`nix eval` forces values and prints derivations as attribute sets, so
commands that print derivations (e.g. `nix eval nixpkgs#bash`) will
infinitely loop and segfault.
Printing derivations as `.drv` paths makes `nix eval` complete as
expected. Further work is needed, but this is better than a segfault.
This wasn't caught by CI because #10149 and #10152 pass
individually... It doesn't happen on lazy-trees either because we
never try to fetch relative path flakes (#10089).
we now keep not a table of all positions, but a table of all origins and
their sizes. position indices are now direct pointers into the virtual
concatenation of all parsed contents. this slightly reduces memory usage
and time spent in the parser, at the cost of not being able to report
positions if the total input size exceeds 4GiB. this limit is not unique
to nix though, rustc and clang also limit their input to 4GiB (although
at least clang refuses to process inputs that are larger, we will not).
this new 4GiB limit probably will not cause any problems for quite a
while, all of nixpkgs together is less than 100MiB in size and already
needs over 700MiB of memory and multiple seconds just to parse. 4GiB
worth of input will easily take multiple minutes and over 30GiB of
memory without even evaluating anything. if problems *do* arise we can
probably recover the old table-based system by adding some tracking to
Pos::Origin (or increasing the size of PosIdx outright), but for time
being this looks like more complexity than it's worth.
since we now need to read the entire input again to determine the
line/column of a position we'll make unsafeGetAttrPos slightly lazy:
mostly the set it returns is only used to determine the file of origin
of an attribute, not its exact location. the thunks do not add
measurable runtime overhead.
notably this change is necessary to allow changing the parser since
apparently nothing supports nix's very idiosyncratic line ending choice
of "anything goes", making it very hard to calculate line/column
positions in the parser (while byte offsets are very easy).
this needs a string comparison because there seems to be no other way to
get that information out of bison. usually the location info is going to
be correct (pointing at a bad token), but since EOF isn't a token as
such it'll be wrong in that this case.
this hasn't shown up much so far because a single line ending *is* a
token, so any file formatted in the usual manner (ie, ending in a line
ending) would have its EOF position reported correctly.
the parser treats a plain \r as a newline, error reports do not. this
can lead to interesting divergences if anything makes use of this
feature, with error reports pointing to wrong locations in the input (or
even outside the input altogether).
previously we reported the error at the beginning of the binding
block (for plain inherits) or the beginning of the attr list (for
inherit-from), effectively hiding where exactly the error happened.
this also carries over to runtime positions of attributes in sets as
reported by unsafeGetAttrPos. we're not worried about this changing
observable eval behavior because it *is* marked unsafe, and the new
behavior is much more useful.
we already normalize attr order to lexicographic, doing the same for
formals makes sense. doubly so because the order of formals would
otherwise depend on the context of the expression, which is not quite as
useful as one might expect.
the parser modifies its inputs, which means that sharing them between
the error context reporting system and the parser itself can confuse the
reporting system. usually this led to early truncation of error context
reports which, while not dangerous, can be quite confusing.
* Convert all InputScheme::fetch() methods to getAccessor().
* Add checkLocks() method for checking lock attributes.
* Rename fetch() to fetchToStore().
This is the case for e.g. dirty Git workdirs, where we would get
$ nix flake metadata
Resolved URL: git+file:///home/eelco/Dev/nix-master
Locked URL: git+file:///home/eelco/Dev/nix-master
The "lockedRef" field is a misnomer, since it can be unlocked
(e.g. for a dirty Git workdir). In that case, `nix profile upgrade`
needs to assume that the package can have changed, and perform an
upgrade.
When reviewing old PRs, I found that #9997 adds some code to ensure one
particular assert is always present. But, removing asserts isn't
something we do in our own release builds either in the flake here or in
nixpkgs, and is plainly a bad idea that increases support burden,
especially if other distros make bad choices of build flags in their Nix
packaging.
For context, the assert macro in the C standard is defined to do nothing
if NDEBUG is set.
There is no way in our build system to set -DNDEBUG without manually
adding it to CFLAGS, so this is simply a configuration we do not use.
Let's ban it at compile time.
I put this preprocessor directive in src/libutil.cc because it is not
obvious where else to put it, and it seems like the most logical file
since you are not getting a usable nix without it.
Directly fail if a flakeref points to something that isn't a directory
instead of falling back to the logic of trying to look up the hierarchy
to find a valid flake root.
Fix https://github.com/NixOS/nix/issues/9868
It is possible to exfiltrate a file descriptor out of the build sandbox
of FODs, and use it to modify the store path after it has been
registered.
