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Graham Christensen c8205a3413
builtins.fetchGit: document absolute ref support 2019-07-02 09:05:56 -04:00
Daiderd Jordan a52c331edb
build: replace 100 offset for build exit codes 2019-07-02 00:12:38 +02:00
Daiderd Jordan 1ac399dd11
nix-store: document exit codes 2019-07-02 00:12:38 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra 88571219d9
nix-channel: Don't fetch binary-cache-url 
This has been ignored since the Perl->C++ rewrite.
 2019-06-25 13:27:16 +02:00
Bruno Bieth 74a65d313f Nix uses the CPP SDK, not Java 2019-06-20 14:47:45 +02:00
JorisE 4b0d613383
Minor typo 2019-06-04 14:12:03 +02:00
Maximilian Bosch b502b6682b
doc: clarify that optional attrs in a function argument will be ignored unless specified 
In `args@{ a ? 1 }: /* ... */` the value `a` won't be a part of `args`
unless it's specified when calling the function, the default value will
be ignored in this case.

My personal point of view is that this behavior is a matter of taste, at
least I was pretty sure that unmatched arguments will be a part of
`args@` while debugging some Nix code last week.

I decided to add a warning to the docs which hopefully reduces the
confusion of further Nix developers who thought the same about `args@`.
 2019-05-21 18:08:26 +02:00
Vladimír Čunát c0559a1d60
docs: describe $IN_NIX_SHELL values (#2796) 
See commit 1bffd83e1a
 2019-05-17 09:50:42 +02:00
Graham Christensen a5efe61786
Clarify where output from the diff hook goes. 2019-05-12 13:23:30 -04:00
Graham Christensen 6df61db060
diff hook: execute as the build user, and pass the temp dir 2019-05-12 13:17:26 -04:00
Graham Christensen c78686e411
build: run diff-hook under --check and document diff-hook 2019-05-12 13:17:24 -04:00
Eelco Dolstra 71eb76a0d4
Merge pull request #2765 from nh2/manual-nixpkgs-word 
manual: "Nix Package collection" -> "Nixpkgs package collection".
 2019-05-08 10:19:59 +02:00
Daniel Schaefer 3f192ac80c Add builtins.hashFile 
For text files it is possible to do it like so:
`builtins.hashString "sha256" (builtins.readFile /tmp/a)`
but that doesn't work for binary files.

With builtins.hashFile any kind of file can be conveniently hashed.
 2019-05-03 17:23:36 +02:00
Niklas Hambüchen 288f93cec0 manual: "Nix Package collection" -> "Nixpkgs package collection". 
Makes difference between Nix and Nixpkgs clearer to avoid
some common confusion this sentence on IRC.

Also disambiguate an "it" reference.
 2019-04-14 03:20:57 +02:00
Niklas Hambüchen caa76c369a docs: Mention --max-jobs 0 to build remotely only 2019-03-31 03:57:45 +02:00
Dmitry Kalinkin 75ec68f93a
manual: mention the "channel:" shorthand for NIX_PATH 
Bumped to 15.09 because older channels, when downloaded from
nixos.org, require firefox to be accessed via `pkgs.firefox`
 2019-03-25 20:55:28 -04:00
Jonas Chevalier 514b3c7f83
Add isPath primop 
this is added for completeness' sake since all the other possible
`builtins.typeOf` results have a corresponding `builtins.is<Type>`
 2019-03-24 11:36:49 +01:00
Linus Heckemann 6f093073b6 manual: include builtins.* for globally available builtins 
This improves searchability.
 2019-03-21 09:37:22 +01:00
Joachim Breitner 684c7fff80 Link to builders-use-substitutes in chapter on distributed builds 
fixes #2730.
 2019-03-16 19:03:40 +01:00
Andreas Rammhold 34fade478a
docs: fix typo in AllowDirectReads 
It was just missing an `l` but should be fixed anyway.
 2019-03-14 23:51:18 +01:00
Vladimír Čunát 4cfc131ec4
manual nitpick: document sha512 support in hashString 2019-03-01 14:30:30 +01:00
Spencer Baugh 5f1891b795 nix-store: make --dump-db take a list of paths to dump 
Inside a derivation, exportReferencesGraph already provides a way to
dump the Nix database for a specific closure. On the command line,
--dump-db gave us the same information, but only for the entire Nix
database at once.

