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2009-03-25 * Negative caching, i.e. caching of build failures. Disabled byEelco Dolstra3-6/+79
default. This is mostly useful for Hydra.
2009-03-24 * Doh.Eelco Dolstra1-1/+1
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 Dolstra5-28/+85
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
2009-03-22 * NAR archives: handle files larger than 2^32 bytes. Previously itEelco Dolstra1-1/+1
would just silently store only (fileSize % 2^32) bytes. * Use posix_fallocate if available when unpacking archives. * Provide a better error message when trying to unpack something that isn't a NAR archive.
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
2009-02-27 * Allow options from the Nix config file to be overriden from theEelco Dolstra2-0/+14
command line (e.g. "--option build-use-chroot true").
2009-02-16 * Release output locks as soon as possible, not when the destructor ofEelco Dolstra3-0/+14
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 Dolstra2-9/+27
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.
2008-12-16 * nix-store --verify: repair bad hash fields in the metadata file.Eelco Dolstra2-5/+16
2008-12-16 * Pass --use-atime / --max-atime to the daemon.Eelco Dolstra2-1/+5
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 Dolstra2-2/+14
links to the inputs.
2008-12-12 * Simplify deleting .lock files in /nix/store: just don't delete themEelco Dolstra1-30/+18
if they belong a path that's currently being built. This gets rid of some Cygwin-specific code.
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 Dolstra3-8/+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.
2008-12-11 * Open the connection to the daemon lazily (on demand) so thatEelco Dolstra2-4/+36
read-only operations (like nix-env -qa) work properly when the daemon isn't running.
2008-12-04 * Build on Debian 4.0 (GCC 4.1.1).Eelco Dolstra1-1/+1
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.
2008-12-03 * addToStore() in nix-worker: don't write the NAR dump received fromEelco Dolstra2-19/+33
the client to a temporary directory, as that is highly inefficient.
2008-12-03 * Pass HashType values instead of strings.Eelco Dolstra6-16/+17
2008-12-03 * Made addToStore() a lot more efficient: it no longer reads the pathEelco Dolstra1-32/+28
being copied 3 times in the worst case. It doesn't run in constant space, but it didn't do that anyway.
2008-12-03 * Unify the treatment of sources copied to the store, and recursiveEelco Dolstra6-47/+108
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).
2008-11-20 * Nix daemon: reload the configuration file after forking (NIX-100).Eelco Dolstra2-0/+9
2008-11-19 * Files in the info directory starting with "." are temporary filesEelco Dolstra1-2/+5
and don't indicate path validity.
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 Dolstra4-6/+65
build progress.
2008-11-11 * Pass the --no-build-output flag to the daemon.Eelco Dolstra2-1/+3
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 Dolstra3-10/+14
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.
2008-10-16 * Bug fix for building on some old installations (contributed by Pjotr).Eelco Dolstra1-0/+6
2008-09-17 * GC option `--max-atime' that specifies an upper limit to the lastEelco Dolstra3-6/+17
accessed time of paths that may be deleted. Anything more recently used won't be deleted. The time is specified in time_t, e.g. seconds since 1970-01-01 00:00:00 UTC; use `date +%s' to convert to time_t from the command line. Example: to delete everything that hasn't been used in the last two months: $ nix-store --gc -v --max-atime $(date +%s -d "2 months ago")
2008-09-17 * Typo.Eelco Dolstra1-1/+1
2008-09-17 * Some refactoring. Better output with `-v' for --use-atime.Eelco Dolstra2-35/+40
2008-09-17 * Garbage collector: added an option `--use-atime' to delete paths inEelco Dolstra4-39/+189
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().
2008-08-27 * 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).