Théophane Hufschmitt
1dd7779c7c
Merge pull request #7379 from fricklerhandwerk/refactor-generate-options
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refactor rendering documentation of options
2022-12-08 06:39:13 +01:00
Valentin Gagarin
ebeaf03558
do not render links in man pages
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this is a follow-up on e7dcacb
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most links are relative and this should not be too much of a detriment.
2022-12-07 16:20:25 +01:00
Valentin Gagarin
b8a1ff98c1
use HTML anchors for config parameters
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this avoids incorrect rendering on the man pages, since `lowdown`
neither parses the anchor syntax nor HTML.
this should rather be fixed in lowdown, as adding more anchors
would otherwise produce ever more noise and error-prone repetition.
2022-12-07 16:18:50 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra
b5b7902a08
Merge branch 'master' into remove-repeat
2022-12-07 16:04:47 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra
703d863a48
Trivial changes from the lazy-trees branch
2022-12-07 14:06:34 +01:00
endgame
c710aa1abd
Post build hook signing ( #7408 )
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* docs: Use secret-key-files when demonstrating post-build-hooks
The docs used to recommend calling `nix store sign` in a post-build
hook, but on more recent versions of nix, this results in unsigned
store paths being copied into binary caches. See
https://github.com/NixOS/nix/issues/6960 for details.
Instead, use the `secret-key-files` config option, which signs all
locally-built derivations with the private key.
Co-authored-by: Valentin Gagarin <valentin.gagarin@tweag.io>
2022-12-07 13:55:02 +01:00
Linus Heckemann
8e0946e8df
Remove repeat and enforce-determinism options
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These only functioned if a very narrow combination of conditions held:
- The result path does not yet exist (--check did not result in
repeated builds), AND
- The result path is not available from any configured substituters, AND
- No remote builders that can build the path are available.
If any of these do not hold, a derivation would be built 0 or 1 times
regardless of the repeat option. Thus, remove it to avoid confusion.
2022-12-07 11:36:48 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra
5b4b2eefa1
Release notes
2022-12-06 13:55:09 +01:00
Valentin Gagarin
180538672a
disallow selecting shell prompt in code samples
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this is a quick half-fix for command line examples, as discussed
discussed in [1].
[1]: https://github.com/NixOS/nix/pull/7389
examples which look like this
$ foo bar
baz
are confusing for Unix shell beginners, because it's hard to discern
what is supposed to be entered into the actual command line when the
convention of prefixing `$` is not known, as barely any real-world shell
looks that way any more.
this change prevents selecting the prompt part with the mouse in the
HTML representation of the Nix manual.
it does not prevent selecting the output part of the shell example.
it also does not address that the copy button provided by mdBook takes
the entire sample, including the prompts, into the clipboard.
2022-12-05 11:01:46 +01:00
Valentin Gagarin
ca42068bdc
Merge pull request #7251 from RelationalAI-oss/sp-docs-uninstall-prompt
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docs: drop shell prompt character for consistency
2022-12-01 19:24:09 +01:00
Valentin Gagarin
dfa27e6b2f
refactor rendering documentation of options
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this makes more obvious what the code produces, and the structure of the
output easier to change
2022-12-01 06:08:08 +01:00
Valentin Gagarin
0ea62670ed
move documentation on auto-allocate-uids
to options docs
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this is where it belongs and can be found together with the other
options.
2022-12-01 04:40:02 +01:00
Valentin Gagarin
3f881e3378
add missing newline, for consistent formatting
2022-11-30 23:40:53 +01:00
Théophane Hufschmitt
0596bdf3a9
Merge pull request #7342 from fricklerhandwerk/refactor-generate-builtins
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refactor rendering documentation of builtins
2022-11-29 15:55:43 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra
7dd3e1fec4
Add example
2022-11-28 22:04:51 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra
67bcb99700
Add a setting for enabling cgroups
2022-11-28 21:54:02 +01:00
Liu Xiaoyi
c4ce89f772
Clarify uninstallation steps on Linux
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Co-authored-by: Valentin Gagarin <valentin.gagarin@tweag.io>
2022-11-26 22:01:51 +08:00
John Ericson
26534f141c
Merge branch 'master' into indexed-store-path-outputs
2022-11-25 08:14:32 -05:00
Valentin Gagarin
d6318e1638
refactor rendering documentation of builtins
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as in [1], make the document structure visible, like in a template
[1]: 4655563470
2022-11-24 14:15:43 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra
2aa3f2e810
Include UID in hex
2022-11-23 17:07:59 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra
989fc8a8b9
Add release notes
2022-11-23 15:24:50 +01:00
Valentin Gagarin
52f0c80917
fix error in language overview
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it is not possible to antiquote numbers.
2022-11-22 10:36:21 +01:00
Liu Xiaoyi
4d55acf515
Apply suggestions from code review
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Co-authored-by: Sandro <sandro.jaeckel@gmail.com>
2022-11-21 13:46:22 +08:00
Liu Xiaoyi
cc620d961f
Updated uninstall guide involving systemd
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Co-authored-by: sequencer <liu@jiuyang.me>
2022-11-20 20:04:29 +08:00
Théophane Hufschmitt
6bf8736517
Add release-notes for the context-restriction in readFile
2022-11-14 15:03:53 +01:00
Théophane Hufschmitt
302ddee749
Merge pull request #7279 from fricklerhandwerk/uninstall
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add removing users to uninstall instructions
2022-11-11 14:39:07 +01:00
Valentin Gagarin
2af036e5a3
remove stray comma
2022-11-11 14:01:13 +01:00
Théophane Hufschmitt
f225f43076
Merge pull request #7006 from fricklerhandwerk/redirects
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manual: generalize anchor redirects
2022-11-09 11:23:26 +01:00
Valentin Gagarin
9d20a056c8
remove external link
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the language has its own overview page where its properties are
described in sufficient detail.
2022-11-09 01:36:17 +01:00
Valentin Gagarin
3d716df7ce
make diagrams compatible with svgbob
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this will at some point enable rendering them nicely for the web
2022-11-09 01:29:01 +01:00
Valentin Gagarin
98447c1a7f
clarify subject of sentence
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Co-authored-by: Bryan Honof <bryan.honof@tweag.io>
2022-11-09 01:29:01 +01:00
Valentin Gagarin
b5728ace5d
add articles
2022-11-09 01:29:01 +01:00
Valentin Gagarin
be8744f937
manual: architecture overview
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these changes were not merged properly and had to be reverted.
see merge commit d8e54d19f7
for full
history leading up to here.
2022-11-09 01:29:01 +01:00
Valentin Gagarin
d8781c4fc5
add removing users to uninstall instructions
2022-11-09 01:11:47 +01:00
Valentin Gagarin
ffca3e34cb
Merge pull request #6906 from fricklerhandwerk/language-overview
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add syntax overview from NixOS manual
2022-11-09 00:52:53 +01:00
Valentin Gagarin
daedaa197d
fix typos in comments
2022-11-09 00:49:34 +01:00
Valentin Gagarin
f7ab93b068
manual: build action -> build task
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after discussing this with multiple people, I'm convinced that "build
task" is more precise: a derivation is not an action, but inert until it
is built. also it's easier to pronounce.
proposal: use "build task" for the generic concept "description of how
to derive new files from the contents of existing files". then it will
be easier to distinguish what we mean by "derivation" (a specific data
structure and Nix language value type) and "store derivation" (a
serialisation of a derivation into a file in the Nix store).
2022-11-06 13:28:18 +01:00
Sagar Patel
c068cce107
docs: drop shell prompt character for consistency
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In addition to consistency, the fancy "Copy to clipboard" button on the
website will copy the prompt character. Retaining the prompt character
would mean having to edit each command after pasting in the terminal.
2022-11-01 00:09:00 -04:00
John Ericson
13f2a6f38d
Merge branch 'master' into indexed-store-path-outputs
2022-10-28 23:22:18 +01:00
Théophane Hufschmitt
74cc24f4cf
Merge pull request #7191 from jherland/antiquoted-paths
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Explain how Nix handles antiquotation of paths
2022-10-26 12:42:59 +02:00
Guillaume Maudoux
2a7348f986
Fixup merge typo
2022-10-22 23:38:50 +02:00
Patrick Jackson
b44df13701
manual: update options generation code to use default values
2022-10-20 12:05:04 -07:00
Johan Herland
1ec8810687
Explain how Nix handles antiquotation of paths
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Specifically, explain why Nix does not _re_evaluate paths during a
`nix repl` session. This is a thing that bit me while playing around
with paths and antiquotation in `nix repl` while reading the Nix
language tutorial at https://nix.dev/tutorials/nix-language .
Co-authored-by: Valentin Gagarin <valentin.gagarin@tweag.io>
2022-10-19 11:50:58 +02:00
Guillaume Maudoux
3f9f6ae127
Merge remote-tracking branch 'origin/master' into coerce-string
2022-10-16 20:39:19 +02:00
Ana Hobden
069409d167
Print common flags in --help
2022-10-07 09:07:22 -07:00
Valentin Gagarin
ac0fb38e8a
Merge pull request #6652 from abathur/doc_install_tests
2022-10-05 17:45:42 +02:00
Travis A. Everett
e1418430ac
Apply suggestions from code review
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Co-authored-by: Valentin Gagarin <valentin.gagarin@tweag.io>
2022-10-05 09:52:53 -05:00
Valentin Gagarin
927234cfb2
Merge pull request #6870 from amjoseph-nixpkgs/pr/doc/explain-local-remote-binary-substituter
2022-10-05 09:01:42 +02:00
Théophane Hufschmitt
3ae9467d57
Merge pull request #6969 from fricklerhandwerk/refactor-generate-manpage
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refactor rendering command documentation to markdown
2022-10-03 15:50:17 +02:00
Valentin Gagarin
d8bef7358f
bring back lost newline
2022-09-30 01:43:57 +02:00
Valentin Gagarin
70eea97742
use more self-explanatory names
2022-09-30 01:43:57 +02:00
Valentin Gagarin
61188cb820
move final template to the top
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this allows readers to enter the code starting with what is visible from
the outside, instead of working themselves up from purely technical details.
2022-09-30 01:43:57 +02:00
Valentin Gagarin
0e0f1832de
remove superfluous let-in pair
2022-09-30 01:43:57 +02:00
Valentin Gagarin
a85df04fcb
refactor showOptions
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it was quite a pain to manipulate strings just with `builtins`
2022-09-30 01:43:53 +02:00
Valentin Gagarin
4655563470
refactor rendering command documentation to markdown
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idea:
- make document structure visible, like in a template
- order functions by descending abstraction
- avoid nested let bindings
2022-09-30 01:42:46 +02:00
Valentin Gagarin
6b56bb4a79
use indented strings where appropriate
2022-09-30 01:42:46 +02:00
Solene Rapenne
847cd49909
nix-copy-closure: improve wording
2022-09-28 01:05:46 +02:00
Théophane Hufschmitt
6a64820cb4
Merge pull request #7082 from rapenne-s/ccache
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add ccacheStdenv
2022-09-24 12:45:27 +02:00
Solène Rapenne
e04b38f789
add ccacheStdenv
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when using ccache, rebuild time has been measured
89% faster while not slowing the speed of cold builds
2022-09-23 11:21:19 +02:00
Travis A. Everett
84bdb0e3ad
address review feedback
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Mainly:
- Try to triangulate between narrative that framed this as
a new/easy process and the need for a reference that will
not quickly grow stale.
- Fix a ~continuity issue where the text was talking about
"your Cachix cache" before saying that you'd need to make
a Cachix cache to enable the installer tests.
- Adopt suggestion on titling, and nest subtitles in the
installer test section.
2022-09-18 13:02:42 -05:00
Travis A. Everett
4bd52bf6c4
Apply suggestions from code review
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Co-authored-by: Valentin Gagarin <valentin.gagarin@tweag.io>
2022-09-17 13:20:11 -05:00
Adam Joseph
ad5b09423a
release-notes/rl-next.md: note new argument to fetchurl.nix
2022-09-16 01:59:24 -07:00
Valentin Gagarin
dc8c0b173c
Update doc/manual/src/contributing/hacking.md
2022-09-16 09:36:55 +02:00
Valentin Gagarin
1ae974120a
Update doc/manual/src/contributing/hacking.md
2022-09-16 09:36:37 +02:00
Valentin Gagarin
0a4bd9fe88
Update doc/manual/src/contributing/hacking.md
2022-09-16 09:36:30 +02:00
Valentin Gagarin
47fa1087c8
Update doc/manual/src/contributing/hacking.md
2022-09-16 09:36:20 +02:00
Valentin Gagarin
1d295e5fe7
Merge pull request #6934 from fricklerhandwerk/revert-architecture
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Revert #6420 "Document what Nix *is*" so we can start over with smaller change sets
2022-09-09 13:31:05 +02:00
Valentin Gagarin
8dd5ba2f47
more precise variable types
2022-09-09 09:54:24 +02:00
Valentin Gagarin
548c904d40
optimize performance
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remove loops and function calls, modify arrays in place
this makes the whole thing harder to read, and probably only
marginally faster.
2022-09-08 11:58:43 +02:00
Guillaume Maudoux
eb460a9529
WIP: broken merge but need a git checkpoint
2022-09-07 00:34:03 +02:00
Valentin Gagarin
59be1e500a
generalize anchor redirects
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renaming section headers and changing manually set `id`s will break URLs
in the wild.
this change allows keeping track of all changes to ensure backwards
compatibility.
2022-09-06 00:49:16 +02:00
Adam Joseph
e90f2fcfc7
glossary: add entry for chroot store
(used 11 times in nix)
2022-09-01 18:28:05 -07:00
Adam Joseph
e6f5352e71
#binary-cache -> #gloss-binary-cache
2022-09-01 18:27:00 -07:00
Adam Joseph
59dc8346ca
move substituter signature-checking conditions to configuration file documentation
2022-09-01 17:51:56 -07:00
Adam Joseph
f6c750e8b2
glossary: remove extraneous comma
2022-09-01 17:48:34 -07:00
Adam Joseph
887e922be2
glossary: outputHash, not __outputHash
2022-09-01 17:47:13 -07:00
Adam Joseph
d5e064d816
glossary: fix broken link
2022-09-01 17:46:31 -07:00
Adam Joseph
57f12df5e4
input-addressed store object: include FODOs
2022-09-01 15:09:10 -07:00
Adam Joseph
8139bbe2ba
implement https://github.com/NixOS/nix/pull/6870#pullrequestreview-1093700220
2022-09-01 15:01:07 -07:00
Adam Joseph
def4fb9a0f
__outputHash: add link
2022-09-01 14:47:33 -07:00
Adam Joseph
1b2b8c39fd
fix link to language/advanced-attributes.md#adv-attr-contentAddressed
2022-09-01 14:47:17 -07:00
Adam Joseph
0a98d564b3
glossary: resolve FIXME in #gloss-fixed-output-derivation
2022-09-01 14:41:27 -07:00
Adam Joseph
1f56b5d772
doc/manual: un-inline definitions from substitute
2022-09-01 14:13:21 -07:00
Adam Joseph
41153f30bd
glossary: substituter: merge output-addressed cases
2022-09-01 14:13:21 -07:00
Adam Joseph
9cb8412143
Update doc/manual/src/glossary.md
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Co-authored-by: John Ericson <git@JohnEricson.me>
2022-09-01 20:41:04 +00:00
Adam Joseph
2812682ebe
Update doc/manual/src/glossary.md
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Co-authored-by: John Ericson <git@JohnEricson.me>
2022-09-01 20:40:39 +00:00
Adam Joseph
520587b9a0
glossary: local store: clarify
2022-09-01 13:39:48 -07:00
Valentin Gagarin
f35b3aa47b
do not use unwarranted pkgs in example
2022-08-31 09:16:37 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra
1f2b12b30e
Merge pull request #6968 from fricklerhandwerk/man-no-weblinks
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do not render relative links in help pages
2022-08-29 08:46:35 +02:00
Valentin Gagarin
e7dcacbd7c
do not render relative links in help pages
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this simplifies the setup a lot, and avoids weird looking `./file.md`
links showing up.
it also does not show regular URLs any more. currently the command
reference only has few of them, and not showing them in the offline
documentation is hopefully not a big deal.
instead of building more special-case solutions, clumsily preprocessing
the input, or issuing verbal rules on dealing with URLs, should better
be solved sustainably by not rendering relative links in `lowdown`:
https://github.com/kristapsdz/lowdown/issues/105
2022-08-26 17:10:41 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra
b0488a29dc
Branch 2.11 release notes
2022-08-24 22:44:58 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra
04e74f7c8b
Merge pull request #6612 from NixOS/parallel-nix-copy
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Make nix copy parallel again
2022-08-24 15:31:42 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra
4c96761c2b
Merge remote-tracking branch 'origin/master' into parallel-nix-copy
2022-08-22 15:29:10 +02:00
Valentin Gagarin
d8e54d19f7
Revert "Merge pull request #6420 from nix-community/doc-what-is-nix"
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This reverts commit 81e101345f
, reversing
changes made to 7d1280bbaf
.
