The previous documentation was inaccurate, stating that it would not update existing inputs. However these inputs will be updated if they are outdated (for example the version of an existing input has been changed). The new text properly reflects this behaviour.
This leads to confusion about what the command does.
E.g. https://github.com/NixOS/nix/issues/9359
- Move the description up
- Remove details about the individual formatters
This patch has been manually adapted from
14dc84ed03
Tested with:
$ NIX_SSL_CERT_FILE=$(nix-build '<nixpkgs>' -A cacert)/etc/ssl/certs/ca-bundle.crt nix-build --store $(mktemp -d) -E 'import <nix/fetchurl.nix> { url = https://google.com; }'
Finished at 16:57:50 after 1s
warning: found empty hash, assuming 'sha256-AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA='
this derivation will be built:
nix-output-monitor error: DerivationReadError /nix/store/4qljhy0jj2b0abjzpsbyarpia1bqylwc-google.com.drv: openFile: does not exist (No such file or directory)
/nix/store/4qljhy0jj2b0abjzpsbyarpia1bqylwc-google.com.drv
nix-output-monitor error: DerivationReadError /nix/store/4qljhy0jj2b0abjzpsbyarpia1bqylwc-google.com.drv: openFile: does not exist (No such file or directory)
nix-output-monitor error: DerivationReadError /nix/store/4qljhy0jj2b0abjzpsbyarpia1bqylwc-google.com.drv: openFile: does not exist (No such file or directory)
nix-output-monitor error: DerivationReadError /nix/store/4qljhy0jj2b0abjzpsbyarpia1bqylwc-google.com.drv: openFile: does not exist (No such file or directory)
google.com> building '/nix/store/4qljhy0jj2b0abjzpsbyarpia1bqylwc-google.com.drv'
nix-output-monitor error: DerivationReadError /nix/store/4qljhy0jj2b0abjzpsbyarpia1bqylwc-google.com.drv: openFile: does not exist (No such file or directory)
google.com> error:
nix-output-monitor error: DerivationReadError /nix/store/4qljhy0jj2b0abjzpsbyarpia1bqylwc-google.com.drv: openFile: does not exist (No such file or directory)
google.com> … writing file '/nix/store/0zynn4n8yx59bczy1mgh1lq2rnprvvrc-google.com'
nix-output-monitor error: DerivationReadError /nix/store/4qljhy0jj2b0abjzpsbyarpia1bqylwc-google.com.drv: openFile: does not exist (No such file or directory)
google.com>
nix-output-monitor error: DerivationReadError /nix/store/4qljhy0jj2b0abjzpsbyarpia1bqylwc-google.com.drv: openFile: does not exist (No such file or directory)
google.com> error: unable to download 'https://google.com': Problem with the SSL CA cert (path? access rights?) (77) error setting certificate file: /nix/store/nlgbippbbgn38hynjkp1ghiybcq1dqhx-nss-cacert-3.101.1/etc/ssl/certs/ca-bundle.crt
nix-output-monitor error: DerivationReadError /nix/store/4qljhy0jj2b0abjzpsbyarpia1bqylwc-google.com.drv: openFile: does not exist (No such file or directory)
nix-output-monitor error: DerivationReadError /nix/store/4qljhy0jj2b0abjzpsbyarpia1bqylwc-google.com.drv: openFile: does not exist (No such file or directory)
error: builder for '/nix/store/4qljhy0jj2b0abjzpsbyarpia1bqylwc-google.com.drv' failed with exit code 1
Now returns:
nix-env % NIX_SSL_CERT_FILE=$(nix-build '<nixpkgs>' -A cacert)/etc/ssl/certs/ca-bundle.crt nix-build --store $(mktemp -d) -E 'import <nix/fetchurl.nix> { url = https://google.com; }'
Finished at 17:05:48 after 0s
warning: found empty hash, assuming 'sha256-AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA='
this derivation will be built:
nix-output-monitor error: DerivationReadError /nix/store/4qljhy0jj2b0abjzpsbyarpia1bqylwc-google.com.drv: openFile: does not exist (No such file or directory)
/nix/store/4qljhy0jj2b0abjzpsbyarpia1bqylwc-google.com.drv
nix-output-monitor error: DerivationReadError /nix/store/4qljhy0jj2b0abjzpsbyarpia1bqylwc-google.com.drv: openFile: does not exist (No such file or directory)
nix-output-monitor error: DerivationReadError /nix/store/4qljhy0jj2b0abjzpsbyarpia1bqylwc-google.com.drv: openFile: does not exist (No such file or directory)
nix-output-monitor error: DerivationReadError /nix/store/4qljhy0jj2b0abjzpsbyarpia1bqylwc-google.com.drv: openFile: does not exist (No such file or directory)
google.com> building '/nix/store/4qljhy0jj2b0abjzpsbyarpia1bqylwc-google.com.drv'
nix-output-monitor error: DerivationReadError /nix/store/4qljhy0jj2b0abjzpsbyarpia1bqylwc-google.com.drv: openFile: does not exist (No such file or directory)
nix-output-monitor error: DerivationReadError /nix/store/4qljhy0jj2b0abjzpsbyarpia1bqylwc-google.com.drv: openFile: does not exist (No such file or directory)
error: hash mismatch in fixed-output derivation '/nix/store/4qljhy0jj2b0abjzpsbyarpia1bqylwc-google.com.drv':
specified: sha256-AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA=
This method is marked as `noexcept`, but `enqueueFileTransfer()` can
throw `Interrupted` if the user has hit Ctrl-C or if the `ThreadPool`
that the thread is a part of is shutting down.
