# 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; # Allow the user to opt-into additional warnings, e.g. # import { config = { showDerivationWarnings = [ "maintainerless" ]; }; } showWarnings = config.showDerivationWarnings; getName = attrs: attrs.name or ("${attrs.pname or "«name-missing»"}-${attrs.version or "«version-missing»"}"); allowUnfree = config.allowUnfree || builtins.getEnv "NIXPKGS_ALLOW_UNFREE" == "1"; allowNonSource = config.allowNonSource or true && builtins.getEnv "NIXPKGS_ALLOW_NONSOURCE" != "0"; allowlist = config.allowlistedLicenses or config.whitelistedLicenses or []; blocklist = config.blocklistedLicenses or config.blacklistedLicenses or []; areLicenseListsValid = if lib.mutuallyExclusive allowlist blocklist then 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 || builtins.getEnv "NIXPKGS_ALLOW_BROKEN" == "1"; allowUnsupportedSystem = config.allowUnsupportedSystem || 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); hasNoMaintainers = attrs: attrs ? meta.maintainers && (lib.length attrs.meta.maintainers) == 0; 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"; isNonSource = sourceTypes: lib.lists.any (t: !t.isSource) sourceTypes; hasNonSourceProvenance = attrs: (attrs ? meta.sourceProvenance) && isNonSource (lib.lists.toList attrs.meta.sourceProvenance); # Allow granular checks to allow only some non-source-built packages # Example: # { pkgs, ... }: # { # allowNonSource = false; # allowNonSourcePredicate = with pkgs.lib.lists; pkg: !(any (p: !p.isSource && p != lib.sourceTypes.binaryFirmware) (toList pkg.meta.sourceProvenance)); # } allowNonSourcePredicate = config.allowNonSourcePredicate or (x: false); # Check whether non-source packages are allowed and if not, whether the # package has non-source provenance and is not explicitly allowed by the # `allowNonSourcePredicate` function. hasDeniedNonSourceProvenance = attrs: hasNonSourceProvenance attrs && !allowNonSource && !allowNonSourcePredicate attrs; showLicenseOrSourceType = value: toString (map (v: v.shortName or "unknown") (lib.lists.toList value)); showLicense = showLicenseOrSourceType; showSourceType = showLicenseOrSourceType; pos_str = meta: meta.position or "«unknown-file»"; remediation = { unfree = remediate_allowlist "Unfree" (remediate_predicate "allowUnfreePredicate"); non-source = remediate_allowlist "NonSource" (remediate_predicate "allowNonSourcePredicate"); broken = remediate_allowlist "Broken" (x: ""); unsupported = remediate_allowlist "UnsupportedSystem" (x: ""); blocklisted = x: ""; insecure = remediate_insecure; broken-outputs = remediateOutputsToInstall; unknown-meta = x: ""; maintainerless = x: ""; }; remediation_env_var = allow_attr: { Unfree = "NIXPKGS_ALLOW_UNFREE"; Broken = "NIXPKGS_ALLOW_BROKEN"; UnsupportedSystem = "NIXPKGS_ALLOW_UNSUPPORTED_SYSTEM"; NonSource = "NIXPKGS_ALLOW_NONSOURCE"; }.${allow_attr}; remediation_phrase = allow_attr: { Unfree = "unfree packages"; Broken = "broken packages"; UnsupportedSystem = "packages that are unsupported for this system"; NonSource = "packages not built from source"; }.${allow_attr}; remediate_predicate = predicateConfigAttr: attrs: '' Alternatively you can configure a predicate to allow specific packages: { nixpkgs.config.${predicateConfigAttr} = pkg: builtins.elem (lib.getName pkg) [ "${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; handleEvalWarning = { meta, attrs }: { reason , errormsg ? "" }: let remediationMsg = (builtins.getAttr reason remediation) attrs; msg = if inHydra then "Warning while evaluating ${getName attrs}: «${reason}»: ${errormsg}" else "Package ${getName attrs} in ${pos_str meta} ${errormsg}, continuing anyway." + (if remediationMsg != "" then "\n${remediationMsg}" else ""); isEnabled = lib.findFirst (x: x == reason) null showWarnings; in if isEnabled != null then builtins.trace msg true else true; # A shallow type check. We are using NixOS' # option types here, which however have the major drawback # of not providing full type checking (part of the type check is # done by the module evaluation itself). Therefore, the checks # will not recurse into attributes. # We still provide the full type for documentation # purposes and in the hope that they will be used eventually. # See https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/pull/191171 for an attempt # to fix this, or mkOptionType in lib/types.nix for more information. 