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Valentin Gagarin
27138f1ec6
manual: use singular in body, too
Co-authored-by: Cole Helbling <cole.e.helbling@outlook.com>
2022-07-28 23:30:07 +02:00
Valentin Gagarin
41a3b315fd manual: values -> data types 2022-07-28 17:25:25 +02:00
Valentin Gagarin
8f4fab8fab manual: use singular for headings 2022-07-28 17:25:18 +02:00
Valentin Gagarin
4ff48854b8 manual: simple values -> primitives
"simple" is a loaded term
2022-07-28 17:23:57 +02:00
Valentin Gagarin
3063e5b94c manual: use subheadings for primitive types
this gives us HTML anchors for each of them
2022-07-28 17:23:57 +02:00
Valentin Gagarin
85cdaebcd6 manual: set -> attribute set
reword description to have shorter sentences.
2022-07-28 16:10:24 +02:00
Valentin Gagarin
be4654c344 manual: fix section title in table of contents 2022-07-28 15:55:41 +02:00
Théophane Hufschmitt
7ed91d6c6a
Merge branch 'master' into parallel-nix-copy 2022-07-20 10:05:34 +02:00
John Ericson
12461e246b Leverage existing docs for new store-path^outputs syntax 2022-07-15 14:04:22 +00:00
John Ericson
279ecf7cde Remove computed-derivations experimental feature
We don't need it yet.
2022-07-15 13:42:17 +00:00
John Ericson
6cafe308c9 Merge remote-tracking branch 'upstream/master' into indexed-store-path-outputs 2022-07-14 16:15:37 -04:00
Eelco Dolstra
28e913c605 Branch 2.10 release notes 2022-07-11 21:10:23 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra
545383208e
Merge pull request #6777 from laalsaas/master
Fix logical and typographical errors in nix-env man page
2022-07-11 13:52:40 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra
517ce38dad Update release notes 2022-07-11 11:17:19 +02:00
laalsaas
eac211a171 Fix logical and typographical errors in nix-env man page 2022-07-10 12:30:17 +02:00
Théophane Hufschmitt
6fa95c35c7
Add a release notes entry for #4914
cc @gytis-ivaskevicius
2022-07-06 06:46:54 +02:00
Travis A. Everett
649c9d9b4c doc: acknowledge post-rsync reality
Before #5150 the copy-to-store phase of the install was idempotent,
but the recursive cp isn't. This is probably baiting a few people
into trying corrective installs that will fail.
2022-06-30 13:31:04 -05:00
Travis A. Everett
fe76b9f4b4 doc: fix some darwin uninstall gaps 2022-06-16 09:37:52 -05:00
Tom Bereknyei
51268ceb79 Merge branch 'master' into nix-repl-flakes 2022-06-15 09:17:03 -04:00
tomberek
dae4a8a6c8
Apply suggestions from code review
Co-authored-by: Théophane Hufschmitt <7226587+thufschmitt@users.noreply.github.com>
2022-06-15 09:02:36 -04:00
Hugo Osvaldo Barrera
fd7f795750 Add disambiguation to man page
This should help future lost newcomers like myself understand where to
find the docs for both of these commands and how they differ.
2022-06-14 18:13:35 +02:00
Travis A. Everett
edfcc8256e doc: add install test info to hacking.md 2022-06-11 13:30:51 -05:00
Théophane Hufschmitt
34d90fbe22 Mention the parallel copy in the release notes 2022-06-08 15:25:52 +02:00
Tom Bereknyei
ffd41d1757 Merge branch 'master' into nix-repl-flakes 2022-06-02 16:58:35 -04:00
John Ericson
b585548dfe Merge remote-tracking branch 'upstream/master' into indexed-store-path-outputs 2022-06-02 19:53:11 +00:00
Théophane Hufschmitt
a5f7b934bd
Merge branch 'master' into lto 2022-06-01 17:55:03 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra
04a699b8a9
Typo 2022-05-31 10:38:03 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra
de13b44573
Branch 2.9 release notes 2022-05-30 20:42:55 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra
8e8e9d8705
Respect the outputSpecified attribute
E.g. 'nix build nixpkgs#libxml2.dev' will build the 'dev' output.
2022-05-30 11:34:47 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra
d67a2ae52d
Merge branch 'doc-redirects' of https://github.com/jtojnar/nix 2022-05-27 11:12:41 +02:00
Jan Tojnar
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
John Ericson
b18720ee17 Merge remote-tracking branch 'upstream/master' into indexed-store-path-outputs 2022-05-12 19:13:33 +00:00
Théophane Hufschmitt
65a913d29b Don’t recommend writing unit tests
As asked in <https://github.com/NixOS/nix/pull/6517#discussion_r869416905>
2022-05-12 12:02:31 +02:00
Théophane Hufschmitt
7c75f1d52b Expand the testing section of the hacking docs
- Make it clear what the different kind of tests are, where they live
  and how they can be ran
- Ask people to primarily write unit tests
2022-05-10 13:35:23 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra
4a79cba511 Allow selecting derivation outputs using 'installable!outputs'
E.g. 'nixpkgs#glibc^dev,static' or 'nixpkgs#glibc^*'.
2022-05-03 13:43:52 +02:00
Guillaume Maudoux
9ff892aad4 Add release notes for error traces revamp 2022-04-29 11:24:48 +02:00
pennae
d6d6bbd9ef
Merge branch 'master' into lto 2022-04-25 14:02:37 +00:00
midchildan
c67d8876c3
feat: add integration with zsh's run-help 2022-04-25 02:21:41 +09:00
Théophane Hufschmitt
be28603dca Merge remote-tracking branch 'origin/master' into nixbuildaddprintstorepaths 2022-04-22 11:11:01 +02:00
Tom Bereknyei
f25112d383 fix: builtins.toFile adds path to allowedPaths
The produced path is then allowed be imported or utilized elsewhere:
```
assert (43 == import (builtins.toFile "source" "43")); "good"
```

