# Checks derivation meta and attrs for problems (like brokenness, # licenses, etc). { lib, config, hostPlatform }: let # If we're in hydra, we can dispense with the more verbose error # messages and make problems easier to spot. inHydra = config.inHydra or false; getName = attrs: attrs.name or ("${attrs.pname or "«name-missing»"}-${attrs.version or "«version-missing»"}"); # See discussion at https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/pull/25304#issuecomment-298385426 # for why this defaults to false, but I (@copumpkin) want to default it to true soon. shouldCheckMeta = config.checkMeta or false; allowUnfree = config.allowUnfree or false || builtins.getEnv "NIXPKGS_ALLOW_UNFREE" == "1"; allowlist = config.allowlistedLicenses or config.whitelistedLicenses or []; blocklist = config.blocklistedLicenses or config.blacklistedLicenses or []; onlyLicenses = list: lib.lists.all (license: let l = lib.licenses.${license.shortName or "BROKEN"} or false; in if license == l then true else throw ''‘${showLicense license}’ is not an attribute of lib.licenses'' ) list; areLicenseListsValid = if lib.mutuallyExclusive allowlist blocklist then assert onlyLicenses allowlist; assert onlyLicenses blocklist; true else throw "allowlistedLicenses and blocklistedLicenses are not mutually exclusive."; hasLicense = attrs: attrs ? meta.license; hasAllowlistedLicense = assert areLicenseListsValid; attrs: hasLicense attrs && lib.lists.any (l: builtins.elem l allowlist) (lib.lists.toList attrs.meta.license); hasBlocklistedLicense = assert areLicenseListsValid; attrs: hasLicense attrs && lib.lists.any (l: builtins.elem l blocklist) (lib.lists.toList attrs.meta.license); allowBroken = config.allowBroken or false || builtins.getEnv "NIXPKGS_ALLOW_BROKEN" == "1"; allowUnsupportedSystem = config.allowUnsupportedSystem or false || builtins.getEnv "NIXPKGS_ALLOW_UNSUPPORTED_SYSTEM" == "1"; isUnfree = licenses: lib.lists.any (l: !l.free or true) licenses; hasUnfreeLicense = attrs: hasLicense attrs && isUnfree (lib.lists.toList attrs.meta.license); isMarkedBroken = attrs: attrs.meta.broken or false; hasUnsupportedPlatform = attrs: (!lib.lists.elem hostPlatform.system (attrs.meta.platforms or lib.platforms.all) || lib.lists.elem hostPlatform.system (attrs.meta.badPlatforms or [])); isMarkedInsecure = attrs: (attrs.meta.knownVulnerabilities or []) != []; # Alow granular checks to allow only some unfree packages # Example: # {pkgs, ...}: # { # allowUnfree = false; # allowUnfreePredicate = (x: pkgs.lib.hasPrefix "vscode" x.name); # } allowUnfreePredicate = config.allowUnfreePredicate or (x: false); # Check whether unfree packages are allowed and if not, whether the # package has an unfree license and is not explicitely allowed by the # `allowUnfreePredicate` function. hasDeniedUnfreeLicense = attrs: hasUnfreeLicense attrs && !allowUnfree && !allowUnfreePredicate attrs; allowInsecureDefaultPredicate = x: builtins.elem (getName x) (config.permittedInsecurePackages or []); allowInsecurePredicate = x: (config.allowInsecurePredicate or allowInsecureDefaultPredicate) x; hasAllowedInsecure = attrs: !(isMarkedInsecure attrs) || allowInsecurePredicate attrs || builtins.getEnv "NIXPKGS_ALLOW_INSECURE" == "1"; showLicense = license: toString (map (l: l.shortName or "unknown") (lib.lists.toList license)); pos_str = meta: meta.position or "«unknown-file»"; remediation = { unfree = remediate_allowlist "Unfree" remediate_unfree_predicate; broken = remediate_allowlist "Broken" (x: ""); unsupported = remediate_allowlist "UnsupportedSystem" (x: ""); blocklisted = x: ""; insecure = remediate_insecure; broken-outputs = remediateOutputsToInstall; unknown-meta = x: ""; }; remediation_env_var = allow_attr: { Unfree = "NIXPKGS_ALLOW_UNFREE"; Broken = "NIXPKGS_ALLOW_BROKEN"; UnsupportedSystem = "NIXPKGS_ALLOW_UNSUPPORTED_SYSTEM"; }.