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Valentin Gagarin 8ab9fdac01
Merge pull request #7768 from ncfavier/fixup-7714 2023-02-07 16:24:19 +01:00
Valentin Gagarin c20394245d add "instantiate" to glossary 2023-02-07 12:09:26 +01:00
Valentin Gagarin e4f12ff482
store paths are not uniquely determined 2023-02-07 11:59:18 +01:00
Naïm Favier 2915db7b28
doc: fixup 7714 2023-02-07 11:38:09 +01:00
Peter Becich b8e96351f7
fix clang11Stdenv dev shell documentation
`clang11StdenvPackages` does not exist

```
│   └───x86_64-linux
│       ├───ccacheStdenv: development environment 'nix'
│       ├───clang11Stdenv: development environment 'nix'
│       ├───clangStdenv: development environment 'nix'
│       ├───default: development environment 'nix'
│       ├───gccStdenv: development environment 'nix'
│       ├───libcxxStdenv: development environment 'nix'
│       └───stdenv: development environment 'nix'
```
2023-02-05 12:00:48 -08:00
Eelco Dolstra 5cbeff64f2
Merge pull request #7607 from Hoverbear/installation-expand
Expand installation.md
2023-02-02 17:05:54 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra 6f0436a337
Merge pull request #7719 from andersk/manual-timestamp
manual: Document that the store timestamp is now 1, not 0
2023-02-01 15:50:36 +01:00
Anders Kaseorg c5d4c50aba manual: Document that the store timestamp is now 1, not 0
Commit 14bc3ce3d6 (0.13~43) changed the
timestamps in the Nix store from 0 to 1.  Update the nix-store man
page to match.

Signed-off-by: Anders Kaseorg <andersk@mit.edu>
2023-01-30 23:51:35 -08:00
Naïm Favier 0b3464a107
doc: add __structuredAttrs, outputChecks, unsafeDiscardReferences 2023-01-30 14:49:45 +01:00
Théophane Hufschmitt 7408776b00 Fix the release-notes
Slightly butchered during the merge
2023-01-30 10:32:23 +01:00
Théophane Hufschmitt 4aaf0ee52e
Merge branch 'master' into referenceablePaths 2023-01-30 10:31:00 +01:00
John Ericson f465e378c4
Update doc/manual/src/release-notes/rl-2.13.md
Co-authored-by: Eelco Dolstra <edolstra@gmail.com>
2023-01-25 08:58:41 -05:00
John Ericson 816031173c Fix the 2.13 changelog
It is just the new CLI that gets the `^` syntax. The old CLI already has
a (slightly different) `!` syntax.

Fixes #7682
2023-01-24 18:53:46 -05:00
Felix Uhl dc4aa383e9 doc: fix anchor links in and to glossary 2023-01-24 00:19:43 +01:00
Robert Hensing 9b56683398
Merge pull request #7447 from aakropotkin/read-file-type
Read file type
2023-01-23 17:37:22 +01:00
John Ericson 7fe308c2f8 Add rapidcheck dependency for testing
Property tests are great!

Co-authored-by: Cole Helbling <cole.e.helbling@outlook.com>
2023-01-23 07:05:50 -05:00
Robert Hensing 37c533ed27
rl-next.md: Minor improvement 2023-01-23 11:28:31 +01:00
Théophane Hufschmitt 90e630a542
Merge pull request #7641 from layus/coerce-strings-fixups
Coerce strings fixups
2023-01-23 09:39:00 +01:00
Alex Ameen 153ee460c5 primop: add readFileType, optimize readDir
Allows checking directory entry type of a single file/directory.

This was added to optimize the use of `builtins.readDir` on some
filesystems and operating systems which cannot detect this information
using POSIX's `readdir`.