2022-08-22 12:52:15 +02:00
Andrei Boar
50f5b6c733
Update doc/manual/src/command-ref/env-common.md
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Co-authored-by: Valentin Gagarin <valentin.gagarin@tweag.io>
2022-08-19 12:28:51 +03:00
Andrei Boar
82b867d0b5
cover empty string case
2022-08-19 11:51:32 +03:00
Valentin Gagarin
703b335c1d
reword description of language properties
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the list style is supposed to give more structure.
each property is explained as concisely as possible while trying not to
sound too fancy.
2022-08-15 11:34:39 +02:00
Valentin Gagarin
71e9c28694
reword introduction to overview
2022-08-15 11:15:03 +02:00
Valentin Gagarin
bc315326fa
fix whitespace to please markdown
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keep some indentation to ease source readability
2022-08-15 11:13:05 +02:00
Valentin Gagarin
6ba8d6dc82
add more examples on string interpolation
2022-08-15 11:06:40 +02:00
Valentin Gagarin
c209e6e108
add more list examples
2022-08-15 10:18:56 +02:00
Valentin Gagarin
0378531bf2
add curried function
2022-08-15 10:18:56 +02:00
Valentin Gagarin
2e4704ca93
add second @ pattern example
2022-08-15 10:18:56 +02:00
Valentin Gagarin
5c25bdee50
add null
2022-08-15 10:18:56 +02:00
Valentin Gagarin
391fd10b12
add home path
2022-08-15 10:18:56 +02:00
Valentin Gagarin
587ae9ada5
add search path
2022-08-15 10:18:56 +02:00
Valentin Gagarin
21438acc70
add absolute path
2022-08-15 10:18:56 +02:00
Valentin Gagarin
e6f7c180de
add floating point number
2022-08-15 10:18:56 +02:00
Valentin Gagarin
292cab039d
add multi-line string
2022-08-15 10:18:56 +02:00
Valentin Gagarin
f165a8ae08
flarify relative path semantics
2022-08-15 10:18:56 +02:00
Valentin Gagarin
43188d3d18
make hash and version distinguishable as placeholder
2022-08-15 10:18:56 +02:00
Valentin Gagarin
90836397d3
remove stale section link
2022-08-15 10:18:56 +02:00
Valentin Gagarin
3378a3bce8
add syntax overview from NixOS manual
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taken verbatim to keep track of required corrections.
made it an HTML table to more easily change structure and keep diffs
minimal.
2022-08-15 10:18:56 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra
af4e8b00fb
Merge pull request #6882 from DeterminateSystems/allow-multi-user-as-root
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Allow installing multi-user as root on macOS and Linux
2022-08-12 10:19:03 +02:00
Graham Christensen
7bb1e913b3
Don't prompt about using sudo if we're already root
2022-08-10 09:37:08 -04:00
Graham Christensen
88a0f3b6ba
Strip whitespace in installing-binary.md
2022-08-10 09:37:08 -04:00
Adam Joseph
bac1e1bf8c
Update doc/manual/src/glossary.md
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Co-authored-by: Valentin Gagarin <valentin.gagarin@tweag.io>
2022-08-08 17:52:31 +00:00
Travis A. Everett
9b7bd2dd1f
Apply suggestions from code review
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Co-authored-by: Valentin Gagarin <valentin.gagarin@tweag.io>
2022-08-08 10:04:27 -05:00
Travis A. Everett
b5d85f0922
Apply suggestions from code review
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Co-authored-by: Valentin Gagarin <valentin.gagarin@tweag.io>
2022-08-05 13:49:18 -05:00
Adam Joseph
1d3b92e80c
move package-management/terminology into glossary.md
2022-08-05 10:39:43 -07:00
Adam Joseph
4de95f7f56
gesture at explanation of why binary caches exist
2022-08-05 10:33:48 -07:00
Adam Joseph
d5506aa712
Update doc/manual/src/package-management/terminology.md
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Co-authored-by: Attila Gulyas <toraritte@gmail.com>
2022-08-05 17:19:52 +00:00
Adam Joseph
66a93a76b9
Update doc/manual/src/package-management/terminology.md
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Co-authored-by: Attila Gulyas <toraritte@gmail.com>
2022-08-05 17:15:37 +00:00
Adam Joseph
2eb74c918d
derivations do not need to be signed
2022-08-05 10:13:41 -07:00
Adam Joseph
aae771cad2
!implement https://github.com/NixOS/nix/pull/6870#discussion_r938912244
2022-08-05 10:12:46 -07:00
Eelco Dolstra
4eb566603a
Comment out the architecture section
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This needs more review and probably should be a separate book.
2022-08-05 11:01:40 +02:00
Adam Joseph
1b97f3872e
!fixup: transposed characters
2022-08-04 14:22:14 -07:00
Adam Joseph
62674659ed
!fixup capitalize Nix
2022-08-04 14:21:17 -07:00
Adam Joseph
8f44d24c52
!fixup whitespace
2022-08-04 14:19:25 -07:00
Adam Joseph
56d4fc194b
fourth trust condition: FODs
2022-08-04 14:14:24 -07:00
Adam Joseph
a5be5e0120
doc/manual: define {local,remote} store, binary cache, substituter
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Nix veterans intuitively know what the following terms mean. They are
used in several places in the nix documentation, but never defined:
- local store
- remote store
- binary cache
- substituter
In particular, I found the last two terms to be confusingly similar.
Let's give definitions for them.
2022-08-04 14:07:06 -07:00
John Ericson
39d32ac4c6
Add disclaimer that arch section is WIP and links may rot
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So we can iterate without worrying so much.
2022-08-04 14:02:58 -04:00
John Ericson
6f6498f59c
Remove header fragments which is not needd
2022-08-04 14:02:38 -04:00
John Ericson
016d7a8f78
Fix rosetta stone file name
2022-08-04 14:02:19 -04:00
John Ericson
b430a6743c
Remove sections within from SUMMARY
2022-08-04 14:01:55 -04:00
Andrei Boar
1c2c1a6e00
Update doc/manual/src/command-ref/env-common.md
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Co-authored-by: Jan Tojnar <jtojnar@gmail.com>
2022-08-04 16:17:24 +03:00
John Ericson
bc118854d0
Merge remote-tracking branch 'upstream/master' into doc-what-is-nix
2022-08-04 09:11:42 -04:00
Andrei Boar
a8ac6a4120
Update doc/manual/src/command-ref/env-common.md
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Co-authored-by: Valentin Gagarin <valentin.gagarin@tweag.io>
2022-08-04 16:01:02 +03:00
Andrei Boar
cedcfe861c
Merge branch 'manual-nix-path-empty' of github.com:zuzuleinen/nix into manual-nix-path-empty
2022-08-04 15:56:13 +03:00
Andrei Boar
f72545e864
update to suggested changes
2022-08-04 15:56:01 +03:00
Valentin Gagarin
b631742277
fix page rendering
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apparently it is not possible to link to page anchors with `mdBook`[1]
[1]: https://github.com/rust-lang/mdBook/issues/167
2022-08-04 14:31:33 +02:00
Domen Kožar
7d1280bbaf
Merge pull request #6678 from abathur/update_darwin_uninstall
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doc: update darwin uninstall instructions
2022-08-04 14:09:09 +02:00
Andrei Boar
6dfd8a78d9
Update doc/manual/src/command-ref/env-common.md
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Co-authored-by: Eelco Dolstra <edolstra@gmail.com>
2022-08-04 15:04:52 +03:00
Valentin Gagarin
cc3a5f4ba2
use correct mdBook syntax for callouts
2022-08-04 14:04:14 +02:00
Valentin Gagarin
8cec32e7f5
fix directory tree renderings
2022-08-04 13:51:35 +02:00
Domen Kožar
84a26882f8
Update doc/manual/src/installation/installing-binary.md
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Co-authored-by: Valentin Gagarin <valentin.gagarin@tweag.io>
2022-08-04 06:23:45 -05:00
Domen Kožar
3c2de2da01
Update doc/manual/src/installation/installing-binary.md
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Co-authored-by: Valentin Gagarin <valentin.gagarin@tweag.io>
2022-08-04 06:23:36 -05:00
Andrei Boar
5a75aa8595
manual: update docs when NIX_PATH is empty
2022-08-04 14:19:51 +03:00
Valentin Gagarin
3df1ee2ba5
clarify what explicitly declaring certain dependencies means
2022-08-04 12:37:48 +02:00
Valentin Gagarin
b7309ce624
move architecture to the end
2022-08-04 12:37:48 +02:00
Valentin Gagarin
00a7eaed67
add file system object to table of contents
2022-08-04 12:37:48 +02:00
Valentin Gagarin
db6faf44a9
clarify what store objects can be
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the store of course makes a distinction, but that is not relevant here
2022-08-04 12:37:48 +02:00
Valentin Gagarin
0228eb8ae7
add Java example on manual dependency declaration
2022-08-04 12:37:48 +02:00
Valentin Gagarin
29c062537d
hashes: truncate -> reduce, mention SHA-256
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the longer SHA-256 hashes are not truncated, but in fact processed.
Co-authored-by: Thomas <twatson52@mac.com>
2022-08-04 12:37:48 +02:00
Valentin Gagarin
9cabba1fc3
mention hard links
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Co-authored-by: Thomas <twatson52@mac.com>
2022-08-04 12:37:48 +02:00
Valentin Gagarin
bac86231ad
use "build plan" consistently
2022-08-04 12:37:47 +02:00
Valentin Gagarin
5a5a95696f
note customized base32
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Nix omits E O U T characters for some reason.
2022-08-04 12:37:47 +02:00
Valentin Gagarin
de5dea45f7
use correct Nix entity
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Nix itself does care a lot about what type of store object you have.
2022-08-04 12:37:47 +02:00
Valentin Gagarin
fe4c0b8d75
fix typo
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Co-authored-by: Thomas <twatson52@mac.com>
2022-08-04 12:37:47 +02:00
Valentin Gagarin
def80d5777
add subsections to table of contents
2022-08-04 12:37:47 +02:00
Valentin Gagarin
c345345dee
concept map: align hights
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this has the weird but nice emergent property that terms at the same
height are roughly at the same level of abstraction.
2022-08-04 12:37:47 +02:00
Valentin Gagarin
a28d6878b2
concept map: put closure as it is in the chapter
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this is not as compact any more, but it more closely resembles the
chapter structure, and clearly shows that the closure property is the
key idea on which most of Nix operates.
2022-08-04 12:37:47 +02:00
Valentin Gagarin
475a332025
make concept map even more compact
2022-08-04 12:37:47 +02:00
Valentin Gagarin
d8b2f9f772
make concept map more compact
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invert arrows to/from derivation:
- we need closures to form derivations
- we need derivations to perform builds
2022-08-04 12:37:47 +02:00
Valentin Gagarin
348432f48f
store: add concept map
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this should help nativate the chapter by indicating which terms should
be known to understand a given concept.
2022-08-04 12:37:47 +02:00
Valentin Gagarin
ec43977553
store: match chapter introduction to outline
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the various levels of detail should describe the same things.
2022-08-04 12:37:47 +02:00
Valentin Gagarin
7c656d90ca
simplify description of diagram
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try not to be too fancy, it's just for reading the diagram out loud.
2022-08-04 12:37:47 +02:00
Valentin Gagarin
631ca18ee6
reword notes on copying
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clarify that we are copying between different stores. we have not
introduced that notion or why it would be interesting, but for now it
should be fine to keep it in context of the store directory.
we could move that later to a more detailed explanation of different
store types.
2022-08-04 12:37:47 +02:00
Valentin Gagarin
c10dcccccd
make example a simple list
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using JSON notation is unwarranted and not explained.
2022-08-04 12:37:47 +02:00
Valentin Gagarin
9c544813d7
paths -> path
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use singular for terminology uniformly
2022-08-04 12:37:47 +02:00
Valentin Gagarin
1681f4e9f3
better explain reference scanning
2022-08-04 12:37:47 +02:00
Valentin Gagarin
fa7ad4593d
explain store directory
2022-08-04 12:37:47 +02:00
Valentin Gagarin
f632816cba
add explanation and examples of file system objects
2022-08-04 12:37:47 +02:00
Valentin Gagarin
84ddfbf8fd
remove diagonal from operations diagram
2022-08-04 12:37:47 +02:00
Valentin Gagarin
93f721b0d2
remove draft on derivations
2022-08-04 12:37:47 +02:00
Valentin Gagarin
19d8a5d839
move first mention of file system object before diagram
2022-08-04 12:37:47 +02:00
Valentin Gagarin
a90fc62b61
make clear that file system is for processes
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Co-authored-by: John Ericson <John.Ericson@Obsidian.Systems>
2022-08-04 12:37:47 +02:00
Valentin Gagarin
7993ba1f38
constrain garbage collection scope
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garbage collection is now incremental, and may (in theory) never delete all unreferenced objects if it is slow enough.
2022-08-04 12:37:47 +02:00
Valentin Gagarin
195aa28ff7
references are added according to build task
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at this level of abstraction we do not really care about build instructions or what they are, and also build instructions including their arguments really amount to the build task.
2022-08-04 12:37:47 +02:00
Valentin Gagarin
80de4a4804
operations diagram: store' to the right
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this also looks more diverse, hopefully easier to distinguish
Co-authored-by: John Ericson <John.Ericson@Obsidian.Systems>
2022-08-04 12:37:47 +02:00
Valentin Gagarin
3794618cce
add commas between output values
2022-08-04 12:37:47 +02:00
Valentin Gagarin
7b7e4c6340
use singular to match section heading
2022-08-04 12:37:47 +02:00
Valentin Gagarin
e63a768e21
use reference links for URLs
2022-08-04 12:37:47 +02:00
Valentin Gagarin
843288a451
add subsections for objects and references
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group description of data instead of spreading it across the section.
that should help direct skimming. as it turns out, people do not
actually read any of that.
