Valentin Gagarin
de5dea45f7
use correct Nix entity
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Nix itself does care a lot about what type of store object you have.
2022-08-04 12:37:47 +02:00
Valentin Gagarin
fe4c0b8d75
fix typo
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Co-authored-by: Thomas <twatson52@mac.com>
2022-08-04 12:37:47 +02:00
Valentin Gagarin
def80d5777
add subsections to table of contents
2022-08-04 12:37:47 +02:00
Valentin Gagarin
c345345dee
concept map: align hights
...
this has the weird but nice emergent property that terms at the same
height are roughly at the same level of abstraction.
2022-08-04 12:37:47 +02:00
Valentin Gagarin
a28d6878b2
concept map: put closure as it is in the chapter
...
this is not as compact any more, but it more closely resembles the
chapter structure, and clearly shows that the closure property is the
key idea on which most of Nix operates.
2022-08-04 12:37:47 +02:00
Valentin Gagarin
475a332025
make concept map even more compact
2022-08-04 12:37:47 +02:00
Valentin Gagarin
d8b2f9f772
make concept map more compact
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invert arrows to/from derivation:
- we need closures to form derivations
- we need derivations to perform builds
2022-08-04 12:37:47 +02:00
Valentin Gagarin
348432f48f
store: add concept map
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this should help nativate the chapter by indicating which terms should
be known to understand a given concept.
2022-08-04 12:37:47 +02:00
Valentin Gagarin
ec43977553
store: match chapter introduction to outline
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the various levels of detail should describe the same things.
2022-08-04 12:37:47 +02:00
Valentin Gagarin
7c656d90ca
simplify description of diagram
...
try not to be too fancy, it's just for reading the diagram out loud.
2022-08-04 12:37:47 +02:00
Valentin Gagarin
631ca18ee6
reword notes on copying
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clarify that we are copying between different stores. we have not
introduced that notion or why it would be interesting, but for now it
should be fine to keep it in context of the store directory.
we could move that later to a more detailed explanation of different
store types.
2022-08-04 12:37:47 +02:00
Valentin Gagarin
c10dcccccd
make example a simple list
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using JSON notation is unwarranted and not explained.
2022-08-04 12:37:47 +02:00
Valentin Gagarin
9c544813d7
paths -> path
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use singular for terminology uniformly
2022-08-04 12:37:47 +02:00
Valentin Gagarin
1681f4e9f3
better explain reference scanning
2022-08-04 12:37:47 +02:00
Valentin Gagarin
fa7ad4593d
explain store directory
2022-08-04 12:37:47 +02:00
Valentin Gagarin
f632816cba
add explanation and examples of file system objects
2022-08-04 12:37:47 +02:00
Valentin Gagarin
84ddfbf8fd
remove diagonal from operations diagram
2022-08-04 12:37:47 +02:00
Valentin Gagarin
93f721b0d2
remove draft on derivations
2022-08-04 12:37:47 +02:00
Valentin Gagarin
19d8a5d839
move first mention of file system object before diagram
2022-08-04 12:37:47 +02:00
Valentin Gagarin
a90fc62b61
make clear that file system is for processes
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Co-authored-by: John Ericson <John.Ericson@Obsidian.Systems>
2022-08-04 12:37:47 +02:00
Valentin Gagarin
7993ba1f38
constrain garbage collection scope
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garbage collection is now incremental, and may (in theory) never delete all unreferenced objects if it is slow enough.
2022-08-04 12:37:47 +02:00
Valentin Gagarin
195aa28ff7
references are added according to build task
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at this level of abstraction we do not really care about build instructions or what they are, and also build instructions including their arguments really amount to the build task.
2022-08-04 12:37:47 +02:00
Valentin Gagarin
80de4a4804
operations diagram: store' to the right
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this also looks more diverse, hopefully easier to distinguish
Co-authored-by: John Ericson <John.Ericson@Obsidian.Systems>
2022-08-04 12:37:47 +02:00
Valentin Gagarin
3794618cce
add commas between output values
2022-08-04 12:37:47 +02:00
Valentin Gagarin
7b7e4c6340
use singular to match section heading
2022-08-04 12:37:47 +02:00
Valentin Gagarin
e63a768e21
use reference links for URLs
2022-08-04 12:37:47 +02:00
Valentin Gagarin
843288a451
add subsections for objects and references
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group description of data instead of spreading it across the section.
that should help direct skimming. as it turns out, people do not
actually read any of that.
2022-08-04 12:37:47 +02:00
Valentin Gagarin
4341849193
move closure property to discussion references
2022-08-04 12:37:47 +02:00
Valentin Gagarin
445f753a82
replace pseudo code by diagrams
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change prose description to visually resemble the data structure
2022-08-04 12:37:47 +02:00
Valentin Gagarin
db8703bcac
use reference links for URLs
2022-08-04 12:37:47 +02:00
Valentin Gagarin
4adb6602bd
clarify first sentence on store objects
2022-08-04 12:37:47 +02:00
Valentin Gagarin
4eb11d4592
fix grammar for clarity
2022-08-04 12:37:47 +02:00
Valentin Gagarin
b84f2bdfdd
introduce mapping to Unix files and processes
2022-08-04 12:37:47 +02:00
Valentin Gagarin
207992a71d
introduce store and store objects without file system details
...
this leaves open implementation details, especially about store paths
and file system objects, and allows explaining them together were it is
more appropriate. also leaves room to carefully introduce the key
insight behind Nix: applying results from programming language theory to
the operating system paradigm of files and processes.
2022-08-04 12:37:47 +02:00
Valentin Gagarin
e72a7874dc
beautify rosetta table
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while this may eventually introduce ugly diffs, the table will now
render readably on the terminal (e.g. for `man nix` or `nix --help`)
without further intervention.
2022-08-04 12:37:47 +02:00
Valentin Gagarin
b6b112b366
use reference links for URLs
2022-08-04 12:37:47 +02:00
Valentin Gagarin
d5eea66615
introduce build tasks
...
while it appears a bit much for the overview, this way we set the stage
for going directly into data types when describing the store, instead of
first having to say what build tasks are and how they relate to build
plans.
2022-08-04 12:37:47 +02:00
Valentin Gagarin
7c3bca1372
revert to build plans in top-level overview
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do not introduce build tasks yet, that is the next level of detail.
2022-08-04 12:37:47 +02:00
Valentin Gagarin
4639b36b53
use reference links for URLs
2022-08-04 12:37:47 +02:00
Valentin Gagarin
2303f84a68
revert to "build plan" in overview diagram
...
this displays correct composition again. build inputs and build results
are not part of build plans in terms of data objects.
also this is a much less complicated setup. this will be the first
impression of architecture, and we want to get it right.
2022-08-04 12:37:47 +02:00
Valentin Gagarin
25926c5fc6
Nix store does not underly literally everything
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Co-authored-by: Robert Hensing <roberth@users.noreply.github.com>
2022-08-04 12:37:47 +02:00
Valentin Gagarin
0e63b9bf88
add link from overview to store section
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the overview should only link to the three main concepts presented. the
store is now fairly fleshed out. others can follow later.
