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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
Alexander Bantyev dd0aab2f94
Documentation: process #include directives 2023-03-01 14:01:45 +04:00
Alexander Bantyev 21fb1a5ec2
doc/manual/local.mk: Use tabs instead of spaces everywhere 2023-03-01 14:01:23 +04:00
Alexander Bantyev 2fc3a15861
Make nix-env less prominent in manual TOC 2023-03-01 13:54:45 +04:00
John Ericson ea0adfc582 Get rid of .drv special-casing for store path installables 
The release notes document the change in behavior, I don't include it
here so there is no risk to it getting out of sync.

> Motivation

>> Plumbing CLI should be simple

Store derivation installations are intended as "plumbing": very simple
utilities for advanced users and scripts, and not what regular users
interact with. (Similarly, regular Git users will use branch and tag
names not explicit hashes for most things.)

The plumbing CLI should prize simplicity over convenience; that is its
raison d'etre. If the user provides a path, we should treat it the same
way not caring what sort of path it is.

>> Scripting

This is especially important for the scripting use-case. when arbitrary
paths are sent to e.g. `nix copy` and the script author wants consistent
behavior regardless of what those store paths are. Otherwise the script
author needs to be careful to filter out `.drv` ones, and then run `nix
copy` again with those paths and `--derivation`. That is not good!

>> Surprisingly low impact

Only two lines in the tests need changing, showing that the impact of
this is pretty light.

Many command, like `nix log` will continue to work with just the
derivation passed as before. This because we used to:

- Special case the drv path and replace it with it's outputs (what this
  gets rid of).

- Turn those output path *back* into the original drv path.

Now we just skip that entire round trip!

> Context

Issue #7261 lays out a broader vision for getting rid of `--derivation`,
and has this as one of its dependencies. But we can do this with or
without that.

`Installable::toDerivations` is changed to handle the case of a
`DerivedPath::Opaque` ending in `.drv`, which is new: it simply doesn't
need to do any extra work in that case. On this basis, commands like
`nix {show-derivation,log} /nix/store/...-foo.drv` still work as before,
as described above.

When testing older daemons, the post-build-hook will be run against the
old CLI, so we need the old version of the post-build-hook to support
that use-case.

Co-authored-by: Travis A. Everett <travis.a.everett@gmail.com>
Co-authored-by: Valentin Gagarin <valentin.gagarin@tweag.io>
 2023-02-28 17:07:05 -05:00
Timothy DeHerrera 639659dec2
doc/manual: add release note for --stdin flag 2023-02-28 12:31:05 -07:00
Timothy DeHerrera df643051e2
nix-store: read paths from standard input 
Resolves #7437 for new `nix-store` by adding a `--stdin` flag.
 2023-02-28 12:29:16 -07:00
Robert Hensing d0d0b9a748 doc/cli-guideline: Improve examples 
Turns out that the settings themselves have a bad data model anyway, so we cut that. They do still occur in the first example, but not in focus.
 2023-02-28 16:35:47 +01:00
Robert Hensing 17f70b10bf doc/cli-guideline: Apply suggestions from code review 
Thanks Valentin!
 2023-02-28 16:35:42 +01:00
Robert Hensing f09ccd8ea9 doc/cli-guideline: Add JSON guideline 2023-02-28 16:35:36 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra 1e07102937 Release notes 2023-02-28 13:44:14 +01:00
Valentin Gagarin 1b49e6fea9
use the term reference correctly 2023-02-27 13:04:54 +01:00
Valentin Gagarin b0c23999d2
add link to definition 2023-02-27 12:56:22 +01:00
Valentin Gagarin ec317949f9
remove "references" as distinct term 2023-02-27 12:55:14 +01:00
Robert Hensing e76619a402 rl-next: Describe fixed flake outPath semantics 
The reference documentation already implies the correct semantics.
 2023-02-26 14:41:23 +01:00
Robert Hensing c6051cac6f doc: Add test dependencies to prerequisites 2023-02-24 09:59:25 +01:00
Robert Hensing df6829e0d7
Merge pull request #7867 from NixOS/hacking-cross 
doc/hacking.md: Corrections and additions for cross
 2023-02-20 22:25:55 +01:00
Robert Hensing 807ef8f734
doc/hacking.md: Corrections and additions for cross 2023-02-20 12:20:08 +01:00
John Ericson d7a4f08d42
Nix's own flake: Dedup and memoize more 
- `nixpkgsFor` does all of native, static, cross, and the different stdenvs.

- The main Nix derivation is no longer duplicated for static.

- DRY nixpkgs.lib and lib.genAttrs calls.
 2023-02-20 11:35:51 +01:00
Théophane Hufschmitt 9a3f66d9d9
Merge pull request #7433 from yorickvP/improv-onboarding 
Improve hacking.md and add clangd+bear to devshell
 2023-02-20 10:50:08 +01:00
John Ericson ddb40ddd47
Update doc/manual/src/quick-start.md 
Co-authored-by: Valentin Gagarin <valentin.gagarin@tweag.io>
 2023-02-19 20:00:02 -05:00
Clemens Tolboom 8c09888de4 Use long options instead of short ones 
It is a little hard to learn what the options mean.
 2023-02-19 13:48:37 -05:00
Eelco Dolstra c205d10c66
Merge pull request #7616 from hercules-ci/fix-3898 
Fix foreign key error inserting into NARs #3898
 2023-02-13 13:02:19 +01:00
Yorick f2e427942d
Improve hacking.md 
- Refer to current version in readme
- Split into flakes and non-flakes section
- Change order to move nix-build to the end, since people often start
  with it in the beginning.
- Use proper "Note" syntax
- Add notes about editor integration
- Move information about target platforms and stdenvs into separate
  sections

Co-authored-by: Valentin Gagarin <valentin.gagarin@tweag.io>
Co-authored-by: Alexander Bantyev <alexander.bantyev@tweag.io>
Co-authored-by: Théophane Hufschmitt <theophane.hufschmitt@tweag.io>
 2023-02-13 12:00:00 +04:00
Théophane Hufschmitt 9ebbe35817
Merge pull request #5588 from tweag/balsoft/xdg 
Follow XDG Base Directory standard
 2023-02-10 18:05:50 +01:00
Alexander Bantyev 2384d36083
A setting to follow XDG Base Directory standard 
XDG Base Directory is a standard for locations for storing various
files. Nix has a few files which seem to fit in the standard, but
currently use a custom location directly in the user's ~, polluting
it:

- ~/.nix-profile
- ~/.nix-defexpr
- ~/.nix-channels

This commit adds a config option (use-xdg-base-directories) to follow
the XDG spec and instead use the following locations:

- $XDG_STATE_HOME/nix/profile
- $XDG_STATE_HOME/nix/defexpr
- $XDG_STATE_HOME/nix/channels

If $XDG_STATE_HOME is not set, it is assumed to be ~/.local/state.

