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2014-02-27Set up a private /dev/pts in the chrootEelco Dolstra
2014-02-27Set up a minimal /dev in chrootsEelco Dolstra
Not bind-mounting the /dev from the host also solves the problem with /dev/shm being a symlink to something not in the chroot.
2014-02-26Only start download-via-ssh if it's enabledEelco Dolstra
2014-02-26Add use-ssh-substituter setting.Shea Levy
It defaults to false and can be overridden by RemoteStore. Untested currently, just quickly put this together
2014-02-14Minor style fixesEelco Dolstra
2014-02-10Pass in params by const refShea Levy
Signed-off-by: Shea Levy <shea@shealevy.com>
2014-02-08Add download-via-ssh substituterShea Levy
This substituter connects to a remote host, runs nix-store --serve there, and then forwards substituter commands on to the remote host and sends their results to the calling program. The ssh-substituter-hosts option can be specified as a list of hosts to try. This is an initial implementation and, while it works, it has some limitations: * Only the first host is used * There is no caching of query results (all queries are sent to the remote machine) * There is no informative output (such as progress bars) * Some failure modes may cause unhelpful error messages * There is no concept of trusted-ssh-substituter-hosts Signed-off-by: Shea Levy <shea@shealevy.com>
2013-11-22Drop the dependency on AutomakeEelco Dolstra
2013-11-12Make function calls show up in stack traces againEelco Dolstra
Note that adding --show-trace prevents functions calls from being tail-recursive, so an expression that evaluates without --show-trace may fail with a stack overflow if --show-trace is given.
2013-09-06Don't apply the CPU affinity hack to nix-shell (and other Perl programs)Eelco Dolstra
As discovered by Todd Veldhuizen, the shell started by nix-shell has its affinity set to a single CPU. This is because nix-shell connects to the Nix daemon, which causes the affinity hack to be applied. So we turn this off for Perl programs.
2013-09-02Add an option to limit the log output of buildersEelco Dolstra
This is mostly useful for Hydra to deal with builders that get stuck in an infinite loop writing data to stdout/stderr.
2013-06-20Disable the copy-from-other-stores substituterEelco Dolstra
This substituter basically cannot work reliably since we switched to SQLite, since SQLite databases may need write access to open them even just for reading (and in WAL mode they always do).
2013-03-08Revert "Prevent config.h from being clobbered"Eelco Dolstra
This reverts commit 28bba8c44f484eae38e8a15dcec73cfa999156f6.
2013-03-07Prevent config.h from being clobberedEelco Dolstra
2013-02-19Add `Settings::nixDaemonSocketFile'.Ludovic Courtès
2012-12-29Allow mounting a path in a different location in the chrootEelco Dolstra
Fixes #24.
2012-11-27Add builtin constants ‘langVersion’ and ‘nixVersion’Eelco Dolstra
The integer constant ‘langVersion’ denotes the current language version. It gets increased every time a language feature is added/changed/removed. It's currently 1. The string constant ‘nixVersion’ contains the current Nix version, e.g. "1.2pre2980_9de6bc5".
2012-11-09Don't start copy-from-other-stores if $NIX_OTHER_STORES is unsetEelco Dolstra
Slight optimisation.
2012-09-19Templatise tokenizeString()Eelco Dolstra
2012-09-13Disable auto store optimisation for nowEelco Dolstra
I've seen operations like "nix-store --import" take much longer on one system. So default to off until I've investigated this a bit further.
2012-07-31Prevent an injection attack in passing untrusted options to substitutersEelco Dolstra
2012-07-31Pass all --option flags to the daemonEelco Dolstra
2012-07-31Add an option ‘build-fallback’ (equivalent to the --fallback flag)Eelco Dolstra
2012-07-30Refactor settings processingEelco Dolstra
Put all Nix configuration flags in a Settings object.
2012-07-30Pass configuration settings to the substitutersEelco Dolstra
Previously substituters could read nix.conf themselves, but this didn't take --option flags into account.
2012-07-11Update the other substitutersEelco Dolstra
2012-07-06download-from-binary-cache: parallelise fetching of NAR info filesEelco Dolstra
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.
2011-11-22* Move initialisation of variables like nixConfDir from libmain toEelco Dolstra
libstore so that the Perl bindings can use it as well. It's vital that the Perl bindings use the configuration file, because otherwise nix-copy-closure will fail with a ‘database locked’ message if the value of ‘use-sqlite-wal’ is changed from the default.
2011-06-30Add support for the `build-timeout' and `--timeout' options.Ludovic Courtès
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.