2022-08-04 12:37:47 +02:00
Valentin Gagarin
ef81276cc1
architecture overview: add link to command line reference
2022-08-04 12:37:47 +02:00
Valentin Gagarin
68d26010f6
architecture overview: add link to Nix expression language reference
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update summary title to match file contents
2022-08-04 12:37:47 +02:00
Valentin Gagarin
75ce324052
use singular for class names consistently
2022-08-04 12:37:47 +02:00
Valentin Gagarin
689b32a543
clarify relation of tasks and plans
2022-08-04 12:37:47 +02:00
Valentin Gagarin
2a8532fb61
build rule -> build task
...
closer to "build systems a la carte", satisfies all other complaints
2022-08-04 12:37:47 +02:00
Valentin Gagarin
902638c519
build step -> build rule
...
"step" sounds atomic, while "rule" hints at internal structure, which in
our case consists of mapping inputs to outputs using build instructions.
2022-08-04 12:37:47 +02:00
Valentin Gagarin
87523f01e3
match grammatical case to arrow direction
2022-08-04 12:37:47 +02:00
Valentin Gagarin
d3effd014b
update architecture diagram
2022-08-04 12:37:47 +02:00
Valentin Gagarin
ad8c2ed7f0
remove incomplete section: input/content-addressing
2022-08-04 12:37:47 +02:00
Valentin Gagarin
3bd125ebbe
remove incomplete section: nix archives
2022-08-04 12:37:47 +02:00
Valentin Gagarin
b18852eb3f
remove incomplete section: content-addressed objects
2022-08-04 12:37:47 +02:00
Valentin Gagarin
7cec9ee361
remove incomplete section: relocatability
2022-08-04 12:37:47 +02:00
Valentin Gagarin
96876b1eae
remove incomplete section: related work
2022-08-04 12:37:47 +02:00
Valentin Gagarin
1ba6d8fb1d
remove incomplete section: building
2022-08-04 12:37:47 +02:00
John Ericson
3d8f2f5cc1
Fix manual TOC links
2022-08-04 12:37:47 +02:00
John Ericson
b01bb65d30
Fix rel path in doc
2022-08-04 12:37:47 +02:00
Valentin Gagarin
b5ca3d12b6
reword details on keeping closure property
2022-08-04 12:37:47 +02:00
Valentin Gagarin
e90586c0a4
add motivation for references
2022-08-04 12:37:47 +02:00
Valentin Gagarin
07d490fd89
stores can also delete objects
2022-08-04 12:37:47 +02:00
Valentin Gagarin
5fda995491
formalize file system objects
...
convention: describe every data type in prose, and illustrate with
a class diagram, and a textual representation of an abstract
data type.
right now we save ourselves the trouble of doing class diagrams, we can
add them later. but they are important.
2022-08-04 12:37:47 +02:00
Valentin Gagarin
fb2ec7e4ec
reword section on references
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use file Contents instead of Data, as that flows more naturally in the
prose.
simplify explanation of the idea behind scanning for store paths
remove references to unfinished sections.
2022-08-04 12:37:47 +02:00
Valentin Gagarin
90fc5b41a8
reword file system objects
...
- use singular for the "class"
- more consistency in type definition
- minor fixes in wording
2022-08-04 12:37:47 +02:00
Valentin Gagarin
e5e48593c8
move git comparison to related work
...
it should be pulled out of the branch before we go for merging
2022-08-04 12:37:47 +02:00
Valentin Gagarin
a145007a57
component -> store object, realisation -> build
2022-08-04 12:37:47 +02:00
Valentin Gagarin
40efe5b30b
build instrcution: Task -> function
2022-08-04 12:37:47 +02:00
Valentin Gagarin
ca5ebf6382
revert build plan/step distinction, reorder rows
2022-08-04 12:37:47 +02:00
Valentin Gagarin
610ddf44aa
reword introduction to rosetta stone, add links
...
attempt to explain used and documented terminology, as well as how
the declarative programming paradigm relates to building software.
in the future one could highlight encouraged terms to shape future
material into higher consistency.
2022-08-04 12:37:47 +02:00
Valentin Gagarin
5f96a0b4e8
associated operations are not collected
...
Co-authored-by: John Ericson <git@JohnEricson.me>
2022-08-04 12:37:47 +02:00
Valentin Gagarin
070c85499b
fix grammar
...
Co-authored-by: John Ericson <git@JohnEricson.me>
2022-08-04 12:37:47 +02:00
Valentin Gagarin
7b5c00f67f
add concrete store examples, reword note on file system
2022-08-04 12:37:47 +02:00
Valentin Gagarin
c8c1b705ad
reword section on Nix store
2022-08-04 12:37:47 +02:00
Valentin Gagarin
39f01176a7
design -> architecture, add motivation
...
following ideas found in Architecture of Gazelle[1]
[1]: 56d35f8db0/Design.rst
2022-08-04 12:37:47 +02:00
Valentin Gagarin
d30033759a
address Nix language consistently as configuration language
2022-08-04 12:37:46 +02:00
Valentin Gagarin
7598126391
remove separate meta-section, add architecture diagram
...
the diagram is a first approximation and only covers that same section.
of course there is much more going on, and other features should at some
point also be illustrated.
we also have to think about presentation format and technicalities
behind it. the manual has to render to `man`, but we may want something
more refined for web view.
2022-08-04 12:37:46 +02:00
Valentin Gagarin
34ea74c9ec
reword introductory section
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there should be a meta section for each chapter to give motivation of
the presented structure. the structure itself is visible from the table
of contents.
2022-08-04 12:37:46 +02:00
Valentin Gagarin
b387d80943
remove sentence for chapter transition
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idea: sections could be read in different orders by linking them in
different ways (e.g. depth-first or breadth-first). adding hard-coded
transitions makes that confusing.
2022-08-04 12:37:46 +02:00
John Ericson
89a7c956ff
Apply suggestions from code review
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Co-authored-by: Valentin Gagarin <valentin@fricklerhandwerk.de>
2022-08-04 12:37:46 +02:00
Valentin Gagarin
51e6bed25e
do not mention implementation details
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Co-authored-by: John Ericson <git@JohnEricson.me>
2022-08-04 12:37:46 +02:00
Valentin Gagarin
23ee0b24f7
correctly use comma for nesting
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Co-authored-by: John Ericson <git@JohnEricson.me>
2022-08-04 12:37:46 +02:00
Valentin Gagarin
804e8bd747
indicate sequence with "then"
...
Co-authored-by: John Ericson <git@JohnEricson.me>
2022-08-04 12:37:46 +02:00
Valentin Gagarin
327ccd3b07
only use generic build system terminology
...
we will use a translation table to introduce nix-specific terms
2022-08-04 12:37:46 +02:00
Valentin Gagarin
0eae4bfad1
reword overview with clear terminology
...
trying to capture alternative terms in one go here, mirroring everyday
use:
derivation - build plan
realise - execute build
there will be more of that sort.
2022-08-04 12:37:46 +02:00
John Ericson
0737094161
Add draft "Rosetta stone" by @fricklerhandwerk and stub commentary
...
The idea and most of the execution are @fricklerhandwerk's. I changed a
few things best I could based on @edolstra's corrections, and a Bazel
glossary.
