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Eelco Dolstra
84cc89b585 * Tag release 0.6. 2004-11-14 12:58:20 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
ac76ee5088 * Mark stable release. 2004-11-14 12:09:31 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
f8e4f731d4 * Release branch for Nix 0.6. 2004-11-14 12:04:21 +00:00
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@@ -1,48 +1,38 @@
SUBDIRS = externals src scripts corepkgs doc misc tests
EXTRA_DIST = substitute.mk nix.spec nix.spec.in bootstrap.sh \
nix.conf.example NEWS version
pkginclude_HEADERS = config.h
EXTRA_DIST = substitute.mk nix.spec nix.spec.in bootstrap.sh svn-revision
include ./substitute.mk
nix.spec: nix.spec.in
rpm: nix.spec dist
rpm $(EXTRA_RPM_FLAGS) -ta $(distdir).tar.gz
relname:
echo -n $(distdir) > relname
install-data-local: init-state
$(INSTALL) -d $(DESTDIR)$(sysconfdir)/nix
$(INSTALL_DATA) $(srcdir)/nix.conf.example $(DESTDIR)$(sysconfdir)/nix
if ! test -e $(DESTDIR)$(sysconfdir)/nix/nix.conf; then \
$(INSTALL_DATA) $(srcdir)/nix.conf.example $(DESTDIR)$(sysconfdir)/nix/nix.conf; \
fi
$(INSTALL) -d $(DESTDIR)$(docdir)
$(INSTALL_DATA) README $(DESTDIR)$(docdir)/
if INIT_STATE
# For setuid operation, you can enable the following:
# INIT_FLAGS = -g @NIX_GROUP@ -o @NIX_USER@
# GROUP_WRITABLE = -m 775
if SETUID_HACK
INIT_FLAGS = -g @NIX_GROUP@ -o @NIX_USER@
GROUP_WRITABLE = -m 775
endif
init-state:
$(INSTALL) $(INIT_FLAGS) -d $(DESTDIR)$(localstatedir)/nix
$(INSTALL) $(INIT_FLAGS) -d $(DESTDIR)$(localstatedir)/nix/db
$(INSTALL) $(INIT_FLAGS) -d $(DESTDIR)$(localstatedir)/log/nix
$(INSTALL) $(INIT_FLAGS) -d $(DESTDIR)$(localstatedir)/log/nix/drvs
$(INSTALL) $(INIT_FLAGS) -d $(DESTDIR)$(localstatedir)/nix/profiles
$(INSTALL) $(INIT_FLAGS) -d $(DESTDIR)$(localstatedir)/nix/gcroots
$(INSTALL) $(INIT_FLAGS) -d $(DESTDIR)$(localstatedir)/nix/temproots
ln -sfn $(localstatedir)/nix/profiles $(DESTDIR)$(localstatedir)/nix/gcroots/profiles
$(INSTALL) $(INIT_FLAGS) -d $(DESTDIR)$(localstatedir)/nix/userpool
-$(INSTALL) $(INIT_FLAGS) -m 1777 -d $(DESTDIR)$(storedir)
$(INSTALL) $(INIT_FLAGS) $(GROUP_WRITABLE) -d $(DESTDIR)$(localstatedir)/nix/manifests
ln -sfn $(localstatedir)/nix/manifests $(DESTDIR)$(localstatedir)/nix/gcroots/manifests
$(INSTALL) $(INIT_FLAGS) $(GROUP_WRITABLE) -d $(DESTDIR)$(localstatedir)/nix/gcroots/tmp
$(INSTALL) $(INIT_FLAGS) $(GROUP_WRITABLE) -d $(DESTDIR)$(localstatedir)/nix/gcroots/channels
rm -f $(DESTDIR)$(localstatedir)/nix/gcroots/profiles
ln -s $(localstatedir)/nix/profiles $(DESTDIR)$(localstatedir)/nix/gcroots/profiles
$(INSTALL) $(INIT_FLAGS) -d $(DESTDIR)$(prefix)/store
# $(bindir)/nix-store --init
else
init-state:
endif
NEWS:
$(MAKE) -C doc/manual NEWS.txt
cp $(srcdir)/doc/manual/NEWS.txt NEWS
svn-revision:
svnversion . > svn-revision

69
NEWS Normal file
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@@ -0,0 +1,69 @@
Version 0.6
Major changes include the following:
* Rewrite of the normalisation engine.
* Multiple builds can now be performed in parallel (option `-j').
* Distributed builds. Nix can now call a shell script to forward
builds to Nix installations on remote machines, which may or may
not be of the same platform type.
* Option `--fallback' allows recovery from broken substitutes.
* Option `--keep-going' causes building of other (unaffected)
derivations to continue if one failed.
* Improvements to the garbage collector (i.e., it should actually work
now).
* Setuid Nix installations allow a Nix store to be shared among
multiple users.
* Substitute registration is much faster now.
* A utility `nix-build' to build a Nix expression and create a symlink
to the result int the current directory; useful for testing Nix
derivations.
* Manual updates.
* `nix-env' changes:
* Derivations for other platforms are filtered out (which can be
overriden using `--system-filter').
* `--install' by default now uninstall previous derivations with the
same name.
* `--upgrade' allows upgrading to a specific version.
* New operation `--delete-generations' to remove profile
generations (necessary for effective garbage collection).
* Nicer output (sorted, columnised).
* More sensible verbosity levels all around (builder output is now
shown always, unless `-Q' is given).
* Nix expression language changes:
* New language construct: `with E1; E2' brings all attributes
defined in the attribute set E1 in scope in E2.
* Added a `map' function.
* Various new operators (e.g., string concatenation).
* Expression evaluation is much faster.
* An Emacs mode for editing Nix expressions (with syntax highlighting
and indentation) has been added.
* Many bug fixes.
Version 0.5 and earlier
Please refer to the Subversion commit log messages.

13
README
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@@ -1,10 +1,5 @@
Nix is a purely functional package manager. For installation and
usage instructions, please read the manual, which can be found in
`docs/manual/manual.html', and additionally at the Nix website at
<http://nixos.org/>.
*** Nix ***
Acknowledgments
This product includes software developed by the OpenSSL Project for
use in the OpenSSL Toolkit (http://www.OpenSSL.org/).
For installation and usage instructions, please read the manual, which
can be found in `docs/manual/manual.html', and additionally at the Nix
website at <http://www.cs.uu.nl/groups/ST/Trace/Nix>.

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@@ -1,149 +0,0 @@
{
ATerm library conservatively scans for GC roots
Memcheck:Cond
fun:*
fun:AT_collect_minor
}
{
ATerm library conservatively scans for GC roots
Memcheck:Cond
fun:*
fun:*
fun:AT_collect_minor
}
{
ATerm library conservatively scans for GC roots
Memcheck:Value4
fun:*
fun:AT_collect_minor
}
{
ATerm library conservatively scans for GC roots
Memcheck:Value8
fun:*
fun:AT_collect_minor
}
{
ATerm library conservatively scans for GC roots
Memcheck:Value4
fun:*
fun:*
fun:AT_collect_minor
}
{
ATerm library conservatively scans for GC roots
Memcheck:Value8
fun:*
fun:*
fun:AT_collect_minor
}
{
ATerm library conservatively scans for GC roots
Memcheck:Addr4
fun:*
fun:AT_collect_minor
}
{
ATerm library conservatively scans for GC roots
Memcheck:Addr8
fun:*
fun:AT_collect_minor
}
{
ATerm library conservatively scans for GC roots
Memcheck:Cond
fun:*
fun:AT_collect
}
{
ATerm library conservatively scans for GC roots
Memcheck:Value4
fun:*
fun:AT_collect
}
{
ATerm library conservatively scans for GC roots
Memcheck:Value8
fun:*
fun:AT_collect
}
{
ATerm library conservatively scans for GC roots
Memcheck:Addr4
fun:*
fun:AT_collect
}
{
ATerm library conservatively scans for GC roots
Memcheck:Addr8
fun:*
fun:AT_collect
}
{
ATerm library conservatively scans for GC roots
Memcheck:Value4
fun:*
fun:*
fun:AT_collect
}
{
ATerm library conservatively scans for GC roots
Memcheck:Value8
fun:*
fun:*
fun:AT_collect
}
{
ATerm library conservatively scans for GC roots
Memcheck:Cond
fun:*
fun:*
fun:AT_collect
}
{
ATerm library conservatively scans for GC roots
Memcheck:Value4
fun:*
fun:*
fun:mark_phase
}
{
ATerm library conservatively scans for GC roots
Memcheck:Cond
fun:*
fun:*
fun:mark_phase
}
{
ATerm library conservatively scans for GC roots
Memcheck:Value4
fun:*
fun:*
fun:mark_phase_young
}
{
ATerm library conservatively scans for GC roots
Memcheck:Cond
fun:*
fun:*
fun:mark_phase_young
}

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@@ -1,252 +0,0 @@
#! /usr/bin/perl -w -I /home/eelco/.nix-profile/lib/site_perl
use strict;
use XML::LibXML;
#use XML::Simple;
my $blacklistFN = shift @ARGV;
die unless defined $blacklistFN;
my $userEnv = shift @ARGV;
die unless defined $userEnv;
# Read the blacklist.
my $parser = XML::LibXML->new();
my $blacklist = $parser->parse_file($blacklistFN)->getDocumentElement;
#print $blacklist->toString() , "\n";
# Get all the elements of the user environment.
my $userEnvElems = `nix-store --query --references '$userEnv'`;
die "cannot query user environment elements" if $? != 0;
my @userEnvElems = split ' ', $userEnvElems;
my %storePathHashes;
sub getElemNodes {
my $node = shift;
my @elems = ();
foreach my $node ($node->getChildNodes) {
push @elems, $node if $node->nodeType == XML_ELEMENT_NODE;
}
return @elems;
}
my %referencesCache;
sub getReferences {
my $path = shift;
return $referencesCache{$path} if defined $referencesCache{$path};
my $references = `nix-store --query --references '$path'`;
die "cannot query references" if $? != 0;
$referencesCache{$path} = [split ' ', $references];
return $referencesCache{$path};
}
my %attrsCache;
sub getAttr {
my $path = shift;
my $name = shift;
my $key = "$path/$name";
return $referencesCache{$key} if defined $referencesCache{$key};
my $value = `nix-store --query --binding '$name' '$path' 2> /dev/null`;
$value = "" if $? != 0; # !!!
chomp $value;
$referencesCache{$key} = $value;
return $value;
}
sub evalCondition;
sub traverse {
my $done = shift;
my $set = shift;
my $path = shift;
my $stopCondition = shift;
return if defined $done->{$path};
$done->{$path} = 1;
$set->{$path} = 1;
# print " in $path\n";
if (!evalCondition({$path => 1}, $stopCondition)) {
# print " STOPPING in $path\n";
return;
}
# Get the requisites of the deriver.
foreach my $reference (@{getReferences $path}) {
traverse($done, $set, $reference, $stopCondition);
}
}
sub evalSet {
my $inSet = shift;
my $expr = shift;
my $name = $expr->getName;
if ($name eq "traverse") {
my $stopCondition = (getElemNodes $expr)[0];
my $done = { };
my $set = { };
foreach my $path (keys %{$inSet}) {
traverse($done, $set, $path, $stopCondition);
}
return $set;
}
else {
die "unknown element `$name'";
}
}
# Function for evaluating conditions.
sub evalCondition {
my $storePaths = shift;
my $condition = shift;
my $elemName = $condition->getName;
if ($elemName eq "containsSource") {
my $hash = $condition->attributes->getNamedItem("hash")->getValue;
foreach my $path (keys %{$storePathHashes{$hash}}) {
return 1 if defined $storePaths->{$path};
}
return 0;
}
elsif ($elemName eq "hasName") {
my $nameRE = $condition->attributes->getNamedItem("name")->getValue;
foreach my $path (keys %{$storePaths}) {
return 1 if $path =~ /$nameRE/;
}
return 0;
}
elsif ($elemName eq "hasAttr") {
my $name = $condition->attributes->getNamedItem("name")->getValue;
my $valueRE = $condition->attributes->getNamedItem("value")->getValue;
foreach my $path (keys %{$storePaths}) {
if ($path =~ /\.drv$/) {
my $value = getAttr($path, $name);
# print " $path $name $value\n";
return 1 if $value =~ /$valueRE/;
}
}
return 0;
}
elsif ($elemName eq "and") {
my $result = 1;
foreach my $node (getElemNodes $condition) {
$result &= evalCondition($storePaths, $node);
}
return $result;
}
elsif ($elemName eq "not") {
return !evalCondition($storePaths, (getElemNodes $condition)[0]);
}
elsif ($elemName eq "within") {
my @elems = getElemNodes $condition;
my $set = evalSet($storePaths, $elems[0]);
return evalCondition($set, $elems[1]);
}
elsif ($elemName eq "true") {
return 1;
}
elsif ($elemName eq "false") {
return 0;
}
else {
die "unknown element `$elemName'";
}
}
sub evalOr {
my $storePaths = shift;
my $nodes = shift;
my $result = 0;
foreach my $node (@{$nodes}) {
$result |= evalCondition($storePaths, $node);
}
return $result;
}
# Iterate over all elements, check them.
foreach my $userEnvElem (@userEnvElems) {
# Get the deriver of this path.
my $deriver = `nix-store --query --deriver '$userEnvElem'`;
die "cannot query deriver" if $? != 0;
chomp $deriver;
if ($deriver eq "unknown-deriver") {
# print " deriver unknown, cannot check sources\n";
next;
}
print "CHECKING $userEnvElem\n";
# Get the requisites of the deriver.
# my $requisites = `nix-store --query --requisites --include-outputs '$deriver'`;
# die "cannot query requisites" if $? != 0;
# my @requisites = split ' ', $requisites;
# Get the hashes of the requisites.
# my $hashes = `nix-store --query --hash @requisites`;
# die "cannot query hashes" if $? != 0;
# my @hashes = split ' ', $hashes;
# for (my $i = 0; $i < scalar @requisites; $i++) {
# die unless $i < scalar @hashes;
# my $hash = $hashes[$i];
# $storePathHashes{$hash} = {} unless defined $storePathHashes{$hash};
# my $r = $storePathHashes{$hash}; # !!! fix
# $$r{$requisites[$i]} = 1;
# }
# Evaluate each blacklist item.
foreach my $item ($blacklist->getChildrenByTagName("item")) {
my $itemId = $item->getAttributeNode("id")->getValue;
# print " CHECKING FOR $itemId\n";
my $condition = ($item->getChildrenByTagName("condition"))[0];
die unless $condition;
# Evaluate the condition.
my @elems = getElemNodes $condition;
if (evalOr({$deriver => 1}, \@elems)) {
# Oops, condition triggered.
my $reason = ($item->getChildrenByTagName("reason"))[0]->getChildNodes->to_literal;
$reason =~ s/\s+/ /g;
$reason =~ s/^\s+//g;
print " VULNERABLE TO `$itemId': $reason\n";
}
}
}

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@@ -1,7 +1,4 @@
#! /bin/sh -e
rm -f aclocal.m4
mkdir -p config
libtoolize --copy
aclocal
autoheader
automake --add-missing --copy

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@@ -1,28 +1,34 @@
AC_INIT(nix, m4_esyscmd([echo -n $(cat ./version)$VERSION_SUFFIX]))
AC_INIT(nix, "0.6")
AC_CONFIG_SRCDIR(README)
AC_CONFIG_AUX_DIR(config)
AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE([dist-bzip2 foreign])
AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE
AC_DEFINE_UNQUOTED(NIX_VERSION, ["$VERSION"], [Nix version.])
# Change to `1' to produce a `stable' release (i.e., the `preREVISION'
# suffix is not added).
STABLE=1
# Put the revision number in the version.
if test "$STABLE" != "1"; then
if REVISION=`test -d $srcdir/.svn && svnversion $srcdir 2> /dev/null`; then
VERSION="${VERSION}pre${REVISION}"
elif REVISION=`cat $srcdir/svn-revision 2> /dev/null`; then
VERSION="${VERSION}pre${REVISION}"
fi
fi
AC_PREFIX_DEFAULT(/nix)
AC_CANONICAL_HOST
# Construct a Nix system name (like "i686-linux").
AC_MSG_CHECKING([for the canonical Nix system name])
cpu_name=$(uname -p | tr 'ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ ' 'abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz_')
machine_name=$(uname -m | tr 'ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ ' 'abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz_')
cpu_name=$(uname -p | tr 'A-Z ' 'a-z_')
machine_name=$(uname -m | tr 'A-Z ' 'a-z_')
case $machine_name in
i*86)
machine_name=i686
;;
x86_64)
machine_name=x86_64
;;
ppc)
machine_name=powerpc
;;
*)
if test "$cpu_name" != "unknown"; then
machine_name=$cpu_name
@@ -30,73 +36,17 @@ case $machine_name in
;;
esac
sys_name=$(uname -s | tr 'ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ ' 'abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz_')
case $sys_name in
cygwin*)
sys_name=cygwin
;;
esac
sys_name=$(uname -s | tr 'A-Z ' 'a-z_')
AC_ARG_WITH(system, AC_HELP_STRING([--with-system=SYSTEM],
[Platform identifier (e.g., `i686-linux').]),
[platform identifier (e.g., `i686-linux')]),
system=$withval, system="${machine_name}-${sys_name}")
AC_MSG_RESULT($system)
AC_SUBST(system)
AC_DEFINE_UNQUOTED(SYSTEM, ["$system"], [platform identifier (`cpu-os')])
# State should be stored in /nix/var, unless the user overrides it explicitly.
test "$localstatedir" = '${prefix}/var' && localstatedir=/nix/var
# Windows-specific stuff. On Cygwin, dynamically linking against the
# ATerm DLL works, except that it requires the ATerm "lib" directory
# to be in $PATH, as Windows doesn't have anything like an RPATH
# embedded in executable. Since this is kind of annoying, we use
# static libraries for now.
if test "$sys_name" = "cygwin"; then
AC_DISABLE_SHARED
AC_ENABLE_STATIC
fi
# Solaris-specific stuff.
if test "$sys_name" = "sunos"; then
# Solaris requires -lsocket -lnsl for network functions
LIBS="-lsocket -lnsl $LIBS"
fi
AC_PROG_CC
AC_PROG_CXX
# To build programs to be run in the build machine
if test "$CC_FOR_BUILD" = ""; then
if test "$cross_compiling" = "yes"; then
AC_CHECK_PROGS(CC_FOR_BUILD, gcc cc)
else
CC_FOR_BUILD="$CC"
fi
fi
AC_SUBST([CC_FOR_BUILD])
# We are going to use libtool.
AC_DISABLE_STATIC
AC_ENABLE_SHARED
AC_PROG_LIBTOOL
if test "$enable_shared" = yes; then
SUB_CONFIGURE_FLAGS="--enable-shared --disable-static"
else
SUB_CONFIGURE_FLAGS="--enable-static --disable-shared"
fi
AC_SUBST(SUB_CONFIGURE_FLAGS)
# Use 64-bit file system calls so that we can support files > 2 GiB.
AC_SYS_LARGEFILE
AC_PROG_RANLIB
# Check for pubsetbuf.
AC_MSG_CHECKING([for pubsetbuf])
@@ -105,45 +55,15 @@ AC_COMPILE_IFELSE([AC_LANG_PROGRAM([[#include <iostream>
using namespace std;
static char buf[1024];]],
[[cerr.rdbuf()->pubsetbuf(buf, sizeof(buf));]])],
[AC_MSG_RESULT(yes) AC_DEFINE(HAVE_PUBSETBUF, 1, [Whether pubsetbuf is available.])],
[AC_MSG_RESULT(yes) AC_DEFINE(HAVE_PUBSETBUF, 1, [whether pubsetbuf is available])],
AC_MSG_RESULT(no))
AC_LANG_POP(C++)
# Check for chroot support (requires chroot() and bind mounts).
AC_CHECK_FUNCS([chroot])
AC_CHECK_FUNCS([unshare])
AC_CHECK_HEADERS([sched.h], [], [], [])
AC_CHECK_HEADERS([sys/param.h], [], [], [])
AC_CHECK_HEADERS([sys/mount.h], [], [],
[#ifdef HAVE_SYS_PARAM_H
# include <sys/param.h>
# endif
])
# Check for <locale>.
# Check for <locale>
AC_LANG_PUSH(C++)
AC_CHECK_HEADERS([locale], [], [], [])
AC_CHECK_HEADERS([locale])
AC_LANG_POP(C++)
# Check for <err.h>.
AC_CHECK_HEADER([err.h], [], [bsddiff_compat_include="-Icompat-include"])
AC_SUBST([bsddiff_compat_include])
# Check whether we have the personality() syscall, which allows us to
# do i686-linux builds on x86_64-linux machines.
AC_CHECK_HEADERS([sys/personality.h])
# Check for tr1/unordered_set.
AC_LANG_PUSH(C++)
AC_CHECK_HEADERS([tr1/unordered_set], [], [], [])
AC_LANG_POP(C++)
AC_DEFUN([NEED_PROG],
[
AC_PATH_PROG($1, $2)
@@ -153,43 +73,24 @@ fi
])
NEED_PROG(curl, curl)
NEED_PROG(bash, bash)
NEED_PROG(patch, patch)
NEED_PROG(bzip2, bzip2)
NEED_PROG(bunzip2, bunzip2)
NEED_PROG(shell, sh)
AC_PATH_PROG(xmllint, xmllint, false)
AC_PATH_PROG(xsltproc, xsltproc, false)
AC_PATH_PROG(w3m, w3m, false)
AC_PATH_PROG(flex, flex, false)
AC_PATH_PROG(bison, bison, false)
NEED_PROG(perl, perl)
NEED_PROG(sed, sed)
NEED_PROG(tar, tar)
AC_PATH_PROG(dot, dot)
AC_PATH_PROG(dblatex, dblatex)
AC_PATH_PROG(gzip, gzip)
AC_PATH_PROG(openssl_prog, openssl, openssl) # if not found, call openssl in $PATH
AC_SUBST(openssl_prog)
AC_DEFINE_UNQUOTED(OPENSSL_PATH, ["$openssl_prog"], [Path of the OpenSSL binary])
AC_ARG_WITH(docbook-catalog, AC_HELP_STRING([--with-docbook-catalog=PATH],
[path of the DocBook XML DTD]),
docbookcatalog=$withval, docbookcatalog=/docbook-dtd-missing)
AC_SUBST(docbookcatalog)
# Test that Perl has the open/fork feature (Perl 5.8.0 and beyond).
AC_MSG_CHECKING([whether Perl is recent enough])
if ! $perl -e 'open(FOO, "-|", "true"); while (<FOO>) { print; }; close FOO or die;'; then
AC_MSG_RESULT(no)
AC_MSG_ERROR([Your Perl version is too old. Nix requires Perl 5.8.0 or newer.])
fi
AC_MSG_RESULT(yes)
NEED_PROG(cat, cat)
NEED_PROG(tr, tr)
AC_ARG_WITH(coreutils-bin, AC_HELP_STRING([--with-coreutils-bin=PATH],
[path of cat, mkdir, etc.]),
coreutils=$withval, coreutils=$(dirname $cat))
AC_SUBST(coreutils)
AC_ARG_WITH(docbook-rng, AC_HELP_STRING([--with-docbook-rng=PATH],
[path of the DocBook RelaxNG schema]),
docbookrng=$withval, docbookrng=/docbook-rng-missing)
AC_SUBST(docbookrng)
AC_ARG_WITH(docbook-ebnf-catalog, AC_HELP_STRING([--with-docbook-ebnf-catalog=PATH],
[path of the DocBook XML EBNF module DTD]),
docbookebnfcatalog=$withval, docbookcatalog=/docbook-ebnf-dtd-missing)
AC_SUBST(docbookebnfcatalog)
AC_ARG_WITH(docbook-xsl, AC_HELP_STRING([--with-docbook-xsl=PATH],
[path of the DocBook XSL stylesheets]),
@@ -203,77 +104,41 @@ AC_SUBST(xmlflags)
AC_ARG_WITH(store-dir, AC_HELP_STRING([--with-store-dir=PATH],
[path of the Nix store]),
storedir=$withval, storedir='/nix/store')
storedir=$withval, storedir='${prefix}/store')
AC_SUBST(storedir)
AC_ARG_WITH(openssl, AC_HELP_STRING([--with-openssl=PATH],
[prefix of the OpenSSL library]),
openssl=$withval, openssl=)
AM_CONDITIONAL(HAVE_OPENSSL, test -n "$openssl")
if test -n "$openssl"; then
LDFLAGS="-L$openssl/lib -lcrypto $LDFLAGS"
CFLAGS="-I$openssl/include $CFLAGS"
CXXFLAGS="-I$openssl/include $CXXFLAGS"
AC_DEFINE(HAVE_OPENSSL, 1, [Whether to use OpenSSL.])
fi
AC_ARG_WITH(bzip2, AC_HELP_STRING([--with-bzip2=PATH],
[prefix of bzip2]),
bzip2=$withval, bzip2=)
AM_CONDITIONAL(HAVE_BZIP2, test -n "$bzip2")
ATERM_VERSION=2.5
AC_SUBST(ATERM_VERSION)
if test -z "$bzip2"; then
# Headers and libraries will be used from the temporary installation
# in externals/inst-bzip2.
bzip2_lib='-L${top_builddir}/externals/inst-bzip2/lib -lbz2'
bzip2_include='-I${top_builddir}/externals/inst-bzip2/include'
# The binary will be copied to $libexecdir.
bzip2_bin='${libexecdir}/nix'
# But for testing, we have to use the temporary copy :-(
bzip2_bin_test='${top_builddir}/externals/inst-bzip2/bin'
AC_ARG_WITH(bdb, AC_HELP_STRING([--with-bdb=PATH],
[prefix of Berkeley DB]),
bdb=$withval, bdb=)
AM_CONDITIONAL(HAVE_BDB, test -n "$bdb")
if test -z "$bdb"; then
bdb_lib='-L${top_builddir}/externals/inst-bdb/lib -ldb_cxx'
bdb_include='-I${top_builddir}/externals/inst-bdb/include'
else
bzip2_lib="-L$bzip2/lib -lbz2"
bzip2_include="-I$bzip2/include"
bzip2_bin="$bzip2/bin"
bzip2_bin_test="$bzip2/bin"
bdb_lib="-L$bdb/lib -ldb_cxx"
bdb_include="-I$bdb/include"
fi
AC_SUBST(bzip2_lib)
AC_SUBST(bzip2_include)
AC_SUBST(bzip2_bin)
AC_SUBST(bzip2_bin_test)
AC_SUBST(bdb_lib)
AC_SUBST(bdb_include)
AC_ARG_WITH(sqlite, AC_HELP_STRING([--with-sqlite=PATH],
[prefix of SQLite]),
sqlite=$withval, sqlite=)
AM_CONDITIONAL(HAVE_SQLITE, test -n "$sqlite")
SQLITE_VERSION=3070500
AC_SUBST(SQLITE_VERSION)
if test -z "$sqlite"; then
sqlite_lib='${top_builddir}/externals/sqlite-autoconf-$(SQLITE_VERSION)/libsqlite3.la'
sqlite_include='-I${top_builddir}/externals/sqlite-autoconf-$(SQLITE_VERSION)'
sqlite_bin='${top_builddir}/externals/sqlite-autoconf-$(SQLITE_VERSION)'
AC_ARG_WITH(aterm, AC_HELP_STRING([--with-aterm=PATH],
[prefix of CWI ATerm library]),
aterm=$withval, aterm=)
AM_CONDITIONAL(HAVE_ATERM, test -n "$aterm")
if test -z "$aterm"; then
aterm_lib='-L${top_builddir}/externals/inst-aterm/lib -lATerm'
aterm_include='-I${top_builddir}/externals/inst-aterm/include'
aterm_bin='${top_builddir}/externals/inst-aterm/bin'
else
sqlite_lib="-L$sqlite/lib -lsqlite3"
sqlite_include="-I$sqlite/include"
sqlite_bin="$sqlite/bin"
aterm_lib="-L$aterm/lib -lATerm"
aterm_include="-I$aterm/include"
aterm_bin="$aterm/bin"
fi
AC_SUBST(sqlite_lib)
AC_SUBST(sqlite_include)
AC_SUBST(sqlite_bin)
# Whether to use the Boehm garbage collector.
AC_ARG_ENABLE(gc, AC_HELP_STRING([--enable-gc],
[enable garbage collection in the Nix expression evaluator (requires Boehm GC)]),
gc=$enableval, gc=)
if test -n "$gc"; then
PKG_CHECK_MODULES([BDW_GC], [bdw-gc])
boehmgc_lib="-L$boehmgc/lib -lgc"
CXXFLAGS="$BDW_GC_CFLAGS $CXXFLAGS"
AC_DEFINE(HAVE_BOEHMGC, 1, [Whether to use the Boehm garbage collector.])
fi
AC_SUBST(boehmgc_lib)
AC_SUBST(aterm_lib)
AC_SUBST(aterm_include)
AC_SUBST(aterm_bin)
AC_CHECK_LIB(pthread, pthread_mutex_init)
AC_ARG_ENABLE(init-state, AC_HELP_STRING([--disable-init-state],
[do not initialise DB etc. in `make install']),
@@ -281,21 +146,33 @@ AC_ARG_ENABLE(init-state, AC_HELP_STRING([--disable-init-state],
AM_CONDITIONAL(INIT_STATE, test "$init_state" = "yes")
# Setuid installations.
AC_CHECK_FUNCS([setresuid setreuid lchown])
# Nice to have, but not essential.
AC_CHECK_FUNCS([strsignal posix_fallocate nanosleep])
# This is needed if ATerm or bzip2 are static libraries,
# and the Nix libraries are dynamic.
if test "$(uname)" = "Darwin"; then
LDFLAGS="-all_load $LDFLAGS"
AC_ARG_ENABLE(setuid, AC_HELP_STRING([--enable-setuid],
[install Nix setuid]),
setuid_hack=$enableval, setuid_hack=no)
AM_CONDITIONAL(SETUID_HACK, test "$setuid_hack" = "yes")
if test "$setuid_hack" = "yes"; then
AC_DEFINE(SETUID_HACK, 1, [whether to install Nix setuid])
fi
AC_CHECK_FUNC(setresuid, [HAVE_SETRESUID=1], [HAVE_SETRESUID=])
AM_CONDITIONAL(HAVE_SETRESUID, test "$HAVE_SETRESUID" = "1")
if test "$HAVE_SETRESUID" = "1"; then
AC_DEFINE(HAVE_SETRESUID, 1, [whether we have setresuid()])
fi
AC_ARG_WITH(nix-user, AC_HELP_STRING([--with-nix-user=USER],
[user for Nix setuid binaries]),
NIX_USER=$withval, NIX_USER=nix)
AC_SUBST(NIX_USER)
AC_DEFINE_UNQUOTED(NIX_USER, ["$NIX_USER"], [Nix user])
AC_ARG_WITH(nix-group, AC_HELP_STRING([--with-nix-group=USER],
[group for Nix setuid binaries]),
NIX_GROUP=$withval, NIX_GROUP=nix)
AC_SUBST(NIX_GROUP)
AC_DEFINE_UNQUOTED(NIX_GROUP, ["$NIX_GROUP"], [Nix group])
AM_CONFIG_HEADER([config.h])
AC_CONFIG_FILES([Makefile
externals/Makefile
@@ -311,15 +188,14 @@ AC_CONFIG_FILES([Makefile
src/libexpr/Makefile
src/nix-instantiate/Makefile
src/nix-env/Makefile
src/nix-worker/Makefile
src/nix-setuid-helper/Makefile
src/nix-log2xml/Makefile
src/bsdiff-4.3/Makefile
src/log2xml/Makefile
scripts/Makefile
corepkgs/Makefile
corepkgs/fetchurl/Makefile
corepkgs/nar/Makefile
corepkgs/buildenv/Makefile
corepkgs/channels/Makefile
corepkgs/nix-pull/Makefile
doc/Makefile
doc/manual/Makefile
misc/Makefile

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@@ -1 +1 @@
SUBDIRS = nar buildenv channels
SUBDIRS = fetchurl nar buildenv channels nix-pull

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@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@ all-local: builder.pl
install-exec-local:
$(INSTALL) -d $(DESTDIR)$(datadir)/nix/corepkgs
$(INSTALL) -d $(DESTDIR)$(datadir)/nix/corepkgs/buildenv
$(INSTALL_DATA) $(srcdir)/default.nix $(DESTDIR)$(datadir)/nix/corepkgs/buildenv
$(INSTALL_DATA) default.nix $(DESTDIR)$(datadir)/nix/corepkgs/buildenv
$(INSTALL_PROGRAM) builder.pl $(DESTDIR)$(datadir)/nix/corepkgs/buildenv
include ../../substitute.mk

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@@ -10,17 +10,11 @@ my $out = $ENV{"out"};
mkdir "$out", 0755 || die "error creating $out";
my $symlinks = 0;
my %priorities;
# For each activated package, create symlinks.
sub createLinks {
my $srcDir = shift;
my $dstDir = shift;
my $priority = shift;
my @srcFiles = glob("$srcDir/*");
@@ -28,20 +22,9 @@ sub createLinks {
my $baseName = $srcFile;
$baseName =~ s/^.*\///g; # strip directory
my $dstFile = "$dstDir/$baseName";
# The files below are special-cased so that they don't show up
# in user profiles, either because they are useless, or
# because they would cause pointless collisions (e.g., each
# Python package brings its own
# `$out/lib/pythonX.Y/site-packages/easy-install.pth'.)
# Urgh, hacky...
if ($srcFile =~ /\/propagated-build-inputs$/ ||
if ($srcFile =~ /\/propagated-build-inputs$/ ||
$srcFile =~ /\/nix-support$/ ||
$srcFile =~ /\/perllocal.pod$/ ||
$srcFile =~ /\/easy-install.pth$/ ||
$srcFile =~ /\/site.py$/ ||
$srcFile =~ /\/site.pyc$/ ||
$srcFile =~ /\/info\/dir$/ ||
$srcFile =~ /\/log$/)
{
# Do nothing.
@@ -52,7 +35,7 @@ sub createLinks {
lstat $dstFile;
if (-d _) {
createLinks($srcFile, $dstFile, $priority);
createLinks($srcFile, $dstFile);
}
elsif (-l _) {
@@ -63,109 +46,49 @@ sub createLinks {
unlink $dstFile or die "error unlinking `$dstFile': $!";
mkdir $dstFile, 0755 ||
die "error creating directory `$dstFile': $!";
createLinks($target, $dstFile, $priorities{$dstFile});
createLinks($srcFile, $dstFile, $priority);
createLinks($target, $dstFile);
createLinks($srcFile, $dstFile);
}
else {
symlink($srcFile, $dstFile) ||
die "error creating link `$dstFile': $!";
$priorities{$dstFile} = $priority;
$symlinks++;
}
}
else {
elsif (-l $dstFile) {
my $target = readlink $dstFile;
die "collission between `$srcFile' and `$target'";
}
if (-l $dstFile) {
my $target = readlink $dstFile;
my $prevPriority = $priorities{$dstFile};
die ( "Collission between `$srcFile' and `$target'. "
. "Suggested solution: use `nix-env --set-flag "
. "priority NUMBER PKGNAME' to change the priority of "
. "one of the conflicting packages.\n" )
if $prevPriority == $priority;
next if $prevPriority < $priority;
unlink $dstFile or die;
}
else {
# print "linking $dstFile to $srcFile\n";
symlink($srcFile, $dstFile) ||
die "error creating link `$dstFile': $!";
$priorities{$dstFile} = $priority;
$symlinks++;
}
}
}
my %done;
my %postponed;
sub addPkg;
sub addPkg {
my $pkgDir = shift;
my $priority = shift;
return if (defined $done{$pkgDir});
$done{$pkgDir} = 1;
# print "symlinking $pkgDir\n";
createLinks("$pkgDir", "$out", $priority);
my $propagatedFN = "$pkgDir/nix-support/propagated-user-env-packages";
if (-e $propagatedFN) {
open PROP, "<$propagatedFN" or die;
my $propagated = <PROP>;
close PROP;
my @propagated = split ' ', $propagated;
foreach my $p (@propagated) {
$postponed{$p} = 1 unless defined $done{$p};
}
}
createLinks("$pkgDir", "$out");
}
# Convert the stuff we get from the environment back into a coherent
# data type.
my @paths = split ' ', $ENV{"paths"};
my @active = split ' ', $ENV{"active"};
my @priority = split ' ', $ENV{"priority"};
my @args = split ' ', $ENV{"derivations"};
die if scalar @paths != scalar @active;
die if scalar @paths != scalar @priority;
my %pkgs;
for (my $n = 0; $n < scalar @paths; $n++) {
$pkgs{$paths[$n]} =
{ active => $active[$n]
, priority => $priority[$n] };
while (scalar @args > 0) {
my $drvPath = shift @args;
print "adding $drvPath\n";
addPkg($drvPath);
}
# Symlink to the packages that have been installed explicitly by the
# user.
foreach my $pkg (sort (keys %pkgs)) {
#print $pkg, " ", $pkgs{$pkg}->{priority}, "\n";
addPkg($pkg, $pkgs{$pkg}->{priority}) if $pkgs{$pkg}->{active} ne "false";
}
# Symlink to the packages that have been "propagated" by packages
# installed by the user (i.e., package X declares that it want Y
# installed as well). We do these later because they have a lower
# priority in case of collisions.
my $priorityCounter = 1000; # don't care about collisions
while (scalar(keys %postponed) > 0) {
my @pkgDirs = keys %postponed;
%postponed = ();
foreach my $pkgDir (sort @pkgDirs) {
addPkg($pkgDir, $priorityCounter++);
}
}
print STDERR "created $symlinks symlinks in user environment\n";
symlink($ENV{"manifest"}, "$out/manifest.nix") or die "cannot create manifest";
symlink($ENV{"manifest"}, "$out/manifest") or die "cannot create manifest";

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@@ -4,15 +4,6 @@ derivation {
name = "user-environment";
system = system;
builder = ./builder.pl;
derivations = derivations;
manifest = manifest;
# !!! grmbl, need structured data for passing this in a clean way.
paths = derivations;
active = map (x: if x ? meta && x.meta ? active then x.meta.active else "true") derivations;
priority = map (x: if x ? meta && x.meta ? priority then x.meta.priority else "5") derivations;
# Building user environments remotely just causes huge amounts of
# network traffic, so don't do that.
preferLocalBuild = true;
}

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@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@ all-local: unpack.sh
install-exec-local:
$(INSTALL) -d $(DESTDIR)$(datadir)/nix/corepkgs
$(INSTALL) -d $(DESTDIR)$(datadir)/nix/corepkgs/channels
$(INSTALL_DATA) $(srcdir)/unpack.nix $(DESTDIR)$(datadir)/nix/corepkgs/channels
$(INSTALL_DATA) unpack.nix $(DESTDIR)$(datadir)/nix/corepkgs/channels
$(INSTALL_PROGRAM) unpack.sh $(DESTDIR)$(datadir)/nix/corepkgs/channels
include ../../substitute.mk

