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Eelco Dolstra
69f91e3645 Don't claim FreeBSD support 2014-11-24 16:50:45 +01:00
Rob Vermaas
328a80e60a 'build-cache-failures' -> 'build-cache-failure' in nix.conf documentation. 2014-11-24 13:16:45 +01:00
Shea Levy
3d604ac88c Document functors 2014-11-15 16:25:47 -05:00
Eelco Dolstra
6f6b75cd09 Typo 2014-11-04 10:15:55 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra
1683fffd09 Update release notes 2014-10-29 16:18:39 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra
722bd041ce Document some primops 2014-10-29 16:18:03 +01:00
bobvanderlinden
5f7ded7d22 doc: fixed nix-instantiate --find-file
The manual said --file-file, which should be --find-file.
2014-10-27 08:45:10 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra
2c1711ae33 nix-channel: Add --rollback flag
Fixes #368.
2014-10-14 12:08:04 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra
104e55bb7f nix-env: Add regular expression support in selectors
So you can now do things like:

  $ nix-env -qa '.*zip.*'
  $ nix-env -qa '.*(firefox|chromium).*'
2014-10-03 21:29:40 +02:00
wmertens
e83a027e00 Remove bash requirement
As per https://github.com/NixOS/nixos-homepage/pull/16
2014-09-24 11:42:41 +02:00
Shell Turner
147fcdd137 Updated documentation for nix-install-package to mention --set flag 2014-09-23 15:11:25 +02:00
darealshinji
a5b5ebc45f add manpage for nix-generate-patches 2014-09-23 15:10:18 +02:00
Vladimír Čunát
c313d86bb8 manual: add a note that lists are strict in length
Close #345.
2014-09-23 15:08:33 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra
a2fc9c6b57 Remove unhelpful suggestion 2014-09-16 15:42:20 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra
3a52104bee Delete bugs.xml 2014-09-16 15:40:03 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra
5a0181c7f2 Make troubleshooting an appendix 2014-09-16 15:39:08 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra
f77d83c26b Style tweak 2014-09-16 15:37:38 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra
3c8522cc22 Fix parallel make of manpages 2014-09-16 15:29:55 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra
54adf344a3 Fix references to version.txt 2014-09-16 14:57:45 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra
7a740c9288 Drop separate release notes 2014-09-16 14:52:44 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra
b1af336132 Undocument NIX_OTHER_STORES 2014-09-16 14:49:00 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra
57f6463ec0 Tweak some chapter titles 2014-09-16 14:38:37 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra
d0608da13f Drop "service deployment" bla bla 2014-09-16 14:36:32 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra
8b760182cd Drop reference to FreeBSD 2014-09-16 14:35:11 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra
f271b94652 Remove pointless "license" section 2014-09-16 14:33:39 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra
7a68b4e4d3 Release notes: Use a section per version 2014-09-16 14:29:00 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra
9ed49c1da0 Nicer file names for the release notes 2014-09-16 14:18:55 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra
8259a392da Manual build fixes 2014-09-16 14:14:09 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra
f0ef6b74b9 Merge branch 'master' of github.com:thatdocslady/nix
Conflicts:
	doc/manual/release-notes.xml
	doc/manual/writing-nix-expressions.xml
2014-09-16 14:13:36 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra
67e5dd3ce9 Add some hyperlinks between NIXPATH and -I 2014-09-16 11:20:09 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra
9eddf6f0b6 allowedRequisites: Drop stdenv mention
I don't think it's a good idea to use allowedRequisites for stdenv, so
don't mention it here.
2014-08-28 18:26:01 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra
b5da80e627 Fix manual build 2014-08-28 18:25:16 +02:00
Gergely Risko
fd61069a42 Introduce allowedRequisites feature 2014-08-28 18:23:55 +02:00
Mikey Ariel
8901acc976 Restructuring the Nix manual 2014-08-27 18:41:09 +02:00
Gergely Risko
4b0a720ddf Document the "out" usage in allowedReferences 2014-08-23 11:11:19 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra
401ab50566 Remove pointless NIX_LOG_TYPE environment variable 2014-08-13 01:19:02 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra
7018830509 Update manual 2014-08-04 18:00:33 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra
1a44f1cb65 nix-copy-closure: Drop --bzip2, --xz, --show-progress
These are too difficult to implement via nix-store --serve.

‘--show-progress’ could be re-implemented fairly easily via a
sink/source wrapper class.
2014-07-24 17:11:54 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra
f609eec71a Bump 2014-07-18 00:01:06 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra
049c0eb49c nix-daemon: Add trusted-users and allowed-users options
‘trusted-users’ is a list of users and groups that have elevated
rights, such as the ability to specify binary caches. It defaults to
‘root’. A typical value would be ‘@wheel’ to specify all users in the
wheel group.

‘allowed-users’ is a list of users and groups that are allowed to
connect to the daemon. It defaults to ‘*’. A typical value would be
‘@users’ to specify the ‘users’ group.
2014-07-17 16:57:07 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra
a2c85b2ef8 Manual: Typo 2014-07-16 11:21:44 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra
beaf3e90af Add builtin function ‘fromJSON’
Fixes #294.
2014-07-04 13:34:15 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra
e82951fe23 Manual: html -> xhtml 2014-07-03 12:36:58 +02:00
Paul Colomiets
858b8f9760 Add --json argument to nix-instantiate 2014-06-27 11:23:40 +02:00
Adam Szkoda
8ea9fd7aa6 Rephrase @ operator description 2014-05-26 17:20:58 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra
9f9080e2c0 nix-store -l: Fetch build logs from the Internet
If a build log is not available locally, then ‘nix-store -l’ will now
try to download it from the servers listed in the ‘log-servers’ option
in nix.conf. For instance, if you have:

  log-servers = http://hydra.nixos.org/log

then it will try to get logs from http://hydra.nixos.org/log/<base
name of the store path>. So you can do things like:

  $ nix-store -l $(which xterm)

and get a log even if xterm wasn't built locally.
2014-05-21 17:19:36 +02:00
Charles Strahan
a55e77ae10 fix typo 2014-05-13 10:54:03 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra
a8c31d5011 Simplify multi-user installation instructions 2014-05-02 14:44:44 +02:00
Charles Strahan
eeffdb74dc doc fix: swap 'import' and 'export' 2014-04-28 13:42:03 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra
31fe55bb8e trunk -> master 2014-04-25 14:55:13 +02:00
Ricardo M. Correia
700c678c2e nix-env: Minor change to '--delete-generations Nd' semantics
The option '--delete-generations Nd' deletes all generations older than N
days. However, most likely the user does not want to delete the
generation that was active N days ago.

For example, say that you have these 3 generations:

1: <30 days ago>
2: <15 days ago>
3: <1 hour ago>

If you do --delete-generations 7d (say, as part of a cron job), most
likely you still want to keep generation 2, i.e. the generation that was
active 7 days ago (and for most of the past 7 days, in fact).

This patch fixes this issue. Note that this also affects
'nix-collect-garbage --delete-older-than Nd'.

Thanks to @roconnor for noticing the issue!
2014-04-15 15:34:58 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra
a1917208c0 Bump date 2014-04-11 15:11:28 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra
924e19341a Don't barf when installing as root 2014-04-10 23:42:48 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra
b0a09a6f32 Add docbook icons to the distribution
Grmbl...
2014-04-09 14:52:43 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra
e0a947cde6 Simplify quick start section 2014-04-08 16:28:39 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra
d23931f3a4 Remove redundant stuff 2014-04-08 16:10:25 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra
4846005741 Update installation instructions 2014-04-08 16:09:56 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra
89f9232813 Update release notes 2014-04-07 12:00:23 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra
3f8e1f5682 Update release notes 2014-04-04 14:51:07 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra
1f19fdbd45 Document that we require a C++11 compiler 2014-04-04 13:49:53 +02:00
Ricardo M. Correia
034b6f6062 nix-collect-garbage: Add --delete-older-than option 2014-03-30 00:54:16 +01:00
Ricardo M. Correia
7ef7597f71 nix-env: Add support for --delete-generations 15d
It will delete all generations older than the specified number of days.
2014-03-30 00:54:16 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra
006f24c7fa Document nix-env -q --json 2014-03-12 14:25:48 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra
d435e46daa Generate release notes again 2014-03-12 14:24:29 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra
e9934bb5ad Update release notes for 1.7 2014-03-12 13:58:06 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra
92a848f674 Fix typos 2014-03-11 13:16:21 +01:00
Shea Levy
2f2a20ed18 Document null dynamic attrs 2014-03-11 13:15:06 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra
3a86888fd7 Typo 2014-02-28 14:01:31 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra
7f74513b4e Also provide an option for setting the curl connection timeout 2014-02-26 16:07:43 +01:00
Shea Levy
733214144a Document dynamic attributes
Signed-off-by: Shea Levy <shea@shealevy.com>
2014-02-26 14:06:45 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra
36b90e72d7 nix-shell: Add --packages flag
This allows you to easily set up a build environment containing the
specified packages from Nixpkgs.  For example:

  $ nix-shell -p sqlite xorg.libX11 hello

will start a shell in which the given packages are present.
2014-02-19 17:08:01 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra
e1cf40fa95 nix-instantiate: Rename --eval-only to --eval, --parse-only to --parse 2014-02-19 16:34:24 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra
c31836008e nix-instantiate: Add a flag --expr / -E to read expressions from the command line
This is basically a shortcut for ‘echo 'expr...' | nix-instantiate -’.
Also supported by nix-build and nix-shell.
2014-02-19 16:30:19 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra
e707a8a526 Move manpages around 2014-02-19 15:32:19 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra
1da6ae4f99 nix-store --gc --max-freed: Support a unit specifier
E.g. "--max-freed 10G" means "free ten gigabytes".
2014-02-17 14:48:50 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra
e81d38c02b nix-shell: Execute shellHook if it exists
Since normal builds don't execute shellHook, this allows nix-shell
specific customisation.  Suggested by Domen.
2014-02-17 13:34:24 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra
f9fc6acbf4 Document current meaning of preferLocalBuild
Closes #208.
2014-02-12 10:53:22 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra
57386c9bae Binary tarball: Automatically create /nix
The tarball can now be unpacked anywhere.  The installation script
uses "sudo" to create /nix if it doesn't exist.  It also fetches the
nixpkgs-unstable channel.
2014-02-10 16:35:59 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra
b632153ebd nix-shell: Use shell.nix as the default expression if it exists 2014-02-10 10:25:13 +01:00
Shea Levy
e4058fab64 Rename --no-readonly-mode --read-write-mode
Signed-off-by: Shea Levy <shea@shealevy.com>
2014-02-07 18:03:38 +01:00
Shea Levy
0c3e8a616e nix-instantiate: Add a --no-readonly-mode flag
This allows running nix-instantiate --eval-only without performing the
evaluation in readonly mode, letting features like import from
derivation and automatic substitution of builtins.storePath paths work.

