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2011-12-16 * importPath() -> importPaths(). Because of buffering of the inputEelco Dolstra1-1/+3
stream it's now necessary for the daemon to process the entire sequence of exported paths, rather than letting the client do it.
2011-09-12 * Ouch. A store upgrade could cause a substituter to be triggered,Eelco Dolstra1-1/+1
causing a deadlock.
2011-07-20 * Fix a huuuuge security hole in the Nix daemon. It didn't check thatEelco Dolstra1-0/+5
derivations added to the store by clients have "correct" output paths (meaning that the output paths are computed by hashing the derivation according to a certain algorithm). This means that a malicious user could craft a special .drv file to build *any* desired path in the store with any desired contents (so long as the path doesn't already exist). Then the attacker just needs to wait for a victim to come along and install the compromised path. For instance, if Alice (the attacker) knows that the latest Firefox derivation in Nixpkgs produces the path /nix/store/1a5nyfd4ajxbyy97r1fslhgrv70gj8a7-firefox-5.0.1 then (provided this path doesn't already exist) she can craft a .drv file that creates that path (i.e., has it as one of its outputs), add it to the store using "nix-store --add", and build it with "nix-store -r". So the fake .drv could write a Trojan to the Firefox path. Then, if user Bob (the victim) comes along and does $ nix-env -i firefox $ firefox he executes the Trojan injected by Alice. The fix is to have the Nix daemon verify that derivation outputs are correct (in addValidPath()). This required some refactoring to move the hash computation code to libstore.
2010-12-06 * `nix-store --verify --check-contents': don't hold the global GC lockEelco Dolstra1-0/+3
while checking the contents, since this operation can take a very long time to finish. Also, fill in missing narSize fields in the DB while doing this.
2010-11-17 * Add an operation `nix-store -q --size'.Eelco Dolstra1-0/+1
2010-11-16 * Store the size of a store path in the database (to be precise, theEelco Dolstra1-6/+3
size of the NAR serialisation of the path, i.e., `nix-store --dump PATH'). This is useful for Hydra.
2010-08-31 `nix-store --verify' improvements:Eelco Dolstra1-2/+8
* If a path has disappeared, check its referrers first, and don't try to invalidate paths that have valid referrers. Otherwise we get a foreign key constraint violation. * Read the whole Nix store directory instead of statting each valid path, which is slower. * Acquire the global GC lock.
2010-06-21 * Okay, putting a lock on the temporary directory used by importPath()Eelco Dolstra1-0/+2
doesn't work because the garbage collector doesn't actually look at locks. So r22253 was stupid. Use addTempRoot() instead. Also, locking the temporary directory in exportPath() was silly because it isn't even in the store.
2010-05-04 * Allow unprivileged users to do `nix-store --clear-failed-paths' andEelco Dolstra1-3/+0
`nix-store --query-failed-paths'.
2010-04-26 * Added a command `nix-store --clear-failed-paths <PATHS>' to clearEelco Dolstra1-0/+5
the "failed" status of the given store paths. The special value `*' clears all failed paths.
2010-04-26 * Add an command `nix-store --query-failed-paths' to list the cachedEelco Dolstra1-0/+4
failed paths (when using the `build-cache-failure' option).
2010-02-24 * Refactor the upgrade / database initialisation logic a bit.Eelco Dolstra1-3/+1
2010-02-24 * A function to query just the database id of a valid path.Eelco Dolstra1-0/+2
2010-02-24 * Disable fsync() in SQLite if the fsync-metadata option is set toEelco Dolstra1-3/+0
false. * Change the default for `fsync-metadata' to true. * Disable `fsync-metadata' in `make check'.
2010-02-22 * Get derivation outputs from the database instead of the .drv file,Eelco Dolstra1-0/+3
which requires more I/O.
2010-02-22 * Revert r19650 (implement gc-keep-outputs by looking for derivationsEelco Dolstra1-2/+7
with the same name as the output) and instead use the DerivationOutputs table in the database, which is the correct way to to do things.
2010-02-22 * Put the derivation outputs in the database. This is useful for theEelco Dolstra1-0/+1
garbage collector.
2010-02-19 * Foreign key support in SQLite is not a persistent setting, so enableEelco Dolstra1-0/+2
it at startup. * Implement negative caching. Now `make check' passes.
2010-02-19 * Implement more stuff.Eelco Dolstra1-0/+5
2010-02-19 * Implement registerValidPath().Eelco Dolstra1-1/+5
2010-02-18 * Implemented queryReferrers().Eelco Dolstra1-2/+1
2010-02-18 * Implement queryPathInfo().Eelco Dolstra1-2/+3
2010-02-18 * Implement isValidPath().Eelco Dolstra1-10/+5
2010-02-18 * Some wrapper objects to ensure that SQLite objects are properlyEelco Dolstra1-4/+36
destroyed.
2010-02-18 * Convert the Nix database to SQLite.Eelco Dolstra1-1/+7
2010-01-29 * Added an option "fsync-metadata" to fsync() changes toEelco Dolstra1-0/+5
/nix/var/nix/db. * Removed the function writeStringToFile since it does (almost) the same thing as writeFile.
