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Valentin Gagarin
e90586c0a4 add motivation for references 2022-08-04 12:37:47 +02:00
Valentin Gagarin
07d490fd89 stores can also delete objects 2022-08-04 12:37:47 +02:00
Valentin Gagarin
5fda995491 formalize file system objects
convention: describe every data type in prose, and illustrate with
a class diagram, and a textual representation of an abstract
data type.

right now we save ourselves the trouble of doing class diagrams, we can
add them later. but they are important.
2022-08-04 12:37:47 +02:00
Valentin Gagarin
fb2ec7e4ec reword section on references
use file Contents instead of Data, as that flows more naturally in the
prose.

simplify explanation of the idea behind scanning for store paths

remove references to unfinished sections.
2022-08-04 12:37:47 +02:00
Valentin Gagarin
90fc5b41a8 reword file system objects
- use singular for the "class"
- more consistency in type definition
- minor fixes in wording
2022-08-04 12:37:47 +02:00
Valentin Gagarin
e5e48593c8 move git comparison to related work
it should be pulled out of the branch before we go for merging
2022-08-04 12:37:47 +02:00
Valentin Gagarin
a145007a57 component -> store object, realisation -> build 2022-08-04 12:37:47 +02:00
Valentin Gagarin
40efe5b30b build instrcution: Task -> function 2022-08-04 12:37:47 +02:00
Valentin Gagarin
ca5ebf6382 revert build plan/step distinction, reorder rows 2022-08-04 12:37:47 +02:00
Valentin Gagarin
610ddf44aa reword introduction to rosetta stone, add links
attempt to explain used and documented terminology, as well as how
the declarative programming paradigm relates to building software.

in the future one could highlight encouraged terms to shape future
material into higher consistency.
2022-08-04 12:37:47 +02:00
Valentin Gagarin
5f96a0b4e8 associated operations are not collected
Co-authored-by: John Ericson <git@JohnEricson.me>
2022-08-04 12:37:47 +02:00
Valentin Gagarin
070c85499b fix grammar
Co-authored-by: John Ericson <git@JohnEricson.me>
2022-08-04 12:37:47 +02:00
Valentin Gagarin
7b5c00f67f add concrete store examples, reword note on file system 2022-08-04 12:37:47 +02:00
Valentin Gagarin
c8c1b705ad reword section on Nix store 2022-08-04 12:37:47 +02:00
Valentin Gagarin
39f01176a7 design -> architecture, add motivation
following ideas found in Architecture of Gazelle[1]

[1]: 56d35f8db0/Design.rst
2022-08-04 12:37:47 +02:00
Valentin Gagarin
d30033759a address Nix language consistently as configuration language 2022-08-04 12:37:46 +02:00
Valentin Gagarin
7598126391 remove separate meta-section, add architecture diagram
the diagram is a first approximation and only covers that same section.
of course there is much more going on, and other features should at some
point also be illustrated.

we also have to think about presentation format and technicalities
behind it. the manual has to render to `man`, but we may want something
more refined for web view.
2022-08-04 12:37:46 +02:00
Valentin Gagarin
34ea74c9ec reword introductory section
there should be a meta section for each chapter to give motivation of
the presented structure. the structure itself is visible from the table
of contents.
2022-08-04 12:37:46 +02:00
Valentin Gagarin
b387d80943 remove sentence for chapter transition
idea: sections could be read in different orders by linking them in
different ways (e.g. depth-first or breadth-first). adding hard-coded
transitions makes that confusing.
2022-08-04 12:37:46 +02:00
John Ericson
89a7c956ff Apply suggestions from code review
Co-authored-by: Valentin Gagarin <valentin@fricklerhandwerk.de>
2022-08-04 12:37:46 +02:00
Valentin Gagarin
51e6bed25e do not mention implementation details
Co-authored-by: John Ericson <git@JohnEricson.me>
2022-08-04 12:37:46 +02:00
Valentin Gagarin
23ee0b24f7 correctly use comma for nesting
Co-authored-by: John Ericson <git@JohnEricson.me>
2022-08-04 12:37:46 +02:00
Valentin Gagarin
804e8bd747 indicate sequence with "then"
Co-authored-by: John Ericson <git@JohnEricson.me>
2022-08-04 12:37:46 +02:00
Valentin Gagarin
327ccd3b07 only use generic build system terminology
we will use a translation table to introduce nix-specific terms
2022-08-04 12:37:46 +02:00
Valentin Gagarin
0eae4bfad1 reword overview with clear terminology
trying to capture alternative terms in one go here, mirroring everyday
use:

derivation - build plan
realise - execute build

there will be more of that sort.
2022-08-04 12:37:46 +02:00
John Ericson
0737094161 Add draft "Rosetta stone" by @fricklerhandwerk and stub commentary
The idea and most of the execution are @fricklerhandwerk's. I changed a
few things best I could based on @edolstra's corrections, and a Bazel
glossary.

Valentin Gagarin <valentin@fricklerhandwerk.de>
2022-08-04 12:37:46 +02:00
John Ericson
c86c1ec7e3 Make refernces sneak preview more concise 2022-08-04 12:37:46 +02:00
John Ericson
4e4bbd9e83 Improve store objects session more 2022-08-04 12:37:46 +02:00
John Ericson
e4eea5e84e Include abstract syntax based on the thesis for FSOs
See https://edolstra.github.io/pubs/phd-thesis.pdf, page 91.
2022-08-04 12:37:46 +02:00
John Ericson
b98dc3b19c store objects, better opining sentances 2022-08-04 12:37:46 +02:00
John Ericson
55b437b551 Improve store path section 2022-08-04 12:37:46 +02:00
John Ericson
b4df351880 Relocability -> relocation in store object title 2022-08-04 12:37:46 +02:00
John Ericson
5f4d2ac091 Improve store object section
In particular, Nix is *not* like Git, so that needs to be fixed.
2022-08-04 12:37:46 +02:00
John Ericson
1bbad62c7d doc: File system data -> file system object, to match Nix 2022-08-04 12:37:46 +02:00
John Ericson
838ba26fda Rename files after store entry -> store object rename 2022-08-04 12:37:46 +02:00
John Ericson
4e2d5ae202 doc: Store entry -> store object
This matches the terminology in Eelco's thesis.
2022-08-04 12:37:46 +02:00
John Ericson
e308602fdf Update doc/manual/src/design/store/drvs/drvs.md
Co-authored-by: Matthieu Coudron <teto@users.noreply.github.com>
2022-08-04 12:37:46 +02:00
John Ericson
cdb0bf3b65 Update doc/manual/src/design/overview.md
Co-authored-by: Valentin Gagarin <valentin@fricklerhandwerk.de>
2022-08-04 12:37:46 +02:00
John Ericson
75c5191a1f Update doc/manual/src/design/overview.md
Co-authored-by: Valentin Gagarin <valentin@fricklerhandwerk.de>
2022-08-04 12:37:46 +02:00
John Ericson
a04340f9a1 Update doc/manual/src/design/overview.md
Co-authored-by: Valentin Gagarin <valentin@fricklerhandwerk.de>
2022-08-04 12:37:46 +02:00
John Ericson
f5386d7059 Fix stub file's name 2022-08-04 12:37:46 +02:00
John Ericson
678d75baea Start on the derivations section 2022-08-04 12:37:46 +02:00
John Ericson
e3a0209a9e Move the bits on relocating store entires to the end
They are too advanced for up front.
2022-08-04 12:37:46 +02:00
John Ericson
a210504bc7 Apply suggestions from code review 2022-08-04 12:37:46 +02:00
John Ericson
e64633f98f Flesh out TOC 2022-08-04 12:37:46 +02:00
John Ericson
a2b3160f28 Briefly describe the digest of a store path 2022-08-04 12:37:46 +02:00
John Ericson
523359d133 WIP: Document the design of Nix
The current docs are all "how to do things" and no "what is Nix" or "why
are things the way they are".