With this change, one can now pass a list of paths to --dump-db to get
the Nix database dumped for just those paths. (The user is responsible
for ensuring this is a closure, like for --export).

Among other things, this is useful for deploying a closure to a new
host without using --import/--export; one can use tar to transfer the
store paths, and --dump-db/--load-db to transfer the validity
information. This is useful if the new host doesn't actually have Nix
yet, and the closure that is being deployed itself contains Nix.
 2019-01-23 01:24:34 +00:00
Domen Kožar 92d08c02c8
Merge pull request #2635 from veprbl/patch-7 
manual: "sandbox" option default is "true" on Linux
 2019-01-20 09:43:26 +07:00
Dmitry Kalinkin 15efd54373
manual: "sandbox" option default is "true" on Linux 
Fixes: 812e39313c ('Enable sandboxing by default')
 2019-01-19 15:04:43 -05:00
Samuel Evans-Powell 2ae5624b2f Update instructions for Haskell script using nix-shell interpreter 
- The instructions for using nix-shell as an interpreter has a Haskell script
  example that doesn't work on more recent versions of Nix. Update the
  instructions with a working command
 2019-01-18 10:50:54 +10:00
Eelco Dolstra bbaf865655 Add 2.2 release notes 2019-01-10 21:02:09 +01:00
John Ericson 2733287046 Don't look for a "pv" program, or mention it in the manual source 
The manual reference was commented out, and the sole reference to this
program other than the configure script. Removed both.
 2019-01-07 16:40:19 -05:00
Patrick Hilhorst 567941fb59
Clarify nix-instantiate --read-write-mode 2018-12-14 09:36:40 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra c37e6d77ea
Merge pull request #2569 from veprbl/pr/update_prerequisites 
docs: add missing prerequisites: brotli, boost, libseccomp
 2018-12-13 10:42:02 +01:00
Dmitry Kalinkin 0cc4728f71
docs: raise minimal boost version to 1.66 2018-12-13 01:50:39 -05:00
Dmitry Kalinkin 419949bf61
docs: add missing prerequisites: brotli, boost, libseccomp 2018-12-10 12:37:15 -05:00
Daiderd Jordan 77cc632186
s3: document scheme query parameter 2018-12-08 00:15:00 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra 6c6bbeb439 Merge branch 'feature/editline-pr' of https://github.com/dtzWill/nix 2018-11-13 20:42:13 +01:00
Felix C. Stegerman fb2c21f71c
manual: quote $servlets 2018-11-13 01:18:26 +01:00
Felix C. Stegerman 18215be59d
fix typo (s/gift/git/) 2018-11-12 17:50:39 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra b05d6dac7b
Manual: build locally -> build 2018-11-09 16:08:36 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra 4ea4d0b1a3
Urgh 2018-11-09 10:29:16 +01:00
Linus Heckemann 34d2948f21 Fix manual build 
This was broken by some missing closing tags in 0bea4a50e0
 2018-11-08 14:07:19 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra 750400e0fa
Merge pull request #2524 from domenkozar/deprecate-toPath 
Deprecate builtins.toPath
 2018-11-08 13:22:21 +01:00
Domen Kožar 0bea4a50e0
Deprecate builtins.toPath 2018-11-08 12:03:50 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra 812e39313c
Enable sandboxing by default 
Closes #179.
 2018-11-07 17:08:28 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra 5a3f140856
Document allowSubstitutes 2018-11-07 11:42:22 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra 1109193ea3
Fix preferLocalBuild description 
preferLocalBuild does not in fact prevent substitution.
 2018-11-07 11:37:43 +01:00
Will Dietz 3d974d31fa editline: wip 2018-10-29 08:44:58 -05:00
Antoine Eiche 73c2ae43f0 Add --graphml option to the nix-store --query command 
This prints the references graph of the store paths in the graphML
format [1]. The graphML format is supported by several graph tools
such as the Python Networkx library or the Apache Thinkerpop project.