To avoid that issue, don't register the output of the build, but a copy
of it (that will be free of any leaked file descriptor).
Instead, serialize as NAR and send that over, then rehash sever side.
This is alorithmically simpler, but comes at the cost of a newer
parameter to `Store::addToStoreFromDump`.
Co-authored-by: Eelco Dolstra <edolstra@gmail.com>
Part of RFC 133
Extracted from our old IPFS branches.
Co-Authored-By: Matthew Bauer <mjbauer95@gmail.com>
Co-Authored-By: Carlo Nucera <carlo.nucera@protonmail.com>
Co-authored-by: Robert Hensing <roberth@users.noreply.github.com>
Co-authored-by: Florian Klink <flokli@flokli.de>
desugaring inherit-from to syntactic duplication of the source expr also
duplicates side effects of the source expr (such as trace calls) and
expensive computations (such as derivationStrict).
Flakes still reside in the Nix store (so there shouldn't be any change
in behaviour), but they are now accessed via the rootFS
accessor. Since rootFS implements access checks, we no longer have to
worry about flake.{nix,lock} or their parents being symlinks that
escape from the flake.
Extracted from the lazy-trees branch.
"hash type" -> "hash algorithm" in all comments, documentation, and
messages.
ht -> ha, [Hh]ashType -> [HhashAlgo] for all local variables and
function arguments. No API change is made.
Continuation of 5334c9c792 and 837b889c41.
The sandbox rule `(allow network* (local ip))` doesn't do what it
implies. Adding this rule permits all network traffic. We should be
matching on (remote ip "localhost:*")` instead.
This seems to have found one actual bug in fs-sink.cc: the symlink case
was falling into the regular file case, which can't possibly be
intentional, right?
When a file conflict arises during a package install a suggestion is
made to remove the old entry. This was previously done using the
installable URLs of the old entry. These URLs are quite verbose and
often do not equal the URL of the existing entry.
This change uses the recently introduced profile entry name for the
suggestion, resulting in a simpler output.
The improvement is easily seen in the change to the functional test.
- `nix store add` supports text hashing
With functional test ensuring it matches `builtins.toFile`.
- Factored-out flags for both commands
- Move all common reusable flags to `libcmd`
- They are not part of the *definition* of the CLI infra, just a usag
of it.
- The `libstore` flag couldn't go in `args.hh` in libutil anyways,
would be awkward for it to live alone
- Shuffle around `Cmd*` hierarchy so flags for deprecated commands don't
end up on the new ones
This PR reduces the creation of short-lived basic_json objects while
parsing flake.lock files. For large flake.lock files (~1.5MB) I was
observing ~60s being spent for trivial nix build operations while
after this change it is now taking ~1.6s.
It's better to just check whether the input has all the attributes
needed to consider itself locked (e.g. whether a Git input has an
'rev' attribute).
Also, the 'locked' field was actually incorrect for Git inputs: it
would be set to true even for dirty worktrees. As a result, we got
away with using fetchTree() internally even though fetchTree()
requires a locked input in pure mode. In particular, this allowed
'--override-input' to work by accident.
The fix is to pass a set of "overrides" to call-flake.nix for all the
unlocked inputs (i.e. the top-level flake and any --override-inputs).
This fixes warnings like
warning: Ignoring setting 'auto-allocate-uids' because experimental feature 'auto-allocate-uids' is not enabled
warning: Ignoring setting 'impure-env' because experimental feature 'configurable-impure-env' is not enabled
when using the daemon and the user didn't actually set those settings.
Note: this also hides those settings from `nix config show`, but that
seems a good thing.
`canonPath` and `absPath` work on native paths, and so should switch
between supporting Unix paths and Windows paths accordingly.
The templating is because `CanonPath`, which shares the implementation,
should always be Unix style. It is the pure "nix-native" path type for
virtual file operations --- it is part of Nix's "business logic", and
should not vary with the host OS accordingly.
The core `CanonPath` constructors were using `absPath`, but `absPath` in
some situations does IO which is not appropriate. It turns out that
these constructors avoided those situations, and thus were pure, but it
was far from obvious this was the case.
To remedy the situation, abstract the core algorithm from `canonPath` to
use separately in `CanonPath` without any IO. No we know by-construction
that those constructors are pure.
That leaves `CanonPath::fromCWD` as the only operation which uses IO /
is impure. Add docs on it, and `CanonPath` as a whole, explaining the
situation.
This is also necessary to support Windows paths on windows without
messing up `CanonPath`. But, I think it is good even without that.
