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with:
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with:
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fetch-depth: 0
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fetch-depth: 0
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- uses: cachix/install-nix-action@v10
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- uses: cachix/install-nix-action@v10
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with:
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skip_adding_nixpkgs_channel: true
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#- run: nix flake check
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#- run: nix flake check
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- run: nix-build -A checks.$(if [[ `uname` = Linux ]]; then echo x86_64-linux; else echo x86_64-darwin; fi)
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- run: nix-build -A checks.$(if [[ `uname` = Linux ]]; then echo x86_64-linux; else echo x86_64-darwin; fi)
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.gitignore
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/svn-revision
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/svn-revision
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/libtool
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/libtool
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/corepkgs/config.nix
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# /corepkgs/channels/
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/corepkgs/channels/unpack.sh
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# /corepkgs/nar/
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/corepkgs/nar/nar.sh
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/corepkgs/nar/unnar.sh
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# /doc/manual/
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# /doc/manual/
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/doc/manual/manual.html
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/doc/manual/manual.xmli
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/doc/manual/manual.pdf
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/doc/manual/manual.is-valid
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/doc/manual/*.1
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/doc/manual/*.1
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/doc/manual/*.5
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/doc/manual/*.5
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/doc/manual/*.8
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/doc/manual/*.8
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/doc/manual/version.txt
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/doc/manual/nix.json
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/doc/manual/conf-file.json
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/doc/manual/builtins.json
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/doc/manual/src/command-ref/nix.md
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/doc/manual/src/command-ref/conf-file.md
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/doc/manual/src/expressions/builtins.md
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# /scripts/
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# /scripts/
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/scripts/nix-profile.sh
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/scripts/nix-profile.sh
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/src/resolve-system-dependencies/resolve-system-dependencies
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/src/resolve-system-dependencies/resolve-system-dependencies
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inst/
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outputs/
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*.a
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*.a
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*.o
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*.o
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GSYMS
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GSYMS
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GTAGS
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GTAGS
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# ccls
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/.ccls-cache
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# auto-generated compilation database
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compile_commands.json
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nix-rust/target
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nix-rust/target
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storedir = @storedir@
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storedir = @storedir@
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sysconfdir = @sysconfdir@
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sysconfdir = @sysconfdir@
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system = @system@
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system = @system@
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xmllint = @xmllint@
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xsltproc = @xsltproc@
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@ -20,7 +20,7 @@ Information on additional installation methods is available on the [Nix download
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## Building And Developing
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## Building And Developing
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See our [Hacking guide](https://hydra.nixos.org/job/nix/master/build.x86_64-linux/latest/download-by-type/doc/manual#chap-hacking) in our manual for instruction on how to
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See our [Hacking guide](https://hydra.nixos.org/job/nix/master/build.x86_64-linux/latest/download-by-type/doc/manual/hacking.html) in our manual for instruction on how to
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build nix from source with nix-build or how to get a development environment.
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build nix from source with nix-build or how to get a development environment.
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## Additional Resources
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## Additional Resources
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])
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])
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NEED_PROG(bash, bash)
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NEED_PROG(bash, bash)
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AC_PATH_PROG(xmllint, xmllint, false)
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AC_PATH_PROG(xsltproc, xsltproc, false)
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AC_PATH_PROG(flex, flex, false)
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AC_PATH_PROG(flex, flex, false)
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AC_PATH_PROG(bison, bison, false)
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AC_PATH_PROG(bison, bison, false)
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AC_PATH_PROG(dot, dot)
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AC_PATH_PROG(dot, dot)
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# FIXME: remove this file?
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let
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fromEnv = var: def:
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let val = builtins.getEnv var; in
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if val != "" then val else def;
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in rec {
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nixBinDir = fromEnv "NIX_BIN_DIR" "@bindir@";
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nixPrefix = "@prefix@";
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nixLibexecDir = fromEnv "NIX_LIBEXEC_DIR" "@libexecdir@";
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nixLocalstateDir = "@localstatedir@";
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nixSysconfDir = "@sysconfdir@";
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nixStoreDir = fromEnv "NIX_STORE_DIR" "@storedir@";
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}
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corepkgs_FILES = \
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corepkgs_FILES = \
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unpack-channel.nix \
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derivation.nix \
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fetchurl.nix
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fetchurl.nix
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$(foreach file,config.nix $(corepkgs_FILES),$(eval $(call install-data-in,$(d)/$(file),$(datadir)/nix/corepkgs)))
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$(foreach file,$(corepkgs_FILES),$(eval $(call install-data-in,$(d)/$(file),$(datadir)/nix/corepkgs)))
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template-files += $(d)/config.nix
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<part xmlns="http://docbook.org/ns/docbook"
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xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink"
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xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XInclude"
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xml:id="part-advanced-topics"
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version="5.0">
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<title>Advanced Topics</title>
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<xi:include href="distributed-builds.xml" />
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<xi:include href="cores-vs-jobs.xml" />
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<xi:include href="diff-hook.xml" />
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<xi:include href="post-build-hook.xml" />
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</part>
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<chapter xmlns="http://docbook.org/ns/docbook"
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xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink"
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xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XInclude"
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version="5.0"
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xml:id="chap-tuning-cores-and-jobs">
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<title>Tuning Cores and Jobs</title>
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<para>Nix has two relevant settings with regards to how your CPU cores
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will be utilized: <xref linkend="conf-cores" /> and
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<xref linkend="conf-max-jobs" />. This chapter will talk about what
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they are, how they interact, and their configuration trade-offs.</para>
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<variablelist>
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<varlistentry>
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<term><xref linkend="conf-max-jobs" /></term>
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<listitem><para>
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time. If you set this to zero, the local machine will do no
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builds. Nix will still substitute from binary caches, and build
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remotely if remote builders are configured.
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<term><xref linkend="conf-cores" /></term>
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<listitem><para>
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<command>make -j</command>.
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</para></listitem>
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</varlistentry>
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<para>The <xref linkend="conf-cores" /> setting determines the value of
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<envar>NIX_BUILD_CORES</envar>. <envar>NIX_BUILD_CORES</envar> is equal
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to <xref linkend="conf-cores" />, unless <xref linkend="conf-cores" />
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equals <literal>0</literal>, in which case <envar>NIX_BUILD_CORES</envar>
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will be the total number of cores in the system.</para>
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<para>The maximum number of consumed cores is a simple multiplication,
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<xref linkend="conf-max-jobs" /> * <envar>NIX_BUILD_CORES</envar>.</para>
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<para>The balance on how to set these two independent variables depends
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upon each builder's workload and hardware. Here are a few example
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scenarios on a machine with 24 cores:</para>
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<table>
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<caption>Balancing 24 Build Cores</caption>
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<thead>
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<tr>
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<th><xref linkend="conf-max-jobs" /></th>
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<th><xref linkend="conf-cores" /></th>
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<th><envar>NIX_BUILD_CORES</envar></th>
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<th>Maximum Processes</th>
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<th>Result</th>
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</tr>
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</thead>
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<tbody>
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<tr>
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<td>1</td>
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<td>24</td>
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<td>24</td>
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<td>24</td>
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<td>12</td>
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<td>
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cores. This configuration is over-sold. If all 12 derivations
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machine's performance will be degraded due to extensive context
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available cores of the machine. Very likely to be oversold,
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</td>
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<para>It is up to the derivations' build script to respect
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host's requested cores-per-build by following the value of the
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<envar>NIX_BUILD_CORES</envar> environment variable.</para>
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>
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<title>Verifying Build Reproducibility with <option linkend="conf-diff-hook">diff-hook</option></title>
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<subtitle>Check build reproducibility by running builds multiple times
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<para>Specify a program with Nix's <xref linkend="conf-diff-hook" /> to
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compare build results when two builds produce different results. Note:
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this hook is only executed if the results are not the same, this hook
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is not used for determining if the results are the same.</para>
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<para>For purposes of demonstration, we'll use the following Nix file,
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<filename>deterministic.nix</filename> for testing:</para>
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<programlisting>
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inherit (import <nixpkgs> {}) runCommand;
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in {
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echo $RANDOM > $out
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'';
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}
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<para>Additionally, <filename>nix.conf</filename> contains:
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<programlisting>
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diff-hook = /etc/nix/my-diff-hook
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where <filename>/etc/nix/my-diff-hook</filename> is an executable
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file containing:
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<programlisting>
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#!/bin/sh
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exec >&2
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echo "For derivation $3:"
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/run/current-system/sw/bin/diff -r "$1" "$2"
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</programlisting>
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</para>
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<para>The diff hook is executed by the same user and group who ran the
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build. However, the diff hook does not have write access to the store
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path just built.</para>
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<section>
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<title>
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Spot-Checking Build Determinism
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<para>
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Verify a path which already exists in the Nix store by passing
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<option>--check</option> to the build command.
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</para>
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<para>If the build passes and is deterministic, Nix will exit with a
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status code of 0:</para>
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<screen>
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$ nix-build ./deterministic.nix -A stable
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this derivation will be built:
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/nix/store/z98fasz2jqy9gs0xbvdj939p27jwda38-stable.drv
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building '/nix/store/z98fasz2jqy9gs0xbvdj939p27jwda38-stable.drv'...
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/nix/store/yyxlzw3vqaas7wfp04g0b1xg51f2czgq-stable
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checking outputs of '/nix/store/z98fasz2jqy9gs0xbvdj939p27jwda38-stable.drv'...
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<para>If the build is not deterministic, Nix will exit with a status
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code of 1:</para>
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$ nix-build ./deterministic.nix -A unstable
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this derivation will be built:
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building '/nix/store/cgl13lbj1w368r5z8gywipl1ifli7dhk-unstable.drv'...
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checking outputs of '/nix/store/cgl13lbj1w368r5z8gywipl1ifli7dhk-unstable.drv'...
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error: derivation '/nix/store/cgl13lbj1w368r5z8gywipl1ifli7dhk-unstable.drv' may not be deterministic: output '/nix/store/krpqk0l9ib0ibi1d2w52z293zw455cap-unstable' differs
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<para>In the Nix daemon's log, we will now see:
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<screen>
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For derivation /nix/store/cgl13lbj1w368r5z8gywipl1ifli7dhk-unstable.drv:
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1c1
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< 8108
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---
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> 30204
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</screen>
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</para>
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<para>Using <option>--check</option> with <option>--keep-failed</option>
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will cause Nix to keep the second build's output in a special,
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<literal>.check</literal> path:</para>
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<screen>
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$ nix-build ./deterministic.nix -A unstable --check --keep-failed
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checking outputs of '/nix/store/cgl13lbj1w368r5z8gywipl1ifli7dhk-unstable.drv'...
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note: keeping build directory '/tmp/nix-build-unstable.drv-0'
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error: derivation '/nix/store/cgl13lbj1w368r5z8gywipl1ifli7dhk-unstable.drv' may not be deterministic: output '/nix/store/krpqk0l9ib0ibi1d2w52z293zw455cap-unstable' differs from '/nix/store/krpqk0l9ib0ibi1d2w52z293zw455cap-unstable.check'
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||||||
</screen>
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<para>In particular, notice the
|
|
||||||
<literal>/nix/store/krpqk0l9ib0ibi1d2w52z293zw455cap-unstable.check</literal>
|
|
||||||
output. Nix has copied the build results to that directory where you
|
|
||||||
can examine it.</para>
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<note xml:id="check-dirs-are-unregistered">
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<title><literal>.check</literal> paths are not registered store paths</title>
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<para>Check paths are not protected against garbage collection,
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and this path will be deleted on the next garbage collection.</para>
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<para>The path is guaranteed to be alive for the duration of
|
|
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<xref linkend="conf-diff-hook" />'s execution, but may be deleted
|
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any time after.</para>
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<para>If the comparison is performed as part of automated tooling,
|
|
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please use the diff-hook or author your tooling to handle the case
|
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where the build was not deterministic and also a check path does
|
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not exist.</para>
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</note>
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<para>
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<option>--check</option> is only usable if the derivation has
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|
||||||
been built on the system already. If the derivation has not been
|
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built Nix will fail with the error:
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<screen>
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error: some outputs of '/nix/store/hzi1h60z2qf0nb85iwnpvrai3j2w7rr6-unstable.drv' are not valid, so checking is not possible
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</screen>
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Run the build without <option>--check</option>, and then try with
|
|
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<option>--check</option> again.
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</para>
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||||||
</section>
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<section>
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<title>
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Automatic and Optionally Enforced Determinism Verification
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</title>
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<para>
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Automatically verify every build at build time by executing the
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build multiple times.
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</para>
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<para>
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Setting <xref linkend="conf-repeat" /> and
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<xref linkend="conf-enforce-determinism" /> in your
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|
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<filename>nix.conf</filename> permits the automated verification
|
|
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of every build Nix performs.
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|
||||||
</para>
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||||||
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||||||
<para>
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|
||||||
The following configuration will run each build three times, and
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|
||||||
will require the build to be deterministic:
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||||||
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<programlisting>
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enforce-determinism = true
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repeat = 2
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||||||
</programlisting>
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||||||
</para>
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||||||
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||||||
<para>
|
|
||||||
Setting <xref linkend="conf-enforce-determinism" /> to false as in
|
|
||||||
the following configuration will run the build multiple times,
|
|
||||||
execute the build hook, but will allow the build to succeed even
|
|
||||||
if it does not build reproducibly:
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||||||
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<programlisting>
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||||||
enforce-determinism = false
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||||||
repeat = 1
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||||||
</programlisting>
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|
||||||
</para>
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||||||
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|
||||||
<para>
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||||||
An example output of this configuration:
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||||||
<screen>
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||||||
$ nix-build ./test.nix -A unstable
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|
||||||
this derivation will be built:
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/nix/store/ch6llwpr2h8c3jmnf3f2ghkhx59aa97f-unstable.drv
|
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||||||
building '/nix/store/ch6llwpr2h8c3jmnf3f2ghkhx59aa97f-unstable.drv' (round 1/2)...
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||||||
building '/nix/store/ch6llwpr2h8c3jmnf3f2ghkhx59aa97f-unstable.drv' (round 2/2)...
|
|
||||||
output '/nix/store/6xg356v9gl03hpbbg8gws77n19qanh02-unstable' of '/nix/store/ch6llwpr2h8c3jmnf3f2ghkhx59aa97f-unstable.drv' differs from '/nix/store/6xg356v9gl03hpbbg8gws77n19qanh02-unstable.check' from previous round
|
|
||||||
/nix/store/6xg356v9gl03hpbbg8gws77n19qanh02-unstable
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|
||||||
</screen>
|
|
||||||
</para>
|
|
||||||
</section>
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|
||||||
</chapter>
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|
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||||||
<chapter xmlns="http://docbook.org/ns/docbook"
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||||||
xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink"
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|
||||||
xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XInclude"
|
|
||||||
version="5.0"
|
|
||||||
xml:id='chap-distributed-builds'>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
<title>Remote Builds</title>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
<para>Nix supports remote builds, where a local Nix installation can
|
|
||||||
forward Nix builds to other machines. This allows multiple builds to
|
|
||||||
be performed in parallel and allows Nix to perform multi-platform
|
|
||||||
builds in a semi-transparent way. For instance, if you perform a
|
|
||||||
build for a <literal>x86_64-darwin</literal> on an
|
|
||||||
<literal>i686-linux</literal> machine, Nix can automatically forward
|
|
||||||
the build to a <literal>x86_64-darwin</literal> machine, if
|
|
||||||
available.</para>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
<para>To forward a build to a remote machine, it’s required that the
|
|
||||||
remote machine is accessible via SSH and that it has Nix
|
|
||||||
installed. You can test whether connecting to the remote Nix instance
|
|
||||||
works, e.g.
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
<screen>
|
|
||||||
$ nix ping-store --store ssh://mac
|
|
||||||
</screen>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
will try to connect to the machine named <literal>mac</literal>. It is
|
|
||||||
possible to specify an SSH identity file as part of the remote store
|
|
||||||
URI, e.g.
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
<screen>
|
|
||||||
$ nix ping-store --store ssh://mac?ssh-key=/home/alice/my-key
|
|
||||||
</screen>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
Since builds should be non-interactive, the key should not have a
|
|
||||||
passphrase. Alternatively, you can load identities ahead of time into
|
|
||||||
<command>ssh-agent</command> or <command>gpg-agent</command>.</para>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
<para>If you get the error
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
<screen>
|
|
||||||
bash: nix-store: command not found
|
|
||||||
error: cannot connect to 'mac'
|
|
||||||
</screen>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
then you need to ensure that the <envar>PATH</envar> of
|
|
||||||
non-interactive login shells contains Nix.</para>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
<warning><para>If you are building via the Nix daemon, it is the Nix
|
|
||||||
daemon user account (that is, <literal>root</literal>) that should
|
|
||||||
have SSH access to the remote machine. If you can’t or don’t want to
|
|
||||||
configure <literal>root</literal> to be able to access to remote
|
|
||||||
machine, you can use a private Nix store instead by passing
|
|
||||||
e.g. <literal>--store ~/my-nix</literal>.</para></warning>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
<para>The list of remote machines can be specified on the command line
|
|
||||||
or in the Nix configuration file. The former is convenient for
|
|
||||||
testing. For example, the following command allows you to build a
|
|
||||||
derivation for <literal>x86_64-darwin</literal> on a Linux machine:
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
<screen>
|
|
||||||
$ uname
|
|
||||||
Linux
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
$ nix build \
|
|
||||||
'(with import <nixpkgs> { system = "x86_64-darwin"; }; runCommand "foo" {} "uname > $out")' \
|
|
||||||
--builders 'ssh://mac x86_64-darwin'
|
|
||||||
[1/0/1 built, 0.0 MiB DL] building foo on ssh://mac
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
$ cat ./result
|
|
||||||
Darwin
|
|
||||||
</screen>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
It is possible to specify multiple builders separated by a semicolon
|
|
||||||
or a newline, e.g.
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
<screen>
|
|
||||||
--builders 'ssh://mac x86_64-darwin ; ssh://beastie x86_64-freebsd'
|
|
||||||
</screen>
|
|
||||||
</para>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
<para>Each machine specification consists of the following elements,
|
|
||||||
separated by spaces. Only the first element is required.
|
|
||||||
To leave a field at its default, set it to <literal>-</literal>.
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
<orderedlist>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
<listitem><para>The URI of the remote store in the format
|
|
||||||
<literal>ssh://[<replaceable>username</replaceable>@]<replaceable>hostname</replaceable></literal>,
|
|
||||||
e.g. <literal>ssh://nix@mac</literal> or
|
|
||||||
<literal>ssh://mac</literal>. For backward compatibility,
|
|
||||||
<literal>ssh://</literal> may be omitted. The hostname may be an
|
|
||||||
alias defined in your
|
|
||||||
<filename>~/.ssh/config</filename>.</para></listitem>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
<listitem><para>A comma-separated list of Nix platform type
|
|
||||||
identifiers, such as <literal>x86_64-darwin</literal>. It is
|
|
||||||
possible for a machine to support multiple platform types, e.g.,
|
|
||||||
<literal>i686-linux,x86_64-linux</literal>. If omitted, this
|
|
||||||
defaults to the local platform type.</para></listitem>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
<listitem><para>The SSH identity file to be used to log in to the
|
|
||||||
remote machine. If omitted, SSH will use its regular
|
|
||||||
identities.</para></listitem>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
<listitem><para>The maximum number of builds that Nix will execute
|
|
||||||
in parallel on the machine. Typically this should be equal to the
|
|
||||||
number of CPU cores. For instance, the machine
|
|
||||||
<literal>itchy</literal> in the example will execute up to 8 builds
|
|
||||||
in parallel.</para></listitem>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
<listitem><para>The “speed factor”, indicating the relative speed of
|
|
||||||
the machine. If there are multiple machines of the right type, Nix
|
|
||||||
will prefer the fastest, taking load into account.</para></listitem>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
<listitem><para>A comma-separated list of <emphasis>supported
|
|
||||||
features</emphasis>. If a derivation has the
|
|
||||||
<varname>requiredSystemFeatures</varname> attribute, then Nix will
|
|
||||||
only perform the derivation on a machine that has the specified
|
|
||||||
features. For instance, the attribute
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
<programlisting>
|
|
||||||
requiredSystemFeatures = [ "kvm" ];
|
|
||||||
</programlisting>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
will cause the build to be performed on a machine that has the
|
|
||||||
<literal>kvm</literal> feature.</para></listitem>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
<listitem><para>A comma-separated list of <emphasis>mandatory
|
|
||||||
features</emphasis>. A machine will only be used to build a
|
|
||||||
derivation if all of the machine’s mandatory features appear in the
|
|
||||||
derivation’s <varname>requiredSystemFeatures</varname>
|
|
||||||
attribute..</para></listitem>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
</orderedlist>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
For example, the machine specification
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
<programlisting>
|
|
||||||
nix@scratchy.labs.cs.uu.nl i686-linux /home/nix/.ssh/id_scratchy_auto 8 1 kvm
|
|
||||||
nix@itchy.labs.cs.uu.nl i686-linux /home/nix/.ssh/id_scratchy_auto 8 2
|
|
||||||
nix@poochie.labs.cs.uu.nl i686-linux /home/nix/.ssh/id_scratchy_auto 1 2 kvm benchmark
|
|
||||||
</programlisting>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
specifies several machines that can perform
|
|
||||||
<literal>i686-linux</literal> builds. However,
|
|
||||||
<literal>poochie</literal> will only do builds that have the attribute
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
<programlisting>
|
|
||||||
requiredSystemFeatures = [ "benchmark" ];
|
|
||||||
</programlisting>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
or
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
<programlisting>
|
|
||||||
requiredSystemFeatures = [ "benchmark" "kvm" ];
|
|
||||||
</programlisting>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
<literal>itchy</literal> cannot do builds that require
|
|
||||||
<literal>kvm</literal>, but <literal>scratchy</literal> does support
|
|
||||||
such builds. For regular builds, <literal>itchy</literal> will be
|
|
||||||
preferred over <literal>scratchy</literal> because it has a higher
|
|
||||||
speed factor.</para>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
<para>Remote builders can also be configured in
|
|
||||||
<filename>nix.conf</filename>, e.g.
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
<programlisting>
|
|
||||||
builders = ssh://mac x86_64-darwin ; ssh://beastie x86_64-freebsd
|
|
||||||
</programlisting>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
Finally, remote builders can be configured in a separate configuration
|
|
||||||
file included in <option>builders</option> via the syntax
|
|
||||||
<literal>@<replaceable>file</replaceable></literal>. For example,
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
<programlisting>
|
|
||||||
builders = @/etc/nix/machines
|
|
||||||
</programlisting>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
causes the list of machines in <filename>/etc/nix/machines</filename>
|
|
||||||
to be included. (This is the default.)</para>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
<para>If you want the builders to use caches, you likely want to set
|
|
||||||
the option <link linkend='conf-builders-use-substitutes'><literal>builders-use-substitutes</literal></link>
|
|
||||||
in your local <filename>nix.conf</filename>.</para>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
<para>To build only on remote builders and disable building on the local machine,
|
|
||||||
you can use the option <option>--max-jobs 0</option>.</para>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
</chapter>
|
|
||||||
|
|
@ -1,160 +0,0 @@
|
||||||
<chapter xmlns="http://docbook.org/ns/docbook"
|
|
||||||
xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink"
|
|
||||||
xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XInclude"
|
|
||||||
xml:id="chap-post-build-hook"
|
|
||||||
version="5.0"
|
|
||||||
>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
<title>Using the <option linkend="conf-post-build-hook">post-build-hook</option></title>
|
|
||||||
<subtitle>Uploading to an S3-compatible binary cache after each build</subtitle>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
<section xml:id="chap-post-build-hook-caveats">
|
|
||||||
<title>Implementation Caveats</title>
|
|
||||||
<para>Here we use the post-build hook to upload to a binary cache.
|
|
||||||
This is a simple and working example, but it is not suitable for all
|
|
||||||
use cases.</para>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
<para>The post build hook program runs after each executed build,
|
|
||||||
and blocks the build loop. The build loop exits if the hook program
|
|
||||||
fails.</para>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
<para>Concretely, this implementation will make Nix slow or unusable
|
|
||||||
when the internet is slow or unreliable.</para>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
<para>A more advanced implementation might pass the store paths to a
|
|
||||||
user-supplied daemon or queue for processing the store paths outside
|
|
||||||
of the build loop.</para>
|
|
||||||
</section>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
<section>
|
|
||||||
<title>Prerequisites</title>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
<para>
|
|
||||||
This tutorial assumes you have configured an S3-compatible binary cache
|
|
||||||
according to the instructions at
|
|
||||||
<xref linkend="ssec-s3-substituter-authenticated-writes" />, and
|
|
||||||
that the <literal>root</literal> user's default AWS profile can
|
|
||||||
upload to the bucket.
|
|
||||||
</para>
|
|
||||||
</section>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
<section>
|
|
||||||
<title>Set up a Signing Key</title>
|
|
||||||
<para>Use <command>nix-store --generate-binary-cache-key</command> to
|
|
||||||
create our public and private signing keys. We will sign paths
|
|
||||||
with the private key, and distribute the public key for verifying
|
|
||||||
the authenticity of the paths.</para>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
<screen>
|
|
||||||
# nix-store --generate-binary-cache-key example-nix-cache-1 /etc/nix/key.private /etc/nix/key.public
|
|
||||||
# cat /etc/nix/key.public
|
|
||||||
example-nix-cache-1:1/cKDz3QCCOmwcztD2eV6Coggp6rqc9DGjWv7C0G+rM=
|
|
||||||
</screen>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
<para>Then, add the public key and the cache URL to your
|
|
||||||
<filename>nix.conf</filename>'s <xref linkend="conf-trusted-public-keys" />
|
|
||||||
and <xref linkend="conf-substituters" /> like:</para>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
<programlisting>
|
|
||||||
substituters = https://cache.nixos.org/ s3://example-nix-cache
|
|
||||||
trusted-public-keys = cache.nixos.org-1:6NCHdD59X431o0gWypbMrAURkbJ16ZPMQFGspcDShjY= example-nix-cache-1:1/cKDz3QCCOmwcztD2eV6Coggp6rqc9DGjWv7C0G+rM=
|
|
||||||
</programlisting>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
<para>We will restart the Nix daemon in a later step.</para>
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</section>
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||||||
<section>
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||||||
<title>Implementing the build hook</title>
|
|
||||||
<para>Write the following script to
|
|
||||||
<filename>/etc/nix/upload-to-cache.sh</filename>:
|
|
||||||
</para>
|
|
||||||
|
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<programlisting>
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||||||
#!/bin/sh
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||||||
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set -eu
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set -f # disable globbing
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||||||
export IFS=' '
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||||||
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||||||
echo "Signing paths" $OUT_PATHS
|
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||||||
nix sign-paths --key-file /etc/nix/key.private $OUT_PATHS
|
|
||||||
echo "Uploading paths" $OUT_PATHS
|
|
||||||
exec nix copy --to 's3://example-nix-cache' $OUT_PATHS
|
|
||||||
</programlisting>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
<note>
|
|
||||||
<title>Should <literal>$OUT_PATHS</literal> be quoted?</title>
|
|
||||||
<para>
|
|
||||||
The <literal>$OUT_PATHS</literal> variable is a space-separated
|
|
||||||
list of Nix store paths. In this case, we expect and want the
|
|
||||||
shell to perform word splitting to make each output path its
|
|
||||||
own argument to <command>nix sign-paths</command>. Nix guarantees
|
|
||||||
the paths will not contain any spaces, however a store path
|
|
||||||
might contain glob characters. The <command>set -f</command>
|
|
||||||
disables globbing in the shell.
|
|
||||||
</para>
|
|
||||||
</note>
|
|
||||||
<para>
|
|
||||||
Then make sure the hook program is executable by the <literal>root</literal> user:
|
|
||||||
<screen>
|
|
||||||
# chmod +x /etc/nix/upload-to-cache.sh
|
|
||||||
</screen></para>
|
|
||||||
</section>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
<section>
|
|
||||||
<title>Updating Nix Configuration</title>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
<para>Edit <filename>/etc/nix/nix.conf</filename> to run our hook,
|
|
||||||
by adding the following configuration snippet at the end:</para>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
<programlisting>
|
|
||||||
post-build-hook = /etc/nix/upload-to-cache.sh
|
|
||||||
</programlisting>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
<para>Then, restart the <command>nix-daemon</command>.</para>
|
|
||||||
</section>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
<section>
|
|
||||||
<title>Testing</title>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
<para>Build any derivation, for example:</para>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
<screen>
|
|
||||||
$ nix-build -E '(import <nixpkgs> {}).writeText "example" (builtins.toString builtins.currentTime)'
|
|
||||||
this derivation will be built:
|
|
||||||
/nix/store/s4pnfbkalzy5qz57qs6yybna8wylkig6-example.drv
|
|
||||||
building '/nix/store/s4pnfbkalzy5qz57qs6yybna8wylkig6-example.drv'...
|
|
||||||
running post-build-hook '/home/grahamc/projects/github.com/NixOS/nix/post-hook.sh'...
|
|
||||||
post-build-hook: Signing paths /nix/store/ibcyipq5gf91838ldx40mjsp0b8w9n18-example
|
|
||||||
post-build-hook: Uploading paths /nix/store/ibcyipq5gf91838ldx40mjsp0b8w9n18-example
|
|
||||||
/nix/store/ibcyipq5gf91838ldx40mjsp0b8w9n18-example
|
|
||||||
</screen>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
<para>Then delete the path from the store, and try substituting it from the binary cache:</para>
|
|
||||||
<screen>
|
|
||||||
$ rm ./result
|
|
||||||
$ nix-store --delete /nix/store/ibcyipq5gf91838ldx40mjsp0b8w9n18-example
|
|
||||||
</screen>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
<para>Now, copy the path back from the cache:</para>
|
|
||||||
<screen>
|
|
||||||
$ nix-store --realise /nix/store/ibcyipq5gf91838ldx40mjsp0b8w9n18-example
|
|
||||||
copying path '/nix/store/m8bmqwrch6l3h8s0k3d673xpmipcdpsa-example from 's3://example-nix-cache'...
|
|
||||||
warning: you did not specify '--add-root'; the result might be removed by the garbage collector
|
|
||||||
/nix/store/m8bmqwrch6l3h8s0k3d673xpmipcdpsa-example
|
|
||||||
</screen>
|
|
||||||
</section>
|
|
||||||
<section>
|
|
||||||
<title>Conclusion</title>
|
|
||||||
<para>
|
|
||||||
We now have a Nix installation configured to automatically sign and
|
|
||||||
upload every local build to a remote binary cache.
|
|
||||||
</para>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
<para>
|
|
||||||
Before deploying this to production, be sure to consider the
|
|
||||||
implementation caveats in <xref linkend="chap-post-build-hook-caveats" />.
|
|
||||||
</para>
|
|
||||||
</section>
|
|
||||||
</chapter>
|
|
||||||
2
doc/manual/book.toml
Normal file
2
doc/manual/book.toml
Normal file
|
|
@ -0,0 +1,2 @@
|
||||||
|
[output.html]
|
||||||
|
additional-css = ["custom.css"]
|
||||||
|
|
@ -1,20 +0,0 @@
|
||||||
<part xmlns="http://docbook.org/ns/docbook"
|
|
||||||
xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink"
|
|
||||||
xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XInclude"
|
|
||||||
version="5.0"
|
|
||||||
xml:id='part-command-ref'>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
<title>Command Reference</title>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
<partintro>
|
|
||||||
<para>This section lists commands and options that you can use when you
|
|
||||||
work with Nix.</para>
|
|
||||||
</partintro>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
<xi:include href="opt-common.xml" />
|
|
||||||
<xi:include href="env-common.xml" />
|
|
||||||
<xi:include href="main-commands.xml" />
|
|
||||||
<xi:include href="utilities.xml" />
|
|
||||||
<xi:include href="files.xml" />
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
</part>
|
|
||||||
|
|
@ -1,209 +0,0 @@
|
||||||
<chapter xmlns="http://docbook.org/ns/docbook"
|
|
||||||
xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink"
|
|
||||||
xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XInclude"
|
|
||||||
version="5.0"
|
|
||||||
xml:id="sec-common-env">
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
<title>Common Environment Variables</title>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
<para>Most Nix commands interpret the following environment variables:</para>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
<variablelist xml:id="env-common">
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
<varlistentry><term><envar>IN_NIX_SHELL</envar></term>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
<listitem><para>Indicator that tells if the current environment was set up by
|
|
||||||
<command>nix-shell</command>. Since Nix 2.0 the values are
|
|
||||||
<literal>"pure"</literal> and <literal>"impure"</literal></para></listitem>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
</varlistentry>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
<varlistentry xml:id="env-NIX_PATH"><term><envar>NIX_PATH</envar></term>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
<listitem>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
<para>A colon-separated list of directories used to look up Nix
|
|
||||||
expressions enclosed in angle brackets (i.e.,
|
|
||||||
<literal><<replaceable>path</replaceable>></literal>). For
|
|
||||||
instance, the value
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
<screen>
|
|
||||||
/home/eelco/Dev:/etc/nixos</screen>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
will cause Nix to look for paths relative to
|
|
||||||
<filename>/home/eelco/Dev</filename> and
|
|
||||||
<filename>/etc/nixos</filename>, in this order. It is also
|
|
||||||
possible to match paths against a prefix. For example, the value
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
<screen>
|
|
||||||
nixpkgs=/home/eelco/Dev/nixpkgs-branch:/etc/nixos</screen>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
will cause Nix to search for
|
|
||||||
<literal><nixpkgs/<replaceable>path</replaceable>></literal> in
|
|
||||||
<filename>/home/eelco/Dev/nixpkgs-branch/<replaceable>path</replaceable></filename>
|
|
||||||
and
|
|
||||||
<filename>/etc/nixos/nixpkgs/<replaceable>path</replaceable></filename>.</para>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
<para>If a path in the Nix search path starts with
|
|
||||||
<literal>http://</literal> or <literal>https://</literal>, it is
|
|
||||||
interpreted as the URL of a tarball that will be downloaded and
|
|
||||||
unpacked to a temporary location. The tarball must consist of a
|
|
||||||
single top-level directory. For example, setting
|
|
||||||
<envar>NIX_PATH</envar> to
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
<screen>
|
|
||||||
nixpkgs=https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/archive/nixos-15.09.tar.gz</screen>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
tells Nix to download the latest revision in the Nixpkgs/NixOS
|
|
||||||
15.09 channel.</para>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
<para>A following shorthand can be used to refer to the official channels:
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
<screen>nixpkgs=channel:nixos-15.09</screen>
|
|
||||||
</para>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
<para>The search path can be extended using the <option
|
|
||||||
linkend="opt-I">-I</option> option, which takes precedence over
|
|
||||||
<envar>NIX_PATH</envar>.</para></listitem>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
</varlistentry>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
<varlistentry><term><envar>NIX_IGNORE_SYMLINK_STORE</envar></term>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
<listitem>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
<para>Normally, the Nix store directory (typically
|
|
||||||
<filename>/nix/store</filename>) is not allowed to contain any
|
|
||||||
symlink components. This is to prevent “impure” builds. Builders
|
|
||||||
sometimes “canonicalise” paths by resolving all symlink components.
|
|
||||||
Thus, builds on different machines (with
|
|
||||||
<filename>/nix/store</filename> resolving to different locations)
|
|
||||||
could yield different results. This is generally not a problem,
|
|
||||||
except when builds are deployed to machines where
|
|
||||||
<filename>/nix/store</filename> resolves differently. If you are
|
|
||||||
sure that you’re not going to do that, you can set
|
|
||||||
<envar>NIX_IGNORE_SYMLINK_STORE</envar> to <envar>1</envar>.</para>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
<para>Note that if you’re symlinking the Nix store so that you can
|
|
||||||
put it on another file system than the root file system, on Linux
|
|
||||||
you’re better off using <literal>bind</literal> mount points, e.g.,
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
<screen>
|
|
||||||
$ mkdir /nix
|
|
||||||
$ mount -o bind /mnt/otherdisk/nix /nix</screen>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
Consult the <citerefentry><refentrytitle>mount</refentrytitle>
|
|
||||||
<manvolnum>8</manvolnum></citerefentry> manual page for details.</para>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
</listitem>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
</varlistentry>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
<varlistentry><term><envar>NIX_STORE_DIR</envar></term>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
<listitem><para>Overrides the location of the Nix store (default
|
|
||||||
<filename><replaceable>prefix</replaceable>/store</filename>).</para></listitem>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
</varlistentry>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
<varlistentry><term><envar>NIX_DATA_DIR</envar></term>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
<listitem><para>Overrides the location of the Nix static data
|
|
||||||
directory (default
|
|
||||||
<filename><replaceable>prefix</replaceable>/share</filename>).</para></listitem>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
</varlistentry>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
<varlistentry><term><envar>NIX_LOG_DIR</envar></term>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
<listitem><para>Overrides the location of the Nix log directory
|
|
||||||
(default <filename><replaceable>prefix</replaceable>/var/log/nix</filename>).</para></listitem>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
</varlistentry>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
<varlistentry><term><envar>NIX_STATE_DIR</envar></term>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
<listitem><para>Overrides the location of the Nix state directory
|
|
||||||
(default <filename><replaceable>prefix</replaceable>/var/nix</filename>).</para></listitem>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
</varlistentry>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
<varlistentry><term><envar>NIX_CONF_DIR</envar></term>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
<listitem><para>Overrides the location of the system Nix configuration
|
|
||||||
directory (default
|
|
||||||
<filename><replaceable>prefix</replaceable>/etc/nix</filename>).</para></listitem>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
</varlistentry>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
<varlistentry><term><envar>NIX_USER_CONF_FILES</envar></term>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
<listitem><para>Overrides the location of the user Nix configuration files
|
|
||||||
to load from (defaults to the XDG spec locations). The variable is treated
|
|
||||||
as a list separated by the <literal>:</literal> token.</para></listitem>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
</varlistentry>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
<varlistentry><term><envar>TMPDIR</envar></term>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
<listitem><para>Use the specified directory to store temporary
|
|
||||||
files. In particular, this includes temporary build directories;
|
|
||||||
these can take up substantial amounts of disk space. The default is
|
|
||||||
<filename>/tmp</filename>.</para></listitem>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
</varlistentry>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
<varlistentry xml:id="envar-remote"><term><envar>NIX_REMOTE</envar></term>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
<listitem><para>This variable should be set to
|
|
||||||
<literal>daemon</literal> if you want to use the Nix daemon to
|
|
||||||
execute Nix operations. This is necessary in <link
|
|
||||||
linkend="ssec-multi-user">multi-user Nix installations</link>.
|
|
||||||
If the Nix daemon's Unix socket is at some non-standard path,
|
|
||||||
this variable should be set to <literal>unix://path/to/socket</literal>.
|
|
||||||
Otherwise, it should be left unset.</para></listitem>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
</varlistentry>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
<varlistentry><term><envar>NIX_SHOW_STATS</envar></term>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
<listitem><para>If set to <literal>1</literal>, Nix will print some
|
|
||||||
evaluation statistics, such as the number of values
|
|
||||||
allocated.</para></listitem>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
</varlistentry>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
<varlistentry><term><envar>NIX_COUNT_CALLS</envar></term>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
<listitem><para>If set to <literal>1</literal>, Nix will print how
|
|
||||||
often functions were called during Nix expression evaluation. This
|
|
||||||
is useful for profiling your Nix expressions.</para></listitem>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
</varlistentry>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
<varlistentry><term><envar>GC_INITIAL_HEAP_SIZE</envar></term>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
<listitem><para>If Nix has been configured to use the Boehm garbage
|
|
||||||
collector, this variable sets the initial size of the heap in bytes.
|
|
||||||
It defaults to 384 MiB. Setting it to a low value reduces memory
|
|
||||||
consumption, but will increase runtime due to the overhead of
|
|
||||||
garbage collection.</para></listitem>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
</varlistentry>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
</variablelist>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
</chapter>
|
|
||||||
|
|
@ -1,14 +0,0 @@
|
||||||
<chapter xmlns="http://docbook.org/ns/docbook"
|
|
||||||
xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink"
|
|
||||||
xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XInclude"
|
|
||||||
version="5.0"
|
|
||||||
xml:id='ch-files'>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
<title>Files</title>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
<para>This section lists configuration files that you can use when you
|
|
||||||
work with Nix.</para>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
<xi:include href="conf-file.xml" />
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
</chapter>
|
|
||||||
|
|
@ -1,17 +0,0 @@
|
||||||
<chapter xmlns="http://docbook.org/ns/docbook"
|
|
||||||
xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink"
|
|
||||||
xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XInclude"
|
|
||||||
version="5.0"
|
|
||||||
xml:id='ch-main-commands'>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
<title>Main Commands</title>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
<para>This section lists commands and options that you can use when you
|
|
||||||
work with Nix.</para>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
<xi:include href="nix-env.xml" />
|
|
||||||
<xi:include href="nix-build.xml" />
|
|
||||||
<xi:include href="nix-shell.xml" />
|
|
||||||
<xi:include href="nix-store.xml" />
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
</chapter>
|
|
||||||
|
|
@ -1,190 +0,0 @@
|
||||||
<refentry xmlns="http://docbook.org/ns/docbook"
|
|
||||||
xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink"
|
|
||||||
xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XInclude"
|
|
||||||
version="5.0"
|
|
||||||
xml:id="sec-nix-build">
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
<refmeta>
|
|
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<refentrytitle>nix-build</refentrytitle>
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<manvolnum>1</manvolnum>
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<refmiscinfo class="source">Nix</refmiscinfo>
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||||||
<refmiscinfo class="version"><xi:include href="../version.txt" parse="text"/></refmiscinfo>
|
|
||||||
</refmeta>
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||||||
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||||||
<refnamediv>
|
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||||||
<refname>nix-build</refname>
|
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||||||
<refpurpose>build a Nix expression</refpurpose>
|
|
||||||
</refnamediv>
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||||||
|
|
||||||
<refsynopsisdiv>
|
|
||||||
<cmdsynopsis>
|
|
||||||
<command>nix-build</command>
|
|
||||||
<xi:include xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XInclude" href="opt-common-syn.xml#xmlns(db=http://docbook.org/ns/docbook)xpointer(/db:nop/*)" />
|
|
||||||
<arg><option>--arg</option> <replaceable>name</replaceable> <replaceable>value</replaceable></arg>
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||||||
<arg><option>--argstr</option> <replaceable>name</replaceable> <replaceable>value</replaceable></arg>
|
|
||||||
<arg>
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|
||||||
<group choice='req'>
|
|
||||||
<arg choice='plain'><option>--attr</option></arg>
|
|
||||||
<arg choice='plain'><option>-A</option></arg>
|
|
||||||
</group>
|
|
||||||
<replaceable>attrPath</replaceable>
|
|
||||||
</arg>
|
|
||||||
<arg><option>--no-out-link</option></arg>
|
|
||||||
<arg><option>--dry-run</option></arg>
|
|
||||||
<arg>
|
|
||||||
<group choice='req'>
|
|
||||||
<arg choice='plain'><option>--out-link</option></arg>
|
|
||||||
<arg choice='plain'><option>-o</option></arg>
|
|
||||||
</group>
|
|
||||||
<replaceable>outlink</replaceable>
|
|
||||||
</arg>
|
|
||||||
<arg choice='plain' rep='repeat'><replaceable>paths</replaceable></arg>
|
|
||||||
</cmdsynopsis>
|
|
||||||
</refsynopsisdiv>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
<refsection><title>Description</title>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
<para>The <command>nix-build</command> command builds the derivations
|
|
||||||
described by the Nix expressions in <replaceable>paths</replaceable>.
|
|
||||||
If the build succeeds, it places a symlink to the result in the
|
|
||||||
current directory. The symlink is called <filename>result</filename>.
|
|
||||||
If there are multiple Nix expressions, or the Nix expressions evaluate
|
|
||||||
to multiple derivations, multiple sequentially numbered symlinks are
|
|
||||||
created (<filename>result</filename>, <filename>result-2</filename>,
|
|
||||||
and so on).</para>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
<para>If no <replaceable>paths</replaceable> are specified, then
|
|
||||||
<command>nix-build</command> will use <filename>default.nix</filename>
|
|
||||||
in the current directory, if it exists.</para>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
<para>If an element of <replaceable>paths</replaceable> starts with
|
|
||||||
<literal>http://</literal> or <literal>https://</literal>, it is
|
|
||||||
interpreted as the URL of a tarball that will be downloaded and
|
|
||||||
unpacked to a temporary location. The tarball must include a single
|
|
||||||
top-level directory containing at least a file named
|
|
||||||
<filename>default.nix</filename>.</para>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
<para><command>nix-build</command> is essentially a wrapper around
|
|
||||||
<link
|
|
||||||
linkend="sec-nix-instantiate"><command>nix-instantiate</command></link>
|
|
||||||
(to translate a high-level Nix expression to a low-level store
|
|
||||||
derivation) and <link
|
|
||||||
linkend="rsec-nix-store-realise"><command>nix-store
|
|
||||||
--realise</command></link> (to build the store derivation).</para>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
<warning><para>The result of the build is automatically registered as
|
|
||||||
a root of the Nix garbage collector. This root disappears
|
|
||||||
automatically when the <filename>result</filename> symlink is deleted
|
|
||||||
or renamed. So don’t rename the symlink.</para></warning>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
</refsection>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
<refsection><title>Options</title>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
<para>All options not listed here are passed to <command>nix-store
|
|
||||||
--realise</command>, except for <option>--arg</option> and
|
|
||||||
<option>--attr</option> / <option>-A</option> which are passed to
|
|
||||||
<command>nix-instantiate</command>. <phrase condition="manual">See
|
|
||||||
also <xref linkend="sec-common-options" />.</phrase></para>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
<variablelist>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
<varlistentry><term><option>--no-out-link</option></term>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
<listitem><para>Do not create a symlink to the output path. Note
|
|
||||||
that as a result the output does not become a root of the garbage
|
|
||||||
collector, and so might be deleted by <command>nix-store
|
|
||||||
--gc</command>.</para></listitem>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
</varlistentry>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
<varlistentry><term><option>--dry-run</option></term>
|
|
||||||
<listitem><para>Show what store paths would be built or downloaded.</para></listitem>
|
|
||||||
</varlistentry>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
<varlistentry xml:id='opt-out-link'><term><option>--out-link</option> /
|
|
||||||
<option>-o</option> <replaceable>outlink</replaceable></term>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
<listitem><para>Change the name of the symlink to the output path
|
|
||||||
created from <filename>result</filename> to
|
|
||||||
<replaceable>outlink</replaceable>.</para></listitem>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
</varlistentry>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
</variablelist>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
<para>The following common options are supported:</para>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
<variablelist condition="manpage">
|
|
||||||
<xi:include href="opt-common.xml#xmlns(db=http://docbook.org/ns/docbook)xpointer(//db:variablelist[@xml:id='opt-common']/*)" />
|
|
||||||
</variablelist>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
</refsection>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
<refsection><title>Examples</title>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
<screen>
|
|
||||||
$ nix-build '<nixpkgs>' -A firefox
|
|
||||||
store derivation is /nix/store/qybprl8sz2lc...-firefox-1.5.0.7.drv
|
|
||||||
/nix/store/d18hyl92g30l...-firefox-1.5.0.7
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
$ ls -l result
|
|
||||||
lrwxrwxrwx <replaceable>...</replaceable> result -> /nix/store/d18hyl92g30l...-firefox-1.5.0.7
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
$ ls ./result/bin/
|
|
||||||
firefox firefox-config</screen>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
<para>If a derivation has multiple outputs,
|
|
||||||
<command>nix-build</command> will build the default (first) output.
|
|
||||||
You can also build all outputs:
|
|
||||||
<screen>
|
|
||||||
$ nix-build '<nixpkgs>' -A openssl.all
|
|
||||||
</screen>
|
|
||||||
This will create a symlink for each output named
|
|
||||||
<filename>result-<replaceable>outputname</replaceable></filename>.
|
|
||||||
The suffix is omitted if the output name is <literal>out</literal>.
|
|
||||||
So if <literal>openssl</literal> has outputs <literal>out</literal>,
|
|
||||||
<literal>bin</literal> and <literal>man</literal>,
|
|
||||||
<command>nix-build</command> will create symlinks
|
|
||||||
<literal>result</literal>, <literal>result-bin</literal> and
|
|
||||||
<literal>result-man</literal>. It’s also possible to build a specific
|
|
||||||
output:
|
|
||||||
<screen>
|
|
||||||
$ nix-build '<nixpkgs>' -A openssl.man
|
|
||||||
</screen>
|
|
||||||
This will create a symlink <literal>result-man</literal>.</para>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
<para>Build a Nix expression given on the command line:
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
<screen>
|
|
||||||
$ nix-build -E 'with import <nixpkgs> { }; runCommand "foo" { } "echo bar > $out"'
|
|
||||||
$ cat ./result
|
|
||||||
bar
|
|
||||||
</screen>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
</para>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
<para>Build the GNU Hello package from the latest revision of the
|
|
||||||
master branch of Nixpkgs:
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
<screen>
|
|
||||||
$ nix-build https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/archive/master.tar.gz -A hello
|
|
||||||
</screen>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
</para>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
</refsection>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
<refsection condition="manpage"><title>Environment variables</title>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
<variablelist>
|
|
||||||
<xi:include href="env-common.xml#xmlns(db=http://docbook.org/ns/docbook)xpointer(//db:variablelist[@xml:id='env-common']/*)" />
|
|
||||||
</variablelist>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
</refsection>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
</refentry>
|
|
||||||
|
|
@ -1,181 +0,0 @@
|
||||||
<refentry xmlns="http://docbook.org/ns/docbook"
|
|
||||||
xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink"
|
|
||||||
xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XInclude"
|
|
||||||
version="5.0"
|
|
||||||
xml:id="sec-nix-channel">
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
<refmeta>
|
|
||||||
<refentrytitle>nix-channel</refentrytitle>
|
|
||||||
<manvolnum>1</manvolnum>
|
|
||||||
<refmiscinfo class="source">Nix</refmiscinfo>
|
|
||||||
<refmiscinfo class="version"><xi:include href="../version.txt" parse="text"/></refmiscinfo>
|
|
||||||
</refmeta>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
<refnamediv>
|
|
||||||
<refname>nix-channel</refname>
|
|
||||||
<refpurpose>manage Nix channels</refpurpose>
|
|
||||||
</refnamediv>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
<refsynopsisdiv>
|
|
||||||
<cmdsynopsis>
|
|
||||||
<command>nix-channel</command>
|
|
||||||
<group choice='req'>
|
|
||||||
<arg choice='plain'><option>--add</option> <replaceable>url</replaceable> <arg choice='opt'><replaceable>name</replaceable></arg></arg>
|
|
||||||
<arg choice='plain'><option>--remove</option> <replaceable>name</replaceable></arg>
|
|
||||||
<arg choice='plain'><option>--list</option></arg>
|
|
||||||
<arg choice='plain'><option>--update</option> <arg rep='repeat'><replaceable>names</replaceable></arg></arg>
|
|
||||||
<arg choice='plain'><option>--rollback</option> <arg choice='opt'><replaceable>generation</replaceable></arg></arg>
|
|
||||||
</group>
|
|
||||||
</cmdsynopsis>
|
|
||||||
</refsynopsisdiv>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
<refsection><title>Description</title>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
<para>A Nix channel is a mechanism that allows you to automatically
|
|
||||||
stay up-to-date with a set of pre-built Nix expressions. A Nix
|
|
||||||
channel is just a URL that points to a place containing a set of Nix
|
|
||||||
expressions. <phrase condition="manual">See also <xref
|
|
||||||
linkend="sec-channels" />.</phrase></para>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
<para>To see the list of official NixOS channels, visit <link
|
|
||||||
xlink:href="https://nixos.org/channels" />.</para>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
<para>This command has the following operations:
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
<variablelist>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
<varlistentry><term><option>--add</option> <replaceable>url</replaceable> [<replaceable>name</replaceable>]</term>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
<listitem><para>Adds a channel named
|
|
||||||
<replaceable>name</replaceable> with URL
|
|
||||||
<replaceable>url</replaceable> to the list of subscribed channels.
