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Author SHA1 Message Date
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
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
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
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
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)
* 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
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)
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
All GC roots are now indirect.
2020-09-03 11:22:00 +02:00
Cole Helbling
a72ed3e8a1
hacking.md: add --prefix flag to configure
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
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
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
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
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
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
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>
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>
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>
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
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
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
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.
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
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
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
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
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
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
Update "Upgrading Nix" documentation
2020-05-11 18:12:35 +02:00
Domen Kožar
612d57c5de
Merge pull request #3582 from bhipple/doc/fixed-output
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
Fixes #3396.
2020-03-13 16:32:43 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra
9c7e90f414
style.css: Remove
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
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
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
- 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
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
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
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
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
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
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
`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"
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
Expanded documentation for .nix-defexpr
2019-08-15 15:03:21 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra
477f82e5a7
Merge pull request #2782 from grahamc/flames
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
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
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
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
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
tarball-ttl: document
2019-07-06 00:15:27 +02:00
Graham Christensen
648bdf153d
tarball-ttl: document
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.
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.
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
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
nix-store: document --add-fixed
2019-07-02 15:47:40 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra
33db1d35ae
Merge pull request #2582 from LnL7/fetchgit-refs
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
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
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)
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
manual: "Nix Package collection" -> "Nixpkgs package collection".
2019-05-08 10:19:59 +02:00
Daniel Schaefer
3f192ac80c Add builtins.hashFile
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".
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
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
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
This improves searchability.
2019-03-21 09:37:22 +01:00
Joachim Breitner
684c7fff80 Link to builders-use-substitutes in chapter on distributed builds
fixes #2730.
2019-03-16 19:03:40 +01:00
Andreas Rammhold
34fade478a
docs: fix typo in AllowDirectReads
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
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
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
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
- 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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
`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
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
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
Upgrade docs: improve the upgrade command
2018-09-19 21:53:50 +02:00
Anders Riutta
1915862767
Upgrade docs: improve the upgrade command
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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.
Includes documentation and test.
2018-08-02 08:21:30 -04:00
Graham Christensen
49a53c1d3f s3 binary cache: support specifying an endpoint
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
Support extra compatible architectures (#1916)
2018-04-23 08:48:22 -04:00
Samuel Dionne-Riel
4b3a7f93a5 doc: Adds --quiet to the common options.
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
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
Document fetchGit.
2018-03-27 15:57:48 +02:00
Shea Levy
6856fe62b0
Document fetchGit.
Fixes #1981.
2018-03-23 07:02:45 -04:00
Dmitry Kalinkin
e2f56c1333
doc: don't mention obsolete ssh-substituter-hosts
#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
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
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
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
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"
This reverts commit ddc58e7896.

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
The overhead of sandbox builds is a problem on NixOS (since building a
NixOS configuration involves a lot of small derivations) but not for
typical non-NixOS use cases. So outside of NixOS we can enable it.

Issue #179.
2018-02-22 12:27:25 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra
88c90d5e6d
Manual: Put configuration options in sorted order 2018-02-21 18:08:47 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra
0d54671b7b
Manual: Update chapter on remote builds
Alos add a command "nix ping-store" to make it easier to see if Nix
can connect to a remote builder (e.g. 'nix ping-store --store
ssh://mac').
2018-02-21 16:24:26 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra
4e44025ac5
Release notes: Add contributors 2018-02-20 15:20:14 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra
d7fdfe322b
Remove macOS multi-user instructions
This is already handled by the installer.
2018-02-19 20:40:25 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra
70eb64147e
Update release notes
Also add some examples to nix --help.
2018-02-19 20:38:53 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra
75a1d96cfd
Merge branch 'register-settings' of https://github.com/shlevy/nix 2018-02-19 13:58:34 +01:00
Shea Levy
b095c06139
Add splitVersion primop.
Fixes #1868.
2018-02-14 09:55:43 -05:00
Shea Levy
de4934ab3b
Allow plugins to define new settings. 2018-02-13 14:43:32 -05:00
Eelco Dolstra
52c777a793
Merge pull request #1863 from shlevy/conf-includes
Allow includes from nix.conf
2018-02-13 17:33:07 +01:00
Shea Levy
b8739f2fb3
Enable specifying directories in plugin-files. 2018-02-13 11:25:01 -05:00
Shea Levy
6eb1040e90
Allow includes from nix.conf 2018-02-13 08:16:32 -05:00
Shea Levy
081f14a169
Allow using RegisterPrimop to define constants.
This enables plugins to add new constants, as well as new primops.
2018-02-08 14:35:50 -05:00
Shea Levy
88cd2d41ac
Add plugins to make Nix more extensible.
All plugins in plugin-files will be dlopened, allowing them to
statically construct instances of the various Register* types Nix
supports.
2018-02-08 12:44:37 -05:00
Eelco Dolstra
abe6be578b
Merge pull request #1816 from shlevy/add-path
Add path primop.
2018-02-07 13:32:35 +01:00
Shea Levy
69d82e5c58
Add path primop.
builtins.path allows specifying the name of a path (which makes paths
with store-illegal names now addable), allows adding paths with flat
instead of recursive hashes, allows specifying a filter (so is a
generalization of filterSource), and allows specifying an expected
hash (enabling safe path adding in pure mode).
2018-02-06 16:48:08 -05:00
Eelco Dolstra
84722d67d2
Remove nix-build --hash
Instead, if a fixed-output derivation produces has an incorrect output
hash, we now unconditionally move the outputs to the path
corresponding with the actual hash and register it as valid. Thus,
after correcting the hash in the Nix expression (e.g. in a fetchurl
call), the fixed-output derivation doesn't have to be built again.

It would still be good to have a command for reporting the actual hash
of a fixed-output derivation (instead of throwing an error), but
"nix-build --hash" didn't do that.
2018-02-03 10:08:05 +01:00
Shea Levy
de96daf54f
Merge branch 'master' of git://github.com/catern/nix 2018-02-01 13:21:45 -05:00
Eelco Dolstra
e7b23eb5ab
Remove docs on removed --drv-link and --add-drv-link options 2018-02-01 16:40:58 +01:00
Spencer Baugh
e5432574e2 document ability to set NIX_REMOTE=unix://path/to/socket 2018-01-31 22:47:16 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
c287d73121
Rename 1.12 -> 2.0
Following discussion with Shea and Graham. It's a big enough change
from the last release. Also, from a semver perspective, 2.0 makes more
sense because we did remove some interfaces (like nix-pull/nix-push).
2018-01-31 18:58:45 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra
6fa690291a
Add 'nix upgrade-nix' command
This command upgrades Nix to the latest stable version by installing a
store path obtained from

  https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/raw/master/nixos/modules/installer/tools/nix-fallback-paths.nix

which is the same store path that the installer at
https://nixos.org/nix/install.sh uses.

The upgrade fails if Nix is not installed in a profile (e.g. on NixOS,
or when installed outside of the Nix store).
2018-01-31 16:24:43 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra
f8e8dd827e
Manual: Remove old cruft 2018-01-31 15:08:46 +01:00
Eric Wolf
0167eac571 Improve manual on inheriting attributes
Expands first paragraph a bit
Adds a more comprehensive example
2018-01-27 16:18:31 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra
cfeff3b273
Move show-trace docs 2018-01-17 11:53:16 +01:00
Renzo Carbonara
b0328c244d nix.conf: builders-use-substitutes
Fixes #937
2018-01-09 22:40:07 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra
44272d8719
Rename "use-substitutes" to "substitute"
Commit c2154d4c84 renamed
"build-use-substitutes" to "use-substitutes", but that broke
"nix-copy-closure --use-substitutes".
2018-01-04 16:58:39 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra
e3c19ff9bc
Merge pull request #1725 from chris-martin/pr/concatStringsSep
Add builtins.concatStringSep to the manual
2017-12-12 11:46:10 +01:00
Chris Martin
2a8f09a8c1 Add builtins.concatStringSep to the manual 2017-12-11 14:28:03 -05:00
Eelco Dolstra
06d4566c2d
Merge pull request #1721 from expipiplus1/patch-2
Escape left angle brackets in XML documentation
2017-12-11 17:29:36 +01:00
Shea Levy
5ba5ca7888
Merge branch 'feature/linenoise-ng' of git://github.com/dtzWill/nix 2017-12-11 07:52:20 -05:00
Joe Hermaszewski
35a49f1d7f
Escape left angle brackets in XML documentation 2017-12-09 15:31:03 +00:00
Markus Hauck
0af668426d nix-hash: Add sentence and example for nix-prefetch-url hash 2017-12-08 10:27:34 +01:00
Will Dietz
e50d7335bf doc: linenoise -> linenoise-ng 2017-11-27 18:36:20 -06:00
Eelco Dolstra
7536fe31dd
Add a warning about the 'trusted-users' option 2017-11-21 18:49:52 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra
8df60b4ea8
Document secret-key-files 2017-11-20 18:51:04 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra
91a1987607
signed-binary-caches -> require-sigs
Unlike signed-binary-caches (which could only be '*' or ''),
require-sigs is a proper Boolean option. The default is true.
2017-11-20 17:44:07 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra
7a2b64e55c
binary-cache-public-keys -> trusted-public-keys
The name had become a misnomer since it's not only for substitution
from binary caches, but when adding/copying any
(non-content-addressed) path to a store.
2017-11-20 17:32:34 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra
6cf7c6a6b0
Remove git:// support in NIX_PATH
This didn't support specifying a revision/branch, and was restricted
to git:// URIs (since https:// or ssh:// would be ambiguous).
2017-11-03 13:55:31 +01:00
Zoran Plesivčak
ae506c1ea4 Mention isFloat function in "Built-in Functions" section 2017-11-01 23:00:08 +00:00
Zoran Plesivčak
3050395810 Mention "float" type in builtins.typeOf section of the docs
+ remove trailing whitespace from the file
2017-11-01 21:36:25 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
812e027e1d
Add option allowed-uris
This allows network access in restricted eval mode.
2017-10-30 12:41:49 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra
f1c555cef8
fetchurl/fetchTarball are *not* allowed in restricted mode
Accidentally committed this change as part of
f9686885be.

Restricted mode != pure mode.
2017-10-30 12:41:48 +01:00
Domen Kožar
5cb78053f0
Merge pull request #1633 from orivej/doc
Update the language documentation
2017-10-30 12:21:54 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra
049322702b
fetchgit -> fetchGit
Almost all other primops are camelCase so no reason not to use that
here.
2017-10-30 10:25:08 +01:00
Orivej Desh
842ce8bafd Clarify indented string escaping rules 2017-10-26 18:53:36 +00:00
Orivej Desh
15457c5673 Describe "with" scoping precedence 2017-10-26 18:53:36 +00:00
Orivej Desh
e5c499b833 Describe arithmetic operators 2017-10-26 18:53:35 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
38dcd0c4b8
Release note updates 2017-10-23 20:50:28 +02:00
Keshav Kini
32940702fc Mention C++14 dependency in the manual.
A couple makefiles in the sources have -std=c++14 in the CFLAGS.
2017-10-19 18:03:26 -07:00
Eelco Dolstra
5324bb9399
Update release notes 2017-09-18 11:07:17 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra
0b606aad46
Add automatic garbage collection
Nix can now automatically run the garbage collector during builds or
while adding paths to the store. The option "min-free = <bytes>"
specifies that Nix should run the garbage collector whenever free
space in the Nix store drops below <bytes>. It will then delete
garbage until "max-free" bytes are available.

Garbage collection during builds is asynchronous; running builds are
not paused and new builds are not blocked. However, there also is a
synchronous GC run prior to the first build/substitution.

Currently, no old GC roots are deleted (as in "nix-collect-garbage
-d").
2017-09-05 20:43:42 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra
c2154d4c84
Rename a few configuration options
In particular, drop the "build-" and "gc-" prefixes which are
pointless. So now you can say

  nix build --no-sandbox

instead of

  nix build --no-build-use-sandbox
2017-08-31 14:28:25 +02:00
Matthew Bauer
2c75945de5
Remove nix-mode.el from Nix.
This removes the file nix-mode.el from Nix. The file is now available within the
repository https://github.com/NixOS/nix-mode.