Previously `builtins.readDir` would eagerly use system calls to lookup
these filetypes using other interfaces; this change makes these
operations lazy in the attribute values for each file with application
of `builtins.readFileType`.
2023-01-22 13:45:02 -06:00
Florian Paul Schmidt 4ff9ed5c2d doc: fix update operator description 2023-01-20 13:21:45 +01:00
Théophane Hufschmitt fdc02d2b6a
Merge pull request #7490 from fricklerhandwerk/doc-realise
define the terms "realise" and "valid" for store paths
2023-01-20 11:19:45 +01:00
Valentin Gagarin b911307d7a
Merge pull request #7629 from phip1611/patch-3 2023-01-19 16:41:20 +01:00
Philipp Schuster 9469b1bb30 doc: update language/index.md
- make `<nixpkgs>` visible (was blank in the rendered version)
2023-01-19 15:11:20 +01:00
Guillaume Maudoux e4726a0c79 Revert "Revert "Merge pull request #6204 from layus/coerce-string""
This reverts commit 9b33ef3879.
2023-01-19 13:23:04 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra 38b90c618f
Merge pull request #7640 from marceltransier/patch-2
Fix update operator usage in operators.md
2023-01-19 11:12:10 +01:00
Marcel Transier 8b9325ec4a
Fix update operator usage in operators.md 2023-01-19 10:20:41 +01:00
Marcel Transier 9141b74eb7
Fix markdown error in operators.md
Escape logical or pipe in markdown table according to https://github.github.com/gfm/#example-200
2023-01-18 22:34:49 +01:00
Lorenzo Manacorda 913782af4d Relase notes: add empty flake registry
Introduced in #5420
2023-01-18 17:34:19 +01:00
Philipp Schuster 70e193d64b
Update binary-cache-substituter.md (#7628)
`binary-caches` is deprecated and `substituters` the new recommended option.
2023-01-18 15:08:20 +00:00
Robert Hensing 9b33ef3879 Revert "Merge pull request #6204 from layus/coerce-string"
This reverts commit a75b7ba30f, reversing
changes made to 9af16c5f74.
2023-01-18 01:34:07 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra 3ff9fc0d7d Typo 2023-01-17 17:03:30 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra c1934eb074 Release notes 2023-01-17 13:23:31 +01:00
Valentin Gagarin 9be3c6c7c7 add note on self-references and cycles
Co-authored-by: John Ericson <git@JohnEricson.me>
2023-01-17 12:33:23 +01:00
Valentin Gagarin 59f03437c2 references refer to store objects, not paths
as noted by @Ericson2314
2023-01-17 12:29:45 +01:00
Valentin Gagarin bc9de373c7 reword definition of "reference" 2023-01-17 12:29:45 +01:00
Ana Hobden 763c1dfc2b Expand installation.md
Changes the `quick-start.md` to recommend a multi-user install, since
single-user is not supported on MacOS and https://nixos.org/download.html
recommends multi-user.

