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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
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
Théophane Hufschmitt a5f7b934bd
Merge branch 'master' into lto 2022-06-01 17:55:03 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra 04a699b8a9
Typo 2022-05-31 10:38:03 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra de13b44573
Branch 2.9 release notes 2022-05-30 20:42:55 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra 8e8e9d8705
Respect the outputSpecified attribute
E.g. 'nix build nixpkgs#libxml2.dev' will build the 'dev' output.
2022-05-30 11:34:47 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra d67a2ae52d
Merge branch 'doc-redirects' of https://github.com/jtojnar/nix 2022-05-27 11:12:41 +02:00
Jan Tojnar 26d1877d6e doc: Add redirects for the DocBook manual
There are still many links to the old manual on the web and
having them end up on the Introduction page is a bad user experience.
2022-05-26 18:17:21 +02:00
Jan Tojnar a793863b97 doc: Manually insert some anchors 2022-05-26 18:17:21 +02:00
Jan Tojnar 7708a34a51 doc: Add anchors to long lists
Added using the following sed scripts:

- For command-ref/opt-common.md:

    s~- `(--?)([^`]+)`~- [`\1\2`]{#opt-\2}~g

- For expressions/builtin-constants.md:

    s~- `(builtins\.?)([^`]+)`~- [`\1\2`]{#builtins-\2}~g

- For expressions/advanced-attributes.md

    s~^  - `([^`]+)`~  - [`\1`]{#adv-attr-\1}~g

  and manually adjusted outputHashAlgo & outputHashMode.

- For glossary.md

    s~^  - (`([^`]+)`|(.+)) ?\\~  - [\1]{#gloss-\2\3}\\~g;
    s~(gloss-\w+) ~\1-~g

  and manually adjusted anchors for Nix expression, user environment, NAR, ∅ and ε.

- For command-ref/env-common.md

    s~^  - `([^`]+)`~  - [`\1`]{#env-\1}~g'
2022-05-26 18:17:21 +02:00
Jan Tojnar 3272afa17b doc: Port anchors preprocessor to jq script
Python is only pulled into the build closure by Mercurial, which might end up being removed.
Let’s port the script to jq, which is more likely to stay.
2022-05-26 18:17:21 +02:00
Jan Tojnar 4de84e095d doc: Introduce pre-processor for adding anchors to text
It is now possible to use the following syntax to insert anchors into the text:

    []{#anchor-name}

The anchor will allow linking to the location it is placed by appending #anchor-name to the URL.

Additionally, it is possible to create a link pointing to its own location by adding text between the square brackets:

    [`--add-root`]{#opt-add-root}
2022-05-26 17:54:15 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra 8f4548d401
Tweak IN_NIX_SHELL description 2022-05-26 12:40:01 +02:00
Ben Burdette 9a5ea6c359
Merge branch 'master' into debug-exploratory-PR 2022-05-25 10:41:10 -06:00
Ben Burdette 6031a36208 add --debugger to rl-next list 2022-05-25 10:38:13 -06:00
pennae b092afe77d
Merge branch 'master' into lto 2022-05-25 11:55:13 +00:00
Tom Bereknyei 82c4af41e3 repl: clarify change and usage of <nixpkgs> 2022-05-20 01:49:49 -04:00
Tony Olagbaiye 5b8c1deb18 fetchTree: Allow fetching plain files
Add a new `file` fetcher type, which will fetch a plain file over
http(s), or from the local file.

Because plain `http(s)://` or `file://` urls can already correspond to
`tarball` inputs (if the path ends-up with a know archive extension),
the URL parsing logic is a bit convuluted in that:

- {http,https,file}:// urls will be interpreted as either a tarball or a
  file input, depending on the extensions of the path part (so
  `https://foo.com/bar` will be a `file` input and
  `https://foo.com/bar.tar.gz` as a `tarball` input)
- `file+{something}://` urls will be interpreted as `file` urls (with
  the `file+` part removed)
- `tarball+{something}://` urls will be interpreted as `tarball` urls (with
  the `tarball+` part removed)

Fix #3785

Co-Authored-By: Tony Olagbaiye <me@fron.io>
2022-05-19 18:24:49 +02:00
Tom Bereknyei 1ca3f6035d repl: update docs with installables 2022-05-18 21:21:38 -04:00
Théophane Hufschmitt 65a913d29b Don’t recommend writing unit tests
As asked in <https://github.com/NixOS/nix/pull/6517#discussion_r869416905>
2022-05-12 12:02:31 +02:00
Théophane Hufschmitt 7c75f1d52b Expand the testing section of the hacking docs
- Make it clear what the different kind of tests are, where they live
  and how they can be ran
- Ask people to primarily write unit tests
2022-05-10 13:35:23 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra 4a79cba511 Allow selecting derivation outputs using 'installable!outputs'
E.g. 'nixpkgs#glibc^dev,static' or 'nixpkgs#glibc^*'.
2022-05-03 13:43:52 +02:00
pennae d6d6bbd9ef
Merge branch 'master' into lto 2022-04-25 14:02:37 +00:00
midchildan c67d8876c3
feat: add integration with zsh's run-help 2022-04-25 02:21:41 +09:00
Théophane Hufschmitt be28603dca Merge remote-tracking branch 'origin/master' into nixbuildaddprintstorepaths 2022-04-22 11:11:01 +02:00
Tom Bereknyei f25112d383 fix: builtins.toFile adds path to allowedPaths
The produced path is then allowed be imported or utilized elsewhere:
```
assert (43 == import (builtins.toFile "source" "43")); "good"
```

