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Alexander Bantyev 36b059748d Split nix-env and nix-store documentation per-subcommand
Documentation on "classic" commands with many sub-commands are
notoriously hard to discover due to lack of overview and anchor links.
Additionally the information on common options and environment variables
is not accessible offline in man pages, and therefore often overlooked
by readers.

With this change, each sub-command of nix-store and nix-env gets its
own page in the manual (listed in the table of contents), and each own
man page.

Also, man pages for each subcommand now (again) list common options
and environment variables. While this makes each page quite long and
some common parameters don't apply, this should still make it easier
to navigate as that additional information was not accessible on the
command line at all.

It is now possible to run 'nix-store --<subcommand> --help` to display
help pages for the given subcommand.

Co-authored-by: Valentin Gagarin <valentin.gagarin@tweag.io>
2023-03-30 09:46:28 +02:00
Alexander Bantyev 84c2c09ec2 Manual: fail when #include-d file does not exist 2023-03-30 09:41:46 +02:00
John Ericson 8df6f7bb0f Fix more profile dirs in docs
Picking up where #8078 left off.
2023-03-27 12:10:32 -04:00
Eelco Dolstra 237587bc0a
Merge pull request #8084 from edolstra/store-docs
Auto-generate store documentation
2023-03-27 15:46:18 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra 5a0f5b5c34
Merge pull request #8062 from edolstra/ssl-cert-file
Add a setting for configuring the SSL certificates file
2023-03-27 15:37:15 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra 7a61a9aba3 Update release notes 2023-03-23 15:27:06 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra 05d9918a9c
Update doc/manual/src/release-notes/rl-next.md
Co-authored-by: Valentin Gagarin <valentin.gagarin@tweag.io>
2023-03-23 10:13:51 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra 4d31618c15 showSetting: Drop ... 2023-03-23 10:09:25 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra 2851e239a7 Make useAnchors a named argument 2023-03-23 10:08:49 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra fbc296e00f
Merge pull request #8095 from fricklerhandwerk/operators-formatting
doc: force line breaks where needed
2023-03-23 09:24:54 +01:00
Valentin Gagarin 0ced5132fd
Merge pull request #6865 from zuzuleinen/manual-nix-path-empty
document what happens when NIX_PATH is empty
2023-03-23 00:10:17 +01:00
Valentin Gagarin 96129246ad
add links 2023-03-22 23:37:27 +01:00
Valentin Gagarin 40eb88e427 doc: force line breaks where needed 2023-03-22 22:46:23 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra 5691bac202 Improve store setting descriptions / Markdown formatting 2023-03-22 14:23:36 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra da8903ecc3 nix help-stores: Don't include anchors
Since setting names are not unique we don't have an easy way to
produce unique anchors.
2023-03-22 13:11:35 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra 006291e5be
Merge pull request #8082 from edolstra/add-links
Add links to API docs / coverage analysis to the hacking section
2023-03-22 11:27:18 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra 3fc4659d22 Formatting 2023-03-21 14:12:15 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra 9eb53bbf17 Support per-store Markdown documentation 2023-03-21 14:03:40 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra 7704118d28 nix describe-stores: Remove
This command was intended for docs generation, but it was never used
for that and we don't need it.
2023-03-21 14:03:40 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra 8d6d59cb1b nix store --help: Include store type documentation 2023-03-21 14:03:40 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra 6f62cb3611 generate-manpage.nix: Make more readable 2023-03-21 12:11:32 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra 4b9add9b35 Add links to API docs / coverage analysis to the hacking section 2023-03-21 11:47:21 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra e53e5c38d4 Add a setting for configuring the SSL certificates file
This provides a platform-independent way to configure the SSL
certificates file in the Nix daemon. Previously we provided
instructions for overriding the environment variable in launchd, but
that obviously doesn't work with systemd. Now we can just tell users
to add

  ssl-cert-file = /etc/ssl/my-certificate-bundle.crt

to their nix.conf.
2023-03-17 18:32:18 +01:00
Yueh-Shun Li c27d358abb nix-hash: support base-64 and SRI format
Add the --base64 and --sri flags for the Base64 and SRI format output.

Add the --base16 flag to explicitly specify the hexadecimal format.

Add the --to-base64 and --to-sri flag to convert a hash to the above
mentioned format.
2023-03-16 03:08:42 +08:00
Valentin Gagarin d37b8a29ce
Merge pull request #8036 from Freed-Wu/patch-1 2023-03-13 14:35:09 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra 6f22e8b7d8
Merge pull request #7486 from fricklerhandwerk/doc-reference
reword definition of "reference"
2023-03-13 14:04:14 +01:00
wzy 5bf4ade0fa
Fix a typo of values.md 2023-03-13 15:34:01 +08:00
John Ericson 6910f5dcb6 Generate API docs with Doxygen
The motivation is as stated in issue #7814: even though the the C++ API
is internal and unstable, people still want it to be well documented for
sake of learning, code review, and other purposes that aren't predicated
on it being stable.

Fixes #7814

Co-authored-by: Robert Hensing <roberth@users.noreply.github.com>
2023-03-10 12:51:06 -05:00
Valentin Gagarin 66f49864f3
Merge pull request #7928 from serokell/doc-includes
Documentation: process `#include` directives
2023-03-10 17:06:42 +01:00
Valentin Gagarin 2af9fd20c6 clarify definition of "installable"
the term was hard to discover, as its definition and explanation were in
a very long document lacking an overview section.
search did not help because it occurs so often.

