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2014-07-12 build-remote.pl: Don't keep a shell process aroundEelco Dolstra1-1/+2
2014-07-12 build-remote.pl: Fix build logEelco Dolstra1-2/+4
2014-07-11 build-remote.pl: Use ‘nix-store --serve’ on the remote sideEelco Dolstra5-64/+128
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.
2014-07-11 Fix closure size displayEelco Dolstra1-1/+1
2014-07-10 Fix use of sysreadEelco Dolstra1-6/+18
2014-07-10 nix-copy-closure -s: Do substitutions via ‘nix-store --serve’Eelco Dolstra1-8/+11
This means we no longer need an SSH master connection, since we only execute a single command on the remote host.
2014-07-10 nix-copy-closure: Fix --dry-runEelco Dolstra1-8/+8
2014-07-10 nix-copy-closure: Restore compression and the progress viewerEelco Dolstra1-12/+40
2014-07-10 nix-copy-closure: Fix race conditionEelco Dolstra1-3/+74
There is a long-standing race condition when copying a closure to a remote machine, particularly affecting build-remote.pl: the client first asks the remote machine which paths it already has, then copies over the missing paths. If the garbage collector kicks in on the remote machine between the first and second step, the already-present paths may be deleted. The missing paths may then refer to deleted paths, causing nix-copy-closure to fail. The client now performs both steps using a single remote Nix call (using ‘nix-store --serve’), locking all paths in the closure while querying. I changed the --serve protocol a bit (getting rid of QueryCommand), so this breaks the SSH substituter from older versions. But it was marked experimental anyway. Fixes #141.
2014-02-01 Fix "make dist"Eelco Dolstra1-3/+1
2014-02-01 Remove AutomakefilesEelco Dolstra1-38/+0
2014-02-01 Update Makefile variable namesEelco Dolstra1-3/+3
2014-01-30 Rename Makefile -> local.mkEelco Dolstra1-0/+0
2014-01-21 Fix buildEelco Dolstra1-1/+2
2014-01-21 Ugly hack to fix building with clangEelco Dolstra1-0/+4
2014-01-21 Merge branch 'master' into makeEelco Dolstra5-5/+84
Conflicts: src/libexpr/eval.cc
2014-01-09 Update MakefilesEelco Dolstra1-1/+1
2014-01-08 Support cryptographically signed binary cachesEelco Dolstra4-5/+82
NAR info files in binary caches can now have a cryptographic signature that Nix will verify before using the corresponding NAR file. To create a private/public key pair for signing and verifying a binary cache, do: $ openssl genrsa -out ./cache-key.sec 2048 $ openssl rsa -in ./cache-key.sec -pubout > ./cache-key.pub You should also come up with a symbolic name for the key, such as "cache.example.org-1". This will be used by clients to look up the public key. (It's a good idea to number keys, in case you ever need to revoke/replace one.) To create a binary cache signed with the private key: $ nix-push --dest /path/to/binary-cache --key ./cache-key.sec --key-name cache.example.org-1 The public key (cache-key.pub) should be distributed to the clients. They should have a nix.conf should contain something like: signed-binary-caches = * binary-cache-public-key-cache.example.org-1 = /path/to/cache-key.pub If all works well, then if Nix fetches something from the signed binary cache, you will see a message like: *** Downloading ‘http://cache.example.org/nar/7dppcj5sc1nda7l54rjc0g5l1hamj09j-subversion-1.7.11’ (signed by ‘cache.example.org-1’) to ‘/nix/store/7dppcj5sc1nda7l54rjc0g5l1hamj09j-subversion-1.7.11’... On the other hand, if the signature is wrong, you get a message like NAR info file `http://cache.example.org/7dppcj5sc1nda7l54rjc0g5l1hamj09j.narinfo' has an invalid signature; ignoring Signatures are implemented as a single line appended to the NAR info file, which looks like this: Signature: 1;cache.example.org-1;HQ9Xzyanq9iV...muQ== Thus the signature has 3 fields: a version (currently "1"), the ID of key, and the base64-encoded signature of the SHA-256 hash of the contents of the NAR info file up to but not including the Signature line. Issue #75.
2013-12-20 perl: Call loadConfFile() in doInit to avoid screwing sqlite journal mode.Petr Rockai1-0/+2
If the database is opened through perl bindings (and even though nix.conf has use-sqlite-wal set to false), the database is automatically converted into WAL mode. This makes the next nix process to access the database convert it back to "truncate". If the database is still open at the time in wal mode by the perl program, this fails and crashes the nix doing the wal -> truncate conversion.
2013-12-02 Install bsdiff and bspatch in $(libexecdir)/nixEelco Dolstra1-1/+1
2013-11-25 Add a Makefile for the Perl stuffEelco Dolstra2-1/+42
2013-10-24 Fix segfault on DarwinEelco Dolstra1-0/+1
Ever since SQLite in Nixpkgs was updated to 3.8.0.2, Nix has randomly segfaulted on Darwin: http://hydra.nixos.org/build/6175515 http://hydra.nixos.org/build/6611038 It turns out that this is because the binary cache substituter somehow ends up loading two versions of SQLite: the one in Nixpkgs and the other from /usr/lib/libsqlite3.dylib. It's not exactly clear why the latter is loaded, but it appears to be because WWW::Curl indirectly loads /System/Library/Frameworks/CoreFoundation.framework/Versions/A/CoreFoundation, which in turn seems to load /usr/lib/libsqlite3.dylib. This leads to a segfault when Perl exits: #0 0x00000001010375f4 in sqlite3_finalize () #1 0x000000010125806e in sqlite_st_destroy () #2 0x000000010124bc30 in XS_DBD__SQLite__st_DESTROY () #3 0x00000001001c8155 in XS_DBI_dispatch () ... #14 0x0000000100023224 in perl_destruct () #15 0x0000000100000d6a in main () ... The workaround is to explicitly load DBD::SQLite before WWW::Curl.
