For each output, this adds a corresponding attribute to the derivation that is
the same as the derivation except for outPath, which is set to the path specific
to that output. Additionally, an "all" attribute is added that is a list of all
of the output derivations. This has to be done outside of derivationStrict as
each output is itself a derivation that contains itself (and all other outputs)
as an attribute. The derivation itself is equivalent to the first output in the
outputs list (or "out" if that list isn't set).
This should also fix:
nix-instantiate: ./../boost/shared_ptr.hpp:254: T* boost::shared_ptr<T>::operator->() const [with T = nix::StoreAPI]: Assertion `px != 0' failed.
which was caused by hashDerivationModulo() calling the ‘store’
object (during store upgrades) before openStore() assigned it.
derivations added to the store by clients have "correct" output
paths (meaning that the output paths are computed by hashing the
derivation according to a certain algorithm). This means that a
malicious user could craft a special .drv file to build *any*
desired path in the store with any desired contents (so long as the
path doesn't already exist). Then the attacker just needs to wait
for a victim to come along and install the compromised path.
For instance, if Alice (the attacker) knows that the latest Firefox
derivation in Nixpkgs produces the path
/nix/store/1a5nyfd4ajxbyy97r1fslhgrv70gj8a7-firefox-5.0.1
then (provided this path doesn't already exist) she can craft a .drv
file that creates that path (i.e., has it as one of its outputs),
add it to the store using "nix-store --add", and build it with
"nix-store -r". So the fake .drv could write a Trojan to the
Firefox path. Then, if user Bob (the victim) comes along and does
$ nix-env -i firefox
$ firefox
he executes the Trojan injected by Alice.
The fix is to have the Nix daemon verify that derivation outputs are
correct (in addValidPath()). This required some refactoring to move
the hash computation code to libstore.
by setting the ‘outputs’ attribute. For example:
stdenv.mkDerivation {
name = "aterm-2.5";
src = ...;
outputs = [ "out" "tools" "dev" ];
configureFlags = "--bindir=$(tools)/bin --includedir=$(dev)/include";
}
This derivation creates three outputs, named like this:
/nix/store/gcnqgllbh01p3d448q8q6pzn2nc2gpyl-aterm-2.5
/nix/store/gjf1sgirwfnrlr0bdxyrwzpw2r304j02-aterm-2.5-tools
/nix/store/hp6108bqfgxvza25nnxfs7kj88xi2vdx-aterm-2.5-dev
That is, the symbolic name of the output is suffixed to the store
path (except for the ‘out’ output). Each path is passed to the
builder through the corresponding environment variable, e.g.,
${tools}.
The main reason for multiple outputs is to allow parts of a package
to be distributed and garbage-collected separately. For instance,
most packages depend on Glibc for its libraries, but don't need its
header files. If these are separated into different store paths,
then a package that depends on the Glibc libraries only causes the
libraries and not the headers to be downloaded.
The main problem with multiple outputs is that if one output exists
while the others have been garbage-collected (or never downloaded in
the first place), and we want to rebuild the other outputs, then
this isn't possible because we can't clobber a valid output (it
might be in active use). This currently gives an error message
like:
error: derivation `/nix/store/1s9zw4c8qydpjyrayxamx2z7zzp5pcgh-aterm-2.5.drv' is blocked by its output paths
There are two solutions: 1) Do the build in a chroot. Then we don't
need to overwrite the existing path. 2) Use hash rewriting (see the
ASE-2005 paper). Scary but it should work.
This is not finished yet. There is not yet an easy way to refer to
non-default outputs in Nix expressions. Also, mutually recursive
outputs aren't detected yet and cause the garbage collector to
crash.
tree). This saves a lot of memory. The vector should be sorted so
that names can be looked up using binary search, but this is not the
case yet. (Surprisingly, looking up attributes using linear search
doesn't have a big impact on performance.)
Memory consumption for
$ nix-instantiate /etc/nixos/nixos/tests -A bittorrent.test --readonly-mode
on x86_64-linux with GC enabled is now 185 MiB (compared to 946
MiB on the trunk).
a pointer to a Value, rather than the Value directly. This improves
the effectiveness of garbage collection a lot: if the Value is
stored inside the set directly, then any live pointer to the Value
causes all other attributes in the set to be live as well.
because it defines _FILE_OFFSET_BITS. Without this, on
OpenSolaris the system headers define it to be 32, and then
the 32-bit stat() ends up being called with a 64-bit "struct
stat", or vice versa.
This also ensures that we get 64-bit file sizes everywhere.
* Remove the redundant call to stat() in parseExprFromFile().
The file cannot be a symlink because that's the exit condition
of the loop before.
values. This improves sharing and gives another speed up.
Evaluation of the NixOS system attribute is now almost 7 times
faster than the old evaluator.
use site, allowing environments to be stores as vectors of values
rather than maps. This should speed up evaluation and reduce the
number of allocations.
efficiently. The symbol table ensures that there is only one copy
of each symbol, thus allowing symbols to be compared efficiently
using a pointer equality test.
that there are some places in Nixpkgs (php_configurable /
composableDerivation, it seems) that call `derivation' with
incorrect arguments (namely, the `name' attribute missing) but get
away with it because of laziness.
* Removed exprToString and stringToExpr because there is no ATerm
representation to work on anymore (and exposing the internals of the
evaluator like this is not a good idea anyway).
Eelco Dolstra
Shea Levy