- clarify wording in the definition
- add an overview of installable types
- add "installable" to glossary
- link to definition from occurrences of the term
- be more precise about where store derivation outputs are processed
- installable Nix expressions must evaluate to a derivation

Co-authored-by: Adam Joseph <54836058+amjoseph-nixpkgs@users.noreply.github.com>
2023-03-05 01:46:17 +01:00
Valentin Gagarin e065131c1b
cosmetic indentation
Co-authored-by: Théophane Hufschmitt <7226587+thufschmitt@users.noreply.github.com>
2023-03-03 12:56:23 +01:00
Théophane Hufschmitt 1f394d2107
Merge branch 'master' into paths-from-stdin 2023-03-02 19:20:51 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra 96111ad902
Merge pull request #7901 from hercules-ci/disable-tests
Add ./configure --disable-tests option
2023-03-02 10:00:15 +01:00
Alexander Bantyev dd0aab2f94
Documentation: process #include directives 2023-03-01 14:01:45 +04:00
Alexander Bantyev 21fb1a5ec2
doc/manual/local.mk: Use tabs instead of spaces everywhere 2023-03-01 14:01:23 +04:00
Alexander Bantyev 2fc3a15861
Make nix-env less prominent in manual TOC 2023-03-01 13:54:45 +04:00
John Ericson ea0adfc582 Get rid of .drv special-casing for store path installables
The release notes document the change in behavior, I don't include it
here so there is no risk to it getting out of sync.

> Motivation

>> Plumbing CLI should be simple

Store derivation installations are intended as "plumbing": very simple
utilities for advanced users and scripts, and not what regular users
interact with. (Similarly, regular Git users will use branch and tag
names not explicit hashes for most things.)

The plumbing CLI should prize simplicity over convenience; that is its
raison d'etre. If the user provides a path, we should treat it the same
way not caring what sort of path it is.

>> Scripting

This is especially important for the scripting use-case. when arbitrary
paths are sent to e.g. `nix copy` and the script author wants consistent
behavior regardless of what those store paths are. Otherwise the script
author needs to be careful to filter out `.drv` ones, and then run `nix
copy` again with those paths and `--derivation`. That is not good!

>> Surprisingly low impact

Only two lines in the tests need changing, showing that the impact of
this is pretty light.

Many command, like `nix log` will continue to work with just the
derivation passed as before. This because we used to:

- Special case the drv path and replace it with it's outputs (what this
  gets rid of).

- Turn those output path *back* into the original drv path.

Now we just skip that entire round trip!

> Context

Issue #7261 lays out a broader vision for getting rid of `--derivation`,
and has this as one of its dependencies. But we can do this with or
without that.

`Installable::toDerivations` is changed to handle the case of a
`DerivedPath::Opaque` ending in `.drv`, which is new: it simply doesn't
need to do any extra work in that case. On this basis, commands like
`nix {show-derivation,log} /nix/store/...-foo.drv` still work as before,
as described above.

When testing older daemons, the post-build-hook will be run against the
old CLI, so we need the old version of the post-build-hook to support
that use-case.

Co-authored-by: Travis A. Everett <travis.a.everett@gmail.com>
Co-authored-by: Valentin Gagarin <valentin.gagarin@tweag.io>
2023-02-28 17:07:05 -05:00
Timothy DeHerrera 639659dec2
doc/manual: add release note for --stdin flag 2023-02-28 12:31:05 -07:00
Timothy DeHerrera df643051e2
nix-store: read paths from standard input
Resolves #7437 for new `nix-store` by adding a `--stdin` flag.
2023-02-28 12:29:16 -07:00
Robert Hensing d0d0b9a748 doc/cli-guideline: Improve examples
Turns out that the settings themselves have a bad data model anyway, so we cut that. They do still occur in the first example, but not in focus.
2023-02-28 16:35:47 +01:00
Robert Hensing 17f70b10bf doc/cli-guideline: Apply suggestions from code review
Thanks Valentin!
2023-02-28 16:35:42 +01:00
Robert Hensing f09ccd8ea9 doc/cli-guideline: Add JSON guideline 2023-02-28 16:35:36 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra 1e07102937 Release notes 2023-02-28 13:44:14 +01:00
Valentin Gagarin 1b49e6fea9
use the term reference correctly 2023-02-27 13:04:54 +01:00
Valentin Gagarin b0c23999d2
add link to definition 2023-02-27 12:56:22 +01:00
Valentin Gagarin ec317949f9
remove "references" as distinct term 2023-02-27 12:55:14 +01:00
Robert Hensing e76619a402 rl-next: Describe fixed flake outPath semantics
The reference documentation already implies the correct semantics.
2023-02-26 14:41:23 +01:00
Robert Hensing c6051cac6f doc: Add test dependencies to prerequisites 2023-02-24 09:59:25 +01:00
Robert Hensing df6829e0d7
Merge pull request #7867 from NixOS/hacking-cross
doc/hacking.md: Corrections and additions for cross
2023-02-20 22:25:55 +01:00
Robert Hensing 807ef8f734
doc/hacking.md: Corrections and additions for cross 2023-02-20 12:20:08 +01:00