[1] http://graphml.graphdrawing.org
 2018-10-20 09:48:34 +02:00
Benjamin Hipple 65453e2d77 Docs: update fixed output hashes 
`fetchurl` will now throw if given an `md5`, and the hashes have generally
been upgraded to avoid it and use `sha256` as a default. This updates the
documentation examples in the manual accordingly.
 2018-10-04 02:37:15 +00:00
Profpatsch 05cfc71cab manual: add XML IDs to all builtin list entries 2018-10-02 15:38:16 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra aa5e47b2f4
Merge pull request #2456 from grahamc/s3-substituters 
Update docs to describe how s3:// URLS does in fact support endpoint, region, and profile for upload
 2018-10-01 22:47:00 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra 5b7cfa487e
Add missing file 2018-10-01 11:58:54 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra 1e7b8deea7
Check requiredSystemFeatures for local builds 
For example, this prevents a "kvm" build on machines that don't have
KVM.

Fixes #2012.
 2018-09-28 16:10:27 +02:00
Graham Christensen 51cbeec49a
Update docs to describe how s3:// URLS does in fact support endpoint, region, and profile for upload 2018-09-27 17:01:39 -04:00
Eelco Dolstra a48c2e3411
Merge pull request #2434 from grahamc/graham-improve-upgrade 
Upgrade docs: improve the upgrade command
 2018-09-19 21:53:50 +02:00
Anders Riutta 1915862767
Upgrade docs: improve the upgrade command 
and make it more copy-pastable.
 2018-09-19 14:17:06 -04:00
Graham Christensen be9e356e61
nix-shell: document double quotes being necessary for a simple Nix expression in the shebang 2018-09-19 13:01:27 -04:00
Graham Christensen 10a7f19937
nix-shell: explain the merging property close to the example 2018-09-19 12:48:08 -04:00
Graham Christensen 0cd863197b
docs: document deprecated aliases 2018-09-18 12:23:32 -04:00
Graham Christensen 0aca1ffb6e Prefer 'remote builder' over 'slave' 2018-09-10 18:57:46 +02:00
Vladimír Čunát 5f3b72cfc2
docs: change expired bzip2.org to archive.org 
Fixes #2396.
 2018-09-03 17:57:13 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra 4dd09210d7
Release notes tweaks 2018-09-02 21:47:10 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra 1f49926601
Merge pull request #2388 from grahamc/graham/document-multi-user 
Document multi-user installation, and add release notes about it not being the default on 2.1
 2018-09-01 22:43:48 +02:00
Graham Christensen c42eaaf684
Create upgrade notes 2018-09-01 15:35:46 -04:00
Eelco Dolstra c5ab07ec2b
Merge pull request #2168 from grahamc/explain-why-netrc-is-busted 
manual: document why ~/.netrc doesn't work
 2018-09-01 21:25:04 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra 51003f892d
Merge pull request #2309 from symphorien/disallowed-man 
add manual entries for disallowedRequisites and disallowedReferences
 2018-09-01 21:01:41 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra 291f67aecf
Merge pull request #2237 from nh2/patch-1 
manual: distributed-builds: Mention - as default
 2018-09-01 20:41:49 +02:00
Graham Christensen 4be7652dd3
release notes: note that the multi-user installer is available but not selected for Linux with systemd, and the bug about selinux 2018-09-01 10:45:57 -04:00
Graham Christensen c3e508d924
Document the multi-user installer some 
Use sh <(...) syntax for installation to preserve stdin and prompting

