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Robert Vollmert 30117fb35b fix buggy nix-shell man page 2017-07-10 14:36:55 +02:00
Robert Vollmert c85e662004 man page (nix-shell): Fix grouping of -p option
Not sure about the raw ellipsis.
2017-07-07 22:11:46 +02:00
Robert Vollmert 89771a8821 man page (nix-prefetch-url): Add some missing options 2017-07-07 22:11:46 +02:00
Robert Vollmert 772ef22c25 man page (nix-instantiate): -E is optional 2017-07-07 22:11:46 +02:00
Robert Vollmert 8ad898b2cd man page (nix-instantiate): Add --json to synopsis, order variables 2017-07-07 22:11:46 +02:00
Robert Vollmert b1f5995a20 man page (nix-instantiate): Remove non-existent nix-build argument -r 2017-07-07 22:11:46 +02:00
Robert Vollmert 56a1f8f499 man pages: Consistently separate alternatives by / 2017-07-07 22:11:46 +02:00
Robert Vollmert d1643bdaa2 man pages: Argument for --max-jobs 2017-07-07 22:11:45 +02:00
Robert Vollmert 68c626c6b0 man pages: Grouping for option alternatives 2017-07-07 22:11:45 +02:00
Robert Vollmert ce3095e141 glossary: Fix word order 2017-07-07 22:07:46 +02:00
Robert Vollmert 60da5d2b8f Fix nix-instantiate manpage indentation
The second command variant is now its own cmdsynopsis, which ensures
it's not indented as was the case using sbrk.
2017-07-06 22:35:36 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra 6cf23c3e8f
Add allow-new-privileges option
This allows builds to call setuid binaries. This was previously
possible until we started using seccomp. Turns out that seccomp by
default disallows processes from acquiring new privileges. Generally,
any use of setuid binaries (except those created by the builder
itself) is by definition impure, but some people were relying on this
ability for certain tests.

Example:

  $ nix build '(with import <nixpkgs> {}; runCommand "foo" {} "/run/wrappers/bin/ping -c 1 8.8.8.8; exit 1")' --no-allow-new-privileges
  builder for ‘/nix/store/j0nd8kv85hd6r4kxgnwzvr0k65ykf6fv-foo.drv’ failed with exit code 1; last 2 log lines:
    cannot raise the capability into the Ambient set
    : Operation not permitted

  $ nix build '(with import <nixpkgs> {}; runCommand "foo" {} "/run/wrappers/bin/ping -c 1 8.8.8.8; exit 1")' --allow-new-privileges
  builder for ‘/nix/store/j0nd8kv85hd6r4kxgnwzvr0k65ykf6fv-foo.drv’ failed with exit code 1; last 6 log lines:
    PING 8.8.8.8 (8.8.8.8) 56(84) bytes of data.
    64 bytes from 8.8.8.8: icmp_seq=1 ttl=46 time=15.2 ms

Fixes #1429.
2017-07-04 15:48:25 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra a10951de08
OS X -> macOS
(cherry picked from commit c20641ce569dc1fdeaeaa147b0292f258667f53b)
2017-06-14 23:28:06 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra 1dcadadf74
Add 1.11.10 release notes
(cherry picked from commit 0fb60e4e0f66cc42c7c274acfcf00b51f6c829c4)
2017-06-14 23:27:52 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra d6064dd19b Merge pull request #1393 from pyrtsa/patch-1
Fix variable name typo in derivations doc
2017-05-29 11:32:06 +02:00
Pyry Jahkola 370428f86d Remove stray > in builtins doc 2017-05-28 20:47:35 +03:00
Pyry Jahkola 86ea7d1566 Fix variable name typo in derivations doc 2017-05-28 15:48:57 +03:00
Eelco Dolstra b303ad012c Merge pull request #1382 from FRidh/patch-1
Document fetchTarball can take a sha256
2017-05-24 11:07:36 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra f134fc4cbe
Document that builtins.match takes a POSIX extended RE 2017-05-17 12:18:18 +02:00
Frederik Rietdijk 2b2de5ef6a Document fetchTarball can take a sha256
Note that I refer to `nix-prefetch-url`.
2017-05-11 13:38:13 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra 1fd59447d5
Typo 2017-05-10 18:38:17 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra c5f23f10a8
Replace readline by linenoise
Using linenoise avoids a license compatibility issue (#1356), is a lot
smaller and doesn't pull in ncurses.
2017-05-10 18:37:42 +02:00
Domen Kožar 82a9c93c7f
doc: builtins.attrNames returns alphabetically sorted list 2017-05-10 11:23:12 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra d3449b286b Merge pull request #1371 from regnat/doc_--xml_fix
fix the description of --xml and --json
2017-05-03 11:06:12 +02:00
regnat a786d26dc2 doc: fix the description of --xml and --json
Those options seem to only apply with --eval and not with --parse.
2017-05-03 10:49:34 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra d7653dfc6d
Remove $NIX_BUILD_HOOK and $NIX_CURRENT_LOAD
This is to simplify remote build configuration. These environment
variables predate nix.conf.

