John Ericson
2733287046
Don't look for a "pv" program, or mention it in the manual source
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The manual reference was commented out, and the sole reference to this
program other than the configure script. Removed both.
2019-01-07 16:40:19 -05:00
Patrick Hilhorst
567941fb59
Clarify nix-instantiate --read-write-mode
2018-12-14 09:36:40 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra
c37e6d77ea
Merge pull request #2569 from veprbl/pr/update_prerequisites
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docs: add missing prerequisites: brotli, boost, libseccomp
2018-12-13 10:42:02 +01:00
Dmitry Kalinkin
0cc4728f71
docs: raise minimal boost version to 1.66
2018-12-13 01:50:39 -05:00
Dmitry Kalinkin
419949bf61
docs: add missing prerequisites: brotli, boost, libseccomp
2018-12-10 12:37:15 -05:00
Daiderd Jordan
77cc632186
s3: document scheme query parameter
2018-12-08 00:15:00 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra
6c6bbeb439
Merge branch 'feature/editline-pr' of https://github.com/dtzWill/nix
2018-11-13 20:42:13 +01:00
Felix C. Stegerman
fb2c21f71c
manual: quote $servlets
2018-11-13 01:18:26 +01:00
Felix C. Stegerman
18215be59d
fix typo (s/gift/git/)
2018-11-12 17:50:39 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra
b05d6dac7b
Manual: build locally -> build
2018-11-09 16:08:36 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra
4ea4d0b1a3
Urgh
2018-11-09 10:29:16 +01:00
Linus Heckemann
34d2948f21
Fix manual build
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This was broken by some missing closing tags in 0bea4a50e0
2018-11-08 14:07:19 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra
750400e0fa
Merge pull request #2524 from domenkozar/deprecate-toPath
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Deprecate builtins.toPath
2018-11-08 13:22:21 +01:00
Domen Kožar
0bea4a50e0
Deprecate builtins.toPath
2018-11-08 12:03:50 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
812e39313c
Enable sandboxing by default
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Closes #179 .
2018-11-07 17:08:28 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra
5a3f140856
Document allowSubstitutes
2018-11-07 11:42:22 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra
1109193ea3
Fix preferLocalBuild description
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preferLocalBuild does not in fact prevent substitution.
2018-11-07 11:37:43 +01:00
Will Dietz
3d974d31fa
editline: wip
2018-10-29 08:44:58 -05:00
Antoine Eiche
73c2ae43f0
Add --graphml option to the nix-store --query command
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This prints the references graph of the store paths in the graphML
format [1]. The graphML format is supported by several graph tools
such as the Python Networkx library or the Apache Thinkerpop project.
[1] http://graphml.graphdrawing.org
2018-10-20 09:48:34 +02:00
Benjamin Hipple
65453e2d77
Docs: update fixed output hashes
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`fetchurl` will now throw if given an `md5`, and the hashes have generally
been upgraded to avoid it and use `sha256` as a default. This updates the
documentation examples in the manual accordingly.
2018-10-04 02:37:15 +00:00
Profpatsch
05cfc71cab
manual: add XML IDs to all builtin list entries
2018-10-02 15:38:16 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra
aa5e47b2f4
Merge pull request #2456 from grahamc/s3-substituters
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Update docs to describe how s3:// URLS does in fact support endpoint, region, and profile for upload
2018-10-01 22:47:00 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra
5b7cfa487e
Add missing file
2018-10-01 11:58:54 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra
1e7b8deea7
Check requiredSystemFeatures for local builds
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For example, this prevents a "kvm" build on machines that don't have
KVM.
Fixes #2012 .
2018-09-28 16:10:27 +02:00
Graham Christensen
51cbeec49a
Update docs to describe how s3:// URLS does in fact support endpoint, region, and profile for upload
2018-09-27 17:01:39 -04:00
Eelco Dolstra
a48c2e3411
Merge pull request #2434 from grahamc/graham-improve-upgrade
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Upgrade docs: improve the upgrade command
2018-09-19 21:53:50 +02:00
Anders Riutta
1915862767
Upgrade docs: improve the upgrade command
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and make it more copy-pastable.
2018-09-19 14:17:06 -04:00
Graham Christensen
be9e356e61
nix-shell: document double quotes being necessary for a simple Nix expression in the shebang
2018-09-19 13:01:27 -04:00
Graham Christensen
10a7f19937
nix-shell: explain the merging property close to the example
2018-09-19 12:48:08 -04:00
Graham Christensen
0cd863197b
docs: document deprecated aliases
2018-09-18 12:23:32 -04:00
Graham Christensen
0aca1ffb6e
Prefer 'remote builder' over 'slave'
2018-09-10 18:57:46 +02:00
Vladimír Čunát
5f3b72cfc2
docs: change expired bzip2.org to archive.org
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Fixes #2396 .
2018-09-03 17:57:13 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra
4dd09210d7
Release notes tweaks
2018-09-02 21:47:10 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra
1f49926601
Merge pull request #2388 from grahamc/graham/document-multi-user
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Document multi-user installation, and add release notes about it not being the default on 2.1
2018-09-01 22:43:48 +02:00
Graham Christensen
c42eaaf684
Create upgrade notes
2018-09-01 15:35:46 -04:00
Eelco Dolstra
c5ab07ec2b
Merge pull request #2168 from grahamc/explain-why-netrc-is-busted
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manual: document why ~/.netrc doesn't work
2018-09-01 21:25:04 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra
51003f892d
Merge pull request #2309 from symphorien/disallowed-man
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add manual entries for disallowedRequisites and disallowedReferences
2018-09-01 21:01:41 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra
291f67aecf
Merge pull request #2237 from nh2/patch-1
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manual: distributed-builds: Mention - as default
2018-09-01 20:41:49 +02:00
Graham Christensen
4be7652dd3
release notes: note that the multi-user installer is available but not selected for Linux with systemd, and the bug about selinux
2018-09-01 10:45:57 -04:00
Graham Christensen
c3e508d924
Document the multi-user installer some
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Use sh <(...) syntax for installation to preserve stdin and prompting
also update installation docs to account for changes in multi-user selection
2018-09-01 10:45:50 -04:00
Graham Christensen
f66fa7cd20
We support aarch64 now
2018-09-01 10:44:33 -04:00
Eelco Dolstra
6ed4a6bd0e
Merge pull request #2384 from graham-at-target/fetch-git-examples
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docs: Add some examples to fetchGit
2018-09-01 14:08:32 +02:00
Graham Christensen
0b7568fb73
Drop ssh://... as a required formatting for builtins.fetchGit
2018-08-31 19:49:56 -04:00
Eelco Dolstra
4095cd6438
Add contributors
2018-09-01 00:01:05 +02:00
Graham Christensen
149d10c308
docs: Add IDs to important sections
2018-08-31 10:06:33 -04:00
Graham Christensen
2df21b78b9
docs: Add some examples to fetchGit
2018-08-31 10:00:32 -04:00
Eelco Dolstra
308689f94b
Merge pull request #2365 from erikarvstedt/fix-docs
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Docs: Fix install prefix
2018-08-30 16:24:52 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra
64d7d1a884
Update release notes
2018-08-30 15:28:18 +02:00
Domen Kožar
d16ff76c69
nix.conf: clarify -j0 doesn't affect preferLocalBuild
2018-08-29 14:33:14 +01:00
Domen Kožar
54df4bb0b5
nix.conf: mention -j0 is useful
2018-08-29 11:51:51 +01:00
Erik Arvstedt
8ad2defdf0
Docs: Fix install prefix
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shell.nix defines the install prefix as $(pwd)/inst
2018-08-21 21:46:43 +02:00
Graham Christensen
06080e4abc
2.1 release notes: Add note about s3-compatible stores
2018-08-03 11:09:31 -04:00
Eelco Dolstra
87356cc8a4
Add Nix 2.1 release notes
2018-08-03 17:05:17 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra
122e1a61f8
Merge pull request #2323 from samueldr/feature/selective-impurity
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Allows selectively adding environment variables to pure shells.
2018-08-03 16:58:18 +02:00
Samuel Dionne-Riel
438e02529d
Allows selectively adding environment variables to pure shells.