Valentin Gagarin <valentin@fricklerhandwerk.de>
2022-08-04 12:37:46 +02:00
John Ericson
c86c1ec7e3
Make refernces sneak preview more concise
2022-08-04 12:37:46 +02:00
John Ericson
4e4bbd9e83
Improve store objects session more
2022-08-04 12:37:46 +02:00
John Ericson
e4eea5e84e
Include abstract syntax based on the thesis for FSOs
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See https://edolstra.github.io/pubs/phd-thesis.pdf , page 91.
2022-08-04 12:37:46 +02:00
John Ericson
b98dc3b19c
store objects, better opining sentances
2022-08-04 12:37:46 +02:00
John Ericson
55b437b551
Improve store path section
2022-08-04 12:37:46 +02:00
John Ericson
b4df351880
Relocability -> relocation in store object title
2022-08-04 12:37:46 +02:00
John Ericson
5f4d2ac091
Improve store object section
...
In particular, Nix is *not* like Git, so that needs to be fixed.
2022-08-04 12:37:46 +02:00
John Ericson
1bbad62c7d
doc: File system data -> file system object, to match Nix
2022-08-04 12:37:46 +02:00
John Ericson
838ba26fda
Rename files after store entry -> store object rename
2022-08-04 12:37:46 +02:00
John Ericson
4e2d5ae202
doc: Store entry -> store object
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This matches the terminology in Eelco's thesis.
2022-08-04 12:37:46 +02:00
John Ericson
e308602fdf
Update doc/manual/src/design/store/drvs/drvs.md
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Co-authored-by: Matthieu Coudron <teto@users.noreply.github.com>
2022-08-04 12:37:46 +02:00
John Ericson
cdb0bf3b65
Update doc/manual/src/design/overview.md
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Co-authored-by: Valentin Gagarin <valentin@fricklerhandwerk.de>
2022-08-04 12:37:46 +02:00
John Ericson
75c5191a1f
Update doc/manual/src/design/overview.md
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Co-authored-by: Valentin Gagarin <valentin@fricklerhandwerk.de>
2022-08-04 12:37:46 +02:00
John Ericson
a04340f9a1
Update doc/manual/src/design/overview.md
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Co-authored-by: Valentin Gagarin <valentin@fricklerhandwerk.de>
2022-08-04 12:37:46 +02:00
John Ericson
f5386d7059
Fix stub file's name
2022-08-04 12:37:46 +02:00
John Ericson
678d75baea
Start on the derivations section
2022-08-04 12:37:46 +02:00
John Ericson
e3a0209a9e
Move the bits on relocating store entires to the end
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They are too advanced for up front.
2022-08-04 12:37:46 +02:00
John Ericson
a210504bc7
Apply suggestions from code review
2022-08-04 12:37:46 +02:00
John Ericson
e64633f98f
Flesh out TOC
2022-08-04 12:37:46 +02:00
John Ericson
a2b3160f28
Briefly describe the digest of a store path
2022-08-04 12:37:46 +02:00
John Ericson
523359d133
WIP: Document the design of Nix
...
The current docs are all "how to do things" and no "what is Nix" or "why
are things the way they are".
I see lots of misconception on the wider internet, and I also think we
would benefit from a "living document" to answer some questions people
currently turn to the thesis for.
I think a new section of the manual can address all these issues.
2022-08-04 12:37:46 +02:00
Valentin Gagarin
499ed26508
manual: remove "Writing Nix Expressions" chapter
...
it is out of date, all over the place in level of detail, is really
about `nixpkgs`, and in general instructions should not be part of
a reference manual.
also:
- update redirects and internal links
- use "Nix language" consistently
2022-08-04 11:59:25 +02:00
Théophane Hufschmitt
7d1ccd9105
Merge pull request #6846 from fricklerhandwerk/values
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manual: use subheadings for primitive types
2022-08-03 14:50:41 +02:00
Théophane Hufschmitt
c55bea4204
Fix the html id of the list headers
2022-08-03 14:16:00 +02:00
Valentin Gagarin
ceed4d4142
encode primitive as list with anchors
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to make it consistent with builtins and configuration options
2022-08-03 11:25:41 +02:00
Ilya K
f675ba5331
doc/distributed-builds: don't use deprecated alias
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`nix ping-store` -> `nix store ping`.
2022-08-01 13:50:35 +03:00
Valentin Gagarin
27138f1ec6
manual: use singular in body, too
...
Co-authored-by: Cole Helbling <cole.e.helbling@outlook.com>
2022-07-28 23:30:07 +02:00
Valentin Gagarin
41a3b315fd
manual: values -> data types
2022-07-28 17:25:25 +02:00
Valentin Gagarin
8f4fab8fab
manual: use singular for headings
2022-07-28 17:25:18 +02:00
Valentin Gagarin
4ff48854b8
manual: simple values -> primitives
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"simple" is a loaded term
2022-07-28 17:23:57 +02:00
Valentin Gagarin
3063e5b94c
manual: use subheadings for primitive types
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this gives us HTML anchors for each of them
2022-07-28 17:23:57 +02:00
Valentin Gagarin
85cdaebcd6
manual: set -> attribute set
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reword description to have shorter sentences.
2022-07-28 16:10:24 +02:00
Valentin Gagarin
be4654c344
manual: fix section title in table of contents
2022-07-28 15:55:41 +02:00
Théophane Hufschmitt
7ed91d6c6a
Merge branch 'master' into parallel-nix-copy
2022-07-20 10:05:34 +02:00
John Ericson
12461e246b
Leverage existing docs for new store-path^outputs syntax
2022-07-15 14:04:22 +00:00
John Ericson
279ecf7cde
Remove computed-derivations
experimental feature
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We don't need it yet.
2022-07-15 13:42:17 +00:00
John Ericson
6cafe308c9
Merge remote-tracking branch 'upstream/master' into indexed-store-path-outputs
2022-07-14 16:15:37 -04:00
Eelco Dolstra
28e913c605
Branch 2.10 release notes
2022-07-11 21:10:23 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra
545383208e
Merge pull request #6777 from laalsaas/master
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Fix logical and typographical errors in nix-env man page
2022-07-11 13:52:40 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra
517ce38dad
Update release notes
2022-07-11 11:17:19 +02:00
laalsaas
eac211a171
Fix logical and typographical errors in nix-env man page
2022-07-10 12:30:17 +02:00
Théophane Hufschmitt
6fa95c35c7
Add a release notes entry for #4914
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cc @gytis-ivaskevicius
2022-07-06 06:46:54 +02:00
Travis A. Everett
649c9d9b4c
doc: acknowledge post-rsync reality
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Before #5150 the copy-to-store phase of the install was idempotent,
but the recursive cp isn't. This is probably baiting a few people
into trying corrective installs that will fail.
2022-06-30 13:31:04 -05:00
Travis A. Everett
fe76b9f4b4
doc: fix some darwin uninstall gaps
2022-06-16 09:37:52 -05:00
Tom Bereknyei
51268ceb79
Merge branch 'master' into nix-repl-flakes
2022-06-15 09:17:03 -04:00
tomberek
dae4a8a6c8
Apply suggestions from code review
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Co-authored-by: Théophane Hufschmitt <7226587+thufschmitt@users.noreply.github.com>
2022-06-15 09:02:36 -04:00
Hugo Osvaldo Barrera
fd7f795750
Add disambiguation to man page
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This should help future lost newcomers like myself understand where to
find the docs for both of these commands and how they differ.
