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Age	Commit message (Collapse)	Author
2017-05-08	Linux sandbox: Fix compatibility with older kernels	Eelco Dolstra

2017-05-08	Remove superfluous #ifdef	Eelco Dolstra

2017-05-05	Make the location of the build directory in the sandbox configurable	Eelco Dolstra
	This is mostly for use in the sandbox tests, since if the Nix store is under /build, then we can't use /build as the build directory.
2017-05-04	Linux sandbox: Use /build instead of /tmp as $TMPDIR	Eelco Dolstra
	There is a security issue when a build accidentally stores its $TMPDIR in some critical place, such as an RPATH. If TMPDIR=/tmp/nix-build-..., then any user on the system can recreate that directory and inject libraries into the RPATH of programs executed by other users. Since /build probably doesn't exist (or isn't world-writable), this mitigates the issue.
2017-05-02	LocalStoreAccessor: Fix handling of diverted stores	Eelco Dolstra

2017-05-02	Replace $NIX_REMOTE_SYSTEMS with an option "builder-files"	Eelco Dolstra
	Also, to unify with hydra-queue-runner, allow it to be a list of files.
2017-05-02	build-remote: Fix fallback to other machines when connecting fails	Eelco Dolstra
	Opening an SSHStore or LegacySSHStore does not actually establish a connection, so the try/catch block here did nothing. Added a Store::connect() method to test whether a connection can be established.
2017-05-02	Add an option for specifying remote builders	Eelco Dolstra
	This is useful for one-off situations where you want to specify a builder on the command line instead of having to mess with nix.machines. E.g. $ nix-build -A hello --argstr system x86_64-darwin \ --option builders 'root@macstadium1 x86_64-darwin' will perform the specified build on "macstadium1". It also removes the need for a separate nix.machines file since you can specify builders in nix.conf directly. (In fact nix.machines is yet another hack that predates the general nix.conf configuration file, IIRC.) Note: this option is supported by the daemon for trusted users. The fact that this allows trusted users to specify paths to SSH keys to which they don't normally have access is maybe a bit too much trust...
2017-05-02	Factor out machines.conf parsing	Eelco Dolstra
	This allows hydra-queue-runner to use it.
2017-05-02	build-hook: If there are no machines defined, quit permanently	Eelco Dolstra

2017-05-02	build-remote: Ugly hackery to get build logs to work	Eelco Dolstra
	The build hook mechanism expects build log output to go to file descriptor 4, so do that.
2017-05-01	build-remote: Don't require signatures	Eelco Dolstra
	This restores the old behaviour.
2017-05-01	Support arbitrary store URIs in nix.machines	Eelco Dolstra
	For backwards compatibility, if the URI is just a hostname, ssh:// (i.e. LegacySSHStore) is prepended automatically. Also, all fields except the URI are now optional. For example, this is a valid nix.machines file: local?root=/tmp/nix This is useful for testing the remote build machinery since you don't have to mess around with ssh.
2017-05-01	Implement LegacySSHStore::buildDerivation()	Eelco Dolstra
	This makes LegacySSHStore usable by build-remote and hydra-queue-runner.
2017-05-01	Chomp log output from the build hook	Eelco Dolstra

2017-05-01	Remove $NIX_BUILD_HOOK and $NIX_CURRENT_LOAD	Eelco Dolstra
	This is to simplify remote build configuration. These environment variables predate nix.conf. The build hook now has a sensible default (namely build-remote). The current load is kept in the Nix state directory now.
2017-05-01	build-remote: Don't copy the .drv closure	Eelco Dolstra
	Since build-remote uses buildDerivation() now, we don't need to copy the .drv file anymore. This greatly reduces the set of input paths copied to the remote side (e.g. from 392 to 51 store paths for GNU hello on x86_64-darwin).
2017-05-01	Pass verbosity level to build hook	Eelco Dolstra

2017-05-01	Reduce severity of EMLINK warnings	Eelco Dolstra
	Fixes #1357.
2017-05-01	Add a dummy Store::buildPaths() method	Eelco Dolstra
	This default implementation of buildPaths() does nothing if all requested paths are already valid, and throws an "unsupported operation" error otherwise. This fixes a regression introduced by c30330df6f67c81986dfb124631bc756c8e58c0d in binary cache and legacy SSH stores.
2017-04-28	Fix brainfart	Eelco Dolstra

2017-04-26	Add Store nesting to fix import-from-derivation within filterSource	Shea Levy

2017-04-24	Remove debug statement	Eelco Dolstra

2017-04-20	Detect lsof	Eelco Dolstra
	Also, don't use lsof on Linux since it's not needed. Fixes #1328.
2017-04-20	Improve nix show-config --json	Eelco Dolstra
	In particular, show descriptions. This could be used for manpage generation etc.
2017-04-20	Setting: Remove "Tag" template argument	Eelco Dolstra