2022-08-04 12:37:47 +02:00
Valentin Gagarin
4341849193
move closure property to discussion references
2022-08-04 12:37:47 +02:00
Valentin Gagarin
445f753a82
replace pseudo code by diagrams
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change prose description to visually resemble the data structure
2022-08-04 12:37:47 +02:00
Valentin Gagarin
db8703bcac
use reference links for URLs
2022-08-04 12:37:47 +02:00
Valentin Gagarin
4adb6602bd
clarify first sentence on store objects
2022-08-04 12:37:47 +02:00
Valentin Gagarin
4eb11d4592
fix grammar for clarity
2022-08-04 12:37:47 +02:00
Valentin Gagarin
b84f2bdfdd
introduce mapping to Unix files and processes
2022-08-04 12:37:47 +02:00
Valentin Gagarin
207992a71d
introduce store and store objects without file system details
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this leaves open implementation details, especially about store paths
and file system objects, and allows explaining them together were it is
more appropriate. also leaves room to carefully introduce the key
insight behind Nix: applying results from programming language theory to
the operating system paradigm of files and processes.
2022-08-04 12:37:47 +02:00
Valentin Gagarin
e72a7874dc
beautify rosetta table
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while this may eventually introduce ugly diffs, the table will now
render readably on the terminal (e.g. for `man nix` or `nix --help`)
without further intervention.
2022-08-04 12:37:47 +02:00
Valentin Gagarin
b6b112b366
use reference links for URLs
2022-08-04 12:37:47 +02:00
Valentin Gagarin
d5eea66615
introduce build tasks
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while it appears a bit much for the overview, this way we set the stage
for going directly into data types when describing the store, instead of
first having to say what build tasks are and how they relate to build
plans.
2022-08-04 12:37:47 +02:00
Valentin Gagarin
7c3bca1372
revert to build plans in top-level overview
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do not introduce build tasks yet, that is the next level of detail.
2022-08-04 12:37:47 +02:00
Valentin Gagarin
4639b36b53
use reference links for URLs
2022-08-04 12:37:47 +02:00
Valentin Gagarin
2303f84a68
revert to "build plan" in overview diagram
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this displays correct composition again. build inputs and build results
are not part of build plans in terms of data objects.
also this is a much less complicated setup. this will be the first
impression of architecture, and we want to get it right.
2022-08-04 12:37:47 +02:00
Valentin Gagarin
25926c5fc6
Nix store does not underly literally everything
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Co-authored-by: Robert Hensing <roberth@users.noreply.github.com>
2022-08-04 12:37:47 +02:00
Valentin Gagarin
0e63b9bf88
add link from overview to store section
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the overview should only link to the three main concepts presented. the
store is now fairly fleshed out. others can follow later.
2022-08-04 12:37:47 +02:00
Valentin Gagarin
ef81276cc1
architecture overview: add link to command line reference
2022-08-04 12:37:47 +02:00
Valentin Gagarin
68d26010f6
architecture overview: add link to Nix expression language reference
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update summary title to match file contents
2022-08-04 12:37:47 +02:00
Valentin Gagarin
75ce324052
use singular for class names consistently
2022-08-04 12:37:47 +02:00
Valentin Gagarin
689b32a543
clarify relation of tasks and plans
2022-08-04 12:37:47 +02:00
Valentin Gagarin
2a8532fb61
build rule -> build task
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closer to "build systems a la carte", satisfies all other complaints
2022-08-04 12:37:47 +02:00
Valentin Gagarin
902638c519
build step -> build rule
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"step" sounds atomic, while "rule" hints at internal structure, which in
our case consists of mapping inputs to outputs using build instructions.
2022-08-04 12:37:47 +02:00
Valentin Gagarin
87523f01e3
match grammatical case to arrow direction
2022-08-04 12:37:47 +02:00
Valentin Gagarin
d3effd014b
update architecture diagram
2022-08-04 12:37:47 +02:00
Valentin Gagarin
ad8c2ed7f0
remove incomplete section: input/content-addressing
2022-08-04 12:37:47 +02:00
Valentin Gagarin
3bd125ebbe
remove incomplete section: nix archives
2022-08-04 12:37:47 +02:00
Valentin Gagarin
b18852eb3f
remove incomplete section: content-addressed objects
2022-08-04 12:37:47 +02:00
Valentin Gagarin
7cec9ee361
remove incomplete section: relocatability
2022-08-04 12:37:47 +02:00
Valentin Gagarin
96876b1eae
remove incomplete section: related work
2022-08-04 12:37:47 +02:00
Valentin Gagarin
1ba6d8fb1d
remove incomplete section: building
2022-08-04 12:37:47 +02:00
John Ericson
3d8f2f5cc1
Fix manual TOC links
2022-08-04 12:37:47 +02:00
John Ericson
b01bb65d30
Fix rel path in doc
2022-08-04 12:37:47 +02:00
Valentin Gagarin
b5ca3d12b6
reword details on keeping closure property
2022-08-04 12:37:47 +02:00
Valentin Gagarin
e90586c0a4
add motivation for references
2022-08-04 12:37:47 +02:00
Valentin Gagarin
07d490fd89
stores can also delete objects
2022-08-04 12:37:47 +02:00
Valentin Gagarin
5fda995491
formalize file system objects
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convention: describe every data type in prose, and illustrate with
a class diagram, and a textual representation of an abstract
data type.
right now we save ourselves the trouble of doing class diagrams, we can
add them later. but they are important.
2022-08-04 12:37:47 +02:00
Valentin Gagarin
fb2ec7e4ec
reword section on references
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use file Contents instead of Data, as that flows more naturally in the
prose.
simplify explanation of the idea behind scanning for store paths
remove references to unfinished sections.
2022-08-04 12:37:47 +02:00
Valentin Gagarin
90fc5b41a8
reword file system objects
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- use singular for the "class"
- more consistency in type definition
- minor fixes in wording
2022-08-04 12:37:47 +02:00
Valentin Gagarin
e5e48593c8
move git comparison to related work
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it should be pulled out of the branch before we go for merging
2022-08-04 12:37:47 +02:00
Valentin Gagarin
a145007a57
component -> store object, realisation -> build
2022-08-04 12:37:47 +02:00
Valentin Gagarin
40efe5b30b
build instrcution: Task -> function
2022-08-04 12:37:47 +02:00
Valentin Gagarin
ca5ebf6382
revert build plan/step distinction, reorder rows
2022-08-04 12:37:47 +02:00
Valentin Gagarin
610ddf44aa
reword introduction to rosetta stone, add links
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attempt to explain used and documented terminology, as well as how
the declarative programming paradigm relates to building software.
in the future one could highlight encouraged terms to shape future
material into higher consistency.
2022-08-04 12:37:47 +02:00
Valentin Gagarin
5f96a0b4e8
associated operations are not collected
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Co-authored-by: John Ericson <git@JohnEricson.me>
2022-08-04 12:37:47 +02:00
Valentin Gagarin
070c85499b
fix grammar
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Co-authored-by: John Ericson <git@JohnEricson.me>
2022-08-04 12:37:47 +02:00
Valentin Gagarin
7b5c00f67f
add concrete store examples, reword note on file system
2022-08-04 12:37:47 +02:00
Valentin Gagarin
c8c1b705ad
reword section on Nix store
2022-08-04 12:37:47 +02:00
Valentin Gagarin
39f01176a7
design -> architecture, add motivation
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following ideas found in Architecture of Gazelle[1]
[1]: 56d35f8db0/Design.rst
2022-08-04 12:37:47 +02:00
Valentin Gagarin
d30033759a
address Nix language consistently as configuration language
2022-08-04 12:37:46 +02:00
Valentin Gagarin
7598126391
remove separate meta-section, add architecture diagram
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the diagram is a first approximation and only covers that same section.
of course there is much more going on, and other features should at some
point also be illustrated.
we also have to think about presentation format and technicalities
behind it. the manual has to render to `man`, but we may want something
more refined for web view.
2022-08-04 12:37:46 +02:00
Valentin Gagarin
34ea74c9ec
reword introductory section
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there should be a meta section for each chapter to give motivation of
the presented structure. the structure itself is visible from the table
of contents.
2022-08-04 12:37:46 +02:00
Valentin Gagarin
b387d80943
remove sentence for chapter transition
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idea: sections could be read in different orders by linking them in
different ways (e.g. depth-first or breadth-first). adding hard-coded
transitions makes that confusing.
2022-08-04 12:37:46 +02:00
John Ericson
89a7c956ff
Apply suggestions from code review
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Co-authored-by: Valentin Gagarin <valentin@fricklerhandwerk.de>
2022-08-04 12:37:46 +02:00
Valentin Gagarin
51e6bed25e
do not mention implementation details
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Co-authored-by: John Ericson <git@JohnEricson.me>
2022-08-04 12:37:46 +02:00
Valentin Gagarin
23ee0b24f7
correctly use comma for nesting
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Co-authored-by: John Ericson <git@JohnEricson.me>
2022-08-04 12:37:46 +02:00
Valentin Gagarin
804e8bd747
indicate sequence with "then"
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Co-authored-by: John Ericson <git@JohnEricson.me>
2022-08-04 12:37:46 +02:00
Valentin Gagarin
327ccd3b07
only use generic build system terminology
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we will use a translation table to introduce nix-specific terms
2022-08-04 12:37:46 +02:00
Valentin Gagarin
0eae4bfad1
reword overview with clear terminology
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trying to capture alternative terms in one go here, mirroring everyday
use:
derivation - build plan
realise - execute build
there will be more of that sort.
2022-08-04 12:37:46 +02:00
John Ericson
0737094161
Add draft "Rosetta stone" by @fricklerhandwerk and stub commentary
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The idea and most of the execution are @fricklerhandwerk's. I changed a
few things best I could based on @edolstra's corrections, and a Bazel
glossary.
Valentin Gagarin <valentin@fricklerhandwerk.de>
2022-08-04 12:37:46 +02:00
John Ericson
c86c1ec7e3
Make refernces sneak preview more concise
2022-08-04 12:37:46 +02:00
John Ericson
4e4bbd9e83
Improve store objects session more
2022-08-04 12:37:46 +02:00
John Ericson
e4eea5e84e
Include abstract syntax based on the thesis for FSOs
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See https://edolstra.github.io/pubs/phd-thesis.pdf , page 91.
2022-08-04 12:37:46 +02:00
John Ericson
b98dc3b19c
store objects, better opining sentances
2022-08-04 12:37:46 +02:00
John Ericson
55b437b551
Improve store path section
2022-08-04 12:37:46 +02:00
John Ericson
b4df351880
Relocability -> relocation in store object title
2022-08-04 12:37:46 +02:00
John Ericson
5f4d2ac091
Improve store object section
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In particular, Nix is *not* like Git, so that needs to be fixed.
2022-08-04 12:37:46 +02:00
John Ericson
1bbad62c7d
doc: File system data -> file system object, to match Nix
2022-08-04 12:37:46 +02:00
John Ericson
838ba26fda
Rename files after store entry -> store object rename
2022-08-04 12:37:46 +02:00
John Ericson
4e2d5ae202
doc: Store entry -> store object
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This matches the terminology in Eelco's thesis.
2022-08-04 12:37:46 +02:00
John Ericson
e308602fdf
Update doc/manual/src/design/store/drvs/drvs.md
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Co-authored-by: Matthieu Coudron <teto@users.noreply.github.com>
2022-08-04 12:37:46 +02:00
John Ericson
cdb0bf3b65
Update doc/manual/src/design/overview.md
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Co-authored-by: Valentin Gagarin <valentin@fricklerhandwerk.de>
2022-08-04 12:37:46 +02:00
John Ericson
75c5191a1f
Update doc/manual/src/design/overview.md
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Co-authored-by: Valentin Gagarin <valentin@fricklerhandwerk.de>
2022-08-04 12:37:46 +02:00
John Ericson
a04340f9a1
Update doc/manual/src/design/overview.md
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Co-authored-by: Valentin Gagarin <valentin@fricklerhandwerk.de>
2022-08-04 12:37:46 +02:00
John Ericson
f5386d7059
Fix stub file's name
2022-08-04 12:37:46 +02:00
John Ericson
678d75baea
Start on the derivations section
2022-08-04 12:37:46 +02:00
John Ericson
e3a0209a9e
Move the bits on relocating store entires to the end
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They are too advanced for up front.
2022-08-04 12:37:46 +02:00
John Ericson
a210504bc7
Apply suggestions from code review
2022-08-04 12:37:46 +02:00
John Ericson
e64633f98f
Flesh out TOC
2022-08-04 12:37:46 +02:00
John Ericson
a2b3160f28
Briefly describe the digest of a store path
2022-08-04 12:37:46 +02:00
John Ericson
523359d133
WIP: Document the design of Nix
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The current docs are all "how to do things" and no "what is Nix" or "why
are things the way they are".
I see lots of misconception on the wider internet, and I also think we
would benefit from a "living document" to answer some questions people
currently turn to the thesis for.
I think a new section of the manual can address all these issues.
2022-08-04 12:37:46 +02:00
Valentin Gagarin
499ed26508
manual: remove "Writing Nix Expressions" chapter
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it is out of date, all over the place in level of detail, is really
about `nixpkgs`, and in general instructions should not be part of
a reference manual.
also:
- update redirects and internal links
- use "Nix language" consistently
2022-08-04 11:59:25 +02:00
Théophane Hufschmitt
7d1ccd9105
Merge pull request #6846 from fricklerhandwerk/values
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manual: use subheadings for primitive types
2022-08-03 14:50:41 +02:00
Théophane Hufschmitt
c55bea4204
Fix the html id of the list headers
2022-08-03 14:16:00 +02:00
Valentin Gagarin
ceed4d4142
encode primitive as list with anchors
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to make it consistent with builtins and configuration options
2022-08-03 11:25:41 +02:00
K900
f675ba5331
doc/distributed-builds: don't use deprecated alias
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`nix ping-store` -> `nix store ping`.
2022-08-01 13:50:35 +03:00
Valentin Gagarin
27138f1ec6
manual: use singular in body, too
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Co-authored-by: Cole Helbling <cole.e.helbling@outlook.com>
2022-07-28 23:30:07 +02:00
Valentin Gagarin
41a3b315fd
manual: values -> data types
2022-07-28 17:25:25 +02:00
Valentin Gagarin
8f4fab8fab
manual: use singular for headings
2022-07-28 17:25:18 +02:00
Valentin Gagarin
4ff48854b8
manual: simple values -> primitives
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"simple" is a loaded term
2022-07-28 17:23:57 +02:00
Valentin Gagarin
3063e5b94c
manual: use subheadings for primitive types
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this gives us HTML anchors for each of them
2022-07-28 17:23:57 +02:00
Valentin Gagarin
85cdaebcd6
manual: set -> attribute set
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reword description to have shorter sentences.
2022-07-28 16:10:24 +02:00
Valentin Gagarin
be4654c344
manual: fix section title in table of contents
2022-07-28 15:55:41 +02:00
Théophane Hufschmitt
7ed91d6c6a
Merge branch 'master' into parallel-nix-copy
2022-07-20 10:05:34 +02:00
John Ericson
12461e246b
Leverage existing docs for new store-path^outputs syntax
2022-07-15 14:04:22 +00:00
John Ericson
279ecf7cde
Remove computed-derivations
experimental feature
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We don't need it yet.
