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Eelco Dolstra 9a5b9c588f
Merge pull request #8421 from fricklerhandwerk/doc-replaceStrings
update documentation according to release notes
2023-05-31 12:10:32 +02:00
Valentin Gagarin 738c0d5064
Merge pull request #8318 from fricklerhandwerk/doc-currentTime
document `builtins.currentTime`
2023-05-31 03:15:54 +02:00
Valentin Gagarin 52004696c0
Merge pull request #8413 from doronbehar/doc/distributed-builds/clearer-warning
distributed-builds.md: Clarify warning ssh access requirements
2023-05-31 02:05:05 +02:00
Valentin Gagarin e2f33e0df1 rewrap lines to use one line per sentence
this makes future reviews easier as it reduces diff noise
2023-05-31 01:32:03 +02:00
Doron Behar 76287a9207 distributed-builds.md: Clarify warning ssh access requirements 2023-05-31 01:28:15 +02:00
Valentin Gagarin 7a5731aa07 link to mentioned builtin 2023-05-30 22:58:00 +02:00
polykernel a382919d7d
primops: lazy evaluation of replaceStrings replacements
The primop `builtins.replaceStrings` currently always strictly evaluates the
replacement strings, however time and space are wasted for their computation
if the corresponding pattern do not occur in the input string. This commit
makes the evaluation of the replacement strings lazy by deferring their
evaluation to when the corresponding pattern are matched and memoize the result
for efficient retrieval on subsequent matches.

The testcases for replaceStrings was updated to check for lazy evaluation
of the replacements. A note was also added in the release notes to
document the behavior change.
2023-05-25 18:35:23 -04:00
John Ericson 684e9be8b9
Merge pull request #8337 from fricklerhandwerk/channel-files
list files used by `nix-channel` on its own man page
2023-05-17 12:21:20 -04:00
John Ericson 16a60520f2
Merge pull request #8358 from fricklerhandwerk/output-addressed-references
fix wording on output-addressed store objects
2023-05-17 09:38:18 -04:00
Valentin Gagarin 76f40c02bf fix wording on output-addressed store objects
hashing is an implementation detail.
add references to the other terms.
2023-05-17 15:04:08 +02:00
Valentin Gagarin 6a5a8f51bb add cross-references to pure evaluation mode
use consistent wording everywhere.
add some details on the configuration option documentation.
2023-05-17 15:01:54 +02:00
Valentin Gagarin 549f8dc97b document builtins.currentTime 2023-05-17 13:49:35 +02:00
Valentin Gagarin d8bfeda164 document identifier syntax for attribute sets
it's more likely for readers to find it right there.

this also slightly rewords examples to make them stand out better.
in the long run there probably needs to be a dedicated section on formal syntax, and better highlighting of examples.
2023-05-17 13:41:34 +02:00
Alexander Schmolck 8d4b6766e2 Convert short nix options to long ones
e.g. nix-env -e subversion => nix-env --uninstall subversion

The aim is to make the documentation less cryptic for newcomers and the
long options are more self-documenting.

The change was made with the following script:

<https://github.com/aschmolck/convert-short-nix-opts-to-long-ones>

and sanity checked visually.
2023-05-17 08:10:30 +01:00
Valentin Gagarin 8976769a1c
Reword info on XDG base dirs (#8338)
This gives some more context and should clarify why it works that way.
Also link it from the section on `NIX_USER_CONF_FILES`.

