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Eelco Dolstra 67e5dd3ce9 Add some hyperlinks between NIXPATH and -I 2014-09-16 11:20:09 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra c31836008e nix-instantiate: Add a flag --expr / -E to read expressions from the command line
This is basically a shortcut for ‘echo 'expr...' | nix-instantiate -’.
Also supported by nix-build and nix-shell.
2014-02-19 16:30:19 +01:00
Ivan Kozik 34bb806f74 Fix typos, especially those that end up in the Nix manual 2013-08-26 11:15:22 +02:00
Domen Kožar 620d57f036 doc: typo 2013-07-12 11:27:43 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra bdd4646338 Revert "Prevent config.h from being clobbered"
This reverts commit 28bba8c44f.
2013-03-08 01:24:59 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra 28bba8c44f Prevent config.h from being clobbered 2013-03-07 23:55:55 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra 9842077cb2 Improve -I description
Issue #88.
2013-01-24 13:00:44 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra 9c41c66c5b Document ‘--repair’ 2012-10-03 15:53:25 -04:00
Eelco Dolstra f15083c10a Document the --option flag
Pointed out by Daniel Santa Cruz on IRC.
2012-07-29 14:37:40 -04:00
Eelco Dolstra 7a213ffc69 Document $NIX_PATH / -I 2012-05-09 19:06:13 -04:00
Eelco Dolstra 998b977ede Include common options in the manpages using some XInclude hackery 2012-04-06 21:45:00 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra 93e71e6ab6 * Follow our own coding conventions. 2011-12-30 17:39:03 +00:00
Ludovic Courtès 5c9e9f732d Add support for the build-timeout' and --timeout' options. 2011-06-30 15:19:13 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra 86f65edf4e * Document --cores in the manual. 2010-08-17 07:22:05 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra f2c3fc5191 * Don't show trace information by default (`--show-trace' to enable).
NixOS evaluation errors in particular look intimidating and
  generally aren't very useful.  Ideally the builtins.throw messages
  should be self-contained.
2009-06-30 13:28:29 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra 435a93b5d8 * Remove references to __XXX primops. 2009-04-14 13:03:27 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra e0ca671491 * More documentation. 2007-12-31 02:52:17 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra e007b50eb7 2007-10-29 22:16:36 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra 99ef620c8c * Documented nix-instantiate --xml, --strict.
* Added an example to the nix-build section.
2006-10-05 20:41:57 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra 8396b59286 * Documented --attr / -A. 2006-10-05 20:07:41 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra 5d769de8a3 * Document --arg. 2006-10-05 09:08:52 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra 6f2bfd92b6 * Manual. 2006-10-05 08:21:52 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra 3837fb233c * Document the built-in functions. 2006-10-03 15:19:05 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra 1a9a1f2768 * Convert to DocBook 5.
* Use Jing for RelaxNG validation, xmllint seems buggy.
2006-08-21 16:05:11 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra 82d771f6e6 * Manual updates. 2005-04-10 20:54:21 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra 8b70f138e0 * Lots of manual updates, in particular the new `nix-store --query'
options were documented, as well as the Nix configuration file.
2005-04-08 13:00:38 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra f1ae10b992 * Build hook documentation.
* nix-store options.
2005-04-07 09:36:35 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra ad3121a52d * Documented common environment variables. 2005-03-16 16:45:29 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra e301334696 * XInclude all the way. 2005-03-15 13:55:41 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra c2b0d6b02f * Document --eval-only and --parse-only options in nix-instantiate. 2004-11-12 23:22:08 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra 1eddee59f2 * The default verbosity level of all Nix commands is now lvlInfo.
* Builder output is written to standard error by default.
  * The option `-B' is gone.
  * The option `-Q' suppresses builder output.

The result of this is that most Nix invocations shouldn't need any
flags w.r.t. logging.
2004-08-18 12:19:06 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra 91dc023665 * Added a switch `--fallback'. From the manual:
Whenever Nix attempts to realise a derivation for which a closure is
  already known, but this closure cannot be realised, fall back on
  normalising the derivation.

  The most common scenario in which this is useful is when we have
  registered substitutes in order to perform binary distribution from,
  say, a network repository.  If the repository is down, the
  realisation of the derivation will fail.  When this option is
  specified, Nix will build the derivation instead.  Thus, binary
  installation falls back on a source installation.  This option is
  not the default since it is generally not desirable for a transient
  failure in obtaining the substitutes to lead to a full build from
  source (with the related consumption of resources).
2004-06-28 10:42:57 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra b113edeab7 * A flag `--keep-going / -k' to keep building goals if one fails, as
much as possible.  (This is similar to GNU Make's `-k' flag.)

* Refactoring to implement this: previously we just bombed out when
  a build failed, but now we have to clean up.  In particular this
  means that goals must be freed quickly --- they shouldn't hang
  around until the worker exits.  So the worker now maintains weak
  pointers in order not to prevent garbage collection.

* Documented the `-k' and `-j' flags.
2004-06-25 15:36:09 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra d9f30fe7c7 * Sort `nix-env -q' output by derivation name.
* `--version' flag for all commands.
* Manual updates.
2004-02-02 10:51:54 +00:00
Renamed from doc/manual/opt-verbose.xml (Browse further)