2022-07-15 13:42:17 +00:00
John Ericson
6cafe308c9
Merge remote-tracking branch 'upstream/master' into indexed-store-path-outputs
2022-07-14 16:15:37 -04:00
Eelco Dolstra
28e913c605
Branch 2.10 release notes
2022-07-11 21:10:23 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra
545383208e
Merge pull request #6777 from laalsaas/master
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Fix logical and typographical errors in nix-env man page
2022-07-11 13:52:40 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra
517ce38dad
Update release notes
2022-07-11 11:17:19 +02:00
laalsaas
eac211a171
Fix logical and typographical errors in nix-env man page
2022-07-10 12:30:17 +02:00
Théophane Hufschmitt
6fa95c35c7
Add a release notes entry for #4914
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cc @gytis-ivaskevicius
2022-07-06 06:46:54 +02:00
Travis A. Everett
649c9d9b4c
doc: acknowledge post-rsync reality
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Before #5150 the copy-to-store phase of the install was idempotent,
but the recursive cp isn't. This is probably baiting a few people
into trying corrective installs that will fail.
2022-06-30 13:31:04 -05:00
Travis A. Everett
fe76b9f4b4
doc: fix some darwin uninstall gaps
2022-06-16 09:37:52 -05:00
Tom Bereknyei
51268ceb79
Merge branch 'master' into nix-repl-flakes
2022-06-15 09:17:03 -04:00
tomberek
dae4a8a6c8
Apply suggestions from code review
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Co-authored-by: Théophane Hufschmitt <7226587+thufschmitt@users.noreply.github.com>
2022-06-15 09:02:36 -04:00
Hugo Osvaldo Barrera
fd7f795750
Add disambiguation to man page
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This should help future lost newcomers like myself understand where to
find the docs for both of these commands and how they differ.
2022-06-14 18:13:35 +02:00
Travis A. Everett
edfcc8256e
doc: add install test info to hacking.md
2022-06-11 13:30:51 -05:00
Théophane Hufschmitt
34d90fbe22
Mention the parallel copy in the release notes
2022-06-08 15:25:52 +02:00
Tom Bereknyei
ffd41d1757
Merge branch 'master' into nix-repl-flakes
2022-06-02 16:58:35 -04:00
John Ericson
b585548dfe
Merge remote-tracking branch 'upstream/master' into indexed-store-path-outputs
2022-06-02 19:53:11 +00:00
Théophane Hufschmitt
a5f7b934bd
Merge branch 'master' into lto
2022-06-01 17:55:03 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra
04a699b8a9
Typo
2022-05-31 10:38:03 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra
de13b44573
Branch 2.9 release notes
2022-05-30 20:42:55 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra
8e8e9d8705
Respect the outputSpecified attribute
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E.g. 'nix build nixpkgs#libxml2.dev' will build the 'dev' output.
2022-05-30 11:34:47 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra
d67a2ae52d
Merge branch 'doc-redirects' of https://github.com/jtojnar/nix
2022-05-27 11:12:41 +02:00
Jan Tojnar
26d1877d6e
doc: Add redirects for the DocBook manual
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There are still many links to the old manual on the web and
having them end up on the Introduction page is a bad user experience.
2022-05-26 18:17:21 +02:00
Jan Tojnar
a793863b97
doc: Manually insert some anchors
2022-05-26 18:17:21 +02:00
Jan Tojnar
7708a34a51
doc: Add anchors to long lists
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Added using the following sed scripts:
- For command-ref/opt-common.md:
s~- `(--?)([^`]+)`~- [`\1\2`]{#opt-\2}~g
- For expressions/builtin-constants.md:
s~- `(builtins\.?)([^`]+)`~- [`\1\2`]{#builtins-\2}~g
- For expressions/advanced-attributes.md
s~^ - `([^`]+)`~ - [`\1`]{#adv-attr-\1}~g
and manually adjusted outputHashAlgo & outputHashMode.
- For glossary.md
s~^ - (`([^`]+)`|(.+)) ?\\~ - [\1]{#gloss-\2\3}\\~g;
s~(gloss-\w+) ~\1-~g
and manually adjusted anchors for Nix expression, user environment, NAR, ∅ and ε.
- For command-ref/env-common.md
s~^ - `([^`]+)`~ - [`\1`]{#env-\1}~g'
2022-05-26 18:17:21 +02:00
Jan Tojnar
3272afa17b
doc: Port anchors preprocessor to jq script
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Python is only pulled into the build closure by Mercurial, which might end up being removed.
Let’s port the script to jq, which is more likely to stay.
2022-05-26 18:17:21 +02:00
Jan Tojnar
4de84e095d
doc: Introduce pre-processor for adding anchors to text
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It is now possible to use the following syntax to insert anchors into the text:
[]{#anchor-name}
The anchor will allow linking to the location it is placed by appending #anchor-name to the URL.
Additionally, it is possible to create a link pointing to its own location by adding text between the square brackets:
[`--add-root`]{#opt-add-root}
2022-05-26 17:54:15 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra
8f4548d401
Tweak IN_NIX_SHELL description
2022-05-26 12:40:01 +02:00
Ben Burdette
9a5ea6c359
Merge branch 'master' into debug-exploratory-PR
2022-05-25 10:41:10 -06:00
Ben Burdette
6031a36208
add --debugger to rl-next list
2022-05-25 10:38:13 -06:00
pennae
b092afe77d
Merge branch 'master' into lto
2022-05-25 11:55:13 +00:00
Tom Bereknyei
82c4af41e3
repl: clarify change and usage of <nixpkgs>
2022-05-20 01:49:49 -04:00
Tony Olagbaiye
5b8c1deb18
fetchTree: Allow fetching plain files
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Add a new `file` fetcher type, which will fetch a plain file over
http(s), or from the local file.
Because plain `http(s)://` or `file://` urls can already correspond to
`tarball` inputs (if the path ends-up with a know archive extension),
the URL parsing logic is a bit convuluted in that:
- {http,https,file}:// urls will be interpreted as either a tarball or a
file input, depending on the extensions of the path part (so
`https://foo.com/bar ` will be a `file` input and
`https://foo.com/bar.tar.gz ` as a `tarball` input)
- `file+{something}://` urls will be interpreted as `file` urls (with
the `file+` part removed)
- `tarball+{something}://` urls will be interpreted as `tarball` urls (with
the `tarball+` part removed)
Fix #3785
Co-Authored-By: Tony Olagbaiye <me@fron.io>
2022-05-19 18:24:49 +02:00
Tom Bereknyei
1ca3f6035d
repl: update docs with installables
2022-05-18 21:21:38 -04:00
John Ericson
b18720ee17
Merge remote-tracking branch 'upstream/master' into indexed-store-path-outputs
2022-05-12 19:13:33 +00:00
Théophane Hufschmitt
65a913d29b
Don’t recommend writing unit tests
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As asked in <https://github.com/NixOS/nix/pull/6517#discussion_r869416905 >
2022-05-12 12:02:31 +02:00
Théophane Hufschmitt
7c75f1d52b
Expand the testing section of the hacking docs
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- Make it clear what the different kind of tests are, where they live
and how they can be ran
- Ask people to primarily write unit tests
2022-05-10 13:35:23 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra
4a79cba511
Allow selecting derivation outputs using 'installable!outputs'
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E.g. 'nixpkgs#glibc^dev,static' or 'nixpkgs#glibc^*'.
2022-05-03 13:43:52 +02:00
Guillaume Maudoux
9ff892aad4
Add release notes for error traces revamp
2022-04-29 11:24:48 +02:00
pennae
d6d6bbd9ef
Merge branch 'master' into lto
2022-04-25 14:02:37 +00:00
midchildan
c67d8876c3
feat: add integration with zsh's run-help
2022-04-25 02:21:41 +09:00
Théophane Hufschmitt
be28603dca
Merge remote-tracking branch 'origin/master' into nixbuildaddprintstorepaths
2022-04-22 11:11:01 +02:00
Tom Bereknyei
f25112d383
fix: builtins.toFile adds path to allowedPaths
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The produced path is then allowed be imported or utilized elsewhere:
```
assert (43 == import (builtins.toFile "source" "43")); "good"
```
This will still fail on write-only stores.
2022-04-21 16:41:37 -04:00
Artturin
51cfea8bb0
nix build: add --print-out-paths flag
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has the same functionality as default nix-build
$ nix-build . -A "bash" -A "bash.dev" -A "tinycc"
/nix/store/4nmqxajzaf60yjribkgvj5j54x9yvr1r-bash-5.1-p12
/nix/store/c49i1ggnr5cc8gxmk9xm0cn961z104dn-bash-5.1-p12-dev
/nix/store/dbapb08862ajgaax3621fz8hly9fdah3-tcc-0.9.27+date=2022-01-11
$ nix-build . -A "bash"
/nix/store/4nmqxajzaf60yjribkgvj5j54x9yvr1r-bash-5.1-p12
$ $HOME/nixgits/nix/result/bin/nix build "nixpkgs#bash" "nixpkgs#bash.dev" "nixpkgs#tinycc" --print-out-paths
/nix/store/4nmqxajzaf60yjribkgvj5j54x9yvr1r-bash-5.1-p12
/nix/store/c49i1ggnr5cc8gxmk9xm0cn961z104dn-bash-5.1-p12-dev
/nix/store/dbapb08862ajgaax3621fz8hly9fdah3-tcc-0.9.27+date=2022-01-11
$ $HOME/nixgits/nix/result/bin/nix build "nixpkgs#bash" --print-out-paths
/nix/store/4nmqxajzaf60yjribkgvj5j54x9yvr1r-bash-5.1-p12
2022-04-20 19:35:46 +03:00
ckie
0e2b01b14e
nix repl: make symlinks with the :bl command
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Requested by ppepino on the Matrix:
https://matrix.to/#/!KqkRjyTEzAGRiZFBYT:nixos.org/$Tb32BS3rVE2BSULAX4sPm0h6CDewX2hClOTGzTC7gwM?via=nixos.org&via=matrix.org&via=nixos.dev
This adds a new command, :bl, which works like :b but also creates
a GC root symlink to the various derivation outputs.
ckie@cookiemonster ~/git/nix -> ./outputs/out/bin/nix repl
Welcome to Nix 2.6.0. Type :? for help.
nix-repl> :l <nixpkgs>
Added 16118 variables.
nix-repl> :b runCommand "hello" {} "echo hi > $out"
This derivation produced the following outputs:
./repl-result-out -> /nix/store/kidqq2acdpi05c4a9mlbg2baikmzik44-hello
[1 built, 0.0 MiB DL]
ckie@cookiemonster ~/git/nix -> cat ./repl-result-out
hi
2022-04-20 00:20:29 +03:00
John Ericson
6b61d7722d
Merge remote-tracking branch 'upstream/master' into indexed-store-path-outputs
2022-04-19 20:30:12 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
1cdad1074c
Move rl-next.md to rl-2.8.md
2022-04-19 21:12:33 +02:00
John Ericson
41e755bee4
Merge remote-tracking branch 'upstream/master' into indexed-store-path-outputs
2022-04-19 15:14:06 +00:00
Tom Bereknyei
9b41239d8f
fix: ensure apps are apps and packages are packages
2022-04-14 23:57:52 -04:00
John Ericson
fda2224b59
Add release notes mark experimental
2022-04-07 19:45:38 +00:00
Rehno Lindeque
5ff4c42608
Update release notes
2022-04-06 12:24:35 -04:00
Eelco Dolstra
71c07ac0e7
Merge pull request #6363 from thufschmitt/definition-list-in-nix.conf-manual
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Add anchors to the nix.conf options in the manual
2022-04-05 17:32:48 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra
f98d76ff1a
rl-2.7.md: Fix title
2022-04-05 14:13:26 +02:00
Théophane Hufschmitt
660c19eb49
manual: Add some anchor targets for the nix.conf options
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For each `nix.conf` option, add an empty html node with a unique `id`
that can be used as an anchor target. Also make the name of the option
be a link to that target so that it’s easily discoverable.
We can’t rewrite the whole list as an html definition list like it’s
done for the builtins because these options also appear in a man page,
and the manpage renderer (lowdown) can’t render arbitrary html. But the
hack here allows to keep the manpage and have the links in the html
version.
Fix https://github.com/NixOS/nix/issues/5745
2022-04-05 13:50:42 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra
d63a5f5dd3
Update release notes
2022-03-31 17:33:06 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra
86b05ccd54
Only provide builtin.{getFlake,fetchClosure} is the corresponding experimental feature is enabled
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This allows writing fallback code like
if builtins ? fetchClosure then
builtins.fetchClose { ... }
else
builtins.storePath ...
2022-03-25 14:04:18 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra
98658ae9d2
Document fetchClosure
2022-03-24 21:33:33 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra
5acaf13d35
Rename 'nix store make-content-addressable' to 'nix store make-content-addressed'
2022-03-24 21:33:33 +01:00
Domen Kožar
98ce1a21b7
Merge pull request #6144 from toonn/doc-macos-uninstall
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doc: Add detailed uninstall section for macOS
2022-03-23 08:53:48 +01:00
Théophane Hufschmitt
7117053457
Merge pull request #6270 from Artturin/stdineval
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nix: allow using --file - to read from stdin
2022-03-17 14:35:01 +01:00
Artturin
a5c969db49
nix: allow using --file - to read from stdin
2022-03-16 21:01:51 +02:00
Joachim Breitner
af013281c9
distributed-builds.md: fixing typo of the most minor sort
2022-03-16 12:53:38 +01:00
pennae
f2603e9c92
Merge branch 'master' into lto
2022-03-10 00:32:34 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
ad7c99ef20
Move rl-next.md to rl-2.7.md
2022-03-07 20:10:18 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra
0123b9aec8
Tweak release notes
2022-03-07 19:56:10 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra
30ddd37873
Merge branch 'cli-suggestions' of https://github.com/thufschmitt/nix
2022-03-07 19:47:45 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra
c28e2b1b29
Tweak release notes
2022-03-07 11:30:40 +01:00
regnat
b44cebd1fd
Add a release-notes entry for the cli suggestions
2022-03-07 10:09:10 +01:00
pennae
2799fe4cdb
enable LTO in optimized builds
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gives 2-5% performance improvement across a board of tests.
LTO is broken when using clang; some libs link fine while others crash
the linker with a segfault in the llvm linker plugin. 🙁
2022-03-03 17:47:49 +01:00
toonn
947d4761b3
doc: Add removal of darwin-store LaunchDaemon
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The uninstall instructions used to accidentally remove the nix-darwin
LaunchDaemon, this was dropped. However, the original intent was to
remove the Store volume mounting LaunchDaemon.
2022-02-26 14:16:35 +01:00
toonn
2df23e2b3e
doc: Drop nix-darwin service from macOS uninstall
2022-02-25 10:50:01 +01:00
toonn
064cad7e9f
doc: Add macOS uninstall note about /nix
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Clarify that `/nix` being present after the uninstall is normal and it
will only disappear after a reboot.
Co-authored-by: Travis A. Everett <travis.a.everett@gmail.com>
2022-02-25 10:32:45 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra
59683733f5
Merge pull request #6089 from edolstra/dot-default
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Replace defaultBla.$system with bla.$system.default
2022-02-24 21:16:58 +01:00
Guillaume Desforges
cfbf9ee2ce
Anchor with prefix
2022-02-24 13:50:50 +01:00
Guillaume Desforges
6462ee61c7
Anchor link for builtin functions in HTML doc
2022-02-23 15:07:01 +01:00
Guillaume Desforges
2cc645a91a
Add html make target
2022-02-23 15:06:13 +01:00
Théophane Hufschmitt
54f07b66c8
Precise the doc for --include-outputs
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Make it explicit that it only includes the existing outputs and not the ones that haven’t been realised
2022-02-23 09:17:08 +01:00
toonn
400d70a3a9
doc: Add detailed uninstall section for macOS
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The multi-user installation on macOS, which is now the only option, has
gotten complicated enough that it discourages some users from checking
Nix out for fear of being left with a "dirty" system. Detailed
uninstallation instructions should make this less of an issue.
