This was one of the ways to build packages, we are trying
hard to minimize different ways so it's easier for newcomers
to learn only one way.
This also:
- removes texLive (old), fixes#14807
- removed upstream-updater, if that code is still used it should be in
separate repo
- changes a few packages like gitit/mit-scheme to use new texlive
Previously, features.grsecurity wasn't actually set due to a bug in the
grsec builder. We now rely on the generic kernel builder to set features
from kernelPatches.
This reverts commit da68127737, reversing
changes made to 2ba494b728.
These changes are reverted because they cause an incompatibility which
they should not.
"emacsWrapper" replaces emacsWithPackages. In addition to "packagesFun",
emacsWrapper has an optional variable called "execStart". execStart can
be used to append elisp to the default site-start.el script. This is
useful for providing a way to load a user's .emacs.d/init.el
file. "emacsWithPackages" is implemented with emacsWrapper for
convenience and compatability.
Sometimes patches start without a leading prefix. We default to strip
one prefix or path component from patches (-p1) in the patchPhase in
stdenv.
As all patches should therefore be in this format, fetchpatch should
have an option to normalize patch paths. This commit introduces a new
argument to fetchpatch called addPrefixes that adds one patch prefix to
the old and new paths in a patch before putting it into the store.
fetchMavenArtifact downloads a Maven artifact given a group id, an artifact id,
and a version.
Example usage:
org_apache_httpcomponents_httpclient_4_5_2 = fetchMavenArtifact {
groupId = "org.apache.httpcomponents";
artifactId = "httpclient";
version = "4.5.2";
sha256 = "0ms00zc28pwqk83nwwbafhq6p8zci9mrjzbqalpn6v0d80hwdzqd";
# Optionally: repos = [ ... urls to some Maven repos to use ... ];
# Optionally: url, urls - pointing directly to a specific jar url.
};
Now `org_apache_httpcomponents_httpclient_4_5_2.jar` points to the downloaded
JAR file, while `org_apache_httpcomponents_httpclient_4_5_2` refers to a
derivation that when used used in `buildInputs` will be automatically added to
the Java classpath.
downloads.sourceforge.net is the official way to download tarballs from
SourceForge. However, it is reported as unreliable due to SF's weird
load balancing system.
This commit gives the official mirror utmost priority, and will use
other configured mirrors (which may be temporary) as a fallback only
when the official one can't be reached/download fails/hangs.
References: NixOs/nixpkgs#16900
This patch fixes#16614 and #16741.
The first issue was caused by the fact that both `/share` and
`/share/fish/vendor_completions.d` end in the `pathsToLink`. The
`pkgs/build-support/buildenv/builder.pl` creates `/share`, then links
`/share/fish` under `/share` and then tries to create the directory
`/share/fish/vendor_completions.d` and fails because it already exists.
The simplest way to reproduce the issue is to build the next Nix
expression:
```nix
let pkgs = import <nixpkgs> { };
in pkgs.buildEnv {
name = "buildenv-issue";
paths = [
pkgs.fish
pkgs.vim
];
pathsToLink = [
"/share"
"/share/fish/vendor_completions.d"
];
}
```
The second issue is more critical and was caused by the fact findFiles
doesn't recurse deep enough. It stops at first unique directory for the
package (e.g., "/share" or even "/") and later the scripts decides it
shouldn't link it as it doesn't match pathsToLink (e.g., "/share/fish"),
so the result is empty.
The test:
```nix
let pkgs = import <nixpkgs> { };
in pkgs.buildEnv {
name = "buildenv-issue";
paths = [
pkgs.fish
pkgs.vim
];
pathsToLink = [
"/share/fish/functions"
];
}
```
or
```nix
let pkgs = import <nixpkgs> { };
in pkgs.buildEnv {
name = "buildenv-issue";
paths = [
pkgs.vim
];
pathsToLink = [
"/share"
];
}
```
Prior to this commit, trailing whitespace would be introduced when
modifying '#!' lines with no arguments. For example (whitespace added):
/nix/store/.../foo: interpreter directive changed
from "/bin/bash"
to "/nix/store/...-bash-4.3-p42/bin/bash "
/nix/store/.../bar: interpreter directive changed
from "/bin/baz wef"
to "/nix/store/...-baz wef "
We add a sed command to strip trailing whitespace, so the above commands
would drop the two spaces after "bash", or the one space after "baz wef".
abbradar: fixed commit title
Closes#16785.