Fixes #662
Fixes #1040
Fixes #1054
Fixes #1055
Closes #1119
Fixes #1419

NOTE: all of the above should be fixed within NixOS/nix-mode. If one of those
hasn’t please reopen within NixOS/nix-mode and not within NixOS/nix.
2017-08-19 21:16:30 -07:00
Chase Adams
09a38f9125 update MD5 to SHA-256 in expression-syntax 2017-08-18 16:07:33 -07:00
Eelco Dolstra
e2f9a61dc9 Update release notes 2017-08-16 21:36:47 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra
2ee1b9359b Merge branch 'tokenize' of https://github.com/nbp/nix 2017-08-16 21:21:36 +02:00
Nicolas B. Pierron
b8867a0239 Add builtins.string function.
The function 'builtins.split' takes a POSIX extended regular expression
and an arbitrary string. It returns a list of non-matching substring
interleaved by lists of matched groups of the regular expression.

```nix
with builtins;
assert split "(a)b" "abc"      == [ "" [ "a" ] "c" ];
assert split "([ac])" "abc"    == [ "" [ "a" ] "b" [ "c" ] "" ];
assert split "(a)|(c)" "abc"   == [ "" [ "a" null ] "b" [ null "c" ] "" ];
assert split "([[:upper:]]+)" "  FOO   "
                               == [ "  " [ "FOO" ] "   " ];
```
2017-08-15 20:04:11 +00:00
Nicolas B. Pierron
27417c6160 Move builtins.match documentation between map and mul. 2017-08-15 18:34:24 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
f76e85d8f5
Start of 1.12 release notes 2017-08-10 18:44:45 +02:00
davidak
92bcb61127 replace "Mac OS X" with "macOS"
except in older release notes where the name was actually Mac OS X.
2017-07-30 12:26:17 +02:00
Graham Christensen
da2ad30054 Update the mailing list. 2017-07-18 08:02:53 -04:00
Eelco Dolstra
49304bae81
Make the hashes mirrors used by builtins.fetchurl configurable
In particular, this allows it to be disabled in our tests.
2017-07-17 13:07:08 +02:00
Harmen
1e0f59ae14 use sha256 hashes in the examples
And fix a dead link.
2017-07-15 21:06:30 +02:00
Robert Vollmert
30117fb35b fix buggy nix-shell man page 2017-07-10 14:36:55 +02:00
Robert Vollmert
c85e662004 man page (nix-shell): Fix grouping of -p option
Not sure about the raw ellipsis.
2017-07-07 22:11:46 +02:00
Robert Vollmert
89771a8821 man page (nix-prefetch-url): Add some missing options 2017-07-07 22:11:46 +02:00
Robert Vollmert
772ef22c25 man page (nix-instantiate): -E is optional 2017-07-07 22:11:46 +02:00
Robert Vollmert
8ad898b2cd man page (nix-instantiate): Add --json to synopsis, order variables 2017-07-07 22:11:46 +02:00
Robert Vollmert
b1f5995a20 man page (nix-instantiate): Remove non-existent nix-build argument -r 2017-07-07 22:11:46 +02:00
Robert Vollmert
56a1f8f499 man pages: Consistently separate alternatives by / 2017-07-07 22:11:46 +02:00
Robert Vollmert
d1643bdaa2 man pages: Argument for --max-jobs 2017-07-07 22:11:45 +02:00
Robert Vollmert
68c626c6b0 man pages: Grouping for option alternatives 2017-07-07 22:11:45 +02:00
Robert Vollmert
ce3095e141 glossary: Fix word order 2017-07-07 22:07:46 +02:00
Robert Vollmert
60da5d2b8f Fix nix-instantiate manpage indentation
The second command variant is now its own cmdsynopsis, which ensures
it's not indented as was the case using sbrk.
2017-07-06 22:35:36 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra
6cf23c3e8f
Add allow-new-privileges option
This allows builds to call setuid binaries. This was previously
possible until we started using seccomp. Turns out that seccomp by
default disallows processes from acquiring new privileges. Generally,
any use of setuid binaries (except those created by the builder
itself) is by definition impure, but some people were relying on this
ability for certain tests.

Example:

  $ nix build '(with import <nixpkgs> {}; runCommand "foo" {} "/run/wrappers/bin/ping -c 1 8.8.8.8; exit 1")' --no-allow-new-privileges
  builder for ‘/nix/store/j0nd8kv85hd6r4kxgnwzvr0k65ykf6fv-foo.drv’ failed with exit code 1; last 2 log lines:
    cannot raise the capability into the Ambient set
    : Operation not permitted

  $ nix build '(with import <nixpkgs> {}; runCommand "foo" {} "/run/wrappers/bin/ping -c 1 8.8.8.8; exit 1")' --allow-new-privileges
  builder for ‘/nix/store/j0nd8kv85hd6r4kxgnwzvr0k65ykf6fv-foo.drv’ failed with exit code 1; last 6 log lines:
    PING 8.8.8.8 (8.8.8.8) 56(84) bytes of data.
    64 bytes from 8.8.8.8: icmp_seq=1 ttl=46 time=15.2 ms

Fixes #1429.
2017-07-04 15:48:25 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra
a10951de08
OS X -> macOS
(cherry picked from commit c20641ce569dc1fdeaeaa147b0292f258667f53b)
2017-06-14 23:28:06 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra
1dcadadf74
Add 1.11.10 release notes
(cherry picked from commit 0fb60e4e0f66cc42c7c274acfcf00b51f6c829c4)
2017-06-14 23:27:52 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra
d6064dd19b Merge pull request #1393 from pyrtsa/patch-1
Fix variable name typo in derivations doc
2017-05-29 11:32:06 +02:00
Pyry Jahkola
370428f86d Remove stray > in builtins doc 2017-05-28 20:47:35 +03:00
Pyry Jahkola
86ea7d1566 Fix variable name typo in derivations doc 2017-05-28 15:48:57 +03:00
Eelco Dolstra
b303ad012c Merge pull request #1382 from FRidh/patch-1
Document fetchTarball can take a sha256
2017-05-24 11:07:36 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra
f134fc4cbe
Document that builtins.match takes a POSIX extended RE 2017-05-17 12:18:18 +02:00
Frederik Rietdijk
2b2de5ef6a Document fetchTarball can take a sha256
Note that I refer to `nix-prefetch-url`.
2017-05-11 13:38:13 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra
1fd59447d5
Typo 2017-05-10 18:38:17 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra
c5f23f10a8
Replace readline by linenoise
Using linenoise avoids a license compatibility issue (#1356), is a lot
smaller and doesn't pull in ncurses.
2017-05-10 18:37:42 +02:00
Domen Kožar
82a9c93c7f
doc: builtins.attrNames returns alphabetically sorted list 2017-05-10 11:23:12 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra
d3449b286b Merge pull request #1371 from regnat/doc_--xml_fix
fix the description of --xml and --json
2017-05-03 11:06:12 +02:00
regnat
a786d26dc2 doc: fix the description of --xml and --json
Those options seem to only apply with --eval and not with --parse.
2017-05-03 10:49:34 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra
d7653dfc6d
Remove $NIX_BUILD_HOOK and $NIX_CURRENT_LOAD
This is to simplify remote build configuration. These environment
variables predate nix.conf.

The build hook now has a sensible default (namely build-remote).

The current load is kept in the Nix state directory now.
2017-05-01 17:30:16 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra
1196470e92 Merge pull request #1347 from kennyballou/sm-grammar-fix
Fix small grammar issue about page
2017-04-24 10:49:46 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra
240399e059 Merge pull request #1351 from earldouglas/ellipses
Drop misleading ellipses
2017-04-24 10:49:09 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra
8d6af08530 Merge pull request #1348 from armijnhemel/nix-env
better document --meta option for nix-env
2017-04-24 10:18:23 +02:00
James Earl Douglas
111d347237
Drop misleading ellipses
This portion of the quick start guide may lead to confusion for
newcomers to Nix.  This change clarifies the example to one that can be
copied in its entirety.
2017-04-20 18:07:23 -06:00
Eelco Dolstra
f05d5f89ff
Read per-user settings from ~/.config/nix/nix.conf 2017-04-20 14:58:16 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra
562585e901
binary-caches-parallel-connections -> http-connections 2017-04-20 14:04:00 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra
4222402219
nix.conf man page: binary-caches -> substituters 2017-04-20 13:41:29 +02:00
Armijn Hemel
1559c596f6 document option 2017-04-19 19:10:12 +02:00
kballou
00b6c6d0c3 Fix small grammar issue about page
Fix subject-verb agreement issue in introduction/about.
2017-04-19 09:27:28 -06:00
Linus Heckemann
9622d00afa Manual: document tryEval 2017-04-17 10:33:53 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra
ba9ad29fdb
Convert Settings to the new config system
This makes all config options self-documenting.

Unknown or unparseable config settings and --option flags now cause a
warning.
2017-04-13 20:53:23 +02:00
Benjamin Staffin
d267db0d75
Move note about float support out of the wrong release notes
Looks like this snuck into the 1.11 release notes post-release, but
float support isn't actually present until 1.12.
2017-04-12 18:01:43 -04:00
Eelco Dolstra
c0745a2531
Merge branch 'remove-perl' of https://github.com/shlevy/nix 2017-03-31 14:13:32 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra
aa23bba27f
Fix tests to reflect the signed-binary-caches default change 2017-03-21 18:06:13 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra
0afeb7f51e
Store: Add a method for getting build logs
This allows various Store implementations to provide different ways to
get build logs. For example, BinaryCacheStore can get the build logs
from the binary cache.

Also, remove the log-servers option since we can use substituters for
this.
2017-03-15 16:48:29 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra
19643a781e
nix -> Nix 2017-03-09 13:36:56 +01:00
Shea Levy
5f831c1057 Add docs for allow-import-from-derivation 2017-03-08 09:12:03 -05:00
Eelco Dolstra
7251d048fa
Support auto-configuration of build-max-jobs
"build-max-jobs" and the "-j" option can now be set to "auto" to use
the number of CPUs in the system. (Unlike build-cores, it doesn't use
0 to imply auto-configuration, because a) magic values are a bad idea
in general; b) 0 is a legitimate value used to disable local
building.)

Fixes #1198.
2017-02-28 12:54:50 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra
4f3fb34844
Fix 1.8 release note about build-max-jobs
We set build-cores automatically, not build-max-jobs. (The commit
message for de4cdd0d47 also got this
wrong.)
2017-02-27 15:58:24 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra
79f4583f8a
Fix XML validity 2017-02-21 13:04:31 +01:00
Linus Heckemann
b8564987a3 Document toString better 2017-02-20 14:23:48 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
bd5388e7b2
Tweak netrc docs 2017-02-16 14:24:16 +01:00
Janus Troelsen
2b4c24f46a Remove Perl dependency listing in doc 2017-02-07 15:56:32 -05:00
Shea Levy
418a837897 Remove perl dependency.
Fixes #341
2017-02-07 15:56:32 -05:00
Renzo Carbonara
e6e74f987f Add netrc-file support 2017-02-02 13:24:20 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra
9000150a78
Drop a few more references to all-packages.nix
And also don't refer to f-spot, which apparently no longer exists.

Issue #1170.
2017-01-03 16:42:24 +01:00
zimbatm
45ed6e7ef2 Document the common --no-build-hook option 2016-12-28 14:19:59 +00:00
Daiderd Jordan
36b3e15953
manual: add NIX_CONF_DIR to conf-file section 2016-12-16 10:59:07 +01:00
Linus Heckemann
bb5a6c0085 Document path-search behaviour 2016-12-11 17:13:37 +00:00
Domen Kožar
41d6523ef5 Document builtins.match, fixes #1145 2016-12-09 20:40:55 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra
09191caea8
Add shell.nix 2016-12-06 17:17:29 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra
d1da6967b8
Drop unused WWW::Curl dependency 2016-12-06 17:17:29 +01:00
Manav Rathi
eec5409a69 installation: allow profile modification to be skipped (#1072)
The current behaviour modifies the first writeable file from amongst
.bash_profile, .bash_login and .profile.  So .bash_profile (if it is
writable) would be modified even if a user has already sourced nix.sh
in, say, .profile.

This commit introduces a new environment variable,
NIX_INSTALLER_NO_MODIFY_PROFILE.  If this is set during installation,
then the modifications are unconditionally skipped.

This is useful for users who have a manually curated set of dotfiles
that they are porting to a new machine. In such scenarios, nix.sh is
already sourced at a place where the user prefers.  Without this
change, the nix installer would insist on modifying .bash_profile if
it exists.

This commit also add documentations for both the current behaviour and
the new override.
2016-11-03 18:02:29 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra
18b7363a69 Support optional sandbox paths
For example, you can now set

  build-sandbox-paths = /dev/nvidiactl?

to specify that /dev/nvidiactl should only be mounted in the sandbox
if it exists in the host filesystem. This is useful e.g. for EC2
images that should support both CUDA and non-CUDA instances.
2016-10-31 17:09:52 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra
818ab58cc6 Add sandbox-dev-shm-size option
Fixes #1069.
2016-09-21 16:54:53 +02:00
zimbatm
7d7ec2b3a8 Document the { __toString } interface 2016-09-21 14:52:26 +01:00
Adrien Devresse
7ef053c632 Add a new option to disable documentation generation at configure time 2016-09-20 14:34:43 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
6656ef7b5b Revive binary-caches-parallel-connections
It's a slight misnomer now because it actually limits *all* downloads,
not just binary cache lookups.

Also add a "enable-http2" option to allow disabling use of HTTP/2
(enabled by default).
2016-09-14 16:38:26 +02:00
Domen Kožar
0e3574d7f8 doc: move set functor para to Sets section 2016-08-26 19:19:24 +02:00
Domen Kožar
ed39532dda doc: add an example for builtins.substring 2016-08-11 12:32:24 +02:00
Domen Kožar
9a1320af29 s/powerpc-darwin/x86_64-darwin/
Let's step in line with time and document more realistic values.
2016-08-10 18:42:55 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra
2fad86f361 Remove $NIX_DB_DIR
This variable has no reason to exist, given $NIX_STATE_DIR.
2016-08-10 18:05:35 +02:00
Shea Levy
6e51af8023 Nuke nix-push.
Rarely used, nix copy replaces it.
2016-08-10 11:13:11 -04:00
Shea Levy
15c035c13f Remove nix-install-package.
Refs #831
2016-08-10 08:20:51 -04:00
Eelco Dolstra
77c2739c25 Grammar/spelling 2016-07-21 11:30:01 +02:00
Matthias Beyer
2ec9d2fb02 NIX_REMOTE_SYSTEMS path must be absolute (#957)
Once upon a time, I wrote my bachelors thesis about functional
deployment mechanisms.

I had to evaluate several szenarios where package management and
deployment were relevant. One szenario was to do distributed builds
over several machines.

I told myself: Weee, nix can do this! And with nix, this is actually
save, as you do not have side effects when building!

So I started. I use a cloud to set up four virtual machines where I
wanted to do the build. A fifth machine was used as master to distribute
the builds. All was good.

I created the necessary SSH keys, made sure every machine was reachable
by the master and configured the build in my remotes.conf.

When I started to try to build weechat from source, the build failed. It
failed, telling me

    error: unable to start any build; either increase ‘--max-jobs’ or enable distributed builds

And I started to dig around. I digged long and good. But I wasn't able
to find the issue.

I double and triple checked my environment variables, my settings, the
SSH key and everything.

I reached out to fellow Nixers by asking on the nixos IRC channel. And I
got help. But we weren't able to find the issue, either.