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Includes documentation and test.
2018-08-02 08:21:30 -04:00
Graham Christensen
49a53c1d3f
s3 binary cache: support specifying an endpoint
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Works for uploading and not downloading.
2018-08-02 08:19:50 -04:00
Graham Christensen
b27431b7cb
Document s3 substitutions
2018-08-01 11:07:41 -04:00
Symphorien Gibol
81d1385437
add manual entries for disallowedRequisites and disallowedReferences
2018-07-26 18:14:50 +02:00
Nathan van Doorn
41f38fbb4b
nix-channel documentation: don't suggest deprecated function
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Running `nix-instantiate --eval -E '(import <nixpkgs> {}).lib.nixpkgsVersion` emits a warning
```
trace: `lib.nixpkgsVersion` is deprecated, use `lib.version` instead!
```
2018-07-16 10:00:42 +01:00
Niklas Hambüchen
10ebcf8670
manual: distributed-builds: Mention - as default
2018-06-17 19:01:07 +02:00
Michael Raskin
17bc757980
manual: builtins.fromJSON: remove the claim that floats are not allowed
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floating-point numbers are supported now, including the fromJSON
builtin. Reported on IRC by inquisitiv3
2018-06-10 14:20:18 +02:00
Peter Simons
93aa3bea2e
Merge pull request #767 from mogorman/garbage_collect_keep_last_few
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Implement --delete-generations + flag for keeping last N number of gens
2018-05-31 10:00:21 +02:00
Shea Levy
bbbfc180d9
Explicitly describe the effects of filterSource excluding a directory.
2018-05-30 12:34:41 -04:00
Graham Christensen
f9940f47b3
Merge pull request #2164 from mickours/doc-fetchTarball-timout
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Explain fetchTarball timeout behavior in the doc
2018-05-30 08:04:26 -04:00
Michael Mercier
8dd2e28374
Explain fetchTarball timeout behavior in the doc
2018-05-30 08:02:46 -04:00
Graham Christensen
e6466c20b3
Document NIX_SSL_CERT_FILE for installation
2018-05-25 15:59:14 -04:00
Eelco Dolstra
743359bc8a
Merge pull request #2157 from volth/bitwise
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add builtins: __bitAnd, __bitOr, __bitXor
2018-05-24 15:00:39 +02:00
volth
88c1ea30e4
add docs and tests
2018-05-24 12:51:34 +00:00
Alexandre Esteves
579f3895b4
Fix docs on --check suffix
2018-05-23 22:26:06 +01:00
Graham Christensen
33712fed38
manual: document why ~/.netrc doesn't work
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Maybe there is a better place to document this, which is more generic?
2018-05-18 14:21:47 -04:00
Gleb Peregud
5ba6395378
docs: mention source of env variables used by impureEnvVars
.
2018-05-02 22:45:20 +02:00
Danylo Hlynskyi
ac22d77fd1
nix-collect-garbage: little doc fix
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This removes confusing documentation. It's better to remove doc than add implementation, because Nix 1.12 will surely have new GC interface anyway.
Fixes https://github.com/NixOS/nix/issues/641
2018-04-30 09:36:46 -07:00
Shea Levy
8e6108ff71
Merge branch 'aarch64-armv7' of git://github.com/lheckemann/nix
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Support extra compatible architectures (#1916 )
2018-04-23 08:48:22 -04:00
Samuel Dionne-Riel
4b3a7f93a5
doc: Adds --quiet
to the common options.
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Fixes #1298
2018-04-20 16:34:06 -04:00
Eelco Dolstra
4fd28bee89
Fix broken DocBook
2018-04-13 15:12:58 +02:00
Sean Seefried
2ef8f0608c
Add to glossary and clarify garbage collection
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While trying to understand garbage collection it was not immediately
clear that only the runtime dependency closure of output paths
would be kept (instead of the build-time dependency closure).
This commit attempts to clarify this by expanding some of the
glossary definitions and extending the Garbage Collection
section.
2018-04-12 19:23:24 +10:00
John Arnold
a405d25fa3
manual: Add all dependencies to source prerequisites ( #2060 )
2018-04-09 17:31:39 -04:00
Nicolas Dudebout
d8a1c27806
fix typo in nix-env man page
2018-04-07 21:10:46 -04:00
AmineChikhaoui
e01b01c579
update/re-order the options docs
2018-04-06 11:09:52 +01:00
AmineChikhaoui
33b08899d5
re-order the options using the alphabetical order and improve the example in the positive lookup case
2018-04-06 10:51:19 +01:00
AmineChikhaoui
86930ed414
add documentation for the local disk cache TTL config
2018-04-06 10:51:18 +01:00
Justin Humm
045eb84409
document that writeTextFile from Nixpkgs is an alternative to builtins.toFile
2018-04-03 23:26:47 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra
e01c01f72c
Merge pull request #2005 from shlevy/fetchgit-docs
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Document fetchGit.
2018-03-27 15:57:48 +02:00
Shea Levy
6856fe62b0
Document fetchGit.
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Fixes #1981 .
2018-03-23 07:02:45 -04:00
Dmitry Kalinkin
e2f56c1333
doc: don't mention obsolete ssh-substituter-hosts
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#1840
2018-03-22 19:17:45 -04:00
Corey O'Connor
22b144fea6
manual: correct repeated "--deriver". Add missing single char option aliases.
2018-03-20 17:58:25 -07:00
Eelco Dolstra
b2074f0892
Fix bad XML
2018-03-18 13:27:30 +01:00
zimbatm
43bef1b82c
doc: document the min-free and max-free options
2018-03-17 21:29:03 +00:00
zimbatm
fef8ebf51d
doc: add xml:id to all the config options
2018-03-17 21:17:28 +00:00
Linus Heckemann
637701b604
rename build-extra-platforms -> extra-platforms
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also document it
2018-03-16 22:50:27 +00:00
Matthew O'Gorman
467fdd8ca4
only delete things older than current gen and update logic in doc as
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well
2018-03-01 22:59:00 -05:00
Matthew O'Gorman
429154b74c
Implement --delete-generations + flag for keeping last N number of generations
2018-03-01 21:47:57 -05:00
Michael Fiano
ad97d1a786
nix-channel grammar and punctuation
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Minor changes to the nix-channel manpage for my first contribution
2018-03-01 00:27:25 -05:00
Graham Christensen
9432f3fb7d
Merge pull request #1901 from veprbl/patch-5
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Fix a small typo in the release notes
2018-02-24 10:26:14 -05:00
Michael Weiss
bd94e63853
doc: Fix a URL in the release notes for Nix 2.0
2018-02-24 16:07:10 +01:00
Dmitry Kalinkin
d9d8a84a96
Fix a small typo in the release notes
2018-02-23 23:45:42 -05:00
Eelco Dolstra
39b4177500
Fix example in release notes
2018-02-22 17:42:06 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra
2691d51a33
Doh
2018-02-22 17:14:35 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra
e8d53bfdc9
Revert "Enable sandbox builds on Linux by default"
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This reverts commit ddc58e7896
.
https://hydra.nixos.org/eval/1435322
2018-02-22 14:20:07 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra
eaa52c34b4
Set release date
2018-02-22 12:44:46 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra
ddc58e7896
Enable sandbox builds on Linux by default
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The overhead of sandbox builds is a problem on NixOS (since building a
NixOS configuration involves a lot of small derivations) but not for
typical non-NixOS use cases. So outside of NixOS we can enable it.
Issue #179 .
2018-02-22 12:27:25 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra
88c90d5e6d
Manual: Put configuration options in sorted order
2018-02-21 18:08:47 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra
0d54671b7b
Manual: Update chapter on remote builds
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Alos add a command "nix ping-store" to make it easier to see if Nix
can connect to a remote builder (e.g. 'nix ping-store --store
ssh://mac').
2018-02-21 16:24:26 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra
4e44025ac5
Release notes: Add contributors
2018-02-20 15:20:14 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra
d7fdfe322b
Remove macOS multi-user instructions
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This is already handled by the installer.
2018-02-19 20:40:25 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra
70eb64147e
Update release notes
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Also add some examples to nix --help.