Co-authored-by: John Ericson <git@JohnEricson.me>
2023-05-15 23:30:20 -04:00
Valentin Gagarin 275468a1f0 list files used by nix-channel 2023-05-15 15:26:14 +02:00
John Ericson 914672dc4f
Merge pull request #8141 from tweag/user-files-doc
Document user files of nix
2023-05-15 07:11:47 -04:00
Victor Engmark 6e1bfb93dc refactor: Join commands to remove files 2023-05-15 11:05:26 +12:00
Victor Engmark ed016a5bb0 docs: Mention more files referenced by the installer
`/etc/bash.bashrc` is backed up as `/etc/bash.bashrc.backup-before-nix`,
but since other changes might have been introduced in the meantime we can't
just tell the user to revert.
2023-05-15 11:03:27 +12:00
Victor Engmark e26aad22c6 docs: Remove references to non-existing files
At least on Ubuntu 22.04, these files are not created as part of a multi-
user installation.
2023-05-15 10:26:47 +12:00
Victor Engmark 17a1c1ee4e docs: Sort files by name 2023-05-15 10:16:12 +12:00
Victor Engmark 3cc9b8630b docs: Remove Nix profile content from correct directory
At least on Ubuntu 22.04, the Nix installer creates
`/etc/profile.d/nix.sh`, not `/etc/profile/nix.sh`.
2023-05-15 10:13:46 +12:00
Victor Engmark ccf512f4b8 docs: Remove redundant uninstall command
`sudo systemctl disable nix-daemon.socket nix-daemon.service` removes these
files already.
2023-05-15 10:06:27 +12:00
Valentin Gagarin 454e273451
Merge pull request #8328 from urbas/max-substitution-jobs 2023-05-14 11:59:40 +02:00
Matej Urbas c66a7af0c6 max-substitution-jobs release note entry 2023-05-14 09:51:11 +01:00
Ana Hobden 17fb346ec6 Describe the or operation on attribute sets slightly more 2023-05-12 11:03:09 -07:00
Alexander Bantyev 992be330ab
Update doc/manual/src/SUMMARY.md.in
Co-authored-by: Valentin Gagarin <valentin.gagarin@tweag.io>
2023-05-12 16:58:01 +04:00
Valentin Gagarin 70eb9c7ddb reword introduction to built-in functions
add anchor to `builtins.derivation` and list some built-in functions that are
exposed in the global scope.

I decided not to list everything, because we probably don't want to
encourage people using them that way.
2023-05-11 20:07:42 +02:00
Valentin Gagarin 69a0e6f86c reword documentation on builtins
- add anchor to `builtins`
- add type information
- reword description of `builtins` to offer more information concisely
2023-05-11 17:46:37 +02:00
Valentin Gagarin 2ef7f14e28 do not indent markdown list 2023-05-11 15:29:03 +02:00
Valentin Gagarin dc8191ae14 add redirect to track moved uninstall section 2023-05-03 11:39:29 +02:00
Valentin Gagarin 5d78dc4176
doc rendering: add functions to scope explicitly (#7378)
* doc rendering: add functions to scope explicitly

this especially helps beginners with code readability, since the origin
of names is always immediately visible.
2023-05-03 07:16:29 +00:00
Valentin Gagarin f8620758aa display documentation on manifest files separately
it's probably better not to show the manifest file documentation in the
command-specific pages, because these are implementation details that are not really practically useful.

this means no additional hassle for building the manual, but clutters
the table of contents a bit.
2023-04-28 12:10:36 +02:00
Valentin Gagarin 9b2a4a4729 move uninstall instructions to a separate page
placed in a subsection of the binary install, the instructions are hard
to find. putting them in a separate page that is shown in the table of
contents should make it easier for users to find what they need when
they need it.
2023-04-28 11:53:38 +02:00
Valentin Gagarin da0dbf36cb move manifest information to the bottom of the page 2023-04-26 15:39:35 +02:00
Valentin Gagarin be7c236565 move compatibility info to nix profile docs 2023-04-26 15:39:35 +02:00
Valentin Gagarin 219aaf5a0b increase heading level
otherwise the headings won't match at the point where they are included.
this is a bit hacky and brittle, but works for now.
2023-04-26 15:39:35 +02:00
Valentin Gagarin bb8e3b5d86 update description on how profiles work
adapt to the example listing
2023-04-26 15:39:35 +02:00
Valentin Gagarin 7770d82240 fix typos and wording 2023-04-26 15:39:24 +02:00
Valentin Gagarin 9d386fe2ee add colons to connect listings with descriptions 2023-04-26 15:39:16 +02:00
Valentin Gagarin a1c996dc7e list information regular users first
this is to make it consistent everywhere
2023-04-26 15:39:02 +02:00
Alexander Bantyev 8a93b5a551 Document user files of nix 2023-04-26 15:38:19 +02:00
Michael Utz 40fcb22313
Update installing-binary.md 2023-04-18 13:18:30 +03:00
Noah Snelson 324ed0c367 Documentation: fix typo for Nix database link in manual
Fixes broken link for `Nix database` anchor in the Glossary page of the
Nix manual.
2023-04-17 20:15:08 -07:00
Valentin Gagarin 39e0f609cc
Merge pull request #7514 from fricklerhandwerk/opt-I
remove incorrect reference to `NIX_PATH` documentation
2023-04-17 16:27:23 +02:00
Valentin Gagarin f4119a67cc
use @docroot@ link 2023-04-17 14:54:30 +02:00
Valentin Gagarin d0cf615cbb
add link to nix-conf setting
Co-authored-by: John Ericson <git@JohnEricson.me>
2023-04-17 14:27:26 +02:00
John Ericson 9800c1e807 Mark experimental configuration settings programmatically
Fix #8162