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@@ -1,35 +1,24 @@
#! @shell@ -e
# Cygwin compatibility hack: bunzip2 expects cygwin.dll in $PATH.
export PATH=@coreutils@
export PATH=/bin:/usr/bin # !!! impure
@coreutils@/mkdir $out
@coreutils@/mkdir $out/tmp
mkdir $out
mkdir $out/tmp
cd $out/tmp
inputs=($inputs)
for ((n = 0; n < ${#inputs[*]}; n += 2)); do
channelName=${inputs[n]}
channelTarball=${inputs[n+1]}
echo "unpacking channel $channelName"
@bunzip2@ < $channelTarball | @tar@ xf -
expr=$out/default.nix
echo '[' > $expr
if test -e */channel-name; then
channelName="$(@coreutils@/cat */channel-name)"
fi
nr=1
attrName=$(echo $channelName | @tr@ -- '- ' '__')
dirName=$attrName
while test -e ../$dirName; do
nr=$((nr+1))
dirName=$attrName-$nr
done
@coreutils@/mv * ../$dirName # !!! hacky
nr=0
for i in $inputs; do
echo "unpacking $i"
@bunzip2@ < $i | tar xvf -
mv * ../$nr # !!! hacky
echo "(import ./$nr)" >> $expr
nr=$(($nr + 1))
done
echo ']' >> $expr
cd ..
@coreutils@/rmdir tmp
rmdir tmp

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@@ -0,0 +1,11 @@
all-local: builder.sh
install-exec-local:
$(INSTALL) -d $(DESTDIR)$(datadir)/nix/corepkgs
$(INSTALL) -d $(DESTDIR)$(datadir)/nix/corepkgs/fetchurl
$(INSTALL_DATA) default.nix $(DESTDIR)$(datadir)/nix/corepkgs/fetchurl
$(INSTALL_PROGRAM) builder.sh $(DESTDIR)$(datadir)/nix/corepkgs/fetchurl
include ../../substitute.mk
EXTRA_DIST = default.nix builder.sh.in

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@@ -0,0 +1,19 @@
#! @shell@ -e
export PATH=/bin:/usr/bin
echo "downloading $url into $out"
prefetch=@storedir@/nix-prefetch-url-$md5
if test -f "$prefetch"; then
echo "using prefetched $prefetch";
mv $prefetch $out
else
@curl@ --fail --location --max-redirs 20 "$url" > "$out"
fi
actual=$(@bindir@/nix-hash --flat $out)
if test "$actual" != "$md5"; then
echo "hash is $actual, expected $md5"
exit 1
fi

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@@ -0,0 +1,8 @@
{system, url, md5}:
derivation {
name = baseNameOf (toString url);
builder = ./builder.sh;
id = md5;
inherit system url md5;
}

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@@ -1,11 +1,13 @@
all-local: nar.sh
all-local: nar.sh unnar.sh
install-exec-local:
$(INSTALL) -d $(DESTDIR)$(datadir)/nix/corepkgs
$(INSTALL) -d $(DESTDIR)$(datadir)/nix/corepkgs/nar
$(INSTALL_DATA) $(srcdir)/nar.nix $(DESTDIR)$(datadir)/nix/corepkgs/nar
$(INSTALL_DATA) nar.nix $(DESTDIR)$(datadir)/nix/corepkgs/nar
$(INSTALL_PROGRAM) nar.sh $(DESTDIR)$(datadir)/nix/corepkgs/nar
$(INSTALL_DATA) unnar.nix $(DESTDIR)$(datadir)/nix/corepkgs/nar
$(INSTALL_PROGRAM) unnar.sh $(DESTDIR)$(datadir)/nix/corepkgs/nar
include ../../substitute.mk
EXTRA_DIST = nar.nix nar.sh.in
EXTRA_DIST = nar.nix nar.sh.in unnar.nix unnar.sh.in

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@@ -1,7 +1,6 @@
{system, storePath, hashAlgo}:
derivation {
{system, path}: derivation {
name = "nar";
builder = ./nar.sh;
inherit system storePath hashAlgo;
system = system;
path = path;
}

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@@ -1,12 +1,15 @@
#! @shell@ -e
echo "packing $storePath into $out..."
@coreutils@/mkdir $out
dst=$out/tmp.nar.bz2
@bindir@/nix-store --dump "$storePath" > tmp
# !!! impure; fix this
export PATH=/bin:/usr/bin
@bzip2@ < tmp > $dst
echo "packing $path into $out..."
mkdir $out
dst=$out/$(basename $path).nar.bz2
@bindir@/nix-store --dump "$path" | @bzip2@ > $dst
@bindir@/nix-hash --flat --type $hashAlgo --base32 $dst > $out/narbz2-hash
if test "${PIPESTATUS[0]}" != "0"; then exit 1; fi
@coreutils@/mv $out/tmp.nar.bz2 $out/$(@coreutils@/cat $out/narbz2-hash).nar.bz2
md5=$(md5sum -b $dst | cut -c1-32)
if test $? != 0; then exit 1; fi
echo $md5 > $out/md5

7
corepkgs/nar/unnar.nix Normal file
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@@ -0,0 +1,7 @@
{system, narFile, outPath}: derivation {
name = "unnar";
builder = ./unnar.sh;
system = system;
narFile = narFile;
outPath = outPath;
}

4
corepkgs/nar/unnar.sh.in Normal file
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@@ -0,0 +1,4 @@
#! @shell@ -e
echo "unpacking $narFile to $out..."
@bunzip2@ < $narFile | @bindir@/nix-store --restore "$out"

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@@ -0,0 +1,11 @@
all-local: builder.sh
install-exec-local:
$(INSTALL) -d $(DESTDIR)$(datadir)/nix/corepkgs
$(INSTALL) -d $(DESTDIR)$(datadir)/nix/corepkgs/nix-pull
$(INSTALL_DATA) default.nix $(DESTDIR)$(datadir)/nix/corepkgs/nix-pull
$(INSTALL_PROGRAM) builder.sh $(DESTDIR)$(datadir)/nix/corepkgs/nix-pull
include ../../substitute.mk
EXTRA_DIST = default.nix builder.sh.in

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@@ -0,0 +1,34 @@
#! @shell@ -e
export PATH=/bin:/usr/bin
mkdir $out
cat > $out/fetch <<EOF
#! @shell@ -e
export PATH=/bin:/usr/bin
echo "downloading \$2..."
export PRINT_PATH=1
result=(\$(@bindir@/nix-prefetch-url \$2))
hash=\${result[0]}
path=\${result[1]}
if test "\$hash" != "\$3"; then
echo "hash is \$hash, expected \$3"
exit 1
fi
echo "unpacking into \$1..."
if ! @bunzip2@ < "\$path" | @bindir@/nix-store --restore "\$1"; then
exit 1
fi
exit 0
EOF
chmod +x $out/fetch

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@@ -0,0 +1,7 @@
{system}:
derivation {
name = "nix-pull";
builder = ./builder.sh;
inherit system;
}

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@@ -1,8 +1,5 @@
To produce a `stable' release from the trunk:
-1. Update the release notes; make sure that the release date is
correct.
0. Make sure that the trunk builds in the release supervisor.
1. Branch the trunk, e.g., `svn cp .../trunk
@@ -25,8 +22,8 @@ To produce a `stable' release from the trunk:
branch (e.g., `.../branches/0.5') should be created from the
original revision of the trunk (since maintenance releases should
also be tested first; hence, we cannot have `STABLE=1'). The same
procedure can then be followed to produce maintenance releases;
just substitute `.../branches/VERSION' for the trunk.
procedure can then be followed to produce maintenance release; just
substitute `.../branches/VERSION' for the trunk.
7. Switch back to the trunk.

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@@ -1,103 +1,57 @@
XMLLINT = $(xmllint) $(xmlflags)
XSLTPROC = $(xsltproc) $(xmlflags) \
ENV = SGML_CATALOG_FILES=$(docbookcatalog):$(docbookebnfcatalog)
XMLLINT = $(ENV) $(xmllint) $(xmlflags) --catalogs
XSLTPROC = $(ENV) $(xsltproc) $(xmlflags) --catalogs \
--param section.autolabel 1 \
--param section.label.includes.component.label 1 \
--param html.stylesheet \'style.css\' \
--param xref.with.number.and.title 1 \
--param toc.section.depth 3 \
--param admon.style \'\' \
--param callout.graphics.extension \'.gif\' \
--param contrib.inline.enabled 0
--param xref.with.number.and.title 0
dblatex_opts = \
-P doc.collab.show=0 \
-P latex.output.revhistory=0
# Note: we use GIF for now, since the PNGs shipped with Docbook aren't
# transparent.
man1_MANS = nix-env.1 nix-build.1 nix-store.1 nix-instantiate.1 \
man1_MANS = nix-env.1 nix-store.1 nix-instantiate.1 \
nix-collect-garbage.1 nix-push.1 nix-pull.1 \
nix-prefetch-url.1 nix-channel.1 \
nix-install-package.1 nix-hash.1 nix-copy-closure.1
man8_MANS = nix-worker.8
nix-prefetch-url.1
FIGURES = figures/user-environments.png
MANUAL_SRCS = manual.xml introduction.xml installation.xml \
package-management.xml writing-nix-expressions.xml builtins.xml \
SOURCES = manual.xml introduction.xml installation.xml \
package-management.xml writing-nix-expressions.xml \
build-farm.xml \
$(man1_MANS:.1=.xml) $(man8_MANS:.8=.xml) \
$(man1_MANS:.1=.xml) \
troubleshooting.xml bugs.xml opt-common.xml opt-common-syn.xml \
env-common.xml quick-start.xml nix-lang-ref.xml glossary.xml \
conf-file.xml release-notes.xml \
style.css images
quick-start.xml nix-lang-ref.xml style.css images
# Note: RelaxNG validation requires xmllint >= 2.7.4.
manual.is-valid: $(MANUAL_SRCS) version.txt
$(XMLLINT) --noout --nonet --xinclude --noxincludenode --relaxng $(docbookrng)/docbook.rng $<
manual.is-valid: $(SOURCES) version.xml
$(XMLLINT) --noout --valid manual.xml
touch $@
version.txt:
echo -n $(VERSION) > version.txt
version.xml:
echo -n $(VERSION) > version.xml
man $(MANS): $(MANUAL_SRCS) manual.is-valid
$(XSLTPROC) --nonet --xinclude $(docbookxsl)/manpages/docbook.xsl manual.xml
man $(MANS): $(SOURCES) manual.is-valid
$(XSLTPROC) $(docbookxsl)/manpages/docbook.xsl manual.xml
manual.html: $(MANUAL_SRCS) manual.is-valid images
$(XSLTPROC) --nonet --xinclude --output manual.html \
$(docbookxsl)/html/docbook.xsl manual.xml
manual.html: $(SOURCES) manual.is-valid images
$(XSLTPROC) --output manual.html $(docbookxsl)/html/docbook.xsl manual.xml
manual.pdf: $(MANUAL_SRCS) manual.is-valid images
if test "$(dblatex)" != ""; then \
$(dblatex) $(dblatex_opts) manual.xml; \
else \
echo "Please install dblatex and rerun configure."; \
exit 1; \
fi
NEWS_OPTS = \
--stringparam generate.toc "article nop" \
--stringparam section.autolabel.max.depth 0 \
--stringparam header.rule 0
NEWS.html: release-notes.xml
$(XSLTPROC) --nonet --xinclude --output $@ $(NEWS_OPTS) \
$(docbookxsl)/html/docbook.xsl release-notes.xml
NEWS.txt: release-notes.xml
$(XSLTPROC) --nonet --xinclude quote-literals.xsl release-notes.xml | \
$(XSLTPROC) --nonet --output $@.tmp.html $(NEWS_OPTS) \
$(docbookxsl)/html/docbook.xsl -
LANG=en_US $(w3m) -dump $@.tmp.html > $@
rm $@.tmp.html
all-local: manual.html NEWS.html NEWS.txt
all-local: manual.html
install-data-local: manual.html
$(INSTALL) -d $(DESTDIR)$(docdir)/manual
$(INSTALL_DATA) manual.html $(DESTDIR)$(docdir)/manual
ln -sf manual.html $(DESTDIR)$(docdir)/manual/index.html
$(INSTALL_DATA) style.css $(DESTDIR)$(docdir)/manual
cp -r images $(DESTDIR)$(docdir)/manual/images
$(INSTALL) -d $(DESTDIR)$(docdir)/manual/figures
$(INSTALL_DATA) $(FIGURES) $(DESTDIR)$(docdir)/manual/figures
$(INSTALL) -d $(DESTDIR)$(docdir)/release-notes
$(INSTALL_DATA) NEWS.html $(DESTDIR)$(docdir)/release-notes/index.html
$(INSTALL_DATA) style.css $(DESTDIR)$(docdir)/release-notes/
$(INSTALL) -d $(DESTDIR)$(datadir)/nix/manual
$(INSTALL_DATA) manual.html $(DESTDIR)$(datadir)/nix/manual
$(INSTALL_DATA) style.css $(DESTDIR)$(datadir)/nix/manual
cp -r images $(DESTDIR)$(datadir)/nix/manual/images
$(INSTALL) -d $(DESTDIR)$(datadir)/nix/manual/figures
$(INSTALL_DATA) $(FIGURES) $(DESTDIR)$(datadir)/nix/manual/figures
images:
mkdir images
# cp $(docbookxsl)/images/*.gif images
cp $(docbookxsl)/images/*.png images
mkdir images/callouts
cp $(docbookxsl)/images/callouts/*.gif images/callouts
chmod -R +w images
cp $(docbookxsl)/images/callouts/*.png images/callouts
chmod +w -R images
KEEP = manual.html manual.is-valid version.txt $(MANS) NEWS.html NEWS.txt
KEEP = manual.html manual.is-valid version.xml $(MANS)
EXTRA_DIST = $(MANUAL_SRCS) $(FIGURES) $(KEEP)
EXTRA_DIST = $(SOURCES) $(FIGURES) $(KEEP)
DISTCLEANFILES = $(KEEP)

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@@ -1,19 +1,91 @@
<appendix xmlns="http://docbook.org/ns/docbook"
xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink">
<title>Bugs / To-Do</title>
<appendix><title>Bugs / To-Do</title>
<itemizedlist>
<listitem><para>The man-pages generated from the DocBook documentation
are ugly.</para></listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
The man-pages generated from the DocBook documentation are ugly.
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem><para>Generations properly form a tree. E.g., if after
switching to generation 39, we perform an installation action, a
generation 43 is created which is a descendant of 39, not 42. So a
rollback from 43 ought to go back to 39. This is not currently
implemented; generations form a linear sequence.</para></listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
Generations properly form a tree. E.g., if after switching to
generation 39, we perform an installation action, a generation
43 is created which is a descendant of 39, not 42. So a
rollback from 43 ought to go back to 39. This is not
currently implemented; generations form a linear sequence.
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
Unify the concepts of successors and substitutes into a
general notion of <emphasis>equivalent expressions</emphasis>.
Expressions are equivalent if they have the same target paths
with the same identifiers. However, even though they are
functionally equivalent, they may differ stronly with respect
to their <emphasis>performance characteristics</emphasis>.
For example, realising a closure expression is more efficient
that realising the derivation expression from which it was
produced. On the other hand, distributing sources may be more
efficient (storage- or bandwidth-wise) than distributing
binaries. So we need to be able to attach weigths or
priorities or performance annotations to expressions; Nix can
then choose the most efficient expression dependent on the
context.
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
<emphasis>Build management.</emphasis> In principle it is already
possible to do build management using Nix (by writing builders that
perform appropriate build steps), but the Nix expression language is
not yet powerful enough to make this pleasant (?). The language should
be extended with features from the <ulink
url='http://www.cs.uu.nl/~eelco/maak/'>Maak build manager</ulink>.
Another interesting idea is to write a <command>make</command>
implementation that uses Nix as a back-end to support <ulink
url='http://www.research.att.com/~bs/bs_faq.html#legacy'>legacy</ulink>
build files.
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
There are race conditions between the garbage collector and
other Nix tools. For instance, when we run
<command>nix-env</command> to build and install a derivation
and run the garbage collector at the same time, the garbage
collector may kick in exactly between the build and
installation steps, i.e., before the newly built derivation
has become reachable from a root of the garbage collector.
</para>
<para>
One solution would be for these programs to properly register
temporary roots for the collector. Another would be to use
stop-the-world garbage collection: if any tool is running, the
garbage collector blocks, and vice versa. These solutions do
not solve the situation where multiple tools are involved,
e.g.,
<screen>
$ nix-store -r $(nix-instantiate foo.nix)</screen>
since even if <command>nix-instantiate</command> where to
register a temporary root, it would be released by the time
<command>nix-store</command> is started. A solution would be
to write the intermediate value to a file that is used as a
root to the collector, e.g.,
<screen>
$ nix-instantiate foo.nix > /nix/var/nix/roots/bla
$ nix-store -r $(cat /nix/var/nix/roots/bla)</screen>
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem><para>For security, <command>nix-push</command> manifests
should be digitally signed, and <command>nix-pull</command> should
@@ -22,18 +94,15 @@ need to be signed, since the manifest contains cryptographic hashes of
these files (and <filename>fetchurl.nix</filename> checks
them).</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>We should switch away from MD5, since it has been
more-or-less cracked. We don't currently depend very much on the
collision-resistance of MD5, but we will once we start sharing build
results between users.</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>It would be useful to have an option in
<command>nix-env --delete-generations</command> to remove non-current
generations older than a certain age.</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>There should be a flexible way to change the user
environment builder. Currently, you have to replace
<filename><replaceable>prefix</replaceable>/share/nix/corepkgs/buildenv/builder.pl</filename>,
which is hard-coded into <command>nix-env</command>. Also, the
default builder should be more powerful. For instance, there should
be some way to specify priorities to resolve
collisions.</para></listitem>
</itemizedlist>
</appendix>