The build hook now has a sensible default (namely build-remote).

The current load is kept in the Nix state directory now.
2017-05-01 17:30:16 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra 1196470e92 Merge pull request #1347 from kennyballou/sm-grammar-fix
Fix small grammar issue about page
2017-04-24 10:49:46 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra 240399e059 Merge pull request #1351 from earldouglas/ellipses
Drop misleading ellipses
2017-04-24 10:49:09 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra 8d6af08530 Merge pull request #1348 from armijnhemel/nix-env
better document --meta option for nix-env
2017-04-24 10:18:23 +02:00
James Earl Douglas 111d347237
Drop misleading ellipses
This portion of the quick start guide may lead to confusion for
newcomers to Nix.  This change clarifies the example to one that can be
copied in its entirety.
2017-04-20 18:07:23 -06:00
Eelco Dolstra f05d5f89ff
Read per-user settings from ~/.config/nix/nix.conf 2017-04-20 14:58:16 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra 562585e901
binary-caches-parallel-connections -> http-connections 2017-04-20 14:04:00 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra 4222402219
nix.conf man page: binary-caches -> substituters 2017-04-20 13:41:29 +02:00
Armijn Hemel 1559c596f6 document option 2017-04-19 19:10:12 +02:00
kballou 00b6c6d0c3 Fix small grammar issue about page
Fix subject-verb agreement issue in introduction/about.
2017-04-19 09:27:28 -06:00
Linus Heckemann 9622d00afa Manual: document tryEval 2017-04-17 10:33:53 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra ba9ad29fdb
Convert Settings to the new config system
This makes all config options self-documenting.

Unknown or unparseable config settings and --option flags now cause a
warning.
2017-04-13 20:53:23 +02:00
Benjamin Staffin d267db0d75
Move note about float support out of the wrong release notes
Looks like this snuck into the 1.11 release notes post-release, but
float support isn't actually present until 1.12.
2017-04-12 18:01:43 -04:00
Eelco Dolstra c0745a2531
Merge branch 'remove-perl' of https://github.com/shlevy/nix 2017-03-31 14:13:32 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra aa23bba27f
Fix tests to reflect the signed-binary-caches default change 2017-03-21 18:06:13 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra 0afeb7f51e
Store: Add a method for getting build logs
This allows various Store implementations to provide different ways to
get build logs. For example, BinaryCacheStore can get the build logs
from the binary cache.

Also, remove the log-servers option since we can use substituters for
this.
2017-03-15 16:48:29 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra 19643a781e
nix -> Nix 2017-03-09 13:36:56 +01:00
Shea Levy 5f831c1057 Add docs for allow-import-from-derivation 2017-03-08 09:12:03 -05:00
Eelco Dolstra 7251d048fa
Support auto-configuration of build-max-jobs
"build-max-jobs" and the "-j" option can now be set to "auto" to use
the number of CPUs in the system. (Unlike build-cores, it doesn't use
0 to imply auto-configuration, because a) magic values are a bad idea
in general; b) 0 is a legitimate value used to disable local
building.)

