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Eelco Dolstra 9f9080e2c0 nix-store -l: Fetch build logs from the Internet
If a build log is not available locally, then ‘nix-store -l’ will now
try to download it from the servers listed in the ‘log-servers’ option
in nix.conf. For instance, if you have:

  log-servers = http://hydra.nixos.org/log

then it will try to get logs from http://hydra.nixos.org/log/<base
name of the store path>. So you can do things like:

  $ nix-store -l $(which xterm)

and get a log even if xterm wasn't built locally.
2014-05-21 17:19:36 +02:00
Charles Strahan eeffdb74dc doc fix: swap 'import' and 'export' 2014-04-28 13:42:03 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra 1da6ae4f99 nix-store --gc --max-freed: Support a unit specifier
E.g. "--max-freed 10G" means "free ten gigabytes".
2014-02-17 14:48:50 +01:00
Ivan Kozik 34bb806f74 Fix typos, especially those that end up in the Nix manual 2013-08-26 11:15:22 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra 03eaef3d7a Manual: Don't use actual hashes of Nix dependencies
These cause an unnecessary runtime dependency :-)
2013-08-23 10:12:20 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra bfee9a2581 Typo 2013-06-13 14:51:11 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra 9de6bc5d05 nix-store -r: Add ‘--ignore-unknown’ flag
This flag causes paths that do not have a known substitute to be
quietly ignored.  This is mostly useful for Charon, allowing it to
speed up deployment by letting a machine use substitutes for all
substitutable paths, instead of uploading them.  The latter is
frequently faster, e.g. if the target machine has a fast Internet
connection while the source machine is on a slow ADSL line.
2012-11-20 00:27:25 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra ac238d619c Typo
Reported by Shea.
2012-10-12 10:21:04 -04:00
Eelco Dolstra bfaa5635de Manual: Don't use a store path that actually exists
http://hydra.nixos.org/build/3124130
2012-10-04 13:37:30 -04:00
Eelco Dolstra 9c41c66c5b Document ‘--repair’ 2012-10-03 15:53:25 -04:00
Eelco Dolstra 8e3a7bd712 nix-store --verify: Add an option ‘--repair’ to repair all missing/corrupt paths
Also, return a non-zero exit code if errors remain after
verifying/repairing.
2012-10-02 15:12:56 -04:00
Eelco Dolstra 9958bd6992 Add operation ‘nix-store --repair-path’
This operation allows fixing corrupted or accidentally deleted store
paths by redownloading them using substituters, if available.

Since the corrupted path cannot be replaced atomically, there is a
very small time window (one system call) during which neither the old
(corrupted) nor the new (repaired) contents are available.  So
repairing should be used with some care on critical packages like
Glibc.
2012-10-02 14:08:59 -04:00
Eelco Dolstra 6a7b24a3f2 Document "nix-store --add" 2012-05-10 18:09:45 -04:00
Eelco Dolstra cb1248d208 Document some nix-store subcommands 2012-05-09 19:06:39 -04:00
Eelco Dolstra e855c7e2c9 nix-channel improvements
"nix-channel --add" now accepts a second argument: the channel name.
This allows channels to have a nicer name than (say) nixpkgs_unstable.
If no name is given, it defaults to the last component of the URL
(with "-unstable" or "-stable" removed).