2022-02-22 16:28:24 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra
38eea2c503
Update release notes
2022-02-22 14:23:39 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra
26e99c817c
Merge pull request #6114 from Radvendii/welcomeText
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add release notes for welcomeText
2022-02-18 10:52:03 +01:00
Taeer Bar-Yam
219fa2e43d
add release notes for welcomeText
2022-02-17 15:17:20 -05:00
Rahul Butani
d82cf4a016
manual: fix formatting for options with "machine-specific" defaults
2022-02-15 15:44:05 -06:00
tomberek
2bf96bd9f2
Merge branch 'master' into bundler_drv
2022-01-28 10:18:29 -05:00
Eelco Dolstra
35dbdbedd4
nix store ping: Report Nix daemon version
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Fixes #5952 .
2022-01-25 21:15:58 +01:00
Tom Bereknyei
dc85e20684
bundler: notes and doc update to include bundlers repo
2022-01-25 03:48:44 -05:00
Eelco Dolstra
9faad4c5eb
Move rl-next.md to rl-2.5.md
2022-01-25 00:11:00 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra
edf0cde1a7
Merge pull request #5960 from zombiezen/patch-1
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Correct `NIX_BUILD_PATH` default description
2022-01-24 12:46:43 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra
3782017272
Tweak release notes
2022-01-24 12:45:35 +01:00
Ross Light
7477974b93
Correct NIX_BUILD_PATH default description
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Source: 067076287b/src/nix-build/nix-build.cc (L362-L381)
2022-01-21 18:45:19 -08:00
Rok Garbas
d463e11760
Adding docs regarding the docker image from master
2022-01-21 14:50:34 +01:00
lincoln auster [they/them]
7d4f86f032
release-notes: document commit-lockfile-summary option
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This documents 3023c7700.
2022-01-18 16:10:44 -07:00
Eelco Dolstra
4dda1f92aa
Add command 'nix store copy-log'
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Fixes #5222 .
2022-01-18 14:08:49 +01:00
Théophane Hufschmitt
dc4730ee94
Merge pull request #5720 from tomberek/flake_search
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flakes: search up to git or filesystem boundary
2022-01-18 10:59:12 +01:00
tomberek
2dead20924
Apply suggestions from code review
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Co-authored-by: Théophane Hufschmitt <7226587+thufschmitt@users.noreply.github.com>
2022-01-14 09:16:34 -05:00
Eelco Dolstra
5e9653c370
Tweak
2022-01-13 14:33:41 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra
66424cd29f
Merge branch 'patch-1' of https://github.com/TheodorRene/nix
2022-01-13 14:31:49 +01:00
Profpatsch
a51c457204
Release Notes 2.4: add --indirect
no-op change
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Since
00d25e8457
which was first included in nix 2.4.
It is a backwards-compatible change since the flag will just be
ignored.
2022-01-12 23:19:15 +01:00
Theodor René Carlsen
89b4df8d92
Add link to explanation when introducing a new operator
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The logical implication operator is included in this section but never explained. It might stump new readers with a pretty uncommon operator, and it's never referenced explicitly.
2022-01-11 17:01:43 +01:00
pennae
00c993f48b
add zipAttrsWith primop
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nixpkgs can save a good bit of eval memory with this primop. zipAttrsWith is
used quite a bit around nixpkgs (eg in the form of recursiveUpdate), but the
most costly application for this primop is in the module system. it improves
the implementation of zipAttrsWith from nixpkgs by not checking an attribute
multiple times if it occurs more than once in the input list, allocates less
values and set elements, and just avoids many a temporary object in general.
nixpkgs has a more generic version of this operation, zipAttrsWithNames, but
this version is only used once so isn't suitable for being the base of a new
primop. if it were to be used more we should add a second primop instead.
2022-01-03 21:05:53 +01:00
Alexander Bantyev
a26351da02
Add ability to toggle show-trace from within the repl
2021-12-29 02:54:36 +03:00
tomberek
f404189368
Merge branch 'master' into flake_search
2021-12-23 15:22:52 -05:00
Eelco Dolstra
881b610266
Update release notes
2021-12-21 14:19:21 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra
c260640dec
Fix docker instructions
2021-12-16 21:48:38 +01:00
jesse
11ee875a6d
List aarch64 as supported macOS hardware
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Resolves #5767
2021-12-15 10:55:34 -08:00
Théophane Hufschmitt
6234e1c811
Merge pull request #5702 from baloo/baloo/hide-non-reproducible-settings
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reproducibility: hide non-reproducible settings from manual
2021-12-14 09:14:25 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra
18cb094aab
rl-2.5.md: Set date
2021-12-13 19:57:06 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra
f133001dc8
Move rl-next.md to rl-2.5.md
2021-12-13 16:48:44 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra
3f417c8d1c
Add release notes entry for #5149
2021-12-13 16:43:42 +01:00
Janne Heß
4194b68250
doc: Fix command for distributed builds
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We also need to build impurely or the <nixpkgs> lookup will not work.
2021-12-10 12:58:12 +01:00
Amon Stopinšek
0bd93ed747
Fix link to nixos channel
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The old link returned 404 errror.
2021-12-09 16:44:24 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
167e864697
Merge pull request #5730 from abathur/darwin_document_fstab_settings
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document some darwin mount settings
2021-12-07 22:24:40 +01:00
Alexander Bantyev
33926ed1e7
nix repl: add :log
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Add a :log command that shows logs for a derivation.
Closes https://github.com/NixOS/nix/issues/3504
Co-authored-by: Taeer Bar-Yam <taeer@bar-yam.me>
2021-12-06 16:52:50 +03:00
Travis A. Everett
8093456111
document some darwin mount settings
2021-12-04 23:16:42 -06:00
Tom Bereknyei
b6cc0a704d
flakes: search up to git or filesystem boundary
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While parsing a flakeref, upon not finding a flake.nix, search upwards
until git or filesystem boundary.
2021-12-03 10:55:30 -05:00
Eelco Dolstra
2e606e87c4
Merge pull request #5715 from Infinisil/groupBy-primop
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Introduce `builtins.groupBy` primop
2021-12-03 13:21:14 +01:00
David Purdum
69b9198875
Fix docker command
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`docker -ti run nixos` does not run on docker version 20.10.7 (my machine). This fixes it to read `docker run -ti nixos`.
2021-12-02 23:38:33 -05:00
Silvan Mosberger
90700736c7
Introduce builtins.groupBy primop
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This function is very useful in nixpkgs, but its implementation in Nix
itself is rather slow due to it requiring a lot of attribute set and
list appends.
2021-12-02 21:54:51 +01:00
Arthur Gautier
21520297da
reproducibility: hide non-reproducible settings from manual
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Because the manual is generated from default values which are themselves
generated from various sources (cpuid, bios settings (kvm), number of
cores). This commit hides non-reproducible settings from the manual
output.
2021-12-01 17:25:58 +01:00
Eli Flanagan
092c375cda
Update doc/manual/src/glossary.md
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Co-authored-by: Eelco Dolstra <edolstra@gmail.com>
2021-11-30 13:19:42 -05:00
Eli Flanagan
a473e85c80
docs: document set theory symbols
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These symbols confused me so I wanted to gloss them to help future users. You can see the context here: https://discourse.nixos.org/t/flakes-what-does-mean-big-bundle-of-questions
2021-11-30 11:13:46 -05:00
Eelco Dolstra
b96164f4af
Merge remote-tracking branch 'origin/build-with-clang'
2021-11-30 11:50:56 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra
ddf4fb750d
Merge pull request #5678 from t184256/document-libsodium
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Document libsodium, which is now mandatory, as a dependency.
2021-11-29 11:11:10 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra
99804465af
Merge pull request #5679 from t184256/optional-libcpuid
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Document libcpuid dependency and make it optional
2021-11-29 11:10:42 +01:00
Alexander Sosedkin
a9bd06d0ea
Make libcpuid dependency optional with --disable-cpuid
2021-11-28 00:52:35 +01:00
Alexander Sosedkin
b73a1c0638
Document libcpuid dependency
2021-11-28 00:52:35 +01:00
Alexander Sosedkin
33a227503a
Document libsodium, which is now mandatory, as a dependency
2021-11-27 23:11:11 +01:00
Tom Bereknyei
152e3cda0c
reproducibility: determinstic man page output for cores
2021-11-26 10:55:43 -05:00
Pamplemousse
288c252570
Documentation: alternative stdenv
for hacking
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Signed-off-by: Pamplemousse <xav.maso@gmail.com>
2021-11-26 10:04:56 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra
986906e687
Update names
2021-11-25 17:09:11 +01:00
Silvan Mosberger
09471d2680
Make lists be comparable
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Makes lists comparable using lexicographic comparison.
Increments builtins.langVersion in order for this change to be
detectable
2021-11-24 13:40:46 +01:00
Lorenz Leutgeb
e1192116d3
doc: Fix escape for operator "logical or"
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See https://matrix.to/#/!KqkRjyTEzAGRiZFBYT:nixos.org/$hhMb6AdRIXfRkv_LsNsiQJuch7AQ_b6szr4tfawFy-4
2021-11-18 15:08:01 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra
e88fb63e28
Merge pull request #5585 from jtojnar/env-a
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doc: De-emphasize nix-env without -A
2021-11-18 14:34:45 +01:00
Jan Tojnar
ca4d8ce9e2
doc: De-emphasize nix-env without -A
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The manual uses `nix-env -i` without `-A` prominently, teaching a bad practice to newcomers.
2021-11-17 17:04:25 +01:00
Jan Tojnar
e96faadcd6
Fix XDG_CONFIG_DIRS fallback
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According to XDG Base Directory Specification,
it should fall back to /etc/xdg when the env var is not present.
2021-11-17 14:31:15 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra
51ffc19f02
Merge branch 'add-docker-image-to-hydra-jobs' of https://github.com/garbas/nix
2021-11-16 13:00:54 +01:00
Kevin Amado
eae54f2d52
fix many doc typos
2021-11-13 22:28:20 -05:00
Rok Garbas
a118a70649
Documenting how to use/build Nix' Docker image
2021-11-11 16:07:01 +01:00
Théo Zimmermann
d589782fb0
Fix some typos in CLI guideline.
2021-11-08 08:24:15 +01:00
Jan Tojnar
e5d4c2235f
docs: Correct fallback user config path
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This is in line with XDG Base Directory Specification, where ~/.config is supposed to be used when XDG_CONFIG_HOME is unset.
It also better matches the reality, where ~/.config/nix.conf does not seem to be used.
2021-11-04 11:41:29 +01:00
Dimitris Apostolou
c34cc5e488
Fix typos
2021-11-03 18:11:20 +02:00
Simon Legner
1968760f4a
command-ref/nix-shell: fix --pure, --keep
2021-11-02 22:00:08 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra
b61b307bad
Remove references to building from the source tarball
2021-11-02 15:29:47 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra
6a93e186f4
Fix 2.4 migration examples
2021-11-01 22:44:07 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra
bc4b7521f4
Rename rl-2.5.md to rl-next.md
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Having a generically named file for release notes for the next release
makes things easier for PRs.
2021-10-28 14:36:47 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra
9c6ac9eb0e
2.4 release notes: Add some migration notes
2021-10-27 17:33:32 +02:00
Domen Kožar
51c812d6bb
Merge pull request #5365 from arafangion/master
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Clarify that not all nix packages will use the default build phases
2021-10-17 20:54:00 -05:00
John Chapman
ffeec5f283
Clarify that not all nix packages will use the default build phases
2021-10-17 15:24:22 +11:00
Eelco Dolstra
4c0cde95ad
Update release notes
2021-10-13 11:39:54 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra
2f3c79c241
Mention compression-level in the release notes
2021-10-13 11:11:26 +02:00
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
Eelco Dolstra
8a97b11374
Improve margins between sections
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The default CSS puts almost no space between sections, but a lot of
space between subsections. This flips that around.
2020-08-19 12:31:18 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra
069340179e
Improve nix.1 manpage generator
2020-08-18 15:15:35 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra
6f19c776db
Start generation of the nix.1 manpage
2020-08-17 19:33:18 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra
7cdc739ece
Merge remote-tracking branch 'origin/master' into markdown
2020-08-17 13:43:39 +02:00
Matthew Bauer
641c950701
Add hashed-mirrors back
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Some users have their own hashed-mirrors setup, that is used to mirror
things in addition to what’s available on tarballs.nixos.org. Although
this should be feasable to do with a Binary Cache, it’s not always
easy, since you have to remember what "name" each of the tarballs has.
Continuing to support hashed-mirrors is cheap, so it’s best to leave
support in Nix. Note that NIX_HASHED_MIRRORS is also supported in
Nixpkgs through fetchurl.nix.
Note that this excludes tarballs.nixos.org from the default, as in
\#3689. All of these are available on cache.nixos.org.
2020-08-06 18:19:09 -05:00
Eelco Dolstra
bf290c2306
Merge remote-tracking branch 'origin/master' into markdown
2020-07-31 16:07:04 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra
2ae9ac2369
console -> shell
2020-07-31 16:02:37 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra
1d0a7b54fa
Enable syntax highlighting
2020-07-31 15:43:25 +02:00
Matthew Bauer
05ac4db39a
Merge remote-tracking branch 'origin/master' into substitute-other-storedir
2020-07-30 12:38:24 -05:00
Maximilian Bosch
6ccfdb79c7
libutil/logging: extend internal-json
logger to make it more machine-readable
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The new error-format is pretty nice from a UX point-of-view, however
it's fairly hard to parse the output e.g. for editor plugins such as
vim-ale[1] that use `nix-instantiate --parse` to determine syntax errors in
Nix expression files.
This patch extends the `internal-json` logger by adding the fields
`line`, `column` and `file` to easily locate an error in a file and the
field `raw_msg` which contains the error-message itself without
code-lines and additional helpers.
An exemplary output may look like this:
```
[nix-shell]$ ./inst/bin/nix-instantiate ~/test.nix --log-format minimal
{"action":"msg","column":1,"file":"/home/ma27/test.nix","level":0,"line":4,"raw_msg":"syntax error, unexpected IF, expecting $end","msg":"<full error-msg with code-lines etc>"}
```
[1] https://github.com/dense-analysis/ale
2020-07-26 02:29:57 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra
1308c8404e
Remove DocBook manual
2020-07-24 15:48:40 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra
05a282295f
Fix internal links
2020-07-24 15:46:16 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra
da3d776cb9
Fix some dangling references
2020-07-24 14:31:33 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra
4a79b3598f
Fix nix-copy-closure manpage
2020-07-24 13:01:00 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra
7a0e6f076a
Move figures
2020-07-24 12:58:31 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra
758c9ee1bb
Clean up the manpages
2020-07-24 12:56:19 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra
8d0b311a1c
Get rid of footnotes
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Markdown doesn't support them.
2020-07-24 11:43:44 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra
69333cb62c
Sigh
2020-07-23 18:27:20 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra
802150f987
<replaceable> -> <emphasis>
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Pandoc doesn't know <replaceable> so let's force it to be rendered as
italics.
2020-07-23 18:27:20 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra
ee05108472
<simplesect> -> <section>
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Pandoc silently ignores <simplesect>...
2020-07-23 18:27:20 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra
136fd55bb2
Get rid of <figure>
2020-07-23 18:27:20 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra
ca130b73a0
Get rid of <example>
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Markdown doesn't have floats so we can't have this.