2010-01-25 * Make the garbage collector do the right thing when `gc-keep-outputs'Eelco Dolstra1-0/+2
is enabled by not depending on the deriver.
2009-11-23 * Made the garbage collector a lot faster. It no longer computes theEelco Dolstra1-5/+6
complete set of live and dead paths before starting the actual deletion, but determines liveness on demand. I.e. for any path in the store, it first tries to delete all the referrers, and then the path itself. This means that the collector can start deleting paths almost immediately.
2009-10-22 * Remove a prototype for a function that no longer exists.Eelco Dolstra1-3/+0
2009-06-13 * Canonicalise timestamps in the Nix store to 1 (1970-01-01 00:00:01Eelco Dolstra1-2/+2
UTC) rather than 0 (00:00:00). 1 is a better choice because some programs use 0 as a special value. For instance, the Template Toolkit uses a timestamp of 0 to denote the non-existence of a file, so it barfs on files in the Nix store (see template-toolkit-nix-store.patch in Nixpkgs). Similarly, Maya 2008 fails to load script directories with a timestamp of 0 and can't be patched because it's closed source. This will also shut up those "implausibly old time stamp" GNU tar warnings.
2009-03-28 * Don't use the non-standard __gnu_cxx::stdio_filebuf class.Eelco Dolstra1-8/+1
2009-03-25 * Negative caching, i.e. caching of build failures. Disabled byEelco Dolstra1-0/+7
default. This is mostly useful for Hydra.
2008-12-16 * nix-store --verify: repair bad hash fields in the metadata file.Eelco Dolstra1-1/+1
2008-12-03 * addToStore() in nix-worker: don't write the NAR dump received fromEelco Dolstra1-0/+7
the client to a temporary directory, as that is highly inefficient.
2008-12-03 * Pass HashType values instead of strings.Eelco Dolstra1-1/+1
2008-12-03 * Unify the treatment of sources copied to the store, and recursiveEelco Dolstra1-3/+3
SHA-256 outputs of fixed-output derivations. I.e. they now produce the same store path: $ nix-store --add x /nix/store/j2fq9qxvvxgqymvpszhs773ncci45xsj-x $ nix-store --add-fixed --recursive sha256 x /nix/store/j2fq9qxvvxgqymvpszhs773ncci45xsj-x the latter being the same as the path that a derivation derivation { name = "x"; outputHashAlgo = "sha256"; outputHashMode = "recursive"; outputHash = "..."; ... }; produces. This does change the output path for such fixed-output derivations. Fortunately they are quite rare. The most common use is fetchsvn calls with SHA-256 hashes. (There are a handful of those is Nixpkgs, mostly unstable development packages.) * Documented the computation of store paths (in store-api.cc).
2008-09-17 * Some refactoring. Better output with `-v' for --use-atime.Eelco Dolstra1-2/+5
2008-09-17 * Garbage collector: added an option `--use-atime' to delete paths inEelco Dolstra1-2/+1
order of ascending last access time. This is useful in conjunction with --max-freed or --max-links to prefer deleting non-recently used garbage, which is good (especially in the build farm) since garbage may become live again. The code could easily be modified to accept other criteria for ordering garbage by changing the comparison operator used by the priority queue in collectGarbage().
2008-08-04 * build.cc: only use a substituter if it returns info for a path.Eelco Dolstra1-0/+3
2008-08-02 * Make nix-env --dry-run print the paths to be substituted correctlyEelco Dolstra1-0/+23
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 Dolstra1-9/+9
* The garbage collector now also prints the number of blocks freed.
2008-06-13 * Garbage collector: don't do a complete topological sort of the NixEelco Dolstra1-0/+4
store under the reference relation, since that means that the garbage collector will need a long time to start deleting paths. Instead just delete the referrers of a path first.
2008-06-09 * Merged the no-bdb branch (-r10900:HEADEelco Dolstra1-47/+54
https://svn.nixos.org/repos/nix/nix/branches/no-bdb).
2008-01-29 * nix-store --dump-db / --load-db to dump/load the Nix DB.Eelco Dolstra1-0/+2
* nix-store --register-validity: option to supply the content hash of each path. * Removed compatibility with Nix <= 0.7 stores.
2007-10-09 * New command `nix-store --optimise' to reduce Nix store disk spaceEelco Dolstra1-0/+18
usage by finding identical files in the store and hard-linking them to each other. It typically reduces the size of the store by something like 25-35%. This is what the optimise-store.pl script did, but the new command is faster and more correct (it's safe wrt garbage collection and concurrent builds).
2007-08-13 * Bump the Nix database schema version number; delete the substitutesEelco Dolstra1-3/+3
table.
2007-08-12 * Get rid of the substitutes database table (NIX-47). Instead, if weEelco Dolstra1-17/+8
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 Dolstra1-4/+2
2007-05-14 * Typo (reported by Marc Weber).Eelco Dolstra1-1/+1
2007-02-21 * `nix-store --import': import an archive created by `nix-storeEelco Dolstra1-0/+2
--export' into the Nix store, and optionally check the cryptographic signatures against /nix/etc/nix/signing-key.pub. (TODO: verify against a set of public keys.)