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Eelco Dolstra c8235c5313
nix run: Flush the progress bar before starting the command 2017-08-29 15:13:30 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra 05d68a6e23
nix run: Add some flags for clearing/keeping the environment
This is useful for testing commands in isolation.

For example,

  $ nix run nixpkgs.geeqie -i -k DISPLAY -k XAUTHORITY -c geeqie

runs geeqie in an empty environment, except for $DISPLAY and
$XAUTHORITY.
2017-08-29 15:00:08 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra 5cc8609e30
nix run: Allow passing a command to execute
E.g.

  nix run nixpkgs.hello -c hello --greeting Hallo

Note that unlike "nix-shell --command", no quoting of arguments is
necessary.

"-c" (short for "--command") cannot be combined with "--" because they
both consume all remaining arguments. But since installables shouldn't
start with a dash, this is unlikely to cause problems.
2017-08-29 14:42:48 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra 93a5ef0516
nix run: Fix chroot execution
Running "nix run" with a diverted store, e.g.

  $ nix run --store local?root=/tmp/nix nixpkgs.hello

stopped working when Nix became multithreaded, because
unshare(CLONE_NEWUSER) doesn't work in multithreaded processes. The
obvious solution is to terminate all other threads first, but 1) there
is no way to terminate Boehm GC marker threads; and 2) it appears that
the kernel has a race where unshare(CLONE_NEWUSER) will still fail for
some indeterminate amount of time after joining other threads.

So instead, "nix run" will now exec() a single-threaded helper ("nix
__run_in_chroot") that performs the actual unshare()/chroot()/exec().
2017-08-29 13:21:07 +02:00
Jörg Thalheim 2fd8f8bb99 Replace Unicode quotes in user-facing strings by ASCII
Relevant RFC: NixOS/rfcs#4

$ ag -l | xargs sed -i -e "/\"/s/’/'/g;/\"/s/‘/'/g"
2017-07-30 12:32:45 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra 6438ba22af
StorePathsCommand: Don't build installables
On second though this was annoying. E.g. "nix log nixpkgs.hello" would
build/download Hello first, even though the log can be fetched
directly from the binary cache.

May need to revisit this.
2017-07-14 18:29:07 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra c30330df6f
StorePathCommands: Build installables
So for instance "nix copy --to ... nixpkgs.hello" will build
nixpkgs.hello first. It's debatable whether this is a good idea. It
seems desirable for commands like "nix copy" but maybe not for
commands like "nix path-info".
2017-04-25 16:19:22 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra c769841bc4
Move code around 2017-04-25 12:07:31 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra bcecc99007
Restructure installables handling in the "nix" command 2017-04-25 11:20:37 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra 215b70f51e
Revert "Get rid of unicode quotes (#1140)"
This reverts commit f78126bfd6. There
really is no need for such a massive change...
2016-11-26 00:38:01 +01:00
Guillaume Maudoux f78126bfd6 Get rid of unicode quotes (#1140) 2016-11-25 15:48:27 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra f8a8b4d8f8 nix run: Set a reasonable uid/gid 2016-06-02 19:04:09 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra eda2aaae92 nix run: Handle the case where the /nix/store mount point doesn't exist 2016-06-02 18:24:51 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra a24f2c9b84 nix run: Mount the Nix store in a private namespace
This is a convenience command to allow users who are not privileged to
create /nix/store to use Nix with regular binary caches. For example,

  $ NIX_REMOTE="local?state=$HOME/nix/var&real=/$HOME/nix/store" nix run firefox bashInteractive

will download Firefox and bash from cache.nixos.org, then start a
shell in which $HOME/nix/store is mounted on /nix/store.
2016-06-02 16:51:43 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra 6f2d51287c Add basic "nix run" command 2016-06-02 16:29:49 +02:00