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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
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
John Ericson b18720ee17 Merge remote-tracking branch 'upstream/master' into indexed-store-path-outputs 2022-05-12 19:13:33 +00:00
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
Guillaume Maudoux 9ff892aad4 Add release notes for error traces revamp 2022-04-29 11:24:48 +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
John Ericson 6b61d7722d Merge remote-tracking branch 'upstream/master' into indexed-store-path-outputs 2022-04-19 20:30:12 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra 1cdad1074c Move rl-next.md to rl-2.8.md 2022-04-19 21:12:33 +02:00
John Ericson 41e755bee4 Merge remote-tracking branch 'upstream/master' into indexed-store-path-outputs 2022-04-19 15:14:06 +00:00
Tom Bereknyei 9b41239d8f fix: ensure apps are apps and packages are packages 2022-04-14 23:57:52 -04:00
John Ericson fda2224b59 Add release notes mark experimental 2022-04-07 19:45:38 +00:00
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