Fixes #1198.
2017-02-28 12:54:50 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra 4f3fb34844
Fix 1.8 release note about build-max-jobs
We set build-cores automatically, not build-max-jobs. (The commit
message for de4cdd0d47 also got this
wrong.)
2017-02-27 15:58:24 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra 79f4583f8a
Fix XML validity 2017-02-21 13:04:31 +01:00
Linus Heckemann b8564987a3 Document toString better 2017-02-20 14:23:48 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra bd5388e7b2
Tweak netrc docs 2017-02-16 14:24:16 +01:00
Janus Troelsen 2b4c24f46a Remove Perl dependency listing in doc 2017-02-07 15:56:32 -05:00
Shea Levy 418a837897 Remove perl dependency.
Fixes #341
2017-02-07 15:56:32 -05:00
Renzo Carbonara e6e74f987f Add netrc-file support 2017-02-02 13:24:20 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra 9000150a78
Drop a few more references to all-packages.nix
And also don't refer to f-spot, which apparently no longer exists.

Issue #1170.
2017-01-03 16:42:24 +01:00
Jonas Chevalier 45ed6e7ef2 Document the common --no-build-hook option 2016-12-28 14:19:59 +00:00
Daiderd Jordan 36b3e15953
manual: add NIX_CONF_DIR to conf-file section 2016-12-16 10:59:07 +01:00
Linus Heckemann bb5a6c0085 Document path-search behaviour 2016-12-11 17:13:37 +00:00
Domen Kožar 41d6523ef5 Document builtins.match, fixes #1145 2016-12-09 20:40:55 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra 09191caea8
Add shell.nix 2016-12-06 17:17:29 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra d1da6967b8
Drop unused WWW::Curl dependency 2016-12-06 17:17:29 +01:00
Manav Rathi eec5409a69 installation: allow profile modification to be skipped (#1072)
The current behaviour modifies the first writeable file from amongst
.bash_profile, .bash_login and .profile.  So .bash_profile (if it is
writable) would be modified even if a user has already sourced nix.sh
in, say, .profile.

This commit introduces a new environment variable,
NIX_INSTALLER_NO_MODIFY_PROFILE.  If this is set during installation,
then the modifications are unconditionally skipped.

This is useful for users who have a manually curated set of dotfiles
that they are porting to a new machine. In such scenarios, nix.sh is
already sourced at a place where the user prefers.  Without this
change, the nix installer would insist on modifying .bash_profile if
it exists.

This commit also add documentations for both the current behaviour and
the new override.
2016-11-03 18:02:29 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra 18b7363a69 Support optional sandbox paths
For example, you can now set

  build-sandbox-paths = /dev/nvidiactl?

to specify that /dev/nvidiactl should only be mounted in the sandbox
if it exists in the host filesystem. This is useful e.g. for EC2
images that should support both CUDA and non-CUDA instances.
2016-10-31 17:09:52 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra 818ab58cc6 Add sandbox-dev-shm-size option
Fixes #1069.
2016-09-21 16:54:53 +02:00
Jonas Chevalier 7d7ec2b3a8 Document the { __toString } interface 2016-09-21 14:52:26 +01:00
Adrien Devresse 7ef053c632 Add a new option to disable documentation generation at configure time 2016-09-20 14:34:43 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra 6656ef7b5b Revive binary-caches-parallel-connections
It's a slight misnomer now because it actually limits *all* downloads,
not just binary cache lookups.

