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Author SHA1 Message Date
Eelco Dolstra
da3d776cb9
Fix some dangling references 2020-07-24 14:31:33 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra
4a79b3598f
Fix nix-copy-closure manpage 2020-07-24 13:01:00 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra
7a0e6f076a
Move figures 2020-07-24 12:58:31 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra
758c9ee1bb
Clean up the manpages 2020-07-24 12:56:19 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra
8d0b311a1c
Get rid of footnotes
Markdown doesn't support them.
2020-07-24 11:43:44 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra
69333cb62c
Sigh 2020-07-23 18:27:20 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra
802150f987
<replaceable> -> <emphasis>
Pandoc doesn't know <replaceable> so let's force it to be rendered as
italics.
2020-07-23 18:27:20 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra
ee05108472
<simplesect> -> <section>
Pandoc silently ignores <simplesect>...
2020-07-23 18:27:20 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra
136fd55bb2
Get rid of <figure> 2020-07-23 18:27:20 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra
ca130b73a0
Get rid of <example>
Markdown doesn't have floats so we can't have this.
2020-07-23 18:27:20 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra
13df1faf25
Get rid of callouts since Markdown doesn't support them 2020-07-23 18:27:20 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra
efff6cf163
Install all manpages 2020-07-23 18:27:12 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra
504b7abc45
Convert commands 2020-07-23 18:27:12 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra
efdb89994c
Convert nix.conf manpage 2020-07-23 18:27:11 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra
f390303566
Reconvert 2020-07-23 18:27:11 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra
c20c082383
<envar> -> <literal> 2020-07-23 18:27:11 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra
942cd687f9
Remove libxml2 / libxslt prerequisites 2020-07-23 18:26:48 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra
ef606760ab
Pandoc conversion 2020-07-23 18:26:48 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra
d004715665
Fix link 2020-07-23 18:26:48 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra
315407c16f
Remove subtitles 2020-07-23 18:26:48 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra
ebdc1f6dfb
Typo 2020-07-23 18:26:48 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra
8e41c38867
Remove references to xmllint 2020-07-23 18:26:48 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra
e0ea3c82ca
Use mdbook 2020-07-23 18:26:48 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra
650ae14ced
Markdown test 2020-07-23 18:26:48 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra
26fcab53e0
Remove unused file 2020-07-23 18:25:09 +02:00
Jörg Thalheim
6633605341
Update doc/manual/hacking.xml
Co-authored-by: Eelco Dolstra <edolstra@gmail.com>
2020-07-20 22:30:39 +01:00
Jörg Thalheim
f0100f5590
README: improve development docs 2020-07-20 15:46:28 +01:00
Matthew Bauer
bcf8582091 Merge remote-tracking branch 'origin/master' into substitute-other-storedir 2020-06-24 12:52:09 -04:00
Jörg Thalheim
3685f4eec6
docs/installer: add correct curl flags
also see https://nixos.org/download.html
2020-06-23 23:04:10 +01:00
Matthew Bauer
2796b01e86 Merge remote-tracking branch 'origin/master' into substitute-other-storedir 2020-06-19 14:22:06 -04:00
Eelco Dolstra
6c000eed80
Merge pull request #3709 from expipiplus1/master
Mention number of derivations to be build/fetched in output
2020-06-18 19:03:05 +02:00
Samir Talwar
9069759767
Instruct the user to follow redirects when installing Nix.
Nix installation now requires following redirects using `curl -L`. This
is currently represented on the [Nix download page][] but not in the
manual. This change updates the manual to reflect this.

Using `curl` without the `-L` flag results in an empty body, making
installation a no-op.

[Nix download page]: https://nixos.org/download.html
2020-06-18 10:29:24 +02:00
Matthew Bauer
7bd88cc1dc Merge remote-tracking branch 'origin/master' into substitute-other-storedir 2020-06-17 13:32:29 -04:00
Joe Hermaszewski
da8aac6ce8 Mention number of derivations to be build/fetched in output
Also correct grammar for the case of a single derivation.
2020-06-17 20:27:27 +08:00
Matthew Bauer
3e3eaa90dd Remove hashed-mirrors 2020-06-12 09:51:44 -05:00
zimbatm
2c4de6af10 add documentation 2020-06-08 09:31:15 +02:00
Joachim Breitner
e2af11ce07 Manpages: Do not refer to nixpkgs-channels
Unless I am misinformed, using the `nixpkgs` repository directly is now
preferred?
2020-05-23 15:26:59 +02:00
Domen Kožar
c129e7c8f4
Merge pull request #3212 from LnL7/darwin-10.15-install
install: configure and bootstrap synthetic.conf on darwin
2020-05-23 11:15:31 +02:00
Travis A. Everett
2b0a81d92d
focus on golden-path covering most scenarios
This should handle installation scenarios we can handle with
anything resembling confidence. Goal is approximating the existing
setup--not enforcing a best-practice...

Approaches (+ installer-handled, - manual) and configs each covers:

+ no change needed; /nix OK on boot volume:
  All pre-Catalina (regardless of T2 or FileVault use)

+ create new unencrypted volume:
  Catalina, pre-T2, no FileVault

+ create new encrypted-at-rest volume:
  Catalina, pre-T2, FileVault
  Catalina, T2, no FileVault

- require user to pre-create encrypted volume
  Catalina, T2, FileVault
2020-05-21 19:58:11 +02:00
Daiderd Jordan
477d7c2d07
installer: refuse apfs volume creation when FileVault is enabled 2020-05-21 19:58:11 +02:00
Daiderd Jordan
3386575296
manual: clarify volume creation section 2020-05-21 19:58:11 +02:00
Daiderd Jordan
04f597c3f4
install: improve output and error handling 2020-05-21 19:58:11 +02:00
Daiderd Jordan
ee89b7797d
manual: add apfs volume section 2020-05-21 19:58:11 +02:00
Krzysztof Gogolewski
c8cb558849 documentation: avoid unquoted URLs 2020-05-21 19:29:13 +02:00
Jörg Thalheim
e223eeac09
Remove -j option from simple-build-testing
By default Nix/NixOS already set a reasonable default `max-jobs = auto`
so we don't need to mention it in this tutorial.
The option is still documented in other parts of the documentation
if users ever stumble over this.

Fixes https://github.com/NixOS/nix/issues/2531
2020-05-16 08:45:19 +01:00
Domen Kožar
23e5b48ca4
Merge pull request #3581 from TerrorJack/patch-1
Update "Upgrading Nix" documentation
2020-05-11 18:12:35 +02:00
Domen Kožar
612d57c5de
Merge pull request #3582 from bhipple/doc/fixed-output
doc: consistently refer to 'fixed-output' with a dash
2020-05-11 18:10:19 +02:00
Benjamin Hipple
146f9c114f doc: consistently refer to 'fixed-output' with a dash
General cleanup that makes it easier to search for the term.
2020-05-09 10:58:43 -04:00
Shao Cheng
446649e540
Update "Upgrading Nix" documentation
This PR proposes two changes to the "Upgrading Nix" documentation:

* Besides updating `nixpkgs.nix`, we also update `nixpkgs.cacert`, so that the certificates are up-to-date as well.
* Add the instructions for multi-user mode on Linux.
2020-05-09 15:59:39 +02:00
Dani
52cffafd24
Fix typo 2020-05-09 13:48:31 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra
41caaaad36
Manual: Typo 2020-05-07 16:37:33 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra
479e8bf00b
Manual: Fix typo 2020-05-07 16:08:15 +02:00
zimbatm
895516cadf
add NIX_USER_CONF_FILES
Motivation: maintain project-level configuration files.

Document the whole situation a bit better so that it corresponds to the
implementation, and add NIX_USER_CONF_FILES that allows overriding
which user files Nix will load during startup.
2020-04-14 18:45:06 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra
55cefd41d6 Merge branch 'fetchgit-recursive' of https://github.com/blitz/nix 2020-04-07 13:45:17 +02:00
Julian Stecklina
ea861be292 Add documentation for submodule support in fetchGit 2020-03-29 22:29:57 +02:00
Greg Price
e40e01c1dd doc: Files in the store have modes 444/555, not 644/755
This line has been this way since it was written, in 9e08f5efe
in 2006.

I think it was just a small mistake then; Eelco's thesis earlier
that year says the permission on each file is set to 0444 or 0555
in a derivation's output as part of the build process.  In any
case I'm pretty sure that's the behavior now.
2020-03-23 20:23:27 -07:00
jakobrs
c5a488afc0 Remove the --delete option for --gc
Running `nix-store --gc --delete` will, as of Nix 2.3.3, simply fail
because the --delete option conflicts with the --delete operation.

  $ nix-store --gc --delete
  error: only one operation may be specified
  Try 'nix-store --help' for more information.

Furthermore, it has been broken since at least Nix 0.16 (which was
released sometime in 2010), which means that any scripts which depend
on it should have been broken at least nine years ago. This commit
simply formally removes the option. There should be no actual difference
in behaviour as far as the user is concerned: it errors with the exact
same error message. The manual has been edited to remove any references
to the (now gone) --delete option.

Other information:
* Path for Nix 0.16 used:
  /nix/store/rp3sgmskn0p0pj1ia2qwd5al6f6pinz4-nix-0.16
2020-03-19 19:41:23 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra
779ef8f5ef
Merge pull request #3380 from contrun/no-attr-path-for-installed
display attr-path only when queried available
2020-03-13 19:26:20 +01:00
YI
b6d794fb8d display attr-path only when queried available 2020-03-14 00:36:26 +08:00
Eelco Dolstra
858ad7a4b3 Remove callout graphics
Fixes #3396.
2020-03-13 16:32:43 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra
9c7e90f414
style.css: Remove
This file is licensed under the GPL. Originally, Nix was also
GPL-licensed so that was fine. However, we later changed the license
to the LGPL but missed the fact that style.css has an incompatible
license.

Since the Nix manual at nixos.org uses its own styling, we can remove
this file.