Expands `installation.md` to reflect wording on https://nixos.org/download.html
2023-01-16 11:38:50 -08:00
Robert Hensing f58c301112
Merge pull request #7541 from hercules-ci/check-manual-links
Check links in the manual
2023-01-10 23:07:38 +01:00
Robert Hensing 6ae4d762d0 doc/manual/src/contributing/hacking.md: Apply suggestion
Co-authored-by: Valentin Gagarin <valentin.gagarin@tweag.io>
2023-01-10 22:30:41 +01:00
Robert Hensing da4d4feacf doc/manual/hacking: Document @docroot@ variable 2023-01-10 22:30:41 +01:00
Robert Hensing fefa3a49ce doc/manual: Apply suggestions from code review
Co-authored-by: Valentin Gagarin <valentin.gagarin@tweag.io>
2023-01-10 22:30:41 +01:00
Robert Hensing fd2af69e60 doc/manual: Move the html files back where they were before
... before the link checking "output" was added, bumping the
html output into a subdirectory.
2023-01-10 22:30:41 +01:00
Robert Hensing d5c8289f1e doc/manual: Document hacking on the manual links 2023-01-10 22:30:41 +01:00
Robert Hensing e79f935718 doc/manual: Fix broken internal links
The targets I could find.
2023-01-10 22:30:41 +01:00
Robert Hensing 34a1e0d29b doc/manual: Introduce @docroot@ as a stable base for includable snippets
This way the links are clearly within the manual (ie not absolute paths),
while allowing snippets to reference the documentation root reliably,
regardless of at which base url they're included.
2023-01-10 22:30:41 +01:00
Robert Hensing be10c09d23 manual: Check links
mdbook-linkcheck is not consistent about its warning setting.
It disables some warnings, but not the warnings about lack of
fragment checking support; hence the extra filtering.
2023-01-10 22:30:41 +01:00
Jeremy Fleischman 89ef26664d
Add a pointer from "realising" to nix log. (#4876) 2023-01-09 09:49:46 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra 3172c51baf
Merge pull request #7498 from fricklerhandwerk/path+string
refactor documentation of operators, document `+` for strings and paths
2023-01-06 13:46:31 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra d02c5a41da
Merge pull request #7500 from akhildevelops/patch-1
Updated docs to delete build users and group
2023-01-05 17:25:06 +01:00
Valentin Gagarin e57165b85a bring back table, extract annotations
this makes the table less unwieldy, and leaves enough space for
extensive explanations.
2023-01-05 15:16:16 +01:00
Valentin Gagarin 7da59e94ae add links to documentation for data types 2023-01-05 14:15:01 +01:00
Valentin Gagarin 7b2b9e3648 use more self-explanatory placeholder names 2023-01-05 14:15:01 +01:00
Valentin Gagarin 969e5ad5bf add semantics of overloaded + operator 2023-01-05 14:15:01 +01:00
Valentin Gagarin 63b640e0c2 reword descriptions of operators
add notes on semantics where appropriate
2023-01-05 14:15:01 +01:00
Valentin Gagarin e07448ba6b convert table to subsections
this form is much easier to maintain (also with minimal diffs), and
allows for more details on each operator.

this change a purely mechanical transformation, without changing any contents.
2023-01-05 14:15:01 +01:00
Valentin Gagarin caebe4112e reorder columns
this is for a simpler transformation into a series of subsections
2023-01-05 14:15:01 +01:00
Naïm Favier 3c968191f1
move unsafeDiscardReferences out of outputChecks
It's not a check.
2023-01-03 18:53:01 +01:00
Naïm Favier 15f7fa59be
unsafeDiscardReferences
Adds a new boolean structured attribute
`outputChecks.<output>.unsafeDiscardReferences` which disables scanning
an output for runtime references.

    __structuredAttrs = true;
    outputChecks.out.unsafeDiscardReferences = true;

This is useful when creating filesystem images containing their own embedded Nix
store: they are self-contained blobs of data with no runtime dependencies.

Setting this attribute requires the experimental feature
`discard-references` to be enabled.
2023-01-03 17:19:16 +01:00
Valentin Gagarin 9cb1610257 define the terms "realise" and "valid" for store paths
add links to the glossary definition where the terms are used
2023-01-03 13:53:53 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra 6b69652385 Merge remote-tracking branch 'origin/master' into coerce-string 2023-01-02 20:53:39 +01:00
Théophane Hufschmitt 34a31b33f1
Merge pull request #7278 from fricklerhandwerk/antiquotation
antiquotation -> string interpolation
2023-01-02 15:03:45 +01:00
Théophane Hufschmitt a654ae8269
Merge pull request #7066 from fricklerhandwerk/architecture-overview
manual: architecture overview
2023-01-02 14:42:01 +01:00
Valentin Gagarin e0c4a95611 antiquotation -> string interpolation
as proposed by @mkaito[1] and @tazjin[2] and discussed with @edolstra
and Nix maintainers

[1]: https://github.com/NixOS/nix.dev/pull/267#issuecomment-1270076332
[2]: https://github.com/NixOS/nix.dev/pull/267#issuecomment-1270201979