Also add a "enable-http2" option to allow disabling use of HTTP/2
(enabled by default).
2016-09-14 16:38:26 +02:00
Domen Kožar 0e3574d7f8 doc: move set functor para to Sets section 2016-08-26 19:19:24 +02:00
Domen Kožar ed39532dda doc: add an example for builtins.substring 2016-08-11 12:32:24 +02:00
Domen Kožar 9a1320af29 s/powerpc-darwin/x86_64-darwin/
Let's step in line with time and document more realistic values.
2016-08-10 18:42:55 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra 2fad86f361 Remove $NIX_DB_DIR
This variable has no reason to exist, given $NIX_STATE_DIR.
2016-08-10 18:05:35 +02:00
Shea Levy 6e51af8023 Nuke nix-push.
Rarely used, nix copy replaces it.
2016-08-10 11:13:11 -04:00
Shea Levy 15c035c13f Remove nix-install-package.
Refs #831
2016-08-10 08:20:51 -04:00
Eelco Dolstra 77c2739c25 Grammar/spelling 2016-07-21 11:30:01 +02:00
Matthias Beyer 2ec9d2fb02 NIX_REMOTE_SYSTEMS path must be absolute (#957)
Once upon a time, I wrote my bachelors thesis about functional
deployment mechanisms.

I had to evaluate several szenarios where package management and
deployment were relevant. One szenario was to do distributed builds
over several machines.

I told myself: Weee, nix can do this! And with nix, this is actually
save, as you do not have side effects when building!

So I started. I use a cloud to set up four virtual machines where I
wanted to do the build. A fifth machine was used as master to distribute
the builds. All was good.

I created the necessary SSH keys, made sure every machine was reachable
by the master and configured the build in my remotes.conf.

When I started to try to build weechat from source, the build failed. It
failed, telling me

    error: unable to start any build; either increase ‘--max-jobs’ or enable distributed builds

And I started to dig around. I digged long and good. But I wasn't able
to find the issue.

I double and triple checked my environment variables, my settings, the
SSH key and everything.

I reached out to fellow Nixers by asking on the nixos IRC channel. And I
got help. But we weren't able to find the issue, either.

So I became frustrated. I re-did all the environment variables.

And suddenly,... it worked! What did I change? Well... I made the
environment variables which contained pathes contain absolute pathes
rather than relatives.

And because I like to share my knowledge, this should be put into the
documentation, so others do not bang their heads against the wall
because something is not documented somewhere.
2016-07-21 11:19:21 +02:00
Dmitry Kalinkin 2a788bf9e7 documentation: mention required openssl dependency (#974)
Fixes: a6ca68a7 ("Require OpenSSL")
2016-07-20 15:02:29 +02:00
aszlig 72fb2ccfa1
Don't hardcode docbook XSL namespace URL
Docbook XSL got updated to version 1.79.1 in NixOS/nixpkgs@fb893a8 and
we're still referring to the hardcoded previous version.

So instead of just updating this to 1.79.1 we're going to use "current"
in the hope that this won't happen again.

I have tested this by building the manual under Nix(OS) but I haven't
tested this in a non-Nix environment, so I'm not sure whether this could
have implications.

Signed-off-by: aszlig <aszlig@redmoonstudios.org>
Cc: @edolstra
2016-07-04 20:13:20 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra fffacd7c78 Fix manual build
http://hydra.nixos.org/build/36944270
2016-06-20 16:55:22 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra f94a804ced Restore instructions on how to install a binary tarball
Looks like these were accidentally commented out in
9ffc4f4363.
2016-06-17 15:26:10 +02:00
Johannes 'fish' Ziemke df7e9b6d68 Remove nix-copy-closure reference note from nix-store docs
nix-copy-closure is not using nix-store directly anymore.
2016-06-15 15:58:13 +02:00
Domen Kožar 5339ae4437 Merge pull request #576 from qknight/args_explanation
extended args@ explanation
2016-05-30 23:40:17 +01:00
Joachim Schiele 6766041b84 Update language-constructs.xml 2016-05-30 23:58:45 +02:00
Joachim Schiele 659a3e399b Update language-constructs.xml 2016-05-30 23:58:13 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra a375326a97 Merge pull request #884 from srp/fix-nix-build-examples
fix "nix-build" examples
2016-05-03 11:13:54 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra 8e065c6b3e BinaryCacheStore: Make the signing key a parameter 2016-04-29 16:47:20 +02:00
Scott R. Parish 96d3534a9e fix "nix-build" examples
The existing "nix-build" examples were failing:

  error: cannot auto-call a function that has an argument without a default value (‘system’)

Thanks to @groxxda on irc for pointing out the fix!