also update installation docs to account for changes in multi-user selection
 2018-09-01 10:45:50 -04:00
Graham Christensen f66fa7cd20
We support aarch64 now 2018-09-01 10:44:33 -04:00
Eelco Dolstra 6ed4a6bd0e
Merge pull request #2384 from graham-at-target/fetch-git-examples 
docs: Add some examples to fetchGit
 2018-09-01 14:08:32 +02:00
Graham Christensen 0b7568fb73
Drop ssh://... as a required formatting for builtins.fetchGit 2018-08-31 19:49:56 -04:00
Eelco Dolstra 4095cd6438
Add contributors 2018-09-01 00:01:05 +02:00
Graham Christensen 149d10c308 docs: Add IDs to important sections 2018-08-31 10:06:33 -04:00
Graham Christensen 2df21b78b9 docs: Add some examples to fetchGit 2018-08-31 10:00:32 -04:00
Eelco Dolstra 308689f94b
Merge pull request #2365 from erikarvstedt/fix-docs 
Docs: Fix install prefix
 2018-08-30 16:24:52 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra 64d7d1a884
Update release notes 2018-08-30 15:28:18 +02:00
Domen Kožar d16ff76c69
nix.conf: clarify -j0 doesn't affect preferLocalBuild 2018-08-29 14:33:14 +01:00
Domen Kožar 54df4bb0b5
nix.conf: mention -j0 is useful 2018-08-29 11:51:51 +01:00
Erik Arvstedt 8ad2defdf0 Docs: Fix install prefix 
shell.nix defines the install prefix as $(pwd)/inst
 2018-08-21 21:46:43 +02:00
Graham Christensen 06080e4abc
2.1 release notes: Add note about s3-compatible stores 2018-08-03 11:09:31 -04:00
Eelco Dolstra 87356cc8a4
Add Nix 2.1 release notes 2018-08-03 17:05:17 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra 122e1a61f8
Merge pull request #2323 from samueldr/feature/selective-impurity 
Allows selectively adding environment variables to pure shells.
 2018-08-03 16:58:18 +02:00
Samuel Dionne-Riel 438e02529d Allows selectively adding environment variables to pure shells. 
Includes documentation and test.
 2018-08-02 08:21:30 -04:00
Graham Christensen 49a53c1d3f s3 binary cache: support specifying an endpoint 
Works for uploading and not downloading.
 2018-08-02 08:19:50 -04:00
Graham Christensen b27431b7cb Document s3 substitutions 2018-08-01 11:07:41 -04:00
Symphorien Gibol 81d1385437 add manual entries for disallowedRequisites and disallowedReferences 2018-07-26 18:14:50 +02:00
Nathan van Doorn 41f38fbb4b
nix-channel documentation: don't suggest deprecated function 
Running `nix-instantiate --eval -E '(import <nixpkgs> {}).lib.nixpkgsVersion` emits a warning
```
trace: `lib.nixpkgsVersion` is deprecated, use `lib.version` instead!
```
 2018-07-16 10:00:42 +01:00
Niklas Hambüchen 10ebcf8670
manual: distributed-builds: Mention - as default 2018-06-17 19:01:07 +02:00
Michael Raskin 17bc757980 manual: builtins.fromJSON: remove the claim that floats are not allowed 
floating-point numbers are supported now, including the fromJSON
builtin. Reported on IRC by inquisitiv3
 2018-06-10 14:20:18 +02:00
Peter Simons 93aa3bea2e
Merge pull request #767 from mogorman/garbage_collect_keep_last_few 
Implement --delete-generations + flag for keeping last N number of gens
 2018-05-31 10:00:21 +02:00
Shea Levy bbbfc180d9
Explicitly describe the effects of filterSource excluding a directory. 2018-05-30 12:34:41 -04:00
Graham Christensen f9940f47b3
Merge pull request #2164 from mickours/doc-fetchTarball-timout 
Explain fetchTarball timeout behavior in the doc
 2018-05-30 08:04:26 -04:00
Michael Mercier 8dd2e28374
Explain fetchTarball timeout behavior in the doc 2018-05-30 08:02:46 -04:00
Graham Christensen e6466c20b3
Document NIX_SSL_CERT_FILE for installation 2018-05-25 15:59:14 -04:00
Eelco Dolstra 743359bc8a
Merge pull request #2157 from volth/bitwise 
add builtins: __bitAnd,  __bitOr,  __bitXor
 2018-05-24 15:00:39 +02:00
volth 88c1ea30e4 add docs and tests 2018-05-24 12:51:34 +00:00
Alexandre Esteves 579f3895b4
Fix docs on --check suffix 2018-05-23 22:26:06 +01:00
Graham Christensen 33712fed38
manual: document why ~/.netrc doesn't work 
Maybe there is a better place to document this, which is more generic?
 2018-05-18 14:21:47 -04:00
Gleb Peregud 5ba6395378 docs: mention source of env variables used by impureEnvVars. 2018-05-02 22:45:20 +02:00
Danylo Hlynskyi ac22d77fd1 nix-collect-garbage: little doc fix 
This removes confusing documentation. It's better to remove doc than add implementation, because Nix 1.12 will surely have new GC interface anyway.

