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Eelco Dolstra 1f2b12b30e
Merge pull request #6968 from fricklerhandwerk/man-no-weblinks
do not render relative links in help pages
2022-08-29 08:46:35 +02:00
Valentin Gagarin e7dcacbd7c do not render relative links in help pages
this simplifies the setup a lot, and avoids weird looking `./file.md`
links showing up.

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

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

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

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

- local store
- remote store
- binary cache
- substituter

In particular, I found the last two terms to be confusingly similar.
Let's give definitions for them.
2022-08-04 14:07:06 -07:00
John Ericson 39d32ac4c6 Add disclaimer that arch section is WIP and links may rot
So we can iterate without worrying so much.
2022-08-04 14:02:58 -04:00
John Ericson 6f6498f59c Remove header fragments which is not needd 2022-08-04 14:02:38 -04:00
John Ericson 016d7a8f78 Fix rosetta stone file name 2022-08-04 14:02:19 -04:00
John Ericson b430a6743c Remove sections within from SUMMARY 2022-08-04 14:01:55 -04:00
John Ericson bc118854d0 Merge remote-tracking branch 'upstream/master' into doc-what-is-nix 2022-08-04 09:11:42 -04:00
Valentin Gagarin b631742277 fix page rendering
apparently it is not possible to link to page anchors with `mdBook`[1]

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

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

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

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

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