John Ericson
523359d133
WIP: Document the design of Nix
...
The current docs are all "how to do things" and no "what is Nix" or "why
are things the way they are".
I see lots of misconception on the wider internet, and I also think we
would benefit from a "living document" to answer some questions people
currently turn to the thesis for.
I think a new section of the manual can address all these issues.
2022-08-04 12:37:46 +02:00
Valentin Gagarin
499ed26508
manual: remove "Writing Nix Expressions" chapter
...
it is out of date, all over the place in level of detail, is really
about `nixpkgs`, and in general instructions should not be part of
a reference manual.
also:
- update redirects and internal links
- use "Nix language" consistently
2022-08-04 11:59:25 +02:00
Théophane Hufschmitt
7d1ccd9105
Merge pull request #6846 from fricklerhandwerk/values
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manual: use subheadings for primitive types
2022-08-03 14:50:41 +02:00
Théophane Hufschmitt
c55bea4204
Fix the html id of the list headers
2022-08-03 14:16:00 +02:00
Valentin Gagarin
ceed4d4142
encode primitive as list with anchors
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to make it consistent with builtins and configuration options
2022-08-03 11:25:41 +02:00
Ilya K
f675ba5331
doc/distributed-builds: don't use deprecated alias
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`nix ping-store` -> `nix store ping`.
2022-08-01 13:50:35 +03:00
Valentin Gagarin
27138f1ec6
manual: use singular in body, too
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Co-authored-by: Cole Helbling <cole.e.helbling@outlook.com>
2022-07-28 23:30:07 +02:00
Valentin Gagarin
41a3b315fd
manual: values -> data types
2022-07-28 17:25:25 +02:00
Valentin Gagarin
8f4fab8fab
manual: use singular for headings
2022-07-28 17:25:18 +02:00
Valentin Gagarin
4ff48854b8
manual: simple values -> primitives
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"simple" is a loaded term
2022-07-28 17:23:57 +02:00
Valentin Gagarin
3063e5b94c
manual: use subheadings for primitive types
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this gives us HTML anchors for each of them
2022-07-28 17:23:57 +02:00
Valentin Gagarin
85cdaebcd6
manual: set -> attribute set
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reword description to have shorter sentences.
2022-07-28 16:10:24 +02:00
Valentin Gagarin
be4654c344
manual: fix section title in table of contents
2022-07-28 15:55:41 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra
28e913c605
Branch 2.10 release notes
2022-07-11 21:10:23 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra
545383208e
Merge pull request #6777 from laalsaas/master
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Fix logical and typographical errors in nix-env man page
2022-07-11 13:52:40 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra
517ce38dad
Update release notes
2022-07-11 11:17:19 +02:00
laalsaas
eac211a171
Fix logical and typographical errors in nix-env man page
2022-07-10 12:30:17 +02:00
Théophane Hufschmitt
6fa95c35c7
Add a release notes entry for #4914
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cc @gytis-ivaskevicius
2022-07-06 06:46:54 +02:00
Travis A. Everett
649c9d9b4c
doc: acknowledge post-rsync reality
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Before #5150 the copy-to-store phase of the install was idempotent,
but the recursive cp isn't. This is probably baiting a few people
into trying corrective installs that will fail.
2022-06-30 13:31:04 -05:00
Travis A. Everett
fe76b9f4b4
doc: fix some darwin uninstall gaps
2022-06-16 09:37:52 -05:00
Tom Bereknyei
51268ceb79
Merge branch 'master' into nix-repl-flakes
2022-06-15 09:17:03 -04:00
tomberek
dae4a8a6c8
Apply suggestions from code review
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Co-authored-by: Théophane Hufschmitt <7226587+thufschmitt@users.noreply.github.com>
2022-06-15 09:02:36 -04:00
Hugo Osvaldo Barrera
fd7f795750
Add disambiguation to man page
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This should help future lost newcomers like myself understand where to
find the docs for both of these commands and how they differ.
2022-06-14 18:13:35 +02:00
Tom Bereknyei
ffd41d1757
Merge branch 'master' into nix-repl-flakes
2022-06-02 16:58:35 -04:00
Théophane Hufschmitt
a5f7b934bd
Merge branch 'master' into lto
2022-06-01 17:55:03 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra
04a699b8a9
Typo
2022-05-31 10:38:03 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra
de13b44573
Branch 2.9 release notes
2022-05-30 20:42:55 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra
8e8e9d8705
Respect the outputSpecified attribute
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E.g. 'nix build nixpkgs#libxml2.dev' will build the 'dev' output.
2022-05-30 11:34:47 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra
d67a2ae52d
Merge branch 'doc-redirects' of https://github.com/jtojnar/nix
2022-05-27 11:12:41 +02:00
Jan Tojnar
26d1877d6e
doc: Add redirects for the DocBook manual
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There are still many links to the old manual on the web and
having them end up on the Introduction page is a bad user experience.
