From d4dcffd64349bb52ad5f1b184bee5cc7c2be73b4 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Eelco Dolstra <edolstra@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 16 Jan 2018 18:50:38 +0100
Subject: 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.
---
 src/libexpr/primops/fetchGit.cc | 15 ++++++++++-----
 1 file changed, 10 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)

(limited to 'src/libexpr/primops/fetchGit.cc')

diff --git a/src/libexpr/primops/fetchGit.cc b/src/libexpr/primops/fetchGit.cc
index fb664cffb5b7..2e3e2634db8f 100644
--- a/src/libexpr/primops/fetchGit.cc
+++ b/src/libexpr/primops/fetchGit.cc
@@ -22,10 +22,15 @@ struct GitInfo
     uint64_t revCount = 0;
 };
 
+std::regex revRegex("^[0-9a-fA-F]{40}$");
+
 GitInfo exportGit(ref<Store> store, const std::string & uri,
     std::experimental::optional<std::string> ref, std::string rev,
     const std::string & name)
 {
+    if (settings.pureEval && rev == "")
+        throw Error("in pure evaluation mode, 'fetchGit' requires a Git revision");
+
     if (!ref && rev == "" && hasPrefix(uri, "/") && pathExists(uri + "/.git")) {
 
         bool clean = true;
@@ -76,11 +81,8 @@ GitInfo exportGit(ref<Store> store, const std::string & uri,
 
     if (!ref) ref = "master"s;
 
-    if (rev != "") {
-        std::regex revRegex("^[0-9a-fA-F]{40}$");
-        if (!std::regex_match(rev, revRegex))
-            throw Error("invalid Git revision '%s'", rev);
-    }
+    if (rev != "" && !std::regex_match(rev, revRegex))
+        throw Error("invalid Git revision '%s'", rev);
 
     Path cacheDir = getCacheDir() + "/nix/git";
 
@@ -231,6 +233,9 @@ static void prim_fetchGit(EvalState & state, const Pos & pos, Value * * args, Va
     mkString(*state.allocAttr(v, state.symbols.create("shortRev")), gitInfo.shortRev);
     mkInt(*state.allocAttr(v, state.symbols.create("revCount")), gitInfo.revCount);
     v.attrs->sort();
+
+    if (state.allowedPaths)
+        state.allowedPaths->insert(gitInfo.storePath);
 }
 
 static RegisterPrimOp r("fetchGit", 1, prim_fetchGit);
-- 
cgit 1.4.1