I see lots of misconception on the wider internet, and I also think we
would benefit from a "living document" to answer some questions people
currently turn to the thesis for.

I think a new section of the manual can address all these issues.
2022-08-04 12:37:46 +02:00
Valentin Gagarin
499ed26508 manual: remove "Writing Nix Expressions" chapter
it is out of date, all over the place in level of detail, is really
about `nixpkgs`, and in general instructions should not be part of
a reference manual.

also:
- update redirects and internal links
- use "Nix language" consistently
2022-08-04 11:59:25 +02:00
Théophane Hufschmitt
7d1ccd9105
Merge pull request #6846 from fricklerhandwerk/values
manual: use subheadings for primitive types
2022-08-03 14:50:41 +02:00
Théophane Hufschmitt
c55bea4204 Fix the html id of the list headers 2022-08-03 14:16:00 +02:00
Valentin Gagarin
ceed4d4142 encode primitive as list with anchors
to make it consistent with builtins and configuration options
2022-08-03 11:25:41 +02:00
K900
f675ba5331
doc/distributed-builds: don't use deprecated alias
`nix ping-store` -> `nix store ping`.
2022-08-01 13:50:35 +03:00
Valentin Gagarin
27138f1ec6
manual: use singular in body, too
Co-authored-by: Cole Helbling <cole.e.helbling@outlook.com>
2022-07-28 23:30:07 +02:00
Valentin Gagarin
41a3b315fd manual: values -> data types 2022-07-28 17:25:25 +02:00
Valentin Gagarin
8f4fab8fab manual: use singular for headings 2022-07-28 17:25:18 +02:00
Valentin Gagarin
4ff48854b8 manual: simple values -> primitives
"simple" is a loaded term
2022-07-28 17:23:57 +02:00
Valentin Gagarin
3063e5b94c manual: use subheadings for primitive types
this gives us HTML anchors for each of them
2022-07-28 17:23:57 +02:00
Valentin Gagarin
85cdaebcd6 manual: set -> attribute set
reword description to have shorter sentences.
2022-07-28 16:10:24 +02:00
Valentin Gagarin
be4654c344 manual: fix section title in table of contents 2022-07-28 15:55:41 +02:00
Théophane Hufschmitt
7ed91d6c6a
Merge branch 'master' into parallel-nix-copy 2022-07-20 10:05:34 +02:00
John Ericson
12461e246b Leverage existing docs for new store-path^outputs syntax 2022-07-15 14:04:22 +00:00
John Ericson
279ecf7cde Remove computed-derivations experimental feature
We don't need it yet.
2022-07-15 13:42:17 +00:00
John Ericson
6cafe308c9 Merge remote-tracking branch 'upstream/master' into indexed-store-path-outputs 2022-07-14 16:15:37 -04:00
Eelco Dolstra
28e913c605 Branch 2.10 release notes 2022-07-11 21:10:23 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra
545383208e
Merge pull request #6777 from laalsaas/master
Fix logical and typographical errors in nix-env man page
2022-07-11 13:52:40 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra
517ce38dad Update release notes 2022-07-11 11:17:19 +02:00
laalsaas
eac211a171 Fix logical and typographical errors in nix-env man page 2022-07-10 12:30:17 +02:00
Théophane Hufschmitt
6fa95c35c7
Add a release notes entry for #4914
cc @gytis-ivaskevicius
2022-07-06 06:46:54 +02:00
Travis A. Everett
649c9d9b4c doc: acknowledge post-rsync reality
Before #5150 the copy-to-store phase of the install was idempotent,
but the recursive cp isn't. This is probably baiting a few people
into trying corrective installs that will fail.
2022-06-30 13:31:04 -05:00
Travis A. Everett
fe76b9f4b4 doc: fix some darwin uninstall gaps 2022-06-16 09:37:52 -05:00
Tom Bereknyei
51268ceb79 Merge branch 'master' into nix-repl-flakes 2022-06-15 09:17:03 -04:00
tomberek
dae4a8a6c8
Apply suggestions from code review
Co-authored-by: Théophane Hufschmitt <7226587+thufschmitt@users.noreply.github.com>
2022-06-15 09:02:36 -04:00
Hugo Osvaldo Barrera
fd7f795750 Add disambiguation to man page
This should help future lost newcomers like myself understand where to
find the docs for both of these commands and how they differ.
2022-06-14 18:13:35 +02:00
Travis A. Everett
edfcc8256e doc: add install test info to hacking.md 2022-06-11 13:30:51 -05:00
Théophane Hufschmitt
34d90fbe22 Mention the parallel copy in the release notes 2022-06-08 15:25:52 +02:00
Tom Bereknyei
ffd41d1757 Merge branch 'master' into nix-repl-flakes 2022-06-02 16:58:35 -04:00
John Ericson
b585548dfe Merge remote-tracking branch 'upstream/master' into indexed-store-path-outputs 2022-06-02 19:53:11 +00:00
Théophane Hufschmitt
a5f7b934bd
Merge branch 'master' into lto 2022-06-01 17:55:03 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra
04a699b8a9
Typo 2022-05-31 10:38:03 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra
de13b44573
Branch 2.9 release notes 2022-05-30 20:42:55 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra
8e8e9d8705
Respect the outputSpecified attribute
E.g. 'nix build nixpkgs#libxml2.dev' will build the 'dev' output.
2022-05-30 11:34:47 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra
d67a2ae52d
Merge branch 'doc-redirects' of https://github.com/jtojnar/nix 2022-05-27 11:12:41 +02:00
Jan Tojnar
26d1877d6e doc: Add redirects for the DocBook manual
There are still many links to the old manual on the web and
having them end up on the Introduction page is a bad user experience.
2022-05-26 18:17:21 +02:00
Jan Tojnar
a793863b97 doc: Manually insert some anchors 2022-05-26 18:17:21 +02:00
Jan Tojnar
7708a34a51 doc: Add anchors to long lists
Added using the following sed scripts:

- For command-ref/opt-common.md:

    s~- `(--?)([^`]+)`~- [`\1\2`]{#opt-\2}~g

- For expressions/builtin-constants.md:

    s~- `(builtins\.?)([^`]+)`~- [`\1\2`]{#builtins-\2}~g

- For expressions/advanced-attributes.md

    s~^  - `([^`]+)`~  - [`\1`]{#adv-attr-\1}~g

  and manually adjusted outputHashAlgo & outputHashMode.

- For glossary.md

    s~^  - (`([^`]+)`|(.+)) ?\\~  - [\1]{#gloss-\2\3}\\~g;
    s~(gloss-\w+) ~\1-~g

  and manually adjusted anchors for Nix expression, user environment, NAR, ∅ and ε.