This fixes a regression caused by commit f56ab9e
("nix-prefetch-git: Include the date in the machine-readable [...]")
where a couple of directory paths printed by pushd/popd appeared before
the JSON output on stdout (thus breaking it). Fix it by redirecting the
extraneous output to /dev/null.
Reported by Michael Alan Dorman <mdorman@ironicdesign.com>.
stdout, in strict ISO 8601 format.
This will be helpful for automatically updating fetchgit expressions
and the dates in version numbers associated with them.
stripHash uses a global variable to communicate it's computation
results, but it's not necessary. You can just pipe to stdout in a
subshell. A function mostly behaves like just another command.
baseHash() also introduces a suffix-stripping capability since it's
something the users of the function tend to use.
The tests need to expand passed variable and very carefully.
I could see no other easy way than to change single-quoting in
makeWrapper to double-quoting.
The tests now fail with the same problem as on master...
This patch replaces the old grsecurity kernels with a single NixOS
specific grsecurity kernel. This kernel is intended as a general
purpose kernel, tuned for casual desktop use.
Providing only a single kernel may seem like a regression compared to
offering a multitude of flavors. It is impossible, however, to
effectively test and support that many options. This is amplified by
the reality that very few seem to actually use grsecurity on NixOS,
meaning that bugs go unnoticed for long periods of time, simply because
those code paths end up never being exercised. More generally, it is
hopeless to anticipate imagined needs. It is better to start from a
solid foundation and possibly add more flavours on demand.
While the generic kernel is intended to cover a wide range of use cases,
it cannot cover everything. For some, the configuration will be either
too restrictive or too lenient. In those cases, the recommended
solution is to build a custom kernel --- this is *strongly* recommended
for security sensitive deployments.
Building a custom grsec kernel should be as simple as
```nix
linux_grsec_nixos.override {
extraConfig = ''
GRKERNSEC y
PAX y
# and so on ...
'';
}
```
The generic kernel should be usable both as a KVM guest and host. When
running as a host, the kernel assumes hardware virtualisation support.
Virtualisation systems other than KVM are *unsupported*: users of
non-KVM systems are better served by compiling a custom kernel.
Unlike previous Grsecurity kernels, this configuration disables `/proc`
restrictions in favor of `security.hideProcessInformation`.
Known incompatibilities:
- ZFS: can't load spl and zfs kernel modules; claims incompatibility
with KERNEXEC method `or` and RAP; changing to `bts` does not fix the
problem, which implies we'd have to disable RAP as well for ZFS to
work
- `kexec()`: likely incompatible with KERNEXEC (unverified)
- Xen: likely incompatible with KERNEXEC and UDEREF (unverified)
- Virtualbox: likely incompatible with UDEREF (unverified)
Close#15803. This avoids the error:
while setting up the build environment: executing
‘/nix/store/7sb42axk5lrxqz45nldrb2pchlys14s1-bash-4.3-p42/bin/bash’:
Argument list too long
Note: I wanted to make it optional based on buildCommand length,
but that seems pointless as I'm sure it's less performant.
Amended by vcunat:
https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/pull/15803#issuecomment-224841225
This takes another approach at binding FHS directory structure. We
now bind-mount all the root filesystem to directory "/host" in the target tree.
From that we symlink all the directories into the tree if they do not already
exist in FHS structure.
This probably makes `CHROOTENV_EXTRA_BINDS` unnecessary -- its main usecase was
to add bound directories from the host to the sandbox, and we not just symlink
all of them. I plan to get some feedback on its usage and maybe deprecate it.
This also drops old `buildFHSChrootEnv` infrastructure. The main problem with it
is it's very difficult to unmount a recursive-bound directory when mount is not
sandboxed. This problem is a bug even without these changes -- if
you have for example `/home/alice` mounted to somewhere, you wouldn't see
it in `buildFHSChrootEnv` now. With the new directory structure, it's
impossible to use regular bind at all. After some tackling with this I realized
that the fix would be brittle and dangerous (if you don't unmount everything
clearly and proceed to removing the temporary directory, bye-bye fs!). It also
probably doesn't worth it because I haven't heard that someone actually uses it
for a long time, and `buildFHSUserEnv` should cover most cases while being much
more maintainable and safe for the end-user.
1. When multiple versions of the same package are required
$revs is an array.
2. When cargo fetch is run it usually doesn't need a network
connection. But when it does SSL_CERT_FILE isn't set.