|
|
||||||
If <replaceable>name</replaceable> is omitted, it defaults to the
|
|
||||||
last component of <replaceable>url</replaceable>, with the
|
|
||||||
suffixes <literal>-stable</literal> or
|
|
||||||
<literal>-unstable</literal> removed.</para></listitem>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
</varlistentry>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
<varlistentry><term><option>--remove</option> <replaceable>name</replaceable></term>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
<listitem><para>Removes the channel named
|
|
||||||
<replaceable>name</replaceable> from the list of subscribed
|
|
||||||
channels.</para></listitem>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
</varlistentry>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
<varlistentry><term><option>--list</option></term>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
<listitem><para>Prints the names and URLs of all subscribed
|
|
||||||
channels on standard output.</para></listitem>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
</varlistentry>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
<varlistentry><term><option>--update</option> [<replaceable>names</replaceable>…]</term>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
<listitem><para>Downloads the Nix expressions of all subscribed
|
|
||||||
channels (or only those included in
|
|
||||||
<replaceable>names</replaceable> if specified) and makes them the
|
|
||||||
default for <command>nix-env</command> operations (by symlinking
|
|
||||||
them from the directory
|
|
||||||
<filename>~/.nix-defexpr</filename>).</para></listitem>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
</varlistentry>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
<varlistentry><term><option>--rollback</option> [<replaceable>generation</replaceable>]</term>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
<listitem><para>Reverts the previous call to <command>nix-channel
|
|
||||||
--update</command>. Optionally, you can specify a specific channel
|
|
||||||
generation number to restore.</para></listitem>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
</varlistentry>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
</variablelist>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
</para>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
<para>Note that <option>--add</option> does not automatically perform
|
|
||||||
an update.</para>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
<para>The list of subscribed channels is stored in
|
|
||||||
<filename>~/.nix-channels</filename>.</para>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
</refsection>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
<refsection><title>Examples</title>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
<para>To subscribe to the Nixpkgs channel and install the GNU Hello package:</para>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
<screen>
|
|
||||||
$ nix-channel --add https://nixos.org/channels/nixpkgs-unstable
|
|
||||||
$ nix-channel --update
|
|
||||||
$ nix-env -iA nixpkgs.hello</screen>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
<para>You can revert channel updates using <option>--rollback</option>:</para>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
<screen>
|
|
||||||
$ nix-instantiate --eval -E '(import <nixpkgs> {}).lib.version'
|
|
||||||
"14.04.527.0e935f1"
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
$ nix-channel --rollback
|
|
||||||
switching from generation 483 to 482
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
$ nix-instantiate --eval -E '(import <nixpkgs> {}).lib.version'
|
|
||||||
"14.04.526.dbadfad"
|
|
||||||
</screen>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
</refsection>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
<refsection><title>Files</title>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
<variablelist>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
<varlistentry><term><filename>/nix/var/nix/profiles/per-user/<replaceable>username</replaceable>/channels</filename></term>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
<listitem><para><command>nix-channel</command> uses a
|
|
||||||
<command>nix-env</command> profile to keep track of previous
|
|
||||||
versions of the subscribed channels. Every time you run
|
|
||||||
<command>nix-channel --update</command>, a new channel generation
|
|
||||||
(that is, a symlink to the channel Nix expressions in the Nix store)
|
|
||||||
is created. This enables <command>nix-channel --rollback</command>
|
|
||||||
to revert to previous versions.</para></listitem>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
</varlistentry>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
<varlistentry><term><filename>~/.nix-defexpr/channels</filename></term>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
<listitem><para>This is a symlink to
|
|
||||||
<filename>/nix/var/nix/profiles/per-user/<replaceable>username</replaceable>/channels</filename>. It
|
|
||||||
ensures that <command>nix-env</command> can find your channels. In
|
|
||||||
a multi-user installation, you may also have
|
|
||||||
<filename>~/.nix-defexpr/channels_root</filename>, which links to
|
|
||||||
the channels of the root user.</para></listitem>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
</varlistentry>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
</variablelist>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
</refsection>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
<refsection><title>Channel format</title>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
<para>A channel URL should point to a directory containing the
|
|
||||||
following files:</para>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
<variablelist>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
<varlistentry><term><filename>nixexprs.tar.xz</filename></term>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
<listitem><para>A tarball containing Nix expressions and files
|
|
||||||
referenced by them (such as build scripts and patches). At the
|
|
||||||
top level, the tarball should contain a single directory. That
|
|
||||||
directory must contain a file <filename>default.nix</filename>
|
|
||||||
that serves as the channel’s “entry point”.</para></listitem>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
</varlistentry>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
</variablelist>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
</refsection>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
</refentry>
|
|
||||||
|
|
@ -1,63 +0,0 @@
|
||||||
<refentry xmlns="http://docbook.org/ns/docbook"
|
|
||||||
xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink"
|
|
||||||
xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XInclude"
|
|
||||||
version="5.0"
|
|
||||||
xml:id="sec-nix-collect-garbage">
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||||||
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||||||
<refmeta>
|
|
||||||
<refentrytitle>nix-collect-garbage</refentrytitle>
|
|
||||||
<manvolnum>1</manvolnum>
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|
||||||
<refmiscinfo class="source">Nix</refmiscinfo>
|
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||||||
<refmiscinfo class="version"><xi:include href="../version.txt" parse="text"/></refmiscinfo>
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||||||
</refmeta>
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||||||
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||||||
<refnamediv>
|
|
||||||
<refname>nix-collect-garbage</refname>
|
|
||||||
<refpurpose>delete unreachable store paths</refpurpose>
|
|
||||||
</refnamediv>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
<refsynopsisdiv>
|
|
||||||
<cmdsynopsis>
|
|
||||||
<command>nix-collect-garbage</command>
|
|
||||||
<arg><option>--delete-old</option></arg>
|
|
||||||
<arg><option>-d</option></arg>
|
|
||||||
<arg><option>--delete-older-than</option> <replaceable>period</replaceable></arg>
|
|
||||||
<arg><option>--max-freed</option> <replaceable>bytes</replaceable></arg>
|
|
||||||
<arg><option>--dry-run</option></arg>
|
|
||||||
</cmdsynopsis>
|
|
||||||
</refsynopsisdiv>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
<refsection><title>Description</title>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
<para>The command <command>nix-collect-garbage</command> is mostly an
|
|
||||||
alias of <link linkend="rsec-nix-store-gc"><command>nix-store
|
|
||||||
--gc</command></link>, that is, it deletes all unreachable paths in
|
|
||||||
the Nix store to clean up your system. However, it provides two
|
|
||||||
additional options: <option>-d</option> (<option>--delete-old</option>),
|
|
||||||
which deletes all old generations of all profiles in
|
|
||||||
<filename>/nix/var/nix/profiles</filename> by invoking
|
|
||||||
<literal>nix-env --delete-generations old</literal> on all profiles
|
|
||||||
(of course, this makes rollbacks to previous configurations
|
|
||||||
impossible); and
|
|
||||||
<option>--delete-older-than</option> <replaceable>period</replaceable>,
|
|
||||||
where period is a value such as <literal>30d</literal>, which deletes
|
|
||||||
all generations older than the specified number of days in all profiles
|
|
||||||
in <filename>/nix/var/nix/profiles</filename> (except for the generations
|
|
||||||
that were active at that point in time).
|
|
||||||
</para>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
</refsection>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
<refsection><title>Example</title>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
<para>To delete from the Nix store everything that is not used by the
|
|
||||||
current generations of each profile, do
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
<screen>
|
|
||||||
$ nix-collect-garbage -d</screen>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
</para>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
</refsection>
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|
||||||
|
|
||||||
</refentry>
|
|
||||||
|
|
@ -1,169 +0,0 @@
|
||||||
<refentry xmlns="http://docbook.org/ns/docbook"
|
|
||||||
xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink"
|
|
||||||
xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XInclude"
|
|
||||||
xml:id="sec-nix-copy-closure">
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
<refmeta>
|
|
||||||
<refentrytitle>nix-copy-closure</refentrytitle>
|
|
||||||
<manvolnum>1</manvolnum>
|
|
||||||
<refmiscinfo class="source">Nix</refmiscinfo>
|
|
||||||
<refmiscinfo class="version"><xi:include href="../version.txt" parse="text"/></refmiscinfo>
|
|
||||||
</refmeta>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
<refnamediv>
|
|
||||||
<refname>nix-copy-closure</refname>
|
|
||||||
<refpurpose>copy a closure to or from a remote machine via SSH</refpurpose>
|
|
||||||
</refnamediv>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
<refsynopsisdiv>
|
|
||||||
<cmdsynopsis>
|
|
||||||
<command>nix-copy-closure</command>
|
|
||||||
<group>
|
|
||||||
<arg choice='plain'><option>--to</option></arg>
|
|
||||||
<arg choice='plain'><option>--from</option></arg>
|
|
||||||
</group>
|
|
||||||
<arg><option>--gzip</option></arg>
|
|
||||||
<!--
|
|
||||||
<arg><option>- -show-progress</option></arg>
|
|
||||||
-->
|
|
||||||
<arg><option>--include-outputs</option></arg>
|
|
||||||
<group>
|
|
||||||
<arg choice='plain'><option>--use-substitutes</option></arg>
|
|
||||||
<arg choice='plain'><option>-s</option></arg>
|
|
||||||
</group>
|
|
||||||
<arg><option>-v</option></arg>
|
|
||||||
<arg choice='plain'>
|
|
||||||
<replaceable>user@</replaceable><replaceable>machine</replaceable>
|
|
||||||
</arg>
|
|
||||||
<arg choice='plain'><replaceable>paths</replaceable></arg>
|
|
||||||
</cmdsynopsis>
|
|
||||||
</refsynopsisdiv>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
<refsection><title>Description</title>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
<para><command>nix-copy-closure</command> gives you an easy and
|
|
||||||
efficient way to exchange software between machines. Given one or
|
|
||||||
more Nix store <replaceable>paths</replaceable> on the local
|
|
||||||
machine, <command>nix-copy-closure</command> computes the closure of
|
|
||||||
those paths (i.e. all their dependencies in the Nix store), and copies
|
|
||||||
all paths in the closure to the remote machine via the
|
|
||||||
<command>ssh</command> (Secure Shell) command. With the
|
|
||||||
<option>--from</option>, the direction is reversed:
|
|
||||||
the closure of <replaceable>paths</replaceable> on a remote machine is
|
|
||||||
copied to the Nix store on the local machine.</para>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
<para>This command is efficient because it only sends the store paths
|
|
||||||
that are missing on the target machine.</para>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
<para>Since <command>nix-copy-closure</command> calls
|
|
||||||
<command>ssh</command>, you may be asked to type in the appropriate
|
|
||||||
password or passphrase. In fact, you may be asked
|
|
||||||
<emphasis>twice</emphasis> because <command>nix-copy-closure</command>
|
|
||||||
currently connects twice to the remote machine, first to get the set
|
|
||||||
of paths missing on the target machine, and second to send the dump of
|
|
||||||
those paths. If this bothers you, use
|
|
||||||
<command>ssh-agent</command>.</para>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
<refsection><title>Options</title>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
<variablelist>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
<varlistentry><term><option>--to</option></term>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
<listitem><para>Copy the closure of
|
|
||||||
<replaceable>paths</replaceable> from the local Nix store to the
|
|
||||||
Nix store on <replaceable>machine</replaceable>. This is the
|
|
||||||
default.</para></listitem>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
</varlistentry>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
<varlistentry><term><option>--from</option></term>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
<listitem><para>Copy the closure of
|
|
||||||
<replaceable>paths</replaceable> from the Nix store on
|
|
||||||
<replaceable>machine</replaceable> to the local Nix
|
|
||||||
store.</para></listitem>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
</varlistentry>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
<varlistentry><term><option>--gzip</option></term>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
<listitem><para>Enable compression of the SSH
|
|
||||||
connection.</para></listitem>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
</varlistentry>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
<varlistentry><term><option>--include-outputs</option></term>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
<listitem><para>Also copy the outputs of store derivations
|
|
||||||
included in the closure.</para></listitem>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
</varlistentry>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
<varlistentry><term><option>--use-substitutes</option> / <option>-s</option></term>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
<listitem><para>Attempt to download missing paths on the target
|
|
||||||
machine using Nix’s substitute mechanism. Any paths that cannot
|
|
||||||
be substituted on the target are still copied normally from the
|
|
||||||
source. This is useful, for instance, if the connection between
|
|
||||||
the source and target machine is slow, but the connection between
|
|
||||||
the target machine and <literal>nixos.org</literal> (the default
|
|
||||||
binary cache server) is fast.</para></listitem>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
</varlistentry>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
<varlistentry><term><option>-v</option></term>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
<listitem><para>Show verbose output.</para></listitem>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
</varlistentry>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
</variablelist>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
</refsection>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
<refsection><title>Environment variables</title>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
<variablelist>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
<varlistentry><term><envar>NIX_SSHOPTS</envar></term>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
<listitem><para>Additional options to be passed to
|
|
||||||
<command>ssh</command> on the command line.</para></listitem>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
</varlistentry>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
</variablelist>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
</refsection>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
<refsection><title>Examples</title>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
<para>Copy Firefox with all its dependencies to a remote machine:
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
<screen>
|
|
||||||
$ nix-copy-closure --to alice@itchy.labs $(type -tP firefox)</screen>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
</para>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
<para>Copy Subversion from a remote machine and then install it into a
|
|
||||||
user environment:
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
<screen>
|
|
||||||
$ nix-copy-closure --from alice@itchy.labs \
|
|
||||||
/nix/store/0dj0503hjxy5mbwlafv1rsbdiyx1gkdy-subversion-1.4.4
|
|
||||||
$ nix-env -i /nix/store/0dj0503hjxy5mbwlafv1rsbdiyx1gkdy-subversion-1.4.4
|
|
||||||
</screen>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
</para>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
</refsection>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
</refsection>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
</refentry>
|
|
||||||
|
|
@ -1,35 +0,0 @@
|
||||||
<refentry xmlns="http://docbook.org/ns/docbook"
|
|
||||||
xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink"
|
|
||||||
xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XInclude"
|
|
||||||
version="5.0"
|
|
||||||
xml:id="sec-nix-daemon">
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
<refmeta>
|
|
||||||
<refentrytitle>nix-daemon</refentrytitle>
|
|
||||||
<manvolnum>8</manvolnum>
|
|
||||||
<refmiscinfo class="source">Nix</refmiscinfo>
|
|
||||||
<refmiscinfo class="version"><xi:include href="../version.txt" parse="text"/></refmiscinfo>
|
|
||||||
</refmeta>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
<refnamediv>
|
|
||||||
<refname>nix-daemon</refname>
|
|
||||||
<refpurpose>Nix multi-user support daemon</refpurpose>
|
|
||||||
</refnamediv>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
<refsynopsisdiv>
|
|
||||||
<cmdsynopsis>
|
|
||||||
<command>nix-daemon</command>
|
|
||||||
</cmdsynopsis>
|
|
||||||
</refsynopsisdiv>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
<refsection><title>Description</title>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
<para>The Nix daemon is necessary in multi-user Nix installations. It
|
|
||||||
performs build actions and other operations on the Nix store on behalf
|
|
||||||
of unprivileged users.</para>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
</refsection>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
</refentry>
|
|
||||||
File diff suppressed because it is too large
Load diff
|
|
@ -1,176 +0,0 @@
|
||||||
<refentry xmlns="http://docbook.org/ns/docbook"
|
|
||||||
xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink"
|
|
||||||
xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XInclude"
|
|
||||||
version="5.0"
|
|
||||||
xml:id="sec-nix-hash">
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
<refmeta>
|
|
||||||
<refentrytitle>nix-hash</refentrytitle>
|
|
||||||
<manvolnum>1</manvolnum>
|
|
||||||
<refmiscinfo class="source">Nix</refmiscinfo>
|
|
||||||
<refmiscinfo class="version"><xi:include href="../version.txt" parse="text"/></refmiscinfo>
|
|
||||||
</refmeta>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
<refnamediv>
|
|
||||||
<refname>nix-hash</refname>
|
|
||||||
<refpurpose>compute the cryptographic hash of a path</refpurpose>
|
|
||||||
</refnamediv>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
<refsynopsisdiv>
|
|
||||||
<cmdsynopsis>
|
|
||||||
<command>nix-hash</command>
|
|
||||||
<arg><option>--flat</option></arg>
|
|
||||||
<arg><option>--base32</option></arg>
|
|
||||||
<arg><option>--truncate</option></arg>
|
|
||||||
<arg><option>--type</option> <replaceable>hashAlgo</replaceable></arg>
|
|
||||||
<arg choice='plain' rep='repeat'><replaceable>path</replaceable></arg>
|
|
||||||
</cmdsynopsis>
|
|
||||||
<cmdsynopsis>
|
|
||||||
<command>nix-hash</command>
|
|
||||||
<arg choice='plain'><option>--to-base16</option></arg>
|
|
||||||
<arg choice='plain' rep='repeat'><replaceable>hash</replaceable></arg>
|
|
||||||
</cmdsynopsis>
|
|
||||||
<cmdsynopsis>
|
|
||||||
<command>nix-hash</command>
|
|
||||||
<arg choice='plain'><option>--to-base32</option></arg>
|
|
||||||
<arg choice='plain' rep='repeat'><replaceable>hash</replaceable></arg>
|
|
||||||
</cmdsynopsis>
|
|
||||||
</refsynopsisdiv>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
<refsection><title>Description</title>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
<para>The command <command>nix-hash</command> computes the
|
|
||||||
cryptographic hash of the contents of each
|
|
||||||
<replaceable>path</replaceable> and prints it on standard output. By
|
|
||||||
default, it computes an MD5 hash, but other hash algorithms are
|
|
||||||
available as well. The hash is printed in hexadecimal. To generate
|
|
||||||
the same hash as <command>nix-prefetch-url</command> you have to
|
|
||||||
specify multiple arguments, see below for an example.</para>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
<para>The hash is computed over a <emphasis>serialisation</emphasis>
|
|
||||||
of each path: a dump of the file system tree rooted at the path. This
|
|
||||||
allows directories and symlinks to be hashed as well as regular files.
|
|
||||||
The dump is in the <emphasis>NAR format</emphasis> produced by <link
|
|
||||||
linkend="refsec-nix-store-dump"><command>nix-store</command>
|
|
||||||
<option>--dump</option></link>. Thus, <literal>nix-hash
|
|
||||||
<replaceable>path</replaceable></literal> yields the same
|
|
||||||
cryptographic hash as <literal>nix-store --dump
|
|
||||||
<replaceable>path</replaceable> | md5sum</literal>.</para>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
</refsection>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
<refsection><title>Options</title>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
<variablelist>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
<varlistentry><term><option>--flat</option></term>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
<listitem><para>Print the cryptographic hash of the contents of
|
|
||||||
each regular file <replaceable>path</replaceable>. That is, do
|
|
||||||
not compute the hash over the dump of
|
|
||||||
<replaceable>path</replaceable>. The result is identical to that
|
|
||||||
produced by the GNU commands <command>md5sum</command> and
|
|
||||||
<command>sha1sum</command>.</para></listitem>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
</varlistentry>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
<varlistentry><term><option>--base32</option></term>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
<listitem><para>Print the hash in a base-32 representation rather
|
|
||||||
than hexadecimal. This base-32 representation is more compact and
|
|
||||||
can be used in Nix expressions (such as in calls to
|
|
||||||
<function>fetchurl</function>).</para></listitem>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
</varlistentry>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
<varlistentry><term><option>--truncate</option></term>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
<listitem><para>Truncate hashes longer than 160 bits (such as
|
|
||||||
SHA-256) to 160 bits.</para></listitem>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
</varlistentry>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
<varlistentry><term><option>--type</option> <replaceable>hashAlgo</replaceable></term>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
<listitem><para>Use the specified cryptographic hash algorithm,
|
|
||||||
which can be one of <literal>md5</literal>,
|
|
||||||
<literal>sha1</literal>, and
|
|
||||||
<literal>sha256</literal>.</para></listitem>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
</varlistentry>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
<varlistentry><term><option>--to-base16</option></term>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
<listitem><para>Don’t hash anything, but convert the base-32 hash
|
|
||||||
representation <replaceable>hash</replaceable> to
|
|
||||||
hexadecimal.</para></listitem>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
</varlistentry>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
<varlistentry><term><option>--to-base32</option></term>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
<listitem><para>Don’t hash anything, but convert the hexadecimal
|
|
||||||
hash representation <replaceable>hash</replaceable> to
|
|
||||||
base-32.</para></listitem>
|
|
||||||
|
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||||||
</varlistentry>
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||||||
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|
||||||
</variablelist>
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|
||||||
|
|
||||||
</refsection>
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|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
<refsection><title>Examples</title>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
<para>Computing the same hash as <command>nix-prefetch-url</command>:
|
|
||||||
<screen>
|
|
||||||
$ nix-prefetch-url file://<(echo test)
|
|
||||||
1lkgqb6fclns49861dwk9rzb6xnfkxbpws74mxnx01z9qyv1pjpj
|
|
||||||
$ nix-hash --type sha256 --flat --base32 <(echo test)
|
|
||||||
1lkgqb6fclns49861dwk9rzb6xnfkxbpws74mxnx01z9qyv1pjpj
|
|
||||||
</screen>
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|
||||||
</para>
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|
||||||
|
|
||||||
<para>Computing hashes:
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|
||||||
|
|
||||||
<screen>
|
|
||||||
$ mkdir test
|
|
||||||
$ echo "hello" > test/world
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
$ nix-hash test/ <lineannotation>(MD5 hash; default)</lineannotation>
|
|
||||||
8179d3caeff1869b5ba1744e5a245c04
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|
||||||
|
|
||||||
$ nix-store --dump test/ | md5sum <lineannotation>(for comparison)</lineannotation>
|
|
||||||
8179d3caeff1869b5ba1744e5a245c04 -
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
$ nix-hash --type sha1 test/
|
|
||||||
e4fd8ba5f7bbeaea5ace89fe10255536cd60dab6
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
$ nix-hash --type sha1 --base32 test/
|
|
||||||
nvd61k9nalji1zl9rrdfmsmvyyjqpzg4
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
$ nix-hash --type sha256 --flat test/
|
|
||||||
error: reading file `test/': Is a directory
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
$ nix-hash --type sha256 --flat test/world
|
|
||||||
5891b5b522d5df086d0ff0b110fbd9d21bb4fc7163af34d08286a2e846f6be03</screen>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
</para>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
<para>Converting between hexadecimal and base-32:
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
<screen>
|
|
||||||
$ nix-hash --type sha1 --to-base32 e4fd8ba5f7bbeaea5ace89fe10255536cd60dab6
|
|
||||||
nvd61k9nalji1zl9rrdfmsmvyyjqpzg4
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
$ nix-hash --type sha1 --to-base16 nvd61k9nalji1zl9rrdfmsmvyyjqpzg4
|
|
||||||
e4fd8ba5f7bbeaea5ace89fe10255536cd60dab6</screen>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
</para>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
</refsection>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
</refentry>
|
|
||||||
|
|
@ -1,266 +0,0 @@
|
||||||
<refentry xmlns="http://docbook.org/ns/docbook"
|
|
||||||
xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink"
|
|
||||||
xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XInclude"
|
|
||||||
version="5.0"
|
|
||||||
xml:id="sec-nix-instantiate">
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
<refmeta>
|
|
||||||
<refentrytitle>nix-instantiate</refentrytitle>
|
|
||||||
<manvolnum>1</manvolnum>
|
|
||||||
<refmiscinfo class="source">Nix</refmiscinfo>
|
|
||||||
<refmiscinfo class="version"><xi:include href="../version.txt" parse="text"/></refmiscinfo>
|
|
||||||
</refmeta>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
<refnamediv>
|
|
||||||
<refname>nix-instantiate</refname>
|
|
||||||
<refpurpose>instantiate store derivations from Nix expressions</refpurpose>
|
|
||||||
</refnamediv>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
<refsynopsisdiv>
|
|
||||||
<cmdsynopsis>
|
|
||||||
<command>nix-instantiate</command>
|
|
||||||
<group>
|
|
||||||
<arg choice='plain'><option>--parse</option></arg>
|
|
||||||
<arg choice='plain'>
|
|
||||||
<option>--eval</option>
|
|
||||||
<arg><option>--strict</option></arg>
|
|
||||||
<arg><option>--json</option></arg>
|
|
||||||
<arg><option>--xml</option></arg>
|
|
||||||
</arg>
|
|
||||||
</group>
|
|
||||||
<arg><option>--read-write-mode</option></arg>
|
|
||||||
<arg><option>--arg</option> <replaceable>name</replaceable> <replaceable>value</replaceable></arg>
|
|
||||||
<arg>
|
|
||||||
<group choice='req'>
|
|
||||||
<arg choice='plain'><option>--attr</option></arg>
|
|
||||||
<arg choice='plain'><option>-A</option></arg>
|
|
||||||
</group>
|
|
||||||
<replaceable>attrPath</replaceable>
|
|
||||||
</arg>
|
|
||||||
<arg><option>--add-root</option> <replaceable>path</replaceable></arg>
|
|
||||||
<arg><option>--indirect</option></arg>
|
|
||||||
<group>
|
|
||||||
<arg choice='plain'><option>--expr</option></arg>
|
|
||||||
<arg choice='plain'><option>-E</option></arg>
|
|
||||||
</group>
|
|
||||||
<arg choice='plain' rep='repeat'><replaceable>files</replaceable></arg>
|
|
||||||
</cmdsynopsis>
|
|
||||||
<cmdsynopsis>
|
|
||||||
<command>nix-instantiate</command>
|
|
||||||
<arg choice='plain'><option>--find-file</option></arg>
|
|
||||||
<arg choice='plain' rep='repeat'><replaceable>files</replaceable></arg>
|
|
||||||
</cmdsynopsis>
|
|
||||||
</refsynopsisdiv>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
<refsection><title>Description</title>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
<para>The command <command>nix-instantiate</command> generates <link
|
|
||||||
linkend="gloss-derivation">store derivations</link> from (high-level)
|
|
||||||
Nix expressions. It evaluates the Nix expressions in each of
|
|
||||||
<replaceable>files</replaceable> (which defaults to
|
|
||||||
<replaceable>./default.nix</replaceable>). Each top-level expression
|
|
||||||
should evaluate to a derivation, a list of derivations, or a set of
|
|
||||||
derivations. The paths of the resulting store derivations are printed
|
|
||||||
on standard output.</para>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
<para>If <replaceable>files</replaceable> is the character
|
|
||||||
<literal>-</literal>, then a Nix expression will be read from standard
|
|
||||||
input.</para>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
<para condition="manual">See also <xref linkend="sec-common-options"
|
|
||||||
/> for a list of common options.</para>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
</refsection>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
<refsection><title>Options</title>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
<variablelist>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
<varlistentry>
|
|
||||||
<term><option>--add-root</option> <replaceable>path</replaceable></term>
|
|
||||||
<term><option>--indirect</option></term>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
<listitem><para>See the <link linkend="opt-add-root">corresponding
|
|
||||||
options</link> in <command>nix-store</command>.</para></listitem>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
</varlistentry>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
<varlistentry><term><option>--parse</option></term>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
<listitem><para>Just parse the input files, and print their
|
|
||||||
abstract syntax trees on standard output in ATerm
|
|
||||||
format.</para></listitem>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
</varlistentry>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
<varlistentry><term><option>--eval</option></term>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
<listitem><para>Just parse and evaluate the input files, and print
|
|
||||||
the resulting values on standard output. No instantiation of
|
|
||||||
store derivations takes place.</para></listitem>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
</varlistentry>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
<varlistentry><term><option>--find-file</option></term>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
<listitem><para>Look up the given files in Nix’s search path (as
|
|
||||||
specified by the <envar linkend="env-NIX_PATH">NIX_PATH</envar>
|
|
||||||
environment variable). If found, print the corresponding absolute
|
|
||||||
paths on standard output. For instance, if
|
|
||||||
<envar>NIX_PATH</envar> is
|
|
||||||
<literal>nixpkgs=/home/alice/nixpkgs</literal>, then
|
|
||||||
<literal>nix-instantiate --find-file nixpkgs/default.nix</literal>
|
|
||||||
will print
|
|
||||||
<literal>/home/alice/nixpkgs/default.nix</literal>.</para></listitem>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
</varlistentry>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
<varlistentry><term><option>--strict</option></term>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
<listitem><para>When used with <option>--eval</option>,
|
|
||||||
recursively evaluate list elements and attributes. Normally, such
|
|
||||||
sub-expressions are left unevaluated (since the Nix expression
|
|
||||||
language is lazy).</para>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
<warning><para>This option can cause non-termination, because lazy
|
|
||||||
data structures can be infinitely large.</para></warning>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
</listitem>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
</varlistentry>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
<varlistentry><term><option>--json</option></term>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
<listitem><para>When used with <option>--eval</option>, print the resulting
|
|
||||||
value as an JSON representation of the abstract syntax tree rather
|
|
||||||
than as an ATerm.</para></listitem>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
</varlistentry>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
<varlistentry><term><option>--xml</option></term>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
<listitem><para>When used with <option>--eval</option>, print the resulting
|
|
||||||
value as an XML representation of the abstract syntax tree rather than as
|
|
||||||
an ATerm. The schema is the same as that used by the <link
|
|
||||||
linkend="builtin-toXML"><function>toXML</function> built-in</link>.
|
|
||||||
</para></listitem>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
</varlistentry>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
<varlistentry><term><option>--read-write-mode</option></term>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
<listitem><para>When used with <option>--eval</option>, perform
|
|
||||||
evaluation in read/write mode so nix language features that
|
|
||||||
require it will still work (at the cost of needing to do
|
|
||||||
instantiation of every evaluated derivation). If this option is
|
|
||||||
not enabled, there may be uninstantiated store paths in the final
|
|
||||||
output.</para>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
</listitem>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
</varlistentry>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
</variablelist>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
<variablelist condition="manpage">
|
|
||||||
<xi:include href="opt-common.xml#xmlns(db=http://docbook.org/ns/docbook)xpointer(//db:variablelist[@xml:id='opt-common']/*)" />
|
|
||||||
</variablelist>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
</refsection>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
<refsection><title>Examples</title>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
<para>Instantiating store derivations from a Nix expression, and
|
|
||||||
building them using <command>nix-store</command>:
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
<screen>
|
|
||||||
$ nix-instantiate test.nix <lineannotation>(instantiate)</lineannotation>
|
|
||||||
/nix/store/cigxbmvy6dzix98dxxh9b6shg7ar5bvs-perl-BerkeleyDB-0.26.drv
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
$ nix-store -r $(nix-instantiate test.nix) <lineannotation>(build)</lineannotation>
|
|
||||||
<replaceable>...</replaceable>
|
|
||||||
/nix/store/qhqk4n8ci095g3sdp93x7rgwyh9rdvgk-perl-BerkeleyDB-0.26 <lineannotation>(output path)</lineannotation>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
$ ls -l /nix/store/qhqk4n8ci095g3sdp93x7rgwyh9rdvgk-perl-BerkeleyDB-0.26
|
|
||||||
dr-xr-xr-x 2 eelco users 4096 1970-01-01 01:00 lib
|
|
||||||
...</screen>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
</para>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
<para>You can also give a Nix expression on the command line:
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
<screen>
|
|
||||||
$ nix-instantiate -E 'with import <nixpkgs> { }; hello'
|
|
||||||
/nix/store/j8s4zyv75a724q38cb0r87rlczaiag4y-hello-2.8.drv
|
|
||||||
</screen>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
This is equivalent to:
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
<screen>
|
|
||||||
$ nix-instantiate '<nixpkgs>' -A hello
|
|
||||||
</screen>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
</para>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
<para>Parsing and evaluating Nix expressions:
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
<screen>
|
|
||||||
$ nix-instantiate --parse -E '1 + 2'
|
|
||||||
1 + 2
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
$ nix-instantiate --eval -E '1 + 2'
|
|
||||||
3
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
$ nix-instantiate --eval --xml -E '1 + 2'
|
|
||||||
<![CDATA[<?xml version='1.0' encoding='utf-8'?>
|
|
||||||
<expr>
|
|
||||||
<int value="3" />
|
|
||||||
</expr>]]></screen>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
</para>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
<para>The difference between non-strict and strict evaluation:
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
<screen>
|
|
||||||
$ nix-instantiate --eval --xml -E 'rec { x = "foo"; y = x; }'
|
|
||||||
<replaceable>...</replaceable><![CDATA[
|
|
||||||
<attr name="x">
|
|
||||||
<string value="foo" />
|
|
||||||
</attr>
|
|
||||||
<attr name="y">
|
|
||||||
<unevaluated />
|
|
||||||
</attr>]]>
|
|
||||||
<replaceable>...</replaceable></screen>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
Note that <varname>y</varname> is left unevaluated (the XML
|
|
||||||
representation doesn’t attempt to show non-normal forms).
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
<screen>
|
|
||||||
$ nix-instantiate --eval --xml --strict -E 'rec { x = "foo"; y = x; }'
|
|
||||||
<replaceable>...</replaceable><![CDATA[
|
|
||||||
<attr name="x">
|
|
||||||
<string value="foo" />
|
|
||||||
</attr>
|
|
||||||
<attr name="y">
|
|
||||||
<string value="foo" />
|
|
||||||
</attr>]]>
|
|
||||||
<replaceable>...</replaceable></screen>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
</para>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
</refsection>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
<refsection condition="manpage"><title>Environment variables</title>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
<variablelist>
|
|
||||||
<xi:include href="env-common.xml#xmlns(db=http://docbook.org/ns/docbook)xpointer(//db:variablelist[@xml:id='env-common']/*)" />
|
|
||||||
</variablelist>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
</refsection>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
</refentry>
|
|
||||||
|
|
@ -1,131 +0,0 @@
|
||||||
<refentry xmlns="http://docbook.org/ns/docbook"
|
|
||||||
xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink"
|
|
||||||
xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XInclude"
|
|
||||||
version="5.0"
|
|
||||||
xml:id="sec-nix-prefetch-url">
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
<refmeta>
|
|
||||||
<refentrytitle>nix-prefetch-url</refentrytitle>
|
|
||||||
<manvolnum>1</manvolnum>
|
|
||||||
<refmiscinfo class="source">Nix</refmiscinfo>
|
|
||||||
<refmiscinfo class="version"><xi:include href="../version.txt" parse="text"/></refmiscinfo>
|
|
||||||
</refmeta>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
<refnamediv>
|
|
||||||
<refname>nix-prefetch-url</refname>
|
|
||||||
<refpurpose>copy a file from a URL into the store and print its hash</refpurpose>
|
|
||||||
</refnamediv>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
<refsynopsisdiv>
|
|
||||||
<cmdsynopsis>
|
|
||||||
<command>nix-prefetch-url</command>
|
|
||||||
<arg><option>--version</option></arg>
|
|
||||||
<arg><option>--type</option> <replaceable>hashAlgo</replaceable></arg>
|
|
||||||
<arg><option>--print-path</option></arg>
|
|
||||||
<arg><option>--unpack</option></arg>
|
|
||||||
<arg><option>--name</option> <replaceable>name</replaceable></arg>
|
|
||||||
<arg choice='plain'><replaceable>url</replaceable></arg>
|
|
||||||
<arg><replaceable>hash</replaceable></arg>
|
|
||||||
</cmdsynopsis>
|
|
||||||
</refsynopsisdiv>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
<refsection><title>Description</title>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
<para>The command <command>nix-prefetch-url</command> downloads the
|
|
||||||
file referenced by the URL <replaceable>url</replaceable>, prints its
|
|
||||||
cryptographic hash, and copies it into the Nix store. The file name
|
|
||||||
in the store is
|
|
||||||
<filename><replaceable>hash</replaceable>-<replaceable>baseName</replaceable></filename>,
|
|
||||||
where <replaceable>baseName</replaceable> is everything following the
|
|
||||||
final slash in <replaceable>url</replaceable>.</para>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
<para>This command is just a convenience for Nix expression writers.
|
|
||||||
Often a Nix expression fetches some source distribution from the
|
|
||||||
network using the <literal>fetchurl</literal> expression contained in
|
|
||||||
Nixpkgs. However, <literal>fetchurl</literal> requires a
|
|
||||||
cryptographic hash. If you don't know the hash, you would have to
|
|
||||||
download the file first, and then <literal>fetchurl</literal> would
|
|
||||||
download it again when you build your Nix expression. Since
|
|
||||||
<literal>fetchurl</literal> uses the same name for the downloaded file
|
|
||||||
as <command>nix-prefetch-url</command>, the redundant download can be
|
|
||||||
avoided.</para>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
<para>If <replaceable>hash</replaceable> is specified, then a download
|
|
||||||
is not performed if the Nix store already contains a file with the
|
|
||||||
same hash and base name. Otherwise, the file is downloaded, and an
|
|
||||||
error is signaled if the actual hash of the file does not match the
|
|
||||||
specified hash.</para>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
<para>This command prints the hash on standard output. Additionally,
|
|
||||||
if the option <option>--print-path</option> is used, the path of the
|
|
||||||
downloaded file in the Nix store is also printed.</para>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
</refsection>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
<refsection><title>Options</title>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
<variablelist>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
<varlistentry><term><option>--type</option> <replaceable>hashAlgo</replaceable></term>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
<listitem><para>Use the specified cryptographic hash algorithm,
|
|
||||||
which can be one of <literal>md5</literal>,
|
|
||||||
<literal>sha1</literal>, and
|
|
||||||
<literal>sha256</literal>.</para></listitem>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
</varlistentry>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
<varlistentry><term><option>--print-path</option></term>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
<listitem><para>Print the store path of the downloaded file on
|
|
||||||
standard output.</para></listitem>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
</varlistentry>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
<varlistentry><term><option>--unpack</option></term>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
<listitem><para>Unpack the archive (which must be a tarball or zip
|
|
||||||
file) and add the result to the Nix store. The resulting hash can
|
|
||||||
be used with functions such as Nixpkgs’s
|
|
||||||
<varname>fetchzip</varname> or
|
|
||||||
<varname>fetchFromGitHub</varname>.</para></listitem>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
</varlistentry>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
<varlistentry><term><option>--name</option> <replaceable>name</replaceable></term>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
<listitem><para>Override the name of the file in the Nix store. By
|
|
||||||
default, this is
|
|
||||||
<literal><replaceable>hash</replaceable>-<replaceable>basename</replaceable></literal>,
|
|
||||||
where <replaceable>basename</replaceable> is the last component of
|
|
||||||
<replaceable>url</replaceable>. Overriding the name is necessary
|
|
||||||
when <replaceable>basename</replaceable> contains characters that
|
|
||||||
are not allowed in Nix store paths.</para></listitem>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
</varlistentry>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
</variablelist>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
</refsection>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
<refsection><title>Examples</title>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
<screen>
|
|
||||||
$ nix-prefetch-url ftp://ftp.gnu.org/pub/gnu/hello/hello-2.10.tar.gz
|
|
||||||
0ssi1wpaf7plaswqqjwigppsg5fyh99vdlb9kzl7c9lng89ndq1i
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
$ nix-prefetch-url --print-path mirror://gnu/hello/hello-2.10.tar.gz
|
|
||||||
0ssi1wpaf7plaswqqjwigppsg5fyh99vdlb9kzl7c9lng89ndq1i
|
|
||||||
/nix/store/3x7dwzq014bblazs7kq20p9hyzz0qh8g-hello-2.10.tar.gz
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
$ nix-prefetch-url --unpack --print-path https://github.com/NixOS/patchelf/archive/0.8.tar.gz
|
|
||||||
079agjlv0hrv7fxnx9ngipx14gyncbkllxrp9cccnh3a50fxcmy7
|
|
||||||
/nix/store/19zrmhm3m40xxaw81c8cqm6aljgrnwj2-0.8.tar.gz
|
|
||||||
</screen>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
</refsection>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
</refentry>
|
|
||||||
|
|
@ -1,411 +0,0 @@
|
||||||
<refentry xmlns="http://docbook.org/ns/docbook"
|
|
||||||
xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink"
|
|
||||||
xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XInclude"
|
|
||||||
version="5.0"
|
|
||||||
xml:id="sec-nix-shell">
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
<refmeta>
|
|
||||||
<refentrytitle>nix-shell</refentrytitle>
|
|
||||||
<manvolnum>1</manvolnum>
|
|
||||||
<refmiscinfo class="source">Nix</refmiscinfo>
|
|
||||||
<refmiscinfo class="version"><xi:include href="../version.txt" parse="text"/></refmiscinfo>
|
|
||||||
</refmeta>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
<refnamediv>
|
|
||||||
<refname>nix-shell</refname>
|
|
||||||
<refpurpose>start an interactive shell based on a Nix expression</refpurpose>
|
|
||||||
</refnamediv>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
<refsynopsisdiv>
|
|
||||||
<cmdsynopsis>
|
|
||||||
<command>nix-shell</command>
|
|
||||||
<arg><option>--arg</option> <replaceable>name</replaceable> <replaceable>value</replaceable></arg>
|
|
||||||
<arg><option>--argstr</option> <replaceable>name</replaceable> <replaceable>value</replaceable></arg>
|
|
||||||
<arg>
|
|
||||||
<group choice='req'>
|
|
||||||
<arg choice='plain'><option>--attr</option></arg>
|
|
||||||
<arg choice='plain'><option>-A</option></arg>
|
|
||||||
</group>
|
|
||||||
<replaceable>attrPath</replaceable>
|
|
||||||
</arg>
|
|
||||||
<arg><option>--command</option> <replaceable>cmd</replaceable></arg>
|
|
||||||
<arg><option>--run</option> <replaceable>cmd</replaceable></arg>
|
|
||||||
<arg><option>--exclude</option> <replaceable>regexp</replaceable></arg>
|
|
||||||
<arg><option>--pure</option></arg>
|
|
||||||
<arg><option>--keep</option> <replaceable>name</replaceable></arg>
|
|
||||||
<group choice='req'>
|
|
||||||
<arg choice='plain'>
|
|
||||||
<group choice='req'>
|
|
||||||
<arg choice='plain'><option>--packages</option></arg>
|
|
||||||
<arg choice='plain'><option>-p</option></arg>
|
|
||||||
</group>
|
|
||||||
<arg choice='plain' rep='repeat'>
|
|
||||||
<group choice='req'>
|
|
||||||
<arg choice="plain"><replaceable>packages</replaceable></arg>
|
|
||||||
<arg choice="plain"><replaceable>expressions</replaceable></arg>
|
|
||||||
</group>
|
|
||||||
</arg>
|
|
||||||
</arg>
|
|
||||||
<arg><replaceable>path</replaceable></arg>
|
|
||||||
</group>
|
|
||||||
</cmdsynopsis>
|
|
||||||
</refsynopsisdiv>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
<refsection><title>Description</title>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
<para>The command <command>nix-shell</command> will build the
|
|
||||||
dependencies of the specified derivation, but not the derivation
|
|
||||||
itself. It will then start an interactive shell in which all
|
|
||||||
environment variables defined by the derivation
|
|
||||||
<replaceable>path</replaceable> have been set to their corresponding
|
|
||||||
values, and the script <literal>$stdenv/setup</literal> has been
|
|
||||||
sourced. This is useful for reproducing the environment of a
|
|
||||||
derivation for development.</para>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
<para>If <replaceable>path</replaceable> is not given,
|
|
||||||
<command>nix-shell</command> defaults to
|
|
||||||
<filename>shell.nix</filename> if it exists, and
|
|
||||||
<filename>default.nix</filename> otherwise.</para>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
<para>If <replaceable>path</replaceable> starts with
|
|
||||||
<literal>http://</literal> or <literal>https://</literal>, it is
|
|
||||||
interpreted as the URL of a tarball that will be downloaded and
|
|
||||||
unpacked to a temporary location. The tarball must include a single
|
|
||||||
top-level directory containing at least a file named
|
|
||||||
<filename>default.nix</filename>.</para>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
<para>If the derivation defines the variable
|
|
||||||
<varname>shellHook</varname>, it will be evaluated after
|
|
||||||
<literal>$stdenv/setup</literal> has been sourced. Since this hook is
|
|
||||||
not executed by regular Nix builds, it allows you to perform
|
|
||||||
initialisation specific to <command>nix-shell</command>. For example,
|
|
||||||
the derivation attribute
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
<programlisting>
|
|
||||||
shellHook =
|
|
||||||
''
|
|
||||||
echo "Hello shell"
|
|
||||||
'';
|
|
||||||
</programlisting>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
will cause <command>nix-shell</command> to print <literal>Hello shell</literal>.</para>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
</refsection>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
<refsection><title>Options</title>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
<para>All options not listed here are passed to <command>nix-store
|
|
||||||
--realise</command>, except for <option>--arg</option> and
|
|
||||||
<option>--attr</option> / <option>-A</option> which are passed to
|
|
||||||
<command>nix-instantiate</command>. <phrase condition="manual">See
|
|
||||||
also <xref linkend="sec-common-options" />.</phrase></para>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
<variablelist>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
<varlistentry><term><option>--command</option> <replaceable>cmd</replaceable></term>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
<listitem><para>In the environment of the derivation, run the
|
|
||||||
shell command <replaceable>cmd</replaceable>. This command is
|
|
||||||
executed in an interactive shell. (Use <option>--run</option> to
|
|
||||||
use a non-interactive shell instead.) However, a call to
|
|
||||||
<literal>exit</literal> is implicitly added to the command, so the
|
|
||||||
shell will exit after running the command. To prevent this, add
|
|
||||||
<literal>return</literal> at the end; e.g. <literal>--command
|
|
||||||
"echo Hello; return"</literal> will print <literal>Hello</literal>
|
|
||||||
and then drop you into the interactive shell. This can be useful
|
|
||||||
for doing any additional initialisation.</para></listitem>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
</varlistentry>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
<varlistentry><term><option>--run</option> <replaceable>cmd</replaceable></term>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
<listitem><para>Like <option>--command</option>, but executes the
|
|
||||||
command in a non-interactive shell. This means (among other
|
|
||||||
things) that if you hit Ctrl-C while the command is running, the
|
|
||||||
shell exits.</para></listitem>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
</varlistentry>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
<varlistentry><term><option>--exclude</option> <replaceable>regexp</replaceable></term>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
<listitem><para>Do not build any dependencies whose store path
|
|
||||||
matches the regular expression <replaceable>regexp</replaceable>.
|
|
||||||
This option may be specified multiple times.</para></listitem>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
</varlistentry>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
<varlistentry><term><option>--pure</option></term>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
<listitem><para>If this flag is specified, the environment is
|
|
||||||
almost entirely cleared before the interactive shell is started,
|
|
||||||
so you get an environment that more closely corresponds to the
|
|
||||||
“real” Nix build. A few variables, in particular
|
|
||||||
<envar>HOME</envar>, <envar>USER</envar> and
|
|
||||||
<envar>DISPLAY</envar>, are retained. Note that
|
|
||||||
<filename>~/.bashrc</filename> and (depending on your Bash
|
|
||||||
installation) <filename>/etc/bashrc</filename> are still sourced,
|
|
||||||
so any variables set there will affect the interactive
|
|
||||||
shell.</para></listitem>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
</varlistentry>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
<varlistentry><term><option>--packages</option> / <option>-p</option> <replaceable>packages</replaceable>…</term>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
<listitem><para>Set up an environment in which the specified
|
|
||||||
packages are present. The command line arguments are interpreted
|
|
||||||
as attribute names inside the Nix Packages collection. Thus,
|
|
||||||
<literal>nix-shell -p libjpeg openjdk</literal> will start a shell
|
|
||||||
in which the packages denoted by the attribute names
|
|
||||||
<varname>libjpeg</varname> and <varname>openjdk</varname> are
|
|
||||||
present.</para></listitem>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
</varlistentry>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
<varlistentry><term><option>-i</option> <replaceable>interpreter</replaceable></term>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
<listitem><para>The chained script interpreter to be invoked by
|
|
||||||
<command>nix-shell</command>. Only applicable in
|
|
||||||
<literal>#!</literal>-scripts (described <link
|
|
||||||
linkend="ssec-nix-shell-shebang">below</link>).</para>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
</listitem></varlistentry>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
<varlistentry><term><option>--keep</option> <replaceable>name</replaceable></term>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
<listitem><para>When a <option>--pure</option> shell is started,
|
|
||||||
keep the listed environment variables.</para></listitem>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
</varlistentry>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
</variablelist>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
<para>The following common options are supported:</para>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
<variablelist condition="manpage">
|
|
||||||
<xi:include href="opt-common.xml#xmlns(db=http://docbook.org/ns/docbook)xpointer(//db:variablelist[@xml:id='opt-common']/*)" />
|
|
||||||
</variablelist>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
</refsection>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
<refsection><title>Environment variables</title>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
<variablelist>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
<varlistentry><term><envar>NIX_BUILD_SHELL</envar></term>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
<listitem><para>Shell used to start the interactive environment.
|
|
||||||
Defaults to the <command>bash</command> found in <envar>PATH</envar>.</para></listitem>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
</varlistentry>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
</variablelist>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
</refsection>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
<refsection><title>Examples</title>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
<para>To build the dependencies of the package Pan, and start an
|
|
||||||
interactive shell in which to build it:
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
<screen>
|
|
||||||
$ nix-shell '<nixpkgs>' -A pan
|
|
||||||
[nix-shell]$ unpackPhase
|
|
||||||
[nix-shell]$ cd pan-*
|
|
||||||
[nix-shell]$ configurePhase
|
|
||||||
[nix-shell]$ buildPhase
|
|
||||||
[nix-shell]$ ./pan/gui/pan
|
|
||||||
</screen>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
To clear the environment first, and do some additional automatic
|
|
||||||
initialisation of the interactive shell:
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
<screen>
|
|
||||||
$ nix-shell '<nixpkgs>' -A pan --pure \
|
|
||||||
--command 'export NIX_DEBUG=1; export NIX_CORES=8; return'
|
|
||||||
</screen>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
Nix expressions can also be given on the command line using the
|
|
||||||
<command>-E</command> and <command>-p</command> flags.
|
|
||||||
For instance, the following starts a shell containing the packages
|
|
||||||
<literal>sqlite</literal> and <literal>libX11</literal>:
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
<screen>
|
|
||||||
$ nix-shell -E 'with import <nixpkgs> { }; runCommand "dummy" { buildInputs = [ sqlite xorg.libX11 ]; } ""'
|
|
||||||
</screen>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
A shorter way to do the same is:
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
<screen>
|
|
||||||
$ nix-shell -p sqlite xorg.libX11
|
|
||||||
[nix-shell]$ echo $NIX_LDFLAGS
|
|
||||||
… -L/nix/store/j1zg5v…-sqlite-3.8.0.2/lib -L/nix/store/0gmcz9…-libX11-1.6.1/lib …
|
|
||||||
</screen>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
Note that <command>-p</command> accepts multiple full nix expressions that
|
|
||||||
are valid in the <literal>buildInputs = [ ... ]</literal> shown above,
|
|
||||||
not only package names. So the following is also legal:
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
<screen>
|
|
||||||
$ nix-shell -p sqlite 'git.override { withManual = false; }'
|
|
||||||
</screen>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
The <command>-p</command> flag looks up Nixpkgs in the Nix search
|
|
||||||
path. You can override it by passing <option>-I</option> or setting
|
|
||||||
<envar>NIX_PATH</envar>. For example, the following gives you a shell
|
|
||||||
containing the Pan package from a specific revision of Nixpkgs:
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
<screen>
|
|
||||||
$ nix-shell -p pan -I nixpkgs=https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/archive/8a3eea054838b55aca962c3fbde9c83c102b8bf2.tar.gz
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
[nix-shell:~]$ pan --version
|
|
||||||
Pan 0.139
|
|
||||||
</screen>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
</para>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
</refsection>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
<refsection xml:id="ssec-nix-shell-shebang"><title>Use as a <literal>#!</literal>-interpreter</title>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
<para>You can use <command>nix-shell</command> as a script interpreter
|
|
||||||
to allow scripts written in arbitrary languages to obtain their own
|
|
||||||
dependencies via Nix. This is done by starting the script with the
|
|
||||||
following lines:
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
<programlisting>
|
|
||||||
#! /usr/bin/env nix-shell
|
|
||||||
#! nix-shell -i <replaceable>real-interpreter</replaceable> -p <replaceable>packages</replaceable>
|
|
||||||
</programlisting>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
where <replaceable>real-interpreter</replaceable> is the “real” script
|
|
||||||
interpreter that will be invoked by <command>nix-shell</command> after
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it has obtained the dependencies and initialised the environment, and
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<replaceable>packages</replaceable> are the attribute names of the
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dependencies in Nixpkgs.</para>
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||||||
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||||||
<para>The lines starting with <literal>#! nix-shell</literal> specify
|
|
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<command>nix-shell</command> options (see above). Note that you cannot
|
|
||||||
write <literal>#! /usr/bin/env nix-shell -i ...</literal> because
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many operating systems only allow one argument in
|
|
||||||
<literal>#!</literal> lines.</para>
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<para>For example, here is a Python script that depends on Python and
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the <literal>prettytable</literal> package:
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<programlisting>
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#! /usr/bin/env nix-shell
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#! nix-shell -i python -p python pythonPackages.prettytable
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import prettytable
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# Print a simple table.
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t = prettytable.PrettyTable(["N", "N^2"])
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for n in range(1, 10): t.add_row([n, n * n])
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print t
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</programlisting>
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</para>
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||||||
<para>Similarly, the following is a Perl script that specifies that it
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|
||||||
requires Perl and the <literal>HTML::TokeParser::Simple</literal> and
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<literal>LWP</literal> packages:
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||||||
<programlisting>
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||||||
#! /usr/bin/env nix-shell
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#! nix-shell -i perl -p perl perlPackages.HTMLTokeParserSimple perlPackages.LWP
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use HTML::TokeParser::Simple;
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# Fetch nixos.org and print all hrefs.