Fixes #3392.
2020-03-13 15:02:32 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra
e063c71a79
nixos.org/releases -> releases.nixos.org 2020-03-11 10:33:23 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra
2ba67da053
Merge pull request #3332 from Calvin-L/patch-1
Document that autoconf is a dependency
2020-02-19 13:02:35 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra
16e9a75287 Typo 2020-02-19 12:32:33 +01:00
Benjamin Hipple
762febafe2 doc: mention how to turn on pure evaluation mode in manual
The flag is `--pure-eval`, which can be found by looking at the test suite; it
should be in the notes describing the feature as well, since otherwise users may
assume this is referencing something like `nix-shell --pure`.
2020-02-15 01:44:51 -05:00
Calvin Loncaric
46992e71a1
Document that autoconf is a dependency 2020-01-26 17:22:47 -08:00
Benjamin Hipple
5d24e18e29 doc: touchup release notes for 2.3
- At the top of the release notes, we announce sandboxing is now enabled by default,
then at the bottom it says it's now disabled when missing kernel support. These
can be merged into one point for clarity.

- The point about `max-jobs` defaulting to 1 appears unrelated to sandboxing.
2020-01-14 00:14:03 -05:00
Joe Pea
3895e78794
Add link to official channels in nix-channel command ref 2020-01-09 14:20:08 -08:00
Joe Pea
7ccfa7ca4f
Add a link to official channels in the Channels chapter. 2020-01-09 14:15:19 -08:00
Profpatsch
7923e22276 doc/manual: add ids to the advanced attribute definitions
This makes it possible to reference single attribute definitions,
for pointing people to their exact definition.
2019-12-03 18:22:27 +01:00
Profpatsch
7395e091c5 doc/manual: add note to allowSubstitutes advanced attribute 2019-12-03 18:01:45 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra
0be8d7784f
Typo 2019-11-26 20:33:46 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra
73efc1e8e7
Merge branch 'document-dry-run-option' of https://github.com/Ma27/nix 2019-11-26 20:32:50 +01:00
Arnout Engelen
4e70652ee3 Document builtins.placeholder 2019-11-25 18:00:05 +01:00
Niklas Hambüchen
07294e988c manual: nix-shell: Elaborate on using -p with expressions.
This documents the outcome of the change in
https://github.com/NixOS/nix/issues/454:

> We can also automatically add parentheses in the generated
> `buildInputs`, so you can type `nix-shell -p "expr"`
> instead of `"(expr").
2019-11-10 17:29:13 +01:00
Maximilian Bosch
52ffe2797a
doc: Document --dry-run option for nix-build 2019-11-07 00:11:57 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra
81a9b93689
Fix manual build 2019-11-05 11:21:32 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra
7876027071
Merge pull request #3193 from matthewbauer/patch-11
Update man to show that nix-shell allows --arg
2019-11-05 11:18:24 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra
78b8203e50
Merge pull request #3180 from kevinastock/patch-1
docs: fix upper bound on number of consumed cores
2019-11-05 11:17:02 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra
376802c9b8
Merge pull request #3199 from kevinastock/patch-2
docs: xref doesn't render in title
2019-11-05 11:16:15 +01:00
Kevin Stock
cea05e5ee7
docs: correct default location of log directory 2019-11-04 16:23:03 -05:00
Kevin Stock
808cb6444e
docs: xref doesn't render in title
The `post-build-hook` text currently appears in the index, but not on the actual title line of the section, this follows the pattern used in a previous section to get a reference into a title.
2019-11-02 17:55:53 -04:00
Matthew Bauer
f1d4ba2afd
Update man to show that nix-shell allows --arg 2019-11-01 13:25:15 -04:00
Kevin Stock
99aac72a16
docs: fix upper bound on number of consumed cores 2019-10-30 16:53:04 -04:00
Eelco Dolstra
b421895c1e
Merge pull request #3161 from schlarpc/patch-1
Remove superfluous IAM action for S3 cache
2019-10-23 16:34:54 +02:00
Chaz Schlarp
c92ea927e5
Remove superfluous IAM action for S3 cache
`s3:ListObjects` isn't a real IAM action, but _is_ the name of an S3 API method. `s3:ListBucket` is the relevant action for that method.

https://docs.aws.amazon.com/IAM/latest/UserGuide/list_amazons3.html
2019-10-22 16:04:49 -07:00
Ersin Akinci
f107a27002 Tweak path hint 2019-10-21 14:16:55 -07:00
Ersin Akinci
b7a936224e Add hint about path in builtins.import 2019-10-21 14:11:26 -07:00
Ersin Akinci
9be7787ec0 Revert "Document import <path> syntax"
This reverts commit d8730fb86f.
2019-10-21 13:12:41 -07:00
Ersin Akinci
d8730fb86f Document import <path> syntax 2019-10-20 19:08:05 -07:00
Eelco Dolstra
ab4dd1d783
Merge pull request #2291 from Taneb/master
nix-channel documentation: don't suggest deprecated function
2019-10-17 12:53:42 +02:00
Danny Bautista
00a567588e Fix typos in the Nix Manual. 2019-10-08 14:02:40 -04:00
Domen Kožar
043365c2fb
Merge pull request #3080 from Infinisil/tryEval-docs
docs: Note that tryEval doesn't do deep evaluation
2019-09-30 14:03:16 +02:00
Joseph Lucas
10bfc5c0d0
Update garbage-collection.xml readability
1. remove a typo space
2. Simplify negative style by using affirmative style
2019-09-23 13:18:59 +00:00
Alexandre Esteves
9533d85ce0 Move 'builtins.splitVersion' to position respecting alphabetical order 2019-09-17 23:40:49 +01:00
Julien Tanguy
ae244af242 docs: Use the explicit ref for fetchGit with a tag
With the merge of #2582, the syntax "tags/1.9" for refs does not work
anymore.
However, the new syntax "refs/tags/1.9" seems to support annotated tags,
such as "refs/tags/2.0".

Closes #2385.
2019-09-11 14:18:47 +02:00
Julien Tanguy
92ede15dd9 docs: Fix a typo in github in an example 2019-09-11 14:11:37 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra
252c78b288
Tweak release notes 2019-09-04 15:59:07 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra
b774845af7
Set release date 2019-09-04 12:53:22 +02:00
Silvan Mosberger
e4ea3e0306
docs: Note that tryEval doesn't do deep evaluation 2019-09-03 07:32:44 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra
8478c99d09
Merge pull request #3048 from toonn/nix-env_doc
Fix nix-env documentation for --delete-generations
2019-08-29 15:22:01 +02:00
toonn
5bdac86be2 Reword to clarify newer generations are left alone
My attempt at clarifying the docs resulted in a false explanation. This
is now fixed and I added an example to eliminate all possible confusion.
2019-08-29 13:56:21 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra
787015fec0 Merge branch 'master' of github.com:NixOS/nix 2019-08-27 21:18:20 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra
fdff96501f Update release notes 2019-08-27 21:18:00 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra
177e5742fa
Merge pull request #3056 from grahamc/operators
operators: document exact precedence, split up similar operators
2019-08-27 17:12:36 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra
45b3dc325a Add 2.3 release notes 2019-08-27 17:00:04 +02:00
Graham Christensen
171d784404
docs: operators: Make OR and AND capitalized 2019-08-27 06:55:22 -04:00
Graham Christensen
15ee2bc2fe
Merge pull request #2946 from vmandela/proxy
installer: handle network proxy in systemd multi-user install
2019-08-24 14:55:19 -04:00
Graham Christensen
057af1dbd8
docs: document the installer's use of proxy env vars 2019-08-24 09:08:44 -04:00
Graham Christensen
92ddce4f46
operators: document exact precedenc, split up similar operators 2019-08-23 15:50:54 -04:00
Toon Nolten
1dbaf11948 Fix nix-env documentation for --delete-generations
The documentation for `--delete-generations` had an erroneous fullstop
and as it turns out inaccurate information on the `+No.` syntax.
2019-08-17 16:33:35 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra
b7ea98bf34
Merge pull request #2945 from danidiaz/doc001
Expanded documentation for .nix-defexpr
2019-08-15 15:03:21 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra
477f82e5a7
Merge pull request #2782 from grahamc/flames
Track function start and end
2019-08-15 14:20:42 +02:00
Daniel Diaz
653c407784
Expanded documentation for .nix-defexpr 2019-08-15 08:05:22 -04:00
Graham Christensen
ee9c988a1b
Track function start and ends for flame graphs
With this patch, and this file I called `log.py`:

    #!/usr/bin/env nix-shell
    #!nix-shell -i python3 -p python3 --pure

    import sys
    from pprint import pprint

    stack = []
    timestack = []

    for line in open(sys.argv[1]):
        components = line.strip().split(" ", 2)
        if components[0] != "function-trace":
            continue

        direction = components[1]
        components = components[2].rsplit(" ", 2)

        loc = components[0]
        _at = components[1]
        time = int(components[2])

        if direction == "entered":
            stack.append(loc)
            timestack.append(time)
        elif direction == "exited":
            dur = time - timestack.pop()
            vst = ";".join(stack)
            print(f"{vst} {dur}")
            stack.pop()

and:

    nix-instantiate --trace-function-calls -vvvv ../nixpkgs/pkgs/top-level/release.nix -A unstable > log.matthewbauer 2>&1
    ./log.py ./log.matthewbauer > log.matthewbauer.folded
    flamegraph.pl --title matthewbauer-post-pr log.matthewbauer.folded > log.matthewbauer.folded.svg

I can make flame graphs like: http://gsc.io/log.matthewbauer.folded.svg

---

Includes test cases around function call failures and tryEval. Uses
RAII so the finish is always called at the end of the function.
2019-08-14 16:09:35 -04:00
Graham Christensen
a02457db71
conf: stalled-download-timeout: make tunable
Make curl's low speed limit configurable via stalled-download-timeout.
Before, this limit was five minutes without receiving a single byte.
This is much too long as if the remote end may not have even
acknowledged the HTTP request.
2019-08-08 10:22:13 -04:00
Graham Christensen
1eeaf99cf8
fixup: docs for post-build-hook 2019-08-07 14:53:11 -04:00
Eelco Dolstra
56df30cd3f
Merge pull request #2995 from tweag/post-build-hook
Add a post build hook
2019-08-07 15:02:29 +02:00
Graham Christensen
363a2f6826
post-build-hook: docs fixup 2019-08-06 14:26:43 -04:00
regnat
7c5596734f
Add a post-build-hook
Passing `--post-build-hook /foo/bar` to a nix-* command will cause
`/foo/bar` to be executed after each build with the following
environment variables set:

    DRV_PATH=/nix/store/drv-that-has-been-built.drv
    OUT_PATHS=/nix/store/...build /nix/store/...build-bin /nix/store/...build-dev

This can be useful in particular to upload all the builded artifacts to
the cache (including the ones that don't appear in the runtime closure
of the final derivation or are built because of IFD).