Signed-off-by: Shea Levy <shea@shealevy.com>
2014-02-07 18:03:38 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra
6dca72006a Only run "git ls-files" when doing "make check" 2014-02-01 16:30:24 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra
844d83352c More "make dist" fixes 2014-02-01 15:18:48 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra
6ef32bddc1 Fix "make dist" 2014-02-01 14:38:12 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra
0c6d62cf27 Remove Automakefiles 2014-02-01 13:54:38 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra
16e7d69209 Update Makefile variable names 2014-02-01 13:54:38 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra
ac8c2ef1aa Build/install manual 2014-02-01 11:30:21 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra
e640d67144 Document nulls 2014-01-13 13:50:12 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra
77c13cdf56 Add a toJSON primop 2013-11-19 00:04:11 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra
a478e8a7bb Remove nix-setuid-helper
AFAIK, nobody uses it, it's not maintained, and it has no tests.
2013-11-14 11:57:37 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra
1dacd427cd Update release notes, set version for 1.6.1 release 2013-10-28 11:56:21 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
36e67ff16b Undocument obsolete form of "let" 2013-10-24 22:06:39 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra
fba17a9043 Doc fix 2013-10-24 22:05:58 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra
5bc41d78ff Rename "attribute sets" to "sets"
We don't have any other kind of sets so calling them attribute sets is
unnecessarily verbose.
2013-10-24 16:41:04 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra
9e4bb20455 Manual: Fix broken URLs
Fixes #172.
2013-10-24 16:02:08 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra
a5684e09d3 Document typeOf 2013-10-24 02:56:00 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra
6da92d96ae Document NIX_SHOW_STATS and NIX_COUNT_CALLS 2013-10-24 02:22:24 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra
792fd51f41 Fold two stack trace messages in derivations
Combined with the previous changes, stack traces involving derivations
are now much less verbose, since something like

  while evaluating the builtin function `getAttr':
  while evaluating the builtin function `derivationStrict':
  while instantiating the derivation named `gtk+-2.24.20' at `/home/eelco/Dev/nixpkgs/pkgs/development/libraries/gtk+/2.x.nix:11:3':
  while evaluating the derivation attribute `propagatedNativeBuildInputs' at `/home/eelco/Dev/nixpkgs/pkgs/stdenv/generic/default.nix:78:17':
  while evaluating the attribute `outPath' at `/nix/store/212ngf4ph63mp6p1np2bapkfikpakfv7-nix-1.6/share/nix/corepkgs/derivation.nix:18:9':
  ...

now reads

  while evaluating the attribute `propagatedNativeBuildInputs' of the derivation `gtk+-2.24.20' at `/home/eelco/Dev/nixpkgs/pkgs/development/libraries/gtk+/2.x.nix:11:3':
  ...
2013-10-17 11:57:25 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra
bb659bad81 Nix 1.6.1 release notes 2013-10-17 11:40:20 +02:00
goblin
d7625b5c2d two typos 2013-10-17 00:59:19 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra
d5529f5b85 Version was called 1.6, not 1.6.0 2013-09-10 17:48:11 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra
fecad91b67 Update release notes 2013-09-10 11:21:30 +02:00
Domen Kožar
4b83830d0c typo 2013-09-06 15:18:07 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra
2c1ecf8e81 nix-env -i: Add a flag ‘--remove-all’ / ‘-r’
This is equivalent to running ‘nix-env -e '*'’ first, except that it
happens in a single transaction.  Thus, ‘nix-env -i pkgs...’ replaces
the profile with the specified set of packages.

The main motivation is to support declarative package management
(similar to environment.systemPackages in NixOS).  That is, if you
have a specification ‘profile.nix’ like this:

  with import <nixpkgs> {};
  [ thunderbird
    geeqie
    ...
  ]

then after any change to ‘profile.nix’, you can run:

  $ nix-env -f profile.nix -ir

to update the profile to match the specification.  (Without the ‘-r’
flag, if you remove a package from ‘profile.nix’, it won't be removed
from the actual profile.)

Suggested by @zefhemel.
2013-09-03 21:21:14 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra
c28dfc0305 Manual: Make '' a bit clearer
Issue #162.
2013-09-02 13:24:29 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra
e9b92169a5 Fix manual error
Reported by Matija Šuklje.

Fixes #163.
2013-09-02 13:19:34 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra
ecd830b3b9 Update the release notes 2013-09-02 13:11:36 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra
efe4289464 Add an option to limit the log output of builders
This is mostly useful for Hydra to deal with builders that get stuck
in an infinite loop writing data to stdout/stderr.
2013-09-02 11:58:18 +02:00
Ivan Kozik
6cd6ce5608 Fix nix-shell command 2013-08-26 11:15:22 +02:00
Ivan Kozik
34bb806f74 Fix typos, especially those that end up in the Nix manual 2013-08-26 11:15:22 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra
03eaef3d7a Manual: Don't use actual hashes of Nix dependencies
These cause an unnecessary runtime dependency :-)
2013-08-23 10:12:20 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra
b3110a15e9 Fix corrupt PNG
Libpng used to accept this, but no longer does.
2013-08-21 12:53:51 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra
7b09e9f2c4 Add hacking notes plus a script for running nix-shell 2013-07-19 16:51:31 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra
2bc5de8635 Rename ‘nix-build --run-env’ to ‘nix-shell’ 2013-07-19 12:02:44 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra
dc5f2e7da6 nix-build --run-env: Add a ‘--pure’ flag
This causes the environment to be (almost) cleared, thus giving a
shell that more closely resembled the actual Nix derivation.
2013-07-19 11:23:32 +02:00
Domen Kožar
620d57f036 doc: typo 2013-07-12 11:27:43 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra
656390062a nix-build --run-env: Source $stdenv/setup in the interactive shell
This ensures that not just environment variables are set, but also
shell functions such as unpackPhase, configurePhase and so on.
2013-07-11 14:32:22 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra
b584a42e3d Manual: auto-optimise-store is disabled by default 2013-07-03 18:35:59 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra
5116214343 Add support for uncompressed NARs in binary caches
Issue NixOS/hydra#102.
2013-07-01 21:03:14 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra
6016bcd30e Update release notes for Nix 1.5.3 2013-06-17 11:47:38 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra
bfee9a2581 Typo 2013-06-13 14:51:11 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra
f0576d6775 Update the default binary cache URL to cache.nixos.org 2013-06-05 13:36:43 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra
039d5a023f .bashrc -> .profile 2013-05-29 12:36:56 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra
6e85d1b5ba Bump release date 2013-05-13 16:52:08 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra
806970349b Update release date 2013-05-07 15:46:25 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra
ea019e9a26 Add option ‘extra-binary-caches’
This allows providing additional binary caches, useful in scripts like
Hydra's build reproduction scripts, in particular because untrusted
caches are ignored.
2013-05-07 15:37:28 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra
93f4fa8a15 Update release notes 2013-05-03 11:28:32 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra
3628b61ce0 Nix 1.5.2 release notes 2013-05-01 13:31:33 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra
05420e7883 Manual: Add a missing step to the build instructions
Reported by Johan Grande.
2013-04-09 17:57:48 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra
a68ebf8e37 Require Bison 2.6 2013-03-14 18:33:15 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra
bdd4646338 Revert "Prevent config.h from being clobbered"
This reverts commit 28bba8c44f.
2013-03-08 01:24:59 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra
28bba8c44f Prevent config.h from being clobbered 2013-03-07 23:55:55 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra
9fa1bee575 Update release notes
Also use a point release version number as suggested by several
people.
2013-02-28 19:36:02 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra
0111ba98ea Handle hard links to other files in the output 2013-02-27 17:18:41 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra
826dc0d07d Remove outdated file 2013-02-26 14:32:48 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra
ca9c02dff1 Update release notes 2013-02-26 13:23:09 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra
79a3ba7fa3 Document ‘hashString’ 2013-02-08 20:04:14 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra
9842077cb2 Improve -I description
Issue #88.
2013-01-24 13:00:44 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra
92926be2fe Fix "0 store paths deleted" message 2013-01-04 15:17:19 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra
def5160b61 Clear any immutable bits in the Nix store
Doing this once makes subsequent operations like garbage collecting
more efficient since we don't have to call makeMutable() first.
2013-01-03 12:59:23 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra
f12492c66d Manual: Fix "nix-store --export" example 2013-01-02 22:36:08 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra
aebea2e489 Reinstate the http://nixos.org/binary-cache default for the binary-caches setting 2013-01-02 22:16:37 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra
42d6f640c1 Update release notes 2013-01-02 13:00:55 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra
b7629778ef Allow mounting a path in a different location in the chroot
Fixes #24.
2012-12-29 23:04:02 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra
68dcbb187e download-from-binary-cache: Use the channels of the calling user rather than root
This should make live easier for single-user (non-daemon)
installations.  Note that when the daemon is used, the "calling user"
is root so we're not using any untrusted caches.
2012-12-21 15:00:07 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra
5ee7d8fbab Typo fix 2012-12-21 00:18:59 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra
9fa12fc201 Allow setting the profile location using $NIX_PROFILE
Fixes #69.
2012-12-12 16:01:46 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra
8cc19ed089 Set a long SQLite timeout in the binary cache substituter 2012-12-06 11:43:34 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra
0f96966a44 Add release date 2012-12-05 11:03:06 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra
a7b4aaa2c3 Updated release notes 2012-12-04 17:41:51 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra
094a08f839 Document new primops 2012-12-04 17:15:32 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra
24d5875514 Document multiple output support 2012-12-04 16:03:56 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra
a3d6585c5a nix-copy-closure: Add flag ‘--use-substitutes’ 2012-11-23 16:20:16 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra
9de6bc5d05 nix-store -r: Add ‘--ignore-unknown’ flag
This flag causes paths that do not have a known substitute to be
quietly ignored.  This is mostly useful for Charon, allowing it to
speed up deployment by letting a machine use substitutes for all
substitutable paths, instead of uploading them.  The latter is
frequently faster, e.g. if the target machine has a fast Internet
connection while the source machine is on a slow ADSL line.
2012-11-20 00:27:25 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra
182e15b661 Manual: Don't use a store path in our closure
http://hydra.nixos.org/build/3313227
2012-11-09 16:30:15 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra
a9a8baaccb Use a shorter Nixpkgs channel URL 2012-11-09 13:33:35 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra
c31ebc50aa Update release notes 2012-11-09 13:33:24 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra
bbc107ef1e Process binary caches in order of priority
Binary caches can now specify a priority in their nix-cache-info file.
The binary cache substituter checks caches in order of priority.  This
is to ensure that fast, static caches like nixos.org/binary-cache are
processed before slow, dynamic caches like hydra.nixos.org.
2012-11-06 17:45:20 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra
3a95e1a17c Update nix-push manpage and document the binary cache format 2012-11-06 15:49:53 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra
620e92e880 Add an option ‘use-binary-caches’
This allows disabling the use of binary caches, e.g.