When working on speeding up the CI,
I triggered a race condition in the creation of the tarball cache.
This code now instead will ensure that half-initialized repositories
are no longer visible to any other nix process.
This is the error message that I got before:
error: opening Git repository '"/Users/runner/.cache/nix/tarball-cache"': could not find repository at '/Users/runner/.cache/nix/tarball-cache'
* docs: specify that flake.lock files are JSON
Recently, I decided that I was going to write some code that would parse
flake.lock files. I went to the Nix Reference Manual in order to look up
information on the format of flake.lock files, and I realized that a key
detail was missing from the Nix Reference Manual: it never says that
flake.lock files are JSON files. This commit fixes that issue.
This commit makes sure to specify that flake.lock files are encoded in
UTF-8. Confusingly, there’s multiple different JSON standards. Neither
ECMA-404, 2nd Edition [1] nor ISO/IEC 21778:2017 [2] mention UTF-8. RFC
8259 requires UTF-8, but only sometimes [3]. I chose to explicitly
specify that flake.lock files are UTF-8 in order to avoid any possible
ambiguities from the JSON standards.
[1]: <https://ecma-international.org/publications-and-standards/standards/ecma-404>
[2]: <https://www.iso.org/standard/71616.html>
[3]: <https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc8259.html#section-8.1>
Since #8766, invalid base64 is rendered in errors, but we don't actually
want to show this in the case of an invalid private keys.
Co-Authored-By: Eelco Dolstra <edolstra@gmail.com>
This is better for privacy and to avoid leaking netrc credentials in a
MITM attack, but also the assumption that we check the hash no longer
holds in some cases (in particular for impure derivations).
Partially reverts 5db358d4d7.
As a prelude to making "or" work like a normal variable, emit a warning
any time the "fn or" production is used in a context that will change
how it is parsed when that production is refactored.
In detail: in the future, OR_KW will be moved to expr_simple, and the
cursed ExprCall production that is currently part of the expr_select
nonterminal will be generated "normally" in expr_app instead. Any
productions that accept an expr_select will be affected, except for the
expr_app nonterminal itself (because, while expr_app has a production
accepting a bare expr_select, its other production will continue to
accept "fn or" expressions). So all we need to do is emit an appropriate
warning when an expr_simple representing a cursed ExprCall is accepted
in one of those productions without first going through expr_app.
As the warning message describes, users can suppress the warning by
wrapping their problematic "fn or" expressions in parentheses. For
example, "f g or" can be made future-proof by rewriting it as
"f (g or)"; similarly "[ x y or ]" can be rewritten as "[ x (y or) ]",
etc. The parentheses preserve the current grouping behavior, as in the
future "f g or" will be parsed as "(f g) or", just like
"f g anything-else" is grouped. (Mechanically, this suppresses the
warning because the problem ExprCalls go through the
"expr_app : expr_select" production, which resets the cursed status on
the ExprCall.)
My SNAFU was that I assumed that all the `Value *`s we put in
`attrsSeen` are already reachable (which they are), but I forgot about
the `elems` pointer in `ListBuilder`.
Fixes#11547.
Because of an objc quirk[1], calling curl_global_init for the first time
after fork() will always result in a crash.
Up until now the solution has been to set
OBJC_DISABLE_INITIALIZE_FORK_SAFETY for every nix process to ignore
that error.
This is less than ideal because we were setting it in package.nix,
which meant that running nix tests locally would fail because
that variable was not set.
Instead of working around that error we address it at the core -
by calling curl_global_init inside initLibStore, which should mean
curl will already have been initialized by the time we try to do so in
a forked process.