2010-06-23Added support for passing an (impure) NIX_BUILD_CORES variable to build ↵Peter Simons
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.
2009-03-23* No longer block while waiting for a lock on a store path. InsteadEelco Dolstra
poll for it (i.e. if we can't acquire the lock, then let the main select() loop wait for at most a few seconds and then try again). This improves parallelism: if two nix-store processes are both trying to build a path at the same time, the second one shouldn't block; it should first see if it can build other goals. Also, it prevents the deadlocks that have been occuring in Hydra lately, where a process waits for a lock held by another process that's waiting for a lock held by the first. The downside is that polling isn't really elegant, but POSIX doesn't provide a way to wait for locks in a select() loop. The only solution would be to spawn a thread for each lock to do a blocking fcntl() and then signal the main thread, but that would require pthreads.
2009-02-27* Allow options from the Nix config file to be overriden from theEelco Dolstra
command line (e.g. "--option build-use-chroot true").
2008-12-11* Revert r13150: now that we use private namespaces for the chroot, weEelco Dolstra
don't have to put the chroot in /nix/var/nix/chroots anymore. They're back in /tmp now.
2008-11-20* Nix daemon: reload the configuration file after forking (NIX-100).Eelco Dolstra
2008-11-12* Some somewhat ad hoc mechanism to allow the build farm to monitorEelco Dolstra
build progress.
2008-10-29* Put the chroots under /nix/var/nix/chroots to reduce the risk ofEelco Dolstra
disasters involving `rm -rf' on bind mounts. Will try the definitive fix (per-process mounts, apparently possible via the CLONE_NEWNS flag in clone()) some other time.
2007-11-16* Flag `--no-build-hook' to disable distributed builds.Eelco Dolstra
* queryDeriver in daemon mode: don't barf if the other side returns an empty string (which means there is no deriver).
2007-08-12* Get rid of the substitutes database table (NIX-47). Instead, if weEelco Dolstra
need any info on substitutable paths, we just call the substituters (such as download-using-manifests.pl) directly. This means that it's no longer necessary for nix-pull to register substitutes or for nix-channel to clear them, which makes those operations much faster (NIX-95). Also, we don't have to worry about keeping nix-pull manifests (in /nix/var/nix/manifests) and the database in sync with each other. The downside is that there is some overhead in calling an external program to get the substitutes info. For instance, "nix-env -qas" takes a bit longer. Abolishing the substitutes table also makes the logic in local-store.cc simpler, as we don't need to store info for invalid paths. On the downside, you cannot do things like "nix-store -qR" on a substitutable but invalid path (but nobody did that anyway). * Never catch interrupts (the Interrupted exception).
2006-12-08* Kill a build if it has gone for more than a certain number ofEelco Dolstra
seconds without producing output on stdout or stderr (NIX-65). This timeout can be specified using the `--max-silent-time' option or the `build-max-silent-time' configuration setting. The default is infinity (0). * Fix a tricky race condition: if we kill the build user before the child has done its setuid() to the build user uid, then it won't be killed, and we'll potentially lock up in pid.wait(). So also send a conventional kill to the child.
2006-12-04* Install the worker in bindir, not libexecdir.Eelco Dolstra
* Allow the worker path to be overriden through the NIX_WORKER environment variable.
2006-09-04* Use a proper namespace.Eelco Dolstra
* Optimise header file usage a bit. * Compile the parser as C++.
2006-07-20* Use $(libexecdir) to find find-runtime-roots.pl.Eelco Dolstra
2006-07-06* Allow the canonical system name to be specified at runtime in theEelco Dolstra
Nix config file.
2006-05-11* 64-bit compatibility fixes (for problems revealed by building on an AthlonEelco Dolstra
64 running 64-bit SUSE). A patched ATerm library is required to run Nix succesfully.
2006-02-16* Allow the size of the GC reserved file to be specified in nix.confEelco Dolstra
through the new `gc-reserved-space' option.
2005-10-17* Beginning of secure multi-user Nix stores. If Nix is started asEelco Dolstra
root (or setuid root), then builds will be performed under one of the users listed in the `build-users' configuration variables. This is to make it impossible to influence build results externally, allowing locally built derivations to be shared safely between users (see ASE-2005 paper). To do: only one builder should be active per build user.
2005-09-22* Lets not go wild with templates.Eelco Dolstra
2005-09-22* Parse multi-valued options.Eelco Dolstra
2005-09-21* Configuration options for trusted local builds.Eelco Dolstra