  $ nix-build ... --option use-binary-caches false

Note that

  $ nix-build ... --option binary-caches ''

does not disable all binary caches, since the caches defined by
channels will still be used.
2012-11-06 13:44:59 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra
a28b4445a4 nix-prefetch-url: Improve option handling 2012-10-23 18:04:11 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra
ac238d619c Typo
Reported by Shea.
2012-10-12 10:21:04 -04:00
Eelco Dolstra
bfaa5635de Manual: Don't use a store path that actually exists
http://hydra.nixos.org/build/3124130
2012-10-04 13:37:30 -04:00
Eelco Dolstra
e35d6f78dc Rename nix-worker to nix-daemon 2012-10-03 17:59:23 -04:00
Eelco Dolstra
522ecab9b8 Drop support for running nix-worker in "slave" mode
AFAIK nobody uses this, setuid binaries are evil, and there is no good
reason why people can't just run the daemon.
2012-10-03 17:30:45 -04:00
Eelco Dolstra
9c41c66c5b Document ‘--repair’ 2012-10-03 15:53:25 -04:00
Eelco Dolstra
8e3a7bd712 nix-store --verify: Add an option ‘--repair’ to repair all missing/corrupt paths
Also, return a non-zero exit code if errors remain after
verifying/repairing.
2012-10-02 15:12:56 -04:00
Eelco Dolstra
9958bd6992 Add operation ‘nix-store --repair-path’
This operation allows fixing corrupted or accidentally deleted store
paths by redownloading them using substituters, if available.

Since the corrupted path cannot be replaced atomically, there is a
very small time window (one system call) during which neither the old
(corrupted) nor the new (repaired) contents are available.  So
repairing should be used with some care on critical packages like
Glibc.
2012-10-02 14:08:59 -04:00
Eelco Dolstra
95c74eae26 Allow dashes in identifiers
In Nixpkgs, the attribute in all-packages.nix corresponding to a
package is usually equal to the package name.  However, this doesn't
work if the package contains a dash, which is fairly common.  The
convention is to replace the dash with an underscore (e.g. "dbus-lib"
becomes "dbus_glib"), but that's annoying.  So now dashes are valid in
variable / attribute names, allowing you to write:

  dbus-glib = callPackage ../development/libraries/dbus-glib { };

and

  buildInputs = [ dbus-glib ];

Since we don't have a negation or subtraction operation in Nix, this
is unambiguous.
2012-09-27 15:49:20 -04:00
Eelco Dolstra
f46612be96 Add "on Linux" qualifier 2012-09-25 16:30:37 -04:00
Eelco Dolstra
0f358ca5b6 Document that Nix requires GNU Make
Fixes #44.
2012-09-25 16:17:30 -04:00
Eelco Dolstra
cb6651e878 Update release notes 2012-09-25 16:04:50 -04:00
Eelco Dolstra
983220bcd4 nix-collect-garbage: Support --dry-run 2012-09-13 18:09:20 -04:00
Eelco Dolstra
9fd9dedf12 nix-env --delete-generations: Support --dry-run flag
Fixes #43.
2012-09-13 18:05:04 -04:00
Eelco Dolstra
c845c0ccad nix-channel: Add option to force fetching of manifests 2012-09-13 12:11:40 -04:00
Shea Levy
360056e174 Document importing from a directory in the import documentation 2012-08-29 18:07:51 -04:00
Eelco Dolstra
9e2fc6951c Disable the binary cache substituter by default for now 2012-08-27 14:20:14 -04:00
Eelco Dolstra
9c2decaa19 Merge branch 'master' into no-manifests 2012-08-01 18:03:49 -04:00
Eelco Dolstra
5170c5691a nix-channel: Use binary caches advertised by channels
Channels can now advertise a binary cache by creating a file
<channel-url>/binary-cache-url.  The channel unpacker puts these in
its "binary-caches" subdirectory.  Thus, the URLS of the binary caches
for the channels added by root appear in
/nix/var/nix/profiles/per-user/eelco/channels/binary-caches/*.  The
binary cache substituter reads these and adds them to the list of
binary caches.
2012-08-01 17:56:11 -04:00
Eelco Dolstra
4d1b64f118 Allow daemon users to override ‘binary-caches’
For security reasons, daemon users can only specify caches that appear
in the ‘binary-caches’ and ‘trusted-binary-caches’ options in
nix.conf.
2012-07-31 18:56:22 -04:00
Eelco Dolstra
89a8207029 Add an option ‘build-fallback’ (equivalent to the --fallback flag) 2012-07-31 17:56:02 -04:00
Eelco Dolstra
157170059d Manual: Remove reference to non-existent -I option 2012-07-30 22:29:42 -04:00
Eelco Dolstra
9de6d10d11 Get rid of $NIX_BINARY_CACHES
You can use ‘--option binary-caches URLs’ instead.
2012-07-30 16:39:31 -04:00
Eelco Dolstra
f15083c10a Document the --option flag
Pointed out by Daniel Santa Cruz on IRC.
2012-07-29 14:37:40 -04:00
Eelco Dolstra
8c79100839 Merge branch 'master' into no-manifests 2012-07-26 15:14:33 -04:00
Eelco Dolstra
6193105710 Automatically optimise the Nix store when a new path is added
Auto-optimisation is enabled by default.  It can be turned off by
setting auto-optimise-store to false in nix.conf.
2012-07-23 17:14:15 -04:00
Eelco Dolstra
58337e0e61 Set release date 2012-07-18 11:51:27 -04:00
Eelco Dolstra
fe241ece29 Merge branch 'master' into no-manifests 2012-07-18 10:47:59 -04:00
Eelco Dolstra
51d71ad3d7 Manual: Don't claim we support Cygwin 2012-07-17 11:49:47 -04:00
Eelco Dolstra
6c01fb4d68 Update Nix 1.1 release notes 2012-07-17 10:06:20 -04:00
Eelco Dolstra
53b24f3518 Allow disabling log compression 2012-07-17 09:40:12 -04:00
Eelco Dolstra
04559a0d45 Merge branch 'master' of github.com:NixOS/nix into no-manifests 2012-07-11 18:53:27 -04:00
Eelco Dolstra
e4d6bcb6cd Update release notes 2012-07-11 18:52:23 -04:00
Eelco Dolstra
5755a5c354 Install a nix.conf manpage 2012-07-09 11:33:38 -04:00
Eelco Dolstra
099125435f download-from-binary-cache: add nix.conf options 2012-07-09 10:57:28 -04:00
Eelco Dolstra
8da6772ed4 Update release notes 2012-06-23 14:59:13 -04:00
Eelco Dolstra
2c26985835 Add option ‘build-keep-log’ to enable/disable writing of build logs
Fixes #26.
2012-05-29 16:42:05 -04:00
Eelco Dolstra
8058dab26e Clean up the installation section; document the generic binary tarballs 2012-05-24 12:04:07 -04:00
Eelco Dolstra
587b408210 Set release date 2012-05-11 17:40:58 -04:00
Eelco Dolstra
8a08813d6c Manual updates 2012-05-11 17:39:06 -04:00
Eelco Dolstra
2b00e6990c CSS tweaks 2012-05-11 16:21:21 -04:00
Eelco Dolstra
4d383f57f4 Document "nix-build --run-env" 2012-05-10 19:29:36 -04:00
Eelco Dolstra
6a7b24a3f2 Document "nix-store --add" 2012-05-10 18:09:45 -04:00
Eelco Dolstra
cb1248d208 Document some nix-store subcommands 2012-05-09 19:06:39 -04:00
Eelco Dolstra
7a213ffc69 Document $NIX_PATH / -I 2012-05-09 19:06:13 -04:00
Eelco Dolstra
a58efdb69b Update the release notes 2012-05-09 19:05:30 -04:00
Eelco Dolstra
afa7b8a479 nix-channel --update: allow updating only the specified channels 2012-05-07 17:55:56 -04:00
Eelco Dolstra
db5b86ef13 * Add an option ‘build-use-substitutes’, which can be set to ‘false’
to disable use of substitutes; i.e., force building from source.
  Fixes Nix/221.
2012-04-30 19:15:34 -04:00
Eelco Dolstra
59a26360c7 Support mandatory system features in the build hook
Mandatory features are features that MUST be present in a derivation's
requiredSystemFeatures attribute.  One application is performance
testing, where we have a dedicated machine to run performance tests
(and nothing else).  Then we would add the label "perf" to the
machine's mandatory features and to the performance testing
derivations.
2012-04-30 17:22:45 -04:00
Eelco Dolstra
82ae0e688c Update the documentation of build-remote.pl 2012-04-30 16:49:00 -04:00
Eelco Dolstra
9cd3ff1059 nix-instantiate: default to "default.nix" if no arguments are given 2012-04-17 17:19:43 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra
8745fade03 Added utility command ‘nix-instantiate --find-file’ to look up a file in Nix's search path 2012-04-17 17:14:14 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra
e855c7e2c9 nix-channel improvements
"nix-channel --add" now accepts a second argument: the channel name.
This allows channels to have a nicer name than (say) nixpkgs_unstable.
If no name is given, it defaults to the last component of the URL
(with "-unstable" or "-stable" removed).

