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Author SHA1 Message Date
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
Eelco Dolstra 1d0a7b54fa
Enable syntax highlighting 2020-07-31 15:43:25 +02:00
Matthew Bauer 05ac4db39a Merge remote-tracking branch 'origin/master' into substitute-other-storedir 2020-07-30 12:38:24 -05:00
Maximilian Bosch 6ccfdb79c7
libutil/logging: extend internal-json logger to make it more machine-readable
The new error-format is pretty nice from a UX point-of-view, however
it's fairly hard to parse the output e.g. for editor plugins such as
vim-ale[1] that use `nix-instantiate --parse` to determine syntax errors in
Nix expression files.

This patch extends the `internal-json` logger by adding the fields
`line`, `column` and `file` to easily locate an error in a file and the
field `raw_msg` which contains the error-message itself without
code-lines and additional helpers.

An exemplary output may look like this:

```
[nix-shell]$ ./inst/bin/nix-instantiate ~/test.nix --log-format minimal
{"action":"msg","column":1,"file":"/home/ma27/test.nix","level":0,"line":4,"raw_msg":"syntax error, unexpected IF, expecting $end","msg":"<full error-msg with code-lines etc>"}
```

[1] https://github.com/dense-analysis/ale
2020-07-26 02:29:57 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra 1308c8404e
Remove DocBook manual 2020-07-24 15:48:40 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra 05a282295f
Fix internal links 2020-07-24 15:46:16 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra da3d776cb9
Fix some dangling references 2020-07-24 14:31:33 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra 4a79b3598f
Fix nix-copy-closure manpage 2020-07-24 13:01:00 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra 7a0e6f076a
Move figures 2020-07-24 12:58:31 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra 758c9ee1bb
Clean up the manpages 2020-07-24 12:56:19 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra 8d0b311a1c
Get rid of footnotes
Markdown doesn't support them.
2020-07-24 11:43:44 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra 69333cb62c
Sigh 2020-07-23 18:27:20 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra 802150f987
<replaceable> -> <emphasis>
Pandoc doesn't know <replaceable> so let's force it to be rendered as
italics.
2020-07-23 18:27:20 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra ee05108472
<simplesect> -> <section>
Pandoc silently ignores <simplesect>...
2020-07-23 18:27:20 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra 136fd55bb2
Get rid of <figure> 2020-07-23 18:27:20 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra ca130b73a0
Get rid of <example>
Markdown doesn't have floats so we can't have this.
2020-07-23 18:27:20 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra 13df1faf25
Get rid of callouts since Markdown doesn't support them 2020-07-23 18:27:20 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra efff6cf163
Install all manpages 2020-07-23 18:27:12 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra 504b7abc45
Convert commands 2020-07-23 18:27:12 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra efdb89994c
Convert nix.conf manpage 2020-07-23 18:27:11 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra f390303566
Reconvert 2020-07-23 18:27:11 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra c20c082383
<envar> -> <literal> 2020-07-23 18:27:11 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra 942cd687f9
Remove libxml2 / libxslt prerequisites 2020-07-23 18:26:48 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra ef606760ab
Pandoc conversion 2020-07-23 18:26:48 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra d004715665
Fix link 2020-07-23 18:26:48 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra 315407c16f
Remove subtitles 2020-07-23 18:26:48 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra ebdc1f6dfb
Typo 2020-07-23 18:26:48 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra 8e41c38867
Remove references to xmllint 2020-07-23 18:26:48 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra e0ea3c82ca
Use mdbook 2020-07-23 18:26:48 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra 650ae14ced
Markdown test 2020-07-23 18:26:48 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra 26fcab53e0
Remove unused file 2020-07-23 18:25:09 +02:00
Jörg Thalheim 6633605341
Update doc/manual/hacking.xml
Co-authored-by: Eelco Dolstra <edolstra@gmail.com>
2020-07-20 22:30:39 +01:00
Jörg Thalheim f0100f5590
README: improve development docs 2020-07-20 15:46:28 +01:00
Matthew Bauer bcf8582091 Merge remote-tracking branch 'origin/master' into substitute-other-storedir 2020-06-24 12:52:09 -04:00
Jörg Thalheim 3685f4eec6
docs/installer: add correct curl flags
also see https://nixos.org/download.html
2020-06-23 23:04:10 +01:00
Matthew Bauer 2796b01e86 Merge remote-tracking branch 'origin/master' into substitute-other-storedir 2020-06-19 14:22:06 -04:00
Eelco Dolstra 6c000eed80
Merge pull request #3709 from expipiplus1/master
Mention number of derivations to be build/fetched in output
2020-06-18 19:03:05 +02:00
Samir Talwar 9069759767
Instruct the user to follow redirects when installing Nix.
Nix installation now requires following redirects using `curl -L`. This
is currently represented on the [Nix download page][] but not in the
manual. This change updates the manual to reflect this.