2022-05-26 18:17:21 +02:00
Jan Tojnar
a793863b97
doc: Manually insert some anchors
2022-05-26 18:17:21 +02:00
Jan Tojnar
7708a34a51
doc: Add anchors to long lists
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Added using the following sed scripts:
- For command-ref/opt-common.md:
s~- `(--?)([^`]+)`~- [`\1\2`]{#opt-\2}~g
- For expressions/builtin-constants.md:
s~- `(builtins\.?)([^`]+)`~- [`\1\2`]{#builtins-\2}~g
- For expressions/advanced-attributes.md
s~^ - `([^`]+)`~ - [`\1`]{#adv-attr-\1}~g
and manually adjusted outputHashAlgo & outputHashMode.
- For glossary.md
s~^ - (`([^`]+)`|(.+)) ?\\~ - [\1]{#gloss-\2\3}\\~g;
s~(gloss-\w+) ~\1-~g
and manually adjusted anchors for Nix expression, user environment, NAR, ∅ and ε.
- For command-ref/env-common.md
s~^ - `([^`]+)`~ - [`\1`]{#env-\1}~g'
2022-05-26 18:17:21 +02:00
Jan Tojnar
3272afa17b
doc: Port anchors preprocessor to jq script
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Python is only pulled into the build closure by Mercurial, which might end up being removed.
Let’s port the script to jq, which is more likely to stay.
2022-05-26 18:17:21 +02:00
Jan Tojnar
4de84e095d
doc: Introduce pre-processor for adding anchors to text
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It is now possible to use the following syntax to insert anchors into the text:
[]{#anchor-name}
The anchor will allow linking to the location it is placed by appending #anchor-name to the URL.
Additionally, it is possible to create a link pointing to its own location by adding text between the square brackets:
[`--add-root`]{#opt-add-root}
2022-05-26 17:54:15 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra
8f4548d401
Tweak IN_NIX_SHELL description
2022-05-26 12:40:01 +02:00
Ben Burdette
9a5ea6c359
Merge branch 'master' into debug-exploratory-PR
2022-05-25 10:41:10 -06:00
Ben Burdette
6031a36208
add --debugger to rl-next list
2022-05-25 10:38:13 -06:00
pennae
b092afe77d
Merge branch 'master' into lto
2022-05-25 11:55:13 +00:00
Tom Bereknyei
82c4af41e3
repl: clarify change and usage of <nixpkgs>
2022-05-20 01:49:49 -04:00
Tony Olagbaiye
5b8c1deb18
fetchTree: Allow fetching plain files
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Add a new `file` fetcher type, which will fetch a plain file over
http(s), or from the local file.
Because plain `http(s)://` or `file://` urls can already correspond to
`tarball` inputs (if the path ends-up with a know archive extension),
the URL parsing logic is a bit convuluted in that:
- {http,https,file}:// urls will be interpreted as either a tarball or a
file input, depending on the extensions of the path part (so
`https://foo.com/bar ` will be a `file` input and
`https://foo.com/bar.tar.gz ` as a `tarball` input)
- `file+{something}://` urls will be interpreted as `file` urls (with
the `file+` part removed)
- `tarball+{something}://` urls will be interpreted as `tarball` urls (with
the `tarball+` part removed)
Fix #3785
Co-Authored-By: Tony Olagbaiye <me@fron.io>
2022-05-19 18:24:49 +02:00
Tom Bereknyei
1ca3f6035d
repl: update docs with installables
2022-05-18 21:21:38 -04:00
Théophane Hufschmitt
65a913d29b
Don’t recommend writing unit tests
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As asked in <https://github.com/NixOS/nix/pull/6517#discussion_r869416905 >
2022-05-12 12:02:31 +02:00
Théophane Hufschmitt
7c75f1d52b
Expand the testing section of the hacking docs
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- Make it clear what the different kind of tests are, where they live
and how they can be ran
- Ask people to primarily write unit tests
2022-05-10 13:35:23 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra
4a79cba511
Allow selecting derivation outputs using 'installable!outputs'
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E.g. 'nixpkgs#glibc^dev,static' or 'nixpkgs#glibc^*'.
2022-05-03 13:43:52 +02:00
pennae
d6d6bbd9ef
Merge branch 'master' into lto
2022-04-25 14:02:37 +00:00
midchildan
c67d8876c3
feat: add integration with zsh's run-help
2022-04-25 02:21:41 +09:00
Théophane Hufschmitt
be28603dca
Merge remote-tracking branch 'origin/master' into nixbuildaddprintstorepaths
2022-04-22 11:11:01 +02:00
Tom Bereknyei
f25112d383
fix: builtins.toFile adds path to allowedPaths
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The produced path is then allowed be imported or utilized elsewhere:
```
assert (43 == import (builtins.toFile "source" "43")); "good"
```
This will still fail on write-only stores.