Also, channels are now stored in a profile
(/nix/var/nix/profiles/per-user/$USER/channels).  One advantage of
this is that it allows rollbacks (e.g. if "nix-channel --update" gives
an undesirable update).
2012-04-14 18:38:52 +02:00
Shea Levy
055e803851 Add the '--show-progress' flag to nix-copy-closure 2012-04-13 14:29:12 +02:00
Shea Levy
242a99c95a Nix is on github now 2012-04-08 23:59:02 -04:00
Eelco Dolstra
533250a4a3 Fix building from the tarball 2012-04-06 22:54:15 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra
831c7aa410 Documentation fix 2012-04-06 22:03:19 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra
5863987bba Include environment variables in the manpages 2012-04-06 21:56:20 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra
998b977ede Include common options in the manpages using some XInclude hackery 2012-04-06 21:45:00 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra
d49ef039dd Update affiliation 2012-04-06 21:43:56 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra
5a6d50998d Add a missing DocBook source file to the tarball
Reported on IRC by Adrian Siekierka.
2012-04-06 20:26:30 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra
8be1979f1a Remove the --max-links GC option
We don't need this anymore now that current filesystems support more
than 32,000 files in a directory.
2012-03-26 20:00:02 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra
b006a31d52 Drop the externals directory
Nix now requires SQLite and bzip2 to be pre-installed.  SQLite is
detected using pkg-config.  We required DBD::SQLite anyway, so
depending on SQLite is not a big problem.

The --with-bzip2, --with-openssl and --with-sqlite flags are gone.
2012-03-18 23:54:57 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra
4e624849b6 * Added a command ‘nix-store --print-env $drvpath’ that prints out the
environment of the given derivation in a format that can be sourced
  by the shell, e.g.

  $ eval "$(nix-store --print-env $(nix-instantiate /etc/nixos/nixpkgs -A pkg))"
  $ NIX_BUILD_TOP=/tmp
  $ source $stdenv/setup

  This is especially useful to reproduce the environment used to build
  a package outside of its builder for development purposes.

  TODO: add a nix-build option to do the above and fetch the
  dependencies of the derivation as well.
2012-01-17 23:07:22 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
2a3f4110c5 * nix-build: put the temporary derivation symlink in a temporary
directory rather than the current directory.
* nix-build: --drv-link now implies --add-drv-link.
2012-01-13 23:35:07 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
93e71e6ab6 * Follow our own coding conventions. 2011-12-30 17:39:03 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
f2d65c9c80 * Remove a redundant dot (Nicolas Pierron). 2011-12-30 17:31:58 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
ed11b17b2e * Fix doc error. 2011-12-30 13:43:29 +00:00
Peter Simons
be9be4c147 doc/manual/nix-env.xml: fixed "nix-env -qaA" typo 2011-12-01 08:03:30 +00:00
Peter Simons
3c7ec8fc1b doc/manual/nix-env.xml: stripped trailing whitespace 2011-12-01 08:02:37 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
f3bc98b001 2011-11-23 15:39:54 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
10e2b2b79e * Document the --include-outputs option. 2011-11-23 15:39:02 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
d5ac78e0d6 * Add bzip2 and xz support to nix-copy-closure. 2011-11-23 15:29:58 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
daed9aeac5 2011-11-03 19:22:24 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
d7b87bebe3 * The Nix configuration file is usually /etc/nix/nix.conf. 2011-11-03 18:47:10 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
325b5a8aee * Fix permission on /nix/store in the manual for multi-user installs
(reported by Silvio Frischknecht).
2011-11-02 19:14:54 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
e6cb3d0a0d * Added a command ‘nix-store --verify-paths PATHS’ to check whether
the contents of any of the given store paths have been modified.
  E.g.

    $ nix-store --verify-path $(nix-store -qR /var/run/current-system)
    path `/nix/store/m2smyiwbxidlprfxfz4rjlvz2c3mg58y-etc' was modified! expected hash `fc87e271c5fdf179b47939b08ad13440493805584b35e3014109d04d8436e7b8', got `20f1a47281b3c0cbe299ce47ad5ca7340b20ab34246426915fce0ee9116483aa'

  All paths are checked; the exit code is 1 if any path has been
  modified, 0 otherwise.
2011-09-06 12:06:30 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
1ecc97b6bd * Add a Nix expression search path feature. Paths between angle
brackets, e.g.

    import <nixpkgs/pkgs/lib>

  are resolved by looking them up relative to the elements listed in
  the search path.  This allows us to get rid of hacks like

    import "${builtins.getEnv "NIXPKGS_ALL"}/pkgs/lib"

  The search path can be specified through the ‘-I’ command-line flag
  and through the colon-separated ‘NIX_PATH’ environment variable,
  e.g.,

    $ nix-build -I /etc/nixos ...

  If a file is not found in the search path, an error message is
  lazily thrown.
2011-08-06 16:05:24 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
0a623a10c7 * Allow a default value in attribute selection by writing
x.y.z or default

  (as originally proposed in
  https://mail.cs.uu.nl/pipermail/nix-dev/2009-September/002989.html).

  For instance, an expression like

    stdenv.lib.attrByPath ["features" "ckSched"] false args

  can now be written as

    args.features.ckSched or false
2011-07-13 12:19:57 +00:00
Ludovic Courtès
1ea6e06445 doc: Fix typo. 2011-06-30 15:48:40 +00:00
Ludovic Courtès
5c9e9f732d Add support for the build-timeout' and --timeout' options. 2011-06-30 15:19:13 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
48bdbbf070 * Fix a bug in the documentation (reported by Olexiy Buyanskyy,
Nix/215).
2011-03-15 13:12:59 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
e60c962fb8 * Add an operation `nix-store -q --size'. 2010-11-17 12:40:52 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
fb9368b5a0 * Sync with the trunk. 2010-11-16 12:49:47 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
26def5392f * Document Boehm GC support. 2010-10-29 14:44:02 +00:00
Rob Vermaas
8dadcede65 nix manual: fix 'install' -> 'uninstall' in garbage collection section of introduction 2010-10-06 19:04:04 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
955d11aae7 * Sync with the trunk. 2010-08-24 09:56:28 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
2de17f4edc * Update date. 2010-08-17 10:06:26 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
86f65edf4e * Document --cores in the manual. 2010-08-17 07:22:05 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
b75e1043a3 * Typo. 2010-08-16 13:23:45 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
12721a3a9a * Nix 0.16 release notes. 2010-08-16 12:38:32 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
aa45027818 * Sync with the trunk. 2010-05-12 22:13:09 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
83dfa89870 * Sync with the trunk. 2010-05-07 14:46:47 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
7fa338f4ba * Don't use smart quotes where normal ASCII quotes are intended.
Actually, don't use quotes at all.  (Reported by Howard B. Golden.)
2010-05-02 21:27:50 +00:00
Lluís Batlle i Rossell
d77331d32f Fixing a typo in the nix-store manual, that could confuse a bit too much (--delete/--gc) 2010-04-25 20:52:49 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
d66ea83a76 * Sync with the trunk. 2010-04-20 09:20:29 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
f3b8833a48 * Drop the dependency on the ATerm library. 2010-04-19 14:51:58 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
c4cfb392d3 2010-03-17 10:08:34 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
8e3d98eb41 * Release notes for Nix 0.15. 2010-03-16 13:12:18 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
fe1b8781ae * Fix a broken link (reported by Peter Koppstein). 2010-03-16 12:58:20 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
a3c63d0d6c * Disable fsync() in SQLite if the fsync-metadata option is set to
false.
* Change the default for `fsync-metadata' to true.
* Disable `fsync-metadata' in `make check'.
2010-02-24 13:12:57 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
3b3e1025c3 * Typo. Reported by Peter Koppstein. 2010-02-12 10:50:30 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
e08dbff9a8 * Fix a broken link (reported by Bjorn Buckwalter). 2010-02-05 10:17:13 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
f36b7e7579 2010-02-04 14:00:47 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
4d8a85b8f5 * Updated the release notes. 2010-02-03 11:00:35 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
07ffdc2862 * Added an option "fsync-metadata" to fsync() changes to
/nix/var/nix/db.
* Removed the function writeStringToFile since it does (almost) the
  same thing as writeFile.
2010-01-29 12:22:58 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
3a78af1e24 * Release notes. 2009-12-09 21:02:24 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
3d55f1eb57 * A command `nix-store --query --roots <paths>' to find the garbage
collector roots that point (directly or indirectly) to the given
  paths.
2009-11-23 18:16:25 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
8824d60fe5 * Remove the --use-atime / --max-atime garbage collector flags. Many
(Linux) machines no longer maintain the atime because it's too
  expensive, and on the machines where --use-atime is useful (like the
  buildfarm), reading the atimes on the entire Nix store takes way too
  much time to make it practical.
2009-11-20 17:12:38 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
327a232c85 * Remove support for old (before Nix 0.12pre12020) databases. 2009-11-06 01:15:44 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
268d90a03e * Various updates. 2009-11-05 09:07:43 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
1ff8758f76 * Manual updates. 2009-11-04 16:52:35 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
0f79ad47c5 2009-09-25 12:36:03 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
51ad64cc07 * Use xmllint (>= 2.7.4) for RelaxNG validation instead of Jing. 2009-09-18 11:45:56 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
d413612029 * Remove the redundant <sections> around refentries. 2009-07-14 14:58:12 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
1f169f43b3 * Leave out the collaborators / revision history page. 2009-07-10 13:42:12 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
5e2e2f10ef 2009-07-10 11:48:49 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
f2c3fc5191 * Don't show trace information by default (`--show-trace' to enable).
NixOS evaluation errors in particular look intimidating and
  generally aren't very useful.  Ideally the builtins.throw messages
  should be self-contained.
2009-06-30 13:28:29 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
14bc3ce3d6 * Canonicalise timestamps in the Nix store to 1 (1970-01-01 00:00:01
UTC) rather than 0 (00:00:00).  1 is a better choice because some
  programs use 0 as a special value.  For instance, the Template
  Toolkit uses a timestamp of 0 to denote the non-existence of a file,
  so it barfs on files in the Nix store (see
  template-toolkit-nix-store.patch in Nixpkgs).  Similarly, Maya 2008
  fails to load script directories with a timestamp of 0 and can't be
  patched because it's closed source.

