/* Manages /etc/nix/nix.conf. See also - ./nix-channel.nix - ./nix-flakes.nix - ./nix-remote-build.nix - nixos/modules/services/system/nix-daemon.nix */ { config, lib, pkgs, ... }: let inherit (lib) concatStringsSep boolToString escape floatToString getVersion isBool isDerivation isFloat isInt isList isString literalExpression mapAttrsToList mkAfter mkDefault mkIf mkOption mkRenamedOptionModuleWith optionalString optionals strings systems toPretty types versionAtLeast ; cfg = config.nix; nixPackage = cfg.package.out; isNixAtLeast = versionAtLeast (getVersion nixPackage); legacyConfMappings = { useSandbox = "sandbox"; buildCores = "cores"; maxJobs = "max-jobs"; sandboxPaths = "extra-sandbox-paths"; binaryCaches = "substituters"; trustedBinaryCaches = "trusted-substituters"; binaryCachePublicKeys = "trusted-public-keys"; autoOptimiseStore = "auto-optimise-store"; requireSignedBinaryCaches = "require-sigs"; trustedUsers = "trusted-users"; allowedUsers = "allowed-users"; systemFeatures = "system-features"; }; semanticConfType = with types; let confAtom = nullOr (oneOf [ bool int float str path package ]) // { description = "Nix config atom (null, bool, int, float, str, path or package)"; }; in attrsOf (either confAtom (listOf confAtom)); nixConf = assert isNixAtLeast "2.2"; let mkValueString = v: if v == null then "" else if isInt v then toString v else if isBool v then boolToString v else if isFloat v then floatToString v else if isList v then toString v else if isDerivation v then toString v else if builtins.isPath v then toString v else if isString v then v else if strings.isConvertibleWithToString v then toString v else abort "The nix conf value: ${toPretty {} v} can not be encoded"; mkKeyValue = k: v: "${escape [ "=" ] k} = ${mkValueString v}"; mkKeyValuePairs = attrs: concatStringsSep "\n" (mapAttrsToList mkKeyValue attrs); in pkgs.writeTextFile { name = "nix.conf"; text = '' # WARNING: this file is generated from the nix.* options in # your NixOS configuration, typically # /etc/nixos/configuration.nix. Do not edit it! ${mkKeyValuePairs cfg.settings} ${cfg.extraOptions} ''; checkPhase = lib.optionalString cfg.checkConfig ( if pkgs.stdenv.hostPlatform != pkgs.stdenv.buildPlatform then '' echo "Ignoring validation for cross-compilation" '' else let showCommand = if isNixAtLeast "2.20pre" then "config show" else "show-config"; in '' echo "Validating generated nix.conf" ln -s $out ./nix.conf set -e set +o pipefail NIX_CONF_DIR=$PWD \ ${cfg.package}/bin/nix ${showCommand} ${optionalString (isNixAtLeast "2.3pre") "--no-net"} \ ${optionalString (isNixAtLeast "2.4pre") "--option experimental-features nix-command"} \ |& sed -e 's/^warning:/error:/' \ | (! grep '${if cfg.checkAllErrors then "^error:" else "^error: unknown setting"}') set -o pipefail ''); }; in { imports = [ (mkRenamedOptionModuleWith { sinceRelease = 2003; from = [ "nix" "useChroot" ]; to = [ "nix" "useSandbox" ]; }) (mkRenamedOptionModuleWith { sinceRelease = 2003; from = [ "nix" "chrootDirs" ]; to = [ "nix" "sandboxPaths" ]; }) ] ++ mapAttrsToList (oldConf: newConf: mkRenamedOptionModuleWith { sinceRelease = 2205; from = [ "nix" oldConf ]; to = [ "nix" "settings" newConf ]; }) legacyConfMappings; options = { nix = { checkConfig = mkOption { type = types.bool; default = true; description = lib.mdDoc '' If enabled, checks that Nix can parse the generated nix.conf. ''; }; checkAllErrors = mkOption { type = types.bool; default = true; description = lib.mdDoc '' If enabled, checks the nix.conf parsing for any kind of error. When disabled, checks only for unknown settings. ''; }; extraOptions = mkOption { type = types.lines; default = ""; example = '' keep-outputs = true keep-derivations = true ''; description = lib.mdDoc "Additional text appended to {file}`nix.conf`."; }; settings = mkOption { type = types.submodule { freeformType = semanticConfType; options = { max-jobs = mkOption { type = types.either types.int (types.enum [ "auto" ]); default = "auto"; example = 64; description = lib.mdDoc '' This option defines the maximum number of jobs that Nix will try to build in parallel. The default is auto, which means it will use all available logical cores. It is recommend to set it to the total number of logical cores in your system (e.g., 16 for two CPUs with 4 cores each and hyper-threading). ''; }; auto-optimise-store = mkOption { type = types.bool; default = false; example = true; description = lib.mdDoc '' If set to true, Nix automatically detects files in the store that have identical contents, and replaces them with hard links to a single copy. This saves disk space. If set to false (the default), you can still run nix-store --optimise to get rid of duplicate files. ''; }; cores = mkOption { type = types.int; default = 0; example = 64; description = lib.mdDoc '' This option defines the maximum number of concurrent tasks during one build. It affects, e.g., -j option for make. The special value 0 means that the builder should use all available CPU cores in the system. Some builds may become non-deterministic with this option; use with care! Packages will only be affected if enableParallelBuilding is set for them. ''; }; sandbox = mkOption { type = types.either