This new feature prints the stderr/stdout output to the `nix-build`
and `nix build` client, and the output is printed in a Nix 2
compatible format:

    [nix]$ ./inst/bin/nix-build ./test.nix
    these derivations will be built:
      /nix/store/ishzj9ni17xq4hgrjvlyjkfvm00b0ch9-my-example-derivation.drv
    building '/nix/store/ishzj9ni17xq4hgrjvlyjkfvm00b0ch9-my-example-derivation.drv'...
    hello!
    bye!
    running post-build-hook '/home/grahamc/projects/github.com/NixOS/nix/post-hook.sh'...
    post-build-hook: + sleep 1
    post-build-hook: + echo 'Signing paths' /nix/store/qr213vjmibrqwnyp5fw678y7whbkqyny-my-example-derivation
    post-build-hook: Signing paths /nix/store/qr213vjmibrqwnyp5fw678y7whbkqyny-my-example-derivation
    post-build-hook: + sleep 1
    post-build-hook: + echo 'Uploading paths' /nix/store/qr213vjmibrqwnyp5fw678y7whbkqyny-my-example-derivation
    post-build-hook: Uploading paths /nix/store/qr213vjmibrqwnyp5fw678y7whbkqyny-my-example-derivation
    post-build-hook: + sleep 1
    post-build-hook: + printf 'very important stuff'
    /nix/store/qr213vjmibrqwnyp5fw678y7whbkqyny-my-example-derivation

    [nix-shell:~/projects/github.com/NixOS/nix]$ ./inst/bin/nix build -L -f ./test.nix
    my-example-derivation> hello!
    my-example-derivation> bye!
    my-example-derivation (post)> + sleep 1
    my-example-derivation (post)> + echo 'Signing paths' /nix/store/c263gzj2kb2609mz8wrbmh53l14wzmfs-my-example-derivation
    my-example-derivation (post)> Signing paths /nix/store/c263gzj2kb2609mz8wrbmh53l14wzmfs-my-example-derivation
    my-example-derivation (post)> + sleep 1
    my-example-derivation (post)> + echo 'Uploading paths' /nix/store/c263gzj2kb2609mz8wrbmh53l14wzmfs-my-example-derivation
    my-example-derivation (post)> Uploading paths /nix/store/c263gzj2kb2609mz8wrbmh53l14wzmfs-my-example-derivation
    my-example-derivation (post)> + sleep 1
    my-example-derivation (post)> + printf 'very important stuff'
    [1 built, 0.0 MiB DL]

Co-authored-by: Graham Christensen <graham@grahamc.com>
Co-authored-by: Eelco Dolstra <edolstra@gmail.com>
2019-08-02 10:48:15 -04:00
Eelco Dolstra
320126aeeb
Tweak min-free/max-free descriptions 2019-08-02 14:04:09 +02:00
Graham Christensen
cf6172f05e
docs: document balancing cores and max-jobs 2019-07-19 08:28:44 -04:00
Eelco Dolstra
b5ae85f088
Merge pull request #2882 from grahamc/docs/1115-tarball-ttl
tarball-ttl: document
2019-07-06 00:15:27 +02:00
Graham Christensen
648bdf153d
tarball-ttl: document
Incorporates text from Niklas Hambüchen in #2978

Closes #1115
2019-07-05 15:55:28 -04:00
Eelco Dolstra
7d6ba1dc90
Merge branch 'autoconf-ubuntu-16.04-fixes' of https://github.com/nh2/nix 2019-07-03 08:02:45 +02:00
Niklas Hambüchen
57daa860e8 autoconf: Fix C++17 detection not working on Ubuntu 16.04.
And probably many other distributions.

Until now, ./configure would fail silently printing a warning

    ./configure: line 4621: AX_CXX_COMPILE_STDCXX_17: command not found

and then continuing, later failing with a C++ #error saying that some C++11
feature isn't supported (it didn't even get to the C++17 features).

This is because older distributions don't come with the
`AX_CXX_COMPILE_STDCXX_17` m4 macro.

This commit vendors that macro accordingly.

Now ./configure complains correctly:

    configure: error: *** A compiler with support for C++17 language features is required.

On Ubuntu 16.04, ./configure completes if a newer compiler is used, e.g. with
gcc-7 from https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-toolchain-r/+archive/ubuntu/test
using:

    ./bootstrap.sh
    ./configure CXX=g++-7 --disable-doc-gen --with-boost=$(nix-build --no-link '<nixpkgs>' -A boost.dev)
2019-07-03 04:32:25 +02:00
Niklas Hambüchen
1f97b16b1d autoconf: Work around editline not being found on Ubuntu 16.04.
And probably other Linux distributions with long-term support releases.

Also update manual stating what version is needed;
I checked that 1.14 is the oldest version with which current nix compiles,
and added autoconf feature checks for some functions added in that release
that nix uses.
2019-07-03 04:32:25 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra
7e1c85c5fb
Merge pull request #2779 from LnL7/build-exit-codes
build: add exit code for hash and check mismatches
2019-07-02 17:37:49 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra
7c0b0dbec8
Merge pull request #2724 from LnL7/manpage-add-fixed
nix-store: document --add-fixed
2019-07-02 15:47:40 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra
33db1d35ae
Merge pull request #2582 from LnL7/fetchgit-refs
fetchGit: allow fetching explicit refs
2019-07-02 15:44:31 +02:00
Daiderd Jordan
a3c77c1536
nix-store: document --add-fixed 2019-07-02 09:12:02 -04:00
Graham Christensen
c8205a3413
builtins.fetchGit: document absolute ref support 2019-07-02 09:05:56 -04:00
Daiderd Jordan
a52c331edb
build: replace 100 offset for build exit codes 2019-07-02 00:12:38 +02:00
Daiderd Jordan
1ac399dd11
nix-store: document exit codes 2019-07-02 00:12:38 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra
88571219d9
nix-channel: Don't fetch binary-cache-url
This has been ignored since the Perl->C++ rewrite.
2019-06-25 13:27:16 +02:00
Bruno Bieth
74a65d313f Nix uses the CPP SDK, not Java 2019-06-20 14:47:45 +02:00
JorisE
4b0d613383
Minor typo 2019-06-04 14:12:03 +02:00
Maximilian Bosch
b502b6682b
doc: clarify that optional attrs in a function argument will be ignored unless specified
In `args@{ a ? 1 }: /* ... */` the value `a` won't be a part of `args`
unless it's specified when calling the function, the default value will
be ignored in this case.

My personal point of view is that this behavior is a matter of taste, at
least I was pretty sure that unmatched arguments will be a part of
`args@` while debugging some Nix code last week.

I decided to add a warning to the docs which hopefully reduces the
confusion of further Nix developers who thought the same about `args@`.
2019-05-21 18:08:26 +02:00
Vladimír Čunát
c0559a1d60
docs: describe $IN_NIX_SHELL values (#2796)
See commit 1bffd83e1a
2019-05-17 09:50:42 +02:00
Graham Christensen
a5efe61786
Clarify where output from the diff hook goes. 2019-05-12 13:23:30 -04:00
Graham Christensen
6df61db060
diff hook: execute as the build user, and pass the temp dir 2019-05-12 13:17:26 -04:00
Graham Christensen
c78686e411
build: run diff-hook under --check and document diff-hook 2019-05-12 13:17:24 -04:00
Eelco Dolstra
71eb76a0d4
Merge pull request #2765 from nh2/manual-nixpkgs-word
manual: "Nix Package collection" -> "Nixpkgs package collection".
2019-05-08 10:19:59 +02:00
Daniel Schaefer
3f192ac80c Add builtins.hashFile
For text files it is possible to do it like so:
`builtins.hashString "sha256" (builtins.readFile /tmp/a)`
but that doesn't work for binary files.

With builtins.hashFile any kind of file can be conveniently hashed.
2019-05-03 17:23:36 +02:00
Niklas Hambüchen
288f93cec0 manual: "Nix Package collection" -> "Nixpkgs package collection".
Makes difference between Nix and Nixpkgs clearer to avoid
some common confusion this sentence on IRC.

Also disambiguate an "it" reference.
2019-04-14 03:20:57 +02:00
Niklas Hambüchen
caa76c369a docs: Mention --max-jobs 0 to build remotely only 2019-03-31 03:57:45 +02:00
Dmitry Kalinkin
75ec68f93a
manual: mention the "channel:" shorthand for NIX_PATH
Bumped to 15.09 because older channels, when downloaded from
nixos.org, require firefox to be accessed via `pkgs.firefox`
2019-03-25 20:55:28 -04:00
zimbatm
514b3c7f83
Add isPath primop
this is added for completeness' sake since all the other possible
`builtins.typeOf` results have a corresponding `builtins.is<Type>`
2019-03-24 11:36:49 +01:00
Linus Heckemann
6f093073b6 manual: include builtins.* for globally available builtins
This improves searchability.
2019-03-21 09:37:22 +01:00
Joachim Breitner
684c7fff80 Link to builders-use-substitutes in chapter on distributed builds
fixes #2730.
2019-03-16 19:03:40 +01:00
Andreas Rammhold
34fade478a
docs: fix typo in AllowDirectReads
It was just missing an `l` but should be fixed anyway.
2019-03-14 23:51:18 +01:00
Vladimír Čunát
4cfc131ec4
manual nitpick: document sha512 support in hashString 2019-03-01 14:30:30 +01:00
Spencer Baugh
5f1891b795 nix-store: make --dump-db take a list of paths to dump
Inside a derivation, exportReferencesGraph already provides a way to
dump the Nix database for a specific closure. On the command line,
--dump-db gave us the same information, but only for the entire Nix
database at once.

With this change, one can now pass a list of paths to --dump-db to get
the Nix database dumped for just those paths. (The user is responsible
for ensuring this is a closure, like for --export).