  This will also shut up those "implausibly old time stamp" GNU tar
  warnings.
2009-06-13 16:30:58 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
c6cb792d48 2009-05-26 16:32:02 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
f751c2966b * Don't have a bugs section in the manual. Bugs should be kept in the
bug tracker.
2009-05-07 13:11:58 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
435a93b5d8 * Remove references to __XXX primops. 2009-04-14 13:03:27 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
8b2a01a8c2 * Release notes. 2009-04-14 12:02:22 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
3a2bbe7f8a * Simplify communication with the hook a bit (don't use file
descriptors 3/4, just use stdin/stderr).
2009-03-28 19:29:55 +00:00
Marc Weber
2ef579d1aa documentation for previous commit 2009-02-05 19:35:44 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
09bc0c502c * Install the release notes. 2008-11-29 00:31:39 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
c202523e53 2008-11-20 12:01:05 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
60564410ef * Patterns. 2008-11-19 17:50:25 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
2668a43388 2008-11-19 17:27:52 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
63ccd72496 * Updated the manual. 2008-11-19 17:00:32 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
7509d70f9d * Documented some of the sharing mechanisms. 2008-11-19 15:20:46 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
2369b122d1 * Install documentation in $(docdir) (i.e. share/doc/nix). 2008-11-19 13:19:09 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
07d3a38726 * Remove references to Berkeley DB, including most of the
troubleshooting section.  W00t.
2008-11-19 11:58:33 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
f5325d292d * Release notes. 2008-11-19 10:59:36 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
fa791116a3 * Get rid of nix-pack-closure / nix-unpack-closure, they're redundant. 2008-11-18 14:43:40 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
72f3ea7358 * Moved some stuff to the Nixpkgs manual.
* Updated the release notes.
2008-08-05 11:03:05 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
7cd88b1dec * Generalised the dependencyClosure primop to builtins.genericClosure,
which is hopefully more useful.
* New primops: length, mul, div.
2008-07-11 13:29:04 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
d567baabbd * Export the nix-env derivation name parsing and version comparison
logic through the `parseDrvName' and `compareVersions' primops.
  This will allow expressions to easily check whether some dependency
  is a specific needed version or falls in some version range.  See
  tests/lang/eval-okay-versions.nix for examples.
2008-07-01 10:10:32 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
2818b7cee6 * Updated some URLs. 2008-06-11 15:39:38 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
4ed01ed791 * Updated some URLs (did this a long time ago but forgot to
commit...).
2008-06-09 13:42:13 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
66c51dc215 * nix-store --dump-db / --load-db to dump/load the Nix DB.
* nix-store --register-validity: option to supply the content hash of
  each path.
* Removed compatibility with Nix <= 0.7 stores.
2008-01-29 18:17:36 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
d4117859d6 2007-12-31 16:57:12 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
e0ca671491 * More documentation. 2007-12-31 02:52:17 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
6bdecfacbb * Documented a bunch of nix-store commands. 2007-12-31 01:52:57 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
454f571f87 2007-12-31 01:22:09 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
4c82983010 2007-12-31 01:17:25 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
dedd62dd0c * More release notes. 2007-12-31 00:08:09 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
59707975a3 * Documented indented string literals.
* Release notes.
2007-12-30 23:36:09 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
d4950f207f * component -> package. 2007-12-04 11:42:58 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
6d6c68c0d2 * Added a new kind of multi-line string literal delimited by two
single quotes.  Example (from NixOS):

    job = ''
      start on network-interfaces

      start script

        rm -f /var/run/opengl-driver
        ${if videoDriver == "nvidia"        
          then "ln -sf ${nvidiaDrivers} /var/run/opengl-driver"
          else if cfg.driSupport
          then "ln -sf ${mesa} /var/run/opengl-driver"
          else ""
        }

        rm -f /var/log/slim.log

      end script
    '';

  This style has two big advantages:

  - \, ' and " aren't special, only '' and ${.  So you get a lot less
    escaping in shell scripts / configuration files in Nixpkgs/NixOS.
    The delimiter '' is rare in scripts (and can usually be written as
    "").  ${ is also fairly rare.

    Other delimiters such as <<...>>, {{...}} and <|...|> were also
    considered but this one appears to have the fewest drawbacks
    (thanks Martin).

  - Indentation is intelligently stripped so that multi-line strings
    can follow the nesting structure of the containing Nix
    expression.  E.g. in the example above 6 spaces are stripped from
    the start of each line.  This prevents unnecessary indentation in
    generated files (which sometimes even breaks things).

  See tests/lang/eval-okay-ind-string.nix for some examples.
2007-11-30 16:48:45 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
12d0a1eb75 * Troubleshooting entry about running out of locks. 2007-11-29 14:15:33 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
06f95dd07c * New primop `readFile' to get the contents of a file as a string. 2007-11-21 13:49:59 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
5f8a203b55 * A rule to make a PDF version of the manual. 2007-11-01 14:42:44 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
1511aa11ce * Documented some of the more obscure derivation attributes (including
fixed-output derivations).
2007-11-01 13:28:33 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
fa44e401a8 * Documented multi-user Nix. 2007-10-31 18:01:56 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
e007b50eb7 2007-10-29 22:16:36 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
bfea7b1f35 * Make the --prebuilt-only' / -b' option work not just for queries
but installations/upgrades as well.  So `nix-env -ub \*' will
  upgrade only those packages for which a substitute is available (or
  to be precise, it will upgrade each package to the highest version
  for which a substitute is available).
2007-10-29 14:31:45 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
dc6f373842 * Delete the chroot directory automatically.
* Removed some debug messages.
2007-10-27 16:06:38 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
cd08fb3fde 2007-10-24 13:54:06 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
d423968ba1 * Improved introduction (actually copied mostly from the homepage). 2007-10-23 16:34:04 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
612b3e8fa3 * Document the new primops in Nix 0.11. 2007-10-22 15:28:32 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
35ac16e75e * Move list of built-in functions to a separate file. 2007-10-22 12:58:28 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
1db187ff69 2007-10-22 12:46:15 +00:00
Marc Weber
f529a3be8a Added comment telling about setup-hook and propagatedBuildInputs 2007-10-22 01:10:19 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
8a9fe6c11c * Manpage for nix-copy-closure. 2007-09-19 14:01:41 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
055608227f * nix-env: allow ~/.nix-defexpr to be a directory. If it is, then the
Nix expressions in that directory are combined into an attribute set
  {file1 = import file1; file2 = import file2; ...}, i.e. each Nix
  expression is an attribute with the file name as the attribute
  name.  Also recurses into directories.

* nix-env: removed the "--import" (-I) option which set the
  ~/.nix-defexpr symlink.

* nix-channel: don't use "nix-env --import", instead symlink
  ~/.nix-defexpr/channels.  So finally nix-channel --update doesn't
  override any default Nix expressions but combines with them.

  This means that you can have (say) a local Nixpkgs SVN tree and use
  it as a default for nix-env:

  $ ln -s .../path-to-nixpkgs-tree ~/.nix-defexpr/nixpkgs_svn

  and be subscribed to channels (including Nixpkgs) at the same time.
  (If there is any ambiguity, the -A flag can be used to
  disambiguate, e.g. "nix-env -i -A nixpkgs_svn.pan".)
2007-09-17 16:08:24 +00:00
Marc Weber
7b20c0ed4b explanation what happens when passing true / false and null values to derivation builders added 2007-09-02 10:36:59 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
9e975458b4 * Get rid of the substitutes database table (NIX-47). Instead, if we
need any info on substitutable paths, we just call the substituters
  (such as download-using-manifests.pl) directly.  This means that
  it's no longer necessary for nix-pull to register substitutes or for
  nix-channel to clear them, which makes those operations much faster
  (NIX-95).  Also, we don't have to worry about keeping nix-pull
  manifests (in /nix/var/nix/manifests) and the database in sync with
  each other.

  The downside is that there is some overhead in calling an external
  program to get the substitutes info.  For instance, "nix-env -qas"
  takes a bit longer.

  Abolishing the substitutes table also makes the logic in
  local-store.cc simpler, as we don't need to store info for invalid
  paths.  On the downside, you cannot do things like "nix-store -qR"
  on a substitutable but invalid path (but nobody did that anyway).

* Never catch interrupts (the Interrupted exception).
2007-08-12 00:29:28 +00:00
Armijn Hemel
40b6f06f09 change default NIX_HASH_ALGO 2007-06-02 15:03:54 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
b47da5ea21 2007-05-16 22:07:39 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
a9d15d4f43 * nix-env -i: instead of breaking package ties by version, break them
by priority and version install.  That is, if there are multiple
  packages with the same name, then pick the package with the highest
  priority, and only use the version if there are multiple packages
  with the same priority.

