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
Eelco Dolstra
c5ab07ec2b
Merge pull request #2168 from grahamc/explain-why-netrc-is-busted
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manual: document why ~/.netrc doesn't work
2018-09-01 21:25:04 +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
438e02529d
Allows selectively adding environment variables to pure shells.
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Includes documentation and test.
2018-08-02 08:21:30 -04:00
Peter Simons
93aa3bea2e
Merge pull request #767 from mogorman/garbage_collect_keep_last_few
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Implement --delete-generations + flag for keeping last N number of gens
2018-05-31 10:00:21 +02:00
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
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Maybe there is a better place to document this, which is more generic?
2018-05-18 14:21:47 -04:00
Danylo Hlynskyi
ac22d77fd1
nix-collect-garbage: little doc fix
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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
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Support extra compatible architectures (#1916 )
2018-04-23 08:48:22 -04:00
4b3a7f93a5
doc: Adds --quiet to the common options.
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Fixes #1298
2018-04-20 16:34:06 -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
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
43bef1b82c
doc: document the min-free and max-free options
2018-03-17 21:29:03 +00:00
fef8ebf51d
doc: add xml:id to all the config options
2018-03-17 21:17:28 +00:00
637701b604
rename build-extra-platforms -> extra-platforms
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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
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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
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Minor changes to the nix-channel manpage for my first contribution
2018-03-01 00:27:25 -05:00
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
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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
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
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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.
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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.
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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
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
cfeff3b273
Move show-trace docs
2018-01-17 11:53:16 +01:00
Renzo Carbonara
b0328c244d
nix.conf: builders-use-substitutes
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Fixes #937
2018-01-09 22:40:07 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra
44272d8719
Rename "use-substitutes" to "substitute"
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Commit c2154d4c84
2018-01-04 16:58:39 +01:00
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
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
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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
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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
812e027e1d
Add option allowed-uris
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This allows network access in restricted eval mode.
2017-10-30 12:41:49 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra
c2154d4c84
Rename a few configuration options
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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
davidak
92bcb61127
replace "Mac OS X" with "macOS"
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except in older release notes where the name was actually Mac OS X.
2017-07-30 12:26:17 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra
49304bae81
Make the hashes mirrors used by builtins.fetchurl configurable
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In particular, this allows it to be disabled in our tests.
2017-07-17 13:07:08 +02:00
