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Jonas Chevalier 895516cadf
add NIX_USER_CONF_FILES
Motivation: maintain project-level configuration files.

Document the whole situation a bit better so that it corresponds to the
implementation, and add NIX_USER_CONF_FILES that allows overriding
which user files Nix will load during startup.
2020-04-14 18:45:06 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra 55cefd41d6 Merge branch 'fetchgit-recursive' of https://github.com/blitz/nix 2020-04-07 13:45:17 +02:00
Julian Stecklina ea861be292 Add documentation for submodule support in fetchGit 2020-03-29 22:29:57 +02:00
Greg Price e40e01c1dd doc: Files in the store have modes 444/555, not 644/755
This line has been this way since it was written, in 9e08f5efe
in 2006.

I think it was just a small mistake then; Eelco's thesis earlier
that year says the permission on each file is set to 0444 or 0555
in a derivation's output as part of the build process.  In any
case I'm pretty sure that's the behavior now.
2020-03-23 20:23:27 -07:00
jakobrs c5a488afc0 Remove the --delete option for --gc
Running `nix-store --gc --delete` will, as of Nix 2.3.3, simply fail
because the --delete option conflicts with the --delete operation.

  $ nix-store --gc --delete
  error: only one operation may be specified
  Try 'nix-store --help' for more information.

Furthermore, it has been broken since at least Nix 0.16 (which was
released sometime in 2010), which means that any scripts which depend
on it should have been broken at least nine years ago. This commit
simply formally removes the option. There should be no actual difference
in behaviour as far as the user is concerned: it errors with the exact
same error message. The manual has been edited to remove any references
to the (now gone) --delete option.

Other information:
* Path for Nix 0.16 used:
  /nix/store/rp3sgmskn0p0pj1ia2qwd5al6f6pinz4-nix-0.16
2020-03-19 19:41:23 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra 779ef8f5ef
Merge pull request #3380 from contrun/no-attr-path-for-installed
display attr-path only when queried available
2020-03-13 19:26:20 +01:00
YI b6d794fb8d display attr-path only when queried available 2020-03-14 00:36:26 +08:00
Eelco Dolstra 858ad7a4b3 Remove callout graphics
Fixes #3396.
2020-03-13 16:32:43 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra 9c7e90f414
style.css: Remove
This file is licensed under the GPL. Originally, Nix was also
GPL-licensed so that was fine. However, we later changed the license
to the LGPL but missed the fact that style.css has an incompatible
license.

Since the Nix manual at nixos.org uses its own styling, we can remove
this file.

Fixes #3392.
2020-03-13 15:02:32 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra e063c71a79
nixos.org/releases -> releases.nixos.org 2020-03-11 10:33:23 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra 2ba67da053
Merge pull request #3332 from Calvin-L/patch-1
Document that autoconf is a dependency
2020-02-19 13:02:35 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra 16e9a75287 Typo 2020-02-19 12:32:33 +01:00
Benjamin Hipple 762febafe2 doc: mention how to turn on pure evaluation mode in manual
The flag is `--pure-eval`, which can be found by looking at the test suite; it
should be in the notes describing the feature as well, since otherwise users may
assume this is referencing something like `nix-shell --pure`.
2020-02-15 01:44:51 -05:00
Calvin Loncaric 46992e71a1
Document that autoconf is a dependency 2020-01-26 17:22:47 -08:00
Benjamin Hipple 5d24e18e29 doc: touchup release notes for 2.3
- At the top of the release notes, we announce sandboxing is now enabled by default,
then at the bottom it says it's now disabled when missing kernel support. These
can be merged into one point for clarity.

- The point about `max-jobs` defaulting to 1 appears unrelated to sandboxing.
2020-01-14 00:14:03 -05:00
Joe Pea 3895e78794
Add link to official channels in nix-channel command ref 2020-01-09 14:20:08 -08:00
Joe Pea 7ccfa7ca4f
Add a link to official channels in the Channels chapter. 2020-01-09 14:15:19 -08:00
Profpatsch 7923e22276 doc/manual: add ids to the advanced attribute definitions
This makes it possible to reference single attribute definitions,
for pointing people to their exact definition.
2019-12-03 18:22:27 +01:00
Profpatsch 7395e091c5 doc/manual: add note to allowSubstitutes advanced attribute 2019-12-03 18:01:45 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra 0be8d7784f
Typo 2019-11-26 20:33:46 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra 73efc1e8e7
Merge branch 'document-dry-run-option' of https://github.com/Ma27/nix 2019-11-26 20:32:50 +01:00
Arnout Engelen 4e70652ee3 Document builtins.placeholder 2019-11-25 18:00:05 +01:00
Niklas Hambüchen 07294e988c manual: nix-shell: Elaborate on using -p with expressions.
This documents the outcome of the change in
https://github.com/NixOS/nix/issues/454:

> We can also automatically add parentheses in the generated
> `buildInputs`, so you can type `nix-shell -p "expr"`
> instead of `"(expr").
2019-11-10 17:29:13 +01:00
Maximilian Bosch 52ffe2797a
doc: Document --dry-run option for nix-build 2019-11-07 00:11:57 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra 81a9b93689
Fix manual build 2019-11-05 11:21:32 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra 7876027071
Merge pull request #3193 from matthewbauer/patch-11
Update man to show that nix-shell allows --arg
2019-11-05 11:18:24 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra 78b8203e50
Merge pull request #3180 from kevinastock/patch-1
docs: fix upper bound on number of consumed cores
2019-11-05 11:17:02 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra 376802c9b8
Merge pull request #3199 from kevinastock/patch-2
docs: xref doesn't render in title
2019-11-05 11:16:15 +01:00
Kevin Stock cea05e5ee7
docs: correct default location of log directory 2019-11-04 16:23:03 -05:00
Kevin Stock 808cb6444e
docs: xref doesn't render in title
The `post-build-hook` text currently appears in the index, but not on the actual title line of the section, this follows the pattern used in a previous section to get a reference into a title.
2019-11-02 17:55:53 -04:00
Matthew Bauer f1d4ba2afd
Update man to show that nix-shell allows --arg 2019-11-01 13:25:15 -04:00
Kevin Stock 99aac72a16
docs: fix upper bound on number of consumed cores 2019-10-30 16:53:04 -04:00
Eelco Dolstra b421895c1e
Merge pull request #3161 from schlarpc/patch-1
Remove superfluous IAM action for S3 cache
2019-10-23 16:34:54 +02:00
Chaz Schlarp c92ea927e5
Remove superfluous IAM action for S3 cache
`s3:ListObjects` isn't a real IAM action, but _is_ the name of an S3 API method. `s3:ListBucket` is the relevant action for that method.

https://docs.aws.amazon.com/IAM/latest/UserGuide/list_amazons3.html
2019-10-22 16:04:49 -07:00
Ersin Akinci f107a27002 Tweak path hint 2019-10-21 14:16:55 -07:00
Ersin Akinci b7a936224e Add hint about path in builtins.import 2019-10-21 14:11:26 -07:00
Ersin Akinci 9be7787ec0 Revert "Document import <path> syntax"
This reverts commit d8730fb86f.
2019-10-21 13:12:41 -07:00
Ersin Akinci d8730fb86f Document import <path> syntax 2019-10-20 19:08:05 -07:00
Eelco Dolstra ab4dd1d783
Merge pull request #2291 from Taneb/master
nix-channel documentation: don't suggest deprecated function
2019-10-17 12:53:42 +02:00
Danny Bautista 00a567588e Fix typos in the Nix Manual. 2019-10-08 14:02:40 -04:00
Domen Kožar 043365c2fb
Merge pull request #3080 from Infinisil/tryEval-docs
docs: Note that tryEval doesn't do deep evaluation
2019-09-30 14:03:16 +02:00
Joseph Lucas 10bfc5c0d0
Update garbage-collection.xml readability
1. remove a typo space
2. Simplify negative style by using affirmative style
2019-09-23 13:18:59 +00:00
Alexandre Esteves 9533d85ce0 Move 'builtins.splitVersion' to position respecting alphabetical order 2019-09-17 23:40:49 +01:00
Julien Tanguy ae244af242 docs: Use the explicit ref for fetchGit with a tag
With the merge of #2582, the syntax "tags/1.9" for refs does not work
anymore.
However, the new syntax "refs/tags/1.9" seems to support annotated tags,
such as "refs/tags/2.0".