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my $p = HTML::TokeParser::Simple->new(url => 'http://nixos.org/');
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while (my $token = $p->get_tag("a")) {
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my $href = $token->get_attr("href");
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print "$href\n" if $href;
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}
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||||||
</programlisting>
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||||||
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||||||
</para>
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||||||
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||||||
<para>Sometimes you need to pass a simple Nix expression to customize
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a package like Terraform:
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|
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||||||
<programlisting><![CDATA[
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||||||
#! /usr/bin/env nix-shell
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#! nix-shell -i bash -p "terraform.withPlugins (plugins: [ plugins.openstack ])"
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||||||
|
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||||||
terraform apply
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|
||||||
]]></programlisting>
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|
||||||
|
|
||||||
<note><para>You must use double quotes (<literal>"</literal>) when
|
|
||||||
passing a simple Nix expression in a nix-shell shebang.</para></note>
|
|
||||||
</para>
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|
||||||
|
|
||||||
<para>Finally, using the merging of multiple nix-shell shebangs the
|
|
||||||
following Haskell script uses a specific branch of Nixpkgs/NixOS (the
|
|
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18.03 stable branch):
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||||||
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||||||
<programlisting><![CDATA[
|
|
||||||
#! /usr/bin/env nix-shell
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|
||||||
#! nix-shell -i runghc -p "haskellPackages.ghcWithPackages (ps: [ps.HTTP ps.tagsoup])"
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|
||||||
#! nix-shell -I nixpkgs=https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/archive/nixos-18.03.tar.gz
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||||||
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||||||
import Network.HTTP
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|
||||||
import Text.HTML.TagSoup
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
-- Fetch nixos.org and print all hrefs.
|
|
||||||
main = do
|
|
||||||
resp <- Network.HTTP.simpleHTTP (getRequest "http://nixos.org/")
|
|
||||||
body <- getResponseBody resp
|
|
||||||
let tags = filter (isTagOpenName "a") $ parseTags body
|
|
||||||
let tags' = map (fromAttrib "href") tags
|
|
||||||
mapM_ putStrLn $ filter (/= "") tags'
|
|
||||||
]]></programlisting>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
If you want to be even more precise, you can specify a specific
|
|
||||||
revision of Nixpkgs:
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
<programlisting>
|
|
||||||
#! nix-shell -I nixpkgs=https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/archive/0672315759b3e15e2121365f067c1c8c56bb4722.tar.gz
|
|
||||||
</programlisting>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
</para>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
<para>The examples above all used <option>-p</option> to get
|
|
||||||
dependencies from Nixpkgs. You can also use a Nix expression to build
|
|
||||||
your own dependencies. For example, the Python example could have been
|
|
||||||
written as:
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
<programlisting>
|
|
||||||
#! /usr/bin/env nix-shell
|
|
||||||
#! nix-shell deps.nix -i python
|
|
||||||
</programlisting>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
where the file <filename>deps.nix</filename> in the same directory
|
|
||||||
as the <literal>#!</literal>-script contains:
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
<programlisting>
|
|
||||||
with import <nixpkgs> {};
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
runCommand "dummy" { buildInputs = [ python pythonPackages.prettytable ]; } ""
|
|
||||||
</programlisting>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
</para>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
</refsection>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
<refsection condition="manpage"><title>Environment variables</title>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
<variablelist>
|
|
||||||
<xi:include href="env-common.xml#xmlns(db=http://docbook.org/ns/docbook)xpointer(//db:variablelist[@xml:id='env-common']/*)" />
|
|
||||||
</variablelist>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
</refsection>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
</refentry>
|
|
||||||
File diff suppressed because it is too large
Load diff
|
|
@ -1,68 +0,0 @@
|
||||||
<nop xmlns="http://docbook.org/ns/docbook">
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
<arg><option>--help</option></arg>
|
|
||||||
<arg><option>--version</option></arg>
|
|
||||||
<arg rep='repeat'>
|
|
||||||
<group choice='req'>
|
|
||||||
<arg choice='plain'><option>--verbose</option></arg>
|
|
||||||
<arg choice='plain'><option>-v</option></arg>
|
|
||||||
</group>
|
|
||||||
</arg>
|
|
||||||
<arg>
|
|
||||||
<arg choice='plain'><option>--quiet</option></arg>
|
|
||||||
</arg>
|
|
||||||
<arg>
|
|
||||||
<option>--log-format</option>
|
|
||||||
<replaceable>format</replaceable>
|
|
||||||
</arg>
|
|
||||||
<arg>
|
|
||||||
<group choice='plain'>
|
|
||||||
<arg choice='plain'><option>--no-build-output</option></arg>
|
|
||||||
<arg choice='plain'><option>-Q</option></arg>
|
|
||||||
</group>
|
|
||||||
</arg>
|
|
||||||
<arg>
|
|
||||||
<group choice='req'>
|
|
||||||
<arg choice='plain'><option>--max-jobs</option></arg>
|
|
||||||
<arg choice='plain'><option>-j</option></arg>
|
|
||||||
</group>
|
|
||||||
<replaceable>number</replaceable>
|
|
||||||
</arg>
|
|
||||||
<arg>
|
|
||||||
<option>--cores</option>
|
|
||||||
<replaceable>number</replaceable>
|
|
||||||
</arg>
|
|
||||||
<arg>
|
|
||||||
<option>--max-silent-time</option>
|
|
||||||
<replaceable>number</replaceable>
|
|
||||||
</arg>
|
|
||||||
<arg>
|
|
||||||
<option>--timeout</option>
|
|
||||||
<replaceable>number</replaceable>
|
|
||||||
</arg>
|
|
||||||
<arg>
|
|
||||||
<group choice='plain'>
|
|
||||||
<arg choice='plain'><option>--keep-going</option></arg>
|
|
||||||
<arg choice='plain'><option>-k</option></arg>
|
|
||||||
</group>
|
|
||||||
</arg>
|
|
||||||
<arg>
|
|
||||||
<group choice='plain'>
|
|
||||||
<arg choice='plain'><option>--keep-failed</option></arg>
|
|
||||||
<arg choice='plain'><option>-K</option></arg>
|
|
||||||
</group>
|
|
||||||
</arg>
|
|
||||||
<arg><option>--fallback</option></arg>
|
|
||||||
<arg><option>--readonly-mode</option></arg>
|
|
||||||
<arg>
|
|
||||||
<option>-I</option>
|
|
||||||
<replaceable>path</replaceable>
|
|
||||||
</arg>
|
|
||||||
<arg>
|
|
||||||
<option>--option</option>
|
|
||||||
<replaceable>name</replaceable>
|
|
||||||
<replaceable>value</replaceable>
|
|
||||||
</arg>
|
|
||||||
<sbr />
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
</nop>
|
|
||||||
|
|
@ -1,405 +0,0 @@
|
||||||
<chapter xmlns="http://docbook.org/ns/docbook" xml:id="sec-common-options">
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
<title>Common Options</title>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
<para>Most Nix commands accept the following command-line options:</para>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
<variablelist xml:id="opt-common">
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
<varlistentry><term><option>--help</option></term>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
<listitem><para>Prints out a summary of the command syntax and
|
|
||||||
exits.</para></listitem>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
</varlistentry>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
<varlistentry><term><option>--version</option></term>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
<listitem><para>Prints out the Nix version number on standard output
|
|
||||||
and exits.</para></listitem>
|
|
||||||
</varlistentry>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
<varlistentry><term><option>--verbose</option> / <option>-v</option></term>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
<listitem>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
<para>Increases the level of verbosity of diagnostic messages
|
|
||||||
printed on standard error. For each Nix operation, the information
|
|
||||||
printed on standard output is well-defined; any diagnostic
|
|
||||||
information is printed on standard error, never on standard
|
|
||||||
output.</para>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
<para>This option may be specified repeatedly. Currently, the
|
|
||||||
following verbosity levels exist:</para>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
<variablelist>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
<varlistentry><term>0</term>
|
|
||||||
<listitem><para>“Errors only”: only print messages
|
|
||||||
explaining why the Nix invocation failed.</para></listitem>
|
|
||||||
</varlistentry>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
<varlistentry><term>1</term>
|
|
||||||
<listitem><para>“Informational”: print
|
|
||||||
<emphasis>useful</emphasis> messages about what Nix is doing.
|
|
||||||
This is the default.</para></listitem>
|
|
||||||
</varlistentry>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
<varlistentry><term>2</term>
|
|
||||||
<listitem><para>“Talkative”: print more informational
|
|
||||||
messages.</para></listitem>
|
|
||||||
</varlistentry>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
<varlistentry><term>3</term>
|
|
||||||
<listitem><para>“Chatty”: print even more
|
|
||||||
informational messages.</para></listitem>
|
|
||||||
</varlistentry>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
<varlistentry><term>4</term>
|
|
||||||
<listitem><para>“Debug”: print debug
|
|
||||||
information.</para></listitem>
|
|
||||||
</varlistentry>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
<varlistentry><term>5</term>
|
|
||||||
<listitem><para>“Vomit”: print vast amounts of debug
|
|
||||||
information.</para></listitem>
|
|
||||||
</varlistentry>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
</variablelist>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
</listitem>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
</varlistentry>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
<varlistentry><term><option>--quiet</option></term>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
<listitem>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
<para>Decreases the level of verbosity of diagnostic messages
|
|
||||||
printed on standard error. This is the inverse option to
|
|
||||||
<option>-v</option> / <option>--verbose</option>.
|
|
||||||
</para>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
<para>This option may be specified repeatedly. See the previous
|
|
||||||
verbosity levels list.</para>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
</listitem>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
</varlistentry>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
<varlistentry xml:id="opt-log-format"><term><option>--log-format</option> <replaceable>format</replaceable></term>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
<listitem>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
<para>This option can be used to change the output of the log format, with
|
|
||||||
<replaceable>format</replaceable> being one of:</para>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
<variablelist>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
<varlistentry><term>raw</term>
|
|
||||||
<listitem><para>This is the raw format, as outputted by nix-build.</para></listitem>
|
|
||||||
</varlistentry>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
<varlistentry><term>internal-json</term>
|
|
||||||
<listitem><para>Outputs the logs in a structured manner. NOTE: the json schema is not guarantees to be stable between releases.</para></listitem>
|
|
||||||
</varlistentry>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
<varlistentry><term>bar</term>
|
|
||||||
<listitem><para>Only display a progress bar during the builds.</para></listitem>
|
|
||||||
</varlistentry>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
<varlistentry><term>bar-with-logs</term>
|
|
||||||
<listitem><para>Display the raw logs, with the progress bar at the bottom.</para></listitem>
|
|
||||||
</varlistentry>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
</variablelist>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
</listitem>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
</varlistentry>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
<varlistentry><term><option>--no-build-output</option> / <option>-Q</option></term>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
<listitem><para>By default, output written by builders to standard
|
|
||||||
output and standard error is echoed to the Nix command's standard
|
|
||||||
error. This option suppresses this behaviour. Note that the
|
|
||||||
builder's standard output and error are always written to a log file
|
|
||||||
in
|
|
||||||
<filename><replaceable>prefix</replaceable>/nix/var/log/nix</filename>.</para></listitem>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
</varlistentry>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
<varlistentry xml:id="opt-max-jobs"><term><option>--max-jobs</option> / <option>-j</option>
|
|
||||||
<replaceable>number</replaceable></term>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
<listitem>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
<para>Sets the maximum number of build jobs that Nix will
|
|
||||||
perform in parallel to the specified number. Specify
|
|
||||||
<literal>auto</literal> to use the number of CPUs in the system.
|
|
||||||
The default is specified by the <link
|
|
||||||
linkend='conf-max-jobs'><literal>max-jobs</literal></link>
|
|
||||||
configuration setting, which itself defaults to
|
|
||||||
<literal>1</literal>. A higher value is useful on SMP systems or to
|
|
||||||
exploit I/O latency.</para>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
<para> Setting it to <literal>0</literal> disallows building on the local
|
|
||||||
machine, which is useful when you want builds to happen only on remote
|
|
||||||
builders.</para>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
</listitem>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
</varlistentry>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
<varlistentry xml:id="opt-cores"><term><option>--cores</option></term>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
<listitem><para>Sets the value of the <envar>NIX_BUILD_CORES</envar>
|
|
||||||
environment variable in the invocation of builders. Builders can
|
|
||||||
use this variable at their discretion to control the maximum amount
|
|
||||||
of parallelism. For instance, in Nixpkgs, if the derivation
|
|
||||||
attribute <varname>enableParallelBuilding</varname> is set to
|
|
||||||
<literal>true</literal>, the builder passes the
|
|
||||||
<option>-j<replaceable>N</replaceable></option> flag to GNU Make.
|
|
||||||
It defaults to the value of the <link
|
|
||||||
linkend='conf-cores'><literal>cores</literal></link>
|
|
||||||
configuration setting, if set, or <literal>1</literal> otherwise.
|
|
||||||
The value <literal>0</literal> means that the builder should use all
|
|
||||||
available CPU cores in the system.</para></listitem>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
</varlistentry>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
<varlistentry xml:id="opt-max-silent-time"><term><option>--max-silent-time</option></term>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
<listitem><para>Sets the maximum number of seconds that a builder
|
|
||||||
can go without producing any data on standard output or standard
|
|
||||||
error. The default is specified by the <link
|
|
||||||
linkend='conf-max-silent-time'><literal>max-silent-time</literal></link>
|
|
||||||
configuration setting. <literal>0</literal> means no
|
|
||||||
time-out.</para></listitem>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
</varlistentry>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
<varlistentry xml:id="opt-timeout"><term><option>--timeout</option></term>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
<listitem><para>Sets the maximum number of seconds that a builder
|
|
||||||
can run. The default is specified by the <link
|
|
||||||
linkend='conf-timeout'><literal>timeout</literal></link>
|
|
||||||
configuration setting. <literal>0</literal> means no
|
|
||||||
timeout.</para></listitem>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
</varlistentry>
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<varlistentry><term><option>--keep-going</option> / <option>-k</option></term>
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||||||
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||||||
<listitem><para>Keep going in case of failed builds, to the
|
|
||||||
greatest extent possible. That is, if building an input of some
|
|
||||||
derivation fails, Nix will still build the other inputs, but not the
|
|
||||||
derivation itself. Without this option, Nix stops if any build
|
|
||||||
fails (except for builds of substitutes), possibly killing builds in
|
|
||||||
progress (in case of parallel or distributed builds).</para></listitem>
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|
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</varlistentry>
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||||||
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||||||
<varlistentry><term><option>--keep-failed</option> / <option>-K</option></term>
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|
||||||
|
|
||||||
<listitem><para>Specifies that in case of a build failure, the
|
|
||||||
temporary directory (usually in <filename>/tmp</filename>) in which
|
|
||||||
the build takes place should not be deleted. The path of the build
|
|
||||||
directory is printed as an informational message.
|
|
||||||
</para>
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|
||||||
</listitem>
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|
||||||
</varlistentry>
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||||||
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||||||
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|
||||||
<varlistentry><term><option>--fallback</option></term>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
<listitem>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
<para>Whenever Nix attempts to build a derivation for which
|
|
||||||
substitutes are known for each output path, but realising the output
|
|
||||||
paths through the substitutes fails, fall back on building the
|
|
||||||
derivation.</para>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
<para>The most common scenario in which this is useful is when we
|
|
||||||
have registered substitutes in order to perform binary distribution
|
|
||||||
from, say, a network repository. If the repository is down, the
|
|
||||||
realisation of the derivation will fail. When this option is
|
|
||||||
specified, Nix will build the derivation instead. Thus,
|
|
||||||
installation from binaries falls back on installation from source.
|
|
||||||
This option is not the default since it is generally not desirable
|
|
||||||
for a transient failure in obtaining the substitutes to lead to a
|
|
||||||
full build from source (with the related consumption of
|
|
||||||
resources).</para>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
</listitem>
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|
||||||
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|
||||||
</varlistentry>
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|
||||||
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|
||||||
<varlistentry><term><option>--no-build-hook</option></term>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
<listitem>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
<para>Disables the build hook mechanism. This allows to ignore remote
|
|
||||||
builders if they are setup on the machine.</para>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
<para>It's useful in cases where the bandwidth between the client and the
|
|
||||||
remote builder is too low. In that case it can take more time to upload the
|
|
||||||
sources to the remote builder and fetch back the result than to do the
|
|
||||||
computation locally.</para>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
</listitem>
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|
||||||
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|
||||||
</varlistentry>
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|
||||||
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|
||||||
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|
||||||
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|
||||||
<varlistentry><term><option>--readonly-mode</option></term>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
<listitem><para>When this option is used, no attempt is made to open
|
|
||||||
the Nix database. Most Nix operations do need database access, so
|
|
||||||
those operations will fail.</para></listitem>
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|
||||||
|
|
||||||
</varlistentry>
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|
||||||
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||||||
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|
||||||
<varlistentry><term><option>--arg</option> <replaceable>name</replaceable> <replaceable>value</replaceable></term>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
<listitem><para>This option is accepted by
|
|
||||||
<command>nix-env</command>, <command>nix-instantiate</command>,
|
|
||||||
<command>nix-shell</command> and <command>nix-build</command>.
|
|
||||||
When evaluating Nix expressions, the expression evaluator will
|
|
||||||
automatically try to call functions that
|
|
||||||
it encounters. It can automatically call functions for which every
|
|
||||||
argument has a <link linkend='ss-functions'>default value</link>
|
|
||||||
(e.g., <literal>{ <replaceable>argName</replaceable> ?
|
|
||||||
<replaceable>defaultValue</replaceable> }:
|
|
||||||
<replaceable>...</replaceable></literal>). With
|
|
||||||
<option>--arg</option>, you can also call functions that have
|
|
||||||
arguments without a default value (or override a default value).
|
|
||||||
That is, if the evaluator encounters a function with an argument
|
|
||||||
named <replaceable>name</replaceable>, it will call it with value
|
|
||||||
<replaceable>value</replaceable>.</para>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
<para>For instance, the top-level <literal>default.nix</literal> in
|
|
||||||
Nixpkgs is actually a function:
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
<programlisting>
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|
||||||
{ # The system (e.g., `i686-linux') for which to build the packages.
|
|
||||||
system ? builtins.currentSystem
|
|
||||||
<replaceable>...</replaceable>
|
|
||||||
}: <replaceable>...</replaceable></programlisting>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
So if you call this Nix expression (e.g., when you do
|
|
||||||
<literal>nix-env -i <replaceable>pkgname</replaceable></literal>),
|
|
||||||
the function will be called automatically using the value <link
|
|
||||||
linkend='builtin-currentSystem'><literal>builtins.currentSystem</literal></link>
|
|
||||||
for the <literal>system</literal> argument. You can override this
|
|
||||||
using <option>--arg</option>, e.g., <literal>nix-env -i
|
|
||||||
<replaceable>pkgname</replaceable> --arg system
|
|
||||||
\"i686-freebsd\"</literal>. (Note that since the argument is a Nix
|
|
||||||
string literal, you have to escape the quotes.)</para></listitem>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
</varlistentry>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
<varlistentry><term><option>--argstr</option> <replaceable>name</replaceable> <replaceable>value</replaceable></term>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
<listitem><para>This option is like <option>--arg</option>, only the
|
|
||||||
value is not a Nix expression but a string. So instead of
|
|
||||||
<literal>--arg system \"i686-linux\"</literal> (the outer quotes are
|
|
||||||
to keep the shell happy) you can say <literal>--argstr system
|
|
||||||
i686-linux</literal>.</para></listitem>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
</varlistentry>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
<varlistentry xml:id="opt-attr"><term><option>--attr</option> / <option>-A</option>
|
|
||||||
<replaceable>attrPath</replaceable></term>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
<listitem><para>Select an attribute from the top-level Nix
|
|
||||||
expression being evaluated. (<command>nix-env</command>,
|
|
||||||
<command>nix-instantiate</command>, <command>nix-build</command> and
|
|
||||||
<command>nix-shell</command> only.) The <emphasis>attribute
|
|
||||||
path</emphasis> <replaceable>attrPath</replaceable> is a sequence of
|
|
||||||
attribute names separated by dots. For instance, given a top-level
|
|
||||||
Nix expression <replaceable>e</replaceable>, the attribute path
|
|
||||||
<literal>xorg.xorgserver</literal> would cause the expression
|
|
||||||
<literal><replaceable>e</replaceable>.xorg.xorgserver</literal> to
|
|
||||||
be used. See <link
|
|
||||||
linkend='refsec-nix-env-install-examples'><command>nix-env
|
|
||||||
--install</command></link> for some concrete examples.</para>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
<para>In addition to attribute names, you can also specify array
|
|
||||||
indices. For instance, the attribute path
|
|
||||||
<literal>foo.3.bar</literal> selects the <literal>bar</literal>
|
|
||||||
attribute of the fourth element of the array in the
|
|
||||||
<literal>foo</literal> attribute of the top-level
|
|
||||||
expression.</para></listitem>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
</varlistentry>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
<varlistentry><term><option>--expr</option> / <option>-E</option></term>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
<listitem><para>Interpret the command line arguments as a list of
|
|
||||||
Nix expressions to be parsed and evaluated, rather than as a list
|
|
||||||
of file names of Nix expressions.
|
|
||||||
(<command>nix-instantiate</command>, <command>nix-build</command>
|
|
||||||
and <command>nix-shell</command> only.)</para>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
<para>For <command>nix-shell</command>, this option is commonly used
|
|
||||||
to give you a shell in which you can build the packages returned
|
|
||||||
by the expression. If you want to get a shell which contain the
|
|
||||||
<emphasis>built</emphasis> packages ready for use, give your
|
|
||||||
expression to the <command>nix-shell -p</command> convenience flag
|
|
||||||
instead.</para></listitem>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
</varlistentry>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
<varlistentry xml:id="opt-I"><term><option>-I</option> <replaceable>path</replaceable></term>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
<listitem><para>Add a path to the Nix expression search path. This
|
|
||||||
option may be given multiple times. See the <envar
|
|
||||||
linkend="env-NIX_PATH">NIX_PATH</envar> environment variable for
|
|
||||||
information on the semantics of the Nix search path. Paths added
|
|
||||||
through <option>-I</option> take precedence over
|
|
||||||
<envar>NIX_PATH</envar>.</para></listitem>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
</varlistentry>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
<varlistentry><term><option>--option</option> <replaceable>name</replaceable> <replaceable>value</replaceable></term>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
<listitem><para>Set the Nix configuration option
|
|
||||||
<replaceable>name</replaceable> to <replaceable>value</replaceable>.
|
|
||||||
This overrides settings in the Nix configuration file (see
|
|
||||||
<citerefentry><refentrytitle>nix.conf</refentrytitle><manvolnum>5</manvolnum></citerefentry>).</para></listitem>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
</varlistentry>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
<varlistentry><term><option>--repair</option></term>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
<listitem><para>Fix corrupted or missing store paths by
|
|
||||||
redownloading or rebuilding them. Note that this is slow because it
|
|
||||||
requires computing a cryptographic hash of the contents of every
|
|
||||||
path in the closure of the build. Also note the warning under
|
|
||||||
<command>nix-store --repair-path</command>.</para></listitem>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
</varlistentry>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
</variablelist>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
</chapter>
|
|
||||||
|
|
@ -1,22 +0,0 @@
|
||||||
<nop xmlns="http://docbook.org/ns/docbook">
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
<arg>
|
|
||||||
<group choice='req'>
|
|
||||||
<arg choice='plain'><option>--prebuilt-only</option></arg>
|
|
||||||
<arg choice='plain'><option>-b</option></arg>
|
|
||||||
</group>
|
|
||||||
</arg>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
<arg>
|
|
||||||
<group choice='req'>
|
|
||||||
<arg choice='plain'><option>--attr</option></arg>
|
|
||||||
<arg choice='plain'><option>-A</option></arg>
|
|
||||||
</group>
|
|
||||||
</arg>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
<arg><option>--from-expression</option></arg>
|
|
||||||
<arg><option>-E</option></arg>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
<arg><option>--from-profile</option> <replaceable>path</replaceable></arg>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
</nop>
|
|
||||||
|
|
@ -1,20 +0,0 @@
|
||||||
<chapter xmlns="http://docbook.org/ns/docbook"
|
|
||||||
xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink"
|
|
||||||
xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XInclude"
|
|
||||||
version="5.0"
|
|
||||||
xml:id='ch-utilities'>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
<title>Utilities</title>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
<para>This section lists utilities that you can use when you
|
|
||||||
work with Nix.</para>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
<xi:include href="nix-channel.xml" />
|
|
||||||
<xi:include href="nix-collect-garbage.xml" />
|
|
||||||
<xi:include href="nix-copy-closure.xml" />
|
|
||||||
<xi:include href="nix-daemon.xml" />
|
|
||||||
<xi:include href="nix-hash.xml" />
|
|
||||||
<xi:include href="nix-instantiate.xml" />
|
|
||||||
<xi:include href="nix-prefetch-url.xml" />
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
</chapter>
|
|
||||||
7
doc/manual/custom.css
Normal file
7
doc/manual/custom.css
Normal file
|
|
@ -0,0 +1,7 @@
|
||||||
|
h1:not(:first-of-type) {
|
||||||
|
margin-top: 1.3em;
|
||||||
|
}
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
h2 {
|
||||||
|
margin-top: 1em;
|
||||||
|
}
|
||||||
|
|
@ -1,351 +0,0 @@
|
||||||
<section xmlns="http://docbook.org/ns/docbook"
|
|
||||||
xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink"
|
|
||||||
xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XInclude"
|
|
||||||
version="5.0"
|
|
||||||
xml:id="sec-advanced-attributes">
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
<title>Advanced Attributes</title>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
<para>Derivations can declare some infrequently used optional
|
|
||||||
attributes.</para>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
<variablelist>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
<varlistentry xml:id="adv-attr-allowedReferences"><term><varname>allowedReferences</varname></term>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
<listitem><para>The optional attribute
|
|
||||||
<varname>allowedReferences</varname> specifies a list of legal
|
|
||||||
references (dependencies) of the output of the builder. For
|
|
||||||
example,
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
<programlisting>
|
|
||||||
allowedReferences = [];
|
|
||||||
</programlisting>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
enforces that the output of a derivation cannot have any runtime
|
|
||||||
dependencies on its inputs. To allow an output to have a runtime
|
|
||||||
dependency on itself, use <literal>"out"</literal> as a list item.
|
|
||||||
This is used in NixOS to check that generated files such as
|
|
||||||
initial ramdisks for booting Linux don’t have accidental
|
|
||||||
dependencies on other paths in the Nix store.</para></listitem>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
</varlistentry>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
<varlistentry xml:id="adv-attr-allowedRequisites"><term><varname>allowedRequisites</varname></term>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
<listitem><para>This attribute is similar to
|
|
||||||
<varname>allowedReferences</varname>, but it specifies the legal
|
|
||||||
requisites of the whole closure, so all the dependencies
|
|
||||||
recursively. For example,
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
<programlisting>
|
|
||||||
allowedRequisites = [ foobar ];
|
|
||||||
</programlisting>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
enforces that the output of a derivation cannot have any other
|
|
||||||
runtime dependency than <varname>foobar</varname>, and in addition
|
|
||||||
it enforces that <varname>foobar</varname> itself doesn't
|
|
||||||
introduce any other dependency itself.</para></listitem>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
</varlistentry>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
<varlistentry xml:id="adv-attr-disallowedReferences"><term><varname>disallowedReferences</varname></term>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
<listitem><para>The optional attribute
|
|
||||||
<varname>disallowedReferences</varname> specifies a list of illegal
|
|
||||||
references (dependencies) of the output of the builder. For
|
|
||||||
example,
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
<programlisting>
|
|
||||||
disallowedReferences = [ foo ];
|
|
||||||
</programlisting>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
enforces that the output of a derivation cannot have a direct runtime
|
|
||||||
dependencies on the derivation <varname>foo</varname>.</para></listitem>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
</varlistentry>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
<varlistentry xml:id="adv-attr-disallowedRequisites"><term><varname>disallowedRequisites</varname></term>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
<listitem><para>This attribute is similar to
|
|
||||||
<varname>disallowedReferences</varname>, but it specifies illegal
|
|
||||||
requisites for the whole closure, so all the dependencies
|
|
||||||
recursively. For example,
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
<programlisting>
|
|
||||||
disallowedRequisites = [ foobar ];
|
|
||||||
</programlisting>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
enforces that the output of a derivation cannot have any
|
|
||||||
runtime dependency on <varname>foobar</varname> or any other derivation
|
|
||||||
depending recursively on <varname>foobar</varname>.</para></listitem>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
</varlistentry>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
<varlistentry xml:id="adv-attr-exportReferencesGraph"><term><varname>exportReferencesGraph</varname></term>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
<listitem><para>This attribute allows builders access to the
|
|
||||||
references graph of their inputs. The attribute is a list of
|
|
||||||
inputs in the Nix store whose references graph the builder needs
|
|
||||||
to know. The value of this attribute should be a list of pairs
|
|
||||||
<literal>[ <replaceable>name1</replaceable>
|
|
||||||
<replaceable>path1</replaceable> <replaceable>name2</replaceable>
|
|
||||||
<replaceable>path2</replaceable> <replaceable>...</replaceable>
|
|
||||||
]</literal>. The references graph of each
|
|
||||||
<replaceable>pathN</replaceable> will be stored in a text file
|
|
||||||
<replaceable>nameN</replaceable> in the temporary build directory.
|
|
||||||
The text files have the format used by <command>nix-store
|
|
||||||
--register-validity</command> (with the deriver fields left
|
|
||||||
empty). For example, when the following derivation is built:
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
<programlisting>
|
|
||||||
derivation {
|
|
||||||
...
|
|
||||||
exportReferencesGraph = [ "libfoo-graph" libfoo ];
|
|
||||||
};
|
|
||||||
</programlisting>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
the references graph of <literal>libfoo</literal> is placed in the
|
|
||||||
file <filename>libfoo-graph</filename> in the temporary build
|
|
||||||
directory.</para>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
<para><varname>exportReferencesGraph</varname> is useful for
|
|
||||||
builders that want to do something with the closure of a store
|
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||||||
path. Examples include the builders in NixOS that generate the
|
|
||||||
initial ramdisk for booting Linux (a <command>cpio</command>
|
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||||||
archive containing the closure of the boot script) and the
|
|
||||||
ISO-9660 image for the installation CD (which is populated with a
|
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||||||
Nix store containing the closure of a bootable NixOS
|
|
||||||
configuration).</para></listitem>
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</varlistentry>
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<varlistentry xml:id="adv-attr-impureEnvVars"><term><varname>impureEnvVars</varname></term>
|
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||||||
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||||||
<listitem><para>This attribute allows you to specify a list of
|
|
||||||
environment variables that should be passed from the environment
|
|
||||||
of the calling user to the builder. Usually, the environment is
|
|
||||||
cleared completely when the builder is executed, but with this
|
|
||||||
attribute you can allow specific environment variables to be
|
|
||||||
passed unmodified. For example, <function>fetchurl</function> in
|
|
||||||
Nixpkgs has the line
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
<programlisting>
|
|
||||||
impureEnvVars = [ "http_proxy" "https_proxy" <replaceable>...</replaceable> ];
|
|
||||||
</programlisting>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
to make it use the proxy server configuration specified by the
|
|
||||||
user in the environment variables <envar>http_proxy</envar> and
|
|
||||||
friends.</para>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
<para>This attribute is only allowed in <link
|
|
||||||
linkend="fixed-output-drvs">fixed-output derivations</link>, where
|
|
||||||
impurities such as these are okay since (the hash of) the output
|
|
||||||
is known in advance. It is ignored for all other
|
|
||||||
derivations.</para>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
<warning><para><varname>impureEnvVars</varname> implementation takes
|
|
||||||
environment variables from the current builder process. When a daemon is
|
|
||||||
building its environmental variables are used. Without the daemon, the
|
|
||||||
environmental variables come from the environment of the
|
|
||||||
<command>nix-build</command>.</para></warning></listitem>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
</varlistentry>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
<varlistentry xml:id="fixed-output-drvs">
|
|
||||||
<term xml:id="adv-attr-outputHash"><varname>outputHash</varname></term>
|
|
||||||
<term xml:id="adv-attr-outputHashAlgo"><varname>outputHashAlgo</varname></term>
|
|
||||||
<term xml:id="adv-attr-outputHashMode"><varname>outputHashMode</varname></term>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
<listitem><para>These attributes declare that the derivation is a
|
|
||||||
so-called <emphasis>fixed-output derivation</emphasis>, which
|
|
||||||
means that a cryptographic hash of the output is already known in
|
|
||||||
advance. When the build of a fixed-output derivation finishes,
|
|
||||||
Nix computes the cryptographic hash of the output and compares it
|
|
||||||
to the hash declared with these attributes. If there is a
|
|
||||||
mismatch, the build fails.</para>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
<para>The rationale for fixed-output derivations is derivations
|
|
||||||
such as those produced by the <function>fetchurl</function>
|
|
||||||
function. This function downloads a file from a given URL. To
|
|
||||||
ensure that the downloaded file has not been modified, the caller
|
|
||||||
must also specify a cryptographic hash of the file. For example,
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
<programlisting>
|
|
||||||
fetchurl {
|
|
||||||
url = "http://ftp.gnu.org/pub/gnu/hello/hello-2.1.1.tar.gz";
|
|
||||||
sha256 = "1md7jsfd8pa45z73bz1kszpp01yw6x5ljkjk2hx7wl800any6465";
|
|
||||||
}
|
|
||||||
</programlisting>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
It sometimes happens that the URL of the file changes, e.g.,
|
|
||||||
because servers are reorganised or no longer available. We then
|
|
||||||
must update the call to <function>fetchurl</function>, e.g.,
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
<programlisting>
|
|
||||||
fetchurl {
|
|
||||||
url = "ftp://ftp.nluug.nl/pub/gnu/hello/hello-2.1.1.tar.gz";
|
|
||||||
sha256 = "1md7jsfd8pa45z73bz1kszpp01yw6x5ljkjk2hx7wl800any6465";
|
|
||||||
}
|
|
||||||
</programlisting>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
If a <function>fetchurl</function> derivation was treated like a
|
|
||||||
normal derivation, the output paths of the derivation and
|
|
||||||
<emphasis>all derivations depending on it</emphasis> would change.
|
|
||||||
For instance, if we were to change the URL of the Glibc source
|
|
||||||
distribution in Nixpkgs (a package on which almost all other
|
|
||||||
packages depend) massive rebuilds would be needed. This is
|
|
||||||
unfortunate for a change which we know cannot have a real effect
|
|
||||||
as it propagates upwards through the dependency graph.</para>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
<para>For fixed-output derivations, on the other hand, the name of
|
|
||||||
the output path only depends on the <varname>outputHash*</varname>
|
|
||||||
and <varname>name</varname> attributes, while all other attributes
|
|
||||||
are ignored for the purpose of computing the output path. (The
|
|
||||||
<varname>name</varname> attribute is included because it is part
|
|
||||||
of the path.)</para>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
<para>As an example, here is the (simplified) Nix expression for
|
|
||||||
<varname>fetchurl</varname>:
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
<programlisting>
|
|
||||||
{ stdenv, curl }: # The <command>curl</command> program is used for downloading.
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
{ url, sha256 }:
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
stdenv.mkDerivation {
|
|
||||||
name = baseNameOf (toString url);
|
|
||||||
builder = ./builder.sh;
|
|
||||||
buildInputs = [ curl ];
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
# This is a fixed-output derivation; the output must be a regular
|
|
||||||
# file with SHA256 hash <varname>sha256</varname>.
|
|
||||||
outputHashMode = "flat";
|
|
||||||
outputHashAlgo = "sha256";
|
|
||||||
outputHash = sha256;
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
inherit url;
|
|
||||||
}
|
|
||||||
</programlisting>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
</para>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
<para>The <varname>outputHashAlgo</varname> attribute specifies
|
|
||||||
the hash algorithm used to compute the hash. It can currently be
|
|
||||||
<literal>"sha1"</literal>, <literal>"sha256"</literal> or
|
|
||||||
<literal>"sha512"</literal>.</para>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
<para>The <varname>outputHashMode</varname> attribute determines
|
|
||||||
how the hash is computed. It must be one of the following two
|
|
||||||
values:
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
<variablelist>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
<varlistentry><term><literal>"flat"</literal></term>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
<listitem><para>The output must be a non-executable regular
|
|
||||||
file. If it isn’t, the build fails. The hash is simply
|
|
||||||
computed over the contents of that file (so it’s equal to what
|
|
||||||
Unix commands like <command>sha256sum</command> or
|
|
||||||
<command>sha1sum</command> produce).</para>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
<para>This is the default.</para></listitem>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
</varlistentry>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
<varlistentry><term><literal>"recursive"</literal></term>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
<listitem><para>The hash is computed over the NAR archive dump
|
|
||||||
of the output (i.e., the result of <link
|
|
||||||
linkend="refsec-nix-store-dump"><command>nix-store
|
|
||||||
--dump</command></link>). In this case, the output can be
|
|
||||||
anything, including a directory tree.</para></listitem>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
</varlistentry>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
</variablelist>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
</para>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
<para>The <varname>outputHash</varname> attribute, finally, must
|
|
||||||
be a string containing the hash in either hexadecimal or base-32
|
|
||||||
notation. (See the <link
|
|
||||||
linkend="sec-nix-hash"><command>nix-hash</command> command</link>
|
|
||||||
for information about converting to and from base-32
|
|
||||||
notation.)</para></listitem>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
</varlistentry>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
<varlistentry xml:id="adv-attr-passAsFile"><term><varname>passAsFile</varname></term>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
<listitem><para>A list of names of attributes that should be
|
|
||||||
passed via files rather than environment variables. For example,
|
|
||||||
if you have
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
<programlisting>
|
|
||||||
passAsFile = ["big"];
|
|
||||||
big = "a very long string";
|
|
||||||
</programlisting>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
then when the builder runs, the environment variable
|
|
||||||
<envar>bigPath</envar> will contain the absolute path to a
|
|
||||||
temporary file containing <literal>a very long
|
|
||||||
string</literal>. That is, for any attribute
|
|
||||||
<replaceable>x</replaceable> listed in
|
|
||||||
<varname>passAsFile</varname>, Nix will pass an environment
|
|
||||||
variable <envar><replaceable>x</replaceable>Path</envar> holding
|
|
||||||
the path of the file containing the value of attribute
|
|
||||||
<replaceable>x</replaceable>. This is useful when you need to pass
|
|
||||||
large strings to a builder, since most operating systems impose a
|
|
||||||
limit on the size of the environment (typically, a few hundred
|
|
||||||
kilobyte).</para></listitem>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
</varlistentry>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
<varlistentry xml:id="adv-attr-preferLocalBuild"><term><varname>preferLocalBuild</varname></term>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
<listitem><para>If this attribute is set to
|
|
||||||
<literal>true</literal> and <link
|
|
||||||
linkend="chap-distributed-builds">distributed building is
|
|
||||||
enabled</link>, then, if possible, the derivaton will be built
|
|
||||||
locally instead of forwarded to a remote machine. This is
|
|
||||||
appropriate for trivial builders where the cost of doing a
|
|
||||||
download or remote build would exceed the cost of building
|
|
||||||
locally.</para></listitem>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
</varlistentry>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
<varlistentry xml:id="adv-attr-allowSubstitutes"><term><varname>allowSubstitutes</varname></term>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
<listitem>
|
|
||||||
<para>If this attribute is set to
|
|
||||||
<literal>false</literal>, then Nix will always build this
|
|
||||||
derivation; it will not try to substitute its outputs. This is
|
|
||||||
useful for very trivial derivations (such as
|
|
||||||
<function>writeText</function> in Nixpkgs) that are cheaper to
|
|
||||||
build than to substitute from a binary cache.</para>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
<note><para>You need to have a builder configured which satisfies
|
|
||||||
the derivation’s <literal>system</literal> attribute, since the
|
|
||||||
derivation cannot be substituted. Thus it is usually a good idea
|
|
||||||
to align <literal>system</literal> with
|
|
||||||
<literal>builtins.currentSystem</literal> when setting
|
|
||||||
<literal>allowSubstitutes</literal> to <literal>false</literal>.
|
|
||||||
For most trivial derivations this should be the case.
|
|
||||||
</para></note>
|
|
||||||
</listitem>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
</varlistentry>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
</variablelist>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
</section>
|
|
||||||
|
|
@ -1,121 +0,0 @@
|
||||||
<section xmlns="http://docbook.org/ns/docbook"
|
|
||||||
xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink"
|
|
||||||
xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XInclude"
|
|
||||||
version="5.0"
|
|
||||||
xml:id='sec-arguments'>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
<title>Arguments and Variables</title>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
<example xml:id='ex-hello-composition'>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
<title>Composing GNU Hello
|
|
||||||
(<filename>all-packages.nix</filename>)</title>
|
|
||||||
<programlisting>
|
|
||||||
...
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
rec { <co xml:id='ex-hello-composition-co-1' />
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
hello = import ../applications/misc/hello/ex-1 <co xml:id='ex-hello-composition-co-2' /> { <co xml:id='ex-hello-composition-co-3' />
|
|
||||||
inherit fetchurl stdenv perl;
|
|
||||||
};
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
perl = import ../development/interpreters/perl { <co xml:id='ex-hello-composition-co-4' />
|
|
||||||
inherit fetchurl stdenv;
|
|
||||||
};
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
fetchurl = import ../build-support/fetchurl {
|
|
||||||
inherit stdenv; ...
|
|
||||||
};
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
stdenv = ...;
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
}
|
|
||||||
</programlisting>
|
|
||||||
</example>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
<para>The Nix expression in <xref linkend='ex-hello-nix' /> is a
|
|
||||||
function; it is missing some arguments that have to be filled in
|
|
||||||
somewhere. In the Nix Packages collection this is done in the file
|
|
||||||
<filename>pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix</filename>, where all
|
|
||||||
Nix expressions for packages are imported and called with the
|
|
||||||
appropriate arguments. <xref linkend='ex-hello-composition' /> shows
|
|
||||||
some fragments of
|
|
||||||
<filename>all-packages.nix</filename>.</para>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
<calloutlist>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
<callout arearefs='ex-hello-composition-co-1'>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
<para>This file defines a set of attributes, all of which are
|
|
||||||
concrete derivations (i.e., not functions). In fact, we define a
|
|
||||||
<emphasis>mutually recursive</emphasis> set of attributes. That
|
|
||||||
is, the attributes can refer to each other. This is precisely
|
|
||||||
what we want since we want to <quote>plug</quote> the
|
|
||||||
various packages into each other.</para>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
</callout>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
<callout arearefs='ex-hello-composition-co-2'>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
<para>Here we <emphasis>import</emphasis> the Nix expression for
|
|
||||||
GNU Hello. The import operation just loads and returns the
|
|
||||||
specified Nix expression. In fact, we could just have put the
|
|
||||||
contents of <xref linkend='ex-hello-nix' /> in
|
|
||||||
<filename>all-packages.nix</filename> at this point. That
|
|
||||||
would be completely equivalent, but it would make the file rather
|
|
||||||
bulky.</para>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
<para>Note that we refer to
|
|
||||||
<filename>../applications/misc/hello/ex-1</filename>, not
|
|
||||||
<filename>../applications/misc/hello/ex-1/default.nix</filename>.
|
|
||||||
When you try to import a directory, Nix automatically appends
|
|
||||||
<filename>/default.nix</filename> to the file name.</para>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
</callout>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
<callout arearefs='ex-hello-composition-co-3'>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
<para>This is where the actual composition takes place. Here we
|
|
||||||
<emphasis>call</emphasis> the function imported from
|
|
||||||
<filename>../applications/misc/hello/ex-1</filename> with a set
|
|
||||||
containing the things that the function expects, namely
|
|
||||||
<varname>fetchurl</varname>, <varname>stdenv</varname>, and
|
|
||||||
<varname>perl</varname>. We use inherit again to use the
|
|
||||||
attributes defined in the surrounding scope (we could also have
|
|
||||||
written <literal>fetchurl = fetchurl;</literal>, etc.).</para>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
<para>The result of this function call is an actual derivation
|
|
||||||
that can be built by Nix (since when we fill in the arguments of
|
|
||||||
the function, what we get is its body, which is the call to
|
|
||||||
<varname>stdenv.mkDerivation</varname> in <xref
|
|
||||||
linkend='ex-hello-nix' />).</para>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
<note><para>Nixpkgs has a convenience function
|
|
||||||
<function>callPackage</function> that imports and calls a
|
|
||||||
function, filling in any missing arguments by passing the
|
|
||||||
corresponding attribute from the Nixpkgs set, like this:
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
<programlisting>
|
|
||||||
hello = callPackage ../applications/misc/hello/ex-1 { };
|
|
||||||
</programlisting>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
If necessary, you can set or override arguments:
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
<programlisting>
|
|
||||||
hello = callPackage ../applications/misc/hello/ex-1 { stdenv = myStdenv; };
|
|
||||||
</programlisting>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
</para></note>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
</callout>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
<callout arearefs='ex-hello-composition-co-4'>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
<para>Likewise, we have to instantiate Perl,
|
|
||||||
<varname>fetchurl</varname>, and the standard environment.</para>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
</callout>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
</calloutlist>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
</section>
|
|
||||||
|
|
@ -1,119 +0,0 @@
|
||||||
<section xmlns="http://docbook.org/ns/docbook"
|
|
||||||
xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink"
|
|
||||||
xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XInclude"
|
|
||||||
version="5.0"
|
|
||||||
xml:id='sec-build-script'>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
<title>Build Script</title>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
<example xml:id='ex-hello-builder'><title>Build script for GNU Hello
|
|
||||||
(<filename>builder.sh</filename>)</title>
|
|
||||||
<programlisting>
|
|
||||||
source $stdenv/setup <co xml:id='ex-hello-builder-co-1' />
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
PATH=$perl/bin:$PATH <co xml:id='ex-hello-builder-co-2' />
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
tar xvfz $src <co xml:id='ex-hello-builder-co-3' />
|
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cd hello-*
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./configure --prefix=$out <co xml:id='ex-hello-builder-co-4' />
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make <co xml:id='ex-hello-builder-co-5' />
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make install</programlisting>
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</example>
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<para><xref linkend='ex-hello-builder' /> shows the builder referenced
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from Hello's Nix expression (stored in
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<filename>pkgs/applications/misc/hello/ex-1/builder.sh</filename>).
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The builder can actually be made a lot shorter by using the
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<emphasis>generic builder</emphasis> functions provided by
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<varname>stdenv</varname>, but here we write out the build steps to
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elucidate what a builder does. It performs the following
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steps:</para>
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<calloutlist>
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<callout arearefs='ex-hello-builder-co-1'>
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<para>When Nix runs a builder, it initially completely clears the
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environment (except for the attributes declared in the
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derivation). For instance, the <envar>PATH</envar> variable is
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empty<footnote><para>Actually, it's initialised to
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<filename>/path-not-set</filename> to prevent Bash from setting it
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to a default value.</para></footnote>. This is done to prevent
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undeclared inputs from being used in the build process. If for
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example the <envar>PATH</envar> contained
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<filename>/usr/bin</filename>, then you might accidentally use
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<filename>/usr/bin/gcc</filename>.</para>
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<para>So the first step is to set up the environment. This is
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done by calling the <filename>setup</filename> script of the
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standard environment. The environment variable
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<envar>stdenv</envar> points to the location of the standard
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environment being used. (It wasn't specified explicitly as an
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attribute in <xref linkend='ex-hello-nix' />, but
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<varname>mkDerivation</varname> adds it automatically.)</para>
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</callout>
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<callout arearefs='ex-hello-builder-co-2'>
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<para>Since Hello needs Perl, we have to make sure that Perl is in
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the <envar>PATH</envar>. The <envar>perl</envar> environment
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variable points to the location of the Perl package (since it
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was passed in as an attribute to the derivation), so
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<filename><replaceable>$perl</replaceable>/bin</filename> is the
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directory containing the Perl interpreter.</para>
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</callout>
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<callout arearefs='ex-hello-builder-co-3'>
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<para>Now we have to unpack the sources. The
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<varname>src</varname> attribute was bound to the result of
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fetching the Hello source tarball from the network, so the
|
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<envar>src</envar> environment variable points to the location in
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the Nix store to which the tarball was downloaded. After
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unpacking, we <command>cd</command> to the resulting source
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directory.</para>
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<para>The whole build is performed in a temporary directory
|
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created in <varname>/tmp</varname>, by the way. This directory is
|
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removed after the builder finishes, so there is no need to clean
|
|
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up the sources afterwards. Also, the temporary directory is
|
|
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always newly created, so you don't have to worry about files from
|
|
||||||
previous builds interfering with the current build.</para>
|
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|
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</callout>
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<callout arearefs='ex-hello-builder-co-4'>
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|
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<para>GNU Hello is a typical Autoconf-based package, so we first
|
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have to run its <filename>configure</filename> script. In Nix
|
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every package is stored in a separate location in the Nix store,
|
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||||||
for instance
|
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<filename>/nix/store/9a54ba97fb71b65fda531012d0443ce2-hello-2.1.1</filename>.
|
|
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Nix computes this path by cryptographically hashing all attributes
|
|
||||||
of the derivation. The path is passed to the builder through the
|
|
||||||
<envar>out</envar> environment variable. So here we give
|
|
||||||
<filename>configure</filename> the parameter
|
|
||||||
<literal>--prefix=$out</literal> to cause Hello to be installed in
|
|
||||||
the expected location.</para>
|
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||||||
|
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||||||
</callout>
|
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||||||
|
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||||||
<callout arearefs='ex-hello-builder-co-5'>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
<para>Finally we build Hello (<literal>make</literal>) and install
|
|
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it into the location specified by <envar>out</envar>
|
|
||||||
(<literal>make install</literal>).</para>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
</callout>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
</calloutlist>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
<para>If you are wondering about the absence of error checking on the
|
|
||||||
result of various commands called in the builder: this is because the
|
|
||||||
shell script is evaluated with Bash's <option>-e</option> option,
|
|
||||||
which causes the script to be aborted if any command fails without an
|
|
||||||
error check.</para>
|
|
||||||
|
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||||||
</section>
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|
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<section xmlns="http://docbook.org/ns/docbook"
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xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink"
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|
||||||
xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XInclude"
|
|
||||||
version="5.0"
|
|
||||||
xml:id="ssec-derivation">
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
<title>Derivations</title>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
<para>The most important built-in function is
|
|
||||||
<function>derivation</function>, which is used to describe a single
|
|
||||||
derivation (a build action). It takes as input a set, the attributes
|
|
||||||
of which specify the inputs of the build.</para>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
<itemizedlist>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
<listitem xml:id="attr-system"><para>There must be an attribute named
|
|
||||||
<varname>system</varname> whose value must be a string specifying a
|
|
||||||
Nix platform identifier, such as <literal>"i686-linux"</literal> or
|
|
||||||
<literal>"x86_64-darwin"</literal><footnote><para>To figure out
|
|
||||||
your platform identifier, look at the line <quote>Checking for the
|
|
||||||
canonical Nix system name</quote> in the output of Nix's
|
|
||||||
<filename>configure</filename> script.</para></footnote> The build
|
|
||||||
can only be performed on a machine and operating system matching the
|
|
||||||
platform identifier. (Nix can automatically forward builds for
|
|
||||||
other platforms by forwarding them to other machines; see <xref
|
|
||||||
linkend='chap-distributed-builds' />.)</para></listitem>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
<listitem><para>There must be an attribute named
|
|
||||||
<varname>name</varname> whose value must be a string. This is used
|
|
||||||
as a symbolic name for the package by <command>nix-env</command>,
|
|
||||||
and it is appended to the output paths of the
|
|
||||||
derivation.</para></listitem>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
<listitem><para>There must be an attribute named
|
|
||||||
<varname>builder</varname> that identifies the program that is
|
|
||||||
executed to perform the build. It can be either a derivation or a
|
|
||||||
source (a local file reference, e.g.,
|
|
||||||
<filename>./builder.sh</filename>).</para></listitem>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
<listitem><para>Every attribute is passed as an environment variable
|
|
||||||
to the builder. Attribute values are translated to environment
|
|
||||||
variables as follows:
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
<itemizedlist>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
<listitem><para>Strings and numbers are just passed
|
|
||||||
verbatim.</para></listitem>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
<listitem><para>A <emphasis>path</emphasis> (e.g.,
|
|
||||||
<filename>../foo/sources.tar</filename>) causes the referenced
|
|
||||||
file to be copied to the store; its location in the store is put
|
|
||||||
in the environment variable. The idea is that all sources
|
|
||||||
should reside in the Nix store, since all inputs to a derivation
|
|
||||||
should reside in the Nix store.</para></listitem>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
<listitem><para>A <emphasis>derivation</emphasis> causes that
|
|
||||||
derivation to be built prior to the present derivation; its
|
|
||||||
default output path is put in the environment
|
|
||||||
variable.</para></listitem>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
<listitem><para>Lists of the previous types are also allowed.
|
|
||||||
They are simply concatenated, separated by
|
|
||||||
spaces.</para></listitem>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
<listitem><para><literal>true</literal> is passed as the string
|
|
||||||
<literal>1</literal>, <literal>false</literal> and
|
|
||||||
<literal>null</literal> are passed as an empty string.
|
|
||||||
</para></listitem>
|
|
||||||
</itemizedlist>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
</para></listitem>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
<listitem><para>The optional attribute <varname>args</varname>
|
|
||||||
specifies command-line arguments to be passed to the builder. It
|
|
||||||
should be a list.</para></listitem>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
<listitem><para>The optional attribute <varname>outputs</varname>
|
|
||||||
specifies a list of symbolic outputs of the derivation. By default,
|
|
||||||
a derivation produces a single output path, denoted as
|
|
||||||
<literal>out</literal>. However, derivations can produce multiple
|
|
||||||
output paths. This is useful because it allows outputs to be
|
|
||||||
downloaded or garbage-collected separately. For instance, imagine a
|
|
||||||
library package that provides a dynamic library, header files, and
|
|
||||||
documentation. A program that links against the library doesn’t
|
|
||||||
need the header files and documentation at runtime, and it doesn’t
|
|
||||||
need the documentation at build time. Thus, the library package
|
|
||||||
could specify:
|
|
||||||
<programlisting>
|
|
||||||
outputs = [ "lib" "headers" "doc" ];
|
|
||||||
</programlisting>
|
|
||||||
This will cause Nix to pass environment variables
|
|
||||||
<literal>lib</literal>, <literal>headers</literal> and
|
|
||||||
<literal>doc</literal> to the builder containing the intended store
|
|
||||||
paths of each output. The builder would typically do something like
|
|
||||||
<programlisting>
|
|
||||||
./configure --libdir=$lib/lib --includedir=$headers/include --docdir=$doc/share/doc
|
|
||||||
</programlisting>
|
|
||||||
for an Autoconf-style package. You can refer to each output of a
|
|
||||||
derivation by selecting it as an attribute, e.g.
