{ config, pkgs, ... }: with pkgs.lib; let inherit (config.environment) nix; 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" ]; }; in { ###### interface options = { environment.nix = mkOption { default = pkgs.nixUnstable; merge = mergeOneOption; description = '' This option specifies the Nix package instance to use throughout the system. ''; }; nix = { maxJobs = mkOption { default = 1; example = 2; 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 a Athlon 64 X2). "; }; useChroot = mkOption { default = false; example = true; 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 { default = []; example = [ "/dev" "/proc" ]; description = '' Directories from the host filesystem to be included in the chroot. ''; }; extraOptions = mkOption { default = ""; example = " gc-keep-outputs = true gc-keep-derivations = true "; description = " This option allows to append lines to nix.conf. "; }; distributedBuilds = mkOption { default = false; description = " Whether to distribute builds to the machines listed in . If you know that the are not always available either use nixos nixos-rebuild --no-build-hook or consider managing /etc/nix.machines manually by setting . Then you can comment unavailable buildmachines. "; }; manualNixMachines = mkOption { default = false; description = " Whether to manually manage the list of buildmachines used in distributed builds in /etc/nix.machines. "; }; daemonNiceLevel = mkOption { default = 10; description = " Nix daemon process priority. This priority propagates to build processes. 0 is the default Unix process priority, 20 is the lowest. "; }; daemonIONiceLevel = mkOption { default = 7; 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 { 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; } ]; description = " This option lists the machines to be used if distributed builds are enabled (see ). 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 (hostname), the user name to be used for the SSH connection (sshUser), the Nix system type (system, e.g., \"i686-linux\"), the maximum number of jobs to be run in parallel on that machine (maxJobs), and the path to the SSH private key to be used to connect (sshKey). The SSH private key should not have a passphrase, and the corresponding public key should be added to ~sshUser/authorized_keys on the remote machine. "; }; proxy = mkOption { 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. !!! Misnomer - it's # actually a shell script. envVars = mkOption { internal = true; default = ""; type = types.string; description = " Environment variables used by Nix. "; }; nrBuildUsers = mkOption { default = 10; description = '' Number of nixbld 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. ''; }; }; }; ###### implementation config = { nix.chrootDirs = [ "/dev" "/dev/pts" "/proc" "/bin" ]; environment.etc = [ { # Nix configuration. source = 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 = config.nix.extraOptions; } '' extraPaths=$(for i in $(cat ${binshDeps}); do if test -d $i; then echo $i; fi; done) cat > $out < /dev/null 2>&1 ''; extraConfig = '' limit nofile 4096 4096 ''; }; environment.shellInit = '' # Set up the environment variables for running Nix. ${config.nix.envVars} # Set up secure multi-user builds: non-root users build through the # Nix daemon. if test "$USER" != root; then export NIX_REMOTE=daemon else export NIX_REMOTE= fi ''; nix.envVars = '' export 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 # /var/run/nix/remote-stores. export NIX_OTHER_STORES=/var/run/nix/remote-stores/*/nix '' # */ + optionalString config.nix.distributedBuilds '' export NIX_BUILD_HOOK=${config.environment.nix}/libexec/nix/build-remote.pl export NIX_REMOTE_SYSTEMS=/etc/nix.machines export NIX_CURRENT_LOAD=/var/run/nix/current-load '' # !!! These should not be defined here, but in some general proxy configuration module! + optionalString (config.nix.proxy != "") '' export http_proxy=${config.nix.proxy} export https_proxy=${config.nix.proxy} export ftp_proxy=${config.nix.proxy} ''; users.extraUsers = map makeNixBuildUser (range 1 config.nix.nrBuildUsers); system.activationScripts.nix = stringAfter [ "etc" "users" ] '' # Set up Nix. chown root.nixbld /nix/store chmod 1775 /nix/store # 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 mkdir -m 1777 -p /nix/var/nix/profiles/per-user mkdir -m 1777 -p /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/ ''; }; }