# Checks derivation meta and attrs for problems (like brokenness, # licenses, etc). { lib, config, hostPlatform, meta }: let # See discussion at https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/pull/25304#issuecomment-298385426 # for why this defaults to false, but I (@copumpkin) want to default it to true soon. shouldCheckMeta = config.checkMeta or false; allowUnfree = config.allowUnfree or false || builtins.getEnv "NIXPKGS_ALLOW_UNFREE" == "1"; whitelist = config.whitelistedLicenses or []; blacklist = config.blacklistedLicenses or []; onlyLicenses = list: lib.lists.all (license: let l = lib.licenses.${license.shortName or "BROKEN"} or false; in if license == l then true else throw ''‘${showLicense license}’ is not an attribute of lib.licenses'' ) list; areLicenseListsValid = if lib.mutuallyExclusive whitelist blacklist then assert onlyLicenses whitelist; assert onlyLicenses blacklist; true else throw "whitelistedLicenses and blacklistedLicenses are not mutually exclusive."; hasLicense = attrs: attrs ? meta.license; hasWhitelistedLicense = assert areLicenseListsValid; attrs: hasLicense attrs && builtins.elem attrs.meta.license whitelist; hasBlacklistedLicense = assert areLicenseListsValid; attrs: hasLicense attrs && builtins.elem attrs.meta.license blacklist; allowBroken = config.allowBroken or false || builtins.getEnv "NIXPKGS_ALLOW_BROKEN" == "1"; allowUnsupportedSystem = config.allowUnsupportedSystem or false; isUnfree = licenses: lib.lists.any (l: !l.free or true || l == "unfree" || l == "unfree-redistributable") licenses; # Alow granular checks to allow only some unfree packages # Example: # {pkgs, ...}: # { # allowUnfree = false; # allowUnfreePredicate = (x: pkgs.lib.hasPrefix "flashplayer-" x.name); # } allowUnfreePredicate = config.allowUnfreePredicate or (x: false); # Check whether unfree packages are allowed and if not, whether the # package has an unfree license and is not explicitely allowed by the # `allowUNfreePredicate` function. hasDeniedUnfreeLicense = attrs: !allowUnfree && hasLicense attrs && isUnfree (lib.lists.toList attrs.meta.license) && !allowUnfreePredicate attrs; allowInsecureDefaultPredicate = x: builtins.elem x.name (config.permittedInsecurePackages or []); allowInsecurePredicate = x: (config.allowInsecurePredicate or allowInsecureDefaultPredicate) x; hasAllowedInsecure = attrs: (attrs.meta.knownVulnerabilities or []) == [] || allowInsecurePredicate attrs || builtins.getEnv "NIXPKGS_ALLOW_INSECURE" == "1"; showLicense = license: license.shortName or "unknown"; pos_str = meta.position or "«unknown-file»"; remediation = { unfree = remediate_whitelist "Unfree"; broken = remediate_whitelist "Broken"; blacklisted = x: ""; insecure = remediate_insecure; unknown-meta = x: ""; }; remediate_whitelist = allow_attr: attrs: '' a) For `nixos-rebuild` you can set { nixpkgs.config.allow${allow_attr} = true; } in configuration.nix to override this. b) For `nix-env`, `nix-build`, `nix-shell` or any other Nix command you can add { allow${allow_attr} = true; } to ~/.config/nixpkgs/config.nix. ''; remediate_insecure = attrs: '' Known issues: '' + (lib.concatStrings (map (issue: " - ${issue}\n") attrs.meta.knownVulnerabilities)) + '' You can install it anyway by whitelisting this package, using the following methods: a) for `nixos-rebuild` you can add ‘${attrs.name or "«name-missing»"}’ to `nixpkgs.config.permittedInsecurePackages` in the configuration.nix, like so: { nixpkgs.config.permittedInsecurePackages = [ "${attrs.name or "«name-missing»"}" ]; } b) For `nix-env`, `nix-build`, `nix-shell` or