Among other things, this is useful for deploying a closure to a new
host without using --import/--export; one can use tar to transfer the
store paths, and --dump-db/--load-db to transfer the validity
information. This is useful if the new host doesn't actually have Nix
yet, and the closure that is being deployed itself contains Nix.
2019-01-23 01:24:34 +00:00
Domen Kožar
92d08c02c8
Merge pull request #2635 from veprbl/patch-7
manual: "sandbox" option default is "true" on Linux
2019-01-20 09:43:26 +07:00
Dmitry Kalinkin
15efd54373
manual: "sandbox" option default is "true" on Linux
Fixes: 812e39313c ('Enable sandboxing by default')
2019-01-19 15:04:43 -05:00
Samuel Evans-Powell
2ae5624b2f Update instructions for Haskell script using nix-shell interpreter
- The instructions for using nix-shell as an interpreter has a Haskell script
  example that doesn't work on more recent versions of Nix. Update the
  instructions with a working command
2019-01-18 10:50:54 +10:00
Eelco Dolstra
bbaf865655 Add 2.2 release notes 2019-01-10 21:02:09 +01:00
John Ericson
2733287046 Don't look for a "pv" program, or mention it in the manual source
The manual reference was commented out, and the sole reference to this
program other than the configure script. Removed both.
2019-01-07 16:40:19 -05:00
Patrick Hilhorst
567941fb59
Clarify nix-instantiate --read-write-mode 2018-12-14 09:36:40 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra
c37e6d77ea
Merge pull request #2569 from veprbl/pr/update_prerequisites
docs: add missing prerequisites: brotli, boost, libseccomp
2018-12-13 10:42:02 +01:00
Dmitry Kalinkin
0cc4728f71
docs: raise minimal boost version to 1.66 2018-12-13 01:50:39 -05:00
Dmitry Kalinkin
419949bf61
docs: add missing prerequisites: brotli, boost, libseccomp 2018-12-10 12:37:15 -05:00
Daiderd Jordan
77cc632186
s3: document scheme query parameter 2018-12-08 00:15:00 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra
6c6bbeb439 Merge branch 'feature/editline-pr' of https://github.com/dtzWill/nix 2018-11-13 20:42:13 +01:00
Felix C. Stegerman
fb2c21f71c
manual: quote $servlets 2018-11-13 01:18:26 +01:00
Felix C. Stegerman
18215be59d
fix typo (s/gift/git/) 2018-11-12 17:50:39 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra
b05d6dac7b
Manual: build locally -> build 2018-11-09 16:08:36 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra
4ea4d0b1a3
Urgh 2018-11-09 10:29:16 +01:00
Linus Heckemann
34d2948f21 Fix manual build
This was broken by some missing closing tags in 0bea4a50e0
2018-11-08 14:07:19 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra
750400e0fa
Merge pull request #2524 from domenkozar/deprecate-toPath
Deprecate builtins.toPath
2018-11-08 13:22:21 +01:00
Domen Kožar
0bea4a50e0
Deprecate builtins.toPath 2018-11-08 12:03:50 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
812e39313c
Enable sandboxing by default
Closes #179.
2018-11-07 17:08:28 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra
5a3f140856
Document allowSubstitutes 2018-11-07 11:42:22 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra
1109193ea3
Fix preferLocalBuild description
preferLocalBuild does not in fact prevent substitution.
2018-11-07 11:37:43 +01:00
Will Dietz
3d974d31fa editline: wip 2018-10-29 08:44:58 -05:00
Antoine Eiche
73c2ae43f0 Add --graphml option to the nix-store --query command
This prints the references graph of the store paths in the graphML
format [1]. The graphML format is supported by several graph tools
such as the Python Networkx library or the Apache Thinkerpop project.

[1] http://graphml.graphdrawing.org
2018-10-20 09:48:34 +02:00
Benjamin Hipple
65453e2d77 Docs: update fixed output hashes
`fetchurl` will now throw if given an `md5`, and the hashes have generally
been upgraded to avoid it and use `sha256` as a default. This updates the
documentation examples in the manual accordingly.
2018-10-04 02:37:15 +00:00
Profpatsch
05cfc71cab manual: add XML IDs to all builtin list entries 2018-10-02 15:38:16 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra
aa5e47b2f4
Merge pull request #2456 from grahamc/s3-substituters
Update docs to describe how s3:// URLS does in fact support endpoint, region, and profile for upload
2018-10-01 22:47:00 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra
5b7cfa487e
Add missing file 2018-10-01 11:58:54 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra
1e7b8deea7
Check requiredSystemFeatures for local builds
For example, this prevents a "kvm" build on machines that don't have
KVM.

Fixes #2012.
2018-09-28 16:10:27 +02:00
Graham Christensen
51cbeec49a
Update docs to describe how s3:// URLS does in fact support endpoint, region, and profile for upload 2018-09-27 17:01:39 -04:00
Eelco Dolstra
a48c2e3411
Merge pull request #2434 from grahamc/graham-improve-upgrade
Upgrade docs: improve the upgrade command
2018-09-19 21:53:50 +02:00
Anders Riutta
1915862767
Upgrade docs: improve the upgrade command
and make it more copy-pastable.
2018-09-19 14:17:06 -04:00
Graham Christensen
be9e356e61
nix-shell: document double quotes being necessary for a simple Nix expression in the shebang 2018-09-19 13:01:27 -04:00
Graham Christensen
10a7f19937
nix-shell: explain the merging property close to the example 2018-09-19 12:48:08 -04:00
Graham Christensen
0cd863197b
docs: document deprecated aliases 2018-09-18 12:23:32 -04:00
Graham Christensen
0aca1ffb6e Prefer 'remote builder' over 'slave' 2018-09-10 18:57:46 +02:00
Vladimír Čunát
5f3b72cfc2
docs: change expired bzip2.org to archive.org
Fixes #2396.
2018-09-03 17:57:13 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra
4dd09210d7
Release notes tweaks 2018-09-02 21:47:10 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra
1f49926601
Merge pull request #2388 from grahamc/graham/document-multi-user
Document multi-user installation, and add release notes about it not being the default on 2.1
2018-09-01 22:43:48 +02:00
Graham Christensen
c42eaaf684
Create upgrade notes 2018-09-01 15:35:46 -04:00
Eelco Dolstra
c5ab07ec2b
Merge pull request #2168 from grahamc/explain-why-netrc-is-busted
manual: document why ~/.netrc doesn't work
2018-09-01 21:25:04 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra
51003f892d
Merge pull request #2309 from symphorien/disallowed-man
add manual entries for disallowedRequisites and disallowedReferences
2018-09-01 21:01:41 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra
291f67aecf
Merge pull request #2237 from nh2/patch-1
manual: distributed-builds: Mention - as default
2018-09-01 20:41:49 +02:00
Graham Christensen
4be7652dd3
release notes: note that the multi-user installer is available but not selected for Linux with systemd, and the bug about selinux 2018-09-01 10:45:57 -04:00
Graham Christensen
c3e508d924
Document the multi-user installer some
Use sh <(...) syntax for installation to preserve stdin and prompting

also update installation docs to account for changes in multi-user selection
2018-09-01 10:45:50 -04:00
Graham Christensen
f66fa7cd20
We support aarch64 now 2018-09-01 10:44:33 -04:00
Eelco Dolstra
6ed4a6bd0e
Merge pull request #2384 from graham-at-target/fetch-git-examples
docs: Add some examples to fetchGit
2018-09-01 14:08:32 +02:00
Graham Christensen
0b7568fb73
Drop ssh://... as a required formatting for builtins.fetchGit 2018-08-31 19:49:56 -04:00
Eelco Dolstra
4095cd6438
Add contributors 2018-09-01 00:01:05 +02:00
Graham Christensen
149d10c308 docs: Add IDs to important sections 2018-08-31 10:06:33 -04:00
Graham Christensen
2df21b78b9 docs: Add some examples to fetchGit 2018-08-31 10:00:32 -04:00
Eelco Dolstra
308689f94b
Merge pull request #2365 from erikarvstedt/fix-docs
Docs: Fix install prefix
2018-08-30 16:24:52 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra
64d7d1a884
Update release notes 2018-08-30 15:28:18 +02:00
Domen Kožar
d16ff76c69
nix.conf: clarify -j0 doesn't affect preferLocalBuild 2018-08-29 14:33:14 +01:00
Domen Kožar
54df4bb0b5
nix.conf: mention -j0 is useful 2018-08-29 11:51:51 +01:00
Erik Arvstedt
8ad2defdf0 Docs: Fix install prefix
shell.nix defines the install prefix as $(pwd)/inst
2018-08-21 21:46:43 +02:00
Graham Christensen
06080e4abc
2.1 release notes: Add note about s3-compatible stores 2018-08-03 11:09:31 -04:00
Eelco Dolstra
87356cc8a4
Add Nix 2.1 release notes 2018-08-03 17:05:17 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra
122e1a61f8
Merge pull request #2323 from samueldr/feature/selective-impurity
Allows selectively adding environment variables to pure shells.
2018-08-03 16:58:18 +02:00
Samuel Dionne-Riel
438e02529d Allows selectively adding environment variables to pure shells.
Includes documentation and test.
2018-08-02 08:21:30 -04:00
Graham Christensen
49a53c1d3f s3 binary cache: support specifying an endpoint
Works for uploading and not downloading.
2018-08-02 08:19:50 -04:00
Graham Christensen
b27431b7cb Document s3 substitutions 2018-08-01 11:07:41 -04:00
Symphorien Gibol
81d1385437 add manual entries for disallowedRequisites and disallowedReferences 2018-07-26 18:14:50 +02:00
Nathan van Doorn
41f38fbb4b
nix-channel documentation: don't suggest deprecated function
Running `nix-instantiate --eval -E '(import <nixpkgs> {}).lib.nixpkgsVersion` emits a warning
```
trace: `lib.nixpkgsVersion` is deprecated, use `lib.version` instead!
```
2018-07-16 10:00:42 +01:00
Niklas Hambüchen
10ebcf8670
manual: distributed-builds: Mention - as default 2018-06-17 19:01:07 +02:00
Michael Raskin
17bc757980 manual: builtins.fromJSON: remove the claim that floats are not allowed
floating-point numbers are supported now, including the fromJSON
builtin. Reported on IRC by inquisitiv3
2018-06-10 14:20:18 +02:00
Peter Simons
93aa3bea2e
Merge pull request #767 from mogorman/garbage_collect_keep_last_few
Implement --delete-generations + flag for keeping last N number of gens
2018-05-31 10:00:21 +02:00
Shea Levy
bbbfc180d9
Explicitly describe the effects of filterSource excluding a directory. 2018-05-30 12:34:41 -04:00
Graham Christensen
f9940f47b3
Merge pull request #2164 from mickours/doc-fetchTarball-timout
Explain fetchTarball timeout behavior in the doc
2018-05-30 08:04:26 -04:00
Michael Mercier
8dd2e28374
Explain fetchTarball timeout behavior in the doc 2018-05-30 08:02:46 -04:00
Graham Christensen
e6466c20b3
Document NIX_SSL_CERT_FILE for installation 2018-05-25 15:59:14 -04:00
Eelco Dolstra
743359bc8a
Merge pull request #2157 from volth/bitwise
add builtins: __bitAnd,  __bitOr,  __bitXor
2018-05-24 15:00:39 +02:00
volth
88c1ea30e4 add docs and tests 2018-05-24 12:51:34 +00:00
Alexandre Esteves
579f3895b4
Fix docs on --check suffix 2018-05-23 22:26:06 +01:00
Graham Christensen
33712fed38
manual: document why ~/.netrc doesn't work
Maybe there is a better place to document this, which is more generic?
2018-05-18 14:21:47 -04:00
Gleb Peregud
5ba6395378 docs: mention source of env variables used by impureEnvVars. 2018-05-02 22:45:20 +02:00
Danylo Hlynskyi
ac22d77fd1 nix-collect-garbage: little doc fix
This removes confusing documentation. It's better to remove doc than add implementation, because Nix 1.12 will surely have new GC interface anyway.

