Copy all outputs in one operationEelco Dolstra
2013-05-23build-remote.pl: Indicate if remote machine is refusing buildsEelco Dolstra
Fixes #120.
2013-05-10build-remote.pl: Properly close the SSH connection between attemptsEelco Dolstra
2013-05-10build-remote.pl: Pass /dev/null as SSH's stdinEelco Dolstra
Otherwise it will set the parent's stdin to non-blocking mode, causing the subsequent read of the set of inputs/outputs to fail randomly. That's insane.
2013-05-10build-remote.pl: Allow a machine to refuse a buildEelco Dolstra
Before selecting a machine, build-remote.pl will try to run the command "nix-builds-inhibited" on the machine. If this command exists and returns a 0 exit code, then the machine won't be used. It's up to the user to provide this command, but it would typically be a script that checks whether there is enough disk space and whether the load is not too high.
2013-05-09build-remote.pl: Create one process fewer on the remote sideEelco Dolstra
2013-05-09build-remote.pl: Enforce timeouts locallyEelco Dolstra
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.
2013-03-08Revert "Prevent config.h from being clobbered"Eelco Dolstra
This reverts commit 28bba8c44f484eae38e8a15dcec73cfa999156f6.
2013-03-07Prevent config.h from being clobberedEelco Dolstra
2013-02-19build-remote: Use the --quiet flagEelco Dolstra
‘--option verbosity 0’ doesn't actually do anything.
2013-01-21build-remote.pl: Don't keep build logs on the build slaveEelco Dolstra
2012-09-12Build hook: Pass the timeout to the remote builderEelco Dolstra
Note that this will only work if the client has a very recent Nix version (post 15e1b2c223494ecb5efefc3ea0e3b926a6b1d7dc), otherwise the --option flag will just be ignored. Fixes #50.
2012-09-11Support building a derivation if some outputs are already validEelco Dolstra
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.
2012-04-30Support mandatory system features in the build hookEelco Dolstra
Mandatory features are features that MUST be present in a derivation's requiredSystemFeatures attribute. One application is performance testing, where we have a dedicated machine to run performance tests (and nothing else). Then we would add the label "perf" to the machine's mandatory features and to the performance testing derivations.
2012-04-24Fix a warning in the build hook about $progressViewerEelco Dolstra
2012-03-05build-remote.pl: don't wait forever for the upload lockEelco Dolstra
In the build hook, don't wait forever to get the upload lock. This ensures progress if another process gets stuck while holding the upload lock.
2011-12-21* Security: make sure the lock files used by build-remote.pl are notEelco Dolstra
readable to other users. Otherwise, any user can open the lock file for reading and lock it, thus DoSing the remote build mechanism.
2011-12-21* Use a lock to ensure that only one build-remote instance can copy aEelco Dolstra
closure to a given machine at the same time. This prevents the case where multiple instances try to copy the same missing store path to the target machine, which is very wasteful.
2011-11-29* Get rid of the shell in ssh calls.Eelco Dolstra
2011-11-23* Add an API function exportPaths() that provides the functionality ofEelco Dolstra
‘nix-store --export’. * Add a Perl module that provides the functionality of ‘nix-copy-closure --to’. This is used by build-remote.pl so it no longer needs to start a separate nix-copy-closure process. Also, it uses the Perl API to do the export, so it doesn't need to start a separate nix-store process either. As a result, nix-copy-closure and build-remote.pl should no longer fail on very large closures due to an "Argument list too long" error. (Note that having very many dependencies in a single derivation can still fail because the environment can become too large. Can't be helped though.)
2011-11-23* build-remote.pl: drop a hard-coded reference to /nix/etc/nix.Eelco Dolstra
2011-10-11* Move SSH.pm.Eelco Dolstra
2010-12-13* nix-instantiate: return exit status 100 to denote a permanent buildEelco Dolstra
failure. The build hook can use this to distinguish between transient and permanent failures on the remote side.
2010-12-05* Use CamelCase for the Perl modules.Eelco Dolstra
2010-10-04* Don't use SSH's `-tt' flag because it doesn't seem to workEelco Dolstra
on OpenSolaris when using connection sharing. Instead have the remote side check for disconnection and kill the process group when that happens.
2010-08-31* Always print hook output on stderr, even if --no-build-output isEelco Dolstra
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.
2010-08-30* When using the build hook, distinguish between the stderr of theEelco Dolstra
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.
2010-08-27* Experimental feature: allow a derivation to tell the build hook thatEelco Dolstra
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.
2010-08-25* Made the build hook mechanism more efficient. Rather than startingEelco Dolstra
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* Don't call "cat".Eelco Dolstra