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

This derivation produced the following outputs:
  ./repl-result-out -> /nix/store/kidqq2acdpi05c4a9mlbg2baikmzik44-hello
[1 built, 0.0 MiB DL]
ckie@cookiemonster ~/git/nix -> cat ./repl-result-out
hi
2022-04-20 00:20:29 +03:00
John Ericson
6b61d7722d Merge remote-tracking branch 'upstream/master' into indexed-store-path-outputs 2022-04-19 20:30:12 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
1cdad1074c Move rl-next.md to rl-2.8.md 2022-04-19 21:12:33 +02:00
John Ericson
41e755bee4 Merge remote-tracking branch 'upstream/master' into indexed-store-path-outputs 2022-04-19 15:14:06 +00:00
Tom Bereknyei
9b41239d8f fix: ensure apps are apps and packages are packages 2022-04-14 23:57:52 -04:00
John Ericson
fda2224b59 Add release notes mark experimental 2022-04-07 19:45:38 +00:00
Rehno Lindeque
5ff4c42608 Update release notes 2022-04-06 12:24:35 -04:00
Eelco Dolstra
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
pennae
2799fe4cdb enable LTO in optimized builds
gives 2-5% performance improvement across a board of tests.
LTO is broken when using clang; some libs link fine while others crash
the linker with a segfault in the llvm linker plugin. 🙁
2022-03-03 17:47:49 +01:00
toonn
947d4761b3
doc: Add removal of darwin-store LaunchDaemon
The uninstall instructions used to accidentally remove the nix-darwin
LaunchDaemon, this was dropped. However, the original intent was to
remove the Store volume mounting LaunchDaemon.
2022-02-26 14:16:35 +01:00
toonn
2df23e2b3e
doc: Drop nix-darwin service from macOS uninstall 2022-02-25 10:50:01 +01:00
toonn
064cad7e9f
doc: Add macOS uninstall note about /nix
Clarify that `/nix` being present after the uninstall is normal and it
will only disappear after a reboot.