Fixes https://github.com/NixOS/nix/issues/641
 2018-04-30 09:36:46 -07:00
Shea Levy 8e6108ff71
Merge branch 'aarch64-armv7' of git://github.com/lheckemann/nix 
Support extra compatible architectures (#1916)
 2018-04-23 08:48:22 -04:00
Samuel Dionne-Riel 4b3a7f93a5 doc: Adds --quiet to the common options. 
Fixes #1298
 2018-04-20 16:34:06 -04:00
Eelco Dolstra 4fd28bee89
Fix broken DocBook 2018-04-13 15:12:58 +02:00
Sean Seefried 2ef8f0608c Add to glossary and clarify garbage collection 
While trying to understand garbage collection it was not immediately
clear that only the runtime dependency closure of output paths
would be kept (instead of the build-time dependency closure).
This commit attempts to clarify this by expanding some of the
glossary definitions and extending the Garbage Collection
section.
 2018-04-12 19:23:24 +10:00
John Arnold a405d25fa3 manual: Add all dependencies to source prerequisites (#2060) 2018-04-09 17:31:39 -04:00
Nicolas Dudebout d8a1c27806
fix typo in nix-env man page 2018-04-07 21:10:46 -04:00
AmineChikhaoui e01b01c579
update/re-order the options docs 2018-04-06 11:09:52 +01:00
AmineChikhaoui 33b08899d5
re-order the options using the alphabetical order and improve the example in the positive lookup case 2018-04-06 10:51:19 +01:00
AmineChikhaoui 86930ed414
add documentation for the local disk cache TTL config 2018-04-06 10:51:18 +01:00
Justin Humm 045eb84409
document that writeTextFile from Nixpkgs is an alternative to builtins.toFile 2018-04-03 23:26:47 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra e01c01f72c
Merge pull request #2005 from shlevy/fetchgit-docs 
Document fetchGit.
 2018-03-27 15:57:48 +02:00
Shea Levy 6856fe62b0
Document fetchGit. 
Fixes #1981.
 2018-03-23 07:02:45 -04:00
Dmitry Kalinkin e2f56c1333
doc: don't mention obsolete ssh-substituter-hosts 
#1840
 2018-03-22 19:17:45 -04:00
Corey O'Connor 22b144fea6 manual: correct repeated "--deriver". Add missing single char option aliases. 2018-03-20 17:58:25 -07:00
Eelco Dolstra b2074f0892 Fix bad XML 2018-03-18 13:27:30 +01:00
Jonas Chevalier 43bef1b82c doc: document the min-free and max-free options 2018-03-17 21:29:03 +00:00
Jonas Chevalier fef8ebf51d doc: add xml:id to all the config options 2018-03-17 21:17:28 +00:00
Linus Heckemann 637701b604 rename build-extra-platforms -> extra-platforms 
also document it
 2018-03-16 22:50:27 +00:00
Matthew O'Gorman 467fdd8ca4 only delete things older than current gen and update logic in doc as 
well
 2018-03-01 22:59:00 -05:00
Matthew O'Gorman 429154b74c Implement --delete-generations + flag for keeping last N number of generations 2018-03-01 21:47:57 -05:00
Michael Fiano ad97d1a786
nix-channel grammar and punctuation 
Minor changes to the nix-channel manpage for my first contribution
 2018-03-01 00:27:25 -05:00
Graham Christensen 9432f3fb7d
Merge pull request #1901 from veprbl/patch-5 
Fix a small typo in the release notes
 2018-02-24 10:26:14 -05:00
Michael Weiss bd94e63853 doc: Fix a URL in the release notes for Nix 2.0 2018-02-24 16:07:10 +01:00
Dmitry Kalinkin d9d8a84a96
Fix a small typo in the release notes 2018-02-23 23:45:42 -05:00
Eelco Dolstra 39b4177500
Fix example in release notes 2018-02-22 17:42:06 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra 2691d51a33
Doh 2018-02-22 17:14:35 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra e8d53bfdc9
Revert "Enable sandbox builds on Linux by default" 
This reverts commit ddc58e7896.

https://hydra.nixos.org/eval/1435322
 2018-02-22 14:20:07 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra eaa52c34b4
Set release date 2018-02-22 12:44:46 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra ddc58e7896
Enable sandbox builds on Linux by default 
The overhead of sandbox builds is a problem on NixOS (since building a
NixOS configuration involves a lot of small derivations) but not for
typical non-NixOS use cases. So outside of NixOS we can enable it.

