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Eelco Dolstra
522ecab9b8 Drop support for running nix-worker in "slave" mode
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
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’
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
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
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
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’
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
You can use ‘--option binary-caches URLs’ instead.
2012-07-30 16:39:31 -04:00
Eelco Dolstra
f15083c10a Document the --option flag
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
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
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’
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
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
"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
Reported on IRC by Adrian Siekierka.
2012-04-06 20:26:30 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra
8be1979f1a Remove the --max-links GC option
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
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
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
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
(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
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
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
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,
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.
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
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
/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
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
(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).
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
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
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
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
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
Eelco Dolstra
72f3ea7358 * Moved some stuff to the Nixpkgs manual.
* Updated the release notes.
2008-08-05 11:03:05 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
7cd88b1dec * Generalised the dependencyClosure primop to builtins.genericClosure,
which is hopefully more useful.
* New primops: length, mul, div.
2008-07-11 13:29:04 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
d567baabbd * Export the nix-env derivation name parsing and version comparison
logic through the `parseDrvName' and `compareVersions' primops.
  This will allow expressions to easily check whether some dependency
  is a specific needed version or falls in some version range.  See
  tests/lang/eval-okay-versions.nix for examples.
2008-07-01 10:10:32 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
2818b7cee6 * Updated some URLs. 2008-06-11 15:39:38 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
4ed01ed791 * Updated some URLs (did this a long time ago but forgot to
commit...).
2008-06-09 13:42:13 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
66c51dc215 * nix-store --dump-db / --load-db to dump/load the Nix DB.
* nix-store --register-validity: option to supply the content hash of
  each path.
* Removed compatibility with Nix <= 0.7 stores.
2008-01-29 18:17:36 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
d4117859d6 2007-12-31 16:57:12 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
e0ca671491 * More documentation. 2007-12-31 02:52:17 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
6bdecfacbb * Documented a bunch of nix-store commands. 2007-12-31 01:52:57 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
454f571f87 2007-12-31 01:22:09 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
4c82983010 2007-12-31 01:17:25 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
dedd62dd0c * More release notes. 2007-12-31 00:08:09 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
59707975a3 * Documented indented string literals.
* Release notes.
2007-12-30 23:36:09 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
d4950f207f * component -> package. 2007-12-04 11:42:58 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
6d6c68c0d2 * Added a new kind of multi-line string literal delimited by two
single quotes.  Example (from NixOS):

    job = ''
      start on network-interfaces

      start script

        rm -f /var/run/opengl-driver
        ${if videoDriver == "nvidia"        
          then "ln -sf ${nvidiaDrivers} /var/run/opengl-driver"
          else if cfg.driSupport
          then "ln -sf ${mesa} /var/run/opengl-driver"
          else ""
        }

        rm -f /var/log/slim.log

      end script
    '';

  This style has two big advantages:

  - \, ' and " aren't special, only '' and ${.  So you get a lot less
    escaping in shell scripts / configuration files in Nixpkgs/NixOS.
    The delimiter '' is rare in scripts (and can usually be written as
    "").  ${ is also fairly rare.

    Other delimiters such as <<...>>, {{...}} and <|...|> were also
    considered but this one appears to have the fewest drawbacks
    (thanks Martin).

  - Indentation is intelligently stripped so that multi-line strings
    can follow the nesting structure of the containing Nix
    expression.  E.g. in the example above 6 spaces are stripped from
    the start of each line.  This prevents unnecessary indentation in
    generated files (which sometimes even breaks things).