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@@ -1,9 +1,4 @@
<chapter xmlns="http://docbook.org/ns/docbook"
xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink"
xml:id='chap-build-farm'>
<title>Setting up a Build Farm</title>
<chapter id='chap-build-farm'><title>Setting up a Build Farm</title>
<para>This chapter provides some sketchy information on how to set up
a Nix-based build farm. Nix is particularly suited as a basis for a
@@ -36,10 +31,10 @@ build farm, since:
builds, and Nix expressions are self-contained.</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Nix will only rebuild things that have actually
changed. For instance, if the sources of a package haven't changed
between runs of the build farm, the package won't be rebuilt (unless
it was garbage-collected). Also, dependencies typically don't
change very often, so they only need to be built
changed. For instance, if the sources of a component haven't
changed between runs of the build farm, the component won't be
rebuild (unless it was garbage-collected). Also, dependencies
typically don't change very often, so they only need to be built
once.</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>The results of a Nix build farm can be made
@@ -55,13 +50,13 @@ build farm, since:
<para>TODO</para>
<para>The sources of the Nix build farm are at <link
xlink:href='https://svn.nixos.org/repos/nix/release/trunk'/>.</para>
<para>The sources of the Nix build farm are at <ulink
url='https://svn.cs.uu.nl:12443/repos/trace/release/trunk' />.</para>
</section>
<section xml:id='sec-distributed-builds'><title>Setting up distributed builds</title>
<section id='sec-distributed-builds'><title>Setting up distributed builds</title>
<para>You can enable distributed builds by setting the environment
variable <envar>NIX_BUILD_HOOK</envar> to point to a program that Nix
@@ -70,12 +65,9 @@ will call whenever it wants to build a derivation. The build hook
will perform it in the usual way if possible, or it can accept it, in
which case it is responsible for somehow getting the inputs of the
build to another machine, doing the build there, and getting the
results back. The details of the build hook protocol are described in
the documentation of the <link
linkend="envar-build-hook"><envar>NIX_BUILD_HOOK</envar>
variable</link>.</para>
results back.</para>
<example xml:id='ex-remote-systems'><title>Remote machine configuration:
<example id='ex-remote-systems'><title>Remote machine configuration:
<filename>remote-systems.conf</filename></title>
<programlisting>
nix@mcflurry.labs.cs.uu.nl powerpc-darwin /home/nix/.ssh/id_quarterpounder_auto 2
@@ -84,8 +76,8 @@ nix@scratchy.labs.cs.uu.nl i686-linux /home/nix/.ssh/id_scratchy_auto
</example>
<para>An example build hook can be found in the Nix build farm
sources: <link
xlink:href='https://svn.nixos.org/repos/nix/release/trunk/common/distributed/build-remote.pl'
sources: <ulink
url='https://svn.cs.uu.nl:12443/repos/trace/release/trunk/common/distributed/build-remote.pl'
/>. It should be suitable for most purposes, with maybe some minor
adjustments. It uses <command>ssh</command> and
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@@ -1,851 +0,0 @@
<section xmlns="http://docbook.org/ns/docbook"
xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink"
xml:id='ssec-builtins'>
<title>Built-in functions</title>
<para>This section lists the functions and constants built into the
Nix expression evaluator. (The built-in function
<function>derivation</function> is discussed above.) Some built-ins,
such as <function>derivation</function>, are always in scope of every
Nix expression; you can just access them right away. But to prevent
polluting the namespace too much, most built-ins are not in scope.
Instead, you can access them through the <varname>builtins</varname>
built-in value, which is an attribute set that contains all built-in
functions and values. For instance, <function>derivation</function>
is also available as <function>builtins.derivation</function>.</para>
<variablelist>
<varlistentry><term><function>abort</function> <replaceable>s</replaceable></term>
<listitem><para>Abort Nix expression evaluation, print error
message <replaceable>s</replaceable>.</para></listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry><term><function>builtins.add</function>
<replaceable>e1</replaceable> <replaceable>e2</replaceable></term>
<listitem><para>Return the sum of the integers
<replaceable>e1</replaceable> and
<replaceable>e2</replaceable>.</para></listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry><term><function>builtins.attrNames</function>
<replaceable>attrs</replaceable></term>
<listitem><para>Return the names of the attributes in the
attribute set <replaceable>attrs</replaceable> in a sorted list.
For instance, <literal>builtins.attrNames {y = 1; x =
"foo";}</literal> evaluates to <literal>["x" "y"]</literal>.
There is no built-in function <function>attrValues</function>, but
you can easily define it yourself:
<programlisting>
attrValues = attrs: map (name: builtins.getAttr name attrs) (builtins.attrNames attrs);</programlisting>
</para></listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry><term><function>baseNameOf</function> <replaceable>s</replaceable></term>
<listitem><para>Return the <emphasis>base name</emphasis> of the
string <replaceable>s</replaceable>, that is, everything following
the final slash in the string. This is similar to the GNU
<command>basename</command> command.</para></listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry><term><varname>builtins</varname></term>
<listitem><para>The attribute set <varname>builtins</varname>
contains all the built-in functions and values. You can use
<varname>builtins</varname> to test for the availability of
features in the Nix installation, e.g.,
<programlisting>
if builtins ? getEnv then builtins.getEnv "PATH" else ""</programlisting>
This allows a Nix expression to fall back gracefully on older Nix
installations that dont have the desired built-in
function.</para></listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry><term><function>builtins.compareVersions</function>
<replaceable>s1</replaceable> <replaceable>s2</replaceable></term>
<listitem><para>Compare two strings representing versions and
return <literal>-1</literal> if version
<replaceable>s1</replaceable> is older than version
<replaceable>s2</replaceable>, <literal>0</literal> if they are
the same, and <literal>1</literal> if
<replaceable>s1</replaceable> is newer than
<replaceable>s2</replaceable>. The version comparison algorithm
is the same as the one used by <link
linkend="ssec-version-comparisons"><command>nix-env
-u</command></link>.</para></listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry
xml:id='builtin-currentSystem'><term><varname>builtins.currentSystem</varname></term>
<listitem><para>The built-in value <varname>currentSystem</varname>
evaluates to the Nix platform identifier for the Nix installation
on which the expression is being evaluated, such as
<literal>"i686-linux"</literal> or
<literal>"powerpc-darwin"</literal>.</para></listitem>
</varlistentry>
<!--
<varlistentry><term><function>currentTime</function></term>
<listitem><para>The built-in value <varname>currentTime</varname>
returns the current system time in seconds since 00:00:00 1/1/1970
UTC. Due to the evaluation model of Nix expressions
(<emphasis>maximal laziness</emphasis>), it always yields the same
value within an execution of Nix.</para></listitem>
</varlistentry>
-->
<!--
<varlistentry><term><function>dependencyClosure</function></term>
<listitem><para>TODO</para></listitem>
</varlistentry>
-->
<varlistentry><term><function>derivation</function>
<replaceable>attrs</replaceable></term>
<listitem><para><function>derivation</function> is described in
<xref linkend='ssec-derivation' />.</para></listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry><term><function>dirOf</function> <replaceable>s</replaceable></term>
<listitem><para>Return the directory part of the string
<replaceable>s</replaceable>, that is, everything before the final
slash in the string. This is similar to the GNU
<command>dirname</command> command.</para></listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry><term><function>builtins.div</function>
<replaceable>e1</replaceable> <replaceable>e2</replaceable></term>
<listitem><para>Return the quotient of the integers
<replaceable>e1</replaceable> and
<replaceable>e2</replaceable>.</para></listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry><term><function>builtins.filterSource</function>
<replaceable>e1</replaceable> <replaceable>e2</replaceable></term>
<listitem>
<para>This function allows you to copy sources into the Nix
store while filtering certain files. For instance, suppose that
you want to use the directory <filename>source-dir</filename> as
an input to a Nix expression, e.g.
<programlisting>
stdenv.mkDerivation {
...
src = ./source-dir;
}
</programlisting>
However, if <filename>source-dir</filename> is a Subversion
working copy, then all those annoying <filename>.svn</filename>
subdirectories will also be copied to the store. Worse, the
contents of those directories may change a lot, causing lots of
spurious rebuilds. With <function>filterSource</function> you
can filter out the <filename>.svn</filename> directories:
<programlisting>
src = builtins.filterSource
(path: type: type != "directory" || baseNameOf path != ".svn")
./source-dir;
</programlisting>
</para>
<para>Thus, the first argument <replaceable>e1</replaceable>
must be a predicate function that is called for each regular
file, directory or symlink in the source tree
<replaceable>e2</replaceable>. If the function returns
<literal>true</literal>, the file is copied to the Nix store,
otherwise it is omitted. The function is called with two
arguments. The first is the full path of the file. The second
is a string that identifies the type of the file, which is
either <literal>"regular"</literal>,
<literal>"directory"</literal>, <literal>"symlink"</literal> or
<literal>"unknown"</literal> (for other kinds of files such as
device nodes or fifos — but note that those cannot be copied to
the Nix store, so if the predicate returns
<literal>true</literal> for them, the copy will fail).</para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry><term><function>builtins.getAttr</function>
<replaceable>s</replaceable> <replaceable>attrs</replaceable></term>
<listitem><para><function>getAttr</function> returns the attribute
named <replaceable>s</replaceable> from the attribute set
<replaceable>attrs</replaceable>. Evaluation aborts if the
attribute doesnt exist. This is a dynamic version of the
<literal>.</literal> operator, since <replaceable>s</replaceable>
is an expression rather than an identifier.</para></listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry><term><function>builtins.getEnv</function>
<replaceable>s</replaceable></term>
<listitem><para><function>getEnv</function> returns the value of
the environment variable <replaceable>s</replaceable>, or an empty
string if the variable doesnt exist. This function should be
used with care, as it can introduce all sorts of nasty environment
dependencies in your Nix expression.</para>
<para><function>getEnv</function> is used in Nix Packages to
locate the file <filename>~/.nixpkgs/config.nix</filename>, which
contains user-local settings for Nix Packages. (That is, it does
a <literal>getEnv "HOME"</literal> to locate the users home
directory.)</para></listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry><term><function>builtins.hasAttr</function>
<replaceable>s</replaceable> <replaceable>attrs</replaceable></term>
<listitem><para><function>hasAttr</function> returns
<literal>true</literal> if the attribute set
<replaceable>attrs</replaceable> has an attribute named
<replaceable>s</replaceable>, and <literal>false</literal>
otherwise. This is a dynamic version of the <literal>?</literal>
operator, since <replaceable>s</replaceable> is an expression
rather than an identifier.</para></listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry><term><function>builtins.head</function>
<replaceable>list</replaceable></term>
<listitem><para>Return the first element of a list; abort
evaluation if the argument isnt a list or is an empty list. You
can test whether a list is empty by comparing it with
<literal>[]</literal>.</para></listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry><term><function>import</function>
<replaceable>path</replaceable></term>
<listitem><para>Load, parse and return the Nix expression in the
file <replaceable>path</replaceable>. Evaluation aborts if the
file doesnt exist or contains an incorrect Nix
expression. <function>import</function> implements Nixs module
system: you can put any Nix expression (such as an attribute set
or a function) in a separate file, and use it from Nix expressions
in other files.</para>
<para>A Nix expression loaded by <function>import</function> must
not contain any <emphasis>free variables</emphasis> (identifiers
that are not defined in the Nix expression itself and are not
built-in). Therefore, it cannot refer to variables that are in
scope at the call site. For instance, if you have a calling
expression
<programlisting>
rec {
x = 123;
y = import ./foo.nix;
}</programlisting>
then the following <filename>foo.nix</filename> will give an
error:
<programlisting>
x + 456</programlisting>
since <varname>x</varname> is not in scope in
<filename>foo.nix</filename>. If you want <varname>x</varname>
to be available in <filename>foo.nix</filename>, you should pass
it as a function argument:
<programlisting>
rec {
x = 123;
y = import ./foo.nix x;
}</programlisting>
and
<programlisting>
x: x + 456</programlisting>
(The function argument doesnt have to be called
<varname>x</varname> in <filename>foo.nix</filename>; any name
would work.)</para></listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry><term><function>builtins.intersectAttrs</function>
<replaceable>e1</replaceable> <replaceable>e2</replaceable></term>
<listitem><para>Return an attribute set consisting of the
attributes in the set <replaceable>e2</replaceable> that also
exist in the set <replaceable>e1</replaceable>.</para></listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry><term><function>builtins.isAttrs</function>
<replaceable>e</replaceable></term>
<listitem><para>Return <literal>true</literal> if
<replaceable>e</replaceable> evaluates to an attribute set, and
<literal>false</literal> otherwise.</para></listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry><term><function>builtins.isList</function>
<replaceable>e</replaceable></term>
<listitem><para>Return <literal>true</literal> if
<replaceable>e</replaceable> evaluates to a list, and
<literal>false</literal> otherwise.</para></listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry><term><function>builtins.isFunction</function>
<replaceable>e</replaceable></term>
<listitem><para>Return <literal>true</literal> if
<replaceable>e</replaceable> evaluates to a function, and
<literal>false</literal> otherwise.</para></listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry><term><function>builtins.isString</function>
<replaceable>e</replaceable></term>
<listitem><para>Return <literal>true</literal> if
<replaceable>e</replaceable> evaluates to a string, and
<literal>false</literal> otherwise.</para></listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry><term><function>builtins.isInt</function>
<replaceable>e</replaceable></term>
<listitem><para>Return <literal>true</literal> if
<replaceable>e</replaceable> evaluates to a int, and
<literal>false</literal> otherwise.</para></listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry><term><function>builtins.isBool</function>
<replaceable>e</replaceable></term>
<listitem><para>Return <literal>true</literal> if
<replaceable>e</replaceable> evaluates to a bool, and
<literal>false</literal> otherwise.</para></listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry><term><function>isNull</function>
<replaceable>e</replaceable></term>
<listitem><para>Return <literal>true</literal> if
<replaceable>e</replaceable> evaluates to <literal>null</literal>,
and <literal>false</literal> otherwise.</para>
<warning><para>This function is <emphasis>deprecated</emphasis>;
just write <literal>e == null</literal> instead.</para></warning>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry><term><function>builtins.length</function>
<replaceable>e</replaceable></term>
<listitem><para>Return the length of the list
<replaceable>e</replaceable>.</para></listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry><term><function>builtins.lessThan</function>
<replaceable>e1</replaceable> <replaceable>e2</replaceable></term>
<listitem><para>Return <literal>true</literal> if the integer
<replaceable>e1</replaceable> is less than the integer
<replaceable>e2</replaceable>, and <literal>false</literal>
otherwise. Evaluation aborts if either
<replaceable>e1</replaceable> or <replaceable>e2</replaceable>
does not evaluate to an integer.</para></listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry><term><function>builtins.listToAttrs</function>
<replaceable>e</replaceable></term>
<listitem><para>Construct an attribute set from a list specifying
the names and values of each attribute. Each element of the list
should be an attribute set consisting of a string-valued attribute
<varname>name</varname> specifying the name of the attribute, and
an attribute <varname>value</varname> specifying its value.
Example:
<programlisting>
builtins.listToAttrs [
{name = "foo"; value = 123;}
{name = "bar"; value = 456;}
]
</programlisting>
evaluates to
<programlisting>
{ foo = 123; bar = 456; }
</programlisting>
</para></listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry><term><function>map</function>
<replaceable>f</replaceable> <replaceable>list</replaceable></term>
<listitem><para>Apply the function <replaceable>f</replaceable> to
each element in the list <replaceable>list</replaceable>. For
example,
<programlisting>
map (x: "foo" + x) ["bar" "bla" "abc"]</programlisting>
evaluates to <literal>["foobar" "foobla"
"fooabc"]</literal>.</para></listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry><term><function>builtins.mul</function>
<replaceable>e1</replaceable> <replaceable>e2</replaceable></term>
<listitem><para>Return the product of the integers
<replaceable>e1</replaceable> and
<replaceable>e2</replaceable>.</para></listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry><term><function>builtins.parseDrvName</function>
<replaceable>s</replaceable></term>
<listitem><para>Split the string <replaceable>s</replaceable> into
a package name and version. The package name is everything up to
but not including the first dash followed by a digit, and the
version is everything following that dash. The result is returned
in an attribute set <literal>{name, version}</literal>. Thus,
<literal>builtins.parseDrvName "nix-0.12pre12876"</literal>
returns <literal>{name = "nix"; version =
"0.12pre12876";}</literal>.</para></listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry><term><function>builtins.pathExists</function>
<replaceable>path</replaceable></term>
<listitem><para>Return <literal>true</literal> if the path
<replaceable>path</replaceable> exists, and
<literal>false</literal> otherwise. One application of this
function is to conditionally include a Nix expression containing
user configuration:
<programlisting>
let
fileName = builtins.getEnv "CONFIG_FILE";
config =
if fileName != "" &amp;&amp; builtins.pathExists (builtins.toPath fileName)
then import (builtins.toPath fileName)
else { someSetting = false; }; <lineannotation># default configuration</lineannotation>
in config.someSetting</programlisting>
(Note that <envar>CONFIG_FILE</envar> must be an absolute path for
this to work.)</para></listitem>
</varlistentry>
<!--
<varlistentry><term><function>relativise</function></term>
<listitem><para>TODO</para></listitem>
</varlistentry>
-->
<varlistentry><term><function>builtins.readFile</function>
<replaceable>path</replaceable></term>
<listitem><para>Return the contents of the file
<replaceable>path</replaceable> as a string.</para></listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry><term><function>removeAttrs</function>
<replaceable>attrs</replaceable> <replaceable>list</replaceable></term>
<listitem><para>Remove the attributes listed in
<replaceable>list</replaceable> from the attribute set
<replaceable>attrs</replaceable>. The attributes dont have to
exist in <replaceable>attrs</replaceable>. For instance,
<screen>
removeAttrs { x = 1; y = 2; z = 3; } ["a" "x" "z"]</screen>
evaluates to <literal>{y = 2;}</literal>.</para></listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry><term><function>builtins.stringLength</function>
<replaceable>e</replaceable></term>
<listitem><para>Return the length of the string
<replaceable>e</replaceable>. If <replaceable>e</replaceable> is
not a string, evaluation is aborted.</para></listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry><term><function>builtins.sub</function>
<replaceable>e1</replaceable> <replaceable>e2</replaceable></term>
<listitem><para>Return the difference between the integers
<replaceable>e1</replaceable> and
<replaceable>e2</replaceable>.</para></listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry><term><function>builtins.substring</function>
<replaceable>start</replaceable> <replaceable>len</replaceable>
<replaceable>s</replaceable></term>
<listitem><para>Return the substring of
<replaceable>s</replaceable> from character position
<replaceable>start</replaceable> (zero-based) up to but not
including <replaceable>start + len</replaceable>. If
<replaceable>start</replaceable> is greater than the length of the
string, an empty string is returned, and if <replaceable>start +
len</replaceable> lies beyond the end of the string, only the
substring up to the end of the string is returned.
<replaceable>start</replaceable> must be
non-negative.</para></listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry><term><function>builtins.tail</function>
<replaceable>list</replaceable></term>
<listitem><para>Return the second to last elements of a list;
abort evaluation if the argument isnt a list or is an empty
list.</para></listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry><term><function>throw</function>
<replaceable>s</replaceable></term>
<listitem><para>Throw an error message
<replaceable>s</replaceable>. This usually aborts Nix expression
evaluation, but in <command>nix-env -qa</command> and other
commands that try to evaluate a set of derivations to get
information about those derivations, a derivation that throws an
error is silently skipped (which is not the case for
<function>abort</function>).</para></listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry
xml:id='builtin-toFile'><term><function>builtins.toFile</function>
<replaceable>name</replaceable> <replaceable>s</replaceable></term>
<listitem><para>Store the string <replaceable>s</replaceable> in a
file in the Nix store and return its path. The file has suffix
<replaceable>name</replaceable>. This file can be used as an
input to derivations. One application is to write builders
“inline”. For instance, the following Nix expression combines
<xref linkend='ex-hello-nix' /> and <xref
linkend='ex-hello-builder' /> into one file:
<programlisting>
{stdenv, fetchurl, perl}:
stdenv.mkDerivation {
name = "hello-2.1.1";
builder = builtins.toFile "builder.sh" "
source $stdenv/setup
PATH=$perl/bin:$PATH
tar xvfz $src
cd hello-*
./configure --prefix=$out
make
make install
";
src = fetchurl {
url = http://nix.cs.uu.nl/dist/tarballs/hello-2.1.1.tar.gz;
md5 = "70c9ccf9fac07f762c24f2df2290784d";
};
inherit perl;
}</programlisting>
</para>
<para>It is even possible for one file to refer to another, e.g.,
<programlisting>
builder = let
configFile = builtins.toFile "foo.conf" "
# This is some dummy configuration file.
<replaceable>...</replaceable>
";
in builtins.toFile "builder.sh" "
source $stdenv/setup
<replaceable>...</replaceable>
cp ${configFile} $out/etc/foo.conf
";</programlisting>
Note that <literal>${configFile}</literal> is an antiquotation
(see <xref linkend='ssec-values' />), so the result of the
expression <literal>configFile</literal> (i.e., a path like
<filename>/nix/store/m7p7jfny445k...-foo.conf</filename>) will be
spliced into the resulting string.</para>
<para>It is however <emphasis>not</emphasis> allowed to have files
mutually referring to each other, like so:
<programlisting>
let
foo = builtins.toFile "foo" "...${bar}...";
bar = builtins.toFile "bar" "...${foo}...";
in foo</programlisting>
This is not allowed because it would cause a cyclic dependency in
the computation of the cryptographic hashes for
<varname>foo</varname> and <varname>bar</varname>.</para></listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry><term><function>builtins.toPath</function> <replaceable>s</replaceable></term>
<listitem><para>Convert the string value
<replaceable>s</replaceable> into a path value. The string
<replaceable>s</replaceable> must represent an absolute path
(i.e., must start with <literal>/</literal>). The path need not
exist. The resulting path is canonicalised, e.g.,
<literal>builtins.toPath "//foo/xyzzy/../bar/"</literal> returns
<literal>/foo/bar</literal>.</para></listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry><term><function>toString</function> <replaceable>e</replaceable></term>
<listitem><para>Convert the expression
<replaceable>e</replaceable> to a string.
<replaceable>e</replaceable> can be a string (in which case
<function>toString</function> is a no-op) or a path (e.g.,
<literal>toString /foo/bar</literal> yields
<literal>"/foo/bar"</literal>.</para></listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry xml:id='builtin-toXML'><term><function>builtins.toXML</function> <replaceable>e</replaceable></term>
<listitem><para>Return a string containing an XML representation
of <replaceable>e</replaceable>. The main application for
<function>toXML</function> is to communicate information with the
builder in a more structured format than plain environment
variables.</para>
<!-- TODO: more formally describe the schema of the XML
representation -->
<para><xref linkend='ex-toxml' /> shows an example where this is
the case. The builder is supposed to generate the configuration
file for a <link xlink:href='http://jetty.mortbay.org/'>Jetty
servlet container</link>. A servlet container contains a number
of servlets (<filename>*.war</filename> files) each exported under
a specific URI prefix. So the servlet configuration is a list of
attribute sets containing the <varname>path</varname> and
<varname>war</varname> of the servlet (<xref
linkend='ex-toxml-co-servlets' />). This kind of information is
difficult to communicate with the normal method of passing
information through an environment variable, which just
concatenates everything together into a string (which might just
work in this case, but wouldnt work if fields are optional or
contain lists themselves). Instead the Nix expression is
converted to an XML representation with
<function>toXML</function>, which is unambiguous and can easily be
processed with the appropriate tools. For instance, in the
example an XSLT stylesheet (<xref linkend='ex-toxml-co-stylesheet'
/>) is applied to it (<xref linkend='ex-toxml-co-apply' />) to
generate the XML configuration file for the Jetty server. The XML
representation produced from <xref linkend='ex-toxml-co-servlets'
/> by <function>toXML</function> is shown in <xref
linkend='ex-toxml-result' />.</para>
<para>Note that <xref linkend='ex-toxml' /> uses the <function
linkend='builtin-toFile'>toFile</function> built-in to write the
builder and the stylesheet “inline” in the Nix expression. The
path of the stylesheet is spliced into the builder at
<literal>xsltproc ${stylesheet}
<replaceable>...</replaceable></literal>.</para>
<example xml:id='ex-toxml'><title>Passing information to a builder
using <function>toXML</function></title>
<programlisting><![CDATA[
{stdenv, fetchurl, libxslt, jira, uberwiki}:
stdenv.mkDerivation (rec {
name = "web-server";
buildInputs = [libxslt];
builder = builtins.toFile "builder.sh" "
source $stdenv/setup
mkdir $out
echo $servlets | xsltproc ${stylesheet} - > $out/server-conf.xml]]> <co xml:id='ex-toxml-co-apply' /> <![CDATA[
";
stylesheet = builtins.toFile "stylesheet.xsl"]]> <co xml:id='ex-toxml-co-stylesheet' /> <![CDATA[
"<?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?>
<xsl:stylesheet xmlns:xsl='http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform' version='1.0'>
<xsl:template match='/'>
<Configure>
<xsl:for-each select='/expr/list/attrs'>
<Call name='addWebApplication'>
<Arg><xsl:value-of select=\"attr[@name = 'path']/string/@value\" /></Arg>
<Arg><xsl:value-of select=\"attr[@name = 'war']/path/@value\" /></Arg>
</Call>
</xsl:for-each>
</Configure>
</xsl:template>
</xsl:stylesheet>
";
servlets = builtins.toXML []]> <co xml:id='ex-toxml-co-servlets' /> <![CDATA[
{ path = "/bugtracker"; war = jira + "/lib/atlassian-jira.war"; }
{ path = "/wiki"; war = uberwiki + "/uberwiki.war"; }
];
})]]></programlisting>
</example>
<example xml:id='ex-toxml-result'><title>XML representation produced by
<function>toXML</function></title>
<programlisting><![CDATA[<?xml version='1.0' encoding='utf-8'?>
<expr>
<list>
<attrs>
<attr name="path">
<string value="/bugtracker" />
</attr>
<attr name="war">
<path value="/nix/store/d1jh9pasa7k2...-jira/lib/atlassian-jira.war" />
</attr>
</attrs>
<attrs>
<attr name="path">
<string value="/wiki" />
</attr>
<attr name="war">
<path value="/nix/store/y6423b1yi4sx...-uberwiki/uberwiki.war" />
</attr>
</attrs>
</list>
</expr>]]></programlisting>
</example>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry><term><function>builtins.trace</function>
<replaceable>e1</replaceable> <replaceable>e2</replaceable></term>
<listitem><para>Evaluate <replaceable>e1</replaceable> and print its
abstract syntax representation on standard error. Then return
<replaceable>e2</replaceable>. This function is useful for
debugging.</para></listitem>
</varlistentry>
</variablelist>
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<section xmlns="http://docbook.org/ns/docbook"
xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink"
xml:id="sec-conf-file">
<title>Nix configuration file</title>
<para>A number of persistent settings of Nix are stored in the file
<filename><replaceable>prefix</replaceable>/etc/nix/nix.conf</filename>.
This file is a list of <literal><replaceable>name</replaceable> =
<replaceable>value</replaceable></literal> pairs, one per line.
Comments start with a <literal>#</literal> character. An example
configuration file is shown in <xref linkend="ex-nix-conf" />.</para>
<example xml:id='ex-nix-conf'><title>Nix configuration file</title>
<programlisting>
gc-keep-outputs = true # Nice for developers
gc-keep-derivations = true # Idem
env-keep-derivations = false
</programlisting>
</example>
<para>The following variables are currently available:
<variablelist>
<varlistentry xml:id="conf-gc-keep-outputs"><term><literal>gc-keep-outputs</literal></term>
<listitem><para>If <literal>true</literal>, the garbage collector
will keep the outputs of non-garbage derivations. If
<literal>false</literal> (default), outputs will be deleted unless
they are GC roots themselves (or reachable from other roots).</para>
<para>In general, outputs must be registered as roots separately.
However, even if the output of a derivation is registered as a
root, the collector will still delete store paths that are used
only at build time (e.g., the C compiler, or source tarballs
downloaded from the network). To prevent it from doing so, set
this option to <literal>true</literal>.</para></listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry xml:id="conf-gc-keep-derivations"><term><literal>gc-keep-derivations</literal></term>
<listitem><para>If <literal>true</literal> (default), the garbage
collector will keep the derivations from which non-garbage store
paths were built. If <literal>false</literal>, they will be
deleted unless explicitly registered as a root (or reachable from
other roots).</para>
<para>Keeping derivation around is useful for querying and
traceability (e.g., it allows you to ask with what dependencies or
options a store path was built), so by default this option is on.
Turn it off to safe a bit of disk space (or a lot if
<literal>gc-keep-outputs</literal> is also turned on).</para></listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry><term><literal>env-keep-derivations</literal></term>
<listitem><para>If <literal>false</literal> (default), derivations
are not stored in Nix user environments. That is, the derivation
any build-time-only dependencies may be garbage-collected.</para>
<para>If <literal>true</literal>, when you add a Nix derivation to
a user environment, the path of the derivation is stored in the
user environment. Thus, the derivation will not be
garbage-collected until the user environment generation is deleted
(<command>nix-env --delete-generations</command>). To prevent
build-time-only dependencies from being collected, you should also
turn on <literal>gc-keep-outputs</literal>.</para>
<para>The difference between this option and
<literal>gc-keep-derivations</literal> is that this one is
“sticky”: it applies to any user environment created while this
option was enabled, while <literal>gc-keep-derivations</literal>
only applies at the moment the garbage collector is
run.</para></listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry xml:id="conf-build-max-jobs"><term><literal>build-max-jobs</literal></term>
<listitem><para>This option defines the maximum number of jobs
that Nix will try to build in parallel. The default is
<literal>1</literal>. You should generally set it to the number
of CPUs in your system (e.g., <literal>2</literal> on a Athlon 64
X2). It can be overriden using the <option
linkend='opt-max-jobs'>--max-jobs</option> (<option>-j</option>)
command line switch.</para></listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry xml:id="conf-build-cores"><term><literal>build-cores</literal></term>
<listitem><para>Sets the value of the
<envar>NIX_BUILD_CORES</envar> environment variable in the
invocation of builders. Builders can use this variable at their
discretion to control the maximum amount of parallelism. For
instance, in Nixpkgs, if the derivation attribute
<varname>enableParallelBuilding</varname> is set to
<literal>true</literal>, the builder passes the
<option>-j<replaceable>N</replaceable></option> flag to GNU Make.
It can be overriden using the <option
linkend='opt-cores'>--cores</option> command line switch and
defaults to <literal>1</literal>. The value <literal>0</literal>
means that the builder should use all available CPU cores in the
system.</para></listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry xml:id="conf-build-max-silent-time"><term><literal>build-max-silent-time</literal></term>
<listitem>
<para>This option defines the maximum number of seconds that a
builder can go without producing any data on standard output or
standard error. This is useful (for instance in a automated
build system) to catch builds that are stuck in an infinite
loop, or to catch remote builds that are hanging due to network
problems. It can be overriden using the <option
linkend="opt-max-silent-time">--max-silent-time</option> command
line switch.</para>
<para>The value <literal>0</literal> means that there is no
timeout. This is also the default.</para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry xml:id="conf-build-users-group"><term><literal>build-users-group</literal></term>
<listitem><para>This options specifies the Unix group containing
the Nix build user accounts. In multi-user Nix installations,
builds should not be performed by the Nix account since that would
allow users to arbitrarily modify the Nix store and database by
supplying specially crafted builders; and they cannot be performed
by the calling user since that would allow him/her to influence
the build result.</para>
<para>Therefore, if this option is non-empty and specifies a valid
group, builds will be performed under the user accounts that are a
member of the group specified here (as listed in
<filename>/etc/group</filename>). Those user accounts should not
be used for any other purpose!</para>
<para>Nix will never run two builds under the same user account at
the same time. This is to prevent an obvious security hole: a
malicious user writing a Nix expression that modifies the build
result of a legitimate Nix expression being built by another user.
Therefore it is good to have as many Nix build user accounts as
you can spare. (Remember: uids are cheap.)</para>
<para>The build users should have permission to create files in
the Nix store, but not delete them. Therefore,
<filename>/nix/store</filename> should be owned by the Nix
account, its group should be the group specified here, and its
mode should be <literal>1775</literal>.</para>
<para>If the build users group is empty, builds will be performed
under the uid of the Nix process (that is, the uid of the caller
if <envar>NIX_REMOTE</envar> is empty, the uid under which the Nix
daemon runs if <envar>NIX_REMOTE</envar> is
<literal>daemon</literal>, or the uid that owns the setuid
<command>nix-worker</command> program if <envar>NIX_REMOTE</envar>
is <literal>slave</literal>). Obviously, this should not be used
in multi-user settings with untrusted users.</para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry><term><literal>build-use-chroot</literal></term>
<listitem><para>If set to <literal>true</literal>, builds will be
performed in a <emphasis>chroot environment</emphasis>, i.e., the
build will be isolated from the normal file system hierarchy and
will only see the Nix store, the temporary build directory, and
the directories configured with the <link
linkend='conf-build-chroot-dirs'><literal>build-chroot-dirs</literal>
option</link> (such as <filename>/proc</filename> and
<filename>/dev</filename>). This is useful to prevent undeclared
dependencies on files in directories such as
<filename>/usr/bin</filename>.</para>
<para>The use of a chroot requires that Nix is run as root (but
you can still use the <link
linkend='conf-build-users-group'>“build users” feature</link> to
perform builds under different users than root). Currently,
chroot builds only work on Linux because Nix uses “bind mounts” to
make the Nix store and other directories available inside the
chroot.</para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry xml:id="conf-build-chroot-dirs"><term><literal>build-chroot-dirs</literal></term>
<listitem><para>When builds are performed in a chroot environment,
Nix will mount (using <command>mount --bind</command> on Linux)
some directories from the normal file system hierarchy inside the
chroot. These are the Nix store, the temporary build directory
(usually
<filename>/tmp/nix-<replaceable>pid</replaceable>-<replaceable>number</replaceable></filename>)
and the directories listed here. The default is <literal>dev
/proc</literal>. Files in <filename>/dev</filename> (such as
<filename>/dev/null</filename>) are needed by many builds, and
some files in <filename>/proc</filename> may also be needed
occasionally.</para>
<para>The value used on NixOS is
<programlisting>
build-use-chroot = /dev /proc /bin</programlisting>
to make the <filename>/bin/sh</filename> symlink available (which
is still needed by many builders).</para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry><term><literal>system</literal></term>
<listitem><para>This option specifies the canonical Nix system
name of the current installation, such as
<literal>i686-linux</literal> or
<literal>powerpc-darwin</literal>. Nix can only build derivations
whose <literal>system</literal> attribute equals the value
specified here. In general, it never makes sense to modify this
value from its default, since you can use it to lie about the
platform you are building on (e.g., perform a Mac OS build on a
Linux machine; the result would obviously be wrong). It only
makes sense if the Nix binaries can run on multiple platforms,
e.g., universal binaries that run on <literal>powerpc-darwin</literal> and
<literal>i686-darwin</literal>.</para>
<para>It defaults to the canonical Nix system name detected by
<filename>configure</filename> at build time.</para></listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry><term><literal>fsync-metadata</literal></term>
<listitem><para>If set to <literal>true</literal>, changes to the
Nix store metadata (in <filename>/nix/var/nix/db</filename>) are
synchronously flushed to disk. This improves robustness in case
of system crashes, but reduces performance. The default is
<literal>true</literal>.</para></listitem>
</varlistentry>
</variablelist>
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<section xmlns="http://docbook.org/ns/docbook"
xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink"
xml:id="sec-common-env">
<title>Common environment variables</title>
<para>Most Nix commands interpret the following environment variables:</para>
<variablelist>
<varlistentry><term><envar>NIX_IGNORE_SYMLINK_STORE</envar></term>
<listitem>
<para>Normally, the Nix store directory (typically
<filename>/nix/store</filename>) is not allowed to contain any
symlink components. This is to prevent “impure” builds. Builders
sometimes “canonicalise” paths by resolving all symlink components.
Thus, builds on different machines (with
<filename>/nix/store</filename> resolving to different locations)
could yield different results. This is generally not a problem,
except when builds are deployed to machines where
<filename>/nix/store</filename> resolves differently. If you are
sure that youre not going to do that, you can set
<envar>NIX_IGNORE_SYMLINK_STORE</envar> to <envar>1</envar>.</para>
<para>Note that if youre symlinking the Nix store so that you can
put it on another file system than the root file system, on Linux
youre better off using <literal>bind</literal> mount points, e.g.,
<screen>
$ mkdir /nix
$ mount -o bind /mnt/otherdisk/nix /nix</screen>
Consult the <citerefentry><refentrytitle>mount</refentrytitle>
<manvolnum>8</manvolnum></citerefentry> manual page for details.</para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry><term><envar>NIX_STORE_DIR</envar></term>
<listitem><para>Overrides the location of the Nix store (default
<filename><replaceable>prefix</replaceable>/store</filename>).</para></listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry><term><envar>NIX_DATA_DIR</envar></term>
<listitem><para>Overrides the location of the Nix static data
directory (default
<filename><replaceable>prefix</replaceable>/share</filename>).</para></listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry><term><envar>NIX_LOG_DIR</envar></term>
<listitem><para>Overrides the location of the Nix log directory
(default <filename><replaceable>prefix</replaceable>/log/nix</filename>).</para></listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry><term><envar>NIX_STATE_DIR</envar></term>
<listitem><para>Overrides the location of the Nix state directory
(default <filename><replaceable>prefix</replaceable>/var/nix</filename>).</para></listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry><term><envar>NIX_DB_DIR</envar></term>
<listitem><para>Overrides the location of the Nix database (default
<filename><replaceable>$NIX_STATE_DIR</replaceable>/db</filename>, i.e.,
<filename><replaceable>prefix</replaceable>/var/nix/db</filename>).</para></listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry><term><envar>NIX_CONF_DIR</envar></term>
<listitem><para>Overrides the location of the Nix configuration
directory (default
<filename><replaceable>prefix</replaceable>/etc/nix</filename>).</para></listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry><term><envar>NIX_LOG_TYPE</envar></term>
<listitem><para>Equivalent to the <link
linkend="opt-log-type"><option>--log-type</option>
option</link>.</para></listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry><term><envar>TMPDIR</envar></term>
<listitem><para>Use the specified directory to store temporary
files. In particular, this includes temporary build directories;
these can take up substantial amounts of disk space. The default is
<filename>/tmp</filename>.</para></listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry xml:id="envar-build-hook"><term><envar>NIX_BUILD_HOOK</envar></term>
<listitem>
<para>Specifies the location of the <emphasis>build hook</emphasis>,
which is a program (typically some script) that Nix will call
whenever it wants to build a derivation. This is used to implement
distributed builds (see <xref linkend="sec-distributed-builds"
/>). The protocol by which the calling Nix process and the build
hook communicate is as follows.</para>
<para>The build hook is called with the following command-line
arguments:
<orderedlist>
<listitem><para>A boolean value <literal>0</literal> or
<literal>1</literal> specifying whether Nix can locally execute
more builds, as per the <link
linkend="opt-max-jobs"><option>--max-jobs</option> option</link>.
The purpose of this argument is to allow the hook to not have to
maintain bookkeeping for the local machine.</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>The Nix platform identifier for the local machine
(e.g., <literal>i686-linux</literal>).</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>The Nix platform identifier for the derivation,
i.e., its <link linkend="attr-system"><varname>system</varname>
attribute</link>.</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>The store path of the derivation.</para></listitem>
</orderedlist>
</para>
<para>On the basis of this information, and whatever persistent
state the build hook keeps about other machines and their current
load, it has to decide what to do with the build. It should print
out on standard error one of the following responses (terminated by
a newline, <literal>"\n"</literal>):
<variablelist>
<varlistentry><term><literal># decline</literal></term>
<listitem><para>The build hook is not willing or able to perform
the build; the calling Nix process should do the build itself,
if possible.</para></listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry><term><literal># postpone</literal></term>
<listitem><para>The build hook cannot perform the build now, but
can do so in the future (e.g., because all available build slots
on remote machines are in use). The calling Nix process should
postpone this build until at least one currently running build
has terminated.</para></listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry><term><literal># accept</literal></term>
<listitem><para>The build hook has accepted the
build.</para></listitem>
</varlistentry>
</variablelist>
</para>
<para>After sending <literal># accept</literal>, the hook should
read one line from standard input, which will be the string
<literal>okay</literal>. It can then proceed with the build.
Before sending <literal>okay</literal>, Nix will store in the hooks
current directory a number of text files that contain information
about the derivation:
<variablelist>
<varlistentry><term><filename>inputs</filename></term>
<listitem><para>The set of store paths that are inputs to the
build process (one per line). These have to be copied
<emphasis>to</emphasis> the remote machine (in addition to the
store derivation itself).</para></listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry><term><filename>outputs</filename></term>
<listitem><para>The set of store paths that are outputs of the
derivation (one per line). These have to be copied
<emphasis>from</emphasis> the remote machine if the build
succeeds.</para></listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry><term><filename>references</filename></term>
<listitem><para>The reference graph of the inputs, in the format
accepted by the command <command>nix-store
--register-validity</command>. It is necessary to run this
command on the remote machine after copying the inputs to inform
Nix on the remote machine that the inputs are valid
paths.</para></listitem>
</varlistentry>
</variablelist>
</para>
<para>The hook should copy the inputs to the remote machine,
register the validity of the inputs, perform the remote build, and
copy the outputs back to the local machine. An exit code other than
<literal>0</literal> indicates that the hook has failed. An exit
code equal to 100 means that the remote build failed (as opposed to,
e.g., a network error).</para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry xml:id="envar-remote"><term><envar>NIX_REMOTE</envar></term>
<listitem><para>This variable should be set to
<literal>daemon</literal> if you want to use the Nix daemon to
executed Nix operations, which is necessary in <link
linkend="ssec-multi-user">multi-user Nix installations</link>.
Otherwise, it should be left unset.</para></listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry xml:id="envar-other-stores"><term><envar>NIX_OTHER_STORES</envar></term>
<listitem><para>This variable contains the paths of remote Nix
installations from whichs paths can be copied, separated by colons.
See <xref linkend="sec-sharing-packages" /> for details. Each path
should be the <filename>/nix</filename> directory of a remote Nix
installation (i.e., not the <filename>/nix/store</filename>
directory). The paths are subject to globbing, so you can set it so
something like <literal>/var/run/nix/remote-stores/*/nix</literal>
and mount multiple remote filesystems in
<literal>/var/run/nix/remote-stores</literal>.</para>
<para>Note that if youre building through the <link
linkend="sec-nix-worker">Nix daemon</link>, the only setting for
this variable that matters is the one that the
<command>nix-worker</command> process uses. So if you want to
change it, you have to restart the daemon.</para></listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry><term><envar>GC_INITIAL_HEAP_SIZE</envar></term>
<listitem><para>If Nix has been configured to use the Boehm garbage
collector, this variable sets the initial size of the heap in bytes.
It defaults to 384 MiB. Setting it to a low value reduces memory
consumption, but will increase runtime due to the overhead of
garbage collection.</para></listitem>
</varlistentry>
</variablelist>
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<appendix xmlns="http://docbook.org/ns/docbook"
xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink">
<title>Glossary</title>
<glosslist>
<glossentry xml:id="gloss-derivation"><glossterm>derivation</glossterm>
<glossdef><para>A description of a build action. The result of a
derivation is a store object. Derivations are typically specified
in Nix expressions using the <link
linkend="ssec-derivation"><function>derivation</function>
primitive</link>. These are translated into low-level
<emphasis>store derivations</emphasis> (implicitly by
<command>nix-env</command> and <command>nix-build</command>, or
explicitly by <command>nix-instantiate</command>).</para></glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry><glossterm>store</glossterm>
<glossdef><para>The location in the file system where store objects
live. Typically <filename>/nix/store</filename>.</para></glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry><glossterm>store path</glossterm>
<glossdef><para>The location in the file system of a store object,
i.e., an immediate child of the Nix store
directory.</para></glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry><glossterm>store object</glossterm>
<glossdef><para>A file that is an immediate child of the Nix store
directory. These can be regular files, but also entire directory
trees. Store objects can be sources (objects copied from outside of
the store), derivation outputs (objects produced by running a build
action), or derivations (files describing a build
action).</para></glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry xml:id="gloss-substitute"><glossterm>substitute</glossterm>
<glossdef><para>A substitute is a command invocation stored in the
Nix database that describes how to build a store object, bypassing
normal the build mechanism (i.e., derivations). Typically, the
substitute builds the store object by downloading a pre-built
version of the store object from some server.</para></glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry><glossterm>purity</glossterm>
<glossdef><para>The assumption that equal Nix derivations when run
always produce the same output. This cannot be guaranteed in
general (e.g., a builder can rely on external inputs such as the
network or the system time) but the Nix model assumes
it.</para></glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry><glossterm>Nix expression</glossterm>
<glossdef><para>A high-level description of software packages and
compositions thereof. Deploying software using Nix entails writing
Nix expressions for your packages. Nix expressions are translated
to derivations that are stored in the Nix store. These derivations
can then be built.</para></glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry xml:id="gloss-reference"><glossterm>reference</glossterm>
<glossdef><para>A store path <varname>P</varname> is said to have a
reference to a store path <varname>Q</varname> if the store object
at <varname>P</varname> contains the path <varname>Q</varname>
somewhere. This implies than an execution involving
<varname>P</varname> potentially needs <varname>Q</varname> to be
present. The <emphasis>references</emphasis> of a store path are
the set of store paths to which it has a reference.</para></glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry xml:id="gloss-closure"><glossterm>closure</glossterm>
<glossdef><para>The closure of a store path is the set of store
paths that are directly or indirectly “reachable” from that store
path; that is, its the closure of the path under the <link
linkend="gloss-reference">references</link> relation. For instance,
if the store object at path <varname>P</varname> contains a
reference to path <varname>Q</varname>, then <varname>Q</varname> is
in the closure of <varname>P</varname>. For correct deployment it
is necessary to deploy whole closures, since otherwise at runtime
files could be missing. The command <command>nix-store
-qR</command> prints out closures of store paths.</para></glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry xml:id="gloss-output-path"><glossterm>output path</glossterm>
<glossdef><para>A store path produced by a derivation.</para></glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry xml:id="gloss-deriver"><glossterm>deriver</glossterm>
<glossdef><para>The deriver of an <link
linkend="gloss-output-path">output path</link> is the store
derivation that built it.</para></glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry xml:id="gloss-validity"><glossterm>validity</glossterm>
<glossdef><para>A store path is considered
<emphasis>valid</emphasis> if it exists in the file system, is
listed in the Nix database as being valid, and if all paths in its
closure are also valid.</para></glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry xml:id="gloss-user-env"><glossterm>user environment</glossterm>
<glossdef><para>An automatically generated store object that
consists of a set of symlinks to “active” applications, i.e., other
store paths. These are generated automatically by <link
linkend="sec-nix-env"><command>nix-env</command></link>. See <xref
linkend="sec-profiles" />.</para>
</glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry xml:id="gloss-profile"><glossterm>profile</glossterm>
<glossdef><para>A symlink to the current <link
linkend="gloss-user-env">user environment</link> of a user, e.g.,
<filename>/nix/var/nix/profiles/default</filename>.</para></glossdef>
</glossentry>
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<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<chapter xmlns="http://docbook.org/ns/docbook"
xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink"
xml:id="chap-installation">
<title>Installation</title>
<chapter id='chap-installation'><title>Installation</title>
<section><title>Supported platforms</title>
<sect1><title>Obtaining Nix</title>
<para>Nix is currently supported on the following platforms:
<itemizedlist>
<listitem><para>Linux (particularly on x86, x86_64, and
PowerPC).</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Mac OS X, both on Intel and
PowerPC.</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>FreeBSD (only tested on Intel).</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Windows through <link
xlink:href="http://www.cygwin.com/">Cygwin</link>.</para>
<warning><para>On Cygwin, Nix <emphasis>must</emphasis> be installed
on an NTFS partition. It will not work correctly on a FAT
partition.</para></warning>
</listitem>
</itemizedlist>
</para>
<para>Nix is pretty portable, so it should work on most other Unix
platforms as well.</para>
</section>
<section><title>Obtaining Nix</title>
<para>The easiest way to obtain Nix is to download a <link
xlink:href="http://nixos.org/">source distribution</link>. RPMs
for Red Hat, SuSE, and Fedora Core are also available.</para>
<para>The easiest way to obtain Nix is to download a <ulink
url='http://www.cs.uu.nl/groups/ST/Trace/Nix'>source
distribution</ulink>. RPMs for Red Hat 9 are also available. These
distributions are generated automatically.</para>
<para>Alternatively, the most recent sources of Nix can be obtained
from its <link
xlink:href="https://svn.nixos.org/repos/nix/nix/trunk">Subversion
repository</link>. For example, the following command will check out
the latest revision into a directory called
<filename>nix</filename>:</para>
from its <ulink
url='https://svn.cs.uu.nl:12443/repos/trace/nix/trunk'>Subversion
repository</ulink>. For example, the following command will check out
the latest revision into a directory called <filename>nix</filename>:</para>
<screen>
$ svn checkout https://svn.nixos.org/repos/nix/nix/trunk nix</screen>
$ svn checkout https://svn.cs.uu.nl:12443/repos/trace/nix/trunk nix</screen>
<para>Likewise, specific releases can be obtained from the <link
xlink:href="https://svn.nixos.org/repos/nix/nix/tags">tags
directory</link> of the repository.</para>
<para>Likewise, specific releases can be obtained from the <ulink
url='https://svn.cs.uu.nl:12443/repos/trace/nix/tags'>tags
directory</ulink> of the repository. If you don't have Subversion,
you can also download an automatically generated <ulink
url='https://svn.cs.uu.nl:12443/dist/trace/'>compressed
tar-file</ulink> of the head revision of the trunk.</para>
</section>
</sect1>
<section><title>Prerequisites</title>
<sect1><title>Prerequisites</title>
<para><emphasis>The following prerequisites only apply when you build
from source</emphasis>. Binary releases (e.g., RPMs) have no
prerequisites.</para>
<para>The following prerequisites only apply when you build from
source. Binary releases (e.g., RPMs) have no prerequisites.</para>
<para>A fairly recent version of GCC/G++ is required. Version 2.95
and higher should work.</para>
@@ -75,391 +39,157 @@ and higher should work.</para>
<command>xmllint</command> and <command>xsltproc</command> programs,
which are part of the <literal>libxml2</literal> and
<literal>libxslt</literal> packages, respectively. You also need the
<link
xlink:href="http://docbook.sourceforge.net/projects/xsl/">DocBook XSL
stylesheets</link> and optionally the <link
xlink:href="http://www.docbook.org/schemas/5x"> DocBook 5.0 RELAX NG
schemas</link>. Note that these are only required if you modify the
manual sources or when you are building from the Subversion
<ulink url='http://docbook.sourceforge.net/projects/xsl/'>DocBook XSL
stylesheets</ulink> and optionally the <ulink
url='http://www.oasis-open.org/docbook/xml/4.2/docbook-xml-4.2.zip'>
DocBook XML 4.2 DTD</ulink>. Note that these are only required if you
modify the manual sources or when you are building from the Subversion
repository.</para>
<para>To build the parser, very <emphasis>recent</emphasis> versions
of Bison and Flex are required. (This is because Nix needs GLR
support in Bison and reentrancy support in Flex.) For Bison, you need
version 2.3 or higher (1.875 does <emphasis>not</emphasis> work),
which can be obtained from
the <link xlink:href="ftp://alpha.gnu.org/pub/gnu/bison">GNU FTP
server</link>. For Flex, you need version 2.5.33, which is available
on <link xlink:href="http://lex.sourceforge.net/">SourceForge</link>.
Slightly older versions may also work, but ancient versions like the
ubiquitous 2.5.4a won't. Note that these are only required if you
modify the parser or when you are building from the Subversion
repository.</para>
version 1.875c or higher (1.875 does <emphasis>not</emphasis> work),
which can be obtained from the <ulink
url='ftp://alpha.gnu.org/pub/gnu/bison'>GNU FTP server</ulink>. For
Flex, you need version 2.5.31, which is available on <ulink
url='http://lex.sourceforge.net/'>SourceForge</ulink>. Slightly older
versions may also work, but ancient versions like the ubiquitous
2.5.4a won't. Note that these are only required if you modify the
parser or when you are building from the Subversion repository.</para>
<para>Nix uses the bzip2 compressor (including the bzip2 library). It
is included in the Nix source distribution. If you build from the
Subversion repository, you must download it yourself and place it in
the <filename>externals/</filename> directory. See
<para>Nix uses Sleepycat's Berkeley DB and CWI's ATerm library. These
are included in the Nix source distribution. If you build from the
Subversion repository, you must download them yourself and place them
in the <filename>externals/</filename> directory. See
<filename>externals/Makefile.am</filename> for the precise URLs of
this packages. Alternatively, if you already have it installed, you
can use <command>configure</command>'s <option>--with-bzip2</option>
options to point to their respective locations.</para>
these packages. Alternatively, if you already have them installed,
you can use <command>configure</command>'s <option>--with-bdb</option>
and <option>--with-aterm</option> options to point to their respective
locations. Note that Berkeley DB <emphasis>must</emphasis> be version
4.2; other versions may not have compatible database formats.</para>
<para>Nix can optionally use the <link
xlink:href="http://www.hpl.hp.com/personal/Hans_Boehm/gc/">Boehm
garbage collector</link> to reduce the evaluators memory consumption.
To enable it, install <literal>pkgconfig</literal> and the Boehm
garbage collector, and pass the flag <option>--enable-gc</option> to
<command>configure</command>.</para>
</section>
</sect1>
<section><title>Building Nix from source</title>
<sect1><title>Building Nix from source</title>
<para>After unpacking or checking out the Nix sources, issue the
following commands:
</para>
<screen>
$ ./configure <replaceable>options...</replaceable>
$ make
$ make install</screen>
</para>
<para>When building from the Subversion repository, these should be
preceded by the command:
</para>
<screen>
$ ./bootstrap.sh</screen>
</para>
$ autoreconf -i</screen>
<para>The installation path can be specified by passing the
<option>--prefix=<replaceable>prefix</replaceable></option> to
<command>configure</command>. The default installation directory is
<filename>/usr/local</filename>. You can change this to any location
you like. You must have write permission to the
<filename>/nix</filename>. You can change this to any location you
like. You must have write permission to the
<replaceable>prefix</replaceable> path.</para>
<para>Nix keeps its <emphasis>store</emphasis> (the place where
packages are stored) in <filename>/nix/store</filename> by default.
This can be changed using
<option>--with-store-dir=<replaceable>path</replaceable></option>.</para>
<warning><para>It is advisable <emphasis>not</emphasis> to change the
installation prefix from its default, since doing so will in all
likelihood make it impossible to use derivations built on other
systems.</para></warning>
<warning><para>It is best <emphasis>not</emphasis> to change the Nix
store from its default, since doing so makes it impossible to use
pre-built binaries from the standard Nixpkgs channels — that is, all
packages will need to be built from source.</para></warning>
<para>Nix keeps state (such as its database and log files) in
<filename>/nix/var</filename> by default. This can be changed using
<option>--localstatedir=<replaceable>path</replaceable></option>.</para>
<para>If you want to rebuild the documentation, pass the full path to
the DocBook RELAX NG schemas and to the DocBook XSL stylesheets using
the
<option>--with-docbook-rng=<replaceable>path</replaceable></option>
<para>If you want to rebuilt the documentation, pass the full path to
the DocBook XML catalog file (<filename>docbook.cat</filename>) and to
the DocBook XSL stylesheets using the
<option>--with-docbook-catalog=<replaceable>path</replaceable></option>
and
<option>--with-docbook-xsl=<replaceable>path</replaceable></option>
options.</para>
</section>
</sect1>
<section><title>Installing a binary distribution</title>
<sect1><title>Installing from RPMs</title>
<para>RPM and Deb packages of Nix for a number of different versions
of Fedora, openSUSE, Debian and Ubuntu can be downloaded from <link
xlink:href="http://nixos.org/" />. Once downloaded, the RPMs can be
installed or upgraded using <command>rpm -U</command>. For example,
<para>RPM packages of Nix can be downloaded from <ulink
url='http://www.cs.uu.nl/groups/ST/Trace/Nix' />. These RPMs should
work for most fairly recent releases of SuSE and Red Hat Linux. They
have been known to work work on SuSE Linux 8.1 and 9.0, and Red Hat
9.0. In fact, it should work on any RPM-based Linux distribution
based on <literal>glibc</literal> 2.3 or later.</para>
<para>Once downloaded, the RPMs can be installed or upgraded using
<command>rpm -U</command>. For example,</para>
<screen>
$ rpm -U nix-0.13pre18104-1.i386.rpm</screen>
$ rpm -U nix-0.5pre664-1.i386.rpm</screen>
Likewise, for a Deb package:
<screen>
$ dpkg -i nix_0.13pre18104-1_amd64.deb</screen>
</para>
<para>Nix can be uninstalled using <command>rpm -e nix</command> or
<command>dpkg -r nix</command>. After this you should manually remove
the Nix store and other auxiliary data, if desired:
<para>The RPMs install into the directory <filename>/nix</filename>.
Nix can be uninstalled using <command>rpm -e nix</command>. After
this it will be necessary to manually remove the Nix store and other
auxiliary data:</para>
<screen>
$ rm -rf /nix/store
$ rm -rf /nix/var</screen>
</para>
</section>
</sect1>
<!-- TODO: should be updated
<section><title>Upgrading Nix through Nix</title>
<sect1><title>Permissions</title>
<para>You can install the latest stable version of Nix through Nix
itself by subscribing to the channel <link
xlink:href="http://nixos.org/releases/nix/channels/nix-stable" />,
or the latest unstable version by subscribing to the channel <link
xlink:href="http://nixos.org/releases/nix/channels/nix-unstable" />.
You can also do a <link linkend="sec-one-click">one-click
installation</link> by clicking on the package links at <link
xlink:href="http://nixos.org/releases/full-index-nix.html" />.</para>
<para>All Nix operations must be performed under the user ID that owns
the Nix store and database
(<filename><replaceable>prefix</replaceable>/store</filename> and
<filename><replaceable>prefix</replaceable>/var/nix/db</filename>,
respectively). When installed from the RPM packages, these
directories are owned by <systemitem
class='username'>root</systemitem>.</para>
</section>
-->
<sect2><title>Setuid installation</title>
<para>As a somewhat <emphasis>ad hoc</emphasis> hack, you can also
install the Nix binaries <quote>setuid</quote> so that a Nix store can
be shared among several users. To do this, configure Nix with the
<emphasis>--enable-setuid</emphasis> option. Nix will be installed as
owned by a user and group specified by the
<option>--with-nix-user=<parameter>user</parameter></option> and
<option>--with-nix-group=<parameter>group</parameter></option>
options. E.g.,
<section><title>Security</title>
<screen>
$ ./configure --enable-setuid --with-nix-user=my_nix_user --with-nix-group=my_nix_group</screen>
<para>Nix has two basic security models. First, it can be used in
“single-user mode”, which is similar to what most other package
management tools do: there is a single user (typically <systemitem
class="username">root</systemitem>) who performs all package
management operations. All other users can then use the installed
packages, but they cannot perform package management operations
themselves.</para>
<para>Alternatively, you can configure Nix in “multi-user mode”. In
this model, all users can perform package management operations — for
instance, every user can install software without requiring root
privileges. Nix ensures that this is secure. For instance, its not
possible for one user to overwrite a package used by another user with
a Trojan horse.</para>
<section><title>Single-user mode</title>
<para>In single-user mode, all Nix operations that access the database
in <filename><replaceable>prefix</replaceable>/var/nix/db</filename>
or modify the Nix store in
<filename><replaceable>prefix</replaceable>/store</filename> must be
performed under the user ID that owns those directories. This is
typically <systemitem class="username">root</systemitem>. (If you
install from RPM packages, thats in fact the default ownership.)
However, on single-user machines, it is often convenient to
<command>chown</command> those directories to your normal user account
so that you dont have to <command>su</command> to <systemitem
class="username">root</systemitem> all the time.</para>
</section>
<section xml:id="ssec-multi-user"><title>Multi-user mode</title>
<para>To allow a Nix store to be shared safely among multiple users,
it is important that users are not able to run builders that modify
the Nix store or database in arbitrary ways, or that interfere with
builds started by other users. If they could do so, they could
install a Trojan horse in some package and compromise the accounts of
other users.</para>
<para>To prevent this, the Nix store and database are owned by some
privileged user (usually <literal>root</literal>) and builders are
executed under special user accounts (usually named
<literal>nixbld1</literal>, <literal>nixbld2</literal>, etc.). When a
unprivileged user runs a Nix command, actions that operate on the Nix
store (such as builds) are forwarded to a <emphasis>Nix
daemon</emphasis> running under the owner of the Nix store/database
that performs the operation.</para>
<note><para>Multi-user mode has one important limitation: only
<systemitem class="username">root</systemitem> can run <command
linkend="sec-nix-pull">nix-pull</command> to register the availability
of pre-built binaries. However, those registrations are shared by all
users, so they still get the benefit from <command>nix-pull</command>s
done by <systemitem class="username">root</systemitem>.</para></note>
<section><title>Setting up the build users</title>
<para>The <emphasis>build users</emphasis> are the special UIDs under
which builds are performed. They should all be members of the
<emphasis>build users group</emphasis> (usually called
<literal>nixbld</literal>). This group should have no other members.
The build users should not be members of any other group.</para>
<para>Here is a typical <filename>/etc/group</filename> definition of
the build users group with 10 build users:
<programlisting>
nixbld:!:30000:nixbld1,nixbld2,nixbld3,nixbld4,nixbld5,nixbld6,nixbld7,nixbld8,nixbld9,nixbld10
</programlisting>
In this example the <literal>nixbld</literal> group has UID 30000, but
of course it can be anything that doesnt collide with an existing
The user and group default to <literal>nix</literal>. You should make
sure that both the user and the group exist. Any <quote>real</quote>
users that you want to allow access should be added to the Nix
group.</para>
<para>Here is the corresponding part of
<filename>/etc/passwd</filename>:
<warning><para>A setuid installation should only by used if the users
in the Nix group are mutually trusted, since any user in that group
has the ability to change anything in the Nix store or database. For
instance, they could install a trojan horse in executables used by
other users.</para></warning>
<programlisting>
nixbld1:x:30001:65534:Nix build user 1:/var/empty:/noshell
nixbld2:x:30002:65534:Nix build user 2:/var/empty:/noshell
nixbld3:x:30003:65534:Nix build user 3:/var/empty:/noshell
...
nixbld10:x:30010:65534:Nix build user 10:/var/empty:/noshell
</programlisting>
<warning><para>On some platforms, the Nix binaries will be installed
as setuid <literal>root</literal>. They drop root privileges
immediately after startup and switch to the Nix user. The reason for
this is that both the real and effective user must be set to the Nix
user, and POSIX has no system call to do this. This is not the case
on systems that have the <function>setresuid()</function> system call
(such as Linux and FreeBSD), so on those systems the binaries are
simply owned by the Nix user.</para></warning>
The home directory of the build users should not exist or should be an
empty directory to which they do not have write access.</para>
</sect2>
<para>The build users should have write access to the Nix store, but
they should not have the right to delete files. Thus the Nix stores
group should be the build users group, and it should have the sticky
bit turned on (like <filename>/tmp</filename>):
<screen>
$ chgrp nixbld /nix/store
$ chmod 1777 /nix/store
</screen>
</para>
<para>Finally, you should tell Nix to use the build users by
specifying the build users group in the <link
linkend="conf-build-users-group"><literal>build-users-group</literal>
option</link> in the <link linkend="sec-conf-file">Nix configuration
file</link> (<literal>/nix/etc/nix/nix.conf</literal>):
<programlisting>
build-users-group = nixbld
</programlisting>
</para>
</section>
</sect1>
<section><title>Nix store/database owned by root</title>
<para>The simplest setup is to let <literal>root</literal> own the Nix
store and database. I.e.,
<screen>
$ chown -R root /nix/store /nix/var/nix</screen>
</para>
<para>The <link linkend="sec-nix-worker">Nix daemon</link> should be
started as follows (as <literal>root</literal>):
<screen>
$ nix-worker --daemon</screen>
Youll want to put that line somewhere in your systems boot
scripts.</para>
<para>To let unprivileged users use the daemon, they should set the
<link linkend="envar-remote"><envar>NIX_REMOTE</envar> environment
variable</link> to <literal>daemon</literal>. So you should put a
line like
<programlisting>
export NIX_REMOTE=daemon</programlisting>
into the users login scripts.</para>
</section>
<section><title>Nix store/database not owned by root</title>
<para>It is also possible to let the Nix store and database be owned
by a non-root user, which should be more secure<footnote><para>Note
however that even when the Nix daemon runs as root, not
<emphasis>that</emphasis> much code is executed as root: Nix
expression evaluation is performed by the calling (unprivileged) user,
and builds are performed under the special build user accounts. So
only the code that accesses the database and starts builds is executed
as <literal>root</literal>.</para></footnote>. Typically, this user
is a special account called <literal>nix</literal>, but it can be
named anything. It should own the Nix store and database:
<screen>
$ chown -R root /nix/store /nix/var/nix</screen>
and of course <command>nix-worker --daemon</command> should be started
under that user, e.g.,
<screen>
$ su - nix -c "exec /nix/bin/nix-worker --daemon"</screen>
</para>
<para>There is a catch, though: non-<literal>root</literal> users
cannot start builds under the build user accounts, since the
<function>setuid</function> system call is obviously privileged. To
allow a non-<literal>root</literal> Nix daemon to use the build user
feature, it calls a setuid-root helper program,
<command>nix-setuid-helper</command>. This program is installed in
<filename><replaceable>prefix</replaceable>/libexec/nix-setuid-helper</filename>.
To set the permissions properly (Nixs <command>make install</command>
doesnt do this, since we dont want to ship setuid-root programs
out-of-the-box):
<screen>
$ chown root.root /nix/libexec/nix-setuid-helper
$ chmod 4755 /nix/libexec/nix-setuid-helper
</screen>
(This example assumes that the Nix binaries are installed in
<filename>/nix</filename>.)</para>
<para>Of course, the <command>nix-setuid-helper</command> command
should not be usable by just anybody, since then anybody could run
commands under the Nix build user accounts. For that reason there is
a configuration file <filename>/etc/nix-setuid.conf</filename> that
restricts the use of the helper. This file should be a text file
containing precisely two lines, the first being the Nix daemon user
and the second being the build users group, e.g.,
<programlisting>
nix
nixbld
</programlisting>
The setuid-helper barfs if it is called by a user other than the one
specified on the first line, or if it is asked to execute a build
under a user who is not a member of the group specified on the second
line. The file <filename>/etc/nix-setuid.conf</filename> must be
owned by root, and must not be group- or world-writable. The
setuid-helper barfs if this is not the case.</para>
</section>
<section><title>Restricting access</title>
<para>To limit which users can perform Nix operations, you can use the
permissions on the directory
<filename>/nix/var/nix/daemon-socket</filename>. For instance, if you
want to restrict the use of Nix to the members of a group called
<literal>nix-users</literal>, do
<screen>
$ chgrp nix-users /nix/var/nix/daemon-socket
$ chmod ug=rwx,o= /nix/var/nix/daemon-socket
</screen>
This way, users who are not in the <literal>nix-users</literal> group
cannot connect to the Unix domain socket
<filename>/nix/var/nix/daemon-socket/socket</filename>, so they cannot
perform Nix operations.</para>
</section>
</section> <!-- end of multi-user -->
</section> <!-- end of security -->
<section><title>Using Nix</title>
<sect1><title>Using Nix</title>
<para>To use Nix, some environment variables should be set. In
particular, <envar>PATH</envar> should contain the directories
@@ -476,7 +206,7 @@ in your <filename>~/.bashrc</filename> (or similar), like this:</para>
<screen>
source <replaceable>prefix</replaceable>/etc/profile.d/nix.sh</screen>
</section>
</sect1>
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<chapter xmlns="http://docbook.org/ns/docbook"
xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink"
xml:id="chap-introduction">
<title>Introduction</title>
<section><title>About Nix</title>
<para>Nix is a <emphasis>purely functional package manager</emphasis>.
This means that it treats packages like values in purely functional
programming languages such as Haskell — they are built by functions
that dont have side-effects, and they never change after they have
been built. Nix stores packages in the <emphasis>Nix
store</emphasis>, usually the directory
<filename>/nix/store</filename>, where each package has its own unique
subdirectory such as
<programlisting>
/nix/store/r8vvq9kq18pz08v249h8my6r9vs7s0n3-firefox-2.0.0.1/
</programlisting>
where <literal>r8vvq9kq…</literal> is a unique identifier for the
package that captures all its dependencies (its a cryptographic hash
of the packages build dependency graph). This enables many powerful
features.</para>
<simplesect><title>Multiple versions</title>
<para>You can have multiple versions or variants of a package
installed at the same time. This is especially important when
different applications have dependencies on different versions of the
same package — it prevents the “DLL hell”. Because of the hashing
scheme, different versions of a package end up in different paths in
the Nix store, so they dont interfere with each other.</para>
<para>An important consequence is that operations like upgrading or
uninstalling an application cannot break other applications, since
these operations never “destructively” update or delete files that are
used by other packages.</para>
</simplesect>
<simplesect><title>Complete dependencies</title>
<para>Nix helps you make sure that package dependency specifications
are complete. In general, when youre making a package for a package
management system like RPM, you have to specify for each package what
its dependencies are, but there are no guarantees that this
specification is complete. If you forget a dependency, then the
package will build and work correctly on <emphasis>your</emphasis>
machine if you have the dependency installed, but not on the end
user's machine if it's not there.</para>
<para>Since Nix on the other hand doesnt install packages in “global”
locations like <filename>/usr/bin</filename> but in package-specific
directories, the risk of incomplete dependencies is greatly reduced.
This is because tools such as compilers dont search in per-packages
directories such as
<filename>/nix/store/5lbfaxb722zp…-openssl-0.9.8d/include</filename>,
so if a package builds correctly on your system, this is because you
specified the dependency explicitly.</para>
<para>Runtime dependencies are found by scanning binaries for the hash
parts of Nix store paths (such as <literal>r8vvq9kq…</literal>). This
sounds risky, but it works extremely well.</para>
</simplesect>
<simplesect><title>Multi-user support</title>
<para>Starting at version 0.11, Nix has multi-user support. This
means that non-privileged users can securely install software. Each
user can have a different <emphasis>profile</emphasis>, a set of
packages in the Nix store that appear in the users
<envar>PATH</envar>. If a user installs a package that another user
has already installed previously, the package wont be built or
downloaded a second time. At the same time, it is not possible for
one user to inject a Trojan horse into a package that might be used by
another user.</para>
<chapter><title>Introduction</title>
<!--
<para>More details can be found in Section 3 of our <a
href="docs/papers.html#securesharing">ASE 2005 paper</a>.</para>
<epigraph><para><quote>The number of Nix installations in the world
has grown to 5, with more expected.</quote></para></epigraph>
-->
</simplesect>
<para>Nix is a system for the deployment of software. Software
deployment is concerned with the creation, distribution, and
management of software components (<quote>packages</quote>). Its main
features are:
<itemizedlist>
<simplesect><title>Atomic upgrades and rollbacks</title>
<listitem><para>It helps you make sure that dependency specifications
are complete. In general in a deployment system you have to specify
for each component what its dependencies are, but there are no
guarantees that this specification is complete. If you forget a
dependency, then the component will build and work correctly on
<emphasis>your</emphasis> machine if you have the dependency
installed, but not on the end user's machine if it's not
there.</para></listitem>
<para>Since package management operations never overwrite packages in
the Nix store but just add new versions in different paths, they are
<emphasis>atomic</emphasis>. So during a package upgrade, there is no
time window in which the package has some files from the old version
and some files from the new version — which would be bad because a
program might well crash if its started during that period.</para>
<listitem><para>It is possible to have <emphasis>multiple versions or
variants</emphasis> of a component installed at the same time. In
contrast, in systems such as RPM different versions of the same
package tend to install to the same location in the file system, so
installing one version will remove the other. This is especially
important if you want to use applications that have conflicting
requirements on different versions of a component (e.g., application A
requires version 1.0 of library X, while application B requires a
non-backwards compatible version 1.1).</para></listitem>
<para>And since package arent overwritten, the old versions are still
there after an upgrade. This means that you can <emphasis>roll
back</emphasis> to the old version:</para>
<listitem><para>Users can have different <quote>views</quote>
(<quote>profiles</quote> in Nix parlance) on the set of installed
applications in a system. For instance, one user can have version 1.0
of some package visible, while another is using version 1.1, and a
third doesn't use it at all.</para></listitem>
<screen>
$ nix-env --upgrade <replaceable>some-packages</replaceable>
$ nix-env --rollback
</screen>
<listitem><para>It is possible to atomically
<emphasis>upgrade</emphasis> software. I.e., there is no time window
during an upgrade in which part of the old version and part of the new
version are simultaneously visible (which might well cause the
component to fail).</para></listitem>
</simplesect>
<listitem><para>Likewise, it is possible to atomically roll back after
an install, upgrade, or uninstall action. That is, in a fast (O(1))
operation the previous configuration of the system can be restored.
This is because upgrade or uninstall actions don't actually remove
components from the system.</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Unused components can be
<emphasis>garbage-collected</emphasis> automatically and safely: when
you remove an application from a profile, its dependencies will be
deleted by the garbage collector only if there are no other active
applications using them.</para></listitem>
<simplesect><title>Garbage collection</title>
<listitem><para>Nix supports both source-based deployment models
(where you distribute <emphasis>Nix expressions</emphasis> that tell
Nix how to build software from source) and binary-based deployment
models. The latter is more-or-less transparent: installation of
components is always based on Nix expressions, but if the expressions
have been built before and Nix knows that the resulting binaries are
available somewhere, it will use those instead.</para></listitem>
<para>When you uninstall a package like this…
<listitem><para>Nix is flexible in the deployment policies that it
supports. There is a clear separation between the tools that
implement basic Nix <emphasis>mechanisms</emphasis> (e.g., building
Nix expressions), and the tools that implement various deployment
<emphasis>policies</emphasis>. For instance, there is a concept of
<quote>Nix channels</quote> that can be used to keep software
installations up-to-date automatically from a network source. This is
a policy that is implemented by a fairly short Perl script, which can
be adapted easily to achieve similar policies.</para></listitem>
<screen>
$ nix-env --uninstall firefox
</screen>
<listitem><para>Nix component builds aim to be <quote>pure</quote>;
that is, unaffected by anything other than the declared dependencies.
This means that if a component was built succesfully once, it can be
rebuilt again on another machine and the result will be the same. We
cannot <emphasis>guarantee</emphasis> this (e.g., if the build depends
on the time-of-day), but Nix (and the tools in the Nix Packages
collection) takes special care to help achieve this.</para></listitem>
the package isnt deleted from the system right away (after all, you
might want to do a rollback, or it might be in the profiles of other
users). Instead, unused packages can be deleted safely by running the
<emphasis>garbage collector</emphasis>:
<listitem><para>Nix expressions (the things that tell Nix how to build
components) are self-contained: they describe not just components but
complete compositions. In other words, Nix expressions also describe
how to build all the dependencies. This is in contrast to component
specification languages like RPM spec files, which might say that a
component X depends on some other component Y, but since it does not
describe <emphasis>exactly</emphasis> what Y is, the result of
building or running X might be different on different machines.
Combined with purity, self-containedness ensures that a component that
<quote>works</quote> on one machine also works on another, when
deployed using Nix.</para></listitem>
<screen>
$ nix-collect-garbage
</screen>
<listitem><para>The Nix expression language makes it easy to describe
variability in components (e.g., optional features or
dependencies).</para></listitem>
This deletes all packages that arent in use by any user profile or by
a currently running program.</para>
<listitem><para>Nix is ideal for building build farms that do
continuous builds of software from a version management system, since
it can take care of building all the dependencies as well. Also, Nix
only rebuilds components that have changed, so there are no
unnecessary builds. In addition, Nix can transparently distribute
build jobs over different machines, including different
platforms.</para></listitem>
</simplesect>
<listitem><para>Nix can be used not only for software deployment, but
also for <emphasis>service deployment</emphasis>, such as the
deployment of a complete web server with all its configuration files,
static pages, software dependencies, and so on. Nix's advantages for
software deployment also apply here: for instance, the ability
trivially to have multiple configurations at the same time, or the
ability to do rollbacks.</para></listitem>
</itemizedlist>
<simplesect><title>Functional package language</title>
<para>Packages are built from <emphasis>Nix expressions</emphasis>,
which is a simple functional language. A Nix expression describes
everything that goes into a package build action (a “derivation”):
other packages, sources, the build script, environment variables for
the build script, etc. Nix tries very hard to ensure that Nix
expressions are <emphasis>deterministic</emphasis>: building a Nix
expression twice should yield the same result.</para>
<para>Because its a functional language, its easy to support
building variants of a package: turn the Nix expression into a
function and call it any number of times with the appropriate
arguments. Due to the hashing scheme, variants dont conflict with
each other in the Nix store.</para>
</simplesect>
<simplesect><title>Transparent source/binary deployment</title>
<para>Nix expressions generally describe how to build a package from
source, so an installation action like
<screen>
$ nix-env --install firefox
</screen>
<emphasis>could</emphasis> cause quite a bit of build activity, as not
only Firefox but also all its dependencies (all the way up to the C
library and the compiler) would have to built, at least if they are
not already in the Nix store. This is a <emphasis>source deployment
model</emphasis>. For most users, building from source is not very
pleasant as it takes far too long. However, Nix can automatically
skip building from source and download a pre-built binary instead if
it knows about it. <emphasis>Nix channels</emphasis> provide Nix
expressions along with pre-built binaries.</para>
<!--
<para>source deployment model (like <a
href="http://www.gentoo.org/">Gentoo</a>) and a binary model (like
RPM)</para>
-->
</simplesect>
<simplesect><title>Binary patching</title>
<para>In addition to downloading binaries automatically if theyre
available, Nix can download binary deltas that patch an existing
package in the Nix store into a new version. This speeds up
upgrades.</para>
</simplesect>
<simplesect><title>Nix Packages collection</title>
<para>We provide a large set of Nix expressions containing hundreds of
existing Unix packages, the <emphasis>Nix Packages
collection</emphasis> (Nixpkgs).</para>
</simplesect>
<simplesect><title>Service deployment</title>
<para>Nix can be used not only for rolling out packages, but also
complete <emphasis>configurations</emphasis> of services. This is
done by treating all the static bits of a service (such as software
packages, configuration files, control scripts, static web pages,
etc.) as “packages” that can be built by Nix expressions. As a
result, all the features above apply to services as well: for
instance, you can roll back a web server configuration if a
configuration change turns out to be undesirable, you can easily have
multiple instances of a service (e.g., a test and production server),
and because the whole service is built in a purely functional way from
a Nix expression, it is repeatable so you can easily reproduce the
service on another machine.</para>
<!--
<para>You can read more about this in our <a
href="docs/papers.html#servicecm">SCM-12 paper</a>.</para>
-->
</simplesect>
<simplesect><title>Portability</title>
<para>Nix should run on most Unix systems, including Linux, FreeBSD and
Mac OS X. It is also supported on Windows using Cygwin.</para>
</simplesect>
<simplesect><title>NixOS</title>
<para>NixOS is a Linux distribution based on Nix. It uses Nix not
just for package management but also to manage the system
configuration (e.g., to build configuration files in
<filename>/etc</filename>). This means, among other things, that its
possible to easily roll back the entire configuration of the system to
an earlier state. Also, users can install software without root
privileges. For more information and downloads, see the <link
xlink:href="http://nixos.org/">NixOS homepage</link>.</para>
</simplesect>
<!-- other features:
- build farms
- reproducibility (Nix expressions allows whole configuration to be rebuilt)
-->
</section>
<section><title>About us</title>
<para>Nix was originally developed at the <link
xlink:href="http://www.cs.uu.nl/">Department of Information and
Computing Sciences</link>, Utrecht University by the <link
xlink:href="http://www.cs.uu.nl/wiki/Trace/WebHome">TraCE
project</link> (2003-2008). The project was funded by the Software
Engineering Research Program <link
xlink:href="http://www.jacquard.nl/">Jacquard</link> to improve the
support for variability in software systems. Further funding is now
provided by the NIRICT LaQuSo Build Farm project.</para>
</section>
<section><title>About this manual</title>
</para>
<para>This manual tells you how to install and use Nix and how to
write Nix expressions for software not already in the Nix Packages
collection. It also discusses some advanced topics, such as setting
up a Nix-based build farm.</para>
up a Nix-based build farm, and doing service deployment using
Nix.</para>
</section>
<section><title>License</title>
<para>Nix is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it
under the terms of the <link
xlink:href="http://www.gnu.org/licenses/lgpl.html">GNU Lesser General
Public License</link> as published by the <link
xlink:href="http://www.fsf.org/">Free Software Foundation</link>;
either version 2.1 of the License, or (at your option) any later
version. Nix is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but
WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU
Lesser General Public License for more details.</para>
</section>
<section><title>More information</title>
<para>Some background information on Nix can be found in a number of
papers. The ICSE 2004 paper <citetitle
xlink:href='http://www.st.ewi.tudelft.nl/~dolstra/pubs/immdsd-icse2004-final.pdf'>Imposing
a Memory Management Discipline on Software Deployment</citetitle>
discusses the hashing mechanism used to ensure reliable dependency
identification and non-interference between different versions and
variants of packages. The LISA 2004 paper <citetitle
xlink:href='http://www.st.ewi.tudelft.nl/~dolstra/pubs/nspfssd-lisa2004-final.pdf'>Nix:
A Safe and Policy-Free System for Software Deployment</citetitle>
gives a more general discussion of Nix from a system-administration
perspective. The CBSE 2005 paper <citetitle
xlink:href='http://www.st.ewi.tudelft.nl/~dolstra/pubs/eupfcdm-cbse2005-final.pdf'>Efficient
Upgrading in a Purely Functional Component Deployment Model
</citetitle> is about transparent patch deployment in Nix. The SCM-12
paper <citetitle
xlink:href='http://www.st.ewi.tudelft.nl/~dolstra/pubs/servicecm-scm12-final.pdf'>
Service Configuration Management</citetitle> shows how services (e.g.,
web servers) can be deployed and managed through Nix. A short
overview of NixOS is given in the HotOS XI paper <citetitle
xlink:href="http://www.st.ewi.tudelft.nl/~dolstra/pubs/hotos-final.pdf">Purely
Functional System Configuration Management</citetitle>. The Nix
homepage has <link
xlink:href="http://nixos.org/docs/papers.html">an up-to-date list
of Nix-related papers</link>.</para>
<para>Nix is the subject of Eelco Dolstras PhD thesis <citetitle
xlink:href="http://igitur-archive.library.uu.nl/dissertations/2006-0118-200031/index.htm">The
Purely Functional Software Deployment Model</citetitle>, which
contains most of the papers listed above.</para>
<para>Nix has a homepage at <link
xlink:href="http://nixos.org/"/>.</para>
</section>
<warning><para>This manual is a work in progress. It's quite likely
to be incomplete, inconsistent with the current implementation, or
simply wrong.</para></warning>
<note><para>Some background information on Nix can be found in two
papers. The ICSE 2004 paper <ulink
url='http://www.cs.uu.nl/~eelco/pubs/immdsd-icse2004-final.pdf'><citetitle>Imposing
a Memory Management Discipline on Software
Deployment</citetitle></ulink> discusses the hashing mechanism used to
ensure reliable dependency identification and non-interference between
different versions and variants of packages. The LISA 2004 paper
<ulink
url='http://www.cs.uu.nl/~eelco/pubs/nspfssd-lisa2004-final.pdf'><citetitle>Nix:
A Safe and Policy-Free System for Software
Deployment</citetitle></ulink> gives a more general discussion of Nix
from a system-administration perspective.</para></note>
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<!ENTITY introduction SYSTEM "introduction.xml">
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<!ENTITY nix-push SYSTEM "nix-push.xml">
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<!-- <!ENTITY nix-lang-ref SYSTEM "nix-lang-ref.xml"> -->
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<info>
<title>Nix User's Guide</title>
<subtitle>Draft (Version <xi:include href="version.txt"
parse="text" />)</subtitle>
<book>
<title>Nix User's Guide</title>
<subtitle>Draft (Version &version;)</subtitle>
<bookinfo>
<author>
<personname>
<firstname>Eelco</firstname>
<surname>Dolstra</surname>
</personname>
<affiliation>
<orgname>Delft University of Technology</orgname>
<orgdiv>Department of Software Technology</orgdiv>
</affiliation>
<contrib>Author</contrib>
<firstname>Eelco</firstname>
<surname>Dolstra</surname>
</author>
<copyright>
<year>2004</year>
<year>2005</year>
<year>2006</year>
<year>2007</year>
<year>2008</year>
<year>2009</year>
<year>2010</year>
<holder>Eelco Dolstra</holder>
</copyright>
</bookinfo>
<date>August 2010</date>
</info>
<xi:include href="introduction.xml" />
<xi:include href="quick-start.xml" />
<xi:include href="installation.xml" />
<xi:include href="package-management.xml" />
<xi:include href="writing-nix-expressions.xml" />
<xi:include href="build-farm.xml" />
&introduction;
&quick-start;
&installation;
&package-management;
&writing-nix-expressions;
&build-farm;
<appendix>
<title>Command Reference</title>
<xi:include href="opt-common.xml" />
<xi:include href="env-common.xml" />
<xi:include href="conf-file.xml" />
<section>
<title>Main commands</title>
<xi:include href="nix-env.xml" />
<xi:include href="nix-instantiate.xml" />
<xi:include href="nix-store.xml" />
</section>
<section>
<title>Utilities</title>
<xi:include href="nix-build.xml" />
<xi:include href="nix-channel.xml" />
<xi:include href="nix-collect-garbage.xml" />
<xi:include href="nix-copy-closure.xml" />
<xi:include href="nix-hash.xml" />
<xi:include href="nix-install-package.xml" />
<xi:include href="nix-prefetch-url.xml" />
<xi:include href="nix-pull.xml" />
<xi:include href="nix-push.xml" />
<xi:include href="nix-worker.xml" />
</section>
<sect1>
<title>nix-env</title>
&nix-env;
</sect1>
<sect1>
<title>nix-store</title>
&nix-store;
</sect1>
<sect1>
<title>nix-instantiate</title>
&nix-instantiate;
</sect1>
<sect1>
<title>nix-collect-garbage</title>
&nix-collect-garbage;
</sect1>
<sect1>
<title>nix-push</title>
&nix-push;
</sect1>
<sect1>
<title>nix-pull</title>
&nix-pull;
</sect1>
<sect1>
<title>nix-prefetch-url</title>
&nix-prefetch-url;
</sect1>
</appendix>
<xi:include href="troubleshooting.xml" />
<!-- <xi:include href="bugs.xml" /> -->
<xi:include href="glossary.xml" />
<!-- &nix-lang-ref; -->
&troubleshooting;
&bugs;
<appendix>
<title>Nix Release Notes</title>
<xi:include href="release-notes.xml"
xpointer="xmlns(x=http://docbook.org/ns/docbook)xpointer(x:article/x:section)" />
</appendix>
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<refentry xmlns="http://docbook.org/ns/docbook"
xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink"
xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XInclude"
xml:id="sec-nix-build">
<refmeta>
<refentrytitle>nix-build</refentrytitle>
<manvolnum>1</manvolnum>
<refmiscinfo class="source">Nix</refmiscinfo>
<refmiscinfo class="version"><xi:include href="version.txt" parse="text"/></refmiscinfo>
</refmeta>
<refnamediv>
<refname>nix-build</refname>
<refpurpose>build a Nix expression</refpurpose>
</refnamediv>
<refsynopsisdiv>
<cmdsynopsis>
<command>nix-build</command>
<xi:include xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XInclude" href="opt-common-syn.xml#xmlns(db=http://docbook.org/ns/docbook)xpointer(/db:nop/*)" />
<arg><option>--arg</option> <replaceable>name</replaceable> <replaceable>value</replaceable></arg>
<arg><option>--argstr</option> <replaceable>name</replaceable> <replaceable>value</replaceable></arg>
<arg>
<group choice='req'>
<arg choice='plain'><option>--attr</option></arg>
<arg choice='plain'><option>-A</option></arg>
</group>
<replaceable>attrPath</replaceable>
</arg>
<arg><option>--add-drv-link</option></arg>
<arg><option>--drv-link </option><replaceable>drvlink</replaceable></arg>
<arg><option>--no-out-link</option></arg>
<arg>
<group choice='req'>
<arg choice='plain'><option>--out-link</option></arg>
<arg choice='plain'><option>-o</option></arg>
</group>
<replaceable>outlink</replaceable>
</arg>
<arg choice='plain' rep='repeat'><replaceable>paths</replaceable></arg>
</cmdsynopsis>
</refsynopsisdiv>
<refsection><title>Description</title>
<para>The <command>nix-build</command> command builds the derivations
described by the Nix expressions in <replaceable>paths</replaceable>.
If the build succeeds, it places a symlink to the result in the
current directory. The symlink is called <filename>result</filename>.
If there are multiple Nix expressions, or the Nix expressions evaluate
to multiple derivations, multiple sequentially numbered symlinks are
created (<filename>result</filename>, <filename>result-2</filename>,
and so on).</para>
<para>If no <replaceable>paths</replaceable> are specified, then
<command>nix-build</command> will use <filename>default.nix</filename>
in the current directory, if it exists.</para>
<para><command>nix-build</command> is essentially a wrapper around
<link
linkend="sec-nix-instantiate"><command>nix-instantiate</command></link>
(to translate a high-level Nix expression to a low-level store
derivation) and <link
linkend="rsec-nix-store-realise"><command>nix-store
--realise</command></link> (to build the store derivation).</para>
<warning><para>The result of the build is automatically registered as
a root of the Nix garbage collector. This root disappears
automatically when the <filename>result</filename> symlink is deleted
or renamed. So dont rename the symlink.</para></warning>
</refsection>
<refsection><title>Options</title>
<para>See also <xref linkend="sec-common-options" />. All options not
listed here are passed to <command>nix-store --realise</command>,
except for <option>--arg</option> and <option>--attr</option> /
<option>-A</option> which are passed to
<command>nix-instantiate</command>.</para>
<variablelist>
<varlistentry><term><option>--add-drv-link</option></term>
<listitem><para>Add a symlink in the current directory to the
store derivation produced by <command>nix-instantiate</command>.
The symlink is called <filename>derivation</filename> (which is
numbered in the case of multiple derivations). The derivation is
a root of the garbage collector until the symlink is deleted or
renamed.</para></listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry><term><option>--drv-link</option> <replaceable>drvlink</replaceable></term>
<listitem><para>Change the name of the symlink to the derivation
created when <option>--add-drv-link</option> is used from
<filename>derivation</filename> to
<replaceable>drvlink</replaceable>.</para></listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry><term><option>--no-out-link</option></term>
<listitem><para>Do not create a symlink to the output path. Note
that as a result the output does not become a root of the garbage
collector, and so might be deleted by <command>nix-store
--gc</command>.</para></listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry xml:id='opt-out-link'><term><option>--out-link</option> /
<option>-o</option> <replaceable>outlink</replaceable></term>
<listitem><para>Change the name of the symlink to the output path
created unless <option>--no-out-link</option> is used from
<filename>result</filename> to
<replaceable>outlink</replaceable>.</para></listitem>
</varlistentry>
</variablelist>
</refsection>
<refsection><title>Examples</title>
<screen>
$ nix-build pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix -A firefox
store derivation is /nix/store/qybprl8sz2lc...-firefox-1.5.0.7.drv
/nix/store/d18hyl92g30l...-firefox-1.5.0.7
$ ls -l result
lrwxrwxrwx <replaceable>...</replaceable> result -> /nix/store/d18hyl92g30l...-firefox-1.5.0.7
$ ls ./result/bin/
firefox firefox-config</screen>
</refsection>
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xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink"
xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XInclude"
xml:id="sec-nix-channel">
<refmeta>
<refentrytitle>nix-channel</refentrytitle>
<manvolnum>1</manvolnum>
<refmiscinfo class="source">Nix</refmiscinfo>
<refmiscinfo class="version"><xi:include href="version.txt" parse="text"/></refmiscinfo>
</refmeta>
<refnamediv>
<refname>nix-channel</refname>
<refpurpose>manage Nix channels</refpurpose>
</refnamediv>
<refsynopsisdiv>
<cmdsynopsis>
<command>nix-channel</command>
<group choice='req'>
<arg choice='plain'><option>--add</option> <replaceable>url</replaceable></arg>
<arg choice='plain'><option>--remove</option> <replaceable>url</replaceable></arg>
<arg choice='plain'><option>--list</option></arg>
<arg choice='plain'><option>--update</option></arg>
</group>
</cmdsynopsis>
</refsynopsisdiv>
<refsection><title>Description</title>
<para>A Nix channel is mechanism that allows you to automatically stay
up-to-date with a set of pre-built Nix expressions. A Nix channel is
just a URL that points to a place that contains a set of Nix
expressions, as well as a <command>nix-push</command> manifest. See
also <xref linkend="sec-channels" />.</para>
<para>This command has the following operations:
<variablelist>
<varlistentry><term><option>--add</option> <replaceable>url</replaceable></term>
<listitem><para>Adds <replaceable>url</replaceable> to the list of
subscribed channels.</para></listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry><term><option>--remove</option> <replaceable>url</replaceable></term>
<listitem><para>Removes <replaceable>url</replaceable> from the
list of subscribed channels.</para></listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry><term><option>--list</option></term>
<listitem><para>Prints the URLs of all subscribed channels on
standard output.</para></listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry><term><option>--update</option></term>
<listitem><para>Downloads the Nix expressions of all subscribed
channels, makes them the default for <command>nix-env</command>
operations (by symlinking them in the directory
<filename>~/.nix-defexpr</filename>), and performs a
<command>nix-pull</command> on the manifests of all channels to
make pre-built binaries available.</para></listitem>
</varlistentry>
</variablelist>
</para>
<para>Note that <option>--add</option> and <option>--remove</option>
do not automatically perform an update.</para>
<para>The list of subscribed channels is stored in
<filename>~/.nix-channels</filename>.</para>
<para>A channel consists of two elements: a bzipped Tar archive
containing the Nix expressions, and a manifest created by
<command>nix-push</command>. These must be stored under
<literal><replaceable>url</replaceable>/nixexprs.tar.bz2</literal> and
<literal><replaceable>url</replaceable>/MANIFEST</literal>,
respectively.</para>
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<refentry xmlns="http://docbook.org/ns/docbook"
xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink"
xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XInclude"
xml:id="sec-nix-collect-garbage">
<refmeta>
<refentrytitle>nix-collect-garbage</refentrytitle>
<manvolnum>1</manvolnum>
<refmiscinfo class="source">Nix</refmiscinfo>
<refmiscinfo class="version"><xi:include href="version.txt" parse="text"/></refmiscinfo>
</refmeta>
<refentry>
<refnamediv>
<refname>nix-collect-garbage</refname>
<refpurpose>remove unreachable store paths</refpurpose>
</refnamediv>
<refnamediv>
<refname>nix-collect-garbage</refname>
<refpurpose>delete unreachable store paths</refpurpose>
</refnamediv>
<refsynopsisdiv>
<cmdsynopsis>
<command>nix-collect-garbage</command>
<group choice='opt'>
<arg choice='plain'><option>--print-live</option></arg>
<arg choice='plain'><option>--print-dead</option></arg>
</group>
<arg><option>--min-age</option> <replaceable>age</replaceable></arg>
</cmdsynopsis>
</refsynopsisdiv>
<refsynopsisdiv>
<cmdsynopsis>
<command>nix-collect-garbage</command>
<arg><option>--delete-old</option></arg>
<arg><option>-d</option></arg>
<group choice='opt'>
<arg choice='plain'><option>--print-roots</option></arg>
<arg choice='plain'><option>--print-live</option></arg>
<arg choice='plain'><option>--print-dead</option></arg>
<arg choice='plain'><option>--delete</option></arg>
</group>
</cmdsynopsis>
</refsynopsisdiv>
<refsection>
<title>Description</title>
<refsection><title>Description</title>
<para>
The command <command>nix-collect-garbage</command> performs a
garbage collection on the Nix store: any paths in the Nix store
that are garbage (not reachable from a set of root store
expressions) are deleted.
</para>
<para>The command <command>nix-collect-garbage</command> is mostly an
alias of <link linkend="rsec-nix-store-gc"><command>nix-store
--gc</command></link>, that is, it deletes all unreachable paths in
the Nix store to clean up your system. However, it provides an
additional option <option>-d</option> (<option>--delete-old</option>)
that deletes all old generations of all profiles in
<filename>/nix/var/nix/profiles</filename> by invoking
<literal>nix-env --delete-generations old</literal> on all profiles.
Of course, this makes rollbacks to previous configurations
impossible.</para>
<para>
The roots of the garbage collector are the store expressions
mentioned in the files in the directory
<filename><replaceable>prefix</replaceable>/var/nix/gcroots</filename>.
By default, the roots are all user environments in
<filename><replaceable>prefix</replaceable>/var/nix/profiles</filename>.
You can register other store expressions as roots by writing the
full path of the store expression to an arbitrary file in the
<filename>gcroots</filename> directory (or a subdirectory
thereof).
</para>
</refsection>
</refsection>
<refsection><title>Example</title>
<refsection>
<title>Options</title>
<para>To delete from the Nix store everything that is not used by the
current generations of each profile, do
<variablelist>
<screen>
$ nix-collect-garbage -d</screen>
<varlistentry>
<term><option>--print-live</option> / <option>--print-dead</option></term>
<listitem>
<para>
These options cause the set of live or dead paths to be
printed, respectively, rather than performing an actual
garbage collector. They correspond exactly with the
sub-operations in <command>nix-store
<option>--gc</option></command>.
</para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry>
<term><option>--min-age</option> <replaceable>age</replaceable></term>
<listitem>
<para>
This option corresponds to the <option>--min-age</option>
option in <command>nix-store <option>--gc</option></command>.
</para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
</variablelist>
</para>
</refsection>
</refsection>
<refsection>
<title>Examples</title>
<para>
To delete all unreachable paths, just do:
<screen>
$ nix-collect-garbage</screen>
</para>
</refsection>
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xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink"
xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XInclude"
xml:id="sec-nix-copy-closure">
<refmeta>
<refentrytitle>nix-copy-closure</refentrytitle>
<manvolnum>1</manvolnum>
<refmiscinfo class="source">Nix</refmiscinfo>
<refmiscinfo class="version"><xi:include href="version.txt" parse="text"/></refmiscinfo>
</refmeta>
<refnamediv>
<refname>nix-copy-closure</refname>
<refpurpose>copy a closure to or from a remote machine via SSH</refpurpose>
</refnamediv>
<refsynopsisdiv>
<cmdsynopsis>
<command>nix-copy-closure</command>
<group>
<arg choice='plain'><option>--to</option></arg>
<arg choice='plain'><option>--from</option></arg>
</group>
<arg><option>--sign</option></arg>
<arg><option>--gzip</option></arg>
<arg choice='plain'>
<arg><replaceable>user@</replaceable></arg><replaceable>machine</replaceable>
</arg>
<arg choice='plain'><replaceable>paths</replaceable></arg>
</cmdsynopsis>
</refsynopsisdiv>
<refsection><title>Description</title>
<para><command>nix-copy-closure</command> gives you an easy and
efficient way to exchange software between machines. Given one or
more Nix store paths <replaceable>paths</replaceable> on the local
machine, <command>nix-copy-closure</command> computes the closure of
those paths (i.e. all their dependencies in the Nix store), and copies
all paths in the closure to the remote machine via the
<command>ssh</command> (Secure Shell) command. With the
<option>--from</option>, the direction is reversed:
the closure of <replaceable>paths</replaceable> on a remote machine is
copied to the Nix store on the local machine.</para>
<para>This command is efficient because it only sends the store paths
that are missing on the target machine.</para>
<para>Since <command>nix-copy-closure</command> calls
<command>ssh</command>, you may be asked to type in the appropriate
password or passphrase. In fact, you may be asked
<emphasis>twice</emphasis> because <command>nix-copy-closure</command>
currently connects twice to the remote machine, first to get the set
of paths missing on the target machine, and second to send the dump of
those paths. If this bothers you, use
<command>ssh-agent</command>.</para>
<refsection><title>Options</title>
<variablelist>
<varlistentry><term><option>--to</option></term>
<listitem><para>Copy the closure of
<replaceable>paths</replaceable> from the local Nix store to the
Nix store on <replaceable>machine</replaceable>. This is the
default.</para></listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry><term><option>--from</option></term>
<listitem><para>Copy the closure of
<replaceable>paths</replaceable> from the Nix store on
<replaceable>machine</replaceable> to the local Nix
store.</para></listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry><term><option>--sign</option></term>
<listitem><para>Let the sending machine cryptographically sign the
dump of each path with the key in
<filename>/nix/etc/nix/signing-key.sec</filename>. If the user on
the target machine does not have direct access to the Nix store
(i.e., if the target machine has a multi-user Nix installation),
then the target machine will check the dump against
<filename>/nix/etc/nix/signing-key.pub</filename> before unpacking
it in its Nix store. This allows secure sharing of store paths
between untrusted users on two machines, provided that there is a
trust relation between the Nix installations on both machines
(namely, they have matching public/secret keys).</para></listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry><term><option>--gzip</option></term>
<listitem><para>Compress the dump of each path with
<command>gzip</command> before sending it.</para></listitem>
</varlistentry>
</variablelist>
</refsection>
<refsection><title>Environment variables</title>
<variablelist>
<varlistentry><term><envar>NIX_SSHOPTS</envar></term>
<listitem><para>Additional options to be passed to
<command>ssh</command> on the command line.</para></listitem>
</varlistentry>
</variablelist>
</refsection>
<refsection><title>Examples</title>
<para>Copy Firefox with all its dependencies to a remote machine:
<screen>
$ nix-copy-closure --to alice@itchy.labs $(type -tP firefox)</screen>
</para>
<para>Copy Subversion from a remote machine and then install it into a
user environment:
<screen>
$ nix-copy-closure --from alice@itchy.labs \
/nix/store/0dj0503hjxy5mbwlafv1rsbdiyx1gkdy-subversion-1.4.4
$ nix-env -i /nix/store/0dj0503hjxy5mbwlafv1rsbdiyx1gkdy-subversion-1.4.4
</screen>
</para>
</refsection>
</refsection>
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<refentry xmlns="http://docbook.org/ns/docbook"
xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink"
xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XInclude"
xml:id="sec-nix-hash">
<refmeta>
<refentrytitle>nix-hash</refentrytitle>
<manvolnum>1</manvolnum>
<refmiscinfo class="source">Nix</refmiscinfo>
<refmiscinfo class="version"><xi:include href="version.txt" parse="text"/></refmiscinfo>
</refmeta>
<refnamediv>
<refname>nix-hash</refname>
<refpurpose>compute the cryptographic hash of a path</refpurpose>
</refnamediv>
<refsynopsisdiv>
<cmdsynopsis>
<command>nix-hash</command>
<arg><option>--flat</option></arg>
<arg><option>--base32</option></arg>
<arg><option>--truncate</option></arg>
<arg><option>--type</option> <replaceable>hashAlgo</replaceable></arg>
<arg choice='plain' rep='repeat'><replaceable>path</replaceable></arg>
</cmdsynopsis>
<cmdsynopsis>
<command>nix-hash</command>
<arg choice='plain'><option>--to-base16</option></arg>
<arg choice='plain' rep='repeat'><replaceable>hash</replaceable></arg>
</cmdsynopsis>
<cmdsynopsis>
<command>nix-hash</command>
<arg choice='plain'><option>--to-base32</option></arg>
<arg choice='plain' rep='repeat'><replaceable>hash</replaceable></arg>
</cmdsynopsis>
</refsynopsisdiv>
<refsection><title>Description</title>
<para>The command <command>nix-hash</command> computes the
cryptographic hash of the contents of each
<replaceable>path</replaceable> and prints it on standard output. By
default, it computes an MD5 hash, but other hash algorithms are
available as well. The hash is printed in hexadecimal.</para>
<para>The hash is computed over a <emphasis>serialisation</emphasis>
of each path: a dump of the file system tree rooted at the path. This
allows directories and symlinks to be hashed as well as regular files.
The dump is in the <emphasis>NAR format</emphasis> produced by <link
linkend="refsec-nix-store-dump"><command>nix-store</command>
<option>--dump</option></link>. Thus, <literal>nix-hash
<replaceable>path</replaceable></literal> yields the same
cryptographic hash as <literal>nix-store --dump
<replaceable>path</replaceable> | md5sum</literal>.</para>
</refsection>
<refsection><title>Options</title>
<variablelist>
<varlistentry><term><option>--flat</option></term>
<listitem><para>Print the cryptographic hash of the contents of
each regular file <replaceable>path</replaceable>. That is, do
not compute the hash over the dump of
<replaceable>path</replaceable>. The result is identical to that
produced by the GNU commands <command>md5sum</command> and
<command>sha1sum</command>.</para></listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry><term><option>--base32</option></term>
<listitem><para>Print the hash in a base-32 representation rather
than hexadecimal. This base-32 representation is more compact and
can be used in Nix expressions (such as in calls to
<function>fetchurl</function>).</para></listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry><term><option>--truncate</option></term>
<listitem><para>Truncate hashes longer than 160 bits (such as
SHA-256) to 160 bits.</para></listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry><term><option>--type</option> <replaceable>hashAlgo</replaceable></term>
<listitem><para>Specify a cryptographic hash, which can be one of
<literal>md5</literal>, <literal>sha1</literal>, and
<literal>sha256</literal>.</para></listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry><term><option>--to-base16</option></term>
<listitem><para>Dont hash anything, but convert the base-32 hash
representation <replaceable>hash</replaceable> to
hexadecimal.</para></listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry><term><option>--to-base32</option></term>
<listitem><para>Dont hash anything, but convert the hexadecimal
hash representation <replaceable>hash</replaceable> to
base-32.</para></listitem>
</varlistentry>
</variablelist>
</refsection>
<refsection><title>Examples</title>
<para>Computing hashes:
<screen>
$ mkdir test
$ echo "hello" > test/world
$ nix-hash test/ <lineannotation>(MD5 hash; default)</lineannotation>
8179d3caeff1869b5ba1744e5a245c04
$ nix-store --dump test/ | md5sum <lineannotation>(for comparison)</lineannotation>
8179d3caeff1869b5ba1744e5a245c04 -
$ nix-hash --type sha1 test/
e4fd8ba5f7bbeaea5ace89fe10255536cd60dab6
$ nix-hash --type sha1 --base32 test/
nvd61k9nalji1zl9rrdfmsmvyyjqpzg4
$ nix-hash --type sha256 --flat test/
error: reading file `test/': Is a directory
$ nix-hash --type sha256 --flat test/world
5891b5b522d5df086d0ff0b110fbd9d21bb4fc7163af34d08286a2e846f6be03</screen>
</para>
<para>Converting between hexadecimal and base-32:
<screen>
$ nix-hash --type sha1 --to-base32 e4fd8ba5f7bbeaea5ace89fe10255536cd60dab6
nvd61k9nalji1zl9rrdfmsmvyyjqpzg4
$ nix-hash --type sha1 --to-base16 nvd61k9nalji1zl9rrdfmsmvyyjqpzg4
e4fd8ba5f7bbeaea5ace89fe10255536cd60dab6</screen>
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<refentry xmlns="http://docbook.org/ns/docbook"
xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink"
xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XInclude"
xml:id="sec-nix-install-package">
<refmeta>
<refentrytitle>nix-install-package</refentrytitle>
<manvolnum>1</manvolnum>
<refmiscinfo class="source">Nix</refmiscinfo>
<refmiscinfo class="version"><xi:include href="version.txt" parse="text"/></refmiscinfo>
</refmeta>
<refnamediv>
<refname>nix-install-package</refname>
<refpurpose>install a Nix Package file</refpurpose>
</refnamediv>
<refsynopsisdiv>
<cmdsynopsis>
<command>nix-install-package</command>
<arg><option>--non-interactive</option></arg>
<arg>
<group choice='req'>
<arg choice='plain'><option>--profile</option></arg>
<arg choice='plain'><option>-p</option></arg>
</group>
<replaceable>path</replaceable>
</arg>
<sbr />
<group choice='req'>
<arg choice='req'>
<option>--url</option>
<arg choice='plain'><replaceable>url</replaceable></arg>
</arg>
<arg choice='req'>
<arg choice='plain'><replaceable>file</replaceable></arg>
</arg>
</group>
</cmdsynopsis>
</refsynopsisdiv>
<refsection><title>Description</title>
<para>The command <command>nix-install-package</command> interactively
installs a Nix Package file (<filename>*.nixpkg</filename>), which is
a small file that contains a store path to be installed along with the
URL of a <link linkend="sec-nix-push"><command>nix-push</command>
manifest</link>. The Nix Package file is either
<replaceable>file</replaceable>, or automatically downloaded from
<replaceable>url</replaceable> if the <option>--url</option> switch is
used.</para>
<para><command>nix-install-package</command> is used in <link
linkend="sec-one-click">one-click installs</link> to download and
install pre-built binary packages with all necessary dependencies.
<command>nix-install-package</command> is intended to be associated
with the MIME type <literal>application/nix-package</literal> in a web
browser so that it is invoked automatically when you click on
<filename>*.nixpkg</filename> files. When invoked, it restarts itself
in a terminal window (since otherwise it would be invisible when run
from a browser), asks the user to confirm whether to install the
package, and if so downloads and installs the package into the users
current profile.</para>
<para>To obtain a window, <command>nix-install-package</command> tries
to restart itself with <command>xterm</command>,
<command>konsole</command> and
<command>gnome-terminal</command>.</para>
</refsection>
<refsection><title>Options</title>
<variablelist>
<varlistentry><term><option>--non-interactive</option></term>
<listitem><para>Do not open a new terminal window and do not ask
for confirmation.</para></listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry><term><option>--profile</option></term>
<term><option>-p</option></term>
<listitem><para>Install the package into the specified profile
rather than the users current profile.</para></listitem>
</varlistentry>
</variablelist>
</refsection>
<refsection><title>Examples</title>
<para>To install <filename>subversion-1.4.0.nixpkg</filename> into the
users current profile, without any prompting:
<screen>
$ nix-install-package --non-interactive subversion-1.4.0.nixpkg</screen>
</para>
<para>To install the same package from some URL into a different
profile:
<screen>
$ nix-install-package --non-interactive -p /nix/var/nix/profiles/eelco \
--url http://nix.cs.uu.nl/dist/nix/nixpkgs-0.10pre6622/pkgs/subversion-1.4.0-i686-linux.nixpkg</screen>
</para>
</refsection>
<refsection><title>Format of <literal>nixpkg</literal> files</title>
<para>A Nix Package file consists of a single line with the following
format:
<screen>
NIXPKG1 <replaceable>manifestURL</replaceable> <replaceable>name</replaceable> <replaceable>system</replaceable> <replaceable>drvPath</replaceable> <replaceable>outPath</replaceable></screen>
The elemens are as follows:
<variablelist>
<varlistentry><term><literal>NIXPKG1</literal></term>
<listitem><para>The version of the Nix Package
file.</para></listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry><term><replaceable>manifestURL</replaceable></term>
<listitem><para>The manifest to be pulled by
<command>nix-pull</command>. The manifest must contain
<replaceable>outPath</replaceable>.</para></listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry><term><replaceable>name</replaceable></term>
<listitem><para>The symbolic name and version of the
package.</para></listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry><term><replaceable>system</replaceable></term>
<listitem><para>The platform identifier of the platform for which
this binary package is intended.</para></listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry><term><replaceable>drvPath</replaceable></term>
<listitem><para>The path in the Nix store of the derivation from
which <replaceable>outPath</replaceable> was built. Not currently
used.</para></listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry><term><replaceable>outPath</replaceable></term>
<listitem><para>The path in the Nix store of the package. After
<command>nix-install-package</command> has obtained the manifest
from <replaceable>manifestURL</replaceable>, it performs a
<literal>nix-env -i</literal> <replaceable>outPath</replaceable>
to install the binary package.</para></listitem>
</varlistentry>
</variablelist>
</para>
<para>An example follows:
<screen>
NIXPKG1 http://.../nixpkgs-0.10pre6622/MANIFEST subversion-1.4.0 i686-darwin \
/nix/store/4kh60jkp...-subversion-1.4.0.drv \
/nix/store/nkw7wpgb...-subversion-1.4.0</screen>
(The line breaks (<literal>\</literal>) are for presentation purposes
and not part of the actual file.)
</para>
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<refentry xmlns="http://docbook.org/ns/docbook"
xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink"
xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XInclude"
xml:id="sec-nix-instantiate">
<refmeta>
<refentrytitle>nix-instantiate</refentrytitle>
<manvolnum>1</manvolnum>
<refmiscinfo class="source">Nix</refmiscinfo>
<refmiscinfo class="version"><xi:include href="version.txt" parse="text"/></refmiscinfo>
</refmeta>
<refentry>
<refnamediv>
<refname>nix-instantiate</refname>
<refpurpose>instantiate store expressions from Nix expressions</refpurpose>
</refnamediv>
<refnamediv>
<refname>nix-instantiate</refname>
<refpurpose>instantiate store derivations from Nix expressions</refpurpose>
</refnamediv>
<refsynopsisdiv>
<cmdsynopsis>
<command>nix-instantiate</command>
<xi:include xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XInclude" href="opt-common-syn.xml#xmlns(db=http://docbook.org/ns/docbook)xpointer(/db:nop/*)" />
<arg><option>--arg</option> <replaceable>name</replaceable> <replaceable>value</replaceable></arg>
<arg>
<group choice='req'>
<arg choice='plain'><option>--attr</option></arg>
<arg choice='plain'><option>-A</option></arg>
</group>
<replaceable>attrPath</replaceable>
</arg>
<arg><option>--add-root</option> <replaceable>path</replaceable></arg>
<arg><option>--indirect</option></arg>
<arg>
<group choice='req'>
<refsynopsisdiv>
<cmdsynopsis>
<command>nix-instantiate</command>
&opt-common-syn;
<group choice='opt'>
<arg choice='plain'><option>--parse-only</option></arg>
<arg choice='plain'>
<option>--eval-only</option>
<arg><option>--strict</option></arg>
</arg>
<arg choice='plain'><option>--eval-only</option></arg>
</group>
<arg><option>--xml</option></arg>
</arg>
<arg choice='plain' rep='repeat'><replaceable>files</replaceable></arg>
</cmdsynopsis>
</refsynopsisdiv>
<arg choice='plain' rep='repeat'><replaceable>files</replaceable></arg>
</cmdsynopsis>
</refsynopsisdiv>
<refsection>
<title>Description</title>
<refsection><title>Description</title>
<para>
The command <command>nix-instantiate</command> generates
(low-level) store expressions from (high-level) Nix expressions.
It loads and evaluates the Nix expressions in each of
<replaceable>files</replaceable>. Each top-level expression
should evaluate to a derivation, a list of derivations, or a set
of derivations. The paths of the resulting store expressions
are printed on standard output.
</para>
<para>The command <command>nix-instantiate</command> generates <link
linkend="gloss-derivation">store derivations</link> from (high-level)
Nix expressions. It loads and evaluates the Nix expressions in each
of <replaceable>files</replaceable>. Each top-level expression should
evaluate to a derivation, a list of derivations, or a set of
derivations. The paths of the resulting store derivations are printed
on standard output.</para>
<para>
This command is generally used for testing Nix expression before
they are used with <command>nix-env</command>.
</para>
<para>If <replaceable>files</replaceable> is the character
<literal>-</literal>, then a Nix expression will be read from standard
input.</para>
</refsection>
<para>Most users and developers dont need to use this command
(<command>nix-env</command> and <command>nix-build</command> perform
store derivation instantiation from Nix expressions automatically).
It is most commonly used for implementing new deployment
policies.</para>
<refsection>
<title>Options</title>
<para>See also <xref linkend="sec-common-options" /> for a list of
common options.</para>
<variablelist>
</refsection>
&opt-common;
<refsection><title>Options</title>
<variablelist>
<varlistentry>
<term><option>--add-root</option> <replaceable>path</replaceable></term>
<term><option>--indirect</option></term>
<listitem><para>See the <link linkend="opt-add-root">corresponding
options</link> in <command>nix-store</command>.</para></listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry><term><option>--parse-only</option></term>
<listitem><para>Just parse the input files, and print their
abstract syntax trees on standard output in ATerm
format.</para></listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry>
<term><option>--parse-only</option></term>
<listitem>
<para>
Just parse the input files, and print their abstract
syntax trees on standard output in ATerm format.
</para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry><term><option>--eval-only</option></term>
<listitem><para>Just parse and evaluate the input files, and print
the resulting values on standard output. No instantiation of
store derivations takes place.</para></listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry>
<term><option>--eval-only</option></term>
<listitem>
<para>
Just parse and evaluate the input files, and print the
resulting values on standard output. No instantiation of
store expressions takes place.
</para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry><term><option>--xml</option></term>
</variablelist>
<listitem><para>When used with <option>--parse-only</option> and
<option>--eval-only</option>, print the resulting expression as an
XML representation of the abstract syntax tree rather than as an
ATerm. The schema is the same as that used by the <link
linkend="builtin-toXML"><function>toXML</function>
built-in</link>.</para></listitem>
</refsection>
</varlistentry>
<refsection>
<title>Examples</title>
<varlistentry><term><option>--strict</option></term>
<screen>
$ nix-instantiate gcc.nix <lineannotation>(instantiate)</lineannotation>
/nix/store/468abdcb93aa22bb721142615b97698b-d-gcc-3.3.2.store
<listitem><para>When used with <option>--eval-only</option>,
recursively evaluate list elements and attributes. Normally, such
sub-expressions are left unevaluated (since the Nix expression
language is lazy).</para>
$ nix-store -r $(nix-instantiate gcc.nix) <lineannotation>(build)</lineannotation>
<warning><para>This option can cause non-termination, because lazy
data structures can be infinitely large.</para></warning>
$ nix-store -r $(nix-instantiate gcc.nix) <lineannotation>(print output path)</lineannotation>
/nix/store/9afa718cddfdfe94b5b9303d0430ceb1-gcc-3.3.2
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
</variablelist>
</refsection>
<refsection><title>Examples</title>
<para>Instantiating store derivations from a Nix expression, and
building them using <command>nix-store</command>:
<screen>
$ nix-instantiate test.nix <lineannotation>(instantiate)</lineannotation>
/nix/store/cigxbmvy6dzix98dxxh9b6shg7ar5bvs-perl-BerkeleyDB-0.26.drv
$ nix-store -r $(nix-instantiate test.nix) <lineannotation>(build)</lineannotation>
<replaceable>...</replaceable>
/nix/store/qhqk4n8ci095g3sdp93x7rgwyh9rdvgk-perl-BerkeleyDB-0.26 <lineannotation>(output path)</lineannotation>
$ ls -l /nix/store/qhqk4n8ci095g3sdp93x7rgwyh9rdvgk-perl-BerkeleyDB-0.26
dr-xr-xr-x 2 eelco users 4096 1970-01-01 01:00 lib
$ ls -l /nix/store/9afa718cddfdfe94b5b9303d0430ceb1-gcc-3.3.2
dr-xr-xr-x 2 eelco users 360 2003-12-01 16:12 bin
dr-xr-xr-x 3 eelco users 72 2003-12-01 16:12 include
...</screen>
</para>
<para>Parsing and evaluating Nix expressions:
<screen>
$ echo '"foo" + "bar"' | nix-instantiate --parse-only -
OpPlus(Str("foo"),Str("bar"))
$ echo '"foo" + "bar"' | nix-instantiate --eval-only -
Str("foobar")
$ echo '"foo" + "bar"' | nix-instantiate --eval-only --xml -
<![CDATA[<?xml version='1.0' encoding='utf-8'?>
<expr>
<string value="foobar" />
</expr>]]></screen>
</para>
<para>The difference between non-strict and strict evaluation:
<screen>
$ echo 'rec { x = "foo"; y = x; }' | nix-instantiate --eval-only --xml -
<replaceable>...</replaceable><![CDATA[
<attr name="x">
<string value="foo" />
</attr>
<attr name="y">
<unevaluated />
</attr>]]>
<replaceable>...</replaceable></screen>
Note that <varname>y</varname> is left unevaluated (the XML
representation doesnt attempt to show non-normal forms).
<screen>
$ echo 'rec { x = "foo"; y = x; }' | nix-instantiate --eval-only --xml --strict -
<replaceable>...</replaceable><![CDATA[
<attr name="x">
<string value="foo" />
</attr>
<attr name="y">
<string value="foo" />
</attr>]]>
<replaceable>...</replaceable></screen>
</para>
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</productionset>
</sect1>
<sect1>
<title>Semantics</title>
<sect2>
<title>Built-in functions</title>
<para>
The Nix language provides the following built-in function
(<quote>primops</quote>):
</para>
<variablelist>
<varlistentry>
<term><function>import</function>
<replaceable>e</replaceable></term>
<listitem>
<para>
Evaluates the expression <replaceable>e</replaceable>,
which must yield a path value. The Nix expression
stored at this path in the file system is then read,
parsed, and evaluated. Returns the result of the
evaluation of the Nix expression just read.
</para>
<para>
Example: <literal>import ./foo.nix</literal> evaluates
the expression stored in <filename>foo.nix</filename>
(in the directory containing the expression in which the
<function>import</function> occurs).
</para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry>
<term><function>derivation</function>
<replaceable>e</replaceable></term>
<listitem>
<para>
Evaluates the expression <replaceable>e</replaceable>,
which must yield an attribute set. [...]
</para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry>
<term><function>baseNameOf</function>
<replaceable>e</replaceable></term>
<listitem>
<para>
Evaluates the expression <replaceable>e</replaceable>,
which must yield a string value, and returns a string
representing its <emphasis>base name</emphasis>. This
is the substring following the last path separator
(<literal>/</literal>).
</para>
<para>
Example: <literal>baseNameOf "/foo/bar"</literal>
returns <literal>"bar"</literal>, and
<literal>baseNameOf "/foo/bar/"</literal> returns
<literal>""</literal>.
</para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry>
<term><function>toString</function>
<replaceable>e</replaceable></term>
<listitem>
<para>
Evaluates the expression <replaceable>e</replaceable>
and coerces it into a string, if possible. Only
strings, paths, and URIs can be so coerced.
</para>
<para>
Example: <literal>toString
http://www.cs.uu.nl/</literal> returns
<literal>"http://www.cs.uu.nl/"</literal>.
</para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
</variablelist>
</sect2>
</sect1>
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<refentry xmlns="http://docbook.org/ns/docbook"
xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink"
xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XInclude"
xml:id="sec-nix-prefetch-url">
<refmeta>
<refentrytitle>nix-prefetch-url</refentrytitle>
<manvolnum>1</manvolnum>
<refmiscinfo class="source">Nix</refmiscinfo>
<refmiscinfo class="version"><xi:include href="version.txt" parse="text"/></refmiscinfo>
</refmeta>
<refentry>
<refnamediv>
<refname>nix-prefetch-url</refname>
<refpurpose>copy a file from a URL into the store and print its MD5 hash</refpurpose>
</refnamediv>
<refnamediv>
<refname>nix-prefetch-url</refname>
<refpurpose>copy a file from a URL into the store and print its MD5 hash</refpurpose>
</refnamediv>
<refsynopsisdiv>
<cmdsynopsis>
<command>nix-prefetch-url</command>
<arg choice='plain'><replaceable>url</replaceable></arg>
</cmdsynopsis>
</refsynopsisdiv>
<refsynopsisdiv>
<cmdsynopsis>
<command>nix-prefetch-url</command>
<arg choice='plain'><replaceable>url</replaceable></arg>
<arg><replaceable>hash</replaceable></arg>
</cmdsynopsis>
</refsynopsisdiv>
<refsection>
<title>Description</title>
<para>
The command <command>nix-prefetch-url</command> downloads the
file referenced by the URL <replaceable>url</replaceable>,
prints its MD5 cryptographic hash code, and copies it into the
Nix store. The file name in the store is
<filename><replaceable>hash</replaceable>-<replaceable>basename</replaceable></filename>,
where <replaceable>basename</replaceable> is everything
following the final slash in <replaceable>url</replaceable>.
</para>
<refsection><title>Description</title>
<para>
This command is just a convenience to Nix expression writers.
Often a Nix expressions fetch some source distribution from the
network using the <literal>fetchurl</literal> expression
contained in <literal>nixpkgs</literal>. However,
<literal>fetchurl</literal> requires an MD5 hash. If you don't
know the hash, you would have to download the file first, and
then <literal>fetchurl</literal> would download it again when
you build your Nix expression. Since
<literal>fetchurl</literal> uses the same name for the
downloaded file as <command>nix-prefetch-url</command>, the
redundant download can be avoided.
</para>
<para>The command <command>nix-prefetch-url</command> downloads the
file referenced by the URL <replaceable>url</replaceable>, prints its
cryptographic hash, and copies it into the Nix store. The file name
in the store is
<filename><replaceable>hash</replaceable>-<replaceable>baseName</replaceable></filename>,
where <replaceable>baseName</replaceable> is everything following the
final slash in <replaceable>url</replaceable>.</para>
</refsection>
<para>This command is just a convenience for Nix expression writers.
Often a Nix expression fetches some source distribution from the
network using the <literal>fetchurl</literal> expression contained in
Nixpkgs. However, <literal>fetchurl</literal> requires a
cryptographic hash. If you don't know the hash, you would have to
download the file first, and then <literal>fetchurl</literal> would
download it again when you build your Nix expression. Since
<literal>fetchurl</literal> uses the same name for the downloaded file
as <command>nix-prefetch-url</command>, the redundant download can be
avoided.</para>
<refsection>
<title>Examples</title>
<para>The environment variable <envar>NIX_HASH_ALGO</envar> specifies
which hash algorithm to use. It can be either <literal>md5</literal>,
<literal>sha1</literal>, or <literal>sha256</literal>. The default is
<literal>sha256</literal>.</para>
<para>If <replaceable>hash</replaceable> is specified, then a download
is not performed if the Nix store already contains a file with the
same hash and base name. Otherwise, the file is downloaded, and an
error if signaled if the actual hash of the file does not match the
specified hash.</para>
<para>This command prints the hash on standard output. Additionally,
if the environment variable <envar>PRINT_PATH</envar> is set, the path
of the downloaded file in the Nix store is also printed.</para>
</refsection>
<refsection><title>Examples</title>
<screen>
<screen>
$ nix-prefetch-url ftp://ftp.nluug.nl/pub/gnu/make/make-3.80.tar.bz2
0bbd1df101bc0294d440471e50feca71
$ PRINT_PATH=1 nix-prefetch-url ftp://ftp.nluug.nl/pub/gnu/make/make-3.80.tar.bz2
0bbd1df101bc0294d440471e50feca71
/nix/store/wvyz8ifdn7wyz1p3pqyn0ra45ka2l492-make-3.80.tar.bz2</screen>
</refsection>
...
file has hash 0bbd1df101bc0294d440471e50feca71
...</screen>
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<refentry xmlns="http://docbook.org/ns/docbook"
xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink"
xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XInclude"
xml:id="sec-nix-pull">
<refentry>
<refnamediv>
<refname>nix-pull</refname>
<refpurpose>pull substitutes from a network cache</refpurpose>
</refnamediv>
<refmeta>
<refentrytitle>nix-pull</refentrytitle>
<manvolnum>1</manvolnum>
<refmiscinfo class="source">Nix</refmiscinfo>
<refmiscinfo class="version"><xi:include href="version.txt" parse="text"/></refmiscinfo>
</refmeta>
<refsynopsisdiv>
<cmdsynopsis>
<command>nix-pull</command>
<arg choice='plain'><replaceable>url</replaceable></arg>
</cmdsynopsis>
</refsynopsisdiv>
<refnamediv>
<refname>nix-pull</refname>
<refpurpose>pull substitutes from a network cache</refpurpose>
</refnamediv>
<refsection>
<title>Description</title>
<refsynopsisdiv>
<cmdsynopsis>
<command>nix-pull</command>
<arg choice='plain'><replaceable>url</replaceable></arg>
</cmdsynopsis>
</refsynopsisdiv>
<para>
The command <command>nix-pull</command> obtains a list of
pre-built store paths from the URL
<replaceable>url</replaceable>, and for each of these store
paths, registers a substitute derivation that downloads and
unpacks it into the Nix store. This is used to speed up
installations: if you attempt to install something that has
already been built and stored into the network cache, Nix can
transparently re-use the pre-built store paths.
</para>
<para>
The file at <replaceable>url</replaceable> must be compatible
with the files created by <replaceable>nix-push</replaceable>.
</para>
<refsection><title>Description</title>
</refsection>
<para>The command <command>nix-pull</command> obtains a list of
pre-built store paths from the URL <replaceable>url</replaceable>, and
for each of these store paths, registers a substitute derivation that
downloads and unpacks it into the Nix store. This is used to speed up
installations: if you attempt to install something that has already
been built and stored into the network cache, Nix can transparently
re-use the pre-built store paths.</para>
<para>The file at <replaceable>url</replaceable> must be compatible
with the files created by <replaceable>nix-push</replaceable>.</para>
</refsection>
<refsection><title>Examples</title>
<screen>
$ nix-pull http://nix.cs.uu.nl/dist/nix/nixpkgs-0.5pre753/MANIFEST</screen>
</refsection>
<refsection>
<title>Examples</title>
<screen>
$ nix-pull http://catamaran.labs.cs.uu.nl/dist/nix/nixpkgs-0.5pre753/MANIFEST</screen>
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<refentry xmlns="http://docbook.org/ns/docbook"
xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink"
xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XInclude"
xml:id="sec-nix-push">
<refentry>
<refnamediv>
<refname>nix-push</refname>
<refpurpose>push store paths onto a network cache</refpurpose>
</refnamediv>
<refmeta>
<refentrytitle>nix-push</refentrytitle>
<manvolnum>1</manvolnum>
<refmiscinfo class="source">Nix</refmiscinfo>
<refmiscinfo class="version"><xi:include href="version.txt" parse="text"/></refmiscinfo>
</refmeta>
<refsynopsisdiv>
<cmdsynopsis>
<command>nix-push</command>
<arg choice='plain'><replaceable>archives-put-url</replaceable></arg>
<arg choice='plain'><replaceable>archives-get-url</replaceable></arg>
<arg choice='plain'><replaceable>manifest-put-url</replaceable></arg>
<arg choice='plain' rep='repeat'><replaceable>paths</replaceable></arg>
</cmdsynopsis>
</refsynopsisdiv>
<refnamediv>
<refname>nix-push</refname>
<refpurpose>push store paths onto a network cache</refpurpose>
</refnamediv>
<refsection>
<title>Description</title>
<refsynopsisdiv>
<cmdsynopsis>
<command>nix-push</command>
<group choice='req'>
<arg choice='req'>
<arg choice='plain'><replaceable>archivesPutURL</replaceable></arg>
<arg choice='plain'><replaceable>archivesGetURL</replaceable></arg>
<arg choice='plain'><replaceable>manifestPutURL</replaceable></arg>
</arg>
<arg choice='req'>
<arg choice='plain'><option>--copy</option></arg>
<arg choice='plain'><replaceable>archivesDir</replaceable></arg>
<arg choice='plain'><replaceable>manifestFile</replaceable></arg>
</arg>
</group>
<arg choice='plain' rep='repeat'><replaceable>paths</replaceable></arg>
</cmdsynopsis>
</refsynopsisdiv>
<para>
The command <command>nix-push</command> builds a set of store
expressions (if necessary), and then packages and uploads all
store paths in the resulting closures to a server. A network
cache thus populated can subsequently be used to speed up
software deployment on other machines using the
<command>nix-pull</command> command.
</para>
<refsection><title>Description</title>
<para>The command <command>nix-push</command> builds a set of store
paths (if necessary), and then packages and uploads all store paths in
the resulting closures to a server. A network cache thus populated
can subsequently be used to speed up software deployment on other
machines using the <command>nix-pull</command> command.</para>
<para><command>nix-push</command> performs the following actions.
<para>
<command>nix-push</command> performs the following actions.
<orderedlist>
<orderedlist>
<listitem><para>Each path in <replaceable>paths</replaceable> is
realised (using <link
linkend='rsec-nix-store-realise'><literal>nix-store
--realise</literal></link>).</para></listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
The store expressions stored in
<replaceable>paths</replaceable> are realised (using
<literal>nix-store --realise</literal>).
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem><para>All paths in the closure of the store expressions
stored in <replaceable>paths</replaceable> are determined (using
<literal>nix-store --query --requisites
--include-outputs</literal>). It should be noted that since the
<option>--include-outputs</option> flag is used, you get a combined
source/binary distribution.</para></listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
All paths in the closure of the store expressions stored
in <replaceable>paths</replaceable> are determined (using
<literal>nix-store --query --requisites
--include-successors</literal>). It should be noted that
since the <option>--include-successors</option> flag is
used, if you specify a derivation store expression, you
get a combined source/binary distribution. If you only
want a binary distribution, you should specify the closure
store expression that result from realising these (see
below).
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem><para>All store paths determined in the previous step are
packaged and compressed into a <command>bzip</command>ped NAR
archive (extension <filename>.nar.bz2</filename>).</para></listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
All store paths determined in the previous step are
packaged and compressed into a <command>bzip</command>ped
NAR archive (extension <filename>.nar.bz2</filename>).
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem><para>A <emphasis>manifest</emphasis> is created that
contains information on the store paths, their eventual URLs in the
cache, and cryptographic hashes of the contents of the NAR
archives.</para></listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
A <emphasis>manifest</emphasis> is created that contains
information on the store paths, their eventual URLs in the
cache, and cryptographic hashes of the contents of the NAR
archives.
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem><para>Each store path is uploaded to the remote directory
specified by <replaceable>archivesPutURL</replaceable>. HTTP PUT
requests are used to do this. However, before a file
<varname>x</varname> is uploaded to
<literal><replaceable>archivesPutURL</replaceable>/</literal><varname>x</varname>,
<command>nix-push</command> first determines whether this upload is
unnecessary by issuing a HTTP HEAD request on
<literal><replaceable>archivesGetURL</replaceable>/</literal><varname>x</varname>.
This allows a cache to be shared between many partially overlapping
<command>nix-push</command> invocations. (We use two URLs because
the upload URL typically refers to a CGI script, while the download
URL just refers to a file system directory on the
server.)</para></listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
Each store path is uploaded to the remote directory
specified by <replaceable>archives-put-url</replaceable>.
HTTP PUT requests are used to do this. However, before a
file <varname>x</varname> is uploaded to
<literal><replaceable>archives-put-url</replaceable>/<varname>x</varname></literal>,
<command>nix-push</command> first determines whether this
upload is unnecessary by issuing a HTTP HEAD request on
<literal><replaceable>archives-get-url</replaceable>/<varname>x</varname></literal>.
This allows a cache to be shared between many partially
overlapping <command>nix-push</command> invocations.
(We use two URLs because the upload URL typically
refers to a CGI script, while the download URL just refers
to a file system directory on the server.)
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem><para>The manifest is uploaded using an HTTP PUT request
to <replaceable>manifestPutURL</replaceable>. The corresponding
URL to download the manifest can then be used by
<command>nix-pull</command>.</para></listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
The manifest is uploaded using an HTTP PUT request to
<replaceable>manifest-put-url</replaceable>. The
corresponding URL to download the manifest can then be
used by <command>nix-pull</command>.
</para>
</listitem>
</orderedlist>
</para>
<!--
<para>TODO: <option>- -copy</option></para>
-->
</orderedlist>
</para>
</refsection>
</refsection>
<refsection>
<title>Examples</title>
<refsection><title>Examples</title>
<para>To upload files there typically is some CGI script on the server
side. This script should be be protected with a password. The
following example uploads the store paths resulting from building the
Nix expressions in <filename>foo.nix</filename>, passing appropriate
authentication information:
<para>
To upload files there typically is some CGI script on the server
side. This script should be be protected with a password. The
following example uploads the store paths resulting from
building the Nix expressions in <filename>foo.nix</filename>,
passing appropriate authentication information:
<screen>
<screen>
$ nix-push \
http://foo@bar:server.domain/cgi-bin/upload.pl/cache \
http://server.domain/cache \
http://foo@bar:server.domain/cgi-bin/upload.pl/MANIFEST \
$(nix-instantiate foo.nix)</screen>
This will push both sources and binaries (and any build-time
dependencies used in the build, such as compilers).</para>
This will push both sources and binaries (and any build-time
dependencies used in the build, such as compilers).
</para>
<para>If we just want to push binaries, not sources and build-time
dependencies, we can do:
<para>
If we just want to push binaries, not sources and build-time
dependencies, we can do:
<screen>
$ nix-push <replaceable>urls</replaceable> $(nix-store -r $(nix-instantiate foo.nix))</screen>
<screen>
$ nix-push <replaceable>urls</replaceable> $(nix-instantiate $(nix-store -r foo.nix))</screen>
</para>
</para>
</refsection>
</refsection>
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xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink"
xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XInclude"
xml:id="sec-nix-worker">
<refmeta>
<refentrytitle>nix-worker</refentrytitle>
<manvolnum>8</manvolnum>
<refmiscinfo class="source">Nix</refmiscinfo>
<refmiscinfo class="version"><xi:include href="version.txt" parse="text"/></refmiscinfo>
</refmeta>
<refnamediv>
<refname>nix-worker</refname>
<refpurpose>Nix multi-user support daemon</refpurpose>
</refnamediv>
<refsynopsisdiv>
<cmdsynopsis>
<command>nix-worker</command>
<arg choice="plain"><option>--daemon</option></arg>
</cmdsynopsis>
</refsynopsisdiv>
<refsection><title>Description</title>
<para>The Nix daemon is necessary in multi-user Nix installations. It
performs build actions and other operations on the Nix store on behalf
of unprivileged users.</para>
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<arg><option>--help</option></arg>
<arg><option>--version</option></arg>
<arg rep='repeat'><option>--verbose</option></arg>
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</group>
<replaceable>number</replaceable>
</arg>
<arg>
<arg><option>--cores</option></arg>
<replaceable>number</replaceable>
</arg>
<arg>
<arg><option>--max-silent-time</option></arg>
<replaceable>number</replaceable>
</arg>
<arg><option>--keep-going</option></arg>
<arg><option>-k</option></arg>
<arg><option>--keep-failed</option></arg>
<arg><option>-K</option></arg>
<arg><option>--fallback</option></arg>
<arg><option>--readonly-mode</option></arg>
<arg><option>--log-type</option> <replaceable>type</replaceable></arg>
<arg><option>--show-trace</option></arg>
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<section xmlns="http://docbook.org/ns/docbook" xml:id="sec-common-options">
<title>Common options</title>
<para>Most Nix commands accept the following command-line options:</para>
<variablelist>
<varlistentry><term><option>--help</option></term>
<listitem><para>Prints out a summary of the command syntax and
exits.</para></listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry><term><option>--version</option></term>
<listitem><para>Prints out the Nix version number on standard output
and exits.</para></listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry><term><option>--verbose</option></term>
<term><option>-v</option></term>
<varlistentry>
<term><option>--help</option></term>
<listitem>
<para>Increases the level of verbosity of diagnostic messages
printed on standard error. For each Nix operation, the information
printed on standard output is well-defined; any diagnostic
information is printed on standard error, never on standard
output.</para>
<para>This option may be specified repeatedly. Currently, the
following verbosity levels exist:</para>
<variablelist>
<varlistentry><term>0</term>
<listitem><para>“Errors only”: only print messages
explaining why the Nix invocation failed.</para></listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry><term>1</term>
<listitem><para>“Informational”: print
<emphasis>useful</emphasis> messages about what Nix is doing.
This is the default.</para></listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry><term>2</term>
<listitem><para>“Talkative”: print more informational
messages.</para></listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry><term>3</term>
<listitem><para>“Chatty”: print even more
informational messages.</para></listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry><term>4</term>
<listitem><para>“Debug”: print debug
information.</para></listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry><term>5</term>
<listitem><para>“Vomit”: print vast amounts of debug
information.</para></listitem>
</varlistentry>
</variablelist>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry><term><option>--no-build-output</option></term>
<term><option>-Q</option></term>
<listitem><para>By default, output written by builders to standard
output and standard error is echoed to the Nix command's standard
error. This option suppresses this behaviour. Note that the
builder's standard output and error are always written to a log file
in
<filename><replaceable>prefix</replaceable>/nix/var/log/nix</filename>.</para></listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry xml:id="opt-max-jobs"><term><option>--max-jobs</option></term>
<term><option>-j</option></term>
<listitem><para>Sets the maximum number of build jobs that Nix will
perform in parallel to the specified number. The default is
specified by the <link
linkend='conf-build-max-jobs'><literal>build-max-jobs</literal></link>
configuration setting, which itself defaults to
<literal>1</literal>. A higher value is useful on SMP systems or to
exploit I/O latency.</para></listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry xml:id="opt-cores"><term><option>--cores</option></term>
<listitem><para>Sets the value of the <envar>NIX_BUILD_CORES</envar>
environment variable in the invocation of builders. Builders can
use this variable at their discretion to control the maximum amount
of parallelism. For instance, in Nixpkgs, if the derivation
attribute <varname>enableParallelBuilding</varname> is set to
<literal>true</literal>, the builder passes the
<option>-j<replaceable>N</replaceable></option> flag to GNU Make.
It defaults to the value of the <link
linkend='conf-build-cores'><literal>build-cores</literal></link>
configuration setting, if set, or <literal>1</literal> otherwise.
The value <literal>0</literal> means that the builder should use all
available CPU cores in the system.</para></listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry xml:id="opt-max-silent-time"><term><option>--max-silent-time</option></term>
<listitem><para>Sets the maximum number of seconds that a builder
can go without producing any data on standard output or standard
error. The default is specified by the <link
linkend='conf-build-max-silent-time'><literal>build-max-silent-time</literal></link>
configuration setting. <literal>0</literal> means no
time-out.</para></listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry><term><option>--keep-going</option></term>
<term><option>-k</option></term>
<listitem><para>Keep going in case of failed builds, to the
greatest extent possible. That is, if building an input of some
derivation fails, Nix will still build the other inputs, but not the
derivation itself. Without this option, Nix stops if any build
fails (except for builds of substitutes), possibly killing builds in
progress (in case of parallel or distributed builds).</para></listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry><term><option>--keep-failed</option></term>
<term><option>-K</option></term>
<listitem><para>Specifies that in case of a build failure, the
temporary directory (usually in <filename>/tmp</filename>) in which
the build takes place should not be deleted. The path of the build
directory is printed as an informational message.
<para>
Prints out a summary of the command syntax and exits.
</para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry><term><option>--fallback</option></term>
<varlistentry>
<term><option>--version</option></term>
<listitem>
<para>
Prints out the Nix version number on standard output and exits.
</para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
<para>Whenever Nix attempts to build a derivation for which
substitutes are known for each output path, but realising the output
paths through the substitutes fails, fall back on building the
derivation.</para>
<para>The most common scenario in which this is useful is when we
have registered substitutes in order to perform binary distribution
from, say, a network repository. If the repository is down, the
realisation of the derivation will fail. When this option is
specified, Nix will build the derivation instead. Thus,
installation from binaries falls back on nstallation from source.
This option is not the default since it is generally not desirable
for a transient failure in obtaining the substitutes to lead to a
full build from source (with the related consumption of
resources).</para>
<varlistentry>
<term><option>--verbose</option> / <option>-v</option></term>
<listitem>
<para>
Increases the level of verbosity of diagnostic messages printed
on standard error. For each Nix operation, the information
printed on standard output is well-defined; any diagnostic
information is printed on standard error, never on standard
output.
</para>
<para>
This option may be specified repeatedly. Currently, the
following verbosity levels exist:
</para>
<variablelist>
<varlistentry>
<term>0</term>
<listitem>
<para>
<quote>Errors only</quote>: only print messages explaining
why the Nix invocation failed.
</para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry>
<term>1</term>
<listitem>
<para>
<quote>Informational</quote>: print
<emphasis>useful</emphasis> messages about what Nix is
doing. This is the default.
</para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry>
<term>2</term>
<listitem>
<para>
<quote>Talkative</quote>: print more informational messages.
</para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry>
<term>3</term>
<listitem>
<para>
<quote>Chatty</quote>: print even more informational messages.
</para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry>
<term>4</term>
<listitem>
<para>
<quote>Debug</quote>: print debug information:
</para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry>
<term>5</term>
<listitem>
<para>
<quote>Vomit</quote>: print vast amounts of debug
information.
</para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
</variablelist>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry><term><option>--readonly-mode</option></term>
<listitem><para>When this option is used, no attempt is made to open
the Nix database. Most Nix operations do need database access, so
those operations will fail.</para></listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry xml:id="opt-log-type"><term><option>--log-type</option>
<replaceable>type</replaceable></term>
<varlistentry>
<term><option>--no-build-output</option> / <option>-Q</option></term>
<listitem>
<para>This option determines how the output written to standard
error is formatted. Nixs diagnostic messages are typically
<emphasis>nested</emphasis>. For instance, when tracing Nix
expression evaluation (<command>nix-env -vvvvv</command>, messages
from subexpressions are nested inside their parent expressions. Nix
builder output is also often nested. For instance, the Nix Packages
generic builder nests the various build tasks (unpack, configure,
compile, etc.), and the GNU Make in <literal>stdenv-linux</literal>
has been patched to provide nesting for recursive Make
invocations.</para>
<para><replaceable>type</replaceable> can be one of the
following:
<variablelist>
<varlistentry><term><literal>pretty</literal></term>
<listitem><para>Pretty-print the output, indicating different
nesting levels using spaces. This is the
default.</para></listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry><term><literal>escapes</literal></term>
<listitem><para>Indicate nesting using escape codes that can be
interpreted by the <command>nix-log2xml</command> tool in the
Nix source distribution. The resulting XML file can be fed into
the <command>log2html.xsl</command> stylesheet to create an HTML
file that can be browsed interactively, using Javascript to
expand and collapse parts of the output.</para></listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry><term><literal>flat</literal></term>
<listitem><para>Remove all nesting.</para></listitem>
</varlistentry>
</variablelist>
</para>
<para>
By default, output written by builders to standard output and
standard error is echoed to the Nix command's standard error.
This option suppresses this behaviour. Note that the builder's
standard output and error are always written to a log file in
<filename><replaceable>prefix</replaceable>/nix/var/log/nix</filename>.
</para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry><term><option>--arg</option> <replaceable>name</replaceable> <replaceable>value</replaceable></term>
<listitem><para>This option is accepted by
<command>nix-env</command>, <command>nix-instantiate</command> and
<command>nix-build</command>. When evaluating Nix expressions, the
expression evaluator will automatically try to call functions that
it encounters. It can automatically call functions for which every
argument has a <link linkend='ss-functions'>default value</link>
(e.g., <literal>{<replaceable>argName</replaceable> ?
<replaceable>defaultValue</replaceable>}:
<replaceable>...</replaceable></literal>). With
<option>--arg</option>, you can also call functions that have
arguments without a default value (or override a default value).
That is, if the evaluator encounters a function with an argument
named <replaceable>name</replaceable>, it will call it with value
<replaceable>value</replaceable>.</para>
<para>For instance, the file
<literal>pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix</literal> in Nixpkgs is
actually a function:
<programlisting>
{ # The system (e.g., `i686-linux') for which to build the packages.
system ? builtins.currentSystem
<replaceable>...</replaceable>
}: <replaceable>...</replaceable></programlisting>
So if you call this Nix expression (e.g., when you do
<literal>nix-env -i <replaceable>pkgname</replaceable></literal>),
the function will be called automatically using the value <link
linkend='builtin-currentSystem'><literal>builtins.currentSystem</literal></link>
for the <literal>system</literal> argument. You can override this
using <option>--arg</option>, e.g., <literal>nix-env -i
<replaceable>pkgname</replaceable> --arg system
\"i686-freebsd\"</literal>. (Note that since the argument is a Nix
string literal, you have to escape the quotes.)</para></listitem>
<varlistentry>
<term><option>--max-jobs</option> / <option>-j</option></term>
<listitem>
<para>
Sets the maximum number of build jobs that Nix will perform in
parallel to the specified number. The default is 1. A higher
value is useful on SMP systems or to exploit I/O latency.
</para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry><term><option>--argstr</option> <replaceable>name</replaceable> <replaceable>value</replaceable></term>
<listitem><para>This option is like <option>--arg</option>, only the
value is not a Nix expression but a string. So instead of
<literal>--arg system \"i686-linux\"</literal> (the outer quotes are
to keep the shell happy) you can say <literal>--argstr system
i686-linux</literal>.</para></listitem>
<varlistentry>
<term><option>--keep-going</option> / <option>-k</option></term>
<listitem>
<para>
Keep going in case of failed builds, to the greatest extent
possible. That is, if building an input of some derivation
fails, Nix will still build the other inputs, but not the
derivation itself. Without this option, Nix stops if any build
fails (except for builds of substitutes), possibly killing
builds in progress (in case of parallel or distributed builds).
</para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry xml:id="opt-attr"><term><option>--attr</option> / <option>-A</option>
<replaceable>attrPath</replaceable></term>
<listitem><para>In <command>nix-env</command>,
<command>nix-instantiate</command> and <command>nix-build</command>,
<option>--attr</option> allows you to select an attribute from the
top-level Nix expression being evaluated. The <emphasis>attribute
path</emphasis> <replaceable>attrPath</replaceable> is a sequence of
attribute names separated by dots. For instance, given a top-level
Nix expression <replaceable>e</replaceable>, the attribute path
<literal>xorg.xorgserver</literal> would cause the expression
<literal><replaceable>e</replaceable>.xorg.xorgserver</literal> to
be used. See <link
linkend='refsec-nix-env-install-examples'><command>nix-env
--install</command></link> for some concrete examples.</para>
<para>In addition to attribute names, you can also specify array
indices. For instance, the attribute path
<literal>foo.3.bar</literal> selects the <literal>bar</literal>
attribute of the fourth element of the array in the
<literal>foo</literal> attribute of the top-level
expression.</para></listitem>
<varlistentry>
<term><option>--keep-failed</option> / <option>-K</option></term>
<listitem>
<para>
Specifies that in case of a build failure, the temporary
directory (usually in <filename>/tmp</filename>) in which the
build takes place should not be deleted. The path of the build
directory is printed as an informational message.
</para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry><term><option>--show-trace</option></term>
<listitem><para>Causes Nix to print out a stack trace in case of Nix
expression evaluation errors.</para></listitem>
<varlistentry>
<term><option>--fallback</option></term>
<listitem>
<para>
Whenever Nix attempts to realise a derivation for which a
closure is already known, but this closure cannot be realised,
fall back on normalising the derivation.
</para>
<para>
The most common scenario in which this is useful is when we have
registered substitutes in order to perform binary distribution
from, say, a network repository. If the repository is down, the
realisation of the derivation will fail. When this option is
specified, Nix will build the derivation instead. Thus,
binary installation falls back on a source installation. This
option is not the default since it is generally not desirable
for a transient failure in obtaining the substitutes to lead to
a full build from source (with the related consumption of
resources).
</para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
</variablelist>
</section>
<varlistentry>
<term><option>--readonly-mode</option></term>
<listitem>
<para>
When this option is used, no attempt is made to open the Nix
database. Most Nix operations do need database access, so those
operations will fail.
</para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>

