match_continuous limits the search to the current start position,
instead of searching the entire file.
On libc++, this improves performance dramatically:
$ time /nix/store/70ai68dfm6xbzwn26j5n4li9di52ylia-nix-3.0pre20200728_c159f48/bin/nix print-dev-env >/dev/null
/nix/store/70ai68dfm6xbzwn26j5n4li9di52ylia-nix-3.0pre20200728_c159f48/bin/ni 2.39s user 0.19s system 64% cpu 4.032 total
$ time /nix/store/cwjfxxlp83zln4mfyy1d2dbsx7f6s962-nix-3.0pre20200728_dirty/bin/nix print-dev-env >/dev/null
/nix/store/cwjfxxlp83zln4mfyy1d2dbsx7f6s962-nix-3.0pre20200728_dirty/bin/nix 0.09s user 0.05s system 65% cpu 0.204 total
Fixes#3874
In cross, CXX will look like aarch64-unknown-linux-gnu-g++. We could
run some command to check what kind of compiler it is, but for now we
can just check if g++ is anywhere in the string. I couldn’t find any
"ends with" for makefile, so it can be anywhere in CXX.
This combines the *.o into a big .o producing one translation unit.
This preserve our unused static initializers, as specified in the C++
standard:
If no variable or function is odr-used from a given translation
unit, the non-local variables defined in that translation unit may
never be initialized (this models the behavior of an on-demand
dynamic library).
Note that this is very similar to how the --whole-archive flag works.
One advantage of this is that users of the final .a library don’t have
to worry about specifying --whole-archive, or that we have unused
static initializers at all!
fetchTarball, fetchTree, and fetchGit all have *optional* hash attrs.
This means that we need to be careful with what we allow to avoid
accidentally making these defaults. When ‘hash = ""’ we assume the
empty hash is wanted.
follow up of https://github.com/NixOS/nix/pull/3544
This allows hash="" so that it can be used for debugging purposes. For
instance, this gives you an error message like:
warning: found empty hash, assuming you wanted 'sha256:0000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000'
hash mismatch in fixed-output derivation '/nix/store/asx6qw1r1xk6iak6y6jph4n58h4hdmbm-nix':
wanted: sha256:0000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000
got: sha256:0fpfhipl9v1mfzw2ffmxiyyzqwlkvww22bh9wcy4qrfslb4jm429
bool coerces anything >0 to true, but in the future we may have other
file ingestion methods. This shows a better error message when the
“recursive” byte isn’t 1.
The tmpDirInSandbox is different when in sandboxed vs. non-sandboxed.
Since we don’t know ahead of time here whether sandboxing is enabled,
we need to reset all of the env vars we’ve set previously. This fixes
the issue encountered in https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/issues/70856.
Previously, SANDBOX_SHELL was set to empty when unavailable. This
caused issues when actually generating the sandbox. Instead, just set
SANDBOX_SHELL when --with-sandbox-shell= is non-empty. Alternative
implementation to https://github.com/NixOS/nix/pull/3038.
Pure mode should not try to source the user’s bashrc file. These may
have many impurities that the user does not expect to get into their
shell.
Fixes#3090
In the multi-user install script, we originally made sure no previous
references to Nix existed. This prevented any previous installs from
contaminating the new install. However, some users need the ability to
repair their existing Nix installation without uninstalling all
references to Nix. This change allows users with existing Nix
installations to use the installer, while still outputing a warning
message on the dangers of this. As a result, the multi-user install
script work much more like the single-user install script has worked
in the past.
This is a requirement for macOS Catalina users now that
/Library/LaunchDaemons/org.nixos.nix-daemon.plisg is not managed by
the Nix store. If there is ever a change to the .plist, all users will
need to rerun this install script to get the new changes. Otherwise,
changes to the launch daemon will require manual interventions.
On Catalina, the /nix filesystem might not be mounted at start time.
To avoid this service not starting, we need to keep the launch agent
outside of the Nix store. A wait4pid will hold for our /nix dir to be
mounted.
Fixes#3125.