Closes #2385.
2019-09-11 14:18:47 +02:00
Julien Tanguy 92ede15dd9 docs: Fix a typo in github in an example 2019-09-11 14:11:37 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra 252c78b288
Tweak release notes 2019-09-04 15:59:07 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra b774845af7
Set release date 2019-09-04 12:53:22 +02:00
Silvan Mosberger e4ea3e0306
docs: Note that tryEval doesn't do deep evaluation 2019-09-03 07:32:44 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra 8478c99d09
Merge pull request #3048 from toonn/nix-env_doc
Fix nix-env documentation for --delete-generations
2019-08-29 15:22:01 +02:00
toonn 5bdac86be2 Reword to clarify newer generations are left alone
My attempt at clarifying the docs resulted in a false explanation. This
is now fixed and I added an example to eliminate all possible confusion.
2019-08-29 13:56:21 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra 787015fec0 Merge branch 'master' of github.com:NixOS/nix 2019-08-27 21:18:20 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra fdff96501f Update release notes 2019-08-27 21:18:00 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra 177e5742fa
Merge pull request #3056 from grahamc/operators
operators: document exact precedence, split up similar operators
2019-08-27 17:12:36 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra 45b3dc325a Add 2.3 release notes 2019-08-27 17:00:04 +02:00
Graham Christensen 171d784404
docs: operators: Make OR and AND capitalized 2019-08-27 06:55:22 -04:00
Graham Christensen 15ee2bc2fe
Merge pull request #2946 from vmandela/proxy
installer: handle network proxy in systemd multi-user install
2019-08-24 14:55:19 -04:00
Graham Christensen 057af1dbd8
docs: document the installer's use of proxy env vars 2019-08-24 09:08:44 -04:00
Graham Christensen 92ddce4f46
operators: document exact precedenc, split up similar operators 2019-08-23 15:50:54 -04:00
Toon Nolten 1dbaf11948 Fix nix-env documentation for --delete-generations
The documentation for `--delete-generations` had an erroneous fullstop
and as it turns out inaccurate information on the `+No.` syntax.
2019-08-17 16:33:35 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra b7ea98bf34
Merge pull request #2945 from danidiaz/doc001
Expanded documentation for .nix-defexpr
2019-08-15 15:03:21 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra 477f82e5a7
Merge pull request #2782 from grahamc/flames
Track function start and end
2019-08-15 14:20:42 +02:00
Daniel Diaz 653c407784
Expanded documentation for .nix-defexpr 2019-08-15 08:05:22 -04:00
Graham Christensen ee9c988a1b
Track function start and ends for flame graphs
With this patch, and this file I called `log.py`:

    #!/usr/bin/env nix-shell
    #!nix-shell -i python3 -p python3 --pure

    import sys
    from pprint import pprint

    stack = []
    timestack = []

    for line in open(sys.argv[1]):
        components = line.strip().split(" ", 2)
        if components[0] != "function-trace":
            continue

        direction = components[1]
        components = components[2].rsplit(" ", 2)

        loc = components[0]
        _at = components[1]
        time = int(components[2])

        if direction == "entered":
            stack.append(loc)
            timestack.append(time)
        elif direction == "exited":
            dur = time - timestack.pop()
            vst = ";".join(stack)
            print(f"{vst} {dur}")
            stack.pop()

and:

    nix-instantiate --trace-function-calls -vvvv ../nixpkgs/pkgs/top-level/release.nix -A unstable > log.matthewbauer 2>&1
    ./log.py ./log.matthewbauer > log.matthewbauer.folded
    flamegraph.pl --title matthewbauer-post-pr log.matthewbauer.folded > log.matthewbauer.folded.svg

I can make flame graphs like: http://gsc.io/log.matthewbauer.folded.svg

---

Includes test cases around function call failures and tryEval. Uses
RAII so the finish is always called at the end of the function.
2019-08-14 16:09:35 -04:00
Graham Christensen a02457db71
conf: stalled-download-timeout: make tunable
Make curl's low speed limit configurable via stalled-download-timeout.
Before, this limit was five minutes without receiving a single byte.
This is much too long as if the remote end may not have even
acknowledged the HTTP request.
2019-08-08 10:22:13 -04:00
Graham Christensen 1eeaf99cf8
fixup: docs for post-build-hook 2019-08-07 14:53:11 -04:00
Eelco Dolstra 56df30cd3f
Merge pull request #2995 from tweag/post-build-hook
Add a post build hook
2019-08-07 15:02:29 +02:00
Graham Christensen 363a2f6826
post-build-hook: docs fixup 2019-08-06 14:26:43 -04:00
regnat 7c5596734f
Add a post-build-hook
Passing `--post-build-hook /foo/bar` to a nix-* command will cause
`/foo/bar` to be executed after each build with the following
environment variables set:

    DRV_PATH=/nix/store/drv-that-has-been-built.drv
    OUT_PATHS=/nix/store/...build /nix/store/...build-bin /nix/store/...build-dev

This can be useful in particular to upload all the builded artifacts to
the cache (including the ones that don't appear in the runtime closure
of the final derivation or are built because of IFD).

