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Eelco Dolstra 1f735a3440 <nix/fetchurl.nix>: Support xz-compressed NARs 2015-10-30 12:34:30 +01:00
Jude Taylor ff6953cb03 Add resolve-system-dependencies.pl 2015-10-21 12:38:52 -07:00
Eelco Dolstra be1ff23352 Add dependency on libcurl-dev
http://hydra.nixos.org/eval/1179370
2015-03-27 12:27:36 +01:00
Harald van Dijk 5451b8db9d Use pivot_root in addition to chroot when possible
chroot only changes the process root directory, not the mount namespace root
directory, and it is well-known that any process with chroot capability can
break out of a chroot "jail". By using pivot_root as well, and unmounting the
original mount namespace root directory, breaking out becomes impossible.

Non-root processes typically have no ability to use chroot() anyway, but they
can gain that capability through the use of clone() or unshare(). For security
reasons, these syscalls are limited in functionality when used inside a normal
chroot environment. Using pivot_root() this way does allow those syscalls to be
put to their full use.
2015-02-16 12:18:19 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra 1c972cba14 Make libsodium an optional dependency 2015-02-10 11:54:06 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra e0def5bc4b Use libsodium instead of OpenSSL for binary cache signing
Sodium's Ed25519 signatures are much shorter than OpenSSL's RSA
signatures. Public keys are also much shorter, so they're now
specified directly in the nix.conf option ‘binary-cache-public-keys’.

The new command ‘nix-store --generate-binary-cache-key’ generates and
prints a public and secret key.
2015-02-04 17:10:31 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra d4c8ee7059 Rely on XML catalogs to find the DocBook schemas and stylesheets 2014-11-25 15:54:26 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra 68cf98c4d2 configure: Force regeneration of Makefile.config 2014-09-22 13:00:58 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra d64b8e9e53 Remove unused w3m dependency 2014-09-17 17:42:00 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra d98bfcbf81 On Linux, disable address space randomization 2014-09-17 17:21:13 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra 5a05cf4063 Add Make flag to disable optimization 2014-09-17 17:07:05 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra 7911e4c27a Remove maybeVfork 2014-07-10 13:35:44 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra 54a34119f3 Use std::unordered_set 2014-05-26 17:53:17 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra ac8c2ef1aa Build/install manual 2014-02-01 11:30:21 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra a26307b281 Fix build 2014-01-21 17:39:19 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra cf918b889b Handle systems where "echo -n" doesn't work 2014-01-09 17:33:55 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra 8f08046606 Expand configure variables before writing config.status
This way, we can use config.status for generating scripts/* (without
ending up with lines like "#! /usr/bin/perl -I${libexecdir}/...").
2013-11-25 15:52:14 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra cac06ed0a4 Remove obsolete setting of $CC_FOR_BUILD 2013-11-25 11:26:51 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra 0c504a756c Don't install Libtool 2013-11-25 11:25:27 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra 2cc591c7b5 Don't instantiate Automake makefiles 2013-11-25 11:05:51 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra 6b5f89f2cf Drop the dependency on Automake 2013-11-22 19:30:24 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra b8e9efc476 New non-recursive, plain Make-based build system 2013-11-22 15:54:18 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra a478e8a7bb Remove nix-setuid-helper
AFAIK, nobody uses it, it's not maintained, and it has no tests.
2013-11-14 11:57:37 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra 297b762513 Turn on -Wall 2013-08-19 11:41:15 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra a583a2bc59 Run the daemon worker on the same CPU as the client
On a system with multiple CPUs, running Nix operations through the
daemon is significantly slower than "direct" mode:

$ NIX_REMOTE= nix-instantiate '<nixos>' -A system
real    0m0.974s
user    0m0.875s
sys     0m0.088s

$ NIX_REMOTE=daemon nix-instantiate '<nixos>' -A system
real    0m2.118s
user    0m1.463s
sys     0m0.218s

The main reason seems to be that the client and the worker get moved
to a different CPU after every call to the worker.  This patch adds a
hack to lock them to the same CPU.  With this, the overhead of going
through the daemon is very small:

$ NIX_REMOTE=daemon nix-instantiate '<nixos>' -A system
real    0m1.074s
user    0m0.809s
sys     0m0.098s
2013-08-07 14:02:04 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra 263d668222 Set the default GCC optimisation level to -O3 2013-08-06 14:21:46 +02:00
Gergely Risko 25a00cae5b Add gzip support for channel unpacking 2013-07-12 11:29:37 +02:00
Shea Levy 2c9cf50746 makeStoreWritable: Use statvfs instead of /proc/self/mountinfo to find out if /nix/store is a read-only bind mount
/nix/store could be a read-only bind mount even if it is / in its own filesystem, so checking the 4th field in mountinfo is insufficient.

