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Valentin Gagarin
d37b8a29ce
Merge pull request #8036 from Freed-Wu/patch-1 2023-03-13 14:35:09 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra
6f22e8b7d8
Merge pull request #7486 from fricklerhandwerk/doc-reference
reword definition of "reference"
2023-03-13 14:04:14 +01:00
wzy
5bf4ade0fa
Fix a typo of values.md 2023-03-13 15:34:01 +08:00
John Ericson
6910f5dcb6 Generate API docs with Doxygen
The motivation is as stated in issue #7814: even though the the C++ API
is internal and unstable, people still want it to be well documented for
sake of learning, code review, and other purposes that aren't predicated
on it being stable.

Fixes #7814

Co-authored-by: Robert Hensing <roberth@users.noreply.github.com>
2023-03-10 12:51:06 -05:00
Valentin Gagarin
66f49864f3
Merge pull request #7928 from serokell/doc-includes
Documentation: process `#include` directives
2023-03-10 17:06:42 +01:00
Valentin Gagarin
2af9fd20c6 clarify definition of "installable"
the term was hard to discover, as its definition and explanation were in
a very long document lacking an overview section.
search did not help because it occurs so often.

- clarify wording in the definition
- add an overview of installable types
- add "installable" to glossary
- link to definition from occurrences of the term
- be more precise about where store derivation outputs are processed
- installable Nix expressions must evaluate to a derivation

Co-authored-by: Adam Joseph <54836058+amjoseph-nixpkgs@users.noreply.github.com>
2023-03-05 01:46:17 +01:00
Valentin Gagarin
e065131c1b
cosmetic indentation
Co-authored-by: Théophane Hufschmitt <7226587+thufschmitt@users.noreply.github.com>
2023-03-03 12:56:23 +01:00
Théophane Hufschmitt
1f394d2107
Merge branch 'master' into paths-from-stdin 2023-03-02 19:20:51 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra
96111ad902
Merge pull request #7901 from hercules-ci/disable-tests
Add ./configure --disable-tests option
2023-03-02 10:00:15 +01:00
Alexander Bantyev
dd0aab2f94
Documentation: process #include directives 2023-03-01 14:01:45 +04:00
Alexander Bantyev
21fb1a5ec2
doc/manual/local.mk: Use tabs instead of spaces everywhere 2023-03-01 14:01:23 +04:00
Alexander Bantyev
2fc3a15861
Make nix-env less prominent in manual TOC 2023-03-01 13:54:45 +04:00
John Ericson
ea0adfc582 Get rid of .drv special-casing for store path installables
The release notes document the change in behavior, I don't include it
here so there is no risk to it getting out of sync.

> Motivation

>> Plumbing CLI should be simple

Store derivation installations are intended as "plumbing": very simple
utilities for advanced users and scripts, and not what regular users
interact with. (Similarly, regular Git users will use branch and tag
names not explicit hashes for most things.)

The plumbing CLI should prize simplicity over convenience; that is its
raison d'etre. If the user provides a path, we should treat it the same
way not caring what sort of path it is.

>> Scripting

This is especially important for the scripting use-case. when arbitrary
paths are sent to e.g. `nix copy` and the script author wants consistent
behavior regardless of what those store paths are. Otherwise the script
author needs to be careful to filter out `.drv` ones, and then run `nix
copy` again with those paths and `--derivation`. That is not good!

>> Surprisingly low impact

Only two lines in the tests need changing, showing that the impact of
this is pretty light.

Many command, like `nix log` will continue to work with just the
derivation passed as before. This because we used to:

- Special case the drv path and replace it with it's outputs (what this
  gets rid of).

- Turn those output path *back* into the original drv path.

Now we just skip that entire round trip!

> Context

Issue #7261 lays out a broader vision for getting rid of `--derivation`,
and has this as one of its dependencies. But we can do this with or
without that.

`Installable::toDerivations` is changed to handle the case of a
`DerivedPath::Opaque` ending in `.drv`, which is new: it simply doesn't
need to do any extra work in that case. On this basis, commands like
`nix {show-derivation,log} /nix/store/...-foo.drv` still work as before,
as described above.