Fixes https://github.com/NixOS/nix/issues/641
2018-04-30 09:36:46 -07:00
Shea Levy
8e6108ff71
Merge branch 'aarch64-armv7' of git://github.com/lheckemann/nix
Support extra compatible architectures (#1916)
2018-04-23 08:48:22 -04:00
Samuel Dionne-Riel
4b3a7f93a5 doc: Adds --quiet to the common options.
Fixes #1298
2018-04-20 16:34:06 -04:00
Eelco Dolstra
4fd28bee89
Fix broken DocBook 2018-04-13 15:12:58 +02:00
Sean Seefried
2ef8f0608c Add to glossary and clarify garbage collection
While trying to understand garbage collection it was not immediately
clear that only the runtime dependency closure of output paths
would be kept (instead of the build-time dependency closure).
This commit attempts to clarify this by expanding some of the
glossary definitions and extending the Garbage Collection
section.
2018-04-12 19:23:24 +10:00
John Arnold
a405d25fa3 manual: Add all dependencies to source prerequisites (#2060) 2018-04-09 17:31:39 -04:00
Nicolas Dudebout
d8a1c27806
fix typo in nix-env man page 2018-04-07 21:10:46 -04:00
AmineChikhaoui
e01b01c579
update/re-order the options docs 2018-04-06 11:09:52 +01:00
AmineChikhaoui
33b08899d5
re-order the options using the alphabetical order and improve the example in the positive lookup case 2018-04-06 10:51:19 +01:00
AmineChikhaoui
86930ed414
add documentation for the local disk cache TTL config 2018-04-06 10:51:18 +01:00
Justin Humm
045eb84409
document that writeTextFile from Nixpkgs is an alternative to builtins.toFile 2018-04-03 23:26:47 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra
e01c01f72c
Merge pull request #2005 from shlevy/fetchgit-docs
Document fetchGit.
2018-03-27 15:57:48 +02:00
Shea Levy
6856fe62b0
Document fetchGit.
Fixes #1981.
2018-03-23 07:02:45 -04:00
Dmitry Kalinkin
e2f56c1333
doc: don't mention obsolete ssh-substituter-hosts
#1840
2018-03-22 19:17:45 -04:00
Corey O'Connor
22b144fea6 manual: correct repeated "--deriver". Add missing single char option aliases. 2018-03-20 17:58:25 -07:00
Eelco Dolstra
b2074f0892 Fix bad XML 2018-03-18 13:27:30 +01:00
zimbatm
43bef1b82c doc: document the min-free and max-free options 2018-03-17 21:29:03 +00:00
zimbatm
fef8ebf51d doc: add xml:id to all the config options 2018-03-17 21:17:28 +00:00
Linus Heckemann
637701b604 rename build-extra-platforms -> extra-platforms
also document it
2018-03-16 22:50:27 +00:00
Matthew O'Gorman
467fdd8ca4 only delete things older than current gen and update logic in doc as
well
2018-03-01 22:59:00 -05:00
Matthew O'Gorman
429154b74c Implement --delete-generations + flag for keeping last N number of generations 2018-03-01 21:47:57 -05:00
Michael Fiano
ad97d1a786
nix-channel grammar and punctuation
Minor changes to the nix-channel manpage for my first contribution
2018-03-01 00:27:25 -05:00
Graham Christensen
9432f3fb7d
Merge pull request #1901 from veprbl/patch-5
Fix a small typo in the release notes
2018-02-24 10:26:14 -05:00
Michael Weiss
bd94e63853 doc: Fix a URL in the release notes for Nix 2.0 2018-02-24 16:07:10 +01:00
Dmitry Kalinkin
d9d8a84a96
Fix a small typo in the release notes 2018-02-23 23:45:42 -05:00
Eelco Dolstra
39b4177500
Fix example in release notes 2018-02-22 17:42:06 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra
2691d51a33
Doh 2018-02-22 17:14:35 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra
e8d53bfdc9
Revert "Enable sandbox builds on Linux by default"
This reverts commit ddc58e7896.

https://hydra.nixos.org/eval/1435322
2018-02-22 14:20:07 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra
eaa52c34b4
Set release date 2018-02-22 12:44:46 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra
ddc58e7896
Enable sandbox builds on Linux by default
The overhead of sandbox builds is a problem on NixOS (since building a
NixOS configuration involves a lot of small derivations) but not for
typical non-NixOS use cases. So outside of NixOS we can enable it.

Issue #179.
2018-02-22 12:27:25 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra
88c90d5e6d
Manual: Put configuration options in sorted order 2018-02-21 18:08:47 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra
0d54671b7b
Manual: Update chapter on remote builds
Alos add a command "nix ping-store" to make it easier to see if Nix
can connect to a remote builder (e.g. 'nix ping-store --store
ssh://mac').
2018-02-21 16:24:26 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra
4e44025ac5
Release notes: Add contributors 2018-02-20 15:20:14 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra
d7fdfe322b
Remove macOS multi-user instructions
This is already handled by the installer.
2018-02-19 20:40:25 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra
70eb64147e
Update release notes
Also add some examples to nix --help.
2018-02-19 20:38:53 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra
75a1d96cfd
Merge branch 'register-settings' of https://github.com/shlevy/nix 2018-02-19 13:58:34 +01:00
Shea Levy
b095c06139
Add splitVersion primop.
Fixes #1868.
2018-02-14 09:55:43 -05:00
Shea Levy
de4934ab3b
Allow plugins to define new settings. 2018-02-13 14:43:32 -05:00
Eelco Dolstra
52c777a793
Merge pull request #1863 from shlevy/conf-includes
Allow includes from nix.conf
2018-02-13 17:33:07 +01:00
Shea Levy
b8739f2fb3
Enable specifying directories in plugin-files. 2018-02-13 11:25:01 -05:00
Shea Levy
6eb1040e90
Allow includes from nix.conf 2018-02-13 08:16:32 -05:00
Shea Levy
081f14a169
Allow using RegisterPrimop to define constants.
This enables plugins to add new constants, as well as new primops.
2018-02-08 14:35:50 -05:00
Shea Levy
88cd2d41ac
Add plugins to make Nix more extensible.
All plugins in plugin-files will be dlopened, allowing them to
statically construct instances of the various Register* types Nix
supports.
2018-02-08 12:44:37 -05:00
Eelco Dolstra
abe6be578b
Merge pull request #1816 from shlevy/add-path
Add path primop.
2018-02-07 13:32:35 +01:00
Shea Levy
69d82e5c58
Add path primop.
builtins.path allows specifying the name of a path (which makes paths
with store-illegal names now addable), allows adding paths with flat
instead of recursive hashes, allows specifying a filter (so is a
generalization of filterSource), and allows specifying an expected
hash (enabling safe path adding in pure mode).
2018-02-06 16:48:08 -05:00
Eelco Dolstra
84722d67d2
Remove nix-build --hash
Instead, if a fixed-output derivation produces has an incorrect output
hash, we now unconditionally move the outputs to the path
corresponding with the actual hash and register it as valid. Thus,
after correcting the hash in the Nix expression (e.g. in a fetchurl
call), the fixed-output derivation doesn't have to be built again.

It would still be good to have a command for reporting the actual hash
of a fixed-output derivation (instead of throwing an error), but
"nix-build --hash" didn't do that.
2018-02-03 10:08:05 +01:00
Shea Levy
de96daf54f
Merge branch 'master' of git://github.com/catern/nix 2018-02-01 13:21:45 -05:00
Eelco Dolstra
e7b23eb5ab
Remove docs on removed --drv-link and --add-drv-link options 2018-02-01 16:40:58 +01:00
Spencer Baugh
e5432574e2 document ability to set NIX_REMOTE=unix://path/to/socket 2018-01-31 22:47:16 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
c287d73121
Rename 1.12 -> 2.0
Following discussion with Shea and Graham. It's a big enough change
from the last release. Also, from a semver perspective, 2.0 makes more
sense because we did remove some interfaces (like nix-pull/nix-push).
2018-01-31 18:58:45 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra
6fa690291a
Add 'nix upgrade-nix' command
This command upgrades Nix to the latest stable version by installing a
store path obtained from

  https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/raw/master/nixos/modules/installer/tools/nix-fallback-paths.nix

which is the same store path that the installer at
https://nixos.org/nix/install.sh uses.

