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Valentin Gagarin
ca5ebf6382 revert build plan/step distinction, reorder rows 2022-08-04 12:37:47 +02:00
Valentin Gagarin
610ddf44aa reword introduction to rosetta stone, add links 
attempt to explain used and documented terminology, as well as how
the declarative programming paradigm relates to building software.

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

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

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

derivation - build plan
realise - execute build

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

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

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

I think a new section of the manual can address all these issues.
 2022-08-04 12:37:46 +02:00
Théophane Hufschmitt
7d1ccd9105
Merge pull request #6846 from fricklerhandwerk/values 
manual: use subheadings for primitive types
 2022-08-03 14:50:41 +02:00
Théophane Hufschmitt
c55bea4204 Fix the html id of the list headers 2022-08-03 14:16:00 +02:00
Valentin Gagarin
ceed4d4142 encode primitive as list with anchors 
to make it consistent with builtins and configuration options
 2022-08-03 11:25:41 +02:00
K900
f675ba5331
doc/distributed-builds: don't use deprecated alias 
`nix ping-store` -> `nix store ping`.
 2022-08-01 13:50:35 +03:00
Valentin Gagarin
27138f1ec6
manual: use singular in body, too 
Co-authored-by: Cole Helbling <cole.e.helbling@outlook.com>
 2022-07-28 23:30:07 +02:00
Valentin Gagarin
41a3b315fd manual: values -> data types 2022-07-28 17:25:25 +02:00
Valentin Gagarin
8f4fab8fab manual: use singular for headings 2022-07-28 17:25:18 +02:00
Valentin Gagarin
4ff48854b8 manual: simple values -> primitives 
"simple" is a loaded term
 2022-07-28 17:23:57 +02:00
Valentin Gagarin
3063e5b94c manual: use subheadings for primitive types 
this gives us HTML anchors for each of them
 2022-07-28 17:23:57 +02:00
Valentin Gagarin
85cdaebcd6 manual: set -> attribute set 
reword description to have shorter sentences.
 2022-07-28 16:10:24 +02:00
Valentin Gagarin
be4654c344 manual: fix section title in table of contents 2022-07-28 15:55:41 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra
28e913c605 Branch 2.10 release notes 2022-07-11 21:10:23 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra
545383208e
Merge pull request #6777 from laalsaas/master 
Fix logical and typographical errors in nix-env man page
 2022-07-11 13:52:40 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra
517ce38dad Update release notes 2022-07-11 11:17:19 +02:00
laalsaas
eac211a171 Fix logical and typographical errors in nix-env man page 2022-07-10 12:30:17 +02:00
Théophane Hufschmitt
6fa95c35c7
Add a release notes entry for #4914 
cc @gytis-ivaskevicius
 2022-07-06 06:46:54 +02:00
Tom Bereknyei
51268ceb79 Merge branch 'master' into nix-repl-flakes 2022-06-15 09:17:03 -04:00
tomberek
dae4a8a6c8
Apply suggestions from code review 
Co-authored-by: Théophane Hufschmitt <7226587+thufschmitt@users.noreply.github.com>
 2022-06-15 09:02:36 -04:00
Hugo Osvaldo Barrera
fd7f795750 Add disambiguation to man page 
This should help future lost newcomers like myself understand where to
find the docs for both of these commands and how they differ.
 2022-06-14 18:13:35 +02:00
Tom Bereknyei
ffd41d1757 Merge branch 'master' into nix-repl-flakes 2022-06-02 16:58:35 -04:00
Théophane Hufschmitt
a5f7b934bd
Merge branch 'master' into lto 2022-06-01 17:55:03 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra
04a699b8a9
Typo 2022-05-31 10:38:03 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra
de13b44573
Branch 2.9 release notes 2022-05-30 20:42:55 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra
8e8e9d8705
Respect the outputSpecified attribute 
E.g. 'nix build nixpkgs#libxml2.dev' will build the 'dev' output.
 2022-05-30 11:34:47 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra
d67a2ae52d
Merge branch 'doc-redirects' of https://github.com/jtojnar/nix 2022-05-27 11:12:41 +02:00
Jan Tojnar
a793863b97 doc: Manually insert some anchors 2022-05-26 18:17:21 +02:00
Jan Tojnar
7708a34a51 doc: Add anchors to long lists 
Added using the following sed scripts:

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

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

- For expressions/builtin-constants.md:

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

- For expressions/advanced-attributes.md

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

  and manually adjusted outputHashAlgo & outputHashMode.