The test is changed to compare `nlohmann::json` values, not strings of dumped
JSON, which allows us to format things more nicely.
2023-04-16 10:58:04 -04:00
John Ericson ba9ae691b6 Add optionalString to manual Nix lang utilities
Use it everywhere it could be also.
2023-04-16 10:57:46 -04:00
John Ericson b41f739068
Merge pull request #7864 from obsidiansystems/quickstart-long-options
Use long options instead of short ones in the "quick start"
2023-04-14 09:13:16 -04:00
John Ericson d93e76fbb8 Start cross-referencing experimental features
- Create a glossary entry for experimental features.

- Have the man page experimental feature notice link `nix-commmand`.

  (Eventually this should be programmed, based on whether the command is
  experimental, and if so what experimental feature does it depend on.)

- Document which installables depend on which experimental features.

  I tried to use the same style (bold warning and block quote) that the
  top of the man page uses.

Co-authored-by: Valentin Gagarin <valentin.gagarin@tweag.io>
2023-04-14 07:45:08 -04:00
Eelco Dolstra e570a91661 Release notes 2023-04-11 12:40:56 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra 60a1bf08b6
Merge pull request #7798 from peeley/list-experimental-features
Documentation: list experimental features in manual
2023-04-11 11:55:35 +02:00
John Ericson 73eb6a2a57 Single page for experimental feature descriptions
As requested by @fricklerhandwerk.
2023-04-09 11:01:23 -04:00
John Ericson 9d1105824f Add release notes for nix derivation {add,show} 2023-04-07 08:35:59 -04:00
John Ericson 2b98af2e62 nix show-derivation -> nix derivation show 2023-04-07 08:34:58 -04:00
matthewcroughan 9207f94582 Add Store::isTrustedClient()
This function returns true or false depending on whether the Nix client
is trusted or not. Mostly relevant when speaking to a remote store with
a daemon.

We include this information in `nix ping store` and `nix doctor`

Co-Authored-By: John Ericson <John.Ericson@Obsidian.Systems>
2023-04-06 19:59:57 -04:00
John Ericson bc192a95ef Describe active experimental features in the contributing guide
They are put in the manual separate pages under the new overarching
description of experimental features.

The settings page just lists the valid experimental feature names (so
people know what a valid setting entry looks like), with links to those
pages. It doesn't attempt to describe each experimental feature as that
is too much information for the configuration settings section.
2023-04-06 18:07:59 -04:00
John Ericson b7cd87a853 Merge remote-tracking branch 'upstream/master' into list-experimental-features 2023-04-06 18:07:46 -04:00
Théophane Hufschmitt 9185639631
Document the concept of “experimental feature” (#5930)
Add a page explaining what “experimental features” are, when and how they should be used

Co-authored-by: Valentin Gagarin <valentin.gagarin@tweag.io>
Co-authored-by: Eelco Dolstra <edolstra@gmail.com>
Co-authored-by: John Ericson <John.Ericson@Obsidian.Systems>
2023-04-06 11:25:22 +00:00
Valentin Gagarin b11ae93581 remove incorrect reference
the semantics are not explained in the referenced section any more, they
have been moved to the documentation for common options in the new CLI [0].