The upgrade fails if Nix is not installed in a profile (e.g. on NixOS,
or when installed outside of the Nix store).
2018-01-31 16:24:43 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra
f8e8dd827e
Manual: Remove old cruft 2018-01-31 15:08:46 +01:00
Eric Wolf
0167eac571 Improve manual on inheriting attributes
Expands first paragraph a bit
Adds a more comprehensive example
2018-01-27 16:18:31 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra
cfeff3b273
Move show-trace docs 2018-01-17 11:53:16 +01:00
Renzo Carbonara
b0328c244d nix.conf: builders-use-substitutes
Fixes #937
2018-01-09 22:40:07 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra
44272d8719
Rename "use-substitutes" to "substitute"
Commit c2154d4c84 renamed
"build-use-substitutes" to "use-substitutes", but that broke
"nix-copy-closure --use-substitutes".
2018-01-04 16:58:39 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra
e3c19ff9bc
Merge pull request #1725 from chris-martin/pr/concatStringsSep
Add builtins.concatStringSep to the manual
2017-12-12 11:46:10 +01:00
Chris Martin
2a8f09a8c1 Add builtins.concatStringSep to the manual 2017-12-11 14:28:03 -05:00
Eelco Dolstra
06d4566c2d
Merge pull request #1721 from expipiplus1/patch-2
Escape left angle brackets in XML documentation
2017-12-11 17:29:36 +01:00
Shea Levy
5ba5ca7888
Merge branch 'feature/linenoise-ng' of git://github.com/dtzWill/nix 2017-12-11 07:52:20 -05:00
Joe Hermaszewski
35a49f1d7f
Escape left angle brackets in XML documentation 2017-12-09 15:31:03 +00:00
Markus Hauck
0af668426d nix-hash: Add sentence and example for nix-prefetch-url hash 2017-12-08 10:27:34 +01:00
Will Dietz
e50d7335bf doc: linenoise -> linenoise-ng 2017-11-27 18:36:20 -06:00
Eelco Dolstra
7536fe31dd
Add a warning about the 'trusted-users' option 2017-11-21 18:49:52 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra
8df60b4ea8
Document secret-key-files 2017-11-20 18:51:04 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra
91a1987607
signed-binary-caches -> require-sigs
Unlike signed-binary-caches (which could only be '*' or ''),
require-sigs is a proper Boolean option. The default is true.
2017-11-20 17:44:07 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra
7a2b64e55c
binary-cache-public-keys -> trusted-public-keys
The name had become a misnomer since it's not only for substitution
from binary caches, but when adding/copying any
(non-content-addressed) path to a store.
2017-11-20 17:32:34 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra
6cf7c6a6b0
Remove git:// support in NIX_PATH
This didn't support specifying a revision/branch, and was restricted
to git:// URIs (since https:// or ssh:// would be ambiguous).
2017-11-03 13:55:31 +01:00
Zoran Plesivčak
ae506c1ea4 Mention isFloat function in "Built-in Functions" section 2017-11-01 23:00:08 +00:00
Zoran Plesivčak
3050395810 Mention "float" type in builtins.typeOf section of the docs
+ remove trailing whitespace from the file
2017-11-01 21:36:25 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
812e027e1d
Add option allowed-uris
This allows network access in restricted eval mode.
2017-10-30 12:41:49 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra
f1c555cef8
fetchurl/fetchTarball are *not* allowed in restricted mode
Accidentally committed this change as part of
f9686885be.

Restricted mode != pure mode.
2017-10-30 12:41:48 +01:00
Domen Kožar
5cb78053f0
Merge pull request #1633 from orivej/doc
Update the language documentation
2017-10-30 12:21:54 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra
049322702b
fetchgit -> fetchGit
Almost all other primops are camelCase so no reason not to use that
here.
2017-10-30 10:25:08 +01:00
Orivej Desh
842ce8bafd Clarify indented string escaping rules 2017-10-26 18:53:36 +00:00
Orivej Desh
15457c5673 Describe "with" scoping precedence 2017-10-26 18:53:36 +00:00
Orivej Desh
e5c499b833 Describe arithmetic operators 2017-10-26 18:53:35 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
38dcd0c4b8
Release note updates 2017-10-23 20:50:28 +02:00
Keshav Kini
32940702fc Mention C++14 dependency in the manual.
A couple makefiles in the sources have -std=c++14 in the CFLAGS.
2017-10-19 18:03:26 -07:00
Eelco Dolstra
5324bb9399
Update release notes 2017-09-18 11:07:17 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra
0b606aad46
Add automatic garbage collection
Nix can now automatically run the garbage collector during builds or
while adding paths to the store. The option "min-free = <bytes>"
specifies that Nix should run the garbage collector whenever free
space in the Nix store drops below <bytes>. It will then delete
garbage until "max-free" bytes are available.

Garbage collection during builds is asynchronous; running builds are
not paused and new builds are not blocked. However, there also is a
synchronous GC run prior to the first build/substitution.

Currently, no old GC roots are deleted (as in "nix-collect-garbage
-d").
2017-09-05 20:43:42 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra
c2154d4c84
Rename a few configuration options
In particular, drop the "build-" and "gc-" prefixes which are
pointless. So now you can say

  nix build --no-sandbox

instead of

  nix build --no-build-use-sandbox
2017-08-31 14:28:25 +02:00
Matthew Bauer
2c75945de5
Remove nix-mode.el from Nix.
This removes the file nix-mode.el from Nix. The file is now available within the
repository https://github.com/NixOS/nix-mode.

Fixes #662
Fixes #1040
Fixes #1054
Fixes #1055
Closes #1119
Fixes #1419

NOTE: all of the above should be fixed within NixOS/nix-mode. If one of those
hasn’t please reopen within NixOS/nix-mode and not within NixOS/nix.
2017-08-19 21:16:30 -07:00
Chase Adams
09a38f9125 update MD5 to SHA-256 in expression-syntax 2017-08-18 16:07:33 -07:00
Eelco Dolstra
e2f9a61dc9 Update release notes 2017-08-16 21:36:47 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra
2ee1b9359b Merge branch 'tokenize' of https://github.com/nbp/nix 2017-08-16 21:21:36 +02:00
Nicolas B. Pierron
b8867a0239 Add builtins.string function.
The function 'builtins.split' takes a POSIX extended regular expression
and an arbitrary string. It returns a list of non-matching substring
interleaved by lists of matched groups of the regular expression.

```nix
with builtins;
assert split "(a)b" "abc"      == [ "" [ "a" ] "c" ];
assert split "([ac])" "abc"    == [ "" [ "a" ] "b" [ "c" ] "" ];
assert split "(a)|(c)" "abc"   == [ "" [ "a" null ] "b" [ null "c" ] "" ];
assert split "([[:upper:]]+)" "  FOO   "
                               == [ "  " [ "FOO" ] "   " ];
```
2017-08-15 20:04:11 +00:00
Nicolas B. Pierron
27417c6160 Move builtins.match documentation between map and mul. 2017-08-15 18:34:24 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
f76e85d8f5
Start of 1.12 release notes 2017-08-10 18:44:45 +02:00
davidak
92bcb61127 replace "Mac OS X" with "macOS"
except in older release notes where the name was actually Mac OS X.
2017-07-30 12:26:17 +02:00
Graham Christensen
da2ad30054 Update the mailing list. 2017-07-18 08:02:53 -04:00
Eelco Dolstra
49304bae81
Make the hashes mirrors used by builtins.fetchurl configurable
In particular, this allows it to be disabled in our tests.
2017-07-17 13:07:08 +02:00
Harmen
1e0f59ae14 use sha256 hashes in the examples
And fix a dead link.
2017-07-15 21:06:30 +02:00
Robert Vollmert
30117fb35b fix buggy nix-shell man page 2017-07-10 14:36:55 +02:00
Robert Vollmert
c85e662004 man page (nix-shell): Fix grouping of -p option
Not sure about the raw ellipsis.
2017-07-07 22:11:46 +02:00
Robert Vollmert
89771a8821 man page (nix-prefetch-url): Add some missing options 2017-07-07 22:11:46 +02:00
Robert Vollmert
772ef22c25 man page (nix-instantiate): -E is optional 2017-07-07 22:11:46 +02:00
Robert Vollmert
8ad898b2cd man page (nix-instantiate): Add --json to synopsis, order variables 2017-07-07 22:11:46 +02:00
Robert Vollmert
b1f5995a20 man page (nix-instantiate): Remove non-existent nix-build argument -r 2017-07-07 22:11:46 +02:00
Robert Vollmert
56a1f8f499 man pages: Consistently separate alternatives by / 2017-07-07 22:11:46 +02:00
Robert Vollmert
d1643bdaa2 man pages: Argument for --max-jobs 2017-07-07 22:11:45 +02:00
Robert Vollmert
68c626c6b0 man pages: Grouping for option alternatives 2017-07-07 22:11:45 +02:00
Robert Vollmert
ce3095e141 glossary: Fix word order 2017-07-07 22:07:46 +02:00
Robert Vollmert
60da5d2b8f Fix nix-instantiate manpage indentation
The second command variant is now its own cmdsynopsis, which ensures
it's not indented as was the case using sbrk.
2017-07-06 22:35:36 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra
6cf23c3e8f
Add allow-new-privileges option
This allows builds to call setuid binaries. This was previously
possible until we started using seccomp. Turns out that seccomp by
default disallows processes from acquiring new privileges. Generally,
any use of setuid binaries (except those created by the builder
itself) is by definition impure, but some people were relying on this
ability for certain tests.

Example:

  $ nix build '(with import <nixpkgs> {}; runCommand "foo" {} "/run/wrappers/bin/ping -c 1 8.8.8.8; exit 1")' --no-allow-new-privileges
  builder for ‘/nix/store/j0nd8kv85hd6r4kxgnwzvr0k65ykf6fv-foo.drv’ failed with exit code 1; last 2 log lines:
    cannot raise the capability into the Ambient set
    : Operation not permitted

  $ nix build '(with import <nixpkgs> {}; runCommand "foo" {} "/run/wrappers/bin/ping -c 1 8.8.8.8; exit 1")' --allow-new-privileges
  builder for ‘/nix/store/j0nd8kv85hd6r4kxgnwzvr0k65ykf6fv-foo.drv’ failed with exit code 1; last 6 log lines:
    PING 8.8.8.8 (8.8.8.8) 56(84) bytes of data.
    64 bytes from 8.8.8.8: icmp_seq=1 ttl=46 time=15.2 ms

Fixes #1429.
2017-07-04 15:48:25 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra
a10951de08
OS X -> macOS
(cherry picked from commit c20641ce569dc1fdeaeaa147b0292f258667f53b)
2017-06-14 23:28:06 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra
1dcadadf74
Add 1.11.10 release notes
(cherry picked from commit 0fb60e4e0f66cc42c7c274acfcf00b51f6c829c4)
2017-06-14 23:27:52 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra
d6064dd19b Merge pull request #1393 from pyrtsa/patch-1
Fix variable name typo in derivations doc
2017-05-29 11:32:06 +02:00
Pyry Jahkola
370428f86d Remove stray > in builtins doc 2017-05-28 20:47:35 +03:00
Pyry Jahkola
86ea7d1566 Fix variable name typo in derivations doc 2017-05-28 15:48:57 +03:00
Eelco Dolstra
b303ad012c Merge pull request #1382 from FRidh/patch-1
Document fetchTarball can take a sha256
2017-05-24 11:07:36 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra
f134fc4cbe
Document that builtins.match takes a POSIX extended RE 2017-05-17 12:18:18 +02:00
Frederik Rietdijk
2b2de5ef6a Document fetchTarball can take a sha256
Note that I refer to `nix-prefetch-url`.
2017-05-11 13:38:13 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra
1fd59447d5
Typo 2017-05-10 18:38:17 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra
c5f23f10a8
Replace readline by linenoise
Using linenoise avoids a license compatibility issue (#1356), is a lot
smaller and doesn't pull in ncurses.
2017-05-10 18:37:42 +02:00
Domen Kožar
82a9c93c7f
doc: builtins.attrNames returns alphabetically sorted list 2017-05-10 11:23:12 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra
d3449b286b Merge pull request #1371 from regnat/doc_--xml_fix
fix the description of --xml and --json
2017-05-03 11:06:12 +02:00
regnat
a786d26dc2 doc: fix the description of --xml and --json
Those options seem to only apply with --eval and not with --parse.
2017-05-03 10:49:34 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra
d7653dfc6d
Remove $NIX_BUILD_HOOK and $NIX_CURRENT_LOAD
This is to simplify remote build configuration. These environment
variables predate nix.conf.