This new feature prints the stderr/stdout output to the `nix-build`
and `nix build` client, and the output is printed in a Nix 2
compatible format:

    [nix]$ ./inst/bin/nix-build ./test.nix
    these derivations will be built:
      /nix/store/ishzj9ni17xq4hgrjvlyjkfvm00b0ch9-my-example-derivation.drv
    building '/nix/store/ishzj9ni17xq4hgrjvlyjkfvm00b0ch9-my-example-derivation.drv'...
    hello!
    bye!
    running post-build-hook '/home/grahamc/projects/github.com/NixOS/nix/post-hook.sh'...
    post-build-hook: + sleep 1
    post-build-hook: + echo 'Signing paths' /nix/store/qr213vjmibrqwnyp5fw678y7whbkqyny-my-example-derivation
    post-build-hook: Signing paths /nix/store/qr213vjmibrqwnyp5fw678y7whbkqyny-my-example-derivation
    post-build-hook: + sleep 1
    post-build-hook: + echo 'Uploading paths' /nix/store/qr213vjmibrqwnyp5fw678y7whbkqyny-my-example-derivation
    post-build-hook: Uploading paths /nix/store/qr213vjmibrqwnyp5fw678y7whbkqyny-my-example-derivation
    post-build-hook: + sleep 1
    post-build-hook: + printf 'very important stuff'
    /nix/store/qr213vjmibrqwnyp5fw678y7whbkqyny-my-example-derivation

    [nix-shell:~/projects/github.com/NixOS/nix]$ ./inst/bin/nix build -L -f ./test.nix
    my-example-derivation> hello!
    my-example-derivation> bye!
    my-example-derivation (post)> + sleep 1
    my-example-derivation (post)> + echo 'Signing paths' /nix/store/c263gzj2kb2609mz8wrbmh53l14wzmfs-my-example-derivation
    my-example-derivation (post)> Signing paths /nix/store/c263gzj2kb2609mz8wrbmh53l14wzmfs-my-example-derivation
    my-example-derivation (post)> + sleep 1
    my-example-derivation (post)> + echo 'Uploading paths' /nix/store/c263gzj2kb2609mz8wrbmh53l14wzmfs-my-example-derivation
    my-example-derivation (post)> Uploading paths /nix/store/c263gzj2kb2609mz8wrbmh53l14wzmfs-my-example-derivation
    my-example-derivation (post)> + sleep 1
    my-example-derivation (post)> + printf 'very important stuff'
    [1 built, 0.0 MiB DL]

Co-authored-by: Graham Christensen <graham@grahamc.com>
Co-authored-by: Eelco Dolstra <edolstra@gmail.com>
2019-08-02 10:48:15 -04:00
Eelco Dolstra 320126aeeb
Tweak min-free/max-free descriptions 2019-08-02 14:04:09 +02:00
Graham Christensen cf6172f05e
docs: document balancing cores and max-jobs 2019-07-19 08:28:44 -04:00
Eelco Dolstra b5ae85f088
Merge pull request #2882 from grahamc/docs/1115-tarball-ttl
tarball-ttl: document
2019-07-06 00:15:27 +02:00
Graham Christensen 648bdf153d
tarball-ttl: document
Incorporates text from Niklas Hambüchen in #2978

Closes #1115
2019-07-05 15:55:28 -04:00
Eelco Dolstra 7d6ba1dc90
Merge branch 'autoconf-ubuntu-16.04-fixes' of https://github.com/nh2/nix 2019-07-03 08:02:45 +02:00
Niklas Hambüchen 57daa860e8 autoconf: Fix C++17 detection not working on Ubuntu 16.04.
And probably many other distributions.

Until now, ./configure would fail silently printing a warning

    ./configure: line 4621: AX_CXX_COMPILE_STDCXX_17: command not found

and then continuing, later failing with a C++ #error saying that some C++11
feature isn't supported (it didn't even get to the C++17 features).

This is because older distributions don't come with the
`AX_CXX_COMPILE_STDCXX_17` m4 macro.

This commit vendors that macro accordingly.

Now ./configure complains correctly:

    configure: error: *** A compiler with support for C++17 language features is required.

On Ubuntu 16.04, ./configure completes if a newer compiler is used, e.g. with
gcc-7 from https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-toolchain-r/+archive/ubuntu/test
using:

    ./bootstrap.sh
    ./configure CXX=g++-7 --disable-doc-gen --with-boost=$(nix-build --no-link '<nixpkgs>' -A boost.dev)
2019-07-03 04:32:25 +02:00
Niklas Hambüchen 1f97b16b1d autoconf: Work around editline not being found on Ubuntu 16.04.
And probably other Linux distributions with long-term support releases.