|
|
||||||
<programlisting>
|
|
||||||
buildInputs = [ pkg.lib pkg.headers ];
|
|
||||||
</programlisting>
|
|
||||||
The first element of <varname>outputs</varname> determines the
|
|
||||||
<emphasis>default output</emphasis>. Thus, you could also write
|
|
||||||
<programlisting>
|
|
||||||
buildInputs = [ pkg pkg.headers ];
|
|
||||||
</programlisting>
|
|
||||||
since <literal>pkg</literal> is equivalent to
|
|
||||||
<literal>pkg.lib</literal>.</para></listitem>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
</itemizedlist>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
<para>The function <function>mkDerivation</function> in the Nixpkgs
|
|
||||||
standard environment is a wrapper around
|
|
||||||
<function>derivation</function> that adds a default value for
|
|
||||||
<varname>system</varname> and always uses Bash as the builder, to
|
|
||||||
which the supplied builder is passed as a command-line argument. See
|
|
||||||
the Nixpkgs manual for details.</para>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
<para>The builder is executed as follows:
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
<itemizedlist>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
<listitem><para>A temporary directory is created under the directory
|
|
||||||
specified by <envar>TMPDIR</envar> (default
|
|
||||||
<filename>/tmp</filename>) where the build will take place. The
|
|
||||||
current directory is changed to this directory.</para></listitem>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
<listitem><para>The environment is cleared and set to the derivation
|
|
||||||
attributes, as specified above.</para></listitem>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
<listitem><para>In addition, the following variables are set:
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
<itemizedlist>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
<listitem><para><envar>NIX_BUILD_TOP</envar> contains the path of
|
|
||||||
the temporary directory for this build.</para></listitem>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
<listitem><para>Also, <envar>TMPDIR</envar>,
|
|
||||||
<envar>TEMPDIR</envar>, <envar>TMP</envar>, <envar>TEMP</envar>
|
|
||||||
are set to point to the temporary directory. This is to prevent
|
|
||||||
the builder from accidentally writing temporary files anywhere
|
|
||||||
else. Doing so might cause interference by other
|
|
||||||
processes.</para></listitem>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
<listitem><para><envar>PATH</envar> is set to
|
|
||||||
<filename>/path-not-set</filename> to prevent shells from
|
|
||||||
initialising it to their built-in default value.</para></listitem>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
<listitem><para><envar>HOME</envar> is set to
|
|
||||||
<filename>/homeless-shelter</filename> to prevent programs from
|
|
||||||
using <filename>/etc/passwd</filename> or the like to find the
|
|
||||||
user's home directory, which could cause impurity. Usually, when
|
|
||||||
<envar>HOME</envar> is set, it is used as the location of the home
|
|
||||||
directory, even if it points to a non-existent
|
|
||||||
path.</para></listitem>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
<listitem><para><envar>NIX_STORE</envar> is set to the path of the
|
|
||||||
top-level Nix store directory (typically,
|
|
||||||
<filename>/nix/store</filename>).</para></listitem>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
<listitem><para>For each output declared in
|
|
||||||
<varname>outputs</varname>, the corresponding environment variable
|
|
||||||
is set to point to the intended path in the Nix store for that
|
|
||||||
output. Each output path is a concatenation of the cryptographic
|
|
||||||
hash of all build inputs, the <varname>name</varname> attribute
|
|
||||||
and the output name. (The output name is omitted if it’s
|
|
||||||
<literal>out</literal>.)</para></listitem>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
</itemizedlist>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
</para></listitem>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
<listitem><para>If an output path already exists, it is removed.
|
|
||||||
Also, locks are acquired to prevent multiple Nix instances from
|
|
||||||
performing the same build at the same time.</para></listitem>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
<listitem><para>A log of the combined standard output and error is
|
|
||||||
written to <filename>/nix/var/log/nix</filename>.</para></listitem>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
<listitem><para>The builder is executed with the arguments specified
|
|
||||||
by the attribute <varname>args</varname>. If it exits with exit
|
|
||||||
code 0, it is considered to have succeeded.</para></listitem>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
<listitem><para>The temporary directory is removed (unless the
|
|
||||||
<option>-K</option> option was specified).</para></listitem>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
<listitem><para>If the build was successful, Nix scans each output
|
|
||||||
path for references to input paths by looking for the hash parts of
|
|
||||||
the input paths. Since these are potential runtime dependencies,
|
|
||||||
Nix registers them as dependencies of the output
|
|
||||||
paths.</para></listitem>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
<listitem><para>After the build, Nix sets the last-modified
|
|
||||||
timestamp on all files in the build result to 1 (00:00:01 1/1/1970
|
|
||||||
UTC), sets the group to the default group, and sets the mode of the
|
|
||||||
file to 0444 or 0555 (i.e., read-only, with execute permission
|
|
||||||
enabled if the file was originally executable). Note that possible
|
|
||||||
<literal>setuid</literal> and <literal>setgid</literal> bits are
|
|
||||||
cleared. Setuid and setgid programs are not currently supported by
|
|
||||||
Nix. This is because the Nix archives used in deployment have no
|
|
||||||
concept of ownership information, and because it makes the build
|
|
||||||
result dependent on the user performing the build.</para></listitem>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
</itemizedlist>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
</para>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
<xi:include href="advanced-attributes.xml" />
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
</section>
|
|
||||||
|
|
@ -1,30 +0,0 @@
|
||||||
<chapter xmlns="http://docbook.org/ns/docbook"
|
|
||||||
xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink"
|
|
||||||
xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XInclude"
|
|
||||||
version="5.0"
|
|
||||||
xml:id="ch-expression-language">
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
<title>Nix Expression Language</title>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
<para>The Nix expression language is a pure, lazy, functional
|
|
||||||
language. Purity means that operations in the language don't have
|
|
||||||
side-effects (for instance, there is no variable assignment).
|
|
||||||
Laziness means that arguments to functions are evaluated only when
|
|
||||||
they are needed. Functional means that functions are
|
|
||||||
<quote>normal</quote> values that can be passed around and manipulated
|
|
||||||
in interesting ways. The language is not a full-featured, general
|
|
||||||
purpose language. Its main job is to describe packages,
|
|
||||||
compositions of packages, and the variability within
|
|
||||||
packages.</para>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
<para>This section presents the various features of the
|
|
||||||
language.</para>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
<xi:include href="language-values.xml" />
|
|
||||||
<xi:include href="language-constructs.xml" />
|
|
||||||
<xi:include href="language-operators.xml" />
|
|
||||||
<xi:include href="derivations.xml" />
|
|
||||||
<xi:include href="builtins.xml" />
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
</chapter>
|
|
||||||
|
|
@ -1,148 +0,0 @@
|
||||||
<section xmlns="http://docbook.org/ns/docbook"
|
|
||||||
xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink"
|
|
||||||
xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XInclude"
|
|
||||||
version="5.0"
|
|
||||||
xml:id='sec-expression-syntax'>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
<title>Expression Syntax</title>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
<example xml:id='ex-hello-nix'><title>Nix expression for GNU Hello
|
|
||||||
(<filename>default.nix</filename>)</title>
|
|
||||||
<programlisting>
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{ stdenv, fetchurl, perl }: <co xml:id='ex-hello-nix-co-1' />
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stdenv.mkDerivation { <co xml:id='ex-hello-nix-co-2' />
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name = "hello-2.1.1"; <co xml:id='ex-hello-nix-co-3' />
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builder = ./builder.sh; <co xml:id='ex-hello-nix-co-4' />
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src = fetchurl { <co xml:id='ex-hello-nix-co-5' />
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||||||
url = "ftp://ftp.nluug.nl/pub/gnu/hello/hello-2.1.1.tar.gz";
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||||||
sha256 = "1md7jsfd8pa45z73bz1kszpp01yw6x5ljkjk2hx7wl800any6465";
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||||||
};
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||||||
inherit perl; <co xml:id='ex-hello-nix-co-6' />
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}</programlisting>
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</example>
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||||||
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||||||
<para><xref linkend='ex-hello-nix' /> shows a Nix expression for GNU
|
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||||||
Hello. It's actually already in the Nix Packages collection in
|
|
||||||
<filename>pkgs/applications/misc/hello/ex-1/default.nix</filename>.
|
|
||||||
It is customary to place each package in a separate directory and call
|
|
||||||
the single Nix expression in that directory
|
|
||||||
<filename>default.nix</filename>. The file has the following elements
|
|
||||||
(referenced from the figure by number):
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
<calloutlist>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
<callout arearefs='ex-hello-nix-co-1'>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
<para>This states that the expression is a
|
|
||||||
<emphasis>function</emphasis> that expects to be called with three
|
|
||||||
arguments: <varname>stdenv</varname>, <varname>fetchurl</varname>,
|
|
||||||
and <varname>perl</varname>. They are needed to build Hello, but
|
|
||||||
we don't know how to build them here; that's why they are function
|
|
||||||
arguments. <varname>stdenv</varname> is a package that is used
|
|
||||||
by almost all Nix Packages packages; it provides a
|
|
||||||
<quote>standard</quote> environment consisting of the things you
|
|
||||||
would expect in a basic Unix environment: a C/C++ compiler (GCC,
|
|
||||||
to be precise), the Bash shell, fundamental Unix tools such as
|
|
||||||
<command>cp</command>, <command>grep</command>,
|
|
||||||
<command>tar</command>, etc. <varname>fetchurl</varname> is a
|
|
||||||
function that downloads files. <varname>perl</varname> is the
|
|
||||||
Perl interpreter.</para>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
<para>Nix functions generally have the form <literal>{ x, y, ...,
|
|
||||||
z }: e</literal> where <varname>x</varname>, <varname>y</varname>,
|
|
||||||
etc. are the names of the expected arguments, and where
|
|
||||||
<replaceable>e</replaceable> is the body of the function. So
|
|
||||||
here, the entire remainder of the file is the body of the
|
|
||||||
function; when given the required arguments, the body should
|
|
||||||
describe how to build an instance of the Hello package.</para>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
</callout>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
<callout arearefs='ex-hello-nix-co-2'>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
<para>So we have to build a package. Building something from
|
|
||||||
other stuff is called a <emphasis>derivation</emphasis> in Nix (as
|
|
||||||
opposed to sources, which are built by humans instead of
|
|
||||||
computers). We perform a derivation by calling
|
|
||||||
<varname>stdenv.mkDerivation</varname>.
|
|
||||||
<varname>mkDerivation</varname> is a function provided by
|
|
||||||
<varname>stdenv</varname> that builds a package from a set of
|
|
||||||
<emphasis>attributes</emphasis>. A set is just a list of
|
|
||||||
key/value pairs where each key is a string and each value is an
|
|
||||||
arbitrary Nix expression. They take the general form <literal>{
|
|
||||||
<replaceable>name1</replaceable> =
|
|
||||||
<replaceable>expr1</replaceable>; <replaceable>...</replaceable>
|
|
||||||
<replaceable>nameN</replaceable> =
|
|
||||||
<replaceable>exprN</replaceable>; }</literal>.</para>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
</callout>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
<callout arearefs='ex-hello-nix-co-3'>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
<para>The attribute <varname>name</varname> specifies the symbolic
|
|
||||||
name and version of the package. Nix doesn't really care about
|
|
||||||
these things, but they are used by for instance <command>nix-env
|
|
||||||
-q</command> to show a <quote>human-readable</quote> name for
|
|
||||||
packages. This attribute is required by
|
|
||||||
<varname>mkDerivation</varname>.</para>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
</callout>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
<callout arearefs='ex-hello-nix-co-4'>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
<para>The attribute <varname>builder</varname> specifies the
|
|
||||||
builder. This attribute can sometimes be omitted, in which case
|
|
||||||
<varname>mkDerivation</varname> will fill in a default builder
|
|
||||||
(which does a <literal>configure; make; make install</literal>, in
|
|
||||||
essence). Hello is sufficiently simple that the default builder
|
|
||||||
would suffice, but in this case, we will show an actual builder
|
|
||||||
for educational purposes. The value
|
|
||||||
<command>./builder.sh</command> refers to the shell script shown
|
|
||||||
in <xref linkend='ex-hello-builder' />, discussed below.</para>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
</callout>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
<callout arearefs='ex-hello-nix-co-5'>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
<para>The builder has to know what the sources of the package
|
|
||||||
are. Here, the attribute <varname>src</varname> is bound to the
|
|
||||||
result of a call to the <command>fetchurl</command> function.
|
|
||||||
Given a URL and a SHA-256 hash of the expected contents of the file
|
|
||||||
at that URL, this function builds a derivation that downloads the
|
|
||||||
file and checks its hash. So the sources are a dependency that
|
|
||||||
like all other dependencies is built before Hello itself is
|
|
||||||
built.</para>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
<para>Instead of <varname>src</varname> any other name could have
|
|
||||||
been used, and in fact there can be any number of sources (bound
|
|
||||||
to different attributes). However, <varname>src</varname> is
|
|
||||||
customary, and it's also expected by the default builder (which we
|
|
||||||
don't use in this example).</para>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
</callout>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
<callout arearefs='ex-hello-nix-co-6'>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
<para>Since the derivation requires Perl, we have to pass the
|
|
||||||
value of the <varname>perl</varname> function argument to the
|
|
||||||
builder. All attributes in the set are actually passed as
|
|
||||||
environment variables to the builder, so declaring an attribute
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
<programlisting>
|
|
||||||
perl = perl;</programlisting>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
will do the trick: it binds an attribute <varname>perl</varname>
|
|
||||||
to the function argument which also happens to be called
|
|
||||||
<varname>perl</varname>. However, it looks a bit silly, so there
|
|
||||||
is a shorter syntax. The <literal>inherit</literal> keyword
|
|
||||||
causes the specified attributes to be bound to whatever variables
|
|
||||||
with the same name happen to be in scope.</para>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
</callout>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
</calloutlist>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
</para>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
</section>
|
|
||||||
|
|
@ -1,98 +0,0 @@
|
||||||
<section xmlns="http://docbook.org/ns/docbook"
|
|
||||||
xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink"
|
|
||||||
xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XInclude"
|
|
||||||
version="5.0"
|
|
||||||
xml:id='sec-generic-builder'>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
<title>Generic Builder Syntax</title>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
<para>Recall from <xref linkend='ex-hello-builder' /> that the builder
|
|
||||||
looked something like this:
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
<programlisting>
|
|
||||||
PATH=$perl/bin:$PATH
|
|
||||||
tar xvfz $src
|
|
||||||
cd hello-*
|
|
||||||
./configure --prefix=$out
|
|
||||||
make
|
|
||||||
make install</programlisting>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
The builders for almost all Unix packages look like this — set up some
|
|
||||||
environment variables, unpack the sources, configure, build, and
|
|
||||||
install. For this reason the standard environment provides some Bash
|
|
||||||
functions that automate the build process. A builder using the
|
|
||||||
generic build facilities in shown in <xref linkend='ex-hello-builder2'
|
|
||||||
/>.</para>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
<example xml:id='ex-hello-builder2'><title>Build script using the generic
|
|
||||||
build functions</title>
|
|
||||||
<programlisting>
|
|
||||||
buildInputs="$perl" <co xml:id='ex-hello-builder2-co-1' />
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
source $stdenv/setup <co xml:id='ex-hello-builder2-co-2' />
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
genericBuild <co xml:id='ex-hello-builder2-co-3' /></programlisting>
|
|
||||||
</example>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
<calloutlist>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
<callout arearefs='ex-hello-builder2-co-1'>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
<para>The <envar>buildInputs</envar> variable tells
|
|
||||||
<filename>setup</filename> to use the indicated packages as
|
|
||||||
<quote>inputs</quote>. This means that if a package provides a
|
|
||||||
<filename>bin</filename> subdirectory, it's added to
|
|
||||||
<envar>PATH</envar>; if it has a <filename>include</filename>
|
|
||||||
subdirectory, it's added to GCC's header search path; and so
|
|
||||||
on.<footnote><para>How does it work? <filename>setup</filename>
|
|
||||||
tries to source the file
|
|
||||||
<filename><replaceable>pkg</replaceable>/nix-support/setup-hook</filename>
|
|
||||||
of all dependencies. These “setup hooks” can then set up whatever
|
|
||||||
environment variables they want; for instance, the setup hook for
|
|
||||||
Perl sets the <envar>PERL5LIB</envar> environment variable to
|
|
||||||
contain the <filename>lib/site_perl</filename> directories of all
|
|
||||||
inputs.</para></footnote>
|
|
||||||
</para>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
</callout>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
<callout arearefs='ex-hello-builder2-co-2'>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
<para>The function <function>genericBuild</function> is defined in
|
|
||||||
the file <literal>$stdenv/setup</literal>.</para>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
</callout>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
<callout arearefs='ex-hello-builder2-co-3'>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
<para>The final step calls the shell function
|
|
||||||
<function>genericBuild</function>, which performs the steps that
|
|
||||||
were done explicitly in <xref linkend='ex-hello-builder' />. The
|
|
||||||
generic builder is smart enough to figure out whether to unpack
|
|
||||||
the sources using <command>gzip</command>,
|
|
||||||
<command>bzip2</command>, etc. It can be customised in many ways;
|
|
||||||
see the Nixpkgs manual for details.</para>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
</callout>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
</calloutlist>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
<para>Discerning readers will note that the
|
|
||||||
<envar>buildInputs</envar> could just as well have been set in the Nix
|
|
||||||
expression, like this:
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
<programlisting>
|
|
||||||
buildInputs = [ perl ];</programlisting>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
The <varname>perl</varname> attribute can then be removed, and the
|
|
||||||
builder becomes even shorter:
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
<programlisting>
|
|
||||||
source $stdenv/setup
|
|
||||||
genericBuild</programlisting>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
In fact, <varname>mkDerivation</varname> provides a default builder
|
|
||||||
that looks exactly like that, so it is actually possible to omit the
|
|
||||||
builder for Hello entirely.</para>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
</section>
|
|
||||||
|
|
@ -1,409 +0,0 @@
|
||||||
<section xmlns="http://docbook.org/ns/docbook"
|
|
||||||
xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink"
|
|
||||||
xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XInclude"
|
|
||||||
version="5.0"
|
|
||||||
xml:id="sec-constructs">
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
<title>Language Constructs</title>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
<simplesect><title>Recursive sets</title>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
<para>Recursive sets are just normal sets, but the attributes can
|
|
||||||
refer to each other. For example,
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
<programlisting>
|
|
||||||
rec {
|
|
||||||
x = y;
|
|
||||||
y = 123;
|
|
||||||
}.x
|
|
||||||
</programlisting>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
evaluates to <literal>123</literal>. Note that without
|
|
||||||
<literal>rec</literal> the binding <literal>x = y;</literal> would
|
|
||||||
refer to the variable <varname>y</varname> in the surrounding scope,
|
|
||||||
if one exists, and would be invalid if no such variable exists. That
|
|
||||||
is, in a normal (non-recursive) set, attributes are not added to the
|
|
||||||
lexical scope; in a recursive set, they are.</para>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
<para>Recursive sets of course introduce the danger of infinite
|
|
||||||
recursion. For example,
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
<programlisting>
|
|
||||||
rec {
|
|
||||||
x = y;
|
|
||||||
y = x;
|
|
||||||
}.x</programlisting>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
does not terminate<footnote><para>Actually, Nix detects infinite
|
|
||||||
recursion in this case and aborts (<quote>infinite recursion
|
|
||||||
encountered</quote>).</para></footnote>.</para>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
</simplesect>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
<simplesect xml:id="sect-let-expressions"><title>Let-expressions</title>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
<para>A let-expression allows you to define local variables for an
|
|
||||||
expression. For instance,
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
<programlisting>
|
|
||||||
let
|
|
||||||
x = "foo";
|
|
||||||
y = "bar";
|
|
||||||
in x + y</programlisting>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
evaluates to <literal>"foobar"</literal>.
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
</para>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
</simplesect>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
<simplesect><title>Inheriting attributes</title>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
<para>When defining a set or in a let-expression it is often convenient to copy variables
|
|
||||||
from the surrounding lexical scope (e.g., when you want to propagate
|
|
||||||
attributes). This can be shortened using the
|
|
||||||
<literal>inherit</literal> keyword. For instance,
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
<programlisting>
|
|
||||||
let x = 123; in
|
|
||||||
{ inherit x;
|
|
||||||
y = 456;
|
|
||||||
}</programlisting>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
is equivalent to
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
<programlisting>
|
|
||||||
let x = 123; in
|
|
||||||
{ x = x;
|
|
||||||
y = 456;
|
|
||||||
}</programlisting>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
and both evaluate to <literal>{ x = 123; y = 456; }</literal>. (Note that
|
|
||||||
this works because <varname>x</varname> is added to the lexical scope
|
|
||||||
by the <literal>let</literal> construct.) It is also possible to
|
|
||||||
inherit attributes from another set. For instance, in this fragment
|
|
||||||
from <filename>all-packages.nix</filename>,
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
<programlisting>
|
|
||||||
graphviz = (import ../tools/graphics/graphviz) {
|
|
||||||
inherit fetchurl stdenv libpng libjpeg expat x11 yacc;
|
|
||||||
inherit (xlibs) libXaw;
|
|
||||||
};
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
xlibs = {
|
|
||||||
libX11 = ...;
|
|
||||||
libXaw = ...;
|
|
||||||
...
|
|
||||||
}
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
libpng = ...;
|
|
||||||
libjpg = ...;
|
|
||||||
...</programlisting>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
the set used in the function call to the function defined in
|
|
||||||
<filename>../tools/graphics/graphviz</filename> inherits a number of
|
|
||||||
variables from the surrounding scope (<varname>fetchurl</varname>
|
|
||||||
... <varname>yacc</varname>), but also inherits
|
|
||||||
<varname>libXaw</varname> (the X Athena Widgets) from the
|
|
||||||
<varname>xlibs</varname> (X11 client-side libraries) set.</para>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
<para>
|
|
||||||
Summarizing the fragment
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
<programlisting>
|
|
||||||
...
|
|
||||||
inherit x y z;
|
|
||||||
inherit (src-set) a b c;
|
|
||||||
...</programlisting>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
is equivalent to
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
<programlisting>
|
|
||||||
...
|
|
||||||
x = x; y = y; z = z;
|
|
||||||
a = src-set.a; b = src-set.b; c = src-set.c;
|
|
||||||
...</programlisting>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
when used while defining local variables in a let-expression or
|
|
||||||
while defining a set.</para>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
</simplesect>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
<simplesect xml:id="ss-functions"><title>Functions</title>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
<para>Functions have the following form:
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
<programlisting>
|
|
||||||
<replaceable>pattern</replaceable>: <replaceable>body</replaceable></programlisting>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
The pattern specifies what the argument of the function must look
|
|
||||||
like, and binds variables in the body to (parts of) the
|
|
||||||
argument. There are three kinds of patterns:</para>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
<itemizedlist>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
<listitem><para>If a pattern is a single identifier, then the
|
|
||||||
function matches any argument. Example:
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
<programlisting>
|
|
||||||
let negate = x: !x;
|
|
||||||
concat = x: y: x + y;
|
|
||||||
in if negate true then concat "foo" "bar" else ""</programlisting>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
Note that <function>concat</function> is a function that takes one
|
|
||||||
argument and returns a function that takes another argument. This
|
|
||||||
allows partial parameterisation (i.e., only filling some of the
|
|
||||||
arguments of a function); e.g.,
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
<programlisting>
|
|
||||||
map (concat "foo") [ "bar" "bla" "abc" ]</programlisting>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
evaluates to <literal>[ "foobar" "foobla"
|
|
||||||
"fooabc" ]</literal>.</para></listitem>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
<listitem><para>A <emphasis>set pattern</emphasis> of the form
|
|
||||||
<literal>{ name1, name2, …, nameN }</literal> matches a set
|
|
||||||
containing the listed attributes, and binds the values of those
|
|
||||||
attributes to variables in the function body. For example, the
|
|
||||||
function
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
<programlisting>
|
|
||||||
{ x, y, z }: z + y + x</programlisting>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
can only be called with a set containing exactly the attributes
|
|
||||||
<varname>x</varname>, <varname>y</varname> and
|
|
||||||
<varname>z</varname>. No other attributes are allowed. If you want
|
|
||||||
to allow additional arguments, you can use an ellipsis
|
|
||||||
(<literal>...</literal>):
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
<programlisting>
|
|
||||||
{ x, y, z, ... }: z + y + x</programlisting>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
This works on any set that contains at least the three named
|
|
||||||
attributes.</para>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
<para>It is possible to provide <emphasis>default values</emphasis>
|
|
||||||
for attributes, in which case they are allowed to be missing. A
|
|
||||||
default value is specified by writing
|
|
||||||
<literal><replaceable>name</replaceable> ?
|
|
||||||
<replaceable>e</replaceable></literal>, where
|
|
||||||
<replaceable>e</replaceable> is an arbitrary expression. For example,
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
<programlisting>
|
|
||||||
{ x, y ? "foo", z ? "bar" }: z + y + x</programlisting>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
specifies a function that only requires an attribute named
|
|
||||||
<varname>x</varname>, but optionally accepts <varname>y</varname>
|
|
||||||
and <varname>z</varname>.</para></listitem>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
<listitem><para>An <literal>@</literal>-pattern provides a means of referring
|
|
||||||
to the whole value being matched:
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
<programlisting> args@{ x, y, z, ... }: z + y + x + args.a</programlisting>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
but can also be written as:
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
<programlisting> { x, y, z, ... } @ args: z + y + x + args.a</programlisting>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
Here <varname>args</varname> is bound to the entire argument, which
|
|
||||||
is further matched against the pattern <literal>{ x, y, z,
|
|
||||||
... }</literal>. <literal>@</literal>-pattern makes mainly sense with an
|
|
||||||
ellipsis(<literal>...</literal>) as you can access attribute names as
|
|
||||||
<literal>a</literal>, using <literal>args.a</literal>, which was given as an
|
|
||||||
additional attribute to the function.
|
|
||||||
</para>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
<warning>
|
|
||||||
<para>
|
|
||||||
The <literal>args@</literal> expression is bound to the argument passed to the function which
|
|
||||||
means that attributes with defaults that aren't explicitly specified in the function call
|
|
||||||
won't cause an evaluation error, but won't exist in <literal>args</literal>.
|
|
||||||
</para>
|
|
||||||
<para>
|
|
||||||
For instance
|
|
||||||
<programlisting>
|
|
||||||
let
|
|
||||||
function = args@{ a ? 23, ... }: args;
|
|
||||||
in
|
|
||||||
function {}
|
|
||||||
</programlisting>
|
|
||||||
will evaluate to an empty attribute set.
|
|
||||||
</para>
|
|
||||||
</warning></listitem>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
</itemizedlist>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
<para>Note that functions do not have names. If you want to give them
|
|
||||||
a name, you can bind them to an attribute, e.g.,
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
<programlisting>
|
|
||||||
let concat = { x, y }: x + y;
|
|
||||||
in concat { x = "foo"; y = "bar"; }</programlisting>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
</para>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
</simplesect>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
<simplesect><title>Conditionals</title>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
<para>Conditionals look like this:
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
<programlisting>
|
|
||||||
if <replaceable>e1</replaceable> then <replaceable>e2</replaceable> else <replaceable>e3</replaceable></programlisting>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
where <replaceable>e1</replaceable> is an expression that should
|
|
||||||
evaluate to a Boolean value (<literal>true</literal> or
|
|
||||||
<literal>false</literal>).</para>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
</simplesect>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
<simplesect><title>Assertions</title>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
<para>Assertions are generally used to check that certain requirements
|
|
||||||
on or between features and dependencies hold. They look like this:
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
<programlisting>
|
|
||||||
assert <replaceable>e1</replaceable>; <replaceable>e2</replaceable></programlisting>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
where <replaceable>e1</replaceable> is an expression that should
|
|
||||||
evaluate to a Boolean value. If it evaluates to
|
|
||||||
<literal>true</literal>, <replaceable>e2</replaceable> is returned;
|
|
||||||
otherwise expression evaluation is aborted and a backtrace is printed.</para>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
<example xml:id='ex-subversion-nix'><title>Nix expression for Subversion</title>
|
|
||||||
<programlisting>
|
|
||||||
{ localServer ? false
|
|
||||||
, httpServer ? false
|
|
||||||
, sslSupport ? false
|
|
||||||
, pythonBindings ? false
|
|
||||||
, javaSwigBindings ? false
|
|
||||||
, javahlBindings ? false
|
|
||||||
, stdenv, fetchurl
|
|
||||||
, openssl ? null, httpd ? null, db4 ? null, expat, swig ? null, j2sdk ? null
|
|
||||||
}:
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
assert localServer -> db4 != null; <co xml:id='ex-subversion-nix-co-1' />
|
|
||||||
assert httpServer -> httpd != null && httpd.expat == expat; <co xml:id='ex-subversion-nix-co-2' />
|
|
||||||
assert sslSupport -> openssl != null && (httpServer -> httpd.openssl == openssl); <co xml:id='ex-subversion-nix-co-3' />
|
|
||||||
assert pythonBindings -> swig != null && swig.pythonSupport;
|
|
||||||
assert javaSwigBindings -> swig != null && swig.javaSupport;
|
|
||||||
assert javahlBindings -> j2sdk != null;
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
stdenv.mkDerivation {
|
|
||||||
name = "subversion-1.1.1";
|
|
||||||
...
|
|
||||||
openssl = if sslSupport then openssl else null; <co xml:id='ex-subversion-nix-co-4' />
|
|
||||||
...
|
|
||||||
}</programlisting>
|
|
||||||
</example>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
<para><xref linkend='ex-subversion-nix' /> show how assertions are
|
|
||||||
used in the Nix expression for Subversion.</para>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
<calloutlist>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
<callout arearefs='ex-subversion-nix-co-1'>
|
|
||||||
<para>This assertion states that if Subversion is to have support
|
|
||||||
for local repositories, then Berkeley DB is needed. So if the
|
|
||||||
Subversion function is called with the
|
|
||||||
<varname>localServer</varname> argument set to
|
|
||||||
<literal>true</literal> but the <varname>db4</varname> argument
|
|
||||||
set to <literal>null</literal>, then the evaluation fails.</para>
|
|
||||||
</callout>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
<callout arearefs='ex-subversion-nix-co-2'>
|
|
||||||
<para>This is a more subtle condition: if Subversion is built with
|
|
||||||
Apache (<literal>httpServer</literal>) support, then the Expat
|
|
||||||
library (an XML library) used by Subversion should be same as the
|
|
||||||
one used by Apache. This is because in this configuration
|
|
||||||
Subversion code ends up being linked with Apache code, and if the
|
|
||||||
Expat libraries do not match, a build- or runtime link error or
|
|
||||||
incompatibility might occur.</para>
|
|
||||||
</callout>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
<callout arearefs='ex-subversion-nix-co-3'>
|
|
||||||
<para>This assertion says that in order for Subversion to have SSL
|
|
||||||
support (so that it can access <literal>https</literal> URLs), an
|
|
||||||
OpenSSL library must be passed. Additionally, it says that
|
|
||||||
<emphasis>if</emphasis> Apache support is enabled, then Apache's
|
|
||||||
OpenSSL should match Subversion's. (Note that if Apache support
|
|
||||||
is not enabled, we don't care about Apache's OpenSSL.)</para>
|
|
||||||
</callout>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
<callout arearefs='ex-subversion-nix-co-4'>
|
|
||||||
<para>The conditional here is not really related to assertions,
|
|
||||||
but is worth pointing out: it ensures that if SSL support is
|
|
||||||
disabled, then the Subversion derivation is not dependent on
|
|
||||||
OpenSSL, even if a non-<literal>null</literal> value was passed.
|
|
||||||
This prevents an unnecessary rebuild of Subversion if OpenSSL
|
|
||||||
changes.</para>
|
|
||||||
</callout>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
</calloutlist>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
</simplesect>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
<simplesect><title>With-expressions</title>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
<para>A <emphasis>with-expression</emphasis>,
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
<programlisting>
|
|
||||||
with <replaceable>e1</replaceable>; <replaceable>e2</replaceable></programlisting>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
introduces the set <replaceable>e1</replaceable> into the lexical
|
|
||||||
scope of the expression <replaceable>e2</replaceable>. For instance,
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
<programlisting>
|
|
||||||
let as = { x = "foo"; y = "bar"; };
|
|
||||||
in with as; x + y</programlisting>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
evaluates to <literal>"foobar"</literal> since the
|
|
||||||
<literal>with</literal> adds the <varname>x</varname> and
|
|
||||||
<varname>y</varname> attributes of <varname>as</varname> to the
|
|
||||||
lexical scope in the expression <literal>x + y</literal>. The most
|
|
||||||
common use of <literal>with</literal> is in conjunction with the
|
|
||||||
<function>import</function> function. E.g.,
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
<programlisting>
|
|
||||||
with (import ./definitions.nix); ...</programlisting>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
makes all attributes defined in the file
|
|
||||||
<filename>definitions.nix</filename> available as if they were defined
|
|
||||||
locally in a <literal>let</literal>-expression.</para>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
<para>The bindings introduced by <literal>with</literal> do not shadow bindings
|
|
||||||
introduced by other means, e.g.
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
<programlisting>
|
|
||||||
let a = 3; in with { a = 1; }; let a = 4; in with { a = 2; }; ...</programlisting>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
establishes the same scope as
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
<programlisting>
|
|
||||||
let a = 1; in let a = 2; in let a = 3; in let a = 4; in ...</programlisting>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
</para>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
</simplesect>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
<simplesect><title>Comments</title>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
<para>Comments can be single-line, started with a <literal>#</literal>
|
|
||||||
character, or inline/multi-line, enclosed within <literal>/*
|
|
||||||
... */</literal>.</para>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
</simplesect>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
</section>
|
|
||||||
|
|
@ -1,222 +0,0 @@
|
||||||
<section xmlns="http://docbook.org/ns/docbook"
|
|
||||||
xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink"
|
|
||||||
xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XInclude"
|
|
||||||
version="5.0"
|
|
||||||
xml:id="sec-language-operators">
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
<title>Operators</title>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
<para><xref linkend='table-operators' /> lists the operators in the
|
|
||||||
Nix expression language, in order of precedence (from strongest to
|
|
||||||
weakest binding).</para>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
<table xml:id='table-operators'>
|
|
||||||
<title>Operators</title>
|
|
||||||
<tgroup cols='3'>
|
|
||||||
<thead>
|
|
||||||
<row>
|
|
||||||
<entry>Name</entry>
|
|
||||||
<entry>Syntax</entry>
|
|
||||||
<entry>Associativity</entry>
|
|
||||||
<entry>Description</entry>
|
|
||||||
<entry>Precedence</entry>
|
|
||||||
</row>
|
|
||||||
</thead>
|
|
||||||
<tbody>
|
|
||||||
<row>
|
|
||||||
<entry>Select</entry>
|
|
||||||
<entry><replaceable>e</replaceable> <literal>.</literal>
|
|
||||||
<replaceable>attrpath</replaceable>
|
|
||||||
[ <literal>or</literal> <replaceable>def</replaceable> ]
|
|
||||||
</entry>
|
|
||||||
<entry>none</entry>
|
|
||||||
<entry>Select attribute denoted by the attribute path
|
|
||||||
<replaceable>attrpath</replaceable> from set
|
|
||||||
<replaceable>e</replaceable>. (An attribute path is a
|
|
||||||
dot-separated list of attribute names.) If the attribute
|
|
||||||
doesn’t exist, return <replaceable>def</replaceable> if
|
|
||||||
provided, otherwise abort evaluation.</entry>
|
|
||||||
<entry>1</entry>
|
|
||||||
</row>
|
|
||||||
<row>
|
|
||||||
<entry>Application</entry>
|
|
||||||
<entry><replaceable>e1</replaceable> <replaceable>e2</replaceable></entry>
|
|
||||||
<entry>left</entry>
|
|
||||||
<entry>Call function <replaceable>e1</replaceable> with
|
|
||||||
argument <replaceable>e2</replaceable>.</entry>
|
|
||||||
<entry>2</entry>
|
|
||||||
</row>
|
|
||||||
<row>
|
|
||||||
<entry>Arithmetic Negation</entry>
|
|
||||||
<entry><literal>-</literal> <replaceable>e</replaceable></entry>
|
|
||||||
<entry>none</entry>
|
|
||||||
<entry>Arithmetic negation.</entry>
|
|
||||||
<entry>3</entry>
|
|
||||||
</row>
|
|
||||||
<row>
|
|
||||||
<entry>Has Attribute</entry>
|
|
||||||
<entry><replaceable>e</replaceable> <literal>?</literal>
|
|
||||||
<replaceable>attrpath</replaceable></entry>
|
|
||||||
<entry>none</entry>
|
|
||||||
<entry>Test whether set <replaceable>e</replaceable> contains
|
|
||||||
the attribute denoted by <replaceable>attrpath</replaceable>;
|
|
||||||
return <literal>true</literal> or
|
|
||||||
<literal>false</literal>.</entry>
|
|
||||||
<entry>4</entry>
|
|
||||||
</row>
|
|
||||||
<row>
|
|
||||||
<entry>List Concatenation</entry>
|
|
||||||
<entry><replaceable>e1</replaceable> <literal>++</literal> <replaceable>e2</replaceable></entry>
|
|
||||||
<entry>right</entry>
|
|
||||||
<entry>List concatenation.</entry>
|
|
||||||
<entry>5</entry>
|
|
||||||
</row>
|
|
||||||
<row>
|
|
||||||
<entry>Multiplication</entry>
|
|
||||||
<entry>
|
|
||||||
<replaceable>e1</replaceable> <literal>*</literal> <replaceable>e2</replaceable>,
|
|
||||||
</entry>
|
|
||||||
<entry>left</entry>
|
|
||||||
<entry>Arithmetic multiplication.</entry>
|
|
||||||
<entry>6</entry>
|
|
||||||
</row>
|
|
||||||
<row>
|
|
||||||
<entry>Division</entry>
|
|
||||||
<entry>
|
|
||||||
<replaceable>e1</replaceable> <literal>/</literal> <replaceable>e2</replaceable>
|
|
||||||
</entry>
|
|
||||||
<entry>left</entry>
|
|
||||||
<entry>Arithmetic division.</entry>
|
|
||||||
<entry>6</entry>
|
|
||||||
</row>
|
|
||||||
<row>
|
|
||||||
<entry>Addition</entry>
|
|
||||||
<entry>
|
|
||||||
<replaceable>e1</replaceable> <literal>+</literal> <replaceable>e2</replaceable>
|
|
||||||
</entry>
|
|
||||||
<entry>left</entry>
|
|
||||||
<entry>Arithmetic addition.</entry>
|
|
||||||
<entry>7</entry>
|
|
||||||
</row>
|
|
||||||
<row>
|
|
||||||
<entry>Subtraction</entry>
|
|
||||||
<entry>
|
|
||||||
<replaceable>e1</replaceable> <literal>-</literal> <replaceable>e2</replaceable>
|
|
||||||
</entry>
|
|
||||||
<entry>left</entry>
|
|
||||||
<entry>Arithmetic subtraction.</entry>
|
|
||||||
<entry>7</entry>
|
|
||||||
</row>
|
|
||||||
<row>
|
|
||||||
<entry>String Concatenation</entry>
|
|
||||||
<entry>
|
|
||||||
<replaceable>string1</replaceable> <literal>+</literal> <replaceable>string2</replaceable>
|
|
||||||
</entry>
|
|
||||||
<entry>left</entry>
|
|
||||||
<entry>String concatenation.</entry>
|
|
||||||
<entry>7</entry>
|
|
||||||
</row>
|
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||||||
<row>
|
|
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<entry>Not</entry>
|
|
||||||
<entry><literal>!</literal> <replaceable>e</replaceable></entry>
|
|
||||||
<entry>none</entry>
|
|
||||||
<entry>Boolean negation.</entry>
|
|
||||||
<entry>8</entry>
|
|
||||||
</row>
|
|
||||||
<row>
|
|
||||||
<entry>Update</entry>
|
|
||||||
<entry><replaceable>e1</replaceable> <literal>//</literal>
|
|
||||||
<replaceable>e2</replaceable></entry>
|
|
||||||
<entry>right</entry>
|
|
||||||
<entry>Return a set consisting of the attributes in
|
|
||||||
<replaceable>e1</replaceable> and
|
|
||||||
<replaceable>e2</replaceable> (with the latter taking
|
|
||||||
precedence over the former in case of equally named
|
|
||||||
attributes).</entry>
|
|
||||||
<entry>9</entry>
|
|
||||||
</row>
|
|
||||||
<row>
|
|
||||||
<entry>Less Than</entry>
|
|
||||||
<entry>
|
|
||||||
<replaceable>e1</replaceable> <literal><</literal> <replaceable>e2</replaceable>,
|
|
||||||
</entry>
|
|
||||||
<entry>none</entry>
|
|
||||||
<entry>Arithmetic comparison.</entry>
|
|
||||||
<entry>10</entry>
|
|
||||||
</row>
|
|
||||||
<row>
|
|
||||||
<entry>Less Than or Equal To</entry>
|
|
||||||
<entry>
|
|
||||||
<replaceable>e1</replaceable> <literal><=</literal> <replaceable>e2</replaceable>
|
|
||||||
</entry>
|
|
||||||
<entry>none</entry>
|
|
||||||
<entry>Arithmetic comparison.</entry>
|
|
||||||
<entry>10</entry>
|
|
||||||
</row>
|
|
||||||
<row>
|
|
||||||
<entry>Greater Than</entry>
|
|
||||||
<entry>
|
|
||||||
<replaceable>e1</replaceable> <literal>></literal> <replaceable>e2</replaceable>
|
|
||||||
</entry>
|
|
||||||
<entry>none</entry>
|
|
||||||
<entry>Arithmetic comparison.</entry>
|
|
||||||
<entry>10</entry>
|
|
||||||
</row>
|
|
||||||
<row>
|
|
||||||
<entry>Greater Than or Equal To</entry>
|
|
||||||
<entry>
|
|
||||||
<replaceable>e1</replaceable> <literal>>=</literal> <replaceable>e2</replaceable>
|
|
||||||
</entry>
|
|
||||||
<entry>none</entry>
|
|
||||||
<entry>Arithmetic comparison.</entry>
|
|
||||||
<entry>10</entry>
|
|
||||||
</row>
|
|
||||||
<row>
|
|
||||||
<entry>Equality</entry>
|
|
||||||
<entry>
|
|
||||||
<replaceable>e1</replaceable> <literal>==</literal> <replaceable>e2</replaceable>
|
|
||||||
</entry>
|
|
||||||
<entry>none</entry>
|
|
||||||
<entry>Equality.</entry>
|
|
||||||
<entry>11</entry>
|
|
||||||
</row>
|
|
||||||
<row>
|
|
||||||
<entry>Inequality</entry>
|
|
||||||
<entry>
|
|
||||||
<replaceable>e1</replaceable> <literal>!=</literal> <replaceable>e2</replaceable>
|
|
||||||
</entry>
|
|
||||||
<entry>none</entry>
|
|
||||||
<entry>Inequality.</entry>
|
|
||||||
<entry>11</entry>
|
|
||||||
</row>
|
|
||||||
<row>
|
|
||||||
<entry>Logical AND</entry>
|
|
||||||
<entry><replaceable>e1</replaceable> <literal>&&</literal>
|
|
||||||
<replaceable>e2</replaceable></entry>
|
|
||||||
<entry>left</entry>
|
|
||||||
<entry>Logical AND.</entry>
|
|
||||||
<entry>12</entry>
|
|
||||||
</row>
|
|
||||||
<row>
|
|
||||||
<entry>Logical OR</entry>
|
|
||||||
<entry><replaceable>e1</replaceable> <literal>||</literal>
|
|
||||||
<replaceable>e2</replaceable></entry>
|
|
||||||
<entry>left</entry>
|
|
||||||
<entry>Logical OR.</entry>
|
|
||||||
<entry>13</entry>
|
|
||||||
</row>
|
|
||||||
<row>
|
|
||||||
<entry>Logical Implication</entry>
|
|
||||||
<entry><replaceable>e1</replaceable> <literal>-></literal>
|
|
||||||
<replaceable>e2</replaceable></entry>
|
|
||||||
<entry>none</entry>
|
|
||||||
<entry>Logical implication (equivalent to
|
|
||||||
<literal>!<replaceable>e1</replaceable> ||
|
|
||||||
<replaceable>e2</replaceable></literal>).</entry>
|
|
||||||
<entry>14</entry>
|
|
||||||
</row>
|
|
||||||
</tbody>
|
|
||||||
</tgroup>
|
|
||||||
</table>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
</section>
|
|
||||||
|
|
@ -1,313 +0,0 @@
|
||||||
<section xmlns="http://docbook.org/ns/docbook"
|
|
||||||
xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink"
|
|
||||||
xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XInclude"
|
|
||||||
version="5.0"
|
|
||||||
xml:id='ssec-values'>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
<title>Values</title>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
<simplesect><title>Simple Values</title>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
<para>Nix has the following basic data types:
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
<itemizedlist>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
<listitem>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
<para><emphasis>Strings</emphasis> can be written in three
|
|
||||||
ways.</para>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
<para>The most common way is to enclose the string between double
|
|
||||||
quotes, e.g., <literal>"foo bar"</literal>. Strings can span
|
|
||||||
multiple lines. The special characters <literal>"</literal> and
|
|
||||||
<literal>\</literal> and the character sequence
|
|
||||||
<literal>${</literal> must be escaped by prefixing them with a
|
|
||||||
backslash (<literal>\</literal>). Newlines, carriage returns and
|
|
||||||
tabs can be written as <literal>\n</literal>,
|
|
||||||
<literal>\r</literal> and <literal>\t</literal>,
|
|
||||||
respectively.</para>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
<para>You can include the result of an expression into a string by
|
|
||||||
enclosing it in
|
|
||||||
<literal>${<replaceable>...</replaceable>}</literal>, a feature
|
|
||||||
known as <emphasis>antiquotation</emphasis>. The enclosed
|
|
||||||
expression must evaluate to something that can be coerced into a
|
|
||||||
string (meaning that it must be a string, a path, or a
|
|
||||||
derivation). For instance, rather than writing
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
<programlisting>
|
|
||||||
"--with-freetype2-library=" + freetype + "/lib"</programlisting>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
(where <varname>freetype</varname> is a derivation), you can
|
|
||||||
instead write the more natural
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
<programlisting>
|
|
||||||
"--with-freetype2-library=${freetype}/lib"</programlisting>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
The latter is automatically translated to the former. A more
|
|
||||||
complicated example (from the Nix expression for <link
|
|
||||||
xlink:href='http://www.trolltech.com/products/qt'>Qt</link>):
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
<programlisting>
|
|
||||||
configureFlags = "
|
|
||||||
-system-zlib -system-libpng -system-libjpeg
|
|
||||||
${if openglSupport then "-dlopen-opengl
|
|
||||||
-L${mesa}/lib -I${mesa}/include
|
|
||||||
-L${libXmu}/lib -I${libXmu}/include" else ""}
|
|
||||||
${if threadSupport then "-thread" else "-no-thread"}
|
|
||||||
";</programlisting>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
Note that Nix expressions and strings can be arbitrarily nested;
|
|
||||||
in this case the outer string contains various antiquotations that
|
|
||||||
themselves contain strings (e.g., <literal>"-thread"</literal>),
|
|
||||||
some of which in turn contain expressions (e.g.,
|
|
||||||
<literal>${mesa}</literal>).</para>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
<para>The second way to write string literals is as an
|
|
||||||
<emphasis>indented string</emphasis>, which is enclosed between
|
|
||||||
pairs of <emphasis>double single-quotes</emphasis>, like so:
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
<programlisting>
|
|
||||||
''
|
|
||||||
This is the first line.
|
|
||||||
This is the second line.
|
|
||||||
This is the third line.
|
|
||||||
''</programlisting>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
This kind of string literal intelligently strips indentation from
|
|
||||||
the start of each line. To be precise, it strips from each line a
|
|
||||||
number of spaces equal to the minimal indentation of the string as
|
|
||||||
a whole (disregarding the indentation of empty lines). For
|
|
||||||
instance, the first and second line are indented two space, while
|
|
||||||
the third line is indented four spaces. Thus, two spaces are
|
|
||||||
stripped from each line, so the resulting string is
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
<programlisting>
|
|
||||||
"This is the first line.\nThis is the second line.\n This is the third line.\n"</programlisting>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
</para>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
<para>Note that the whitespace and newline following the opening
|
|
||||||
<literal>''</literal> is ignored if there is no non-whitespace
|
|
||||||
text on the initial line.</para>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
<para>Antiquotation
|
|
||||||
(<literal>${<replaceable>expr</replaceable>}</literal>) is
|
|
||||||
supported in indented strings.</para>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
<para>Since <literal>${</literal> and <literal>''</literal> have
|
|
||||||
special meaning in indented strings, you need a way to quote them.
|
|
||||||
<literal>$</literal> can be escaped by prefixing it with
|
|
||||||
<literal>''</literal> (that is, two single quotes), i.e.,
|
|
||||||
<literal>''$</literal>. <literal>''</literal> can be escaped by
|
|
||||||
prefixing it with <literal>'</literal>, i.e.,
|
|
||||||
<literal>'''</literal>. <literal>$</literal> removes any special meaning
|
|
||||||
from the following <literal>$</literal>. Linefeed, carriage-return and tab
|
|
||||||
characters can be written as <literal>''\n</literal>,
|
|
||||||
<literal>''\r</literal>, <literal>''\t</literal>, and <literal>''\</literal>
|
|
||||||
escapes any other character.
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
</para>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
<para>Indented strings are primarily useful in that they allow
|
|
||||||
multi-line string literals to follow the indentation of the
|
|
||||||
enclosing Nix expression, and that less escaping is typically
|
|
||||||
necessary for strings representing languages such as shell scripts
|
|
||||||
and configuration files because <literal>''</literal> is much less
|
|
||||||
common than <literal>"</literal>. Example:
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
<programlisting>
|
|
||||||
stdenv.mkDerivation {
|
|
||||||
<replaceable>...</replaceable>
|
|
||||||
postInstall =
|
|
||||||
''
|
|
||||||
mkdir $out/bin $out/etc
|
|
||||||
cp foo $out/bin
|
|
||||||
echo "Hello World" > $out/etc/foo.conf
|
|
||||||
${if enableBar then "cp bar $out/bin" else ""}
|
|
||||||
'';
|
|
||||||
<replaceable>...</replaceable>
|
|
||||||
}
|
|
||||||
</programlisting>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
</para>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
<para>Finally, as a convenience, <emphasis>URIs</emphasis> as
|
|
||||||
defined in appendix B of <link
|
|
||||||
xlink:href='http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2396.txt'>RFC 2396</link>
|
|
||||||
can be written <emphasis>as is</emphasis>, without quotes. For
|
|
||||||
instance, the string
|
|
||||||
<literal>"http://example.org/foo.tar.bz2"</literal>
|
|
||||||
can also be written as
|
|
||||||
<literal>http://example.org/foo.tar.bz2</literal>.</para>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
</listitem>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
<listitem><para>Numbers, which can be <emphasis>integers</emphasis> (like
|
|
||||||
<literal>123</literal>) or <emphasis>floating point</emphasis> (like
|
|
||||||
<literal>123.43</literal> or <literal>.27e13</literal>).</para>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
<para>Numbers are type-compatible: pure integer operations will always
|
|
||||||
return integers, whereas any operation involving at least one floating point
|
|
||||||
number will have a floating point number as a result.</para></listitem>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
<listitem><para><emphasis>Paths</emphasis>, e.g.,
|
|
||||||
<filename>/bin/sh</filename> or <filename>./builder.sh</filename>.
|
|
||||||
A path must contain at least one slash to be recognised as such; for
|
|
||||||
instance, <filename>builder.sh</filename> is not a
|
|
||||||
path<footnote><para>It's parsed as an expression that selects the
|
|
||||||
attribute <varname>sh</varname> from the variable
|
|
||||||
<varname>builder</varname>.</para></footnote>. If the file name is
|
|
||||||
relative, i.e., if it does not begin with a slash, it is made
|
|
||||||
absolute at parse time relative to the directory of the Nix
|
|
||||||
expression that contained it. For instance, if a Nix expression in
|
|
||||||
<filename>/foo/bar/bla.nix</filename> refers to
|
|
||||||
<filename>../xyzzy/fnord.nix</filename>, the absolute path is
|
|
||||||
<filename>/foo/xyzzy/fnord.nix</filename>.</para>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
<para>If the first component of a path is a <literal>~</literal>,
|
|
||||||
it is interpreted as if the rest of the path were relative to the
|
|
||||||
user's home directory. e.g. <filename>~/foo</filename> would be
|
|
||||||
equivalent to <filename>/home/edolstra/foo</filename> for a user
|
|
||||||
whose home directory is <filename>/home/edolstra</filename>.
|
|
||||||
</para>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
<para>Paths can also be specified between angle brackets, e.g.
|
|
||||||
<literal><nixpkgs></literal>. This means that the directories
|
|
||||||
listed in the environment variable
|
|
||||||
<envar linkend="env-NIX_PATH">NIX_PATH</envar> will be searched
|
|
||||||
for the given file or directory name.
|
|
||||||
</para>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
</listitem>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
<listitem><para><emphasis>Booleans</emphasis> with values
|
|
||||||
<literal>true</literal> and
|
|
||||||
<literal>false</literal>.</para></listitem>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
<listitem><para>The null value, denoted as
|
|
||||||
<literal>null</literal>.</para></listitem>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
</itemizedlist>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
</para>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
</simplesect>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
<simplesect><title>Lists</title>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
<para>Lists are formed by enclosing a whitespace-separated list of
|
|
||||||
values between square brackets. For example,
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
<programlisting>
|
|
||||||
[ 123 ./foo.nix "abc" (f { x = y; }) ]</programlisting>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
defines a list of four elements, the last being the result of a call
|
|
||||||
to the function <varname>f</varname>. Note that function calls have
|
|
||||||
to be enclosed in parentheses. If they had been omitted, e.g.,
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
<programlisting>
|
|
||||||
[ 123 ./foo.nix "abc" f { x = y; } ]</programlisting>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
the result would be a list of five elements, the fourth one being a
|
|
||||||
function and the fifth being a set.</para>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
<para>Note that lists are only lazy in values, and they are strict in length.
|
|
||||||
</para>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
</simplesect>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
<simplesect><title>Sets</title>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
<para>Sets are really the core of the language, since ultimately the
|
|
||||||
Nix language is all about creating derivations, which are really just
|
|
||||||
sets of attributes to be passed to build scripts.</para>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
<para>Sets are just a list of name/value pairs (called
|
|
||||||
<emphasis>attributes</emphasis>) enclosed in curly brackets, where
|
|
||||||
each value is an arbitrary expression terminated by a semicolon. For
|
|
||||||
example:
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
<programlisting>
|
|
||||||
{ x = 123;
|
|
||||||
text = "Hello";
|
|
||||||
y = f { bla = 456; };
|
|
||||||
}</programlisting>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
This defines a set with attributes named <varname>x</varname>,
|
|
||||||
<varname>text</varname>, <varname>y</varname>. The order of the
|
|
||||||
attributes is irrelevant. An attribute name may only occur
|
|
||||||
once.</para>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
<para>Attributes can be selected from a set using the
|
|
||||||
<literal>.</literal> operator. For instance,
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
<programlisting>
|
|
||||||
{ a = "Foo"; b = "Bar"; }.a</programlisting>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
evaluates to <literal>"Foo"</literal>. It is possible to provide a
|
|
||||||
default value in an attribute selection using the
|
|
||||||
<literal>or</literal> keyword. For example,
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
<programlisting>
|
|
||||||
{ a = "Foo"; b = "Bar"; }.c or "Xyzzy"</programlisting>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
will evaluate to <literal>"Xyzzy"</literal> because there is no
|
|
||||||
<varname>c</varname> attribute in the set.</para>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
<para>You can use arbitrary double-quoted strings as attribute
|
|
||||||
names:
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
<programlisting>
|
|
||||||
{ "foo ${bar}" = 123; "nix-1.0" = 456; }."foo ${bar}"
|
|
||||||
</programlisting>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
This will evaluate to <literal>123</literal> (Assuming
|
|
||||||
<literal>bar</literal> is antiquotable). In the case where an
|
|
||||||
attribute name is just a single antiquotation, the quotes can be
|
|
||||||
dropped:
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|
||||||
|
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||||||
<programlisting>
|
|
||||||
{ foo = 123; }.${bar} or 456 </programlisting>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
This will evaluate to <literal>123</literal> if
|
|
||||||
<literal>bar</literal> evaluates to <literal>"foo"</literal> when
|
|
||||||
coerced to a string and <literal>456</literal> otherwise (again
|
|
||||||
assuming <literal>bar</literal> is antiquotable).</para>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
<para>In the special case where an attribute name inside of a set declaration
|
|
||||||
evaluates to <literal>null</literal> (which is normally an error, as
|
|
||||||
<literal>null</literal> is not antiquotable), that attribute is simply not
|
|
||||||
added to the set:
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
<programlisting>
|
|
||||||
{ ${if foo then "bar" else null} = true; }</programlisting>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
This will evaluate to <literal>{}</literal> if <literal>foo</literal>
|
|
||||||
evaluates to <literal>false</literal>.</para>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
<para>A set that has a <literal>__functor</literal> attribute whose value
|
|
||||||
is callable (i.e. is itself a function or a set with a
|
|
||||||
<literal>__functor</literal> attribute whose value is callable) can be
|
|
||||||
applied as if it were a function, with the set itself passed in first
|
|
||||||
, e.g.,
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
<programlisting>
|
|
||||||
let add = { __functor = self: x: x + self.x; };
|
|
||||||
inc = add // { x = 1; };
|
|
||||||
in inc 1
|
|
||||||
</programlisting>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
evaluates to <literal>2</literal>. This can be used to attach metadata to a
|
|
||||||
function without the caller needing to treat it specially, or to implement
|
|
||||||
a form of object-oriented programming, for example.