2022-04-21 16:41:37 -04:00
Artturin
51cfea8bb0
nix build: add --print-out-paths flag
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has the same functionality as default nix-build
$ nix-build . -A "bash" -A "bash.dev" -A "tinycc"
/nix/store/4nmqxajzaf60yjribkgvj5j54x9yvr1r-bash-5.1-p12
/nix/store/c49i1ggnr5cc8gxmk9xm0cn961z104dn-bash-5.1-p12-dev
/nix/store/dbapb08862ajgaax3621fz8hly9fdah3-tcc-0.9.27+date=2022-01-11
$ nix-build . -A "bash"
/nix/store/4nmqxajzaf60yjribkgvj5j54x9yvr1r-bash-5.1-p12
$ $HOME/nixgits/nix/result/bin/nix build "nixpkgs#bash" "nixpkgs#bash.dev" "nixpkgs#tinycc" --print-out-paths
/nix/store/4nmqxajzaf60yjribkgvj5j54x9yvr1r-bash-5.1-p12
/nix/store/c49i1ggnr5cc8gxmk9xm0cn961z104dn-bash-5.1-p12-dev
/nix/store/dbapb08862ajgaax3621fz8hly9fdah3-tcc-0.9.27+date=2022-01-11
$ $HOME/nixgits/nix/result/bin/nix build "nixpkgs#bash" --print-out-paths
/nix/store/4nmqxajzaf60yjribkgvj5j54x9yvr1r-bash-5.1-p12
2022-04-20 19:35:46 +03:00
mei (ckie)
0e2b01b14e
nix repl: make symlinks with the :bl command
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Requested by ppepino on the Matrix:
https://matrix.to/#/!KqkRjyTEzAGRiZFBYT:nixos.org/$Tb32BS3rVE2BSULAX4sPm0h6CDewX2hClOTGzTC7gwM?via=nixos.org&via=matrix.org&via=nixos.dev
This adds a new command, :bl, which works like :b but also creates
a GC root symlink to the various derivation outputs.
ckie@cookiemonster ~/git/nix -> ./outputs/out/bin/nix repl
Welcome to Nix 2.6.0. Type :? for help.
nix-repl> :l <nixpkgs>
Added 16118 variables.
nix-repl> :b runCommand "hello" {} "echo hi > $out"
This derivation produced the following outputs:
./repl-result-out -> /nix/store/kidqq2acdpi05c4a9mlbg2baikmzik44-hello
[1 built, 0.0 MiB DL]
ckie@cookiemonster ~/git/nix -> cat ./repl-result-out
hi
2022-04-20 00:20:29 +03:00
Eelco Dolstra
1cdad1074c
Move rl-next.md to rl-2.8.md
2022-04-19 21:12:33 +02:00
Tom Bereknyei
9b41239d8f
fix: ensure apps are apps and packages are packages
2022-04-14 23:57:52 -04:00
Rehno Lindeque
5ff4c42608
Update release notes
2022-04-06 12:24:35 -04:00
Eelco Dolstra
71c07ac0e7
Merge pull request #6363 from thufschmitt/definition-list-in-nix.conf-manual
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Add anchors to the nix.conf options in the manual
2022-04-05 17:32:48 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra
f98d76ff1a
rl-2.7.md: Fix title
2022-04-05 14:13:26 +02:00
Théophane Hufschmitt
660c19eb49
manual: Add some anchor targets for the nix.conf options
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For each `nix.conf` option, add an empty html node with a unique `id`
that can be used as an anchor target. Also make the name of the option
be a link to that target so that it’s easily discoverable.
We can’t rewrite the whole list as an html definition list like it’s
done for the builtins because these options also appear in a man page,
and the manpage renderer (lowdown) can’t render arbitrary html. But the
hack here allows to keep the manpage and have the links in the html
version.
Fix https://github.com/NixOS/nix/issues/5745
2022-04-05 13:50:42 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra
d63a5f5dd3
Update release notes
2022-03-31 17:33:06 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra
86b05ccd54
Only provide builtin.{getFlake,fetchClosure} is the corresponding experimental feature is enabled
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This allows writing fallback code like
if builtins ? fetchClosure then
builtins.fetchClose { ... }
else
builtins.storePath ...