2020-07-23 18:27:20 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra
13df1faf25
Get rid of callouts since Markdown doesn't support them
2020-07-23 18:27:20 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra
efff6cf163
Install all manpages
2020-07-23 18:27:12 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra
504b7abc45
Convert commands
2020-07-23 18:27:12 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra
efdb89994c
Convert nix.conf manpage
2020-07-23 18:27:11 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra
f390303566
Reconvert
2020-07-23 18:27:11 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra
c20c082383
<envar> -> <literal>
2020-07-23 18:27:11 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra
942cd687f9
Remove libxml2 / libxslt prerequisites
2020-07-23 18:26:48 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra
ef606760ab
Pandoc conversion
2020-07-23 18:26:48 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra
d004715665
Fix link
2020-07-23 18:26:48 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra
315407c16f
Remove subtitles
2020-07-23 18:26:48 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra
ebdc1f6dfb
Typo
2020-07-23 18:26:48 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra
8e41c38867
Remove references to xmllint
2020-07-23 18:26:48 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra
e0ea3c82ca
Use mdbook
2020-07-23 18:26:48 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra
650ae14ced
Markdown test
2020-07-23 18:26:48 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra
26fcab53e0
Remove unused file
2020-07-23 18:25:09 +02:00
Jörg Thalheim
6633605341
Update doc/manual/hacking.xml
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Co-authored-by: Eelco Dolstra <edolstra@gmail.com>
2020-07-20 22:30:39 +01:00
Jörg Thalheim
f0100f5590
README: improve development docs
2020-07-20 15:46:28 +01:00
Matthew Bauer
bcf8582091
Merge remote-tracking branch 'origin/master' into substitute-other-storedir
2020-06-24 12:52:09 -04:00
Jörg Thalheim
3685f4eec6
docs/installer: add correct curl flags
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also see https://nixos.org/download.html
2020-06-23 23:04:10 +01:00
Matthew Bauer
2796b01e86
Merge remote-tracking branch 'origin/master' into substitute-other-storedir
2020-06-19 14:22:06 -04:00
Eelco Dolstra
6c000eed80
Merge pull request #3709 from expipiplus1/master
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Mention number of derivations to be build/fetched in output
2020-06-18 19:03:05 +02:00
Samir Talwar
9069759767
Instruct the user to follow redirects when installing Nix.
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Nix installation now requires following redirects using `curl -L`. This
is currently represented on the [Nix download page][] but not in the
manual. This change updates the manual to reflect this.
Using `curl` without the `-L` flag results in an empty body, making
installation a no-op.
[Nix download page]: https://nixos.org/download.html
2020-06-18 10:29:24 +02:00
Matthew Bauer
7bd88cc1dc
Merge remote-tracking branch 'origin/master' into substitute-other-storedir
2020-06-17 13:32:29 -04:00
Joe Hermaszewski
da8aac6ce8
Mention number of derivations to be build/fetched in output
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Also correct grammar for the case of a single derivation.
2020-06-17 20:27:27 +08:00
Matthew Bauer
3e3eaa90dd
Remove hashed-mirrors
2020-06-12 09:51:44 -05:00
zimbatm
2c4de6af10
add documentation
2020-06-08 09:31:15 +02:00
Joachim Breitner
e2af11ce07
Manpages: Do not refer to nixpkgs-channels
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Unless I am misinformed, using the `nixpkgs` repository directly is now
preferred?
2020-05-23 15:26:59 +02:00
Domen Kožar
c129e7c8f4
Merge pull request #3212 from LnL7/darwin-10.15-install
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install: configure and bootstrap synthetic.conf on darwin
2020-05-23 11:15:31 +02:00
Travis A. Everett
2b0a81d92d
focus on golden-path covering most scenarios
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This should handle installation scenarios we can handle with
anything resembling confidence. Goal is approximating the existing
setup--not enforcing a best-practice...
Approaches (+ installer-handled, - manual) and configs each covers:
+ no change needed; /nix OK on boot volume:
All pre-Catalina (regardless of T2 or FileVault use)
+ create new unencrypted volume:
Catalina, pre-T2, no FileVault
+ create new encrypted-at-rest volume:
Catalina, pre-T2, FileVault
Catalina, T2, no FileVault
- require user to pre-create encrypted volume
Catalina, T2, FileVault
2020-05-21 19:58:11 +02:00
Daiderd Jordan
477d7c2d07
installer: refuse apfs volume creation when FileVault is enabled
2020-05-21 19:58:11 +02:00
Daiderd Jordan
3386575296
manual: clarify volume creation section
2020-05-21 19:58:11 +02:00
Daiderd Jordan
04f597c3f4
install: improve output and error handling
2020-05-21 19:58:11 +02:00
Daiderd Jordan
ee89b7797d
manual: add apfs volume section
2020-05-21 19:58:11 +02:00
Krzysztof Gogolewski
c8cb558849
documentation: avoid unquoted URLs
2020-05-21 19:29:13 +02:00
Jörg Thalheim
e223eeac09
Remove -j option from simple-build-testing
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By default Nix/NixOS already set a reasonable default `max-jobs = auto`
so we don't need to mention it in this tutorial.
The option is still documented in other parts of the documentation
if users ever stumble over this.
Fixes https://github.com/NixOS/nix/issues/2531
2020-05-16 08:45:19 +01:00
Domen Kožar
23e5b48ca4
Merge pull request #3581 from TerrorJack/patch-1
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Update "Upgrading Nix" documentation
2020-05-11 18:12:35 +02:00
Domen Kožar
612d57c5de
Merge pull request #3582 from bhipple/doc/fixed-output
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doc: consistently refer to 'fixed-output' with a dash
2020-05-11 18:10:19 +02:00
Benjamin Hipple
146f9c114f
doc: consistently refer to 'fixed-output' with a dash
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General cleanup that makes it easier to search for the term.
2020-05-09 10:58:43 -04:00
Shao Cheng
446649e540
Update "Upgrading Nix" documentation
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This PR proposes two changes to the "Upgrading Nix" documentation:
* Besides updating `nixpkgs.nix`, we also update `nixpkgs.cacert`, so that the certificates are up-to-date as well.
* Add the instructions for multi-user mode on Linux.
2020-05-09 15:59:39 +02:00
Dani
52cffafd24
Fix typo
2020-05-09 13:48:31 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra
41caaaad36
Manual: Typo
2020-05-07 16:37:33 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra
479e8bf00b
Manual: Fix typo
2020-05-07 16:08:15 +02:00
zimbatm
895516cadf
add NIX_USER_CONF_FILES
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Motivation: maintain project-level configuration files.
Document the whole situation a bit better so that it corresponds to the
implementation, and add NIX_USER_CONF_FILES that allows overriding
which user files Nix will load during startup.
2020-04-14 18:45:06 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra
55cefd41d6
Merge branch 'fetchgit-recursive' of https://github.com/blitz/nix
2020-04-07 13:45:17 +02:00
Julian Stecklina
ea861be292
Add documentation for submodule support in fetchGit
2020-03-29 22:29:57 +02:00
Greg Price
e40e01c1dd
doc: Files in the store have modes 444/555, not 644/755
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This line has been this way since it was written, in 9e08f5efe
in 2006.
I think it was just a small mistake then; Eelco's thesis earlier
that year says the permission on each file is set to 0444 or 0555
in a derivation's output as part of the build process. In any
case I'm pretty sure that's the behavior now.
2020-03-23 20:23:27 -07:00
jakobrs
c5a488afc0
Remove the --delete option for --gc
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Running `nix-store --gc --delete` will, as of Nix 2.3.3, simply fail
because the --delete option conflicts with the --delete operation.
$ nix-store --gc --delete
error: only one operation may be specified
Try 'nix-store --help' for more information.
Furthermore, it has been broken since at least Nix 0.16 (which was
released sometime in 2010), which means that any scripts which depend
on it should have been broken at least nine years ago. This commit
simply formally removes the option. There should be no actual difference
in behaviour as far as the user is concerned: it errors with the exact
same error message. The manual has been edited to remove any references
to the (now gone) --delete option.
Other information:
* Path for Nix 0.16 used:
/nix/store/rp3sgmskn0p0pj1ia2qwd5al6f6pinz4-nix-0.16
2020-03-19 19:41:23 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra
779ef8f5ef
Merge pull request #3380 from contrun/no-attr-path-for-installed
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display attr-path only when queried available
2020-03-13 19:26:20 +01:00
YI
b6d794fb8d
display attr-path only when queried available
2020-03-14 00:36:26 +08:00
Eelco Dolstra
858ad7a4b3
Remove callout graphics
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Fixes #3396 .
2020-03-13 16:32:43 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra
9c7e90f414
style.css: Remove
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This file is licensed under the GPL. Originally, Nix was also
GPL-licensed so that was fine. However, we later changed the license
to the LGPL but missed the fact that style.css has an incompatible
license.
Since the Nix manual at nixos.org uses its own styling, we can remove
this file.
Fixes #3392 .
2020-03-13 15:02:32 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra
e063c71a79
nixos.org/releases -> releases.nixos.org
2020-03-11 10:33:23 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra
2ba67da053
Merge pull request #3332 from Calvin-L/patch-1
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Document that autoconf is a dependency
2020-02-19 13:02:35 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra
16e9a75287
Typo
2020-02-19 12:32:33 +01:00
Benjamin Hipple
762febafe2
doc: mention how to turn on pure evaluation mode in manual
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The flag is `--pure-eval`, which can be found by looking at the test suite; it
should be in the notes describing the feature as well, since otherwise users may
assume this is referencing something like `nix-shell --pure`.
2020-02-15 01:44:51 -05:00
Calvin Loncaric
46992e71a1
Document that autoconf is a dependency
2020-01-26 17:22:47 -08:00
Benjamin Hipple
5d24e18e29
doc: touchup release notes for 2.3
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- At the top of the release notes, we announce sandboxing is now enabled by default,
then at the bottom it says it's now disabled when missing kernel support. These
can be merged into one point for clarity.
- The point about `max-jobs` defaulting to 1 appears unrelated to sandboxing.
2020-01-14 00:14:03 -05:00
Joe Pea
3895e78794
Add link to official channels in nix-channel command ref
2020-01-09 14:20:08 -08:00
Joe Pea
7ccfa7ca4f
Add a link to official channels in the Channels chapter.
2020-01-09 14:15:19 -08:00
Profpatsch
7923e22276
doc/manual: add ids to the advanced attribute definitions
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This makes it possible to reference single attribute definitions,
for pointing people to their exact definition.
2019-12-03 18:22:27 +01:00
Profpatsch
7395e091c5
doc/manual: add note to allowSubstitutes
advanced attribute
2019-12-03 18:01:45 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra
0be8d7784f
Typo
2019-11-26 20:33:46 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra
73efc1e8e7
Merge branch 'document-dry-run-option' of https://github.com/Ma27/nix
2019-11-26 20:32:50 +01:00
Arnout Engelen
4e70652ee3
Document builtins.placeholder
2019-11-25 18:00:05 +01:00
Niklas Hambüchen
07294e988c
manual: nix-shell: Elaborate on using -p
with expressions.
...
This documents the outcome of the change in
https://github.com/NixOS/nix/issues/454 :
> We can also automatically add parentheses in the generated
> `buildInputs`, so you can type `nix-shell -p "expr"`
> instead of `"(expr").
2019-11-10 17:29:13 +01:00
Maximilian Bosch
52ffe2797a
doc: Document --dry-run
option for nix-build
2019-11-07 00:11:57 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra
81a9b93689
Fix manual build
2019-11-05 11:21:32 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra
7876027071
Merge pull request #3193 from matthewbauer/patch-11
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Update man to show that nix-shell allows --arg
2019-11-05 11:18:24 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra
78b8203e50
Merge pull request #3180 from kevinastock/patch-1
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docs: fix upper bound on number of consumed cores
2019-11-05 11:17:02 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra
376802c9b8
Merge pull request #3199 from kevinastock/patch-2
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docs: xref doesn't render in title
2019-11-05 11:16:15 +01:00
Kevin Stock
cea05e5ee7
docs: correct default location of log directory
2019-11-04 16:23:03 -05:00
Kevin Stock
808cb6444e
docs: xref doesn't render in title
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The `post-build-hook` text currently appears in the index, but not on the actual title line of the section, this follows the pattern used in a previous section to get a reference into a title.
2019-11-02 17:55:53 -04:00
Matthew Bauer
f1d4ba2afd
Update man to show that nix-shell allows --arg
2019-11-01 13:25:15 -04:00
Kevin Stock
99aac72a16
docs: fix upper bound on number of consumed cores
2019-10-30 16:53:04 -04:00
Eelco Dolstra
b421895c1e
Merge pull request #3161 from schlarpc/patch-1
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Remove superfluous IAM action for S3 cache
2019-10-23 16:34:54 +02:00
Chaz Schlarp
c92ea927e5
Remove superfluous IAM action for S3 cache
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`s3:ListObjects` isn't a real IAM action, but _is_ the name of an S3 API method. `s3:ListBucket` is the relevant action for that method.
https://docs.aws.amazon.com/IAM/latest/UserGuide/list_amazons3.html
2019-10-22 16:04:49 -07:00
Ersin Akinci
f107a27002
Tweak path hint
2019-10-21 14:16:55 -07:00
Ersin Akinci
b7a936224e
Add hint about path in builtins.import
2019-10-21 14:11:26 -07:00
Ersin Akinci
9be7787ec0
Revert "Document import <path> syntax"
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This reverts commit d8730fb86f
.
2019-10-21 13:12:41 -07:00
Ersin Akinci
d8730fb86f
Document import <path> syntax
2019-10-20 19:08:05 -07:00
Eelco Dolstra
ab4dd1d783
Merge pull request #2291 from Taneb/master
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nix-channel documentation: don't suggest deprecated function
2019-10-17 12:53:42 +02:00
Danny Bautista
00a567588e
Fix typos in the Nix Manual.
2019-10-08 14:02:40 -04:00
Domen Kožar
043365c2fb
Merge pull request #3080 from Infinisil/tryEval-docs
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docs: Note that tryEval doesn't do deep evaluation
2019-09-30 14:03:16 +02:00
Joseph Lucas
10bfc5c0d0
Update garbage-collection.xml readability
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1. remove a typo space
2. Simplify negative style by using affirmative style
2019-09-23 13:18:59 +00:00
Alexandre Esteves
9533d85ce0
Move 'builtins.splitVersion' to position respecting alphabetical order
2019-09-17 23:40:49 +01:00
Julien Tanguy
ae244af242
docs: Use the explicit ref for fetchGit with a tag
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With the merge of #2582 , the syntax "tags/1.9" for refs does not work
anymore.
However, the new syntax "refs/tags/1.9" seems to support annotated tags,
such as "refs/tags/2.0".
Closes #2385 .
2019-09-11 14:18:47 +02:00
Julien Tanguy
92ede15dd9
docs: Fix a typo in github in an example
2019-09-11 14:11:37 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra
252c78b288
Tweak release notes
2019-09-04 15:59:07 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra
b774845af7
Set release date
2019-09-04 12:53:22 +02:00
Silvan Mosberger
e4ea3e0306
docs: Note that tryEval doesn't do deep evaluation
2019-09-03 07:32:44 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra
8478c99d09
Merge pull request #3048 from toonn/nix-env_doc
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Fix nix-env documentation for --delete-generations
2019-08-29 15:22:01 +02:00
toonn
5bdac86be2
Reword to clarify newer generations are left alone
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My attempt at clarifying the docs resulted in a false explanation. This
is now fixed and I added an example to eliminate all possible confusion.
