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Split nix-env and nix-store documentation per-subcommand Documentation on "classic" commands with many sub-commands are notoriously hard to discover due to lack of overview and anchor links. Additionally the information on common options and environment variables is not accessible offline in man pages, and therefore often overlooked by readers. With this change, each sub-command of nix-store and nix-env gets its own page in the manual (listed in the table of contents), and each own man page. Also, man pages for each subcommand now (again) list common options and environment variables. While this makes each page quite long and some common parameters don't apply, this should still make it easier to navigate as that additional information was not accessible on the command line at all. It is now possible to run 'nix-store --<subcommand> --help` to display help pages for the given subcommand. Co-authored-by: Valentin Gagarin <valentin.gagarin@tweag.io>
2023-03-23 17:27:41 +02:00
# Options
The following options are allowed for all `nix-store` operations, but may not always have an effect.
- <span id="opt-add-root">[`--add-root`](#opt-add-root)</span> *path*
Causes the result of a realisation (`--realise` and
`--force-realise`) to be registered as a root of the garbage
collector. *path* will be created as a symlink to the resulting
store path. In addition, a uniquely named symlink to *path* will
be created in `/nix/var/nix/gcroots/auto/`. For instance,
```console
Convert short nix options to long ones e.g. nix-env -e subversion => nix-env --uninstall subversion The aim is to make the documentation less cryptic for newcomers and the long options are more self-documenting. The change was made with the following script: <https://github.com/aschmolck/convert-short-nix-opts-to-long-ones> and sanity checked visually.
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$ nix-store --add-root /home/eelco/bla/result --realise ...
Split nix-env and nix-store documentation per-subcommand Documentation on "classic" commands with many sub-commands are notoriously hard to discover due to lack of overview and anchor links. Additionally the information on common options and environment variables is not accessible offline in man pages, and therefore often overlooked by readers. With this change, each sub-command of nix-store and nix-env gets its own page in the manual (listed in the table of contents), and each own man page. Also, man pages for each subcommand now (again) list common options and environment variables. While this makes each page quite long and some common parameters don't apply, this should still make it easier to navigate as that additional information was not accessible on the command line at all. It is now possible to run 'nix-store --<subcommand> --help` to display help pages for the given subcommand. Co-authored-by: Valentin Gagarin <valentin.gagarin@tweag.io>
2023-03-23 17:27:41 +02:00
$ ls -l /nix/var/nix/gcroots/auto
lrwxrwxrwx 1 ... 2005-03-13 21:10 dn54lcypm8f8... -> /home/eelco/bla/result
$ ls -l /home/eelco/bla/result
lrwxrwxrwx 1 ... 2005-03-13 21:10 /home/eelco/bla/result -> /nix/store/1r11343n6qd4...-f-spot-0.0.10
```
Thus, when `/home/eelco/bla/result` is removed, the GC root in the
`auto` directory becomes a dangling symlink and will be ignored by
the collector.
> **Warning**
>
> Note that it is not possible to move or rename GC roots, since
> the symlink in the `auto` directory will still point to the old
> location.
If there are multiple results, then multiple symlinks will be
created by sequentially numbering symlinks beyond the first one
(e.g., `foo`, `foo-2`, `foo-3`, and so on).
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