2018-02-19 20:38:53 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra
75a1d96cfd
Merge branch 'register-settings' of https://github.com/shlevy/nix
2018-02-19 13:58:34 +01:00
Shea Levy
b095c06139
Add splitVersion primop.
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Fixes #1868 .
2018-02-14 09:55:43 -05:00
Shea Levy
de4934ab3b
Allow plugins to define new settings.
2018-02-13 14:43:32 -05:00
Eelco Dolstra
52c777a793
Merge pull request #1863 from shlevy/conf-includes
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Allow includes from nix.conf
2018-02-13 17:33:07 +01:00
Shea Levy
b8739f2fb3
Enable specifying directories in plugin-files.
2018-02-13 11:25:01 -05:00
Shea Levy
6eb1040e90
Allow includes from nix.conf
2018-02-13 08:16:32 -05:00
Shea Levy
081f14a169
Allow using RegisterPrimop to define constants.
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This enables plugins to add new constants, as well as new primops.
2018-02-08 14:35:50 -05:00
Shea Levy
88cd2d41ac
Add plugins to make Nix more extensible.
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All plugins in plugin-files will be dlopened, allowing them to
statically construct instances of the various Register* types Nix
supports.
2018-02-08 12:44:37 -05:00
Eelco Dolstra
abe6be578b
Merge pull request #1816 from shlevy/add-path
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Add path primop.
2018-02-07 13:32:35 +01:00
Shea Levy
69d82e5c58
Add path primop.
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builtins.path allows specifying the name of a path (which makes paths
with store-illegal names now addable), allows adding paths with flat
instead of recursive hashes, allows specifying a filter (so is a
generalization of filterSource), and allows specifying an expected
hash (enabling safe path adding in pure mode).
2018-02-06 16:48:08 -05:00
Eelco Dolstra
84722d67d2
Remove nix-build --hash
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Instead, if a fixed-output derivation produces has an incorrect output
hash, we now unconditionally move the outputs to the path
corresponding with the actual hash and register it as valid. Thus,
after correcting the hash in the Nix expression (e.g. in a fetchurl
call), the fixed-output derivation doesn't have to be built again.
It would still be good to have a command for reporting the actual hash
of a fixed-output derivation (instead of throwing an error), but
"nix-build --hash" didn't do that.
2018-02-03 10:08:05 +01:00
Shea Levy
de96daf54f
Merge branch 'master' of git://github.com/catern/nix
2018-02-01 13:21:45 -05:00
Eelco Dolstra
e7b23eb5ab
Remove docs on removed --drv-link and --add-drv-link options
2018-02-01 16:40:58 +01:00
Spencer Baugh
e5432574e2
document ability to set NIX_REMOTE=unix://path/to/socket
2018-01-31 22:47:16 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
c287d73121
Rename 1.12 -> 2.0
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Following discussion with Shea and Graham. It's a big enough change
from the last release. Also, from a semver perspective, 2.0 makes more
sense because we did remove some interfaces (like nix-pull/nix-push).
2018-01-31 18:58:45 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra
6fa690291a
Add 'nix upgrade-nix' command
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This command upgrades Nix to the latest stable version by installing a
store path obtained from
https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/raw/master/nixos/modules/installer/tools/nix-fallback-paths.nix
which is the same store path that the installer at
https://nixos.org/nix/install.sh uses.
The upgrade fails if Nix is not installed in a profile (e.g. on NixOS,
or when installed outside of the Nix store).
2018-01-31 16:24:43 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra
f8e8dd827e
Manual: Remove old cruft
2018-01-31 15:08:46 +01:00
Eric Wolf
0167eac571
Improve manual on inheriting attributes
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Expands first paragraph a bit
Adds a more comprehensive example
2018-01-27 16:18:31 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra
cfeff3b273
Move show-trace docs
2018-01-17 11:53:16 +01:00
Renzo Carbonara
b0328c244d
nix.conf: builders-use-substitutes
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Fixes #937
2018-01-09 22:40:07 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra
44272d8719
Rename "use-substitutes" to "substitute"
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Commit c2154d4c84
renamed
"build-use-substitutes" to "use-substitutes", but that broke
"nix-copy-closure --use-substitutes".
2018-01-04 16:58:39 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra
e3c19ff9bc
Merge pull request #1725 from chris-martin/pr/concatStringsSep
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Add builtins.concatStringSep to the manual
2017-12-12 11:46:10 +01:00
Chris Martin
2a8f09a8c1
Add builtins.concatStringSep to the manual
2017-12-11 14:28:03 -05:00
Eelco Dolstra
06d4566c2d
Merge pull request #1721 from expipiplus1/patch-2
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Escape left angle brackets in XML documentation
2017-12-11 17:29:36 +01:00
Shea Levy
5ba5ca7888
Merge branch 'feature/linenoise-ng' of git://github.com/dtzWill/nix
2017-12-11 07:52:20 -05:00
Joe Hermaszewski
35a49f1d7f
Escape left angle brackets in XML documentation
2017-12-09 15:31:03 +00:00
Markus Hauck
0af668426d
nix-hash: Add sentence and example for nix-prefetch-url hash
2017-12-08 10:27:34 +01:00
Will Dietz
e50d7335bf
doc: linenoise -> linenoise-ng
2017-11-27 18:36:20 -06:00
Eelco Dolstra
7536fe31dd
Add a warning about the 'trusted-users' option
2017-11-21 18:49:52 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra
8df60b4ea8
Document secret-key-files
2017-11-20 18:51:04 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra
91a1987607
signed-binary-caches -> require-sigs
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Unlike signed-binary-caches (which could only be '*' or ''),
require-sigs is a proper Boolean option. The default is true.
2017-11-20 17:44:07 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra
7a2b64e55c
binary-cache-public-keys -> trusted-public-keys
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The name had become a misnomer since it's not only for substitution
from binary caches, but when adding/copying any
(non-content-addressed) path to a store.
2017-11-20 17:32:34 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra
6cf7c6a6b0
Remove git:// support in NIX_PATH
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This didn't support specifying a revision/branch, and was restricted
to git:// URIs (since https:// or ssh:// would be ambiguous).
2017-11-03 13:55:31 +01:00
Zoran Plesivčak
ae506c1ea4
Mention isFloat function in "Built-in Functions" section
2017-11-01 23:00:08 +00:00
Zoran Plesivčak
3050395810
Mention "float" type in builtins.typeOf section of the docs
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+ remove trailing whitespace from the file
2017-11-01 21:36:25 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
812e027e1d
Add option allowed-uris
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This allows network access in restricted eval mode.
2017-10-30 12:41:49 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra
f1c555cef8
fetchurl/fetchTarball are *not* allowed in restricted mode
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Accidentally committed this change as part of
f9686885be
.
Restricted mode != pure mode.
2017-10-30 12:41:48 +01:00
Domen Kožar
5cb78053f0
Merge pull request #1633 from orivej/doc
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Update the language documentation
2017-10-30 12:21:54 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra
049322702b
fetchgit -> fetchGit
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Almost all other primops are camelCase so no reason not to use that
here.
2017-10-30 10:25:08 +01:00
Orivej Desh
842ce8bafd
Clarify indented string escaping rules
2017-10-26 18:53:36 +00:00
Orivej Desh
15457c5673
Describe "with" scoping precedence
2017-10-26 18:53:36 +00:00
Orivej Desh
e5c499b833
Describe arithmetic operators
2017-10-26 18:53:35 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
38dcd0c4b8
Release note updates
2017-10-23 20:50:28 +02:00
Keshav Kini
32940702fc
Mention C++14 dependency in the manual.
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A couple makefiles in the sources have -std=c++14 in the CFLAGS.
2017-10-19 18:03:26 -07:00
Eelco Dolstra
5324bb9399
Update release notes
2017-09-18 11:07:17 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra
0b606aad46
Add automatic garbage collection
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Nix can now automatically run the garbage collector during builds or
while adding paths to the store. The option "min-free = <bytes>"
specifies that Nix should run the garbage collector whenever free
space in the Nix store drops below <bytes>. It will then delete
garbage until "max-free" bytes are available.
Garbage collection during builds is asynchronous; running builds are
not paused and new builds are not blocked. However, there also is a
synchronous GC run prior to the first build/substitution.
