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authorEelco Dolstra <eelco.dolstra@logicblox.com>2013-05-07T13·37+0200
committerEelco Dolstra <eelco.dolstra@logicblox.com>2013-05-07T13·37+0200
commitea019e9a269ae35fdf8861485fe16e622f8293f6 (patch)
tree3ad5a7d15fd7c3e4f7a66d80d55e0d94c9bedc1c
parentcc837e24586eec62d07e0cb078e02caa6ee42171 (diff)
Add option ‘extra-binary-caches’
This allows providing additional binary caches, useful in scripts like
Hydra's build reproduction scripts, in particular because untrusted
caches are ignored.
-rw-r--r--doc/manual/conf-file.xml16
-rw-r--r--scripts/download-from-binary-cache.pl.in11
2 files changed, 24 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/doc/manual/conf-file.xml b/doc/manual/conf-file.xml
index 4629e8eae0c1..932c339ebb61 100644
--- a/doc/manual/conf-file.xml
+++ b/doc/manual/conf-file.xml
@@ -350,13 +350,25 @@ flag, e.g. <literal>--option gc-keep-outputs false</literal>.</para>
     whitespace.  These are not used by default, but can be enabled by
     users of the Nix daemon by specifying <literal>--option
     binary-caches <replaceable>urls</replaceable></literal> on the
-    command line.  Daemon users are only allowed to pass a subset of
-    the URLs listed in <literal>binary-caches</literal> and
+    command line.  Unprivileged users are only allowed to pass a
+    subset of the URLs listed in <literal>binary-caches</literal> and
     <literal>trusted-binary-caches</literal>.</para></listitem>
 
   </varlistentry>
 
 
+  <varlistentry><term><literal>extra-binary-caches</literal></term>
+
+    <listitem><para>Additional binary caches appended to those
+    specified in <option>binary-caches</option> and
+    <option>binary-caches-files</option>.  When used by unprivileged
+    users, untrusted binary caches (i.e. those not listed in
+    <option>trusted-binary-caches</option>) are silently
+    ignored.</para></listitem>
+
+  </varlistentry>
+
+
   <varlistentry><term><literal>binary-caches-parallel-connections</literal></term>
 
     <listitem><para>The maximum number of parallel HTTP connections
diff --git a/scripts/download-from-binary-cache.pl.in b/scripts/download-from-binary-cache.pl.in
index e47457551841..a511f65b4348 100644
--- a/scripts/download-from-binary-cache.pl.in
+++ b/scripts/download-from-binary-cache.pl.in
@@ -208,12 +208,15 @@ sub getAvailableCaches {
         push @urls, strToList($url);
     }
 
+    push @urls, strToList($Nix::Config::config{"extra-binary-caches"} // "");
+
     # Allow Nix daemon users to override the binary caches to a subset
     # of those listed in the config file.  Note that ‘untrusted-*’
     # denotes options passed by the client.
+    my @trustedUrls = uniq(@urls, strToList($Nix::Config::config{"trusted-binary-caches"} // ""));
+
     if (defined $Nix::Config::config{"untrusted-binary-caches"}) {
         my @untrustedUrls = strToList $Nix::Config::config{"untrusted-binary-caches"};
-        my @trustedUrls = uniq(@urls, strToList($Nix::Config::config{"trusted-binary-caches"} // ""));
         @urls = ();
         foreach my $url (@untrustedUrls) {
             die "binary cache ‘$url’ is not trusted (please add it to ‘trusted-binary-caches’ [@trustedUrls] in $Nix::Config::confDir/nix.conf)\n"
@@ -222,6 +225,12 @@ sub getAvailableCaches {
         }
     }
 
+    my @untrustedUrls = strToList $Nix::Config::config{"untrusted-extra-binary-caches"};
+    foreach my $url (@untrustedUrls) {
+        next unless scalar(grep { $url eq $_ } @trustedUrls) > 0;
+        push @urls, $url;
+    }
+
     foreach my $url (uniq @urls) {
 
         # FIXME: not atomic.