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"
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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
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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
Eelco Dolstra
08aa7daee0
Remove links to .md files in help output
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Fixes #5337 .
2021-10-06 13:01:18 +02:00
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
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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
8fdb1d057a
Quiet
2021-09-22 14:12:31 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra
49a932fb18
nix --help: Display help using lowdown instead of man
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Fixes #4476 .
Fixes #5231 .
2021-09-13 14:45:21 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra
25b6b74175
Manual: Link to 2.4 release notes
2021-09-09 15:01:36 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra
ff03fb6743
Manual: Depend on all *.md files
2021-09-09 15:01:19 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra
7ee639f9db
Merge pull request #5066 from Radvendii/master
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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
Sergei Trofimovich
33fa5f3cd9
doc/manual/local.mk: fix 'make install DESTDIR=...'
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Install failure is observed when we try to install
into inplace location as non-root:
```
$ LANG=C make install DESTDIR=$PWD/__i__ V=1
RUST_LOG=warn mdbook build doc/manual -d /usr/share/doc/nix/manual
2021-08-28 13:29:58 [ERROR] (mdbook::utils): Error: Rendering failed
2021-08-28 13:29:58 [ERROR] (mdbook::utils): Caused By: Unexpected error when constructing destination path
2021-08-28 13:29:58 [ERROR] (mdbook::utils): Caused By: Permission denied (os error 13)
make: *** [doc/manual/local.mk:98: /usr/share/doc/nix/manual/index.html] Error 101
```
The change is to prefix paths with `$(DESTDIR)`.
2021-08-28 13:31:34 +01:00
Pamplemousse
0e7bd65976
15f4d4f
Documentation follow-up
2021-08-19 09:40:47 -07:00
Eelco Dolstra
d64f9671fc
Merge pull request #5094 from Pamplemousse/simpler_doc
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doc/manual: don't need to copy `highlight.js` manually
2021-08-05 15:13:07 +02:00
Pamplemousse
de39cfb9f3
doc/manual: don't need to copy highlight.js
manually
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Signed-off-by: Pamplemousse <xav.maso@gmail.com>
2021-08-04 19:47:05 -07:00
regnat
441be5d59a
Remove dead code in doc’s local.mk
2021-07-27 14:37:55 +02:00
regnat
cd6e9eb024
Fix the generation of nix3 manpages
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- Separate the generation of the manpages from their installation
- Make sure that `make` generates the manpages
- Make sure that `make install` installs them
Fix #5051
2021-07-27 13:47:53 +02:00
regnat
c5f5d615a6
Cleanup the generation of the nix3 manpages
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Use a dedicated make target for the man page rather than bundling the
generation as part of `install`.
Also make sure that `make install` is a fixpoint by
- Removing the generated markdown files from `MANUAL_SRCS`
- Not having the manpage generation write in its source directory so as
to not update its timestamp (it would run each time otherwise)
2021-07-19 16:55:56 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra
f1ecd30bd5
Merge pull request #4773 from alyssais/dl
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doc: builtins: use a definition list
2021-07-05 14:03:15 +02:00
Keshav Kini
f35f9af787
Improve explanation of NIX_PATH prefix syntax
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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
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This behaviour was removed in 65f6d5db6f
.
2021-05-11 14:33:35 +02:00
Alyssa Ross
5f07f2ff2b
doc: builtins: use a definition list
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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
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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
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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
Eelco Dolstra
3996ca42cf
Merge pull request #4735 from NixOS/document-ca-derivations
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(briefly) document how to build ca derivations
2021-04-23 14:21:25 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra
e65f604ea9
Set more man sections
2021-04-23 14:20:28 +02:00
Alyssa Ross
29132f99c5
doc: fix section in nix3 man page metadata
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These man pages said they were in section 7, even though we were
installing them to section 1 (which is the right place for them).
2021-04-23 10:52:54 +00:00
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"
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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
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Fixes #4671 .
2021-03-26 16:14:38 +01:00
Travis A. Everett
ac8ba2eae4
remove doc for obsolete --no-build-hook flag
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`--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
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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
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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
Eelco Dolstra
6042febfce
Restore warning about 'nix' being experimental
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Fixes #4552 .
