{ config, pkgs, ... }:
with pkgs.lib;
let
cfg = config.nix;
nix = cfg.package;
makeNixBuildUser = nr:
{ name = "nixbld${toString nr}";
description = "Nix build user ${toString nr}";
/* For consistency with the setgid(2), setuid(2), and setgroups(2)
calls in `libstore/build.cc', don't add any supplementary group
here except "nixbld". */
uid = builtins.add config.ids.uids.nixbld nr;
group = "nixbld";
extraGroups = [ "nixbld" ];
};
nixConf =
let
# Tricky: if we're using a chroot for builds, then we need
# /bin/sh in the chroot (our own compromise to purity).
# However, since /bin/sh is a symlink to some path in the
# Nix store, which furthermore has runtime dependencies on
# other paths in the store, we need the closure of /bin/sh
# in `build-chroot-dirs' - otherwise any builder that uses
# /bin/sh won't work.
binshDeps = pkgs.writeReferencesToFile config.system.build.binsh;
in
pkgs.runCommand "nix.conf" {extraOptions = cfg.extraOptions; } ''
extraPaths=$(for i in $(cat ${binshDeps}); do if test -d $i; then echo $i; fi; done)
cat > $out <<END
# WARNING: this file is generated from the nix.* options in
# your NixOS configuration, typically
# /etc/nixos/configuration.nix. Do not edit it!
build-users-group = nixbld
build-max-jobs = ${toString (cfg.maxJobs)}
build-use-chroot = ${if cfg.useChroot then "true" else "false"}
build-chroot-dirs = ${toString cfg.chrootDirs} $(echo $extraPaths)
binary-caches = ${toString cfg.binaryCaches}
trusted-binary-caches = ${toString cfg.trustedBinaryCaches}
$extraOptions
END
'';
in
{
###### interface
options = {
nix = {
package = mkOption {
type = types.package;
default = pkgs.nix;
description = ''
This option specifies the Nix package instance to use throughout the system.
'';
};
maxJobs = mkOption {
type = types.int;
default = 1;
example = 64;
description = "
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 an Athlon
64 X2).
";
};
useChroot = mkOption {
type = types.bool;
default = false;
description = "
If set, Nix will perform builds in a chroot-environment that it
will set up automatically for each build. This prevents
impurities in builds by disallowing access to dependencies
outside of the Nix store.
";
};
chrootDirs = mkOption {
type = types.listOf types.str;
default = [];
example = [ "/dev" "/proc" ];
description =
''
Directories from the host filesystem to be included
in the chroot.
'';
};
extraOptions = mkOption {
type = types.lines;
default = "";
example = ''
gc-keep-outputs = true
gc-keep-derivations = true
'';
description = "Additional text appended to <filename>nix.conf</filename>.";
};
distributedBuilds = mkOption {
type = types.bool;
default = false;
description = ''
Whether to distribute builds to the machines listed in
<option>nix.buildMachines</option>.
'';
};
daemonNiceLevel = mkOption {
type = types.int;
default = 0;
description = ''
Nix daemon process priority. This priority propagates to build processes.
0 is the default Unix process priority, 20 is the lowest.
'';
};
daemonIONiceLevel = mkOption {
type = types.int;
default = 0;
description = ''
Nix daemon process I/O priority. This priority propagates to build processes.
0 is the default Unix process I/O priority, 7 is the lowest.
'';
};
buildMachines = mkOption {
type = types.listOf types.attrs;
default = [];
example = [
{ hostName = "voila.labs.cs.uu.nl";
sshUser = "nix";
sshKey = "/root/.ssh/id_buildfarm";
system = "powerpc-darwin";
maxJobs = 1;
}
{ hostName = "linux64.example.org";
sshUser = "buildfarm";
sshKey = "/root/.ssh/id_buildfarm";
system = "x86_64-linux";
maxJobs = 2;
supportedFeatures = "kvm";
mandatoryFeatures = "perf";
}
];
description = ''
This option lists the machines to be used if distributed
builds are enabled (see
<option>nix.distributedBuilds</option>). Nix will perform
derivations on those machines via SSH by copying the inputs
to the Nix store on the remote machine, starting the build,
then copying the output back to the local Nix store. Each
element of the list should be an attribute set containing
the machine's host name (<varname>hostname</varname>), the
user name to be used for the SSH connection
(<varname>sshUser</varname>), the Nix system type
(<varname>system</varname>, e.g.,
<literal>"i686-linux"</literal>), the maximum number of
jobs to be run in parallel on that machine
(<varname>maxJobs</varname>), the path to the SSH private
key to be used to connect (<varname>sshKey</varname>), a
list of supported features of the machine
(<varname>supportedFeatures</varname>) and a list of
mandatory features of the machine
(<varname>mandatoryFeatures</varname>). The SSH private key
should not have a passphrase, and the corresponding public
key should be added to
<filename>~<replaceable>sshUser</replaceable>/authorized_keys</filename>
on the remote machine.
'';
};
proxy = mkOption {
type = types.str;
default = "";
description = ''
This option specifies the proxy to use for fetchurl. The real effect
is just exporting http_proxy, https_proxy and ftp_proxy with that
value.