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<arg>
<group choice='req'>
<arg choice='plain'><option>--prebuilt-only</option></arg>
<arg choice='plain'><option>-b</option></arg>
</group>
</arg>
<arg>
<group choice='req'>
<arg choice='plain'><option>--attr</option></arg>
<arg choice='plain'><option>-A</option></arg>
</group>
</arg>
<arg><option>--from-expression</option></arg>
<arg><option>-E</option></arg>
<arg><option>--from-profile</option> <replaceable>path</replaceable></arg>
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<chapter xmlns="http://docbook.org/ns/docbook"
xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink"
xml:id='chap-package-management'>
<title>Package Management</title>
<chapter id='chap-package-management'><title>Package Management</title>
<para>This chapter discusses how to do package management with Nix,
i.e., how to obtain, install, upgrade, and erase packages. This is
the “users” perspective of the Nix system — people
who want to <emphasis>create</emphasis> packages should consult
i.e., how to obtain, install, upgrade, and erase components. This is
the <quote>user's</quote> perspective of the Nix system — people
who want to <emphasis>create</emphasis> components should consult
<xref linkend='chap-writing-nix-expressions' />.</para>
<section><title>Basic package management</title>
<sect1><title>Basic package management</title>
<para>The main command for package management is <link
linkend="sec-nix-env"><command>nix-env</command></link>. You can use
it to install, upgrade, and erase packages, and to query what
packages are installed or are available for installation.</para>
<para>The main command for package management is
<command>nix-env</command>. You can use it to install, upgrade, and
erase components, and to query what components are installed or are
available for installation.</para>
<para>In Nix, different users can have different “views”
<para>In Nix, different users can have different <quote>views</quote>
on the set of installed applications. That is, there might be lots of
applications present on the system (possibly in many different
versions), but users can have a specific selection of those active —
where “active” just means that it appears in a directory
in the users <envar>PATH</envar>. Such a view on the set of
where <quote>active</quote> just means that it appears in a directory
in the user's <envar>PATH</envar>. Such a view on the set of
installed applications is called a <emphasis>user
environment</emphasis>, which is just a directory tree consisting of
symlinks to the files of the active applications. </para>
<para>Components are installed from a set of <emphasis>Nix
expressions</emphasis> that tell Nix how to build those packages,
expressions</emphasis> that tell Nix how to build those components,
including, if necessary, their dependencies. There is a collection of
Nix expressions called the Nix Package collection that contains
packages ranging from basic development stuff such as GCC and Glibc,
components ranging from basic development stuff such as GCC and Glibc,
to end-user applications like Mozilla Firefox. (Nix is however not
tied to the Nix Package collection; you could write your own Nix
expressions based on it, or completely new ones.) You can download
the latest version from <link
xlink:href='http://nixos.org/nixpkgs/download.html' />.</para>
expression based on it, or completely new ones.) You can download the
latest version from <ulink
url='http://catamaran.labs.cs.uu.nl/dist/nix' />. You probably want
the latest unstable release; currently the stable releases tend to lag
behind quite a bit.</para>
<para>Assuming that you have downloaded and unpacked a release of Nix
Packages, you can view the set of available packages in the release:
Packages, you can view the set of available components in the release:
<screen>
$ nix-env -qaf nixpkgs-<replaceable>version</replaceable> '*'
$ nix-env -qaf nixpkgs-<replaceable>version</replaceable>
ant-blackdown-1.4.2
aterm-2.2
bash-3.0
@@ -55,30 +52,14 @@ bzip2-1.0.2
...</screen>
where <literal>nixpkgs-<replaceable>version</replaceable></literal> is
where youve unpacked the release. The flag <option>-q</option>
specifies a query operation; <option>-a</option> means that you want
to show the “available” (i.e., installable) packages, as opposed to
the installed packages; and <option>-f</option>
<filename>nixpkgs-<replaceable>version</replaceable></filename>
specifies the source of the packages. The argument
<literal>'*'</literal> shows all installable packages. (The quotes are
necessary to prevent shell expansion.) You can also select specific
packages by name:
<screen>
$ nix-env -qaf nixpkgs-<replaceable>version</replaceable> gcc
gcc-3.4.6
gcc-4.0.3
gcc-4.1.1</screen>
</para>
where you've unpacked the release.</para>
<para>It is also possible to see the <emphasis>status</emphasis> of
available packages, i.e., whether they are installed into the user
available components, i.e., whether they are installed into the user
environment and/or present in the system:
<screen>
$ nix-env -qasf nixpkgs-<replaceable>version</replaceable> '*'
$ nix-env -qasf nixpkgs-<replaceable>version</replaceable>
...
-PS bash-3.0
--S binutils-2.15
@@ -86,50 +67,51 @@ IPS bison-1.875d
...</screen>
The first character (<literal>I</literal>) indicates whether the
package is installed in your current user environment. The second
component is installed in your current user environment. The second
(<literal>P</literal>) indicates whether it is present on your system
(in which case installing it into your user environment would be a
very quick operation). The last one (<literal>S</literal>) indicates
whether there is a so-called <emphasis>substitute</emphasis> for the
package, which is Nixs mechanism for doing binary deployment. It
just means that Nix knows that it can fetch a pre-built package from
component, which is Nix's mechanism for doing binary deployment. It
just means that Nix know that it can fetch a pre-built component from
somewhere (typically a network server) instead of building it
locally.</para>
<para>So now that we have a set of Nix expressions we can build the
packages contained in them. This is done using <literal>nix-env
components contained in them. This is done using <literal>nix-env
-i</literal>. For instance,
<screen>
$ nix-env -f nixpkgs-<replaceable>version</replaceable> -i subversion</screen>
will install the package called <literal>subversion</literal> (which
is, of course, the <link
xlink:href='http://subversion.tigris.org/'>Subversion version
management system</link>).</para>
will install the component called <literal>subversion</literal> (which
is, of course, the <ulink
url='http://subversion.tigris.org/'>Subversion version management
system</ulink>).</para>
<para>When you do this for the first time, Nix will start building
Subversion and all its dependencies. This will take quite a while —
typically an hour or two on modern machines. Fortunately, there is a
faster way (so do a Ctrl-C on that install operation!): you just need
to tell Nix that pre-built binaries of all those packages are
to tell Nix that pre-built binaries of all those components are
available somewhere. This is done using the
<command>nix-pull</command> command, which must be supplied with a URL
containing a <emphasis>manifest</emphasis> describing what binaries
are available. This URL should correspond to the Nix Packages release
that youre using. For instance, if you obtained a release from <link
xlink:href='http://nixos.org/releases/nixpkgs/nixpkgs-0.12pre11712-4lrp7j8x'
/>, then you should do:
that you're using. For instance, if you obtained a release from
<ulink
url='http://catamaran.labs.cs.uu.nl/dist/nix/nixpkgs-0.6pre1554/' />,
then you should do:
<screen>
$ nix-pull http://nixos.org/releases/nixpkgs/nixpkgs-0.12pre11712-4lrp7j8x/MANIFEST</screen>
$ nix-pull http://catamaran.labs.cs.uu.nl/dist/nix/nixpkgs-0.6pre1554/MANIFEST</screen>
If you then issue the installation command, it should start
downloading binaries from <systemitem
class='fqdomainname'>nixos.org</systemitem>, instead of building
them from source. This might still take a while since all
class='fqdomainname'>catamaran.labs.cs.uu.nl</systemitem>, instead of
building them from source. This might still take a while since all
dependencies must be downloaded, but on a reasonably fast connection
such as an DSL line its on the order of a few minutes.</para>
such as an DSL line it's on the order of a few minutes.</para>
<para>Naturally, packages can also be uninstalled:
@@ -145,15 +127,15 @@ release of Nix Packages, you can do:
$ nix-env -f nixpkgs-<replaceable>version</replaceable> -u subversion</screen>
This will <emphasis>only</emphasis> upgrade Subversion if there is a
“newer” version in the new set of Nix expressions, as
<quote>newer</quote> version in the new set of Nix expressions, as
defined by some pretty arbitrary rules regarding ordering of version
numbers (which generally do what youd expect of them). To just
numbers (which generally do what you'd expect of them). To just
unconditionally replace Subversion with whatever version is in the Nix
expressions, use <parameter>-i</parameter> instead of
<parameter>-u</parameter>; <parameter>-i</parameter> will remove
whatever version is already installed.</para>
<para>You can also upgrade all packages for which there are newer
<para>You can also upgrade all components for which there are newer
versions:
<screen>
@@ -161,7 +143,7 @@ $ nix-env -f nixpkgs-<replaceable>version</replaceable> -u '*'</screen>
</para>
<para>Sometimes its useful to be able to ask what
<para>Sometimes it's useful to be able to ask what
<command>nix-env</command> would do, without actually doing it. For
instance, to find out what packages would be upgraded by
<literal>nix-env -u '*'</literal>, you can do
@@ -190,33 +172,35 @@ since <literal>nix-channel --update</literal> calls <literal>nix-env
from the channel, replacing whatever default you had
set.</para></footnote></para>
</section>
</sect1>
<section xml:id="sec-profiles"><title>Profiles</title>
<sect1><title>Profiles</title>
<para>Profiles and user environments are Nixs mechanism for
implementing the ability to allow different users to have different
<para>Profiles and user environments are Nix's mechanism for
implementing the ability to allow differens users to have different
configurations, and to do atomic upgrades and rollbacks. To
understand how they work, its useful to know a bit about how Nix
works. In Nix, packages are stored in unique locations in the
understand how they work, it's useful to know a bit about how Nix
works. In Nix, components are stored in unique locations in the
<emphasis>Nix store</emphasis> (typically,
<filename>/nix/store</filename>). For instance, a particular version
of the Subversion package might be stored in a directory
<filename>/nix/store/dpmvp969yhdqs7lm2r1a3gng7pyq6vy4-subversion-1.1.3/</filename>,
of the Subversion component might be stored in a directory
<filename>/nix/store/eeeeaf42e56b...-subversion-0.32.1/</filename>,
while another version might be stored in
<filename>/nix/store/5mq2jcn36ldlmh93yj1n8s9c95pj7c5s-subversion-1.1.2</filename>.
The long strings prefixed to the directory names are cryptographic
hashes<footnote><para>160-bit truncations of SHA-256 hashes encoded in
a base-32 notation, to be precise.</para></footnote> of
<emphasis>all</emphasis> inputs involved in building the package —
sources, dependencies, compiler flags, and so on. So if two
packages differ in any way, they end up in different locations in
the file system, so they dont interfere with each other. <xref
linkend='fig-user-environments' /> shows a part of a typical Nix
store.</para>
<filename>/nix/store/58823d558a6a...-subversion-0.34/</filename>. The
long hexadecimal numbers prefixed to the directory names are
cryptographic hashes<footnote><para>128 bit MD5 hashes, to be
precise.</para></footnote> of <emphasis>all</emphasis> inputs involved
in building the component — sources, dependencies, compiler flags, and
so on. So if two components differ in any way, they end up in
different locations in the file system, so they don't interfere with
each other. <xref linkend='fig-user-environments'
/><footnote><para>TODO: the figure isn't entirely up to date. It
should show multiple profiles and
<filename>~/.nix-profile</filename>.</para></footnote> shows a part of
a typical Nix store.</para>
<figure xml:id='fig-user-environments'><title>User environments</title>
<figure id='fig-user-environments'><title>User environments</title>
<mediaobject>
<imageobject>
<imagedata fileref='figures/user-environments.png' format='PNG' />
@@ -224,42 +208,41 @@ store.</para>
</mediaobject>
</figure>
<para>Of course, you wouldnt want to type
<para>Of course, you wouldn't want to type
<screen>
$ /nix/store/dpmvp969yhdq...-subversion-1.1.3/bin/svn</screen>
$ /nix/store/eeeeaf42e56b...-subversion-0.32.1/bin/svn</screen>
every time you want to run Subversion. Of course we could set up the
<envar>PATH</envar> environment variable to include the
<filename>bin</filename> directory of every package we want to use,
<filename>bin</filename> directory of every component we want to use,
but this is not very convenient since changing <envar>PATH</envar>
doesnt take effect for already existing processes. The solution Nix
doesn't take effect for already existing processes. The solution Nix
uses is to create directory trees of symlinks to
<emphasis>activated</emphasis> packages. These are called
<emphasis>user environments</emphasis> and they are packages
<emphasis>activated</emphasis> components. These are called
<emphasis>user environments</emphasis> and they are components
themselves (though automatically generated by
<command>nix-env</command>), so they too reside in the Nix store. For
instance, in <xref linkend='fig-user-environments' /> the user
environment <filename>/nix/store/5mq2jcn36ldl...-user-env</filename>
contains a symlink to just Subversion 1.1.2 (arrows in the figure
environment <filename>/nix/store/068150f63831...-user-env</filename>
contains a symlink to just Subversion 0.32.1 (arrows in the figure
indicate symlinks). This would be what we would obtain if we had done
<screen>
$ nix-env -i subversion</screen>
on a set of Nix expressions that contained Subversion 1.1.2.</para>
on a set of Nix expressions that contained Subversion 0.32.1.</para>
<para>This doesnt in itself solve the problem, of course; you
wouldnt want to type
<filename>/nix/store/0c1p5z4kda11...-user-env/bin/svn</filename>
either. Thats why there are symlinks outside of the store that point
<para>This doesn't in itself solve the problem, of course; you
wouldn't want to type
<filename>/nix/store/068150f63831...-user-env/bin/svn</filename>
either. Therefore there are symlinks outside of the store that point
to the user environments in the store; for instance, the symlinks
<filename>default-42-link</filename> and
<filename>default-43-link</filename> in the example. These are called
<emphasis>generations</emphasis> since every time you perform a
<command>nix-env</command> operation, a new user environment is
generated based on the current one. For instance, generation 43 was
created from generation 42 when we did
<filename>42</filename> and <filename>43</filename> in the example.
These are called <emphasis>generations</emphasis> since every time you
perform a <command>nix-env</command> operation, a new user environment
is generated based on the current one. For instance, generation 43
was created from generation 42 when we did
<screen>
$ nix-env -i subversion mozilla</screen>
@@ -268,14 +251,14 @@ on a set of Nix expressions that contained Mozilla and a new version
of Subversion.</para>
<para>Generations are grouped together into
<emphasis>profiles</emphasis> so that different users dont interfere
with each other if they dont want to. For example:
<emphasis>profiles</emphasis> so that different users don't interfere
with each other if they don't want to. For example:
<screen>
$ ls -l /nix/var/nix/profiles/
...
lrwxrwxrwx 1 eelco ... default-42-link -> /nix/store/0c1p5z4kda11...-user-env
lrwxrwxrwx 1 eelco ... default-43-link -> /nix/store/3aw2pdyx2jfc...-user-env
lrwxrwxrwx 1 eelco ... default-42-link -> /nix/store/068150f63831...-user-env
lrwxrwxrwx 1 eelco ... default-43-link -> /nix/store/84c85f89ddbf...-user-env
lrwxrwxrwx 1 eelco ... default -> default-43-link</screen>
This shows a profile called <filename>default</filename>. The file
@@ -285,8 +268,8 @@ operation, a new user environment and generation link are created
based on the current one, and finally the <filename>default</filename>
symlink is made to point at the new generation. This last step is
atomic on Unix, which explains how we can do atomic upgrades. (Note
that the building/installing of new packages doesnt interfere in
any way with old packages, since they are stored in different
that the building/installing of new components doesn't interfere in
any way with old components, since they are stored in different
locations in the Nix store.)</para>
<para>If you find that you want to undo a <command>nix-env</command>
@@ -310,13 +293,13 @@ can also see all available generations:
$ nix-env --list-generations</screen></para>
<para>Actually, there is another level of indirection not shown in the
figure above. You generally wouldnt have
figure above. You generally wouldn't have
<filename>/nix/var/nix/profiles/<replaceable>some-profile</replaceable>/bin</filename>
in your <envar>PATH</envar>. Rather, there is a symlink
<filename>~/.nix-profile</filename> that points to your current
profile. This means that you should put
<filename>~/.nix-profile/bin</filename> in your <envar>PATH</envar>
(and indeed, thats what the initialisation script
(and indeed, that's what the initialisation script
<filename>/nix/etc/profile.d/nix.sh</filename> does). This makes it
easier to switch to a different profile. You can do that using the
command <command>nix-env --switch-profile</command>:
@@ -327,11 +310,11 @@ $ nix-env --switch-profile /nix/var/nix/profiles/my-profile
$ nix-env --switch-profile /nix/var/nix/profiles/default</screen>
These commands switch to the <filename>my-profile</filename> and
default profile, respectively. If the profile doesnt exist, it will
default profile, respectively. If the profile doesn't exist, it will
be created automatically. You should be careful about storing a
profile in another location than the <filename>profiles</filename>
directory, since otherwise it might not be used as a root of the
garbage collector (see <xref linkend='sec-garbage-collection'
garbage collector (see section <xref linkend='sec-garbage-collection'
/>).</para>
<para>All <command>nix-env</command> operations work on the profile
@@ -345,25 +328,25 @@ $ nix-env -p /nix/var/nix/profiles/other-profile -i subversion</screen>
This will <emphasis>not</emphasis> change the
<command>~/.nix-profile</command> symlink.</para>
</section>
</sect1>
<section xml:id='sec-garbage-collection'><title>Garbage collection</title>
<sect1 id='sec-garbage-collection'><title>Garbage collection</title>
<para><command>nix-env</command> operations such as upgrades
(<option>-u</option>) and uninstall (<option>-e</option>) never
actually delete packages from the system. All they do (as shown
actually delete components from the system. All they do (as shown
above) is to create a new user environment that no longer contains
symlinks to the “deleted” packages.</para>
symlinks to the <quote>deleted</quote> components.</para>
<para>Of course, since disk space is not infinite, unused packages
<para>Of course, since disk space is not infinite, unused components
should be removed at some point. You can do this by running the Nix
garbage collector. It will remove from the Nix store any package
garbage collector. It will remove from the Nix store any component
not used (directly or indirectly) by any generation of any
profile.</para>
<para>Note however that as long as old generations reference a
package, it will not be deleted. After all, we wouldnt be able to
component, it will not be deleted. After all, we wouldn't be able to
do a rollback otherwise. So in order for garbage collection to be
effective, you should also delete (some) old generations. Of course,
this should only be done if you are certain that you will not need to
@@ -387,78 +370,55 @@ $ nix-env --delete-generations 10 11 14</screen>
garbage collector as follows:
<screen>
$ nix-store --gc</screen>
$ nix-collect-garbage</screen>
If you are feeling uncertain, you can also first view what files would
be deleted:
You can alo first view what files would be deleted:
<screen>
$ nix-store --gc --print-dead</screen>
$ nix-collect-garbage --print-dead</screen>
Likewise, the option <option>--print-live</option> will show the paths
that <emphasis>wont</emphasis> be deleted.</para>
that <emphasis>won't</emphasis> be deleted.</para>
<para>There is also a convenient little utility
<command>nix-collect-garbage</command>, which when invoked with the
<option>-d</option> (<option>--delete-old</option>) switch deletes all
old generations of all profiles in
<filename>/nix/var/nix/profiles</filename>. So
<sect2><title>Garbage collector roots</title>
<screen>
$ nix-collect-garbage -d</screen>
<para>TODO</para>
is a quick and easy way to clean up your system.</para>
<para>The garbage collector uses as roots all store expressions
mentioned in all files with extension <filename>.gcroot</filename> in
the directory
<filename><replaceable>prefix</replaceable>/var/nix/gcroots/</filename>,
or in any file or directory symlinked to from that directory. E.g.,
by default,
<filename><replaceable>prefix</replaceable>/var/nix/gcroots/</filename>
contains a symlink to
<filename><replaceable>prefix</replaceable>/var/nix/profiles/</filename>,
so all generations of all profiles are also roots of the collector.</para>
</sect2>
</sect1>
<sect1><title>Channels</title>
<section xml:id="ssec-gc-roots"><title>Garbage collector roots</title>
<para>The roots of the garbage collector are all store paths to which
there are symlinks in the directory
<filename><replaceable>prefix</replaceable>/nix/var/nix/gcroots</filename>.
For instance, the following command makes the path
<filename>/nix/store/d718ef...-foo</filename> a root of the collector:
<screen>
$ ln -s /nix/store/d718ef...-foo /nix/var/nix/gcroots/bar</screen>
That is, after this command, the garbage collector will not remove
<filename>/nix/store/d718ef...-foo</filename> or any of its
dependencies.</para>
<para>Subdirectories of
<filename><replaceable>prefix</replaceable>/nix/var/nix/gcroots</filename>
are also searched for symlinks. Symlinks to non-store paths are
followed and searched for roots, but symlinks to non-store paths
<emphasis>inside</emphasis> the paths reached in that way are not
followed to prevent infinite recursion.</para>
</section>
</section>
<section xml:id="sec-channels"><title>Channels</title>
<para>If you want to stay up to date with a set of packages, its not
<para>If you want to stay up to date with a set of packages, it's not
very convenient to manually download the latest set of Nix expressions
for those packages, use <command>nix-pull</command> to register
pre-built binaries (if available), and upgrade using
<command>nix-env</command>. Fortunately, theres a better way:
<command>nix-env</command>. Fortunately, there's a better way:
<emphasis>Nix channels</emphasis>.</para>
<para>A Nix channel is just a URL that points to a place that contains
a set of Nix expressions and a manifest. Using the command <link
linkend="sec-nix-channel"><command>nix-channel</command></link> you
can automatically stay up to date with whatever is available at that
URL.</para>
a set of Nix expressions and a manifest. Using the command
<command>nix-channel</command> you can automatically stay up to date
with whatever is available at that URL.</para>
<para>You can “subscribe” to a channel using
<para>You can <quote>subscribe</quote> to a channel using
<command>nix-channel --add</command>, e.g.,
<screen>
$ nix-channel --add http://nixos.org/releases/nixpkgs/channels/nixpkgs-unstable</screen>
$ nix-channel --add http://catamaran.labs.cs.uu.nl/dist/nix/channels/nixpkgs-unstable</screen>
subscribes you to a channel that always contains that latest version
of the Nix Packages collection. (Instead of
@@ -467,7 +427,7 @@ of the Nix Packages collection. (Instead of
stability, but right now is just outdated.) Subscribing really just
means that the URL is added to the file
<filename>~/.nix-channels</filename>. Right now there is no command
to unsubscribe; you should just edit that file manually
to <quote>unsubscribe</quote>; you should just edit that file manually
and delete the offending URL.</para>
<para>To obtain the latest Nix expressions available in a channel, do
@@ -480,127 +440,16 @@ This downloads the Nix expressions in every channel (downloaded from
and registers any available pre-built binaries in every channel
(by <command>nix-pull</command>ing
<literal><replaceable>url</replaceable>/MANIFEST</literal>). It also
makes the union of each channels Nix expressions the default for
makes the union of each channel's Nix expressions the default for
<command>nix-env</command> operations. Consequently, you can then say
<screen>
$ nix-env -u '*'</screen>
to upgrade all packages in your profile to the latest versions
to upgrade all components in your profile to the latest versions
available in the subscribed channels.</para>
</section>
<section xml:id="sec-one-click"><title>One-click installs</title>
<para>Often, when you want to install a specific package (e.g., from
the <link
xlink:href="http://nixos.org/nixpkgs/">Nix
Packages collection</link>), subscribing to a channel is a bit
cumbersome. And channels dont help you at all if you want to install
an older version of a package than the one provided by the current
contents of the channel, or a package that has been removed from the
channel. Thats when <emphasis>one-click installs</emphasis> come in
handy: you can just go to the web page that contains the package,
click on it, and it will be installed with all the necessary
dependencies.</para>
<para>For instance, you can go to <link
xlink:href="http://hydra.nixos.org/jobset/nixpkgs/trunk/channel/latest"
/> and click on any link for the individual packages for your
platform. The first time you do this, your browser will ask what to
do with <literal>application/nix-package</literal> files. You should
open them with <filename>/nix/bin/nix-install-package</filename>.
This will open a window that asks you to confirm that you want to
install the package. When you answer <literal>Y</literal>, the
package and all its dependencies will be installed. This is a binary
deployment mechanism — you get packages pre-compiled for the selected
platform type.</para>
<para>You can also install <literal>application/nix-package</literal>
files from the command line directly. See <xref
linkend='sec-nix-install-package' /> for details.</para>
</section>
<section xml:id="sec-sharing-packages"><title>Sharing packages between machines</title>
<para>Sometimes you want to copy a package from one machine to
another. Or, you want to install some packages and you know that
another machine already has some or all of those packages or their
dependencies. In that case there are mechanisms to quickly copy
packages between machines.</para>
<para>The command <command
linkend="sec-nix-copy-closure">nix-copy-closure</command> copies a Nix
store path along with all its dependencies to or from another machine
via the SSH protocol. It doesnt copy store paths that are already
present on the target machine. For example, the following command
copies Firefox with all its dependencies:
<screen>
$ nix-copy-closure --to alice@itchy.example.org $(type -p firefox)</screen>
See <xref linkend='sec-nix-copy-closure' /> for details.</para>
<para>With <command linkend='refsec-nix-store-export'>nix-store
--export</command> and <command
linkend='refsec-nix-store-import'>nix-store --import</command> you can
write the closure of a store path (that is, the path and all its
dependencies) to a file, and then unpack that file into another Nix
store. For example,
<screen>
$ nix-store --export $(type -p firefox) > firefox.closure</screen>
writes the closure of Firefox to a file. You can then copy this file
to another machine and install the closure:
<screen>
$ nix-store --import &lt; firefox.closure</screen>
Any store paths in the closure that are already present in the target
store are ignored. It is also possible to pipe the export into
another command, e.g. to copy and install a closure directly to/on
another machine:
<screen>
$ nix-store --export $(type -p firefox) | bzip2 | \
ssh alice@itchy.example.org "bunzip2 | nix-store --import"</screen>
But note that <command>nix-copy-closure</command> is generally more
efficient in this example because it only copies paths that are not
already present in the target Nix store.</para>
<para>Finally, if you can mount the Nix store of a remote machine in
your local filesystem, Nix can copy paths from the remote Nix store to
the local Nix store <emphasis>on demand</emphasis>. For instance,
suppose that you mount a remote machine containing a Nix store via
<command
xlink:href="http://fuse.sourceforge.net/sshfs.html">sshfs</command>:
<screen>
$ sshfs alice@itchy.example.org:/ /mnt</screen>
You should then set the <envar>NIX_OTHER_STORES</envar> environment
variable to tell Nix about this remote Nix store:
<screen>
$ export NIX_OTHER_STORES=/mnt/nix</screen>
Then if you do any Nix operation, e.g.
<screen>
$ nix-env -i firefox</screen>
and Nix has to build a path that it sees is already present in
<filename>/mnt/nix</filename>, then it will just copy from there
instead of building it from source.</para>
</section>
</sect1>
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@@ -1,9 +1,4 @@
<chapter xmlns="http://docbook.org/ns/docbook"
xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink"
xml:id="chap-quick-start">
<title>Quick Start</title>
<chapter><title>Quick Start</title>
<para>This chapter is for impatient people who don't like reading
documentation. For more in-depth information you are kindly referred
@@ -11,9 +6,9 @@ to the following chapters.</para>
<orderedlist>
<listitem><para>Download a source tarball, RPM or Deb from <link
xlink:href='http://nixos.org/'/>. Build source distributions using
the regular sequence:
<listitem><para>Download a source tarball or RPM from <ulink
url='http://www.cs.uu.nl/groups/ST/Trace/Nix'/>. Build source
distributions using the regular sequence:
<screen>
$ tar xvfj nix-<replaceable>version</replaceable>.tar.bz2
@@ -21,28 +16,18 @@ $ ./configure
$ make
$ make install <lineannotation>(as root)</lineannotation></screen>
This will install the Nix binaries in <filename>/usr/local</filename>
and keep the Nix store and other state in <filename>/nix</filename>.
You can change the former by specifying
<option>--prefix=<replaceable>path</replaceable></option>. The
location of the store can be changed using
<option>--with-store-dir=<replaceable>path</replaceable></option>.
However, you shouldn't change the store location, if at all possible,
since that will make it impossible to use pre-built binaries from the
Nixpkgs channel and other channels. The location of the state can be
changed using
<option>--localstatedir=<replaceable>path</replaceable>.</option></para></listitem>
<listitem><para>You should add
<filename><replaceable>prefix</replaceable>/etc/profile.d/nix.sh</filename>
to your <filename>~/.bashrc</filename> (or some other login
This will install Nix in <filename>/nix</filename>. You shouldn't
change the prefix if at all possible since that will make it
impossible to use our pre-built components. Alternatively, you could
grab an RPM if you're on an RPM-based system. You should also add
<filename>/nix/etc/profile.d/nix.sh</filename> to your
<filename>~/.bashrc</filename> (or some other login
file).</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Subscribe to the Nix Packages channel.
<screen>
$ nix-channel --add \
http://nixos.org/releases/nixpkgs/channels/nixpkgs-unstable</screen>
$ nix-channel --add http://catamaran.labs.cs.uu.nl/dist/nix/channels/nixpkgs-unstable</screen>
</para></listitem>
@@ -50,17 +35,17 @@ $ nix-channel --add \
<screen>
$ nix-channel --update</screen>
Note that this in itself doesn't download any packages, it just
Note that this in itself doesn't download any components, it just
downloads the Nix expressions that build them and stores them
somewhere (under <filename>~/.nix-defexpr</filename>, in case you're
curious). Also, it registers the fact that pre-built binaries are
available remotely.</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>See what installable packages are currently available
in the channel:
<listitem><para>See what installable components are currently
available in the channel:
<screen>
$ nix-env -qa \*
$ nix-env -qa
docbook-xml-4.2
firefox-1.0pre-PR-0.10.1
hello-2.1.1
@@ -69,13 +54,13 @@ libxslt-1.1.0
</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Install some packages from the channel:
<listitem><para>Install some components from the channel:
<screen>
$ nix-env -i hello firefox <replaceable>...</replaceable> </screen>
This should download pre-built packages; it should not build them
locally (if it does, something went wrong).</para></listitem>
This should download the pre-built components; it should not build
them locally (if it does, something went wrong).</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Test that they work:
@@ -102,22 +87,12 @@ $ nix-env -e hello</screen>
$ nix-channel --update
$ nix-env -u '*'</screen>
The latter command will upgrade each installed package for which there
is a “newer” version (as determined by comparing the version
numbers).</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>You can also install specific packages directly from
your web browser. For instance, you can go to <link
xlink:href="http://hydra.nixos.org/jobset/nixpkgs/trunk/channel/latest" />
and click on any link for the individual packages for your platform.
Associate <literal>application/nix-package</literal> with the program
<filename>/nix/bin/nix-install-package</filename>. A window should
appear asking you whether its okay to install the package. Say
<literal>Y</literal>. The package and all its dependencies will be
installed.</para></listitem>
The latter command will upgrade each installed component for which
there is a <quote>newer</quote> version (as determined by comparing
the version numbers).</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>If you're unhappy with the result of a
<command>nix-env</command> action (e.g., an upgraded package turned
<command>nix-env</command> action (e.g., an upgraded component turned
out not to work properly), you can go back:
<screen>
@@ -130,15 +105,13 @@ to get rid of unused packages, since uninstalls or upgrades don't
actually delete them:
<screen>
$ nix-collect-garbage -d</screen>
$ nix-env --delete-generations old
$ nix-collect-garbage</screen>
<!--
The first command deletes old “generations” of your profile (making
rollbacks impossible, but also making the packages in those old
generations available for garbage collection), while the second
command actually deletes them.-->
</para></listitem>
The first command deletes old <quote>generations</quote> of your
profile (making rollbacks impossible, but also making the components
in those old generations available for garbage collection), while the
second command actually deletes them.</para></listitem>
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@@ -1,44 +0,0 @@
<?xml version="1.0"?>
<xsl:stylesheet
version="1.0"
xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform"
xmlns:str="http://exslt.org/strings"
extension-element-prefixes="str">
<xsl:output method="xml"/>
<xsl:template match="function|command|literal|varname|filename|option|quote">`<xsl:apply-templates/>'</xsl:template>
<xsl:template match="token"><xsl:text> </xsl:text><xsl:apply-templates /><xsl:text>
</xsl:text></xsl:template>
<xsl:template match="screen|programlisting">
<screen><xsl:apply-templates select="str:split(., '&#xA;')" /></screen>
</xsl:template>
<xsl:template match="section[following::section]">
<section>
<xsl:apply-templates />
<screen><xsl:text>
</xsl:text></screen>
</section>
</xsl:template>
<xsl:template match="*">
<xsl:element name="{name(.)}" namespace="{namespace-uri(.)}">
<xsl:copy-of select="namespace::*" />
<xsl:for-each select="@*">
<xsl:attribute name="{name(.)}" namespace="{namespace-uri(.)}">
<xsl:value-of select="."/>
</xsl:attribute>
</xsl:for-each>
<xsl:apply-templates/>
</xsl:element>
</xsl:template>
<xsl:template match="text()">
<xsl:value-of select="translate(., '‘’“”—', concat(&quot;`'&quot;, '&quot;&quot;-'))" />
</xsl:template>
</xsl:stylesheet>