[0]: 703d863a48
2023-04-05 14:03:11 +02:00
Valentin Gagarin bbdb5a58c7
Merge pull request #7849 from milahu/fix-man-nix-shell
docs: fix nix-shell commands
2023-04-05 13:06:59 +02:00
milahu 1ac10808ba docs: fix nix-shell commands 2023-04-05 12:38:36 +02:00
Mike (stew) O'Connor cab5266092 add a definition of the nix database to the glossary
Co-authored-by: Valentin Gagarin <valentin.gagarin@tweag.io>
2023-04-05 10:50:34 +02:00
Valentin Gagarin ed5d0c1362 add anchor to 'local store' 2023-04-05 10:48:59 +02:00
John Ericson 53d0836347 Assemble experimental feature docs outside of Nix itself
Instead of constructing a markdown list in C++ (which involved all sorts
of nasty string literals), export some JSON and assemble it with the
manual build system.

Besides following the precedent set with other dumped data, this is a
better separate of content and presentation; if we decide for example we
want to display this information in a different way, or in a different
section of the manual, it will become much easier to do so.
2023-04-04 22:57:11 -04:00
Valentin Gagarin cde78f9417 process includes first
otherwise the order of found `.md` files will influence if `@docroot@`
is replaced before them being included, which may mess up relative
links.

the weirdest thing about it is that the mess-up happens
deterministically on macOS, but deterministically doesn't happen on
Linux!
2023-03-30 13:55:44 +02:00
Alexander Bantyev 36b059748d Split nix-env and nix-store documentation per-subcommand
Documentation on "classic" commands with many sub-commands are
notoriously hard to discover due to lack of overview and anchor links.
Additionally the information on common options and environment variables
is not accessible offline in man pages, and therefore often overlooked
by readers.

With this change, each sub-command of nix-store and nix-env gets its
own page in the manual (listed in the table of contents), and each own
man page.

Also, man pages for each subcommand now (again) list common options
and environment variables. While this makes each page quite long and
some common parameters don't apply, this should still make it easier
to navigate as that additional information was not accessible on the
command line at all.

It is now possible to run 'nix-store --<subcommand> --help` to display
help pages for the given subcommand.

Co-authored-by: Valentin Gagarin <valentin.gagarin@tweag.io>
2023-03-30 09:46:28 +02:00
Alexander Bantyev 84c2c09ec2 Manual: fail when #include-d file does not exist 2023-03-30 09:41:46 +02:00
John Ericson 8df6f7bb0f Fix more profile dirs in docs
Picking up where #8078 left off.
2023-03-27 12:10:32 -04:00
Eelco Dolstra 237587bc0a
Merge pull request #8084 from edolstra/store-docs
Auto-generate store documentation
2023-03-27 15:46:18 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra 5a0f5b5c34
Merge pull request #8062 from edolstra/ssl-cert-file
Add a setting for configuring the SSL certificates file
2023-03-27 15:37:15 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra 7a61a9aba3 Update release notes 2023-03-23 15:27:06 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra 05d9918a9c
Update doc/manual/src/release-notes/rl-next.md
Co-authored-by: Valentin Gagarin <valentin.gagarin@tweag.io>
2023-03-23 10:13:51 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra 4d31618c15 showSetting: Drop ... 2023-03-23 10:09:25 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra 2851e239a7 Make useAnchors a named argument 2023-03-23 10:08:49 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra fbc296e00f
Merge pull request #8095 from fricklerhandwerk/operators-formatting
doc: force line breaks where needed
2023-03-23 09:24:54 +01:00
Valentin Gagarin 0ced5132fd
Merge pull request #6865 from zuzuleinen/manual-nix-path-empty
document what happens when NIX_PATH is empty
2023-03-23 00:10:17 +01:00
Valentin Gagarin 96129246ad
add links 2023-03-22 23:37:27 +01:00
Valentin Gagarin 40eb88e427 doc: force line breaks where needed 2023-03-22 22:46:23 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra 5691bac202 Improve store setting descriptions / Markdown formatting 2023-03-22 14:23:36 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra da8903ecc3 nix help-stores: Don't include anchors
Since setting names are not unique we don't have an easy way to
produce unique anchors.
2023-03-22 13:11:35 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra 006291e5be
Merge pull request #8082 from edolstra/add-links
Add links to API docs / coverage analysis to the hacking section
2023-03-22 11:27:18 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra 3fc4659d22 Formatting 2023-03-21 14:12:15 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra 9eb53bbf17 Support per-store Markdown documentation 2023-03-21 14:03:40 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra 7704118d28 nix describe-stores: Remove
This command was intended for docs generation, but it was never used
for that and we don't need it.
2023-03-21 14:03:40 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra 8d6d59cb1b nix store --help: Include store type documentation 2023-03-21 14:03:40 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra 6f62cb3611 generate-manpage.nix: Make more readable 2023-03-21 12:11:32 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra 4b9add9b35 Add links to API docs / coverage analysis to the hacking section 2023-03-21 11:47:21 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra e53e5c38d4 Add a setting for configuring the SSL certificates file
This provides a platform-independent way to configure the SSL
certificates file in the Nix daemon. Previously we provided
instructions for overriding the environment variable in launchd, but
that obviously doesn't work with systemd. Now we can just tell users
to add