Co-authored-by: Eelco Dolstra <edolstra@gmail.com>
Co-authored-by: Robert Hensing <roberth@users.noreply.github.com>
There is no longer an `importTarball` method. Instead, there is a
`unpackTarfileToSink` function (back in libutil). The caller can use
thisw with the `getParseSink` method we added in the last commit easily
enough.
In addition, tarball cache functionality is separated from `git-utils`
and moved into `tarball-cache`. This ensures we are separating mechanism
and policy.
There is now a separation of:
1. A `FileSystemObjectSink` for writing to git repos
2. Adapting libarchive to use that parse sink.
The prepares a proper separation of concerns.
A command like
rm -rf ~/.cache/nix/tarball-cache/ ~/.cache/nix/fetcher-cache-v1.sqlite*; nix flake metadata 'git+file:///home/eelco/Dev/nixpkgs?rev=9463103069725474698139ab10f17a9d125da859'
was spending about 84% of its runtime in lookup(), specifically in
git_tree_entry_bypath(). (The reading of blobs is less than 3%.)
It appears libgit2 doesn't do a lot of caching of trees, so we now
make sure that when we look up a path, we add all its parents, and all
the immediate children of the parents (since we have them in memory
anyway), to our own cache.
This speed up the command above from 17.2s to 7.8s on my machine.
Fixes (or at least should improve a lot) #9684.
Commit 83c067c0fa changed `builtins.pathExists`
to resolve symlinks before checking for existence. Consequently, if the path
refers to a symlink itself, existence of the target of the symlink (instead of
the symlink itself) was checked. Restore the previous behavior by skipping
symlink resolution in the last component.
No outward facing behavior is changed.
Older methods with same names that operate on on method + algo pair (for
old-style `<method>:algo`) are renamed to `*WithAlgo`.)
The functions are unit-tested in the same way the names for the hash
algorithms are tested.
* reword description of the `cores` setting
- be precise about the `builder` executable
- clearly distinguish between `builder` and job parallelism
- clarify the role of `mkDerivation` in the example
- remove prose for the default, it's shown programmatically
- mention relation to `max-jobs`
- move all reference documentation to the `builders` configuration setting
- reword documentation on machine specification, add examples
- disable showing the default value, as it rendered as `@/dummy/machines`, which is wrong
- highlight the examples
- link to the configuration docs for distributed builds
- builder -> build machine
Co-authored-by: Janik H <janik@aq0.de>
for plain inherits this is really just a stylistic choice, but for
inherit-from it actually fixes an exponential size increase problem
during expr printing (as may happen during assertion failure reporting,
on during duplicate attr detection in the parser)
this also has the effect of sorting let bindings lexicographically
rather than by symbol creation order as was previously done, giving a
better canonicalization in the process.
When I started contributing to Nix, I found the mix of definitions and
names in `fmt.hh` to be rather confusing, especially the small
difference between `hintfmt` and `hintformat`. I've renamed many classes
and added documentation to most definitions.
- `formatHelper` is no longer exported.
- `fmt`'s documentation is now with `fmt` rather than (misleadingly)
above `formatHelper`.
- `yellowtxt` is renamed to `Magenta`.
`yellowtxt` wraps its value with `ANSI_WARNING`, but `ANSI_WARNING`
has been equal to `ANSI_MAGENTA` for a long time. Now the name is
updated.
- `normaltxt` is renamed to `Uncolored`.
- `hintfmt` has been merged into `hintformat` as extra constructor
functions.
- `hintformat` has been renamed to `hintfmt`.
- The single-argument `hintformat(std::string)` constructor has been
renamed to a static member `hintformat::interpolate` to avoid pitfalls
with using user-generated strings as format strings.
As discussed in the last Nix team meeting (2024-02-95), this method
doesn't belong because `CanonPath` is a virtual/ideal absolute path
format, not used in file systems beyond the native OS format for which a
"current working directory" is defined.
Progress towards #9205
Pretty-print values in the REPL by printing each item in a list or
attrset on a separate line. When possible, single-item lists and
attrsets are printed on one line, as long as they don't contain a nested
list, attrset, or thunk.
Before:
```
{ attrs = { a = { b = { c = { }; }; }; }; list = [ 1 ]; list' = [ 1 2 3 ]; }
```
After:
```
{
attrs = {
a = {
b = {
c = { };
};
};
};
list = [ 1 ];
list' = [
1
2
3
];
}
```
Some tools which consume the "nix print-dev-env" rc script (such as
"nix-direnv") are sensitive to the use of unbound variables. They use
"set -u".