The build hook now has a sensible default (namely build-remote).

The current load is kept in the Nix state directory now.
2017-05-01 17:30:16 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra
1196470e92 Merge pull request #1347 from kennyballou/sm-grammar-fix
Fix small grammar issue about page
2017-04-24 10:49:46 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra
240399e059 Merge pull request #1351 from earldouglas/ellipses
Drop misleading ellipses
2017-04-24 10:49:09 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra
8d6af08530 Merge pull request #1348 from armijnhemel/nix-env
better document --meta option for nix-env
2017-04-24 10:18:23 +02:00
James Earl Douglas
111d347237
Drop misleading ellipses
This portion of the quick start guide may lead to confusion for
newcomers to Nix.  This change clarifies the example to one that can be
copied in its entirety.
2017-04-20 18:07:23 -06:00
Eelco Dolstra
f05d5f89ff
Read per-user settings from ~/.config/nix/nix.conf 2017-04-20 14:58:16 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra
562585e901
binary-caches-parallel-connections -> http-connections 2017-04-20 14:04:00 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra
4222402219
nix.conf man page: binary-caches -> substituters 2017-04-20 13:41:29 +02:00
Armijn Hemel
1559c596f6 document option 2017-04-19 19:10:12 +02:00
kballou
00b6c6d0c3 Fix small grammar issue about page
Fix subject-verb agreement issue in introduction/about.
2017-04-19 09:27:28 -06:00
Linus Heckemann
9622d00afa Manual: document tryEval 2017-04-17 10:33:53 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra
ba9ad29fdb
Convert Settings to the new config system
This makes all config options self-documenting.

Unknown or unparseable config settings and --option flags now cause a
warning.
2017-04-13 20:53:23 +02:00
Benjamin Staffin
d267db0d75
Move note about float support out of the wrong release notes
Looks like this snuck into the 1.11 release notes post-release, but
float support isn't actually present until 1.12.
2017-04-12 18:01:43 -04:00
Eelco Dolstra
c0745a2531
Merge branch 'remove-perl' of https://github.com/shlevy/nix 2017-03-31 14:13:32 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra
aa23bba27f
Fix tests to reflect the signed-binary-caches default change 2017-03-21 18:06:13 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra
0afeb7f51e
Store: Add a method for getting build logs
This allows various Store implementations to provide different ways to
get build logs. For example, BinaryCacheStore can get the build logs
from the binary cache.

Also, remove the log-servers option since we can use substituters for
this.
2017-03-15 16:48:29 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra
19643a781e
nix -> Nix 2017-03-09 13:36:56 +01:00
Shea Levy
5f831c1057 Add docs for allow-import-from-derivation 2017-03-08 09:12:03 -05:00
Eelco Dolstra
7251d048fa
Support auto-configuration of build-max-jobs
"build-max-jobs" and the "-j" option can now be set to "auto" to use
the number of CPUs in the system. (Unlike build-cores, it doesn't use
0 to imply auto-configuration, because a) magic values are a bad idea
in general; b) 0 is a legitimate value used to disable local
building.)

Fixes #1198.
2017-02-28 12:54:50 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra
4f3fb34844
Fix 1.8 release note about build-max-jobs
We set build-cores automatically, not build-max-jobs. (The commit
message for de4cdd0d47 also got this
wrong.)
2017-02-27 15:58:24 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra
79f4583f8a
Fix XML validity 2017-02-21 13:04:31 +01:00
Linus Heckemann
b8564987a3 Document toString better 2017-02-20 14:23:48 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
bd5388e7b2
Tweak netrc docs 2017-02-16 14:24:16 +01:00
Janus Troelsen
2b4c24f46a Remove Perl dependency listing in doc 2017-02-07 15:56:32 -05:00
Shea Levy
418a837897 Remove perl dependency.
Fixes #341
2017-02-07 15:56:32 -05:00
Renzo Carbonara
e6e74f987f Add netrc-file support 2017-02-02 13:24:20 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra
9000150a78
Drop a few more references to all-packages.nix
And also don't refer to f-spot, which apparently no longer exists.

Issue #1170.
2017-01-03 16:42:24 +01:00
zimbatm
45ed6e7ef2 Document the common --no-build-hook option 2016-12-28 14:19:59 +00:00
Daiderd Jordan
36b3e15953
manual: add NIX_CONF_DIR to conf-file section 2016-12-16 10:59:07 +01:00
Linus Heckemann
bb5a6c0085 Document path-search behaviour 2016-12-11 17:13:37 +00:00
Domen Kožar
41d6523ef5 Document builtins.match, fixes #1145 2016-12-09 20:40:55 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra
09191caea8
Add shell.nix 2016-12-06 17:17:29 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra
d1da6967b8
Drop unused WWW::Curl dependency 2016-12-06 17:17:29 +01:00
Manav Rathi
eec5409a69 installation: allow profile modification to be skipped (#1072)
The current behaviour modifies the first writeable file from amongst
.bash_profile, .bash_login and .profile.  So .bash_profile (if it is
writable) would be modified even if a user has already sourced nix.sh
in, say, .profile.

This commit introduces a new environment variable,
NIX_INSTALLER_NO_MODIFY_PROFILE.  If this is set during installation,
then the modifications are unconditionally skipped.

This is useful for users who have a manually curated set of dotfiles
that they are porting to a new machine. In such scenarios, nix.sh is
already sourced at a place where the user prefers.  Without this
change, the nix installer would insist on modifying .bash_profile if
it exists.

This commit also add documentations for both the current behaviour and
the new override.
2016-11-03 18:02:29 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra
18b7363a69 Support optional sandbox paths
For example, you can now set

  build-sandbox-paths = /dev/nvidiactl?

to specify that /dev/nvidiactl should only be mounted in the sandbox
if it exists in the host filesystem. This is useful e.g. for EC2
images that should support both CUDA and non-CUDA instances.
2016-10-31 17:09:52 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra
818ab58cc6 Add sandbox-dev-shm-size option
Fixes #1069.
2016-09-21 16:54:53 +02:00
zimbatm
7d7ec2b3a8 Document the { __toString } interface 2016-09-21 14:52:26 +01:00
Adrien Devresse
7ef053c632 Add a new option to disable documentation generation at configure time 2016-09-20 14:34:43 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
6656ef7b5b Revive binary-caches-parallel-connections
It's a slight misnomer now because it actually limits *all* downloads,
not just binary cache lookups.

Also add a "enable-http2" option to allow disabling use of HTTP/2
(enabled by default).
2016-09-14 16:38:26 +02:00
Domen Kožar
0e3574d7f8 doc: move set functor para to Sets section 2016-08-26 19:19:24 +02:00
Domen Kožar
ed39532dda doc: add an example for builtins.substring 2016-08-11 12:32:24 +02:00
Domen Kožar
9a1320af29 s/powerpc-darwin/x86_64-darwin/
Let's step in line with time and document more realistic values.
2016-08-10 18:42:55 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra
2fad86f361 Remove $NIX_DB_DIR
This variable has no reason to exist, given $NIX_STATE_DIR.
2016-08-10 18:05:35 +02:00
Shea Levy
6e51af8023 Nuke nix-push.
Rarely used, nix copy replaces it.
2016-08-10 11:13:11 -04:00
Shea Levy
15c035c13f Remove nix-install-package.
Refs #831
2016-08-10 08:20:51 -04:00
Eelco Dolstra
77c2739c25 Grammar/spelling 2016-07-21 11:30:01 +02:00
Matthias Beyer
2ec9d2fb02 NIX_REMOTE_SYSTEMS path must be absolute (#957)
Once upon a time, I wrote my bachelors thesis about functional
deployment mechanisms.

I had to evaluate several szenarios where package management and
deployment were relevant. One szenario was to do distributed builds
over several machines.

I told myself: Weee, nix can do this! And with nix, this is actually
save, as you do not have side effects when building!

So I started. I use a cloud to set up four virtual machines where I
wanted to do the build. A fifth machine was used as master to distribute
the builds. All was good.

I created the necessary SSH keys, made sure every machine was reachable
by the master and configured the build in my remotes.conf.

When I started to try to build weechat from source, the build failed. It
failed, telling me

    error: unable to start any build; either increase ‘--max-jobs’ or enable distributed builds

And I started to dig around. I digged long and good. But I wasn't able
to find the issue.

I double and triple checked my environment variables, my settings, the
SSH key and everything.

I reached out to fellow Nixers by asking on the nixos IRC channel. And I
got help. But we weren't able to find the issue, either.

So I became frustrated. I re-did all the environment variables.

And suddenly,... it worked! What did I change? Well... I made the
environment variables which contained pathes contain absolute pathes
rather than relatives.

And because I like to share my knowledge, this should be put into the
documentation, so others do not bang their heads against the wall
because something is not documented somewhere.
2016-07-21 11:19:21 +02:00
Dmitry Kalinkin
2a788bf9e7 documentation: mention required openssl dependency (#974)
Fixes: a6ca68a7 ("Require OpenSSL")
2016-07-20 15:02:29 +02:00
aszlig
72fb2ccfa1
Don't hardcode docbook XSL namespace URL
Docbook XSL got updated to version 1.79.1 in NixOS/nixpkgs@fb893a8 and
we're still referring to the hardcoded previous version.

So instead of just updating this to 1.79.1 we're going to use "current"
in the hope that this won't happen again.

