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Eelco Dolstra 5e83b0227f
nix: Remove the -h flag 2018-08-30 16:14:19 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra 737ed88f35
Modularize config settings
Allow global config settings to be defined in multiple Config
classes. For example, this means that libutil can have settings and
evaluator settings can be moved out of libstore. The Config classes
are registered in a new GlobalConfig class to which config files
etc. are applied.

Relevant to https://github.com/NixOS/nix/issues/2009 in that it
removes the need for ad hoc handling of useCaseHack, which was the
underlying cause of that issue.
2018-05-30 13:28:01 +02:00
Shea Levy 88cd2d41ac
Add plugins to make Nix more extensible.
All plugins in plugin-files will be dlopened, allowing them to
statically construct instances of the various Register* types Nix
supports.
2018-02-08 12:44:37 -05:00
Eelco Dolstra 6fa690291a
Add 'nix upgrade-nix' command
This command upgrades Nix to the latest stable version by installing a
store path obtained from

  https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/raw/master/nixos/modules/installer/tools/nix-fallback-paths.nix

which is the same store path that the installer at
https://nixos.org/nix/install.sh uses.

The upgrade fails if Nix is not installed in a profile (e.g. on NixOS,
or when installed outside of the Nix store).
2018-01-31 16:24:43 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra 5ef5d70b5e
Make config options available to legacy commands 2017-11-14 14:04:09 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra 0d59f1ca49
nix: Respect -I, --arg, --argstr
Also, random cleanup to argument handling.
2017-10-24 12:58:34 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra e9c07a3b26
nix edit / log: Operate on a single Installable 2017-08-29 16:18:00 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra c8235c5313
nix run: Flush the progress bar before starting the command 2017-08-29 15:13:30 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra 93a5ef0516
nix run: Fix chroot execution
Running "nix run" with a diverted store, e.g.

  $ nix run --store local?root=/tmp/nix nixpkgs.hello

stopped working when Nix became multithreaded, because
unshare(CLONE_NEWUSER) doesn't work in multithreaded processes. The
obvious solution is to terminate all other threads first, but 1) there
is no way to terminate Boehm GC marker threads; and 2) it appears that
the kernel has a race where unshare(CLONE_NEWUSER) will still fail for
some indeterminate amount of time after joining other threads.

So instead, "nix run" will now exec() a single-threaded helper ("nix
__run_in_chroot") that performs the actual unshare()/chroot()/exec().
2017-08-29 13:21:07 +02:00
Jörg Thalheim 2fd8f8bb99 Replace Unicode quotes in user-facing strings by ASCII
Relevant RFC: NixOS/rfcs#4

$ ag -l | xargs sed -i -e "/\"/s/’/'/g;/\"/s/‘/'/g"
2017-07-30 12:32:45 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra 112ff7833d
nix: Show help when no arguments are given
Fixes #1464.
2017-07-14 13:44:45 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra 186571965d
Don't show flags from config settings in "nix --help" 2017-06-07 18:41:20 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra aa952d5f0b
nix: Add --help-config flag 2017-06-07 16:49:54 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra b8283773bd
nix: Make all options available as flags
Thus, instead of ‘--option <name> <value>’, you can write ‘--<name>
<value>’. So

  --option http-connections 100

becomes

  --http-connections 100

Apart from brevity, the difference is that it's not an error to set a
non-existent option via --option, but unrecognized arguments are
fatal.

Boolean options have special treatment: they're mapped to the
argument-less flags ‘--<name>’ and ‘--no-<name>’. E.g.

  --option auto-optimise-store false

becomes

  --no-auto-optimise-store
2017-06-07 16:17:17 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra b01d62285c
Improve progress indicator 2017-05-16 16:09:57 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra ba9ad29fdb
Convert Settings to the new config system
This makes all config options self-documenting.

Unknown or unparseable config settings and --option flags now cause a
warning.
2017-04-13 20:53:23 +02:00
Will Dietz 30f89e0d65 Process nix.conf options in "new" nix commands, add test.
Without this (minor) change, the options set using "--option"
or read from nix.conf were parsed but not used.
2017-04-08 12:59:42 -05:00
Eelco Dolstra ca9de88a51 nix: Disable verbose builds 2016-04-25 19:18:45 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra 41633f9f73 Improved logging abstraction
This also gets rid of --log-type, since the nested log type isn't
useful in a multi-threaded situation, and nobody cares about the
"pretty" log type.
2016-04-25 19:18:45 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra ce113c32d2 Add warning about "nix" being experimental 2016-03-04 15:54:41 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra cd2196b089 Start of new Nix command-line interface 2016-02-09 21:28:29 +01:00