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
</para>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
</simplesect>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
</section>
|
|
||||||
|
|
@ -1,76 +0,0 @@
|
||||||
<section xmlns="http://docbook.org/ns/docbook"
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|
||||||
xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink"
|
|
||||||
xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XInclude"
|
|
||||||
version="5.0"
|
|
||||||
xml:id='sec-building-simple'>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
<title>Building and Testing</title>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
<para>You can now try to build Hello. Of course, you could do
|
|
||||||
<literal>nix-env -i hello</literal>, but you may not want to install a
|
|
||||||
possibly broken package just yet. The best way to test the package is by
|
|
||||||
using the command <command linkend="sec-nix-build">nix-build</command>,
|
|
||||||
which builds a Nix expression and creates a symlink named
|
|
||||||
<filename>result</filename> in the current directory:
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
<screen>
|
|
||||||
$ nix-build -A hello
|
|
||||||
building path `/nix/store/632d2b22514d...-hello-2.1.1'
|
|
||||||
hello-2.1.1/
|
|
||||||
hello-2.1.1/intl/
|
|
||||||
hello-2.1.1/intl/ChangeLog
|
|
||||||
<replaceable>...</replaceable>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
$ ls -l result
|
|
||||||
lrwxrwxrwx ... 2006-09-29 10:43 result -> /nix/store/632d2b22514d...-hello-2.1.1
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
$ ./result/bin/hello
|
|
||||||
Hello, world!</screen>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
The <link linkend='opt-attr'><option>-A</option></link> option selects
|
|
||||||
the <literal>hello</literal> attribute. This is faster than using the
|
|
||||||
symbolic package name specified by the <literal>name</literal>
|
|
||||||
attribute (which also happens to be <literal>hello</literal>) and is
|
|
||||||
unambiguous (there can be multiple packages with the symbolic name
|
|
||||||
<literal>hello</literal>, but there can be only one attribute in a set
|
|
||||||
named <literal>hello</literal>).</para>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
<para><command>nix-build</command> registers the
|
|
||||||
<filename>./result</filename> symlink as a garbage collection root, so
|
|
||||||
unless and until you delete the <filename>./result</filename> symlink,
|
|
||||||
the output of the build will be safely kept on your system. You can
|
|
||||||
use <command>nix-build</command>’s <option
|
|
||||||
linkend='opt-out-link'>-o</option> switch to give the symlink another
|
|
||||||
name.</para>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
<para>Nix has transactional semantics. Once a build finishes
|
|
||||||
successfully, Nix makes a note of this in its database: it registers
|
|
||||||
that the path denoted by <envar>out</envar> is now
|
|
||||||
<quote>valid</quote>. If you try to build the derivation again, Nix
|
|
||||||
will see that the path is already valid and finish immediately. If a
|
|
||||||
build fails, either because it returns a non-zero exit code, because
|
|
||||||
Nix or the builder are killed, or because the machine crashes, then
|
|
||||||
the output paths will not be registered as valid. If you try to build
|
|
||||||
the derivation again, Nix will remove the output paths if they exist
|
|
||||||
(e.g., because the builder died half-way through <literal>make
|
|
||||||
install</literal>) and try again. Note that there is no
|
|
||||||
<quote>negative caching</quote>: Nix doesn't remember that a build
|
|
||||||
failed, and so a failed build can always be repeated. This is because
|
|
||||||
Nix cannot distinguish between permanent failures (e.g., a compiler
|
|
||||||
error due to a syntax error in the source) and transient failures
|
|
||||||
(e.g., a disk full condition).</para>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
<para>Nix also performs locking. If you run multiple Nix builds
|
|
||||||
simultaneously, and they try to build the same derivation, the first
|
|
||||||
Nix instance that gets there will perform the build, while the others
|
|
||||||
block (or perform other derivations if available) until the build
|
|
||||||
finishes:
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
<screen>
|
|
||||||
$ nix-build -A hello
|
|
||||||
waiting for lock on `/nix/store/0h5b7hp8d4hqfrw8igvx97x1xawrjnac-hello-2.1.1x'</screen>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
So it is always safe to run multiple instances of Nix in parallel
|
|
||||||
(which isn’t the case with, say, <command>make</command>).</para>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
</section>
|
|
||||||
|
|
@ -1,47 +0,0 @@
|
||||||
<chapter xmlns="http://docbook.org/ns/docbook"
|
|
||||||
xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink"
|
|
||||||
xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XInclude"
|
|
||||||
version="5.0"
|
|
||||||
xml:id="ch-simple-expression">
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
<title>A Simple Nix Expression</title>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
<para>This section shows how to add and test the <link
|
|
||||||
xlink:href='http://www.gnu.org/software/hello/hello.html'>GNU Hello
|
|
||||||
package</link> to the Nix Packages collection. Hello is a program
|
|
||||||
that prints out the text <quote>Hello, world!</quote>.</para>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
<para>To add a package to the Nix Packages collection, you generally
|
|
||||||
need to do three things:
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
<orderedlist>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
<listitem><para>Write a Nix expression for the package. This is a
|
|
||||||
file that describes all the inputs involved in building the package,
|
|
||||||
such as dependencies, sources, and so on.</para></listitem>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
<listitem><para>Write a <emphasis>builder</emphasis>. This is a
|
|
||||||
shell script<footnote><para>In fact, it can be written in any
|
|
||||||
language, but typically it's a <command>bash</command> shell
|
|
||||||
script.</para></footnote> that actually builds the package from
|
|
||||||
the inputs.</para></listitem>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
<listitem><para>Add the package to the file
|
|
||||||
<filename>pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix</filename>. The Nix
|
|
||||||
expression written in the first step is a
|
|
||||||
<emphasis>function</emphasis>; it requires other packages in order
|
|
||||||
to build it. In this step you put it all together, i.e., you call
|
|
||||||
the function with the right arguments to build the actual
|
|
||||||
package.</para></listitem>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
</orderedlist>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
</para>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
<xi:include href="expression-syntax.xml" />
|
|
||||||
<xi:include href="build-script.xml" />
|
|
||||||
<xi:include href="arguments-variables.xml" />
|
|
||||||
<xi:include href="simple-building-testing.xml" />
|
|
||||||
<xi:include href="generic-builder.xml" />
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
</chapter>
|
|
||||||
|
|
@ -1,26 +0,0 @@
|
||||||
<part xmlns="http://docbook.org/ns/docbook"
|
|
||||||
xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink"
|
|
||||||
xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XInclude"
|
|
||||||
version="5.0"
|
|
||||||
xml:id='chap-writing-nix-expressions'>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
<title>Writing Nix Expressions</title>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
<partintro>
|
|
||||||
<para>This chapter shows you how to write Nix expressions, which
|
|
||||||
instruct Nix how to build packages. It starts with a
|
|
||||||
simple example (a Nix expression for GNU Hello), and then moves
|
|
||||||
on to a more in-depth look at the Nix expression language.</para>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
<note><para>This chapter is mostly about the Nix expression language.
|
|
||||||
For more extensive information on adding packages to the Nix Packages
|
|
||||||
collection (such as functions in the standard environment and coding
|
|
||||||
conventions), please consult <link
|
|
||||||
xlink:href="http://nixos.org/nixpkgs/manual/">its
|
|
||||||
manual</link>.</para></note>
|
|
||||||
</partintro>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
<xi:include href="simple-expression.xml" />
|
|
||||||
<xi:include href="expression-language.xml" />
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
</part>
|
|
||||||
14
doc/manual/generate-builtins.nix
Normal file
14
doc/manual/generate-builtins.nix
Normal file
|
|
@ -0,0 +1,14 @@
|
||||||
|
with builtins;
|
||||||
|
with import ./utils.nix;
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
builtins:
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
concatStrings (map
|
||||||
|
(name:
|
||||||
|
let builtin = builtins.${name}; in
|
||||||
|
" - `builtins.${name}` " + concatStringsSep " " (map (s: "*${s}*") builtin.args)
|
||||||
|
+ " \n\n"
|
||||||
|
+ concatStrings (map (s: " ${s}\n") (splitLines builtin.doc)) + "\n\n"
|
||||||
|
)
|
||||||
|
(attrNames builtins))
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
56
doc/manual/generate-manpage.nix
Normal file
56
doc/manual/generate-manpage.nix
Normal file
|
|
@ -0,0 +1,56 @@
|
||||||
|
with builtins;
|
||||||
|
with import ./utils.nix;
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
let
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
showCommand =
|
||||||
|
{ command, section, def }:
|
||||||
|
"${section} Name\n\n"
|
||||||
|
+ "`${command}` - ${def.description}\n\n"
|
||||||
|
+ "${section} Synopsis\n\n"
|
||||||
|
+ showSynopsis { inherit command; args = def.args; }
|
||||||
|
+ (if def ? doc
|
||||||
|
then "${section} Description\n\n" + def.doc + "\n\n"
|
||||||
|
else "")
|
||||||
|
+ (let s = showFlags def.flags; in
|
||||||
|
if s != ""
|
||||||
|
then "${section} Flags\n\n${s}"
|
||||||
|
else "")
|
||||||
|
+ (if def.examples or [] != []
|
||||||
|
then
|
||||||
|
"${section} Examples\n\n"
|
||||||
|
+ concatStrings (map ({ description, command }: "${description}\n\n```console\n${command}\n```\n\n") def.examples)
|
||||||
|
else "")
|
||||||
|
+ (if def.commands or [] != []
|
||||||
|
then concatStrings (
|
||||||
|
map (name:
|
||||||
|
"# Subcommand `${command} ${name}`\n\n"
|
||||||
|
+ showCommand { command = command + " " + name; section = "##"; def = def.commands.${name}; })
|
||||||
|
(attrNames def.commands))
|
||||||
|
else "");
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
showFlags = flags:
|
||||||
|
concatStrings
|
||||||
|
(map (longName:
|
||||||
|
let flag = flags.${longName}; in
|
||||||
|
if flag.category or "" != "config"
|
||||||
|
then
|
||||||
|
" - `--${longName}`"
|
||||||
|
+ (if flag ? shortName then " / `${flag.shortName}`" else "")
|
||||||
|
+ (if flag ? labels then " " + (concatStringsSep " " (map (s: "*${s}*") flag.labels)) else "")
|
||||||
|
+ " \n"
|
||||||
|
+ " " + flag.description + "\n\n"
|
||||||
|
else "")
|
||||||
|
(attrNames flags));
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
showSynopsis =
|
||||||
|
{ command, args }:
|
||||||
|
"`${command}` [*flags*...] ${concatStringsSep " "
|
||||||
|
(map (arg: "*${arg.label}*" + (if arg ? arity then "" else "...")) args)}\n\n";
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
in
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
command:
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
"Title: nix\n\n"
|
||||||
|
+ showCommand { command = "nix"; section = "#"; def = command; }
|
||||||
21
doc/manual/generate-options.nix
Normal file
21
doc/manual/generate-options.nix
Normal file
|
|
@ -0,0 +1,21 @@
|
||||||
|
with builtins;
|
||||||
|
with import ./utils.nix;
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
options:
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
concatStrings (map
|
||||||
|
(name:
|
||||||
|
let option = options.${name}; in
|
||||||
|
" - `${name}` \n\n"
|
||||||
|
+ concatStrings (map (s: " ${s}\n") (splitLines option.description)) + "\n\n"
|
||||||
|
+ " **Default:** " + (
|
||||||
|
if option.value == "" || option.value == []
|
||||||
|
then "*empty*"
|
||||||
|
else if isBool option.value
|
||||||
|
then (if option.value then "`true`" else "`false`")
|
||||||
|
else "`" + toString option.value + "`") + "\n\n"
|
||||||
|
+ (if option.aliases != []
|
||||||
|
then " **Deprecated alias:** " + (concatStringsSep ", " (map (s: "`${s}`") option.aliases)) + "\n\n"
|
||||||
|
else "")
|
||||||
|
)
|
||||||
|
(attrNames options))
|
||||||
|
|
@ -1,199 +0,0 @@
|
||||||
<appendix xmlns="http://docbook.org/ns/docbook"
|
|
||||||
xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink"
|
|
||||||
xml:id="part-glossary">
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
<title>Glossary</title>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
<glosslist>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
<glossentry xml:id="gloss-derivation"><glossterm>derivation</glossterm>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
<glossdef><para>A description of a build action. The result of a
|
|
||||||
derivation is a store object. Derivations are typically specified
|
|
||||||
in Nix expressions using the <link
|
|
||||||
linkend="ssec-derivation"><function>derivation</function>
|
|
||||||
primitive</link>. These are translated into low-level
|
|
||||||
<emphasis>store derivations</emphasis> (implicitly by
|
|
||||||
<command>nix-env</command> and <command>nix-build</command>, or
|
|
||||||
explicitly by <command>nix-instantiate</command>).</para></glossdef>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
</glossentry>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
<glossentry><glossterm>store</glossterm>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
<glossdef><para>The location in the file system where store objects
|
|
||||||
live. Typically <filename>/nix/store</filename>.</para></glossdef>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
</glossentry>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
<glossentry><glossterm>store path</glossterm>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
<glossdef><para>The location in the file system of a store object,
|
|
||||||
i.e., an immediate child of the Nix store
|
|
||||||
directory.</para></glossdef>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
</glossentry>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
<glossentry><glossterm>store object</glossterm>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
<glossdef><para>A file that is an immediate child of the Nix store
|
|
||||||
directory. These can be regular files, but also entire directory
|
|
||||||
trees. Store objects can be sources (objects copied from outside of
|
|
||||||
the store), derivation outputs (objects produced by running a build
|
|
||||||
action), or derivations (files describing a build
|
|
||||||
action).</para></glossdef>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
</glossentry>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
<glossentry xml:id="gloss-substitute"><glossterm>substitute</glossterm>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
<glossdef><para>A substitute is a command invocation stored in the
|
|
||||||
Nix database that describes how to build a store object, bypassing
|
|
||||||
the normal build mechanism (i.e., derivations). Typically, the
|
|
||||||
substitute builds the store object by downloading a pre-built
|
|
||||||
version of the store object from some server.</para></glossdef>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
</glossentry>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
<glossentry><glossterm>purity</glossterm>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
<glossdef><para>The assumption that equal Nix derivations when run
|
|
||||||
always produce the same output. This cannot be guaranteed in
|
|
||||||
general (e.g., a builder can rely on external inputs such as the
|
|
||||||
network or the system time) but the Nix model assumes
|
|
||||||
it.</para></glossdef>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
</glossentry>
|
|
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<glossentry><glossterm>Nix expression</glossterm>
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<glossdef><para>A high-level description of software packages and
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compositions thereof. Deploying software using Nix entails writing
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Nix expressions for your packages. Nix expressions are translated
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to derivations that are stored in the Nix store. These derivations
|
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can then be built.</para></glossdef>
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</glossentry>
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<glossentry xml:id="gloss-reference"><glossterm>reference</glossterm>
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<glossdef>
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<para>A store path <varname>P</varname> is said to have a
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reference to a store path <varname>Q</varname> if the store object
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at <varname>P</varname> contains the path <varname>Q</varname>
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somewhere. The <emphasis>references</emphasis> of a store path are
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||||||
the set of store paths to which it has a reference.
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</para>
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<para>A derivation can reference other derivations and sources
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(but not output paths), whereas an output path only references other
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output paths.
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</para>
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</glossdef>
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</glossentry>
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<glossentry xml:id="gloss-reachable"><glossterm>reachable</glossterm>
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<glossdef><para>A store path <varname>Q</varname> is reachable from
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another store path <varname>P</varname> if <varname>Q</varname> is in the
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<link linkend="gloss-closure">closure</link> of the
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<link linkend="gloss-reference">references</link> relation.
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</para></glossdef>
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</glossentry>
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<glossentry xml:id="gloss-closure"><glossterm>closure</glossterm>
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<glossdef><para>The closure of a store path is the set of store
|
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paths that are directly or indirectly “reachable” from that store
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path; that is, it’s the closure of the path under the <link
|
|
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linkend="gloss-reference">references</link> relation. For a package, the
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|
||||||
closure of its derivation is equivalent to the build-time
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dependencies, while the closure of its output path is equivalent to its
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|
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runtime dependencies. For correct deployment it is necessary to deploy whole
|
|
||||||
closures, since otherwise at runtime files could be missing. The command
|
|
||||||
<command>nix-store -qR</command> prints out closures of store paths.
|
|
||||||
</para>
|
|
||||||
<para>As an example, if the store object at path <varname>P</varname> contains
|
|
||||||
a reference to path <varname>Q</varname>, then <varname>Q</varname> is
|
|
||||||
in the closure of <varname>P</varname>. Further, if <varname>Q</varname>
|
|
||||||
references <varname>R</varname> then <varname>R</varname> is also in
|
|
||||||
the closure of <varname>P</varname>.
|
|
||||||
</para></glossdef>
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|
||||||
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|
||||||
</glossentry>
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||||||
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||||||
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||||||
<glossentry xml:id="gloss-output-path"><glossterm>output path</glossterm>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
<glossdef><para>A store path produced by a derivation.</para></glossdef>
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|
||||||
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|
||||||
</glossentry>
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|
||||||
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|
||||||
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|
||||||
<glossentry xml:id="gloss-deriver"><glossterm>deriver</glossterm>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
<glossdef><para>The deriver of an <link
|
|
||||||
linkend="gloss-output-path">output path</link> is the store
|
|
||||||
derivation that built it.</para></glossdef>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
</glossentry>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
<glossentry xml:id="gloss-validity"><glossterm>validity</glossterm>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
<glossdef><para>A store path is considered
|
|
||||||
<emphasis>valid</emphasis> if it exists in the file system, is
|
|
||||||
listed in the Nix database as being valid, and if all paths in its
|
|
||||||
closure are also valid.</para></glossdef>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
</glossentry>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
<glossentry xml:id="gloss-user-env"><glossterm>user environment</glossterm>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
<glossdef><para>An automatically generated store object that
|
|
||||||
consists of a set of symlinks to “active” applications, i.e., other
|
|
||||||
store paths. These are generated automatically by <link
|
|
||||||
linkend="sec-nix-env"><command>nix-env</command></link>. See <xref
|
|
||||||
linkend="sec-profiles" />.</para>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
</glossdef>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
</glossentry>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
<glossentry xml:id="gloss-profile"><glossterm>profile</glossterm>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
<glossdef><para>A symlink to the current <link
|
|
||||||
linkend="gloss-user-env">user environment</link> of a user, e.g.,
|
|
||||||
<filename>/nix/var/nix/profiles/default</filename>.</para></glossdef>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
</glossentry>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
<glossentry xml:id="gloss-nar"><glossterm>NAR</glossterm>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
<glossdef><para>A <emphasis>N</emphasis>ix
|
|
||||||
<emphasis>AR</emphasis>chive. This is a serialisation of a path in
|
|
||||||
the Nix store. It can contain regular files, directories and
|
|
||||||
symbolic links. NARs are generated and unpacked using
|
|
||||||
<command>nix-store --dump</command> and <command>nix-store
|
|
||||||
--restore</command>.</para></glossdef>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
</glossentry>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
</glosslist>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
</appendix>
|
|
||||||
|
|
@ -1,74 +0,0 @@
|
||||||
<appendix xmlns="http://docbook.org/ns/docbook"
|
|
||||||
xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink"
|
|
||||||
xml:id="chap-hacking">
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
<title>Hacking</title>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
<para>This section provides some notes on how to hack on Nix. To get
|
|
||||||
the latest version of Nix from GitHub:
|
|
||||||
<screen>
|
|
||||||
$ git clone https://github.com/NixOS/nix.git
|
|
||||||
$ cd nix
|
|
||||||
</screen>
|
|
||||||
</para>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
<para>To build Nix for the current operating system/architecture use
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
<screen>
|
|
||||||
$ nix-build
|
|
||||||
</screen>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
or if you have a flakes-enabled nix:
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
<screen>
|
|
||||||
$ nix build
|
|
||||||
</screen>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
This will build <literal>defaultPackage</literal> attribute defined in the <literal>flake.nix</literal> file.
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
To build for other platforms add one of the following suffixes to it: aarch64-linux,
|
|
||||||
i686-linux, x86_64-darwin, x86_64-linux.
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
i.e.
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
<screen>
|
|
||||||
nix-build -A defaultPackage.x86_64-linux
|
|
||||||
</screen>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
</para>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
<para>To build all dependencies and start a shell in which all
|
|
||||||
environment variables are set up so that those dependencies can be
|
|
||||||
found:
|
|
||||||
<screen>
|
|
||||||
$ nix-shell
|
|
||||||
</screen>
|
|
||||||
To build Nix itself in this shell:
|
|
||||||
<screen>
|
|
||||||
[nix-shell]$ ./bootstrap.sh
|
|
||||||
[nix-shell]$ ./configure $configureFlags
|
|
||||||
[nix-shell]$ make -j $NIX_BUILD_CORES
|
|
||||||
</screen>
|
|
||||||
To install it in <literal>$(pwd)/inst</literal> and test it:
|
|
||||||
<screen>
|
|
||||||
[nix-shell]$ make install
|
|
||||||
[nix-shell]$ make installcheck
|
|
||||||
[nix-shell]$ ./inst/bin/nix --version
|
|
||||||
nix (Nix) 2.4
|
|
||||||
</screen>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
If you have a flakes-enabled nix you can replace:
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
<screen>
|
|
||||||
$ nix-shell
|
|
||||||
</screen>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
by:
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
<screen>
|
|
||||||
$ nix develop
|
|
||||||
</screen>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
</para>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
</appendix>
|
|
||||||
6
doc/manual/highlight.pack.js
Normal file
6
doc/manual/highlight.pack.js
Normal file
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|
|
@ -1,49 +0,0 @@
|
||||||
<section xmlns="http://docbook.org/ns/docbook"
|
|
||||||
xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink"
|
|
||||||
xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XInclude"
|
|
||||||
version="5.0"
|
|
||||||
xml:id="sec-building-source">
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
<title>Building Nix from Source</title>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
<para>After unpacking or checking out the Nix sources, issue the
|
|
||||||
following commands:
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
<screen>
|
|
||||||
$ ./configure <replaceable>options...</replaceable>
|
|
||||||
$ make
|
|
||||||
$ make install</screen>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
Nix requires GNU Make so you may need to invoke
|
|
||||||
<command>gmake</command> instead.</para>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
<para>When building from the Git repository, these should be preceded
|
|
||||||
by the command:
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
<screen>
|
|
||||||
$ ./bootstrap.sh</screen>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
</para>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
<para>The installation path can be specified by passing the
|
|
||||||
<option>--prefix=<replaceable>prefix</replaceable></option> to
|
|
||||||
<command>configure</command>. The default installation directory is
|
|
||||||
<filename>/usr/local</filename>. You can change this to any location
|
|
||||||
you like. You must have write permission to the
|
|
||||||
<replaceable>prefix</replaceable> path.</para>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
<para>Nix keeps its <emphasis>store</emphasis> (the place where
|
|
||||||
packages are stored) in <filename>/nix/store</filename> by default.
|
|
||||||
This can be changed using
|
|
||||||
<option>--with-store-dir=<replaceable>path</replaceable></option>.</para>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
<warning><para>It is best <emphasis>not</emphasis> to change the Nix
|
|
||||||
store from its default, since doing so makes it impossible to use
|
|
||||||
pre-built binaries from the standard Nixpkgs channels — that is, all
|
|
||||||
packages will need to be built from source.</para></warning>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
<para>Nix keeps state (such as its database and log files) in
|
|
||||||
<filename>/nix/var</filename> by default. This can be changed using
|
|
||||||
<option>--localstatedir=<replaceable>path</replaceable></option>.</para>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
</section>
|
|
||||||
|
|
@ -1,89 +0,0 @@
|
||||||
<chapter xmlns="http://docbook.org/ns/docbook"
|
|
||||||
xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink"
|
|
||||||
xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XInclude"
|
|
||||||
version="5.0"
|
|
||||||
xml:id="ch-env-variables">
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
<title>Environment Variables</title>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
<para>To use Nix, some environment variables should be set. In
|
|
||||||
particular, <envar>PATH</envar> should contain the directories
|
|
||||||
<filename><replaceable>prefix</replaceable>/bin</filename> and
|
|
||||||
<filename>~/.nix-profile/bin</filename>. The first directory contains
|
|
||||||
the Nix tools themselves, while <filename>~/.nix-profile</filename> is
|
|
||||||
a symbolic link to the current <emphasis>user environment</emphasis>
|
|
||||||
(an automatically generated package consisting of symlinks to
|
|
||||||
installed packages). The simplest way to set the required environment
|
|
||||||
variables is to include the file
|
|
||||||
<filename><replaceable>prefix</replaceable>/etc/profile.d/nix.sh</filename>
|
|
||||||
in your <filename>~/.profile</filename> (or similar), like this:</para>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
<screen>
|
|
||||||
source <replaceable>prefix</replaceable>/etc/profile.d/nix.sh</screen>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
<section xml:id="sec-nix-ssl-cert-file">
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
<title><envar>NIX_SSL_CERT_FILE</envar></title>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
<para>If you need to specify a custom certificate bundle to account
|
|
||||||
for an HTTPS-intercepting man in the middle proxy, you must specify
|
|
||||||
the path to the certificate bundle in the environment variable
|
|
||||||
<envar>NIX_SSL_CERT_FILE</envar>.</para>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
<para>If you don't specify a <envar>NIX_SSL_CERT_FILE</envar>
|
|
||||||
manually, Nix will install and use its own certificate
|
|
||||||
bundle.</para>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
<procedure>
|
|
||||||
<step><para>Set the environment variable and install Nix</para>
|
|
||||||
<screen>
|
|
||||||
$ export NIX_SSL_CERT_FILE=/etc/ssl/my-certificate-bundle.crt
|
|
||||||
$ sh <(curl -L https://nixos.org/nix/install)
|
|
||||||
</screen></step>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
<step><para>In the shell profile and rc files (for example,
|
|
||||||
<filename>/etc/bashrc</filename>, <filename>/etc/zshrc</filename>),
|
|
||||||
add the following line:</para>
|
|
||||||
<programlisting>
|
|
||||||
export NIX_SSL_CERT_FILE=/etc/ssl/my-certificate-bundle.crt
|
|
||||||
</programlisting>
|
|
||||||
</step>
|
|
||||||
</procedure>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
<note><para>You must not add the export and then do the install, as
|
|
||||||
the Nix installer will detect the presense of Nix configuration, and
|
|
||||||
abort.</para></note>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
<section xml:id="sec-nix-ssl-cert-file-with-nix-daemon-and-macos">
|
|
||||||
<title><envar>NIX_SSL_CERT_FILE</envar> with macOS and the Nix daemon</title>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
<para>On macOS you must specify the environment variable for the Nix
|
|
||||||
daemon service, then restart it:</para>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
<screen>
|
|
||||||
$ sudo launchctl setenv NIX_SSL_CERT_FILE /etc/ssl/my-certificate-bundle.crt
|
|
||||||
$ sudo launchctl kickstart -k system/org.nixos.nix-daemon
|
|
||||||
</screen>
|
|
||||||
</section>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
<section xml:id="sec-installer-proxy-settings">
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
<title>Proxy Environment Variables</title>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
<para>The Nix installer has special handling for these proxy-related
|
|
||||||
environment variables:
|
|
||||||
<varname>http_proxy</varname>, <varname>https_proxy</varname>,
|
|
||||||
<varname>ftp_proxy</varname>, <varname>no_proxy</varname>,
|
|
||||||
<varname>HTTP_PROXY</varname>, <varname>HTTPS_PROXY</varname>,
|
|
||||||
<varname>FTP_PROXY</varname>, <varname>NO_PROXY</varname>.
|
|
||||||
</para>
|
|
||||||
<para>If any of these variables are set when running the Nix installer,
|
|
||||||
then the installer will create an override file at
|
|
||||||
<filename>/etc/systemd/system/nix-daemon.service.d/override.conf</filename>
|
|
||||||
so <command>nix-daemon</command> will use them.
|
|
||||||
</para>
|
|
||||||
</section>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
</section>
|
|
||||||
</chapter>
|
|
||||||
|
|
@ -1,34 +0,0 @@
|
||||||
<part xmlns="http://docbook.org/ns/docbook"
|
|
||||||
xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink"
|
|
||||||
xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XInclude"
|
|
||||||
version="5.0"
|
|
||||||
xml:id="chap-installation">
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
<title>Installation</title>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
<partintro>
|
|
||||||
<para>This section describes how to install and configure Nix for first-time use.</para>
|
|
||||||
</partintro>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
<xi:include href="supported-platforms.xml" />
|
|
||||||
<xi:include href="installing-binary.xml" />
|
|
||||||
<xi:include href="installing-source.xml" />
|
|
||||||
<xi:include href="nix-security.xml" />
|
|
||||||
<xi:include href="env-variables.xml" />
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
<!-- TODO: should be updated
|
|
||||||
<section><title>Upgrading Nix through Nix</title>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
<para>You can install the latest stable version of Nix through Nix
|
|
||||||
itself by subscribing to the channel <link
|
|
||||||
xlink:href="http://nixos.org/releases/nix/channels/nix-stable" />,
|
|
||||||
or the latest unstable version by subscribing to the channel <link
|
|
||||||
xlink:href="http://nixos.org/releases/nix/channels/nix-unstable" />.
|
|
||||||
You can also do a <link linkend="sec-one-click">one-click
|
|
||||||
installation</link> by clicking on the package links at <link
|
|
||||||
xlink:href="http://nixos.org/releases/full-index-nix.html" />.</para>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
</section>
|
|
||||||
-->
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</part>
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<chapter xmlns="http://docbook.org/ns/docbook"
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xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink"
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xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XInclude"
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version="5.0"
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xml:id="ch-installing-binary">
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||||||
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||||||
<title>Installing a Binary Distribution</title>
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||||||
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||||||
<para>
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|
||||||
If you are using Linux or macOS versions up to 10.14 (Mojave), the
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|
||||||
easiest way to install Nix is to run the following command:
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|
||||||
</para>
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|
||||||
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|
||||||
<screen>
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|
||||||
$ sh <(curl -L https://nixos.org/nix/install)
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|
||||||
</screen>
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|
||||||
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|
||||||
<para>
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|
||||||
If you're using macOS 10.15 (Catalina) or newer, consult
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|
||||||
<link linkend="sect-macos-installation">the macOS installation instructions</link>
|
|
||||||
before installing.
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|
||||||
</para>
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||||||
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||||||
<para>
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|
||||||
As of Nix 2.1.0, the Nix installer will always default to creating a
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|
||||||
single-user installation, however opting in to the multi-user
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|
||||||
installation is highly recommended.
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|
||||||
<!-- TODO: this explains *neither* why the default version is
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|
||||||
single-user, nor why we'd recommend multi-user over the default.
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|
||||||
True prospective users don't have much basis for evaluating this.
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|
||||||
What's it to me? Who should pick which? Why? What if I pick wrong?
|
|
||||||
-->
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|
||||||
</para>
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|
||||||
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|
||||||
<section xml:id="sect-single-user-installation">
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|
||||||
<title>Single User Installation</title>
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|
||||||
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|
||||||
<para>
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|
||||||
To explicitly select a single-user installation on your system:
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|
||||||
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|
||||||
<screen>
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|
||||||
sh <(curl -L https://nixos.org/nix/install) --no-daemon
|
|
||||||
</screen>
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|
||||||
</para>
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|
||||||
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|
||||||
<para>
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|
||||||
This will perform a single-user installation of Nix, meaning that
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|
||||||
<filename>/nix</filename> is owned by the invoking user. You should
|
|
||||||
run this under your usual user account, <emphasis>not</emphasis> as
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|
||||||
root. The script will invoke <command>sudo</command> to create
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|
||||||
<filename>/nix</filename> if it doesn’t already exist. If you don’t
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|
||||||
have <command>sudo</command>, you should manually create
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|
||||||
<filename>/nix</filename> first as root, e.g.:
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|
||||||
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|
||||||
<screen>
|
|
||||||
$ mkdir /nix
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|
||||||
$ chown alice /nix
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|
||||||
</screen>
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|
||||||
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|
||||||
The install script will modify the first writable file from amongst
|
|
||||||
<filename>.bash_profile</filename>, <filename>.bash_login</filename>
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|
||||||
and <filename>.profile</filename> to source
|
|
||||||
<filename>~/.nix-profile/etc/profile.d/nix.sh</filename>. You can set
|
|
||||||
the <envar>NIX_INSTALLER_NO_MODIFY_PROFILE</envar> environment
|
|
||||||
variable before executing the install script to disable this
|
|
||||||
behaviour.
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|
||||||
</para>
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|
||||||
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|
||||||
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|
||||||
<para>You can uninstall Nix simply by running:
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
<screen>
|
|
||||||
$ rm -rf /nix
|
|
||||||
</screen>
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|
||||||
|
|
||||||
</para>
|
|
||||||
</section>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
<section xml:id="sect-multi-user-installation">
|
|
||||||
<title>Multi User Installation</title>
|
|
||||||
<para>
|
|
||||||
The multi-user Nix installation creates system users, and a system
|
|
||||||
service for the Nix daemon.
|
|
||||||
</para>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
<itemizedlist>
|
|
||||||
<title>Supported Systems</title>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
<listitem>
|
|
||||||
<para>Linux running systemd, with SELinux disabled</para>
|
|
||||||
</listitem>
|
|
||||||
<listitem><para>macOS</para></listitem>
|
|
||||||
</itemizedlist>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
<para>
|
|
||||||
You can instruct the installer to perform a multi-user
|
|
||||||
installation on your system:
|
|
||||||
</para>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
<screen>sh <(curl -L https://nixos.org/nix/install) --daemon</screen>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
<para>
|
|
||||||
The multi-user installation of Nix will create build users between
|
|
||||||
the user IDs 30001 and 30032, and a group with the group ID 30000.
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
You should run this under your usual user account,
|
|
||||||
<emphasis>not</emphasis> as root. The script will invoke
|
|
||||||
<command>sudo</command> as needed.
|
|
||||||
</para>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
<note><para>
|
|
||||||
If you need Nix to use a different group ID or user ID set, you
|
|
||||||
will have to download the tarball manually and <link
|
|
||||||
linkend="sect-nix-install-binary-tarball">edit the install
|
|
||||||
script</link>.
|
|
||||||
</para></note>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
<para>
|
|
||||||
The installer will modify <filename>/etc/bashrc</filename>, and
|
|
||||||
<filename>/etc/zshrc</filename> if they exist. The installer will
|
|
||||||
first back up these files with a
|
|
||||||
<literal>.backup-before-nix</literal> extension. The installer
|
|
||||||
will also create <filename>/etc/profile.d/nix.sh</filename>.
|
|
||||||
</para>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
<para>You can uninstall Nix with the following commands:
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
<screen>
|
|
||||||
sudo rm -rf /etc/profile/nix.sh /etc/nix /nix ~root/.nix-profile ~root/.nix-defexpr ~root/.nix-channels ~/.nix-profile ~/.nix-defexpr ~/.nix-channels
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
# If you are on Linux with systemd, you will need to run:
|
|
||||||
sudo systemctl stop nix-daemon.socket
|
|
||||||
sudo systemctl stop nix-daemon.service
|
|
||||||
sudo systemctl disable nix-daemon.socket
|
|
||||||
sudo systemctl disable nix-daemon.service
|
|
||||||
sudo systemctl daemon-reload
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
# If you are on macOS, you will need to run:
|
|
||||||
sudo launchctl unload /Library/LaunchDaemons/org.nixos.nix-daemon.plist
|
|
||||||
sudo rm /Library/LaunchDaemons/org.nixos.nix-daemon.plist
|
|
||||||
</screen>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
There may also be references to Nix in
|
|
||||||
<filename>/etc/profile</filename>,
|
|
||||||
<filename>/etc/bashrc</filename>, and
|
|
||||||
<filename>/etc/zshrc</filename> which you may remove.
|
|
||||||
</para>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
</section>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
<section xml:id="sect-macos-installation">
|
|
||||||
<title>macOS Installation</title>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
<para>
|
|
||||||
Starting with macOS 10.15 (Catalina), the root filesystem is read-only.
|
|
||||||
This means <filename>/nix</filename> can no longer live on your system
|
|
||||||
volume, and that you'll need a workaround to install Nix.
|
|
||||||
</para>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
<para>
|
|
||||||
The recommended approach, which creates an unencrypted APFS volume
|
|
||||||
for your Nix store and a "synthetic" empty directory to mount it
|
|
||||||
over at <filename>/nix</filename>, is least likely to impair Nix
|
|
||||||
or your system.
|
|
||||||
</para>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
<note><para>
|
|
||||||
With all separate-volume approaches, it's possible something on
|
|
||||||
your system (particularly daemons/services and restored apps) may
|
|
||||||
need access to your Nix store before the volume is mounted. Adding
|
|
||||||
additional encryption makes this more likely.
|
|
||||||
</para></note>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
<para>
|
|
||||||
If you're using a recent Mac with a
|
|
||||||
<link xlink:href="https://www.apple.com/euro/mac/shared/docs/Apple_T2_Security_Chip_Overview.pdf">T2 chip</link>,
|
|
||||||
your drive will still be encrypted at rest (in which case "unencrypted"
|
|
||||||
is a bit of a misnomer). To use this approach, just install Nix with:
|
|
||||||
</para>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
<screen>$ sh <(curl -L https://nixos.org/nix/install) --darwin-use-unencrypted-nix-store-volume</screen>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
<para>
|
|
||||||
If you don't like the sound of this, you'll want to weigh the
|
|
||||||
other approaches and tradeoffs detailed in this section.
|
|
||||||
</para>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
<note>
|
|
||||||
<title>Eventual solutions?</title>
|
|
||||||
<para>
|
|
||||||
All of the known workarounds have drawbacks, but we hope
|
|
||||||
better solutions will be available in the future. Some that
|
|
||||||
we have our eye on are:
|
|
||||||
</para>
|
|
||||||
<orderedlist>
|
|
||||||
<listitem>
|
|
||||||
<para>
|
|
||||||
A true firmlink would enable the Nix store to live on the
|
|
||||||
primary data volume without the build problems caused by
|
|
||||||
the symlink approach. End users cannot currently
|
|
||||||
create true firmlinks.
|
|
||||||
</para>
|
|
||||||
</listitem>
|
|
||||||
<listitem>
|
|
||||||
<para>
|
|
||||||
If the Nix store volume shared FileVault encryption
|
|
||||||
with the primary data volume (probably by using the same
|
|
||||||
volume group and role), FileVault encryption could be
|
|
||||||
easily supported by the installer without requiring
|
|
||||||
manual setup by each user.
|
|
||||||
</para>
|
|
||||||
</listitem>
|
|
||||||
</orderedlist>
|
|
||||||
</note>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
<section xml:id="sect-macos-installation-change-store-prefix">
|
|
||||||
<title>Change the Nix store path prefix</title>
|
|
||||||
<para>
|
|
||||||
Changing the default prefix for the Nix store is a simple
|
|
||||||
approach which enables you to leave it on your root volume,
|
|
||||||
where it can take full advantage of FileVault encryption if
|
|
||||||
enabled. Unfortunately, this approach also opts your device out
|
|
||||||
of some benefits that are enabled by using the same prefix
|
|
||||||
across systems:
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
<itemizedlist>
|
|
||||||
<listitem>
|
|
||||||
<para>
|
|
||||||
Your system won't be able to take advantage of the binary
|
|
||||||
cache (unless someone is able to stand up and support
|
|
||||||
duplicate caching infrastructure), which means you'll
|
|
||||||
spend more time waiting for builds.
|
|
||||||
</para>
|
|
||||||
</listitem>
|
|
||||||
<listitem>
|
|
||||||
<para>
|
|
||||||
It's harder to build and deploy packages to Linux systems.
|
|
||||||
</para>
|
|
||||||
</listitem>
|
|
||||||
<!-- TODO: may be more here -->
|
|
||||||
</itemizedlist>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
<!-- TODO: Yes, but how?! -->
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
It would also possible (and often requested) to just apply this
|
|
||||||
change ecosystem-wide, but it's an intrusive process that has
|
|
||||||
side effects we want to avoid for now.
|
|
||||||
<!-- magnificent hand-wavy gesture -->
|
|
||||||
</para>
|
|
||||||
<para>
|
|
||||||
</para>
|
|
||||||
</section>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
<section xml:id="sect-macos-installation-encrypted-volume">
|
|
||||||
<title>Use a separate encrypted volume</title>
|
|
||||||
<para>
|
|
||||||
If you like, you can also add encryption to the recommended
|
|
||||||
approach taken by the installer. You can do this by pre-creating
|
|
||||||
an encrypted volume before you run the installer--or you can
|
|
||||||
run the installer and encrypt the volume it creates later.
|
|
||||||
<!-- TODO: see later note about whether this needs both add-encryption and from-scratch directions -->
|
|
||||||
</para>
|
|
||||||
<para>
|
|
||||||
In either case, adding encryption to a second volume isn't quite
|
|
||||||
as simple as enabling FileVault for your boot volume. Before you
|
|
||||||
dive in, there are a few things to weigh:
|
|
||||||
</para>
|
|
||||||
<orderedlist>
|
|
||||||
<listitem>
|
|
||||||
<para>
|
|
||||||
The additional volume won't be encrypted with your existing
|
|
||||||
FileVault key, so you'll need another mechanism to decrypt
|
|
||||||
the volume.
|
|
||||||
</para>
|
|
||||||
</listitem>
|
|
||||||
<listitem>
|
|
||||||
<para>
|
|
||||||
You can store the password in Keychain to automatically
|
|
||||||
decrypt the volume on boot--but it'll have to wait on Keychain
|
|
||||||
and may not mount before your GUI apps restore. If any of
|
|
||||||
your launchd agents or apps depend on Nix-installed software
|
|
||||||
(for example, if you use a Nix-installed login shell), the
|
|
||||||
restore may fail or break.
|
|
||||||
</para>
|
|
||||||
<para>
|
|
||||||
On a case-by-case basis, you may be able to work around this
|
|
||||||
problem by using <command>wait4path</command> to block
|
|
||||||
execution until your executable is available.
|
|
||||||
</para>
|
|
||||||
<para>
|
|
||||||
It's also possible to decrypt and mount the volume earlier
|
|
||||||
with a login hook--but this mechanism appears to be
|
|
||||||
deprecated and its future is unclear.
|
|
||||||
</para>
|
|
||||||
</listitem>
|
|
||||||
<listitem>
|
|
||||||
<para>
|
|
||||||
You can hard-code the password in the clear, so that your
|
|
||||||
store volume can be decrypted before Keychain is available.
|
|
||||||
</para>
|
|
||||||
</listitem>
|
|
||||||
</orderedlist>
|
|
||||||
<para>
|
|
||||||
If you are comfortable navigating these tradeoffs, you can encrypt the volume with
|
|
||||||
something along the lines of:
|
|
||||||
<!-- TODO:
|
|
||||||
I don't know if this also needs from-scratch instructions?
|
|
||||||
can we just recommend use-the-installer-and-then-encrypt?
|
|
||||||
-->
|
|
||||||
</para>
|
|
||||||
<!--
|
|
||||||
TODO: it looks like this option can be encryptVolume|encrypt|enableFileVault
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
It may be more clear to use encryptVolume, here? FileVault seems
|
|
||||||
heavily associated with the boot-volume behavior; I worry
|
|
||||||
a little that it can mislead here, especially as it gets
|
|
||||||
copied around minus doc context...?
|
|
||||||
-->
|
|
||||||
<screen>alice$ diskutil apfs enableFileVault /nix -user disk</screen>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
<!-- TODO: and then go into detail on the mount/decrypt approaches? -->
|
|
||||||
</section>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
<section xml:id="sect-macos-installation-symlink">
|
|
||||||
<!--
|
|
||||||
Maybe a good razor is: if we'd hate having to support someone who
|
|
||||||
installed Nix this way, it shouldn't even be detailed?
|
|
||||||
-->
|
|
||||||
<title>Symlink the Nix store to a custom location</title>
|
|
||||||
<para>
|
|
||||||
Another simple approach is using <filename>/etc/synthetic.conf</filename>
|
|
||||||
to symlink the Nix store to the data volume. This option also
|
|
||||||
enables your store to share any configured FileVault encryption.
|
|
||||||
Unfortunately, builds that resolve the symlink may leak the
|
|
||||||
canonical path or even fail.
|
|
||||||
</para>
|
|
||||||
<para>
|
|
||||||
Because of these downsides, we can't recommend this approach.
|
|
||||||
</para>
|
|
||||||
<!-- Leaving out instructions for this one. -->
|
|
||||||
</section>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
<section xml:id="sect-macos-installation-recommended-notes">
|
|
||||||
<title>Notes on the recommended approach</title>
|
|
||||||
<para>
|
|
||||||
This section goes into a little more detail on the recommended
|
|
||||||
approach. You don't need to understand it to run the installer,
|
|
||||||
but it can serve as a helpful reference if you run into trouble.
|
|
||||||
</para>
|
|
||||||
<orderedlist>
|
|
||||||
<listitem>
|
|
||||||
<para>
|
|
||||||
In order to compose user-writable locations into the new
|
|
||||||
read-only system root, Apple introduced a new concept called
|
|
||||||
<literal>firmlinks</literal>, which it describes as a
|
|
||||||
"bi-directional wormhole" between two filesystems. You can
|
|
||||||
see the current firmlinks in <filename>/usr/share/firmlinks</filename>.
|
|
||||||
Unfortunately, firmlinks aren't (currently?) user-configurable.
|
|
||||||
</para>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
<para>
|
|
||||||
For special cases like NFS mount points or package manager roots,
|
|
||||||
<link xlink:href="https://developer.apple.com/library/archive/documentation/System/Conceptual/ManPages_iPhoneOS/man5/synthetic.conf.5.html">synthetic.conf(5)</link>
|
|
||||||
supports limited user-controlled file-creation (of symlinks,
|
|
||||||
and synthetic empty directories) at <filename>/</filename>.
|
|
||||||
To create a synthetic empty directory for mounting at <filename>/nix</filename>,
|
|
||||||
add the following line to <filename>/etc/synthetic.conf</filename>
|
|
||||||
(create it if necessary):
|
|
||||||
</para>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
<screen>nix</screen>
|
|
||||||
</listitem>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
<listitem>
|
|
||||||
<para>
|
|
||||||
This configuration is applied at boot time, but you can use
|
|
||||||
<command>apfs.util</command> to trigger creation (not deletion)
|
|
||||||
of new entries without a reboot:
|
|
||||||
</para>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
<screen>alice$ /System/Library/Filesystems/apfs.fs/Contents/Resources/apfs.util -B</screen>
|
|
||||||
</listitem>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
<listitem>
|
|
||||||
<para>
|
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Create the new APFS volume with diskutil:
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</para>
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||||||
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||||||
<screen>alice$ sudo diskutil apfs addVolume diskX APFS 'Nix Store' -mountpoint /nix</screen>
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</listitem>
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||||||
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||||||
<listitem>
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||||||
<para>
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|
||||||
Using <command>vifs</command>, add the new mount to
|
|
||||||
<filename>/etc/fstab</filename>. If it doesn't already have
|
|
||||||
other entries, it should look something like:
|
|
||||||
</para>
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||||||
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||||||
<screen>
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||||||
#
|
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||||||
# Warning - this file should only be modified with vifs(8)
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||||||
#
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||||||
# Failure to do so is unsupported and may be destructive.
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||||||
#
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LABEL=Nix\040Store /nix apfs rw,nobrowse
|
|
||||||
</screen>
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||||||
|
|
||||||
<para>
|
|
||||||
The nobrowse setting will keep Spotlight from indexing this
|
|
||||||
volume, and keep it from showing up on your desktop.
|
|
||||||
</para>
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|
||||||
</listitem>
|
|
||||||
</orderedlist>
|
|
||||||
</section>
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||||||
|
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||||||
</section>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
<section xml:id="sect-nix-install-pinned-version-url">
|
|
||||||
<title>Installing a pinned Nix version from a URL</title>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
<para>
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|
||||||
NixOS.org hosts version-specific installation URLs for all Nix
|
|
||||||
versions since 1.11.16, at
|
|
||||||
<literal>https://releases.nixos.org/nix/nix-<replaceable>version</replaceable>/install</literal>.
|
|
||||||
</para>
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|
||||||
|
|
||||||
<para>
|
|
||||||
These install scripts can be used the same as the main
|
|
||||||
NixOS.org installation script:
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
<screen>
|
|
||||||
sh <(curl -L https://nixos.org/nix/install)
|
|
||||||
</screen>
|
|
||||||
</para>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
<para>
|
|
||||||
In the same directory of the install script are sha256 sums, and
|
|
||||||
gpg signature files.
|
|
||||||
</para>
|
|
||||||
</section>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
<section xml:id="sect-nix-install-binary-tarball">
|
|
||||||
<title>Installing from a binary tarball</title>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
<para>
|
|
||||||
You can also download a binary tarball that contains Nix and all
|
|
||||||
its dependencies. (This is what the install script at
|
|
||||||
<uri>https://nixos.org/nix/install</uri> does automatically.) You
|
|
||||||
should unpack it somewhere (e.g. in <filename>/tmp</filename>),
|
|
||||||
and then run the script named <command>install</command> inside
|
|
||||||
the binary tarball:
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
<screen>
|
|
||||||
alice$ cd /tmp
|
|
||||||
alice$ tar xfj nix-1.8-x86_64-darwin.tar.bz2
|
|
||||||
alice$ cd nix-1.8-x86_64-darwin
|
|
||||||
alice$ ./install
|
|
||||||
</screen>
|
|
||||||
</para>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
<para>
|
|
||||||
If you need to edit the multi-user installation script to use
|
|
||||||
different group ID or a different user ID range, modify the
|
|
||||||
variables set in the file named
|
|
||||||
<filename>install-multi-user</filename>.