  This makes it possible to mark specific versions/variant in Nixpkgs
  more or less desirable than others.  A typical example would be a
  beta version of some package (e.g., "gcc-4.2.0rc1") which should not
  be installed even though it is the highest version, except when it
  is explicitly selected (e.g., "nix-env -i gcc-4.2.0rc1").

* Idem for nix-env -u, only the semantics are a bit trickier since we
  also need to take into account the priority of the currently
  installed package (we never upgrade to a lower priority, unless
  --always is given).
2007-05-01 20:33:18 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
bd1f66453a * `nix-env -q --xml --meta' to show all meta attributes. 2007-05-01 11:30:52 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
89c1d2b202 * Package flag "keep" that prevents a package from being removed from
a user environment by an install or upgrade action.  This is
  particularly useful if you have a version installed that you don't
  want to upgrade (e.g., because the newer versions are broken).
  Example:

    $ nix-env -u zapping --dry-run
    (dry run; not doing anything)
    upgrading `zapping-0.9.6' to `zapping-0.10cvs6'

    $ nix-env --set-flag keep true zapping

    $ nix-env -u zapping --dry-run
    (dry run; not doing anything)

  However, "-e" will still uninstall the package.  (Maybe we should
  require the keep flag to be explicitly set to false before it can be
  uninstalled.)
2007-04-27 23:48:14 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
a46db5d013 * Package conflict resolution through priority levels. If there is a
user environment collission between two packages due to overlapping
  file names, then a package with a higher priority will overwrite the
  symlinks of a package with a lower priority.  E.g.,

    $ nix-env --set-flag priority 5 gcc
    $ nix-env --set-flag priority 10 binutils

  gives gcc a higher priority than binutils (higher number = lower
  priority).
2007-04-27 23:28:44 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
b7f0f65c19 * nix-env -q now has a flag --prebuilt-only (-b<) that causes nix-env
to show only those derivations whose output is already in the Nix
  store or that can be substituted (i.e., downloaded from somewhere).
  In other words, it shows the packages that can be installed “quickly”,
  i.e., don’t need to be built from source.
2007-04-26 14:20:31 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
5dc05b76ab * Updated dependency information. 2007-04-16 16:08:44 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
d303b389a9 * `nix-copy-closure --from': copy from a remote machine instead of to
a remote machine.
2007-03-26 21:05:17 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
803cb6e3b9 * Override the setuid helper using NIX_SETUID_HELPER. 2007-03-20 22:04:25 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
46e0919ced * `nix-store --export --sign': sign the Nix archive using the RSA key
in /nix/etc/nix/signing-key.sec
2007-02-21 14:31:42 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
3390c1be76 * Temporary notes on how we're going to use OpenSSL. 2007-02-20 22:57:46 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
52d03276dd * Compatibility with docbook5-xsl. 2007-02-05 12:10:10 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
451dbf687f * nix-env now maintains meta info (from the `meta' derivation
attribute) about installed packages in user environments.  Thus, an
  operation like `nix-env -q --description' shows useful information
  not only on available packages but also on installed packages.

* nix-env now passes the entire manifest as an argument to the Nix
  expression of the user environment builder (not just a list of
  paths), so that in particular the user environment builder has
  access to the meta attributes.
  
* New operation `--set-flag' in nix-env to change meta info of
  installed packages.  This will be useful to pass per-package
  policies to the user environment builder (e.g., how to resolve
  collision or whether to disable a package (NIX-80)) or upgrade
  policies in nix-env (e.g., that a package should be "masked", that
  is, left untouched by upgrade actions).  Example:

  $ nix-env --set-flag enabled false ghc-6.4
2007-02-02 01:52:42 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
7349bd0176 New primitives:
* `sub' to subtract two numbers.
* `stringLength' to get the length of a string.
* `substring' to get a substring of a string.  These should be enough
  to allow most string operations to be expressed.
2007-01-29 14:23:09 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
71ceb1c161 * Handle multiple indirect symlinks when loading a Nix expression. 2007-01-15 14:50:25 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
e418976107 * Option --argstr for passing string arguments easily. (NIX-75) 2007-01-14 12:32:44 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
4e329f173f * Doh. 2007-01-14 12:16:58 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
afe23b5f38 * nix-pack-closure: store the top-level store paths in the closure.
* nix-unpack-closure: extract the top-level paths from the closure and
  print them on stdout.  This allows them to be installed, e.g.,
  "nix-env -i $(nix-unpack-closure)".  (NIX-64)
2007-01-13 19:50:42 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
215505bb46 * Removed chroot support. 2007-01-13 17:54:01 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
a3e6415ba8 * New primop builtins.filterSource, which can be used to filter files
from a source directory.  All files for which a predicate function
  returns true are copied to the store.  Typical example is to leave
  out the .svn directory:

    stdenv.mkDerivation {
      ...
      src = builtins.filterSource
        (path: baseNameOf (toString path) != ".svn")
        ./source-dir;
      # as opposed to
      #   src = ./source-dir;
    }

  This is important because the .svn directory influences the hash in
  a rather unpredictable and variable way.
2006-12-12 23:05:01 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
3130f1f0fa * Push. 2006-12-12 20:17:14 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
7ace29dae7 * New operation `nix-env --set' which sets a user environment to a
single derivation specified by the argument.  This is useful when we
  want to have a profile for a single derivation, such as a server
  configuration.  Then we can just say (e.g.)

  $ nix-env -p /.../server-profile -f server.nix --set -A server

  We can't do queries or upgrades on such a profile, but we can do
  rollbacks.  The advantage over -i is that we don't have to worry
  about other packages having been installed in the profile
  previously; --set gets rid of them.
2006-12-12 19:06:02 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
1a7e88bbd9 * New built-in function `builtins.attrNames' that returns the
names of the attributes in an attribute set.
2006-12-12 16:14:31 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
5e6699188f 2006-12-09 23:14:55 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
9dbfe242e3 * Kill a build if it has gone for more than a certain number of
seconds without producing output on stdout or stderr (NIX-65).  This
  timeout can be specified using the `--max-silent-time' option or the
  `build-max-silent-time' configuration setting.  The default is
  infinity (0).

* Fix a tricky race condition: if we kill the build user before the
  child has done its setuid() to the build user uid, then it won't be
  killed, and we'll potentially lock up in pid.wait().  So also send a
  conventional kill to the child.
2006-12-08 15:44:00 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
fe15f991e3 * Troubleshooting information on fixing a b0rked Berkeley DB database. 2006-11-30 11:24:10 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
745e354b19 * Push. 2006-11-14 10:23:21 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
e2a70b7ec0 * Magic attribute `exportReferencesGraph' that allows the references
graph to be passed to a builder.  This attribute should be a list of
  pairs [name1 path1 name2 path2 ...].  The references graph of each
  `pathN' will be stored in a text file `nameN' in the temporary build
  directory.  The text files have the format used by `nix-store
  --register-validity'.  However, the deriver fields are left empty.

  `exportReferencesGraph' is useful for builders that want to do
  something with the closure of a store path.  Examples: the builders
  that make initrds and ISO images for NixOS.

  `exportReferencesGraph' is entirely pure.  It's necessary because
  otherwise the only way for a builder to get this information would
  be to call `nix-store' directly, which is not allowed (though
  unfortunately possible).
2006-11-13 18:18:13 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
e40d4a5604 * Option --reregister' in nix-store --register-validity'. We need
this in the NixOS installer (or in the buildfarm) to ensure that the
  cryptographic hash of the path contents still matches the actual
  contents.
2006-11-13 16:48:27 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
005eecfc4d * Release notes. 2006-10-30 16:29:05 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
ae6fb27f18 * `nix-store --read-log / -l PATH' shows the build log of PATH, if
available.  For instance,

    $ nix-store -l $(which svn) | less

  lets you read the build log of the Subversion instance in your
  profile.

* `nix-store -qb': if applied to a non-derivation, take the deriver.
2006-10-28 16:33:54 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
99b0ea7c67 * Typo reported by Arie Middelkoop.
* Left out close-quote in example.
2006-10-26 23:06:47 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
7d4567f2cc * Removed URIs from the evaluator (NIX-66). They are now just another
kind of notation for strings.
2006-10-11 21:59:33 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
b4e012ab4d * Merge 0.10.1 release notes. 2006-10-11 13:39:00 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
7bada48b36 * Bumped the version number to 0.11. 2006-10-06 13:45:29 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
e1cc84259c * Too lazy to document nix-push --copy. 2006-10-06 09:59:02 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
b3fc016061 * Translate Unicode quote characters to ASCII equivalents when
generating NEWS.txt.
2006-10-06 09:03:39 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
3815d2d463 * Typos etc.
* Set the release date.
2006-10-06 07:47:56 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
beee18de88 * Document nix-store --delete. 2006-10-05 23:13:15 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
eff573f563 * Work around a weird bug in the manpage generation. 2006-10-05 23:01:50 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
9e08f5efe1 * Documented nix-store --dump / --restore. 2006-10-05 22:57:07 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
8791ffbc88 * Documented new nix-env options. 2006-10-05 22:56:52 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
99ef620c8c * Documented nix-instantiate --xml, --strict.
* Added an example to the nix-build section.
2006-10-05 20:41:57 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
8396b59286 * Documented --attr / -A. 2006-10-05 20:07:41 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
5d769de8a3 * Document --arg. 2006-10-05 09:08:52 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
6f2bfd92b6 * Manual. 2006-10-05 08:21:52 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
34427a7b43 * Weird. 2006-10-04 17:07:58 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
a3fd53b9eb * Style tweak. 2006-10-04 17:07:52 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
59ef0aaf3f * Strings. 2006-10-04 16:02:18 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
407c9fd520 * Explanation of toXML example. 2006-10-04 15:20:19 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
0ef3bd3c37 * Use GIF callouts instead of PNG since the GIFs have transparency. 2006-10-04 12:20:07 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
4a7ece698b 2006-10-04 08:26:05 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
bd4f1b4bb8 * Style tweaks. 2006-10-04 08:14:35 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
96fa456a0a * An example of using toXML to pass structured information to a
builder and generate a Jetty configuration file with XSLT.
2006-10-03 15:39:34 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
3837fb233c * Document the built-in functions. 2006-10-03 15:19:05 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
84e6c43e85 * Documented nix-hash. 2006-10-02 22:11:44 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
cfe35ca0e0 * Manual. 2006-10-02 20:28:52 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
853252ac66 * Document the new let. 2006-10-02 16:14:30 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
f316b6c1a9 * Manual updates (especially how nix-build makes testing packages much
easier; no longer need a helper expression).
2006-10-02 11:50:55 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
91a01e6fcf * Manual. 2006-10-02 09:01:36 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
88d422567e * One-click installs. 2006-09-29 14:59:10 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
0212feeed6 * Document nix-install-package and the nixpkg file format. 2006-09-29 14:16:41 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
070e07ed5a * Manual. 2006-09-29 11:03:16 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
30c7db85d8 * Manual updates, some style improvements. 2006-09-29 10:31:56 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
e2eed05224 * Manual updates.
* Documented nix-{pack,unpack}-closure.
2006-09-28 09:10:53 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
015ac7c7da * Release notes. 2006-09-27 13:27:26 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
a9a6356ffc * Release notes. 2006-09-27 12:43:00 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
e47d42536f * Release notes. 2006-09-26 09:57:27 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
f00bc4c94c * "Too many links" error. 2006-09-12 09:29:28 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
a04a65d7a5 * Release notes. 2006-09-06 14:29:49 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
f41297fdce * Allow --arg in nix-env as well, example:
$ nix-env -qa --system-filter \* --arg system '"powerpc-darwin"'

