{ config, lib, pkgs, ... }: with lib; let cfg = config.nix; nix = cfg.package.out; nixVersion = getVersion nix; isNix23 = versionAtLeast nixVersion "2.3pre"; makeNixBuildUser = nr: { name = "nixbld${toString nr}"; value = { 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" ]; }; }; nixbldUsers = listToAttrs (map makeNixBuildUser (range 1 cfg.nrBuildUsers)); nixConf = assert versionAtLeast nixVersion "2.2"; pkgs.runCommand "nix.conf" { preferLocalBuild = true; extraOptions = cfg.extraOptions; } ( '' cat > $out </dev/null '') ); in { imports = [ (mkRenamedOptionModule [ "nix" "useChroot" ] [ "nix" "useSandbox" ]) (mkRenamedOptionModule [ "nix" "chrootDirs" ] [ "nix" "sandboxPaths" ]) ]; ###### interface options = { nix = { package = mkOption { type = types.package; default = pkgs.nix; defaultText = "pkgs.nix"; description = '' This option specifies the Nix package instance to use throughout the system. ''; }; maxJobs = mkOption { type = types.either types.int (types.enum ["auto"]); default = "auto"; example = 64; description = '' 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). ''; }; autoOptimiseStore = mkOption { type = types.bool; default = false; example = true; description = '' 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. ''; }; buildCores = mkOption { type = types.int; default = 0; example = 64; description = '' 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. ''; }; useSandbox = mkOption { type = types.either types.bool (types.enum ["relaxed"]); default = true; description = " 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. "; }; sandboxPaths = mkOption { type = types.listOf types.str; default = []; example = [ "/dev" "/proc" ]; description = '' Directories from the host filesystem to be included in the sandbox. ''; }; extraOptions = mkOption { type = types.lines; default = ""; example = '' keep-outputs = true keep-derivations = true ''; description = "Additional text appended to nix.conf."; }; distributedBuilds = mkOption { type = types.bool; default = false; description = '' Whether to distribute builds to the machines listed in . ''; }; 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, 19 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 = literalExample '' [ { 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; speedFactor = 2; supportedFeatures = [ "kvm" ]; mandatoryFeatures = [ "perf" ]; } ] ''; 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), the path to the SSH private key to be used to connect (sshKey), a list of supported features of the machine (supportedFeatures) and a list of mandatory features of the machine (mandatoryFeatures). 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. ''; }; # Environment variables for running Nix. envVars = mkOption { type = types.attrs; internal = true; default = {}; description = "Environment variables used by Nix."; }; nrBuildUsers = mkOption { type = types.int; 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. ''; }; readOnlyStore = mkOption { type = types.bool; default = true; description = '' If set, NixOS will enforce the immutability of the Nix store by making /nix/store a read-only bind mount. Nix will automatically make the store writable when needed. ''; }; binaryCaches = mkOption { type = types.listOf types.str; description = '' List of binary cache URLs used to obtain pre-built binaries of Nix packages. By default https://cache.nixos.org/ is added, to override it use lib.mkForce []. ''; }; trustedBinaryCaches = mkOption { type = types.listOf types.str; default = [ ]; example = [ "https://hydra.nixos.org/" ]; description = '' List of binary cache URLs that non-root users can use (in addition to those specified using ) by passing --option binary-caches to Nix commands. ''; }; requireSignedBinaryCaches = mkOption { type = types.bool; default = true; description = '' If enabled (the default), Nix will only download binaries from binary caches if they are cryptographically signed with any of the keys listed in . 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. ''; }; binaryCachePublicKeys = mkOption { type = types.listOf types.str; example = [ "hydra.nixos.org-1:CNHJZBh9K4tP3EKF6FkkgeVYsS3ohTl+oS0Qa8bezVs=" ]; description = '' List of public keys used to sign binary caches. If 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. ''; }; trustedUsers = mkOption { type = types.listOf types.str; default = [ "root" ]; example = [ "root" "alice" "@wheel" ]; description = '' 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. ''; }; allowedUsers = mkOption { type = types.listOf types.str; default = [ "*" ]; example = [ "@wheel" "@builders" "alice" "bob" ]; description = '' A list of names of users (separated by whitespace) that are allowed to connect to the Nix daemon. As with , 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. ''; }; nixPath = mkOption { type = types.listOf types.str; default = [ "nixpkgs=/nix/var/nix/profiles/per-user/root/channels/nixos" "nixos-config=/etc/nixos/configuration.nix" "/nix/var/nix/profiles/per-user/root/channels" ]; description = '' The default Nix expression search path, used by the Nix evaluator to look up paths enclosed in angle brackets (e.g. <nixpkgs>). ''; }; systemFeatures = mkOption { type = types.listOf types.str; example = [ "kvm" "big-parallel" "gccarch-skylake" ]; description = '' The supported features of a machine ''; }; checkConfig = mkOption { type = types.bool; default = true; description = '' If enabled (the default), checks that Nix can parse the generated nix.conf. ''; }; registry = mkOption { type = types.attrsOf (types.submodule ( let inputAttrs = types.attrsOf (types.oneOf [types.str types.int types.bool types.package]); in { config, name, ... }: { options = { from = mkOption { type = inputAttrs; example = { type = "indirect"; id = "nixpkgs"; }; description = "The flake reference to be rewritten."; }; to = mkOption { type = inputAttrs; example = { type = "github"; owner = "my-org"; repo = "my-nixpkgs"; }; description = "The flake reference to which is to be rewritten."; }; flake = mkOption { type = types.unspecified; default = null; example = literalExample "nixpkgs"; description = '' The flake input to which is to be rewritten. ''; }; exact = mkOption { type = types.bool; default = true; description = '' Whether the reference needs to match exactly. If set, a reference like nixpkgs does not match with a reference like nixpkgs/nixos-20.03. ''; }; }; config = { from = mkDefault { type = "indirect"; id = name; }; to = mkIf (config.flake != null) ({ type = "path"; path = config.flake.outPath; } // lib.filterAttrs (n: v: n == "lastModified" || n == "rev" || n == "revCount" || n == "narHash") config.flake); }; } )); default = {}; description = '' A system-wide flake registry. ''; }; }; }; ###### implementation config = { nix.binaryCachePublicKeys = [ "cache.nixos.org-1:6NCHdD59X431o0gWypbMrAURkbJ16ZPMQFGspcDShjY=" ]; nix.binaryCaches = [ "https://cache.nixos.org/" ]; environment.etc."nix/nix.conf".source = nixConf; environment.etc."nix/registry.json".text = builtins.toJSON { version = 2; flakes = mapAttrsToList (n: v: { inherit (v) from to exact; }) cfg.registry; }; # 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: "${if machine ? sshUser then "${machine.sshUser}@" else ""}${machine.hostName} " + machine.system or (concatStringsSep "," machine.systems) + " ${machine.sshKey or "-"} ${toString machine.maxJobs or 1} " + toString (machine.speedFactor or 1) + " " + concatStringsSep "," (machine.mandatoryFeatures or [] ++ machine.supportedFeatures or []) + " " + concatStringsSep "," machine.mandatoryFeatures or [] + "\n" ) cfg.buildMachines; }; systemd.packages = [ nix ]; systemd.sockets.nix-daemon.wantedBy = [ "sockets.target" ]; systemd.services.nix-daemon = { path = [ nix pkgs.utillinux config.programs.ssh.package ] ++ optionals cfg.distributedBuilds [ pkgs.gzip ]; environment = cfg.envVars // { CURL_CA_BUNDLE = "/etc/ssl/certs/ca-certificates.crt"; } // config.networking.proxy.envVars; unitConfig.RequiresMountsFor = "/nix/store"; serviceConfig = { Nice = cfg.daemonNiceLevel; IOSchedulingPriority = cfg.daemonIONiceLevel; LimitNOFILE = 4096; }; restartTriggers = [ nixConf ]; }; # Set up the environment variables for running Nix. environment.sessionVariables = cfg.envVars // { NIX_PATH = cfg.nixPath; }; environment.extraInit = '' if [ -e "$HOME/.nix-defexpr/channels" ]; then export NIX_PATH="$HOME/.nix-defexpr/channels''${NIX_PATH:+:$NIX_PATH}" fi ''; nix.nrBuildUsers = mkDefault (lib.max 32 (if cfg.maxJobs == "auto" then 0 else cfg.maxJobs)); users.users = nixbldUsers; services.xserver.displayManager.hiddenUsers = attrNames nixbldUsers; system.activationScripts.nix = stringAfter [ "etc" "users" ] '' install -m 0755 -d /nix/var/nix/{gcroots,profiles}/per-user # Subscribe the root user to the NixOS channel by default. if [ ! -e "/root/.nix-channels" ]; then echo "${config.system.defaultChannel} nixos" > "/root/.nix-channels" fi ''; nix.systemFeatures = mkDefault ( [ "nixos-test" "benchmark" "big-parallel" "kvm" ] ++ optionals (pkgs.stdenv.isx86_64 && pkgs.hostPlatform.platform ? gcc.arch) ( # a x86_64 builder can run code for `platform.gcc.arch` and minor architectures: [ "gccarch-${pkgs.hostPlatform.platform.gcc.arch}" ] ++ { sandybridge = [ "gccarch-westmere" ]; ivybridge = [ "gccarch-westmere" "gccarch-sandybridge" ]; haswell = [ "gccarch-westmere" "gccarch-sandybridge" "gccarch-ivybridge" ]; broadwell = [ "gccarch-westmere" "gccarch-sandybridge" "gccarch-ivybridge" "gccarch-haswell" ]; skylake = [ "gccarch-westmere" "gccarch-sandybridge" "gccarch-ivybridge" "gccarch-haswell" "gccarch-broadwell" ]; skylake-avx512 = [ "gccarch-westmere" "gccarch-sandybridge" "gccarch-ivybridge" "gccarch-haswell" "gccarch-broadwell" "gccarch-skylake" ]; }.${pkgs.hostPlatform.platform.gcc.arch} or [] ) ); }; }