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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
5ef5d70b5e
Make config options available to legacy commands 2017-11-14 14:04:09 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra
0d59f1ca49
nix: Respect -I, --arg, --argstr
Also, random cleanup to argument handling.
2017-10-24 12:58:34 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra
e9c07a3b26
nix edit / log: Operate on a single Installable 2017-08-29 16:18:00 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra
c8235c5313
nix run: Flush the progress bar before starting the command 2017-08-29 15:13:30 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra
93a5ef0516
nix run: Fix chroot execution
Running "nix run" with a diverted store, e.g.

  $ nix run --store local?root=/tmp/nix nixpkgs.hello

stopped working when Nix became multithreaded, because
unshare(CLONE_NEWUSER) doesn't work in multithreaded processes. The
obvious solution is to terminate all other threads first, but 1) there
is no way to terminate Boehm GC marker threads; and 2) it appears that
the kernel has a race where unshare(CLONE_NEWUSER) will still fail for
some indeterminate amount of time after joining other threads.

So instead, "nix run" will now exec() a single-threaded helper ("nix
__run_in_chroot") that performs the actual unshare()/chroot()/exec().
2017-08-29 13:21:07 +02:00
Jörg Thalheim
2fd8f8bb99 Replace Unicode quotes in user-facing strings by ASCII
Relevant RFC: NixOS/rfcs#4

$ ag -l | xargs sed -i -e "/\"/s/’/'/g;/\"/s/‘/'/g"
2017-07-30 12:32:45 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra
112ff7833d
nix: Show help when no arguments are given
Fixes #1464.
2017-07-14 13:44:45 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra
186571965d
Don't show flags from config settings in "nix --help" 2017-06-07 18:41:20 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra
aa952d5f0b
nix: Add --help-config flag 2017-06-07 16:49:54 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra
b8283773bd
nix: Make all options available as flags
Thus, instead of ‘--option <name> <value>’, you can write ‘--<name>
<value>’. So

  --option http-connections 100

becomes

  --http-connections 100

Apart from brevity, the difference is that it's not an error to set a
non-existent option via --option, but unrecognized arguments are
fatal.

Boolean options have special treatment: they're mapped to the
argument-less flags ‘--<name>’ and ‘--no-<name>’. E.g.

  --option auto-optimise-store false

becomes

  --no-auto-optimise-store
2017-06-07 16:17:17 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra
b01d62285c
Improve progress indicator 2017-05-16 16:09:57 +02:00
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
Will Dietz
30f89e0d65 Process nix.conf options in "new" nix commands, add test.
Without this (minor) change, the options set using "--option"
or read from nix.conf were parsed but not used.
2017-04-08 12:59:42 -05:00
Eelco Dolstra
ca9de88a51 nix: Disable verbose builds 2016-04-25 19:18:45 +02:00
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
ce113c32d2 Add warning about "nix" being experimental 2016-03-04 15:54:41 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra
cd2196b089 Start of new Nix command-line interface 2016-02-09 21:28:29 +01:00