Co-authored-by: Théophane Hufschmitt <7226587+thufschmitt@users.noreply.github.com>
Co-authored-by: Tim Fenney <kodekata@gmail.com>
Co-authored-by: pasqui23 <pasqui23@users.noreply.github.com>
Co-authored-by: Artturin <Artturin@artturin.com>
Co-authored-by: John Ericson <Ericson2314@Yahoo.com>
 2023-02-10 20:14:06 +04:00
Eelco Dolstra bffb76264e
Merge pull request #7800 from PicoGeyer/patch-1 
Fix minor syntax issue in one of the examples.
 2023-02-10 17:09:19 +01:00
Théophane Hufschmitt 320e391171
Merge pull request #7403 from fricklerhandwerk/noselect 
disallow selecting shell prompt in code samples
 2023-02-10 13:12:23 +01:00
Pico Geyer a0f1cb0ce7 Fix minor syntax issue in the one of the examples. 
Attribute set expressions need to end with a ;
 2023-02-10 12:01:44 +02:00
Valentin Gagarin c1921514d4
Merge pull request #7700 from iFreilicht/patch-1 
docs: Fix small formatting errors
 2023-02-07 23:37:42 +01:00
Robert Hensing 1a86d3e98e local.mk: Don't log docroot comments 
These were accidentally logged and do not need to appear in make's
log output.
 2023-02-07 23:34:36 +01:00
David Dunn 9aeaf98c4b
Make install command in documentation compatible with fish shell (#7474) 
Use a pipe for all install commands

Co-authored-by: Valentin Gagarin <valentin.gagarin@tweag.io>
 2023-02-07 22:32:27 +00:00
Felix Uhl d910dfe978 docs: Fix formatting of || operator 
This is a workaround for
[mdBook#2000](https://github.com/rust-lang/mdBook/issues/2000)
 2023-02-07 23:06:14 +01:00
Felix Uhl 32db5e6349 docs: Fix broken anchor link 2023-02-07 23:06:14 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra 1ba13b17db
Merge pull request #7758 from peterbecich/clang11-devshell-documentation 
fix documentation for `clang11Stdenv` dev shell
 2023-02-07 22:35:31 +01:00
Valentin Gagarin f370a5a26c
Update doc/manual/src/glossary.md 
Co-authored-by: John Ericson <git@JohnEricson.me>
 2023-02-07 20:40:29 +01:00
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
Valentin Gagarin 3f881e3378
add missing newline, for consistent formatting 2022-11-30 23:40:53 +01:00
Théophane Hufschmitt 0596bdf3a9
Merge pull request #7342 from fricklerhandwerk/refactor-generate-builtins 
refactor rendering documentation of builtins
 2022-11-29 15:55:43 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra 7dd3e1fec4 Add example 2022-11-28 22:04:51 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra 67bcb99700 Add a setting for enabling cgroups 2022-11-28 21:54:02 +01:00
Liu Xiaoyi c4ce89f772
Clarify uninstallation steps on Linux 
Co-authored-by: Valentin Gagarin <valentin.gagarin@tweag.io>
 2022-11-26 22:01:51 +08:00
John Ericson 26534f141c
Merge branch 'master' into indexed-store-path-outputs 2022-11-25 08:14:32 -05:00
Valentin Gagarin d6318e1638 refactor rendering documentation of builtins 
as in [1], make the document structure visible, like in a template

[1]: 4655563470
 2022-11-24 14:15:43 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra 2aa3f2e810 Include UID in hex 2022-11-23 17:07:59 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra 989fc8a8b9 Add release notes 2022-11-23 15:24:50 +01:00
Valentin Gagarin 52f0c80917 fix error in language overview 
it is not possible to antiquote numbers.
 2022-11-22 10:36:21 +01:00
Liu Xiaoyi 4d55acf515
Apply suggestions from code review 
Co-authored-by: Sandro <sandro.jaeckel@gmail.com>
 2022-11-21 13:46:22 +08:00
Liu Xiaoyi cc620d961f Updated uninstall guide involving systemd 
Co-authored-by: sequencer <liu@jiuyang.me>
 2022-11-20 20:04:29 +08:00
Théophane Hufschmitt 6bf8736517 Add release-notes for the context-restriction in readFile 2022-11-14 15:03:53 +01:00
Théophane Hufschmitt 302ddee749
Merge pull request #7279 from fricklerhandwerk/uninstall 
add removing users to uninstall instructions
 2022-11-11 14:39:07 +01:00
Valentin Gagarin 2af036e5a3
remove stray comma 2022-11-11 14:01:13 +01:00
Théophane Hufschmitt f225f43076
Merge pull request #7006 from fricklerhandwerk/redirects 
manual: generalize anchor redirects
 2022-11-09 11:23:26 +01:00
Valentin Gagarin 9d20a056c8 remove external link 
the language has its own overview page where its properties are
described in sufficient detail.
 2022-11-09 01:36:17 +01:00
Valentin Gagarin 3d716df7ce make diagrams compatible with svgbob 
this will at some point enable rendering them nicely for the web
 2022-11-09 01:29:01 +01:00
Valentin Gagarin 98447c1a7f clarify subject of sentence 
Co-authored-by: Bryan Honof <bryan.honof@tweag.io>
 2022-11-09 01:29:01 +01:00
Valentin Gagarin b5728ace5d add articles 2022-11-09 01:29:01 +01:00
Valentin Gagarin be8744f937 manual: architecture overview 
these changes were not merged properly and had to be reverted.

see merge commit d8e54d19f7 for full
history leading up to here.
 2022-11-09 01:29:01 +01:00
Valentin Gagarin d8781c4fc5 add removing users to uninstall instructions 2022-11-09 01:11:47 +01:00
Valentin Gagarin ffca3e34cb
Merge pull request #6906 from fricklerhandwerk/language-overview 
add syntax overview from NixOS manual
 2022-11-09 00:52:53 +01:00
Valentin Gagarin daedaa197d fix typos in comments 2022-11-09 00:49:34 +01:00
Valentin Gagarin f7ab93b068 manual: build action -> build task 
after discussing this with multiple people, I'm convinced that "build
task" is more precise: a derivation is not an action, but inert until it
is built. also it's easier to pronounce.

proposal: use "build task" for the generic concept "description of how
to derive new files from the contents of existing files". then it will
be easier to distinguish what we mean by "derivation" (a specific data
structure and Nix language value type) and "store derivation" (a
serialisation of a derivation into a file in the Nix store).
 2022-11-06 13:28:18 +01:00
Sagar Patel c068cce107
docs: drop shell prompt character for consistency 
In addition to consistency, the fancy "Copy to clipboard" button on the
website will copy the prompt character. Retaining the prompt character
would mean having to edit each command after pasting in the terminal.
 2022-11-01 00:09:00 -04:00
John Ericson 13f2a6f38d
Merge branch 'master' into indexed-store-path-outputs 2022-10-28 23:22:18 +01:00
Théophane Hufschmitt 74cc24f4cf
Merge pull request #7191 from jherland/antiquoted-paths 
Explain how Nix handles antiquotation of paths
 2022-10-26 12:42:59 +02:00
Guillaume Maudoux 2a7348f986 Fixup merge typo 2022-10-22 23:38:50 +02:00
Patrick Jackson b44df13701 manual: update options generation code to use default values 2022-10-20 12:05:04 -07:00
Johan Herland 1ec8810687 Explain how Nix handles antiquotation of paths 
Specifically, explain why Nix does not _re_evaluate paths during a
`nix repl` session. This is a thing that bit me while playing around
with paths and antiquotation in `nix repl` while reading the Nix
language tutorial at https://nix.dev/tutorials/nix-language.