2022-06-14 18:13:35 +02:00
Travis A. Everett
edfcc8256e
doc: add install test info to hacking.md
2022-06-11 13:30:51 -05:00
Théophane Hufschmitt
34d90fbe22
Mention the parallel copy in the release notes
2022-06-08 15:25:52 +02:00
Tom Bereknyei
ffd41d1757
Merge branch 'master' into nix-repl-flakes
2022-06-02 16:58:35 -04:00
John Ericson
b585548dfe
Merge remote-tracking branch 'upstream/master' into indexed-store-path-outputs
2022-06-02 19:53:11 +00:00
Théophane Hufschmitt
a5f7b934bd
Merge branch 'master' into lto
2022-06-01 17:55:03 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra
04a699b8a9
Typo
2022-05-31 10:38:03 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra
de13b44573
Branch 2.9 release notes
2022-05-30 20:42:55 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra
8e8e9d8705
Respect the outputSpecified attribute
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E.g. 'nix build nixpkgs#libxml2.dev' will build the 'dev' output.
2022-05-30 11:34:47 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra
d67a2ae52d
Merge branch 'doc-redirects' of https://github.com/jtojnar/nix
2022-05-27 11:12:41 +02:00
Jan Tojnar
a793863b97
doc: Manually insert some anchors
2022-05-26 18:17:21 +02:00
Jan Tojnar
7708a34a51
doc: Add anchors to long lists
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Added using the following sed scripts:
- For command-ref/opt-common.md:
s~- `(--?)([^`]+)`~- [`\1\2`]{#opt-\2}~g
- For expressions/builtin-constants.md:
s~- `(builtins\.?)([^`]+)`~- [`\1\2`]{#builtins-\2}~g
- For expressions/advanced-attributes.md
s~^ - `([^`]+)`~ - [`\1`]{#adv-attr-\1}~g
and manually adjusted outputHashAlgo & outputHashMode.
- For glossary.md
s~^ - (`([^`]+)`|(.+)) ?\\~ - [\1]{#gloss-\2\3}\\~g;
s~(gloss-\w+) ~\1-~g
and manually adjusted anchors for Nix expression, user environment, NAR, ∅ and ε.
- For command-ref/env-common.md
s~^ - `([^`]+)`~ - [`\1`]{#env-\1}~g'
2022-05-26 18:17:21 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra
8f4548d401
Tweak IN_NIX_SHELL description
2022-05-26 12:40:01 +02:00
Ben Burdette
9a5ea6c359
Merge branch 'master' into debug-exploratory-PR
2022-05-25 10:41:10 -06:00
Ben Burdette
6031a36208
add --debugger to rl-next list
2022-05-25 10:38:13 -06:00
pennae
b092afe77d
Merge branch 'master' into lto
2022-05-25 11:55:13 +00:00
Tom Bereknyei
82c4af41e3
repl: clarify change and usage of <nixpkgs>
2022-05-20 01:49:49 -04:00
Tony Olagbaiye
5b8c1deb18
fetchTree: Allow fetching plain files
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Add a new `file` fetcher type, which will fetch a plain file over
http(s), or from the local file.
Because plain `http(s)://` or `file://` urls can already correspond to
`tarball` inputs (if the path ends-up with a know archive extension),
the URL parsing logic is a bit convuluted in that:
- {http,https,file}:// urls will be interpreted as either a tarball or a
file input, depending on the extensions of the path part (so
`https://foo.com/bar ` will be a `file` input and
`https://foo.com/bar.tar.gz ` as a `tarball` input)
- `file+{something}://` urls will be interpreted as `file` urls (with
the `file+` part removed)
- `tarball+{something}://` urls will be interpreted as `tarball` urls (with
the `tarball+` part removed)
Fix #3785
Co-Authored-By: Tony Olagbaiye <me@fron.io>
2022-05-19 18:24:49 +02:00
Tom Bereknyei
1ca3f6035d
repl: update docs with installables
2022-05-18 21:21:38 -04:00
John Ericson
b18720ee17
Merge remote-tracking branch 'upstream/master' into indexed-store-path-outputs
2022-05-12 19:13:33 +00:00
Théophane Hufschmitt
65a913d29b
Don’t recommend writing unit tests
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As asked in <https://github.com/NixOS/nix/pull/6517#discussion_r869416905 >
2022-05-12 12:02:31 +02:00
Théophane Hufschmitt
7c75f1d52b
Expand the testing section of the hacking docs
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- Make it clear what the different kind of tests are, where they live
and how they can be ran
- Ask people to primarily write unit tests
2022-05-10 13:35:23 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra
4a79cba511
Allow selecting derivation outputs using 'installable!outputs'
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E.g. 'nixpkgs#glibc^dev,static' or 'nixpkgs#glibc^*'.
2022-05-03 13:43:52 +02:00
Guillaume Maudoux
9ff892aad4
Add release notes for error traces revamp
2022-04-29 11:24:48 +02:00
pennae
d6d6bbd9ef
Merge branch 'master' into lto
2022-04-25 14:02:37 +00:00
midchildan
c67d8876c3
feat: add integration with zsh's run-help
2022-04-25 02:21:41 +09:00
Théophane Hufschmitt
be28603dca
Merge remote-tracking branch 'origin/master' into nixbuildaddprintstorepaths
2022-04-22 11:11:01 +02:00
Tom Bereknyei
f25112d383
fix: builtins.toFile adds path to allowedPaths
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The produced path is then allowed be imported or utilized elsewhere:
```
assert (43 == import (builtins.toFile "source" "43")); "good"
```
This will still fail on write-only stores.
2022-04-21 16:41:37 -04:00
Artturin
51cfea8bb0
nix build: add --print-out-paths flag
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has the same functionality as default nix-build
$ nix-build . -A "bash" -A "bash.dev" -A "tinycc"
/nix/store/4nmqxajzaf60yjribkgvj5j54x9yvr1r-bash-5.1-p12
/nix/store/c49i1ggnr5cc8gxmk9xm0cn961z104dn-bash-5.1-p12-dev
/nix/store/dbapb08862ajgaax3621fz8hly9fdah3-tcc-0.9.27+date=2022-01-11
$ nix-build . -A "bash"
/nix/store/4nmqxajzaf60yjribkgvj5j54x9yvr1r-bash-5.1-p12
$ $HOME/nixgits/nix/result/bin/nix build "nixpkgs#bash" "nixpkgs#bash.dev" "nixpkgs#tinycc" --print-out-paths
/nix/store/4nmqxajzaf60yjribkgvj5j54x9yvr1r-bash-5.1-p12
/nix/store/c49i1ggnr5cc8gxmk9xm0cn961z104dn-bash-5.1-p12-dev
/nix/store/dbapb08862ajgaax3621fz8hly9fdah3-tcc-0.9.27+date=2022-01-11
$ $HOME/nixgits/nix/result/bin/nix build "nixpkgs#bash" --print-out-paths
/nix/store/4nmqxajzaf60yjribkgvj5j54x9yvr1r-bash-5.1-p12
2022-04-20 19:35:46 +03:00
mei (ckie)
0e2b01b14e
nix repl: make symlinks with the :bl command
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Requested by ppepino on the Matrix:
https://matrix.to/#/!KqkRjyTEzAGRiZFBYT:nixos.org/$Tb32BS3rVE2BSULAX4sPm0h6CDewX2hClOTGzTC7gwM?via=nixos.org&via=matrix.org&via=nixos.dev
This adds a new command, :bl, which works like :b but also creates
a GC root symlink to the various derivation outputs.