The "nix print-dev-env" rc script initially unsets "shellHook", then
loads variables from the derivation, and then evaluates "shellHook".
However, most derivations don't have a "shellHook" attribute.
So users get the error "shellHook: unbound variable". This can be
demonstrated with the command:
nix print-dev-env nixpkgs#hello | bash -u
This commit changes the rc script to provide an empty fallback value
for the "shellHook" variable.
Closes: #7951#8253
It is entirely possible for the path to be an empty string and many
unit tests actually pass it as an empty string (e.g. both_roundrip or
turnsEmptyPathIntoCWD). In this case, without this patch, absPath will
perform a one-byte out-of-bounds access.
This was discovered while enabling the nix test suite on Alpine where
we compile all software with `-D_GLIBCXX_ASSERTIONS=1`, thus resulting
in a test failure on Alpine.
While preparing PRs like #9753, I've had to change error messages in
dozens of code paths. It would be nice if instead of
EvalError("expected 'boolean' but found '%1%'", showType(v))
we could write
TypeError(v, "boolean")
or similar. Then, changing the error message could be a mechanical
refactor with the compiler pointing out places the constructor needs to
be changed, rather than the error-prone process of grepping through the
codebase. Structured errors would also help prevent the "same" error
from having multiple slightly different messages, and could be a first
step towards error codes / an error index.
This PR reworks the exception infrastructure in `libexpr` to
support exception types with different constructor signatures than
`BaseError`. Actually refactoring the exceptions to use structured data
will come in a future PR (this one is big enough already, as it has to
touch every exception in `libexpr`).
The core design is in `eval-error.hh`. Generally, errors like this:
state.error("'%s' is not a string", getAttrPathStr())
.debugThrow<TypeError>()
are transformed like this:
state.error<TypeError>("'%s' is not a string", getAttrPathStr())
.debugThrow()
The type annotation has moved from `ErrorBuilder::debugThrow` to
`EvalState::error`.
As discussed in the maintainer meeting on 2024-01-29.
Mainly this is to avoid a situation where the name is parsed and
treated as a file name, mostly to protect users.
.-* and ..-* are also considered invalid because they might strip
on that separator to remove versions. Doesn't really work, but that's
what we decided, and I won't argue with it, because .-* probably
doesn't seem to have a real world application anyway.
We do still permit a 1-character name that's just "-", which still
poses a similar risk in such a situation. We can't start disallowing
trailing -, because a non-zero number of users will need it and we've
seen how annoying and painful such a change is.
What matters most is preventing a situation where . or .. can be
injected, and to just get this done.
To quote the method doc:
Non-impure derivations can still behave impurely, to the degree permitted
by the sandbox. Hence why this method isn't `isPure`: impure derivations
are not the negation of pure derivations. Purity can not be ascertained
except by rather heavy tools.
The code works fine on macOS, but the default stack size we attempt to
set is larger than what my system will allow (Nix attempts to set the
stack size to 67108864, but the maximum allowed is 67092480), so I've
instead used the requested stack size or the maximum allowed, whichever
is smaller.
I've also added an error message if setting the stack size fails. It
looks like this:
> Failed to increase stack size from 8372224 to 67108864 (maximum
> allowed stack size: 67092480): Invalid argument
This extends the `error: cannot coerce a TYPE to a string` message
to print the value that could not be coerced. This helps with debugging
by making it easier to track down where the value is being produced
from, especially in errors with deep or unhelpful stack traces.
This is more conceptually correct (the order does not matter), and also
matches what Hydra already does.
(Nix and Hydra matching is needed for dedup
https://github.com/NixOS/hydra/issues/1164)
More invariants are enforced in the type, and less state needs to be
stored in the main sink itself. The method here is roughly that known as
"session types".
Co-authored-by: Robert Hensing <roberth@users.noreply.github.com>
This avoids split-on-whitespace errors:
- No more `bash -c` needed
- No more `shellEscape` needed
- `remote-program` ssh store setting also cleanly supports args (e.g.
`nix daemon`)
- `ssh` uses `--` to separate args for SSH from args for the command to
run.
and will help with Hydra dedup.
Some code taken from #6628.
Co-Authored-By: Alexander Bantyev <balsoft@balsoft.ru>
Low-hanging fruit in the spirit of #9753 and #9754 (means 9999years did
all the hard work already).