'';
example = "http://127.0.0.1:3128";
};
# Environment variables for running Nix.
envVars = mkOption {
type = types.attrs;
internal = true;
default = {};
description = "Environment variables used by Nix.";
};
nrBuildUsers = mkOption {
type = types.int;
default = 10;
description = ''
Number of <literal>nixbld</literal> user accounts created to
perform secure concurrent builds. If you receive an error
message saying that “all build users are currently in use”,
you should increase this value.
'';
};
readOnlyStore = mkOption {
type = types.bool;
default = true;
description = ''
If set, NixOS will enforce the immutability of the Nix store
by making <filename>/nix/store</filename> a read-only bind
mount. Nix will automatically make the store writable when
needed.
'';
};
binaryCaches = mkOption {
type = types.listOf types.str;
default = [ http://cache.nixos.org/ ];
description = ''
List of binary cache URLs used to obtain pre-built binaries
of Nix packages.
'';
};
trustedBinaryCaches = mkOption {
type = types.listOf types.str;
default = [ ];
example = [ http://hydra.nixos.org/ ];
description = ''
List of binary cache URLs that non-root users can use (in
addition to those specified using
<option>nix.binaryCaches</option> by passing
<literal>--option binary-caches</literal> to Nix commands.
'';
};
};
};
###### implementation
config = {
nix.chrootDirs = [ "/bin" ];
environment.etc."nix/nix.conf".source = nixConf;
# List of machines for distributed Nix builds in the format
# expected by build-remote.pl.
environment.etc."nix/machines" =
{ enable = cfg.buildMachines != [];
text =
concatMapStrings (machine:
"${machine.sshUser}@${machine.hostName} "
+ (if machine ? system then machine.system else concatStringsSep "," machine.systems)
+ " ${machine.sshKey} ${toString machine.maxJobs} "
+ (if machine ? speedFactor then toString machine.speedFactor else "1" )
+ " "
+ (if machine ? supportedFeatures then concatStringsSep "," machine.supportedFeatures else "" )
+ " "
+ (if machine ? mandatoryFeatures then concatStringsSep "," machine.mandatoryFeatures else "" )
+ "\n"
) cfg.buildMachines;
};
systemd.sockets."nix-daemon" =
{ description = "Nix Daemon Socket";
wantedBy = [ "sockets.target" ];
before = [ "multi-user.target" ];
unitConfig.ConditionPathIsReadWrite = "/nix/var/nix/daemon-socket/";
socketConfig.ListenStream = "/nix/var/nix/daemon-socket/socket";
};
systemd.services."nix-daemon" =
{ description = "Nix Daemon";
path = [ nix pkgs.openssl pkgs.utillinux pkgs.openssh ]
++ optionals cfg.distributedBuilds [ pkgs.gzip ];
environment = cfg.envVars // { CURL_CA_BUNDLE = "/etc/ssl/certs/ca-bundle.crt"; };
unitConfig.ConditionPathIsReadWrite = "/nix/var/nix/daemon-socket/";
serviceConfig =
{ ExecStart = "@${nix}/bin/nix-daemon nix-daemon --daemon";
KillMode = "process";
Nice = cfg.daemonNiceLevel;
IOSchedulingPriority = cfg.daemonIONiceLevel;
LimitNOFILE = 4096;
};
restartTriggers = [ nixConf ];
};
nix.envVars =
{ NIX_CONF_DIR = "/etc/nix";
# Enable the copy-from-other-stores substituter, which allows
# builds to be sped up by copying build results from remote
# Nix stores. To do this, mount the remote file system on a
# subdirectory of /run/nix/remote-stores.
NIX_OTHER_STORES = "/run/nix/remote-stores/*/nix";
}
// optionalAttrs cfg.distributedBuilds {
NIX_BUILD_HOOK = "${nix}/libexec/nix/build-remote.pl";
NIX_REMOTE_SYSTEMS = "/etc/nix/machines";
NIX_CURRENT_LOAD = "/run/nix/current-load";
}
# !!! These should not be defined here, but in some general proxy configuration module!
// optionalAttrs (cfg.proxy != "") {
http_proxy = cfg.proxy;
https_proxy = cfg.proxy;
ftp_proxy = cfg.proxy;
};
# Set up the environment variables for running Nix.
environment.variables = cfg.envVars;
environment.extraInit =
''
# Set up secure multi-user builds: non-root users build through the
# Nix daemon.
if [ "$USER" != root -o ! -w /nix/var/nix/db ]; then
export NIX_REMOTE=daemon
fi
'';
users.extraUsers = map makeNixBuildUser (range 1 cfg.nrBuildUsers);
system.activationScripts.nix = stringAfter [ "etc" "users" ]
''
# Nix initialisation.
mkdir -m 0755 -p \
/nix/var/nix/gcroots \
/nix/var/nix/temproots \
/nix/var/nix/manifests \
/nix/var/nix/userpool \
/nix/var/nix/profiles \
/nix/var/nix/db \
/nix/var/log/nix/drvs \
/nix/var/nix/channel-cache \
/nix/var/nix/chroots
mkdir -m 1777 -p \
/nix/var/nix/gcroots/per-user \
/nix/var/nix/profiles/per-user \
/nix/var/nix/gcroots/tmp
ln -sf /nix/var/nix/profiles /nix/var/nix/gcroots/
ln -sf /nix/var/nix/manifests /nix/var/nix/gcroots/
'';
};
}