So I became frustrated. I re-did all the environment variables.

And suddenly,... it worked! What did I change? Well... I made the
environment variables which contained pathes contain absolute pathes
rather than relatives.

And because I like to share my knowledge, this should be put into the
documentation, so others do not bang their heads against the wall
because something is not documented somewhere.
2016-07-21 11:19:21 +02:00
Dmitry Kalinkin
2a788bf9e7 documentation: mention required openssl dependency (#974)
Fixes: a6ca68a7 ("Require OpenSSL")
2016-07-20 15:02:29 +02:00
aszlig
72fb2ccfa1
Don't hardcode docbook XSL namespace URL
Docbook XSL got updated to version 1.79.1 in NixOS/nixpkgs@fb893a8 and
we're still referring to the hardcoded previous version.

So instead of just updating this to 1.79.1 we're going to use "current"
in the hope that this won't happen again.

I have tested this by building the manual under Nix(OS) but I haven't
tested this in a non-Nix environment, so I'm not sure whether this could
have implications.

Signed-off-by: aszlig <aszlig@redmoonstudios.org>
Cc: @edolstra
2016-07-04 20:13:20 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra
fffacd7c78 Fix manual build
http://hydra.nixos.org/build/36944270
2016-06-20 16:55:22 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra
f94a804ced Restore instructions on how to install a binary tarball
Looks like these were accidentally commented out in
9ffc4f4363.
2016-06-17 15:26:10 +02:00
Johannes 'fish' Ziemke
df7e9b6d68 Remove nix-copy-closure reference note from nix-store docs
nix-copy-closure is not using nix-store directly anymore.
2016-06-15 15:58:13 +02:00
Domen Kožar
5339ae4437 Merge pull request #576 from qknight/args_explanation
extended args@ explanation
2016-05-30 23:40:17 +01:00
Joachim Schiele
6766041b84 Update language-constructs.xml 2016-05-30 23:58:45 +02:00
Joachim Schiele
659a3e399b Update language-constructs.xml 2016-05-30 23:58:13 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra
a375326a97 Merge pull request #884 from srp/fix-nix-build-examples
fix "nix-build" examples
2016-05-03 11:13:54 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra
8e065c6b3e BinaryCacheStore: Make the signing key a parameter 2016-04-29 16:47:20 +02:00
Scott R. Parish
96d3534a9e fix "nix-build" examples
The existing "nix-build" examples were failing:

  error: cannot auto-call a function that has an argument without a default value (‘system’)

Thanks to @groxxda on irc for pointing out the fix!

Updated to completely remove unneeded path argument, suggested by @joachifm

Updated to remove other occurences of `all-packages.nix` from files as
suggested by @domenkozar
2016-04-26 13:30:57 -07:00
Eelco Dolstra
41633f9f73 Improved logging abstraction
This also gets rid of --log-type, since the nested log type isn't
useful in a multi-threaded situation, and nobody cares about the
"pretty" log type.
2016-04-25 19:18:45 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra
31a1a8ed3c Merge pull request #815 from vcunat/p/outputsToInstall
nix-env: respect meta.outputsToInstall
2016-04-14 20:55:41 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra
58e423ce32 Remove PDF manual
More spring cleaning.
2016-04-14 12:50:01 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra
867967265b Remove manifest support
Manifests have been superseded by binary caches for years. This also
gets rid of nix-pull, nix-generate-patches and bsdiff/bspatch.
2016-04-11 16:20:15 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra
8cffec8485 Remove failed build caching
This feature was implemented for Hydra, but Hydra no longer uses it.
2016-04-08 18:19:04 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra
525c78a2c3 Remove references to old-school signing 2016-03-22 15:39:59 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra
e69c48dc43 Fix bad DocBook
http://hydra.nixos.org/build/33087405
2016-03-14 12:34:11 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra
1b18991082 Merge pull request #822 from cstrahan/nix-store-serve
add docs for `nix-store --serve`
2016-03-10 15:30:54 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra
b4e0335d4d Add option binary-cache-secret-key-file for signing binary caches 2016-03-04 17:45:22 +01:00
Charles Strahan
e3e5c8bc91 add docs for nix-store --serve 2016-02-27 22:39:29 -05:00
Vladimír Čunát
03cbb9ad59 nix-env: respect meta.outputsToInstall
Discussed on https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/pull/12653#discussion_r51601849
2016-02-23 14:19:14 +01:00
Shea Levy
037ff4e70a Merge branch 'docs' of git://github.com/joelmo/nix 2016-02-22 07:14:16 -05:00
Dan Connolly
b39ec410ee context for introducing runtime dependencies
The first occurrence of "runtime dependencies" wasn't related to the surrounding narrative.
2016-02-18 23:29:00 -06:00
Joel Moberg
bb36a1a3cf Document IN_NIX_SHELL variable 2016-02-18 23:32:37 +01:00
Scott Olson
37b8e59f6f Fix typo in nix-shell command reference. 2016-02-13 01:03:32 -07:00
Eelco Dolstra
b3e8d72770 Merge pull request #762 from ctheune/ctheune-floats
Implement floats
2016-02-12 12:49:59 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra
9e7c1a4bbd Use the daemon when we don't have write access to the Nix database 2016-01-31 10:28:48 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra
8b4577ac9d Grmbl 2016-01-19 12:35:17 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra
d704abc0f3 Update release notes 2016-01-18 15:59:28 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra
71e5b937fb Document --check 2016-01-18 15:54:14 +01:00
Peter Simons
a1bf934044 doc/manual/command-ref/nix-collect-garbage.xml: document --max-freed option
Mention the --max-freed option in the nix-collect-garbage man page.
Related to https://github.com/NixOS/nix/issues/609.
2016-01-18 13:25:36 +01:00
Christian Theune
b4bda4765a Update documentation for floats. 2016-01-06 08:41:53 +01:00
Fabian Schmitthenner
0eb200e569 propagate NIX_BUILD_SHELL also in pure builds document NIX_BUILD_SHELL in the nix-shell command documentation 2016-01-05 14:11:20 +01:00
Tim Cuthbertson
36b9ce24b1 doc: Clarify why multiple arguments are not supported in shebang line
It's not a limitation of `/usr/bin/env`, it's just how the OS processes shebang lines
(see http://stackoverflow.com/a/4304187)
2016-01-05 13:46:05 +01:00
Vladimír Čunát
29c0199d5c manual: document builtins.functionArgs
The text is just a conversion of comment from src/libexpr/primops.cc
2016-01-05 13:29:17 +01:00
davidak
5eb93556f1 doc: fixes #727 broken link 2016-01-05 13:28:34 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra
9be037448c Use sensible date format 2016-01-04 14:38:26 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra
f476535265 Update release notes 2016-01-04 14:29:23 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra
c0d4173263 Set default binary-caches-parallel-connections to 25
Some benchmarking suggested this as a good value. Running

  $ benchmark -f ... -t 25 -- sh -c 'rm -f /nix/var/nix/binary-cache*; nix-store -r /nix/store/x5z8a2yvz8h6ccmhwrwrp9igg03575jg-nixos-15.09.git.5fd87e1M.drv --dry-run --option binary-caches-parallel-connections <N>'

gave the following mean elapsed times for these values of N:

N=10:  3.3541
N=20:  2.9320
N=25:  2.6690
N=30:  2.9417
N=50:  3.2021
N=100: 3.5718
N=150: 4.2079

Memory usage is also reduced (N=150 used 186 MB, N=25 only 68 MB).

Closes #708.
2015-11-25 17:13:11 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra
0ab4d905e7 Merge branch 'p/sandbox-rename-minimal' of https://github.com/vcunat/nix 2015-11-25 14:53:42 +01:00
Rommel M. Martinez
cf141abfe9 Fixed typo. 2015-11-23 15:59:57 +08:00
Vladimír Čunát
b39622a487 rename chroot to sandbox (fixes #656, close #682)
- rename options but leav old names as lower-priority aliases,
  also "-dirs" -> "-paths" to get closer to the meaning
- update docs to reflect the new names (old aliases are not documented),
  including a new file with release notes
- tests need an update after corresponding changes to nixpkgs
- __noChroot is left as it is (after discussion on the PR)
2015-11-10 22:32:51 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra
8fdd156a65 Add option to verify build determinism
Passing "--option build-repeat <N>" will cause every build to be
repeated N times. If the build output differs between any round, the
build is rejected, and the output paths are not registered as
valid. This is primarily useful to verify build determinism. (We
already had a --check option to repeat a previously succeeded
build. However, with --check, non-deterministic builds are registered
in the DB. Preventing that is useful for Hydra to ensure that
non-deterministic builds don't end up getting published at all.)
2015-11-09 23:16:24 +01:00
Anders Claesson
055ab1fc8d Fix typo in doc for nix-copy-closure 2015-10-08 13:17:01 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra
f08449ccbd nix-prefetch-url: Add --name option
This allows overriding the name component of the resulting Nix store
path, which is necessary if the base name of the URI contains
"illegal" characters.
2015-10-07 14:55:33 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra
b54f447df9 nix-prefetch-url: Support unpacking tarballs
This allows nix-prefetch-url to prefetch the output of fetchzip and
its wrappers (like fetchFromGitHub). For example:

  $ nix-prefetch-url --unpack https://github.com/NixOS/patchelf/archive/0.8.tar.gz

or from a Nix expression:

  $ nix-prefetch-url -A nix-repl.src

In the latter case, --unpack can be omitted because nix-repl.src is a
fetchFromGitHub derivation and thus has "outputHashMode" set to
"recursive".
2015-10-07 14:40:10 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra
9ffc4f4363 Don't mention Fedora/Debian packages in the installation section
See d4a88df9d6
2015-10-05 18:46:25 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra
57db2aa220 Merge pull request #645 from acowley/patch-1
Update prerequisites-source.xml
2015-10-05 15:05:32 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra
06f29fafe8 nix-prefetch-url: Support prefetching from a Nix expression
For example,

  $ nix-prefetch-url -A hello.src

will prefetch the file specified by the fetchurl call in the attribute
‘hello.src’ from the Nix expression in the current directory. This
differs from ‘nix-build -A hello.src’ in that it doesn't verify the
hash.

You can also specify a path to the Nix expression:

  $ nix-prefetch-url ~/Dev/nixpkgs -A hello.src

List elements (typically used in ‘patches’ attributes) also work:

  $ nix-prefetch-url -A portmidi.patches.0
2015-10-01 18:07:56 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra
a3c4eb0964 nix-prefetch-url: $PRINT_PATH -> --print-path 2015-10-01 16:53:07 +02:00
Vladimír Čunát
12a4aea93d doc: fix the 'prebuild' typos 2015-09-17 12:08:05 +02:00
Anthony Cowley
e5c3e054ec Update prerequisites-source.xml
The Perl WWW::Curl bindings are required to build Nix.
2015-09-15 12:42:44 -04:00
Eelco Dolstra
6e06a18d1b Release notes 2015-09-03 11:57:47 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra
ce97523a7c Fix readDir example
Fixes https://github.com/NixOS/nixos-homepage/issues/46.
2015-09-01 16:53:51 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra
896428c818 Fix example 2015-08-05 17:36:33 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra
76cc8e97a2 Add sort primop 2015-07-28 18:39:39 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra
50807f3dd5 Add primop genList
This can be used to implement functions like ‘imap’ (or for that
matter, ‘map’) without the quadratic complexity incurred by calling
‘++’ repeatedly.
2015-07-28 17:28:35 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra
d6d5885c15 Add replaceStrings primop
This is a generalisation of replaceChars in Nixpkgs.
2015-07-24 15:32:24 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra
14be783676 Add primops all and any
These are used thousands of times during NixOS evaluation, so it's
useful to speed them up.
2015-07-23 19:23:11 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra
61af14a921 Add foldl' primop 2015-07-23 17:03:02 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra
ccf31dbc25 nix-copy-closure: Add -v flag
And make exportPath() less spammy by default.
2015-07-20 01:52:07 +02:00
Joachim Schiele
8ce96becf0 extended args@ explanation 2015-07-07 02:09:50 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra
39b3d9698e Typos 2015-06-12 11:02:40 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra
d1e4b76a3a Update release notes 2015-06-12 01:11:03 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra
7d148ad543 Fix manual 2015-06-08 11:25:04 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra
53dd97bb9d Document setting up signed binary caches 2015-06-01 17:14:16 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra
da196ec68f Document tarball downloading 2015-06-01 15:14:44 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra
feca5cb67f Document nix-shell #!-scripts 2015-06-01 13:49:11 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra
99c2c14f50 Typo 2015-06-01 13:04:10 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra
d68941d89d Nix 1.9 release notes 2015-06-01 12:57:43 +02:00
Charles Strahan
9c6328a7bf nix-env: document --set option 2015-05-19 11:00:15 +02:00
Shea Levy
4d652875bd Add the pre-build hook.
This hook can be used to set system-specific per-derivation build
settings that don't fit into the derivation model and are too complex or
volatile to be hard-coded into nix. Currently, the pre-build hook can
only add chroot dirs/files through the interface, but it also has full
access to the chroot root.

The specific use case for this is systems where the operating system ABI
is more complex than just the kernel-support system calls. For example,
on OS X there is a set of system-provided frameworks that can reliably
be accessed by any program linked to them, no matter the version the
program is running on. Unfortunately, those frameworks do not
necessarily live in the same locations on each version of OS X, nor do
their dependencies, and thus nix needs to know the specific version of
OS X currently running in order to make those frameworks available. The
pre-build hook is a perfect mechanism for doing just that.
2015-04-18 16:56:02 -04:00
Shea Levy
fd6774e285 Revert "Add the pre-build hook."
Going to reimplement differently.