  to override the system from the default value (__currentSystem in
  all-packages.nix).
2006-08-23 16:33:21 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
68515b5a96 * Release notes. 2006-08-22 13:19:06 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
1a9a1f2768 * Convert to DocBook 5.
* Use Jing for RelaxNG validation, xmllint seems buggy.
2006-08-21 16:05:11 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
601a8eab79 * Ugh. Darwin's chmod insists that flags come before the mode
specification.
2006-08-01 12:00:37 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
b11aeb2c4b * Doh. 2006-07-25 13:15:23 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
5744dd5480 * Support the --attr / -A flag in nix-env as well. So now we can do,
e.g.,

  $ nix-env -i -A subversion xorg.xorgserver

  The main advantage over using symbolic names is that using attribute
  names is unambiguous and much, much faster.
2006-07-25 11:53:22 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
c15f544356 * Call find-runtime-roots.pl from the garbage collector to prevent
running applications etc. from being garbage collected.
2006-07-20 12:17:25 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
48e4a3231b 2006-06-14 13:31:23 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
50fe85f016 * For fixed-output derivations, pass the environment variables listed
in the attribute variable `impureEnvVars' from the caller to the
  builder.
2006-05-31 09:51:45 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
8b5aa91aa7 2006-05-08 14:00:39 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
20675feeab * Update copyright. 2006-03-15 12:58:22 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
345a95afe9 * Allow the size of the GC reserved file to be specified in nix.conf
through the new `gc-reserved-space' option.
2006-02-16 13:58:10 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
b505f9eaf5 * Document that nix-instantiate can read from stdin. 2006-02-10 15:29:17 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
1d2460ee5d * Documentation fixes. 2005-12-24 23:22:05 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
3c5619c7e4 * Begin release notes. 2005-12-15 21:11:55 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
ab5c6bb3a3 * Change referer' to referrer' throughout. In particular, the
nix-store query options `--referer' and `--referer-closure' have
  been changed to `--referrer' and `--referrer-closure' (but the old
  ones are still accepted for compatibility).
2005-12-13 21:04:48 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
1b43fbd8e4 * Oops, that should be Berkeley DB 4.3. Reported by Gerco Ballintijn. 2005-10-18 14:09:43 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
62412c5874 * Document `nix-env --compare-versions'. 2005-10-06 15:51:43 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
ed4de220d2 * Use "source" instead of ".". 2005-09-28 09:00:07 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
fbedf6056e * Merge release notes. 2005-09-22 12:23:22 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
db1a4227a3 * Updated release notes. 2005-09-16 11:28:29 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
c28b8eb699 * svn:ignores.
* Add missing file to dist.
2005-09-16 10:35:48 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
5c0770ac84 * Include the release notes in the manual. 2005-09-16 08:47:34 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
1b62c2eba3 * Force release notes in ASCII, not UTF-8. 2005-09-15 20:29:08 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
d1d0271996 * Check for w3m. 2005-09-15 15:21:57 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
5818e8eeaf * Remove dead code. 2005-09-14 18:51:02 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
025086edea * Release notes in Docbook; ASCII release notes (i.e., the `NEWS'
file) is now generated from that using `w3m' and some XSL hackery.
2005-09-14 18:50:45 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
78c72bf10e * channels -> channels-v3, catamaran -> nix.cs.uu.nl. 2005-08-01 07:30:35 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
a5ceb5bc0b * nix-build: default to `./default.nix' if no paths are specified.
So when using Nix as a build tool, you can just say `nix-build' and
  it will build the top-level derivation defined in `default.nix'.
2005-07-13 17:39:10 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
88dea78cdf * Crazy: don't use real hashes of real components in examples, since
they cause Nix builds to have unnecessary retained dependences
  (e.g., on Subversion).
2005-05-09 09:58:00 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
82d771f6e6 * Manual updates. 2005-04-10 20:54:21 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
fb45b0f548 * Document nix-channel. 2005-04-09 17:16:00 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
8b70f138e0 * Lots of manual updates, in particular the new `nix-store --query'
options were documented, as well as the Nix configuration file.
2005-04-08 13:00:38 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
b9d8ecbc6a * More doc updates. 2005-04-07 15:51:27 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
57d023a184 * More manual updates. 2005-04-07 10:47:58 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
f1ae10b992 * Build hook documentation.
* nix-store options.
2005-04-07 09:36:35 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
806b91f104 * GC docs. 2005-04-07 08:17:04 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
128c174295 * Manual updates. 2005-04-05 15:28:30 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
229252941a * Some GC documentation. 2005-04-05 11:30:56 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
6c8cf567b8 * Use `--nonet' flag. 2005-04-05 11:29:46 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
4a83c12c5d * Added a glossary to the manual. 2005-04-01 15:34:23 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
67eff20906 * Manual updates. 2005-03-17 10:30:53 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
ad3121a52d * Documented common environment variables. 2005-03-16 16:45:29 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
f982df3cd7 * Update the user environments figure to show multiple profiles and
users.
* Change to base-32 hashes.
2005-03-16 14:40:48 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
afc3a7b79b * Automake 1.9 compatibility. 2005-03-16 10:46:33 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
693ff4f6bf * Some more updates. 2005-03-15 15:42:11 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
e301334696 * XInclude all the way. 2005-03-15 13:55:41 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
b376565b86 * Manual updates. 2005-03-15 13:21:32 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
7d75616f2c * NEWS and manual update for release 0.7. 2005-01-12 10:27:46 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
015beb7cd0 * Typo: genericBuilder -> genericBuild. 2004-12-17 13:46:07 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
9f8964a062 * More manual fixes. 2004-11-14 10:42:16 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
0b79a12082 * Manual fixes. 2004-11-14 00:24:57 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
54c7a870d5 * Document --delete-generations and other nix-env options. 2004-11-12 23:56:37 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
c2b0d6b02f * Document --eval-only and --parse-only options in nix-instantiate. 2004-11-12 23:22:08 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
32c7326850 * Typos. 2004-11-09 14:06:56 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
b8aaef5e4e * Documented the standard environment, including the generic builder. 2004-11-07 22:12:16 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
2c3b29c5ca * Everything you always wanted to know about functions and derivations
but were afraid to ask.
2004-11-07 20:36:45 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
ea6581b691 * Drop the grammar appendix. 2004-11-07 20:36:10 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
1bac7a10e6 * Operators, comments. 2004-11-07 18:58:49 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
55b35d6d77 * Lets, inheritance, assertions. 2004-11-07 13:53:07 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
0b1ee4802b * Typo fix. 2004-11-05 21:12:23 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
5f0300d18c * Generic builders. 2004-11-05 21:11:01 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
3e9d2038b4 * Start of language reference. 2004-11-05 15:39:30 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
6ca9c7f0a9 * Finished GNU Hello walkthrough. 2004-11-05 13:10:08 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
8b934694f2 * Manual: writing Nix expressions. 2004-11-04 20:21:08 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
5f2c5a306c * chapter -> appendix. 2004-11-02 08:25:29 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
0913f5a615 * Section about channels. 2004-11-01 16:21:37 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
ee5dcfade2 * Section about garbage collection. 2004-11-01 16:03:35 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
cbe8de592d * Profiles section. 2004-11-01 12:02:44 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
b05a596d61 * Document setuid Nix installs. 2004-10-31 17:08:48 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
0d80d237c5 * Add figures to make install' / make dist'. 2004-10-31 16:13:25 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
f8ac8d1ec8 * Began adding build farm docs. 2004-10-29 15:26:26 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
37d7abd694 * New language feature: with expressions.
The expression `with E1; E2' evaluates to E2 with all bindings in
  the attribute set E1 substituted.  E.g.,

    with {x = 123;}; x

  evaluates to 123.  That is, the attribute set E1 is in scope in E2.

  This is particularly useful when importing files containing lots
  definitions.  E.g., instead of

    let {
      inherit (import ./foo.nix) a b c d e f;

      body = ... a ... f ...;
    }

  we can now say

    with import ./foo.nix;

    ... a ... f ...