any other Nix command you can add ‘${attrs.name or "«name-missing»"}’ to `permittedInsecurePackages` in ~/.config/nixpkgs/config.nix, like so: { permittedInsecurePackages = [ "${attrs.name or "«name-missing»"}" ]; } ''; handleEvalIssue = attrs: { reason , errormsg ? "" }: let msg = '' Package ‘${attrs.name or "«name-missing»"}’ in ${pos_str} ${errormsg}, refusing to evaluate. '' + (builtins.getAttr reason remediation) attrs; handler = if config ? "handleEvalIssue" then config.handleEvalIssue reason else throw; in handler msg; metaTypes = with lib.types; rec { # These keys are documented description = str; longDescription = str; branch = str; homepage = either (listOf str) str; downloadPage = str; license = either (listOf lib.types.attrs) (either lib.types.attrs str); maintainers = listOf (attrsOf str); priority = int; platforms = listOf (either str lib.systems.parsed.types.system); hydraPlatforms = listOf str; broken = bool; # Weirder stuff that doesn't appear in the documentation? knownVulnerabilities = listOf str; name = str; version = str; tag = str; updateWalker = bool; executables = listOf str; outputsToInstall = listOf str; position = str; available = bool; repositories = attrsOf str; isBuildPythonPackage = platforms; schedulingPriority = int; downloadURLRegexp = str; isFcitxEngine = bool; isIbusEngine = bool; isGutenprint = bool; badPlatforms = platforms; }; checkMetaAttr = k: v: if metaTypes?${k} then if metaTypes.${k}.check v then null else "key '${k}' has a value ${toString v} of an invalid type ${builtins.typeOf v}; expected ${metaTypes.${k}.description}" else "key '${k}' is unrecognized; expected one of: \n\t [${lib.concatMapStringsSep ", " (x: "'${x}'") (lib.attrNames metaTypes)}]"; checkMeta = meta: if shouldCheckMeta then lib.remove null (lib.mapAttrsToList checkMetaAttr meta) else []; checkPlatform = attrs: let anyMatch = lib.any (lib.meta.platformMatch hostPlatform); in anyMatch (attrs.meta.platforms or lib.platforms.all) && ! anyMatch (attrs.meta.badPlatforms or []); # Check if a derivation is valid, that is whether it passes checks for # e.g brokenness or license. # # Return { valid: Bool } and additionally # { reason: String; errormsg: String } if it is not valid, where # reason is one of "unfree", "blacklisted" or "broken". checkValidity = attrs: if hasDeniedUnfreeLicense attrs && !(hasWhitelistedLicense attrs) then { valid = false; reason = "unfree"; errormsg = "has an unfree license (‘${showLicense attrs.meta.license}’)"; } else if hasBlacklistedLicense attrs then { valid = false; reason = "blacklisted"; errormsg = "has a blacklisted license (‘${showLicense attrs.meta.license}’)"; } else if !allowBroken && attrs.meta.broken or false then { valid = false; reason = "broken"; errormsg = "is marked as broken"; } else if !allowUnsupportedSystem && !allowBroken && !(checkPlatform attrs) then { valid = false; reason = "broken"; errormsg = "is not supported on ‘${hostPlatform.config}’"; } else if !(hasAllowedInsecure attrs) then { valid = false; reason = "insecure"; errormsg = "is marked as insecure"; } else let res = checkMeta (attrs.meta or {}); in if res != [] then { valid = false; reason = "unknown-meta"; errormsg = "has an invalid meta attrset:${lib.concatMapStrings (x: "\n\t - " + x) res}"; } else { valid = true; }; assertValidity = attrs: let validity = checkValidity attrs; in validity // { # Throw an error if trying to evaluate an non-valid derivation handled = if !validity.valid then handleEvalIssue attrs (removeAttrs validity ["valid"]) else true; }; in assertValidity