Add pure evaluation mode

In this mode, the following restrictions apply:

* The builtins currentTime, currentSystem and storePath throw an
  error.

* $NIX_PATH and -I are ignored.

* fetchGit and fetchMercurial require a revision hash.

* fetchurl and fetchTarball require a sha256 attribute.

* No file system access is allowed outside of the paths returned by
  fetch{Git,Mercurial,url,Tarball}. Thus 'nix build -f ./foo.nix' is
  not allowed.

Thus, the evaluation result is completely reproducible from the
command line arguments. E.g.

  nix build --pure-eval '(
    let
      nix = fetchGit { url = https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs.git; rev = "9c927de4b179a6dd210dd88d34bda8af4b575680"; };
      nixpkgs = fetchGit { url = https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs.git; ref = "release-17.09"; rev = "66b4de79e3841530e6d9c6baf98702aa1f7124e4"; };
    in (import (nix + "/release.nix") { inherit nix nixpkgs; }).build.x86_64-linux
  )'

The goal is to enable completely reproducible and traceable
evaluation. For example, a NixOS configuration could be fully
described by a single Git commit hash. 'nixos-rebuild' would do
something like

  nix build --pure-eval '(
    (import (fetchGit { url = file:///my-nixos-config; rev = "..."; })).system
  ')

where the Git repository /my-nixos-config would use further fetchGit
calls or Git externals to fetch Nixpkgs and whatever other
dependencies it has. Either way, the commit hash would uniquely
identify the NixOS configuration and allow it to reproduced.

1 files changed, 35 insertions, 9 deletions

diff --git a/src/libexpr/primops.cc b/src/libexpr/primops.cc
index 98fe2199e9..0ec035b862 100644
--- a/src/libexpr/primops.cc
+++ b/src/libexpr/primops.cc
@@ -439,7 +439,7 @@ static void prim_tryEval(EvalState & state, const Pos & pos, Value * * args, Val
 static void prim_getEnv(EvalState & state, const Pos & pos, Value * * args, Value & v)
 {
     string name = state.forceStringNoCtx(*args[0], pos);
-    mkString(v, state.restricted ? "" : getEnv(name));
+    mkString(v, settings.restrictEval || settings.pureEval ? "" : getEnv(name));
 }
 
 
@@ -1929,7 +1929,14 @@ void fetch(EvalState & state, const Pos & pos, Value * * args, Value & v,
 
     state.checkURI(url);
 
+    if (settings.pureEval && !expectedHash)
+        throw Error("in pure evaluation mode, '%s' requires a 'sha256' argument", who);
+
     Path res = getDownloader()->downloadCached(state.store, url, unpack, name, expectedHash);
+
+    if (state.allowedPaths)
+        state.allowedPaths->insert(res);
+
     mkString(v, res, PathSet({res}));
 }
 
@@ -1981,11 +1988,28 @@ void EvalState::createBaseEnv()
     mkNull(v);
     addConstant("null", v);
 
-    mkInt(v, time(0));
-    addConstant("__currentTime", v);
+    auto vThrow = addPrimOp("throw", 1, prim_throw);
 
-    mkString(v, settings.thisSystem);
-    addConstant("__currentSystem", v);
+    auto addPurityError = [&](const std::string & name) {
+        Value * v2 = allocValue();
+        mkString(*v2, fmt("'%s' is not allowed in pure evaluation mode", name));
+        mkApp(v, *vThrow, *v2);
+        addConstant(name, v);
+    };
+
+    if (settings.pureEval)
+        addPurityError("__currentTime");
+    else {
+        mkInt(v, time(0));
+        addConstant("__currentTime", v);
+    }
+
+    if (settings.pureEval)
+        addPurityError("__currentSystem");
+    else {
+        mkString(v, settings.thisSystem);
+        addConstant("__currentSystem", v);
+    }
 
     mkString(v, nixVersion);
     addConstant("__nixVersion", v);
@@ -2001,10 +2025,10 @@ void EvalState::createBaseEnv()
     addConstant("__langVersion", v);
 
     // Miscellaneous
-    addPrimOp("scopedImport", 2, prim_scopedImport);
+    auto vScopedImport = addPrimOp("scopedImport", 2, prim_scopedImport);
     Value * v2 = allocValue();
     mkAttrs(*v2, 0);
-    mkApp(v, *baseEnv.values[baseEnvDispl - 1], *v2);
+    mkApp(v, *vScopedImport, *v2);
     forceValue(v);
     addConstant("import", v);
     if (settings.enableNativeCode) {
@@ -2020,7 +2044,6 @@ void EvalState::createBaseEnv()
     addPrimOp("__isBool", 1, prim_isBool);
     addPrimOp("__genericClosure", 1, prim_genericClosure);
     addPrimOp("abort", 1, prim_abort);
-    addPrimOp("throw", 1, prim_throw);
     addPrimOp("__addErrorContext", 2, prim_addErrorContext);
     addPrimOp("__tryEval", 1, prim_tryEval);
     addPrimOp("__getEnv", 1, prim_getEnv);
@@ -2035,7 +2058,10 @@ void EvalState::createBaseEnv()
 
     // Paths
     addPrimOp("__toPath", 1, prim_toPath);
-    addPrimOp("__storePath", 1, prim_storePath);
+    if (settings.pureEval)
+        addPurityError("__storePath");
+    else
+        addPrimOp("__storePath", 1, prim_storePath);
     addPrimOp("__pathExists", 1, prim_pathExists);
     addPrimOp("baseNameOf", 1, prim_baseNameOf);
     addPrimOp("dirOf", 1, prim_dirOf);