Co-authored-by: Valentin Gagarin <valentin.gagarin@tweag.io>
 2022-10-19 11:50:58 +02:00
Guillaume Maudoux 3f9f6ae127 Merge remote-tracking branch 'origin/master' into coerce-string 2022-10-16 20:39:19 +02:00
Ana Hobden 069409d167 Print common flags in --help 2022-10-07 09:07:22 -07:00
Valentin Gagarin ac0fb38e8a
Merge pull request #6652 from abathur/doc_install_tests 2022-10-05 17:45:42 +02:00
Travis A. Everett e1418430ac
Apply suggestions from code review 
Co-authored-by: Valentin Gagarin <valentin.gagarin@tweag.io>
 2022-10-05 09:52:53 -05:00
Valentin Gagarin 927234cfb2
Merge pull request #6870 from amjoseph-nixpkgs/pr/doc/explain-local-remote-binary-substituter 2022-10-05 09:01:42 +02:00
Théophane Hufschmitt 3ae9467d57
Merge pull request #6969 from fricklerhandwerk/refactor-generate-manpage 
refactor rendering command documentation to markdown
 2022-10-03 15:50:17 +02:00
Valentin Gagarin d8bef7358f bring back lost newline 2022-09-30 01:43:57 +02:00
Valentin Gagarin 70eea97742 use more self-explanatory names 2022-09-30 01:43:57 +02:00
Valentin Gagarin 61188cb820 move final template to the top 
this allows readers to enter the code starting with what is visible from
the outside, instead of working themselves up from purely technical details.
 2022-09-30 01:43:57 +02:00
Valentin Gagarin 0e0f1832de remove superfluous let-in pair 2022-09-30 01:43:57 +02:00
Valentin Gagarin a85df04fcb refactor showOptions 
it was quite a pain to manipulate strings just with `builtins`
 2022-09-30 01:43:53 +02:00
Valentin Gagarin 4655563470 refactor rendering command documentation to markdown 
idea:
- make document structure visible, like in a template
- order functions by descending abstraction
- avoid nested let bindings
 2022-09-30 01:42:46 +02:00
Valentin Gagarin 6b56bb4a79 use indented strings where appropriate 2022-09-30 01:42:46 +02:00
Solene Rapenne 847cd49909 nix-copy-closure: improve wording 2022-09-28 01:05:46 +02:00
Théophane Hufschmitt 6a64820cb4
Merge pull request #7082 from rapenne-s/ccache 
add ccacheStdenv
 2022-09-24 12:45:27 +02:00
Solène Rapenne e04b38f789 add ccacheStdenv 
when using ccache, rebuild time has been measured
89% faster while not slowing the speed of cold builds
 2022-09-23 11:21:19 +02:00
Travis A. Everett 84bdb0e3ad address review feedback 
Mainly:
- Try to triangulate between narrative that framed this as
  a new/easy process and the need for a reference that will
  not quickly grow stale.
- Fix a ~continuity issue where the text was talking about
  "your Cachix cache" before saying that you'd need to make
  a Cachix cache to enable the installer tests.
- Adopt suggestion on titling, and nest subtitles in the
  installer test section.
 2022-09-18 13:02:42 -05:00
Travis A. Everett 4bd52bf6c4
Apply suggestions from code review 
Co-authored-by: Valentin Gagarin <valentin.gagarin@tweag.io>
 2022-09-17 13:20:11 -05:00
Adam Joseph ad5b09423a release-notes/rl-next.md: note new argument to fetchurl.nix 2022-09-16 01:59:24 -07:00
Valentin Gagarin dc8c0b173c
Update doc/manual/src/contributing/hacking.md 2022-09-16 09:36:55 +02:00
Valentin Gagarin 1ae974120a
Update doc/manual/src/contributing/hacking.md 2022-09-16 09:36:37 +02:00
Valentin Gagarin 0a4bd9fe88
Update doc/manual/src/contributing/hacking.md 2022-09-16 09:36:30 +02:00
Valentin Gagarin 47fa1087c8
Update doc/manual/src/contributing/hacking.md 2022-09-16 09:36:20 +02:00
Valentin Gagarin 1d295e5fe7
Merge pull request #6934 from fricklerhandwerk/revert-architecture 
Revert #6420 "Document what Nix *is*" so we can start over with smaller change sets
 2022-09-09 13:31:05 +02:00
Valentin Gagarin 8dd5ba2f47 more precise variable types 2022-09-09 09:54:24 +02:00
Valentin Gagarin 548c904d40 optimize performance 
remove loops and function calls, modify arrays in place

this makes the whole thing harder to read, and probably only
marginally faster.
 2022-09-08 11:58:43 +02:00
Guillaume Maudoux eb460a9529 WIP: broken merge but need a git checkpoint 2022-09-07 00:34:03 +02:00
Valentin Gagarin 59be1e500a generalize anchor redirects 
renaming section headers and changing manually set `id`s will break URLs
in the wild.