When testing older daemons, the post-build-hook will be run against the
old CLI, so we need the old version of the post-build-hook to support
that use-case.

Co-authored-by: Travis A. Everett <travis.a.everett@gmail.com>
Co-authored-by: Valentin Gagarin <valentin.gagarin@tweag.io>
2023-02-28 17:07:05 -05:00
Timothy DeHerrera
639659dec2
doc/manual: add release note for --stdin flag 2023-02-28 12:31:05 -07:00
Timothy DeHerrera
df643051e2
nix-store: read paths from standard input
Resolves #7437 for new `nix-store` by adding a `--stdin` flag.
2023-02-28 12:29:16 -07:00
Robert Hensing
d0d0b9a748 doc/cli-guideline: Improve examples
Turns out that the settings themselves have a bad data model anyway, so we cut that. They do still occur in the first example, but not in focus.
2023-02-28 16:35:47 +01:00
Robert Hensing
17f70b10bf doc/cli-guideline: Apply suggestions from code review
Thanks Valentin!
2023-02-28 16:35:42 +01:00
Robert Hensing
f09ccd8ea9 doc/cli-guideline: Add JSON guideline 2023-02-28 16:35:36 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra
1e07102937 Release notes 2023-02-28 13:44:14 +01:00
Valentin Gagarin
1b49e6fea9
use the term reference correctly 2023-02-27 13:04:54 +01:00
Valentin Gagarin
b0c23999d2
add link to definition 2023-02-27 12:56:22 +01:00
Valentin Gagarin
ec317949f9
remove "references" as distinct term 2023-02-27 12:55:14 +01:00
Robert Hensing
e76619a402 rl-next: Describe fixed flake outPath semantics
The reference documentation already implies the correct semantics.
2023-02-26 14:41:23 +01:00
Robert Hensing
c6051cac6f doc: Add test dependencies to prerequisites 2023-02-24 09:59:25 +01:00
Robert Hensing
df6829e0d7
Merge pull request #7867 from NixOS/hacking-cross
doc/hacking.md: Corrections and additions for cross
2023-02-20 22:25:55 +01:00
Robert Hensing
807ef8f734
doc/hacking.md: Corrections and additions for cross 2023-02-20 12:20:08 +01:00
John Ericson
d7a4f08d42
Nix's own flake: Dedup and memoize more
- `nixpkgsFor` does all of native, static, cross, and the different stdenvs.

- The main Nix derivation is no longer duplicated for static.

- DRY nixpkgs.lib and lib.genAttrs calls.
2023-02-20 11:35:51 +01:00
Théophane Hufschmitt
9a3f66d9d9
Merge pull request #7433 from yorickvP/improv-onboarding
Improve hacking.md and add clangd+bear to devshell
2023-02-20 10:50:08 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra
c205d10c66
Merge pull request #7616 from hercules-ci/fix-3898
Fix foreign key error inserting into NARs #3898
2023-02-13 13:02:19 +01:00
Yorick van Pelt
f2e427942d
Improve hacking.md
- Refer to current version in readme
- Split into flakes and non-flakes section
- Change order to move nix-build to the end, since people often start
  with it in the beginning.
- Use proper "Note" syntax
- Add notes about editor integration
- Move information about target platforms and stdenvs into separate
  sections

Co-authored-by: Valentin Gagarin <valentin.gagarin@tweag.io>
Co-authored-by: Alexander Bantyev <alexander.bantyev@tweag.io>
Co-authored-by: Théophane Hufschmitt <theophane.hufschmitt@tweag.io>
2023-02-13 12:00:00 +04:00
Théophane Hufschmitt
9ebbe35817
Merge pull request #5588 from tweag/balsoft/xdg
Follow XDG Base Directory standard
2023-02-10 18:05:50 +01:00
Alexander Bantyev
2384d36083
A setting to follow XDG Base Directory standard
XDG Base Directory is a standard for locations for storing various
files. Nix has a few files which seem to fit in the standard, but
currently use a custom location directly in the user's ~, polluting
it:

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

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

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

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

Co-authored-by: Théophane Hufschmitt <7226587+thufschmitt@users.noreply.github.com>
Co-authored-by: Tim Fenney <kodekata@gmail.com>
Co-authored-by: pasqui23 <pasqui23@users.noreply.github.com>
Co-authored-by: Artturin <Artturin@artturin.com>
Co-authored-by: John Ericson <Ericson2314@Yahoo.com>
2023-02-10 20:14:06 +04:00
Eelco Dolstra
bffb76264e
Merge pull request #7800 from PicoGeyer/patch-1
Fix minor syntax issue in one of the examples.
2023-02-10 17:09:19 +01:00
Théophane Hufschmitt
320e391171
Merge pull request #7403 from fricklerhandwerk/noselect
disallow selecting shell prompt in code samples
2023-02-10 13:12:23 +01:00
Pico Geyer
a0f1cb0ce7 Fix minor syntax issue in the one of the examples.
Attribute set expressions need to end with a ;
2023-02-10 12:01:44 +02:00
Valentin Gagarin
c1921514d4
Merge pull request #7700 from iFreilicht/patch-1
docs: Fix small formatting errors
2023-02-07 23:37:42 +01:00
Robert Hensing
1a86d3e98e local.mk: Don't log docroot comments
These were accidentally logged and do not need to appear in make's
log output.
2023-02-07 23:34:36 +01:00
David Dunn
9aeaf98c4b
Make install command in documentation compatible with fish shell (#7474)
Use a pipe for all install commands

Co-authored-by: Valentin Gagarin <valentin.gagarin@tweag.io>
2023-02-07 22:32:27 +00:00
Felix Uhl
d910dfe978 docs: Fix formatting of || operator
This is a workaround for
[mdBook#2000](https://github.com/rust-lang/mdBook/issues/2000)
2023-02-07 23:06:14 +01:00
Felix Uhl
32db5e6349 docs: Fix broken anchor link 2023-02-07 23:06:14 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra
1ba13b17db
Merge pull request #7758 from peterbecich/clang11-devshell-documentation
fix documentation for `clang11Stdenv` dev shell
2023-02-07 22:35:31 +01:00
Valentin Gagarin
f370a5a26c
Update doc/manual/src/glossary.md
Co-authored-by: John Ericson <git@JohnEricson.me>
2023-02-07 20:40:29 +01:00
Valentin Gagarin
8ab9fdac01
Merge pull request #7768 from ncfavier/fixup-7714 2023-02-07 16:24:19 +01:00
Valentin Gagarin
c20394245d add "instantiate" to glossary 2023-02-07 12:09:26 +01:00
Valentin Gagarin
e4f12ff482
store paths are not uniquely determined 2023-02-07 11:59:18 +01:00
Naïm Favier
2915db7b28
doc: fixup 7714 2023-02-07 11:38:09 +01:00
Peter Becich
b8e96351f7
fix clang11Stdenv dev shell documentation
`clang11StdenvPackages` does not exist

```
│   └───x86_64-linux
│       ├───ccacheStdenv: development environment 'nix'
│       ├───clang11Stdenv: development environment 'nix'
│       ├───clangStdenv: development environment 'nix'
│       ├───default: development environment 'nix'
│       ├───gccStdenv: development environment 'nix'
│       ├───libcxxStdenv: development environment 'nix'
│       └───stdenv: development environment 'nix'
```
2023-02-05 12:00:48 -08:00
Eelco Dolstra
5cbeff64f2
Merge pull request #7607 from Hoverbear/installation-expand
Expand installation.md
2023-02-02 17:05:54 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra
6f0436a337
Merge pull request #7719 from andersk/manual-timestamp
manual: Document that the store timestamp is now 1, not 0
2023-02-01 15:50:36 +01:00
Anders Kaseorg
c5d4c50aba manual: Document that the store timestamp is now 1, not 0
Commit 14bc3ce3d6 (0.13~43) changed the
timestamps in the Nix store from 0 to 1.  Update the nix-store man
page to match.

Signed-off-by: Anders Kaseorg <andersk@mit.edu>
2023-01-30 23:51:35 -08:00