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@@ -10,6 +10,7 @@ body
{
font-family: sans-serif;
background: white;
margin: 2em 1em 2em 1em;
}
@@ -33,33 +34,16 @@ h2 /* chapters, appendices, subtitle */
div.chapter > div.titlepage h2, div.appendix > div.titlepage h2
{
margin-top: 1.5em;
/* border-top: solid #005aa0; */
}
div.section > div.titlepage h2 /* sections */
div.sect1 h2 /* sections */
{
font-size: 150%;
margin-top: 1.5em;
}
h3 /* subsections */
{
font-size: 125%;
}
div.simplesect h2
{
font-size: 110%;
}
div.appendix h3
{
font-size: 150%;
margin-top: 1.5em;
}
div.refnamediv h2, div.refsynopsisdiv h2, div.refsection h2 /* refentry parts */
{
margin-top: 1.4em;
font-size: 125%;
}
@@ -68,23 +52,30 @@ div.refsection h3
font-size: 110%;
}
h3 /* subsections */
{
font-size: 125%;
}
/***************************************************************************
Examples:
Program listings:
***************************************************************************/
div.example
{
border: 1px solid #6185a0;
padding: 6px 6px;
margin-left: 1.5em;
margin-right: 1.5em;
background: #f4f4f8;
margin-left: 3em;
margin-right: 3em;
background: #eeeeee;
}
div.example p.title
pre.programlisting
{
margin-top: 0em;
color: #600000;
font-family: monospace;
}
@@ -92,63 +83,39 @@ div.example p.title
Screen dumps:
***************************************************************************/
pre.screen, pre.programlisting
pre.screen
{
border: 1px solid #6185a0;
padding: 3px 3px;
margin-left: 1.5em;
margin-right: 1.5em;
padding: 6px 6px;
margin-left: 3em;
margin-right: 3em;
color: #600000;
background: #f4f4f8;
background: #eeeeee;
font-family: monospace;
/* font-size: 90%; */
}
div.example pre.programlisting
{
border: 0px;
padding: 0 0;
margin: 0 0 0 0;
}
/***************************************************************************
Notes, warnings etc:
***************************************************************************/
.note, .warning
.note,.warning
{
border: 1px solid #6185a0;
padding: 3px 3px;
margin-left: 1.5em;
margin-right: 1.5em;
margin-bottom: 1em;
padding: 0.3em 0.3em 0.3em 0.3em;
padding: 0px 1em;
background: #fffff5;
}
div.note, div.warning
div.note,div.warning
{
font-style: italic;
}
div.note h3, div.warning h3
div.warning h3
{
color: red;
font-size: 100%;
// margin: 0 0 0 0;
padding-right: 0.5em;
display: inline;
}
div.note p, div.warning p
{
margin-bottom: 0em;
}
div.note h3 + p, div.warning h3 + p
{
display: inline;
}
div.note h3
@@ -187,7 +154,7 @@ a:hover { background: #ffffcd; }
Special elements:
***************************************************************************/
tt, code
tt
{
color: #400000;
}
@@ -198,19 +165,9 @@ tt, code
}
div.variablelist dd p, div.glosslist dd p
div.variablelist dd
{
margin-top: 0em;
}
div.variablelist dd, div.glosslist dd
{
margin-left: 1.5em;
}
div.glosslist dt
{
font-style: italic;
margin-bottom: 1em;
}
.default
@@ -272,17 +229,4 @@ div.epigraph
table.productionset table.productionset
{
font-family: monospace;
}
strong.command
{
// font-family: monospace;
// font-style: italic;
// font-weight: normal;
color: #400000;
}
div.calloutlist td
{
padding-bottom: 1em;
}
}