ckie@cookiemonster ~/git/nix -> ./outputs/out/bin/nix repl
Welcome to Nix 2.6.0. Type :? for help.
nix-repl> :l <nixpkgs>
Added 16118 variables.
nix-repl> :b runCommand "hello" {} "echo hi > $out"
This derivation produced the following outputs:
./repl-result-out -> /nix/store/kidqq2acdpi05c4a9mlbg2baikmzik44-hello
[1 built, 0.0 MiB DL]
ckie@cookiemonster ~/git/nix -> cat ./repl-result-out
hi
2022-04-20 00:20:29 +03:00
John Ericson
6b61d7722d
Merge remote-tracking branch 'upstream/master' into indexed-store-path-outputs
2022-04-19 20:30:12 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
1cdad1074c
Move rl-next.md to rl-2.8.md
2022-04-19 21:12:33 +02:00
John Ericson
41e755bee4
Merge remote-tracking branch 'upstream/master' into indexed-store-path-outputs
2022-04-19 15:14:06 +00:00
Tom Bereknyei
9b41239d8f
fix: ensure apps are apps and packages are packages
2022-04-14 23:57:52 -04:00
John Ericson
fda2224b59
Add release notes mark experimental
2022-04-07 19:45:38 +00:00
Rehno Lindeque
5ff4c42608
Update release notes
2022-04-06 12:24:35 -04:00
Eelco Dolstra
f98d76ff1a
rl-2.7.md: Fix title
2022-04-05 14:13:26 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra
d63a5f5dd3
Update release notes
2022-03-31 17:33:06 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra
86b05ccd54
Only provide builtin.{getFlake,fetchClosure} is the corresponding experimental feature is enabled
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This allows writing fallback code like
if builtins ? fetchClosure then
builtins.fetchClose { ... }
else
builtins.storePath ...
2022-03-25 14:04:18 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra
98658ae9d2
Document fetchClosure
2022-03-24 21:33:33 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra
5acaf13d35
Rename 'nix store make-content-addressable' to 'nix store make-content-addressed'
2022-03-24 21:33:33 +01:00
Domen Kožar
98ce1a21b7
Merge pull request #6144 from toonn/doc-macos-uninstall
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doc: Add detailed uninstall section for macOS
2022-03-23 08:53:48 +01:00
Théophane Hufschmitt
7117053457
Merge pull request #6270 from Artturin/stdineval
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nix: allow using --file - to read from stdin
2022-03-17 14:35:01 +01:00
Artturin
a5c969db49
nix: allow using --file - to read from stdin
2022-03-16 21:01:51 +02:00
Joachim Breitner
af013281c9
distributed-builds.md: fixing typo of the most minor sort
2022-03-16 12:53:38 +01:00
pennae
f2603e9c92
Merge branch 'master' into lto
2022-03-10 00:32:34 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
ad7c99ef20
Move rl-next.md to rl-2.7.md
2022-03-07 20:10:18 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra
0123b9aec8
Tweak release notes
2022-03-07 19:56:10 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra
30ddd37873
Merge branch 'cli-suggestions' of https://github.com/thufschmitt/nix
2022-03-07 19:47:45 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra
c28e2b1b29
Tweak release notes
2022-03-07 11:30:40 +01:00
regnat
b44cebd1fd
Add a release-notes entry for the cli suggestions
2022-03-07 10:09:10 +01:00
pennae
2799fe4cdb
enable LTO in optimized builds
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gives 2-5% performance improvement across a board of tests.
LTO is broken when using clang; some libs link fine while others crash
the linker with a segfault in the llvm linker plugin. 🙁
2022-03-03 17:47:49 +01:00
toonn
947d4761b3
doc: Add removal of darwin-store LaunchDaemon
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The uninstall instructions used to accidentally remove the nix-darwin
LaunchDaemon, this was dropped. However, the original intent was to
remove the Store volume mounting LaunchDaemon.
2022-02-26 14:16:35 +01:00
toonn
2df23e2b3e
doc: Drop nix-darwin service from macOS uninstall
2022-02-25 10:50:01 +01:00
toonn
064cad7e9f
doc: Add macOS uninstall note about /nix
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Clarify that `/nix` being present after the uninstall is normal and it
will only disappear after a reboot.
Co-authored-by: Travis A. Everett <travis.a.everett@gmail.com>
2022-02-25 10:32:45 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra
59683733f5
Merge pull request #6089 from edolstra/dot-default
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Replace defaultBla.$system with bla.$system.default
2022-02-24 21:16:58 +01:00
Théophane Hufschmitt
54f07b66c8
Precise the doc for --include-outputs
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Make it explicit that it only includes the existing outputs and not the ones that haven’t been realised
2022-02-23 09:17:08 +01:00
toonn
400d70a3a9
doc: Add detailed uninstall section for macOS
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The multi-user installation on macOS, which is now the only option, has
gotten complicated enough that it discourages some users from checking
Nix out for fear of being left with a "dirty" system. Detailed
uninstallation instructions should make this less of an issue.
2022-02-22 16:28:24 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra
38eea2c503
Update release notes
2022-02-22 14:23:39 +01:00
Taeer Bar-Yam
219fa2e43d
add release notes for welcomeText
2022-02-17 15:17:20 -05:00
tomberek
2bf96bd9f2
Merge branch 'master' into bundler_drv
2022-01-28 10:18:29 -05:00
Eelco Dolstra
35dbdbedd4
nix store ping: Report Nix daemon version
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Fixes #5952 .
2022-01-25 21:15:58 +01:00
Tom Bereknyei
dc85e20684
bundler: notes and doc update to include bundlers repo
2022-01-25 03:48:44 -05:00
Eelco Dolstra
9faad4c5eb
Move rl-next.md to rl-2.5.md
2022-01-25 00:11:00 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra
edf0cde1a7
Merge pull request #5960 from zombiezen/patch-1
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Correct `NIX_BUILD_PATH` default description
2022-01-24 12:46:43 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra
3782017272
Tweak release notes
2022-01-24 12:45:35 +01:00
Ross Light
7477974b93
Correct NIX_BUILD_PATH default description
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Source: 067076287b/src/nix-build/nix-build.cc (L362-L381)
2022-01-21 18:45:19 -08:00
Rok Garbas
d463e11760
Adding docs regarding the docker image from master
2022-01-21 14:50:34 +01:00
lincoln auster [they/them]
7d4f86f032
release-notes: document commit-lockfile-summary option
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This documents 3023c7700.
2022-01-18 16:10:44 -07:00
Eelco Dolstra
4dda1f92aa
Add command 'nix store copy-log'
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Fixes #5222 .