  See tests/lang/eval-okay-ind-string.nix for some examples.
2007-11-30 16:48:45 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
12d0a1eb75 * Troubleshooting entry about running out of locks. 2007-11-29 14:15:33 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
06f95dd07c * New primop `readFile' to get the contents of a file as a string. 2007-11-21 13:49:59 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
5f8a203b55 * A rule to make a PDF version of the manual. 2007-11-01 14:42:44 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
1511aa11ce * Documented some of the more obscure derivation attributes (including
fixed-output derivations).
2007-11-01 13:28:33 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
fa44e401a8 * Documented multi-user Nix. 2007-10-31 18:01:56 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
e007b50eb7 2007-10-29 22:16:36 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
bfea7b1f35 * Make the --prebuilt-only' / -b' option work not just for queries
but installations/upgrades as well.  So `nix-env -ub \*' will
  upgrade only those packages for which a substitute is available (or
  to be precise, it will upgrade each package to the highest version
  for which a substitute is available).
2007-10-29 14:31:45 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
dc6f373842 * Delete the chroot directory automatically.
* Removed some debug messages.
2007-10-27 16:06:38 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
cd08fb3fde 2007-10-24 13:54:06 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
d423968ba1 * Improved introduction (actually copied mostly from the homepage). 2007-10-23 16:34:04 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
612b3e8fa3 * Document the new primops in Nix 0.11. 2007-10-22 15:28:32 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
35ac16e75e * Move list of built-in functions to a separate file. 2007-10-22 12:58:28 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
1db187ff69 2007-10-22 12:46:15 +00:00
Marc Weber
f529a3be8a Added comment telling about setup-hook and propagatedBuildInputs 2007-10-22 01:10:19 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
8a9fe6c11c * Manpage for nix-copy-closure. 2007-09-19 14:01:41 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
055608227f * nix-env: allow ~/.nix-defexpr to be a directory. If it is, then the
Nix expressions in that directory are combined into an attribute set
  {file1 = import file1; file2 = import file2; ...}, i.e. each Nix
  expression is an attribute with the file name as the attribute
  name.  Also recurses into directories.

* nix-env: removed the "--import" (-I) option which set the
  ~/.nix-defexpr symlink.

* nix-channel: don't use "nix-env --import", instead symlink
  ~/.nix-defexpr/channels.  So finally nix-channel --update doesn't
  override any default Nix expressions but combines with them.

  This means that you can have (say) a local Nixpkgs SVN tree and use
  it as a default for nix-env:

  $ ln -s .../path-to-nixpkgs-tree ~/.nix-defexpr/nixpkgs_svn

  and be subscribed to channels (including Nixpkgs) at the same time.
  (If there is any ambiguity, the -A flag can be used to
  disambiguate, e.g. "nix-env -i -A nixpkgs_svn.pan".)
2007-09-17 16:08:24 +00:00
Marc Weber
7b20c0ed4b explanation what happens when passing true / false and null values to derivation builders added 2007-09-02 10:36:59 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
9e975458b4 * Get rid of the substitutes database table (NIX-47). Instead, if we
need any info on substitutable paths, we just call the substituters
  (such as download-using-manifests.pl) directly.  This means that
  it's no longer necessary for nix-pull to register substitutes or for
  nix-channel to clear them, which makes those operations much faster
  (NIX-95).  Also, we don't have to worry about keeping nix-pull
  manifests (in /nix/var/nix/manifests) and the database in sync with
  each other.

  The downside is that there is some overhead in calling an external
  program to get the substitutes info.  For instance, "nix-env -qas"
  takes a bit longer.

  Abolishing the substitutes table also makes the logic in
  local-store.cc simpler, as we don't need to store info for invalid
  paths.  On the downside, you cannot do things like "nix-store -qR"
  on a substitutable but invalid path (but nobody did that anyway).

* Never catch interrupts (the Interrupted exception).
2007-08-12 00:29:28 +00:00
Armijn Hemel
40b6f06f09 change default NIX_HASH_ALGO 2007-06-02 15:03:54 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
b47da5ea21 2007-05-16 22:07:39 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
a9d15d4f43 * nix-env -i: instead of breaking package ties by version, break them
by priority and version install.  That is, if there are multiple
  packages with the same name, then pick the package with the highest
  priority, and only use the version if there are multiple packages
  with the same priority.

  This makes it possible to mark specific versions/variant in Nixpkgs
  more or less desirable than others.  A typical example would be a
  beta version of some package (e.g., "gcc-4.2.0rc1") which should not
  be installed even though it is the highest version, except when it
  is explicitly selected (e.g., "nix-env -i gcc-4.2.0rc1").