This will still fail on write-only stores.
2022-04-21 16:41:37 -04:00
Artturin 51cfea8bb0 nix build: add --print-out-paths flag
has the same functionality as default nix-build

$ nix-build . -A "bash" -A "bash.dev" -A "tinycc"
/nix/store/4nmqxajzaf60yjribkgvj5j54x9yvr1r-bash-5.1-p12
/nix/store/c49i1ggnr5cc8gxmk9xm0cn961z104dn-bash-5.1-p12-dev
/nix/store/dbapb08862ajgaax3621fz8hly9fdah3-tcc-0.9.27+date=2022-01-11

$ nix-build . -A "bash"
/nix/store/4nmqxajzaf60yjribkgvj5j54x9yvr1r-bash-5.1-p12

$ $HOME/nixgits/nix/result/bin/nix build "nixpkgs#bash" "nixpkgs#bash.dev" "nixpkgs#tinycc" --print-out-paths
/nix/store/4nmqxajzaf60yjribkgvj5j54x9yvr1r-bash-5.1-p12
/nix/store/c49i1ggnr5cc8gxmk9xm0cn961z104dn-bash-5.1-p12-dev
/nix/store/dbapb08862ajgaax3621fz8hly9fdah3-tcc-0.9.27+date=2022-01-11

$ $HOME/nixgits/nix/result/bin/nix build "nixpkgs#bash" --print-out-paths
/nix/store/4nmqxajzaf60yjribkgvj5j54x9yvr1r-bash-5.1-p12
2022-04-20 19:35:46 +03:00
mei (ckie) 0e2b01b14e
nix repl: make symlinks with the :bl command
Requested by ppepino on the Matrix:
https://matrix.to/#/!KqkRjyTEzAGRiZFBYT:nixos.org/$Tb32BS3rVE2BSULAX4sPm0h6CDewX2hClOTGzTC7gwM?via=nixos.org&via=matrix.org&via=nixos.dev

This adds a new command, :bl, which works like :b but also creates
a GC root symlink to the various derivation outputs.

ckie@cookiemonster ~/git/nix -> ./outputs/out/bin/nix repl
Welcome to Nix 2.6.0. Type :? for help.

nix-repl> :l <nixpkgs>
Added 16118 variables.

nix-repl> :b runCommand "hello" {} "echo hi > $out"

This derivation produced the following outputs:
  ./repl-result-out -> /nix/store/kidqq2acdpi05c4a9mlbg2baikmzik44-hello
[1 built, 0.0 MiB DL]
ckie@cookiemonster ~/git/nix -> cat ./repl-result-out
hi
2022-04-20 00:20:29 +03:00
Eelco Dolstra 1cdad1074c Move rl-next.md to rl-2.8.md 2022-04-19 21:12:33 +02:00
Tom Bereknyei 9b41239d8f fix: ensure apps are apps and packages are packages 2022-04-14 23:57:52 -04:00
Rehno Lindeque 5ff4c42608 Update release notes 2022-04-06 12:24:35 -04:00
Eelco Dolstra 71c07ac0e7
Merge pull request #6363 from thufschmitt/definition-list-in-nix.conf-manual
Add anchors to the nix.conf options in the manual
2022-04-05 17:32:48 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra f98d76ff1a rl-2.7.md: Fix title 2022-04-05 14:13:26 +02:00
Théophane Hufschmitt 660c19eb49 manual: Add some anchor targets for the nix.conf options
For each `nix.conf` option, add an empty html node with a unique `id`
that can be used as an anchor target. Also make the name of the option
be a link to that target so that it’s easily discoverable.

We can’t rewrite the whole list as an html definition list like it’s
done for the builtins because these options also appear in a man page,
and the manpage renderer (lowdown) can’t render arbitrary html. But the
hack here allows to keep the manpage and have the links in the html
version.

Fix https://github.com/NixOS/nix/issues/5745
2022-04-05 13:50:42 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra d63a5f5dd3 Update release notes 2022-03-31 17:33:06 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra 86b05ccd54 Only provide builtin.{getFlake,fetchClosure} is the corresponding experimental feature is enabled
This allows writing fallback code like

  if builtins ? fetchClosure then
    builtins.fetchClose { ... }
  else
    builtins.storePath ...
2022-03-25 14:04:18 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra 98658ae9d2 Document fetchClosure 2022-03-24 21:33:33 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra 5acaf13d35 Rename 'nix store make-content-addressable' to 'nix store make-content-addressed' 2022-03-24 21:33:33 +01:00
Domen Kožar 98ce1a21b7
Merge pull request #6144 from toonn/doc-macos-uninstall
doc: Add detailed uninstall section for macOS
2022-03-23 08:53:48 +01:00
Théophane Hufschmitt 7117053457
Merge pull request #6270 from Artturin/stdineval
nix: allow using --file - to read from stdin
2022-03-17 14:35:01 +01:00
Artturin a5c969db49 nix: allow using --file - to read from stdin 2022-03-16 21:01:51 +02:00
Joachim Breitner af013281c9
distributed-builds.md: fixing typo of the most minor sort 2022-03-16 12:53:38 +01:00
pennae f2603e9c92
Merge branch 'master' into lto 2022-03-10 00:32:34 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra ad7c99ef20 Move rl-next.md to rl-2.7.md 2022-03-07 20:10:18 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra 0123b9aec8 Tweak release notes 2022-03-07 19:56:10 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra 30ddd37873 Merge branch 'cli-suggestions' of https://github.com/thufschmitt/nix 2022-03-07 19:47:45 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra c28e2b1b29 Tweak release notes 2022-03-07 11:30:40 +01:00
regnat b44cebd1fd Add a release-notes entry for the cli suggestions 2022-03-07 10:09:10 +01:00
pennae 2799fe4cdb enable LTO in optimized builds
gives 2-5% performance improvement across a board of tests.
LTO is broken when using clang; some libs link fine while others crash
the linker with a segfault in the llvm linker plugin. 🙁
2022-03-03 17:47:49 +01:00
toonn 947d4761b3
doc: Add removal of darwin-store LaunchDaemon
The uninstall instructions used to accidentally remove the nix-darwin
LaunchDaemon, this was dropped. However, the original intent was to
remove the Store volume mounting LaunchDaemon.
2022-02-26 14:16:35 +01:00
toonn 2df23e2b3e
doc: Drop nix-darwin service from macOS uninstall 2022-02-25 10:50:01 +01:00
toonn 064cad7e9f
doc: Add macOS uninstall note about /nix
Clarify that `/nix` being present after the uninstall is normal and it
will only disappear after a reboot.