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); sourceProvenance = either (listOf lib.types.attrs) lib.types.attrs; 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; # Needed for Hydra to expose channel tarballs: # https://github.com/NixOS/hydra/blob/53335323ae79ca1a42643f58e520b376898ce641/doc/manual/src/jobs.md#meta-fields isHydraChannel = bool; # 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; isBuildPythonPackage = platforms; schedulingPriority = int; isFcitxEngine = bool; isIbusEngine = bool; isGutenprint = bool; badPlatforms = platforms; }; # WARNING: this does not check inner values of the attribute, like list elements or nested attributes. # See metaTypes above and mkOptionType in lib/types.nix for more information checkMetaAttr = k: v: if metaTypes?${k} then if metaTypes.${k}.check v then null else "key 'meta.${k}' has a value of invalid type ${builtins.typeOf v}; expected ${metaTypes.${k}.description}" else "key 'meta.${k}' is unrecognized; expected one of: \n\t [${lib.concatMapStringsSep ", " (x: "'${x}'") (lib.attrNames metaTypes)}]"; checkMeta = meta: if config.checkMeta then lib.remove null (lib.mapAttrsToList checkMetaAttr meta) else []; checkOutputsToInstall = attrs: let expectedOutputs = attrs.meta.outputsToInstall or []; actualOutputs = attrs.outputs or [ "out" ]; missingOutputs = builtins.filter (output: ! builtins.elem output actualOutputs) expectedOutputs; in if config.checkMeta then builtins.length missingOutputs > 0 else false; # Check if a derivation is valid, that is whether it passes checks for # e.g brokenness or license. # # Return { valid: Bool } and additionally # { reason: String; errormsg: String } if it is not valid, where # reason is one of "unfree", "blocklisted", "broken", "insecure", ... # Along with a boolean flag for each reason checkValidity = attrs: { unfree = hasUnfreeLicense attrs; nonSource = hasNonSourceProvenance attrs; broken = isMarkedBroken attrs; unsupported = hasUnsupportedPlatform attrs; insecure = isMarkedInsecure attrs; } // ( # Check meta attribute types first, to make sure it is always called even when there are other issues # Note that this is not a full type check and functions below still need to by careful about their inputs! let res = checkMeta (attrs.meta or {}); in if res != [] then { valid = "no"; reason = "unknown-meta"; errormsg = "has an invalid meta attrset:${lib.concatMapStrings (x: "\n\t - " + x) res}"; } # --- Put checks that cannot be ignored here --- else if checkOutputsToInstall attrs then { valid = "no"; reason = "broken-outputs"; errormsg = "has invalid meta.outputsToInstall"; } # --- Put checks that can be ignored here --- else if hasDeniedUnfreeLicense attrs && !(hasAllowlistedLicense attrs) then { valid = "no"; reason = "unfree"; errormsg = "has an unfree license (‘${showLicense attrs.meta.license}’)"; } else if hasBlocklistedLicense attrs then { valid = "no"; reason = "blocklisted"; errormsg = "has a blocklisted license (‘${showLicense attrs.meta.license}’)"; } else if hasDeniedNonSourceProvenance attrs then { valid = "no"; reason = "non-source"; errormsg = "contains elements not built from source (‘${showSourceType attrs.meta.sourceProvenance}’)"; } else if !allowBroken && attrs.meta.broken or false then { valid = "no"; reason = "broken"; errormsg = "is marked as broken"; } else if !allowUnsupportedSystem && hasUnsupportedPlatform attrs then { valid = "no"; reason = "unsupported"; errormsg = "is not supported on ‘${hostPlatform.system}’"; } else if !(hasAllowedInsecure attrs) then { valid = "no"; reason = "insecure"; errormsg = "is marked as insecure"; } # --- warnings --- # Please also update the type in /pkgs/top-level/config.nix alongside this. else if hasNoMaintainers attrs then { valid = "warn"; reason = "maintainerless"; errormsg = "has no maintainers"; } # ----- else { valid = "yes"; }); assertValidity = { meta, attrs }: let validity = checkValidity attrs; in validity // { # Throw an error if trying to evaluate a non-valid derivation # or, alternatively, just output a warning message. handled = { no = handleEvalIssue { inherit meta attrs; } { inherit (validity) reason errormsg; }; warn = handleEvalWarning { inherit meta attrs; } { inherit (validity) reason errormsg; }; yes = true; }.${validity.valid}; }; in assertValidity