this change allows keeping track of all changes to ensure backwards
compatibility.
 2022-09-06 00:49:16 +02:00
Adam Joseph e90f2fcfc7 glossary: add entry for chroot store (used 11 times in nix) 2022-09-01 18:28:05 -07:00
Adam Joseph e6f5352e71 #binary-cache -> #gloss-binary-cache 2022-09-01 18:27:00 -07:00
Adam Joseph 59dc8346ca move substituter signature-checking conditions to configuration file documentation 2022-09-01 17:51:56 -07:00
Adam Joseph f6c750e8b2 glossary: remove extraneous comma 2022-09-01 17:48:34 -07:00
Adam Joseph 887e922be2 glossary: outputHash, not __outputHash 2022-09-01 17:47:13 -07:00
Adam Joseph d5e064d816 glossary: fix broken link 2022-09-01 17:46:31 -07:00
Adam Joseph 57f12df5e4 input-addressed store object: include FODOs 2022-09-01 15:09:10 -07:00
Adam Joseph 8139bbe2ba implement https://github.com/NixOS/nix/pull/6870#pullrequestreview-1093700220 2022-09-01 15:01:07 -07:00
Adam Joseph def4fb9a0f __outputHash: add link 2022-09-01 14:47:33 -07:00
Adam Joseph 1b2b8c39fd fix link to language/advanced-attributes.md#adv-attr-contentAddressed 2022-09-01 14:47:17 -07:00
Adam Joseph 0a98d564b3 glossary: resolve FIXME in #gloss-fixed-output-derivation 2022-09-01 14:41:27 -07:00
Adam Joseph 1f56b5d772 doc/manual: un-inline definitions from substitute 2022-09-01 14:13:21 -07:00
Adam Joseph 41153f30bd glossary: substituter: merge output-addressed cases 2022-09-01 14:13:21 -07:00
Adam Joseph 9cb8412143
Update doc/manual/src/glossary.md 
Co-authored-by: John Ericson <git@JohnEricson.me>
 2022-09-01 20:41:04 +00:00
Adam Joseph 2812682ebe
Update doc/manual/src/glossary.md 
Co-authored-by: John Ericson <git@JohnEricson.me>
 2022-09-01 20:40:39 +00:00
Adam Joseph 520587b9a0 glossary: local store: clarify 2022-09-01 13:39:48 -07:00
Valentin Gagarin f35b3aa47b do not use unwarranted pkgs in example 2022-08-31 09:16:37 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra 1f2b12b30e
Merge pull request #6968 from fricklerhandwerk/man-no-weblinks 
do not render relative links in help pages
 2022-08-29 08:46:35 +02:00
Valentin Gagarin e7dcacbd7c do not render relative links in help pages 
this simplifies the setup a lot, and avoids weird looking `./file.md`
links showing up.

it also does not show regular URLs any more. currently the command
reference only has few of them, and not showing them in the offline
documentation is hopefully not a big deal.

instead of building more special-case solutions, clumsily preprocessing
the input, or issuing verbal rules on dealing with URLs, should better
be solved sustainably by not rendering relative links in `lowdown`:

https://github.com/kristapsdz/lowdown/issues/105
 2022-08-26 17:10:41 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra b0488a29dc Branch 2.11 release notes 2022-08-24 22:44:58 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra 04e74f7c8b
Merge pull request #6612 from NixOS/parallel-nix-copy 
Make nix copy parallel again
 2022-08-24 15:31:42 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra 4c96761c2b Merge remote-tracking branch 'origin/master' into parallel-nix-copy 2022-08-22 15:29:10 +02:00
Valentin Gagarin d8e54d19f7 Revert "Merge pull request #6420 from nix-community/doc-what-is-nix" 
This reverts commit 81e101345f, reversing
changes made to 7d1280bbaf.
 2022-08-22 12:52:15 +02:00
Andrei Boar 50f5b6c733
Update doc/manual/src/command-ref/env-common.md 
Co-authored-by: Valentin Gagarin <valentin.gagarin@tweag.io>
 2022-08-19 12:28:51 +03:00
Andrei Boar 82b867d0b5 cover empty string case 2022-08-19 11:51:32 +03:00
Valentin Gagarin 703b335c1d reword description of language properties 
the list style is supposed to give more structure.
each property is explained as concisely as possible while trying not to
sound too fancy.
 2022-08-15 11:34:39 +02:00
Valentin Gagarin 71e9c28694 reword introduction to overview 2022-08-15 11:15:03 +02:00
Valentin Gagarin bc315326fa fix whitespace to please markdown 
keep some indentation to ease source readability
 2022-08-15 11:13:05 +02:00
Valentin Gagarin 6ba8d6dc82 add more examples on string interpolation 2022-08-15 11:06:40 +02:00
Valentin Gagarin c209e6e108 add more list examples 2022-08-15 10:18:56 +02:00
Valentin Gagarin 0378531bf2 add curried function 2022-08-15 10:18:56 +02:00
Valentin Gagarin 2e4704ca93 add second @ pattern example 2022-08-15 10:18:56 +02:00
Valentin Gagarin 5c25bdee50 add null 2022-08-15 10:18:56 +02:00
Valentin Gagarin 391fd10b12 add home path 2022-08-15 10:18:56 +02:00
Valentin Gagarin 587ae9ada5 add search path 2022-08-15 10:18:56 +02:00
Valentin Gagarin 21438acc70 add absolute path 2022-08-15 10:18:56 +02:00
Valentin Gagarin e6f7c180de add floating point number 2022-08-15 10:18:56 +02:00
Valentin Gagarin 292cab039d add multi-line string 2022-08-15 10:18:56 +02:00
Valentin Gagarin f165a8ae08 flarify relative path semantics 2022-08-15 10:18:56 +02:00
Valentin Gagarin 43188d3d18 make hash and version distinguishable as placeholder 2022-08-15 10:18:56 +02:00
Valentin Gagarin 90836397d3 remove stale section link 2022-08-15 10:18:56 +02:00
Valentin Gagarin 3378a3bce8 add syntax overview from NixOS manual 
taken verbatim to keep track of required corrections.

made it an HTML table to more easily change structure and keep diffs
minimal.
 2022-08-15 10:18:56 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra af4e8b00fb
Merge pull request #6882 from DeterminateSystems/allow-multi-user-as-root 
Allow installing multi-user as root on macOS and Linux
 2022-08-12 10:19:03 +02:00
Graham Christensen 7bb1e913b3 Don't prompt about using sudo if we're already root 2022-08-10 09:37:08 -04:00
Graham Christensen 88a0f3b6ba Strip whitespace in installing-binary.md 2022-08-10 09:37:08 -04:00
Adam Joseph bac1e1bf8c
Update doc/manual/src/glossary.md 
Co-authored-by: Valentin Gagarin <valentin.gagarin@tweag.io>
 2022-08-08 17:52:31 +00:00
Travis A. Everett 9b7bd2dd1f
Apply suggestions from code review 
Co-authored-by: Valentin Gagarin <valentin.gagarin@tweag.io>
 2022-08-08 10:04:27 -05:00
Travis A. Everett b5d85f0922
Apply suggestions from code review 
Co-authored-by: Valentin Gagarin <valentin.gagarin@tweag.io>
 2022-08-05 13:49:18 -05:00
Adam Joseph 1d3b92e80c move package-management/terminology into glossary.md 2022-08-05 10:39:43 -07:00
Adam Joseph 4de95f7f56 gesture at explanation of why binary caches exist 2022-08-05 10:33:48 -07:00
Adam Joseph d5506aa712
Update doc/manual/src/package-management/terminology.md 
Co-authored-by: Attila Gulyas <toraritte@gmail.com>
 2022-08-05 17:19:52 +00:00
Adam Joseph 66a93a76b9
Update doc/manual/src/package-management/terminology.md 
Co-authored-by: Attila Gulyas <toraritte@gmail.com>
 2022-08-05 17:15:37 +00:00
Adam Joseph 2eb74c918d derivations do not need to be signed 2022-08-05 10:13:41 -07:00
Adam Joseph aae771cad2 !implement https://github.com/NixOS/nix/pull/6870#discussion_r938912244 2022-08-05 10:12:46 -07:00
Eelco Dolstra 4eb566603a
Comment out the architecture section 
This needs more review and probably should be a separate book.
 2022-08-05 11:01:40 +02:00
Adam Joseph 1b97f3872e !fixup: transposed characters 2022-08-04 14:22:14 -07:00
Adam Joseph 62674659ed !fixup capitalize Nix 2022-08-04 14:21:17 -07:00
Adam Joseph 8f44d24c52 !fixup whitespace 2022-08-04 14:19:25 -07:00
Adam Joseph 56d4fc194b fourth trust condition: FODs 2022-08-04 14:14:24 -07:00
Adam Joseph a5be5e0120 doc/manual: define {local,remote} store, binary cache, substituter 
Nix veterans intuitively know what the following terms mean.  They are
used in several places in the nix documentation, but never defined:

- local store
- remote store
- binary cache
- substituter

In particular, I found the last two terms to be confusingly similar.
Let's give definitions for them.
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John Ericson 39d32ac4c6 Add disclaimer that arch section is WIP and links may rot 
So we can iterate without worrying so much.
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John Ericson 6f6498f59c Remove header fragments which is not needd 2022-08-04 14:02:38 -04:00
John Ericson 016d7a8f78 Fix rosetta stone file name 2022-08-04 14:02:19 -04:00
John Ericson b430a6743c Remove sections within from SUMMARY 2022-08-04 14:01:55 -04:00
Andrei Boar 1c2c1a6e00
Update doc/manual/src/command-ref/env-common.md 
Co-authored-by: Jan Tojnar <jtojnar@gmail.com>
 2022-08-04 16:17:24 +03:00
John Ericson bc118854d0 Merge remote-tracking branch 'upstream/master' into doc-what-is-nix 2022-08-04 09:11:42 -04:00
Andrei Boar a8ac6a4120
Update doc/manual/src/command-ref/env-common.md 
Co-authored-by: Valentin Gagarin <valentin.gagarin@tweag.io>
 2022-08-04 16:01:02 +03:00
Andrei Boar cedcfe861c Merge branch 'manual-nix-path-empty' of github.com:zuzuleinen/nix into manual-nix-path-empty 2022-08-04 15:56:13 +03:00
Andrei Boar f72545e864 update to suggested changes 2022-08-04 15:56:01 +03:00
Valentin Gagarin b631742277 fix page rendering 
apparently it is not possible to link to page anchors with `mdBook`[1]

[1]: https://github.com/rust-lang/mdBook/issues/167
 2022-08-04 14:31:33 +02:00
Domen Kožar 7d1280bbaf
Merge pull request #6678 from abathur/update_darwin_uninstall 
doc: update darwin uninstall instructions
 2022-08-04 14:09:09 +02:00
Andrei Boar 6dfd8a78d9
Update doc/manual/src/command-ref/env-common.md 
Co-authored-by: Eelco Dolstra <edolstra@gmail.com>
 2022-08-04 15:04:52 +03:00
Valentin Gagarin cc3a5f4ba2 use correct mdBook syntax for callouts 2022-08-04 14:04:14 +02:00
Valentin Gagarin 8cec32e7f5 fix directory tree renderings 2022-08-04 13:51:35 +02:00
Domen Kožar 84a26882f8
Update doc/manual/src/installation/installing-binary.md 
Co-authored-by: Valentin Gagarin <valentin.gagarin@tweag.io>
 2022-08-04 06:23:45 -05:00
Domen Kožar 3c2de2da01
Update doc/manual/src/installation/installing-binary.md 
Co-authored-by: Valentin Gagarin <valentin.gagarin@tweag.io>
 2022-08-04 06:23:36 -05:00
Andrei Boar 5a75aa8595 manual: update docs when NIX_PATH is empty 2022-08-04 14:19:51 +03:00
Valentin Gagarin 3df1ee2ba5 clarify what explicitly declaring certain dependencies means 2022-08-04 12:37:48 +02:00
Valentin Gagarin b7309ce624 move architecture to the end 2022-08-04 12:37:48 +02:00
Valentin Gagarin 00a7eaed67 add file system object to table of contents 2022-08-04 12:37:48 +02:00
Valentin Gagarin db6faf44a9 clarify what store objects can be 
the store of course makes a distinction, but that is not relevant here
 2022-08-04 12:37:48 +02:00
Valentin Gagarin 0228eb8ae7 add Java example on manual dependency declaration 2022-08-04 12:37:48 +02:00
Valentin Gagarin 29c062537d hashes: truncate -> reduce, mention SHA-256 
the longer SHA-256 hashes are not truncated, but in fact processed.

Co-authored-by: Thomas <twatson52@mac.com>
 2022-08-04 12:37:48 +02:00
Valentin Gagarin 9cabba1fc3 mention hard links 
Co-authored-by: Thomas <twatson52@mac.com>
 2022-08-04 12:37:48 +02:00
Valentin Gagarin bac86231ad use "build plan" consistently 2022-08-04 12:37:47 +02:00
Valentin Gagarin 5a5a95696f note customized base32 
Nix omits E O U T characters for some reason.
 2022-08-04 12:37:47 +02:00
Valentin Gagarin de5dea45f7 use correct Nix entity 
Nix itself does care a lot about what type of store object you have.
 2022-08-04 12:37:47 +02:00
Valentin Gagarin fe4c0b8d75 fix typo 
Co-authored-by: Thomas <twatson52@mac.com>
 2022-08-04 12:37:47 +02:00
Valentin Gagarin def80d5777 add subsections to table of contents 2022-08-04 12:37:47 +02:00
Valentin Gagarin c345345dee concept map: align hights 
this has the weird but nice emergent property that terms at the same
height are roughly at the same level of abstraction.
 2022-08-04 12:37:47 +02:00
Valentin Gagarin a28d6878b2 concept map: put closure as it is in the chapter 
this is not as compact any more, but it more closely resembles the
chapter structure, and clearly shows that the closure property is the
key idea on which most of Nix operates.
 2022-08-04 12:37:47 +02:00
Valentin Gagarin 475a332025 make concept map even more compact 2022-08-04 12:37:47 +02:00
Valentin Gagarin d8b2f9f772 make concept map more compact 
invert arrows to/from derivation:
- we need closures to form derivations
- we need derivations to perform builds
 2022-08-04 12:37:47 +02:00
Valentin Gagarin 348432f48f store: add concept map 
this should help nativate the chapter by indicating which terms should
be known to understand a given concept.
 2022-08-04 12:37:47 +02:00
Valentin Gagarin ec43977553 store: match chapter introduction to outline 
the various levels of detail should describe the same things.
 2022-08-04 12:37:47 +02:00
Valentin Gagarin 7c656d90ca simplify description of diagram 
try not to be too fancy, it's just for reading the diagram out loud.
 2022-08-04 12:37:47 +02:00
Valentin Gagarin 631ca18ee6 reword notes on copying 
clarify that we are copying between different stores. we have not
introduced that notion or why it would be interesting, but for now it
should be fine to keep it in context of the store directory.