Updated to completely remove unneeded path argument, suggested by @joachifm

Updated to remove other occurences of `all-packages.nix` from files as
suggested by @domenkozar
2016-04-26 13:30:57 -07:00
Eelco Dolstra 41633f9f73 Improved logging abstraction
This also gets rid of --log-type, since the nested log type isn't
useful in a multi-threaded situation, and nobody cares about the
"pretty" log type.
2016-04-25 19:18:45 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra 31a1a8ed3c Merge pull request #815 from vcunat/p/outputsToInstall
nix-env: respect meta.outputsToInstall
2016-04-14 20:55:41 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra 58e423ce32 Remove PDF manual
More spring cleaning.
2016-04-14 12:50:01 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra 867967265b Remove manifest support
Manifests have been superseded by binary caches for years. This also
gets rid of nix-pull, nix-generate-patches and bsdiff/bspatch.
2016-04-11 16:20:15 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra 8cffec8485 Remove failed build caching
This feature was implemented for Hydra, but Hydra no longer uses it.
2016-04-08 18:19:04 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra 525c78a2c3 Remove references to old-school signing 2016-03-22 15:39:59 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra e69c48dc43 Fix bad DocBook
http://hydra.nixos.org/build/33087405
2016-03-14 12:34:11 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra 1b18991082 Merge pull request #822 from cstrahan/nix-store-serve
add docs for `nix-store --serve`
2016-03-10 15:30:54 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra b4e0335d4d Add option binary-cache-secret-key-file for signing binary caches 2016-03-04 17:45:22 +01:00
Charles Strahan e3e5c8bc91 add docs for nix-store --serve 2016-02-27 22:39:29 -05:00
Vladimír Čunát 03cbb9ad59 nix-env: respect meta.outputsToInstall
Discussed on https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/pull/12653#discussion_r51601849
2016-02-23 14:19:14 +01:00
Shea Levy 037ff4e70a Merge branch 'docs' of git://github.com/joelmo/nix 2016-02-22 07:14:16 -05:00
Dan Connolly b39ec410ee context for introducing runtime dependencies
The first occurrence of "runtime dependencies" wasn't related to the surrounding narrative.
2016-02-18 23:29:00 -06:00
Joel Moberg bb36a1a3cf Document IN_NIX_SHELL variable 2016-02-18 23:32:37 +01:00
Scott Olson 37b8e59f6f Fix typo in nix-shell command reference. 2016-02-13 01:03:32 -07:00
Eelco Dolstra b3e8d72770 Merge pull request #762 from ctheune/ctheune-floats
Implement floats
2016-02-12 12:49:59 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra 9e7c1a4bbd Use the daemon when we don't have write access to the Nix database 2016-01-31 10:28:48 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra 8b4577ac9d Grmbl 2016-01-19 12:35:17 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra d704abc0f3 Update release notes 2016-01-18 15:59:28 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra 71e5b937fb Document --check 2016-01-18 15:54:14 +01:00
Peter Simons a1bf934044 doc/manual/command-ref/nix-collect-garbage.xml: document --max-freed option
Mention the --max-freed option in the nix-collect-garbage man page.
Related to https://github.com/NixOS/nix/issues/609.
2016-01-18 13:25:36 +01:00
Christian Theune b4bda4765a Update documentation for floats. 2016-01-06 08:41:53 +01:00
Fabian Schmitthenner 0eb200e569 propagate NIX_BUILD_SHELL also in pure builds document NIX_BUILD_SHELL in the nix-shell command documentation 2016-01-05 14:11:20 +01:00
Tim Cuthbertson 36b9ce24b1 doc: Clarify why multiple arguments are not supported in shebang line
It's not a limitation of `/usr/bin/env`, it's just how the OS processes shebang lines
(see http://stackoverflow.com/a/4304187)
2016-01-05 13:46:05 +01:00
Vladimír Čunát 29c0199d5c manual: document builtins.functionArgs
The text is just a conversion of comment from src/libexpr/primops.cc
2016-01-05 13:29:17 +01:00
davidak 5eb93556f1 doc: fixes #727 broken link 2016-01-05 13:28:34 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra 9be037448c Use sensible date format 2016-01-04 14:38:26 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra f476535265 Update release notes 2016-01-04 14:29:23 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra c0d4173263 Set default binary-caches-parallel-connections to 25
Some benchmarking suggested this as a good value. Running