- For command-ref/env-common.md

    s~^  - `([^`]+)`~  - [`\1`]{#env-\1}~g'
2022-05-26 18:17:21 +02:00
Jan Tojnar
3272afa17b doc: Port anchors preprocessor to jq script
Python is only pulled into the build closure by Mercurial, which might end up being removed.
Let’s port the script to jq, which is more likely to stay.
2022-05-26 18:17:21 +02:00
Jan Tojnar
4de84e095d doc: Introduce pre-processor for adding anchors to text
It is now possible to use the following syntax to insert anchors into the text:

    []{#anchor-name}

The anchor will allow linking to the location it is placed by appending #anchor-name to the URL.

Additionally, it is possible to create a link pointing to its own location by adding text between the square brackets:

    [`--add-root`]{#opt-add-root}
2022-05-26 17:54:15 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra
8f4548d401
Tweak IN_NIX_SHELL description 2022-05-26 12:40:01 +02:00
Ben Burdette
9a5ea6c359
Merge branch 'master' into debug-exploratory-PR 2022-05-25 10:41:10 -06:00
Ben Burdette
6031a36208 add --debugger to rl-next list 2022-05-25 10:38:13 -06:00
pennae
b092afe77d
Merge branch 'master' into lto 2022-05-25 11:55:13 +00:00
Tom Bereknyei
82c4af41e3 repl: clarify change and usage of <nixpkgs> 2022-05-20 01:49:49 -04:00
Tony Olagbaiye
5b8c1deb18 fetchTree: Allow fetching plain files
Add a new `file` fetcher type, which will fetch a plain file over
http(s), or from the local file.

Because plain `http(s)://` or `file://` urls can already correspond to
`tarball` inputs (if the path ends-up with a know archive extension),
the URL parsing logic is a bit convuluted in that:

- {http,https,file}:// urls will be interpreted as either a tarball or a
  file input, depending on the extensions of the path part (so
  `https://foo.com/bar` will be a `file` input and
  `https://foo.com/bar.tar.gz` as a `tarball` input)
- `file+{something}://` urls will be interpreted as `file` urls (with
  the `file+` part removed)
- `tarball+{something}://` urls will be interpreted as `tarball` urls (with
  the `tarball+` part removed)

Fix #3785

Co-Authored-By: Tony Olagbaiye <me@fron.io>
2022-05-19 18:24:49 +02:00
Tom Bereknyei
1ca3f6035d repl: update docs with installables 2022-05-18 21:21:38 -04:00
John Ericson
b18720ee17 Merge remote-tracking branch 'upstream/master' into indexed-store-path-outputs 2022-05-12 19:13:33 +00:00
Théophane Hufschmitt
65a913d29b Don’t recommend writing unit tests
As asked in <https://github.com/NixOS/nix/pull/6517#discussion_r869416905>
2022-05-12 12:02:31 +02:00
Théophane Hufschmitt
7c75f1d52b Expand the testing section of the hacking docs
- Make it clear what the different kind of tests are, where they live
  and how they can be ran
- Ask people to primarily write unit tests
2022-05-10 13:35:23 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra
4a79cba511 Allow selecting derivation outputs using 'installable!outputs'
E.g. 'nixpkgs#glibc^dev,static' or 'nixpkgs#glibc^*'.
2022-05-03 13:43:52 +02:00
Guillaume Maudoux
9ff892aad4 Add release notes for error traces revamp 2022-04-29 11:24:48 +02:00
pennae
d6d6bbd9ef
Merge branch 'master' into lto 2022-04-25 14:02:37 +00:00
midchildan
c67d8876c3
feat: add integration with zsh's run-help 2022-04-25 02:21:41 +09:00
Théophane Hufschmitt
be28603dca Merge remote-tracking branch 'origin/master' into nixbuildaddprintstorepaths 2022-04-22 11:11:01 +02:00
Tom Bereknyei
f25112d383 fix: builtins.toFile adds path to allowedPaths
The produced path is then allowed be imported or utilized elsewhere:
```
assert (43 == import (builtins.toFile "source" "43")); "good"
```

This will still fail on write-only stores.
2022-04-21 16:41:37 -04:00
Artturin
51cfea8bb0 nix build: add --print-out-paths flag
has the same functionality as default nix-build

$ nix-build . -A "bash" -A "bash.dev" -A "tinycc"
/nix/store/4nmqxajzaf60yjribkgvj5j54x9yvr1r-bash-5.1-p12
/nix/store/c49i1ggnr5cc8gxmk9xm0cn961z104dn-bash-5.1-p12-dev
/nix/store/dbapb08862ajgaax3621fz8hly9fdah3-tcc-0.9.27+date=2022-01-11

$ nix-build . -A "bash"
/nix/store/4nmqxajzaf60yjribkgvj5j54x9yvr1r-bash-5.1-p12

$ $HOME/nixgits/nix/result/bin/nix build "nixpkgs#bash" "nixpkgs#bash.dev" "nixpkgs#tinycc" --print-out-paths
/nix/store/4nmqxajzaf60yjribkgvj5j54x9yvr1r-bash-5.1-p12
/nix/store/c49i1ggnr5cc8gxmk9xm0cn961z104dn-bash-5.1-p12-dev
/nix/store/dbapb08862ajgaax3621fz8hly9fdah3-tcc-0.9.27+date=2022-01-11

$ $HOME/nixgits/nix/result/bin/nix build "nixpkgs#bash" --print-out-paths
/nix/store/4nmqxajzaf60yjribkgvj5j54x9yvr1r-bash-5.1-p12
2022-04-20 19:35:46 +03:00
ckie
0e2b01b14e
nix repl: make symlinks with the :bl command
Requested by ppepino on the Matrix:
https://matrix.to/#/!KqkRjyTEzAGRiZFBYT:nixos.org/$Tb32BS3rVE2BSULAX4sPm0h6CDewX2hClOTGzTC7gwM?via=nixos.org&via=matrix.org&via=nixos.dev

This adds a new command, :bl, which works like :b but also creates
a GC root symlink to the various derivation outputs.

ckie@cookiemonster ~/git/nix -> ./outputs/out/bin/nix repl
Welcome to Nix 2.6.0. Type :? for help.

nix-repl> :l <nixpkgs>
Added 16118 variables.

nix-repl> :b runCommand "hello" {} "echo hi > $out"

This derivation produced the following outputs:
  ./repl-result-out -> /nix/store/kidqq2acdpi05c4a9mlbg2baikmzik44-hello
[1 built, 0.0 MiB DL]
ckie@cookiemonster ~/git/nix -> cat ./repl-result-out
hi
2022-04-20 00:20:29 +03:00
John Ericson
6b61d7722d Merge remote-tracking branch 'upstream/master' into indexed-store-path-outputs 2022-04-19 20:30:12 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
1cdad1074c Move rl-next.md to rl-2.8.md 2022-04-19 21:12:33 +02:00
John Ericson
41e755bee4 Merge remote-tracking branch 'upstream/master' into indexed-store-path-outputs 2022-04-19 15:14:06 +00:00
Tom Bereknyei
9b41239d8f fix: ensure apps are apps and packages are packages 2022-04-14 23:57:52 -04:00
John Ericson
fda2224b59 Add release notes mark experimental 2022-04-07 19:45:38 +00:00
Rehno Lindeque
5ff4c42608 Update release notes 2022-04-06 12:24:35 -04:00
Eelco Dolstra
71c07ac0e7
Merge pull request #6363 from thufschmitt/definition-list-in-nix.conf-manual
Add anchors to the nix.conf options in the manual
2022-04-05 17:32:48 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra
f98d76ff1a rl-2.7.md: Fix title 2022-04-05 14:13:26 +02:00
Théophane Hufschmitt
660c19eb49 manual: Add some anchor targets for the nix.conf options
For each `nix.conf` option, add an empty html node with a unique `id`
that can be used as an anchor target. Also make the name of the option
be a link to that target so that it’s easily discoverable.