Issue #179.
 2018-02-22 12:27:25 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra 88c90d5e6d
Manual: Put configuration options in sorted order 2018-02-21 18:08:47 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra 0d54671b7b
Manual: Update chapter on remote builds 
Alos add a command "nix ping-store" to make it easier to see if Nix
can connect to a remote builder (e.g. 'nix ping-store --store
ssh://mac').
 2018-02-21 16:24:26 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra 4e44025ac5
Release notes: Add contributors 2018-02-20 15:20:14 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra d7fdfe322b
Remove macOS multi-user instructions 
This is already handled by the installer.
 2018-02-19 20:40:25 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra 70eb64147e
Update release notes 
Also add some examples to nix --help.
 2018-02-19 20:38:53 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra 75a1d96cfd
Merge branch 'register-settings' of https://github.com/shlevy/nix 2018-02-19 13:58:34 +01:00
Shea Levy b095c06139
Add splitVersion primop. 
Fixes #1868.
 2018-02-14 09:55:43 -05:00
Shea Levy de4934ab3b
Allow plugins to define new settings. 2018-02-13 14:43:32 -05:00
Eelco Dolstra 52c777a793
Merge pull request #1863 from shlevy/conf-includes 
Allow includes from nix.conf
 2018-02-13 17:33:07 +01:00
Shea Levy b8739f2fb3
Enable specifying directories in plugin-files. 2018-02-13 11:25:01 -05:00
Shea Levy 6eb1040e90
Allow includes from nix.conf 2018-02-13 08:16:32 -05:00
Shea Levy 081f14a169
Allow using RegisterPrimop to define constants. 
This enables plugins to add new constants, as well as new primops.
 2018-02-08 14:35:50 -05:00
Shea Levy 88cd2d41ac
Add plugins to make Nix more extensible. 
All plugins in plugin-files will be dlopened, allowing them to
statically construct instances of the various Register* types Nix
supports.
 2018-02-08 12:44:37 -05:00
Eelco Dolstra abe6be578b
Merge pull request #1816 from shlevy/add-path 
Add path primop.
 2018-02-07 13:32:35 +01:00
Shea Levy 69d82e5c58
Add path primop. 
builtins.path allows specifying the name of a path (which makes paths
with store-illegal names now addable), allows adding paths with flat
instead of recursive hashes, allows specifying a filter (so is a
generalization of filterSource), and allows specifying an expected
hash (enabling safe path adding in pure mode).
 2018-02-06 16:48:08 -05:00
Eelco Dolstra 84722d67d2
Remove nix-build --hash 
Instead, if a fixed-output derivation produces has an incorrect output
hash, we now unconditionally move the outputs to the path
corresponding with the actual hash and register it as valid. Thus,
after correcting the hash in the Nix expression (e.g. in a fetchurl
call), the fixed-output derivation doesn't have to be built again.

It would still be good to have a command for reporting the actual hash
of a fixed-output derivation (instead of throwing an error), but
"nix-build --hash" didn't do that.
 2018-02-03 10:08:05 +01:00
Shea Levy de96daf54f
Merge branch 'master' of git://github.com/catern/nix 2018-02-01 13:21:45 -05:00
Eelco Dolstra e7b23eb5ab
Remove docs on removed --drv-link and --add-drv-link options 2018-02-01 16:40:58 +01:00
Spencer Baugh e5432574e2 document ability to set NIX_REMOTE=unix://path/to/socket 2018-01-31 22:47:16 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra c287d73121
Rename 1.12 -> 2.0 
Following discussion with Shea and Graham. It's a big enough change
from the last release. Also, from a semver perspective, 2.0 makes more
sense because we did remove some interfaces (like nix-pull/nix-push).
 2018-01-31 18:58:45 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra 6fa690291a
Add 'nix upgrade-nix' command 
This command upgrades Nix to the latest stable version by installing a
store path obtained from

  https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/raw/master/nixos/modules/installer/tools/nix-fallback-paths.nix

which is the same store path that the installer at
https://nixos.org/nix/install.sh uses.

The upgrade fails if Nix is not installed in a profile (e.g. on NixOS,
or when installed outside of the Nix store).
 2018-01-31 16:24:43 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra f8e8dd827e
Manual: Remove old cruft 2018-01-31 15:08:46 +01:00
Eric Wolf 0167eac571 Improve manual on inheriting attributes 
Expands first paragraph a bit
Adds a more comprehensive example
 2018-01-27 16:18:31 +01:00