* Idem for nix-env -u, only the semantics are a bit trickier since we
  also need to take into account the priority of the currently
  installed package (we never upgrade to a lower priority, unless
  --always is given).
2007-05-01 20:33:18 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
bd1f66453a * `nix-env -q --xml --meta' to show all meta attributes. 2007-05-01 11:30:52 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
89c1d2b202 * Package flag "keep" that prevents a package from being removed from
a user environment by an install or upgrade action.  This is
  particularly useful if you have a version installed that you don't
  want to upgrade (e.g., because the newer versions are broken).
  Example:

    $ nix-env -u zapping --dry-run
    (dry run; not doing anything)
    upgrading `zapping-0.9.6' to `zapping-0.10cvs6'

    $ nix-env --set-flag keep true zapping

    $ nix-env -u zapping --dry-run
    (dry run; not doing anything)

  However, "-e" will still uninstall the package.  (Maybe we should
  require the keep flag to be explicitly set to false before it can be
  uninstalled.)
2007-04-27 23:48:14 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
a46db5d013 * Package conflict resolution through priority levels. If there is a
user environment collission between two packages due to overlapping
  file names, then a package with a higher priority will overwrite the
  symlinks of a package with a lower priority.  E.g.,

    $ nix-env --set-flag priority 5 gcc
    $ nix-env --set-flag priority 10 binutils

  gives gcc a higher priority than binutils (higher number = lower
  priority).
2007-04-27 23:28:44 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
b7f0f65c19 * nix-env -q now has a flag --prebuilt-only (-b<) that causes nix-env
to show only those derivations whose output is already in the Nix
  store or that can be substituted (i.e., downloaded from somewhere).
  In other words, it shows the packages that can be installed “quickly”,
  i.e., don’t need to be built from source.
2007-04-26 14:20:31 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
5dc05b76ab * Updated dependency information. 2007-04-16 16:08:44 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
d303b389a9 * `nix-copy-closure --from': copy from a remote machine instead of to
a remote machine.
2007-03-26 21:05:17 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
803cb6e3b9 * Override the setuid helper using NIX_SETUID_HELPER. 2007-03-20 22:04:25 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
52d03276dd * Compatibility with docbook5-xsl. 2007-02-05 12:10:10 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
451dbf687f * nix-env now maintains meta info (from the `meta' derivation
attribute) about installed packages in user environments.  Thus, an
  operation like `nix-env -q --description' shows useful information
  not only on available packages but also on installed packages.

* nix-env now passes the entire manifest as an argument to the Nix
  expression of the user environment builder (not just a list of
  paths), so that in particular the user environment builder has
  access to the meta attributes.
  
* New operation `--set-flag' in nix-env to change meta info of
  installed packages.  This will be useful to pass per-package
  policies to the user environment builder (e.g., how to resolve
  collision or whether to disable a package (NIX-80)) or upgrade
  policies in nix-env (e.g., that a package should be "masked", that
  is, left untouched by upgrade actions).  Example:

  $ nix-env --set-flag enabled false ghc-6.4
2007-02-02 01:52:42 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
7349bd0176 New primitives:
* `sub' to subtract two numbers.
* `stringLength' to get the length of a string.
* `substring' to get a substring of a string.  These should be enough
  to allow most string operations to be expressed.
2007-01-29 14:23:09 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
71ceb1c161 * Handle multiple indirect symlinks when loading a Nix expression. 2007-01-15 14:50:25 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
e418976107 * Option --argstr for passing string arguments easily. (NIX-75) 2007-01-14 12:32:44 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
4e329f173f * Doh. 2007-01-14 12:16:58 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
afe23b5f38 * nix-pack-closure: store the top-level store paths in the closure.
* nix-unpack-closure: extract the top-level paths from the closure and
  print them on stdout.  This allows them to be installed, e.g.,
  "nix-env -i $(nix-unpack-closure)".  (NIX-64)
2007-01-13 19:50:42 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
215505bb46 * Removed chroot support. 2007-01-13 17:54:01 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
a3e6415ba8 * New primop builtins.filterSource, which can be used to filter files
from a source directory.  All files for which a predicate function
  returns true are copied to the store.  Typical example is to leave
  out the .svn directory:

    stdenv.mkDerivation {
      ...
      src = builtins.filterSource
        (path: baseNameOf (toString path) != ".svn")
        ./source-dir;
      # as opposed to
      #   src = ./source-dir;
    }