Currently, no old GC roots are deleted (as in "nix-collect-garbage
-d").
2017-09-05 20:43:42 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra
c2154d4c84
Rename a few configuration options
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In particular, drop the "build-" and "gc-" prefixes which are
pointless. So now you can say
nix build --no-sandbox
instead of
nix build --no-build-use-sandbox
2017-08-31 14:28:25 +02:00
Matthew Bauer
2c75945de5
Remove nix-mode.el from Nix.
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This removes the file nix-mode.el from Nix. The file is now available within the
repository https://github.com/NixOS/nix-mode .
Fixes #662
Fixes #1040
Fixes #1054
Fixes #1055
Closes #1119
Fixes #1419
NOTE: all of the above should be fixed within NixOS/nix-mode. If one of those
hasn’t please reopen within NixOS/nix-mode and not within NixOS/nix.
2017-08-19 21:16:30 -07:00
Chase Adams
09a38f9125
update MD5 to SHA-256 in expression-syntax
2017-08-18 16:07:33 -07:00
Eelco Dolstra
e2f9a61dc9
Update release notes
2017-08-16 21:36:47 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra
2ee1b9359b
Merge branch 'tokenize' of https://github.com/nbp/nix
2017-08-16 21:21:36 +02:00
Nicolas B. Pierron
b8867a0239
Add builtins.string function.
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The function 'builtins.split' takes a POSIX extended regular expression
and an arbitrary string. It returns a list of non-matching substring
interleaved by lists of matched groups of the regular expression.
```nix
with builtins;
assert split "(a)b" "abc" == [ "" [ "a" ] "c" ];
assert split "([ac])" "abc" == [ "" [ "a" ] "b" [ "c" ] "" ];
assert split "(a)|(c)" "abc" == [ "" [ "a" null ] "b" [ null "c" ] "" ];
assert split "([[:upper:]]+)" " FOO "
== [ " " [ "FOO" ] " " ];
```
2017-08-15 20:04:11 +00:00
Nicolas B. Pierron
27417c6160
Move builtins.match documentation between map and mul.
2017-08-15 18:34:24 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
f76e85d8f5
Start of 1.12 release notes
2017-08-10 18:44:45 +02:00
davidak
92bcb61127
replace "Mac OS X" with "macOS"
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except in older release notes where the name was actually Mac OS X.
2017-07-30 12:26:17 +02:00
Graham Christensen
da2ad30054
Update the mailing list.
2017-07-18 08:02:53 -04:00
Eelco Dolstra
49304bae81
Make the hashes mirrors used by builtins.fetchurl configurable
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In particular, this allows it to be disabled in our tests.
2017-07-17 13:07:08 +02:00
Harmen
1e0f59ae14
use sha256 hashes in the examples
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And fix a dead link.
2017-07-15 21:06:30 +02:00
Robert Vollmert
30117fb35b
fix buggy nix-shell man page
2017-07-10 14:36:55 +02:00
Robert Vollmert
c85e662004
man page (nix-shell): Fix grouping of -p option
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Not sure about the raw ellipsis.
2017-07-07 22:11:46 +02:00
Robert Vollmert
89771a8821
man page (nix-prefetch-url): Add some missing options
2017-07-07 22:11:46 +02:00
Robert Vollmert
772ef22c25
man page (nix-instantiate): -E is optional
2017-07-07 22:11:46 +02:00
Robert Vollmert
8ad898b2cd
man page (nix-instantiate): Add --json to synopsis, order variables
2017-07-07 22:11:46 +02:00
Robert Vollmert
b1f5995a20
man page (nix-instantiate): Remove non-existent nix-build argument -r
2017-07-07 22:11:46 +02:00
Robert Vollmert
56a1f8f499
man pages: Consistently separate alternatives by /
2017-07-07 22:11:46 +02:00
Robert Vollmert
d1643bdaa2
man pages: Argument for --max-jobs
2017-07-07 22:11:45 +02:00
Robert Vollmert
68c626c6b0
man pages: Grouping for option alternatives
2017-07-07 22:11:45 +02:00
Robert Vollmert
ce3095e141
glossary: Fix word order
2017-07-07 22:07:46 +02:00
Robert Vollmert
60da5d2b8f
Fix nix-instantiate manpage indentation
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The second command variant is now its own cmdsynopsis, which ensures
it's not indented as was the case using sbrk.
2017-07-06 22:35:36 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra
6cf23c3e8f
Add allow-new-privileges option
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This allows builds to call setuid binaries. This was previously
possible until we started using seccomp. Turns out that seccomp by
default disallows processes from acquiring new privileges. Generally,
any use of setuid binaries (except those created by the builder
itself) is by definition impure, but some people were relying on this
ability for certain tests.
Example:
$ nix build '(with import <nixpkgs> {}; runCommand "foo" {} "/run/wrappers/bin/ping -c 1 8.8.8.8; exit 1")' --no-allow-new-privileges
builder for ‘/nix/store/j0nd8kv85hd6r4kxgnwzvr0k65ykf6fv-foo.drv’ failed with exit code 1; last 2 log lines:
cannot raise the capability into the Ambient set
: Operation not permitted
$ nix build '(with import <nixpkgs> {}; runCommand "foo" {} "/run/wrappers/bin/ping -c 1 8.8.8.8; exit 1")' --allow-new-privileges
builder for ‘/nix/store/j0nd8kv85hd6r4kxgnwzvr0k65ykf6fv-foo.drv’ failed with exit code 1; last 6 log lines:
PING 8.8.8.8 (8.8.8.8) 56(84) bytes of data.
64 bytes from 8.8.8.8: icmp_seq=1 ttl=46 time=15.2 ms
Fixes #1429 .
2017-07-04 15:48:25 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra
a10951de08
OS X -> macOS
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(cherry picked from commit c20641ce569dc1fdeaeaa147b0292f258667f53b)
2017-06-14 23:28:06 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra
1dcadadf74
Add 1.11.10 release notes
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(cherry picked from commit 0fb60e4e0f66cc42c7c274acfcf00b51f6c829c4)
2017-06-14 23:27:52 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra
d6064dd19b
Merge pull request #1393 from pyrtsa/patch-1
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Fix variable name typo in derivations doc
2017-05-29 11:32:06 +02:00
Pyry Jahkola
370428f86d
Remove stray >
in builtins doc
2017-05-28 20:47:35 +03:00
Pyry Jahkola
86ea7d1566
Fix variable name typo in derivations doc
2017-05-28 15:48:57 +03:00
Eelco Dolstra
b303ad012c
Merge pull request #1382 from FRidh/patch-1
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Document fetchTarball can take a sha256
2017-05-24 11:07:36 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra
f134fc4cbe
Document that builtins.match takes a POSIX extended RE
2017-05-17 12:18:18 +02:00
Frederik Rietdijk
2b2de5ef6a
Document fetchTarball can take a sha256
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Note that I refer to `nix-prefetch-url`.
2017-05-11 13:38:13 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra
1fd59447d5
Typo
2017-05-10 18:38:17 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra
c5f23f10a8
Replace readline by linenoise
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Using linenoise avoids a license compatibility issue (#1356 ), is a lot
smaller and doesn't pull in ncurses.
2017-05-10 18:37:42 +02:00
Domen Kožar
82a9c93c7f
doc: builtins.attrNames returns alphabetically sorted list
2017-05-10 11:23:12 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra
d3449b286b
Merge pull request #1371 from regnat/doc_--xml_fix
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fix the description of --xml and --json
2017-05-03 11:06:12 +02:00
regnat
a786d26dc2
doc: fix the description of --xml and --json
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Those options seem to only apply with --eval and not with --parse.
2017-05-03 10:49:34 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra
d7653dfc6d
Remove $NIX_BUILD_HOOK and $NIX_CURRENT_LOAD
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This is to simplify remote build configuration. These environment
variables predate nix.conf.
The build hook now has a sensible default (namely build-remote).
The current load is kept in the Nix state directory now.