We can’t rewrite the whole list as an html definition list like it’s
done for the builtins because these options also appear in a man page,
and the manpage renderer (lowdown) can’t render arbitrary html. But the
hack here allows to keep the manpage and have the links in the html
version.

Fix https://github.com/NixOS/nix/issues/5745
2022-04-05 13:50:42 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra
d63a5f5dd3 Update release notes 2022-03-31 17:33:06 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra
86b05ccd54 Only provide builtin.{getFlake,fetchClosure} is the corresponding experimental feature is enabled
This allows writing fallback code like

  if builtins ? fetchClosure then
    builtins.fetchClose { ... }
  else
    builtins.storePath ...
2022-03-25 14:04:18 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra
98658ae9d2 Document fetchClosure 2022-03-24 21:33:33 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra
5acaf13d35 Rename 'nix store make-content-addressable' to 'nix store make-content-addressed' 2022-03-24 21:33:33 +01:00
Domen Kožar
98ce1a21b7
Merge pull request #6144 from toonn/doc-macos-uninstall
doc: Add detailed uninstall section for macOS
2022-03-23 08:53:48 +01:00
Théophane Hufschmitt
7117053457
Merge pull request #6270 from Artturin/stdineval
nix: allow using --file - to read from stdin
2022-03-17 14:35:01 +01:00
Artturin
a5c969db49 nix: allow using --file - to read from stdin 2022-03-16 21:01:51 +02:00
Joachim Breitner
af013281c9
distributed-builds.md: fixing typo of the most minor sort 2022-03-16 12:53:38 +01:00
pennae
f2603e9c92
Merge branch 'master' into lto 2022-03-10 00:32:34 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
ad7c99ef20 Move rl-next.md to rl-2.7.md 2022-03-07 20:10:18 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra
0123b9aec8 Tweak release notes 2022-03-07 19:56:10 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra
30ddd37873 Merge branch 'cli-suggestions' of https://github.com/thufschmitt/nix 2022-03-07 19:47:45 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra
c28e2b1b29 Tweak release notes 2022-03-07 11:30:40 +01:00
regnat
b44cebd1fd Add a release-notes entry for the cli suggestions 2022-03-07 10:09:10 +01:00
pennae
2799fe4cdb enable LTO in optimized builds
gives 2-5% performance improvement across a board of tests.
LTO is broken when using clang; some libs link fine while others crash
the linker with a segfault in the llvm linker plugin. 🙁
2022-03-03 17:47:49 +01:00
toonn
947d4761b3
doc: Add removal of darwin-store LaunchDaemon
The uninstall instructions used to accidentally remove the nix-darwin
LaunchDaemon, this was dropped. However, the original intent was to
remove the Store volume mounting LaunchDaemon.
2022-02-26 14:16:35 +01:00
toonn
2df23e2b3e
doc: Drop nix-darwin service from macOS uninstall 2022-02-25 10:50:01 +01:00
toonn
064cad7e9f
doc: Add macOS uninstall note about /nix
Clarify that `/nix` being present after the uninstall is normal and it
will only disappear after a reboot.

Co-authored-by: Travis A. Everett <travis.a.everett@gmail.com>
2022-02-25 10:32:45 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra
59683733f5
Merge pull request #6089 from edolstra/dot-default
Replace defaultBla.$system with bla.$system.default
2022-02-24 21:16:58 +01:00
Guillaume Desforges
cfbf9ee2ce Anchor with prefix 2022-02-24 13:50:50 +01:00
Guillaume Desforges
6462ee61c7 Anchor link for builtin functions in HTML doc 2022-02-23 15:07:01 +01:00
Guillaume Desforges
2cc645a91a Add html make target 2022-02-23 15:06:13 +01:00
Théophane Hufschmitt
54f07b66c8
Precise the doc for --include-outputs
Make it explicit that it only includes the existing outputs and not the ones that haven’t been realised
2022-02-23 09:17:08 +01:00
toonn
400d70a3a9
doc: Add detailed uninstall section for macOS
The multi-user installation on macOS, which is now the only option, has
gotten complicated enough that it discourages some users from checking
Nix out for fear of being left with a "dirty" system. Detailed
uninstallation instructions should make this less of an issue.
2022-02-22 16:28:24 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra
38eea2c503 Update release notes 2022-02-22 14:23:39 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra
26e99c817c
Merge pull request #6114 from Radvendii/welcomeText
add release notes for welcomeText
2022-02-18 10:52:03 +01:00
Taeer Bar-Yam
219fa2e43d add release notes for welcomeText 2022-02-17 15:17:20 -05:00
Rahul Butani
d82cf4a016
manual: fix formatting for options with "machine-specific" defaults 2022-02-15 15:44:05 -06:00
tomberek
2bf96bd9f2
Merge branch 'master' into bundler_drv 2022-01-28 10:18:29 -05:00
Eelco Dolstra
35dbdbedd4 nix store ping: Report Nix daemon version
Fixes #5952.
2022-01-25 21:15:58 +01:00
Tom Bereknyei
dc85e20684 bundler: notes and doc update to include bundlers repo 2022-01-25 03:48:44 -05:00
Eelco Dolstra
9faad4c5eb Move rl-next.md to rl-2.5.md 2022-01-25 00:11:00 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra
edf0cde1a7
Merge pull request #5960 from zombiezen/patch-1
Correct `NIX_BUILD_PATH` default description
2022-01-24 12:46:43 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra
3782017272 Tweak release notes 2022-01-24 12:45:35 +01:00
Ross Light
7477974b93
Correct NIX_BUILD_PATH default description
Source: 067076287b/src/nix-build/nix-build.cc (L362-L381)
2022-01-21 18:45:19 -08:00
Rok Garbas
d463e11760
Adding docs regarding the docker image from master 2022-01-21 14:50:34 +01:00
lincoln auster [they/them]
7d4f86f032 release-notes: document commit-lockfile-summary option
This documents 3023c7700.
2022-01-18 16:10:44 -07:00
Eelco Dolstra
4dda1f92aa Add command 'nix store copy-log'
Fixes #5222.
2022-01-18 14:08:49 +01:00
Théophane Hufschmitt
dc4730ee94
Merge pull request #5720 from tomberek/flake_search
flakes: search up to git or filesystem boundary
2022-01-18 10:59:12 +01:00
tomberek
2dead20924
Apply suggestions from code review
Co-authored-by: Théophane Hufschmitt <7226587+thufschmitt@users.noreply.github.com>
2022-01-14 09:16:34 -05:00
Eelco Dolstra
5e9653c370 Tweak 2022-01-13 14:33:41 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra
66424cd29f Merge branch 'patch-1' of https://github.com/TheodorRene/nix 2022-01-13 14:31:49 +01:00
Profpatsch
a51c457204 Release Notes 2.4: add --indirect no-op change
Since
00d25e8457
which was first included in nix 2.4.