2019-08-29 13:56:21 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra
787015fec0
Merge branch 'master' of github.com:NixOS/nix
2019-08-27 21:18:20 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra
fdff96501f
Update release notes
2019-08-27 21:18:00 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra
177e5742fa
Merge pull request #3056 from grahamc/operators
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operators: document exact precedence, split up similar operators
2019-08-27 17:12:36 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra
45b3dc325a
Add 2.3 release notes
2019-08-27 17:00:04 +02:00
Graham Christensen
171d784404
docs: operators: Make OR and AND capitalized
2019-08-27 06:55:22 -04:00
Graham Christensen
15ee2bc2fe
Merge pull request #2946 from vmandela/proxy
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installer: handle network proxy in systemd multi-user install
2019-08-24 14:55:19 -04:00
Graham Christensen
057af1dbd8
docs: document the installer's use of proxy env vars
2019-08-24 09:08:44 -04:00
Graham Christensen
92ddce4f46
operators: document exact precedenc, split up similar operators
2019-08-23 15:50:54 -04:00
Toon Nolten
1dbaf11948
Fix nix-env documentation for --delete-generations
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The documentation for `--delete-generations` had an erroneous fullstop
and as it turns out inaccurate information on the `+No.` syntax.
2019-08-17 16:33:35 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra
b7ea98bf34
Merge pull request #2945 from danidiaz/doc001
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Expanded documentation for .nix-defexpr
2019-08-15 15:03:21 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra
477f82e5a7
Merge pull request #2782 from grahamc/flames
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Track function start and end
2019-08-15 14:20:42 +02:00
Daniel Diaz
653c407784
Expanded documentation for .nix-defexpr
2019-08-15 08:05:22 -04:00
Graham Christensen
ee9c988a1b
Track function start and ends for flame graphs
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With this patch, and this file I called `log.py`:
#!/usr/bin/env nix-shell
#!nix-shell -i python3 -p python3 --pure
import sys
from pprint import pprint
stack = []
timestack = []
for line in open(sys.argv[1]):
components = line.strip().split(" ", 2)
if components[0] != "function-trace":
continue
direction = components[1]
components = components[2].rsplit(" ", 2)
loc = components[0]
_at = components[1]
time = int(components[2])
if direction == "entered":
stack.append(loc)
timestack.append(time)
elif direction == "exited":
dur = time - timestack.pop()
vst = ";".join(stack)
print(f"{vst} {dur}")
stack.pop()
and:
nix-instantiate --trace-function-calls -vvvv ../nixpkgs/pkgs/top-level/release.nix -A unstable > log.matthewbauer 2>&1
./log.py ./log.matthewbauer > log.matthewbauer.folded
flamegraph.pl --title matthewbauer-post-pr log.matthewbauer.folded > log.matthewbauer.folded.svg
I can make flame graphs like: http://gsc.io/log.matthewbauer.folded.svg
---
Includes test cases around function call failures and tryEval. Uses
RAII so the finish is always called at the end of the function.
2019-08-14 16:09:35 -04:00
Graham Christensen
a02457db71
conf: stalled-download-timeout: make tunable
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Make curl's low speed limit configurable via stalled-download-timeout.
Before, this limit was five minutes without receiving a single byte.
This is much too long as if the remote end may not have even
acknowledged the HTTP request.
2019-08-08 10:22:13 -04:00
Graham Christensen
1eeaf99cf8
fixup: docs for post-build-hook
2019-08-07 14:53:11 -04:00
Eelco Dolstra
56df30cd3f
Merge pull request #2995 from tweag/post-build-hook
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Add a post build hook
2019-08-07 15:02:29 +02:00
Graham Christensen
363a2f6826
post-build-hook: docs fixup
2019-08-06 14:26:43 -04:00
regnat
7c5596734f
Add a post-build-hook
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Passing `--post-build-hook /foo/bar` to a nix-* command will cause
`/foo/bar` to be executed after each build with the following
environment variables set:
DRV_PATH=/nix/store/drv-that-has-been-built.drv
OUT_PATHS=/nix/store/...build /nix/store/...build-bin /nix/store/...build-dev
This can be useful in particular to upload all the builded artifacts to
the cache (including the ones that don't appear in the runtime closure
of the final derivation or are built because of IFD).
This new feature prints the stderr/stdout output to the `nix-build`
and `nix build` client, and the output is printed in a Nix 2
compatible format:
[nix]$ ./inst/bin/nix-build ./test.nix
these derivations will be built:
/nix/store/ishzj9ni17xq4hgrjvlyjkfvm00b0ch9-my-example-derivation.drv
building '/nix/store/ishzj9ni17xq4hgrjvlyjkfvm00b0ch9-my-example-derivation.drv'...
hello!
bye!
running post-build-hook '/home/grahamc/projects/github.com/NixOS/nix/post-hook.sh'...
post-build-hook: + sleep 1
post-build-hook: + echo 'Signing paths' /nix/store/qr213vjmibrqwnyp5fw678y7whbkqyny-my-example-derivation
post-build-hook: Signing paths /nix/store/qr213vjmibrqwnyp5fw678y7whbkqyny-my-example-derivation
post-build-hook: + sleep 1
post-build-hook: + echo 'Uploading paths' /nix/store/qr213vjmibrqwnyp5fw678y7whbkqyny-my-example-derivation
post-build-hook: Uploading paths /nix/store/qr213vjmibrqwnyp5fw678y7whbkqyny-my-example-derivation
post-build-hook: + sleep 1
post-build-hook: + printf 'very important stuff'
/nix/store/qr213vjmibrqwnyp5fw678y7whbkqyny-my-example-derivation
[nix-shell:~/projects/github.com/NixOS/nix]$ ./inst/bin/nix build -L -f ./test.nix
my-example-derivation> hello!
my-example-derivation> bye!
my-example-derivation (post)> + sleep 1
my-example-derivation (post)> + echo 'Signing paths' /nix/store/c263gzj2kb2609mz8wrbmh53l14wzmfs-my-example-derivation
my-example-derivation (post)> Signing paths /nix/store/c263gzj2kb2609mz8wrbmh53l14wzmfs-my-example-derivation
my-example-derivation (post)> + sleep 1
my-example-derivation (post)> + echo 'Uploading paths' /nix/store/c263gzj2kb2609mz8wrbmh53l14wzmfs-my-example-derivation
my-example-derivation (post)> Uploading paths /nix/store/c263gzj2kb2609mz8wrbmh53l14wzmfs-my-example-derivation
my-example-derivation (post)> + sleep 1
my-example-derivation (post)> + printf 'very important stuff'
[1 built, 0.0 MiB DL]
Co-authored-by: Graham Christensen <graham@grahamc.com>
Co-authored-by: Eelco Dolstra <edolstra@gmail.com>
2019-08-02 10:48:15 -04:00
Eelco Dolstra
320126aeeb
Tweak min-free/max-free descriptions
2019-08-02 14:04:09 +02:00
Graham Christensen
cf6172f05e
docs: document balancing cores and max-jobs
2019-07-19 08:28:44 -04:00
Eelco Dolstra
b5ae85f088
Merge pull request #2882 from grahamc/docs/1115-tarball-ttl
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tarball-ttl: document
2019-07-06 00:15:27 +02:00
Graham Christensen
648bdf153d
tarball-ttl: document
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Incorporates text from Niklas Hambüchen in #2978
Closes #1115
2019-07-05 15:55:28 -04:00
Eelco Dolstra
7d6ba1dc90
Merge branch 'autoconf-ubuntu-16.04-fixes' of https://github.com/nh2/nix
2019-07-03 08:02:45 +02:00
Niklas Hambüchen
57daa860e8
autoconf: Fix C++17 detection not working on Ubuntu 16.04.
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And probably many other distributions.
Until now, ./configure would fail silently printing a warning
./configure: line 4621: AX_CXX_COMPILE_STDCXX_17: command not found
and then continuing, later failing with a C++ #error saying that some C++11
feature isn't supported (it didn't even get to the C++17 features).
This is because older distributions don't come with the
`AX_CXX_COMPILE_STDCXX_17` m4 macro.
This commit vendors that macro accordingly.
Now ./configure complains correctly:
configure: error: *** A compiler with support for C++17 language features is required.
On Ubuntu 16.04, ./configure completes if a newer compiler is used, e.g. with
gcc-7 from https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-toolchain-r/+archive/ubuntu/test
using:
./bootstrap.sh
./configure CXX=g++-7 --disable-doc-gen --with-boost=$(nix-build --no-link '<nixpkgs>' -A boost.dev)
2019-07-03 04:32:25 +02:00
Niklas Hambüchen
1f97b16b1d
autoconf: Work around editline not being found on Ubuntu 16.04.
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And probably other Linux distributions with long-term support releases.
Also update manual stating what version is needed;
I checked that 1.14 is the oldest version with which current nix compiles,
and added autoconf feature checks for some functions added in that release
that nix uses.
2019-07-03 04:32:25 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra
7e1c85c5fb
Merge pull request #2779 from LnL7/build-exit-codes
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build: add exit code for hash and check mismatches
2019-07-02 17:37:49 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra
7c0b0dbec8
Merge pull request #2724 from LnL7/manpage-add-fixed
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nix-store: document --add-fixed
2019-07-02 15:47:40 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra
33db1d35ae
Merge pull request #2582 from LnL7/fetchgit-refs
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fetchGit: allow fetching explicit refs
2019-07-02 15:44:31 +02:00
Daiderd Jordan
a3c77c1536
nix-store: document --add-fixed
2019-07-02 09:12:02 -04:00
Graham Christensen
c8205a3413
builtins.fetchGit: document absolute ref support
2019-07-02 09:05:56 -04:00
Daiderd Jordan
a52c331edb
build: replace 100 offset for build exit codes
2019-07-02 00:12:38 +02:00
Daiderd Jordan
1ac399dd11
nix-store: document exit codes
2019-07-02 00:12:38 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra
88571219d9
nix-channel: Don't fetch binary-cache-url
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This has been ignored since the Perl->C++ rewrite.
2019-06-25 13:27:16 +02:00
Bruno Bieth
74a65d313f
Nix uses the CPP SDK, not Java
2019-06-20 14:47:45 +02:00
JorisE
4b0d613383
Minor typo
2019-06-04 14:12:03 +02:00
Maximilian Bosch
b502b6682b
doc: clarify that optional attrs in a function argument will be ignored unless specified
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In `args@{ a ? 1 }: /* ... */` the value `a` won't be a part of `args`
unless it's specified when calling the function, the default value will
be ignored in this case.
My personal point of view is that this behavior is a matter of taste, at
least I was pretty sure that unmatched arguments will be a part of
`args@` while debugging some Nix code last week.
I decided to add a warning to the docs which hopefully reduces the
confusion of further Nix developers who thought the same about `args@`.
2019-05-21 18:08:26 +02:00
Vladimír Čunát
c0559a1d60
docs: describe $IN_NIX_SHELL values ( #2796 )
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See commit 1bffd83e1a
2019-05-17 09:50:42 +02:00
Graham Christensen
a5efe61786
Clarify where output from the diff hook goes.
2019-05-12 13:23:30 -04:00
Graham Christensen
6df61db060
diff hook: execute as the build user, and pass the temp dir
2019-05-12 13:17:26 -04:00
Graham Christensen
c78686e411
build: run diff-hook under --check and document diff-hook
2019-05-12 13:17:24 -04:00
Eelco Dolstra
71eb76a0d4
Merge pull request #2765 from nh2/manual-nixpkgs-word
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manual: "Nix Package collection" -> "Nixpkgs package collection".
2019-05-08 10:19:59 +02:00
Daniel Schaefer
3f192ac80c
Add builtins.hashFile
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For text files it is possible to do it like so:
`builtins.hashString "sha256" (builtins.readFile /tmp/a)`
but that doesn't work for binary files.
With builtins.hashFile any kind of file can be conveniently hashed.
2019-05-03 17:23:36 +02:00
Niklas Hambüchen
288f93cec0
manual: "Nix Package collection" -> "Nixpkgs package collection".
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Makes difference between Nix and Nixpkgs clearer to avoid
some common confusion this sentence on IRC.
Also disambiguate an "it" reference.
2019-04-14 03:20:57 +02:00
Niklas Hambüchen
caa76c369a
docs: Mention --max-jobs 0
to build remotely only
2019-03-31 03:57:45 +02:00
Dmitry Kalinkin
75ec68f93a
manual: mention the "channel:" shorthand for NIX_PATH
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Bumped to 15.09 because older channels, when downloaded from
nixos.org, require firefox to be accessed via `pkgs.firefox`
2019-03-25 20:55:28 -04:00
zimbatm
514b3c7f83
Add isPath primop
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this is added for completeness' sake since all the other possible
`builtins.typeOf` results have a corresponding `builtins.is<Type>`
2019-03-24 11:36:49 +01:00
Linus Heckemann
6f093073b6
manual: include builtins.* for globally available builtins
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This improves searchability.
2019-03-21 09:37:22 +01:00
Joachim Breitner
684c7fff80
Link to builders-use-substitutes
in chapter on distributed builds
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fixes #2730 .
2019-03-16 19:03:40 +01:00
Andreas Rammhold
34fade478a
docs: fix typo in AllowDirectReads
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It was just missing an `l` but should be fixed anyway.
2019-03-14 23:51:18 +01:00
Vladimír Čunát
4cfc131ec4
manual nitpick: document sha512 support in hashString
2019-03-01 14:30:30 +01:00
Spencer Baugh
5f1891b795
nix-store: make --dump-db take a list of paths to dump
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Inside a derivation, exportReferencesGraph already provides a way to
dump the Nix database for a specific closure. On the command line,
--dump-db gave us the same information, but only for the entire Nix
database at once.
With this change, one can now pass a list of paths to --dump-db to get
the Nix database dumped for just those paths. (The user is responsible
for ensuring this is a closure, like for --export).
Among other things, this is useful for deploying a closure to a new
host without using --import/--export; one can use tar to transfer the
store paths, and --dump-db/--load-db to transfer the validity
information. This is useful if the new host doesn't actually have Nix
yet, and the closure that is being deployed itself contains Nix.
2019-01-23 01:24:34 +00:00
Domen Kožar
92d08c02c8
Merge pull request #2635 from veprbl/patch-7
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manual: "sandbox" option default is "true" on Linux
2019-01-20 09:43:26 +07:00
Dmitry Kalinkin
15efd54373
manual: "sandbox" option default is "true" on Linux
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Fixes: 812e39313c
('Enable sandboxing by default')
2019-01-19 15:04:43 -05:00
Samuel Evans-Powell
2ae5624b2f
Update instructions for Haskell script using nix-shell interpreter
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- The instructions for using nix-shell as an interpreter has a Haskell script
example that doesn't work on more recent versions of Nix. Update the
instructions with a working command
2019-01-18 10:50:54 +10:00
Eelco Dolstra
bbaf865655
Add 2.2 release notes
2019-01-10 21:02:09 +01:00
John Ericson
2733287046
Don't look for a "pv" program, or mention it in the manual source
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The manual reference was commented out, and the sole reference to this
program other than the configure script. Removed both.
