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Eelco Dolstra
eaa52c34b4
Set release date 2018-02-22 12:44:46 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra
ddc58e7896
Enable sandbox builds on Linux by default
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
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
This is already handled by the installer.
2018-02-19 20:40:25 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra
70eb64147e
Update release notes
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.
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
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.
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.
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
Add path primop.
2018-02-07 13:32:35 +01:00
Shea Levy
69d82e5c58
Add path primop.
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
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
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
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
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
Fixes #937
2018-01-09 22:40:07 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra
44272d8719
Rename "use-substitutes" to "substitute"
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
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
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
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
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
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
+ remove trailing whitespace from the file
2017-11-01 21:36:25 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
812e027e1d
Add option allowed-uris
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
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
Update the language documentation
2017-10-30 12:21:54 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra
049322702b
fetchgit -> fetchGit
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.
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
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
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.
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.
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"
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
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
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
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
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
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
(cherry picked from commit c20641ce569dc1fdeaeaa147b0292f258667f53b)
2017-06-14 23:28:06 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra
1dcadadf74
Add 1.11.10 release notes
(cherry picked from commit 0fb60e4e0f66cc42c7c274acfcf00b51f6c829c4)
2017-06-14 23:27:52 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra
d6064dd19b Merge pull request #1393 from pyrtsa/patch-1
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
Fix small grammar issue about page
2017-04-24 10:49:46 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra
240399e059 Merge pull request #1351 from earldouglas/ellipses
Drop misleading ellipses
2017-04-24 10:49:09 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra
8d6af08530 Merge pull request #1348 from armijnhemel/nix-env
better document --meta option for nix-env
2017-04-24 10:18:23 +02:00
James Earl Douglas
111d347237
Drop misleading ellipses
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
Fix subject-verb agreement issue in introduction/about.
2017-04-19 09:27:28 -06:00