This reverts commit 1e4a4a2e9f.
2015-04-18 14:59:58 -04:00
Shea Levy
1e4a4a2e9f Add the pre-build hook.
This hook can be used to set system specific per-derivation build
settings that don't fit into the derivation model and are too complex or
volatile to be hard-coded into nix. Currently, the pre-build hook can
only add chroot dirs/files.

The specific use case for this is systems where the operating system ABI
is more complex than just the kernel-supported system calls. For
example, on OS X there is a set of system-provided frameworks that can
reliably be accessed by any program linked to them, no matter the
version the program is running on. Unfortunately, those frameworks do
not necessarily live in the same locations on each version of OS X, nor
do their dependencies, and thus nix needs to know the specific version
of OS X currently running in order to make those frameworks available.
The pre-build hook is a perfect mechanism for doing just that.
2015-04-12 12:56:38 -04:00
Daniel Hahler
e659978ced Fix typos: s/the the/the/ 2015-03-06 16:43:22 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra
cffa7f80ab Typo 2015-02-23 16:02:50 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra
99897f6979 Use chroots for all derivations
If ‘build-use-chroot’ is set to ‘true’, fixed-output derivations are
now also chrooted. However, unlike normal derivations, they don't get
a private network namespace, so they can still access the
network. Also, the use of the ‘__noChroot’ derivation attribute is
no longer allowed.

Setting ‘build-use-chroot’ to ‘relaxed’ gives the old behaviour.
2015-02-23 15:54:31 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra
15d2d3c34e Add restricted evaluation mode
If ‘--option restrict-eval true’ is given, the evaluator will throw an
exception if an attempt is made to access any file outside of the Nix
search path. This is primarily intended for Hydra, where we don't want
people doing ‘builtins.readFile ~/.ssh/id_dsa’ or stuff like that.
2015-02-23 15:54:31 +01:00
Shea Levy
a8494de0be Merge branch 'docs/channels-path' of git://github.com/iElectric/nix 2015-02-22 11:59:38 -05:00
Domen Kožar
7bd8299c6c fixes https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/issues/6485 2015-02-22 08:39:29 -08:00
Shea Levy
e0953d53de Allow the leading component of a path to be a ~ 2015-02-19 08:05:16 -05:00
Eelco Dolstra
bd91064150 Use $<attr>Path instead of $<attr> for passAsFile 2015-02-17 16:42:54 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra
a70d275f3d Allow passing attributes via files instead of environment variables
Closes #473.
2015-02-17 14:42:15 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra
29e1ff675b Keep sorted 2015-02-17 13:55:37 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra
de8ed5c1d3 Typo 2015-02-04 18:17:06 +01:00
Shea Levy
d66d9e8425 Require linux 3.13 or later for chroot
Fixes #453
2015-02-04 18:15:56 +01:00
Tobias Geerinckx-Rice
c23d67920e doc: nix-channel --remove takes a name, not a url 2015-01-12 10:56:58 +01:00
Данило Глинський (Danylo Hlynskyi)
ed56ea980b Fix typo (assuming this is a typo)
Fix typo (assuming this is a typo)
`allowedRequisites` mentions `allowedReferences` in code example
2015-01-08 16:43:56 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra
128538ef06 nix-shell: Add --run flag
‘--run’ is like ‘--command’, except that it runs the command in a
non-interactive shell. This is important if you do things like:

  $ nix-shell --command make

Hitting Ctrl-C while make is running drops you into the interactive
Nix shell, which is probably not what you want. So you can now do

  $ nix-shell --run make

instead.
2015-01-08 15:14:38 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra
4d5c9d85ea Document how to set up build users on Mac OS X 2015-01-06 11:17:11 +01:00
j-keck
14fb7378df doc: remove wrong phrase.
'... another level of indirection not shown in the figure above ...'
but in the 'user-environments.png' figure there is '~/.nix-profile'.
the figure was updated with the commit: f982df3 on Mar 16, 2005.
2015-01-05 15:08:53 +01:00
j-keck
2c052278d2 doc: remove double word
'... when when ...' -> '... when ...'
2015-01-05 13:40:19 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra
411b237ee5 edition -> subtitle
For some reason, docbook-xsl doesn't render edition.
2015-01-02 12:53:32 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra
f16b8786a2 Belatedly add contributors 2014-12-16 18:58:04 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra
c2384052e3 Grmbl 2014-12-14 03:38:54 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra
47ed06a290 Add a section on nix-serve 2014-12-14 03:37:41 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra
2142f47c06 Add section on SSH substituter 2014-12-14 03:19:15 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra
68b4717873 Delete the stdenv section
It's outdated and better covered in the Nixpkgs manual.
2014-12-14 01:39:32 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra
6466d56f42 Bla 2014-12-14 01:33:16 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra
e90e7b5e0a Fix build
http://hydra.nixos.org/build/17894500
2014-12-14 01:29:35 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra
eb53f592b8 Fix image in PDF
Closes #415.
2014-12-14 01:23:06 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra
9c830394ec Rename files 2014-12-14 01:07:23 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra
4c4e891652 Update .nixpkg description 2014-12-13 23:27:22 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra
be79773542 ReiserFS -> ext4 2014-12-13 23:23:19 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra
4eace5adda Style 2014-12-13 23:21:14 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra
751ae181a1 Undocument nix-generate-patches 2014-12-13 23:17:26 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra
3b88d03714 Document channel format and excise most mentions of manifests and nix-pull 2014-12-13 23:16:08 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra
e5a51fab24 Style 2014-12-13 21:50:01 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra
a144eb1415 Don't use ?= 2014-12-11 10:44:02 +01:00
darealshinji
40e1203abc allow custom docbook paths/URLs, use a working URL for docbook.rng 2014-12-11 10:43:46 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra
d44d923be9 Add option to disable binary cache certificate checking 2014-12-09 13:16:02 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra
e5891f2ea8 Use https://cache.nixos.org instead of http://cache.nixos.org 2014-12-09 13:16:02 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra
5f04da905f Intro: Mention binary caches 2014-11-25 15:55:28 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra
d4c8ee7059 Rely on XML catalogs to find the DocBook schemas and stylesheets 2014-11-25 15:54:26 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra
976b949e4d More build-cache-failures -> build-cache-failure 2014-11-24 16:52:13 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra
215745415e Update installation section 2014-11-24 16:50:46 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra
103e4e43cc Update quick start section 2014-11-24 16:50:46 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra
2b74354e52 Combine introduction / quick start parts 2014-11-24 16:50:45 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra
5e04992d1f Manual: Bump date 2014-11-24 16:50:45 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra
69f91e3645 Don't claim FreeBSD support 2014-11-24 16:50:45 +01:00
Rob Vermaas
328a80e60a 'build-cache-failures' -> 'build-cache-failure' in nix.conf documentation. 2014-11-24 13:16:45 +01:00
Shea Levy
3d604ac88c Document functors 2014-11-15 16:25:47 -05:00
Eelco Dolstra
6f6b75cd09 Typo 2014-11-04 10:15:55 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra
1683fffd09 Update release notes 2014-10-29 16:18:39 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra
722bd041ce Document some primops 2014-10-29 16:18:03 +01:00
bobvanderlinden
5f7ded7d22 doc: fixed nix-instantiate --find-file
The manual said --file-file, which should be --find-file.
2014-10-27 08:45:10 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra
2c1711ae33 nix-channel: Add --rollback flag
Fixes #368.
2014-10-14 12:08:04 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra
104e55bb7f nix-env: Add regular expression support in selectors
So you can now do things like:

  $ nix-env -qa '.*zip.*'
  $ nix-env -qa '.*(firefox|chromium).*'
2014-10-03 21:29:40 +02:00
wmertens
e83a027e00 Remove bash requirement
As per https://github.com/NixOS/nixos-homepage/pull/16
2014-09-24 11:42:41 +02:00
Shell Turner
147fcdd137 Updated documentation for nix-install-package to mention --set flag 2014-09-23 15:11:25 +02:00
darealshinji
a5b5ebc45f add manpage for nix-generate-patches 2014-09-23 15:10:18 +02:00
Vladimír Čunát
c313d86bb8 manual: add a note that lists are strict in length
Close #345.
2014-09-23 15:08:33 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra
a2fc9c6b57 Remove unhelpful suggestion 2014-09-16 15:42:20 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra
3a52104bee Delete bugs.xml 2014-09-16 15:40:03 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra
5a0181c7f2 Make troubleshooting an appendix 2014-09-16 15:39:08 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra
f77d83c26b Style tweak 2014-09-16 15:37:38 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra
3c8522cc22 Fix parallel make of manpages 2014-09-16 15:29:55 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra
54adf344a3 Fix references to version.txt 2014-09-16 14:57:45 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra
7a740c9288 Drop separate release notes 2014-09-16 14:52:44 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra
b1af336132 Undocument NIX_OTHER_STORES 2014-09-16 14:49:00 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra
57f6463ec0 Tweak some chapter titles 2014-09-16 14:38:37 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra
d0608da13f Drop "service deployment" bla bla 2014-09-16 14:36:32 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra
8b760182cd Drop reference to FreeBSD 2014-09-16 14:35:11 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra
f271b94652 Remove pointless "license" section 2014-09-16 14:33:39 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra
7a68b4e4d3 Release notes: Use a section per version 2014-09-16 14:29:00 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra
9ed49c1da0 Nicer file names for the release notes 2014-09-16 14:18:55 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra
8259a392da Manual build fixes 2014-09-16 14:14:09 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra
f0ef6b74b9 Merge branch 'master' of github.com:thatdocslady/nix
Conflicts:
	doc/manual/release-notes.xml
	doc/manual/writing-nix-expressions.xml
2014-09-16 14:13:36 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra
67e5dd3ce9 Add some hyperlinks between NIXPATH and -I 2014-09-16 11:20:09 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra
9eddf6f0b6 allowedRequisites: Drop stdenv mention
I don't think it's a good idea to use allowedRequisites for stdenv, so
don't mention it here.
2014-08-28 18:26:01 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra
b5da80e627 Fix manual build 2014-08-28 18:25:16 +02:00
Gergely Risko
fd61069a42 Introduce allowedRequisites feature 2014-08-28 18:23:55 +02:00
Mikey Ariel
8901acc976 Restructuring the Nix manual 2014-08-27 18:41:09 +02:00
Gergely Risko
4b0a720ddf Document the "out" usage in allowedReferences 2014-08-23 11:11:19 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra
401ab50566 Remove pointless NIX_LOG_TYPE environment variable 2014-08-13 01:19:02 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra
7018830509 Update manual 2014-08-04 18:00:33 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra
1a44f1cb65 nix-copy-closure: Drop --bzip2, --xz, --show-progress
These are too difficult to implement via nix-store --serve.

‘--show-progress’ could be re-implemented fairly easily via a
sink/source wrapper class.
2014-07-24 17:11:54 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra
f609eec71a Bump 2014-07-18 00:01:06 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra
049c0eb49c nix-daemon: Add trusted-users and allowed-users options
‘trusted-users’ is a list of users and groups that have elevated
rights, such as the ability to specify binary caches. It defaults to
‘root’. A typical value would be ‘@wheel’ to specify all users in the
wheel group.

‘allowed-users’ is a list of users and groups that are allowed to
connect to the daemon. It defaults to ‘*’. A typical value would be
‘@users’ to specify the ‘users’ group.
2014-07-17 16:57:07 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra
a2c85b2ef8 Manual: Typo 2014-07-16 11:21:44 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra
beaf3e90af Add builtin function ‘fromJSON’
Fixes #294.
2014-07-04 13:34:15 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra
e82951fe23 Manual: html -> xhtml 2014-07-03 12:36:58 +02:00
Paul Colomiets
858b8f9760 Add --json argument to nix-instantiate 2014-06-27 11:23:40 +02:00
Adam Szkoda
8ea9fd7aa6 Rephrase @ operator description 2014-05-26 17:20:58 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra
9f9080e2c0 nix-store -l: Fetch build logs from the Internet
If a build log is not available locally, then ‘nix-store -l’ will now
try to download it from the servers listed in the ‘log-servers’ option
in nix.conf. For instance, if you have:

  log-servers = http://hydra.nixos.org/log

then it will try to get logs from http://hydra.nixos.org/log/<base
name of the store path>. So you can do things like:

  $ nix-store -l $(which xterm)

and get a log even if xterm wasn't built locally.
2014-05-21 17:19:36 +02:00
Charles Strahan
a55e77ae10 fix typo 2014-05-13 10:54:03 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra
a8c31d5011 Simplify multi-user installation instructions 2014-05-02 14:44:44 +02:00
Charles Strahan
eeffdb74dc doc fix: swap 'import' and 'export' 2014-04-28 13:42:03 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra
31fe55bb8e trunk -> master 2014-04-25 14:55:13 +02:00
Ricardo M. Correia
700c678c2e nix-env: Minor change to '--delete-generations Nd' semantics
The option '--delete-generations Nd' deletes all generations older than N
days. However, most likely the user does not want to delete the
generation that was active N days ago.

For example, say that you have these 3 generations:

1: <30 days ago>
2: <15 days ago>
3: <1 hour ago>

If you do --delete-generations 7d (say, as part of a cron job), most
likely you still want to keep generation 2, i.e. the generation that was
active 7 days ago (and for most of the past 7 days, in fact).

This patch fixes this issue. Note that this also affects
'nix-collect-garbage --delete-older-than Nd'.