|
|
||||||
</para>
|
|
||||||
</section>
|
|
||||||
</chapter>
|
|
||||||
|
|
@ -1,16 +0,0 @@
|
||||||
<chapter xmlns="http://docbook.org/ns/docbook"
|
|
||||||
xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink"
|
|
||||||
xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XInclude"
|
|
||||||
version="5.0"
|
|
||||||
xml:id="ch-installing-source">
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
<title>Installing Nix from Source</title>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
<para>If no binary package is available, you can download and compile
|
|
||||||
a source distribution.</para>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
<xi:include href="prerequisites-source.xml" />
|
|
||||||
<xi:include href="obtaining-source.xml" />
|
|
||||||
<xi:include href="building-source.xml" />
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
</chapter>
|
|
||||||
|
|
@ -1,107 +0,0 @@
|
||||||
<section xmlns="http://docbook.org/ns/docbook"
|
|
||||||
xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink"
|
|
||||||
xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XInclude"
|
|
||||||
version="5.0"
|
|
||||||
xml:id="ssec-multi-user">
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
<title>Multi-User Mode</title>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
<para>To allow a Nix store to be shared safely among multiple users,
|
|
||||||
it is important that users are not able to run builders that modify
|
|
||||||
the Nix store or database in arbitrary ways, or that interfere with
|
|
||||||
builds started by other users. If they could do so, they could
|
|
||||||
install a Trojan horse in some package and compromise the accounts of
|
|
||||||
other users.</para>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
<para>To prevent this, the Nix store and database are owned by some
|
|
||||||
privileged user (usually <literal>root</literal>) and builders are
|
|
||||||
executed under special user accounts (usually named
|
|
||||||
<literal>nixbld1</literal>, <literal>nixbld2</literal>, etc.). When a
|
|
||||||
unprivileged user runs a Nix command, actions that operate on the Nix
|
|
||||||
store (such as builds) are forwarded to a <emphasis>Nix
|
|
||||||
daemon</emphasis> running under the owner of the Nix store/database
|
|
||||||
that performs the operation.</para>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
<note><para>Multi-user mode has one important limitation: only
|
|
||||||
<systemitem class="username">root</systemitem> and a set of trusted
|
|
||||||
users specified in <filename>nix.conf</filename> can specify arbitrary
|
|
||||||
binary caches. So while unprivileged users may install packages from
|
|
||||||
arbitrary Nix expressions, they may not get pre-built
|
|
||||||
binaries.</para></note>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
<simplesect>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
<title>Setting up the build users</title>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
<para>The <emphasis>build users</emphasis> are the special UIDs under
|
|
||||||
which builds are performed. They should all be members of the
|
|
||||||
<emphasis>build users group</emphasis> <literal>nixbld</literal>.
|
|
||||||
This group should have no other members. The build users should not
|
|
||||||
be members of any other group. On Linux, you can create the group and
|
|
||||||
users as follows:
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
<screen>
|
|
||||||
$ groupadd -r nixbld
|
|
||||||
$ for n in $(seq 1 10); do useradd -c "Nix build user $n" \
|
|
||||||
-d /var/empty -g nixbld -G nixbld -M -N -r -s "$(which nologin)" \
|
|
||||||
nixbld$n; done
|
|
||||||
</screen>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
This creates 10 build users. There can never be more concurrent builds
|
|
||||||
than the number of build users, so you may want to increase this if
|
|
||||||
you expect to do many builds at the same time.</para>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
</simplesect>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
<simplesect>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
<title>Running the daemon</title>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
<para>The <link linkend="sec-nix-daemon">Nix daemon</link> should be
|
|
||||||
started as follows (as <literal>root</literal>):
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
<screen>
|
|
||||||
$ nix-daemon</screen>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
You’ll want to put that line somewhere in your system’s boot
|
|
||||||
scripts.</para>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
<para>To let unprivileged users use the daemon, they should set the
|
|
||||||
<link linkend="envar-remote"><envar>NIX_REMOTE</envar> environment
|
|
||||||
variable</link> to <literal>daemon</literal>. So you should put a
|
|
||||||
line like
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
<programlisting>
|
|
||||||
export NIX_REMOTE=daemon</programlisting>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
into the users’ login scripts.</para>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
</simplesect>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
<simplesect>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
<title>Restricting access</title>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
<para>To limit which users can perform Nix operations, you can use the
|
|
||||||
permissions on the directory
|
|
||||||
<filename>/nix/var/nix/daemon-socket</filename>. For instance, if you
|
|
||||||
want to restrict the use of Nix to the members of a group called
|
|
||||||
<literal>nix-users</literal>, do
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
<screen>
|
|
||||||
$ chgrp nix-users /nix/var/nix/daemon-socket
|
|
||||||
$ chmod ug=rwx,o= /nix/var/nix/daemon-socket
|
|
||||||
</screen>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
This way, users who are not in the <literal>nix-users</literal> group
|
|
||||||
cannot connect to the Unix domain socket
|
|
||||||
<filename>/nix/var/nix/daemon-socket/socket</filename>, so they cannot
|
|
||||||
perform Nix operations.</para>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
</simplesect>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
</section>
|
|
||||||
|
|
@ -1,27 +0,0 @@
|
||||||
<chapter xmlns="http://docbook.org/ns/docbook"
|
|
||||||
xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink"
|
|
||||||
xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XInclude"
|
|
||||||
version="5.0"
|
|
||||||
xml:id="ch-nix-security">
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
<title>Security</title>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
<para>Nix has two basic security models. First, it can be used in
|
|
||||||
“single-user mode”, which is similar to what most other package
|
|
||||||
management tools do: there is a single user (typically <systemitem
|
|
||||||
class="username">root</systemitem>) who performs all package
|
|
||||||
management operations. All other users can then use the installed
|
|
||||||
packages, but they cannot perform package management operations
|
|
||||||
themselves.</para>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
<para>Alternatively, you can configure Nix in “multi-user mode”. In
|
|
||||||
this model, all users can perform package management operations — for
|
|
||||||
instance, every user can install software without requiring root
|
|
||||||
privileges. Nix ensures that this is secure. For instance, it’s not
|
|
||||||
possible for one user to overwrite a package used by another user with
|
|
||||||
a Trojan horse.</para>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
<xi:include href="single-user.xml" />
|
|
||||||
<xi:include href="multi-user.xml" />
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
</chapter>
|
|
||||||
|
|
@ -1,30 +0,0 @@
|
||||||
<section xmlns="http://docbook.org/ns/docbook"
|
|
||||||
xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink"
|
|
||||||
xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XInclude"
|
|
||||||
version="5.0"
|
|
||||||
xml:id="sec-obtaining-source">
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
<title>Obtaining a Source Distribution</title>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
<para>The source tarball of the most recent stable release can be
|
|
||||||
downloaded from the <link
|
|
||||||
xlink:href="http://nixos.org/nix/download.html">Nix homepage</link>.
|
|
||||||
You can also grab the <link
|
|
||||||
xlink:href="http://hydra.nixos.org/job/nix/master/release/latest-finished#tabs-constituents">most
|
|
||||||
recent development release</link>.</para>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
<para>Alternatively, the most recent sources of Nix can be obtained
|
|
||||||
from its <link
|
|
||||||
xlink:href="https://github.com/NixOS/nix">Git
|
|
||||||
repository</link>. For example, the following command will check out
|
|
||||||
the latest revision into a directory called
|
|
||||||
<filename>nix</filename>:</para>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
<screen>
|
|
||||||
$ git clone https://github.com/NixOS/nix</screen>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
<para>Likewise, specific releases can be obtained from the <link
|
|
||||||
xlink:href="https://github.com/NixOS/nix/tags">tags</link> of the
|
|
||||||
repository.</para>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
</section>
|
|
||||||
|
|
@ -1,113 +0,0 @@
|
||||||
<section xmlns="http://docbook.org/ns/docbook"
|
|
||||||
xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink"
|
|
||||||
xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XInclude"
|
|
||||||
version="5.0"
|
|
||||||
xml:id="sec-prerequisites-source">
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
<title>Prerequisites</title>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
<itemizedlist>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
<listitem><para>GNU Autoconf
|
|
||||||
(<link xlink:href="https://www.gnu.org/software/autoconf/"/>)
|
|
||||||
and the autoconf-archive macro collection
|
|
||||||
(<link xlink:href="https://www.gnu.org/software/autoconf-archive/"/>).
|
|
||||||
These are only needed to run the bootstrap script, and are not necessary
|
|
||||||
if your source distribution came with a pre-built
|
|
||||||
<literal>./configure</literal> script.</para></listitem>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
<listitem><para>GNU Make.</para></listitem>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
<listitem><para>Bash Shell. The <literal>./configure</literal> script
|
|
||||||
relies on bashisms, so Bash is required.</para></listitem>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
<listitem><para>A version of GCC or Clang that supports C++17.</para></listitem>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
<listitem><para><command>pkg-config</command> to locate
|
|
||||||
dependencies. If your distribution does not provide it, you can get
|
|
||||||
it from <link
|
|
||||||
xlink:href="http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/pkg-config"
|
|
||||||
/>.</para></listitem>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
<listitem><para>The OpenSSL library to calculate cryptographic hashes.
|
|
||||||
If your distribution does not provide it, you can get it from <link
|
|
||||||
xlink:href="https://www.openssl.org"/>.</para></listitem>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
<listitem><para>The <literal>libbrotlienc</literal> and
|
|
||||||
<literal>libbrotlidec</literal> libraries to provide implementation
|
|
||||||
of the Brotli compression algorithm. They are available for download
|
|
||||||
from the official repository <link
|
|
||||||
xlink:href="https://github.com/google/brotli" />.</para></listitem>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
<listitem><para>The bzip2 compressor program and the
|
|
||||||
<literal>libbz2</literal> library. Thus you must have bzip2
|
|
||||||
installed, including development headers and libraries. If your
|
|
||||||
distribution does not provide these, you can obtain bzip2 from <link
|
|
||||||
xlink:href="https://web.archive.org/web/20180624184756/http://www.bzip.org/"
|
|
||||||
/>.</para></listitem>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
<listitem><para><literal>liblzma</literal>, which is provided by
|
|
||||||
XZ Utils. If your distribution does not provide this, you can
|
|
||||||
get it from <link xlink:href="https://tukaani.org/xz/"/>.</para></listitem>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
<listitem><para>cURL and its library. If your distribution does not
|
|
||||||
provide it, you can get it from <link
|
|
||||||
xlink:href="https://curl.haxx.se/"/>.</para></listitem>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
<listitem><para>The SQLite embedded database library, version 3.6.19
|
|
||||||
or higher. If your distribution does not provide it, please install
|
|
||||||
it from <link xlink:href="http://www.sqlite.org/" />.</para></listitem>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
<listitem><para>The <link
|
|
||||||
xlink:href="http://www.hboehm.info/gc/">Boehm
|
|
||||||
garbage collector</link> to reduce the evaluator’s memory
|
|
||||||
consumption (optional). To enable it, install
|
|
||||||
<literal>pkgconfig</literal> and the Boehm garbage collector, and
|
|
||||||
pass the flag <option>--enable-gc</option> to
|
|
||||||
<command>configure</command>.</para></listitem>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
<listitem><para>The <literal>boost</literal> library of version
|
|
||||||
1.66.0 or higher. It can be obtained from the official web site
|
|
||||||
<link xlink:href="https://www.boost.org/" />.</para></listitem>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
<listitem><para>The <literal>editline</literal> library of version
|
|
||||||
1.14.0 or higher. It can be obtained from the its repository
|
|
||||||
<link xlink:href="https://github.com/troglobit/editline" />.</para></listitem>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
<listitem><para>The <command>xmllint</command> and
|
|
||||||
<command>xsltproc</command> programs to build this manual and the
|
|
||||||
man-pages. These are part of the <literal>libxml2</literal> and
|
|
||||||
<literal>libxslt</literal> packages, respectively. You also need
|
|
||||||
the <link
|
|
||||||
xlink:href="http://docbook.sourceforge.net/projects/xsl/">DocBook
|
|
||||||
XSL stylesheets</link> and optionally the <link
|
|
||||||
xlink:href="http://www.docbook.org/schemas/5x"> DocBook 5.0 RELAX NG
|
|
||||||
schemas</link>. Note that these are only required if you modify the
|
|
||||||
manual sources or when you are building from the Git
|
|
||||||
repository.</para></listitem>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
<listitem><para>Recent versions of Bison and Flex to build the
|
|
||||||
parser. (This is because Nix needs GLR support in Bison and
|
|
||||||
reentrancy support in Flex.) For Bison, you need version 2.6, which
|
|
||||||
can be obtained from the <link
|
|
||||||
xlink:href="ftp://alpha.gnu.org/pub/gnu/bison">GNU FTP
|
|
||||||
server</link>. For Flex, you need version 2.5.35, which is
|
|
||||||
available on <link
|
|
||||||
xlink:href="http://lex.sourceforge.net/">SourceForge</link>.
|
|
||||||
Slightly older versions may also work, but ancient versions like the
|
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ubiquitous 2.5.4a won't. Note that these are only required if you
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modify the parser or when you are building from the Git
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repository.</para></listitem>
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<listitem><para>The <literal>libseccomp</literal> is used to provide
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syscall filtering on Linux. This is an optional dependency and can
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be disabled passing a <option>--disable-seccomp-sandboxing</option>
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option to the <command>configure</command> script (Not recommended
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unless your system doesn't support
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<literal>libseccomp</literal>). To get the library, visit <link
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xlink:href="https://github.com/seccomp/libseccomp"
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/>.</para></listitem>
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version="5.0"
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<title>Single-User Mode</title>
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<para>In single-user mode, all Nix operations that access the database
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in <filename><replaceable>prefix</replaceable>/var/nix/db</filename>
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or modify the Nix store in
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<filename><replaceable>prefix</replaceable>/store</filename> must be
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performed under the user ID that owns those directories. This is
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typically <systemitem class="username">root</systemitem>. (If you
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install from RPM packages, that’s in fact the default ownership.)
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However, on single-user machines, it is often convenient to
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<command>chown</command> those directories to your normal user account
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so that you don’t have to <command>su</command> to <systemitem
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class="username">root</systemitem> all the time.</para>
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version="5.0"
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<title>Supported Platforms</title>
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<para>Nix is currently supported on the following platforms:
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<itemizedlist>
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<listitem><para>Linux (i686, x86_64, aarch64).</para></listitem>
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<listitem><para>macOS (x86_64).</para></listitem>
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<listitem><para>FreeBSD (only tested on Intel).</para></listitem>
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<listitem><para>Windows through <link
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xlink:href="http://www.cygwin.com/">Cygwin</link>.</para>
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<warning><para>On Cygwin, Nix <emphasis>must</emphasis> be installed
|
|
||||||
on an NTFS partition. It will not work correctly on a FAT
|
|
||||||
partition.</para></warning>
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</listitem>
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|
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-->
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</itemizedlist>
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<chapter xmlns="http://docbook.org/ns/docbook"
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xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink"
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xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XInclude"
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version="5.0"
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xml:id="ch-upgrading-nix">
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<title>Upgrading Nix</title>
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||||||
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<para>
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Multi-user Nix users on macOS can upgrade Nix by running:
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<command>sudo -i sh -c 'nix-channel --update &&
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nix-env -iA nixpkgs.nix &&
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launchctl remove org.nixos.nix-daemon &&
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||||||
launchctl load /Library/LaunchDaemons/org.nixos.nix-daemon.plist'</command>
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||||||
</para>
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||||||
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||||||
<para>
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|
||||||
Single-user installations of Nix should run this:
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||||||
<command>nix-channel --update; nix-env -iA nixpkgs.nix nixpkgs.cacert</command>
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|
||||||
</para>
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|
||||||
<para>
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|
||||||
Multi-user Nix users on Linux should run this with sudo:
|
|
||||||
<command>nix-channel --update; nix-env -iA nixpkgs.nix nixpkgs.cacert; systemctl daemon-reload; systemctl restart nix-daemon</command>
|
|
||||||
</para>
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|
||||||
</chapter>
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|
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<chapter xmlns="http://docbook.org/ns/docbook"
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xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink"
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|
||||||
xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XInclude"
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|
||||||
version="5.0"
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|
||||||
xml:id="ch-about-nix">
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|
||||||
|
|
||||||
<title>About Nix</title>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
<para>Nix is a <emphasis>purely functional package manager</emphasis>.
|
|
||||||
This means that it treats packages like values in purely functional
|
|
||||||
programming languages such as Haskell — they are built by functions
|
|
||||||
that don’t have side-effects, and they never change after they have
|
|
||||||
been built. Nix stores packages in the <emphasis>Nix
|
|
||||||
store</emphasis>, usually the directory
|
|
||||||
<filename>/nix/store</filename>, where each package has its own unique
|
|
||||||
subdirectory such as
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
<programlisting>
|
|
||||||
/nix/store/b6gvzjyb2pg0kjfwrjmg1vfhh54ad73z-firefox-33.1/
|
|
||||||
</programlisting>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
where <literal>b6gvzjyb2pg0…</literal> is a unique identifier for the
|
|
||||||
package that captures all its dependencies (it’s a cryptographic hash
|
|
||||||
of the package’s build dependency graph). This enables many powerful
|
|
||||||
features.</para>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
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|
||||||
<simplesect><title>Multiple versions</title>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
<para>You can have multiple versions or variants of a package
|
|
||||||
installed at the same time. This is especially important when
|
|
||||||
different applications have dependencies on different versions of the
|
|
||||||
same package — it prevents the “DLL hell”. Because of the hashing
|
|
||||||
scheme, different versions of a package end up in different paths in
|
|
||||||
the Nix store, so they don’t interfere with each other.</para>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
<para>An important consequence is that operations like upgrading or
|
|
||||||
uninstalling an application cannot break other applications, since
|
|
||||||
these operations never “destructively” update or delete files that are
|
|
||||||
used by other packages.</para>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
</simplesect>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
<simplesect><title>Complete dependencies</title>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
<para>Nix helps you make sure that package dependency specifications
|
|
||||||
are complete. In general, when you’re making a package for a package
|
|
||||||
management system like RPM, you have to specify for each package what
|
|
||||||
its dependencies are, but there are no guarantees that this
|
|
||||||
specification is complete. If you forget a dependency, then the
|
|
||||||
package will build and work correctly on <emphasis>your</emphasis>
|
|
||||||
machine if you have the dependency installed, but not on the end
|
|
||||||
user's machine if it's not there.</para>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
<para>Since Nix on the other hand doesn’t install packages in “global”
|
|
||||||
locations like <filename>/usr/bin</filename> but in package-specific
|
|
||||||
directories, the risk of incomplete dependencies is greatly reduced.
|
|
||||||
This is because tools such as compilers don’t search in per-packages
|
|
||||||
directories such as
|
|
||||||
<filename>/nix/store/5lbfaxb722zp…-openssl-0.9.8d/include</filename>,
|
|
||||||
so if a package builds correctly on your system, this is because you
|
|
||||||
specified the dependency explicitly. This takes care of the build-time
|
|
||||||
dependencies.</para>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
<para>Once a package is built, runtime dependencies are found by
|
|
||||||
scanning binaries for the hash parts of Nix store paths (such as
|
|
||||||
<literal>r8vvq9kq…</literal>). This sounds risky, but it works
|
|
||||||
extremely well.</para>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
</simplesect>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
<simplesect><title>Multi-user support</title>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
<para>Nix has multi-user support. This means that non-privileged
|
|
||||||
users can securely install software. Each user can have a different
|
|
||||||
<emphasis>profile</emphasis>, a set of packages in the Nix store that
|
|
||||||
appear in the user’s <envar>PATH</envar>. If a user installs a
|
|
||||||
package that another user has already installed previously, the
|
|
||||||
package won’t be built or downloaded a second time. At the same time,
|
|
||||||
it is not possible for one user to inject a Trojan horse into a
|
|
||||||
package that might be used by another user.</para>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
</simplesect>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
<simplesect><title>Atomic upgrades and rollbacks</title>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
<para>Since package management operations never overwrite packages in
|
|
||||||
the Nix store but just add new versions in different paths, they are
|
|
||||||
<emphasis>atomic</emphasis>. So during a package upgrade, there is no
|
|
||||||
time window in which the package has some files from the old version
|
|
||||||
and some files from the new version — which would be bad because a
|
|
||||||
program might well crash if it’s started during that period.</para>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
<para>And since packages aren’t overwritten, the old versions are still
|
|
||||||
there after an upgrade. This means that you can <emphasis>roll
|
|
||||||
back</emphasis> to the old version:</para>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
<screen>
|
|
||||||
$ nix-env --upgrade <replaceable>some-packages</replaceable>
|
|
||||||
$ nix-env --rollback
|
|
||||||
</screen>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
</simplesect>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
<simplesect><title>Garbage collection</title>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
<para>When you uninstall a package like this…
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
<screen>
|
|
||||||
$ nix-env --uninstall firefox
|
|
||||||
</screen>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
the package isn’t deleted from the system right away (after all, you
|
|
||||||
might want to do a rollback, or it might be in the profiles of other
|
|
||||||
users). Instead, unused packages can be deleted safely by running the
|
|
||||||
<emphasis>garbage collector</emphasis>:
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
<screen>
|
|
||||||
$ nix-collect-garbage
|
|
||||||
</screen>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
This deletes all packages that aren’t in use by any user profile or by
|
|
||||||
a currently running program.</para>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
</simplesect>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
<simplesect><title>Functional package language</title>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
<para>Packages are built from <emphasis>Nix expressions</emphasis>,
|
|
||||||
which is a simple functional language. A Nix expression describes
|
|
||||||
everything that goes into a package build action (a “derivation”):
|
|
||||||
other packages, sources, the build script, environment variables for
|
|
||||||
the build script, etc. Nix tries very hard to ensure that Nix
|
|
||||||
expressions are <emphasis>deterministic</emphasis>: building a Nix
|
|
||||||
expression twice should yield the same result.</para>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
<para>Because it’s a functional language, it’s easy to support
|
|
||||||
building variants of a package: turn the Nix expression into a
|
|
||||||
function and call it any number of times with the appropriate
|
|
||||||
arguments. Due to the hashing scheme, variants don’t conflict with
|
|
||||||
each other in the Nix store.</para>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
</simplesect>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
<simplesect><title>Transparent source/binary deployment</title>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
<para>Nix expressions generally describe how to build a package from
|
|
||||||
source, so an installation action like
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
<screen>
|
|
||||||
$ nix-env --install firefox
|
|
||||||
</screen>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
<emphasis>could</emphasis> cause quite a bit of build activity, as not
|
|
||||||
only Firefox but also all its dependencies (all the way up to the C
|
|
||||||
library and the compiler) would have to built, at least if they are
|
|
||||||
not already in the Nix store. This is a <emphasis>source deployment
|
|
||||||
model</emphasis>. For most users, building from source is not very
|
|
||||||
pleasant as it takes far too long. However, Nix can automatically
|
|
||||||
skip building from source and instead use a <emphasis>binary
|
|
||||||
cache</emphasis>, a web server that provides pre-built binaries. For
|
|
||||||
instance, when asked to build
|
|
||||||
<literal>/nix/store/b6gvzjyb2pg0…-firefox-33.1</literal> from source,
|
|
||||||
Nix would first check if the file
|
|
||||||
<uri>https://cache.nixos.org/b6gvzjyb2pg0….narinfo</uri> exists, and
|
|
||||||
if so, fetch the pre-built binary referenced from there; otherwise, it
|
|
||||||
would fall back to building from source.</para>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
</simplesect>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
<!--
|
|
||||||
<simplesect><title>Binary patching</title>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
<para>In addition to downloading binaries automatically if they’re
|
|
||||||
available, Nix can download binary deltas that patch an existing
|
|
||||||
package in the Nix store into a new version. This speeds up
|
|
||||||
upgrades.</para>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
</simplesect>
|
|
||||||
-->
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
<simplesect><title>Nix Packages collection</title>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
<para>We provide a large set of Nix expressions containing hundreds of
|
|
||||||
existing Unix packages, the <emphasis>Nix Packages
|
|
||||||
collection</emphasis> (Nixpkgs).</para>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
</simplesect>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
<simplesect><title>Managing build environments</title>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
<para>Nix is extremely useful for developers as it makes it easy to
|
|
||||||
automatically set up the build environment for a package. Given a
|
|
||||||
Nix expression that describes the dependencies of your package, the
|
|
||||||
command <command>nix-shell</command> will build or download those
|
|
||||||
dependencies if they’re not already in your Nix store, and then start
|
|
||||||
a Bash shell in which all necessary environment variables (such as
|
|
||||||
compiler search paths) are set.</para>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
<para>For example, the following command gets all dependencies of the
|
|
||||||
Pan newsreader, as described by <link
|
|
||||||
xlink:href="https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/blob/master/pkgs/applications/networking/newsreaders/pan/default.nix">its
|
|
||||||
Nix expression</link>:</para>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
<screen>
|
|
||||||
$ nix-shell '<nixpkgs>' -A pan
|
|
||||||
</screen>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
<para>You’re then dropped into a shell where you can edit, build and test
|
|
||||||
the package:</para>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
<screen>
|
|
||||||
[nix-shell]$ tar xf $src
|
|
||||||
[nix-shell]$ cd pan-*
|
|
||||||
[nix-shell]$ ./configure
|
|
||||||
[nix-shell]$ make
|
|
||||||
[nix-shell]$ ./pan/gui/pan
|
|
||||||
</screen>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
<!--
|
|
||||||
<para>Since Nix packages are reproducible and have complete dependency
|
|
||||||
specifications, Nix makes an excellent basis for <a
|
|
||||||
href="[%root%]hydra">a continuous build system</a>.</para>
|
|
||||||
-->
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
</simplesect>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
<simplesect><title>Portability</title>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
<para>Nix runs on Linux and macOS.</para>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
</simplesect>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
<simplesect><title>NixOS</title>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
<para>NixOS is a Linux distribution based on Nix. It uses Nix not
|
|
||||||
just for package management but also to manage the system
|
|
||||||
configuration (e.g., to build configuration files in
|
|
||||||
<filename>/etc</filename>). This means, among other things, that it
|
|
||||||
is easy to roll back the entire configuration of the system to an
|
|
||||||
earlier state. Also, users can install software without root
|
|
||||||
privileges. For more information and downloads, see the <link
|
|
||||||
xlink:href="http://nixos.org/">NixOS homepage</link>.</para>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
</simplesect>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
<simplesect><title>License</title>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
<para>Nix is released under the terms of the <link
|
|
||||||
xlink:href="http://www.gnu.org/licenses/old-licenses/lgpl-2.1.html">GNU
|
|
||||||
LGPLv2.1 or (at your option) any later version</link>.</para>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
</simplesect>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
</chapter>
|
|
||||||
|
|
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|
||||||
<part xmlns="http://docbook.org/ns/docbook"
|
|
||||||
xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink"
|
|
||||||
xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XInclude"
|
|
||||||
version="5.0"
|
|
||||||
xml:id="chap-introduction">
|
|
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<title>Introduction</title>
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||||||
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<xi:include href="about-nix.xml" />
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||||||
<xi:include href="quick-start.xml" />
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</part>
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<chapter xmlns="http://docbook.org/ns/docbook"
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xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink"
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xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XInclude"
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||||||
version="5.0"
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||||||
xml:id="chap-quick-start">
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||||||
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||||||
<title>Quick Start</title>
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||||||
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|
||||||
<para>This chapter is for impatient people who don't like reading
|
|
||||||
documentation. For more in-depth information you are kindly referred
|
|
||||||
to subsequent chapters.</para>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
<procedure>
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|
||||||
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|
||||||
<step><para>Install single-user Nix by running the following:
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
<screen>
|
|
||||||
$ bash <(curl -L https://nixos.org/nix/install)
|
|
||||||
</screen>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
This will install Nix in <filename>/nix</filename>. The install script
|
|
||||||
will create <filename>/nix</filename> using <command>sudo</command>,
|
|
||||||
so make sure you have sufficient rights. (For other installation
|
|
||||||
methods, see <xref linkend="chap-installation"/>.)</para></step>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
<step><para>See what installable packages are currently available
|
|
||||||
in the channel:
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
<screen>
|
|
||||||
$ nix-env -qa
|
|
||||||
docbook-xml-4.3
|
|
||||||
docbook-xml-4.5
|
|
||||||
firefox-33.0.2
|
|
||||||
hello-2.9
|
|
||||||
libxslt-1.1.28
|
|
||||||
<replaceable>...</replaceable></screen>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
</para></step>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
<step><para>Install some packages from the channel:
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
<screen>
|
|
||||||
$ nix-env -i hello</screen>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
This should download pre-built packages; it should not build them
|
|
||||||
locally (if it does, something went wrong).</para></step>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
<step><para>Test that they work:
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
<screen>
|
|
||||||
$ which hello
|
|
||||||
/home/eelco/.nix-profile/bin/hello
|
|
||||||
$ hello
|
|
||||||
Hello, world!
|
|
||||||
</screen>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
</para></step>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
<step><para>Uninstall a package:
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
<screen>
|
|
||||||
$ nix-env -e hello</screen>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
</para></step>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
<step><para>You can also test a package without installing it:
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
<screen>
|
|
||||||
$ nix-shell -p hello
|
|
||||||
</screen>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
This builds or downloads GNU Hello and its dependencies, then drops
|
|
||||||
you into a Bash shell where the <command>hello</command> command is
|
|
||||||
present, all without affecting your normal environment:
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
<screen>
|
|
||||||
[nix-shell:~]$ hello
|
|
||||||
Hello, world!
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
[nix-shell:~]$ exit
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
$ hello
|
|
||||||
hello: command not found
|
|
||||||
</screen>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
</para></step>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
<step><para>To keep up-to-date with the channel, do:
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
<screen>
|
|
||||||
$ nix-channel --update nixpkgs
|
|
||||||
$ nix-env -u '*'</screen>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
The latter command will upgrade each installed package for which there
|
|
||||||
is a “newer” version (as determined by comparing the version
|
|
||||||
numbers).</para></step>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
<step><para>If you're unhappy with the result of a
|
|
||||||
<command>nix-env</command> action (e.g., an upgraded package turned
|
|
||||||
out not to work properly), you can go back:
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
<screen>
|
|
||||||
$ nix-env --rollback</screen>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
</para></step>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
<step><para>You should periodically run the Nix garbage collector
|
|
||||||
to get rid of unused packages, since uninstalls or upgrades don't
|
|
||||||
actually delete them:
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
<screen>
|
|
||||||
$ nix-collect-garbage -d</screen>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
<!--
|
|
||||||
The first command deletes old “generations” of your profile (making
|
|
||||||
rollbacks impossible, but also making the packages in those old
|
|
||||||
generations available for garbage collection), while the second
|
|
||||||
command actually deletes them.-->
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
</para></step>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
</procedure>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
</chapter>
|
|
||||||
|
|
@ -1,84 +1,62 @@
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
ifeq ($(doc_generate),yes)
|
ifeq ($(doc_generate),yes)
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
XSLTPROC = $(xsltproc) --nonet $(xmlflags) \
|
MANUAL_SRCS := $(call rwildcard, $(d)/src, *.md)
|
||||||
--param section.autolabel 1 \
|
|
||||||
--param section.label.includes.component.label 1 \
|
|
||||||
--param xref.with.number.and.title 1 \
|
|
||||||
--param toc.section.depth 3 \
|
|
||||||
--param admon.style \'\' \
|
|
||||||
--param callout.graphics 0 \
|
|
||||||
--param contrib.inline.enabled 0 \
|
|
||||||
--stringparam generate.toc "book toc" \
|
|
||||||
--param keep.relative.image.uris 0
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
docbookxsl = http://docbook.sourceforge.net/release/xsl-ns/current
|
|
||||||
docbookrng = http://docbook.org/xml/5.0/rng/docbook.rng
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
MANUAL_SRCS := $(call rwildcard, $(d), *.xml)
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
# Do XInclude processing / RelaxNG validation
|
|
||||||
$(d)/manual.xmli: $(d)/manual.xml $(MANUAL_SRCS) $(d)/version.txt
|
|
||||||
$(trace-gen) $(xmllint) --nonet --xinclude $< -o $@.tmp
|
|
||||||
@mv $@.tmp $@
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
$(d)/version.txt:
|
|
||||||
$(trace-gen) echo -n $(PACKAGE_VERSION) > $@
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
# Note: RelaxNG validation requires xmllint >= 2.7.4.
|
|
||||||
$(d)/manual.is-valid: $(d)/manual.xmli
|
|
||||||
$(trace-gen) $(XSLTPROC) --novalid --stringparam profile.condition manual \
|
|
||||||
$(docbookxsl)/profiling/profile.xsl $< 2> /dev/null | \
|
|
||||||
$(xmllint) --nonet --noout --relaxng $(docbookrng) -
|
|
||||||
@touch $@
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
clean-files += $(d)/manual.xmli $(d)/version.txt $(d)/manual.is-valid
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
dist-files += $(d)/manual.xmli $(d)/version.txt $(d)/manual.is-valid
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
# Generate man pages.
|
# Generate man pages.
|
||||||
man-pages := $(foreach n, \
|
man-pages := $(foreach n, \
|
||||||
nix-env.1 nix-build.1 nix-shell.1 nix-store.1 nix-instantiate.1 \
|
nix-env.1 nix-build.1 nix-shell.1 nix-store.1 nix-instantiate.1 nix.1 \
|
||||||
nix-collect-garbage.1 \
|
nix-collect-garbage.1 \
|
||||||
nix-prefetch-url.1 nix-channel.1 \
|
nix-prefetch-url.1 nix-channel.1 \
|
||||||
nix-hash.1 nix-copy-closure.1 \
|
nix-hash.1 nix-copy-closure.1 \
|
||||||
nix.conf.5 nix-daemon.8, \
|
nix.conf.5 nix-daemon.8, \
|
||||||
$(d)/$(n))
|
$(d)/$(n))
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
$(firstword $(man-pages)): $(d)/manual.xmli $(d)/manual.is-valid
|
|
||||||
$(trace-gen) $(XSLTPROC) --novalid --stringparam profile.condition manpage \
|
|
||||||
$(docbookxsl)/profiling/profile.xsl $< 2> /dev/null | \
|
|
||||||
(cd doc/manual && $(XSLTPROC) $(docbookxsl)/manpages/docbook.xsl -)
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
$(wordlist 2, $(words $(man-pages)), $(man-pages)): $(firstword $(man-pages))
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
clean-files += $(d)/*.1 $(d)/*.5 $(d)/*.8
|
clean-files += $(d)/*.1 $(d)/*.5 $(d)/*.8
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
dist-files += $(man-pages)
|
dist-files += $(man-pages)
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
nix-eval = $(bindir)/nix eval --experimental-features nix-command -I nix/corepkgs=corepkgs --store dummy:// --impure --raw --expr
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
$(d)/%.1: $(d)/src/command-ref/%.md
|
||||||
|
$(trace-gen) lowdown -sT man $^ -o $@
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
$(d)/%.8: $(d)/src/command-ref/%.md
|
||||||
|
$(trace-gen) lowdown -sT man $^ -o $@
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
$(d)/nix.conf.5: $(d)/src/command-ref/conf-file.md
|
||||||
|
$(trace-gen) lowdown -sT man $^ -o $@
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
$(d)/src/command-ref/nix.md: $(d)/nix.json $(d)/generate-manpage.nix $(bindir)/nix
|
||||||
|
$(trace-gen) $(nix-eval) 'import doc/manual/generate-manpage.nix (builtins.fromJSON (builtins.readFile $<))' > $@.tmp
|
||||||
|
@mv $@.tmp $@
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
$(d)/src/command-ref/conf-file.md: $(d)/conf-file.json $(d)/generate-options.nix $(d)/src/command-ref/conf-file-prefix.md $(bindir)/nix
|
||||||
|
@cat doc/manual/src/command-ref/conf-file-prefix.md > $@.tmp
|
||||||
|
$(trace-gen) $(nix-eval) 'import doc/manual/generate-options.nix (builtins.fromJSON (builtins.readFile $<))' >> $@.tmp
|
||||||
|
@mv $@.tmp $@
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
$(d)/nix.json: $(bindir)/nix
|
||||||
|
$(trace-gen) $(bindir)/nix __dump-args > $@.tmp
|
||||||
|
@mv $@.tmp $@
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
$(d)/conf-file.json: $(bindir)/nix
|
||||||
|
$(trace-gen) env -i NIX_CONF_DIR=/dummy HOME=/dummy $(bindir)/nix show-config --json --experimental-features nix-command > $@.tmp
|
||||||
|
@mv $@.tmp $@
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
$(d)/src/expressions/builtins.md: $(d)/builtins.json $(d)/generate-builtins.nix $(d)/src/expressions/builtins-prefix.md $(bindir)/nix
|
||||||
|
@cat doc/manual/src/expressions/builtins-prefix.md > $@.tmp
|
||||||
|
$(trace-gen) $(nix-eval) 'import doc/manual/generate-builtins.nix (builtins.fromJSON (builtins.readFile $<))' >> $@.tmp
|
||||||
|
@mv $@.tmp $@
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
$(d)/builtins.json: $(bindir)/nix
|
||||||
|
$(trace-gen) NIX_PATH=nix/corepkgs=corepkgs $(bindir)/nix __dump-builtins > $@.tmp
|
||||||
|
mv $@.tmp $@
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
# Generate the HTML manual.
|
# Generate the HTML manual.
|
||||||
$(d)/manual.html: $(d)/manual.xml $(MANUAL_SRCS) $(d)/manual.is-valid
|
install: $(docdir)/manual/index.html
|
||||||
$(trace-gen) $(XSLTPROC) --xinclude --stringparam profile.condition manual \
|
|
||||||
$(docbookxsl)/profiling/profile.xsl $< | \
|
|
||||||
$(XSLTPROC) --output $@ $(docbookxsl)/xhtml/docbook.xsl -
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
$(foreach file, $(d)/manual.html, $(eval $(call install-data-in, $(file), $(docdir)/manual)))
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
$(foreach file, $(wildcard $(d)/figures/*.png), $(eval $(call install-data-in, $(file), $(docdir)/manual/figures)))
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
$(eval $(call install-symlink, manual.html, $(docdir)/manual/index.html))
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
all: $(d)/manual.html
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
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|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
dist-files += $(d)/manual.html
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
$(docdir)/manual/index.html: $(MANUAL_SRCS) $(d)/book.toml $(d)/custom.css $(d)/src/command-ref/nix.md $(d)/src/command-ref/conf-file.md $(d)/src/expressions/builtins.md
|
||||||
|
$(trace-gen) mdbook build doc/manual -d $(docdir)/manual
|
||||||
|
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|
||||||
|
|
||||||
endif
|
endif
|
||||||
|
|
|
||||||
|
|
@ -1,52 +0,0 @@
|
||||||
<book xmlns="http://docbook.org/ns/docbook"
|
|
||||||
xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink"
|
|
||||||
xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XInclude"
|
|
||||||
version="5.0">
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
<info>
|
|
||||||
<title>Nix Package Manager Guide</title>
|
|
||||||
<subtitle>Version <xi:include href="version.txt" parse="text" /></subtitle>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
<author>
|
|
||||||
<personname>
|
|
||||||
<firstname>Eelco</firstname>
|
|
||||||
<surname>Dolstra</surname>
|
|
||||||
</personname>
|
|
||||||
<contrib>Author</contrib>
|
|
||||||
</author>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
<copyright>
|
|
||||||
<year>2004-2018</year>
|
|
||||||
<holder>Eelco Dolstra</holder>
|
|
||||||
</copyright>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
</info>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
<!--
|
|
||||||
<preface>
|
|
||||||
<title>Preface</title>
|
|
||||||
<para>This manual describes how to set up and use the Nix package
|
|
||||||
manager.</para>
|
|
||||||
</preface>
|
|
||||||
-->
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
<xi:include href="introduction/introduction.xml" />
|
|
||||||
<xi:include href="installation/installation.xml" />
|
|
||||||
<xi:include href="installation/upgrading.xml" />
|
|
||||||
<xi:include href="packages/package-management.xml" />
|
|
||||||
<xi:include href="expressions/writing-nix-expressions.xml" />
|
|
||||||
<xi:include href="advanced-topics/advanced-topics.xml" />
|
|
||||||
<xi:include href="command-ref/command-ref.xml" />
|
|
||||||
<xi:include href="glossary/glossary.xml" />
|
|
||||||
<xi:include href="hacking.xml" />
|
|
||||||
<xi:include href="release-notes/release-notes.xml" />
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
<!--
|
|
||||||
<appendix>
|
|
||||||
<title>Nix Release Notes</title>
|
|
||||||
<xi:include href="release-notes/release-notes.xml"
|
|
||||||
xpointer="xmlns(x=http://docbook.org/ns/docbook)xpointer(x:article/x:section)" />
|
|
||||||
</appendix>
|
|
||||||
-->
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
</book>
|
|
||||||
|
|
@ -1,182 +0,0 @@
|
||||||
<appendix>
|
|
||||||
<title>Nix Language Reference</title>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
<sect1>
|
|
||||||
<title>Grammar</title>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
<productionset>
|
|
||||||
<title>Expressions</title>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
<production id="nix.expr">
|
|
||||||
<lhs>Expr</lhs>
|
|
||||||
<rhs>
|
|
||||||
<nonterminal def="#nix.expr_function" />
|
|
||||||
</rhs>
|
|
||||||
</production>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
<production id="nix.expr_function">
|
|
||||||
<lhs>ExprFunction</lhs>
|
|
||||||
<rhs>
|
|
||||||
'{' <nonterminal def="#nix.formals" /> '}' ':' <nonterminal def="#nix.expr_function" />
|
|
||||||
<sbr />|
|
|
||||||
<nonterminal def="#nix.expr_assert" />
|
|
||||||
</rhs>
|
|
||||||
</production>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
<production id="nix.expr_assert">
|
|
||||||
<lhs>ExprAssert</lhs>
|
|
||||||
<rhs>
|
|
||||||
'assert' <nonterminal def="#nix.expr" /> ';' <nonterminal def="#nix.expr_assert" />
|
|
||||||
<sbr />|
|
|
||||||
<nonterminal def="#nix.expr_if" />
|
|
||||||
</rhs>
|
|
||||||
</production>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
<production id="nix.expr_if">
|
|
||||||
<lhs>ExprIf</lhs>
|
|
||||||
<rhs>
|
|
||||||
'if' <nonterminal def="#nix.expr" /> 'then' <nonterminal def="#nix.expr" />
|
|
||||||
'else' <nonterminal def="#nix.expr" />
|
|
||||||
<sbr />|
|
|
||||||
<nonterminal def="#nix.expr_op" />
|
|
||||||
</rhs>
|
|
||||||
</production>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
<production id="nix.expr_op">
|
|
||||||
<lhs>ExprOp</lhs>
|
|
||||||
<rhs>
|
|
||||||
'!' <nonterminal def="#nix.expr_op" />
|
|
||||||
<sbr />|
|
|
||||||
<nonterminal def="#nix.expr_op" /> '==' <nonterminal def="#nix.expr_op" />
|
|
||||||
<sbr />|
|
|
||||||
<nonterminal def="#nix.expr_op" /> '!=' <nonterminal def="#nix.expr_op" />
|
|
||||||
<sbr />|
|
|
||||||
<nonterminal def="#nix.expr_op" /> '&&' <nonterminal def="#nix.expr_op" />
|
|
||||||
<sbr />|
|
|
||||||
<nonterminal def="#nix.expr_op" /> '||' <nonterminal def="#nix.expr_op" />
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||||||
<sbr />|
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||||||
<nonterminal def="#nix.expr_op" /> '->' <nonterminal def="#nix.expr_op" />
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|
||||||
<sbr />|
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|
||||||
<nonterminal def="#nix.expr_op" /> '//' <nonterminal def="#nix.expr_op" />
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|
||||||
<sbr />|
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|
||||||
<nonterminal def="#nix.expr_op" /> '~' <nonterminal def="#nix.expr_op" />
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|
||||||
<sbr />|
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|
||||||
<nonterminal def="#nix.expr_op" /> '?' <nonterminal def="#nix.id" />
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|
||||||
<sbr />|
|
|
||||||
<nonterminal def="#nix.expr_app" />
|
|
||||||
</rhs>
|
|
||||||
</production>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
<production id="nix.expr_app">
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|
||||||
<lhs>ExprApp</lhs>
|
|
||||||
<rhs>
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|
||||||
<nonterminal def="#nix.expr_app" /> '.' <nonterminal def="#nix.expr_select" />
|
|
||||||
<sbr />|
|
|
||||||
<nonterminal def="#nix.expr_select" />
|
|
||||||
</rhs>
|
|
||||||
</production>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
<production id="nix.expr_select">
|
|
||||||
<lhs>ExprSelect</lhs>
|
|
||||||
<rhs>
|
|
||||||
<nonterminal def="#nix.expr_select" /> <nonterminal def="#nix.id" />
|
|
||||||
<sbr />|
|
|
||||||
<nonterminal def="#nix.expr_simple" />
|
|
||||||
</rhs>
|
|
||||||
</production>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
<production id="nix.expr_simple">
|
|
||||||
<lhs>ExprSimple</lhs>
|
|
||||||
<rhs>
|
|
||||||
<nonterminal def="#nix.id" /> |
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|
||||||
<nonterminal def="#nix.int" /> |
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|
||||||
<nonterminal def="#nix.str" /> |
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|
||||||
<nonterminal def="#nix.path" /> |
|
|
||||||
<nonterminal def="#nix.uri" />
|
|
||||||
<sbr />|
|
|
||||||
'true' | 'false' | 'null'
|
|
||||||
<sbr />|
|
|
||||||
'(' <nonterminal def="#nix.expr" /> ')'
|
|
||||||
<sbr />|
|
|
||||||
'{' <nonterminal def="#nix.bind" />* '}'
|
|
||||||
<sbr />|
|
|
||||||
'let' '{' <nonterminal def="#nix.bind" />* '}'
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|
||||||
<sbr />|
|
|
||||||
'rec' '{' <nonterminal def="#nix.bind" />* '}'
|
|
||||||
<sbr />|
|
|
||||||
'[' <nonterminal def="#nix.expr_select" />* ']'
|
|
||||||
</rhs>
|
|
||||||
</production>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
<production id="nix.bind">
|
|
||||||
<lhs>Bind</lhs>
|
|
||||||
<rhs>
|
|
||||||
<nonterminal def="#nix.id" /> '=' <nonterminal def="#nix.expr" /> ';'
|
|
||||||
<sbr />|
|
|
||||||
'inherit' ('(' <nonterminal def="#nix.expr" /> ')')? <nonterminal def="#nix.id" />* ';'
|
|
||||||
</rhs>
|
|
||||||
</production>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
<production id="nix.formals">
|
|
||||||
<lhs>Formals</lhs>
|
|
||||||
<rhs>
|
|
||||||
<nonterminal def="#nix.formal" /> ',' <nonterminal def="#nix.formals" />
|
|
||||||
| <nonterminal def="#nix.formal" />
|
|
||||||
</rhs>
|
|
||||||
</production>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
<production id="nix.formal">
|
|
||||||
<lhs>Formal</lhs>
|
|
||||||
<rhs>
|
|
||||||
<nonterminal def="#nix.id" />
|
|
||||||
<sbr />|
|
|
||||||
<nonterminal def="#nix.id" /> '?' <nonterminal def="#nix.expr" />
|
|
||||||
</rhs>
|
|
||||||
</production>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
</productionset>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
<productionset>
|
|
||||||
<title>Terminals</title>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
<production id="nix.id">
|
|
||||||
<lhs>Id</lhs>
|
|
||||||
<rhs>[a-zA-Z\_][a-zA-Z0-9\_\']*</rhs>
|
|
||||||
</production>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
<production id="nix.int">
|
|
||||||
<lhs>Int</lhs>
|
|
||||||
<rhs>[0-9]+</rhs>
|
|
||||||
</production>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
<production id="nix.str">
|
|
||||||
<lhs>Str</lhs>
|
|
||||||
<rhs>\"[^\n\"]*\"</rhs>
|
|
||||||
</production>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
<production id="nix.path">
|
|
||||||
<lhs>Path</lhs>
|
|
||||||
<rhs>[a-zA-Z0-9\.\_\-\+]*(\/[a-zA-Z0-9\.\_\-\+]+)+</rhs>
|
|
||||||
</production>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
<production id="nix.uri">
|
|
||||||
<lhs>Uri</lhs>
|
|
||||||
<rhs>[a-zA-Z][a-zA-Z0-9\+\-\.]*\:[a-zA-Z0-9\%\/\?\:\@\&\=\+\$\,\-\_\.\!\~\*\']+</rhs>
|
|
||||||
</production>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
<production id="nix.ws">
|
|
||||||
<lhs>Whitespace</lhs>
|
|
||||||
<rhs>
|
|
||||||
[ \t\n]+
|
|
||||||
<sbr />|
|
|
||||||
\#[^\n]*
|
|
||||||
<sbr />|
|
|
||||||
\/\*(.|\n)*\*\/
|
|
||||||
</rhs>
|
|
||||||
</production>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
</productionset>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
</sect1>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
</appendix>
|
|
||||||
|
|
@ -1,194 +0,0 @@
|
||||||
<chapter xmlns="http://docbook.org/ns/docbook"
|
|
||||||
xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink"
|
|
||||||
xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XInclude"
|
|
||||||
version="5.0"
|
|
||||||
xml:id="ch-basic-package-mgmt">
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
<title>Basic Package Management</title>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
<para>The main command for package management is <link
|
|
||||||
linkend="sec-nix-env"><command>nix-env</command></link>. You can use
|
|
||||||
it to install, upgrade, and erase packages, and to query what
|
|
||||||
packages are installed or are available for installation.</para>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
<para>In Nix, different users can have different “views”
|
|
||||||
on the set of installed applications. That is, there might be lots of
|
|
||||||
applications present on the system (possibly in many different
|
|
||||||
versions), but users can have a specific selection of those active —
|
|
||||||
where “active” just means that it appears in a directory
|
|
||||||
in the user’s <envar>PATH</envar>. Such a view on the set of
|
|
||||||
installed applications is called a <emphasis>user
|
|
||||||
environment</emphasis>, which is just a directory tree consisting of
|
|
||||||
symlinks to the files of the active applications. </para>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
<para>Components are installed from a set of <emphasis>Nix
|
|
||||||
expressions</emphasis> that tell Nix how to build those packages,
|
|
||||||
including, if necessary, their dependencies. There is a collection of
|
|
||||||
Nix expressions called the Nixpkgs package collection that contains
|
|
||||||
packages ranging from basic development stuff such as GCC and Glibc,
|
|
||||||
to end-user applications like Mozilla Firefox. (Nix is however not
|
|
||||||
tied to the Nixpkgs package collection; you could write your own Nix
|
|
||||||
expressions based on Nixpkgs, or completely new ones.)</para>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
<para>You can manually download the latest version of Nixpkgs from
|
|
||||||
<link xlink:href='http://nixos.org/nixpkgs/download.html'/>. However,
|
|
||||||
it’s much more convenient to use the Nixpkgs
|
|
||||||
<emphasis>channel</emphasis>, since it makes it easy to stay up to
|
|
||||||
date with new versions of Nixpkgs. (Channels are described in more
|
|
||||||
detail in <xref linkend="sec-channels"/>.) Nixpkgs is automatically
|
|
||||||
added to your list of “subscribed” channels when you install
|
|
||||||
Nix. If this is not the case for some reason, you can add it as
|
|
||||||
follows:
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
<screen>
|
|
||||||
$ nix-channel --add https://nixos.org/channels/nixpkgs-unstable
|
|
||||||
$ nix-channel --update
|
|
||||||
</screen>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
</para>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
<note><para>On NixOS, you’re automatically subscribed to a NixOS
|
|
||||||
channel corresponding to your NixOS major release
|
|
||||||
(e.g. <uri>http://nixos.org/channels/nixos-14.12</uri>). A NixOS
|
|
||||||
channel is identical to the Nixpkgs channel, except that it contains
|
|
||||||
only Linux binaries and is updated only if a set of regression tests
|
|
||||||
succeed.</para></note>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
<para>You can view the set of available packages in Nixpkgs:
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
<screen>
|
|
||||||
$ nix-env -qa
|
|
||||||
aterm-2.2
|
|
||||||
bash-3.0
|
|
||||||
binutils-2.15
|
|
||||||
bison-1.875d
|
|
||||||
blackdown-1.4.2
|
|
||||||
bzip2-1.0.2
|
|
||||||
…</screen>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
The flag <option>-q</option> specifies a query operation, and
|
|
||||||
<option>-a</option> means that you want to show the “available” (i.e.,
|
|
||||||
installable) packages, as opposed to the installed packages. If you
|
|
||||||
downloaded Nixpkgs yourself, or if you checked it out from GitHub,
|
|
||||||
then you need to pass the path to your Nixpkgs tree using the
|
|
||||||
<option>-f</option> flag:
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
<screen>
|
|
||||||
$ nix-env -qaf <replaceable>/path/to/nixpkgs</replaceable>
|
|
||||||
</screen>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
where <replaceable>/path/to/nixpkgs</replaceable> is where you’ve
|
|
||||||
unpacked or checked out Nixpkgs.</para>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
<para>You can select specific packages by name:
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
<screen>
|
|
||||||
$ nix-env -qa firefox
|
|
||||||
firefox-34.0.5
|
|
||||||
firefox-with-plugins-34.0.5
|
|
||||||
</screen>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
and using regular expressions:
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
<screen>
|
|
||||||
$ nix-env -qa 'firefox.*'
|
|
||||||
</screen>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
</para>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
<para>It is also possible to see the <emphasis>status</emphasis> of
|
|
||||||
available packages, i.e., whether they are installed into the user
|
|
||||||
environment and/or present in the system:
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
<screen>
|
|
||||||
$ nix-env -qas
|
|
||||||
…
|
|
||||||
-PS bash-3.0
|
|
||||||
--S binutils-2.15
|
|
||||||
IPS bison-1.875d
|
|
||||||
…</screen>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
The first character (<literal>I</literal>) indicates whether the
|
|
||||||
package is installed in your current user environment. The second
|
|
||||||
(<literal>P</literal>) indicates whether it is present on your system
|
|
||||||
(in which case installing it into your user environment would be a
|
|
||||||
very quick operation). The last one (<literal>S</literal>) indicates
|
|
||||||
whether there is a so-called <emphasis>substitute</emphasis> for the
|
|
||||||
package, which is Nix’s mechanism for doing binary deployment. It
|
|
||||||
just means that Nix knows that it can fetch a pre-built package from
|
|
||||||
somewhere (typically a network server) instead of building it
|
|
||||||
locally.</para>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
<para>You can install a package using <literal>nix-env -i</literal>.