2022-03-25 14:04:18 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra
98658ae9d2
Document fetchClosure
2022-03-24 21:33:33 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra
5acaf13d35
Rename 'nix store make-content-addressable' to 'nix store make-content-addressed'
2022-03-24 21:33:33 +01:00
Domen Kožar
98ce1a21b7
Merge pull request #6144 from toonn/doc-macos-uninstall
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doc: Add detailed uninstall section for macOS
2022-03-23 08:53:48 +01:00
Théophane Hufschmitt
7117053457
Merge pull request #6270 from Artturin/stdineval
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nix: allow using --file - to read from stdin
2022-03-17 14:35:01 +01:00
Artturin
a5c969db49
nix: allow using --file - to read from stdin
2022-03-16 21:01:51 +02:00
Joachim Breitner
af013281c9
distributed-builds.md: fixing typo of the most minor sort
2022-03-16 12:53:38 +01:00
pennae
f2603e9c92
Merge branch 'master' into lto
2022-03-10 00:32:34 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
ad7c99ef20
Move rl-next.md to rl-2.7.md
2022-03-07 20:10:18 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra
0123b9aec8
Tweak release notes
2022-03-07 19:56:10 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra
30ddd37873
Merge branch 'cli-suggestions' of https://github.com/thufschmitt/nix
2022-03-07 19:47:45 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra
c28e2b1b29
Tweak release notes
2022-03-07 11:30:40 +01:00
regnat
b44cebd1fd
Add a release-notes entry for the cli suggestions
2022-03-07 10:09:10 +01:00
pennae
2799fe4cdb
enable LTO in optimized builds
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gives 2-5% performance improvement across a board of tests.
LTO is broken when using clang; some libs link fine while others crash
the linker with a segfault in the llvm linker plugin. 🙁
2022-03-03 17:47:49 +01:00
toonn
947d4761b3
doc: Add removal of darwin-store LaunchDaemon
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The uninstall instructions used to accidentally remove the nix-darwin
LaunchDaemon, this was dropped. However, the original intent was to
remove the Store volume mounting LaunchDaemon.
2022-02-26 14:16:35 +01:00
toonn
2df23e2b3e
doc: Drop nix-darwin service from macOS uninstall
2022-02-25 10:50:01 +01:00
toonn
064cad7e9f
doc: Add macOS uninstall note about /nix
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Clarify that `/nix` being present after the uninstall is normal and it
will only disappear after a reboot.
Co-authored-by: Travis A. Everett <travis.a.everett@gmail.com>
2022-02-25 10:32:45 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra
59683733f5
Merge pull request #6089 from edolstra/dot-default
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Replace defaultBla.$system with bla.$system.default
2022-02-24 21:16:58 +01:00
Guillaume Desforges
cfbf9ee2ce
Anchor with prefix
2022-02-24 13:50:50 +01:00
Guillaume Desforges
6462ee61c7
Anchor link for builtin functions in HTML doc
2022-02-23 15:07:01 +01:00
Guillaume Desforges
2cc645a91a
Add html make target
2022-02-23 15:06:13 +01:00
Théophane Hufschmitt
54f07b66c8
Precise the doc for --include-outputs
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Make it explicit that it only includes the existing outputs and not the ones that haven’t been realised
2022-02-23 09:17:08 +01:00
toonn
400d70a3a9
doc: Add detailed uninstall section for macOS
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The multi-user installation on macOS, which is now the only option, has
gotten complicated enough that it discourages some users from checking
Nix out for fear of being left with a "dirty" system. Detailed
uninstallation instructions should make this less of an issue.
2022-02-22 16:28:24 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra
38eea2c503
Update release notes
2022-02-22 14:23:39 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra
26e99c817c
Merge pull request #6114 from Radvendii/welcomeText
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add release notes for welcomeText
2022-02-18 10:52:03 +01:00
Taeer Bar-Yam
219fa2e43d
add release notes for welcomeText
2022-02-17 15:17:20 -05:00
Rahul Butani
d82cf4a016
manual: fix formatting for options with "machine-specific" defaults
2022-02-15 15:44:05 -06:00
tomberek
2bf96bd9f2
Merge branch 'master' into bundler_drv
2022-01-28 10:18:29 -05:00
Eelco Dolstra
35dbdbedd4
nix store ping: Report Nix daemon version
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Fixes #5952 .
2022-01-25 21:15:58 +01:00
Tom Bereknyei
dc85e20684
bundler: notes and doc update to include bundlers repo
2022-01-25 03:48:44 -05:00
Eelco Dolstra
9faad4c5eb
Move rl-next.md to rl-2.5.md
2022-01-25 00:11:00 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra
edf0cde1a7
Merge pull request #5960 from zombiezen/patch-1
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Correct `NIX_BUILD_PATH` default description
2022-01-24 12:46:43 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra
3782017272
Tweak release notes
2022-01-24 12:45:35 +01:00
Ross Light
7477974b93
Correct NIX_BUILD_PATH default description
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Source: 067076287b/src/nix-build/nix-build.cc (L362-L381)
2022-01-21 18:45:19 -08:00
Rok Garbas
d463e11760
Adding docs regarding the docker image from master
2022-01-21 14:50:34 +01:00
lincoln auster [they/them]
7d4f86f032
release-notes: document commit-lockfile-summary option
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This documents 3023c7700.