we could move that later to a more detailed explanation of different
store types.
 2022-08-04 12:37:47 +02:00
Valentin Gagarin c10dcccccd make example a simple list 
using JSON notation is unwarranted and not explained.
 2022-08-04 12:37:47 +02:00
Valentin Gagarin 9c544813d7 paths -> path 
use singular for terminology uniformly
 2022-08-04 12:37:47 +02:00
Valentin Gagarin 1681f4e9f3 better explain reference scanning 2022-08-04 12:37:47 +02:00
Valentin Gagarin fa7ad4593d explain store directory 2022-08-04 12:37:47 +02:00
Valentin Gagarin f632816cba add explanation and examples of file system objects 2022-08-04 12:37:47 +02:00
Valentin Gagarin 84ddfbf8fd remove diagonal from operations diagram 2022-08-04 12:37:47 +02:00
Valentin Gagarin 93f721b0d2 remove draft on derivations 2022-08-04 12:37:47 +02:00
Valentin Gagarin 19d8a5d839 move first mention of file system object before diagram 2022-08-04 12:37:47 +02:00
Valentin Gagarin a90fc62b61 make clear that file system is for processes 
Co-authored-by: John Ericson <John.Ericson@Obsidian.Systems>
 2022-08-04 12:37:47 +02:00
Valentin Gagarin 7993ba1f38 constrain garbage collection scope 
garbage collection is now incremental, and may (in theory) never delete all unreferenced objects if it is slow enough.
 2022-08-04 12:37:47 +02:00
Valentin Gagarin 195aa28ff7 references are added according to build task 
at this level of abstraction we do not really care about build instructions or what they are, and also build instructions including their arguments really amount to the build task.
 2022-08-04 12:37:47 +02:00
Valentin Gagarin 80de4a4804 operations diagram: store' to the right 
this also looks more diverse, hopefully easier to distinguish

Co-authored-by: John Ericson <John.Ericson@Obsidian.Systems>
 2022-08-04 12:37:47 +02:00
Valentin Gagarin 3794618cce add commas between output values 2022-08-04 12:37:47 +02:00
Valentin Gagarin 7b7e4c6340 use singular to match section heading 2022-08-04 12:37:47 +02:00
Valentin Gagarin e63a768e21 use reference links for URLs 2022-08-04 12:37:47 +02:00
Valentin Gagarin 843288a451 add subsections for objects and references 
group description of data instead of spreading it across the section.

that should help direct skimming. as it turns out, people do not
actually read any of that.
 2022-08-04 12:37:47 +02:00
Valentin Gagarin 4341849193 move closure property to discussion references 2022-08-04 12:37:47 +02:00
Valentin Gagarin 445f753a82 replace pseudo code by diagrams 
change prose description to visually resemble the data structure
 2022-08-04 12:37:47 +02:00
Valentin Gagarin db8703bcac use reference links for URLs 2022-08-04 12:37:47 +02:00
Valentin Gagarin 4adb6602bd clarify first sentence on store objects 2022-08-04 12:37:47 +02:00
Valentin Gagarin 4eb11d4592 fix grammar for clarity 2022-08-04 12:37:47 +02:00
Valentin Gagarin b84f2bdfdd introduce mapping to Unix files and processes 2022-08-04 12:37:47 +02:00
Valentin Gagarin 207992a71d introduce store and store objects without file system details 
this leaves open implementation details, especially about store paths
and file system objects, and allows explaining them together were it is
more appropriate. also leaves room to carefully introduce the key
insight behind Nix: applying results from programming language theory to
the operating system paradigm of files and processes.
 2022-08-04 12:37:47 +02:00
Valentin Gagarin e72a7874dc beautify rosetta table 
while this may eventually introduce ugly diffs, the table will now
render readably on the terminal (e.g. for `man nix` or `nix --help`)
without further intervention.
 2022-08-04 12:37:47 +02:00
Valentin Gagarin b6b112b366 use reference links for URLs 2022-08-04 12:37:47 +02:00
Valentin Gagarin d5eea66615 introduce build tasks 
while it appears a bit much for the overview, this way we set the stage
for going directly into data types when describing the store, instead of
first having to say what build tasks are and how they relate to build
plans.
 2022-08-04 12:37:47 +02:00
Valentin Gagarin 7c3bca1372 revert to build plans in top-level overview 
do not introduce build tasks yet, that is the next level of detail.
 2022-08-04 12:37:47 +02:00
Valentin Gagarin 4639b36b53 use reference links for URLs 2022-08-04 12:37:47 +02:00
Valentin Gagarin 2303f84a68 revert to "build plan" in overview diagram 
this displays correct composition again. build inputs and build results
are not part of build plans in terms of data objects.

also this is a much less complicated setup. this will be the first
impression of architecture, and we want to get it right.
 2022-08-04 12:37:47 +02:00
Valentin Gagarin 25926c5fc6 Nix store does not underly literally everything 
Co-authored-by: Robert Hensing <roberth@users.noreply.github.com>
 2022-08-04 12:37:47 +02:00
Valentin Gagarin 0e63b9bf88 add link from overview to store section 
the overview should only link to the three main concepts presented. the
store is now fairly fleshed out. others can follow later.
 2022-08-04 12:37:47 +02:00
Valentin Gagarin ef81276cc1 architecture overview: add link to command line reference 2022-08-04 12:37:47 +02:00
Valentin Gagarin 68d26010f6 architecture overview: add link to Nix expression language reference 
update summary title to match file contents
 2022-08-04 12:37:47 +02:00
Valentin Gagarin 75ce324052 use singular for class names consistently 2022-08-04 12:37:47 +02:00
Valentin Gagarin 689b32a543 clarify relation of tasks and plans 2022-08-04 12:37:47 +02:00
Valentin Gagarin 2a8532fb61 build rule -> build task 
closer to "build systems a la carte", satisfies all other complaints
 2022-08-04 12:37:47 +02:00
Valentin Gagarin 902638c519 build step -> build rule 
"step" sounds atomic, while "rule" hints at internal structure, which in
our case consists of mapping inputs to outputs using build instructions.
 2022-08-04 12:37:47 +02:00
Valentin Gagarin 87523f01e3 match grammatical case to arrow direction 2022-08-04 12:37:47 +02:00
Valentin Gagarin d3effd014b update architecture diagram 2022-08-04 12:37:47 +02:00
Valentin Gagarin ad8c2ed7f0 remove incomplete section: input/content-addressing 2022-08-04 12:37:47 +02:00
Valentin Gagarin 3bd125ebbe remove incomplete section: nix archives 2022-08-04 12:37:47 +02:00
Valentin Gagarin b18852eb3f remove incomplete section: content-addressed objects 2022-08-04 12:37:47 +02:00
Valentin Gagarin 7cec9ee361 remove incomplete section: relocatability 2022-08-04 12:37:47 +02:00
Valentin Gagarin 96876b1eae remove incomplete section: related work 2022-08-04 12:37:47 +02:00
Valentin Gagarin 1ba6d8fb1d remove incomplete section: building 2022-08-04 12:37:47 +02:00
John Ericson 3d8f2f5cc1 Fix manual TOC links 2022-08-04 12:37:47 +02:00
John Ericson b01bb65d30 Fix rel path in doc 2022-08-04 12:37:47 +02:00
Valentin Gagarin b5ca3d12b6 reword details on keeping closure property 2022-08-04 12:37:47 +02:00
Valentin Gagarin e90586c0a4 add motivation for references 2022-08-04 12:37:47 +02:00
Valentin Gagarin 07d490fd89 stores can also delete objects 2022-08-04 12:37:47 +02:00
Valentin Gagarin 5fda995491 formalize file system objects 
convention: describe every data type in prose, and illustrate with
a class diagram, and a textual representation of an abstract
data type.