2019-01-07 16:40:19 -05:00
Patrick Hilhorst
567941fb59
Clarify nix-instantiate --read-write-mode
2018-12-14 09:36:40 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra
c37e6d77ea
Merge pull request #2569 from veprbl/pr/update_prerequisites
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docs: add missing prerequisites: brotli, boost, libseccomp
2018-12-13 10:42:02 +01:00
Dmitry Kalinkin
0cc4728f71
docs: raise minimal boost version to 1.66
2018-12-13 01:50:39 -05:00
Dmitry Kalinkin
419949bf61
docs: add missing prerequisites: brotli, boost, libseccomp
2018-12-10 12:37:15 -05:00
Daiderd Jordan
77cc632186
s3: document scheme query parameter
2018-12-08 00:15:00 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra
6c6bbeb439
Merge branch 'feature/editline-pr' of https://github.com/dtzWill/nix
2018-11-13 20:42:13 +01:00
Felix C. Stegerman
fb2c21f71c
manual: quote $servlets
2018-11-13 01:18:26 +01:00
Felix C. Stegerman
18215be59d
fix typo (s/gift/git/)
2018-11-12 17:50:39 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra
b05d6dac7b
Manual: build locally -> build
2018-11-09 16:08:36 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra
4ea4d0b1a3
Urgh
2018-11-09 10:29:16 +01:00
Linus Heckemann
34d2948f21
Fix manual build
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This was broken by some missing closing tags in 0bea4a50e0
2018-11-08 14:07:19 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra
750400e0fa
Merge pull request #2524 from domenkozar/deprecate-toPath
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Deprecate builtins.toPath
2018-11-08 13:22:21 +01:00
Domen Kožar
0bea4a50e0
Deprecate builtins.toPath
2018-11-08 12:03:50 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
812e39313c
Enable sandboxing by default
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Closes #179 .
2018-11-07 17:08:28 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra
5a3f140856
Document allowSubstitutes
2018-11-07 11:42:22 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra
1109193ea3
Fix preferLocalBuild description
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preferLocalBuild does not in fact prevent substitution.
2018-11-07 11:37:43 +01:00
Will Dietz
3d974d31fa
editline: wip
2018-10-29 08:44:58 -05:00
Antoine Eiche
73c2ae43f0
Add --graphml option to the nix-store --query command
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This prints the references graph of the store paths in the graphML
format [1]. The graphML format is supported by several graph tools
such as the Python Networkx library or the Apache Thinkerpop project.
[1] http://graphml.graphdrawing.org
2018-10-20 09:48:34 +02:00
Benjamin Hipple
65453e2d77
Docs: update fixed output hashes
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`fetchurl` will now throw if given an `md5`, and the hashes have generally
been upgraded to avoid it and use `sha256` as a default. This updates the
documentation examples in the manual accordingly.
2018-10-04 02:37:15 +00:00
Profpatsch
05cfc71cab
manual: add XML IDs to all builtin list entries
2018-10-02 15:38:16 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra
aa5e47b2f4
Merge pull request #2456 from grahamc/s3-substituters
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Update docs to describe how s3:// URLS does in fact support endpoint, region, and profile for upload
2018-10-01 22:47:00 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra
5b7cfa487e
Add missing file
2018-10-01 11:58:54 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra
1e7b8deea7
Check requiredSystemFeatures for local builds
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For example, this prevents a "kvm" build on machines that don't have
KVM.
Fixes #2012 .
2018-09-28 16:10:27 +02:00
Graham Christensen
51cbeec49a
Update docs to describe how s3:// URLS does in fact support endpoint, region, and profile for upload
2018-09-27 17:01:39 -04:00
Eelco Dolstra
a48c2e3411
Merge pull request #2434 from grahamc/graham-improve-upgrade
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Upgrade docs: improve the upgrade command
2018-09-19 21:53:50 +02:00
Anders Riutta
1915862767
Upgrade docs: improve the upgrade command
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and make it more copy-pastable.
2018-09-19 14:17:06 -04:00
Graham Christensen
be9e356e61
nix-shell: document double quotes being necessary for a simple Nix expression in the shebang
2018-09-19 13:01:27 -04:00
Graham Christensen
10a7f19937
nix-shell: explain the merging property close to the example
2018-09-19 12:48:08 -04:00
Graham Christensen
0cd863197b
docs: document deprecated aliases
2018-09-18 12:23:32 -04:00
Graham Christensen
0aca1ffb6e
Prefer 'remote builder' over 'slave'
2018-09-10 18:57:46 +02:00
Vladimír Čunát
5f3b72cfc2
docs: change expired bzip2.org to archive.org
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Fixes #2396 .
2018-09-03 17:57:13 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra
4dd09210d7
Release notes tweaks
2018-09-02 21:47:10 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra
1f49926601
Merge pull request #2388 from grahamc/graham/document-multi-user
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Document multi-user installation, and add release notes about it not being the default on 2.1
2018-09-01 22:43:48 +02:00
Graham Christensen
c42eaaf684
Create upgrade notes
2018-09-01 15:35:46 -04:00
Eelco Dolstra
c5ab07ec2b
Merge pull request #2168 from grahamc/explain-why-netrc-is-busted
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manual: document why ~/.netrc doesn't work
2018-09-01 21:25:04 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra
51003f892d
Merge pull request #2309 from symphorien/disallowed-man
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add manual entries for disallowedRequisites and disallowedReferences
2018-09-01 21:01:41 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra
291f67aecf
Merge pull request #2237 from nh2/patch-1
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manual: distributed-builds: Mention - as default
2018-09-01 20:41:49 +02:00
Graham Christensen
4be7652dd3
release notes: note that the multi-user installer is available but not selected for Linux with systemd, and the bug about selinux
2018-09-01 10:45:57 -04:00
Graham Christensen
c3e508d924
Document the multi-user installer some
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Use sh <(...) syntax for installation to preserve stdin and prompting
also update installation docs to account for changes in multi-user selection
2018-09-01 10:45:50 -04:00
Graham Christensen
f66fa7cd20
We support aarch64 now
2018-09-01 10:44:33 -04:00
Eelco Dolstra
6ed4a6bd0e
Merge pull request #2384 from graham-at-target/fetch-git-examples
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docs: Add some examples to fetchGit
2018-09-01 14:08:32 +02:00
Graham Christensen
0b7568fb73
Drop ssh://... as a required formatting for builtins.fetchGit
2018-08-31 19:49:56 -04:00
Eelco Dolstra
4095cd6438
Add contributors
2018-09-01 00:01:05 +02:00
Graham Christensen
149d10c308
docs: Add IDs to important sections
2018-08-31 10:06:33 -04:00
Graham Christensen
2df21b78b9
docs: Add some examples to fetchGit
2018-08-31 10:00:32 -04:00
Eelco Dolstra
308689f94b
Merge pull request #2365 from erikarvstedt/fix-docs
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Docs: Fix install prefix
2018-08-30 16:24:52 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra
64d7d1a884
Update release notes
2018-08-30 15:28:18 +02:00
Domen Kožar
d16ff76c69
nix.conf: clarify -j0 doesn't affect preferLocalBuild
2018-08-29 14:33:14 +01:00
Domen Kožar
54df4bb0b5
nix.conf: mention -j0 is useful
2018-08-29 11:51:51 +01:00
Erik Arvstedt
8ad2defdf0
Docs: Fix install prefix
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shell.nix defines the install prefix as $(pwd)/inst
2018-08-21 21:46:43 +02:00
Graham Christensen
06080e4abc
2.1 release notes: Add note about s3-compatible stores
2018-08-03 11:09:31 -04:00
Eelco Dolstra
87356cc8a4
Add Nix 2.1 release notes
2018-08-03 17:05:17 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra
122e1a61f8
Merge pull request #2323 from samueldr/feature/selective-impurity
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Allows selectively adding environment variables to pure shells.
2018-08-03 16:58:18 +02:00
Samuel Dionne-Riel
438e02529d
Allows selectively adding environment variables to pure shells.
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Includes documentation and test.
2018-08-02 08:21:30 -04:00
Graham Christensen
49a53c1d3f
s3 binary cache: support specifying an endpoint
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Works for uploading and not downloading.
2018-08-02 08:19:50 -04:00
Graham Christensen
b27431b7cb
Document s3 substitutions
2018-08-01 11:07:41 -04:00
Symphorien Gibol
81d1385437
add manual entries for disallowedRequisites and disallowedReferences
2018-07-26 18:14:50 +02:00
Nathan van Doorn
41f38fbb4b
nix-channel documentation: don't suggest deprecated function
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Running `nix-instantiate --eval -E '(import <nixpkgs> {}).lib.nixpkgsVersion` emits a warning
```
trace: `lib.nixpkgsVersion` is deprecated, use `lib.version` instead!
```
2018-07-16 10:00:42 +01:00
Niklas Hambüchen
10ebcf8670
manual: distributed-builds: Mention - as default
2018-06-17 19:01:07 +02:00
Michael Raskin
17bc757980
manual: builtins.fromJSON: remove the claim that floats are not allowed
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floating-point numbers are supported now, including the fromJSON
builtin. Reported on IRC by inquisitiv3
2018-06-10 14:20:18 +02:00
Peter Simons
93aa3bea2e
Merge pull request #767 from mogorman/garbage_collect_keep_last_few
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Implement --delete-generations + flag for keeping last N number of gens
2018-05-31 10:00:21 +02:00
Shea Levy
bbbfc180d9
Explicitly describe the effects of filterSource excluding a directory.
2018-05-30 12:34:41 -04:00
Graham Christensen
f9940f47b3
Merge pull request #2164 from mickours/doc-fetchTarball-timout
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Explain fetchTarball timeout behavior in the doc
2018-05-30 08:04:26 -04:00
Michael Mercier
8dd2e28374
Explain fetchTarball timeout behavior in the doc
2018-05-30 08:02:46 -04:00
Graham Christensen
e6466c20b3
Document NIX_SSL_CERT_FILE for installation
2018-05-25 15:59:14 -04:00
Eelco Dolstra
743359bc8a
Merge pull request #2157 from volth/bitwise
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add builtins: __bitAnd, __bitOr, __bitXor
2018-05-24 15:00:39 +02:00
volth
88c1ea30e4
add docs and tests
2018-05-24 12:51:34 +00:00
Alexandre Esteves
579f3895b4
Fix docs on --check suffix
2018-05-23 22:26:06 +01:00
Graham Christensen
33712fed38
manual: document why ~/.netrc doesn't work
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Maybe there is a better place to document this, which is more generic?
2018-05-18 14:21:47 -04:00
Gleb Peregud
5ba6395378
docs: mention source of env variables used by impureEnvVars
.
2018-05-02 22:45:20 +02:00
Danylo Hlynskyi
ac22d77fd1
nix-collect-garbage: little doc fix
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This removes confusing documentation. It's better to remove doc than add implementation, because Nix 1.12 will surely have new GC interface anyway.
Fixes https://github.com/NixOS/nix/issues/641
2018-04-30 09:36:46 -07:00
Shea Levy
8e6108ff71
Merge branch 'aarch64-armv7' of git://github.com/lheckemann/nix
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Support extra compatible architectures (#1916 )
2018-04-23 08:48:22 -04:00
Samuel Dionne-Riel
4b3a7f93a5
doc: Adds --quiet
to the common options.
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Fixes #1298
2018-04-20 16:34:06 -04:00
Eelco Dolstra
4fd28bee89
Fix broken DocBook
2018-04-13 15:12:58 +02:00
Sean Seefried
2ef8f0608c
Add to glossary and clarify garbage collection
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While trying to understand garbage collection it was not immediately
clear that only the runtime dependency closure of output paths
would be kept (instead of the build-time dependency closure).
This commit attempts to clarify this by expanding some of the
glossary definitions and extending the Garbage Collection
section.
2018-04-12 19:23:24 +10:00
John Arnold
a405d25fa3
manual: Add all dependencies to source prerequisites ( #2060 )
2018-04-09 17:31:39 -04:00
Nicolas Dudebout
d8a1c27806
fix typo in nix-env man page
2018-04-07 21:10:46 -04:00
AmineChikhaoui
e01b01c579
update/re-order the options docs
2018-04-06 11:09:52 +01:00
AmineChikhaoui
33b08899d5
re-order the options using the alphabetical order and improve the example in the positive lookup case
2018-04-06 10:51:19 +01:00
AmineChikhaoui
86930ed414
add documentation for the local disk cache TTL config
2018-04-06 10:51:18 +01:00
Justin Humm
045eb84409
document that writeTextFile from Nixpkgs is an alternative to builtins.toFile
2018-04-03 23:26:47 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra
e01c01f72c
Merge pull request #2005 from shlevy/fetchgit-docs
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Document fetchGit.
2018-03-27 15:57:48 +02:00
Shea Levy
6856fe62b0
Document fetchGit.
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Fixes #1981 .
2018-03-23 07:02:45 -04:00
Dmitry Kalinkin
e2f56c1333
doc: don't mention obsolete ssh-substituter-hosts
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#1840
2018-03-22 19:17:45 -04:00
Corey O'Connor
22b144fea6
manual: correct repeated "--deriver". Add missing single char option aliases.
2018-03-20 17:58:25 -07:00
Eelco Dolstra
b2074f0892
Fix bad XML
2018-03-18 13:27:30 +01:00
zimbatm
43bef1b82c
doc: document the min-free and max-free options
2018-03-17 21:29:03 +00:00
zimbatm
fef8ebf51d
doc: add xml:id to all the config options
2018-03-17 21:17:28 +00:00
Linus Heckemann
637701b604
rename build-extra-platforms -> extra-platforms
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also document it
2018-03-16 22:50:27 +00:00
Matthew O'Gorman
467fdd8ca4
only delete things older than current gen and update logic in doc as
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well
2018-03-01 22:59:00 -05:00
Matthew O'Gorman
429154b74c
Implement --delete-generations + flag for keeping last N number of generations
2018-03-01 21:47:57 -05:00
Michael Fiano
ad97d1a786
nix-channel grammar and punctuation
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Minor changes to the nix-channel manpage for my first contribution
2018-03-01 00:27:25 -05:00
Graham Christensen
9432f3fb7d
Merge pull request #1901 from veprbl/patch-5
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Fix a small typo in the release notes
2018-02-24 10:26:14 -05:00
Michael Weiss
bd94e63853
doc: Fix a URL in the release notes for Nix 2.0
2018-02-24 16:07:10 +01:00
Dmitry Kalinkin
d9d8a84a96
Fix a small typo in the release notes
2018-02-23 23:45:42 -05:00
Eelco Dolstra
39b4177500
Fix example in release notes
2018-02-22 17:42:06 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra
2691d51a33
Doh
2018-02-22 17:14:35 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra
e8d53bfdc9
Revert "Enable sandbox builds on Linux by default"
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This reverts commit ddc58e7896
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https://hydra.nixos.org/eval/1435322
2018-02-22 14:20:07 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra
eaa52c34b4
Set release date
2018-02-22 12:44:46 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra
ddc58e7896
Enable sandbox builds on Linux by default
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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
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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
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This is already handled by the installer.
2018-02-19 20:40:25 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra
70eb64147e
Update release notes
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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.
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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
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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.
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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.
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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
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Add path primop.
2018-02-07 13:32:35 +01:00
Shea Levy
69d82e5c58
Add path primop.
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Fixes #937
2018-01-09 22:40:07 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra
44272d8719
Rename "use-substitutes" to "substitute"
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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+ remove trailing whitespace from the file
2017-11-01 21:36:25 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
812e027e1d
Add option allowed-uris
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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
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Accidentally committed this change as part of
f9686885be
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Restricted mode != pure mode.
2017-10-30 12:41:48 +01:00
Domen Kožar
5cb78053f0
Merge pull request #1633 from orivej/doc
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Update the language documentation
2017-10-30 12:21:54 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra
049322702b
fetchgit -> fetchGit
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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.
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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
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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
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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.
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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