2022-01-18 14:08:49 +01:00
Théophane Hufschmitt
dc4730ee94
Merge pull request #5720 from tomberek/flake_search
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flakes: search up to git or filesystem boundary
2022-01-18 10:59:12 +01:00
tomberek
2dead20924
Apply suggestions from code review
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Co-authored-by: Théophane Hufschmitt <7226587+thufschmitt@users.noreply.github.com>
2022-01-14 09:16:34 -05:00
Eelco Dolstra
5e9653c370
Tweak
2022-01-13 14:33:41 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra
66424cd29f
Merge branch 'patch-1' of https://github.com/TheodorRene/nix
2022-01-13 14:31:49 +01:00
Profpatsch
a51c457204
Release Notes 2.4: add --indirect
no-op change
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Since
00d25e8457
which was first included in nix 2.4.
It is a backwards-compatible change since the flag will just be
ignored.
2022-01-12 23:19:15 +01:00
Theodor René Carlsen
89b4df8d92
Add link to explanation when introducing a new operator
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The logical implication operator is included in this section but never explained. It might stump new readers with a pretty uncommon operator, and it's never referenced explicitly.
2022-01-11 17:01:43 +01:00
pennae
00c993f48b
add zipAttrsWith primop
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nixpkgs can save a good bit of eval memory with this primop. zipAttrsWith is
used quite a bit around nixpkgs (eg in the form of recursiveUpdate), but the
most costly application for this primop is in the module system. it improves
the implementation of zipAttrsWith from nixpkgs by not checking an attribute
multiple times if it occurs more than once in the input list, allocates less
values and set elements, and just avoids many a temporary object in general.
nixpkgs has a more generic version of this operation, zipAttrsWithNames, but
this version is only used once so isn't suitable for being the base of a new
primop. if it were to be used more we should add a second primop instead.
2022-01-03 21:05:53 +01:00
Alexander Bantyev
a26351da02
Add ability to toggle show-trace from within the repl
2021-12-29 02:54:36 +03:00
tomberek
f404189368
Merge branch 'master' into flake_search
2021-12-23 15:22:52 -05:00
Eelco Dolstra
881b610266
Update release notes
2021-12-21 14:19:21 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra
c260640dec
Fix docker instructions
2021-12-16 21:48:38 +01:00
jesse
11ee875a6d
List aarch64 as supported macOS hardware
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Resolves #5767
2021-12-15 10:55:34 -08:00
Eelco Dolstra
18cb094aab
rl-2.5.md: Set date
2021-12-13 19:57:06 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra
f133001dc8
Move rl-next.md to rl-2.5.md
2021-12-13 16:48:44 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra
3f417c8d1c
Add release notes entry for #5149
2021-12-13 16:43:42 +01:00
Janne Heß
4194b68250
doc: Fix command for distributed builds
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We also need to build impurely or the <nixpkgs> lookup will not work.
2021-12-10 12:58:12 +01:00
Amon Stopinšek
0bd93ed747
Fix link to nixos channel
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The old link returned 404 errror.
2021-12-09 16:44:24 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
167e864697
Merge pull request #5730 from abathur/darwin_document_fstab_settings
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document some darwin mount settings
2021-12-07 22:24:40 +01:00
Alexander Bantyev
33926ed1e7
nix repl: add :log
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Add a :log command that shows logs for a derivation.
Closes https://github.com/NixOS/nix/issues/3504
Co-authored-by: Taeer Bar-Yam <taeer@bar-yam.me>
2021-12-06 16:52:50 +03:00
Travis A. Everett
8093456111
document some darwin mount settings
2021-12-04 23:16:42 -06:00
Tom Bereknyei
b6cc0a704d
flakes: search up to git or filesystem boundary
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While parsing a flakeref, upon not finding a flake.nix, search upwards
until git or filesystem boundary.
2021-12-03 10:55:30 -05:00
Eelco Dolstra
2e606e87c4
Merge pull request #5715 from Infinisil/groupBy-primop
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Introduce `builtins.groupBy` primop
2021-12-03 13:21:14 +01:00
David Purdum
69b9198875
Fix docker command
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`docker -ti run nixos` does not run on docker version 20.10.7 (my machine). This fixes it to read `docker run -ti nixos`.
2021-12-02 23:38:33 -05:00
Silvan Mosberger
90700736c7
Introduce builtins.groupBy primop
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This function is very useful in nixpkgs, but its implementation in Nix
itself is rather slow due to it requiring a lot of attribute set and
list appends.
2021-12-02 21:54:51 +01:00
Eli Flanagan
092c375cda
Update doc/manual/src/glossary.md
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Co-authored-by: Eelco Dolstra <edolstra@gmail.com>
2021-11-30 13:19:42 -05:00
Eli Flanagan
a473e85c80
docs: document set theory symbols
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These symbols confused me so I wanted to gloss them to help future users. You can see the context here: https://discourse.nixos.org/t/flakes-what-does-mean-big-bundle-of-questions
2021-11-30 11:13:46 -05:00
Eelco Dolstra
b96164f4af
Merge remote-tracking branch 'origin/build-with-clang'
2021-11-30 11:50:56 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra
ddf4fb750d
Merge pull request #5678 from t184256/document-libsodium
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Document libsodium, which is now mandatory, as a dependency.
2021-11-29 11:11:10 +01:00
Alexander Sosedkin
a9bd06d0ea
Make libcpuid dependency optional with --disable-cpuid
2021-11-28 00:52:35 +01:00
Alexander Sosedkin
b73a1c0638
Document libcpuid dependency
2021-11-28 00:52:35 +01:00
Alexander Sosedkin
33a227503a
Document libsodium, which is now mandatory, as a dependency
2021-11-27 23:11:11 +01:00
Pamplemousse
288c252570
Documentation: alternative stdenv
for hacking
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Signed-off-by: Pamplemousse <xav.maso@gmail.com>
2021-11-26 10:04:56 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra
986906e687
Update names
2021-11-25 17:09:11 +01:00
Silvan Mosberger
09471d2680
Make lists be comparable
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Makes lists comparable using lexicographic comparison.
Increments builtins.langVersion in order for this change to be
detectable
2021-11-24 13:40:46 +01:00
Lorenz Leutgeb
e1192116d3
doc: Fix escape for operator "logical or"
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See https://matrix.to/#/!KqkRjyTEzAGRiZFBYT:nixos.org/$hhMb6AdRIXfRkv_LsNsiQJuch7AQ_b6szr4tfawFy-4
2021-11-18 15:08:01 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra
e88fb63e28
Merge pull request #5585 from jtojnar/env-a
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doc: De-emphasize nix-env without -A
2021-11-18 14:34:45 +01:00
Jan Tojnar
ca4d8ce9e2
doc: De-emphasize nix-env without -A
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The manual uses `nix-env -i` without `-A` prominently, teaching a bad practice to newcomers.
2021-11-17 17:04:25 +01:00
Jan Tojnar
e96faadcd6
Fix XDG_CONFIG_DIRS fallback
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According to XDG Base Directory Specification,
it should fall back to /etc/xdg when the env var is not present.
2021-11-17 14:31:15 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra
51ffc19f02
Merge branch 'add-docker-image-to-hydra-jobs' of https://github.com/garbas/nix
2021-11-16 13:00:54 +01:00
Kevin Amado
eae54f2d52
fix many doc typos
2021-11-13 22:28:20 -05:00
Rok Garbas
a118a70649
Documenting how to use/build Nix' Docker image
2021-11-11 16:07:01 +01:00
Théo Zimmermann
d589782fb0
Fix some typos in CLI guideline.