Thanks to @roconnor for noticing the issue!
2014-04-15 15:34:58 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra
a1917208c0 Bump date 2014-04-11 15:11:28 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra
924e19341a Don't barf when installing as root 2014-04-10 23:42:48 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra
b0a09a6f32 Add docbook icons to the distribution
Grmbl...
2014-04-09 14:52:43 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra
e0a947cde6 Simplify quick start section 2014-04-08 16:28:39 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra
d23931f3a4 Remove redundant stuff 2014-04-08 16:10:25 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra
4846005741 Update installation instructions 2014-04-08 16:09:56 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra
89f9232813 Update release notes 2014-04-07 12:00:23 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra
3f8e1f5682 Update release notes 2014-04-04 14:51:07 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra
1f19fdbd45 Document that we require a C++11 compiler 2014-04-04 13:49:53 +02:00
Ricardo M. Correia
034b6f6062 nix-collect-garbage: Add --delete-older-than option 2014-03-30 00:54:16 +01:00
Ricardo M. Correia
7ef7597f71 nix-env: Add support for --delete-generations 15d
It will delete all generations older than the specified number of days.
2014-03-30 00:54:16 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra
006f24c7fa Document nix-env -q --json 2014-03-12 14:25:48 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra
d435e46daa Generate release notes again 2014-03-12 14:24:29 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra
e9934bb5ad Update release notes for 1.7 2014-03-12 13:58:06 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra
92a848f674 Fix typos 2014-03-11 13:16:21 +01:00
Shea Levy
2f2a20ed18 Document null dynamic attrs 2014-03-11 13:15:06 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra
3a86888fd7 Typo 2014-02-28 14:01:31 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra
7f74513b4e Also provide an option for setting the curl connection timeout 2014-02-26 16:07:43 +01:00
Shea Levy
733214144a Document dynamic attributes
Signed-off-by: Shea Levy <shea@shealevy.com>
2014-02-26 14:06:45 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra
36b90e72d7 nix-shell: Add --packages flag
This allows you to easily set up a build environment containing the
specified packages from Nixpkgs.  For example:

  $ nix-shell -p sqlite xorg.libX11 hello

will start a shell in which the given packages are present.
2014-02-19 17:08:01 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra
e1cf40fa95 nix-instantiate: Rename --eval-only to --eval, --parse-only to --parse 2014-02-19 16:34:24 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra
c31836008e nix-instantiate: Add a flag --expr / -E to read expressions from the command line
This is basically a shortcut for ‘echo 'expr...' | nix-instantiate -’.
Also supported by nix-build and nix-shell.
2014-02-19 16:30:19 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra
e707a8a526 Move manpages around 2014-02-19 15:32:19 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra
1da6ae4f99 nix-store --gc --max-freed: Support a unit specifier
E.g. "--max-freed 10G" means "free ten gigabytes".
2014-02-17 14:48:50 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra
e81d38c02b nix-shell: Execute shellHook if it exists
Since normal builds don't execute shellHook, this allows nix-shell
specific customisation.  Suggested by Domen.
2014-02-17 13:34:24 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra
f9fc6acbf4 Document current meaning of preferLocalBuild
Closes #208.
2014-02-12 10:53:22 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra
57386c9bae Binary tarball: Automatically create /nix
The tarball can now be unpacked anywhere.  The installation script
uses "sudo" to create /nix if it doesn't exist.  It also fetches the
nixpkgs-unstable channel.
2014-02-10 16:35:59 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra
b632153ebd nix-shell: Use shell.nix as the default expression if it exists 2014-02-10 10:25:13 +01:00
Shea Levy
e4058fab64 Rename --no-readonly-mode --read-write-mode
Signed-off-by: Shea Levy <shea@shealevy.com>
2014-02-07 18:03:38 +01:00
Shea Levy
0c3e8a616e nix-instantiate: Add a --no-readonly-mode flag
This allows running nix-instantiate --eval-only without performing the
evaluation in readonly mode, letting features like import from
derivation and automatic substitution of builtins.storePath paths work.

Signed-off-by: Shea Levy <shea@shealevy.com>
2014-02-07 18:03:38 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra
6dca72006a Only run "git ls-files" when doing "make check" 2014-02-01 16:30:24 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra
844d83352c More "make dist" fixes 2014-02-01 15:18:48 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra
6ef32bddc1 Fix "make dist" 2014-02-01 14:38:12 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra
0c6d62cf27 Remove Automakefiles 2014-02-01 13:54:38 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra
16e7d69209 Update Makefile variable names 2014-02-01 13:54:38 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra
ac8c2ef1aa Build/install manual 2014-02-01 11:30:21 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra
e640d67144 Document nulls 2014-01-13 13:50:12 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra
77c13cdf56 Add a toJSON primop 2013-11-19 00:04:11 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra
a478e8a7bb Remove nix-setuid-helper
AFAIK, nobody uses it, it's not maintained, and it has no tests.
2013-11-14 11:57:37 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra
1dacd427cd Update release notes, set version for 1.6.1 release 2013-10-28 11:56:21 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
36e67ff16b Undocument obsolete form of "let" 2013-10-24 22:06:39 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra
fba17a9043 Doc fix 2013-10-24 22:05:58 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra
5bc41d78ff Rename "attribute sets" to "sets"
We don't have any other kind of sets so calling them attribute sets is
unnecessarily verbose.
2013-10-24 16:41:04 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra
9e4bb20455 Manual: Fix broken URLs
Fixes #172.
2013-10-24 16:02:08 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra
a5684e09d3 Document typeOf 2013-10-24 02:56:00 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra
6da92d96ae Document NIX_SHOW_STATS and NIX_COUNT_CALLS 2013-10-24 02:22:24 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra
792fd51f41 Fold two stack trace messages in derivations
Combined with the previous changes, stack traces involving derivations
are now much less verbose, since something like

  while evaluating the builtin function `getAttr':
  while evaluating the builtin function `derivationStrict':
  while instantiating the derivation named `gtk+-2.24.20' at `/home/eelco/Dev/nixpkgs/pkgs/development/libraries/gtk+/2.x.nix:11:3':
  while evaluating the derivation attribute `propagatedNativeBuildInputs' at `/home/eelco/Dev/nixpkgs/pkgs/stdenv/generic/default.nix:78:17':
  while evaluating the attribute `outPath' at `/nix/store/212ngf4ph63mp6p1np2bapkfikpakfv7-nix-1.6/share/nix/corepkgs/derivation.nix:18:9':
  ...

now reads

  while evaluating the attribute `propagatedNativeBuildInputs' of the derivation `gtk+-2.24.20' at `/home/eelco/Dev/nixpkgs/pkgs/development/libraries/gtk+/2.x.nix:11:3':
  ...
2013-10-17 11:57:25 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra
bb659bad81 Nix 1.6.1 release notes 2013-10-17 11:40:20 +02:00
goblin
d7625b5c2d two typos 2013-10-17 00:59:19 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra
d5529f5b85 Version was called 1.6, not 1.6.0 2013-09-10 17:48:11 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra
fecad91b67 Update release notes 2013-09-10 11:21:30 +02:00
Domen Kožar
4b83830d0c typo 2013-09-06 15:18:07 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra
2c1ecf8e81 nix-env -i: Add a flag ‘--remove-all’ / ‘-r’
This is equivalent to running ‘nix-env -e '*'’ first, except that it
happens in a single transaction.  Thus, ‘nix-env -i pkgs...’ replaces
the profile with the specified set of packages.

The main motivation is to support declarative package management
(similar to environment.systemPackages in NixOS).  That is, if you
have a specification ‘profile.nix’ like this:

  with import <nixpkgs> {};
  [ thunderbird
    geeqie
    ...
  ]

then after any change to ‘profile.nix’, you can run:

  $ nix-env -f profile.nix -ir

to update the profile to match the specification.  (Without the ‘-r’
flag, if you remove a package from ‘profile.nix’, it won't be removed
from the actual profile.)

Suggested by @zefhemel.
2013-09-03 21:21:14 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra
c28dfc0305 Manual: Make '' a bit clearer
Issue #162.
2013-09-02 13:24:29 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra
e9b92169a5 Fix manual error
Reported by Matija Šuklje.

Fixes #163.
2013-09-02 13:19:34 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra
ecd830b3b9 Update the release notes 2013-09-02 13:11:36 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra
efe4289464 Add an option to limit the log output of builders
This is mostly useful for Hydra to deal with builders that get stuck
in an infinite loop writing data to stdout/stderr.
2013-09-02 11:58:18 +02:00
Ivan Kozik
6cd6ce5608 Fix nix-shell command 2013-08-26 11:15:22 +02:00
Ivan Kozik
34bb806f74 Fix typos, especially those that end up in the Nix manual 2013-08-26 11:15:22 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra
03eaef3d7a Manual: Don't use actual hashes of Nix dependencies
These cause an unnecessary runtime dependency :-)
2013-08-23 10:12:20 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra
b3110a15e9 Fix corrupt PNG
Libpng used to accept this, but no longer does.
2013-08-21 12:53:51 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra
7b09e9f2c4 Add hacking notes plus a script for running nix-shell 2013-07-19 16:51:31 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra
2bc5de8635 Rename ‘nix-build --run-env’ to ‘nix-shell’ 2013-07-19 12:02:44 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra
dc5f2e7da6 nix-build --run-env: Add a ‘--pure’ flag
This causes the environment to be (almost) cleared, thus giving a
shell that more closely resembled the actual Nix derivation.
2013-07-19 11:23:32 +02:00
Domen Kožar
620d57f036 doc: typo 2013-07-12 11:27:43 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra
656390062a nix-build --run-env: Source $stdenv/setup in the interactive shell
This ensures that not just environment variables are set, but also
shell functions such as unpackPhase, configurePhase and so on.
2013-07-11 14:32:22 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra
b584a42e3d Manual: auto-optimise-store is disabled by default 2013-07-03 18:35:59 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra
5116214343 Add support for uncompressed NARs in binary caches
Issue NixOS/hydra#102.
2013-07-01 21:03:14 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra
6016bcd30e Update release notes for Nix 1.5.3 2013-06-17 11:47:38 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra
bfee9a2581 Typo 2013-06-13 14:51:11 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra
f0576d6775 Update the default binary cache URL to cache.nixos.org 2013-06-05 13:36:43 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra
039d5a023f .bashrc -> .profile 2013-05-29 12:36:56 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra
6e85d1b5ba Bump release date 2013-05-13 16:52:08 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra
806970349b Update release date 2013-05-07 15:46:25 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra
ea019e9a26 Add option ‘extra-binary-caches’
This allows providing additional binary caches, useful in scripts like
Hydra's build reproduction scripts, in particular because untrusted
caches are ignored.
2013-05-07 15:37:28 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra
93f4fa8a15 Update release notes 2013-05-03 11:28:32 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra
3628b61ce0 Nix 1.5.2 release notes 2013-05-01 13:31:33 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra
05420e7883 Manual: Add a missing step to the build instructions
Reported by Johan Grande.
2013-04-09 17:57:48 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra
a68ebf8e37 Require Bison 2.6 2013-03-14 18:33:15 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra
bdd4646338 Revert "Prevent config.h from being clobbered"
This reverts commit 28bba8c44f.
2013-03-08 01:24:59 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra
28bba8c44f Prevent config.h from being clobbered 2013-03-07 23:55:55 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra
9fa1bee575 Update release notes
Also use a point release version number as suggested by several
people.
2013-02-28 19:36:02 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra
0111ba98ea Handle hard links to other files in the output 2013-02-27 17:18:41 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra
ca9c02dff1 Update release notes 2013-02-26 13:23:09 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra
79a3ba7fa3 Document ‘hashString’ 2013-02-08 20:04:14 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra
9842077cb2 Improve -I description
Issue #88.
2013-01-24 13:00:44 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra
92926be2fe Fix "0 store paths deleted" message 2013-01-04 15:17:19 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra
def5160b61 Clear any immutable bits in the Nix store
Doing this once makes subsequent operations like garbage collecting
more efficient since we don't have to call makeMutable() first.
2013-01-03 12:59:23 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra
f12492c66d Manual: Fix "nix-store --export" example 2013-01-02 22:36:08 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra
aebea2e489 Reinstate the http://nixos.org/binary-cache default for the binary-caches setting 2013-01-02 22:16:37 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra
42d6f640c1 Update release notes 2013-01-02 13:00:55 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra
b7629778ef Allow mounting a path in a different location in the chroot
Fixes #24.
2012-12-29 23:04:02 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra
68dcbb187e download-from-binary-cache: Use the channels of the calling user rather than root
This should make live easier for single-user (non-daemon)
installations.  Note that when the daemon is used, the "calling user"
is root so we're not using any untrusted caches.
2012-12-21 15:00:07 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra
5ee7d8fbab Typo fix 2012-12-21 00:18:59 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra
9fa12fc201 Allow setting the profile location using $NIX_PROFILE
Fixes #69.
2012-12-12 16:01:46 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra
8cc19ed089 Set a long SQLite timeout in the binary cache substituter 2012-12-06 11:43:34 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra
0f96966a44 Add release date 2012-12-05 11:03:06 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra
a7b4aaa2c3 Updated release notes 2012-12-04 17:41:51 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra
094a08f839 Document new primops 2012-12-04 17:15:32 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra
24d5875514 Document multiple output support 2012-12-04 16:03:56 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra
a3d6585c5a nix-copy-closure: Add flag ‘--use-substitutes’ 2012-11-23 16:20:16 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra
9de6bc5d05 nix-store -r: Add ‘--ignore-unknown’ flag
This flag causes paths that do not have a known substitute to be
quietly ignored.  This is mostly useful for Charon, allowing it to
speed up deployment by letting a machine use substitutes for all
substitutable paths, instead of uploading them.  The latter is
frequently faster, e.g. if the target machine has a fast Internet
connection while the source machine is on a slow ADSL line.
2012-11-20 00:27:25 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra
182e15b661 Manual: Don't use a store path in our closure
http://hydra.nixos.org/build/3313227
2012-11-09 16:30:15 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra
a9a8baaccb Use a shorter Nixpkgs channel URL 2012-11-09 13:33:35 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra
c31ebc50aa Update release notes 2012-11-09 13:33:24 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra
bbc107ef1e Process binary caches in order of priority
Binary caches can now specify a priority in their nix-cache-info file.
The binary cache substituter checks caches in order of priority.  This
is to ensure that fast, static caches like nixos.org/binary-cache are
processed before slow, dynamic caches like hydra.nixos.org.
2012-11-06 17:45:20 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra
3a95e1a17c Update nix-push manpage and document the binary cache format 2012-11-06 15:49:53 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra
620e92e880 Add an option ‘use-binary-caches’
This allows disabling the use of binary caches, e.g.