2022-01-18 16:10:44 -07:00
Eelco Dolstra
4dda1f92aa
Add command 'nix store copy-log'
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Fixes #5222 .
2022-01-18 14:08:49 +01:00
Théophane Hufschmitt
dc4730ee94
Merge pull request #5720 from tomberek/flake_search
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flakes: search up to git or filesystem boundary
2022-01-18 10:59:12 +01:00
tomberek
2dead20924
Apply suggestions from code review
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Co-authored-by: Théophane Hufschmitt <7226587+thufschmitt@users.noreply.github.com>
2022-01-14 09:16:34 -05:00
Eelco Dolstra
5e9653c370
Tweak
2022-01-13 14:33:41 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra
66424cd29f
Merge branch 'patch-1' of https://github.com/TheodorRene/nix
2022-01-13 14:31:49 +01:00
Profpatsch
a51c457204
Release Notes 2.4: add --indirect
no-op change
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Since
00d25e8457
which was first included in nix 2.4.
It is a backwards-compatible change since the flag will just be
ignored.
2022-01-12 23:19:15 +01:00
Theodor René Carlsen
89b4df8d92
Add link to explanation when introducing a new operator
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The logical implication operator is included in this section but never explained. It might stump new readers with a pretty uncommon operator, and it's never referenced explicitly.
2022-01-11 17:01:43 +01:00
pennae
00c993f48b
add zipAttrsWith primop
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nixpkgs can save a good bit of eval memory with this primop. zipAttrsWith is
used quite a bit around nixpkgs (eg in the form of recursiveUpdate), but the
most costly application for this primop is in the module system. it improves
the implementation of zipAttrsWith from nixpkgs by not checking an attribute
multiple times if it occurs more than once in the input list, allocates less
values and set elements, and just avoids many a temporary object in general.
nixpkgs has a more generic version of this operation, zipAttrsWithNames, but
this version is only used once so isn't suitable for being the base of a new
primop. if it were to be used more we should add a second primop instead.
2022-01-03 21:05:53 +01:00
Alexander Bantyev
a26351da02
Add ability to toggle show-trace from within the repl
2021-12-29 02:54:36 +03:00
tomberek
f404189368
Merge branch 'master' into flake_search
2021-12-23 15:22:52 -05:00
Eelco Dolstra
881b610266
Update release notes
2021-12-21 14:19:21 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra
c260640dec
Fix docker instructions
2021-12-16 21:48:38 +01:00
jesse
11ee875a6d
List aarch64 as supported macOS hardware
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Resolves #5767
2021-12-15 10:55:34 -08:00
Théophane Hufschmitt
6234e1c811
Merge pull request #5702 from baloo/baloo/hide-non-reproducible-settings
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reproducibility: hide non-reproducible settings from manual
2021-12-14 09:14:25 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra
18cb094aab
rl-2.5.md: Set date
2021-12-13 19:57:06 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra
f133001dc8
Move rl-next.md to rl-2.5.md
2021-12-13 16:48:44 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra
3f417c8d1c
Add release notes entry for #5149
2021-12-13 16:43:42 +01:00
Janne Heß
4194b68250
doc: Fix command for distributed builds
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We also need to build impurely or the <nixpkgs> lookup will not work.
2021-12-10 12:58:12 +01:00
Amon Stopinšek
0bd93ed747
Fix link to nixos channel
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The old link returned 404 errror.
2021-12-09 16:44:24 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
167e864697
Merge pull request #5730 from abathur/darwin_document_fstab_settings
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document some darwin mount settings
2021-12-07 22:24:40 +01:00
Alexander Bantyev
33926ed1e7
nix repl: add :log
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Add a :log command that shows logs for a derivation.
Closes https://github.com/NixOS/nix/issues/3504
Co-authored-by: Taeer Bar-Yam <taeer@bar-yam.me>
2021-12-06 16:52:50 +03:00
Travis A. Everett
8093456111
document some darwin mount settings
2021-12-04 23:16:42 -06:00
Tom Bereknyei
b6cc0a704d
flakes: search up to git or filesystem boundary
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While parsing a flakeref, upon not finding a flake.nix, search upwards
until git or filesystem boundary.
2021-12-03 10:55:30 -05:00
Eelco Dolstra
2e606e87c4
Merge pull request #5715 from Infinisil/groupBy-primop
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Introduce `builtins.groupBy` primop
2021-12-03 13:21:14 +01:00
David Purdum
69b9198875
Fix docker command
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`docker -ti run nixos` does not run on docker version 20.10.7 (my machine). This fixes it to read `docker run -ti nixos`.
2021-12-02 23:38:33 -05:00
Silvan Mosberger
90700736c7
Introduce builtins.groupBy primop
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This function is very useful in nixpkgs, but its implementation in Nix
itself is rather slow due to it requiring a lot of attribute set and
list appends.