Co-authored-by: Travis A. Everett <travis.a.everett@gmail.com>
2022-02-25 10:32:45 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra 59683733f5
Merge pull request #6089 from edolstra/dot-default
Replace defaultBla.$system with bla.$system.default
2022-02-24 21:16:58 +01:00
Guillaume Desforges cfbf9ee2ce Anchor with prefix 2022-02-24 13:50:50 +01:00
Guillaume Desforges 6462ee61c7 Anchor link for builtin functions in HTML doc 2022-02-23 15:07:01 +01:00
Guillaume Desforges 2cc645a91a Add html make target 2022-02-23 15:06:13 +01:00
Théophane Hufschmitt 54f07b66c8
Precise the doc for --include-outputs
Make it explicit that it only includes the existing outputs and not the ones that haven’t been realised
2022-02-23 09:17:08 +01:00
toonn 400d70a3a9
doc: Add detailed uninstall section for macOS
The multi-user installation on macOS, which is now the only option, has
gotten complicated enough that it discourages some users from checking
Nix out for fear of being left with a "dirty" system. Detailed
uninstallation instructions should make this less of an issue.
2022-02-22 16:28:24 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra 38eea2c503 Update release notes 2022-02-22 14:23:39 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra 26e99c817c
Merge pull request #6114 from Radvendii/welcomeText
add release notes for welcomeText
2022-02-18 10:52:03 +01:00
Taeer Bar-Yam 219fa2e43d add release notes for welcomeText 2022-02-17 15:17:20 -05:00
Rahul Butani d82cf4a016
manual: fix formatting for options with "machine-specific" defaults 2022-02-15 15:44:05 -06:00
tomberek 2bf96bd9f2
Merge branch 'master' into bundler_drv 2022-01-28 10:18:29 -05:00
Eelco Dolstra 35dbdbedd4 nix store ping: Report Nix daemon version
Fixes #5952.
2022-01-25 21:15:58 +01:00
Tom Bereknyei dc85e20684 bundler: notes and doc update to include bundlers repo 2022-01-25 03:48:44 -05:00
Eelco Dolstra 9faad4c5eb Move rl-next.md to rl-2.5.md 2022-01-25 00:11:00 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra edf0cde1a7
Merge pull request #5960 from zombiezen/patch-1
Correct `NIX_BUILD_PATH` default description
2022-01-24 12:46:43 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra 3782017272 Tweak release notes 2022-01-24 12:45:35 +01:00
Ross Light 7477974b93
Correct NIX_BUILD_PATH default description
Source: 067076287b/src/nix-build/nix-build.cc (L362-L381)
2022-01-21 18:45:19 -08:00
Rok Garbas d463e11760
Adding docs regarding the docker image from master 2022-01-21 14:50:34 +01:00
lincoln auster [they/them] 7d4f86f032 release-notes: document commit-lockfile-summary option
This documents 3023c7700.
2022-01-18 16:10:44 -07:00
Eelco Dolstra 4dda1f92aa Add command 'nix store copy-log'
Fixes #5222.
2022-01-18 14:08:49 +01:00
Théophane Hufschmitt dc4730ee94
Merge pull request #5720 from tomberek/flake_search
flakes: search up to git or filesystem boundary
2022-01-18 10:59:12 +01:00
tomberek 2dead20924
Apply suggestions from code review
Co-authored-by: Théophane Hufschmitt <7226587+thufschmitt@users.noreply.github.com>
2022-01-14 09:16:34 -05:00
Eelco Dolstra 5e9653c370 Tweak 2022-01-13 14:33:41 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra 66424cd29f Merge branch 'patch-1' of https://github.com/TheodorRene/nix 2022-01-13 14:31:49 +01:00
Profpatsch a51c457204 Release Notes 2.4: add --indirect no-op change
Since
00d25e8457
which was first included in nix 2.4.