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@@ -1,92 +1,14 @@
<appendix xmlns="http://docbook.org/ns/docbook"
xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink">
<title>Troubleshooting</title>
<para>This section provides solutions for some common problems. See
the <link xlink:href="http://bugs.strategoxt.org/browse/NIX">Nix
bug tracker</link> for a list of currently known issues.</para>
<section><title>Collisions in <command>nix-env</command></title>
<para>Symptom: when installing or upgrading, you get an error message such as
<screen>
$ nix-env -i docbook-xml
...
adding /nix/store/s5hyxgm62gk2...-docbook-xml-4.2
collission between `/nix/store/s5hyxgm62gk2...-docbook-xml-4.2/xml/dtd/docbook/calstblx.dtd'
and `/nix/store/06h377hr4b33...-docbook-xml-4.3/xml/dtd/docbook/calstblx.dtd'
at /nix/store/...-builder.pl line 62.</screen>
</para>
<para>The cause is that two installed packages in the user environment
have overlapping filenames (e.g.,
<filename>xml/dtd/docbook/calstblx.dtd</filename>. This usually
happens when you accidentally try to install two versions of the same
package. For instance, in the example above, the Nix Packages
collection contains two versions of <literal>docbook-xml</literal>, so
<command>nix-env -i</command> will try to install both. The default
user environment builder has no way to way to resolve such conflicts,
so it just gives up.</para>
<para>Solution: remove one of the offending packages from the user
environment (if already installed) using <command>nix-env
-e</command>, or specify exactly which version should be installed
(e.g., <literal>nix-env -i docbook-xml-4.2</literal>).</para>
<para>Alternatively, you can modify the user environment builder
script (in
<filename><replaceable>prefix</replaceable>/share/nix/corepkgs/buildenv/builder.pl</filename>)
to implement some conflict resolution policy. E.g., the script could
be modified to rename conflicting file names, or to pick one over the
other.</para>
</section>
<section><title><quote>Too many links</quote> error in the Nix
store</title>
<para>Symptom: when building something, you get an error message such as
<screen>
...
<literal>mkdir: cannot create directory `/nix/store/<replaceable>name</replaceable>': Too many links</literal></screen>
</para>
<para>This is usually because you have more than 32,000 subdirectories
in <filename>/nix/store</filename>, as can be seen using <command>ls
-l</command>:
<screen>
$ ls -l /nix/store
drwxrwxrwt 32000 nix nix 4620288 Sep 8 15:08 store</screen>
The <literal>ext2</literal> file system is limited to a inode link
count of 32,000 (each subdirectory increasing the count by one).
Furthermore, the <literal>st_nlink</literal> field of the
<function>stat</function> system call is a 16-bit value.</para>
<para>This only happens on very large Nix installations (such as build
machines).</para>
<para>Quick solution: run the garbage collector. You may want to use
the <option>--max-links</option> option.</para>
<para>Real solution: put the Nix store on a file system that supports
more than 32,000 subdirectories per directory, such as ReiserFS.
(This doesnt solve the <literal>st_nlink</literal> limit, but
ReiserFS lies to the kernel by reporting a link count of 1 if it
exceeds the limit.)</para>
</section>
<appendix>
<title>Troubleshooting</title>
<para>
(Nothing.)
</para>
</appendix>
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Generate a private key:
$ (umask 277 && openssl genrsa -out /nix/etc/nix/signing-key.sec 2048)
The private key should be kept secret (only readable to the Nix daemon
user).
Generate the corresponding public key:
$ openssl rsa -in /nix/etc/nix/signing-key.sec -pubout > /nix/etc/nix/signing-key.pub
The public key should be copied to all machines to which you want to
export store paths.
Signing:
$ nix-hash --type sha256 --flat svn.nar | openssl rsautl -sign -inkey mykey.sec > svn.nar.sign
Verifying a signature:
$ test "$(nix-hash --type sha256 --flat svn.nar)" = "$(openssl rsautl -verify -inkey mykey.pub -pubin -in svn.nar.sign)"