It is a backwards-compatible change since the flag will just be
ignored.
2022-01-12 23:19:15 +01:00
Theodor René Carlsen
89b4df8d92
Add link to explanation when introducing a new operator
The logical implication operator is included in this section but never explained. It might stump new readers with a pretty uncommon operator, and it's never referenced explicitly.
2022-01-11 17:01:43 +01:00
pennae
00c993f48b add zipAttrsWith primop
nixpkgs can save a good bit of eval memory with this primop. zipAttrsWith is
used quite a bit around nixpkgs (eg in the form of recursiveUpdate), but the
most costly application for this primop is in the module system. it improves
the implementation of zipAttrsWith from nixpkgs by not checking an attribute
multiple times if it occurs more than once in the input list, allocates less
values and set elements, and just avoids many a temporary object in general.

nixpkgs has a more generic version of this operation, zipAttrsWithNames, but
this version is only used once so isn't suitable for being the base of a new
primop. if it were to be used more we should add a second primop instead.
2022-01-03 21:05:53 +01:00
Alexander Bantyev
a26351da02
Add ability to toggle show-trace from within the repl 2021-12-29 02:54:36 +03:00
tomberek
f404189368
Merge branch 'master' into flake_search 2021-12-23 15:22:52 -05:00
Eelco Dolstra
881b610266 Update release notes 2021-12-21 14:19:21 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra
c260640dec Fix docker instructions 2021-12-16 21:48:38 +01:00
jesse
11ee875a6d List aarch64 as supported macOS hardware
Resolves #5767
2021-12-15 10:55:34 -08:00
Théophane Hufschmitt
6234e1c811
Merge pull request #5702 from baloo/baloo/hide-non-reproducible-settings
reproducibility: hide non-reproducible settings from manual
2021-12-14 09:14:25 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra
18cb094aab rl-2.5.md: Set date 2021-12-13 19:57:06 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra
f133001dc8 Move rl-next.md to rl-2.5.md 2021-12-13 16:48:44 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra
3f417c8d1c Add release notes entry for #5149 2021-12-13 16:43:42 +01:00
Janne Heß
4194b68250
doc: Fix command for distributed builds
We also need to build impurely or the <nixpkgs> lookup will not work.
2021-12-10 12:58:12 +01:00
Amon Stopinšek
0bd93ed747
Fix link to nixos channel
The old link returned 404 errror.
2021-12-09 16:44:24 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
167e864697
Merge pull request #5730 from abathur/darwin_document_fstab_settings
document some darwin mount settings
2021-12-07 22:24:40 +01:00
Alexander Bantyev
33926ed1e7
nix repl: add :log
Add a :log command that shows logs for a derivation.

Closes https://github.com/NixOS/nix/issues/3504

Co-authored-by: Taeer Bar-Yam <taeer@bar-yam.me>
2021-12-06 16:52:50 +03:00
Travis A. Everett
8093456111 document some darwin mount settings 2021-12-04 23:16:42 -06:00
Tom Bereknyei
b6cc0a704d flakes: search up to git or filesystem boundary
While parsing a flakeref, upon not finding a flake.nix, search upwards
until git or filesystem boundary.
2021-12-03 10:55:30 -05:00
Eelco Dolstra
2e606e87c4
Merge pull request #5715 from Infinisil/groupBy-primop
Introduce `builtins.groupBy` primop
2021-12-03 13:21:14 +01:00
David Purdum
69b9198875
Fix docker command
`docker -ti run nixos` does not run on docker version 20.10.7 (my machine).  This fixes it to read `docker run -ti nixos`.
2021-12-02 23:38:33 -05:00
Silvan Mosberger
90700736c7 Introduce builtins.groupBy primop
This function is very useful in nixpkgs, but its implementation in Nix
itself is rather slow due to it requiring a lot of attribute set and
list appends.
2021-12-02 21:54:51 +01:00
Arthur Gautier
21520297da reproducibility: hide non-reproducible settings from manual
Because the manual is generated from default values which are themselves
generated from various sources (cpuid, bios settings (kvm), number of
cores). This commit hides non-reproducible settings from the manual
output.
2021-12-01 17:25:58 +01:00
Eli Flanagan
092c375cda
Update doc/manual/src/glossary.md
Co-authored-by: Eelco Dolstra <edolstra@gmail.com>
2021-11-30 13:19:42 -05:00
Eli Flanagan
a473e85c80
docs: document set theory symbols
These symbols confused me so I wanted to gloss them to help future users. You can see the context here: https://discourse.nixos.org/t/flakes-what-does-mean-big-bundle-of-questions
2021-11-30 11:13:46 -05:00
Eelco Dolstra
b96164f4af Merge remote-tracking branch 'origin/build-with-clang' 2021-11-30 11:50:56 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra
ddf4fb750d
Merge pull request #5678 from t184256/document-libsodium
Document libsodium, which is now mandatory, as a dependency.
2021-11-29 11:11:10 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra
99804465af
Merge pull request #5679 from t184256/optional-libcpuid
Document libcpuid dependency and make it optional
2021-11-29 11:10:42 +01:00
Alexander Sosedkin
a9bd06d0ea Make libcpuid dependency optional with --disable-cpuid 2021-11-28 00:52:35 +01:00
Alexander Sosedkin
b73a1c0638 Document libcpuid dependency 2021-11-28 00:52:35 +01:00
Alexander Sosedkin
33a227503a Document libsodium, which is now mandatory, as a dependency 2021-11-27 23:11:11 +01:00
Tom Bereknyei
152e3cda0c reproducibility: determinstic man page output for cores 2021-11-26 10:55:43 -05:00
Pamplemousse
288c252570 Documentation: alternative stdenv for hacking
Signed-off-by: Pamplemousse <xav.maso@gmail.com>
2021-11-26 10:04:56 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra
986906e687 Update names 2021-11-25 17:09:11 +01:00
Silvan Mosberger
09471d2680 Make lists be comparable
Makes lists comparable using lexicographic comparison.

Increments builtins.langVersion in order for this change to be
detectable
2021-11-24 13:40:46 +01:00
Lorenz Leutgeb
e1192116d3
doc: Fix escape for operator "logical or"
See https://matrix.to/#/!KqkRjyTEzAGRiZFBYT:nixos.org/$hhMb6AdRIXfRkv_LsNsiQJuch7AQ_b6szr4tfawFy-4
2021-11-18 15:08:01 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra
e88fb63e28
Merge pull request #5585 from jtojnar/env-a
doc: De-emphasize nix-env without -A
2021-11-18 14:34:45 +01:00
Jan Tojnar
ca4d8ce9e2 doc: De-emphasize nix-env without -A
The manual uses `nix-env -i` without `-A` prominently, teaching a bad practice to newcomers.
2021-11-17 17:04:25 +01:00
Jan Tojnar
e96faadcd6 Fix XDG_CONFIG_DIRS fallback
According to XDG Base Directory Specification,
it should fall back to /etc/xdg when the env var is not present.
2021-11-17 14:31:15 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra
51ffc19f02 Merge branch 'add-docker-image-to-hydra-jobs' of https://github.com/garbas/nix 2021-11-16 13:00:54 +01:00
Kevin Amado
eae54f2d52
fix many doc typos 2021-11-13 22:28:20 -05:00
Rok Garbas
a118a70649
Documenting how to use/build Nix' Docker image 2021-11-11 16:07:01 +01:00
Théo Zimmermann
d589782fb0
Fix some typos in CLI guideline. 2021-11-08 08:24:15 +01:00
Jan Tojnar
e5d4c2235f
docs: Correct fallback user config path
This is in line with XDG Base Directory Specification, where ~/.config is supposed to be used when XDG_CONFIG_HOME is unset.

