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The use case is to do a deep replacement of a dependency without rebuilding the entire tree.
For example, suppose a security hole is found in glibc and a patch released. Ideally, you'd
just rebuild everything, but that takes time, space, and CPU that you might not have, so in
the mean time you could build a safe version of, say, firefox with:
firefox-safe = replace-dependency { drv = firefox; old-dependency = glibc; new-dependency = patched-glibc; };
Building firefox-safe will rebuild glibc, but only do a simple copy/string replacement on all other dependencies
of firefox. On my system (MBP 13" mid-2012), after a new glibc had been build building firefox took around 11 seconds.
See the comments in the file for more details.
81 lines
2.8 KiB
Nix
81 lines
2.8 KiB
Nix
{ runCommand, nix, lib }:
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# Replace a single dependency in the requisites tree of drv, propagating
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# the change all the way up the tree, without a full rebuild. This can be
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# useful, for example, to patch a security hole in libc and still use your
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# system safely without rebuilding the world. This should be a short term
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# solution, as soon as a rebuild can be done the properly rebuild derivation
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# should be used. The old dependency and new dependency MUST have the same-length
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# name, and ideally should have close-to-identical directory layout.
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#
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# Example: safe-firefox = replace-dependency {
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# drv = firefox;
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# old-dependency = glibc;
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# new-dependency = overrideDerivation glibc (attrs: {
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# patches = attrs.patches ++ [ ./fix-glibc-hole.patch ];
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# });
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# };
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# This will rebuild glibc with your security patch, then copy over firefox
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# (and all of its dependencies) without rebuilding further.
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{ drv, old-dependency, new-dependency }:
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with lib;
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let
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references = import (runCommand "references.nix" { exportReferencesGraph = [ "graph" drv ]; } ''
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(echo {
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while read path
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do
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echo " \"$path\" = ["
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read count
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read count
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while [ "0" != "$count" ]
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do
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read ref_path
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if [ "$ref_path" != "$path" ]
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then
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echo " (builtins.storePath $ref_path)"
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fi
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count=$(($count - 1))
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done
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echo " ];"
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done < graph
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echo }) > $out
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'').outPath;
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discard = builtins.unsafeDiscardStringContext;
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old-storepath = builtins.storePath (discard old-dependency.outPath);
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references-of = drv: getAttr (discard (toString drv)) references;
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depends-on-old = drv: elem old-storepath (references-of drv) ||
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any depends-on-old (references-of drv);
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drv-name = drv:
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discard (substring 33 (stringLength (builtins.baseNameOf drv)) (builtins.baseNameOf drv));
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replace-strings = drv: rewritten-drvs: runCommand (drv-name drv) { nixStore = "${nix}/bin/nix-store"; } ''
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$nixStore --dump ${drv} | sed 's|${baseNameOf drv}|'$(basename $out)'|g' | sed -e ${
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concatStringsSep " -e " (mapAttrsToList (name: value:
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"'s|${baseNameOf name}|${baseNameOf value}|g'"
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) rewritten-drvs)
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} | $nixStore --restore $out
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'';
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fn = { drv, rewritten-drvs }: rewritten-drvs // (
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if depends-on-old drv
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then listToAttrs [ {
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name = discard (toString drv);
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value = replace-strings drv (rewritten-drvs // (fold (drv: acc:
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(fn { inherit drv rewritten-drvs; }) // acc
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) {} (references-of drv)));
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} ]
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else {}
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);
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in assert (stringLength old-dependency.name == stringLength new-dependency.name); getAttr (discard drv.outPath) (fn {
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inherit drv;
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rewritten-drvs = listToAttrs [ {name = discard old-dependency.outPath; value = new-dependency;} ];
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})
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