2021-11-08 08:24:15 +01:00
Jan Tojnar
e5d4c2235f
docs: Correct fallback user config path
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This is in line with XDG Base Directory Specification, where ~/.config is supposed to be used when XDG_CONFIG_HOME is unset.
It also better matches the reality, where ~/.config/nix.conf does not seem to be used.
2021-11-04 11:41:29 +01:00
Dimitris Apostolou
c34cc5e488
Fix typos
2021-11-03 18:11:20 +02:00
Simon Legner
1968760f4a
command-ref/nix-shell: fix --pure, --keep
2021-11-02 22:00:08 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra
b61b307bad
Remove references to building from the source tarball
2021-11-02 15:29:47 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra
6a93e186f4
Fix 2.4 migration examples
2021-11-01 22:44:07 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra
bc4b7521f4
Rename rl-2.5.md to rl-next.md
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Having a generically named file for release notes for the next release
makes things easier for PRs.
2021-10-28 14:36:47 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra
9c6ac9eb0e
2.4 release notes: Add some migration notes
2021-10-27 17:33:32 +02:00
Domen Kožar
51c812d6bb
Merge pull request #5365 from arafangion/master
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Clarify that not all nix packages will use the default build phases
2021-10-17 20:54:00 -05:00
John Chapman
ffeec5f283
Clarify that not all nix packages will use the default build phases
2021-10-17 15:24:22 +11:00
Eelco Dolstra
4c0cde95ad
Update release notes
2021-10-13 11:39:54 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra
2f3c79c241
Mention compression-level in the release notes
2021-10-13 11:11:26 +02:00
John Chapman
4cff413054
Clarify that not all nix packages will use the default build phases
2021-10-09 12:03:34 +11:00
Eelco Dolstra
844dd901a7
Start 2.5 release notes
2021-10-07 20:09:03 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra
f45b30de2f
Revert "docs: add troubleshooting session in remote builds"
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This reverts commit 0574c1850a
.
2021-10-06 17:12:52 +02:00
Domen Kožar
d0cc6a192a
Merge pull request #5095 from happysalada/update_remote_builds_docs
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docs: add troubleshooting session in remote builds
2021-10-06 08:10:53 -05:00
happysalada
0574c1850a
docs: add troubleshooting session in remote builds
2021-10-06 21:47:53 +09:00
Rafal Gwozdzinski
a73f855bd4
Fix typo
2021-10-03 12:19:59 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra
0e3b8ca767
Typo
2021-10-01 16:32:07 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra
43221bb319
Comments
2021-10-01 16:29:53 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra
91b39eee25
Typo
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Co-authored-by: Sebastian Ullrich <sebasti@nullri.ch>
2021-10-01 14:18:07 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra
5e222ac18b
Release notes
2021-09-30 17:36:09 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra
25b6b74175
Manual: Link to 2.4 release notes
2021-09-09 15:01:36 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra
7ee639f9db
Merge pull request #5066 from Radvendii/master
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add antiquotations to paths
2021-09-01 12:55:04 +02:00
Taeer Bar-Yam
b2beb97f2a
add documentation for path antiquotations
2021-08-31 08:17:17 -04:00
Pamplemousse
0e7bd65976
15f4d4f
Documentation follow-up
2021-08-19 09:40:47 -07:00
Eelco Dolstra
f1ecd30bd5
Merge pull request #4773 from alyssais/dl
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doc: builtins: use a definition list
2021-07-05 14:03:15 +02:00
Keshav Kini
f35f9af787
Improve explanation of NIX_PATH prefix syntax
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The previous wording seemed to imply that the "channel:" syntax would resolve to
a github archive URL, which is not the case.
2021-06-03 17:59:39 -07:00
Linus Heckemann
a3553cdae8
doc/nix-shell: Remove outdated bashrc information
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This behaviour was removed in 65f6d5db6f
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2021-05-11 14:33:35 +02:00
Alyssa Ross
5f07f2ff2b
doc: builtins: use a definition list
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This looks a lot better (and is also more semantically meaningful).
Since this list is generated in a Nix expression, I don't think using
HTML here is going to be the thing that puts people off modifying this
part of the documentation!
2021-05-05 14:34:46 +00:00
Graham Christensen
d15a1962cb
Merge pull request #4289 from abathur/encrypt_darwin_volume
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darwin: encrypt nix volume if filevault is enabled
2021-04-29 15:59:12 -04:00
Travis A. Everett
eab14a642c
darwin: encrypt nix volume if filevault is enabled
2021-04-29 13:26:51 -05:00
Eelco Dolstra
fe2bf464cf
Merge branch 'remove-trailing-spaces' of github.com:NixOS/nix
2021-04-23 15:09:44 +02:00
regnat
31313d1401
Replace the trailing markdown spaces by a backslash
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They are equivalent according to
<https://spec.commonmark.org/0.29/#hard-line-breaks >,
and the trailing spaces tend to be a pain (because the make git
complain, editors tend to want to remove them − the `.editorconfig`
actually specifies that − etc..).
2021-04-23 14:37:21 +02:00
regnat
2207018df5
(briefly) document how to build ca derivations
2021-04-23 10:28:26 +02:00
Björn Gohla
4d9568ef60
Revert "[prerequisites]: add JSON lib dependency"
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This reverts commit 5926200db0
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2021-04-05 21:29:04 +01:00
Björn Gohla
5926200db0
[prerequisites]: add JSON lib dependency
2021-04-01 22:54:09 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra
4638bcfb2c
Fix some typos
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Fixes #4671 .
2021-03-26 16:14:38 +01:00
Travis A. Everett
ac8ba2eae4
remove doc for obsolete --no-build-hook flag
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`--no-build-hook` appears to have been removed in 25f32625e2
2021-03-06 19:51:29 -06:00
Graham Christensen
1130b28824
distributed builds: load remote builder host key from the machines file
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This is already used by Hydra, and is very useful when materializing
a remote builder list from service discovery. This allows the service
discovery tool to only sync one file instead of two.
2021-02-25 09:17:34 -05:00
Shea Levy
f6c5b05488
Respect command registrations in plugins.
2021-02-24 08:25:45 -05:00
Shea Levy
98d1b64400
Initialize plugins after handling initial command line flags
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This is technically a breaking change, since attempting to set plugin
files after the first non-flag argument will now throw an error. This
is acceptable given the relative lack of stability in a plugin
interface and the need to tie the knot somewhere once plugins can
actually define new subcommands.
2021-02-24 08:22:17 -05:00
Mauricio Scheffer
5f4701e70d
Update doc/manual/src/command-ref/nix-shell.md
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Co-authored-by: Cole Helbling <cole.e.helbling@outlook.com>
2021-02-16 23:27:04 +00:00
Mauricio Scheffer
35129884f9
Fix Haskell example
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http://nixos.org redirects to https://nixos.org and apparently the HTTP library doesn't follow the redirect, so the output is empty.
When defining https in the request it crashes because the library doesn't seem to support https.
So this switches the example to a different http library.
2021-02-16 23:19:42 +00:00
Dominik Schrempf
fb00e7dc52
Remove newline in operator table.