2017-05-01 17:30:16 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra
1196470e92
Merge pull request #1347 from kennyballou/sm-grammar-fix
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Fix small grammar issue about page
2017-04-24 10:49:46 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra
240399e059
Merge pull request #1351 from earldouglas/ellipses
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Drop misleading ellipses
2017-04-24 10:49:09 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra
8d6af08530
Merge pull request #1348 from armijnhemel/nix-env
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better document --meta option for nix-env
2017-04-24 10:18:23 +02:00
James Earl Douglas
111d347237
Drop misleading ellipses
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This portion of the quick start guide may lead to confusion for
newcomers to Nix. This change clarifies the example to one that can be
copied in its entirety.
2017-04-20 18:07:23 -06:00
Eelco Dolstra
f05d5f89ff
Read per-user settings from ~/.config/nix/nix.conf
2017-04-20 14:58:16 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra
562585e901
binary-caches-parallel-connections -> http-connections
2017-04-20 14:04:00 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra
4222402219
nix.conf man page: binary-caches -> substituters
2017-04-20 13:41:29 +02:00
Armijn Hemel
1559c596f6
document option
2017-04-19 19:10:12 +02:00
kballou
00b6c6d0c3
Fix small grammar issue about page
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Fix subject-verb agreement issue in introduction/about.
2017-04-19 09:27:28 -06:00
Linus Heckemann
9622d00afa
Manual: document tryEval
2017-04-17 10:33:53 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra
ba9ad29fdb
Convert Settings to the new config system
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This makes all config options self-documenting.
Unknown or unparseable config settings and --option flags now cause a
warning.
2017-04-13 20:53:23 +02:00
Benjamin Staffin
d267db0d75
Move note about float support out of the wrong release notes
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Looks like this snuck into the 1.11 release notes post-release, but
float support isn't actually present until 1.12.
2017-04-12 18:01:43 -04:00
Eelco Dolstra
c0745a2531
Merge branch 'remove-perl' of https://github.com/shlevy/nix
2017-03-31 14:13:32 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra
aa23bba27f
Fix tests to reflect the signed-binary-caches default change
2017-03-21 18:06:13 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra
0afeb7f51e
Store: Add a method for getting build logs
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This allows various Store implementations to provide different ways to
get build logs. For example, BinaryCacheStore can get the build logs
from the binary cache.
Also, remove the log-servers option since we can use substituters for
this.
2017-03-15 16:48:29 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra
19643a781e
nix -> Nix
2017-03-09 13:36:56 +01:00
Shea Levy
5f831c1057
Add docs for allow-import-from-derivation
2017-03-08 09:12:03 -05:00
Eelco Dolstra
7251d048fa
Support auto-configuration of build-max-jobs
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"build-max-jobs" and the "-j" option can now be set to "auto" to use
the number of CPUs in the system. (Unlike build-cores, it doesn't use
0 to imply auto-configuration, because a) magic values are a bad idea
in general; b) 0 is a legitimate value used to disable local
building.)
Fixes #1198 .
2017-02-28 12:54:50 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra
4f3fb34844
Fix 1.8 release note about build-max-jobs
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We set build-cores automatically, not build-max-jobs. (The commit
message for de4cdd0d47
also got this
wrong.)
2017-02-27 15:58:24 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra
79f4583f8a
Fix XML validity
2017-02-21 13:04:31 +01:00
Linus Heckemann
b8564987a3
Document toString better
2017-02-20 14:23:48 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
bd5388e7b2
Tweak netrc docs
2017-02-16 14:24:16 +01:00
Janus Troelsen
2b4c24f46a
Remove Perl dependency listing in doc
2017-02-07 15:56:32 -05:00
Shea Levy
418a837897
Remove perl dependency.
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Fixes #341
2017-02-07 15:56:32 -05:00
Renzo Carbonara
e6e74f987f
Add netrc-file support
2017-02-02 13:24:20 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra
9000150a78
Drop a few more references to all-packages.nix
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And also don't refer to f-spot, which apparently no longer exists.
Issue #1170 .
2017-01-03 16:42:24 +01:00
zimbatm
45ed6e7ef2
Document the common --no-build-hook option
2016-12-28 14:19:59 +00:00
Daiderd Jordan
36b3e15953
manual: add NIX_CONF_DIR to conf-file section
2016-12-16 10:59:07 +01:00
Linus Heckemann
bb5a6c0085
Document path-search behaviour
2016-12-11 17:13:37 +00:00
Domen Kožar
41d6523ef5
Document builtins.match, fixes #1145
2016-12-09 20:40:55 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra
09191caea8
Add shell.nix
2016-12-06 17:17:29 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra
d1da6967b8
Drop unused WWW::Curl dependency
2016-12-06 17:17:29 +01:00
Manav Rathi
eec5409a69
installation: allow profile modification to be skipped ( #1072 )
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The current behaviour modifies the first writeable file from amongst
.bash_profile, .bash_login and .profile. So .bash_profile (if it is
writable) would be modified even if a user has already sourced nix.sh
in, say, .profile.
This commit introduces a new environment variable,
NIX_INSTALLER_NO_MODIFY_PROFILE. If this is set during installation,
then the modifications are unconditionally skipped.
This is useful for users who have a manually curated set of dotfiles
that they are porting to a new machine. In such scenarios, nix.sh is
already sourced at a place where the user prefers. Without this
change, the nix installer would insist on modifying .bash_profile if
it exists.
This commit also add documentations for both the current behaviour and
the new override.
2016-11-03 18:02:29 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra
18b7363a69
Support optional sandbox paths
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For example, you can now set
build-sandbox-paths = /dev/nvidiactl?
to specify that /dev/nvidiactl should only be mounted in the sandbox
if it exists in the host filesystem. This is useful e.g. for EC2
images that should support both CUDA and non-CUDA instances.
2016-10-31 17:09:52 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra
818ab58cc6
Add sandbox-dev-shm-size option
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Fixes #1069 .
2016-09-21 16:54:53 +02:00
zimbatm
7d7ec2b3a8
Document the { __toString } interface
2016-09-21 14:52:26 +01:00
Adrien Devresse
7ef053c632
Add a new option to disable documentation generation at configure time
2016-09-20 14:34:43 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
6656ef7b5b
Revive binary-caches-parallel-connections
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It's a slight misnomer now because it actually limits *all* downloads,
not just binary cache lookups.
Also add a "enable-http2" option to allow disabling use of HTTP/2
(enabled by default).
2016-09-14 16:38:26 +02:00
Domen Kožar
0e3574d7f8
doc: move set functor para to Sets section
2016-08-26 19:19:24 +02:00
Domen Kožar
ed39532dda
doc: add an example for builtins.substring
2016-08-11 12:32:24 +02:00
Domen Kožar
9a1320af29
s/powerpc-darwin/x86_64-darwin/
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Let's step in line with time and document more realistic values.
2016-08-10 18:42:55 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra
2fad86f361
Remove $NIX_DB_DIR
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This variable has no reason to exist, given $NIX_STATE_DIR.
2016-08-10 18:05:35 +02:00
Shea Levy
6e51af8023
Nuke nix-push.
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Rarely used, nix copy replaces it.
2016-08-10 11:13:11 -04:00
Shea Levy
15c035c13f
Remove nix-install-package.
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Refs #831
2016-08-10 08:20:51 -04:00
Eelco Dolstra
77c2739c25
Grammar/spelling
2016-07-21 11:30:01 +02:00
Matthias Beyer
2ec9d2fb02
NIX_REMOTE_SYSTEMS path must be absolute ( #957 )
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Once upon a time, I wrote my bachelors thesis about functional
deployment mechanisms.
I had to evaluate several szenarios where package management and
deployment were relevant. One szenario was to do distributed builds
over several machines.
I told myself: Weee, nix can do this! And with nix, this is actually
save, as you do not have side effects when building!
So I started. I use a cloud to set up four virtual machines where I
wanted to do the build. A fifth machine was used as master to distribute
the builds. All was good.
I created the necessary SSH keys, made sure every machine was reachable
by the master and configured the build in my remotes.conf.
When I started to try to build weechat from source, the build failed. It
failed, telling me
error: unable to start any build; either increase ‘--max-jobs’ or enable distributed builds
And I started to dig around. I digged long and good. But I wasn't able
to find the issue.
I double and triple checked my environment variables, my settings, the
SSH key and everything.