It is a backwards-compatible change since the flag will just be
ignored.
2022-01-12 23:19:15 +01:00
Theodor René Carlsen 89b4df8d92
Add link to explanation when introducing a new operator
The logical implication operator is included in this section but never explained. It might stump new readers with a pretty uncommon operator, and it's never referenced explicitly.
2022-01-11 17:01:43 +01:00
pennae 00c993f48b add zipAttrsWith primop
nixpkgs can save a good bit of eval memory with this primop. zipAttrsWith is
used quite a bit around nixpkgs (eg in the form of recursiveUpdate), but the
most costly application for this primop is in the module system. it improves
the implementation of zipAttrsWith from nixpkgs by not checking an attribute
multiple times if it occurs more than once in the input list, allocates less
values and set elements, and just avoids many a temporary object in general.

nixpkgs has a more generic version of this operation, zipAttrsWithNames, but
this version is only used once so isn't suitable for being the base of a new
primop. if it were to be used more we should add a second primop instead.
2022-01-03 21:05:53 +01:00
Alexander Bantyev a26351da02
Add ability to toggle show-trace from within the repl 2021-12-29 02:54:36 +03:00
tomberek f404189368
Merge branch 'master' into flake_search 2021-12-23 15:22:52 -05:00
Eelco Dolstra 881b610266 Update release notes 2021-12-21 14:19:21 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra c260640dec Fix docker instructions 2021-12-16 21:48:38 +01:00
jesse 11ee875a6d List aarch64 as supported macOS hardware
Resolves #5767
2021-12-15 10:55:34 -08:00
Théophane Hufschmitt 6234e1c811
Merge pull request #5702 from baloo/baloo/hide-non-reproducible-settings
reproducibility: hide non-reproducible settings from manual
2021-12-14 09:14:25 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra 18cb094aab rl-2.5.md: Set date 2021-12-13 19:57:06 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra f133001dc8 Move rl-next.md to rl-2.5.md 2021-12-13 16:48:44 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra 3f417c8d1c Add release notes entry for #5149 2021-12-13 16:43:42 +01:00
Janne Heß 4194b68250
doc: Fix command for distributed builds
We also need to build impurely or the <nixpkgs> lookup will not work.
2021-12-10 12:58:12 +01:00
Amon Stopinšek 0bd93ed747
Fix link to nixos channel
The old link returned 404 errror.
2021-12-09 16:44:24 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra 167e864697
Merge pull request #5730 from abathur/darwin_document_fstab_settings
document some darwin mount settings
2021-12-07 22:24:40 +01:00
Alexander Bantyev 33926ed1e7
nix repl: add :log
Add a :log command that shows logs for a derivation.

Closes https://github.com/NixOS/nix/issues/3504

Co-authored-by: Taeer Bar-Yam <taeer@bar-yam.me>
2021-12-06 16:52:50 +03:00
Travis A. Everett 8093456111 document some darwin mount settings 2021-12-04 23:16:42 -06:00
Tom Bereknyei b6cc0a704d flakes: search up to git or filesystem boundary
While parsing a flakeref, upon not finding a flake.nix, search upwards
until git or filesystem boundary.
2021-12-03 10:55:30 -05:00
Eelco Dolstra 2e606e87c4
Merge pull request #5715 from Infinisil/groupBy-primop
Introduce `builtins.groupBy` primop
2021-12-03 13:21:14 +01:00
David Purdum 69b9198875
Fix docker command
`docker -ti run nixos` does not run on docker version 20.10.7 (my machine).  This fixes it to read `docker run -ti nixos`.
2021-12-02 23:38:33 -05:00
Silvan Mosberger 90700736c7 Introduce builtins.groupBy primop
This function is very useful in nixpkgs, but its implementation in Nix
itself is rather slow due to it requiring a lot of attribute set and
list appends.
2021-12-02 21:54:51 +01:00
Arthur Gautier 21520297da reproducibility: hide non-reproducible settings from manual
Because the manual is generated from default values which are themselves
generated from various sources (cpuid, bios settings (kvm), number of
cores). This commit hides non-reproducible settings from the manual
output.
2021-12-01 17:25:58 +01:00
Eli Flanagan 092c375cda
Update doc/manual/src/glossary.md
Co-authored-by: Eelco Dolstra <edolstra@gmail.com>
2021-11-30 13:19:42 -05:00
Eli Flanagan a473e85c80
docs: document set theory symbols
These symbols confused me so I wanted to gloss them to help future users. You can see the context here: https://discourse.nixos.org/t/flakes-what-does-mean-big-bundle-of-questions
2021-11-30 11:13:46 -05:00
Eelco Dolstra b96164f4af Merge remote-tracking branch 'origin/build-with-clang' 2021-11-30 11:50:56 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra ddf4fb750d
Merge pull request #5678 from t184256/document-libsodium
Document libsodium, which is now mandatory, as a dependency.
2021-11-29 11:11:10 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra 99804465af
Merge pull request #5679 from t184256/optional-libcpuid
Document libcpuid dependency and make it optional
2021-11-29 11:10:42 +01:00
Alexander Sosedkin a9bd06d0ea Make libcpuid dependency optional with --disable-cpuid 2021-11-28 00:52:35 +01:00
Alexander Sosedkin b73a1c0638 Document libcpuid dependency 2021-11-28 00:52:35 +01:00
Alexander Sosedkin 33a227503a Document libsodium, which is now mandatory, as a dependency 2021-11-27 23:11:11 +01:00
Tom Bereknyei 152e3cda0c reproducibility: determinstic man page output for cores 2021-11-26 10:55:43 -05:00
Pamplemousse 288c252570 Documentation: alternative stdenv for hacking
Signed-off-by: Pamplemousse <xav.maso@gmail.com>
2021-11-26 10:04:56 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra 986906e687 Update names 2021-11-25 17:09:11 +01:00
Silvan Mosberger 09471d2680 Make lists be comparable
Makes lists comparable using lexicographic comparison.