It also better matches the reality, where ~/.config/nix.conf does not seem to be used.
2021-11-04 11:41:29 +01:00
Dimitris Apostolou
c34cc5e488
Fix typos 2021-11-03 18:11:20 +02:00
Simon Legner
1968760f4a
command-ref/nix-shell: fix --pure, --keep 2021-11-02 22:00:08 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra
b61b307bad Remove references to building from the source tarball 2021-11-02 15:29:47 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra
6a93e186f4 Fix 2.4 migration examples 2021-11-01 22:44:07 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra
bc4b7521f4 Rename rl-2.5.md to rl-next.md
Having a generically named file for release notes for the next release
makes things easier for PRs.
2021-10-28 14:36:47 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra
9c6ac9eb0e 2.4 release notes: Add some migration notes 2021-10-27 17:33:32 +02:00
Domen Kožar
51c812d6bb
Merge pull request #5365 from arafangion/master
Clarify that not all nix packages will use the default build phases
2021-10-17 20:54:00 -05:00
John Chapman
ffeec5f283 Clarify that not all nix packages will use the default build phases 2021-10-17 15:24:22 +11:00
Eelco Dolstra
4c0cde95ad Update release notes 2021-10-13 11:39:54 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra
2f3c79c241 Mention compression-level in the release notes 2021-10-13 11:11:26 +02:00
John Chapman
4cff413054 Clarify that not all nix packages will use the default build phases 2021-10-09 12:03:34 +11:00
Eelco Dolstra
844dd901a7 Start 2.5 release notes 2021-10-07 20:09:03 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra
f45b30de2f Revert "docs: add troubleshooting session in remote builds"
This reverts commit 0574c1850a.
2021-10-06 17:12:52 +02:00
Domen Kožar
d0cc6a192a
Merge pull request #5095 from happysalada/update_remote_builds_docs
docs: add troubleshooting session in remote builds
2021-10-06 08:10:53 -05:00
happysalada
0574c1850a docs: add troubleshooting session in remote builds 2021-10-06 21:47:53 +09:00
Eelco Dolstra
08aa7daee0 Remove links to .md files in help output
Fixes #5337.
2021-10-06 13:01:18 +02:00
Rafal Gwozdzinski
a73f855bd4 Fix typo 2021-10-03 12:19:59 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra
0e3b8ca767 Typo 2021-10-01 16:32:07 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra
43221bb319 Comments 2021-10-01 16:29:53 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra
91b39eee25
Typo
Co-authored-by: Sebastian Ullrich <sebasti@nullri.ch>
2021-10-01 14:18:07 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra
5e222ac18b Release notes 2021-09-30 17:36:09 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra
8fdb1d057a Quiet 2021-09-22 14:12:31 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra
49a932fb18 nix --help: Display help using lowdown instead of man
Fixes #4476.
Fixes #5231.
2021-09-13 14:45:21 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra
25b6b74175 Manual: Link to 2.4 release notes 2021-09-09 15:01:36 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra
ff03fb6743 Manual: Depend on all *.md files 2021-09-09 15:01:19 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra
7ee639f9db
Merge pull request #5066 from Radvendii/master
add antiquotations to paths
2021-09-01 12:55:04 +02:00
Taeer Bar-Yam
b2beb97f2a add documentation for path antiquotations 2021-08-31 08:17:17 -04:00
Sergei Trofimovich
33fa5f3cd9 doc/manual/local.mk: fix 'make install DESTDIR=...'
Install failure is observed when we try to install
into inplace location as non-root:

```
$ LANG=C make install DESTDIR=$PWD/__i__ V=1
RUST_LOG=warn mdbook build doc/manual -d /usr/share/doc/nix/manual
2021-08-28 13:29:58 [ERROR] (mdbook::utils): Error: Rendering failed
2021-08-28 13:29:58 [ERROR] (mdbook::utils):    Caused By: Unexpected error when constructing destination path
2021-08-28 13:29:58 [ERROR] (mdbook::utils):    Caused By: Permission denied (os error 13)
make: *** [doc/manual/local.mk:98: /usr/share/doc/nix/manual/index.html] Error 101
```

The change is to prefix paths with `$(DESTDIR)`.
2021-08-28 13:31:34 +01:00
Pamplemousse
0e7bd65976 15f4d4f Documentation follow-up 2021-08-19 09:40:47 -07:00
Eelco Dolstra
d64f9671fc
Merge pull request #5094 from Pamplemousse/simpler_doc
doc/manual: don't need to copy `highlight.js` manually
2021-08-05 15:13:07 +02:00
Pamplemousse
de39cfb9f3 doc/manual: don't need to copy highlight.js manually
Signed-off-by: Pamplemousse <xav.maso@gmail.com>
2021-08-04 19:47:05 -07:00
regnat
441be5d59a Remove dead code in doc’s local.mk 2021-07-27 14:37:55 +02:00
regnat
cd6e9eb024 Fix the generation of nix3 manpages
- Separate the generation of the manpages from their installation
- Make sure that `make` generates the manpages
- Make sure that `make install` installs them

Fix #5051
2021-07-27 13:47:53 +02:00
regnat
c5f5d615a6 Cleanup the generation of the nix3 manpages
Use a dedicated make target for the man page rather than bundling the
generation as part of `install`.
Also make sure that `make install` is a fixpoint by

- Removing the generated markdown files from `MANUAL_SRCS`
- Not having the manpage generation write in its source directory so as
  to not update its timestamp (it would run each time otherwise)
2021-07-19 16:55:56 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra
f1ecd30bd5
Merge pull request #4773 from alyssais/dl
doc: builtins: use a definition list
2021-07-05 14:03:15 +02:00
Keshav Kini
f35f9af787 Improve explanation of NIX_PATH prefix syntax
The previous wording seemed to imply that the "channel:" syntax would resolve to
a github archive URL, which is not the case.
2021-06-03 17:59:39 -07:00
Linus Heckemann
a3553cdae8 doc/nix-shell: Remove outdated bashrc information
This behaviour was removed in 65f6d5db6f.
2021-05-11 14:33:35 +02:00
Alyssa Ross
5f07f2ff2b
doc: builtins: use a definition list
This looks a lot better (and is also more semantically meaningful).