  This is important because the .svn directory influences the hash in
  a rather unpredictable and variable way.
2006-12-12 23:05:01 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
3130f1f0fa * Push. 2006-12-12 20:17:14 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
7ace29dae7 * New operation `nix-env --set' which sets a user environment to a
single derivation specified by the argument.  This is useful when we
  want to have a profile for a single derivation, such as a server
  configuration.  Then we can just say (e.g.)

  $ nix-env -p /.../server-profile -f server.nix --set -A server

  We can't do queries or upgrades on such a profile, but we can do
  rollbacks.  The advantage over -i is that we don't have to worry
  about other packages having been installed in the profile
  previously; --set gets rid of them.
2006-12-12 19:06:02 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
1a7e88bbd9 * New built-in function `builtins.attrNames' that returns the
names of the attributes in an attribute set.
2006-12-12 16:14:31 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
5e6699188f 2006-12-09 23:14:55 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
9dbfe242e3 * Kill a build if it has gone for more than a certain number of
seconds without producing output on stdout or stderr (NIX-65).  This
  timeout can be specified using the `--max-silent-time' option or the
  `build-max-silent-time' configuration setting.  The default is
  infinity (0).

* Fix a tricky race condition: if we kill the build user before the
  child has done its setuid() to the build user uid, then it won't be
  killed, and we'll potentially lock up in pid.wait().  So also send a
  conventional kill to the child.
2006-12-08 15:44:00 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
fe15f991e3 * Troubleshooting information on fixing a b0rked Berkeley DB database. 2006-11-30 11:24:10 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
745e354b19 * Push. 2006-11-14 10:23:21 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
e2a70b7ec0 * Magic attribute `exportReferencesGraph' that allows the references
graph to be passed to a builder.  This attribute should be a list of
  pairs [name1 path1 name2 path2 ...].  The references graph of each
  `pathN' will be stored in a text file `nameN' in the temporary build
  directory.  The text files have the format used by `nix-store
  --register-validity'.  However, the deriver fields are left empty.

  `exportReferencesGraph' is useful for builders that want to do
  something with the closure of a store path.  Examples: the builders
  that make initrds and ISO images for NixOS.

  `exportReferencesGraph' is entirely pure.  It's necessary because
  otherwise the only way for a builder to get this information would
  be to call `nix-store' directly, which is not allowed (though
  unfortunately possible).
2006-11-13 18:18:13 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
e40d4a5604 * Option --reregister' in nix-store --register-validity'. We need
this in the NixOS installer (or in the buildfarm) to ensure that the
  cryptographic hash of the path contents still matches the actual
  contents.
2006-11-13 16:48:27 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
005eecfc4d * Release notes. 2006-10-30 16:29:05 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
ae6fb27f18 * `nix-store --read-log / -l PATH' shows the build log of PATH, if
available.  For instance,

    $ nix-store -l $(which svn) | less

  lets you read the build log of the Subversion instance in your
  profile.

* `nix-store -qb': if applied to a non-derivation, take the deriver.
2006-10-28 16:33:54 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
99b0ea7c67 * Typo reported by Arie Middelkoop.
* Left out close-quote in example.
2006-10-26 23:06:47 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
7d4567f2cc * Removed URIs from the evaluator (NIX-66). They are now just another
kind of notation for strings.
2006-10-11 21:59:33 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
b4e012ab4d * Merge 0.10.1 release notes. 2006-10-11 13:39:00 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
e1cc84259c * Too lazy to document nix-push --copy. 2006-10-06 09:59:02 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
b3fc016061 * Translate Unicode quote characters to ASCII equivalents when
generating NEWS.txt.
2006-10-06 09:03:39 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
3815d2d463 * Typos etc.
* Set the release date.
2006-10-06 07:47:56 +00:00