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# bzip2
# Berkeley DB
BZIP2 = bzip2-1.0.5
DB = db-4.2.52
$(BZIP2).tar.gz:
@echo "Nix requires bzip2 to build."
@echo "Please download version 1.0.5 from"
@echo " http://www.bzip.org/1.0.5/bzip2-1.0.5.tar.gz"
$(DB).tar.gz:
@echo "Nix requires Berkeley DB to build."
@echo "Please download version 4.2.52 from"
@echo " http://www.sleepycat.com/update/snapshot/db-4.2.52.tar.gz"
@echo "and place it in the externals/ directory."
false
$(BZIP2): $(BZIP2).tar.gz
gunzip < $(srcdir)/$(BZIP2).tar.gz | tar xvf -
$(DB): $(DB).tar.gz
gunzip < $(DB).tar.gz | tar xvf -
if HAVE_BZIP2
build-bzip2:
have-db:
$(MAKE) $(DB)
touch have-db
if HAVE_BDB
build-db:
else
build-bzip2: $(BZIP2)
(cd $(BZIP2) && \
$(MAKE) CC="$(CC)" && \
$(MAKE) install PREFIX=$(abs_builddir)/inst-bzip2)
touch build-bzip2
install-exec-local:: build-bzip2
mkdir -p $(DESTDIR)${bzip2_bin}
$(INSTALL_PROGRAM) $(bzip2_bin_test)/bzip2 $(bzip2_bin_test)/bunzip2 $(DESTDIR)${bzip2_bin}
build-db: have-db
(pfx=`pwd` && \
cd $(DB)/build_unix && \
CC="$(CC)" CXX="$(CXX)" CFLAGS="$(CFLAGS)" CXXFLAGS="$(CXXFLAGS)" \
../dist/configure --prefix=$$pfx/inst-bdb \
--enable-cxx --disable-shared --disable-cryptography \
--disable-replication --disable-verify && \
make && \
make install)
touch build-db
endif
# SQLite
# CWI ATerm
SQLITE = sqlite-autoconf-$(SQLITE_VERSION)
SQLITE_TAR = sqlite-autoconf-$(SQLITE_VERSION).tar.gz
ATERM = aterm-2.2
$(SQLITE_TAR):
@echo "Nix requires the SQLite library to build."
@echo "Please download version $(SQLITE_VERSION) from"
@echo " http://www.sqlite.org/$(SQLITE_TAR)"
$(ATERM).tar.gz:
@echo "Nix requires the CWI ATerm library to build."
@echo "Please download version 2.2 from"
@echo " http://www.cwi.nl/projects/MetaEnv/aterm/aterm-2.2.tar.gz"
@echo "and place it in the externals/ directory."
false
$(SQLITE): $(SQLITE_TAR)
gzip -d < $(srcdir)/$(SQLITE_TAR) | tar xvf -
$(ATERM): $(ATERM).tar.gz
gunzip < $(ATERM).tar.gz | tar xvf -
if HAVE_SQLITE
build-sqlite:
have-aterm:
$(MAKE) $(ATERM)
touch have-aterm
if HAVE_ATERM
build-aterm:
else
build-sqlite: $(SQLITE)
(cd $(SQLITE) && \
CC="$(CC)" CFLAGS="-DSQLITE_ENABLE_COLUMN_METADATA=1" ./configure --disable-static --prefix=$(pkglibdir)/dummy --libdir=${pkglibdir} $(SUB_CONFIGURE_FLAGS) && \
$(MAKE) )
touch build-sqlite
install-exec-local:: build-sqlite
cd $(SQLITE) && $(MAKE) install
rm -rf "$(DESTDIR)/$(pkglibdir)/dummy"
build-aterm: have-aterm
(pfx=`pwd` && \
cd $(ATERM) && \
CC="$(CC)" ./configure --prefix=$$pfx/inst-aterm && \
make && \
make install)
touch build-aterm
endif
all: build-bzip2 build-sqlite
all: build-db build-aterm
EXTRA_DIST = $(BZIP2).tar.gz $(SQLITE_TAR)
EXTRA_DIST = $(DB).tar.gz $(ATERM).tar.gz
clean:
$(RM) -f build-bzip2 build-sqlite
$(RM) -rf $(BZIP2) $(SQLITE)
$(RM) -rf inst-bzip2
ext-clean:
$(RM) -f have-db build-db have-aterm build-aterm
$(RM) -rf $(DB) $(ATERM)

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{sharedLib ? true}:
rec {
inherit (import ../../../lib) compileC makeLibrary;
sources = [
./afun.c
./aterm.c
./bafio.c
./byteio.c
./gc.c
./hash.c
./list.c
./make.c
./md5c.c
./memory.c
./tafio.c
./version.c
];
compile = main: compileC {inherit main sharedLib;};
libATerm = makeLibrary {
libraryName = "ATerm";
objects = map compile sources;
inherit sharedLib;
};
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with (import ../../../lib);
let {
inherit (import ../aterm {}) libATerm;
compileTest = main: link {
objects = [(compileC {inherit main; localIncludePath = [ ../aterm ];})];
libraries = libATerm;
};
body = [
(compileTest ./fib.c)
(compileTest ./primes.c)
];
}

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@@ -1,6 +0,0 @@
[ (import ./trivial)
(import ./simple-header)
(import ./not-so-simple-header)
(import ./not-so-simple-header-auto)
(import ./aterm)
]

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with import ../../lib;
let {
hello = link {programName = "hello"; objects = compileC {
main = ./foo/hello.c;
localIncludes = "auto";
};};
# body = findIncludes {main = ./foo/hello.c;};
body = [hello];
}

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#define HELLO "Hello"
#include "../../bar/hello.h"

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@@ -1,9 +0,0 @@
#include <stdio.h>
#include "fnord/indirect.h"
int main(int argc, char * * argv)
{
printf(HELLO " " WHAT "\n");
return 0;
}

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#define WHAT "World"

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@@ -1,14 +0,0 @@
let {
inherit (import ../../lib) compileC link;
hello = link {programName = "hello"; objects = compileC {
main = ./foo/hello.c;
localIncludes = [
[./foo/fnord/indirect.h "fnord/indirect.h"]
[./bar/hello.h "fnord/../../bar/hello.h"]
];
};};
body = [hello];
}

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#define HELLO "Hello"
#include "../../bar/hello.h"

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@@ -1,9 +0,0 @@
#include <stdio.h>
#include "fnord/indirect.h"
int main(int argc, char * * argv)
{
printf(HELLO " " WHAT "\n");
return 0;
}

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@@ -1,11 +0,0 @@
let {
inherit (import ../../lib) compileC link;
hello = link {objects = compileC {
main = ./hello.c;
localIncludes = [ [./hello.h "hello.h"] ];
};};
body = [hello];
}

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@@ -1,9 +0,0 @@
#include <stdio.h>
#include "hello.h"
int main(int argc, char * * argv)
{
printf("Hello " WHAT "\n");
return 0;
}

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#define WHAT "World"

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let {
inherit (import ../../lib) compileC link;
hello = link {objects = compileC {main = ./hello.c;};};
body = [hello];
}

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@@ -1,7 +0,0 @@
#include <stdio.h>
int main(int argc, char * * argv)
{
printf("Hello World\n");
return 0;
}

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. $stdenv/setup
mainName=$(basename $main | cut -c34-)
echo "compiling \`$mainName'..."
# Turn $localIncludes into an array.
localIncludes=($localIncludes)
# Determine how many `..' levels appear in the header file references.
# E.g., if there is some reference `../../foo.h', then we have to
# insert two extra levels in the directory structure, so that `a.c' is
# stored at `dotdot/dotdot/a.c', and a reference from it to
# `../../foo.h' resolves to `dotdot/dotdot/../../foo.h' == `foo.h'.
n=0
maxDepth=0
for ((n = 0; n < ${#localIncludes[*]}; n += 2)); do
target=${localIncludes[$((n + 1))]}
# Split the target name into path components using some IFS magic.
savedIFS="$IFS"
IFS=/
components=($target)
depth=0
for ((m = 0; m < ${#components[*]}; m++)); do
c=${components[m]}
if test "$c" = ".."; then
depth=$((depth + 1))
fi
done
IFS="$savedIFS"
if test $depth -gt $maxDepth; then
maxDepth=$depth;
fi
done
# Create the extra levels in the directory hierarchy.
prefix=
for ((n = 0; n < maxDepth; n++)); do
prefix="dotdot/$prefix"
done
# Create symlinks to the header files.
for ((n = 0; n < ${#localIncludes[*]}; n += 2)); do
source=${localIncludes[n]}
target=${localIncludes[$((n + 1))]}
# Create missing directories. We use IFS magic to split the path
# into path components.
savedIFS="$IFS"
IFS=/
components=($prefix$target)
fullPath=(.)
for ((m = 0; m < ${#components[*]} - 1; m++)); do
fullPath=("${fullPath[@]}" ${components[m]})
if ! test -d "${fullPath[*]}"; then
mkdir "${fullPath[*]}"
fi
done
IFS="$savedIFS"
ln -sf $source $prefix$target
done
# Create a symlink to the main file.
if ! test "$(readlink $prefix$mainName)" = $main; then
ln -s $main $prefix$mainName
fi
mkdir $out
test "$prefix" && cd $prefix
gcc -Wall $cFlags -c $mainName -o $out/$mainName.o

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@@ -1,69 +0,0 @@
rec {
# Should point at your Nixpkgs installation.
pkgPath = ./pkgs;
pkgs = import (pkgPath + /system/all-packages.nix) {};
stdenv = pkgs.stdenv;
compileC =
{ main
, localIncludes ? "auto"
, localIncludePath ? []
, cFlags ? ""
, sharedLib ? false
}:
stdenv.mkDerivation {
name = "compile-c";
builder = ./compile-c.sh;
localIncludes =
if localIncludes == "auto" then
dependencyClosure {
scanner = main:
import (findIncludes {
inherit main;
});
searchPath = localIncludePath;
startSet = [main];
}
else
localIncludes;
inherit main;
cFlags = [
cFlags
(if sharedLib then ["-fpic"] else [])
(map (p: "-I" + (relativise (dirOf main) p)) localIncludePath)
];
};
findIncludes = {main}: stdenv.mkDerivation {
name = "find-includes";
realBuilder = pkgs.perl ~ "bin/perl";
args = [ ./find-includes.pl ];
inherit main;
};
link = {objects, programName ? "program", libraries ? []}: stdenv.mkDerivation {
name = "link";
builder = ./link.sh;
inherit objects programName libraries;
};
makeLibrary = {objects, libraryName ? [], sharedLib ? false}:
# assert sharedLib -> fold (obj: x: assert obj.sharedLib && x) false objects
stdenv.mkDerivation {
name = "library";
builder = ./make-library.sh;
inherit objects libraryName sharedLib;
};
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use strict;
my $root = $ENV{"main"};
my $out = $ENV{"out"};
open OUT, ">$out" or die "$!";
print OUT "[\n";
open IN, "<$root" or die "$!";
while (<IN>) {
if (/^\#include\s+\"(.*)\"/) {
print OUT "\"$1\"\n";
}
if (/^\#include\s+\<(.*)\>/) {
print OUT "\"$1\"\n";
}
}
close IN;
print OUT "]\n";
close OUT;

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. $stdenv/setup
shopt -s nullglob
objs=
for i in $objects; do
obj=$(echo $i/*.o)
objs="$objs $obj"
done
libs=
for i in $libraries; do
lib=$(echo $i/*.a; echo $i/*.so)
name=$(echo $(basename $lib) | sed -e 's/^lib//' -e 's/.a$//' -e 's/.so$//')
libs="$libs -L$(dirname $lib) -l$name"
done
echo "linking object files into \`$programName'..."
mkdir $out
gcc -o $out/$programName $objs $libs

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. $stdenv/setup
objs=
for i in $objects; do
obj=$(echo $i/*.o)
objs="$objs $obj"
done
echo "archiving object files into library \`$libraryName'..."
ensureDir $out
if test -z "$sharedLib"; then
outPath=$out/lib${libraryName}.a
ar crs $outPath $objs
ranlib $outPath
else
outPath=$out/lib${libraryName}.so
gcc -shared -o $outPath $objs
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@@ -2,4 +2,4 @@ EXTRA_DIST = nix-mode.el
install-data-local:
$(INSTALL) -d $(DESTDIR)$(datadir)/emacs/site-lisp
$(INSTALL_DATA) $(srcdir)/nix-mode.el $(DESTDIR)$(datadir)/emacs/site-lisp
$(INSTALL_DATA) nix-mode.el $(DESTDIR)$(datadir)/emacs/site-lisp

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@@ -66,8 +66,8 @@ The hook `nix-mode-hook' is run when Nix mode is started.
(defvar nix-keywords
'("\\<if\\>" "\\<then\\>" "\\<else\\>" "\\<assert\\>" "\\<with\\>"
"\\<let\\>" "\\<in\\>" "\\<rec\\>" "\\<inherit\\>"
'("\\<if\\>" "\\<then\\>" "\\<else\\>" "\\<assert\\>"
"\\<let\\>" "\\<rec\\>" "\\<inherit\\>"
("\\<true\\>" . font-lock-builtin-face)
("\\<false\\>" . font-lock-builtin-face)
("\\<null\\>" . font-lock-builtin-face)
@@ -76,10 +76,10 @@ The hook `nix-mode-hook' is run when Nix mode is started.
("\\<baseNameOf\\>" . font-lock-builtin-face)
("\\<toString\\>" . font-lock-builtin-face)
("\\<isNull\\>" . font-lock-builtin-face)
("\\<\\([a-zA-Z_][a-zA-Z0-9_']*\\)[ \t]*="
(1 font-lock-variable-name-face nil nil))
("[a-zA-Z][a-zA-Z0-9\\+-\\.]*:[a-zA-Z0-9%/\\?:@&=\\+\\$,_\\.!~\\*'-]+"
. font-lock-constant-face)
("\\<\\([a-zA-Z_][a-zA-Z0-9_'\.]*\\)[ \t]*="
(1 font-lock-variable-name-face nil nil))
("[a-zA-Z0-9._\\+-]*\\(/[a-zA-Z0-9._\\+-]+\\)+"
. font-lock-constant-face)
))

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" Vim syntax file
" Language: nix
" Maintainer: Marc Weber <marco-oweber@gmx.de>
" Modify and commit if you feel that way
" Last Change: 2007 Dec
" Quit when a (custom) syntax file was already loaded
if exists("b:current_syntax")
finish
endif
syn keyword nixKeyword let throw inherit import true false null with
syn keyword nixConditional if else then
syn keyword nixBrace ( ) { } =
syn keyword nixBuiltin __currentSystem __currentTime __isFunction __getEnv __trace __toPath __pathExists
\ __readFile __toXML __toFile __filterSource __attrNames __getAttr __hasAttr __isAttrs __listToAttrs __isList
\ __head __tail __add __sub __lessThan __substring __stringLength
syn match nixAttr "\w\+\ze\s*="
syn match nixFuncArg "\zs\w\+\ze\s*:"
syn region nixStringParam start=+\${+ end=+}+
syn region nixMultiLineComment start=+/\*+ skip=+\\"+ end=+\*/+
syn match nixEndOfLineComment "#.*$"
syn region nixStringIndented start=+''+ skip=+'''\|''${\|"+ end=+''+ contains=nixStringParam
syn region nixString start=+"+ skip=+\\"+ end=+"+ contains=nixStringParam
hi def link nixKeyword Keyword
hi def link nixConditional Conditional
hi def link nixBrace Special
hi def link nixString String
hi def link nixStringIndented String
hi def link nixBuiltin Special
hi def link nixStringParam Macro
hi def link nixMultiLineComment Comment
hi def link nixEndOfLineComment Comment
hi def link nixAttr Identifier
hi def link nixFuncArg Identifier

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### Option `gc-keep-outputs'
#
# If `true', the garbage collector will keep the outputs of
# non-garbage derivations. If `false' (default), outputs will be
# deleted unless they are GC roots themselves (or reachable from other
# roots).
#
# In general, outputs must be registered as roots separately.
# However, even if the output of a derivation is registered as a root,
# the collector will still delete store paths that are used only at
# build time (e.g., the C compiler, or source tarballs downloaded from
# the network). To prevent it from doing so, set this option to
# `true'.
#gc-keep-outputs = false
### Option `gc-keep-derivations'
#
# If `true' (default), the garbage collector will keep the derivations
# from which non-garbage store paths were built. If `false', they
# will be deleted unless explicitly registered as a root (or reachable
# from other roots).
#
# Keeping derivation around is useful for querying and traceability
# (e.g., it allows you to ask with what dependencies or options a
# store path was built), so by default this option is on. Turn it off
# to safe a bit of disk space (or a lot if `gc-keep-outputs' is also
# turned on).
#gc-keep-derivations = true
### Option `env-keep-derivations'
#
# If `false' (default), derivations are not stored in Nix user
# environments. That is, the derivation any build-time-only
# dependencies may be garbage-collected.
#
# If `true', when you add a Nix derivation to a user environment, the
# path of the derivation is stored in the user environment. Thus, the
# derivation will not be garbage-collected until the user environment
# generation is deleted (`nix-env --delete-generations'). To prevent
# build-time-only dependencies from being collected, you should also
# turn on `gc-keep-outputs'.
#
# The difference between this option and `gc-keep-derivations' is that
# this one is `sticky': it applies to any user environment created
# while this option was enabled, while `gc-keep-derivations' only
# applies at the moment the garbage collector is run.
#env-keep-derivations = false
### Option `build-max-jobs'
#
# This option defines the maximum number of jobs that Nix will try to
# build in parallel. The default is 1. You should generally set it
# to the number of CPUs in your system (e.g., 2 on a Athlon 64 X2).
# It can be overriden using the `--max-jobs' / `-j' command line
# switch.
#build-max-jobs = 1
### Option `build-cores'
#
# This option defines the number of CPU cores to utilize in parallel
# within a build job, i.e. by passing an appropriate `-jN' flag to GNU
# Make. The default is 1, meaning that parallel building within jobs
# is disabled. Passing the special value `0' causes Nix to try and
# auto-detect the number of available cores on the local host. This
# setting can be overridden using the `--cores' command line switch.
#build-cores = 1
### Option `build-max-silent-time'
#
# This option defines the maximum number of seconds that a builder can
# go without producing any data on standard output or standard error.
# This is useful (for instance in a automated build system) to catch
# builds that are stuck in an infinite loop, or to catch remote builds
# that are hanging due to network problems. It can be overriden using
# the `--max-silent-time' command line switch.
#
# The value 0 means that there is no timeout. This is also the
# default.
#
# Example:
# build-max-silent-time = 600 # = 10 minutes
#build-max-silent-time = 0
### Option `build-users-group'
#
# This options specifies the Unix group containing the Nix build user
# accounts. In multi-user Nix installations, builds should not
# be performed by the Nix account since that would allow users to
# arbitrarily modify the Nix store and database by supplying specially
# crafted builders; and they cannot be performed by the calling user
# since that would allow him/her to influence the build result.
#
# Therefore, if this option is non-empty and specifies a valid group,
# builds will be performed under the user accounts that are a member
# of the group specified here (as listed in /etc/group). Those user
# accounts should not be used for any other purpose!
#
# Nix will never run two builds under the same user account at the
# same time. This is to prevent an obvious security hole: a malicious
# user writing a Nix expression that modifies the build result of a
# legitimate Nix expression being built by another user. Therefore it
# is good to have as many Nix build user accounts as you can spare.
# (Remember: uids are cheap.)
#
# The build users should have permission to create files in the Nix
# store, but not delete them. Therefore, /nix/store should be owned
# by the Nix account, its group should be the group specified here,
# and its mode should be 1775.
#
# If the build users group is empty, builds will be performed under
# the uid of the Nix process (that is, the uid of the caller if
# $NIX_REMOTE is empty, the uid under which the Nix daemon runs if
# $NIX_REMOTE is `daemon', or the uid that owns the setuid nix-worker
# program if $NIX_REMOTE is `slave'). Obviously, this should not be
# used in multi-user settings with untrusted users.
#
# The default is empty.
#
# Example:
# build-users-group = nix-builders
#build-users-group =
### Option `build-use-chroot'
#
# If set to `true', builds will be performed in a chroot environment,
# i.e., the build will be isolated from the normal file system
# hierarchy and will only see the Nix store, the temporary build
# directory, and the directories configured with the
# `build-chroot-dirs' option (such as /proc and /dev). This is useful
# to prevent undeclared dependencies on files in directories such as
# /usr/bin.
#
# The use of a chroot requires that Nix is run as root (but you can
# still use the "build users" feature to perform builds under
# different users than root). Currently, chroot builds only work on
# Linux because Nix uses "bind mounts" to make the Nix store and other
# directories available inside the chroot.
#
# The default is `false'.
#
# Example:
# build-use-chroot = true
#build-use-chroot = false
### Option `build-chroot-dirs'
#
# When builds are performed in a chroot environment, Nix will mount
# (using `mount --bind' on Linux) some directories from the normal
# file system hierarchy inside the chroot. These are the Nix store,
# the temporary build directory (usually /tmp/nix-<pid>-<number>) and
# the directories listed here. The default is "/dev /dev/pts /proc".
# Files in /dev (such as /dev/null) are needed by many builds, and
# some files in /proc may also be needed occasionally.
#
# Example:
# build-use-chroot = /dev /proc /bin
#build-chroot-dirs = /dev /dev/pts /proc
### Option `build-cache-failure'
#
# If this option is enabled, Nix will do negative caching; that is, it
# will remember failed builds, and won't attempt to try to build them
# again if you ask for it. Negative caching is disabled by default
# because Nix cannot distinguish between permanent build errors (e.g.,
# a syntax error in a source file) and transient build errors (e.g., a
# full disk), as they both cause the builder to return a non-zero exit
# code. You can clear the cache by doing `rm -f
# /nix/var/nix/db/failed/*'.
#
# Example:
# build-cache-failure = true
#build-cache-failure = false

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@@ -13,24 +13,19 @@ Version: @version@
Release: 1
License: GPL
Group: Software Deployment
URL: http://nixos.org/
Source0: %{name}-@version@.tar.bz2
URL: http://www.cs.uu.nl/groups/ST/Trace/Nix
Source0: %{name}-@version@.tar.gz
BuildRoot: %{_tmppath}/%{name}-%{version}-buildroot
Prefix: /usr
%define _prefix /nix
Prefix: %{_prefix}
Requires: /usr/bin/perl
Requires: curl
# Hack to make that shitty RPM scanning hack shut up.
Provides: perl(readmanifest)
%description
Nix is a purely functional package manager. It allows multiple
versions of a package to be installed side-by-side, ensures that
dependency specifications are complete, supports atomic upgrades and
rollbacks, allows non-root users to install software, and has many
other features. It is the basis of the NixOS Linux distribution, but
it can be used equally well under other Unix systems.
Nix is a system for software deployment.
%prep
%setup -q
@@ -46,14 +41,13 @@ if test -n "%{enable_setuid}"; then
extraFlags="$extraFlags --with-nix-group=%{nix_group}"
fi
fi
./configure --prefix=%{_prefix} --sysconfdir=/etc $extraFlags
./configure --prefix=%{_prefix} $extraFlags
make
make check
%install
rm -rf $RPM_BUILD_ROOT
make DESTDIR=$RPM_BUILD_ROOT install
rm $RPM_BUILD_ROOT/etc/nix/nix.conf
strip $RPM_BUILD_ROOT/%{_prefix}/bin/* || true
%clean
@@ -72,12 +66,12 @@ fi
%files
#%defattr(-,root,root)
%{_prefix}/bin
%{_prefix}/lib
%{_prefix}/libexec
%{_prefix}/include
%{_prefix}/var
%{_prefix}/share
/etc/profile.d/nix.sh
/nix/var
/nix/store
%{_prefix}/man
%{_prefix}/store
%config
/etc/nix
%{_prefix}/etc
#%doc
#%{_prefix}/share/nix/manual