I reached out to fellow Nixers by asking on the nixos IRC channel. And I
got help. But we weren't able to find the issue, either.
So I became frustrated. I re-did all the environment variables.
And suddenly,... it worked! What did I change? Well... I made the
environment variables which contained pathes contain absolute pathes
rather than relatives.
And because I like to share my knowledge, this should be put into the
documentation, so others do not bang their heads against the wall
because something is not documented somewhere.
2016-07-21 11:19:21 +02:00
Dmitry Kalinkin
2a788bf9e7
documentation: mention required openssl dependency ( #974 )
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Fixes: a6ca68a7
("Require OpenSSL")
2016-07-20 15:02:29 +02:00
aszlig
72fb2ccfa1
Don't hardcode docbook XSL namespace URL
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Docbook XSL got updated to version 1.79.1 in NixOS/nixpkgs@fb893a8 and
we're still referring to the hardcoded previous version.
So instead of just updating this to 1.79.1 we're going to use "current"
in the hope that this won't happen again.
I have tested this by building the manual under Nix(OS) but I haven't
tested this in a non-Nix environment, so I'm not sure whether this could
have implications.
Signed-off-by: aszlig <aszlig@redmoonstudios.org>
Cc: @edolstra
2016-07-04 20:13:20 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra
fffacd7c78
Fix manual build
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http://hydra.nixos.org/build/36944270
2016-06-20 16:55:22 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra
f94a804ced
Restore instructions on how to install a binary tarball
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Looks like these were accidentally commented out in
9ffc4f4363
.
2016-06-17 15:26:10 +02:00
Johannes 'fish' Ziemke
df7e9b6d68
Remove nix-copy-closure reference note from nix-store docs
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nix-copy-closure is not using nix-store directly anymore.
2016-06-15 15:58:13 +02:00
Domen Kožar
5339ae4437
Merge pull request #576 from qknight/args_explanation
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extended args@ explanation
2016-05-30 23:40:17 +01:00
Joachim Schiele
6766041b84
Update language-constructs.xml
2016-05-30 23:58:45 +02:00
Joachim Schiele
659a3e399b
Update language-constructs.xml
2016-05-30 23:58:13 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra
a375326a97
Merge pull request #884 from srp/fix-nix-build-examples
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fix "nix-build" examples
2016-05-03 11:13:54 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra
8e065c6b3e
BinaryCacheStore: Make the signing key a parameter
2016-04-29 16:47:20 +02:00
Scott R. Parish
96d3534a9e
fix "nix-build" examples
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The existing "nix-build" examples were failing:
error: cannot auto-call a function that has an argument without a default value (‘system’)
Thanks to @groxxda on irc for pointing out the fix!
Updated to completely remove unneeded path argument, suggested by @joachifm
Updated to remove other occurences of `all-packages.nix` from files as
suggested by @domenkozar
2016-04-26 13:30:57 -07:00
Eelco Dolstra
41633f9f73
Improved logging abstraction
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This also gets rid of --log-type, since the nested log type isn't
useful in a multi-threaded situation, and nobody cares about the
"pretty" log type.
2016-04-25 19:18:45 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra
31a1a8ed3c
Merge pull request #815 from vcunat/p/outputsToInstall
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nix-env: respect meta.outputsToInstall
2016-04-14 20:55:41 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra
58e423ce32
Remove PDF manual
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More spring cleaning.
2016-04-14 12:50:01 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra
867967265b
Remove manifest support
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Manifests have been superseded by binary caches for years. This also
gets rid of nix-pull, nix-generate-patches and bsdiff/bspatch.
2016-04-11 16:20:15 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra
8cffec8485
Remove failed build caching
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This feature was implemented for Hydra, but Hydra no longer uses it.
2016-04-08 18:19:04 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra
525c78a2c3
Remove references to old-school signing
2016-03-22 15:39:59 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra
e69c48dc43
Fix bad DocBook
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http://hydra.nixos.org/build/33087405
2016-03-14 12:34:11 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra
1b18991082
Merge pull request #822 from cstrahan/nix-store-serve
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add docs for `nix-store --serve`
2016-03-10 15:30:54 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra
b4e0335d4d
Add option binary-cache-secret-key-file for signing binary caches
2016-03-04 17:45:22 +01:00
Charles Strahan
e3e5c8bc91
add docs for nix-store --serve
2016-02-27 22:39:29 -05:00
Vladimír Čunát
03cbb9ad59
nix-env: respect meta.outputsToInstall
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Discussed on https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/pull/12653#discussion_r51601849
2016-02-23 14:19:14 +01:00
Shea Levy
037ff4e70a
Merge branch 'docs' of git://github.com/joelmo/nix
2016-02-22 07:14:16 -05:00
Dan Connolly
b39ec410ee
context for introducing runtime dependencies
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The first occurrence of "runtime dependencies" wasn't related to the surrounding narrative.
2016-02-18 23:29:00 -06:00
Joel Moberg
bb36a1a3cf
Document IN_NIX_SHELL variable
2016-02-18 23:32:37 +01:00
Scott Olson
37b8e59f6f
Fix typo in nix-shell command reference.
2016-02-13 01:03:32 -07:00
Eelco Dolstra
b3e8d72770
Merge pull request #762 from ctheune/ctheune-floats
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Implement floats
2016-02-12 12:49:59 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra
9e7c1a4bbd
Use the daemon when we don't have write access to the Nix database
2016-01-31 10:28:48 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra
8b4577ac9d
Grmbl
2016-01-19 12:35:17 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra
d704abc0f3
Update release notes
2016-01-18 15:59:28 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra
71e5b937fb
Document --check
2016-01-18 15:54:14 +01:00
Peter Simons
a1bf934044
doc/manual/command-ref/nix-collect-garbage.xml: document --max-freed option
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Mention the --max-freed option in the nix-collect-garbage man page.
Related to https://github.com/NixOS/nix/issues/609 .
2016-01-18 13:25:36 +01:00
Christian Theune
b4bda4765a
Update documentation for floats.
2016-01-06 08:41:53 +01:00
Fabian Schmitthenner
0eb200e569
propagate NIX_BUILD_SHELL also in pure builds document NIX_BUILD_SHELL in the nix-shell command documentation
2016-01-05 14:11:20 +01:00
Tim Cuthbertson
36b9ce24b1
doc: Clarify why multiple arguments are not supported in shebang line
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It's not a limitation of `/usr/bin/env`, it's just how the OS processes shebang lines
(see http://stackoverflow.com/a/4304187 )
2016-01-05 13:46:05 +01:00
Vladimír Čunát
29c0199d5c
manual: document builtins.functionArgs
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The text is just a conversion of comment from src/libexpr/primops.cc
2016-01-05 13:29:17 +01:00
davidak
5eb93556f1
doc: fixes #727 broken link
2016-01-05 13:28:34 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra
9be037448c
Use sensible date format
2016-01-04 14:38:26 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra
f476535265
Update release notes
2016-01-04 14:29:23 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra
c0d4173263
Set default binary-caches-parallel-connections to 25
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Some benchmarking suggested this as a good value. Running
$ benchmark -f ... -t 25 -- sh -c 'rm -f /nix/var/nix/binary-cache*; nix-store -r /nix/store/x5z8a2yvz8h6ccmhwrwrp9igg03575jg-nixos-15.09.git.5fd87e1M.drv --dry-run --option binary-caches-parallel-connections <N>'
gave the following mean elapsed times for these values of N:
N=10: 3.3541
N=20: 2.9320
N=25: 2.6690
N=30: 2.9417
N=50: 3.2021
N=100: 3.5718
N=150: 4.2079
Memory usage is also reduced (N=150 used 186 MB, N=25 only 68 MB).
Closes #708 .
2015-11-25 17:13:11 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra
0ab4d905e7
Merge branch 'p/sandbox-rename-minimal' of https://github.com/vcunat/nix
2015-11-25 14:53:42 +01:00
Rommel M. Martinez
cf141abfe9
Fixed typo.
