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2009-03-24 (no commit message)Eelco Dolstra1-1/+1
2009-03-23 * No longer block while waiting for a lock on a store path. InsteadEelco Dolstra1-20/+67
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.
2009-03-22 * Refactoring.Eelco Dolstra1-136/+85
2009-03-18 * Unify exportReferencesGraph and exportBuildReferencesGraph, and makeEelco Dolstra1-48/+18
sure that it works as expected when you pass it a derivation. That is, we have to make sure that all build-time dependencies are built, and that they are all in the input closure (otherwise remote builds might fail, for example). This is ensured at instantiation time by adding all derivations and their sources to inputDrvs and inputSrcs.
2009-03-18 * Acquire the locks on the output paths before trying to run the buildEelco Dolstra1-145/+71
hook. This fixes a problem with log files being partially or completely filled with 0's because another nix-store process truncates the log file. It should also be more efficient.
2009-03-17 * Cleanup.Eelco Dolstra1-22/+9
2009-02-16 * Release output locks as soon as possible, not when the destructor ofEelco Dolstra1-0/+5
the DerivationGoal runs. Otherwise, if a goal is a top-level goal, then the lock won't be released until nix-store finishes. With --keep-going and lots of top-level goals, it's possible to run out of file descriptors (this happened sometimes in the build farm for Nixpkgs). Also, for failed derivation, it won't be possible to build it again until the lock is released. * Idem for locks on build users: these weren't released in a timely manner for failed top-level derivation goals. So if there were more than (say) 10 such failed builds, you would get an error about having run out of build users.
2009-02-02 * Build hooks: use nix-store --import. This prevents a redundantEelco Dolstra1-8/+19
scan for runtime dependencies (i.e. the local machine shouldn't do a scan that the remote machine has already done). Also pipe directly into `nix-store --import': don't use a temporary file.
2009-01-27 * Make it compile on Debian 4.0 (which doesn't define PER_LINUX32_3GBEelco Dolstra1-1/+1
in sys/personality.h).
2009-01-13 * When using a build hook, distinguish between transient failuresEelco Dolstra1-4/+20
(e.g. an SSH connection problem) and permanent failures (i.e. the builder failed). This matters to Hydra (it wants to know whether it makes sense to retry a build).
2009-01-12 * Support i686-linux builds directly on x86_64-linux NixEelco Dolstra1-1/+18
installations. This is implemented using the personality() syscall, which causes uname to return "i686" in child processes.
2008-12-15 * Delete the chroot if it already exists (e.g. left over from anEelco Dolstra1-0/+1
interrupted build).
2008-12-12 * Put chroots in the Nix store. This ensures that we can create hardEelco Dolstra1-2/+9
links to the inputs.
2008-12-12 * Detect whether unshare() is available.Eelco Dolstra1-4/+1
2008-12-12 * Use a PathSet for the chroot directories so that we don'tEelco Dolstra1-6/+7
accidentally bind-mount a directory twice.
2008-12-12 * Define _GNU_SOURCE. Hopefully this fixes the build on Debian 4.0Eelco Dolstra1-0/+3
(http://hydra.nixos.org/nixlog/384/1).
2008-12-11 * Don't provide the whole Nix store in the chroot, but only theEelco Dolstra1-10/+44
closure of the inputs. This really enforces that there can't be any undeclared dependencies on paths in the store. This is done by creating a fake Nix store and creating bind-mounts or hard-links in the fake store for all paths in the closure. After the build, the build output is moved from the fake store to the real store. TODO: the chroot has to be on the same filesystem as the Nix store for this to work, but this isn't enforced yet. (I.e. it only works currently if /tmp is on the same FS as /nix/store.)
2008-12-11 * Revert r13150: now that we use private namespaces for the chroot, weEelco Dolstra1-1/+1
don't have to put the chroot in /nix/var/nix/chroots anymore. They're back in /tmp now.
2008-12-11 * Provide a minimal /etc/passwd in the chroot to keep some buildersEelco Dolstra1-1/+12
happy.
2008-12-11 * Do chroot builds in a private namespace. This means that all theEelco Dolstra1-134/+45
bind-mounts we do are only visible to the builder process and its children. So accidentally doing "rm -rf" on the chroot directory won't wipe out /nix/store and other bind-mounted directories anymore. Also, the bind-mounts in the private namespace disappear automatically when the builder exits.
2008-12-04 * Propagate --max-silent-time to remote machines.Eelco Dolstra1-0/+1
2008-12-04 * When using build hooks, for any nix-store -r build operation, it isEelco Dolstra1-1/+12
necessary that at least one build hook doesn't return "postpone", otherwise nix-store will barf ("waiting for a build slot, yet there are no running children"). So inform the build hook when this is the case, so that it can start a build even when that would exceed the maximum load on a machine.
2008-11-14 * Restore SIGPIPE to SIG_DFL when running the builder. This preventsEelco Dolstra1-0/+13
subtle and often hard-to-reproduce bugs where programs in pipes either barf with a "Broken pipe" message or not, depending on the exact timing conditions. This particularly happened in GNU M4 (and Bison, which uses M4).
2008-11-12 * Some somewhat ad hoc mechanism to allow the build farm to monitorEelco Dolstra1-5/+44
build progress.