Co-authored-by: John Ericson <git@JohnEricson.me>
Co-authored-by: Eelco Dolstra <edolstra@gmail.com>
2023-01-02 14:38:57 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra 80a0f77e49
Merge pull request #7470 from obsidiansystems/simplify-tests-slightly
Make `./mk/run-test.sh` work by itself; add `mk/debug-test.sh`
2023-01-02 14:14:30 +01:00
Théophane Hufschmitt cfd6c7fc9b
Merge pull request #7485 from fricklerhandwerk/doc-store-derivation
define "store derivation"
2023-01-02 13:26:41 +01:00
John Ericson efbd1d15c6
Apply suggestions from code review
Co-authored-by: Valentin Gagarin <valentin.gagarin@tweag.io>
2022-12-23 08:59:36 -08:00
Eelco Dolstra c164d304f3 nix develop: Set personality
This makes 'nix develop' set the Linux personality in the same way
that the actual build does, allowing a command like 'nix develop
nix#devShells.i686-linux.default' on x86_64-linux to work correctly.
2022-12-23 16:33:55 +01:00
Akhil a3a0e414c2
Deletes build users and group 2022-12-23 14:06:51 +05:30
Valentin Gagarin 7797661a70 link "store derivation" to glossary definition 2022-12-21 11:42:50 +01:00
Valentin Gagarin 3a66d82e1d update description of "store derivation" in installables section
a store derivation is not a store path itself, it has a store path.
2022-12-21 11:42:22 +01:00
Valentin Gagarin 62f4f883a7 define "store derivation" 2022-12-21 11:42:22 +01:00
John Ericson 0251d44cc2 Make ./mk/run-test.sh work by itself; add mk/debug-test.sh
First, logic is consolidated in the shell script instead of being spread
between them and makefiles. That makes understanding what is going on a
little easier.

This would not be super interesting by itself, but it gives us a way to
debug tests more easily. *That* in turn I hope is much more compelling.
See the updated manual for details.

Co-authored-by: Valentin Gagarin <valentin.gagarin@tweag.io>
Co-authored-by: Eelco Dolstra <edolstra@gmail.com>
Co-authored-by: Robert Hensing <roberth@users.noreply.github.com>
2022-12-21 02:28:33 -05:00
Robert Hensing 1437582ccd
doc/book.toml: Improve config (#7300)
* doc/book.toml: Improve config

 - `title` value will be added to the HTML <title> - here</title>

 - `git-repository-url` adds a link to the GitHub repo in the top right corner

 - `edit-url-template` adds an edit link, inviting contributions

Co-authored-by: Valentin Gagarin <valentin.gagarin@tweag.io>
2022-12-20 16:29:32 +01:00
Valentin Gagarin 7e31a991db make relative links explicit 2022-12-20 14:28:43 +01:00
Valentin Gagarin c162c90b43 add more explanation to diagrams
this is to help reading the diagrams, otherwise arrows and labels were
reported as being ambiguous.
2022-12-20 09:59:59 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra 9fa8b02c41
Merge pull request #7456 from ncfavier/fix-links
doc: fix links
2022-12-13 17:27:13 +01:00
Naïm Favier 129ece7ce9
doc: fix links 2022-12-13 15:49:40 +01:00
John Ericson 5273cf4c97 Merge remote-tracking branch 'upstream/master' into indexed-store-path-outputs 2022-12-12 17:40:49 -05:00
John Ericson dabb03b8d0 Merge remote-tracking branch 'upstream/master' into indexed-store-path-outputs 2022-12-12 17:36:02 -05:00
John Ericson c7cce3e4e1 Improve release notes 2022-12-12 16:29:49 -05:00
Valentin Gagarin 4ed8bb1cb1 suggestions from review 2022-12-12 14:29:24 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra fa409131cd Add links to the manual
Co-authored-by: Valentin Gagarin <valentin.gagarin@tweag.io>
2022-12-12 14:05:54 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra fd0ed75118 Support flake references in the old CLI
Fixes #7026.
2022-12-12 14:05:52 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra 7396844676
Merge pull request #7421 from edolstra/lazy-trees-trivial-changes
Trivial changes from the lazy-trees branch
2022-12-12 13:52:56 +01:00
John Ericson 1879c7c95e
Merge branch 'master' into indexed-store-path-outputs 2022-12-12 07:33:36 -05:00
Eelco Dolstra c66c904a05 Tweak NIX_PATH description 2022-12-12 12:54:15 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra add417ec14 Fix indentation 2022-12-12 12:46:54 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra 037d5c4299
Manual improvements
Co-authored-by: Valentin Gagarin <valentin.gagarin@tweag.io>
2022-12-12 12:43:44 +01:00
Théophane Hufschmitt 830b3bddf9
Merge pull request #7324 from CircuitCoder/master
Update uninstall guide involving systemd
2022-12-09 13:57:26 +01:00
Théophane Hufschmitt 1dd7779c7c
Merge pull request #7379 from fricklerhandwerk/refactor-generate-options
refactor rendering documentation of options
2022-12-08 06:39:13 +01:00
Valentin Gagarin ebeaf03558 do not render links in man pages
this is a follow-up on e7dcacb.