2015-11-23 15:59:57 +08:00
Vladimír Čunát
b39622a487
rename chroot
to sandbox
( fixes #656 , close #682 )
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- rename options but leav old names as lower-priority aliases,
also "-dirs" -> "-paths" to get closer to the meaning
- update docs to reflect the new names (old aliases are not documented),
including a new file with release notes
- tests need an update after corresponding changes to nixpkgs
- __noChroot is left as it is (after discussion on the PR)
2015-11-10 22:32:51 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra
8fdd156a65
Add option to verify build determinism
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Passing "--option build-repeat <N>" will cause every build to be
repeated N times. If the build output differs between any round, the
build is rejected, and the output paths are not registered as
valid. This is primarily useful to verify build determinism. (We
already had a --check option to repeat a previously succeeded
build. However, with --check, non-deterministic builds are registered
in the DB. Preventing that is useful for Hydra to ensure that
non-deterministic builds don't end up getting published at all.)
2015-11-09 23:16:24 +01:00
Anders Claesson
055ab1fc8d
Fix typo in doc for nix-copy-closure
2015-10-08 13:17:01 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra
f08449ccbd
nix-prefetch-url: Add --name option
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This allows overriding the name component of the resulting Nix store
path, which is necessary if the base name of the URI contains
"illegal" characters.
2015-10-07 14:55:33 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra
b54f447df9
nix-prefetch-url: Support unpacking tarballs
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This allows nix-prefetch-url to prefetch the output of fetchzip and
its wrappers (like fetchFromGitHub). For example:
$ nix-prefetch-url --unpack https://github.com/NixOS/patchelf/archive/0.8.tar.gz
or from a Nix expression:
$ nix-prefetch-url -A nix-repl.src
In the latter case, --unpack can be omitted because nix-repl.src is a
fetchFromGitHub derivation and thus has "outputHashMode" set to
"recursive".
2015-10-07 14:40:10 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra
9ffc4f4363
Don't mention Fedora/Debian packages in the installation section
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See d4a88df9d6
2015-10-05 18:46:25 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra
57db2aa220
Merge pull request #645 from acowley/patch-1
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Update prerequisites-source.xml
2015-10-05 15:05:32 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra
06f29fafe8
nix-prefetch-url: Support prefetching from a Nix expression
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For example,
$ nix-prefetch-url -A hello.src
will prefetch the file specified by the fetchurl call in the attribute
‘hello.src’ from the Nix expression in the current directory. This
differs from ‘nix-build -A hello.src’ in that it doesn't verify the
hash.
You can also specify a path to the Nix expression:
$ nix-prefetch-url ~/Dev/nixpkgs -A hello.src
List elements (typically used in ‘patches’ attributes) also work:
$ nix-prefetch-url -A portmidi.patches.0
2015-10-01 18:07:56 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra
a3c4eb0964
nix-prefetch-url: $PRINT_PATH -> --print-path
2015-10-01 16:53:07 +02:00
Vladimír Čunát
12a4aea93d
doc: fix the 'prebuild' typos
2015-09-17 12:08:05 +02:00
Anthony Cowley
e5c3e054ec
Update prerequisites-source.xml
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The Perl WWW::Curl bindings are required to build Nix.
2015-09-15 12:42:44 -04:00
Eelco Dolstra
6e06a18d1b
Release notes
2015-09-03 11:57:47 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra
ce97523a7c
Fix readDir example
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Fixes https://github.com/NixOS/nixos-homepage/issues/46 .
2015-09-01 16:53:51 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra
896428c818
Fix example
2015-08-05 17:36:33 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra
76cc8e97a2
Add sort primop
2015-07-28 18:39:39 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra
50807f3dd5
Add primop genList
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This can be used to implement functions like ‘imap’ (or for that
matter, ‘map’) without the quadratic complexity incurred by calling
‘++’ repeatedly.
2015-07-28 17:28:35 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra
d6d5885c15
Add replaceStrings primop
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This is a generalisation of replaceChars in Nixpkgs.
2015-07-24 15:32:24 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra
14be783676
Add primops all and any
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These are used thousands of times during NixOS evaluation, so it's
useful to speed them up.
2015-07-23 19:23:11 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra
61af14a921
Add foldl' primop
2015-07-23 17:03:02 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra
ccf31dbc25
nix-copy-closure: Add -v flag
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And make exportPath() less spammy by default.
2015-07-20 01:52:07 +02:00
Joachim Schiele
8ce96becf0
extended args@ explanation
2015-07-07 02:09:50 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra
39b3d9698e
Typos
2015-06-12 11:02:40 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra
d1e4b76a3a
Update release notes
2015-06-12 01:11:03 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra
7d148ad543
Fix manual
2015-06-08 11:25:04 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra
53dd97bb9d
Document setting up signed binary caches
2015-06-01 17:14:16 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra
da196ec68f
Document tarball downloading
2015-06-01 15:14:44 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra
feca5cb67f
Document nix-shell #!-scripts
2015-06-01 13:49:11 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra
99c2c14f50
Typo
2015-06-01 13:04:10 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra
d68941d89d
Nix 1.9 release notes
2015-06-01 12:57:43 +02:00
Charles Strahan
9c6328a7bf
nix-env: document --set option
2015-05-19 11:00:15 +02:00
Shea Levy
4d652875bd
Add the pre-build hook.
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This hook can be used to set system-specific per-derivation build
settings that don't fit into the derivation model and are too complex or
volatile to be hard-coded into nix. Currently, the pre-build hook can
only add chroot dirs/files through the interface, but it also has full
access to the chroot root.
The specific use case for this is systems where the operating system ABI
is more complex than just the kernel-support system calls. For example,
on OS X there is a set of system-provided frameworks that can reliably
be accessed by any program linked to them, no matter the version the
program is running on. Unfortunately, those frameworks do not
necessarily live in the same locations on each version of OS X, nor do
their dependencies, and thus nix needs to know the specific version of
OS X currently running in order to make those frameworks available. The
pre-build hook is a perfect mechanism for doing just that.
2015-04-18 16:56:02 -04:00
Shea Levy
fd6774e285
Revert "Add the pre-build hook."
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Going to reimplement differently.
This reverts commit 1e4a4a2e9f
.
2015-04-18 14:59:58 -04:00
Shea Levy
1e4a4a2e9f
Add the pre-build hook.
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This hook can be used to set system specific per-derivation build
settings that don't fit into the derivation model and are too complex or
volatile to be hard-coded into nix. Currently, the pre-build hook can
only add chroot dirs/files.
The specific use case for this is systems where the operating system ABI
is more complex than just the kernel-supported system calls. For
example, on OS X there is a set of system-provided frameworks that can
reliably be accessed by any program linked to them, no matter the
version the program is running on. Unfortunately, those frameworks do
not necessarily live in the same locations on each version of OS X, nor
do their dependencies, and thus nix needs to know the specific version
of OS X currently running in order to make those frameworks available.
The pre-build hook is a perfect mechanism for doing just that.
2015-04-12 12:56:38 -04:00
Daniel Hahler
e659978ced
Fix typos: s/the the/the/
2015-03-06 16:43:22 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra
cffa7f80ab
Typo
2015-02-23 16:02:50 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra
99897f6979
Use chroots for all derivations
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If ‘build-use-chroot’ is set to ‘true’, fixed-output derivations are
now also chrooted. However, unlike normal derivations, they don't get
a private network namespace, so they can still access the
network. Also, the use of the ‘__noChroot’ derivation attribute is
no longer allowed.
Setting ‘build-use-chroot’ to ‘relaxed’ gives the old behaviour.
2015-02-23 15:54:31 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra
15d2d3c34e
Add restricted evaluation mode
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If ‘--option restrict-eval true’ is given, the evaluator will throw an
exception if an attempt is made to access any file outside of the Nix
search path. This is primarily intended for Hydra, where we don't want
people doing ‘builtins.readFile ~/.ssh/id_dsa’ or stuff like that.
2015-02-23 15:54:31 +01:00
Shea Levy
a8494de0be
Merge branch 'docs/channels-path' of git://github.com/iElectric/nix
2015-02-22 11:59:38 -05:00
Domen Kožar
7bd8299c6c
fixes https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/issues/6485
2015-02-22 08:39:29 -08:00
Shea Levy
e0953d53de
Allow the leading component of a path to be a ~
2015-02-19 08:05:16 -05:00
Eelco Dolstra
bd91064150
Use $<attr>Path instead of $<attr> for passAsFile
2015-02-17 16:42:54 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra
a70d275f3d
Allow passing attributes via files instead of environment variables
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Closes #473 .