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

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

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

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

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

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

It also better matches the reality, where ~/.config/nix.conf does not seem to be used.
2021-11-04 11:41:29 +01:00
Dimitris Apostolou
c34cc5e488
Fix typos 2021-11-03 18:11:20 +02:00
Simon Legner
1968760f4a
command-ref/nix-shell: fix --pure, --keep 2021-11-02 22:00:08 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra
b61b307bad Remove references to building from the source tarball 2021-11-02 15:29:47 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra
6a93e186f4 Fix 2.4 migration examples 2021-11-01 22:44:07 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra
bc4b7521f4 Rename rl-2.5.md to rl-next.md
Having a generically named file for release notes for the next release
makes things easier for PRs.
2021-10-28 14:36:47 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra
9c6ac9eb0e 2.4 release notes: Add some migration notes 2021-10-27 17:33:32 +02:00
Domen Kožar
51c812d6bb
Merge pull request #5365 from arafangion/master
Clarify that not all nix packages will use the default build phases
2021-10-17 20:54:00 -05:00
John Chapman
ffeec5f283 Clarify that not all nix packages will use the default build phases 2021-10-17 15:24:22 +11:00
Eelco Dolstra
4c0cde95ad Update release notes 2021-10-13 11:39:54 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra
2f3c79c241 Mention compression-level in the release notes 2021-10-13 11:11:26 +02:00
John Chapman
4cff413054 Clarify that not all nix packages will use the default build phases 2021-10-09 12:03:34 +11:00
Eelco Dolstra
844dd901a7 Start 2.5 release notes 2021-10-07 20:09:03 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra
f45b30de2f Revert "docs: add troubleshooting session in remote builds"
This reverts commit 0574c1850a.
2021-10-06 17:12:52 +02:00
Domen Kožar
d0cc6a192a
Merge pull request #5095 from happysalada/update_remote_builds_docs
docs: add troubleshooting session in remote builds
2021-10-06 08:10:53 -05:00
happysalada
0574c1850a docs: add troubleshooting session in remote builds 2021-10-06 21:47:53 +09:00
Rafal Gwozdzinski
a73f855bd4 Fix typo 2021-10-03 12:19:59 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra
0e3b8ca767 Typo 2021-10-01 16:32:07 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra
43221bb319 Comments 2021-10-01 16:29:53 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra
91b39eee25
Typo
Co-authored-by: Sebastian Ullrich <sebasti@nullri.ch>
2021-10-01 14:18:07 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra
5e222ac18b Release notes 2021-09-30 17:36:09 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra
25b6b74175 Manual: Link to 2.4 release notes 2021-09-09 15:01:36 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra
7ee639f9db
Merge pull request #5066 from Radvendii/master
add antiquotations to paths
2021-09-01 12:55:04 +02:00
Taeer Bar-Yam
b2beb97f2a add documentation for path antiquotations 2021-08-31 08:17:17 -04:00
Pamplemousse
0e7bd65976 15f4d4f Documentation follow-up 2021-08-19 09:40:47 -07:00
Eelco Dolstra
f1ecd30bd5
Merge pull request #4773 from alyssais/dl
doc: builtins: use a definition list
2021-07-05 14:03:15 +02:00
Keshav Kini
f35f9af787 Improve explanation of NIX_PATH prefix syntax
The previous wording seemed to imply that the "channel:" syntax would resolve to
a github archive URL, which is not the case.
2021-06-03 17:59:39 -07:00
Linus Heckemann
a3553cdae8 doc/nix-shell: Remove outdated bashrc information
This behaviour was removed in 65f6d5db6f.
2021-05-11 14:33:35 +02:00
Alyssa Ross
5f07f2ff2b
doc: builtins: use a definition list
This looks a lot better (and is also more semantically meaningful).

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

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

Clearly this guideline does nothing to improve user experience on its
own and can only be useful as long as it is going to be read and
cared for. But it is a first step into that direction.
2020-12-02 17:00:32 +01:00
mkenigs
8b15650e74
docs: consistent console prompt (#4213)
Everywhere else a $ is used
2020-11-02 16:32:05 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra
a3a22bd804
Merge pull request #4202 from hercules-ci/nix-shell-doc
Nix shell doc
2020-10-30 11:36:24 +01:00
Robert Hensing
d4c5d8d32a nix-shell.md: Extend shellHook example 2020-10-30 11:12:28 +01:00
Robert Hensing
b809c48ebb nix-shell.md: evaluated -> run
Use "run" to avoid confusion with Nix evaluation.
"evaluated" was intended to reference bash eval but it's ambiguous.
2020-10-30 11:01:33 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra
ff4dea63c9 Generalize extra-* settings
This removes the extra-substituters and extra-sandbox-paths settings
and instead makes every array setting extensible by setting
"extra-<name> = <value>" in the configuration file or passing
"--<name> <value>" on the command line.
2020-10-29 18:17:39 +01:00
tnias
c189cf7e33
Add sha512 to hashAlgo listings in manpages (#4186) 2020-10-25 22:16:53 +00:00
Josef Kemetmüller
7f60f48e1a Fix the docs about the new NIX_CONFIG env var
This was accidentally documented as NIX_OPTIONS.
2020-10-21 17:04:36 +02:00
Christian Kampka
461cf2b856
Add NIX_CONFIG env var for applying nix.conf overrides 2020-10-21 13:41:26 +02:00
Stefan Frijters
a53438d18f
doc: nix-shell in pure mode does *not* source user bashrc 2020-10-18 14:26:05 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra
58dadf2954 Remove stray 'Title:' from the manual
Closes #4096.
2020-10-08 17:30:40 +02:00
Maximilian Bosch
3655875483
doc/manual: update hacking docs (#4078)
* By default, build artifacts should be installed into `outputs/` rather
  than `inst/`[1].
* Add instructions on how to run unit-tests.