Since this list is generated in a Nix expression, I don't think using
HTML here is going to be the thing that puts people off modifying this
part of the documentation!
2021-05-05 14:34:46 +00:00
Graham Christensen
d15a1962cb
Merge pull request #4289 from abathur/encrypt_darwin_volume
darwin: encrypt nix volume if filevault is enabled
2021-04-29 15:59:12 -04:00
Travis A. Everett
eab14a642c darwin: encrypt nix volume if filevault is enabled 2021-04-29 13:26:51 -05:00
Eelco Dolstra
fe2bf464cf Merge branch 'remove-trailing-spaces' of github.com:NixOS/nix 2021-04-23 15:09:44 +02:00
regnat
31313d1401 Replace the trailing markdown spaces by a backslash
They are equivalent according to
<https://spec.commonmark.org/0.29/#hard-line-breaks>,
and the trailing spaces tend to be a pain (because the make git
complain, editors tend to want to remove them − the `.editorconfig`
actually specifies that − etc..).
2021-04-23 14:37:21 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra
3996ca42cf
Merge pull request #4735 from NixOS/document-ca-derivations
(briefly) document how to build ca derivations
2021-04-23 14:21:25 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra
e65f604ea9 Set more man sections 2021-04-23 14:20:28 +02:00
Alyssa Ross
29132f99c5
doc: fix section in nix3 man page metadata
These man pages said they were in section 7, even though we were
installing them to section 1 (which is the right place for them).
2021-04-23 10:52:54 +00:00
regnat
2207018df5 (briefly) document how to build ca derivations 2021-04-23 10:28:26 +02:00
Björn Gohla
4d9568ef60 Revert "[prerequisites]: add JSON lib dependency"
This reverts commit 5926200db0.
2021-04-05 21:29:04 +01:00
Björn Gohla
5926200db0
[prerequisites]: add JSON lib dependency 2021-04-01 22:54:09 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra
4638bcfb2c Fix some typos
Fixes #4671.
2021-03-26 16:14:38 +01:00
Travis A. Everett
ac8ba2eae4
remove doc for obsolete --no-build-hook flag
`--no-build-hook` appears to have been removed in 25f32625e2
2021-03-06 19:51:29 -06:00
Graham Christensen
1130b28824
distributed builds: load remote builder host key from the machines file
This is already used by Hydra, and is very useful when materializing
a remote builder list from service discovery. This allows the service
discovery tool to only sync one file instead of two.
2021-02-25 09:17:34 -05:00
Shea Levy
f6c5b05488
Respect command registrations in plugins. 2021-02-24 08:25:45 -05:00
Shea Levy
98d1b64400
Initialize plugins after handling initial command line flags
This is technically a breaking change, since attempting to set plugin
files after the first non-flag argument will now throw an error. This
is acceptable given the relative lack of stability in a plugin
interface and the need to tie the knot somewhere once plugins can
actually define new subcommands.
2021-02-24 08:22:17 -05:00
Eelco Dolstra
6042febfce Restore warning about 'nix' being experimental
Fixes #4552.
2021-02-17 15:30:49 +01:00
Mauricio Scheffer
5f4701e70d
Update doc/manual/src/command-ref/nix-shell.md
Co-authored-by: Cole Helbling <cole.e.helbling@outlook.com>
2021-02-16 23:27:04 +00:00
Mauricio Scheffer
35129884f9
Fix Haskell example
http://nixos.org redirects to https://nixos.org and apparently the HTTP library doesn't follow the redirect, so the output is empty.
When defining https in the request it crashes because the library doesn't seem to support https.
So this switches the example to a different http library.
2021-02-16 23:19:42 +00:00
Dominik Schrempf
fb00e7dc52
Remove newline in operator table. 2021-02-01 17:42:14 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra
36c4d6f592 Group common options 2021-01-25 19:03:13 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra
807d963ee8 Group subcommands by category 2021-01-25 18:19:32 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra
d33eca8539 Rename 'nix store sign-paths' to 'nix store sign' 2021-01-13 23:32:37 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra
77c9ceda4b Tweak 2021-01-11 19:42:24 +01:00
Sam Lidder
e069ddf325 Fix configure error in introduction doc 2020-12-31 20:17:37 -05:00
Sevan Janiyan
9d3aad7b92
Update URL where bzip2 can be obtained 2020-12-25 01:43:22 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
1047cb1e53
Command: Remove examples() 2020-12-23 18:26:40 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra
9dcd0aebc5
generate-manpage.nix: Fix short names 2020-12-21 13:32:27 +01:00
Rok Garbas
7de4b1e9aa
smaller fixes 2020-12-17 23:42:49 +01:00
Rok Garbas
ae77f21474
Switch away from classification as Tier1-3
to classification to a more descriptive classification.
2020-12-08 11:59:23 +01:00
Rok Garbas
0d7714b0d7
forgot to add the files 2020-12-08 10:25:03 +01:00
Rok Garbas
24db5b125f
Merge remote-tracking branch 'origin/master' into cli-guideline 2020-12-07 15:13:36 +01:00
regnat
5f66edf245 Make make install less noisy
Remove the printing and useless output of a couple of commands when running `make install`
2020-12-04 14:50:47 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra
8ad2c9c4b9 Remove 'dist' target
We're not producing source tarballs anymore so this has been
bitrotting.
2020-12-03 16:17:58 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra
c3c858ac6d Make doc() return arbitrary Markdown rather than the contents of the "Description" section
Thus we can return the examples section (and any other sections) from
doc() and don't need examples() anymore.
2020-12-03 16:17:58 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra
e2efc63979 Put examples first in the manpages 2020-12-02 23:23:23 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra
72428e38d9 Generate separate manpages for each nix subcommand 2020-12-02 23:23:23 +01:00
Rok Garbas
44da19f73c
Adds Nix CLI Guideline to docs
As we are working towards Nix 3.0 we want to make sure that we make a
huge step forward in Nix's user experience. And once 3.0 is out of the
door we need to make sure that all future commands and features keep up
the standard of user experience.

This PR adds a CLI guideline document to the Nix documentation. Consider
this document a good starting point and a checklist when somebody will
be (re)implementing commands.

Clearly this guideline does nothing to improve user experience on its
own and can only be useful as long as it is going to be read and
cared for. But it is a first step into that direction.
2020-12-02 17:00:32 +01:00
Fabian Möller
5b0790355f
Fix macOS sandbox build
Since c4c3c15c19 (#4251) building Nix for
macOS with sandboxing fails:
```
getting status of /nix/var/nix/profiles/per-user/root/channels/nixpkgs: Operation not permitted
```