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@@ -1,177 +0,0 @@
{ nixpkgs ? ../nixpkgs
, nix ? { outPath = ./.; rev = 1234; }
, officialRelease ? false
}:
let
jobs = rec {
tarball =
with import nixpkgs {};
releaseTools.sourceTarball {
name = "nix-tarball";
version = builtins.readFile ./version;
src = nix;
inherit officialRelease;
buildInputs =
[ curl bison24 flex2535 perl libxml2 libxslt w3m bzip2
tetex dblatex nukeReferences pkgconfig
];
configureFlags = ''
--with-docbook-rng=${docbook5}/xml/rng/docbook
--with-docbook-xsl=${docbook5_xsl}/xml/xsl/docbook
--with-xml-flags=--nonet
'';
# Include the Bzip2 tarball in the distribution.
preConfigure = ''
stripHash ${bzip2.src}
cp -pv ${bzip2.src} externals/$strippedName
stripHash ${sqlite.src}
cp -pv ${sqlite.src} externals/$strippedName
# TeX needs a writable font cache.
export VARTEXFONTS=$TMPDIR/texfonts
'';
preDist = ''
make -C doc/manual install prefix=$out
make -C doc/manual manual.pdf prefix=$out
cp doc/manual/manual.pdf $out/manual.pdf
# The PDF containes filenames of included graphics (see
# http://www.tug.org/pipermail/pdftex/2007-August/007290.html).
# This causes a retained dependency on dblatex, which Hydra
# doesn't like (the output of the tarball job is distributed
# to Windows and Macs, so there should be no Linux binaries
# in the closure).
nuke-refs $out/manual.pdf
echo "doc manual $out/share/doc/nix/manual" >> $out/nix-support/hydra-build-products
echo "doc-pdf manual $out/manual.pdf" >> $out/nix-support/hydra-build-products
echo "doc release-notes $out/share/doc/nix/release-notes" >> $out/nix-support/hydra-build-products
'';
};
build =
{ system ? "i686-linux" }:
with import nixpkgs { inherit system; };
releaseTools.nixBuild {
name = "nix";
src = tarball;
buildInputs = [ curl perl bzip2 openssl pkgconfig boehmgc ];
configureFlags = ''
--disable-init-state
--with-bzip2=${bzip2} --with-sqlite=${sqlite}
--enable-gc
'';
};
coverage =
with import nixpkgs { system = "x86_64-linux"; };
releaseTools.coverageAnalysis {
name = "nix-build";
src = tarball;
buildInputs =
[ curl perl bzip2 openssl
# These are for "make check" only:
graphviz libxml2 libxslt
];
configureFlags = ''
--disable-init-state --disable-shared
--with-bzip2=${bzip2} --with-sqlite=${sqlite}
'';
lcovFilter = [ "*/boost/*" "*-tab.*" ];
# We call `dot', and even though we just use it to
# syntax-check generated dot files, it still requires some
# fonts. So provide those.
FONTCONFIG_FILE = texFunctions.fontsConf;
};
rpm_fedora5i386 = makeRPM_i686 (diskImages: diskImages.fedora5i386) 10;
rpm_fedora9i386 = makeRPM_i686 (diskImages: diskImages.fedora9i386) 20;
rpm_fedora9x86_64 = makeRPM_x86_64 (diskImages: diskImages.fedora9x86_64) 20;
rpm_fedora10i386 = makeRPM_i686 (diskImages: diskImages.fedora10i386) 30;
rpm_fedora10x86_64 = makeRPM_x86_64 (diskImages: diskImages.fedora10x86_64) 30;
rpm_fedora11i386 = makeRPM_i686 (diskImages: diskImages.fedora11i386) 40;
rpm_fedora11x86_64 = makeRPM_x86_64 (diskImages: diskImages.fedora11x86_64) 40;
rpm_fedora12i386 = makeRPM_i686 (diskImages: diskImages.fedora12i386) 50;
rpm_fedora12x86_64 = makeRPM_x86_64 (diskImages: diskImages.fedora12x86_64) 50;
rpm_opensuse103i386 = makeRPM_i686 (diskImages: diskImages.opensuse103i386) 40;
rpm_opensuse110i386 = makeRPM_i686 (diskImages: diskImages.opensuse110i386) 50;
rpm_opensuse110x86_64 = makeRPM_x86_64 (diskImages: diskImages.opensuse110x86_64) 50;
deb_debian40i386 = makeDeb_i686 (diskImages: diskImages.debian40i386) 40;
deb_debian40x86_64 = makeDeb_x86_64 (diskImages: diskImages.debian40x86_64) 40;
deb_debian50i386 = makeDeb_i686 (diskImages: diskImages.debian50i386) 50;
deb_debian50x86_64 = makeDeb_x86_64 (diskImages: diskImages.debian50x86_64) 50;
deb_ubuntu804i386 = makeDeb_i686 (diskImages: diskImages.ubuntu804i386) 20;
deb_ubuntu804x86_64 = makeDeb_x86_64 (diskImages: diskImages.ubuntu804x86_64) 20;
deb_ubuntu810i386 = makeDeb_i686 (diskImages: diskImages.ubuntu810i386) 30;
deb_ubuntu810x86_64 = makeDeb_x86_64 (diskImages: diskImages.ubuntu810x86_64) 30;
deb_ubuntu904i386 = makeDeb_i686 (diskImages: diskImages.ubuntu904i386) 40;
deb_ubuntu904x86_64 = makeDeb_x86_64 (diskImages: diskImages.ubuntu904x86_64) 40;
deb_ubuntu910i386 = makeDeb_i686 (diskImages: diskImages.ubuntu910i386) 50;
deb_ubuntu910x86_64 = makeDeb_x86_64 (diskImages: diskImages.ubuntu910x86_64) 50;
};
makeRPM_i686 = makeRPM "i686-linux";
makeRPM_x86_64 = makeRPM "x86_64-linux";
makeRPM =
system: diskImageFun: prio:
with import nixpkgs { inherit system; };
releaseTools.rpmBuild rec {
name = "nix-rpm-${diskImage.name}";
src = jobs.tarball;
diskImage = diskImageFun vmTools.diskImages;
memSize = 1024;
meta.schedulingPriority = prio;
};
makeDeb_i686 = makeDeb "i686-linux";
makeDeb_x86_64 = makeDeb "x86_64-linux";
makeDeb =
system: diskImageFun: prio:
with import nixpkgs { inherit system; };
releaseTools.debBuild {
name = "nix-deb";
src = jobs.tarball;
diskImage = diskImageFun vmTools.diskImages;
memSize = 1024;
meta.schedulingPriority = prio;
configureFlags = "--sysconfdir=/etc";
debRequires = [ "curl" ];
};
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@@ -1,334 +0,0 @@
#! @perl@ -w -I@libexecdir@/nix
use strict;
use File::Temp qw(tempdir);
# Some patch generations options.
# Max size of NAR archives to generate patches for.
my $maxNarSize = $ENV{"NIX_MAX_NAR_SIZE"};
$maxNarSize = 160 * 1024 * 1024 if !defined $maxNarSize;
# If patch is bigger than this fraction of full archive, reject.
my $maxPatchFraction = $ENV{"NIX_PATCH_FRACTION"};
$maxPatchFraction = 0.60 if !defined $maxPatchFraction;
my $timeLimit = $ENV{"NIX_BSDIFF_TIME_LIMIT"};
$timeLimit = 180 if !defined $timeLimit;
my $hashAlgo = "sha256";
sub findOutputPaths {
my $narFiles = shift;
my %outPaths;
foreach my $p (keys %{$narFiles}) {
# Ignore derivations.
next if ($p =~ /\.drv$/);
# Ignore builders (too much ambiguity -- they're all called
# `builder.sh').
next if ($p =~ /\.sh$/);
next if ($p =~ /\.patch$/);
# Don't bother including tar files etc.
next if ($p =~ /\.tar$/ || $p =~ /\.tar\.(gz|bz2|Z|lzma|xz)$/ || $p =~ /\.zip$/ || $p =~ /\.bin$/ || $p =~ /\.tgz$/ || $p =~ /\.rpm$/ || $p =~ /cvs-export$/ || $p =~ /fetchhg$/);
$outPaths{$p} = 1;
}
return %outPaths;
}
sub getNameVersion {
my $p = shift;
$p =~ /\/[0-9a-z]+((?:-[a-zA-Z][^\/-]*)+)([^\/]*)$/;
my $name = $1;
my $version = $2;
return undef unless defined $name && defined $version;
$name =~ s/^-//;
$version =~ s/^-//;
return ($name, $version);
}
# A quick hack to get a measure of the `distance' between two
# versions: it's just the position of the first character that differs
# (or 999 if they are the same).
sub versionDiff {
my $s = shift;
my $t = shift;
my $i;
return 999 if $s eq $t;
for ($i = 0; $i < length $s; $i++) {
return $i if $i >= length $t or
substr($s, $i, 1) ne substr($t, $i, 1);
}
return $i;
}
sub getNarBz2 {
my $narPath = shift;
my $narFiles = shift;
my $storePath = shift;
my $narFileList = $$narFiles{$storePath};
die "missing path $storePath" unless defined $narFileList;
my $narFile = @{$narFileList}[0];
die unless defined $narFile;
$narFile->{url} =~ /\/([^\/]+)$/;
die unless defined $1;
return "$narPath/$1";
}
sub containsPatch {
my $patches = shift;
my $storePath = shift;
my $basePath = shift;
my $patchList = $$patches{$storePath};
return 0 if !defined $patchList;
my $found = 0;
foreach my $patch (@{$patchList}) {
# !!! baseHash might differ
return 1 if $patch->{basePath} eq $basePath;
}
return 0;
}
sub generatePatches {
my ($srcNarFiles, $dstNarFiles, $srcPatches, $dstPatches, $narPath, $patchesPath, $patchesURL, $tmpDir) = @_;
my %srcOutPaths = findOutputPaths $srcNarFiles;
my %dstOutPaths = findOutputPaths $dstNarFiles;
# For each output path in the destination, see if we need to / can
# create a patch.
print STDERR "creating patches...\n";
foreach my $p (keys %dstOutPaths) {
# If exactly the same path already exists in the source, skip it.
next if defined $srcOutPaths{$p};
print " $p\n";
# If not, then we should find the paths in the source that are
# `most' likely to be present on a system that wants to
# install this path.
(my $name, my $version) = getNameVersion $p;
next unless defined $name && defined $version;
my @closest = ();
my $closestVersion;
my $minDist = -1; # actually, larger means closer
# Find all source paths with the same name.
foreach my $q (keys %srcOutPaths) {
(my $name2, my $version2) = getNameVersion $q;
next unless defined $name2 && defined $version2;
if ($name eq $name2) {
my $srcSystem = @{$$dstNarFiles{$p}}[0]->{system};
my $dstSystem = @{$$srcNarFiles{$q}}[0]->{system};
if (defined $srcSystem && defined $dstSystem && $srcSystem ne $dstSystem) {
print " SKIPPING $q due to different systems ($srcSystem vs. $dstSystem)\n";
next;
}
# If the sizes differ too much, then skip. This
# disambiguates between, e.g., a real component and a
# wrapper component (cf. Firefox in Nixpkgs).
my $srcSize = @{$$srcNarFiles{$q}}[0]->{size};
my $dstSize = @{$$dstNarFiles{$p}}[0]->{size};
my $ratio = $srcSize / $dstSize;
$ratio = 1 / $ratio if $ratio < 1;
# print " SIZE $srcSize $dstSize $ratio $q\n";
if ($ratio >= 3) {
print " SKIPPING $q due to size ratio $ratio ($srcSize vs. $dstSize)\n";
next;
}
# If there are multiple matching names, include the
# ones with the closest version numbers.
my $dist = versionDiff $version, $version2;
if ($dist > $minDist) {
$minDist = $dist;
@closest = ($q);
$closestVersion = $version2;
} elsif ($dist == $minDist) {
push @closest, $q;
}
}
}
if (scalar(@closest) == 0) {
print " NO BASE: $p\n";
next;
}
foreach my $closest (@closest) {
# Generate a patch between $closest and $p.
print STDERR " $p <- $closest\n";
# If the patch already exists, skip it.
if (containsPatch($srcPatches, $p, $closest) ||
containsPatch($dstPatches, $p, $closest))
{
print " skipping, already exists\n";
next;
}
my $srcNarBz2 = getNarBz2 $narPath, $srcNarFiles, $closest;
my $dstNarBz2 = getNarBz2 $narPath, $dstNarFiles, $p;
if (! -f $srcNarBz2) {
warn "patch source archive $srcNarBz2 is missing\n";
next;
}
system("@bunzip2@ < $srcNarBz2 > $tmpDir/A") == 0
or die "cannot unpack $srcNarBz2";
if ((stat "$tmpDir/A")[7] >= $maxNarSize) {
print " skipping, source is too large\n";
next;
}
system("@bunzip2@ < $dstNarBz2 > $tmpDir/B") == 0
or die "cannot unpack $dstNarBz2";
if ((stat "$tmpDir/B")[7] >= $maxNarSize) {
print " skipping, destination is too large\n";
next;
}
my $time1 = time();
my $res = system("ulimit -t $timeLimit; @libexecdir@/bsdiff $tmpDir/A $tmpDir/B $tmpDir/DIFF");
my $time2 = time();
if ($res) {
warn "binary diff computation aborted after ", $time2 - $time1, " seconds\n";
next;
}
my $baseHash = `@bindir@/nix-hash --flat --type $hashAlgo --base32 $tmpDir/A` or die;
chomp $baseHash;
my $narHash = `@bindir@/nix-hash --flat --type $hashAlgo --base32 $tmpDir/B` or die;
chomp $narHash;
my $narDiffHash = `@bindir@/nix-hash --flat --type $hashAlgo --base32 $tmpDir/DIFF` or die;
chomp $narDiffHash;
my $narDiffSize = (stat "$tmpDir/DIFF")[7];
my $dstNarBz2Size = (stat $dstNarBz2)[7];
print " size $narDiffSize; full size $dstNarBz2Size; ", $time2 - $time1, " seconds\n";
if ($narDiffSize >= $dstNarBz2Size) {
print " rejecting; patch bigger than full archive\n";
next;
}
if ($narDiffSize / $dstNarBz2Size >= $maxPatchFraction) {
print " rejecting; patch too large relative to full archive\n";
next;
}
my $finalName = "$narDiffHash.nar-bsdiff";
if (-e "$patchesPath/$finalName") {
print " not copying, already exists\n";
}
else {
system("cp '$tmpDir/DIFF' '$patchesPath/$finalName.tmp'") == 0
or die "cannot copy diff";
rename("$patchesPath/$finalName.tmp", "$patchesPath/$finalName")
or die "cannot rename $patchesPath/$finalName.tmp";
}
# Add the patch to the manifest.
addPatch $dstPatches, $p,
{ url => "$patchesURL/$finalName", hash => "$hashAlgo:$narDiffHash"
, size => $narDiffSize, basePath => $closest, baseHash => "$hashAlgo:$baseHash"
, narHash => "$hashAlgo:$narHash", patchType => "nar-bsdiff"
};
}
}
}
# Propagate useful patches from $srcPatches to $dstPatches. A patch
# is useful if it produces either paths in the $dstNarFiles or paths
# that can be used as the base for other useful patches.
sub propagatePatches {
my ($srcPatches, $dstNarFiles, $dstPatches) = @_;
print STDERR "propagating patches...\n";
my $changed;
do {
# !!! we repeat this to reach the transitive closure; inefficient
$changed = 0;
print STDERR "loop\n";
my %dstBasePaths;
foreach my $q (keys %{$dstPatches}) {
foreach my $patch (@{$$dstPatches{$q}}) {
$dstBasePaths{$patch->{basePath}} = 1;
}
}
foreach my $p (keys %{$srcPatches}) {
my $patchList = $$srcPatches{$p};
my $include = 0;
# Is path $p included in the destination? If so, include
# patches that produce it.
$include = 1 if defined $$dstNarFiles{$p};
# Is path $p a path that serves as a base for paths in the
# destination? If so, include patches that produce it.
# !!! check baseHash
$include = 1 if defined $dstBasePaths{$p};
if ($include) {
foreach my $patch (@{$patchList}) {
$changed = 1 if addPatch $dstPatches, $p, $patch;
}
}
}
} while $changed;
}
# Add all new patches in $srcPatches to $dstPatches.
sub copyPatches {
my ($srcPatches, $dstPatches) = @_;
foreach my $p (keys %{$srcPatches}) {
addPatch $dstPatches, $p, $_ foreach @{$$srcPatches{$p}};
}
}
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@@ -1,28 +1,19 @@
bin_SCRIPTS = nix-collect-garbage \
nix-pull nix-push nix-prefetch-url \
nix-install-package nix-channel nix-build \
nix-copy-closure nix-generate-patches
nix-install-package nix-channel nix-build
noinst_SCRIPTS = nix-profile.sh GeneratePatches.pm \
find-runtime-roots.pl build-remote.pl nix-reduce-build \
copy-from-other-stores.pl nix-http-export.cgi
noinst_SCRIPTS = nix-profile.sh
nix-pull nix-push: NixManifest.pm NixConfig.pm download-using-manifests.pl
nix-pull nix-push: readmanifest.pm
install-exec-local: NixManifest.pm GeneratePatches.pm download-using-manifests.pl copy-from-other-stores.pl find-runtime-roots.pl
install-exec-local: readmanifest.pm
$(INSTALL) -d $(DESTDIR)$(sysconfdir)/profile.d
$(INSTALL_PROGRAM) nix-profile.sh $(DESTDIR)$(sysconfdir)/profile.d/nix.sh
$(INSTALL) -d $(DESTDIR)$(libexecdir)/nix
$(INSTALL_DATA) NixManifest.pm $(DESTDIR)$(libexecdir)/nix
$(INSTALL_DATA) NixConfig.pm $(DESTDIR)$(libexecdir)/nix
$(INSTALL_DATA) SSH.pm $(DESTDIR)$(libexecdir)/nix
$(INSTALL_DATA) GeneratePatches.pm $(DESTDIR)$(libexecdir)/nix
$(INSTALL_PROGRAM) find-runtime-roots.pl $(DESTDIR)$(libexecdir)/nix
$(INSTALL_PROGRAM) build-remote.pl $(DESTDIR)$(libexecdir)/nix
$(INSTALL) -d $(DESTDIR)$(libexecdir)/nix/substituters
$(INSTALL_PROGRAM) download-using-manifests.pl $(DESTDIR)$(libexecdir)/nix/substituters
$(INSTALL_PROGRAM) copy-from-other-stores.pl $(DESTDIR)$(libexecdir)/nix/substituters
$(INSTALL_DATA) readmanifest.pm $(DESTDIR)$(libexecdir)/nix
$(INSTALL) -d $(DESTDIR)$(sysconfdir)/nix
# !!! don't overwrite local modifications
$(INSTALL_DATA) prebuilts.conf $(DESTDIR)$(sysconfdir)/nix/prebuilts.conf
include ../substitute.mk
@@ -30,16 +21,5 @@ EXTRA_DIST = nix-collect-garbage.in \
nix-pull.in nix-push.in nix-profile.sh.in \
nix-prefetch-url.in nix-install-package.in \
nix-channel.in \
NixManifest.pm.in \
NixConfig.pm.in \
SSH.pm \
GeneratePatches.pm.in \
nix-build.in \
download-using-manifests.pl.in \
copy-from-other-stores.pl.in \
nix-copy-closure.in \
find-runtime-roots.pl.in \
build-remote.pl.in \
nix-reduce-build.in \
nix-http-export.cgi.in \
nix-generate-patches.in
prebuilts.conf readmanifest.pm.in \
nix-build.in

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@@ -1,17 +0,0 @@
use strict;
sub readConfig {
my %config;
my $config = "@sysconfdir@/nix/nix.conf";
return unless -f $config;
open CONFIG, "<$config" or die "cannot open `$config'";
while (<CONFIG>) {
/^\s*([\w|-]+)\s*=\s*(.*)$/ or next;
$config{$1} = $2;
print "|$1| -> |$2|\n";
}
close CONFIG;
}
return 1;

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@@ -1,211 +0,0 @@
use strict;
sub addPatch {
my ($patches, $storePath, $patch) = @_;
$$patches{$storePath} = []
unless defined $$patches{$storePath};
my $patchList = $$patches{$storePath};
my $found = 0;
foreach my $patch2 (@{$patchList}) {
$found = 1 if
$patch2->{url} eq $patch->{url} &&
$patch2->{basePath} eq $patch->{basePath};
}
push @{$patchList}, $patch if !$found;
return !$found;
}
sub readManifest {
my ($manifest, $narFiles, $localPaths, $patches) = @_;
open MANIFEST, "<$manifest"
or die "cannot open `$manifest': $!";
my $inside = 0;
my $type;
my $manifestVersion = 2;
my ($storePath, $url, $hash, $size, $basePath, $baseHash, $patchType);
my ($narHash, $narSize, $references, $deriver, $hashAlgo, $copyFrom, $system);
while (<MANIFEST>) {
chomp;
s/\#.*$//g;
next if (/^$/);
if (!$inside) {
if (/^\s*(\w*)\s*\{$/) {
$type = $1;
$type = "narfile" if $type eq "";
$inside = 1;
undef $storePath;
undef $url;
undef $hash;
undef $size;
undef $narHash;
undef $narSize;
undef $basePath;
undef $baseHash;
undef $patchType;
undef $system;
$references = "";
$deriver = "";
$hashAlgo = "md5";
}
} else {
if (/^\}$/) {
$inside = 0;
if ($type eq "narfile") {
$$narFiles{$storePath} = []
unless defined $$narFiles{$storePath};
my $narFileList = $$narFiles{$storePath};
my $found = 0;
foreach my $narFile (@{$narFileList}) {
$found = 1 if $narFile->{url} eq $url;
}
if (!$found) {
push @{$narFileList},
{ url => $url, hash => $hash, size => $size
, narHash => $narHash, narSize => $narSize
, references => $references
, deriver => $deriver, hashAlgo => $hashAlgo
, system => $system
};
}
}
elsif ($type eq "patch") {
addPatch $patches, $storePath,
{ url => $url, hash => $hash, size => $size
, basePath => $basePath, baseHash => $baseHash
, narHash => $narHash, narSize => $narSize
, patchType => $patchType, hashAlgo => $hashAlgo
};
}
elsif ($type eq "localPath") {
$$localPaths{$storePath} = []
unless defined $$localPaths{$storePath};
my $localPathsList = $$localPaths{$storePath};
# !!! remove duplicates
push @{$localPathsList},
{ copyFrom => $copyFrom, references => $references
, deriver => ""
};
}
}
elsif (/^\s*StorePath:\s*(\/\S+)\s*$/) { $storePath = $1; }
elsif (/^\s*CopyFrom:\s*(\/\S+)\s*$/) { $copyFrom = $1; }
elsif (/^\s*Hash:\s*(\S+)\s*$/) { $hash = $1; }
elsif (/^\s*URL:\s*(\S+)\s*$/) { $url = $1; }
elsif (/^\s*Size:\s*(\d+)\s*$/) { $size = $1; }
elsif (/^\s*SuccOf:\s*(\/\S+)\s*$/) { } # obsolete
elsif (/^\s*BasePath:\s*(\/\S+)\s*$/) { $basePath = $1; }
elsif (/^\s*BaseHash:\s*(\S+)\s*$/) { $baseHash = $1; }
elsif (/^\s*Type:\s*(\S+)\s*$/) { $patchType = $1; }
elsif (/^\s*NarHash:\s*(\S+)\s*$/) { $narHash = $1; }
elsif (/^\s*NarSize:\s*(\d+)\s*$/) { $narSize = $1; }
elsif (/^\s*References:\s*(.*)\s*$/) { $references = $1; }
elsif (/^\s*Deriver:\s*(\S+)\s*$/) { $deriver = $1; }
elsif (/^\s*ManifestVersion:\s*(\d+)\s*$/) { $manifestVersion = $1; }
elsif (/^\s*System:\s*(\S+)\s*$/) { $system = $1; }
# Compatibility;
elsif (/^\s*NarURL:\s*(\S+)\s*$/) { $url = $1; }
elsif (/^\s*MD5:\s*(\S+)\s*$/) { $hash = "md5:$1"; }
}
}
close MANIFEST;
return $manifestVersion;
}
sub writeManifest {
my ($manifest, $narFiles, $patches, $noCompress) = @_;
open MANIFEST, ">$manifest.tmp"; # !!! check exclusive
print MANIFEST "version {\n";
print MANIFEST " ManifestVersion: 3\n";
print MANIFEST "}\n";
foreach my $storePath (sort (keys %{$narFiles})) {
my $narFileList = $$narFiles{$storePath};
foreach my $narFile (@{$narFileList}) {
print MANIFEST "{\n";
print MANIFEST " StorePath: $storePath\n";
print MANIFEST " NarURL: $narFile->{url}\n";
print MANIFEST " Hash: $narFile->{hash}\n" if defined $narFile->{hash};
print MANIFEST " Size: $narFile->{size}\n" if defined $narFile->{size};
print MANIFEST " NarHash: $narFile->{narHash}\n";
print MANIFEST " NarSize: $narFile->{narSize}\n" if $narFile->{narSize};
print MANIFEST " References: $narFile->{references}\n"
if defined $narFile->{references} && $narFile->{references} ne "";
print MANIFEST " Deriver: $narFile->{deriver}\n"
if defined $narFile->{deriver} && $narFile->{deriver} ne "";
print MANIFEST " System: $narFile->{system}\n" if defined $narFile->{system};
print MANIFEST "}\n";
}
}
foreach my $storePath (sort (keys %{$patches})) {
my $patchList = $$patches{$storePath};
foreach my $patch (@{$patchList}) {
print MANIFEST "patch {\n";
print MANIFEST " StorePath: $storePath\n";
print MANIFEST " NarURL: $patch->{url}\n";
print MANIFEST " Hash: $patch->{hash}\n";
print MANIFEST " Size: $patch->{size}\n";
print MANIFEST " NarHash: $patch->{narHash}\n";
print MANIFEST " NarSize: $patch->{narSize}\n" if $patch->{narSize};
print MANIFEST " BasePath: $patch->{basePath}\n";
print MANIFEST " BaseHash: $patch->{baseHash}\n";
print MANIFEST " Type: $patch->{patchType}\n";
print MANIFEST "}\n";
}
}
close MANIFEST;
rename("$manifest.tmp", $manifest)
or die "cannot rename $manifest.tmp: $!";
# Create a bzipped manifest.
unless (defined $noCompress) {
system("@bzip2@ < $manifest > $manifest.bz2.tmp") == 0
or die "cannot compress manifest";
rename("$manifest.bz2.tmp", "$manifest.bz2")
or die "cannot rename $manifest.bz2.tmp: $!";
}
}
return 1;

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use strict;
use File::Temp qw(tempdir);
our @sshOpts = split ' ', ($ENV{"NIX_SSHOPTS"} or "");
push @sshOpts, "-x";
my $sshStarted = 0;
my $sshHost;
# Open a master SSH connection to `host', unless there already is a
# running master connection (as determined by `-O check').
sub openSSHConnection {
my ($host) = @_;
die if $sshStarted;
$sshHost = $host;
return 1 if system("ssh $sshHost @sshOpts -O check 2> /dev/null") == 0;
my $tmpDir = tempdir("nix-ssh.XXXXXX", CLEANUP => 1, TMPDIR => 1)
or die "cannot create a temporary directory";
push @sshOpts, "-S", "$tmpDir/control";
# Start the master. We can't use the `-f' flag (fork into
# background after establishing the connection) because then the
# child continues to run if we are killed. So instead make SSH
# print "started" when it has established the connection, and wait
# until we see that.
open SSHPIPE, "ssh $sshHost @sshOpts -M -N -o LocalCommand='echo started' -o PermitLocalCommand=yes |" or die;
while (<SSHPIPE>) {
chomp;
if ($_ eq "started") {
$sshStarted = 1;
return 1;
}
}
return 0;
}
# Tell the master SSH client to exit.
sub closeSSHConnection {
if ($sshStarted) {
system("ssh $sshHost @sshOpts -O exit 2> /dev/null") == 0
or warn "unable to stop SSH master: $?";
}
}
END { my $saved = $?; closeSSHConnection; $? = $saved; }
return 1;

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#! @perl@ -w -I@libexecdir@/nix
use Fcntl ':flock';
use English '-no_match_vars';
use IO::Handle;
use SSH qw/sshOpts openSSHConnection/;
no warnings('once');
# General operation:
#
# Try to find a free machine of type $neededSystem. We do this as
# follows:
# - We acquire an exclusive lock on $currentLoad/main-lock.
# - For each machine $machine of type $neededSystem and for each $slot
# less than the maximum load for that machine, we try to get an
# exclusive lock on $currentLoad/$machine-$slot (without blocking).
# If we get such a lock, we send "accept" to the caller. Otherwise,
# we send "postpone" and exit.
# - We release the exclusive lock on $currentLoad/main-lock.
# - We perform the build on $neededSystem.
# - We release the exclusive lock on $currentLoad/$machine-$slot.
#
# The nice thing about this scheme is that if we die prematurely, the
# locks are released automatically.
# Make sure that we don't get any SSH passphrase or host key popups -
# if there is any problem it should fail, not do something
# interactive.
$ENV{"DISPLAY"} = "";
$ENV{"SSH_ASKPASS"} = "";
sub sendReply {
my $reply = shift;
print STDERR "# $reply\n";
}
sub all { $_ || return 0 for @_; 1 }
# Initialisation.
my $loadIncreased = 0;
my ($localSystem, $maxSilentTime, $printBuildTrace) = @ARGV;
$maxSilentTime = 0 unless defined $maxSilentTime;
my $currentLoad = $ENV{"NIX_CURRENT_LOAD"};
my $conf = $ENV{"NIX_REMOTE_SYSTEMS"};
sub openSlotLock {
my ($machine, $slot) = @_;
my $slotLockFn = "$currentLoad/" . (join '+', @{$machine->{systemTypes}}) . "-" . $machine->{hostName} . "-$slot";
my $slotLock = new IO::Handle;
open $slotLock, ">>$slotLockFn" or die;
return $slotLock;
}
# Read the list of machines.
my @machines;
if (defined $conf && -e $conf) {
open CONF, "< $conf" or die;
while (<CONF>) {
chomp;
s/\#.*$//g;
next if /^\s*$/;
my @tokens = split /\s/, $_;
push @machines,
{ hostName => $tokens[0]
, systemTypes => [ split(/,/, $tokens[1]) ]
, sshKeys => $tokens[2]
, maxJobs => int($tokens[3])
, speedFactor => 1.0 * (defined $tokens[4] ? int($tokens[4]) : 1)
, features => [ split(/,/, $tokens[5] || "") ]
, enabled => 1
};
}
close CONF;
}
# Wait for the calling process to ask us whether we can build some derivation.
my ($drvPath, $hostName, $slotLock);
REQ: while (1) {
$_ = <STDIN> || exit 0;
my ($amWilling, $neededSystem);
($amWilling, $neededSystem, $drvPath, $requiredFeatures) = split;
my @requiredFeatures = split /,/, $requiredFeatures;
my $canBuildLocally = $amWilling && ($localSystem eq $neededSystem);
if (!defined $currentLoad) {
sendReply "decline";
next;
}
# Acquire the exclusive lock on $currentLoad/main-lock.
mkdir $currentLoad, 0777 or die unless -d $currentLoad;
my $mainLock = "$currentLoad/main-lock";
open MAINLOCK, ">>$mainLock" or die;
flock(MAINLOCK, LOCK_EX) or die;
while (1) {
# Find all machine that can execute this build, i.e., that
# support builds for the given platform and features, and are
# not at their job limit.
my $rightType = 0;
my @available = ();
LOOP: foreach my $cur (@machines) {
if ($cur->{enabled}
&& (grep { $neededSystem eq $_ } @{$cur->{systemTypes}})
&& all(map { my $f = $_; 0 != grep { $f eq $_ } @{$cur->{features}} } @requiredFeatures))
{
$rightType = 1;
# We have a machine of the right type. Determine the load on
# the machine.
my $slot = 0;
my $load = 0;
my $free;
while ($slot < $cur->{maxJobs}) {
my $slotLock = openSlotLock($cur, $slot);
if (flock($slotLock, LOCK_EX | LOCK_NB)) {
$free = $slot unless defined $free;
flock($slotLock, LOCK_UN) or die;
} else {
$load++;
}
close $slotLock;
$slot++;
}
push @available, { machine => $cur, load => $load, free => $free }
if $load < $cur->{maxJobs};
}
}
if (defined $ENV{NIX_DEBUG_HOOK}) {
print STDERR "load on " . $_->{machine}->{hostName} . " = " . $_->{load} . "\n"
foreach @available;
}
# Didn't find any available machine? Then decline or postpone.
if (scalar @available == 0) {
# Postpone if we have a machine of the right type, except
# if the local system can and wants to do the build.
if ($rightType && !$canBuildLocally) {
sendReply "postpone";
} else {
sendReply "decline";
}
close MAINLOCK;
next REQ;
}
# Prioritise the available machines as follows:
# - First by load divided by speed factor, rounded to the nearest
# integer. This causes fast machines to be preferred over slow
# machines with similar loads.
# - Then by speed factor.
# - Finally by load.
sub lf { my $x = shift; return int($x->{load} / $x->{machine}->{speedFactor} + 0.4999); }
@available = sort
{ lf($a) <=> lf($b)
|| $b->{machine}->{speedFactor} <=> $a->{machine}->{speedFactor}
|| $a->{load} <=> $b->{load}
} @available;
# Select the best available machine and lock a free slot.
my $selected = $available[0];
my $machine = $selected->{machine};
$slotLock = openSlotLock($machine, $selected->{free});
flock($slotLock, LOCK_EX | LOCK_NB) or die;
utime undef, undef, $slotLock;
close MAINLOCK;
# Connect to the selected machine.
@sshOpts = ("-i", $machine->{sshKeys}, "-x");
$hostName = $machine->{hostName};
last REQ if openSSHConnection $hostName;
warn "unable to open SSH connection to $hostName, trying other available machines...\n";
$machine->{enabled} = 0;
}
}
# Tell Nix we've accepted the build.
sendReply "accept";
my @inputs = split /\s/, readline(STDIN);
my @outputs = split /\s/, readline(STDIN);
print STDERR "building `$drvPath' on `$hostName'\n";
print STDERR "@ build-remote $drvPath $hostName\n" if $printBuildTrace;
my $maybeSign = "";
$maybeSign = "--sign" if -e "/nix/etc/nix/signing-key.sec";
# Register the derivation as a temporary GC root. Note that $PPID is
# the PID of the remote SSH process, which, due to the use of a
# persistant SSH connection, should be the same across all remote
# command invocations for this session.
my $rootsDir = "@localstatedir@/nix/gcroots/tmp";
system("ssh $hostName @sshOpts 'mkdir -m 1777 -p $rootsDir; ln -sfn $drvPath $rootsDir/\$PPID.drv'");
sub removeRoots {
system("ssh $hostName @sshOpts 'rm -f $rootsDir/\$PPID.drv $rootsDir/\$PPID.out'");
}
# Copy the derivation and its dependencies to the build machine.
system("NIX_SSHOPTS=\"@sshOpts\" @bindir@/nix-copy-closure $hostName $maybeSign $drvPath @inputs") == 0
or die "cannot copy inputs to $hostName: $?";
# Perform the build.
my $buildFlags = "--max-silent-time $maxSilentTime --fallback --add-root $rootsDir/\$PPID.out --option verbosity 0";
# We let the remote side kill its process group when the connection is
# closed unexpectedly. This is necessary to ensure that no processes
# are left running on the remote system if the local Nix process is
# killed. (SSH itself doesn't kill child processes if the connection
# is interrupted unless the `-tt' flag is used to force a pseudo-tty,
# in which case every child receives SIGHUP; however, `-tt' doesn't
# work on some platforms when connection sharing is used.)
pipe STDIN, DUMMY; # make sure we have a readable STDIN
if (system("ssh $hostName @sshOpts '(read; kill -INT -\$\$) <&0 & nix-store -r $drvPath $buildFlags > /dev/null' 2>&4") != 0) {
# Note that if we get exit code 100 from `nix-store -r', it
# denotes a permanent build failure (as opposed to an SSH problem
# or a temporary Nix problem). We propagate this to the caller to
# allow it to distinguish between transient and permanent
# failures.
my $res = $? >> 8;
print STDERR "build of `$drvPath' on `$hostName' failed with exit code $res\n";
removeRoots;
exit $res;
}
#print "build of `$drvPath' on `$hostName' succeeded\n";
# Copy the output from the build machine.
foreach my $output (@outputs) {
my $maybeSignRemote = "";
$maybeSignRemote = "--sign" if $UID != 0;
system("ssh $hostName @sshOpts 'nix-store --export $maybeSignRemote $output'" .
"| NIX_HELD_LOCKS=$output @bindir@/nix-store --import > /dev/null") == 0
or die "cannot copy $output from $hostName: $?";
}
# Get rid of the temporary GC roots.
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#! @perl@ -w
use strict;
use File::Basename;
use IO::Handle;
my $binDir = $ENV{"NIX_BIN_DIR"} || "@bindir@";
STDOUT->autoflush(1);
my @remoteStoresAll = split ':', ($ENV{"NIX_OTHER_STORES"} or "");
my @remoteStores;
foreach my $dir (@remoteStoresAll) {
push @remoteStores, glob($dir);
}
$ENV{"NIX_REMOTE"} = "";
sub findStorePath {
my $storePath = shift;
foreach my $store (@remoteStores) {
my $sourcePath = "$store/store/" . basename $storePath;
next unless -e $sourcePath || -l $sourcePath;
$ENV{"NIX_DB_DIR"} = "$store/var/nix/db";
return ($store, $sourcePath) if
system("@bindir@/nix-store --check-validity $storePath") == 0;
}
return undef;
}
if ($ARGV[0] eq "--query") {
while (<STDIN>) {
my $cmd = $_; chomp $cmd;
if ($cmd eq "have") {
my $storePath = <STDIN>; chomp $storePath;
print STDOUT (defined findStorePath($storePath) ? "1\n" : "0\n");
}
elsif ($cmd eq "info") {
my $storePath = <STDIN>; chomp $storePath;
my ($store, $sourcePath) = findStorePath($storePath);
if (!defined $store) {
print "0\n";
next; # not an error
}
print "1\n";
$ENV{"NIX_DB_DIR"} = "$store/var/nix/db";
my $deriver = `@bindir@/nix-store --query --deriver $storePath`;
die "cannot query deriver of `$storePath'" if $? != 0;
chomp $deriver;
$deriver = "" if $deriver eq "unknown-deriver";
my @references = split "\n",
`@bindir@/nix-store --query --references $storePath`;
die "cannot query references of `$storePath'" if $? != 0;
my $narSize = `@bindir@/nix-store --query --size $storePath`;
die "cannot query size of `$storePath'" if $? != 0;
chomp $narSize;
print "$deriver\n";
print scalar @references, "\n";
print "$_\n" foreach @references;
print "$narSize\n";
print "$narSize\n";
}
else { die "unknown command `$cmd'"; }
}
}
elsif ($ARGV[0] eq "--substitute") {
die unless scalar @ARGV == 2;
my $storePath = $ARGV[1];
my ($store, $sourcePath) = findStorePath $storePath;
die unless $store;
print "\n*** Copying `$storePath' from `$sourcePath'\n\n";
system("$binDir/nix-store --dump $sourcePath | $binDir/nix-store --restore $storePath") == 0
or die "cannot copy `$sourcePath' to `$storePath'";
}
else { die; }

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