2021-12-02 21:54:51 +01:00
Arthur Gautier
21520297da
reproducibility: hide non-reproducible settings from manual
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Because the manual is generated from default values which are themselves
generated from various sources (cpuid, bios settings (kvm), number of
cores). This commit hides non-reproducible settings from the manual
output.
2021-12-01 17:25:58 +01:00
Eli Flanagan
092c375cda
Update doc/manual/src/glossary.md
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Co-authored-by: Eelco Dolstra <edolstra@gmail.com>
2021-11-30 13:19:42 -05:00
Eli Flanagan
a473e85c80
docs: document set theory symbols
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These symbols confused me so I wanted to gloss them to help future users. You can see the context here: https://discourse.nixos.org/t/flakes-what-does-mean-big-bundle-of-questions
2021-11-30 11:13:46 -05:00
Eelco Dolstra
b96164f4af
Merge remote-tracking branch 'origin/build-with-clang'
2021-11-30 11:50:56 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra
ddf4fb750d
Merge pull request #5678 from t184256/document-libsodium
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Document libsodium, which is now mandatory, as a dependency.
2021-11-29 11:11:10 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra
99804465af
Merge pull request #5679 from t184256/optional-libcpuid
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Document libcpuid dependency and make it optional
2021-11-29 11:10:42 +01:00
Alexander Sosedkin
a9bd06d0ea
Make libcpuid dependency optional with --disable-cpuid
2021-11-28 00:52:35 +01:00
Alexander Sosedkin
b73a1c0638
Document libcpuid dependency
2021-11-28 00:52:35 +01:00
Alexander Sosedkin
33a227503a
Document libsodium, which is now mandatory, as a dependency
2021-11-27 23:11:11 +01:00
Tom Bereknyei
152e3cda0c
reproducibility: determinstic man page output for cores
2021-11-26 10:55:43 -05:00
Pamplemousse
288c252570
Documentation: alternative stdenv
for hacking
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Signed-off-by: Pamplemousse <xav.maso@gmail.com>
2021-11-26 10:04:56 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra
986906e687
Update names
2021-11-25 17:09:11 +01:00
Silvan Mosberger
09471d2680
Make lists be comparable
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Makes lists comparable using lexicographic comparison.
Increments builtins.langVersion in order for this change to be
detectable
2021-11-24 13:40:46 +01:00
Lorenz Leutgeb
e1192116d3
doc: Fix escape for operator "logical or"
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See https://matrix.to/#/!KqkRjyTEzAGRiZFBYT:nixos.org/$hhMb6AdRIXfRkv_LsNsiQJuch7AQ_b6szr4tfawFy-4
2021-11-18 15:08:01 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra
e88fb63e28
Merge pull request #5585 from jtojnar/env-a
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doc: De-emphasize nix-env without -A
2021-11-18 14:34:45 +01:00
Jan Tojnar
ca4d8ce9e2
doc: De-emphasize nix-env without -A
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The manual uses `nix-env -i` without `-A` prominently, teaching a bad practice to newcomers.
2021-11-17 17:04:25 +01:00
Jan Tojnar
e96faadcd6
Fix XDG_CONFIG_DIRS fallback
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According to XDG Base Directory Specification,
it should fall back to /etc/xdg when the env var is not present.
2021-11-17 14:31:15 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra
51ffc19f02
Merge branch 'add-docker-image-to-hydra-jobs' of https://github.com/garbas/nix
2021-11-16 13:00:54 +01:00
Kevin Amado
eae54f2d52
fix many doc typos
2021-11-13 22:28:20 -05:00
Rok Garbas
a118a70649
Documenting how to use/build Nix' Docker image
2021-11-11 16:07:01 +01:00
Théo Zimmermann
d589782fb0
Fix some typos in CLI guideline.
2021-11-08 08:24:15 +01:00
Jan Tojnar
e5d4c2235f
docs: Correct fallback user config path
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This is in line with XDG Base Directory Specification, where ~/.config is supposed to be used when XDG_CONFIG_HOME is unset.
It also better matches the reality, where ~/.config/nix.conf does not seem to be used.
2021-11-04 11:41:29 +01:00
Dimitris Apostolou
c34cc5e488
Fix typos
2021-11-03 18:11:20 +02:00
Simon Legner
1968760f4a
command-ref/nix-shell: fix --pure, --keep
2021-11-02 22:00:08 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra
b61b307bad
Remove references to building from the source tarball
2021-11-02 15:29:47 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra
6a93e186f4
Fix 2.4 migration examples
2021-11-01 22:44:07 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra
bc4b7521f4
Rename rl-2.5.md to rl-next.md
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Having a generically named file for release notes for the next release
makes things easier for PRs.