This happens, because `EvalSettings::getDefaultNixPath` tries to access
paths outside the sandbox. Since the state-dir is not required for
doc generation, it is set to the dummy folder. This needs to be done
for all nix invocations during doc generation, as
`EvalSettings::getDefaultNixPath` is called unconditionally.
2020-11-23 17:40:17 +01:00
mkenigs
8b15650e74
docs: consistent console prompt (#4213)
Everywhere else a $ is used
2020-11-02 16:32:05 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra
a3a22bd804
Merge pull request #4202 from hercules-ci/nix-shell-doc
Nix shell doc
2020-10-30 11:36:24 +01:00
Robert Hensing
d4c5d8d32a nix-shell.md: Extend shellHook example 2020-10-30 11:12:28 +01:00
Robert Hensing
b809c48ebb nix-shell.md: evaluated -> run
Use "run" to avoid confusion with Nix evaluation.
"evaluated" was intended to reference bash eval but it's ambiguous.
2020-10-30 11:01:33 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra
ff4dea63c9 Generalize extra-* settings
This removes the extra-substituters and extra-sandbox-paths settings
and instead makes every array setting extensible by setting
"extra-<name> = <value>" in the configuration file or passing
"--<name> <value>" on the command line.
2020-10-29 18:17:39 +01:00
tnias
c189cf7e33
Add sha512 to hashAlgo listings in manpages (#4186) 2020-10-25 22:16:53 +00:00
Josef Kemetmüller
7f60f48e1a Fix the docs about the new NIX_CONFIG env var
This was accidentally documented as NIX_OPTIONS.
2020-10-21 17:04:36 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra
ecfebde6ff
Merge pull request #4166 from kampka/nix-conf-env
Add NIX_CONFIG env var for applying nix.conf overrides
2020-10-21 14:26:45 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra
bdf2bcc989 Remove conf-file.xml
This was probably revived in a bad merge.
2020-10-21 14:24:26 +02:00
Christian Kampka
461cf2b856
Add NIX_CONFIG env var for applying nix.conf overrides 2020-10-21 13:41:26 +02:00
Stefan Frijters
a53438d18f
doc: nix-shell in pure mode does *not* source user bashrc 2020-10-18 14:26:05 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra
58dadf2954 Remove stray 'Title:' from the manual
Closes #4096.
2020-10-08 17:30:40 +02:00
Fabian Möller
4abd5554ad
Fix macOS sandbox build 2020-10-02 15:40:55 +02:00
Kevin Quick
66c3959e8c
Merge branch 'master' into access-tokens 2020-09-29 08:32:06 -07:00
Maximilian Bosch
3655875483
doc/manual: update hacking docs (#4078)
* By default, build artifacts should be installed into `outputs/` rather
  than `inst/`[1].
* Add instructions on how to run unit-tests.

[1] 733d2e9402
2020-09-27 20:35:03 +00:00
Kevin Quick
83fec38fc9
Update document generation for empty json object values. 2020-09-24 22:41:24 -07:00
Bryan Richter
5fe375a8f1
nix-prefetch-url: Add --executable flag
pkgs.fetchurl supports an executable argument, which is especially nice
when downloading a large executable. This patch adds the same option to
nix-prefetch-url.

I have tested this to work on the simple case of prefetching a little
executable:

1. nix-prefetch-url --executable https://my/little/script
2. Paste the hash into a pkgs.fetchurl-based package, script-pkg.nix
3. Delete the output from the store to avoid any misidentified artifacts
4. Realise the package script-pkg.nix
5. Run the executable

I repeated the above while using --name, as well.

I suspect --executable would have no meaningful effect if combined with
--unpack, but I have not tried it.
2020-09-18 19:09:45 +03:00
Eelco Dolstra
0066ef6c59 Fix doc generation 2020-09-16 16:56:28 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra
39bc49318f jq -> nix 2020-09-16 14:58:06 +02:00
Jade
7cb5f643a6
docs+test: fix remaining installer downloads without -L (#4006)
Co-authored-by: lf- <lf-@users.noreply.github.com>
2020-09-12 22:08:40 +02:00
Vladimír Čunát
77d4758cf2
Merge #3982: Minor docs updates 2020-09-07 21:54:59 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra
00d25e8457
Remove the --indirect flag
All GC roots are now indirect.
2020-09-03 11:22:00 +02:00
Cole Helbling
a72ed3e8a1
hacking.md: add --prefix flag to configure
Otherwise, the steps advertised in this document won't actually work
(e.g. `make install` will fail, trying to access /usr, and
`./inst/bin/nix` won't exist).
2020-09-01 12:06:02 -07:00
Eelco Dolstra
84f5cabbea Merge remote-tracking branch 'origin/master' into markdown 2020-08-31 14:24:26 +02:00
Domen Kožar
8757e7022a
mention how to run a single functional test for faster feedback loop 2020-08-30 19:41:21 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra
691a1bd717 Merge branch 'minimal-logger' of https://github.com/Ma27/nix 2020-08-28 10:50:52 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra
7a02865b94
Move import docs 2020-08-25 14:06:01 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra
0f314f3c25
Generate builtins section of the manual 2020-08-24 14:49:30 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra
a990f063ff
Move primop docs inline
This makes them available to 'nix repl'.
2020-08-24 14:31:10 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra
33b1679d75
Allow primops to have Markdown documentation 2020-08-24 13:16:02 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra
dc2f278c95
Allow 'nix' subcommands to provide docs in Markdown format 2020-08-20 12:21:46 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra
3c4f8c9175
List deprecated option aliases in the docs 2020-08-20 11:13:17 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra
c3e20d8c28
Consistency 2020-08-19 18:30:17 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra
c8fa39324a
Generate the nix.conf docs from the source code
This means we don't have two (divergent) sets of option descriptions
anymore.
2020-08-19 18:28:04 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra
8a97b11374
Improve margins between sections
The default CSS puts almost no space between sections, but a lot of
space between subsections. This flips that around.
2020-08-19 12:31:18 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra
069340179e
Improve nix.1 manpage generator 2020-08-18 15:15:35 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra
6f19c776db
Start generation of the nix.1 manpage 2020-08-17 19:33:18 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra
7cdc739ece
Merge remote-tracking branch 'origin/master' into markdown 2020-08-17 13:43:39 +02:00
Matthew Bauer
641c950701 Add hashed-mirrors back
Some users have their own hashed-mirrors setup, that is used to mirror
things in addition to what’s available on tarballs.nixos.org. Although
this should be feasable to do with a Binary Cache, it’s not always
easy, since you have to remember what "name" each of the tarballs has.
Continuing to support hashed-mirrors is cheap, so it’s best to leave
support in Nix. Note that NIX_HASHED_MIRRORS is also supported in
Nixpkgs through fetchurl.nix.

Note that this excludes tarballs.nixos.org from the default, as in
\#3689. All of these are available on cache.nixos.org.
2020-08-06 18:19:09 -05:00
Eelco Dolstra
bf290c2306
Merge remote-tracking branch 'origin/master' into markdown 2020-07-31 16:07:04 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra
2ae9ac2369
console -> shell 2020-07-31 16:02:37 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra
1d0a7b54fa
Enable syntax highlighting 2020-07-31 15:43:25 +02:00
Matthew Bauer
05ac4db39a Merge remote-tracking branch 'origin/master' into substitute-other-storedir 2020-07-30 12:38:24 -05:00
Maximilian Bosch
6ccfdb79c7
libutil/logging: extend internal-json logger to make it more machine-readable
The new error-format is pretty nice from a UX point-of-view, however
it's fairly hard to parse the output e.g. for editor plugins such as
vim-ale[1] that use `nix-instantiate --parse` to determine syntax errors in
Nix expression files.

This patch extends the `internal-json` logger by adding the fields
`line`, `column` and `file` to easily locate an error in a file and the
field `raw_msg` which contains the error-message itself without
code-lines and additional helpers.

An exemplary output may look like this:

```
[nix-shell]$ ./inst/bin/nix-instantiate ~/test.nix --log-format minimal
{"action":"msg","column":1,"file":"/home/ma27/test.nix","level":0,"line":4,"raw_msg":"syntax error, unexpected IF, expecting $end","msg":"<full error-msg with code-lines etc>"}
```

[1] https://github.com/dense-analysis/ale
2020-07-26 02:29:57 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra
1308c8404e
Remove DocBook manual 2020-07-24 15:48:40 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra
05a282295f
Fix internal links 2020-07-24 15:46:16 +02:00
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