Increments builtins.langVersion in order for this change to be
detectable
2021-11-24 13:40:46 +01:00
Lorenz Leutgeb e1192116d3
doc: Fix escape for operator "logical or"
See https://matrix.to/#/!KqkRjyTEzAGRiZFBYT:nixos.org/$hhMb6AdRIXfRkv_LsNsiQJuch7AQ_b6szr4tfawFy-4
2021-11-18 15:08:01 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra e88fb63e28
Merge pull request #5585 from jtojnar/env-a
doc: De-emphasize nix-env without -A
2021-11-18 14:34:45 +01:00
Jan Tojnar ca4d8ce9e2 doc: De-emphasize nix-env without -A
The manual uses `nix-env -i` without `-A` prominently, teaching a bad practice to newcomers.
2021-11-17 17:04:25 +01:00
Jan Tojnar e96faadcd6 Fix XDG_CONFIG_DIRS fallback
According to XDG Base Directory Specification,
it should fall back to /etc/xdg when the env var is not present.
2021-11-17 14:31:15 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra 51ffc19f02 Merge branch 'add-docker-image-to-hydra-jobs' of https://github.com/garbas/nix 2021-11-16 13:00:54 +01:00
Kevin Amado eae54f2d52
fix many doc typos 2021-11-13 22:28:20 -05:00
Rok Garbas a118a70649
Documenting how to use/build Nix' Docker image 2021-11-11 16:07:01 +01:00
Théo Zimmermann d589782fb0
Fix some typos in CLI guideline. 2021-11-08 08:24:15 +01:00
Jan Tojnar e5d4c2235f
docs: Correct fallback user config path
This is in line with XDG Base Directory Specification, where ~/.config is supposed to be used when XDG_CONFIG_HOME is unset.

It also better matches the reality, where ~/.config/nix.conf does not seem to be used.
2021-11-04 11:41:29 +01:00
Dimitris Apostolou c34cc5e488
Fix typos 2021-11-03 18:11:20 +02:00
Simon Legner 1968760f4a
command-ref/nix-shell: fix --pure, --keep 2021-11-02 22:00:08 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra b61b307bad Remove references to building from the source tarball 2021-11-02 15:29:47 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra 6a93e186f4 Fix 2.4 migration examples 2021-11-01 22:44:07 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra bc4b7521f4 Rename rl-2.5.md to rl-next.md
Having a generically named file for release notes for the next release
makes things easier for PRs.
2021-10-28 14:36:47 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra 9c6ac9eb0e 2.4 release notes: Add some migration notes 2021-10-27 17:33:32 +02:00
Domen Kožar 51c812d6bb
Merge pull request #5365 from arafangion/master
Clarify that not all nix packages will use the default build phases
2021-10-17 20:54:00 -05:00
John Chapman ffeec5f283 Clarify that not all nix packages will use the default build phases 2021-10-17 15:24:22 +11:00
Eelco Dolstra 4c0cde95ad Update release notes 2021-10-13 11:39:54 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra 2f3c79c241 Mention compression-level in the release notes 2021-10-13 11:11:26 +02:00
John Chapman 4cff413054 Clarify that not all nix packages will use the default build phases 2021-10-09 12:03:34 +11:00
Eelco Dolstra 844dd901a7 Start 2.5 release notes 2021-10-07 20:09:03 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra f45b30de2f Revert "docs: add troubleshooting session in remote builds"
This reverts commit 0574c1850a.
2021-10-06 17:12:52 +02:00
Domen Kožar d0cc6a192a
Merge pull request #5095 from happysalada/update_remote_builds_docs
docs: add troubleshooting session in remote builds
2021-10-06 08:10:53 -05:00
happysalada 0574c1850a docs: add troubleshooting session in remote builds 2021-10-06 21:47:53 +09:00
Eelco Dolstra 08aa7daee0 Remove links to .md files in help output
Fixes #5337.
2021-10-06 13:01:18 +02:00
Rafal Gwozdzinski a73f855bd4 Fix typo 2021-10-03 12:19:59 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra 0e3b8ca767 Typo 2021-10-01 16:32:07 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra 43221bb319 Comments 2021-10-01 16:29:53 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra 91b39eee25
Typo
Co-authored-by: Sebastian Ullrich <sebasti@nullri.ch>
2021-10-01 14:18:07 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra 5e222ac18b Release notes 2021-09-30 17:36:09 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra 8fdb1d057a Quiet 2021-09-22 14:12:31 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra 49a932fb18 nix --help: Display help using lowdown instead of man
Fixes #4476.
Fixes #5231.
2021-09-13 14:45:21 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra 25b6b74175 Manual: Link to 2.4 release notes 2021-09-09 15:01:36 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra ff03fb6743 Manual: Depend on all *.md files 2021-09-09 15:01:19 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra 7ee639f9db
Merge pull request #5066 from Radvendii/master
add antiquotations to paths
2021-09-01 12:55:04 +02:00
Taeer Bar-Yam b2beb97f2a add documentation for path antiquotations 2021-08-31 08:17:17 -04:00
Sergei Trofimovich 33fa5f3cd9 doc/manual/local.mk: fix 'make install DESTDIR=...'
Install failure is observed when we try to install
into inplace location as non-root:

```
$ LANG=C make install DESTDIR=$PWD/__i__ V=1
RUST_LOG=warn mdbook build doc/manual -d /usr/share/doc/nix/manual
2021-08-28 13:29:58 [ERROR] (mdbook::utils): Error: Rendering failed
2021-08-28 13:29:58 [ERROR] (mdbook::utils):    Caused By: Unexpected error when constructing destination path
2021-08-28 13:29:58 [ERROR] (mdbook::utils):    Caused By: Permission denied (os error 13)
make: *** [doc/manual/local.mk:98: /usr/share/doc/nix/manual/index.html] Error 101
```