Also update manual stating what version is needed;
I checked that 1.14 is the oldest version with which current nix compiles,
and added autoconf feature checks for some functions added in that release
that nix uses.
2019-07-03 04:32:25 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra 7e1c85c5fb
Merge pull request #2779 from LnL7/build-exit-codes
build: add exit code for hash and check mismatches
2019-07-02 17:37:49 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra 7c0b0dbec8
Merge pull request #2724 from LnL7/manpage-add-fixed
nix-store: document --add-fixed
2019-07-02 15:47:40 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra 33db1d35ae
Merge pull request #2582 from LnL7/fetchgit-refs
fetchGit: allow fetching explicit refs
2019-07-02 15:44:31 +02:00
Daiderd Jordan a3c77c1536
nix-store: document --add-fixed 2019-07-02 09:12:02 -04:00
Graham Christensen c8205a3413
builtins.fetchGit: document absolute ref support 2019-07-02 09:05:56 -04:00
Daiderd Jordan a52c331edb
build: replace 100 offset for build exit codes 2019-07-02 00:12:38 +02:00
Daiderd Jordan 1ac399dd11
nix-store: document exit codes 2019-07-02 00:12:38 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra 88571219d9
nix-channel: Don't fetch binary-cache-url
This has been ignored since the Perl->C++ rewrite.
2019-06-25 13:27:16 +02:00
Bruno Bieth 74a65d313f Nix uses the CPP SDK, not Java 2019-06-20 14:47:45 +02:00
JorisE 4b0d613383
Minor typo 2019-06-04 14:12:03 +02:00
Maximilian Bosch b502b6682b
doc: clarify that optional attrs in a function argument will be ignored unless specified
In `args@{ a ? 1 }: /* ... */` the value `a` won't be a part of `args`
unless it's specified when calling the function, the default value will
be ignored in this case.

My personal point of view is that this behavior is a matter of taste, at
least I was pretty sure that unmatched arguments will be a part of
`args@` while debugging some Nix code last week.

I decided to add a warning to the docs which hopefully reduces the
confusion of further Nix developers who thought the same about `args@`.
2019-05-21 18:08:26 +02:00
Vladimír Čunát c0559a1d60
docs: describe $IN_NIX_SHELL values (#2796)
See commit 1bffd83e1a
2019-05-17 09:50:42 +02:00
Graham Christensen a5efe61786
Clarify where output from the diff hook goes. 2019-05-12 13:23:30 -04:00
Graham Christensen 6df61db060
diff hook: execute as the build user, and pass the temp dir 2019-05-12 13:17:26 -04:00
Graham Christensen c78686e411
build: run diff-hook under --check and document diff-hook 2019-05-12 13:17:24 -04:00
Eelco Dolstra 71eb76a0d4
Merge pull request #2765 from nh2/manual-nixpkgs-word
manual: "Nix Package collection" -> "Nixpkgs package collection".
2019-05-08 10:19:59 +02:00
Daniel Schaefer 3f192ac80c Add builtins.hashFile
For text files it is possible to do it like so:
`builtins.hashString "sha256" (builtins.readFile /tmp/a)`
but that doesn't work for binary files.

With builtins.hashFile any kind of file can be conveniently hashed.
2019-05-03 17:23:36 +02:00
Niklas Hambüchen 288f93cec0 manual: "Nix Package collection" -> "Nixpkgs package collection".
Makes difference between Nix and Nixpkgs clearer to avoid
some common confusion this sentence on IRC.

Also disambiguate an "it" reference.
2019-04-14 03:20:57 +02:00
Niklas Hambüchen caa76c369a docs: Mention --max-jobs 0 to build remotely only 2019-03-31 03:57:45 +02:00
Dmitry Kalinkin 75ec68f93a
manual: mention the "channel:" shorthand for NIX_PATH
Bumped to 15.09 because older channels, when downloaded from
nixos.org, require firefox to be accessed via `pkgs.firefox`
2019-03-25 20:55:28 -04:00
Jonas Chevalier 514b3c7f83
Add isPath primop
this is added for completeness' sake since all the other possible
`builtins.typeOf` results have a corresponding `builtins.is<Type>`
2019-03-24 11:36:49 +01:00
Linus Heckemann 6f093073b6 manual: include builtins.* for globally available builtins
This improves searchability.
2019-03-21 09:37:22 +01:00
Joachim Breitner 684c7fff80 Link to builders-use-substitutes in chapter on distributed builds
fixes #2730.
2019-03-16 19:03:40 +01:00
Andreas Rammhold 34fade478a
docs: fix typo in AllowDirectReads
It was just missing an `l` but should be fixed anyway.
2019-03-14 23:51:18 +01:00
Vladimír Čunát 4cfc131ec4
manual nitpick: document sha512 support in hashString 2019-03-01 14:30:30 +01:00