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Alexander Bantyev
2384d36083
A setting to follow XDG Base Directory standard
XDG Base Directory is a standard for locations for storing various
files. Nix has a few files which seem to fit in the standard, but
currently use a custom location directly in the user's ~, polluting
it:

- ~/.nix-profile
- ~/.nix-defexpr
- ~/.nix-channels

This commit adds a config option (use-xdg-base-directories) to follow
the XDG spec and instead use the following locations:

- $XDG_STATE_HOME/nix/profile
- $XDG_STATE_HOME/nix/defexpr
- $XDG_STATE_HOME/nix/channels

If $XDG_STATE_HOME is not set, it is assumed to be ~/.local/state.

Co-authored-by: Théophane Hufschmitt <7226587+thufschmitt@users.noreply.github.com>
Co-authored-by: Tim Fenney <kodekata@gmail.com>
Co-authored-by: pasqui23 <pasqui23@users.noreply.github.com>
Co-authored-by: Artturin <Artturin@artturin.com>
Co-authored-by: John Ericson <Ericson2314@Yahoo.com>
2023-02-10 20:14:06 +04:00
Théophane Hufschmitt
a5919f4754 Move the default profiles to the user’s home
Rather than using `/nix/var/nix/{profiles,gcroots}/per-user/`, put the user
profiles and gcroots under `$XDG_DATA_DIR/nix/{profiles,gcroots}`.

This means that the daemon no longer needs to manage these paths itself
(they are fully handled client-side). In particular, it doesn’t have to
`chown` them anymore (removing one need for root).

This does change the layout of the gc-roots created by nix-env, and is
likely to break some stuff, so I’m not sure how to properly handle that.
2023-01-17 14:17:28 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra
df552ff53e Remove std::string alias (for real this time)
Also use std::string_view in a few more places.
2022-02-25 16:13:02 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra
817562e694 Add "nix profile rollback" command 2021-09-14 19:32:33 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra
b74f5cdd23
createGeneration(): Take a StorePath 2020-09-03 11:06:56 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra
5517eee17e Generations API cleanup 2020-07-16 15:18:21 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra
0a10854f85 Misc changes from the flakes branch 2020-03-24 14:34:47 +01:00
Matthew O'Gorman
0312d30315 this updates issues that were addressed by people in pr 2018-03-01 21:47:57 -05:00
Matthew O'Gorman
429154b74c Implement --delete-generations + flag for keeping last N number of generations 2018-03-01 21:47:57 -05:00
Eelco Dolstra
812c0dfbe2 Allow setting the state directory as a store parameter
E.g. "local?store=/tmp/store&state=/tmp/var".
2016-06-02 16:02:48 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra
fa7cd5369b StoreAPI -> Store
Calling a class an API is a bit redundant...
2016-02-04 14:48:42 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra
c10c61449f Eliminate the "store" global variable
Also, move a few free-standing functions into StoreAPI and Derivation.

Also, introduce a non-nullable smart pointer, ref<T>, which is just a
wrapper around std::shared_ptr ensuring that the pointer is never
null. (For reference-counted values, this is better than passing a
"T&", because the latter doesn't maintain the refcount. Usually, the
caller will have a shared_ptr keeping the value alive, but that's not
always the case, e.g., when passing a reference to a std::thread via
std::bind.)
2016-02-04 14:28:26 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra
4ca5a9dcfd nix-collect-garbage: Don't call nix-env
Also, make sure --delete-older-than doesn't delete the current
generation.
2015-05-21 16:28:30 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra
22b1a8d43f Move profiles.{cc,hh} to libstore 2015-05-21 15:42:59 +02:00
Renamed from src/nix-env/profiles.hh (Browse further)