Signed-off-by: Shea Levy <shea@shealevy.com>
2013-03-25 19:00:16 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra 0a4e90395c Urgggh
http://hydra.nixos.org/build/3661100
2013-01-02 23:52:15 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra f794465ca8 Disable use of vfork()
vfork() is just too weird.  For instance, in this build:

  http://hydra.nixos.org/build/3330487

the value fromHook.writeSide becomes corrupted in the parent, even
though the child only reads from it.  At -O0 the problem goes away.
Probably the child is overriding some spilled temporary variable.

If I get bored I may implement using posix_spawn() instead.
2012-11-15 19:35:18 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra ea89df2b76 Use vfork() instead of fork() if available
Hopefully this reduces the chance of hitting ‘unable to fork: Cannot
allocate memory’ errors.  vfork() is used for everything except
starting builders.
2012-11-09 18:00:33 +01:00
Mats Erik Andersson ecedd9c50c Out-of-tree building of perl modules. 2012-10-10 10:28:33 -04:00
Eelco Dolstra e35d6f78dc Rename nix-worker to nix-daemon 2012-10-03 17:59:23 -04:00
Eelco Dolstra 7586095504 Remove bin2c 2012-10-03 16:59:28 -04:00
Eelco Dolstra b674665765 Test whether GNU tar understands --warning=no-timestamp
http://hydra.nixos.org/build/3031618
2012-09-14 10:18:27 -04:00
Eelco Dolstra 8207359227 Whitespace 2012-08-27 11:28:48 -04:00
Eelco Dolstra 46f852cda0 Use a GNU tar flag to shut up warnings about implausibly old timestamp 2012-08-01 16:42:51 -04:00
Eelco Dolstra 8c79100839 Merge branch 'master' into no-manifests 2012-07-26 15:14:33 -04:00
Eelco Dolstra e98c029717 Handle platforms that don't support linking to a symlink
E.g. Darwin doesn't allow this.
2012-07-23 18:42:18 -04:00
Eelco Dolstra 6852289c46 Use lutimes() if available to canonicalise the timestamp of symlinks
Also use utimes() instead of utime() if lutimes() is not available.
2012-07-23 16:52:25 -04:00
Eelco Dolstra ae72be1b8b Add WWW::Curl as a dependency 2012-07-09 13:11:37 -04:00
Eelco Dolstra 4911a10a4e Use XZ compression in binary caches
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.
2012-06-29 15:24:52 -04:00
Eelco Dolstra 4f7bab7db1 Support building with the Perl XS bindings disabled
Since the Perl bindings require shared libraries, this is required on
platforms such as Cygwin where we do a static build.
2012-05-10 19:03:23 -04:00
Eelco Dolstra d03a295192 Require SQLite >= 3.6.19
Nix needs SQLite's foreign key constraint feature, which was
introduced in 3.6.19.  Without it, the database won't be cleaned up
correctly when paths are deleted.  See
e.g. http://hydra.nixos.org/build/2494142.
2012-05-04 17:21:43 -04:00
Eelco Dolstra 969a14599d If "pv" is available at compile time, hard-code its path 2012-04-13 14:41:33 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra 4b23900ff1 Fix the optional dependency on OpenSSL
http://hydra.nixos.org/build/2306540
2012-03-19 01:06:13 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra b006a31d52 Drop the externals directory
Nix now requires SQLite and bzip2 to be pre-installed.  SQLite is
detected using pkg-config.  We required DBD::SQLite anyway, so
depending on SQLite is not a big problem.

The --with-bzip2, --with-openssl and --with-sqlite flags are gone.
2012-03-18 23:54:57 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra bd013b6f98 On Linux, make the Nix store really read-only by using the immutable bit
I was bitten one time too many by Python modifying the Nix store by
creating *.pyc files when run as root.  On Linux, we can prevent this
by setting the immutable bit on files and directories (as in ‘chattr
+i’).  This isn't supported by all filesystems, so it's not an error
if setting the bit fails.  The immutable bit is cleared by the garbage
collector before deleting a path.  The only tricky aspect is in
optimiseStore(), since it's forbidden to create hard links to an
immutable file.  Thus optimiseStore() temporarily clears the immutable
bit before creating the link.
2012-02-15 01:31:56 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra f86fca9b70 * Figure out the extension of dynamic libraries; don't hard-code .so. 2012-01-11 15:41:42 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra a7366a764a * Add a -I flag to the Perl bindings to nix-build and some other
scripts.
* Include the version and architecture in the -I flag so that there is
  at least a chance that a Nix binary built for one Perl version will
  run on another version.
2012-01-05 20:33:46 +00:00