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Eelco Dolstra 5fbd9fee0b
Add 'nix app' command
This is like 'nix run', except that the command to execute is defined
in a flake output, e.g.

  defaultApp = {
    type = "app";
    program = "${packages.blender_2_80}/bin/blender";
  };

Thus you can do

  $ nix app blender-bin

to start Blender from the 'blender-bin' flake.

In the future, we can extend this with sandboxing. (For example we
would want to be able to specify that Blender should not have network
access by default and should only have access to certain paths in the
user's home directory.)
2019-06-03 09:27:03 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra 01d07b1e92
Revert "Restore parent mount namespace before executing a child process"
This reverts commit a0ef21262f. This
doesn't work in 'nix run' and nix-shell because setns() fails in
multithreaded programs, and Boehm GC mark threads are uncancellable.

Fixes #2646.
2019-02-05 10:49:19 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra a0ef21262f
Restore parent mount namespace before executing a child process
This ensures that they can't write to /nix/store. Fixes #2535.
2018-11-13 16:15:30 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra cc7b4386b1
nix run: Restore CPU affinity
Fixes #2359.
2018-08-19 12:05:08 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra c87f4b9324
nix run: Respect propagated-user-env-packages
Also, add $path/bin to $PATH even if it doesn't exist. This makes
'man' work properly (since it looks for ../share/man relative to $PATH
entries).
2018-08-09 13:01:03 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra 24ec750003
nix run: Fix segfault on macOS
Note that clearenv() is not available on macOS.

Fixes #1907.
2018-02-26 18:29:40 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra 70eb64147e
Update release notes
Also add some examples to nix --help.
2018-02-19 20:38:53 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra 1ff01187e2
nix run: Fix "flag '--command' requires 2 argument(s)" 2017-11-20 18:07:58 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra 4eb9e20028
nix run: Fix accidental removal of /nix/store existence check
Parenthetical to #1686, we don't need to create a new root if we can
just bind-mount on top of the existing /nix/store.
2017-11-20 17:59:32 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra a3aa850f0f
nix run: Ignore non-directories while setting up the chroot
Fixes #1686.
2017-11-20 17:58:47 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra 0d59f1ca49
nix: Respect -I, --arg, --argstr
Also, random cleanup to argument handling.
2017-10-24 12:58:34 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra f3e0d46821
nix run: Restore signals
Otherwise Ctrl-C doesn't work.
2017-09-28 17:58:59 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra ad228d84e5 nix build: Only download the requested derivation outputs
Also some refactoring.
2017-09-10 22:40:33 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra 2e9b7c4cb2 nix run: Add some examples 2017-09-07 20:09:04 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra dff440aab3
nix build: Add --out-link and --no-link options 2017-09-06 16:20:34 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra 7d4a7136db
More macOS build fixes 2017-08-31 12:52:07 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra fabde432dc
Fix build failure on non-Linux
https://hydra.nixos.org/build/59649086
2017-08-31 11:05:18 +02:00
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