I have tested this by building the manual under Nix(OS) but I haven't
tested this in a non-Nix environment, so I'm not sure whether this could
have implications.

Signed-off-by: aszlig <aszlig@redmoonstudios.org>
Cc: @edolstra
2016-07-04 20:13:20 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra
fffacd7c78 Fix manual build
http://hydra.nixos.org/build/36944270
2016-06-20 16:55:22 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra
f94a804ced Restore instructions on how to install a binary tarball
Looks like these were accidentally commented out in
9ffc4f4363.
2016-06-17 15:26:10 +02:00
Johannes 'fish' Ziemke
df7e9b6d68 Remove nix-copy-closure reference note from nix-store docs
nix-copy-closure is not using nix-store directly anymore.
2016-06-15 15:58:13 +02:00
Domen Kožar
5339ae4437 Merge pull request #576 from qknight/args_explanation
extended args@ explanation
2016-05-30 23:40:17 +01:00
Joachim Schiele
6766041b84 Update language-constructs.xml 2016-05-30 23:58:45 +02:00
Joachim Schiele
659a3e399b Update language-constructs.xml 2016-05-30 23:58:13 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra
a375326a97 Merge pull request #884 from srp/fix-nix-build-examples
fix "nix-build" examples
2016-05-03 11:13:54 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra
8e065c6b3e BinaryCacheStore: Make the signing key a parameter 2016-04-29 16:47:20 +02:00
Scott R. Parish
96d3534a9e fix "nix-build" examples
The existing "nix-build" examples were failing:

  error: cannot auto-call a function that has an argument without a default value (‘system’)

Thanks to @groxxda on irc for pointing out the fix!

Updated to completely remove unneeded path argument, suggested by @joachifm

Updated to remove other occurences of `all-packages.nix` from files as
suggested by @domenkozar
2016-04-26 13:30:57 -07:00
Eelco Dolstra
41633f9f73 Improved logging abstraction
This also gets rid of --log-type, since the nested log type isn't
useful in a multi-threaded situation, and nobody cares about the
"pretty" log type.
2016-04-25 19:18:45 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra
31a1a8ed3c Merge pull request #815 from vcunat/p/outputsToInstall
nix-env: respect meta.outputsToInstall
2016-04-14 20:55:41 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra
58e423ce32 Remove PDF manual
More spring cleaning.
2016-04-14 12:50:01 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra
867967265b Remove manifest support
Manifests have been superseded by binary caches for years. This also
gets rid of nix-pull, nix-generate-patches and bsdiff/bspatch.
2016-04-11 16:20:15 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra
8cffec8485 Remove failed build caching
This feature was implemented for Hydra, but Hydra no longer uses it.
2016-04-08 18:19:04 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra
525c78a2c3 Remove references to old-school signing 2016-03-22 15:39:59 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra
e69c48dc43 Fix bad DocBook
http://hydra.nixos.org/build/33087405
2016-03-14 12:34:11 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra
1b18991082 Merge pull request #822 from cstrahan/nix-store-serve
add docs for `nix-store --serve`
2016-03-10 15:30:54 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra
b4e0335d4d Add option binary-cache-secret-key-file for signing binary caches 2016-03-04 17:45:22 +01:00
Charles Strahan
e3e5c8bc91 add docs for nix-store --serve 2016-02-27 22:39:29 -05:00
Vladimír Čunát
03cbb9ad59 nix-env: respect meta.outputsToInstall
Discussed on https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/pull/12653#discussion_r51601849
2016-02-23 14:19:14 +01:00
Shea Levy
037ff4e70a Merge branch 'docs' of git://github.com/joelmo/nix 2016-02-22 07:14:16 -05:00
Dan Connolly
b39ec410ee context for introducing runtime dependencies
The first occurrence of "runtime dependencies" wasn't related to the surrounding narrative.
2016-02-18 23:29:00 -06:00
Joel Moberg
bb36a1a3cf Document IN_NIX_SHELL variable 2016-02-18 23:32:37 +01:00
Scott Olson
37b8e59f6f Fix typo in nix-shell command reference. 2016-02-13 01:03:32 -07:00
Eelco Dolstra
b3e8d72770 Merge pull request #762 from ctheune/ctheune-floats
Implement floats
2016-02-12 12:49:59 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra
9e7c1a4bbd Use the daemon when we don't have write access to the Nix database 2016-01-31 10:28:48 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra
8b4577ac9d Grmbl 2016-01-19 12:35:17 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra
d704abc0f3 Update release notes 2016-01-18 15:59:28 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra
71e5b937fb Document --check 2016-01-18 15:54:14 +01:00
Peter Simons
a1bf934044 doc/manual/command-ref/nix-collect-garbage.xml: document --max-freed option
Mention the --max-freed option in the nix-collect-garbage man page.
Related to https://github.com/NixOS/nix/issues/609.
2016-01-18 13:25:36 +01:00
Christian Theune
b4bda4765a Update documentation for floats. 2016-01-06 08:41:53 +01:00
Fabian Schmitthenner
0eb200e569 propagate NIX_BUILD_SHELL also in pure builds document NIX_BUILD_SHELL in the nix-shell command documentation 2016-01-05 14:11:20 +01:00
Tim Cuthbertson
36b9ce24b1 doc: Clarify why multiple arguments are not supported in shebang line
It's not a limitation of `/usr/bin/env`, it's just how the OS processes shebang lines
(see http://stackoverflow.com/a/4304187)
2016-01-05 13:46:05 +01:00
Vladimír Čunát
29c0199d5c manual: document builtins.functionArgs
The text is just a conversion of comment from src/libexpr/primops.cc
2016-01-05 13:29:17 +01:00
davidak
5eb93556f1 doc: fixes #727 broken link 2016-01-05 13:28:34 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra
9be037448c Use sensible date format 2016-01-04 14:38:26 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra
f476535265 Update release notes 2016-01-04 14:29:23 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra
c0d4173263 Set default binary-caches-parallel-connections to 25
Some benchmarking suggested this as a good value. Running

  $ benchmark -f ... -t 25 -- sh -c 'rm -f /nix/var/nix/binary-cache*; nix-store -r /nix/store/x5z8a2yvz8h6ccmhwrwrp9igg03575jg-nixos-15.09.git.5fd87e1M.drv --dry-run --option binary-caches-parallel-connections <N>'

gave the following mean elapsed times for these values of N:

N=10:  3.3541
N=20:  2.9320
N=25:  2.6690
N=30:  2.9417
N=50:  3.2021
N=100: 3.5718
N=150: 4.2079

Memory usage is also reduced (N=150 used 186 MB, N=25 only 68 MB).

Closes #708.
2015-11-25 17:13:11 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra
0ab4d905e7 Merge branch 'p/sandbox-rename-minimal' of https://github.com/vcunat/nix 2015-11-25 14:53:42 +01:00
Rommel M. Martinez
cf141abfe9 Fixed typo. 2015-11-23 15:59:57 +08:00
Vladimír Čunát
b39622a487 rename chroot to sandbox (fixes #656, close #682)
- rename options but leav old names as lower-priority aliases,
  also "-dirs" -> "-paths" to get closer to the meaning
- update docs to reflect the new names (old aliases are not documented),
  including a new file with release notes
- tests need an update after corresponding changes to nixpkgs
- __noChroot is left as it is (after discussion on the PR)
2015-11-10 22:32:51 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra
8fdd156a65 Add option to verify build determinism
Passing "--option build-repeat <N>" will cause every build to be
repeated N times. If the build output differs between any round, the
build is rejected, and the output paths are not registered as
valid. This is primarily useful to verify build determinism. (We
already had a --check option to repeat a previously succeeded
build. However, with --check, non-deterministic builds are registered
in the DB. Preventing that is useful for Hydra to ensure that
non-deterministic builds don't end up getting published at all.)
2015-11-09 23:16:24 +01:00
Anders Claesson
055ab1fc8d Fix typo in doc for nix-copy-closure 2015-10-08 13:17:01 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra
f08449ccbd nix-prefetch-url: Add --name option
This allows overriding the name component of the resulting Nix store
path, which is necessary if the base name of the URI contains
"illegal" characters.
2015-10-07 14:55:33 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra
b54f447df9 nix-prefetch-url: Support unpacking tarballs
This allows nix-prefetch-url to prefetch the output of fetchzip and
its wrappers (like fetchFromGitHub). For example:

  $ nix-prefetch-url --unpack https://github.com/NixOS/patchelf/archive/0.8.tar.gz

or from a Nix expression:

  $ nix-prefetch-url -A nix-repl.src

In the latter case, --unpack can be omitted because nix-repl.src is a
fetchFromGitHub derivation and thus has "outputHashMode" set to
"recursive".
2015-10-07 14:40:10 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra
9ffc4f4363 Don't mention Fedora/Debian packages in the installation section
See d4a88df9d6
2015-10-05 18:46:25 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra
57db2aa220 Merge pull request #645 from acowley/patch-1
Update prerequisites-source.xml
2015-10-05 15:05:32 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra
06f29fafe8 nix-prefetch-url: Support prefetching from a Nix expression
For example,

  $ nix-prefetch-url -A hello.src

will prefetch the file specified by the fetchurl call in the attribute
‘hello.src’ from the Nix expression in the current directory. This
differs from ‘nix-build -A hello.src’ in that it doesn't verify the
hash.

You can also specify a path to the Nix expression:

  $ nix-prefetch-url ~/Dev/nixpkgs -A hello.src

List elements (typically used in ‘patches’ attributes) also work:

  $ nix-prefetch-url -A portmidi.patches.0
2015-10-01 18:07:56 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra
a3c4eb0964 nix-prefetch-url: $PRINT_PATH -> --print-path 2015-10-01 16:53:07 +02:00
Vladimír Čunát
12a4aea93d doc: fix the 'prebuild' typos 2015-09-17 12:08:05 +02:00
Anthony Cowley
e5c3e054ec Update prerequisites-source.xml
The Perl WWW::Curl bindings are required to build Nix.
2015-09-15 12:42:44 -04:00
Eelco Dolstra
6e06a18d1b Release notes 2015-09-03 11:57:47 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra
ce97523a7c Fix readDir example
Fixes https://github.com/NixOS/nixos-homepage/issues/46.
2015-09-01 16:53:51 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra
896428c818 Fix example 2015-08-05 17:36:33 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra
76cc8e97a2 Add sort primop 2015-07-28 18:39:39 +02:00