Also, channels are now stored in a profile
(/nix/var/nix/profiles/per-user/$USER/channels).  One advantage of
this is that it allows rollbacks (e.g. if "nix-channel --update" gives
an undesirable update).
2012-04-14 18:38:52 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra 5863987bba Include environment variables in the manpages 2012-04-06 21:56:20 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra 998b977ede Include common options in the manpages using some XInclude hackery 2012-04-06 21:45:00 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra 8be1979f1a Remove the --max-links GC option
We don't need this anymore now that current filesystems support more
than 32,000 files in a directory.
2012-03-26 20:00:02 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra e60c962fb8 * Add an operation `nix-store -q --size'. 2010-11-17 12:40:52 +00:00
Lluís Batlle i Rossell d77331d32f Fixing a typo in the nix-store manual, that could confuse a bit too much (--delete/--gc) 2010-04-25 20:52:49 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra 3d55f1eb57 * A command `nix-store --query --roots <paths>' to find the garbage
collector roots that point (directly or indirectly) to the given
  paths.
2009-11-23 18:16:25 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra 8824d60fe5 * Remove the --use-atime / --max-atime garbage collector flags. Many
(Linux) machines no longer maintain the atime because it's too
  expensive, and on the machines where --use-atime is useful (like the
  buildfarm), reading the atimes on the entire Nix store takes way too
  much time to make it practical.
2009-11-20 17:12:38 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra d413612029 * Remove the redundant <sections> around refentries. 2009-07-14 14:58:12 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra 63ccd72496 * Updated the manual. 2008-11-19 17:00:32 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra 6bdecfacbb * Documented a bunch of nix-store commands. 2007-12-31 01:52:57 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra 8a9fe6c11c * Manpage for nix-copy-closure. 2007-09-19 14:01:41 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra 9e975458b4 * Get rid of the substitutes database table (NIX-47). Instead, if we
need any info on substitutable paths, we just call the substituters
  (such as download-using-manifests.pl) directly.  This means that
  it's no longer necessary for nix-pull to register substitutes or for
  nix-channel to clear them, which makes those operations much faster
  (NIX-95).  Also, we don't have to worry about keeping nix-pull
  manifests (in /nix/var/nix/manifests) and the database in sync with
  each other.

  The downside is that there is some overhead in calling an external
  program to get the substitutes info.  For instance, "nix-env -qas"
  takes a bit longer.

  Abolishing the substitutes table also makes the logic in
  local-store.cc simpler, as we don't need to store info for invalid
  paths.  On the downside, you cannot do things like "nix-store -qR"
  on a substitutable but invalid path (but nobody did that anyway).

* Never catch interrupts (the Interrupted exception).
2007-08-12 00:29:28 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra 52d03276dd * Compatibility with docbook5-xsl. 2007-02-05 12:10:10 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra fe15f991e3 * Troubleshooting information on fixing a b0rked Berkeley DB database. 2006-11-30 11:24:10 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra beee18de88 * Document nix-store --delete. 2006-10-05 23:13:15 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra eff573f563 * Work around a weird bug in the manpage generation. 2006-10-05 23:01:50 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra 9e08f5efe1 * Documented nix-store --dump / --restore. 2006-10-05 22:57:07 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra 84e6c43e85 * Documented nix-hash. 2006-10-02 22:11:44 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra 1a9a1f2768 * Convert to DocBook 5.
* Use Jing for RelaxNG validation, xmllint seems buggy.
2006-08-21 16:05:11 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra ab5c6bb3a3 * Change referer' to referrer' throughout. In particular, the
nix-store query options `--referer' and `--referer-closure' have
  been changed to `--referrer' and `--referrer-closure' (but the old
  ones are still accepted for compatibility).
2005-12-13 21:04:48 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra 88dea78cdf * Crazy: don't use real hashes of real components in examples, since
they cause Nix builds to have unnecessary retained dependences
  (e.g., on Subversion).
2005-05-09 09:58:00 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra 82d771f6e6 * Manual updates. 2005-04-10 20:54:21 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra fb45b0f548 * Document nix-channel. 2005-04-09 17:16:00 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra 8b70f138e0 * Lots of manual updates, in particular the new `nix-store --query'
options were documented, as well as the Nix configuration file.
2005-04-08 13:00:38 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra b9d8ecbc6a * More doc updates. 2005-04-07 15:51:27 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra 57d023a184 * More manual updates. 2005-04-07 10:47:58 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra f1ae10b992 * Build hook documentation.
* nix-store options.
2005-04-07 09:36:35 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra 806b91f104 * GC docs. 2005-04-07 08:17:04 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra 128c174295 * Manual updates. 2005-04-05 15:28:30 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra 229252941a * Some GC documentation. 2005-04-05 11:30:56 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra 67eff20906 * Manual updates. 2005-03-17 10:30:53 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra ad3121a52d * Documented common environment variables. 2005-03-16 16:45:29 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra 693ff4f6bf * Some more updates. 2005-03-15 15:42:11 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra e301334696 * XInclude all the way. 2005-03-15 13:55:41 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra 2cd590d96c * Instead of &mdash; use the actual Unicode character. By the way, to
edit the manual, you should have something like

    (modify-coding-system-alist 'file "\\.xml\\>" 'utf-8)

  in your ~/.emacs.
2004-10-18 12:22:14 +00:00