  $ nix-build ... --option use-binary-caches false

Note that

  $ nix-build ... --option binary-caches ''

does not disable all binary caches, since the caches defined by
channels will still be used.
2012-11-06 13:44:59 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra
a28b4445a4 nix-prefetch-url: Improve option handling 2012-10-23 18:04:11 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra
ac238d619c Typo
Reported by Shea.
2012-10-12 10:21:04 -04:00
Eelco Dolstra
bfaa5635de Manual: Don't use a store path that actually exists
http://hydra.nixos.org/build/3124130
2012-10-04 13:37:30 -04:00
Eelco Dolstra
e35d6f78dc Rename nix-worker to nix-daemon 2012-10-03 17:59:23 -04:00
Eelco Dolstra
522ecab9b8 Drop support for running nix-worker in "slave" mode
AFAIK nobody uses this, setuid binaries are evil, and there is no good
reason why people can't just run the daemon.
2012-10-03 17:30:45 -04:00
Eelco Dolstra
9c41c66c5b Document ‘--repair’ 2012-10-03 15:53:25 -04:00
Eelco Dolstra
8e3a7bd712 nix-store --verify: Add an option ‘--repair’ to repair all missing/corrupt paths
Also, return a non-zero exit code if errors remain after
verifying/repairing.
2012-10-02 15:12:56 -04:00
Eelco Dolstra
9958bd6992 Add operation ‘nix-store --repair-path’
This operation allows fixing corrupted or accidentally deleted store
paths by redownloading them using substituters, if available.

Since the corrupted path cannot be replaced atomically, there is a
very small time window (one system call) during which neither the old
(corrupted) nor the new (repaired) contents are available.  So
repairing should be used with some care on critical packages like
Glibc.
2012-10-02 14:08:59 -04:00
Eelco Dolstra
95c74eae26 Allow dashes in identifiers
In Nixpkgs, the attribute in all-packages.nix corresponding to a
package is usually equal to the package name.  However, this doesn't
work if the package contains a dash, which is fairly common.  The
convention is to replace the dash with an underscore (e.g. "dbus-lib"
becomes "dbus_glib"), but that's annoying.  So now dashes are valid in
variable / attribute names, allowing you to write:

  dbus-glib = callPackage ../development/libraries/dbus-glib { };

and

  buildInputs = [ dbus-glib ];

Since we don't have a negation or subtraction operation in Nix, this
is unambiguous.
2012-09-27 15:49:20 -04:00
Eelco Dolstra
f46612be96 Add "on Linux" qualifier 2012-09-25 16:30:37 -04:00
Eelco Dolstra
0f358ca5b6 Document that Nix requires GNU Make
Fixes #44.
2012-09-25 16:17:30 -04:00
Eelco Dolstra
cb6651e878 Update release notes 2012-09-25 16:04:50 -04:00
Eelco Dolstra
983220bcd4 nix-collect-garbage: Support --dry-run 2012-09-13 18:09:20 -04:00
Eelco Dolstra
9fd9dedf12 nix-env --delete-generations: Support --dry-run flag
Fixes #43.
2012-09-13 18:05:04 -04:00
Eelco Dolstra
c845c0ccad nix-channel: Add option to force fetching of manifests 2012-09-13 12:11:40 -04:00
Shea Levy
360056e174 Document importing from a directory in the import documentation 2012-08-29 18:07:51 -04:00
Eelco Dolstra
9e2fc6951c Disable the binary cache substituter by default for now 2012-08-27 14:20:14 -04:00
Eelco Dolstra
9c2decaa19 Merge branch 'master' into no-manifests 2012-08-01 18:03:49 -04:00
Eelco Dolstra
5170c5691a nix-channel: Use binary caches advertised by channels
Channels can now advertise a binary cache by creating a file
<channel-url>/binary-cache-url.  The channel unpacker puts these in
its "binary-caches" subdirectory.  Thus, the URLS of the binary caches
for the channels added by root appear in
/nix/var/nix/profiles/per-user/eelco/channels/binary-caches/*.  The
binary cache substituter reads these and adds them to the list of
binary caches.
2012-08-01 17:56:11 -04:00
Eelco Dolstra
4d1b64f118 Allow daemon users to override ‘binary-caches’
For security reasons, daemon users can only specify caches that appear
in the ‘binary-caches’ and ‘trusted-binary-caches’ options in
nix.conf.
2012-07-31 18:56:22 -04:00
Eelco Dolstra
89a8207029 Add an option ‘build-fallback’ (equivalent to the --fallback flag) 2012-07-31 17:56:02 -04:00
Eelco Dolstra
157170059d Manual: Remove reference to non-existent -I option 2012-07-30 22:29:42 -04:00
Eelco Dolstra
9de6d10d11 Get rid of $NIX_BINARY_CACHES
You can use ‘--option binary-caches URLs’ instead.
2012-07-30 16:39:31 -04:00
Eelco Dolstra
f15083c10a Document the --option flag
Pointed out by Daniel Santa Cruz on IRC.
2012-07-29 14:37:40 -04:00
Eelco Dolstra
8c79100839 Merge branch 'master' into no-manifests 2012-07-26 15:14:33 -04:00
Eelco Dolstra
6193105710 Automatically optimise the Nix store when a new path is added
Auto-optimisation is enabled by default.  It can be turned off by
setting auto-optimise-store to false in nix.conf.
2012-07-23 17:14:15 -04:00
Eelco Dolstra
58337e0e61 Set release date 2012-07-18 11:51:27 -04:00
Eelco Dolstra
fe241ece29 Merge branch 'master' into no-manifests 2012-07-18 10:47:59 -04:00
Eelco Dolstra
51d71ad3d7 Manual: Don't claim we support Cygwin 2012-07-17 11:49:47 -04:00
Eelco Dolstra
6c01fb4d68 Update Nix 1.1 release notes 2012-07-17 10:06:20 -04:00
Eelco Dolstra
53b24f3518 Allow disabling log compression 2012-07-17 09:40:12 -04:00
Eelco Dolstra
04559a0d45 Merge branch 'master' of github.com:NixOS/nix into no-manifests 2012-07-11 18:53:27 -04:00
Eelco Dolstra
e4d6bcb6cd Update release notes 2012-07-11 18:52:23 -04:00
Eelco Dolstra
5755a5c354 Install a nix.conf manpage 2012-07-09 11:33:38 -04:00
Eelco Dolstra
099125435f download-from-binary-cache: add nix.conf options 2012-07-09 10:57:28 -04:00
Eelco Dolstra
8da6772ed4 Update release notes 2012-06-23 14:59:13 -04:00
Eelco Dolstra
2c26985835 Add option ‘build-keep-log’ to enable/disable writing of build logs
Fixes #26.
2012-05-29 16:42:05 -04:00
Eelco Dolstra
8058dab26e Clean up the installation section; document the generic binary tarballs 2012-05-24 12:04:07 -04:00
Eelco Dolstra
587b408210 Set release date 2012-05-11 17:40:58 -04:00
Eelco Dolstra
8a08813d6c Manual updates 2012-05-11 17:39:06 -04:00
Eelco Dolstra
2b00e6990c CSS tweaks 2012-05-11 16:21:21 -04:00
Eelco Dolstra
4d383f57f4 Document "nix-build --run-env" 2012-05-10 19:29:36 -04:00
Eelco Dolstra
6a7b24a3f2 Document "nix-store --add" 2012-05-10 18:09:45 -04:00
Eelco Dolstra
cb1248d208 Document some nix-store subcommands 2012-05-09 19:06:39 -04:00
Eelco Dolstra
7a213ffc69 Document $NIX_PATH / -I 2012-05-09 19:06:13 -04:00
Eelco Dolstra
a58efdb69b Update the release notes 2012-05-09 19:05:30 -04:00
Eelco Dolstra
afa7b8a479 nix-channel --update: allow updating only the specified channels 2012-05-07 17:55:56 -04:00
Eelco Dolstra
db5b86ef13 * Add an option ‘build-use-substitutes’, which can be set to ‘false’
to disable use of substitutes; i.e., force building from source.
  Fixes Nix/221.
2012-04-30 19:15:34 -04:00
Eelco Dolstra
59a26360c7 Support mandatory system features in the build hook
Mandatory features are features that MUST be present in a derivation's
requiredSystemFeatures attribute.  One application is performance
testing, where we have a dedicated machine to run performance tests
(and nothing else).  Then we would add the label "perf" to the
machine's mandatory features and to the performance testing
derivations.
2012-04-30 17:22:45 -04:00
Eelco Dolstra
82ae0e688c Update the documentation of build-remote.pl 2012-04-30 16:49:00 -04:00
Eelco Dolstra
9cd3ff1059 nix-instantiate: default to "default.nix" if no arguments are given 2012-04-17 17:19:43 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra
8745fade03 Added utility command ‘nix-instantiate --find-file’ to look up a file in Nix's search path 2012-04-17 17:14:14 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra
e855c7e2c9 nix-channel improvements
"nix-channel --add" now accepts a second argument: the channel name.
This allows channels to have a nicer name than (say) nixpkgs_unstable.
If no name is given, it defaults to the last component of the URL
(with "-unstable" or "-stable" removed).

Also, channels are now stored in a profile
(/nix/var/nix/profiles/per-user/$USER/channels).  One advantage of
this is that it allows rollbacks (e.g. if "nix-channel --update" gives
an undesirable update).
2012-04-14 18:38:52 +02:00
Shea Levy
055e803851 Add the '--show-progress' flag to nix-copy-closure 2012-04-13 14:29:12 +02:00
Shea Levy
242a99c95a Nix is on github now 2012-04-08 23:59:02 -04:00
Eelco Dolstra
533250a4a3 Fix building from the tarball 2012-04-06 22:54:15 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra
831c7aa410 Documentation fix 2012-04-06 22:03:19 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra
5863987bba Include environment variables in the manpages 2012-04-06 21:56:20 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra
998b977ede Include common options in the manpages using some XInclude hackery 2012-04-06 21:45:00 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra
d49ef039dd Update affiliation 2012-04-06 21:43:56 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra
5a6d50998d Add a missing DocBook source file to the tarball
Reported on IRC by Adrian Siekierka.
2012-04-06 20:26:30 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra
8be1979f1a Remove the --max-links GC option
We don't need this anymore now that current filesystems support more
than 32,000 files in a directory.
2012-03-26 20:00:02 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra
b006a31d52 Drop the externals directory
Nix now requires SQLite and bzip2 to be pre-installed.  SQLite is
detected using pkg-config.  We required DBD::SQLite anyway, so
depending on SQLite is not a big problem.

The --with-bzip2, --with-openssl and --with-sqlite flags are gone.
2012-03-18 23:54:57 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra
4e624849b6 * Added a command ‘nix-store --print-env $drvpath’ that prints out the
environment of the given derivation in a format that can be sourced
  by the shell, e.g.

  $ eval "$(nix-store --print-env $(nix-instantiate /etc/nixos/nixpkgs -A pkg))"
  $ NIX_BUILD_TOP=/tmp
  $ source $stdenv/setup

  This is especially useful to reproduce the environment used to build
  a package outside of its builder for development purposes.

  TODO: add a nix-build option to do the above and fetch the
  dependencies of the derivation as well.
2012-01-17 23:07:22 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
2a3f4110c5 * nix-build: put the temporary derivation symlink in a temporary
directory rather than the current directory.
* nix-build: --drv-link now implies --add-drv-link.
2012-01-13 23:35:07 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
93e71e6ab6 * Follow our own coding conventions. 2011-12-30 17:39:03 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
f2d65c9c80 * Remove a redundant dot (Nicolas Pierron). 2011-12-30 17:31:58 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
ed11b17b2e * Fix doc error. 2011-12-30 13:43:29 +00:00
Peter Simons
be9be4c147 doc/manual/nix-env.xml: fixed "nix-env -qaA" typo 2011-12-01 08:03:30 +00:00
Peter Simons
3c7ec8fc1b doc/manual/nix-env.xml: stripped trailing whitespace 2011-12-01 08:02:37 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
f3bc98b001 2011-11-23 15:39:54 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
10e2b2b79e * Document the --include-outputs option. 2011-11-23 15:39:02 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
d5ac78e0d6 * Add bzip2 and xz support to nix-copy-closure. 2011-11-23 15:29:58 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
daed9aeac5 2011-11-03 19:22:24 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
d7b87bebe3 * The Nix configuration file is usually /etc/nix/nix.conf. 2011-11-03 18:47:10 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
325b5a8aee * Fix permission on /nix/store in the manual for multi-user installs
(reported by Silvio Frischknecht).
2011-11-02 19:14:54 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
e6cb3d0a0d * Added a command ‘nix-store --verify-paths PATHS’ to check whether
the contents of any of the given store paths have been modified.
  E.g.

    $ nix-store --verify-path $(nix-store -qR /var/run/current-system)
    path `/nix/store/m2smyiwbxidlprfxfz4rjlvz2c3mg58y-etc' was modified! expected hash `fc87e271c5fdf179b47939b08ad13440493805584b35e3014109d04d8436e7b8', got `20f1a47281b3c0cbe299ce47ad5ca7340b20ab34246426915fce0ee9116483aa'

  All paths are checked; the exit code is 1 if any path has been
  modified, 0 otherwise.
2011-09-06 12:06:30 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
1ecc97b6bd * Add a Nix expression search path feature. Paths between angle
brackets, e.g.

    import <nixpkgs/pkgs/lib>

  are resolved by looking them up relative to the elements listed in
  the search path.  This allows us to get rid of hacks like

    import "${builtins.getEnv "NIXPKGS_ALL"}/pkgs/lib"

  The search path can be specified through the ‘-I’ command-line flag
  and through the colon-separated ‘NIX_PATH’ environment variable,
  e.g.,

    $ nix-build -I /etc/nixos ...