This basically prints out what was attempted to be called as function,
i.e.
map (import <nixpkgs> {}) [ 1 2 3 ]
now gives the following error message:
error:
… while calling the 'map' builtin
at «string»:1:1:
1| map (import <nixpkgs> {}) [ 1 2 3 ]
| ^
… while evaluating the first argument passed to builtins.map
error: expected a function but found a set: { _type = "pkgs"; AAAAAASomeThingsFailToEvaluate = «thunk»; AMB-plugins = «thunk»; ArchiSteamFarm = «thunk»; BeatSaberModManager = «thunk»; CHOWTapeModel = «thunk»; ChowCentaur = «thunk»; ChowKick = «thunk»; ChowPhaser = «thunk»; CoinMP = «thunk»; «18783 attributes elided»}
Factor out `ServeProto::BasicClientConnection` for Hydra to share
- `queryValidPaths`: Hydra uses the lock argument differently than Nix,
so we un-hard-code it.
- `buildDerivationRequest`: Just the request half, as Hydra does some
things between requesting and responding.
Co-authored-by: Robert Hensing <roberth@users.noreply.github.com>
Do this if we want to do `--hash-algo` everywhere, and not `--algo` for
hash commands.
The new `nix hash convert` is updated. Deprecated new CLI commands are
left as-is (`nix hash path` needs to be redone and is also left as-is).
Good to document these formats separately from commands that happen to
use them.
Eventually I would like this and `builtins.derivation` to refer to a
store section on derivations that is authoritative, but that doesn't yet
exist, and will take some time to make. So I think we're just best off
merging this now as is.
Co-authored-by: Valentin Gagarin <valentin.gagarin@tweag.io>
Return a value instead of throwing.
Rather than the more trivial refactor of wrapping the return value in
another std::optional, we retain the meaning of the outer optional:
"we know at least something."
So we have changed:
return nullopt -> return nullopt
throw InvalidPath -> return make_optional(nullptr)
return vpi -> return make_optional(vpi)
Add several tests for git fetching:
- shallow-cache-separation: can fetch the same repo shallowly and non-shallowly
- shallow-ignore-ref: ensure that ref gets ignored when shallow=true is set
- ssh-shallow: can fetch a git repo via ssh using shallow=1
libgit2 is not capable of using git-credentials helpers yet.
This prevents private repositories from being used.
Based on code that was replaced in https://github.com/NixOS/nix/pull/9240
(Introduce libgit2); hence:
Co-authored-by: Eelco Dolstra <edolstra@gmail.com>
In rare cases (e.g. when using allowSubstitutes = false), it's
possible that we simultaneously have a DerivationGoal *and* a
SubstitutionGoal building the same path. So if a DerivationGoal
already built the path while the SubstitutionGoal was waiting for a
download slot, it saves us a superfluous download to exit early.
In the "discard" case (i.e. when the store path already exists
locally), when we call parseDump() from a Finally and it throws an
exception (e.g. if the download of the NAR fails), Nix crashes:
terminate called after throwing an instance of 'nix::SubstituteGone'
what(): error: file 'nar/06br3254rx4gz4cvjzxlv028jrx80zg5i4jr62vjmn416dqihgr7.nar.xz' does not exist in binary cache 'http://localhost'
Aborted (core dumped)
Instead of having it be the default method in `Store` itself, have it be
the implementation in `DummyStore` and `LegacySSHStore`. Then just the
implementations which fail to provide the method pay the "penalty" of
dealing with the icky `unimplemented` function for non-compliance.
Picks up where #8217. Getting close to no `unsupported` in the `Store`
interface itself!
More progress on issue #5729.
It is good to propagate the underlying error so whether or not we use a
process to deal with path length issues is not observable.
Also, as these wrapper functions got more and more complex, the code
duplication got worse and worse. The new `bindConnectProcHelper`
function deduplicates them.
This is useful for determining quickly which substituters to query.
An alternative would be for users to invoke the narinfo cache db directly,
so why do we need this change?
- It is easier to use. I believe Nix itself should also use it.
- This way, the narinfo cache db remains an implementation detail.
- Callers get to use the in-memory cache as well.
This does not yet resolve the coupling between packages and
derivations, but it makes the code more consistent with the
terminology, and it accentuates places where the coupling is
obvious, such as
auto drvPath = packageInfo.queryDrvPath();
if (!drvPath)
throw Error("'%s' is not a derivation", what());
... which isn't wrong, and in my opinion, doesn't even look
wrong, because it just reflects the current logic.
However, I do like that we can now start to see in the code that
this coupling is perhaps a bit arbitrary.
After this rename, we can bring the DerivingPath concept into type
and start to lift this limitation.
these symbols are used a *lot*, so it makes sense to cache them. this
mostly increases clarity of the code (however clear one may wish to call
the parser desugaring here), but it also provides a small performance
benefit.