2021-10-28 14:36:47 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra
9c6ac9eb0e
2.4 release notes: Add some migration notes
2021-10-27 17:33:32 +02:00
Domen Kožar
51c812d6bb
Merge pull request #5365 from arafangion/master
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Clarify that not all nix packages will use the default build phases
2021-10-17 20:54:00 -05:00
John Chapman
ffeec5f283
Clarify that not all nix packages will use the default build phases
2021-10-17 15:24:22 +11:00
Eelco Dolstra
4c0cde95ad
Update release notes
2021-10-13 11:39:54 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra
2f3c79c241
Mention compression-level in the release notes
2021-10-13 11:11:26 +02:00
John Chapman
4cff413054
Clarify that not all nix packages will use the default build phases
2021-10-09 12:03:34 +11:00
Eelco Dolstra
844dd901a7
Start 2.5 release notes
2021-10-07 20:09:03 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra
f45b30de2f
Revert "docs: add troubleshooting session in remote builds"
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This reverts commit 0574c1850a
.
2021-10-06 17:12:52 +02:00
Domen Kožar
d0cc6a192a
Merge pull request #5095 from happysalada/update_remote_builds_docs
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docs: add troubleshooting session in remote builds
2021-10-06 08:10:53 -05:00
happysalada
0574c1850a
docs: add troubleshooting session in remote builds
2021-10-06 21:47:53 +09:00
Eelco Dolstra
08aa7daee0
Remove links to .md files in help output
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Fixes #5337 .
2021-10-06 13:01:18 +02:00
Rafal Gwozdzinski
a73f855bd4
Fix typo
2021-10-03 12:19:59 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra
0e3b8ca767
Typo
2021-10-01 16:32:07 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra
43221bb319
Comments
2021-10-01 16:29:53 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra
91b39eee25
Typo
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Co-authored-by: Sebastian Ullrich <sebasti@nullri.ch>
2021-10-01 14:18:07 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra
5e222ac18b
Release notes
2021-09-30 17:36:09 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra
8fdb1d057a
Quiet
2021-09-22 14:12:31 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra
49a932fb18
nix --help: Display help using lowdown instead of man
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Fixes #4476 .
Fixes #5231 .
2021-09-13 14:45:21 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra
25b6b74175
Manual: Link to 2.4 release notes
2021-09-09 15:01:36 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra
ff03fb6743
Manual: Depend on all *.md files
2021-09-09 15:01:19 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra
7ee639f9db
Merge pull request #5066 from Radvendii/master
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add antiquotations to paths
2021-09-01 12:55:04 +02:00
Taeer Bar-Yam
b2beb97f2a
add documentation for path antiquotations
2021-08-31 08:17:17 -04:00
Sergei Trofimovich
33fa5f3cd9
doc/manual/local.mk: fix 'make install DESTDIR=...'
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Install failure is observed when we try to install
into inplace location as non-root:
```
$ LANG=C make install DESTDIR=$PWD/__i__ V=1
RUST_LOG=warn mdbook build doc/manual -d /usr/share/doc/nix/manual
2021-08-28 13:29:58 [ERROR] (mdbook::utils): Error: Rendering failed
2021-08-28 13:29:58 [ERROR] (mdbook::utils): Caused By: Unexpected error when constructing destination path
2021-08-28 13:29:58 [ERROR] (mdbook::utils): Caused By: Permission denied (os error 13)
make: *** [doc/manual/local.mk:98: /usr/share/doc/nix/manual/index.html] Error 101
```
The change is to prefix paths with `$(DESTDIR)`.
2021-08-28 13:31:34 +01:00
Pamplemousse
0e7bd65976
15f4d4f
Documentation follow-up
2021-08-19 09:40:47 -07:00
Eelco Dolstra
d64f9671fc
Merge pull request #5094 from Pamplemousse/simpler_doc
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doc/manual: don't need to copy `highlight.js` manually
2021-08-05 15:13:07 +02:00
Pamplemousse
de39cfb9f3
doc/manual: don't need to copy highlight.js
manually
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Signed-off-by: Pamplemousse <xav.maso@gmail.com>
2021-08-04 19:47:05 -07:00
regnat
441be5d59a
Remove dead code in doc’s local.mk
2021-07-27 14:37:55 +02:00
regnat
cd6e9eb024
Fix the generation of nix3 manpages
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- Separate the generation of the manpages from their installation
- Make sure that `make` generates the manpages
- Make sure that `make install` installs them
Fix #5051
2021-07-27 13:47:53 +02:00
regnat
c5f5d615a6
Cleanup the generation of the nix3 manpages
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Use a dedicated make target for the man page rather than bundling the
generation as part of `install`.