2015-02-17 14:42:15 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra
29e1ff675b
Keep sorted
2015-02-17 13:55:37 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra
de8ed5c1d3
Typo
2015-02-04 18:17:06 +01:00
Shea Levy
d66d9e8425
Require linux 3.13 or later for chroot
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Fixes #453
2015-02-04 18:15:56 +01:00
Tobias Geerinckx-Rice
c23d67920e
doc: nix-channel --remove
takes a name, not a url
2015-01-12 10:56:58 +01:00
Данило Глинський (Danylo Hlynskyi)
ed56ea980b
Fix typo (assuming this is a typo)
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Fix typo (assuming this is a typo)
`allowedRequisites` mentions `allowedReferences` in code example
2015-01-08 16:43:56 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra
128538ef06
nix-shell: Add --run flag
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‘--run’ is like ‘--command’, except that it runs the command in a
non-interactive shell. This is important if you do things like:
$ nix-shell --command make
Hitting Ctrl-C while make is running drops you into the interactive
Nix shell, which is probably not what you want. So you can now do
$ nix-shell --run make
instead.
2015-01-08 15:14:38 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra
4d5c9d85ea
Document how to set up build users on Mac OS X
2015-01-06 11:17:11 +01:00
j-keck
14fb7378df
doc: remove wrong phrase.
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'... another level of indirection not shown in the figure above ...'
but in the 'user-environments.png' figure there is '~/.nix-profile'.
the figure was updated with the commit: f982df3
on Mar 16, 2005.
2015-01-05 15:08:53 +01:00
j-keck
2c052278d2
doc: remove double word
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'... when when ...' -> '... when ...'
2015-01-05 13:40:19 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra
411b237ee5
edition -> subtitle
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For some reason, docbook-xsl doesn't render edition.
2015-01-02 12:53:32 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra
f16b8786a2
Belatedly add contributors
2014-12-16 18:58:04 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra
c2384052e3
Grmbl
2014-12-14 03:38:54 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra
47ed06a290
Add a section on nix-serve
2014-12-14 03:37:41 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra
2142f47c06
Add section on SSH substituter
2014-12-14 03:19:15 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra
68b4717873
Delete the stdenv section
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It's outdated and better covered in the Nixpkgs manual.
2014-12-14 01:39:32 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra
6466d56f42
Bla
2014-12-14 01:33:16 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra
e90e7b5e0a
Fix build
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http://hydra.nixos.org/build/17894500
2014-12-14 01:29:35 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra
eb53f592b8
Fix image in PDF
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Closes #415 .
2014-12-14 01:23:06 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra
9c830394ec
Rename files
2014-12-14 01:07:23 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra
4c4e891652
Update .nixpkg description
2014-12-13 23:27:22 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra
be79773542
ReiserFS -> ext4
2014-12-13 23:23:19 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra
4eace5adda
Style
2014-12-13 23:21:14 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra
751ae181a1
Undocument nix-generate-patches
2014-12-13 23:17:26 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra
3b88d03714
Document channel format and excise most mentions of manifests and nix-pull
2014-12-13 23:16:08 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra
e5a51fab24
Style
2014-12-13 21:50:01 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra
a144eb1415
Don't use ?=
2014-12-11 10:44:02 +01:00
darealshinji
40e1203abc
allow custom docbook paths/URLs, use a working URL for docbook.rng
2014-12-11 10:43:46 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra
d44d923be9
Add option to disable binary cache certificate checking
2014-12-09 13:16:02 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra
e5891f2ea8
Use https://cache.nixos.org instead of http://cache.nixos.org
2014-12-09 13:16:02 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra
5f04da905f
Intro: Mention binary caches
2014-11-25 15:55:28 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra
d4c8ee7059
Rely on XML catalogs to find the DocBook schemas and stylesheets
2014-11-25 15:54:26 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra
976b949e4d
More build-cache-failures -> build-cache-failure
2014-11-24 16:52:13 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra
215745415e
Update installation section
2014-11-24 16:50:46 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra
103e4e43cc
Update quick start section
2014-11-24 16:50:46 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra
2b74354e52
Combine introduction / quick start parts
2014-11-24 16:50:45 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra
5e04992d1f
Manual: Bump date
2014-11-24 16:50:45 +01:00
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
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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
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Fixes #368 .
2014-10-14 12:08:04 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra
104e55bb7f
nix-env: Add regular expression support in selectors
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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‘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’
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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
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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
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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
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Signed-off-by: Shea Levy <shea@shealevy.com>
2014-02-26 14:06:45 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra
36b90e72d7
nix-shell: Add --packages flag
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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"
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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
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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
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Issue #162 .
2013-09-02 13:24:29 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra
e9b92169a5
Fix manual error
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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’
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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
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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"
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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
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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
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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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’
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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
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Reported by Shea.
2012-10-12 10:21:04 -04:00
Eelco Dolstra
bfaa5635de
Manual: Don't use a store path that actually exists
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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
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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
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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’
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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
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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
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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
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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’
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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
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You can use ‘--option binary-caches URLs’ instead.
2012-07-30 16:39:31 -04:00
Eelco Dolstra
f15083c10a
Document the --option flag
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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
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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
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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 $NIX_PATH / -I
2012-05-09 19:06:13 -04:00
Eelco Dolstra
a58efdb69b
Update the release notes
2012-05-09 19:05:30 -04:00
Eelco Dolstra
afa7b8a479
nix-channel --update: allow updating only the specified channels
2012-05-07 17:55:56 -04:00
Eelco Dolstra
db5b86ef13
* Add an option ‘build-use-substitutes’, which can be set to ‘false’
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to disable use of substitutes; i.e., force building from source.
Fixes Nix/221.
2012-04-30 19:15:34 -04:00
Eelco Dolstra
59a26360c7
Support mandatory system features in the build hook
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Mandatory features are features that MUST be present in a derivation's
requiredSystemFeatures attribute. One application is performance
testing, where we have a dedicated machine to run performance tests
(and nothing else). Then we would add the label "perf" to the
machine's mandatory features and to the performance testing
derivations.
2012-04-30 17:22:45 -04:00
Eelco Dolstra
82ae0e688c
Update the documentation of build-remote.pl
2012-04-30 16:49:00 -04:00
Eelco Dolstra
9cd3ff1059
nix-instantiate: default to "default.nix" if no arguments are given
2012-04-17 17:19:43 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra
8745fade03
Added utility command ‘nix-instantiate --find-file’ to look up a file in Nix's search path
2012-04-17 17:14:14 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra
e855c7e2c9
nix-channel improvements
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"nix-channel --add" now accepts a second argument: the channel name.
This allows channels to have a nicer name than (say) nixpkgs_unstable.
If no name is given, it defaults to the last component of the URL
(with "-unstable" or "-stable" removed).
Also, channels are now stored in a profile
(/nix/var/nix/profiles/per-user/$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
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Reported on IRC by Adrian Siekierka.
2012-04-06 20:26:30 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra
8be1979f1a
Remove the --max-links GC option
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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
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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
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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
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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
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(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
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the contents of any of the given store paths have been modified.
E.g.
$ nix-store --verify-path $(nix-store -qR /var/run/current-system)
path `/nix/store/m2smyiwbxidlprfxfz4rjlvz2c3mg58y-etc' was modified! expected hash `fc87e271c5fdf179b47939b08ad13440493805584b35e3014109d04d8436e7b8', got `20f1a47281b3c0cbe299ce47ad5ca7340b20ab34246426915fce0ee9116483aa'
All paths are checked; the exit code is 1 if any path has been
modified, 0 otherwise.
2011-09-06 12:06:30 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
1ecc97b6bd
* Add a Nix expression search path feature. Paths between angle
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brackets, e.g.
import <nixpkgs/pkgs/lib>
are resolved by looking them up relative to the elements listed in
the search path. This allows us to get rid of hacks like
import "${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
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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,
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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.
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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
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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
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/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
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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
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(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).
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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