2021-02-01 17:42:14 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra
d33eca8539
Rename 'nix store sign-paths' to 'nix store sign'
2021-01-13 23:32:37 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra
77c9ceda4b
Tweak
2021-01-11 19:42:24 +01:00
Sam Lidder
e069ddf325
Fix configure
error in introduction doc
2020-12-31 20:17:37 -05:00
Sevan Janiyan
9d3aad7b92
Update URL where bzip2 can be obtained
2020-12-25 01:43:22 +00:00
Rok Garbas
7de4b1e9aa
smaller fixes
2020-12-17 23:42:49 +01:00
Rok Garbas
ae77f21474
Switch away from classification as Tier1-3
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to classification to a more descriptive classification.
2020-12-08 11:59:23 +01:00
Rok Garbas
0d7714b0d7
forgot to add the files
2020-12-08 10:25:03 +01:00
Rok Garbas
24db5b125f
Merge remote-tracking branch 'origin/master' into cli-guideline
2020-12-07 15:13:36 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra
72428e38d9
Generate separate manpages for each nix subcommand
2020-12-02 23:23:23 +01:00
Rok Garbas
44da19f73c
Adds Nix CLI Guideline to docs
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As we are working towards Nix 3.0 we want to make sure that we make a
huge step forward in Nix's user experience. And once 3.0 is out of the
door we need to make sure that all future commands and features keep up
the standard of user experience.
This PR adds a CLI guideline document to the Nix documentation. Consider
this document a good starting point and a checklist when somebody will
be (re)implementing commands.
Clearly this guideline does nothing to improve user experience on its
own and can only be useful as long as it is going to be read and
cared for. But it is a first step into that direction.
2020-12-02 17:00:32 +01:00
mkenigs
8b15650e74
docs: consistent console prompt ( #4213 )
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Everywhere else a $ is used
2020-11-02 16:32:05 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra
a3a22bd804
Merge pull request #4202 from hercules-ci/nix-shell-doc
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Nix shell doc
2020-10-30 11:36:24 +01:00
Robert Hensing
d4c5d8d32a
nix-shell.md: Extend shellHook example
2020-10-30 11:12:28 +01:00
Robert Hensing
b809c48ebb
nix-shell.md: evaluated -> run
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Use "run" to avoid confusion with Nix evaluation.
"evaluated" was intended to reference bash eval but it's ambiguous.
2020-10-30 11:01:33 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra
ff4dea63c9
Generalize extra-* settings
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This removes the extra-substituters and extra-sandbox-paths settings
and instead makes every array setting extensible by setting
"extra-<name> = <value>" in the configuration file or passing
"--<name> <value>" on the command line.
2020-10-29 18:17:39 +01:00
tnias
c189cf7e33
Add sha512 to hashAlgo listings in manpages ( #4186 )
2020-10-25 22:16:53 +00:00
Josef Kemetmüller
7f60f48e1a
Fix the docs about the new NIX_CONFIG env var
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This was accidentally documented as NIX_OPTIONS.
2020-10-21 17:04:36 +02:00
Christian Kampka
461cf2b856
Add NIX_CONFIG env var for applying nix.conf overrides
2020-10-21 13:41:26 +02:00
Stefan Frijters
a53438d18f
doc: nix-shell in pure mode does *not* source user bashrc
2020-10-18 14:26:05 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra
58dadf2954
Remove stray 'Title:' from the manual
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Closes #4096 .
2020-10-08 17:30:40 +02:00
Maximilian Bosch
3655875483
doc/manual: update hacking docs ( #4078 )
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* By default, build artifacts should be installed into `outputs/` rather
than `inst/`[1].
* Add instructions on how to run unit-tests.
[1] 733d2e9402
2020-09-27 20:35:03 +00:00
Bryan Richter
5fe375a8f1
nix-prefetch-url: Add --executable flag
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pkgs.fetchurl supports an executable argument, which is especially nice
when downloading a large executable. This patch adds the same option to
nix-prefetch-url.
I have tested this to work on the simple case of prefetching a little
executable:
1. nix-prefetch-url --executable https://my/little/script
2. Paste the hash into a pkgs.fetchurl-based package, script-pkg.nix
3. Delete the output from the store to avoid any misidentified artifacts
4. Realise the package script-pkg.nix
5. Run the executable
I repeated the above while using --name, as well.
I suspect --executable would have no meaningful effect if combined with
--unpack, but I have not tried it.
2020-09-18 19:09:45 +03:00
Jade Lovelace
7cb5f643a6
docs+test: fix remaining installer downloads without -L ( #4006 )
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Co-authored-by: lf- <lf-@users.noreply.github.com>
2020-09-12 22:08:40 +02:00
Vladimír Čunát
77d4758cf2
Merge #3982 : Minor docs updates
2020-09-07 21:54:59 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra
00d25e8457
Remove the --indirect flag
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All GC roots are now indirect.
2020-09-03 11:22:00 +02:00
Cole Helbling
a72ed3e8a1
hacking.md: add --prefix flag to configure
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Otherwise, the steps advertised in this document won't actually work
(e.g. `make install` will fail, trying to access /usr, and
`./inst/bin/nix` won't exist).
2020-09-01 12:06:02 -07:00
Eelco Dolstra
84f5cabbea
Merge remote-tracking branch 'origin/master' into markdown
2020-08-31 14:24:26 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra
7a02865b94
Move import docs
2020-08-25 14:06:01 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra
0f314f3c25
Generate builtins section of the manual
2020-08-24 14:49:30 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra
a990f063ff
Move primop docs inline
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This makes them available to 'nix repl'.
2020-08-24 14:31:10 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra
33b1679d75
Allow primops to have Markdown documentation
2020-08-24 13:16:02 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra
c8fa39324a
Generate the nix.conf docs from the source code
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This means we don't have two (divergent) sets of option descriptions
anymore.
2020-08-19 18:28:04 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra
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
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
Eelco Dolstra
05a282295f
Fix internal links
2020-07-24 15:46:16 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra
da3d776cb9
Fix some dangling references
2020-07-24 14:31:33 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra
4a79b3598f
Fix nix-copy-closure manpage
2020-07-24 13:01:00 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra
7a0e6f076a
Move figures
2020-07-24 12:58:31 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra
758c9ee1bb
Clean up the manpages
2020-07-24 12:56:19 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra
8d0b311a1c
Get rid of footnotes
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Markdown doesn't support them.
2020-07-24 11:43:44 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra
69333cb62c
Sigh
2020-07-23 18:27:20 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra
802150f987
<replaceable> -> <emphasis>
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Pandoc doesn't know <replaceable> so let's force it to be rendered as
italics.
2020-07-23 18:27:20 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra
ee05108472
<simplesect> -> <section>
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Pandoc silently ignores <simplesect>...
2020-07-23 18:27:20 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra
136fd55bb2
Get rid of <figure>
2020-07-23 18:27:20 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra
ca130b73a0
Get rid of <example>
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Markdown doesn't have floats so we can't have this.
2020-07-23 18:27:20 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra
13df1faf25
Get rid of callouts since Markdown doesn't support them
2020-07-23 18:27:20 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra
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
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
e0ea3c82ca
Use mdbook
2020-07-23 18:26:48 +02:00