The change is to prefix paths with `$(DESTDIR)`.
2021-08-28 13:31:34 +01:00
Pamplemousse 0e7bd65976 15f4d4f Documentation follow-up 2021-08-19 09:40:47 -07:00
Eelco Dolstra d64f9671fc
Merge pull request #5094 from Pamplemousse/simpler_doc
doc/manual: don't need to copy `highlight.js` manually
2021-08-05 15:13:07 +02:00
Pamplemousse de39cfb9f3 doc/manual: don't need to copy highlight.js manually
Signed-off-by: Pamplemousse <xav.maso@gmail.com>
2021-08-04 19:47:05 -07:00
regnat 441be5d59a Remove dead code in doc’s local.mk 2021-07-27 14:37:55 +02:00
regnat cd6e9eb024 Fix the generation of nix3 manpages
- Separate the generation of the manpages from their installation
- Make sure that `make` generates the manpages
- Make sure that `make install` installs them

Fix #5051
2021-07-27 13:47:53 +02:00
regnat c5f5d615a6 Cleanup the generation of the nix3 manpages
Use a dedicated make target for the man page rather than bundling the
generation as part of `install`.
Also make sure that `make install` is a fixpoint by

- Removing the generated markdown files from `MANUAL_SRCS`
- Not having the manpage generation write in its source directory so as
  to not update its timestamp (it would run each time otherwise)
2021-07-19 16:55:56 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra f1ecd30bd5
Merge pull request #4773 from alyssais/dl
doc: builtins: use a definition list
2021-07-05 14:03:15 +02:00
Keshav Kini f35f9af787 Improve explanation of NIX_PATH prefix syntax
The previous wording seemed to imply that the "channel:" syntax would resolve to
a github archive URL, which is not the case.
2021-06-03 17:59:39 -07:00
Linus Heckemann a3553cdae8 doc/nix-shell: Remove outdated bashrc information
This behaviour was removed in 65f6d5db6f.
2021-05-11 14:33:35 +02:00
Alyssa Ross 5f07f2ff2b
doc: builtins: use a definition list
This looks a lot better (and is also more semantically meaningful).