  If a file is not found in the search path, an error message is
  lazily thrown.
2011-08-06 16:05:24 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
0a623a10c7 * Allow a default value in attribute selection by writing
x.y.z or default

  (as originally proposed in
  https://mail.cs.uu.nl/pipermail/nix-dev/2009-September/002989.html).

  For instance, an expression like

    stdenv.lib.attrByPath ["features" "ckSched"] false args

  can now be written as

    args.features.ckSched or false
2011-07-13 12:19:57 +00:00
Ludovic Courtès
1ea6e06445 doc: Fix typo. 2011-06-30 15:48:40 +00:00
Ludovic Courtès
5c9e9f732d Add support for the build-timeout' and --timeout' options. 2011-06-30 15:19:13 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
48bdbbf070 * Fix a bug in the documentation (reported by Olexiy Buyanskyy,
Nix/215).
2011-03-15 13:12:59 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
e60c962fb8 * Add an operation `nix-store -q --size'. 2010-11-17 12:40:52 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
fb9368b5a0 * Sync with the trunk. 2010-11-16 12:49:47 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
26def5392f * Document Boehm GC support. 2010-10-29 14:44:02 +00:00
Rob Vermaas
8dadcede65 nix manual: fix 'install' -> 'uninstall' in garbage collection section of introduction 2010-10-06 19:04:04 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
955d11aae7 * Sync with the trunk. 2010-08-24 09:56:28 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
2de17f4edc * Update date. 2010-08-17 10:06:26 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
86f65edf4e * Document --cores in the manual. 2010-08-17 07:22:05 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
b75e1043a3 * Typo. 2010-08-16 13:23:45 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
12721a3a9a * Nix 0.16 release notes. 2010-08-16 12:38:32 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
aa45027818 * Sync with the trunk. 2010-05-12 22:13:09 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
83dfa89870 * Sync with the trunk. 2010-05-07 14:46:47 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
7fa338f4ba * Don't use smart quotes where normal ASCII quotes are intended.
Actually, don't use quotes at all.  (Reported by Howard B. Golden.)
2010-05-02 21:27:50 +00:00
Lluís Batlle i Rossell
d77331d32f Fixing a typo in the nix-store manual, that could confuse a bit too much (--delete/--gc) 2010-04-25 20:52:49 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
d66ea83a76 * Sync with the trunk. 2010-04-20 09:20:29 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
f3b8833a48 * Drop the dependency on the ATerm library. 2010-04-19 14:51:58 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
c4cfb392d3 2010-03-17 10:08:34 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
8e3d98eb41 * Release notes for Nix 0.15. 2010-03-16 13:12:18 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
fe1b8781ae * Fix a broken link (reported by Peter Koppstein). 2010-03-16 12:58:20 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
a3c63d0d6c * Disable fsync() in SQLite if the fsync-metadata option is set to
false.
* Change the default for `fsync-metadata' to true.
* Disable `fsync-metadata' in `make check'.
2010-02-24 13:12:57 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
3b3e1025c3 * Typo. Reported by Peter Koppstein. 2010-02-12 10:50:30 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
e08dbff9a8 * Fix a broken link (reported by Bjorn Buckwalter). 2010-02-05 10:17:13 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
f36b7e7579 2010-02-04 14:00:47 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
4d8a85b8f5 * Updated the release notes. 2010-02-03 11:00:35 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
07ffdc2862 * Added an option "fsync-metadata" to fsync() changes to
/nix/var/nix/db.
* Removed the function writeStringToFile since it does (almost) the
  same thing as writeFile.
2010-01-29 12:22:58 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
3a78af1e24 * Release notes. 2009-12-09 21:02:24 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
3d55f1eb57 * A command `nix-store --query --roots <paths>' to find the garbage
collector roots that point (directly or indirectly) to the given
  paths.
2009-11-23 18:16:25 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
8824d60fe5 * Remove the --use-atime / --max-atime garbage collector flags. Many
(Linux) machines no longer maintain the atime because it's too
  expensive, and on the machines where --use-atime is useful (like the
  buildfarm), reading the atimes on the entire Nix store takes way too
  much time to make it practical.
2009-11-20 17:12:38 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
327a232c85 * Remove support for old (before Nix 0.12pre12020) databases. 2009-11-06 01:15:44 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
268d90a03e * Various updates. 2009-11-05 09:07:43 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
1ff8758f76 * Manual updates. 2009-11-04 16:52:35 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
0f79ad47c5 2009-09-25 12:36:03 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
51ad64cc07 * Use xmllint (>= 2.7.4) for RelaxNG validation instead of Jing. 2009-09-18 11:45:56 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
d413612029 * Remove the redundant <sections> around refentries. 2009-07-14 14:58:12 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
1f169f43b3 * Leave out the collaborators / revision history page. 2009-07-10 13:42:12 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
5e2e2f10ef 2009-07-10 11:48:49 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
f2c3fc5191 * Don't show trace information by default (`--show-trace' to enable).
NixOS evaluation errors in particular look intimidating and
  generally aren't very useful.  Ideally the builtins.throw messages
  should be self-contained.
2009-06-30 13:28:29 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
14bc3ce3d6 * Canonicalise timestamps in the Nix store to 1 (1970-01-01 00:00:01
UTC) rather than 0 (00:00:00).  1 is a better choice because some
  programs use 0 as a special value.  For instance, the Template
  Toolkit uses a timestamp of 0 to denote the non-existence of a file,
  so it barfs on files in the Nix store (see
  template-toolkit-nix-store.patch in Nixpkgs).  Similarly, Maya 2008
  fails to load script directories with a timestamp of 0 and can't be
  patched because it's closed source.

  This will also shut up those "implausibly old time stamp" GNU tar
  warnings.
2009-06-13 16:30:58 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
c6cb792d48 2009-05-26 16:32:02 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
f751c2966b * Don't have a bugs section in the manual. Bugs should be kept in the
bug tracker.
2009-05-07 13:11:58 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
435a93b5d8 * Remove references to __XXX primops. 2009-04-14 13:03:27 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
8b2a01a8c2 * Release notes. 2009-04-14 12:02:22 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
3a2bbe7f8a * Simplify communication with the hook a bit (don't use file
descriptors 3/4, just use stdin/stderr).
2009-03-28 19:29:55 +00:00
Marc Weber
2ef579d1aa documentation for previous commit 2009-02-05 19:35:44 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
09bc0c502c * Install the release notes. 2008-11-29 00:31:39 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
c202523e53 2008-11-20 12:01:05 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
60564410ef * Patterns. 2008-11-19 17:50:25 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
2668a43388 2008-11-19 17:27:52 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
63ccd72496 * Updated the manual. 2008-11-19 17:00:32 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
7509d70f9d * Documented some of the sharing mechanisms. 2008-11-19 15:20:46 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
2369b122d1 * Install documentation in $(docdir) (i.e. share/doc/nix). 2008-11-19 13:19:09 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
07d3a38726 * Remove references to Berkeley DB, including most of the
troubleshooting section.  W00t.
2008-11-19 11:58:33 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
f5325d292d * Release notes. 2008-11-19 10:59:36 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
fa791116a3 * Get rid of nix-pack-closure / nix-unpack-closure, they're redundant. 2008-11-18 14:43:40 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
72f3ea7358 * Moved some stuff to the Nixpkgs manual.
* Updated the release notes.
2008-08-05 11:03:05 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
7cd88b1dec * Generalised the dependencyClosure primop to builtins.genericClosure,
which is hopefully more useful.
* New primops: length, mul, div.
2008-07-11 13:29:04 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
d567baabbd * Export the nix-env derivation name parsing and version comparison
logic through the `parseDrvName' and `compareVersions' primops.
  This will allow expressions to easily check whether some dependency
  is a specific needed version or falls in some version range.  See
  tests/lang/eval-okay-versions.nix for examples.
2008-07-01 10:10:32 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
2818b7cee6 * Updated some URLs. 2008-06-11 15:39:38 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
4ed01ed791 * Updated some URLs (did this a long time ago but forgot to
commit...).
2008-06-09 13:42:13 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
66c51dc215 * nix-store --dump-db / --load-db to dump/load the Nix DB.
* nix-store --register-validity: option to supply the content hash of
  each path.
* Removed compatibility with Nix <= 0.7 stores.
2008-01-29 18:17:36 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
d4117859d6 2007-12-31 16:57:12 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
e0ca671491 * More documentation. 2007-12-31 02:52:17 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
6bdecfacbb * Documented a bunch of nix-store commands. 2007-12-31 01:52:57 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
454f571f87 2007-12-31 01:22:09 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
4c82983010 2007-12-31 01:17:25 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
dedd62dd0c * More release notes. 2007-12-31 00:08:09 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
59707975a3 * Documented indented string literals.
* Release notes.
2007-12-30 23:36:09 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
d4950f207f * component -> package. 2007-12-04 11:42:58 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
6d6c68c0d2 * Added a new kind of multi-line string literal delimited by two
single quotes.  Example (from NixOS):

    job = ''
      start on network-interfaces

      start script

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

        rm -f /var/log/slim.log

      end script
    '';

  This style has two big advantages:

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

* `nix-store -qb': if applied to a non-derivation, take the deriver.
2006-10-28 16:33:54 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
99b0ea7c67 * Typo reported by Arie Middelkoop.
* Left out close-quote in example.
2006-10-26 23:06:47 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
7d4567f2cc * Removed URIs from the evaluator (NIX-66). They are now just another
kind of notation for strings.
2006-10-11 21:59:33 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
b4e012ab4d * Merge 0.10.1 release notes. 2006-10-11 13:39:00 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
e1cc84259c * Too lazy to document nix-push --copy. 2006-10-06 09:59:02 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
b3fc016061 * Translate Unicode quote characters to ASCII equivalents when
generating NEWS.txt.
2006-10-06 09:03:39 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
3815d2d463 * Typos etc.
* Set the release date.
2006-10-06 07:47:56 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
beee18de88 * Document nix-store --delete. 2006-10-05 23:13:15 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
eff573f563 * Work around a weird bug in the manpage generation. 2006-10-05 23:01:50 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
9e08f5efe1 * Documented nix-store --dump / --restore. 2006-10-05 22:57:07 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
8791ffbc88 * Documented new nix-env options. 2006-10-05 22:56:52 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
99ef620c8c * Documented nix-instantiate --xml, --strict.
* Added an example to the nix-build section.
2006-10-05 20:41:57 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
8396b59286 * Documented --attr / -A. 2006-10-05 20:07:41 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
5d769de8a3 * Document --arg. 2006-10-05 09:08:52 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
6f2bfd92b6 * Manual. 2006-10-05 08:21:52 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
34427a7b43 * Weird. 2006-10-04 17:07:58 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
a3fd53b9eb * Style tweak. 2006-10-04 17:07:52 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
59ef0aaf3f * Strings. 2006-10-04 16:02:18 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
407c9fd520 * Explanation of toXML example. 2006-10-04 15:20:19 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
0ef3bd3c37 * Use GIF callouts instead of PNG since the GIFs have transparency. 2006-10-04 12:20:07 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
4a7ece698b 2006-10-04 08:26:05 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
bd4f1b4bb8 * Style tweaks. 2006-10-04 08:14:35 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
96fa456a0a * An example of using toXML to pass structured information to a
builder and generate a Jetty configuration file with XSLT.
2006-10-03 15:39:34 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
3837fb233c * Document the built-in functions. 2006-10-03 15:19:05 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
84e6c43e85 * Documented nix-hash. 2006-10-02 22:11:44 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
cfe35ca0e0 * Manual. 2006-10-02 20:28:52 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
853252ac66 * Document the new let. 2006-10-02 16:14:30 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
f316b6c1a9 * Manual updates (especially how nix-build makes testing packages much
easier; no longer need a helper expression).
2006-10-02 11:50:55 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
91a01e6fcf * Manual. 2006-10-02 09:01:36 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
88d422567e * One-click installs. 2006-09-29 14:59:10 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
0212feeed6 * Document nix-install-package and the nixpkg file format. 2006-09-29 14:16:41 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
070e07ed5a * Manual. 2006-09-29 11:03:16 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
30c7db85d8 * Manual updates, some style improvements. 2006-09-29 10:31:56 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
e2eed05224 * Manual updates.
* Documented nix-{pack,unpack}-closure.
2006-09-28 09:10:53 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
015ac7c7da * Release notes. 2006-09-27 13:27:26 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
a9a6356ffc * Release notes. 2006-09-27 12:43:00 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
e47d42536f * Release notes. 2006-09-26 09:57:27 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
f00bc4c94c * "Too many links" error. 2006-09-12 09:29:28 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
a04a65d7a5 * Release notes. 2006-09-06 14:29:49 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
f41297fdce * Allow --arg in nix-env as well, example:
$ nix-env -qa --system-filter \* --arg system '"powerpc-darwin"'

  to override the system from the default value (__currentSystem in
  all-packages.nix).
2006-08-23 16:33:21 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
68515b5a96 * Release notes. 2006-08-22 13:19:06 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
1a9a1f2768 * Convert to DocBook 5.
* Use Jing for RelaxNG validation, xmllint seems buggy.
2006-08-21 16:05:11 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
601a8eab79 * Ugh. Darwin's chmod insists that flags come before the mode
specification.
2006-08-01 12:00:37 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
b11aeb2c4b * Doh. 2006-07-25 13:15:23 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
5744dd5480 * Support the --attr / -A flag in nix-env as well. So now we can do,
e.g.,