2021-02-17 15:30:49 +01:00
Mauricio Scheffer
5f4701e70d
Update doc/manual/src/command-ref/nix-shell.md
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Co-authored-by: Cole Helbling <cole.e.helbling@outlook.com>
2021-02-16 23:27:04 +00:00
Mauricio Scheffer
35129884f9
Fix Haskell example
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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
36c4d6f592
Group common options
2021-01-25 19:03:13 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra
807d963ee8
Group subcommands by category
2021-01-25 18:19:32 +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
Eelco Dolstra
1047cb1e53
Command: Remove examples()
2020-12-23 18:26:40 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra
9dcd0aebc5
generate-manpage.nix: Fix short names
2020-12-21 13:32:27 +01:00
Rok Garbas
7de4b1e9aa
smaller fixes
2020-12-17 23:42:49 +01:00
Rok Garbas
ae77f21474
Switch away from classification as Tier1-3
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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
regnat
5f66edf245
Make make install
less noisy
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Remove the printing and useless output of a couple of commands when running `make install`
2020-12-04 14:50:47 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra
8ad2c9c4b9
Remove 'dist' target
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We're not producing source tarballs anymore so this has been
bitrotting.
2020-12-03 16:17:58 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra
c3c858ac6d
Make doc() return arbitrary Markdown rather than the contents of the "Description" section
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Thus we can return the examples section (and any other sections) from
doc() and don't need examples() anymore.
2020-12-03 16:17:58 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra
e2efc63979
Put examples first in the manpages
2020-12-02 23:23:23 +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
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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
Fabian Möller
5b0790355f
Fix macOS sandbox build
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Since c4c3c15c19
(#4251 ) building Nix for
macOS with sandboxing fails:
```
getting status of /nix/var/nix/profiles/per-user/root/channels/nixpkgs: Operation not permitted
```
This happens, because `EvalSettings::getDefaultNixPath` tries to access
paths outside the sandbox. Since the state-dir is not required for
doc generation, it is set to the dummy folder. This needs to be done
for all nix invocations during doc generation, as
`EvalSettings::getDefaultNixPath` is called unconditionally.
2020-11-23 17:40:17 +01:00
mkenigs
8b15650e74
docs: consistent console prompt ( #4213 )
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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
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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
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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
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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
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This was accidentally documented as NIX_OPTIONS.
2020-10-21 17:04:36 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra
ecfebde6ff
Merge pull request #4166 from kampka/nix-conf-env
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Add NIX_CONFIG env var for applying nix.conf overrides
2020-10-21 14:26:45 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra
bdf2bcc989
Remove conf-file.xml
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This was probably revived in a bad merge.
2020-10-21 14:24:26 +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
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Closes #4096 .
2020-10-08 17:30:40 +02:00
Fabian Möller
4abd5554ad
Fix macOS sandbox build
2020-10-02 15:40:55 +02:00
Kevin Quick
66c3959e8c
Merge branch 'master' into access-tokens
2020-09-29 08:32:06 -07:00
Maximilian Bosch
3655875483
doc/manual: update hacking docs ( #4078 )
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* 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
Kevin Quick
83fec38fc9
Update document generation for empty json object values.
2020-09-24 22:41:24 -07:00
Bryan Richter
5fe375a8f1
nix-prefetch-url: Add --executable flag
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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
Eelco Dolstra
0066ef6c59
Fix doc generation
2020-09-16 16:56:28 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra
39bc49318f
jq -> nix
2020-09-16 14:58:06 +02:00
Jade
7cb5f643a6
docs+test: fix remaining installer downloads without -L ( #4006 )
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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
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All GC roots are now indirect.
2020-09-03 11:22:00 +02:00
Cole Helbling
a72ed3e8a1
hacking.md: add --prefix flag to configure
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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
Domen Kožar
8757e7022a
mention how to run a single functional test for faster feedback loop
2020-08-30 19:41:21 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra
691a1bd717
Merge branch 'minimal-logger' of https://github.com/Ma27/nix
2020-08-28 10:50:52 +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
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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
dc2f278c95
Allow 'nix' subcommands to provide docs in Markdown format
2020-08-20 12:21:46 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra
3c4f8c9175
List deprecated option aliases in the docs
2020-08-20 11:13:17 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra
c3e20d8c28
Consistency
2020-08-19 18:30:17 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra
c8fa39324a
Generate the nix.conf docs from the source code
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This means we don't have two (divergent) sets of option descriptions
anymore.
2020-08-19 18:28:04 +02:00