right now we save ourselves the trouble of doing class diagrams, we can
add them later. but they are important.
 2022-08-04 12:37:47 +02:00
Valentin Gagarin fb2ec7e4ec reword section on references 
use file Contents instead of Data, as that flows more naturally in the
prose.

simplify explanation of the idea behind scanning for store paths

remove references to unfinished sections.
 2022-08-04 12:37:47 +02:00
Valentin Gagarin 90fc5b41a8 reword file system objects 
- use singular for the "class"
- more consistency in type definition
- minor fixes in wording
 2022-08-04 12:37:47 +02:00
Valentin Gagarin e5e48593c8 move git comparison to related work 
it should be pulled out of the branch before we go for merging
 2022-08-04 12:37:47 +02:00
Valentin Gagarin a145007a57 component -> store object, realisation -> build 2022-08-04 12:37:47 +02:00
Valentin Gagarin 40efe5b30b build instrcution: Task -> function 2022-08-04 12:37:47 +02:00
Valentin Gagarin ca5ebf6382 revert build plan/step distinction, reorder rows 2022-08-04 12:37:47 +02:00
Valentin Gagarin 610ddf44aa reword introduction to rosetta stone, add links 
attempt to explain used and documented terminology, as well as how
the declarative programming paradigm relates to building software.

in the future one could highlight encouraged terms to shape future
material into higher consistency.
 2022-08-04 12:37:47 +02:00
Valentin Gagarin 5f96a0b4e8 associated operations are not collected 
Co-authored-by: John Ericson <git@JohnEricson.me>
 2022-08-04 12:37:47 +02:00
Valentin Gagarin 070c85499b fix grammar 
Co-authored-by: John Ericson <git@JohnEricson.me>
 2022-08-04 12:37:47 +02:00
Valentin Gagarin 7b5c00f67f add concrete store examples, reword note on file system 2022-08-04 12:37:47 +02:00
Valentin Gagarin c8c1b705ad reword section on Nix store 2022-08-04 12:37:47 +02:00
Valentin Gagarin 39f01176a7 design -> architecture, add motivation 
following ideas found in Architecture of Gazelle[1]

[1]: 56d35f8db0/Design.rst
 2022-08-04 12:37:47 +02:00
Valentin Gagarin d30033759a address Nix language consistently as configuration language 2022-08-04 12:37:46 +02:00
Valentin Gagarin 7598126391 remove separate meta-section, add architecture diagram 
the diagram is a first approximation and only covers that same section.
of course there is much more going on, and other features should at some
point also be illustrated.

we also have to think about presentation format and technicalities
behind it. the manual has to render to `man`, but we may want something
more refined for web view.
 2022-08-04 12:37:46 +02:00
Valentin Gagarin 34ea74c9ec reword introductory section 
there should be a meta section for each chapter to give motivation of
the presented structure. the structure itself is visible from the table
of contents.
 2022-08-04 12:37:46 +02:00
Valentin Gagarin b387d80943 remove sentence for chapter transition 
idea: sections could be read in different orders by linking them in
different ways (e.g. depth-first or breadth-first). adding hard-coded
transitions makes that confusing.
 2022-08-04 12:37:46 +02:00
John Ericson 89a7c956ff Apply suggestions from code review 
Co-authored-by: Valentin Gagarin <valentin@fricklerhandwerk.de>
 2022-08-04 12:37:46 +02:00
Valentin Gagarin 51e6bed25e do not mention implementation details 
Co-authored-by: John Ericson <git@JohnEricson.me>
 2022-08-04 12:37:46 +02:00
Valentin Gagarin 23ee0b24f7 correctly use comma for nesting 
Co-authored-by: John Ericson <git@JohnEricson.me>
 2022-08-04 12:37:46 +02:00
Valentin Gagarin 804e8bd747 indicate sequence with "then" 
Co-authored-by: John Ericson <git@JohnEricson.me>
 2022-08-04 12:37:46 +02:00
Valentin Gagarin 327ccd3b07 only use generic build system terminology 
we will use a translation table to introduce nix-specific terms
 2022-08-04 12:37:46 +02:00
Valentin Gagarin 0eae4bfad1 reword overview with clear terminology 
trying to capture alternative terms in one go here, mirroring everyday
use:

derivation - build plan
realise - execute build

there will be more of that sort.
 2022-08-04 12:37:46 +02:00
John Ericson 0737094161 Add draft "Rosetta stone" by @fricklerhandwerk and stub commentary 
The idea and most of the execution are @fricklerhandwerk's. I changed a
few things best I could based on @edolstra's corrections, and a Bazel
glossary.