Previously we allowed any length of name for Nix derivations. This is
bad because different file systems have different max lengths. To make
things predictable, I have picked a max. This was done by trying to
build this derivation:
derivation {
name = "aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa";
builder = "/no-such-path";
system = "x86_64-linux";
}
Take off one a and it will not lead to file name too long. That ends
up being 212 a’s. An even smaller max could be picked if we want to
support more file systems.
Working backwards, this is why:
aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa-${name}.drv.chroot
> 255 - 32 - 1 - 4 - 7 = 211
When using a volume, the nix-daemon path may not exist. To avoid this
issue, we must use the wait4path tool. This should solve one of the
issues in multi-user on macOS Catalina.
With macOS catalina, we can no longer modify the root system
volume (#2925). macOS provides a system configuration file in
synthetic.conf(5) to create empty root directories. This can be used
to mount /nix to a separate volume. As a result, this directory will
need to already exist prior to installation. Instead, check for
/nix/store and /nix/var for a live Nix installation.
startProcess does not appear to send the exit code to the helper
correctly. Not sure why this is, but it is probably safe to just
fallback on all sandbox errors.
When sandbox-fallback = true (the default), the Nix builder will fall
back to disabled sandbox mode when the kernel doesn’t allow users to
set it up. This prevents hard errors from occuring in tricky places,
especially the initial installer. To restore the previous behavior,
users can set:
sandbox-fallback = false
in their /etc/nix/nix.conf configuration.
Some kernels disable "unpriveleged user namespaces". This is
unfortunate, but we can still use mount namespaces. Anyway, since each
builder has its own nixbld user, we already have most of the benefits
of user namespaces.
The default nsswitch.conf(5) file in most distros can handle many
different things including host name, user names, groups, etc. In Nix,
we want to limit the amount of impurities that come from these things.
As a result, we should only allow nss to be used for gethostbyname(3)
and getservent(3).
/cc @Ericson2314
For the SIGWINCH signal to be caught, it needs to be set in sigaction
on the main thread. Previously, this was broken, and updateWindowSize
was never being called. Tested on macOS 10.14.
When we are in single user mode, we still want to have access to
profiles. This way things in Nixpkgs that rely on them getting set
accurately are done in both cases. The point where I hit this is with
using aspell which looks in NIX_PROFILES:
https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/blob/master/pkgs/development/libraries/aspell/default.nix
Before this patch, NIX_PROFILES was never set in single user mode!
This corrects that.
This removes part of the PATH that were being added automatically in multi-user installs:
- $HOME/.nix-profile/lib/kde4/libexec - shouldn't be needed anymore, we are now using kde5
- @localstatedir@/nix/profiles/default/lib/kde4/libexec - same as above
- @localstatedir@/nix/profiles/default - shouldn't ever contain binaries
‘geteuid’ gives us the user that the command is being run as,
including in setuid modes. By using geteuid to determind id, we can
avoid the ‘sudo -i’ hack when upgrading Nix. So now, upgrading Nix on
macOS is as simple as:
$ sudo nix-channel --update
$ sudo nix-env -u
$ sudo launchctl stop org.nixos.nix-daemon
$ sudo launchctl start org.nixos.nix-daemon
or
$ sudo systemctl restart nix-daemon
I hate to make this such a large check but the lack of documentation means we really have no idea what's allowed. All of them reported so far have been within ".app/Contents" directories. That appears to be a safe starting point. However, I would not be surprised to also find more paths that are disallowed for instance in .framework or .bundle directories.
Fixes#2031Fixes#2229
Previously, this would fail at startup for non-NixOS installs:
nix-env --help
The fix for this is to just use "nixManDir" as the value for MANPATH
when spawning "man".
To test this, I’m using the following:
$ nix-build release.nix -A build
$ MANPATH= ./result/bin/nix-env --help
Fixes#1627
This removes the file nix-mode.el from Nix. The file is now available within the
repository https://github.com/NixOS/nix-mode.
Fixes#662Fixes#1040Fixes#1054Fixes#1055Closes#1119Fixes#1419
NOTE: all of the above should be fixed within NixOS/nix-mode. If one of those
hasn’t please reopen within NixOS/nix-mode and not within NixOS/nix.
Matthew Bauer