|
|
||||||
For instance,
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
<screen>
|
|
||||||
$ nix-env -i subversion</screen>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
will install the package called <literal>subversion</literal> (which
|
|
||||||
is, of course, the <link
|
|
||||||
xlink:href='http://subversion.tigris.org/'>Subversion version
|
|
||||||
management system</link>).</para>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
<note><para>When you ask Nix to install a package, it will first try
|
|
||||||
to get it in pre-compiled form from a <emphasis>binary
|
|
||||||
cache</emphasis>. By default, Nix will use the binary cache
|
|
||||||
<uri>https://cache.nixos.org</uri>; it contains binaries for most
|
|
||||||
packages in Nixpkgs. Only if no binary is available in the binary
|
|
||||||
cache, Nix will build the package from source. So if <literal>nix-env
|
|
||||||
-i subversion</literal> results in Nix building stuff from source,
|
|
||||||
then either the package is not built for your platform by the Nixpkgs
|
|
||||||
build servers, or your version of Nixpkgs is too old or too new. For
|
|
||||||
instance, if you have a very recent checkout of Nixpkgs, then the
|
|
||||||
Nixpkgs build servers may not have had a chance to build everything
|
|
||||||
and upload the resulting binaries to
|
|
||||||
<uri>https://cache.nixos.org</uri>. The Nixpkgs channel is only
|
|
||||||
updated after all binaries have been uploaded to the cache, so if you
|
|
||||||
stick to the Nixpkgs channel (rather than using a Git checkout of the
|
|
||||||
Nixpkgs tree), you will get binaries for most packages.</para></note>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
<para>Naturally, packages can also be uninstalled:
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
<screen>
|
|
||||||
$ nix-env -e subversion</screen>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
</para>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
<para>Upgrading to a new version is just as easy. If you have a new
|
|
||||||
release of Nix Packages, you can do:
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
<screen>
|
|
||||||
$ nix-env -u subversion</screen>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
This will <emphasis>only</emphasis> upgrade Subversion if there is a
|
|
||||||
“newer” version in the new set of Nix expressions, as
|
|
||||||
defined by some pretty arbitrary rules regarding ordering of version
|
|
||||||
numbers (which generally do what you’d expect of them). To just
|
|
||||||
unconditionally replace Subversion with whatever version is in the Nix
|
|
||||||
expressions, use <parameter>-i</parameter> instead of
|
|
||||||
<parameter>-u</parameter>; <parameter>-i</parameter> will remove
|
|
||||||
whatever version is already installed.</para>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
<para>You can also upgrade all packages for which there are newer
|
|
||||||
versions:
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
<screen>
|
|
||||||
$ nix-env -u</screen>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
</para>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
<para>Sometimes it’s useful to be able to ask what
|
|
||||||
<command>nix-env</command> would do, without actually doing it. For
|
|
||||||
instance, to find out what packages would be upgraded by
|
|
||||||
<literal>nix-env -u</literal>, you can do
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
<screen>
|
|
||||||
$ nix-env -u --dry-run
|
|
||||||
(dry run; not doing anything)
|
|
||||||
upgrading `libxslt-1.1.0' to `libxslt-1.1.10'
|
|
||||||
upgrading `graphviz-1.10' to `graphviz-1.12'
|
|
||||||
upgrading `coreutils-5.0' to `coreutils-5.2.1'</screen>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
</para>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
</chapter>
|
|
||||||
|
|
@ -1,70 +0,0 @@
|
||||||
<section xmlns="http://docbook.org/ns/docbook"
|
|
||||||
xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink"
|
|
||||||
xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XInclude"
|
|
||||||
version="5.0"
|
|
||||||
xml:id="ssec-binary-cache-substituter">
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
<title>Serving a Nix store via HTTP</title>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
<para>You can easily share the Nix store of a machine via HTTP. This
|
|
||||||
allows other machines to fetch store paths from that machine to speed
|
|
||||||
up installations. It uses the same <emphasis>binary cache</emphasis>
|
|
||||||
mechanism that Nix usually uses to fetch pre-built binaries from
|
|
||||||
<uri>https://cache.nixos.org</uri>.</para>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
<para>The daemon that handles binary cache requests via HTTP,
|
|
||||||
<command>nix-serve</command>, is not part of the Nix distribution, but
|
|
||||||
you can install it from Nixpkgs:
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
<screen>
|
|
||||||
$ nix-env -i nix-serve
|
|
||||||
</screen>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
You can then start the server, listening for HTTP connections on
|
|
||||||
whatever port you like:
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
<screen>
|
|
||||||
$ nix-serve -p 8080
|
|
||||||
</screen>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
To check whether it works, try the following on the client:
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
<screen>
|
|
||||||
$ curl http://avalon:8080/nix-cache-info
|
|
||||||
</screen>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
which should print something like:
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
<screen>
|
|
||||||
StoreDir: /nix/store
|
|
||||||
WantMassQuery: 1
|
|
||||||
Priority: 30
|
|
||||||
</screen>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
</para>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
<para>On the client side, you can tell Nix to use your binary cache
|
|
||||||
using <option>--option extra-binary-caches</option>, e.g.:
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
<screen>
|
|
||||||
$ nix-env -i firefox --option extra-binary-caches http://avalon:8080/
|
|
||||||
</screen>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
The option <option>extra-binary-caches</option> tells Nix to use this
|
|
||||||
binary cache in addition to your default caches, such as
|
|
||||||
<uri>https://cache.nixos.org</uri>. Thus, for any path in the closure
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|
||||||
of Firefox, Nix will first check if the path is available on the
|
|
||||||
server <literal>avalon</literal> or another binary caches. If not, it
|
|
||||||
will fall back to building from source.</para>
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||||||
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|
||||||
<para>You can also tell Nix to always use your binary cache by adding
|
|
||||||
a line to the <filename linkend="sec-conf-file">nix.conf</filename>
|
|
||||||
configuration file like this:
|
|
||||||
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||||||
<programlisting>
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|
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binary-caches = http://avalon:8080/ https://cache.nixos.org/
|
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||||||
</programlisting>
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||||||
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||||||
</para>
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||||||
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||||||
</section>
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|
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<chapter xmlns="http://docbook.org/ns/docbook"
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xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink"
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||||||
xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XInclude"
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version="5.0"
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xml:id="sec-channels">
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|
||||||
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|
||||||
<title>Channels</title>
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|
||||||
|
|
||||||
<para>If you want to stay up to date with a set of packages, it’s not
|
|
||||||
very convenient to manually download the latest set of Nix expressions
|
|
||||||
for those packages and upgrade using <command>nix-env</command>.
|
|
||||||
Fortunately, there’s a better way: <emphasis>Nix
|
|
||||||
channels</emphasis>.</para>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
<para>A Nix channel is just a URL that points to a place that contains
|
|
||||||
a set of Nix expressions and a manifest. Using the command <link
|
|
||||||
linkend="sec-nix-channel"><command>nix-channel</command></link> you
|
|
||||||
can automatically stay up to date with whatever is available at that
|
|
||||||
URL.</para>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
<para>To see the list of official NixOS channels, visit <link
|
|
||||||
xlink:href="https://nixos.org/channels" />.</para>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
<para>You can “subscribe” to a channel using
|
|
||||||
<command>nix-channel --add</command>, e.g.,
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
<screen>
|
|
||||||
$ nix-channel --add https://nixos.org/channels/nixpkgs-unstable</screen>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
subscribes you to a channel that always contains that latest version
|
|
||||||
of the Nix Packages collection. (Subscribing really just means that
|
|
||||||
the URL is added to the file <filename>~/.nix-channels</filename>,
|
|
||||||
where it is read by subsequent calls to <command>nix-channel
|
|
||||||
--update</command>.) You can “unsubscribe” using <command>nix-channel
|
|
||||||
--remove</command>:
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
<screen>
|
|
||||||
$ nix-channel --remove nixpkgs
|
|
||||||
</screen>
|
|
||||||
</para>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
<para>To obtain the latest Nix expressions available in a channel, do
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
<screen>
|
|
||||||
$ nix-channel --update</screen>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
This downloads and unpacks the Nix expressions in every channel
|
|
||||||
(downloaded from <literal><replaceable>url</replaceable>/nixexprs.tar.bz2</literal>).
|
|
||||||
It also makes the union of each channel’s Nix expressions available by
|
|
||||||
default to <command>nix-env</command> operations (via the symlink
|
|
||||||
<filename>~/.nix-defexpr/channels</filename>). Consequently, you can
|
|
||||||
then say
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
<screen>
|
|
||||||
$ nix-env -u</screen>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
to upgrade all packages in your profile to the latest versions
|
|
||||||
available in the subscribed channels.</para>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
</chapter>
|
|
||||||
|
|
@ -1,50 +0,0 @@
|
||||||
<section xmlns="http://docbook.org/ns/docbook"
|
|
||||||
xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink"
|
|
||||||
xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XInclude"
|
|
||||||
version="5.0"
|
|
||||||
xml:id="ssec-copy-closure">
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
<title>Copying Closures Via SSH</title>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
<para>The command <command
|
|
||||||
linkend="sec-nix-copy-closure">nix-copy-closure</command> copies a Nix
|
|
||||||
store path along with all its dependencies to or from another machine
|
|
||||||
via the SSH protocol. It doesn’t copy store paths that are already
|
|
||||||
present on the target machine. For example, the following command
|
|
||||||
copies Firefox with all its dependencies:
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
<screen>
|
|
||||||
$ nix-copy-closure --to alice@itchy.example.org $(type -p firefox)</screen>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
See <xref linkend='sec-nix-copy-closure' /> for details.</para>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
<para>With <command linkend='refsec-nix-store-export'>nix-store
|
|
||||||
--export</command> and <command
|
|
||||||
linkend='refsec-nix-store-import'>nix-store --import</command> you can
|
|
||||||
write the closure of a store path (that is, the path and all its
|
|
||||||
dependencies) to a file, and then unpack that file into another Nix
|
|
||||||
store. For example,
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
<screen>
|
|
||||||
$ nix-store --export $(nix-store -qR $(type -p firefox)) > firefox.closure</screen>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
writes the closure of Firefox to a file. You can then copy this file
|
|
||||||
to another machine and install the closure:
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
<screen>
|
|
||||||
$ nix-store --import < firefox.closure</screen>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
Any store paths in the closure that are already present in the target
|
|
||||||
store are ignored. It is also possible to pipe the export into
|
|
||||||
another command, e.g. to copy and install a closure directly to/on
|
|
||||||
another machine:
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
<screen>
|
|
||||||
$ nix-store --export $(nix-store -qR $(type -p firefox)) | bzip2 | \
|
|
||||||
ssh alice@itchy.example.org "bunzip2 | nix-store --import"</screen>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
However, <command>nix-copy-closure</command> is generally more
|
|
||||||
efficient because it only copies paths that are not already present in
|
|
||||||
the target Nix store.</para>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
</section>
|
|
||||||
|
|
@ -1,86 +0,0 @@
|
||||||
<chapter xmlns="http://docbook.org/ns/docbook"
|
|
||||||
xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink"
|
|
||||||
xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XInclude"
|
|
||||||
version="5.0"
|
|
||||||
xml:id='sec-garbage-collection'>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
<title>Garbage Collection</title>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
<para><command>nix-env</command> operations such as upgrades
|
|
||||||
(<option>-u</option>) and uninstall (<option>-e</option>) never
|
|
||||||
actually delete packages from the system. All they do (as shown
|
|
||||||
above) is to create a new user environment that no longer contains
|
|
||||||
symlinks to the “deleted” packages.</para>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
<para>Of course, since disk space is not infinite, unused packages
|
|
||||||
should be removed at some point. You can do this by running the Nix
|
|
||||||
garbage collector. It will remove from the Nix store any package
|
|
||||||
not used (directly or indirectly) by any generation of any
|
|
||||||
profile.</para>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
<para>Note however that as long as old generations reference a
|
|
||||||
package, it will not be deleted. After all, we wouldn’t be able to
|
|
||||||
do a rollback otherwise. So in order for garbage collection to be
|
|
||||||
effective, you should also delete (some) old generations. Of course,
|
|
||||||
this should only be done if you are certain that you will not need to
|
|
||||||
roll back.</para>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
<para>To delete all old (non-current) generations of your current
|
|
||||||
profile:
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
<screen>
|
|
||||||
$ nix-env --delete-generations old</screen>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
Instead of <literal>old</literal> you can also specify a list of
|
|
||||||
generations, e.g.,
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
<screen>
|
|
||||||
$ nix-env --delete-generations 10 11 14</screen>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
To delete all generations older than a specified number of days
|
|
||||||
(except the current generation), use the <literal>d</literal>
|
|
||||||
suffix. For example,
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
<screen>
|
|
||||||
$ nix-env --delete-generations 14d</screen>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
deletes all generations older than two weeks.</para>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
<para>After removing appropriate old generations you can run the
|
|
||||||
garbage collector as follows:
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
<screen>
|
|
||||||
$ nix-store --gc</screen>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
The behaviour of the gargage collector is affected by the
|
|
||||||
<literal>keep-derivations</literal> (default: true) and <literal>keep-outputs</literal>
|
|
||||||
(default: false) options in the Nix configuration file. The defaults will ensure
|
|
||||||
that all derivations that are build-time dependencies of garbage collector roots
|
|
||||||
will be kept and that all output paths that are runtime dependencies
|
|
||||||
will be kept as well. All other derivations or paths will be collected.
|
|
||||||
(This is usually what you want, but while you are developing
|
|
||||||
it may make sense to keep outputs to ensure that rebuild times are quick.)
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
If you are feeling uncertain, you can also first view what files would
|
|
||||||
be deleted:
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
<screen>
|
|
||||||
$ nix-store --gc --print-dead</screen>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
Likewise, the option <option>--print-live</option> will show the paths
|
|
||||||
that <emphasis>won’t</emphasis> be deleted.</para>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
<para>There is also a convenient little utility
|
|
||||||
<command>nix-collect-garbage</command>, which when invoked with the
|
|
||||||
<option>-d</option> (<option>--delete-old</option>) switch deletes all
|
|
||||||
old generations of all profiles in
|
|
||||||
<filename>/nix/var/nix/profiles</filename>. So
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
<screen>
|
|
||||||
$ nix-collect-garbage -d</screen>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
is a quick and easy way to clean up your system.</para>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
<xi:include href="garbage-collector-roots.xml" />
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
</chapter>
|
|
||||||
|
|
@ -1,29 +0,0 @@
|
||||||
<section xmlns="http://docbook.org/ns/docbook"
|
|
||||||
xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink"
|
|
||||||
xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XInclude"
|
|
||||||
version="5.0"
|
|
||||||
xml:id="ssec-gc-roots">
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
<title>Garbage Collector Roots</title>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
<para>The roots of the garbage collector are all store paths to which
|
|
||||||
there are symlinks in the directory
|
|
||||||
<filename><replaceable>prefix</replaceable>/nix/var/nix/gcroots</filename>.
|
|
||||||
For instance, the following command makes the path
|
|
||||||
<filename>/nix/store/d718ef...-foo</filename> a root of the collector:
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
<screen>
|
|
||||||
$ ln -s /nix/store/d718ef...-foo /nix/var/nix/gcroots/bar</screen>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
That is, after this command, the garbage collector will not remove
|
|
||||||
<filename>/nix/store/d718ef...-foo</filename> or any of its
|
|
||||||
dependencies.</para>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
<para>Subdirectories of
|
|
||||||
<filename><replaceable>prefix</replaceable>/nix/var/nix/gcroots</filename>
|
|
||||||
are also searched for symlinks. Symlinks to non-store paths are
|
|
||||||
followed and searched for roots, but symlinks to non-store paths
|
|
||||||
<emphasis>inside</emphasis> the paths reached in that way are not
|
|
||||||
followed to prevent infinite recursion.</para>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
</section>
|
|
||||||
|
|
@ -1,23 +0,0 @@
|
||||||
<part xmlns="http://docbook.org/ns/docbook"
|
|
||||||
xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink"
|
|
||||||
xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XInclude"
|
|
||||||
version="5.0"
|
|
||||||
xml:id='chap-package-management'>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
<title>Package Management</title>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
<partintro>
|
|
||||||
<para>This chapter discusses how to do package management with Nix,
|
|
||||||
i.e., how to obtain, install, upgrade, and erase packages. This is
|
|
||||||
the “user’s” perspective of the Nix system — people
|
|
||||||
who want to <emphasis>create</emphasis> packages should consult
|
|
||||||
<xref linkend='chap-writing-nix-expressions' />.</para>
|
|
||||||
</partintro>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
<xi:include href="basic-package-mgmt.xml" />
|
|
||||||
<xi:include href="profiles.xml" />
|
|
||||||
<xi:include href="garbage-collection.xml" />
|
|
||||||
<xi:include href="channels.xml" />
|
|
||||||
<xi:include href="sharing-packages.xml" />
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
</part>
|
|
||||||
|
|
@ -1,158 +0,0 @@
|
||||||
<chapter xmlns="http://docbook.org/ns/docbook"
|
|
||||||
xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink"
|
|
||||||
xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XInclude"
|
|
||||||
version="5.0"
|
|
||||||
xml:id="sec-profiles">
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
<title>Profiles</title>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
<para>Profiles and user environments are Nix’s mechanism for
|
|
||||||
implementing the ability to allow different users to have different
|
|
||||||
configurations, and to do atomic upgrades and rollbacks. To
|
|
||||||
understand how they work, it’s useful to know a bit about how Nix
|
|
||||||
works. In Nix, packages are stored in unique locations in the
|
|
||||||
<emphasis>Nix store</emphasis> (typically,
|
|
||||||
<filename>/nix/store</filename>). For instance, a particular version
|
|
||||||
of the Subversion package might be stored in a directory
|
|
||||||
<filename>/nix/store/dpmvp969yhdqs7lm2r1a3gng7pyq6vy4-subversion-1.1.3/</filename>,
|
|
||||||
while another version might be stored in
|
|
||||||
<filename>/nix/store/5mq2jcn36ldlmh93yj1n8s9c95pj7c5s-subversion-1.1.2</filename>.
|
|
||||||
The long strings prefixed to the directory names are cryptographic
|
|
||||||
hashes<footnote><para>160-bit truncations of SHA-256 hashes encoded in
|
|
||||||
a base-32 notation, to be precise.</para></footnote> of
|
|
||||||
<emphasis>all</emphasis> inputs involved in building the package —
|
|
||||||
sources, dependencies, compiler flags, and so on. So if two
|
|
||||||
packages differ in any way, they end up in different locations in
|
|
||||||
the file system, so they don’t interfere with each other. <xref
|
|
||||||
linkend='fig-user-environments' /> shows a part of a typical Nix
|
|
||||||
store.</para>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
<figure xml:id='fig-user-environments'><title>User environments</title>
|
|
||||||
<mediaobject>
|
|
||||||
<imageobject>
|
|
||||||
<imagedata fileref='../figures/user-environments.png' format='PNG' />
|
|
||||||
</imageobject>
|
|
||||||
</mediaobject>
|
|
||||||
</figure>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
<para>Of course, you wouldn’t want to type
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
<screen>
|
|
||||||
$ /nix/store/dpmvp969yhdq...-subversion-1.1.3/bin/svn</screen>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
every time you want to run Subversion. Of course we could set up the
|
|
||||||
<envar>PATH</envar> environment variable to include the
|
|
||||||
<filename>bin</filename> directory of every package we want to use,
|
|
||||||
but this is not very convenient since changing <envar>PATH</envar>
|
|
||||||
doesn’t take effect for already existing processes. The solution Nix
|
|
||||||
uses is to create directory trees of symlinks to
|
|
||||||
<emphasis>activated</emphasis> packages. These are called
|
|
||||||
<emphasis>user environments</emphasis> and they are packages
|
|
||||||
themselves (though automatically generated by
|
|
||||||
<command>nix-env</command>), so they too reside in the Nix store. For
|
|
||||||
instance, in <xref linkend='fig-user-environments' /> the user
|
|
||||||
environment <filename>/nix/store/0c1p5z4kda11...-user-env</filename>
|
|
||||||
contains a symlink to just Subversion 1.1.2 (arrows in the figure
|
|
||||||
indicate symlinks). This would be what we would obtain if we had done
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
<screen>
|
|
||||||
$ nix-env -i subversion</screen>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
on a set of Nix expressions that contained Subversion 1.1.2.</para>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
<para>This doesn’t in itself solve the problem, of course; you
|
|
||||||
wouldn’t want to type
|
|
||||||
<filename>/nix/store/0c1p5z4kda11...-user-env/bin/svn</filename>
|
|
||||||
either. That’s why there are symlinks outside of the store that point
|
|
||||||
to the user environments in the store; for instance, the symlinks
|
|
||||||
<filename>default-42-link</filename> and
|
|
||||||
<filename>default-43-link</filename> in the example. These are called
|
|
||||||
<emphasis>generations</emphasis> since every time you perform a
|
|
||||||
<command>nix-env</command> operation, a new user environment is
|
|
||||||
generated based on the current one. For instance, generation 43 was
|
|
||||||
created from generation 42 when we did
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
<screen>
|
|
||||||
$ nix-env -i subversion firefox</screen>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
on a set of Nix expressions that contained Firefox and a new version
|
|
||||||
of Subversion.</para>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
<para>Generations are grouped together into
|
|
||||||
<emphasis>profiles</emphasis> so that different users don’t interfere
|
|
||||||
with each other if they don’t want to. For example:
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
<screen>
|
|
||||||
$ ls -l /nix/var/nix/profiles/
|
|
||||||
...
|
|
||||||
lrwxrwxrwx 1 eelco ... default-42-link -> /nix/store/0c1p5z4kda11...-user-env
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||||||
lrwxrwxrwx 1 eelco ... default-43-link -> /nix/store/3aw2pdyx2jfc...-user-env
|
|
||||||
lrwxrwxrwx 1 eelco ... default -> default-43-link</screen>
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||||||
|
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||||||
This shows a profile called <filename>default</filename>. The file
|
|
||||||
<filename>default</filename> itself is actually a symlink that points
|
|
||||||
to the current generation. When we do a <command>nix-env</command>
|
|
||||||
operation, a new user environment and generation link are created
|
|
||||||
based on the current one, and finally the <filename>default</filename>
|
|
||||||
symlink is made to point at the new generation. This last step is
|
|
||||||
atomic on Unix, which explains how we can do atomic upgrades. (Note
|
|
||||||
that the building/installing of new packages doesn’t interfere in
|
|
||||||
any way with old packages, since they are stored in different
|
|
||||||
locations in the Nix store.)</para>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
<para>If you find that you want to undo a <command>nix-env</command>
|
|
||||||
operation, you can just do
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
<screen>
|
|
||||||
$ nix-env --rollback</screen>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
which will just make the current generation link point at the previous
|
|
||||||
link. E.g., <filename>default</filename> would be made to point at
|
|
||||||
<filename>default-42-link</filename>. You can also switch to a
|
|
||||||
specific generation:
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
<screen>
|
|
||||||
$ nix-env --switch-generation 43</screen>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
which in this example would roll forward to generation 43 again. You
|
|
||||||
can also see all available generations:
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
<screen>
|
|
||||||
$ nix-env --list-generations</screen></para>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
<para>You generally wouldn’t have
|
|
||||||
<filename>/nix/var/nix/profiles/<replaceable>some-profile</replaceable>/bin</filename>
|
|
||||||
in your <envar>PATH</envar>. Rather, there is a symlink
|
|
||||||
<filename>~/.nix-profile</filename> that points to your current
|
|
||||||
profile. This means that you should put
|
|
||||||
<filename>~/.nix-profile/bin</filename> in your <envar>PATH</envar>
|
|
||||||
(and indeed, that’s what the initialisation script
|
|
||||||
<filename>/nix/etc/profile.d/nix.sh</filename> does). This makes it
|
|
||||||
easier to switch to a different profile. You can do that using the
|
|
||||||
command <command>nix-env --switch-profile</command>:
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
<screen>
|
|
||||||
$ nix-env --switch-profile /nix/var/nix/profiles/my-profile
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
$ nix-env --switch-profile /nix/var/nix/profiles/default</screen>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
These commands switch to the <filename>my-profile</filename> and
|
|
||||||
default profile, respectively. If the profile doesn’t exist, it will
|
|
||||||
be created automatically. You should be careful about storing a
|
|
||||||
profile in another location than the <filename>profiles</filename>
|
|
||||||
directory, since otherwise it might not be used as a root of the
|
|
||||||
garbage collector (see <xref linkend='sec-garbage-collection'
|
|
||||||
/>).</para>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
<para>All <command>nix-env</command> operations work on the profile
|
|
||||||
pointed to by <command>~/.nix-profile</command>, but you can override
|
|
||||||
this using the <option>--profile</option> option (abbreviation
|
|
||||||
<option>-p</option>):
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
<screen>
|
|
||||||
$ nix-env -p /nix/var/nix/profiles/other-profile -i subversion</screen>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
This will <emphasis>not</emphasis> change the
|
|
||||||
<command>~/.nix-profile</command> symlink.</para>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
</chapter>
|
|
||||||
|
|
@ -1,182 +0,0 @@
|
||||||
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
|
|
||||||
<section xmlns="http://docbook.org/ns/docbook"
|
|
||||||
xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink"
|
|
||||||
xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XInclude"
|
|
||||||
version="5.0"
|
|
||||||
xml:id="ssec-s3-substituter">
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
<title>Serving a Nix store via AWS S3 or S3-compatible Service</title>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
<para>Nix has built-in support for storing and fetching store paths
|
|
||||||
from Amazon S3 and S3 compatible services. This uses the same
|
|
||||||
<emphasis>binary</emphasis> cache mechanism that Nix usually uses to
|
|
||||||
fetch prebuilt binaries from <uri>cache.nixos.org</uri>.</para>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
<para>The following options can be specified as URL parameters to
|
|
||||||
the S3 URL:</para>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
<variablelist>
|
|
||||||
<varlistentry><term><literal>profile</literal></term>
|
|
||||||
<listitem>
|
|
||||||
<para>
|
|
||||||
The name of the AWS configuration profile to use. By default
|
|
||||||
Nix will use the <literal>default</literal> profile.
|
|
||||||
</para>
|
|
||||||
</listitem>
|
|
||||||
</varlistentry>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
<varlistentry><term><literal>region</literal></term>
|
|
||||||
<listitem>
|
|
||||||
<para>
|
|
||||||
The region of the S3 bucket. <literal>us–east-1</literal> by
|
|
||||||
default.
|
|
||||||
</para>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
<para>
|
|
||||||
If your bucket is not in <literal>us–east-1</literal>, you
|
|
||||||
should always explicitly specify the region parameter.
|
|
||||||
</para>
|
|
||||||
</listitem>
|
|
||||||
</varlistentry>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
<varlistentry><term><literal>endpoint</literal></term>
|
|
||||||
<listitem>
|
|
||||||
<para>
|
|
||||||
The URL to your S3-compatible service, for when not using
|
|
||||||
Amazon S3. Do not specify this value if you're using Amazon
|
|
||||||
S3.
|
|
||||||
</para>
|
|
||||||
<note><para>This endpoint must support HTTPS and will use
|
|
||||||
path-based addressing instead of virtual host based
|
|
||||||
addressing.</para></note>
|
|
||||||
</listitem>
|
|
||||||
</varlistentry>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
<varlistentry><term><literal>scheme</literal></term>
|
|
||||||
<listitem>
|
|
||||||
<para>
|
|
||||||
The scheme used for S3 requests, <literal>https</literal>
|
|
||||||
(default) or <literal>http</literal>. This option allows you to
|
|
||||||
disable HTTPS for binary caches which don't support it.
|
|
||||||
</para>
|
|
||||||
<note><para>HTTPS should be used if the cache might contain
|
|
||||||
sensitive information.</para></note>
|
|
||||||
</listitem>
|
|
||||||
</varlistentry>
|
|
||||||
</variablelist>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
<para>In this example we will use the bucket named
|
|
||||||
<literal>example-nix-cache</literal>.</para>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
<section xml:id="ssec-s3-substituter-anonymous-reads">
|
|
||||||
<title>Anonymous Reads to your S3-compatible binary cache</title>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
<para>If your binary cache is publicly accessible and does not
|
|
||||||
require authentication, the simplest and easiest way to use Nix with
|
|
||||||
your S3 compatible binary cache is to use the HTTP URL for that
|
|
||||||
cache.</para>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
<para>For AWS S3 the binary cache URL for example bucket will be
|
|
||||||
exactly <uri>https://example-nix-cache.s3.amazonaws.com</uri> or
|
|
||||||
<uri>s3://example-nix-cache</uri>. For S3 compatible binary caches,
|
|
||||||
consult that cache's documentation.</para>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
<para>Your bucket will need the following bucket policy:</para>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
<programlisting><![CDATA[
|
|
||||||
{
|
|
||||||
"Id": "DirectReads",
|
|
||||||
"Version": "2012-10-17",
|
|
||||||
"Statement": [
|
|
||||||
{
|
|
||||||
"Sid": "AllowDirectReads",
|
|
||||||
"Action": [
|
|
||||||
"s3:GetObject",
|
|
||||||
"s3:GetBucketLocation"
|
|
||||||
],
|
|
||||||
"Effect": "Allow",
|
|
||||||
"Resource": [
|
|
||||||
"arn:aws:s3:::example-nix-cache",
|
|
||||||
"arn:aws:s3:::example-nix-cache/*"
|
|
||||||
],
|
|
||||||
"Principal": "*"
|
|
||||||
}
|
|
||||||
]
|
|
||||||
}
|
|
||||||
]]></programlisting>
|
|
||||||
</section>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
<section xml:id="ssec-s3-substituter-authenticated-reads">
|
|
||||||
<title>Authenticated Reads to your S3 binary cache</title>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
<para>For AWS S3 the binary cache URL for example bucket will be
|
|
||||||
exactly <uri>s3://example-nix-cache</uri>.</para>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
<para>Nix will use the <link
|
|
||||||
xlink:href="https://docs.aws.amazon.com/sdk-for-cpp/v1/developer-guide/credentials.html">default
|
|
||||||
credential provider chain</link> for authenticating requests to
|
|
||||||
Amazon S3.</para>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
<para>Nix supports authenticated reads from Amazon S3 and S3
|
|
||||||
compatible binary caches.</para>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
<para>Your bucket will need a bucket policy allowing the desired
|
|
||||||
users to perform the <literal>s3:GetObject</literal> and
|
|
||||||
<literal>s3:GetBucketLocation</literal> action on all objects in the
|
|
||||||
bucket. The anonymous policy in <xref
|
|
||||||
linkend="ssec-s3-substituter-anonymous-reads" /> can be updated to
|
|
||||||
have a restricted <literal>Principal</literal> to support
|
|
||||||
this.</para>
|
|
||||||
</section>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
<section xml:id="ssec-s3-substituter-authenticated-writes">
|
|
||||||
<title>Authenticated Writes to your S3-compatible binary cache</title>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
<para>Nix support fully supports writing to Amazon S3 and S3
|
|
||||||
compatible buckets. The binary cache URL for our example bucket will
|
|
||||||
be <uri>s3://example-nix-cache</uri>.</para>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
<para>Nix will use the <link
|
|
||||||
xlink:href="https://docs.aws.amazon.com/sdk-for-cpp/v1/developer-guide/credentials.html">default
|
|
||||||
credential provider chain</link> for authenticating requests to
|
|
||||||
Amazon S3.</para>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
<para>Your account will need the following IAM policy to
|
|
||||||
upload to the cache:</para>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
<programlisting><![CDATA[
|
|
||||||
{
|
|
||||||
"Version": "2012-10-17",
|
|
||||||
"Statement": [
|
|
||||||
{
|
|
||||||
"Sid": "UploadToCache",
|
|
||||||
"Effect": "Allow",
|
|
||||||
"Action": [
|
|
||||||
"s3:AbortMultipartUpload",
|
|
||||||
"s3:GetBucketLocation",
|
|
||||||
"s3:GetObject",
|
|
||||||
"s3:ListBucket",
|
|
||||||
"s3:ListBucketMultipartUploads",
|
|
||||||
"s3:ListMultipartUploadParts",
|
|
||||||
"s3:PutObject"
|
|
||||||
],
|
|
||||||
"Resource": [
|
|
||||||
"arn:aws:s3:::example-nix-cache",
|
|
||||||
"arn:aws:s3:::example-nix-cache/*"
|
|
||||||
]
|
|
||||||
}
|
|
||||||
]
|
|
||||||
}
|
|
||||||
]]></programlisting>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
<example><title>Uploading with a specific credential profile for Amazon S3</title>
|
|
||||||
<para><command>nix copy --to 's3://example-nix-cache?profile=cache-upload&region=eu-west-2' nixpkgs.hello</command></para>
|
|
||||||
</example>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
<example><title>Uploading to an S3-Compatible Binary Cache</title>
|
|
||||||
<para><command>nix copy --to 's3://example-nix-cache?profile=cache-upload&scheme=https&endpoint=minio.example.com' nixpkgs.hello</command></para>
|
|
||||||
</example>
|
|
||||||
</section>
|
|
||||||
</section>
|
|
||||||
|
|
@ -1,20 +0,0 @@
|
||||||
<chapter xmlns="http://docbook.org/ns/docbook"
|
|
||||||
xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink"
|
|
||||||
xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XInclude"
|
|
||||||
version="5.0"
|
|
||||||
xml:id="sec-sharing-packages">
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
<title>Sharing Packages Between Machines</title>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
<para>Sometimes you want to copy a package from one machine to
|
|
||||||
another. Or, you want to install some packages and you know that
|
|
||||||
another machine already has some or all of those packages or their
|
|
||||||
dependencies. In that case there are mechanisms to quickly copy
|
|
||||||
packages between machines.</para>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
<xi:include href="binary-cache-substituter.xml" />
|
|
||||||
<xi:include href="copy-closure.xml" />
|
|
||||||
<xi:include href="ssh-substituter.xml" />
|
|
||||||
<xi:include href="s3-substituter.xml" />
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
</chapter>
|
|
||||||
|
|
@ -1,73 +0,0 @@
|
||||||
<section xmlns="http://docbook.org/ns/docbook"
|
|
||||||
xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink"
|
|
||||||
xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XInclude"
|
|
||||||
version="5.0"
|
|
||||||
xml:id="ssec-ssh-substituter">
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
<title>Serving a Nix store via SSH</title>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
<para>You can tell Nix to automatically fetch needed binaries from a
|
|
||||||
remote Nix store via SSH. For example, the following installs Firefox,
|
|
||||||
automatically fetching any store paths in Firefox’s closure if they
|
|
||||||
are available on the server <literal>avalon</literal>:
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
<screen>
|
|
||||||
$ nix-env -i firefox --substituters ssh://alice@avalon
|
|
||||||
</screen>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
This works similar to the binary cache substituter that Nix usually
|
|
||||||
uses, only using SSH instead of HTTP: if a store path
|
|
||||||
<literal>P</literal> is needed, Nix will first check if it’s available
|
|
||||||
in the Nix store on <literal>avalon</literal>. If not, it will fall
|
|
||||||
back to using the binary cache substituter, and then to building from
|
|
||||||
source.</para>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
<note><para>The SSH substituter currently does not allow you to enter
|
|
||||||
an SSH passphrase interactively. Therefore, you should use
|
|
||||||
<command>ssh-add</command> to load the decrypted private key into
|
|
||||||
<command>ssh-agent</command>.</para></note>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
<para>You can also copy the closure of some store path, without
|
|
||||||
installing it into your profile, e.g.
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
<screen>
|
|
||||||
$ nix-store -r /nix/store/m85bxg…-firefox-34.0.5 --substituters ssh://alice@avalon
|
|
||||||
</screen>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
This is essentially equivalent to doing
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
<screen>
|
|
||||||
$ nix-copy-closure --from alice@avalon /nix/store/m85bxg…-firefox-34.0.5
|
|
||||||
</screen>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
</para>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
<para>You can use SSH’s <emphasis>forced command</emphasis> feature to
|
|
||||||
set up a restricted user account for SSH substituter access, allowing
|
|
||||||
read-only access to the local Nix store, but nothing more. For
|
|
||||||
example, add the following lines to <filename>sshd_config</filename>
|
|
||||||
to restrict the user <literal>nix-ssh</literal>:
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
<programlisting>
|
|
||||||
Match User nix-ssh
|
|
||||||
AllowAgentForwarding no
|
|
||||||
AllowTcpForwarding no
|
|
||||||
PermitTTY no
|
|
||||||
PermitTunnel no
|
|
||||||
X11Forwarding no
|
|
||||||
ForceCommand nix-store --serve
|
|
||||||
Match All
|
|
||||||
</programlisting>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
On NixOS, you can accomplish the same by adding the following to your
|
|
||||||
<filename>configuration.nix</filename>:
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
<programlisting>
|
|
||||||
nix.sshServe.enable = true;
|
|
||||||
nix.sshServe.keys = [ "ssh-dss AAAAB3NzaC1k... bob@example.org" ];
|
|
||||||
</programlisting>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
where the latter line lists the public keys of users that are allowed
|
|
||||||
to connect.</para>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
</section>
|
|
||||||
|
|
@ -1,51 +0,0 @@
|
||||||
<appendix xmlns="http://docbook.org/ns/docbook"
|
|
||||||
xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink"
|
|
||||||
xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XInclude"
|
|
||||||
version="5.0"
|
|
||||||
xml:id="sec-relnotes">
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
<title>Nix Release Notes</title>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
<!--
|
|
||||||
<partintro>
|
|
||||||
<para>This section lists the release notes for each stable version of Nix.</para>
|
|
||||||
</partintro>
|
|
||||||
-->
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
<xi:include href="rl-2.3.xml" />
|
|
||||||
<xi:include href="rl-2.2.xml" />
|
|
||||||
<xi:include href="rl-2.1.xml" />
|
|
||||||
<xi:include href="rl-2.0.xml" />
|
|
||||||
<xi:include href="rl-1.11.10.xml" />
|
|
||||||
<xi:include href="rl-1.11.xml" />
|
|
||||||
<xi:include href="rl-1.10.xml" />
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<xi:include href="rl-1.5.xml" />
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<xi:include href="rl-1.3.xml" />
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<xi:include href="rl-0.11.xml" />
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xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink"
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xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XInclude"
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version="5.0"
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xml:id="ch-relnotes-0.10.1">
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<title>Release 0.10.1 (2006-10-11)</title>
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<para>This release fixes two somewhat obscure bugs that occur when
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evaluating Nix expressions that are stored inside the Nix store
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(<literal>NIX-67</literal>). These do not affect most users.</para>
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</section>
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xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink"
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xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XInclude"
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version="5.0"
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xml:id="ch-relnotes-0.10">
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<title>Release 0.10 (2006-10-06)</title>
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<note><para>This version of Nix uses Berkeley DB 4.4 instead of 4.3.
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The database is upgraded automatically, but you should be careful not
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|
||||||
to use old versions of Nix that still use Berkeley DB 4.3. In
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particular, if you use a Nix installed through Nix, you should run
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<screen>
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||||||
$ nix-store --clear-substitutes</screen>
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||||||
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first.</para></note>
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||||||
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||||||
<warning><para>Also, the database schema has changed slighted to fix a
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|
||||||
performance issue (see below). When you run any Nix 0.10 command for
|
|
||||||
the first time, the database will be upgraded automatically. This is
|
|
||||||
irreversible.</para></warning>
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<itemizedlist>
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<!-- Usability / features -->
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<listitem><para><command>nix-env</command> usability improvements:
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|
||||||
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<itemizedlist>
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||||||
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<listitem><para>An option <option>--compare-versions</option>
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|
||||||
(or <option>-c</option>) has been added to <command>nix-env
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|
||||||
--query</command> to allow you to compare installed versions of
|
|
||||||
packages to available versions, or vice versa. An easy way to
|
|
||||||
see if you are up to date with what’s in your subscribed
|
|
||||||
channels is <literal>nix-env -qc \*</literal>.</para></listitem>
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|
||||||
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||||||
<listitem><para><literal>nix-env --query</literal> now takes as
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|
||||||
arguments a list of package names about which to show
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|
||||||
information, just like <option>--install</option>, etc.: for
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|
||||||
example, <literal>nix-env -q gcc</literal>. Note that to show
|
|
||||||
all derivations, you need to specify
|
|
||||||
<literal>\*</literal>.</para></listitem>
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|
||||||
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|
||||||
<listitem><para><literal>nix-env -i
|
|
||||||
<replaceable>pkgname</replaceable></literal> will now install
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|
||||||
the highest available version of
|
|
||||||
<replaceable>pkgname</replaceable>, rather than installing all
|
|
||||||
available versions (which would probably give collisions)
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|
||||||
(<literal>NIX-31</literal>).</para></listitem>
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|
||||||
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||||||
<listitem><para><literal>nix-env (-i|-u) --dry-run</literal> now
|
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||||||
shows exactly which missing paths will be built or
|
|
||||||
substituted.</para></listitem>
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|
||||||
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||||||
<listitem><para><literal>nix-env -qa --description</literal>
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|
||||||
shows human-readable descriptions of packages, provided that
|
|
||||||
they have a <literal>meta.description</literal> attribute (which
|
|
||||||
most packages in Nixpkgs don’t have yet).</para></listitem>
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||||||
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||||||
</itemizedlist>
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||||||
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</para></listitem>
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<listitem><para>New language features:
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||||||
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<itemizedlist>
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||||||
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||||||
<listitem><para>Reference scanning (which happens after each
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||||||
build) is much faster and takes a constant amount of
|
|
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memory.</para></listitem>
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||||||
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|
||||||
<listitem><para>String interpolation. Expressions like
|
|
||||||
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||||||
<programlisting>
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|
||||||
"--with-freetype2-library=" + freetype + "/lib"</programlisting>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
can now be written as
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|
||||||
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||||||
<programlisting>
|
|
||||||
"--with-freetype2-library=${freetype}/lib"</programlisting>
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|
||||||
|
|
||||||
You can write arbitrary expressions within
|
|
||||||
<literal>${<replaceable>...</replaceable>}</literal>, not just
|
|
||||||
identifiers.</para></listitem>
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|
||||||
|
|
||||||
<listitem><para>Multi-line string literals.</para></listitem>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
<listitem><para>String concatenations can now involve
|
|
||||||
derivations, as in the example <code>"--with-freetype2-library="
|
|
||||||
+ freetype + "/lib"</code>. This was not previously possible
|
|
||||||
because we need to register that a derivation that uses such a
|
|
||||||
string is dependent on <literal>freetype</literal>. The
|
|
||||||
evaluator now properly propagates this information.
|
|
||||||
Consequently, the subpath operator (<literal>~</literal>) has
|
|
||||||
been deprecated.</para></listitem>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
<listitem><para>Default values of function arguments can now
|
|
||||||
refer to other function arguments; that is, all arguments are in
|
|
||||||
scope in the default values
|
|
||||||
(<literal>NIX-45</literal>).</para></listitem>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
<!--
|
|
||||||
<listitem><para>TODO: domain checks (r5895).</para></listitem>
|
|
||||||
-->
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
<listitem><para>Lots of new built-in primitives, such as
|
|
||||||
functions for list manipulation and integer arithmetic. See the
|
|
||||||
manual for a complete list. All primops are now available in
|
|
||||||
the set <varname>builtins</varname>, allowing one to test for
|
|
||||||
the availability of primop in a backwards-compatible
|
|
||||||
way.</para></listitem>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
<listitem><para>Real let-expressions: <literal>let x = ...;
|
|
||||||
... z = ...; in ...</literal>.</para></listitem>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
</itemizedlist>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
</para></listitem>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
<listitem><para>New commands <command>nix-pack-closure</command> and
|
|
||||||
<command>nix-unpack-closure</command> than can be used to easily
|
|
||||||
transfer a store path with all its dependencies to another machine.
|
|
||||||
Very convenient whenever you have some package on your machine and
|
|
||||||
you want to copy it somewhere else.</para></listitem>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
<listitem><para>XML support:
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
<itemizedlist>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
<listitem><para><literal>nix-env -q --xml</literal> prints the
|
|
||||||
installed or available packages in an XML representation for
|
|
||||||
easy processing by other tools.</para></listitem>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
<listitem><para><literal>nix-instantiate --eval-only
|
|
||||||
--xml</literal> prints an XML representation of the resulting
|
|
||||||
term. (The new flag <option>--strict</option> forces ‘deep’
|
|
||||||
evaluation of the result, i.e., list elements and attributes are
|
|
||||||
evaluated recursively.)</para></listitem>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
<listitem><para>In Nix expressions, the primop
|
|
||||||
<function>builtins.toXML</function> converts a term to an XML
|
|
||||||
representation. This is primarily useful for passing structured
|
|
||||||
information to builders.</para></listitem>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
</itemizedlist>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
</para></listitem>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
<listitem><para>You can now unambiguously specify which derivation to
|
|
||||||
build or install in <command>nix-env</command>,
|
|
||||||
<command>nix-instantiate</command> and <command>nix-build</command>
|
|
||||||
using the <option>--attr</option> / <option>-A</option> flags, which
|
|
||||||
takes an attribute name as argument. (Unlike symbolic package names
|
|
||||||
such as <literal>subversion-1.4.0</literal>, attribute names in an
|
|
||||||
attribute set are unique.) For instance, a quick way to perform a
|
|
||||||
test build of a package in Nixpkgs is <literal>nix-build
|
|
||||||
pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix -A
|
|
||||||
<replaceable>foo</replaceable></literal>. <literal>nix-env -q
|
|
||||||
--attr</literal> shows the attribute names corresponding to each
|
|
||||||
derivation.</para></listitem>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
<listitem><para>If the top-level Nix expression used by
|
|
||||||
<command>nix-env</command>, <command>nix-instantiate</command> or
|
|
||||||
<command>nix-build</command> evaluates to a function whose arguments
|
|
||||||
all have default values, the function will be called automatically.
|
|
||||||
Also, the new command-line switch <option>--arg
|
|
||||||
<replaceable>name</replaceable>
|
|
||||||
<replaceable>value</replaceable></option> can be used to specify
|
|
||||||
function arguments on the command line.</para></listitem>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
<listitem><para><literal>nix-install-package --url
|
|
||||||
<replaceable>URL</replaceable></literal> allows a package to be
|
|
||||||
installed directly from the given URL.</para></listitem>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
<listitem><para>Nix now works behind an HTTP proxy server; just set
|
|
||||||
the standard environment variables <envar>http_proxy</envar>,
|
|
||||||
<envar>https_proxy</envar>, <envar>ftp_proxy</envar> or
|
|
||||||
<envar>all_proxy</envar> appropriately. Functions such as
|
|
||||||
<function>fetchurl</function> in Nixpkgs also respect these
|
|
||||||
variables.</para></listitem>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
<listitem><para><literal>nix-build -o
|
|
||||||
<replaceable>symlink</replaceable></literal> allows the symlink to
|
|
||||||
the build result to be named something other than
|
|
||||||
<literal>result</literal>.</para></listitem>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
<!-- Stability / performance / etc. -->
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
<listitem><para>Platform support:
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
<itemizedlist>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
<listitem><para>Support for 64-bit platforms, provided a <link
|
|
||||||
xlink:href="http://bugzilla.sen.cwi.nl:8080/show_bug.cgi?id=606">suitably
|
|
||||||
patched ATerm library</link> is used. Also, files larger than 2
|
|
||||||
GiB are now supported.</para></listitem>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
<listitem><para>Added support for Cygwin (Windows,
|
|
||||||
<literal>i686-cygwin</literal>), Mac OS X on Intel
|
|
||||||
(<literal>i686-darwin</literal>) and Linux on PowerPC
|
|
||||||
(<literal>powerpc-linux</literal>).</para></listitem>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
<listitem><para>Users of SMP and multicore machines will
|
|
||||||
appreciate that the number of builds to be performed in parallel
|
|
||||||
can now be specified in the configuration file in the
|
|
||||||
<literal>build-max-jobs</literal> setting.</para></listitem>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
</itemizedlist>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
</para></listitem>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
<listitem><para>Garbage collector improvements:
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
<itemizedlist>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
<listitem><para>Open files (such as running programs) are now
|
|
||||||
used as roots of the garbage collector. This prevents programs
|
|
||||||
that have been uninstalled from being garbage collected while
|
|
||||||
they are still running. The script that detects these
|
|
||||||
additional runtime roots
|
|
||||||
(<filename>find-runtime-roots.pl</filename>) is inherently
|
|
||||||
system-specific, but it should work on Linux and on all
|
|
||||||
platforms that have the <command>lsof</command>
|
|
||||||
utility.</para></listitem>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
<listitem><para><literal>nix-store --gc</literal>
|
|
||||||
(a.k.a. <command>nix-collect-garbage</command>) prints out the
|
|
||||||
number of bytes freed on standard output. <literal>nix-store
|
|
||||||
--gc --print-dead</literal> shows how many bytes would be freed
|
|
||||||
by an actual garbage collection.</para></listitem>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
<listitem><para><literal>nix-collect-garbage -d</literal>
|
|
||||||
removes all old generations of <emphasis>all</emphasis> profiles
|
|
||||||
before calling the actual garbage collector (<literal>nix-store
|
|
||||||
--gc</literal>). This is an easy way to get rid of all old
|
|
||||||
packages in the Nix store.</para></listitem>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
<listitem><para><command>nix-store</command> now has an
|
|
||||||
operation <option>--delete</option> to delete specific paths
|
|
||||||
from the Nix store. It won’t delete reachable (non-garbage)
|
|
||||||
paths unless <option>--ignore-liveness</option> is
|
|
||||||
specified.</para></listitem>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
</itemizedlist>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
</para></listitem>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
<listitem><para>Berkeley DB 4.4’s process registry feature is used
|
|
||||||
to recover from crashed Nix processes.</para></listitem>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
<!-- <listitem><para>TODO: shared stores.</para></listitem> -->
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
<listitem><para>A performance issue has been fixed with the
|
|
||||||
<literal>referer</literal> table, which stores the inverse of the
|
|
||||||
<literal>references</literal> table (i.e., it tells you what store
|
|
||||||
paths refer to a given path). Maintaining this table could take a
|
|
||||||
quadratic amount of time, as well as a quadratic amount of Berkeley
|
|
||||||
DB log file space (in particular when running the garbage collector)
|
|
||||||
(<literal>NIX-23</literal>).</para></listitem>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
<listitem><para>Nix now catches the <literal>TERM</literal> and
|
|
||||||
<literal>HUP</literal> signals in addition to the
|
|
||||||
<literal>INT</literal> signal. So you can now do a <literal>killall
|
|
||||||
nix-store</literal> without triggering a database
|
|
||||||
recovery.</para></listitem>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
<listitem><para><command>bsdiff</command> updated to version
|
|
||||||
4.3.</para></listitem>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
<listitem><para>Substantial performance improvements in expression
|
|
||||||
evaluation and <literal>nix-env -qa</literal>, all thanks to <link
|
|
||||||
xlink:href="http://valgrind.org/">Valgrind</link>. Memory use has
|
|
||||||
been reduced by a factor 8 or so. Big speedup by memoisation of
|
|
||||||
path hashing.</para></listitem>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
<listitem><para>Lots of bug fixes, notably:
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
<itemizedlist>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
<listitem><para>Make sure that the garbage collector can run
|
|
||||||
successfully when the disk is full
|
|
||||||
(<literal>NIX-18</literal>).</para></listitem>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
<listitem><para><command>nix-env</command> now locks the profile
|
|
||||||
to prevent races between concurrent <command>nix-env</command>
|
|
||||||
operations on the same profile
|
|
||||||
(<literal>NIX-7</literal>).</para></listitem>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
<listitem><para>Removed misleading messages from
|
|
||||||
<literal>nix-env -i</literal> (e.g., <literal>installing
|
|
||||||
`foo'</literal> followed by <literal>uninstalling
|
|
||||||
`foo'</literal>) (<literal>NIX-17</literal>).</para></listitem>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
</itemizedlist>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
</para></listitem>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
<listitem><para>Nix source distributions are a lot smaller now since
|
|
||||||
we no longer include a full copy of the Berkeley DB source
|
|
||||||
distribution (but only the bits we need).</para></listitem>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
<listitem><para>Header files are now installed so that external
|
|
||||||
programs can use the Nix libraries.</para></listitem>
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</itemizedlist>
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</section>
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<section xmlns="http://docbook.org/ns/docbook"
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xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink"
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xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XInclude"
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version="5.0"
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xml:id="ssec-relnotes-0.11">
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<title>Release 0.11 (2007-12-31)</title>
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<para>Nix 0.11 has many improvements over the previous stable release.