2008-11-11 * Add /dev/pts to the default nix.conf.Eelco Dolstra1-5/+4
2008-10-29 * Put the chroots under /nix/var/nix/chroots to reduce the risk ofEelco Dolstra1-10/+7
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.
2008-10-16 libstore: Always mount `/dev/pts' individually.Ludovic Courtès1-0/+5
This fixes problems such as Tcl's PTY handling: ERROR: The system has no more ptys. Ask your system administrator to create more.
2008-08-27 * Explicitly set PWD to prevent problems with chroot builds. InEelco Dolstra1-0/+6
particular, dietlibc cannot figure out the cwd because the inode of the current directory doesn't appear in .. (because getdents returns the inode of the mount point).
2008-08-27 * Create a /tmp with 1777 permission in the chroot. Some buildersEelco Dolstra1-12/+32
need a writable /tmp (they don't respect $TMPDIR).
2008-08-25 * Disable chroot builds for fixed-output derivations so that we don'tEelco Dolstra1-1/+8
need /etc in the chroot (in particular, /etc/resolv.conf for fetchurl). Not having /etc/resolv.conf in the chroot is a good thing, since we don't want normal derivations to download files.
2008-08-04 * build.cc: only use a substituter if it returns info for a path.Eelco Dolstra1-25/+22
2008-08-02 * Make nix-env --dry-run print the paths to be substituted correctlyEelco Dolstra1-135/+36
again. (After the previous substituter mechanism refactoring I didn't update the code that obtains the references of substitutable paths.) This required some refactoring: the substituter programs are now kept running and receive/respond to info requests via stdin/stdout.
2008-06-18 * Some refactoring: put the GC options / results in separate structs.Eelco Dolstra1-5/+5
* The garbage collector now also prints the number of blocks freed.
2008-06-13 * Print some progress info during the early GC stages.Eelco Dolstra1-1/+1
2008-06-09 * Merged the no-bdb branch (-r10900:HEADEelco Dolstra1-50/+26
https://svn.nixos.org/repos/nix/nix/branches/no-bdb).
2008-03-27 * Use /tmp/nix-build-<drvpath>-<counter> instead ofEelco Dolstra1-1/+1
/tmp/nix-<pid>-<counter> for temporary build directories. This increases purity a bit: many packages store the temporary build path in their output, causing (generally unimportant) binary differences.
2008-01-29 * nix-store --dump-db / --load-db to dump/load the Nix DB.Eelco Dolstra1-31/+3
* nix-store --register-validity: option to supply the content hash of each path. * Removed compatibility with Nix <= 0.7 stores.
2008-01-15 Fixed exportBuildReferenceGraphMichael Raskin1-12/+59
2007-12-30 Added a way to include derivation with its outputs and dependencies - ↵Michael Raskin1-0/+38
exportBuildReferenceGraph
2007-11-16 * Flag `--no-build-hook' to disable distributed builds.Eelco Dolstra1-0/+1
* queryDeriver in daemon mode: don't barf if the other side returns an empty string (which means there is no deriver).
2007-10-29 * On FreeBSD, sys/mount.h needs sys/param.h.Eelco Dolstra1-1/+5
2007-10-27 * Detect whether chroot / bind-mount support is available.Eelco Dolstra1-4/+21
2007-10-27 * Delete the chroot directory automatically.Eelco Dolstra1-14/+34
* Removed some debug messages.
2007-10-27 * Support for doing builds in a chroot under Linux. The builder isEelco Dolstra1-4/+134
executed in a chroot that contains just the Nix store, the temporary build directory, and a configurable set of additional directories (/dev and /proc by default). This allows a bit more purity enforcement: hidden build-time dependencies on directories such as /usr or /nix/var/nix/profiles are no longer possible. As an added benefit, accidental network downloads (cf. NIXPKGS-52) are prevented as well (because files such as /etc/resolv.conf are not available in the chroot). However the usefulness of chroots is diminished by the fact that many builders depend on /bin/sh, so you need /bin in the list of additional directories. (And then on non-NixOS you need /lib as well...)
2007-08-28 * When there are multiple substituters, make sure to release theEelco Dolstra1-0/+5
lock on the output path after trying each. Otherwise the pathIsLockedByMe() test gets confused.
2007-08-28 * Fix a race condition with parallel builds where multipleEelco Dolstra1-10/+86
fixed-output derivations or substitutions try to build the same store path at the same time. Locking generally catches this, but not between multiple goals in the same process. This happened especially often (actually, only) in the build farm with fetchurl downloads of the same file being executed on multiple machines and then copied back to the main machine where they would clobber each other (NIXBF-13). Solution: if a goal notices that the output path is already locked, then go to sleep until another goal finishes (hopefully the one locking the path) and try again.
2007-08-12 * Get rid of the substitutes database table (NIX-47). Instead, if weEelco Dolstra1-48/+152
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).
2007-06-12 * Support queryDeriver() in multi-user installations.Eelco Dolstra1-1/+1
2007-05-01 * Set a terminate() handler to ensure that we leave the BDBEelco Dolstra1-2/+2
environment cleanly even when an exception is thrown from a destructor. We still crash, but we don't take all other Nix processes with us.
2007-03-20 * Override the setuid helper using NIX_SETUID_HELPER.Eelco Dolstra1-1/+2