[1] 733d2e9402
2020-09-27 20:35:03 +00:00
Bryan Richter
5fe375a8f1
nix-prefetch-url: Add --executable flag
pkgs.fetchurl supports an executable argument, which is especially nice
when downloading a large executable. This patch adds the same option to
nix-prefetch-url.

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

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

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

I suspect --executable would have no meaningful effect if combined with
--unpack, but I have not tried it.
2020-09-18 19:09:45 +03:00
Jade
7cb5f643a6
docs+test: fix remaining installer downloads without -L (#4006)
Co-authored-by: lf- <lf-@users.noreply.github.com>
2020-09-12 22:08:40 +02:00
Vladimír Čunát
77d4758cf2
Merge #3982: Minor docs updates 2020-09-07 21:54:59 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra
00d25e8457
Remove the --indirect flag
All GC roots are now indirect.
2020-09-03 11:22:00 +02:00
Cole Helbling
a72ed3e8a1
hacking.md: add --prefix flag to configure
Otherwise, the steps advertised in this document won't actually work
(e.g. `make install` will fail, trying to access /usr, and
`./inst/bin/nix` won't exist).
2020-09-01 12:06:02 -07:00
Eelco Dolstra
84f5cabbea Merge remote-tracking branch 'origin/master' into markdown 2020-08-31 14:24:26 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra
7a02865b94
Move import docs 2020-08-25 14:06:01 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra
0f314f3c25
Generate builtins section of the manual 2020-08-24 14:49:30 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra
a990f063ff
Move primop docs inline
This makes them available to 'nix repl'.
2020-08-24 14:31:10 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra
33b1679d75
Allow primops to have Markdown documentation 2020-08-24 13:16:02 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra
c8fa39324a
Generate the nix.conf docs from the source code
This means we don't have two (divergent) sets of option descriptions
anymore.
2020-08-19 18:28:04 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra
6f19c776db
Start generation of the nix.1 manpage 2020-08-17 19:33:18 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra
7cdc739ece
Merge remote-tracking branch 'origin/master' into markdown 2020-08-17 13:43:39 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra
bf290c2306
Merge remote-tracking branch 'origin/master' into markdown 2020-07-31 16:07:04 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra
2ae9ac2369
console -> shell 2020-07-31 16:02:37 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra
1d0a7b54fa
Enable syntax highlighting 2020-07-31 15:43:25 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra
05a282295f
Fix internal links 2020-07-24 15:46:16 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra
da3d776cb9
Fix some dangling references 2020-07-24 14:31:33 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra
4a79b3598f
Fix nix-copy-closure manpage 2020-07-24 13:01:00 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra
7a0e6f076a
Move figures 2020-07-24 12:58:31 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra
758c9ee1bb
Clean up the manpages 2020-07-24 12:56:19 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra
8d0b311a1c
Get rid of footnotes
Markdown doesn't support them.
2020-07-24 11:43:44 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra
69333cb62c
Sigh 2020-07-23 18:27:20 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra
802150f987
<replaceable> -> <emphasis>
Pandoc doesn't know <replaceable> so let's force it to be rendered as
italics.
2020-07-23 18:27:20 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra
ee05108472
<simplesect> -> <section>
Pandoc silently ignores <simplesect>...
2020-07-23 18:27:20 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra
136fd55bb2
Get rid of <figure> 2020-07-23 18:27:20 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra
ca130b73a0
Get rid of <example>
Markdown doesn't have floats so we can't have this.
2020-07-23 18:27:20 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra
13df1faf25
Get rid of callouts since Markdown doesn't support them 2020-07-23 18:27:20 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra
504b7abc45
Convert commands 2020-07-23 18:27:12 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra
efdb89994c
Convert nix.conf manpage 2020-07-23 18:27:11 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra
f390303566
Reconvert 2020-07-23 18:27:11 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra
942cd687f9
Remove libxml2 / libxslt prerequisites 2020-07-23 18:26:48 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra
ef606760ab
Pandoc conversion 2020-07-23 18:26:48 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra
d004715665
Fix link 2020-07-23 18:26:48 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra
e0ea3c82ca
Use mdbook 2020-07-23 18:26:48 +02:00