2017-04-20	Read per-user settings from ~/.config/nix/nix.conf	Eelco Dolstra

2017-04-20	binary-caches-parallel-connections -> http-connections	Eelco Dolstra

2017-04-20	Reimplement trusted-substituters (aka trusted-binary-caches)	Eelco Dolstra

2017-04-19	Reimplement connect-timeout	Eelco Dolstra
	Fixes #1339.
2017-04-14	Shut up some warnings	Eelco Dolstra

2017-04-14	Doh	Eelco Dolstra

2017-04-13	Convert Settings to the new config system	Eelco Dolstra
	This makes all config options self-documenting. Unknown or unparseable config settings and --option flags now cause a warning.
2017-04-13	Merge branch 'rework-options' of https://github.com/copumpkin/nix	Eelco Dolstra

2017-04-13	Add a Config class to simplify adding configuration settings	Eelco Dolstra
	The typical use is to inherit Config and add Setting<T> members: class MyClass : private Config { Setting<int> foo{this, 123, "foo", "the number of foos to use"}; Setting<std::string> bar{this, "blabla", "bar", "the name of the bar"}; MyClass() : Config(readConfigFile("/etc/my-app.conf")) { std::cout << foo << "\n"; // will print 123 unless overriden } }; Currently, this is used by Store and its subclasses for store parameters. You now get a warning if you specify a non-existant store parameter in a store URI.
2017-04-10	Merge pull request #1316 from copumpkin/nix-retries-default	Eelco Dolstra
	Default to 5 download retries
2017-04-10	Add CURLE_WRITE_ERROR as a transient error condition	Dan Peebles
	We've observed it failing downloads in the wild and retrying the same URL a few moments later seemed to fix it.
2017-04-10	Default to 5 download retries	Dan Peebles
	This should help certain downloaders that don't request anything special for the number of retries, like nix-channel.
2017-04-10	Minor cleanup	Eelco Dolstra
	Also, possible fix for #1310 on 32-bit systems.
2017-04-10	Allow "auto" as a store URI	Eelco Dolstra
	Using the empty string is likely to be ambiguous in some contexts.
2017-04-06	Retry downloads on transient SSL errors too	Dan Peebles

2017-04-06	Implement RemoteStore::queryMissing()	Eelco Dolstra
	This provides a significant speedup, e.g. 64 s -> 12 s for nix-build --dry-run -I nixpkgs=channel:nixos-16.03 '<nixpkgs/nixos/tests/misc.nix>' -A test on a cold local and CloudFront cache. The alternative is to use lots of concurrent daemon connections but that seems wasteful.
2017-04-06	Add a method to allow hydra-queue-runner to flush the path info cache	Eelco Dolstra

2017-04-06	nix-daemon: Disable path info cache	Eelco Dolstra
	This is useless because the client also caches path info, and can cause problems for long-running clients like hydra-queue-runner (i.e. it may return cached info about paths that have been garbage-collected).
2017-04-04	Allow default sandbox paths to be overriden	Eelco Dolstra
	E.g. you can now redirect /etc/resolv.conf to a different file.
2017-04-04	Make /var/run/nscd/socket optional	Eelco Dolstra
	Not every distribution uses nscd.
2017-03-31	Sandbox: Fix /dev/ptmx on recent kernels	Eelco Dolstra
	This fixes "No such file or directory" when opening /dev/ptmx (e.g. http://hydra.nixos.org/build/51094249). The reason appears to be some changes to /dev/ptmx / /dev/pts handling between Linux 4.4 and 4.9. See https://patchwork.kernel.org/patch/7832531/. The fix is to go back to mounting a proper /dev/pts instance inside the sandbox. Happily, this now works inside user namespaces, even for unprivileged users. So NIX_REMOTE=local?root=/tmp/nix nix-build \ '<nixpkgs/nixos/tests/misc.nix>' -A test works for non-root users. The downside is that the fix breaks sandbox builds on older kernels (probably pre-4.6), since mounting a devpts fails inside user namespaces for some reason I've never been able to figure out. Builds on those systems will fail with error: while setting up the build environment: mounting /dev/pts: Invalid argument Ah well.
2017-03-31	Merge branch 'builtins.exec'	Shea Levy

2017-03-31	Retry curl error 16	Eelco Dolstra

2017-03-30	Add exec primop behind allow-unsafe-native-code-during-evaluation.	Shea Levy
	Execute a given program with the (optional) given arguments as the user running the evaluation, parsing stdout as an expression to be evaluated. There are many use cases for nix that would benefit from being able to run arbitrary code during evaluation, including but not limited to: * Automatic git fetching to get a sha256 from a git revision * git rev-parse HEAD * Automatic extraction of information from build specifications from other tools, particularly language-specific package managers like cabal or npm * Secrets decryption (e.g. with nixops) * Private repository fetching Ideally, we would add this functionality in a more principled way to nix, but in the mean time 'builtins.exec' can be used to get these tasks done. The primop is only available when the 'allow-unsafe-native-code-during-evaluation' nix option is true. That flag also enables the 'importNative' primop, which is strictly more powerful but less convenient (since it requires compiling a plugin against the running version of nix).