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The most important improvement is secure multi-user support. It also
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||||||
features many usability enhancements and language extensions, many of
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|
||||||
them prompted by NixOS, the purely functional Linux distribution based
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|
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on Nix. Here is an (incomplete) list:</para>
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<itemizedlist>
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<listitem><para>Secure multi-user support. A single Nix store can
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|
||||||
now be shared between multiple (possible untrusted) users. This is
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|
||||||
an important feature for NixOS, where it allows non-root users to
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|
||||||
install software. The old setuid method for sharing a store between
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|
||||||
multiple users has been removed. Details for setting up a
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|
||||||
multi-user store can be found in the manual.</para></listitem>
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||||||
<listitem><para>The new command <command>nix-copy-closure</command>
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|
||||||
gives you an easy and efficient way to exchange software between
|
|
||||||
machines. It copies the missing parts of the closure of a set of
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|
||||||
store path to or from a remote machine via
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|
||||||
<command>ssh</command>.</para></listitem>
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||||||
<listitem><para>A new kind of string literal: strings between double
|
|
||||||
single-quotes (<literal>''</literal>) have indentation
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|
||||||
“intelligently” removed. This allows large strings (such as shell
|
|
||||||
scripts or configuration file fragments in NixOS) to cleanly follow
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|
||||||
the indentation of the surrounding expression. It also requires
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|
||||||
much less escaping, since <literal>''</literal> is less common in
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|
||||||
most languages than <literal>"</literal>.</para></listitem>
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||||||
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<listitem><para><command>nix-env</command> <option>--set</option>
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|
||||||
modifies the current generation of a profile so that it contains
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|
||||||
exactly the specified derivation, and nothing else. For example,
|
|
||||||
<literal>nix-env -p /nix/var/nix/profiles/browser --set
|
|
||||||
firefox</literal> lets the profile named
|
|
||||||
<filename>browser</filename> contain just Firefox.</para></listitem>
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||||||
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||||||
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||||||
<listitem><para><command>nix-env</command> now maintains
|
|
||||||
meta-information about installed packages in profiles. The
|
|
||||||
meta-information is the contents of the <varname>meta</varname>
|
|
||||||
attribute of derivations, such as <varname>description</varname> or
|
|
||||||
<varname>homepage</varname>. The command <literal>nix-env -q --xml
|
|
||||||
--meta</literal> shows all meta-information.</para></listitem>
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||||||
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||||||
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||||||
<listitem><para><command>nix-env</command> now uses the
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|
||||||
<varname>meta.priority</varname> attribute of derivations to resolve
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|
||||||
filename collisions between packages. Lower priority values denote
|
|
||||||
a higher priority. For instance, the GCC wrapper package and the
|
|
||||||
Binutils package in Nixpkgs both have a file
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|
||||||
<filename>bin/ld</filename>, so previously if you tried to install
|
|
||||||
both you would get a collision. Now, on the other hand, the GCC
|
|
||||||
wrapper declares a higher priority than Binutils, so the former’s
|
|
||||||
<filename>bin/ld</filename> is symlinked in the user
|
|
||||||
environment.</para></listitem>
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|
||||||
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|
||||||
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|
||||||
<listitem><para><command>nix-env -i / -u</command>: instead of
|
|
||||||
breaking package ties by version, break them by priority and version
|
|
||||||
number. That is, if there are multiple packages with the same name,
|
|
||||||
then pick the package with the highest priority, and only use the
|
|
||||||
version if there are multiple packages with the same
|
|
||||||
priority.</para>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
<para>This makes it possible to mark specific versions/variant in
|
|
||||||
Nixpkgs more or less desirable than others. A typical example would
|
|
||||||
be a beta version of some package (e.g.,
|
|
||||||
<literal>gcc-4.2.0rc1</literal>) which should not be installed even
|
|
||||||
though it is the highest version, except when it is explicitly
|
|
||||||
selected (e.g., <literal>nix-env -i
|
|
||||||
gcc-4.2.0rc1</literal>).</para></listitem>
|
|
||||||
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|
||||||
|
|
||||||
<listitem><para><command>nix-env --set-flag</command> allows meta
|
|
||||||
attributes of installed packages to be modified. There are several
|
|
||||||
attributes that can be usefully modified, because they affect the
|
|
||||||
behaviour of <command>nix-env</command> or the user environment
|
|
||||||
build script:
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
<itemizedlist>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
<listitem><para><varname>meta.priority</varname> can be changed
|
|
||||||
to resolve filename clashes (see above).</para></listitem>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
<listitem><para><varname>meta.keep</varname> can be set to
|
|
||||||
<literal>true</literal> to prevent the package from being
|
|
||||||
upgraded or replaced. Useful if you want to hang on to an older
|
|
||||||
version of a package.</para></listitem>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
<listitem><para><varname>meta.active</varname> can be set to
|
|
||||||
<literal>false</literal> to “disable” the package. That is, no
|
|
||||||
symlinks will be generated to the files of the package, but it
|
|
||||||
remains part of the profile (so it won’t be garbage-collected).
|
|
||||||
Set it back to <literal>true</literal> to re-enable the
|
|
||||||
package.</para></listitem>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
</itemizedlist>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
</para></listitem>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
<listitem><para><command>nix-env -q</command> now has a flag
|
|
||||||
<option>--prebuilt-only</option> (<option>-b</option>) that causes
|
|
||||||
<command>nix-env</command> to show only those derivations whose
|
|
||||||
output is already in the Nix store or that can be substituted (i.e.,
|
|
||||||
downloaded from somewhere). In other words, it shows the packages
|
|
||||||
that can be installed “quickly”, i.e., don’t need to be built from
|
|
||||||
source. The <option>-b</option> flag is also available in
|
|
||||||
<command>nix-env -i</command> and <command>nix-env -u</command> to
|
|
||||||
filter out derivations for which no pre-built binary is
|
|
||||||
available.</para></listitem>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
<listitem><para>The new option <option>--argstr</option> (in
|
|
||||||
<command>nix-env</command>, <command>nix-instantiate</command> and
|
|
||||||
<command>nix-build</command>) is like <option>--arg</option>, except
|
|
||||||
that the value is a string. For example, <literal>--argstr system
|
|
||||||
i686-linux</literal> is equivalent to <literal>--arg system
|
|
||||||
\"i686-linux\"</literal> (note that <option>--argstr</option>
|
|
||||||
prevents annoying quoting around shell arguments).</para></listitem>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
<listitem><para><command>nix-store</command> has a new operation
|
|
||||||
<option>--read-log</option> (<option>-l</option>)
|
|
||||||
<parameter>paths</parameter> that shows the build log of the given
|
|
||||||
paths.</para></listitem>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
<!--
|
|
||||||
<listitem><para>TODO: semantic cleanups of string concatenation
|
|
||||||
etc. (mostly in r6740).</para></listitem>
|
|
||||||
-->
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
<listitem><para>Nix now uses Berkeley DB 4.5. The database is
|
|
||||||
upgraded automatically, but you should be careful not to use old
|
|
||||||
versions of Nix that still use Berkeley DB 4.4.</para></listitem>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
<!-- foo
|
|
||||||
<listitem><para>TODO: option <option>- -reregister</option> in
|
|
||||||
<command>nix-store - -register-validity</command>.</para></listitem>
|
|
||||||
-->
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
<listitem><para>The option <option>--max-silent-time</option>
|
|
||||||
(corresponding to the configuration setting
|
|
||||||
<literal>build-max-silent-time</literal>) allows you to set a
|
|
||||||
timeout on builds — if a build produces no output on
|
|
||||||
<literal>stdout</literal> or <literal>stderr</literal> for the given
|
|
||||||
number of seconds, it is terminated. This is useful for recovering
|
|
||||||
automatically from builds that are stuck in an infinite
|
|
||||||
loop.</para></listitem>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
<listitem><para><command>nix-channel</command>: each subscribed
|
|
||||||
channel is its own attribute in the top-level expression generated
|
|
||||||
for the channel. This allows disambiguation (e.g. <literal>nix-env
|
|
||||||
-i -A nixpkgs_unstable.firefox</literal>).</para></listitem>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
<listitem><para>The substitutes table has been removed from the
|
|
||||||
database. This makes operations such as <command>nix-pull</command>
|
|
||||||
and <command>nix-channel --update</command> much, much
|
|
||||||
faster.</para></listitem>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
<listitem><para><command>nix-pull</command> now supports
|
|
||||||
bzip2-compressed manifests. This speeds up
|
|
||||||
channels.</para></listitem>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
<listitem><para><command>nix-prefetch-url</command> now has a
|
|
||||||
limited form of caching. This is used by
|
|
||||||
<command>nix-channel</command> to prevent unnecessary downloads when
|
|
||||||
the channel hasn’t changed.</para></listitem>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
<listitem><para><command>nix-prefetch-url</command> now by default
|
|
||||||
computes the SHA-256 hash of the file instead of the MD5 hash. In
|
|
||||||
calls to <function>fetchurl</function> you should pass the
|
|
||||||
<literal>sha256</literal> attribute instead of
|
|
||||||
<literal>md5</literal>. You can pass either a hexadecimal or a
|
|
||||||
base-32 encoding of the hash.</para></listitem>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
<listitem><para>Nix can now perform builds in an automatically
|
|
||||||
generated “chroot”. This prevents a builder from accessing stuff
|
|
||||||
outside of the Nix store, and thus helps ensure purity. This is an
|
|
||||||
experimental feature.</para></listitem>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
<listitem><para>The new command <command>nix-store
|
|
||||||
--optimise</command> reduces Nix store disk space usage by finding
|
|
||||||
identical files in the store and hard-linking them to each other.
|
|
||||||
It typically reduces the size of the store by something like
|
|
||||||
25-35%.</para></listitem>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
<listitem><para><filename>~/.nix-defexpr</filename> can now be a
|
|
||||||
directory, in which case the Nix expressions in that directory are
|
|
||||||
combined into an attribute set, with the file names used as the
|
|
||||||
names of the attributes. The command <command>nix-env
|
|
||||||
--import</command> (which set the
|
|
||||||
<filename>~/.nix-defexpr</filename> symlink) is
|
|
||||||
removed.</para></listitem>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
<listitem><para>Derivations can specify the new special attribute
|
|
||||||
<varname>allowedReferences</varname> to enforce that the references
|
|
||||||
in the output of a derivation are a subset of a declared set of
|
|
||||||
paths. For example, if <varname>allowedReferences</varname> is an
|
|
||||||
empty list, then the output must not have any references. This is
|
|
||||||
used in NixOS to check that generated files such as initial ramdisks
|
|
||||||
for booting Linux don’t have any dependencies.</para></listitem>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
<listitem><para>The new attribute
|
|
||||||
<varname>exportReferencesGraph</varname> allows builders access to
|
|
||||||
the references graph of their inputs. This is used in NixOS for
|
|
||||||
tasks such as generating ISO-9660 images that contain a Nix store
|
|
||||||
populated with the closure of certain paths.</para></listitem>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
<listitem><para>Fixed-output derivations (like
|
|
||||||
<function>fetchurl</function>) can define the attribute
|
|
||||||
<varname>impureEnvVars</varname> to allow external environment
|
|
||||||
variables to be passed to builders. This is used in Nixpkgs to
|
|
||||||
support proxy configuration, among other things.</para></listitem>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
<listitem><para>Several new built-in functions:
|
|
||||||
<function>builtins.attrNames</function>,
|
|
||||||
<function>builtins.filterSource</function>,
|
|
||||||
<function>builtins.isAttrs</function>,
|
|
||||||
<function>builtins.isFunction</function>,
|
|
||||||
<function>builtins.listToAttrs</function>,
|
|
||||||
<function>builtins.stringLength</function>,
|
|
||||||
<function>builtins.sub</function>,
|
|
||||||
<function>builtins.substring</function>,
|
|
||||||
<function>throw</function>,
|
|
||||||
<function>builtins.trace</function>,
|
|
||||||
<function>builtins.readFile</function>.</para></listitem>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
</itemizedlist>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
</section>
|
|
||||||
|
|
@ -1,175 +0,0 @@
|
||||||
<section xmlns="http://docbook.org/ns/docbook"
|
|
||||||
xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink"
|
|
||||||
xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XInclude"
|
|
||||||
version="5.0"
|
|
||||||
xml:id="ssec-relnotes-0.12">
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
<title>Release 0.12 (2008-11-20)</title>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
<itemizedlist>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
<listitem>
|
|
||||||
<para>Nix no longer uses Berkeley DB to store Nix store metadata.
|
|
||||||
The principal advantages of the new storage scheme are: it works
|
|
||||||
properly over decent implementations of NFS (allowing Nix stores
|
|
||||||
to be shared between multiple machines); no recovery is needed
|
|
||||||
when a Nix process crashes; no write access is needed for
|
|
||||||
read-only operations; no more running out of Berkeley DB locks on
|
|
||||||
certain operations.</para>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
<para>You still need to compile Nix with Berkeley DB support if
|
|
||||||
you want Nix to automatically convert your old Nix store to the
|
|
||||||
new schema. If you don’t need this, you can build Nix with the
|
|
||||||
<filename>configure</filename> option
|
|
||||||
<option>--disable-old-db-compat</option>.</para>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
<para>After the automatic conversion to the new schema, you can
|
|
||||||
delete the old Berkeley DB files:
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
<screen>
|
|
||||||
$ cd /nix/var/nix/db
|
|
||||||
$ rm __db* log.* derivers references referrers reserved validpaths DB_CONFIG</screen>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
The new metadata is stored in the directories
|
|
||||||
<filename>/nix/var/nix/db/info</filename> and
|
|
||||||
<filename>/nix/var/nix/db/referrer</filename>. Though the
|
|
||||||
metadata is stored in human-readable plain-text files, they are
|
|
||||||
not intended to be human-editable, as Nix is rather strict about
|
|
||||||
the format.</para>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
<para>The new storage schema may or may not require less disk
|
|
||||||
space than the Berkeley DB environment, mostly depending on the
|
|
||||||
cluster size of your file system. With 1 KiB clusters (which
|
|
||||||
seems to be the <literal>ext3</literal> default nowadays) it
|
|
||||||
usually takes up much less space.</para>
|
|
||||||
</listitem>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
<listitem><para>There is a new substituter that copies paths
|
|
||||||
directly from other (remote) Nix stores mounted somewhere in the
|
|
||||||
filesystem. For instance, you can speed up an installation by
|
|
||||||
mounting some remote Nix store that already has the packages in
|
|
||||||
question via NFS or <literal>sshfs</literal>. The environment
|
|
||||||
variable <envar>NIX_OTHER_STORES</envar> specifies the locations of
|
|
||||||
the remote Nix directories,
|
|
||||||
e.g. <literal>/mnt/remote-fs/nix</literal>.</para></listitem>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
<listitem><para>New <command>nix-store</command> operations
|
|
||||||
<option>--dump-db</option> and <option>--load-db</option> to dump
|
|
||||||
and reload the Nix database.</para></listitem>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
<listitem><para>The garbage collector has a number of new options to
|
|
||||||
allow only some of the garbage to be deleted. The option
|
|
||||||
<option>--max-freed <replaceable>N</replaceable></option> tells the
|
|
||||||
collector to stop after at least <replaceable>N</replaceable> bytes
|
|
||||||
have been deleted. The option <option>--max-links
|
|
||||||
<replaceable>N</replaceable></option> tells it to stop after the
|
|
||||||
link count on <filename>/nix/store</filename> has dropped below
|
|
||||||
<replaceable>N</replaceable>. This is useful for very large Nix
|
|
||||||
stores on filesystems with a 32000 subdirectories limit (like
|
|
||||||
<literal>ext3</literal>). The option <option>--use-atime</option>
|
|
||||||
causes store paths to be deleted in order of ascending last access
|
|
||||||
time. This allows non-recently used stuff to be deleted. The
|
|
||||||
option <option>--max-atime <replaceable>time</replaceable></option>
|
|
||||||
specifies an upper limit to the last accessed time of paths that may
|
|
||||||
be deleted. For instance,
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
<screen>
|
|
||||||
$ nix-store --gc -v --max-atime $(date +%s -d "2 months ago")</screen>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
deletes everything that hasn’t been accessed in two months.</para></listitem>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
<listitem><para><command>nix-env</command> now uses optimistic
|
|
||||||
profile locking when performing an operation like installing or
|
|
||||||
upgrading, instead of setting an exclusive lock on the profile.
|
|
||||||
This allows multiple <command>nix-env -i / -u / -e</command>
|
|
||||||
operations on the same profile in parallel. If a
|
|
||||||
<command>nix-env</command> operation sees at the end that the profile
|
|
||||||
was changed in the meantime by another process, it will just
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restart. This is generally cheap because the build results are
|
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still in the Nix store.</para></listitem>
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<listitem><para>The option <option>--dry-run</option> is now
|
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||||||
supported by <command>nix-store -r</command> and
|
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<command>nix-build</command>.</para></listitem>
|
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<listitem><para>The information previously shown by
|
|
||||||
<option>--dry-run</option> (i.e., which derivations will be built
|
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and which paths will be substituted) is now always shown by
|
|
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<command>nix-env</command>, <command>nix-store -r</command> and
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<command>nix-build</command>. The total download size of
|
|
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substitutable paths is now also shown. For instance, a build will
|
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||||||
show something like
|
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|
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<screen>
|
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the following derivations will be built:
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/nix/store/129sbxnk5n466zg6r1qmq1xjv9zymyy7-activate-configuration.sh.drv
|
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/nix/store/7mzy971rdm8l566ch8hgxaf89x7lr7ik-upstart-jobs.drv
|
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...
|
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the following paths will be downloaded/copied (30.02 MiB):
|
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/nix/store/4m8pvgy2dcjgppf5b4cj5l6wyshjhalj-samba-3.2.4
|
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/nix/store/7h1kwcj29ip8vk26rhmx6bfjraxp0g4l-libunwind-0.98.6
|
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...</screen>
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</para></listitem>
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<listitem><para>Language features:
|
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||||||
|
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<itemizedlist>
|
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<listitem><para>@-patterns as in Haskell. For instance, in a
|
|
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function definition
|
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<programlisting>f = args @ {x, y, z}: <replaceable>...</replaceable>;</programlisting>
|
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||||||
|
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<varname>args</varname> refers to the argument as a whole, which
|
|
||||||
is further pattern-matched against the attribute set pattern
|
|
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<literal>{x, y, z}</literal>.</para></listitem>
|
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||||||
|
|
||||||
<listitem><para>“<literal>...</literal>” (ellipsis) patterns.
|
|
||||||
An attribute set pattern can now say <literal>...</literal> at
|
|
||||||
the end of the attribute name list to specify that the function
|
|
||||||
takes <emphasis>at least</emphasis> the listed attributes, while
|
|
||||||
ignoring additional attributes. For instance,
|
|
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<programlisting>{stdenv, fetchurl, fuse, ...}: <replaceable>...</replaceable></programlisting>
|
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||||||
|
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defines a function that accepts any attribute set that includes
|
|
||||||
at least the three listed attributes.</para></listitem>
|
|
||||||
|
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||||||
<listitem><para>New primops:
|
|
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<varname>builtins.parseDrvName</varname> (split a package name
|
|
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string like <literal>"nix-0.12pre12876"</literal> into its name
|
|
||||||
and version components, e.g. <literal>"nix"</literal> and
|
|
||||||
<literal>"0.12pre12876"</literal>),
|
|
||||||
<varname>builtins.compareVersions</varname> (compare two version
|
|
||||||
strings using the same algorithm that <command>nix-env</command>
|
|
||||||
uses), <varname>builtins.length</varname> (efficiently compute
|
|
||||||
the length of a list), <varname>builtins.mul</varname> (integer
|
|
||||||
multiplication), <varname>builtins.div</varname> (integer
|
|
||||||
division).
|
|
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<!-- <varname>builtins.genericClosure</varname> -->
|
|
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</para></listitem>
|
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||||||
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</itemizedlist>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
</para></listitem>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
<listitem><para><command>nix-prefetch-url</command> now supports
|
|
||||||
<literal>mirror://</literal> URLs, provided that the environment
|
|
||||||
variable <envar>NIXPKGS_ALL</envar> points at a Nixpkgs
|
|
||||||
tree.</para></listitem>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
<listitem><para>Removed the commands
|
|
||||||
<command>nix-pack-closure</command> and
|
|
||||||
<command>nix-unpack-closure</command>. You can do almost the same
|
|
||||||
thing but much more efficiently by doing <literal>nix-store --export
|
|
||||||
$(nix-store -qR <replaceable>paths</replaceable>) > closure</literal> and
|
|
||||||
<literal>nix-store --import <
|
|
||||||
closure</literal>.</para></listitem>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
<listitem><para>Lots of bug fixes, including a big performance bug in
|
|
||||||
the handling of <literal>with</literal>-expressions.</para></listitem>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
</itemizedlist>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
</section>
|
|
||||||
|
|
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|
||||||
<section xmlns="http://docbook.org/ns/docbook"
|
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||||||
xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink"
|
|
||||||
xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XInclude"
|
|
||||||
version="5.0"
|
|
||||||
xml:id="ssec-relnotes-0.13">
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
<title>Release 0.13 (2009-11-05)</title>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
<para>This is primarily a bug fix release. It has some new
|
|
||||||
features:</para>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
<itemizedlist>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
<listitem>
|
|
||||||
<para>Syntactic sugar for writing nested attribute sets. Instead of
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
<programlisting>
|
|
||||||
{
|
|
||||||
foo = {
|
|
||||||
bar = 123;
|
|
||||||
xyzzy = true;
|
|
||||||
};
|
|
||||||
a = { b = { c = "d"; }; };
|
|
||||||
}
|
|
||||||
</programlisting>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
you can write
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
<programlisting>
|
|
||||||
{
|
|
||||||
foo.bar = 123;
|
|
||||||
foo.xyzzy = true;
|
|
||||||
a.b.c = "d";
|
|
||||||
}
|
|
||||||
</programlisting>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
This is useful, for instance, in NixOS configuration files.</para>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
</listitem>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
<listitem>
|
|
||||||
<para>Support for Nix channels generated by Hydra, the Nix-based
|
|
||||||
continuous build system. (Hydra generates NAR archives on the
|
|
||||||
fly, so the size and hash of these archives isn’t known in
|
|
||||||
advance.)</para>
|
|
||||||
</listitem>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
<listitem>
|
|
||||||
<para>Support <literal>i686-linux</literal> builds directly on
|
|
||||||
<literal>x86_64-linux</literal> Nix installations. This is
|
|
||||||
implemented using the <function>personality()</function> syscall,
|
|
||||||
which causes <command>uname</command> to return
|
|
||||||
<literal>i686</literal> in child processes.</para>
|
|
||||||
</listitem>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
<listitem>
|
|
||||||
<para>Various improvements to the <literal>chroot</literal>
|
|
||||||
support. Building in a <literal>chroot</literal> works quite well
|
|
||||||
now.</para>
|
|
||||||
</listitem>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
<listitem>
|
|
||||||
<para>Nix no longer blocks if it tries to build a path and another
|
|
||||||
process is already building the same path. Instead it tries to
|
|
||||||
build another buildable path first. This improves
|
|
||||||
parallelism.</para>
|
|
||||||
</listitem>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
<listitem>
|
|
||||||
<para>Support for large (> 4 GiB) files in NAR archives.</para>
|
|
||||||
</listitem>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
<listitem>
|
|
||||||
<para>Various (performance) improvements to the remote build
|
|
||||||
mechanism.</para>
|
|
||||||
</listitem>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
<listitem>
|
|
||||||
<para>New primops: <varname>builtins.addErrorContext</varname> (to
|
|
||||||
add a string to stack traces — useful for debugging),
|
|
||||||
<varname>builtins.isBool</varname>,
|
|
||||||
<varname>builtins.isString</varname>,
|
|
||||||
<varname>builtins.isInt</varname>,
|
|
||||||
<varname>builtins.intersectAttrs</varname>.</para>
|
|
||||||
</listitem>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
<listitem>
|
|
||||||
<para>OpenSolaris support (Sander van der Burg).</para>
|
|
||||||
</listitem>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
<listitem>
|
|
||||||
<para>Stack traces are no longer displayed unless the
|
|
||||||
<option>--show-trace</option> option is used.</para>
|
|
||||||
</listitem>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
<listitem>
|
|
||||||
<para>The scoping rules for <literal>inherit
|
|
||||||
(<replaceable>e</replaceable>) ...</literal> in recursive
|
|
||||||
attribute sets have changed. The expression
|
|
||||||
<replaceable>e</replaceable> can now refer to the attributes
|
|
||||||
defined in the containing set.</para>
|
|
||||||
</listitem>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
</itemizedlist>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
</section>
|
|
||||||
|
|
@ -1,46 +0,0 @@
|
||||||
<section xmlns="http://docbook.org/ns/docbook"
|
|
||||||
xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink"
|
|
||||||
xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XInclude"
|
|
||||||
version="5.0"
|
|
||||||
xml:id="ssec-relnotes-0.14">
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
<title>Release 0.14 (2010-02-04)</title>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
<para>This release has the following improvements:</para>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
<itemizedlist>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
<listitem>
|
|
||||||
<para>The garbage collector now starts deleting garbage much
|
|
||||||
faster than before. It no longer determines liveness of all paths
|
|
||||||
in the store, but does so on demand.</para>
|
|
||||||
</listitem>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
<listitem>
|
|
||||||
<para>Added a new operation, <command>nix-store --query
|
|
||||||
--roots</command>, that shows the garbage collector roots that
|
|
||||||
directly or indirectly point to the given store paths.</para>
|
|
||||||
</listitem>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
<listitem>
|
|
||||||
<para>Removed support for converting Berkeley DB-based Nix
|
|
||||||
databases to the new schema.</para>
|
|
||||||
</listitem>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
<listitem>
|
|
||||||
<para>Removed the <option>--use-atime</option> and
|
|
||||||
<option>--max-atime</option> garbage collector options. They were
|
|
||||||
not very useful in practice.</para>
|
|
||||||
</listitem>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
<listitem>
|
|
||||||
<para>On Windows, Nix now requires Cygwin 1.7.x.</para>
|
|
||||||
</listitem>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
<listitem>
|
|
||||||
<para>A few bug fixes.</para>
|
|
||||||
</listitem>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
</itemizedlist>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
</section>
|
|
||||||
|
|
@ -1,14 +0,0 @@
|
||||||
<section xmlns="http://docbook.org/ns/docbook"
|
|
||||||
xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink"
|
|
||||||
xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XInclude"
|
|
||||||
version="5.0"
|
|
||||||
xml:id="ssec-relnotes-0.15">
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
<title>Release 0.15 (2010-03-17)</title>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
<para>This is a bug-fix release. Among other things, it fixes
|
|
||||||
building on Mac OS X (Snow Leopard), and improves the contents of
|
|
||||||
<filename>/etc/passwd</filename> and <filename>/etc/group</filename>
|
|
||||||
in <literal>chroot</literal> builds.</para>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
</section>
|
|
||||||
|
|
@ -1,55 +0,0 @@
|
||||||
<section xmlns="http://docbook.org/ns/docbook"
|
|
||||||
xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink"
|
|
||||||
xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XInclude"
|
|
||||||
version="5.0"
|
|
||||||
xml:id="ssec-relnotes-0.16">
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
<title>Release 0.16 (2010-08-17)</title>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
<para>This release has the following improvements:</para>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
<itemizedlist>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
<listitem>
|
|
||||||
<para>The Nix expression evaluator is now much faster in most
|
|
||||||
cases: typically, <link
|
|
||||||
xlink:href="http://www.mail-archive.com/nix-dev@cs.uu.nl/msg04113.html">3
|
|
||||||
to 8 times compared to the old implementation</link>. It also
|
|
||||||
uses less memory. It no longer depends on the ATerm
|
|
||||||
library.</para>
|
|
||||||
</listitem>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
<listitem>
|
|
||||||
<para>
|
|
||||||
Support for configurable parallelism inside builders. Build
|
|
||||||
scripts have always had the ability to perform multiple build
|
|
||||||
actions in parallel (for instance, by running <command>make -j
|
|
||||||
2</command>), but this was not desirable because the number of
|
|
||||||
actions to be performed in parallel was not configurable. Nix
|
|
||||||
now has an option <option>--cores
|
|
||||||
<replaceable>N</replaceable></option> as well as a configuration
|
|
||||||
setting <varname>build-cores =
|
|
||||||
<replaceable>N</replaceable></varname> that causes the
|
|
||||||
environment variable <envar>NIX_BUILD_CORES</envar> to be set to
|
|
||||||
<replaceable>N</replaceable> when the builder is invoked. The
|
|
||||||
builder can use this at its discretion to perform a parallel
|
|
||||||
build, e.g., by calling <command>make -j
|
|
||||||
<replaceable>N</replaceable></command>. In Nixpkgs, this can be
|
|
||||||
enabled on a per-package basis by setting the derivation
|
|
||||||
attribute <varname>enableParallelBuilding</varname> to
|
|
||||||
<literal>true</literal>.
|
|
||||||
</para>
|
|
||||||
</listitem>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
<listitem>
|
|
||||||
<para><command>nix-store -q</command> now supports XML output
|
|
||||||
through the <option>--xml</option> flag.</para>
|
|
||||||
</listitem>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
<listitem>
|
|
||||||
<para>Several bug fixes.</para>
|
|
||||||
</listitem>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
</itemizedlist>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
</section>
|
|
||||||
|
|
@ -1,11 +0,0 @@
|
||||||
<section xmlns="http://docbook.org/ns/docbook"
|
|
||||||
xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink"
|
|
||||||
xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XInclude"
|
|
||||||
version="5.0"
|
|
||||||
xml:id="ch-relnotes-0.5">
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
<title>Release 0.5 and earlier</title>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
<para>Please refer to the Subversion commit log messages.</para>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
</section>
|
|
||||||
|
|
@ -1,122 +0,0 @@
|
||||||
<section xmlns="http://docbook.org/ns/docbook"
|
|
||||||
xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink"
|
|
||||||
xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XInclude"
|
|
||||||
version="5.0"
|
|
||||||
xml:id="ch-relnotes-0.6">
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
<title>Release 0.6 (2004-11-14)</title>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
<itemizedlist>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
<listitem>
|
|
||||||
<para>Rewrite of the normalisation engine.
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
<itemizedlist>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
<listitem><para>Multiple builds can now be performed in parallel
|
|
||||||
(option <option>-j</option>).</para></listitem>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
<listitem><para>Distributed builds. Nix can now call a shell
|
|
||||||
script to forward builds to Nix installations on remote
|
|
||||||
machines, which may or may not be of the same platform
|
|
||||||
type.</para></listitem>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
<listitem><para>Option <option>--fallback</option> allows
|
|
||||||
recovery from broken substitutes.</para></listitem>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
<listitem><para>Option <option>--keep-going</option> causes
|
|
||||||
building of other (unaffected) derivations to continue if one
|
|
||||||
failed.</para></listitem>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
</itemizedlist>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
</para>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
</listitem>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
<listitem><para>Improvements to the garbage collector (i.e., it
|
|
||||||
should actually work now).</para></listitem>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
<listitem><para>Setuid Nix installations allow a Nix store to be
|
|
||||||
shared among multiple users.</para></listitem>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
<listitem><para>Substitute registration is much faster
|
|
||||||
now.</para></listitem>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
<listitem><para>A utility <command>nix-build</command> to build a
|
|
||||||
Nix expression and create a symlink to the result int the current
|
|
||||||
directory; useful for testing Nix derivations.</para></listitem>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
<listitem><para>Manual updates.</para></listitem>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
<listitem>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
<para><command>nix-env</command> changes:
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
<itemizedlist>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
<listitem><para>Derivations for other platforms are filtered out
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(which can be overridden using
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<option>--system-filter</option>).</para></listitem>
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<listitem><para><option>--install</option> by default now
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uninstall previous derivations with the same
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name.</para></listitem>
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<listitem><para><option>--upgrade</option> allows upgrading to a
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specific version.</para></listitem>
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<listitem><para>New operation
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<option>--delete-generations</option> to remove profile
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generations (necessary for effective garbage
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collection).</para></listitem>
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<listitem><para>Nicer output (sorted,
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columnised).</para></listitem>
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</itemizedlist>
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</para>
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</listitem>
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<listitem><para>More sensible verbosity levels all around (builder
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output is now shown always, unless <option>-Q</option> is
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given).</para></listitem>
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<listitem>
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<para>Nix expression language changes:
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<listitem><para>New language construct: <literal>with
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<replaceable>E1</replaceable>;
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<replaceable>E2</replaceable></literal> brings all attributes
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defined in the attribute set <replaceable>E1</replaceable> in
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scope in <replaceable>E2</replaceable>.</para></listitem>
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<listitem><para>Added a <function>map</function>
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function.</para></listitem>
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<listitem><para>Various new operators (e.g., string
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concatenation).</para></listitem>
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</itemizedlist>
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</para>
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</listitem>
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<listitem><para>Expression evaluation is much
|
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||||||
faster.</para></listitem>
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||||||
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||||||
<listitem><para>An Emacs mode for editing Nix expressions (with
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|
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syntax highlighting and indentation) has been
|
|
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added.</para></listitem>
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<listitem><para>Many bug fixes.</para></listitem>
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</itemizedlist>
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</section>
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<section xmlns="http://docbook.org/ns/docbook"
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xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink"
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xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XInclude"
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version="5.0"
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xml:id="ch-relnotes-0.7">
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<title>Release 0.7 (2005-01-12)</title>
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|
||||||
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|
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<itemizedlist>
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|
||||||
|
|
||||||
<listitem><para>Binary patching. When upgrading components using
|
|
||||||
pre-built binaries (through nix-pull / nix-channel), Nix can
|
|
||||||
automatically download and apply binary patches to already installed
|
|
||||||
components instead of full downloads. Patching is “smart”: if there
|
|
||||||
is a <emphasis>sequence</emphasis> of patches to an installed
|
|
||||||
component, Nix will use it. Patches are currently generated
|
|
||||||
automatically between Nixpkgs (pre-)releases.</para></listitem>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
<listitem><para>Simplifications to the substitute
|
|
||||||
mechanism.</para></listitem>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
<listitem><para>Nix-pull now stores downloaded manifests in
|
|
||||||
<filename>/nix/var/nix/manifests</filename>.</para></listitem>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
<listitem><para>Metadata on files in the Nix store is canonicalised
|
|
||||||
after builds: the last-modified timestamp is set to 0 (00:00:00
|
|
||||||
1/1/1970), the mode is set to 0444 or 0555 (readable and possibly
|
|
||||||
executable by all; setuid/setgid bits are dropped), and the group is
|
|
||||||
set to the default. This ensures that the result of a build and an
|
|
||||||
installation through a substitute is the same; and that timestamp
|
|
||||||
dependencies are revealed.</para></listitem>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
</itemizedlist>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
</section>
|
|
||||||
|
|
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|
||||||
<section xmlns="http://docbook.org/ns/docbook"
|
|
||||||
xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink"
|
|
||||||
xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XInclude"
|
|
||||||
version="5.0"
|
|
||||||
xml:id="ch-relnotes-0.8.1">
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
<title>Release 0.8.1 (2005-04-13)</title>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
<para>This is a bug fix release.</para>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
<itemizedlist>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
<listitem><para>Patch downloading was broken.</para></listitem>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
<listitem><para>The garbage collector would not delete paths that
|
|
||||||
had references from invalid (but substitutable)
|
|
||||||
paths.</para></listitem>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
</itemizedlist>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
</section>
|
|
||||||
|
|
@ -1,246 +0,0 @@
|
||||||
<section xmlns="http://docbook.org/ns/docbook"
|
|
||||||
xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink"
|
|
||||||
xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XInclude"
|
|
||||||
version="5.0"
|
|
||||||
xml:id="ch-relnotes-0.8">
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
<title>Release 0.8 (2005-04-11)</title>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
<para>NOTE: the hashing scheme in Nix 0.8 changed (as detailed below).
|
|
||||||
As a result, <command>nix-pull</command> manifests and channels built
|
|
||||||
for Nix 0.7 and below will not work anymore. However, the Nix
|
|
||||||
expression language has not changed, so you can still build from
|
|
||||||
source. Also, existing user environments continue to work. Nix 0.8
|
|
||||||
will automatically upgrade the database schema of previous
|
|
||||||
installations when it is first run.</para>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
<para>If you get the error message
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
<screen>
|
|
||||||
you have an old-style manifest `/nix/var/nix/manifests/[...]'; please
|
|
||||||
delete it</screen>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
you should delete previously downloaded manifests:
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
<screen>
|
|
||||||
$ rm /nix/var/nix/manifests/*</screen>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
If <command>nix-channel</command> gives the error message
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
<screen>
|
|
||||||
manifest `http://catamaran.labs.cs.uu.nl/dist/nix/channels/[channel]/MANIFEST'
|
|
||||||
is too old (i.e., for Nix <= 0.7)</screen>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
then you should unsubscribe from the offending channel
|
|
||||||
(<command>nix-channel --remove
|
|
||||||
<replaceable>URL</replaceable></command>; leave out
|
|
||||||
<literal>/MANIFEST</literal>), and subscribe to the same URL, with
|
|
||||||
<literal>channels</literal> replaced by <literal>channels-v3</literal>
|
|
||||||
(e.g., <link
|
|
||||||
xlink:href='http://catamaran.labs.cs.uu.nl/dist/nix/channels-v3/nixpkgs-unstable'
|
|
||||||
/>).</para>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
<para>Nix 0.8 has the following improvements:
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
<itemizedlist>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
<listitem><para>The cryptographic hashes used in store paths are now
|
|
||||||
160 bits long, but encoded in base-32 so that they are still only 32
|
|
||||||
characters long (e.g.,
|
|
||||||
<filename>/nix/store/csw87wag8bqlqk7ipllbwypb14xainap-atk-1.9.0</filename>).
|
|
||||||
(This is actually a 160 bit truncation of a SHA-256
|
|
||||||
hash.)</para></listitem>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
<listitem><para>Big cleanups and simplifications of the basic store
|
|
||||||
semantics. The notion of “closure store expressions” is gone (and
|
|
||||||
so is the notion of “successors”); the file system references of a
|
|
||||||
store path are now just stored in the database.</para>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
<para>For instance, given any store path, you can query its closure:
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
<screen>
|
|
||||||
$ nix-store -qR $(which firefox)
|
|
||||||
... lots of paths ...</screen>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
Also, Nix now remembers for each store path the derivation that
|
|
||||||
built it (the “deriver”):
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
<screen>
|
|
||||||
$ nix-store -qR $(which firefox)
|
|
||||||
/nix/store/4b0jx7vq80l9aqcnkszxhymsf1ffa5jd-firefox-1.0.1.drv</screen>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
So to see the build-time dependencies, you can do
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
<screen>
|
|
||||||
$ nix-store -qR $(nix-store -qd $(which firefox))</screen>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
or, in a nicer format:
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
<screen>
|
|
||||||
$ nix-store -q --tree $(nix-store -qd $(which firefox))</screen>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
</para>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
<para>File system references are also stored in reverse. For
|
|
||||||
instance, you can query all paths that directly or indirectly use a
|
|
||||||
certain Glibc:
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
<screen>
|
|
||||||
$ nix-store -q --referrers-closure \
|
|
||||||
/nix/store/8lz9yc6zgmc0vlqmn2ipcpkjlmbi51vv-glibc-2.3.4</screen>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
</para>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
</listitem>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
<listitem><para>The concept of fixed-output derivations has been
|
|
||||||
formalised. Previously, functions such as
|
|
||||||
<function>fetchurl</function> in Nixpkgs used a hack (namely,
|
|
||||||
explicitly specifying a store path hash) to prevent changes to, say,
|
|
||||||
the URL of the file from propagating upwards through the dependency
|
|
||||||
graph, causing rebuilds of everything. This can now be done cleanly
|
|
||||||
by specifying the <varname>outputHash</varname> and
|
|
||||||
<varname>outputHashAlgo</varname> attributes. Nix itself checks
|
|
||||||
that the content of the output has the specified hash. (This is
|
|
||||||
important for maintaining certain invariants necessary for future
|
|
||||||
work on secure shared stores.)</para></listitem>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
<listitem><para>One-click installation :-) It is now possible to
|
|
||||||
install any top-level component in Nixpkgs directly, through the web
|
|
||||||
— see, e.g., <link
|
|
||||||
xlink:href='http://catamaran.labs.cs.uu.nl/dist/nixpkgs-0.8/' />.
|
|
||||||
All you have to do is associate
|
|
||||||
<filename>/nix/bin/nix-install-package</filename> with the MIME type
|
|
||||||
<literal>application/nix-package</literal> (or the extension
|
|
||||||
<filename>.nixpkg</filename>), and clicking on a package link will
|
|
||||||
cause it to be installed, with all appropriate dependencies. If you
|
|
||||||
just want to install some specific application, this is easier than
|
|
||||||
subscribing to a channel.</para></listitem>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
<listitem><para><command>nix-store -r
|
|
||||||
<replaceable>PATHS</replaceable></command> now builds all the
|
|
||||||
derivations PATHS in parallel. Previously it did them sequentially
|
|
||||||
(though exploiting possible parallelism between subderivations).
|
|
||||||
This is nice for build farms.</para></listitem>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
<listitem><para><command>nix-channel</command> has new operations
|
|
||||||
<option>--list</option> and
|
|
||||||
<option>--remove</option>.</para></listitem>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
<listitem><para>New ways of installing components into user
|
|
||||||
environments:
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
<itemizedlist>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
<listitem><para>Copy from another user environment:
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
<screen>
|
|
||||||
$ nix-env -i --from-profile .../other-profile firefox</screen>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
</para></listitem>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
<listitem><para>Install a store derivation directly (bypassing the
|
|
||||||
Nix expression language entirely):
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
<screen>
|
|
||||||
$ nix-env -i /nix/store/z58v41v21xd3...-aterm-2.3.1.drv</screen>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
(This is used to implement <command>nix-install-package</command>,
|
|
||||||
which is therefore immune to evolution in the Nix expression
|
|
||||||
language.)</para></listitem>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
<listitem><para>Install an already built store path directly:
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
<screen>
|
|
||||||
$ nix-env -i /nix/store/hsyj5pbn0d9i...-aterm-2.3.1</screen>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
</para></listitem>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
<listitem><para>Install the result of a Nix expression specified
|
|
||||||
as a command-line argument:
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
<screen>
|
|
||||||
$ nix-env -f .../i686-linux.nix -i -E 'x: x.firefoxWrapper'</screen>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
The difference with the normal installation mode is that
|
|
||||||
<option>-E</option> does not use the <varname>name</varname>
|
|
||||||
attributes of derivations. Therefore, this can be used to
|
|
||||||
disambiguate multiple derivations with the same
|
|
||||||
name.</para></listitem>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
</itemizedlist></para></listitem>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
<listitem><para>A hash of the contents of a store path is now stored
|
|
||||||
in the database after a successful build. This allows you to check
|
|
||||||
whether store paths have been tampered with: <command>nix-store
|
|
||||||
--verify --check-contents</command>.</para></listitem>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
<listitem>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
<para>Implemented a concurrent garbage collector. It is now
|
|
||||||
always safe to run the garbage collector, even if other Nix
|
|
||||||
operations are happening simultaneously.</para>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
<para>However, there can still be GC races if you use
|
|
||||||
<command>nix-instantiate</command> and <command>nix-store
|
|
||||||
--realise</command> directly to build things. To prevent races,
|
|
||||||
use the <option>--add-root</option> flag of those commands.</para>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
</listitem>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
<listitem><para>The garbage collector now finally deletes paths in
|
|
||||||
the right order (i.e., topologically sorted under the “references”
|
|
||||||
relation), thus making it safe to interrupt the collector without
|
|
||||||
risking a store that violates the closure
|
|
||||||
invariant.</para></listitem>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
<listitem><para>Likewise, the substitute mechanism now downloads
|
|
||||||
files in the right order, thus preserving the closure invariant at
|
|
||||||
all times.</para></listitem>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
<listitem><para>The result of <command>nix-build</command> is now
|
|
||||||
registered as a root of the garbage collector. If the
|
|
||||||
<filename>./result</filename> link is deleted, the GC root
|
|
||||||
disappears automatically.</para></listitem>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
<listitem>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
<para>The behaviour of the garbage collector can be changed
|
|
||||||
globally by setting options in
|
|
||||||
<filename>/nix/etc/nix/nix.conf</filename>.
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
<itemizedlist>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
<listitem><para><literal>gc-keep-derivations</literal> specifies
|
|
||||||
whether deriver links should be followed when searching for live
|
|
||||||
paths.</para></listitem>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
<listitem><para><literal>gc-keep-outputs</literal> specifies
|
|
||||||
whether outputs of derivations should be followed when searching
|
|
||||||
for live paths.</para></listitem>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
<listitem><para><literal>env-keep-derivations</literal>
|
|
||||||
specifies whether user environments should store the paths of
|
|
||||||
derivations when they are added (thus keeping the derivations
|
|
||||||
alive).</para></listitem>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
</itemizedlist>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
</para></listitem>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
<listitem><para>New <command>nix-env</command> query flags
|
|
||||||
<option>--drv-path</option> and
|
|
||||||
<option>--out-path</option>.</para></listitem>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
<listitem><para><command>fetchurl</command> allows SHA-1 and SHA-256
|
|
||||||
in addition to MD5. Just specify the attribute
|
|
||||||
<varname>sha1</varname> or <varname>sha256</varname> instead of
|
|
||||||
<varname>md5</varname>.</para></listitem>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
<listitem><para>Manual updates.</para></listitem>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
</itemizedlist>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
</para>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
</section>
|
|
||||||
|
|
@ -1,13 +0,0 @@
|
||||||
<section xmlns="http://docbook.org/ns/docbook"
|
|
||||||
xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink"
|
|
||||||
xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XInclude"
|
|
||||||
version="5.0"
|
|
||||||
xml:id="ch-relnotes-0.9.1">
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
<title>Release 0.9.1 (2005-09-20)</title>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
<para>This bug fix release addresses a problem with the ATerm library
|
|
||||||
when the <option>--with-aterm</option> flag in
|
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<command>configure</command> was <emphasis>not</emphasis> used.</para>
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</section>
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<section xmlns="http://docbook.org/ns/docbook"
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xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink"
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xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XInclude"
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version="5.0"
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xml:id="ch-relnotes-0.9.2">
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<title>Release 0.9.2 (2005-09-21)</title>
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<para>This bug fix release fixes two problems on Mac OS X:
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<itemizedlist>
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<listitem><para>If Nix was linked against statically linked versions
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of the ATerm or Berkeley DB library, there would be dynamic link
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errors at runtime.</para></listitem>
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<listitem><para><command>nix-pull</command> and
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<command>nix-push</command> intermittently failed due to race
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conditions involving pipes and child processes with error messages
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such as <literal>open2: open(GLOB(0x180b2e4), >&=9) failed: Bad
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file descriptor at /nix/bin/nix-pull line 77</literal> (issue
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<literal>NIX-14</literal>).</para></listitem>
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</itemizedlist>
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</para>
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</section>
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<section xmlns="http://docbook.org/ns/docbook"
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xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink"
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xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XInclude"
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version="5.0"
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xml:id="ch-relnotes-0.9">
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<title>Release 0.9 (2005-09-16)</title>
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<para>NOTE: this version of Nix uses Berkeley DB 4.3 instead of 4.2.
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The database is upgraded automatically, but you should be careful not
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to use old versions of Nix that still use Berkeley DB 4.2. In
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particular, if you use a Nix installed through Nix, you should run
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<screen>
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$ nix-store --clear-substitutes</screen>
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first.</para>
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<itemizedlist>
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<listitem><para>Unpacking of patch sequences is much faster now
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since we no longer do redundant unpacking and repacking of
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intermediate paths.</para></listitem>
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||||||
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<listitem><para>Nix now uses Berkeley DB 4.3.</para></listitem>
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||||||
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<listitem><para>The <function>derivation</function> primitive is
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lazier. Attributes of dependent derivations can mutually refer to
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each other (as long as there are no data dependencies on the
|
|
||||||
<varname>outPath</varname> and <varname>drvPath</varname> attributes
|
|
||||||
computed by <function>derivation</function>).</para>
|
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||||||
|
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||||||
<para>For example, the expression <literal>derivation
|
|
||||||
attrs</literal> now evaluates to (essentially)
|
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|
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||||||
<programlisting>
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||||||
attrs // {
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type = "derivation";
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||||||
outPath = derivation! attrs;
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||||||
drvPath = derivation! attrs;
|
|
||||||
}</programlisting>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
where <function>derivation!</function> is a primop that does the
|
|
||||||
actual derivation instantiation (i.e., it does what
|
|
||||||
<function>derivation</function> used to do). The advantage is that
|
|
||||||
it allows commands such as <command>nix-env -qa</command> and
|
|
||||||
<command>nix-env -i</command> to be much faster since they no longer
|
|
||||||
need to instantiate all derivations, just the
|
|
||||||
<varname>name</varname> attribute.</para>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
<para>Also, it allows derivations to cyclically reference each
|
|
||||||
other, for example,
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
<programlisting>
|
|
||||||
webServer = derivation {
|
|
||||||
...
|
|
||||||
hostName = "svn.cs.uu.nl";
|
|
||||||
services = [svnService];
|
|
||||||
};
|
|
||||||
 
|
|
||||||
svnService = derivation {
|
|
||||||
...
|
|
||||||
hostName = webServer.hostName;
|
|
||||||
};</programlisting>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
Previously, this would yield a black hole (infinite recursion).</para>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
</listitem>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
<listitem><para><command>nix-build</command> now defaults to using
|
|
||||||
<filename>./default.nix</filename> if no Nix expression is
|
|
||||||
specified.</para></listitem>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
<listitem><para><command>nix-instantiate</command>, when applied to
|
|
||||||
a Nix expression that evaluates to a function, will call the
|
|
||||||
function automatically if all its arguments have
|
|
||||||
defaults.</para></listitem>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
<listitem><para>Nix now uses libtool to build dynamic libraries.
|
|
||||||
This reduces the size of executables.</para></listitem>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
<listitem><para>A new list concatenation operator
|
|
||||||
<literal>++</literal>. For example, <literal>[1 2 3] ++ [4 5
|
|
||||||
6]</literal> evaluates to <literal>[1 2 3 4 5
|
|
||||||
6]</literal>.</para></listitem>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
<listitem><para>Some currently undocumented primops to support
|
|
||||||
low-level build management using Nix (i.e., using Nix as a Make
|
|
||||||
replacement). See the commit messages for <literal>r3578</literal>
|
|
||||||
and <literal>r3580</literal>.</para></listitem>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
<listitem><para>Various bug fixes and performance
|
|
||||||
improvements.</para></listitem>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
</itemizedlist>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
</section>
|
|
||||||
|
|
@ -1,119 +0,0 @@
|
||||||
<section xmlns="http://docbook.org/ns/docbook"
|
|
||||||
xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink"
|
|
||||||
xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XInclude"
|
|
||||||
version="5.0"
|
|
||||||
xml:id="ssec-relnotes-1.0">
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
<title>Release 1.0 (2012-05-11)</title>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
<para>There have been numerous improvements and bug fixes since the
|
|
||||||
previous release. Here are the most significant:</para>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
<itemizedlist>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
<listitem>
|
|
||||||
<para>Nix can now optionally use the Boehm garbage collector.
|
|
||||||
This significantly reduces the Nix evaluator’s memory footprint,
|
|
||||||
especially when evaluating large NixOS system configurations. It
|
|
||||||
can be enabled using the <option>--enable-gc</option> configure
|
|
||||||
option.</para>
|
|
||||||
</listitem>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
<listitem>
|
|
||||||
<para>Nix now uses SQLite for its database. This is faster and
|
|
||||||
more flexible than the old <emphasis>ad hoc</emphasis> format.
|
|
||||||
SQLite is also used to cache the manifests in
|
|
||||||
<filename>/nix/var/nix/manifests</filename>, resulting in a
|
|
||||||
significant speedup.</para>
|
|
||||||
</listitem>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
<listitem>
|
|
||||||
<para>Nix now has an search path for expressions. The search path
|
|
||||||
is set using the environment variable <envar>NIX_PATH</envar> and
|
|
||||||
the <option>-I</option> command line option. In Nix expressions,
|
|
||||||
paths between angle brackets are used to specify files that must
|
|
||||||
be looked up in the search path. For instance, the expression
|
|
||||||
<literal><nixpkgs/default.nix></literal> looks for a file
|
|
||||||
<filename>nixpkgs/default.nix</filename> relative to every element
|
|
||||||
in the search path.</para>
|
|
||||||
</listitem>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
<listitem>
|
|
||||||
<para>The new command <command>nix-build --run-env</command>
|
|
||||||
builds all dependencies of a derivation, then starts a shell in an
|
|
||||||
environment containing all variables from the derivation. This is
|
|
||||||
useful for reproducing the environment of a derivation for
|
|
||||||
development.</para>
|
|
||||||
</listitem>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
<listitem>
|
|
||||||
<para>The new command <command>nix-store --verify-path</command>
|
|
||||||
verifies that the contents of a store path have not
|
|
||||||
changed.</para>
|
|
||||||
</listitem>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
<listitem>
|
|
||||||
<para>The new command <command>nix-store --print-env</command>
|
|
||||||
prints out the environment of a derivation in a format that can be
|
|
||||||
evaluated by a shell.</para>
|
|
||||||
</listitem>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
<listitem>
|
|
||||||
<para>Attribute names can now be arbitrary strings. For instance,
|
|
||||||
you can write <literal>{ "foo-1.2" = …; "bla bla" = …; }."bla
|
|
||||||
bla"</literal>.</para>
|
|
||||||
</listitem>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
<listitem>
|
|
||||||
<para>Attribute selection can now provide a default value using
|
|
||||||
the <literal>or</literal> operator. For instance, the expression
|
|
||||||
<literal>x.y.z or e</literal> evaluates to the attribute
|
|
||||||
<literal>x.y.z</literal> if it exists, and <literal>e</literal>
|
|
||||||
otherwise.</para>
|
|
||||||
</listitem>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
<listitem>
|
|
||||||
<para>The right-hand side of the <literal>?</literal> operator can
|
|
||||||
now be an attribute path, e.g., <literal>attrs ?
|
|
||||||
a.b.c</literal>.</para>
|
|
||||||
</listitem>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
<listitem>
|
|
||||||
<para>On Linux, Nix will now make files in the Nix store immutable
|
|
||||||
on filesystems that support it. This prevents accidental
|
|
||||||
modification of files in the store by the root user.</para>
|
|
||||||
</listitem>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
<listitem>
|
|
||||||
<para>Nix has preliminary support for derivations with multiple
|
|
||||||
outputs. This is useful because it allows parts of a package to
|
|
||||||
be deployed and garbage-collected separately. For instance,
|
|
||||||
development parts of a package such as header files or static
|
|
||||||
libraries would typically not be part of the closure of an
|
|
||||||
application, resulting in reduced disk usage and installation
|
|
||||||
time.</para>
|
|
||||||
</listitem>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
<listitem>
|
|
||||||
<para>The Nix store garbage collector is faster and holds the
|
|
||||||
global lock for a shorter amount of time.</para>
|
|
||||||
</listitem>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
<listitem>
|
|
||||||
<para>The option <option>--timeout</option> (corresponding to the
|
|
||||||
configuration setting <literal>build-timeout</literal>) allows you
|
|
||||||
to set an absolute timeout on builds — if a build runs for more than
|
|
||||||
the given number of seconds, it is terminated. This is useful for
|
|
||||||
recovering automatically from builds that are stuck in an infinite
|
|
||||||
loop but keep producing output, and for which
|
|
||||||
<literal>--max-silent-time</literal> is ineffective.</para>
|
|
||||||
</listitem>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
<listitem>
|
|
||||||
<para>Nix development has moved to GitHub (<link
|
|
||||||
xlink:href="https://github.com/NixOS/nix" />).</para>
|
|
||||||
</listitem>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
</itemizedlist>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
</section>
|
|
||||||
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