  $ benchmark -f ... -t 25 -- sh -c 'rm -f /nix/var/nix/binary-cache*; nix-store -r /nix/store/x5z8a2yvz8h6ccmhwrwrp9igg03575jg-nixos-15.09.git.5fd87e1M.drv --dry-run --option binary-caches-parallel-connections <N>'

gave the following mean elapsed times for these values of N:

N=10:  3.3541
N=20:  2.9320
N=25:  2.6690
N=30:  2.9417
N=50:  3.2021
N=100: 3.5718
N=150: 4.2079

Memory usage is also reduced (N=150 used 186 MB, N=25 only 68 MB).

Closes #708.
2015-11-25 17:13:11 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra 0ab4d905e7 Merge branch 'p/sandbox-rename-minimal' of https://github.com/vcunat/nix 2015-11-25 14:53:42 +01:00
Rommel M. Martinez cf141abfe9 Fixed typo. 2015-11-23 15:59:57 +08:00
Vladimír Čunát b39622a487 rename chroot to sandbox (fixes #656, close #682)
- rename options but leav old names as lower-priority aliases,
  also "-dirs" -> "-paths" to get closer to the meaning
- update docs to reflect the new names (old aliases are not documented),
  including a new file with release notes
- tests need an update after corresponding changes to nixpkgs
- __noChroot is left as it is (after discussion on the PR)
2015-11-10 22:32:51 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra 8fdd156a65 Add option to verify build determinism
Passing "--option build-repeat <N>" will cause every build to be
repeated N times. If the build output differs between any round, the
build is rejected, and the output paths are not registered as
valid. This is primarily useful to verify build determinism. (We
already had a --check option to repeat a previously succeeded
build. However, with --check, non-deterministic builds are registered
in the DB. Preventing that is useful for Hydra to ensure that
non-deterministic builds don't end up getting published at all.)
2015-11-09 23:16:24 +01:00
Anders Claesson 055ab1fc8d Fix typo in doc for nix-copy-closure 2015-10-08 13:17:01 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra f08449ccbd nix-prefetch-url: Add --name option
This allows overriding the name component of the resulting Nix store
path, which is necessary if the base name of the URI contains
"illegal" characters.
2015-10-07 14:55:33 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra b54f447df9 nix-prefetch-url: Support unpacking tarballs
This allows nix-prefetch-url to prefetch the output of fetchzip and
its wrappers (like fetchFromGitHub). For example:

  $ nix-prefetch-url --unpack https://github.com/NixOS/patchelf/archive/0.8.tar.gz

or from a Nix expression:

  $ nix-prefetch-url -A nix-repl.src

In the latter case, --unpack can be omitted because nix-repl.src is a
fetchFromGitHub derivation and thus has "outputHashMode" set to
"recursive".
2015-10-07 14:40:10 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra 9ffc4f4363 Don't mention Fedora/Debian packages in the installation section
See d4a88df9d6
2015-10-05 18:46:25 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra 57db2aa220 Merge pull request #645 from acowley/patch-1
Update prerequisites-source.xml
2015-10-05 15:05:32 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra 06f29fafe8 nix-prefetch-url: Support prefetching from a Nix expression
For example,

  $ nix-prefetch-url -A hello.src

will prefetch the file specified by the fetchurl call in the attribute
‘hello.src’ from the Nix expression in the current directory. This
differs from ‘nix-build -A hello.src’ in that it doesn't verify the
hash.

