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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