  $ nix-env -i -A subversion xorg.xorgserver

  The main advantage over using symbolic names is that using attribute
  names is unambiguous and much, much faster.
2006-07-25 11:53:22 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
c15f544356 * Call find-runtime-roots.pl from the garbage collector to prevent
running applications etc. from being garbage collected.
2006-07-20 12:17:25 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
48e4a3231b 2006-06-14 13:31:23 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
50fe85f016 * For fixed-output derivations, pass the environment variables listed
in the attribute variable `impureEnvVars' from the caller to the
  builder.
2006-05-31 09:51:45 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
8b5aa91aa7 2006-05-08 14:00:39 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
20675feeab * Update copyright. 2006-03-15 12:58:22 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
345a95afe9 * Allow the size of the GC reserved file to be specified in nix.conf
through the new `gc-reserved-space' option.
2006-02-16 13:58:10 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
b505f9eaf5 * Document that nix-instantiate can read from stdin. 2006-02-10 15:29:17 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
1d2460ee5d * Documentation fixes. 2005-12-24 23:22:05 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
3c5619c7e4 * Begin release notes. 2005-12-15 21:11:55 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
ab5c6bb3a3 * Change referer' to referrer' throughout. In particular, the
nix-store query options `--referer' and `--referer-closure' have
  been changed to `--referrer' and `--referrer-closure' (but the old
  ones are still accepted for compatibility).
2005-12-13 21:04:48 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
1b43fbd8e4 * Oops, that should be Berkeley DB 4.3. Reported by Gerco Ballintijn. 2005-10-18 14:09:43 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
62412c5874 * Document `nix-env --compare-versions'. 2005-10-06 15:51:43 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
ed4de220d2 * Use "source" instead of ".". 2005-09-28 09:00:07 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
fbedf6056e * Merge release notes. 2005-09-22 12:23:22 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
db1a4227a3 * Updated release notes. 2005-09-16 11:28:29 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
c28b8eb699 * svn:ignores.
* Add missing file to dist.
2005-09-16 10:35:48 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
5c0770ac84 * Include the release notes in the manual. 2005-09-16 08:47:34 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
1b62c2eba3 * Force release notes in ASCII, not UTF-8. 2005-09-15 20:29:08 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
d1d0271996 * Check for w3m. 2005-09-15 15:21:57 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
5818e8eeaf * Remove dead code. 2005-09-14 18:51:02 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
025086edea * Release notes in Docbook; ASCII release notes (i.e., the `NEWS'
file) is now generated from that using `w3m' and some XSL hackery.
2005-09-14 18:50:45 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
78c72bf10e * channels -> channels-v3, catamaran -> nix.cs.uu.nl. 2005-08-01 07:30:35 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
a5ceb5bc0b * nix-build: default to `./default.nix' if no paths are specified.
So when using Nix as a build tool, you can just say `nix-build' and
  it will build the top-level derivation defined in `default.nix'.
2005-07-13 17:39:10 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
88dea78cdf * Crazy: don't use real hashes of real components in examples, since
they cause Nix builds to have unnecessary retained dependences
  (e.g., on Subversion).
2005-05-09 09:58:00 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
82d771f6e6 * Manual updates. 2005-04-10 20:54:21 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
fb45b0f548 * Document nix-channel. 2005-04-09 17:16:00 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
8b70f138e0 * Lots of manual updates, in particular the new `nix-store --query'
options were documented, as well as the Nix configuration file.
2005-04-08 13:00:38 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
b9d8ecbc6a * More doc updates. 2005-04-07 15:51:27 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
57d023a184 * More manual updates. 2005-04-07 10:47:58 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
f1ae10b992 * Build hook documentation.
* nix-store options.
2005-04-07 09:36:35 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
806b91f104 * GC docs. 2005-04-07 08:17:04 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
128c174295 * Manual updates. 2005-04-05 15:28:30 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
229252941a * Some GC documentation. 2005-04-05 11:30:56 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
6c8cf567b8 * Use `--nonet' flag. 2005-04-05 11:29:46 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
4a83c12c5d * Added a glossary to the manual. 2005-04-01 15:34:23 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
67eff20906 * Manual updates. 2005-03-17 10:30:53 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
ad3121a52d * Documented common environment variables. 2005-03-16 16:45:29 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
f982df3cd7 * Update the user environments figure to show multiple profiles and
users.
* Change to base-32 hashes.
2005-03-16 14:40:48 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
afc3a7b79b * Automake 1.9 compatibility. 2005-03-16 10:46:33 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
693ff4f6bf * Some more updates. 2005-03-15 15:42:11 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
e301334696 * XInclude all the way. 2005-03-15 13:55:41 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
b376565b86 * Manual updates. 2005-03-15 13:21:32 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
7d75616f2c * NEWS and manual update for release 0.7. 2005-01-12 10:27:46 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
015beb7cd0 * Typo: genericBuilder -> genericBuild. 2004-12-17 13:46:07 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
9f8964a062 * More manual fixes. 2004-11-14 10:42:16 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
0b79a12082 * Manual fixes. 2004-11-14 00:24:57 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
54c7a870d5 * Document --delete-generations and other nix-env options. 2004-11-12 23:56:37 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
c2b0d6b02f * Document --eval-only and --parse-only options in nix-instantiate. 2004-11-12 23:22:08 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
32c7326850 * Typos. 2004-11-09 14:06:56 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
b8aaef5e4e * Documented the standard environment, including the generic builder. 2004-11-07 22:12:16 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
2c3b29c5ca * Everything you always wanted to know about functions and derivations
but were afraid to ask.
2004-11-07 20:36:45 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
ea6581b691 * Drop the grammar appendix. 2004-11-07 20:36:10 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
1bac7a10e6 * Operators, comments. 2004-11-07 18:58:49 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
55b35d6d77 * Lets, inheritance, assertions. 2004-11-07 13:53:07 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
0b1ee4802b * Typo fix. 2004-11-05 21:12:23 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
5f0300d18c * Generic builders. 2004-11-05 21:11:01 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
3e9d2038b4 * Start of language reference. 2004-11-05 15:39:30 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
6ca9c7f0a9 * Finished GNU Hello walkthrough. 2004-11-05 13:10:08 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
8b934694f2 * Manual: writing Nix expressions. 2004-11-04 20:21:08 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
5f2c5a306c * chapter -> appendix. 2004-11-02 08:25:29 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
0913f5a615 * Section about channels. 2004-11-01 16:21:37 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
ee5dcfade2 * Section about garbage collection. 2004-11-01 16:03:35 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
cbe8de592d * Profiles section. 2004-11-01 12:02:44 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
b05a596d61 * Document setuid Nix installs. 2004-10-31 17:08:48 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
0d80d237c5 * Add figures to make install' / make dist'. 2004-10-31 16:13:25 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
f8ac8d1ec8 * Began adding build farm docs. 2004-10-29 15:26:26 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
37d7abd694 * New language feature: with expressions.
The expression `with E1; E2' evaluates to E2 with all bindings in
  the attribute set E1 substituted.  E.g.,

    with {x = 123;}; x

  evaluates to 123.  That is, the attribute set E1 is in scope in E2.

  This is particularly useful when importing files containing lots
  definitions.  E.g., instead of

    let {
      inherit (import ./foo.nix) a b c d e f;

      body = ... a ... f ...;
    }

  we can now say

    with import ./foo.nix;

    ... a ... f ...

  I.e., we don't have to say what variables should be brought into scope.
2004-10-25 16:54:56 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
2cd590d96c * Instead of &mdash; use the actual Unicode character. By the way, to
edit the manual, you should have something like

    (modify-coding-system-alist 'file "\\.xml\\>" 'utf-8)

  in your ~/.emacs.
2004-10-18 12:22:14 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
692204e0c5 * Rewrite of package management stuff. 2004-10-14 16:43:09 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
febd8bed1b * Split overview chapter into a chapter on package management and a
chapter on writing Nix expressions.
2004-10-14 11:55:12 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
98c69e5172 * Unindent. 2004-10-14 11:54:41 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
371c57d8a7 * Updated the quick start section. Use channels instead of
downloading Nix expressions and calling nix-pull.  This is so
  user-friendly that even a Mac user can do it! :-)
2004-10-13 15:35:47 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
2b20701f78 * Better introduction.
* Set notes in a different color than warnings.
2004-10-13 15:08:35 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
5396304c73 * Use setre[ug]id() instead of setres[ug]id(), since the former is
more common than the latter (which exists only on Linux and
  FreeBSD).  We don't really care about dropping the saved IDs since
  there apparently is no way to quiry them in any case, so it can't
  influence the build (unlike the effective IDs which are checked by
  Perl for instance).
2004-09-09 15:55:31 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
eb233e728f * `--min-age' flag in nix-store and nix-collect-garbage to only delete
unreachable paths that haven't been used for N hours.  For instance,
  `nix-collect-garbage --min-age 168' only deletes paths that haven't
  been accessed in the last week.

  This is useful for instance in the build farm where many derivations
  can be shared between consecutive builds, and we wouldn't want a
  garbage collect to throw them all away.  We could of course register
  them as roots, but then we'd to unregister them at some point, which
  would be a pain to manage.  The `--min-age' flag gives us a sort of
  MRU caching scheme.

  BUG: this really shouldn't be in gc.cc since that violates
  mechanism/policy separation.
2004-08-25 16:54:08 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
fdec72c6cc * `nix-collect-garbage' now actually performs a garbage collection, it
doesn't just print the set of paths that should be deleted.  So
  there is no more need to pipe the result into `nix-store --delete'
  (which doesn't even exist anymore).
2004-08-25 15:39:13 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
1eddee59f2 * The default verbosity level of all Nix commands is now lvlInfo.
* Builder output is written to standard error by default.
  * The option `-B' is gone.
  * The option `-Q' suppresses builder output.

The result of this is that most Nix invocations shouldn't need any
flags w.r.t. logging.
2004-08-18 12:19:06 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
151e61fa5a * By default, `nix-env -i' now deletes previously installed
derivations with names matching the derivations being installed.
  The option `--preserve-installed / -P' overrides this behaviour.
2004-06-28 14:40:26 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
24286e15c9 * `nix-env -u' now allows a specific version to be specified when
upgrading.

  This fixes a bug reported by Martin:

    $ nix-env -i foo-1.0
    $ nix-env -u foo-1.0
    upgrading foo-1.0 to foo-1.1
2004-06-28 13:37:05 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
91dc023665 * Added a switch `--fallback'. From the manual:
Whenever Nix attempts to realise a derivation for which a closure is
  already known, but this closure cannot be realised, fall back on
  normalising the derivation.

  The most common scenario in which this is useful is when we have
  registered substitutes in order to perform binary distribution from,
  say, a network repository.  If the repository is down, the
  realisation of the derivation will fail.  When this option is
  specified, Nix will build the derivation instead.  Thus, binary
  installation falls back on a source installation.  This option is
  not the default since it is generally not desirable for a transient
  failure in obtaining the substitutes to lead to a full build from
  source (with the related consumption of resources).
2004-06-28 10:42:57 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
b113edeab7 * A flag `--keep-going / -k' to keep building goals if one fails, as
much as possible.  (This is similar to GNU Make's `-k' flag.)

* Refactoring to implement this: previously we just bombed out when
  a build failed, but now we have to clean up.  In particular this
  means that goals must be freed quickly --- they shouldn't hang
  around until the worker exits.  So the worker now maintains weak
  pointers in order not to prevent garbage collection.

* Documented the `-k' and `-j' flags.
2004-06-25 15:36:09 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
87bf541f23 * Documented the primops. 2004-04-08 15:51:26 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
b0c9baf1b5 * EBNF grammar for the Nix expression language. 2004-04-08 13:31:57 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
92e832348d * Lots of manual stuff. Reference pages for most Nix commands.
* nix-pull now requires the full url to the manifest, i.e.,
  `/MANIFEST/' is no longer automatically appended.
* nix-prefetch-url works again.
2004-02-10 16:14:47 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
0616b7feea * Documented the most important nix-env flags. 2004-02-10 11:51:16 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
66e94d3275 * Improvements to profiles. Generations are now per-profile, e.g.,
default -> default-94-link
  default-82-link -> /nix/store/cc4480...
  default-83-link -> /nix/store/caeec8...
  ...
  default-94-link -> /nix/store/2896ca...
  experimental -> experimental-2-link
  experimental-1-link -> /nix/store/cc4480...
  experimental-2-link -> /nix/store/a3148f...

* `--profile' / `-p' -> `--switch-profile' / `-S'
* `--link' / `-l' -> `--profile' / `-p'
* The default profile is stored in $prefix/var/nix/profiles.
  $prefix/var/nix/links is gone.  Profiles can be stored anywhere.
* The current profile is now referenced from ~/.nix-profile, not
  ~/.nix-userenv.
* The roots to the garbage collector now have extension `.gcroot', not
  `.id'.
2004-02-06 10:30:20 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
d9f30fe7c7 * Sort `nix-env -q' output by derivation name.
* `--version' flag for all commands.
* Manual updates.
2004-02-02 10:51:54 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
c625718513 * Detect flex and bison; updated the manual. 2004-01-30 16:32:14 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
cdb50886f4 * Typos. 2004-01-22 09:35:35 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
3c4bc7276a * Added a note about adding /nix/etc/profile.d/nix.sh to the profile. 2004-01-22 09:17:55 +00:00
Martin Bravenboer
4f72b408a5 Typos and url losser -> catamaran 2004-01-22 08:47:59 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
4db7ef3fcc * Fixed URL. 2004-01-20 17:18:41 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
3778586b2a * Nix Quick Start guide. 2004-01-20 15:37:55 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
8baf50f108 * Manual updates.
* Updated the README.  Now it just refers to the manual.
2004-01-20 11:49:32 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
ff9af107d3 * Option `-B' to always show the output of builders, regardless of
verbosity level.
2004-01-13 16:35:43 +00:00