[1] 01edf1705f/runtime/objc-initialize.mm (L614-L636)
(cherry-picked and adapted from c7d97802e4)
Caused by 1d3696f0fb
Without this fix the kept build directory is readable only by root
```
$ sudo ls -ld /comp-temp/nix-build-openssh-static-x86_64-unknown-linux-musl-9.8p1.drv-5
drwx------ root root 60 B Wed Sep 11 00:09:48 2024 /comp-temp/nix-build-openssh-static-x86_64-unknown-linux-musl-9.8p1.drv-5/
$ sudo ls -ld /comp-temp/nix-build-openssh-static-x86_64-unknown-linux-musl-9.8p1.drv-5/build
drwxr-xr-x nixbld1 nixbld 80 B Wed Sep 11 00:09:58 2024 /comp-temp/nix-build-openssh-static-x86_64-unknown-linux-musl-9.8p1.drv-5/build/
```
When `nix fmt` is called without an argument, Nix appends the "." argument before calling the formatter. The comment in the code is:
> Format the current flake out of the box
This also happens when formatting sub-folders.
This means that the formatter is now unable to distinguish, as an interface, whether the "." argument is coming from the flake or the user's intent to format the current folder. This decision should be up to the formatter.
Treefmt, for example, will automatically look up the project's root and format all the files. This is the desired behaviour. But because the "." argument is passed, it cannot function as expected.
This fixes the warning
$ nix eval --store /tmp/nix --expr 'builtins.fetchTree { type = "git"; url = "https://github.com/DeterminateSystems/attic"; ref = "fixups-for-magic-nix-cache"; rev = "635753a2069d4b8228e846dc5c09ad361c75cd1a"; }'
warning: could not update mtime for file '/home/eelco/.cache/nix/gitv3/09788h9zgba5lbfkaa6ija2dvi004jwsqjf5ln21i2njs07cz766/refs/heads/fixups-for-magic-nix-cache': error: changing modification time of '"/home/eelco/.cache/nix/gitv3/09788h9zgba5lbfkaa6ija2dvi004jwsqjf5ln21i2njs07cz766/refs/heads/fixups-for-magic-nix-cache"': No such file or directory
When we're fetching by rev, that file doesn't necessarily exist, and we
don't care about it anyway.
Fixes
$ nix flake metadata --store /tmp/nix nixpkgs
error: path '/tmp/nix/nix/store/65xpqkz92d9j7k5ric4z8lzhiigxsfbg-source/flake.nix' is not in the Nix store
This has been broken since 598deb2b23.
On macOS, `mkdir("x/')` behaves differently than `mkdir("x")` if `x` is
a dangling symlink (the formed succeed while the latter fails). So make
sure we always strip the trailing slash.
/tmp/ecstatic-euler-mAFGV7
% /home/joerg/git/nix/build/subprojects/nix/nix repl
Nix 2.25.0
Type :? for help.
after doing rm /tmp/ecstatic-euler-mAFGV7 this will result in:
nix-repl> :lf .
error: cannot determine current working directory: No such file or directory
Before it would make the repl crash
/tmp/clever-hermann-MCm7A9
% /home/joerg/git/nix/build/subprojects/nix/nix repl
Nix 2.25.0
Type :? for help.
nix-repl> :lf .
error: filesystem error: cannot get current path: No such file or directory
Before:
nix-env % ./src/nix/nix eval --impure --expr 'let f = builtins.readDir "/nix/store/hs3yxdq9knimwdm51gvbs4dvncz46f9d-hello-2.12.1/foo"; in f' --show-trace
error: filesystem error: directory iterator cannot open directory: No such file or directory [/nix/store/hs3yxdq9knimwdm51gvbs4dvncz46f9d-hello-2.12.1/foo]
After:
error:
… while calling the 'readDir' builtin
at «string»:1:9:
1| let f = builtins.readDir "/nix/store/hs3yxdq9knimwdm51gvbs4dvncz46f9d-hello-2.12.1/foo"; in f
| ^
error: reading directory '/nix/store/hs3yxdq9knimwdm51gvbs4dvncz46f9d-hello-2.12.1/foo': No such file or directory
this should make it more obvious how things are related to each other, and also
hopefully expose the historical context without having to say on every
corner that these details are accounting for legacy decisions.
The daemon process is now moved into a new sub-cgroup called nix-daemon when the
daemon starts. This is necessary to abide by the no-processes-in-inner-nodes
rule, because the service cgroup becomes an inner node when the child cgroups
for the build are created (see LocalDerivationGoal::startBuilder()).
See #9675
This broke in #11005. Any number of PathSubstitutionGoals would
be woken up by a single build slot becoming available. If there
are a lot of substitution goals active, this could lead to us
running out of file descriptors (especially on macOS where the
default limit is 256).