  ssl-cert-file = /etc/ssl/my-certificate-bundle.crt

to their nix.conf.
2023-03-17 18:32:18 +01:00
Yueh-Shun Li c27d358abb nix-hash: support base-64 and SRI format
Add the --base64 and --sri flags for the Base64 and SRI format output.

Add the --base16 flag to explicitly specify the hexadecimal format.

Add the --to-base64 and --to-sri flag to convert a hash to the above
mentioned format.
2023-03-16 03:08:42 +08:00
Valentin Gagarin d37b8a29ce
Merge pull request #8036 from Freed-Wu/patch-1 2023-03-13 14:35:09 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra 6f22e8b7d8
Merge pull request #7486 from fricklerhandwerk/doc-reference
reword definition of "reference"
2023-03-13 14:04:14 +01:00
wzy 5bf4ade0fa
Fix a typo of values.md 2023-03-13 15:34:01 +08:00
John Ericson 6910f5dcb6 Generate API docs with Doxygen
The motivation is as stated in issue #7814: even though the the C++ API
is internal and unstable, people still want it to be well documented for
sake of learning, code review, and other purposes that aren't predicated
on it being stable.

Fixes #7814

Co-authored-by: Robert Hensing <roberth@users.noreply.github.com>
2023-03-10 12:51:06 -05:00
Valentin Gagarin 66f49864f3
Merge pull request #7928 from serokell/doc-includes
Documentation: process `#include` directives
2023-03-10 17:06:42 +01:00
Valentin Gagarin 2af9fd20c6 clarify definition of "installable"
the term was hard to discover, as its definition and explanation were in
a very long document lacking an overview section.
search did not help because it occurs so often.

- clarify wording in the definition
- add an overview of installable types
- add "installable" to glossary
- link to definition from occurrences of the term
- be more precise about where store derivation outputs are processed
- installable Nix expressions must evaluate to a derivation

Co-authored-by: Adam Joseph <54836058+amjoseph-nixpkgs@users.noreply.github.com>
2023-03-05 01:46:17 +01:00
Valentin Gagarin e065131c1b
cosmetic indentation
Co-authored-by: Théophane Hufschmitt <7226587+thufschmitt@users.noreply.github.com>
2023-03-03 12:56:23 +01:00
Théophane Hufschmitt 1f394d2107
Merge branch 'master' into paths-from-stdin 2023-03-02 19:20:51 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra 96111ad902
Merge pull request #7901 from hercules-ci/disable-tests
Add ./configure --disable-tests option
2023-03-02 10:00:15 +01:00