Valentin Gagarin <valentin@fricklerhandwerk.de>
 2022-08-04 12:37:46 +02:00
John Ericson c86c1ec7e3 Make refernces sneak preview more concise 2022-08-04 12:37:46 +02:00
John Ericson 4e4bbd9e83 Improve store objects session more 2022-08-04 12:37:46 +02:00
John Ericson e4eea5e84e Include abstract syntax based on the thesis for FSOs 
See https://edolstra.github.io/pubs/phd-thesis.pdf, page 91.
 2022-08-04 12:37:46 +02:00
John Ericson b98dc3b19c store objects, better opining sentances 2022-08-04 12:37:46 +02:00
John Ericson 55b437b551 Improve store path section 2022-08-04 12:37:46 +02:00
John Ericson b4df351880 Relocability -> relocation in store object title 2022-08-04 12:37:46 +02:00
John Ericson 5f4d2ac091 Improve store object section 
In particular, Nix is *not* like Git, so that needs to be fixed.
 2022-08-04 12:37:46 +02:00
John Ericson 1bbad62c7d doc: File system data -> file system object, to match Nix 2022-08-04 12:37:46 +02:00
John Ericson 838ba26fda Rename files after store entry -> store object rename 2022-08-04 12:37:46 +02:00
John Ericson 4e2d5ae202 doc: Store entry -> store object 
This matches the terminology in Eelco's thesis.
 2022-08-04 12:37:46 +02:00
John Ericson e308602fdf Update doc/manual/src/design/store/drvs/drvs.md 
Co-authored-by: Matthieu Coudron <teto@users.noreply.github.com>
 2022-08-04 12:37:46 +02:00
John Ericson cdb0bf3b65 Update doc/manual/src/design/overview.md 
Co-authored-by: Valentin Gagarin <valentin@fricklerhandwerk.de>
 2022-08-04 12:37:46 +02:00
John Ericson 75c5191a1f Update doc/manual/src/design/overview.md 
Co-authored-by: Valentin Gagarin <valentin@fricklerhandwerk.de>
 2022-08-04 12:37:46 +02:00
John Ericson a04340f9a1 Update doc/manual/src/design/overview.md 
Co-authored-by: Valentin Gagarin <valentin@fricklerhandwerk.de>
 2022-08-04 12:37:46 +02:00
John Ericson f5386d7059 Fix stub file's name 2022-08-04 12:37:46 +02:00
John Ericson 678d75baea Start on the derivations section 2022-08-04 12:37:46 +02:00
John Ericson e3a0209a9e Move the bits on relocating store entires to the end 
They are too advanced for up front.
 2022-08-04 12:37:46 +02:00
John Ericson a210504bc7 Apply suggestions from code review 2022-08-04 12:37:46 +02:00
John Ericson e64633f98f Flesh out TOC 2022-08-04 12:37:46 +02:00
John Ericson a2b3160f28 Briefly describe the digest of a store path 2022-08-04 12:37:46 +02:00
John Ericson 523359d133 WIP: Document the design of Nix 
The current docs are all "how to do things" and no "what is Nix" or "why
are things the way they are".

I see lots of misconception on the wider internet, and I also think we
would benefit from a "living document" to answer some questions people
currently turn to the thesis for.

I think a new section of the manual can address all these issues.
 2022-08-04 12:37:46 +02:00
Valentin Gagarin 499ed26508 manual: remove "Writing Nix Expressions" chapter 
it is out of date, all over the place in level of detail, is really
about `nixpkgs`, and in general instructions should not be part of
a reference manual.

also:
- update redirects and internal links
- use "Nix language" consistently
 2022-08-04 11:59:25 +02:00
Théophane Hufschmitt 7d1ccd9105
Merge pull request #6846 from fricklerhandwerk/values 
manual: use subheadings for primitive types
 2022-08-03 14:50:41 +02:00
Théophane Hufschmitt c55bea4204 Fix the html id of the list headers 2022-08-03 14:16:00 +02:00
Valentin Gagarin ceed4d4142 encode primitive as list with anchors 
to make it consistent with builtins and configuration options
 2022-08-03 11:25:41 +02:00
Ilya K f675ba5331
doc/distributed-builds: don't use deprecated alias 
`nix ping-store` -> `nix store ping`.
 2022-08-01 13:50:35 +03:00
Valentin Gagarin 27138f1ec6
manual: use singular in body, too 
Co-authored-by: Cole Helbling <cole.e.helbling@outlook.com>
 2022-07-28 23:30:07 +02:00
Valentin Gagarin 41a3b315fd manual: values -> data types 2022-07-28 17:25:25 +02:00
Valentin Gagarin 8f4fab8fab manual: use singular for headings 2022-07-28 17:25:18 +02:00
Valentin Gagarin 4ff48854b8 manual: simple values -> primitives 
"simple" is a loaded term
 2022-07-28 17:23:57 +02:00
Valentin Gagarin 3063e5b94c manual: use subheadings for primitive types 
this gives us HTML anchors for each of them
 2022-07-28 17:23:57 +02:00
Valentin Gagarin 85cdaebcd6 manual: set -> attribute set 
reword description to have shorter sentences.
 2022-07-28 16:10:24 +02:00
Valentin Gagarin be4654c344 manual: fix section title in table of contents 2022-07-28 15:55:41 +02:00
Théophane Hufschmitt 7ed91d6c6a
Merge branch 'master' into parallel-nix-copy 2022-07-20 10:05:34 +02:00
John Ericson 12461e246b Leverage existing docs for new store-path^outputs syntax 2022-07-15 14:04:22 +00:00
John Ericson 279ecf7cde Remove computed-derivations experimental feature 
We don't need it yet.
 2022-07-15 13:42:17 +00:00
John Ericson 6cafe308c9 Merge remote-tracking branch 'upstream/master' into indexed-store-path-outputs 2022-07-14 16:15:37 -04:00
Eelco Dolstra 28e913c605 Branch 2.10 release notes 2022-07-11 21:10:23 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra 545383208e
Merge pull request #6777 from laalsaas/master 
Fix logical and typographical errors in nix-env man page
 2022-07-11 13:52:40 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra 517ce38dad Update release notes 2022-07-11 11:17:19 +02:00
laalsaas eac211a171 Fix logical and typographical errors in nix-env man page 2022-07-10 12:30:17 +02:00
Théophane Hufschmitt 6fa95c35c7
Add a release notes entry for #4914 
cc @gytis-ivaskevicius
 2022-07-06 06:46:54 +02:00
Travis A. Everett 649c9d9b4c doc: acknowledge post-rsync reality 
Before #5150 the copy-to-store phase of the install was idempotent,
but the recursive cp isn't. This is probably baiting a few people
into trying corrective installs that will fail.
 2022-06-30 13:31:04 -05:00
Travis A. Everett fe76b9f4b4 doc: fix some darwin uninstall gaps 2022-06-16 09:37:52 -05:00
Tom Bereknyei 51268ceb79 Merge branch 'master' into nix-repl-flakes 2022-06-15 09:17:03 -04:00
tomberek dae4a8a6c8
Apply suggestions from code review 
Co-authored-by: Théophane Hufschmitt <7226587+thufschmitt@users.noreply.github.com>
 2022-06-15 09:02:36 -04:00
Hugo Osvaldo Barrera fd7f795750 Add disambiguation to man page 
This should help future lost newcomers like myself understand where to
find the docs for both of these commands and how they differ.
 2022-06-14 18:13:35 +02:00
Travis A. Everett edfcc8256e doc: add install test info to hacking.md 2022-06-11 13:30:51 -05:00
Théophane Hufschmitt 34d90fbe22 Mention the parallel copy in the release notes 2022-06-08 15:25:52 +02:00
Tom Bereknyei ffd41d1757 Merge branch 'master' into nix-repl-flakes 2022-06-02 16:58:35 -04:00
John Ericson b585548dfe Merge remote-tracking branch 'upstream/master' into indexed-store-path-outputs 2022-06-02 19:53:11 +00:00
Théophane Hufschmitt a5f7b934bd
Merge branch 'master' into lto 2022-06-01 17:55:03 +02:00