Since this list is generated in a Nix expression, I don't think using
HTML here is going to be the thing that puts people off modifying this
part of the documentation!
2021-05-05 14:34:46 +00:00
Graham Christensen d15a1962cb
Merge pull request #4289 from abathur/encrypt_darwin_volume
darwin: encrypt nix volume if filevault is enabled
2021-04-29 15:59:12 -04:00
Travis A. Everett eab14a642c darwin: encrypt nix volume if filevault is enabled 2021-04-29 13:26:51 -05:00
Eelco Dolstra fe2bf464cf Merge branch 'remove-trailing-spaces' of github.com:NixOS/nix 2021-04-23 15:09:44 +02:00
regnat 31313d1401 Replace the trailing markdown spaces by a backslash
They are equivalent according to
<https://spec.commonmark.org/0.29/#hard-line-breaks>,
and the trailing spaces tend to be a pain (because the make git
complain, editors tend to want to remove them − the `.editorconfig`
actually specifies that − etc..).
2021-04-23 14:37:21 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra 3996ca42cf
Merge pull request #4735 from NixOS/document-ca-derivations
(briefly) document how to build ca derivations
2021-04-23 14:21:25 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra e65f604ea9 Set more man sections 2021-04-23 14:20:28 +02:00
Alyssa Ross 29132f99c5
doc: fix section in nix3 man page metadata
These man pages said they were in section 7, even though we were
installing them to section 1 (which is the right place for them).
2021-04-23 10:52:54 +00:00
regnat 2207018df5 (briefly) document how to build ca derivations 2021-04-23 10:28:26 +02:00
Björn Gohla 4d9568ef60 Revert "[prerequisites]: add JSON lib dependency"
This reverts commit 5926200db0.
2021-04-05 21:29:04 +01:00
Björn Gohla 5926200db0
[prerequisites]: add JSON lib dependency 2021-04-01 22:54:09 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra 4638bcfb2c Fix some typos
Fixes #4671.
2021-03-26 16:14:38 +01:00
Travis A. Everett ac8ba2eae4
remove doc for obsolete --no-build-hook flag
`--no-build-hook` appears to have been removed in 25f32625e2
2021-03-06 19:51:29 -06:00
Graham Christensen 1130b28824
distributed builds: load remote builder host key from the machines file
This is already used by Hydra, and is very useful when materializing
a remote builder list from service discovery. This allows the service
discovery tool to only sync one file instead of two.
2021-02-25 09:17:34 -05:00
Shea Levy f6c5b05488
Respect command registrations in plugins. 2021-02-24 08:25:45 -05:00
Shea Levy 98d1b64400
Initialize plugins after handling initial command line flags
This is technically a breaking change, since attempting to set plugin
files after the first non-flag argument will now throw an error. This
is acceptable given the relative lack of stability in a plugin
interface and the need to tie the knot somewhere once plugins can
actually define new subcommands.
2021-02-24 08:22:17 -05:00
Eelco Dolstra 6042febfce Restore warning about 'nix' being experimental
Fixes #4552.
2021-02-17 15:30:49 +01:00
Mauricio Scheffer 5f4701e70d
Update doc/manual/src/command-ref/nix-shell.md
Co-authored-by: Cole Helbling <cole.e.helbling@outlook.com>
2021-02-16 23:27:04 +00:00
Mauricio Scheffer 35129884f9
Fix Haskell example
http://nixos.org redirects to https://nixos.org and apparently the HTTP library doesn't follow the redirect, so the output is empty.
When defining https in the request it crashes because the library doesn't seem to support https.
So this switches the example to a different http library.
2021-02-16 23:19:42 +00:00
Dominik Schrempf fb00e7dc52
Remove newline in operator table. 2021-02-01 17:42:14 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra 36c4d6f592 Group common options 2021-01-25 19:03:13 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra 807d963ee8 Group subcommands by category 2021-01-25 18:19:32 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra d33eca8539 Rename 'nix store sign-paths' to 'nix store sign' 2021-01-13 23:32:37 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra 77c9ceda4b Tweak 2021-01-11 19:42:24 +01:00
Sam Lidder e069ddf325 Fix configure error in introduction doc 2020-12-31 20:17:37 -05:00
Sevan Janiyan 9d3aad7b92
Update URL where bzip2 can be obtained 2020-12-25 01:43:22 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra 1047cb1e53
Command: Remove examples() 2020-12-23 18:26:40 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra 9dcd0aebc5
generate-manpage.nix: Fix short names 2020-12-21 13:32:27 +01:00
Rok Garbas 7de4b1e9aa
smaller fixes 2020-12-17 23:42:49 +01:00
Rok Garbas ae77f21474
Switch away from classification as Tier1-3
to classification to a more descriptive classification.
2020-12-08 11:59:23 +01:00
Rok Garbas 0d7714b0d7
forgot to add the files 2020-12-08 10:25:03 +01:00
Rok Garbas 24db5b125f
Merge remote-tracking branch 'origin/master' into cli-guideline 2020-12-07 15:13:36 +01:00
regnat 5f66edf245 Make make install less noisy
Remove the printing and useless output of a couple of commands when running `make install`
2020-12-04 14:50:47 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra 8ad2c9c4b9 Remove 'dist' target
We're not producing source tarballs anymore so this has been
bitrotting.
2020-12-03 16:17:58 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra c3c858ac6d Make doc() return arbitrary Markdown rather than the contents of the "Description" section
Thus we can return the examples section (and any other sections) from
doc() and don't need examples() anymore.
2020-12-03 16:17:58 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra e2efc63979 Put examples first in the manpages 2020-12-02 23:23:23 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra 72428e38d9 Generate separate manpages for each nix subcommand 2020-12-02 23:23:23 +01:00
Rok Garbas 44da19f73c
Adds Nix CLI Guideline to docs
As we are working towards Nix 3.0 we want to make sure that we make a
huge step forward in Nix's user experience. And once 3.0 is out of the
door we need to make sure that all future commands and features keep up
the standard of user experience.

This PR adds a CLI guideline document to the Nix documentation. Consider
this document a good starting point and a checklist when somebody will
be (re)implementing commands.

Clearly this guideline does nothing to improve user experience on its
own and can only be useful as long as it is going to be read and
cared for. But it is a first step into that direction.
2020-12-02 17:00:32 +01:00
Fabian Möller 5b0790355f
Fix macOS sandbox build
Since c4c3c15c19 (#4251) building Nix for
macOS with sandboxing fails:
```
getting status of /nix/var/nix/profiles/per-user/root/channels/nixpkgs: Operation not permitted
```

This happens, because `EvalSettings::getDefaultNixPath` tries to access
paths outside the sandbox. Since the state-dir is not required for
doc generation, it is set to the dummy folder. This needs to be done
for all nix invocations during doc generation, as
`EvalSettings::getDefaultNixPath` is called unconditionally.
2020-11-23 17:40:17 +01:00
mkenigs 8b15650e74
docs: consistent console prompt (#4213)
Everywhere else a $ is used
2020-11-02 16:32:05 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra a3a22bd804
Merge pull request #4202 from hercules-ci/nix-shell-doc
Nix shell doc
2020-10-30 11:36:24 +01:00
Robert Hensing d4c5d8d32a nix-shell.md: Extend shellHook example 2020-10-30 11:12:28 +01:00
Robert Hensing b809c48ebb nix-shell.md: evaluated -> run
Use "run" to avoid confusion with Nix evaluation.
"evaluated" was intended to reference bash eval but it's ambiguous.
2020-10-30 11:01:33 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra ff4dea63c9 Generalize extra-* settings
This removes the extra-substituters and extra-sandbox-paths settings
and instead makes every array setting extensible by setting
"extra-<name> = <value>" in the configuration file or passing
"--<name> <value>" on the command line.
2020-10-29 18:17:39 +01:00
tnias c189cf7e33
Add sha512 to hashAlgo listings in manpages (#4186) 2020-10-25 22:16:53 +00:00
Josef Kemetmüller 7f60f48e1a Fix the docs about the new NIX_CONFIG env var
This was accidentally documented as NIX_OPTIONS.
2020-10-21 17:04:36 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra ecfebde6ff
Merge pull request #4166 from kampka/nix-conf-env
Add NIX_CONFIG env var for applying nix.conf overrides
2020-10-21 14:26:45 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra bdf2bcc989 Remove conf-file.xml
This was probably revived in a bad merge.
2020-10-21 14:24:26 +02:00
Christian Kampka 461cf2b856
Add NIX_CONFIG env var for applying nix.conf overrides 2020-10-21 13:41:26 +02:00
Stefan Frijters a53438d18f
doc: nix-shell in pure mode does *not* source user bashrc 2020-10-18 14:26:05 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra 58dadf2954 Remove stray 'Title:' from the manual
Closes #4096.
2020-10-08 17:30:40 +02:00
Fabian Möller 4abd5554ad
Fix macOS sandbox build 2020-10-02 15:40:55 +02:00
Kevin Quick 66c3959e8c
Merge branch 'master' into access-tokens 2020-09-29 08:32:06 -07:00
Maximilian Bosch 3655875483
doc/manual: update hacking docs (#4078)
* By default, build artifacts should be installed into `outputs/` rather
  than `inst/`[1].
* Add instructions on how to run unit-tests.

