On several occasions I've found myself confused when trying to delete
a store path, because I am told it's still alive, but
nix-store --query --roots doesn't show anything. Let's save future
users this confusion by mentioning that a path might be alive due to
having referrers, not just roots.
given `nix-copy-closure` exists, it doesn't make much sense to do
nix-store --export $paths | nix-store --import --store ssh://foo@bar
since that dumps everything rather than granularly transferring store
objects as needed.
therefore, pick an example where dumping the entire closure into a file
actually makes a difference, such as when deploying to airgapped systems.
In addition:
- Take the opportunity to add a bunch more missing hyperlinks, too.
- Remove some glossary entries that are now subsumed by dedicated pages.
We used to not be able to do this without breaking link fragments, but
now we can, so pick up where we left off.
Co-authored-by: Robert Hensing <roberth@users.noreply.github.com>
- add links to definitions of terms
- one sentence per line
- be more specific about which store is used for the import
- clearly distinguish store paths and store objects
- make a recommendation to use `nix-copy-closure` for efficient SSH transfers
the individual commands' documentation should provide enough examples to
make sense of the options and judge what to use and when. proper guides,
which would require a more elaborate setup to show off Nix's
capabilities are out of scope for the reference manual.
* doc: convention improvements for copying closure
use -P, which only considers executables but not shell builtins
Co-authored-by: Valentin Gagarin <valentin.gagarin@tweag.io>
previously the test directory could have been left untouched before executing
a test when `init.sh` was not run - and sometimes it isn't
supposed to be run - which made the test suite highly stateful and thus
behaving surprisingly on multiple runs.
pararameterisation is not actually needed the way things are currently
set up, and it confused me when trying to understand what the code does.
all but one test sources vars-and-functions.sh, which nominally only
defines variables, but in practice is always coupled with the actual
initialisation. while the cleaner way of making this more legible would
be to source variables and initialisation separately, this would produce
a huge diff.
the change requires a few small fixes to keep the tests working:
- only create test home directory during initialisation
that vars-and-functions.sh wrote to the file system seems not write
- fix creation of the test directory
due to statefulness, the test home directory was implicitly creating
the test root, too. decoupling that made it apparent that this was
probably not intentional, and certainly confusing.
- only source vars-and-functions.sh if init.sh is not needed
there is one test case that only needs a helper function but no
initialisation side effects
- remove some unnecessary cleanups and split parts of re-used test code
there were confusing bits in how initialisation code was repurposed,
which break if trying to refactor the outer layers naively...
This is useful for diagnosing whether an evaluation is copying large
paths to the store. Example:
$ nix build .#packages.x86_64-linux.default --large-path-warning-threshold 1000000
warning: copied large path '/home/eelco/Dev/nix-master/' to the store (6271792 bytes)
warning: copied large path '«github:NixOS/nixpkgs/b550fe4b4776908ac2a861124307045f8e717c8e?narHash=sha256-7kkJQd4rZ%2BvFrzWu8sTRtta5D1kBG0LSRYAfhtmMlSo%3D»/' to the store (155263768 bytes)
warning: copied large path '«github:libgit2/libgit2/45fd9ed7ae1a9b74b957ef4f337bc3c8b3df01b5?narHash=sha256-oX4Z3S9WtJlwvj0uH9HlYcWv%2Bx1hqp8mhXl7HsLu2f0%3D»/' to the store (22175416 bytes)
warning: copied large path '/nix/store/z985088mcd6w23qwdlirsinnyzayagki-source' to the store (5885872 bytes)
This fixes https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/pull/290775 by not expanding aliases
when sourcing the stdenv setup script. The way bash handles aliases is to expand
them when a function is defined, not when it is used. I.e.:
$ alias echo="echo bar "
$ echo foo
bar foo
$ xyzzy() { echo foo; }
$ shopt -u expand_aliases
$ xyzzy
bar foo
$ xyzzy2() { echo foo; }
$ xyzzy2
foo
The problem is that ~/.bashrc is sourced before the stdenv setup, and bashrc
commonly sets aliases for ‘cp’, ‘mv’ and ‘rm’ which you don’t want to take
effect in the stdenv derivation builders. The original commit introducing this
feature (5fd8cf7667) even mentioned this very
alias.
The only way to avoid this is to disable aliases entirely while sourcing the
stdenv setup, and reenable them afterwards.
Passing the commit message as an argument causes update failures on repositories with lots of flake inputs. In some cases, the commit message is over 250,000 bytes.
the old `copyFile` was just a wrapper that was calling the `copy`
function. This wrapper function is removed and the `copy` function is
renamed to `copyFile`.