2013-09-06 Don't apply the CPU affinity hack to nix-shell (and other Perl programs)Eelco Dolstra1-0/+1
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.
2013-06-20 Don't keep "disabled" substituters runningEelco Dolstra1-1/+4
For instance, it's pointless to keep copy-from-other-stores running if there are no other stores, or download-using-manifests if there are no manifests. This also speeds things up because we don't send queries to those substituters.
2013-05-10 build-remote.pl: Properly close the SSH connection between attemptsEelco Dolstra1-0/+1
2013-05-03 Fixing the pv position regarding compressionLluís Batlle i Rossell1-1/+1
Problem noticed by niksnut.
2013-05-03 Adding ETA support to the --show-progress in nix-copy-closureLluís Batlle i Rossell1-4/+8
Based on https://github.com/NixOS/nix/pull/6 from shlevy
2013-03-08 Revert "Prevent config.h from being clobbered"Eelco Dolstra1-9/+12
This reverts commit 28bba8c44f484eae38e8a15dcec73cfa999156f6.
2013-03-08 Fix annoying Perl 5.16 warningsEelco Dolstra1-17/+17
I.e. Subroutine Nix::Store::isValidPath redefined at /nix/store/clfzsf6gi7qh5i9c0vks1ifjam47rijn-perl-5.16.2/lib/perl5/5.16.2/XSLoader.pm line 92. and so on.
2013-03-07 Prevent config.h from being clobberedEelco Dolstra1-12/+9
2013-02-05 Nix::Store::derivationFromPath: Return derivation outputsEelco Dolstra1-9/+12
2012-12-20 Give a better error message if writeFile fails due to permission issuesEelco Dolstra1-2/+2
2012-11-23 nix-copy-closure: Add flag ‘--use-substitutes’Eelco Dolstra1-1/+8
2012-10-17 nix-push: Only generate and copy a NAR if it doesn't already existEelco Dolstra2-1/+58
This prevents unnecessary and slow rebuilds of NARs that already exist in the binary cache.
2012-10-10 Out-of-tree building of perl modules.Mats Erik Andersson1-0/+1
2012-09-19 Support xz compression in the download-using-manifests substituterEelco Dolstra1-6/+12
2012-09-13 Delete manifests in "nix-channel --remove" or when a binary cache is availableEelco Dolstra1-21/+39
2012-08-27 Drop dependency on List::MoreUtilsEelco Dolstra1-0/+11
2012-08-27 Add missing fileEelco Dolstra1-0/+8
2012-07-30 Refactor settings processingEelco Dolstra1-1/+1
Put all Nix configuration flags in a Settings object.
2012-07-30 Do some validation of URLsEelco Dolstra1-1/+1
2012-07-30 Pass configuration settings to the substitutersEelco Dolstra1-1/+9
Previously substituters could read nix.conf themselves, but this didn't take --option flags into account.
2012-07-18 Merge branch 'master' into no-manifestsEelco Dolstra2-0/+12
2012-07-17 Add function queryPathFromHashPart()Eelco Dolstra2-0/+12
To implement binary caches efficiently, Hydra needs to be able to map the hash part of a store path (e.g. "gbg...zr7") to the full store path (e.g. "/nix/store/gbg...kzr7-subversion-1.7.5"). (The binary cache mechanism uses hash parts as a key for looking up store paths to ensure privacy.) However, doing a search in the Nix store for /nix/store/<hash>* is expensive since it requires reading the entire directory. queryPathFromHashPart() prevents this by doing a cheap database lookup.
2012-07-17 queryPathInfo(): return hash in base-32 if desiredEelco Dolstra1-2/+2
Cherry-picked from the no-manifests branch.
2012-07-11 Set the User-Agent header to "Nix/<version>"Eelco Dolstra1-0/+2
2012-07-09 download-from-binary-cache: add nix.conf optionsEelco Dolstra1-3/+3
2012-07-02 nix-push: Always generate base-32 hashesEelco Dolstra1-2/+2
2012-06-29 First attempt at the manifest-less substituterEelco Dolstra1-0/+1
2012-06-29 Use XZ compression in binary cachesEelco Dolstra1-1/+2
XZ compresses significantly better than bzip2. Here are the compression ratios and execution times (using 4 cores in parallel) on my /var/run/current-system (3.1 GiB): bzip2: total compressed size 849.56 MiB, 30.8% [2m08] xz -6: total compressed size 641.84 MiB, 23.4% [6m53] xz -7: total compressed size 621.82 MiB, 22.6% [7m19] xz -8: total compressed size 599.33 MiB, 21.8% [7m18] xz -9: total compressed size 588.18 MiB, 21.4% [7m40] Note that compression takes much longer. More importantly, however, decompression is much faster: bzip2: 1m47.274s xz -6: 0m55.446s xz -7: 0m54.119s xz -8: 0m52.388s xz -9: 0m51.842s The only downside to using -9 is that decompression takes a fair amount (~65 MB) of memory.