- For glossary.md

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

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

- For command-ref/env-common.md

    s~^  - `([^`]+)`~  - [`\1`]{#env-\1}~g'
 2022-05-26 18:17:21 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra
8f4548d401
Tweak IN_NIX_SHELL description 2022-05-26 12:40:01 +02:00
Ben Burdette
9a5ea6c359
Merge branch 'master' into debug-exploratory-PR 2022-05-25 10:41:10 -06:00
Ben Burdette
6031a36208 add --debugger to rl-next list 2022-05-25 10:38:13 -06:00
pennae
b092afe77d
Merge branch 'master' into lto 2022-05-25 11:55:13 +00:00
Tom Bereknyei
82c4af41e3 repl: clarify change and usage of <nixpkgs> 2022-05-20 01:49:49 -04:00
Tony Olagbaiye
5b8c1deb18 fetchTree: Allow fetching plain files 
Add a new `file` fetcher type, which will fetch a plain file over
http(s), or from the local file.

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

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

Fix #3785

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

This derivation produced the following outputs:
  ./repl-result-out -> /nix/store/kidqq2acdpi05c4a9mlbg2baikmzik44-hello
[1 built, 0.0 MiB DL]
ckie@cookiemonster ~/git/nix -> cat ./repl-result-out
hi
 2022-04-20 00:20:29 +03:00
Eelco Dolstra
1cdad1074c Move rl-next.md to rl-2.8.md 2022-04-19 21:12:33 +02:00
Tom Bereknyei
9b41239d8f fix: ensure apps are apps and packages are packages 2022-04-14 23:57:52 -04:00
Rehno Lindeque
5ff4c42608 Update release notes 2022-04-06 12:24:35 -04:00
Eelco Dolstra
f98d76ff1a rl-2.7.md: Fix title 2022-04-05 14:13:26 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra
d63a5f5dd3 Update release notes 2022-03-31 17:33:06 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra
86b05ccd54 Only provide builtin.{getFlake,fetchClosure} is the corresponding experimental feature is enabled 
This allows writing fallback code like

  if builtins ? fetchClosure then
    builtins.fetchClose { ... }
  else
    builtins.storePath ...
 2022-03-25 14:04:18 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra
98658ae9d2 Document fetchClosure 2022-03-24 21:33:33 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra
5acaf13d35 Rename 'nix store make-content-addressable' to 'nix store make-content-addressed' 2022-03-24 21:33:33 +01:00
Domen Kožar
98ce1a21b7
Merge pull request #6144 from toonn/doc-macos-uninstall 
doc: Add detailed uninstall section for macOS
 2022-03-23 08:53:48 +01:00
Théophane Hufschmitt
7117053457
Merge pull request #6270 from Artturin/stdineval 
nix: allow using --file - to read from stdin
 2022-03-17 14:35:01 +01:00
Artturin
a5c969db49 nix: allow using --file - to read from stdin 2022-03-16 21:01:51 +02:00
Joachim Breitner
af013281c9
distributed-builds.md: fixing typo of the most minor sort 2022-03-16 12:53:38 +01:00
pennae
f2603e9c92
Merge branch 'master' into lto 2022-03-10 00:32:34 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
ad7c99ef20 Move rl-next.md to rl-2.7.md 2022-03-07 20:10:18 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra
0123b9aec8 Tweak release notes 2022-03-07 19:56:10 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra
30ddd37873 Merge branch 'cli-suggestions' of https://github.com/thufschmitt/nix 2022-03-07 19:47:45 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra
c28e2b1b29 Tweak release notes 2022-03-07 11:30:40 +01:00
regnat
b44cebd1fd Add a release-notes entry for the cli suggestions 2022-03-07 10:09:10 +01:00