[1] 733d2e9402
2020-09-27 20:35:03 +00:00
Kevin Quick 83fec38fc9
Update document generation for empty json object values. 2020-09-24 22:41:24 -07:00
Bryan Richter 5fe375a8f1
nix-prefetch-url: Add --executable flag
pkgs.fetchurl supports an executable argument, which is especially nice
when downloading a large executable. This patch adds the same option to
nix-prefetch-url.

I have tested this to work on the simple case of prefetching a little
executable:

1. nix-prefetch-url --executable https://my/little/script
2. Paste the hash into a pkgs.fetchurl-based package, script-pkg.nix
3. Delete the output from the store to avoid any misidentified artifacts
4. Realise the package script-pkg.nix
5. Run the executable

I repeated the above while using --name, as well.

I suspect --executable would have no meaningful effect if combined with
--unpack, but I have not tried it.
2020-09-18 19:09:45 +03:00
Eelco Dolstra 0066ef6c59 Fix doc generation 2020-09-16 16:56:28 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra 39bc49318f jq -> nix 2020-09-16 14:58:06 +02:00
Jade Lovelace 7cb5f643a6
docs+test: fix remaining installer downloads without -L (#4006)
Co-authored-by: lf- <lf-@users.noreply.github.com>
2020-09-12 22:08:40 +02:00
Vladimír Čunát 77d4758cf2
Merge #3982: Minor docs updates 2020-09-07 21:54:59 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra 00d25e8457
Remove the --indirect flag
All GC roots are now indirect.
2020-09-03 11:22:00 +02:00
Cole Helbling a72ed3e8a1
hacking.md: add --prefix flag to configure
Otherwise, the steps advertised in this document won't actually work
(e.g. `make install` will fail, trying to access /usr, and
`./inst/bin/nix` won't exist).
2020-09-01 12:06:02 -07:00
Eelco Dolstra 84f5cabbea Merge remote-tracking branch 'origin/master' into markdown 2020-08-31 14:24:26 +02:00
Domen Kožar 8757e7022a
mention how to run a single functional test for faster feedback loop 2020-08-30 19:41:21 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra 691a1bd717 Merge branch 'minimal-logger' of https://github.com/Ma27/nix 2020-08-28 10:50:52 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra 7a02865b94
Move import docs 2020-08-25 14:06:01 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra 0f314f3c25
Generate builtins section of the manual 2020-08-24 14:49:30 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra a990f063ff
Move primop docs inline
This makes them available to 'nix repl'.
2020-08-24 14:31:10 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra 33b1679d75
Allow primops to have Markdown documentation 2020-08-24 13:16:02 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra dc2f278c95
Allow 'nix' subcommands to provide docs in Markdown format 2020-08-20 12:21:46 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra 3c4f8c9175
List deprecated option aliases in the docs 2020-08-20 11:13:17 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra c3e20d8c28
Consistency 2020-08-19 18:30:17 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra c8fa39324a
Generate the nix.conf docs from the source code
This means we don't have two (divergent) sets of option descriptions
anymore.
2020-08-19 18:28:04 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra 8a97b11374
Improve margins between sections
The default CSS puts almost no space between sections, but a lot of
space between subsections. This flips that around.
2020-08-19 12:31:18 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra 069340179e
Improve nix.1 manpage generator 2020-08-18 15:15:35 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra 6f19c776db
Start generation of the nix.1 manpage 2020-08-17 19:33:18 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra 7cdc739ece
Merge remote-tracking branch 'origin/master' into markdown 2020-08-17 13:43:39 +02:00
Matthew Bauer 641c950701 Add hashed-mirrors back
Some users have their own hashed-mirrors setup, that is used to mirror
things in addition to what’s available on tarballs.nixos.org. Although
this should be feasable to do with a Binary Cache, it’s not always
easy, since you have to remember what "name" each of the tarballs has.
Continuing to support hashed-mirrors is cheap, so it’s best to leave
support in Nix. Note that NIX_HASHED_MIRRORS is also supported in
Nixpkgs through fetchurl.nix.

Note that this excludes tarballs.nixos.org from the default, as in
\#3689. All of these are available on cache.nixos.org.
2020-08-06 18:19:09 -05:00
Eelco Dolstra bf290c2306
Merge remote-tracking branch 'origin/master' into markdown 2020-07-31 16:07:04 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra 2ae9ac2369
console -> shell 2020-07-31 16:02:37 +02:00