types.bool (types.enum [ "relaxed" ]); default = true; description = lib.mdDoc '' If set, Nix will perform builds in a sandboxed 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 by using network and mount namespaces in a chroot environment. This is enabled by default even though it has a possible performance impact due to the initial setup time of a sandbox for each build. It doesn't affect derivation hashes, so changing this option will not trigger a rebuild of packages. When set to "relaxed", this option permits derivations that set `__noChroot = true;` to run outside of the sandboxed environment. Exercise caution when using this mode of operation! It is intended to be a quick hack when building with packages that are not easily setup to be built reproducibly. ''; }; extra-sandbox-paths = mkOption { type = types.listOf types.str; default = [ ]; example = [ "/dev" "/proc" ]; description = lib.mdDoc '' Directories from the host filesystem to be included in the sandbox. ''; }; substituters = mkOption { type = types.listOf types.str; description = lib.mdDoc '' List of binary cache URLs used to obtain pre-built binaries of Nix packages. By default https://cache.nixos.org/ is added. ''; }; trusted-substituters = mkOption { type = types.listOf types.str; default = [ ]; example = [ "https://hydra.nixos.org/" ]; description = lib.mdDoc '' List of binary cache URLs that non-root users can use (in addition to those specified using {option}`nix.settings.substituters`) by passing `--option binary-caches` to Nix commands. ''; }; require-sigs = mkOption { type = types.bool; default = true; description = lib.mdDoc '' If enabled (the default), Nix will only download binaries from binary caches if they are cryptographically signed with any of the keys listed in {option}`nix.settings.trusted-public-keys`. If disabled, signatures are neither required nor checked, so it's strongly recommended that you use only trustworthy caches and https to prevent man-in-the-middle attacks. ''; }; trusted-public-keys = mkOption { type = types.listOf types.str; example = [ "hydra.nixos.org-1:CNHJZBh9K4tP3EKF6FkkgeVYsS3ohTl+oS0Qa8bezVs=" ]; description = lib.mdDoc '' List of public keys used to sign binary caches. If {option}`nix.settings.trusted-public-keys` is enabled, then Nix will use a binary from a binary cache if and only if it is signed by *any* of the keys listed here. By default, only the key for `cache.nixos.org` is included. ''; }; trusted-users = mkOption { type = types.listOf types.str; default = [ "root" ]; example = [ "root" "alice" "@wheel" ]; description = lib.mdDoc '' A list of names of users that have additional rights when connecting to the Nix daemon, such as the ability to specify additional binary caches, or to import unsigned NARs. You can also specify groups by prefixing them with `@`; for instance, `@wheel` means all users in the wheel group. ''; }; system-features = mkOption { type = types.listOf types.str; example = [ "kvm" "big-parallel" "gccarch-skylake" ]; description = lib.mdDoc '' The set of features supported by the machine. Derivations can express dependencies on system features through the `requiredSystemFeatures` attribute. By default, pseudo-features `nixos-test`, `benchmark`, and `big-parallel` used in Nixpkgs are set, `kvm` is also included if it is available. ''; }; allowed-users = mkOption { type = types.listOf types.str; default = [ "*" ]; example = [ "@wheel" "@builders" "alice" "bob" ]; description = lib.mdDoc '' A list of names of users (separated by whitespace) that are allowed to connect to the Nix daemon. As with {option}`nix.settings.trusted-users`, you can specify groups by prefixing them with `@`. Also, you can allow all users by specifying `*`. The default is `*`. Note that trusted users are always allowed to connect. ''; }; }; }; default = { }; example = literalExpression '' { use-sandbox = true; show-trace = true; system-features = [ "big-parallel" "kvm" "recursive-nix" ]; sandbox-paths = { "/bin/sh" = "''${pkgs.busybox-sandbox-shell.out}/bin/busybox"; }; } ''; description = lib.mdDoc '' Configuration for Nix, see or {manpage}`nix.conf(5)` for available options. The value declared here will be translated directly to the key-value pairs Nix expects. You can use {command}`nix-instantiate --eval --strict '' -A config.nix.settings` to view the current value. By default it is empty. Nix configurations defined under {option}`nix.*` will be translated and applied to this option. In addition, configuration specified in {option}`nix.extraOptions` will be appended verbatim to the resulting config file. ''; }; }; }; config = mkIf cfg.enable { environment.etc."nix/nix.conf".source = nixConf; nix.settings = { trusted-public-keys = [ "cache.nixos.org-1:6NCHdD59X431o0gWypbMrAURkbJ16ZPMQFGspcDShjY=" ]; substituters = mkAfter [ "https://cache.nixos.org/" ]; system-features = mkDefault ( [ "nixos-test" "benchmark" "big-parallel" "kvm" ] ++ optionals (pkgs.stdenv.hostPlatform ? gcc.arch) ( # a builder can run code for `gcc.arch` and inferior architectures [ "gccarch-${pkgs.stdenv.hostPlatform.gcc.arch}" ] ++ map (x: "gccarch-${x}") (systems.architectures.inferiors.${pkgs.stdenv.hostPlatform.gcc.arch} or []) ) ); }; }; }