Also make sure that `make install` is a fixpoint by
- Removing the generated markdown files from `MANUAL_SRCS`
- Not having the manpage generation write in its source directory so as
to not update its timestamp (it would run each time otherwise)
2021-07-19 16:55:56 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra
f1ecd30bd5
Merge pull request #4773 from alyssais/dl
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doc: builtins: use a definition list
2021-07-05 14:03:15 +02:00
Keshav Kini
f35f9af787
Improve explanation of NIX_PATH prefix syntax
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The previous wording seemed to imply that the "channel:" syntax would resolve to
a github archive URL, which is not the case.
2021-06-03 17:59:39 -07:00
Linus Heckemann
a3553cdae8
doc/nix-shell: Remove outdated bashrc information
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This behaviour was removed in 65f6d5db6f
.
2021-05-11 14:33:35 +02:00
Alyssa Ross
5f07f2ff2b
doc: builtins: use a definition list
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This looks a lot better (and is also more semantically meaningful).
Since this list is generated in a Nix expression, I don't think using
HTML here is going to be the thing that puts people off modifying this
part of the documentation!
2021-05-05 14:34:46 +00:00
Graham Christensen
d15a1962cb
Merge pull request #4289 from abathur/encrypt_darwin_volume
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darwin: encrypt nix volume if filevault is enabled
2021-04-29 15:59:12 -04:00
Travis A. Everett
eab14a642c
darwin: encrypt nix volume if filevault is enabled
2021-04-29 13:26:51 -05:00
Eelco Dolstra
fe2bf464cf
Merge branch 'remove-trailing-spaces' of github.com:NixOS/nix
2021-04-23 15:09:44 +02:00
regnat
31313d1401
Replace the trailing markdown spaces by a backslash
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They are equivalent according to
<https://spec.commonmark.org/0.29/#hard-line-breaks >,
and the trailing spaces tend to be a pain (because the make git
complain, editors tend to want to remove them − the `.editorconfig`
actually specifies that − etc..).
2021-04-23 14:37:21 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra
3996ca42cf
Merge pull request #4735 from NixOS/document-ca-derivations
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(briefly) document how to build ca derivations
2021-04-23 14:21:25 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra
e65f604ea9
Set more man sections
2021-04-23 14:20:28 +02:00
Alyssa Ross
29132f99c5
doc: fix section in nix3 man page metadata
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These man pages said they were in section 7, even though we were
installing them to section 1 (which is the right place for them).
2021-04-23 10:52:54 +00:00
regnat
2207018df5
(briefly) document how to build ca derivations
2021-04-23 10:28:26 +02:00
Björn Gohla
4d9568ef60
Revert "[prerequisites]: add JSON lib dependency"
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This reverts commit 5926200db0
.
2021-04-05 21:29:04 +01:00
Björn Gohla
5926200db0
[prerequisites]: add JSON lib dependency
2021-04-01 22:54:09 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra
4638bcfb2c
Fix some typos
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Fixes #4671 .
2021-03-26 16:14:38 +01:00
Travis A. Everett
ac8ba2eae4
remove doc for obsolete --no-build-hook flag
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`--no-build-hook` appears to have been removed in 25f32625e2
2021-03-06 19:51:29 -06:00
Graham Christensen
1130b28824
distributed builds: load remote builder host key from the machines file
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This is already used by Hydra, and is very useful when materializing
a remote builder list from service discovery. This allows the service
discovery tool to only sync one file instead of two.
2021-02-25 09:17:34 -05:00
Shea Levy
f6c5b05488
Respect command registrations in plugins.
2021-02-24 08:25:45 -05:00
Shea Levy
98d1b64400
Initialize plugins after handling initial command line flags
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This is technically a breaking change, since attempting to set plugin
files after the first non-flag argument will now throw an error. This
is acceptable given the relative lack of stability in a plugin
interface and the need to tie the knot somewhere once plugins can
actually define new subcommands.
2021-02-24 08:22:17 -05:00
Eelco Dolstra
6042febfce
Restore warning about 'nix' being experimental
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Fixes #4552 .
2021-02-17 15:30:49 +01:00
Mauricio Scheffer
5f4701e70d
Update doc/manual/src/command-ref/nix-shell.md
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Co-authored-by: Cole Helbling <cole.e.helbling@outlook.com>
2021-02-16 23:27:04 +00:00
Mauricio Scheffer
35129884f9
Fix Haskell example
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http://nixos.org redirects to https://nixos.org and apparently the HTTP library doesn't follow the redirect, so the output is empty.
When defining https in the request it crashes because the library doesn't seem to support https.
So this switches the example to a different http library.
2021-02-16 23:19:42 +00:00
Dominik Schrempf
fb00e7dc52
Remove newline in operator table.
2021-02-01 17:42:14 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra
36c4d6f592
Group common options
2021-01-25 19:03:13 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra
807d963ee8
Group subcommands by category
2021-01-25 18:19:32 +01:00