${allow_attr}; remediation_phrase = allow_attr: { Unfree = "unfree packages"; Broken = "broken packages"; UnsupportedSystem = "packages that are unsupported for this system"; }.${allow_attr}; remediate_unfree_predicate = attrs: '' Alternatively you can configure a predicate to allow specific packages: { nixpkgs.config.allowUnfreePredicate = pkg: builtins.elem (lib.getName pkg) [ "${lib.getName attrs}" ]; } ''; # flakeNote will be printed in the remediation messages below. flakeNote = " Note: For `nix shell`, `nix build`, `nix develop` or any other Nix 2.4+ (Flake) command, `--impure` must be passed in order to read this environment variable. "; remediate_allowlist = allow_attr: rebuild_amendment: attrs: '' a) To temporarily allow ${remediation_phrase allow_attr}, you can use an environment variable for a single invocation of the nix tools. $ export ${remediation_env_var allow_attr}=1 ${flakeNote} b) For `nixos-rebuild` you can set { nixpkgs.config.allow${allow_attr} = true; } in configuration.nix to override this. ${rebuild_amendment attrs} c) For `nix-env`, `nix-build`, `nix-shell` or any other Nix command you can add { allow${allow_attr} = true; } to ~/.config/nixpkgs/config.nix. ''; remediate_insecure = attrs: '' Known issues: '' + (lib.concatStrings (map (issue: " - ${issue}\n") attrs.meta.knownVulnerabilities)) + '' You can install it anyway by allowing this package, using the following methods: a) To temporarily allow all insecure packages, you can use an environment variable for a single invocation of the nix tools: $ export NIXPKGS_ALLOW_INSECURE=1 ${flakeNote} b) for `nixos-rebuild` you can add ‘${getName attrs}’ to `nixpkgs.config.permittedInsecurePackages` in the configuration.nix, like so: { nixpkgs.config.permittedInsecurePackages = [ "${getName attrs}" ]; } c) For `nix-env`, `nix-build`, `nix-shell` or any other Nix command you can add ‘${getName attrs}’ to `permittedInsecurePackages` in ~/.config/nixpkgs/config.nix, like so: { permittedInsecurePackages = [ "${getName attrs}" ]; } ''; remediateOutputsToInstall = attrs: let expectedOutputs = attrs.meta.outputsToInstall or []; actualOutputs = attrs.outputs or [ "out" ]; missingOutputs = builtins.filter (output: ! builtins.elem output actualOutputs) expectedOutputs; in '' The package ${getName attrs} has set meta.outputsToInstall to: ${builtins.concatStringsSep ", " expectedOutputs} however ${getName attrs} only has the outputs: ${builtins.concatStringsSep ", " actualOutputs} and is missing the following ouputs: ${lib.concatStrings (builtins.map (output: " - ${output}\n") missingOutputs)} ''; handleEvalIssue = { meta, attrs }: { reason , errormsg ? "" }: let msg = if inHydra then "Failed to evaluate ${getName attrs}: «${reason}»: ${errormsg}" else '' Package ‘${getName attrs}’ in ${pos_str meta} ${errormsg}, refusing to evaluate. '' + (builtins.getAttr reason remediation) attrs; handler = if config ? handleEvalIssue then config.handleEvalIssue reason else throw; in handler msg; metaTypes = with lib.types; rec { # These keys are documented description = str; mainProgram = str; longDescription = str; branch = str; homepage = either (listOf str) str; downloadPage = str; changelog = either (listOf str) str; license = either (listOf lib.types.attrs) (either lib.types.attrs str); maintainers = listOf (attrsOf str); priority = int; platforms = listOf str; hydraPlatforms = listOf str; broken = bool; unfree = bool; unsupported = bool; insecure = bool; # TODO: refactor once something like Profpatsch's types-simple will land # This is currently dead code due to https://github.com/NixOS/nix/issues/2532 tests = attrsOf (mkOptionType { name = "test"; check = x: x == {} || ( # Accept {} for tests that are unsupported isDerivation x && x ? meta.timeout ); merge = lib.options.mergeOneOption; }); timeout = int; # Weirder stuff that doesn't appear in the documentation? maxSilent = int; knownVulnerabilities = listOf str; name = str; version = str; tag = str; executables = listOf str; outputsToInstall = listOf str; position = str; available = bool; repositories = attrsOf str; isBuildPythonPackage = platforms; schedulingPriority = int; isFcitxEngine = bool; isIbusEngine = bool; isGutenprint = bool; badPlatforms = platforms; }; checkMetaAttr = k: v: if metaTypes?${k} then if metaTypes.${k}.check v then null else "key '${k}' has a value ${toString v} of an invalid type ${builtins.typeOf v}; expected ${metaTypes.${k}.description}" else "key '${k}' is unrecognized; expected one of: \n\t [${lib.concatMapStringsSep ", " (x: "'${x}'") (lib.attrNames metaTypes)}]"; checkMeta = meta: if shouldCheckMeta then lib.remove null (lib.mapAttrsToList checkMetaAttr meta) else []; checkOutputsToInstall = attrs: let expectedOutputs = attrs.meta.outputsToInstall or []; actualOutputs = attrs.outputs or [ "out" ]; missingOutputs = builtins.filter (output: ! builtins.elem output actualOutputs) expectedOutputs; in if shouldCheckMeta then builtins.length missingOutputs > 0 else false; # Check if a derivation is valid, that is whether it passes checks for # e.g brokenness or license. # # Return { valid: Bool } and additionally # { reason: String; errormsg: String } if it is not valid, where # reason is one of "unfree", "blocklisted", "broken", "insecure", ... # Along with a boolean flag for each reason checkValidity = attrs: { unfree = hasUnfreeLicense attrs; broken = isMarkedBroken attrs; unsupported = hasUnsupportedPlatform attrs; insecure = isMarkedInsecure attrs; } // (if hasDeniedUnfreeLicense attrs && !(hasAllowlistedLicense attrs) then { valid = false; reason = "unfree"; errormsg = "has an unfree license (‘${showLicense attrs.meta.license}’)"; } else if hasBlocklistedLicense attrs then { valid = false; reason = "blocklisted"; errormsg = "has a blocklisted license (‘${showLicense attrs.meta.license}’)"; } else if !allowBroken && attrs.meta.broken or false then { valid = false; reason = "broken"; errormsg = "is marked as broken"; } else if !allowUnsupportedSystem && hasUnsupportedPlatform attrs then { valid = false; reason = "unsupported"; errormsg = "is not supported on ‘${hostPlatform.system}’"; } else if !(hasAllowedInsecure attrs) then { valid = false; reason = "insecure"; errormsg = "is marked as insecure"; } else if checkOutputsToInstall attrs then { valid = false; reason = "broken-outputs"; errormsg = "has invalid meta.outputsToInstall"; } else let res = checkMeta (attrs.meta or {}); in if res != [] then { valid = false; reason = "unknown-meta"; errormsg = "has an invalid meta attrset:${lib.concatMapStrings (x: "\n\t - " + x) res}"; } else { valid = true; }); assertValidity = { meta, attrs }: let validity = checkValidity attrs; in validity // { # Throw an error if trying to evaluate an non-valid derivation handled = if !validity.valid then handleEvalIssue { inherit meta attrs; } { inherit (validity) reason errormsg; } else true; }; in assertValidity