Using `curl` without the `-L` flag results in an empty body, making
installation a no-op.

[Nix download page]: https://nixos.org/download.html
2020-06-18 10:29:24 +02:00
Matthew Bauer 7bd88cc1dc Merge remote-tracking branch 'origin/master' into substitute-other-storedir 2020-06-17 13:32:29 -04:00
Joe Hermaszewski da8aac6ce8 Mention number of derivations to be build/fetched in output
Also correct grammar for the case of a single derivation.
2020-06-17 20:27:27 +08:00
Matthew Bauer 3e3eaa90dd Remove hashed-mirrors 2020-06-12 09:51:44 -05:00
Jonas Chevalier 2c4de6af10 add documentation 2020-06-08 09:31:15 +02:00
Joachim Breitner e2af11ce07 Manpages: Do not refer to nixpkgs-channels
Unless I am misinformed, using the `nixpkgs` repository directly is now
preferred?
2020-05-23 15:26:59 +02:00
Domen Kožar c129e7c8f4
Merge pull request #3212 from LnL7/darwin-10.15-install
install: configure and bootstrap synthetic.conf on darwin
2020-05-23 11:15:31 +02:00
Travis A. Everett 2b0a81d92d
focus on golden-path covering most scenarios
This should handle installation scenarios we can handle with
anything resembling confidence. Goal is approximating the existing
setup--not enforcing a best-practice...

Approaches (+ installer-handled, - manual) and configs each covers:

+ no change needed; /nix OK on boot volume:
  All pre-Catalina (regardless of T2 or FileVault use)

+ create new unencrypted volume:
  Catalina, pre-T2, no FileVault

+ create new encrypted-at-rest volume:
  Catalina, pre-T2, FileVault
  Catalina, T2, no FileVault

- require user to pre-create encrypted volume
  Catalina, T2, FileVault
2020-05-21 19:58:11 +02:00
Daiderd Jordan 477d7c2d07
installer: refuse apfs volume creation when FileVault is enabled 2020-05-21 19:58:11 +02:00
Daiderd Jordan 3386575296
manual: clarify volume creation section 2020-05-21 19:58:11 +02:00
Daiderd Jordan 04f597c3f4
install: improve output and error handling 2020-05-21 19:58:11 +02:00
Daiderd Jordan ee89b7797d
manual: add apfs volume section 2020-05-21 19:58:11 +02:00
Krzysztof Gogolewski c8cb558849 documentation: avoid unquoted URLs 2020-05-21 19:29:13 +02:00
Jörg Thalheim e223eeac09
Remove -j option from simple-build-testing
By default Nix/NixOS already set a reasonable default `max-jobs = auto`
so we don't need to mention it in this tutorial.
The option is still documented in other parts of the documentation
if users ever stumble over this.

Fixes https://github.com/NixOS/nix/issues/2531
2020-05-16 08:45:19 +01:00
Domen Kožar 23e5b48ca4
Merge pull request #3581 from TerrorJack/patch-1
Update "Upgrading Nix" documentation
2020-05-11 18:12:35 +02:00
Domen Kožar 612d57c5de
Merge pull request #3582 from bhipple/doc/fixed-output
doc: consistently refer to 'fixed-output' with a dash
2020-05-11 18:10:19 +02:00
Benjamin Hipple 146f9c114f doc: consistently refer to 'fixed-output' with a dash
General cleanup that makes it easier to search for the term.
2020-05-09 10:58:43 -04:00
Shao Cheng 446649e540
Update "Upgrading Nix" documentation
This PR proposes two changes to the "Upgrading Nix" documentation:

* Besides updating `nixpkgs.nix`, we also update `nixpkgs.cacert`, so that the certificates are up-to-date as well.
* Add the instructions for multi-user mode on Linux.
2020-05-09 15:59:39 +02:00
Dani 52cffafd24
Fix typo 2020-05-09 13:48:31 +02:00