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Eelco Dolstra b1af336132 Undocument NIX_OTHER_STORES 2014-09-16 14:49:00 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra 57f6463ec0 Tweak some chapter titles 2014-09-16 14:38:37 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra d0608da13f Drop "service deployment" bla bla 2014-09-16 14:36:32 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra 8b760182cd Drop reference to FreeBSD 2014-09-16 14:35:11 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra f271b94652 Remove pointless "license" section 2014-09-16 14:33:39 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra 7a68b4e4d3 Release notes: Use a section per version 2014-09-16 14:29:00 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra 9ed49c1da0 Nicer file names for the release notes 2014-09-16 14:18:55 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra 8259a392da Manual build fixes 2014-09-16 14:14:09 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra f0ef6b74b9 Merge branch 'master' of github.com:thatdocslady/nix 
Conflicts:
	doc/manual/release-notes.xml
	doc/manual/writing-nix-expressions.xml
 2014-09-16 14:13:36 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra 67e5dd3ce9 Add some hyperlinks between NIXPATH and -I 2014-09-16 11:20:09 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra 9eddf6f0b6 allowedRequisites: Drop stdenv mention 
I don't think it's a good idea to use allowedRequisites for stdenv, so
don't mention it here.
 2014-08-28 18:26:01 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra b5da80e627 Fix manual build 2014-08-28 18:25:16 +02:00
Gergely Risko fd61069a42 Introduce allowedRequisites feature 2014-08-28 18:23:55 +02:00
Mikey Ariel 8901acc976 Restructuring the Nix manual 2014-08-27 18:41:09 +02:00
Gergely Risko 4b0a720ddf Document the "out" usage in allowedReferences 2014-08-23 11:11:19 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra 401ab50566 Remove pointless NIX_LOG_TYPE environment variable 2014-08-13 01:19:02 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra 7018830509 Update manual 2014-08-04 18:00:33 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra 1a44f1cb65 nix-copy-closure: Drop --bzip2, --xz, --show-progress 
These are too difficult to implement via nix-store --serve.

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

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

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

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

  $ nix-store -l $(which xterm)

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

For example, say that you have these 3 generations:

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

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

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

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

  $ nix-shell -p sqlite xorg.libX11 hello

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

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

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

now reads

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

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

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

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

  $ nix-env -f profile.nix -ir

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

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

Fixes #163.
 2013-09-02 13:19:34 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra ecd830b3b9 Update the release notes 2013-09-02 13:11:36 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra efe4289464 Add an option to limit the log output of builders 
This is mostly useful for Hydra to deal with builders that get stuck
in an infinite loop writing data to stdout/stderr.
 2013-09-02 11:58:18 +02:00
Ivan Kozik 6cd6ce5608 Fix nix-shell command 2013-08-26 11:15:22 +02:00
Ivan Kozik 34bb806f74 Fix typos, especially those that end up in the Nix manual 2013-08-26 11:15:22 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra 03eaef3d7a Manual: Don't use actual hashes of Nix dependencies 
These cause an unnecessary runtime dependency :-)
 2013-08-23 10:12:20 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra b3110a15e9 Fix corrupt PNG 
Libpng used to accept this, but no longer does.
 2013-08-21 12:53:51 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra 7b09e9f2c4 Add hacking notes plus a script for running nix-shell 2013-07-19 16:51:31 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra 2bc5de8635 Rename ‘nix-build --run-env’ to ‘nix-shell’ 2013-07-19 12:02:44 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra dc5f2e7da6 nix-build --run-env: Add a ‘--pure’ flag 
This causes the environment to be (almost) cleared, thus giving a
shell that more closely resembled the actual Nix derivation.
 2013-07-19 11:23:32 +02:00
Domen Kožar 620d57f036 doc: typo 2013-07-12 11:27:43 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra 656390062a nix-build --run-env: Source $stdenv/setup in the interactive shell 
This ensures that not just environment variables are set, but also
shell functions such as unpackPhase, configurePhase and so on.
 2013-07-11 14:32:22 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra b584a42e3d Manual: auto-optimise-store is disabled by default 2013-07-03 18:35:59 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra 5116214343 Add support for uncompressed NARs in binary caches 
Issue NixOS/hydra#102.
 2013-07-01 21:03:14 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra 6016bcd30e Update release notes for Nix 1.5.3 2013-06-17 11:47:38 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra bfee9a2581 Typo 2013-06-13 14:51:11 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra f0576d6775 Update the default binary cache URL to cache.nixos.org 2013-06-05 13:36:43 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra 039d5a023f .bashrc -> .profile 2013-05-29 12:36:56 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra 6e85d1b5ba Bump release date 2013-05-13 16:52:08 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra 806970349b Update release date 2013-05-07 15:46:25 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra ea019e9a26 Add option ‘extra-binary-caches’ 
This allows providing additional binary caches, useful in scripts like
Hydra's build reproduction scripts, in particular because untrusted
caches are ignored.
 2013-05-07 15:37:28 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra 93f4fa8a15 Update release notes 2013-05-03 11:28:32 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra 3628b61ce0 Nix 1.5.2 release notes 2013-05-01 13:31:33 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra 05420e7883 Manual: Add a missing step to the build instructions 
Reported by Johan Grande.
 2013-04-09 17:57:48 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra a68ebf8e37 Require Bison 2.6 2013-03-14 18:33:15 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra bdd4646338 Revert "Prevent config.h from being clobbered" 
This reverts commit 28bba8c44f.
 2013-03-08 01:24:59 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra 28bba8c44f Prevent config.h from being clobbered 2013-03-07 23:55:55 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra 9fa1bee575 Update release notes 
Also use a point release version number as suggested by several
people.
 2013-02-28 19:36:02 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra 0111ba98ea Handle hard links to other files in the output 2013-02-27 17:18:41 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra 826dc0d07d Remove outdated file 2013-02-26 14:32:48 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra ca9c02dff1 Update release notes 2013-02-26 13:23:09 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra 79a3ba7fa3 Document ‘hashString’ 2013-02-08 20:04:14 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra 9842077cb2 Improve -I description 
Issue #88.
 2013-01-24 13:00:44 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra 92926be2fe Fix "0 store paths deleted" message 2013-01-04 15:17:19 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra def5160b61 Clear any immutable bits in the Nix store 
Doing this once makes subsequent operations like garbage collecting
more efficient since we don't have to call makeMutable() first.
 2013-01-03 12:59:23 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra f12492c66d Manual: Fix "nix-store --export" example 2013-01-02 22:36:08 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra aebea2e489 Reinstate the http://nixos.org/binary-cache default for the binary-caches setting 2013-01-02 22:16:37 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra 42d6f640c1 Update release notes 2013-01-02 13:00:55 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra b7629778ef Allow mounting a path in a different location in the chroot 
Fixes #24.
 2012-12-29 23:04:02 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra 68dcbb187e download-from-binary-cache: Use the channels of the calling user rather than root 
This should make live easier for single-user (non-daemon)
installations.  Note that when the daemon is used, the "calling user"
is root so we're not using any untrusted caches.
 2012-12-21 15:00:07 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra 5ee7d8fbab Typo fix 2012-12-21 00:18:59 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra 9fa12fc201 Allow setting the profile location using $NIX_PROFILE 
Fixes #69.
 2012-12-12 16:01:46 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra 8cc19ed089 Set a long SQLite timeout in the binary cache substituter 2012-12-06 11:43:34 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra 0f96966a44 Add release date 2012-12-05 11:03:06 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra a7b4aaa2c3 Updated release notes 2012-12-04 17:41:51 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra 094a08f839 Document new primops 2012-12-04 17:15:32 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra 24d5875514 Document multiple output support 2012-12-04 16:03:56 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra a3d6585c5a nix-copy-closure: Add flag ‘--use-substitutes’ 2012-11-23 16:20:16 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra 9de6bc5d05 nix-store -r: Add ‘--ignore-unknown’ flag 
This flag causes paths that do not have a known substitute to be
quietly ignored.  This is mostly useful for Charon, allowing it to
speed up deployment by letting a machine use substitutes for all
substitutable paths, instead of uploading them.  The latter is
frequently faster, e.g. if the target machine has a fast Internet
connection while the source machine is on a slow ADSL line.
 2012-11-20 00:27:25 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra 182e15b661 Manual: Don't use a store path in our closure 
http://hydra.nixos.org/build/3313227
 2012-11-09 16:30:15 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra a9a8baaccb Use a shorter Nixpkgs channel URL 2012-11-09 13:33:35 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra c31ebc50aa Update release notes 2012-11-09 13:33:24 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra bbc107ef1e Process binary caches in order of priority 
Binary caches can now specify a priority in their nix-cache-info file.
The binary cache substituter checks caches in order of priority.  This
is to ensure that fast, static caches like nixos.org/binary-cache are
processed before slow, dynamic caches like hydra.nixos.org.
 2012-11-06 17:45:20 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra 3a95e1a17c Update nix-push manpage and document the binary cache format 2012-11-06 15:49:53 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra 620e92e880 Add an option ‘use-binary-caches’ 
This allows disabling the use of binary caches, e.g.

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

Note that

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

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

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

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

and

  buildInputs = [ dbus-glib ];

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

Also, channels are now stored in a profile
(/nix/var/nix/profiles/per-user/$USER/channels).  One advantage of
this is that it allows rollbacks (e.g. if "nix-channel --update" gives
an undesirable update).
 2012-04-14 18:38:52 +02:00
Shea Levy 055e803851 Add the '--show-progress' flag to nix-copy-closure 2012-04-13 14:29:12 +02:00
Shea Levy 242a99c95a Nix is on github now 2012-04-08 23:59:02 -04:00
Eelco Dolstra 533250a4a3 Fix building from the tarball 2012-04-06 22:54:15 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra 831c7aa410 Documentation fix 2012-04-06 22:03:19 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra 5863987bba Include environment variables in the manpages 2012-04-06 21:56:20 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra 998b977ede Include common options in the manpages using some XInclude hackery 2012-04-06 21:45:00 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra d49ef039dd Update affiliation 2012-04-06 21:43:56 +02:00