  I.e., we don't have to say what variables should be brought into scope.
2004-10-25 16:54:56 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
2cd590d96c * Instead of &mdash; use the actual Unicode character. By the way, to
edit the manual, you should have something like

    (modify-coding-system-alist 'file "\\.xml\\>" 'utf-8)

  in your ~/.emacs.
2004-10-18 12:22:14 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
692204e0c5 * Rewrite of package management stuff. 2004-10-14 16:43:09 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
febd8bed1b * Split overview chapter into a chapter on package management and a
chapter on writing Nix expressions.
2004-10-14 11:55:12 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
98c69e5172 * Unindent. 2004-10-14 11:54:41 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
371c57d8a7 * Updated the quick start section. Use channels instead of
downloading Nix expressions and calling nix-pull.  This is so
  user-friendly that even a Mac user can do it! :-)
2004-10-13 15:35:47 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
2b20701f78 * Better introduction.
* Set notes in a different color than warnings.
2004-10-13 15:08:35 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
5396304c73 * Use setre[ug]id() instead of setres[ug]id(), since the former is
more common than the latter (which exists only on Linux and
  FreeBSD).  We don't really care about dropping the saved IDs since
  there apparently is no way to quiry them in any case, so it can't
  influence the build (unlike the effective IDs which are checked by
  Perl for instance).
2004-09-09 15:55:31 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
eb233e728f * `--min-age' flag in nix-store and nix-collect-garbage to only delete
unreachable paths that haven't been used for N hours.  For instance,
  `nix-collect-garbage --min-age 168' only deletes paths that haven't
  been accessed in the last week.

  This is useful for instance in the build farm where many derivations
  can be shared between consecutive builds, and we wouldn't want a
  garbage collect to throw them all away.  We could of course register
  them as roots, but then we'd to unregister them at some point, which
  would be a pain to manage.  The `--min-age' flag gives us a sort of
  MRU caching scheme.

  BUG: this really shouldn't be in gc.cc since that violates
  mechanism/policy separation.
2004-08-25 16:54:08 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
fdec72c6cc * `nix-collect-garbage' now actually performs a garbage collection, it
doesn't just print the set of paths that should be deleted.  So
  there is no more need to pipe the result into `nix-store --delete'
  (which doesn't even exist anymore).
2004-08-25 15:39:13 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
1eddee59f2 * The default verbosity level of all Nix commands is now lvlInfo.
* Builder output is written to standard error by default.
  * The option `-B' is gone.
  * The option `-Q' suppresses builder output.

The result of this is that most Nix invocations shouldn't need any
flags w.r.t. logging.
2004-08-18 12:19:06 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
151e61fa5a * By default, `nix-env -i' now deletes previously installed
derivations with names matching the derivations being installed.
  The option `--preserve-installed / -P' overrides this behaviour.
2004-06-28 14:40:26 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
24286e15c9 * `nix-env -u' now allows a specific version to be specified when
upgrading.

  This fixes a bug reported by Martin:

    $ nix-env -i foo-1.0
    $ nix-env -u foo-1.0
    upgrading foo-1.0 to foo-1.1
2004-06-28 13:37:05 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
91dc023665 * Added a switch `--fallback'. From the manual:
Whenever Nix attempts to realise a derivation for which a closure is
  already known, but this closure cannot be realised, fall back on
  normalising the derivation.

  The most common scenario in which this is useful is when we have
  registered substitutes in order to perform binary distribution from,
  say, a network repository.  If the repository is down, the
  realisation of the derivation will fail.  When this option is
  specified, Nix will build the derivation instead.  Thus, binary
  installation falls back on a source installation.  This option is
  not the default since it is generally not desirable for a transient
  failure in obtaining the substitutes to lead to a full build from
  source (with the related consumption of resources).
2004-06-28 10:42:57 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
b113edeab7 * A flag `--keep-going / -k' to keep building goals if one fails, as
much as possible.  (This is similar to GNU Make's `-k' flag.)

* Refactoring to implement this: previously we just bombed out when
  a build failed, but now we have to clean up.  In particular this
  means that goals must be freed quickly --- they shouldn't hang
  around until the worker exits.  So the worker now maintains weak
  pointers in order not to prevent garbage collection.

* Documented the `-k' and `-j' flags.
2004-06-25 15:36:09 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
bcce9c1ff5 * Only add `-preRELEASE' to the version if STABLE != 1.
* Documented release procedures.
2004-04-26 09:52:06 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
87bf541f23 * Documented the primops. 2004-04-08 15:51:26 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
b0c9baf1b5 * EBNF grammar for the Nix expression language. 2004-04-08 13:31:57 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
92e832348d * Lots of manual stuff. Reference pages for most Nix commands.
* nix-pull now requires the full url to the manifest, i.e.,
  `/MANIFEST/' is no longer automatically appended.
* nix-prefetch-url works again.
2004-02-10 16:14:47 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
0616b7feea * Documented the most important nix-env flags. 2004-02-10 11:51:16 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
66e94d3275 * Improvements to profiles. Generations are now per-profile, e.g.,
default -> default-94-link
  default-82-link -> /nix/store/cc4480...
  default-83-link -> /nix/store/caeec8...
  ...
  default-94-link -> /nix/store/2896ca...
  experimental -> experimental-2-link
  experimental-1-link -> /nix/store/cc4480...
  experimental-2-link -> /nix/store/a3148f...

* `--profile' / `-p' -> `--switch-profile' / `-S'
* `--link' / `-l' -> `--profile' / `-p'
* The default profile is stored in $prefix/var/nix/profiles.
  $prefix/var/nix/links is gone.  Profiles can be stored anywhere.
* The current profile is now referenced from ~/.nix-profile, not
  ~/.nix-userenv.
* The roots to the garbage collector now have extension `.gcroot', not
  `.id'.
2004-02-06 10:30:20 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
d9f30fe7c7 * Sort `nix-env -q' output by derivation name.
* `--version' flag for all commands.
* Manual updates.
2004-02-02 10:51:54 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
c625718513 * Detect flex and bison; updated the manual. 2004-01-30 16:32:14 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
cdb50886f4 * Typos. 2004-01-22 09:35:35 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
3c4bc7276a * Added a note about adding /nix/etc/profile.d/nix.sh to the profile. 2004-01-22 09:17:55 +00:00
Martin Bravenboer
4f72b408a5 Typos and url losser -> catamaran 2004-01-22 08:47:59 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
4db7ef3fcc * Fixed URL. 2004-01-20 17:18:41 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
3778586b2a * Nix Quick Start guide. 2004-01-20 15:37:55 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
8baf50f108 * Manual updates.
* Updated the README.  Now it just refers to the manual.
2004-01-20 11:49:32 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
ff9af107d3 * Option `-B' to always show the output of builders, regardless of
verbosity level.
2004-01-13 16:35:43 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
46a71c857c * Option --force-realise' in nix-store --query'. 2004-01-09 14:18:28 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
30b31a8f61 * Start of nix-env reference.
* Some CSS tweaks.
2004-01-08 16:56:40 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
b594215531 * Manual updates. 2004-01-08 15:01:37 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
5346536b62 * Include version number in manual. 2004-01-08 10:45:23 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
abe8c8c2aa * Include images/ in distribution. 2004-01-07 10:59:38 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
1ff986d51a * book -> manual 2004-01-06 16:38:32 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
2f0b93904b * Install images. 2004-01-06 16:35:07 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
94175e978a * RPM spec file.
* Respect DESTDIR variable.
2003-12-30 20:09:00 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
0a753e182a * Oops. 2003-12-21 22:02:58 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
df7a718786 * Man pages in sections. 2003-12-21 21:57:09 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
00d4f907e1 * Get rid of the icons in warnings etc. 2003-12-03 09:33:03 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
31fd72ee17 * Epigraph ;-) 2003-12-02 16:29:41 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
16d971bce7 * A nice stylesheet for the manual. 2003-12-02 15:36:49 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
905d5b91fa * Manual fixes (thanks to Merijn). 2003-12-01 14:52:51 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
dc05f29cf6 * Manual updates. 2003-11-27 14:58:32 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
7b0e29b4dc * Overview of nix-env. Recommended reading. :-) 2003-11-26 16:09:27 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
62d9b31d0a * Updates. 2003-11-26 14:25:39 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
f6a30ab264 * Updates. 2003-11-26 12:30:16 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
2a4bac5459 * Refactoring.
* Convert tabs to spaces.
2003-11-26 11:24:13 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
bd0ce1a4be * Minor fix. 2003-11-26 10:47:54 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
c38ba181ed * Configure flags to specify the location of the DocBook DTD / stylesheets. 2003-11-26 10:41:21 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
6d5877ea12 * Use --nonet flag to prevent fetching of DTD. 2003-11-25 13:43:48 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
12e805cfb0 * Don't hardcode the path to the DocBook DTD/stylesheets. 2003-11-25 13:06:12 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
56b98c3857 * Some work on the introduction. 2003-08-22 11:29:20 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
2de8504791 * Delete the temporary directories of failed builds by default, and an
option `--keep-failed' to override this behaviour.
2003-08-19 09:04:47 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
161aab582b * Use a catalog when calling xsltproc. 2003-08-14 18:24:40 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
a24cb19361 * Use xmllint instead of nsgmls to validate the manual. 2003-08-14 18:17:02 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
2e16ff22ac * Fix man page. 2003-08-14 11:27:02 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
95b49f8044 * Manual updates. 2003-08-13 15:17:57 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
68022552d2 * Put the pre-built manual and man pages in the tar distribution. 2003-08-13 15:17:36 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
c34a153ae5 * Documented the `--query' operation. 2003-08-13 10:45:01 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
b4f88d0ec3 * Split the book.xml into several xml files. 2003-08-13 09:13:52 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
469f1eba56 * Documented some Nix operations. 2003-08-12 15:06:49 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
e405ca506e * Generate man pages from the manual. 2003-08-12 13:54:42 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
4b7b0bd12c * Started on the introduction. 2003-08-07 15:27:14 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
74867e72f2 * Start of manual; installation instructions. 2003-08-07 14:17:18 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
9f4c19276d * Basic makefile. 2003-07-31 13:13:13 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
64c617e984 * Directories for the manual. 2003-07-30 14:40:18 +00:00