most links are relative and this should not be too much of a detriment.
2022-12-07 16:20:25 +01:00
Valentin Gagarin b8a1ff98c1 use HTML anchors for config parameters
this avoids incorrect rendering on the man pages, since `lowdown`
neither parses the anchor syntax nor HTML.

this should rather be fixed in lowdown, as adding more anchors
would otherwise produce ever more noise and error-prone repetition.
2022-12-07 16:18:50 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra b5b7902a08
Merge branch 'master' into remove-repeat 2022-12-07 16:04:47 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra 703d863a48 Trivial changes from the lazy-trees branch 2022-12-07 14:06:34 +01:00
endgame c710aa1abd
Post build hook signing (#7408)
* docs: Use secret-key-files when demonstrating post-build-hooks

The docs used to recommend calling `nix store sign` in a post-build
hook, but on more recent versions of nix, this results in unsigned
store paths being copied into binary caches. See
https://github.com/NixOS/nix/issues/6960 for details.

Instead, use the `secret-key-files` config option, which signs all
locally-built derivations with the private key.

Co-authored-by: Valentin Gagarin <valentin.gagarin@tweag.io>
2022-12-07 13:55:02 +01:00
Linus Heckemann 8e0946e8df Remove repeat and enforce-determinism options
These only functioned if a very narrow combination of conditions held:

- The result path does not yet exist (--check did not result in
  repeated builds), AND
- The result path is not available from any configured substituters, AND
- No remote builders that can build the path are available.

If any of these do not hold, a derivation would be built 0 or 1 times
regardless of the repeat option. Thus, remove it to avoid confusion.
2022-12-07 11:36:48 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra 5b4b2eefa1 Release notes 2022-12-06 13:55:09 +01:00
Valentin Gagarin 180538672a disallow selecting shell prompt in code samples
this is a quick half-fix for command line examples, as discussed
discussed in [1].

[1]: https://github.com/NixOS/nix/pull/7389

examples which look like this

    $ foo bar
    baz

are confusing for Unix shell beginners, because it's hard to discern
what is supposed to be entered into the actual command line when the
convention of prefixing `$` is not known, as barely any real-world shell
looks that way any more.

this change prevents selecting the prompt part with the mouse in the
HTML representation of the Nix manual.

it does not prevent selecting the output part of the shell example.
it also does not address that the copy button provided by mdBook takes
the entire sample, including the prompts, into the clipboard.
2022-12-05 11:01:46 +01:00
Valentin Gagarin ca42068bdc
Merge pull request #7251 from RelationalAI-oss/sp-docs-uninstall-prompt
docs: drop shell prompt character for consistency
2022-12-01 19:24:09 +01:00
Valentin Gagarin dfa27e6b2f refactor rendering documentation of options
this makes more obvious what the code produces, and the structure of the
output easier to change
2022-12-01 06:08:08 +01:00
Valentin Gagarin 0ea62670ed move documentation on auto-allocate-uids to options docs
this is where it belongs and can be found together with the other
options.
2022-12-01 04:40:02 +01:00