You can also specify a path to the Nix expression:

  $ nix-prefetch-url ~/Dev/nixpkgs -A hello.src

List elements (typically used in ‘patches’ attributes) also work:

  $ nix-prefetch-url -A portmidi.patches.0
2015-10-01 18:07:56 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra a3c4eb0964 nix-prefetch-url: $PRINT_PATH -> --print-path 2015-10-01 16:53:07 +02:00
Vladimír Čunát 12a4aea93d doc: fix the 'prebuild' typos 2015-09-17 12:08:05 +02:00
Anthony Cowley e5c3e054ec Update prerequisites-source.xml
The Perl WWW::Curl bindings are required to build Nix.
2015-09-15 12:42:44 -04:00
Eelco Dolstra 6e06a18d1b Release notes 2015-09-03 11:57:47 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra ce97523a7c Fix readDir example
Fixes https://github.com/NixOS/nixos-homepage/issues/46.
2015-09-01 16:53:51 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra 896428c818 Fix example 2015-08-05 17:36:33 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra 76cc8e97a2 Add sort primop 2015-07-28 18:39:39 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra 50807f3dd5 Add primop genList
This can be used to implement functions like ‘imap’ (or for that
matter, ‘map’) without the quadratic complexity incurred by calling
‘++’ repeatedly.
2015-07-28 17:28:35 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra d6d5885c15 Add replaceStrings primop
This is a generalisation of replaceChars in Nixpkgs.
2015-07-24 15:32:24 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra 14be783676 Add primops all and any
These are used thousands of times during NixOS evaluation, so it's
useful to speed them up.
2015-07-23 19:23:11 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra 61af14a921 Add foldl' primop 2015-07-23 17:03:02 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra ccf31dbc25 nix-copy-closure: Add -v flag
And make exportPath() less spammy by default.
2015-07-20 01:52:07 +02:00
Joachim Schiele 8ce96becf0 extended args@ explanation 2015-07-07 02:09:50 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra 39b3d9698e Typos 2015-06-12 11:02:40 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra d1e4b76a3a Update release notes 2015-06-12 01:11:03 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra 7d148ad543 Fix manual 2015-06-08 11:25:04 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra 53dd97bb9d Document setting up signed binary caches 2015-06-01 17:14:16 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra da196ec68f Document tarball downloading 2015-06-01 15:14:44 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra feca5cb67f Document nix-shell #!-scripts 2015-06-01 13:49:11 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra 99c2c14f50 Typo 2015-06-01 13:04:10 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra d68941d89d Nix 1.9 release notes 2015-06-01 12:57:43 +02:00
Charles Strahan 9c6328a7bf nix-env: document --set option 2015-05-19 11:00:15 +02:00
Shea Levy 4d652875bd Add the pre-build hook.
This hook can be used to set system-specific per-derivation build
settings that don't fit into the derivation model and are too complex or
volatile to be hard-coded into nix. Currently, the pre-build hook can
only add chroot dirs/files through the interface, but it also has full
access to the chroot root.

The specific use case for this is systems where the operating system ABI
is more complex than just the kernel-support system calls. For example,
on OS X there is a set of system-provided frameworks that can reliably
be accessed by any program linked to them, no matter the version the
program is running on. Unfortunately, those frameworks do not
necessarily live in the same locations on each version of OS X, nor do
their dependencies, and thus nix needs to know the specific version of
OS X currently running in order to make those frameworks available. The
pre-build hook is a perfect mechanism for doing just that.
2015-04-18 16:56:02 -04:00
Shea Levy fd6774e285 Revert "Add the pre-build hook."
Going to reimplement differently.

This reverts commit 1e4a4a2e9f.
2015-04-18 14:59:58 -04:00
Shea Levy 1e4a4a2e9f Add the pre-build hook.
This hook can be used to set system specific per-derivation build
settings that don't fit into the derivation model and are too complex or
volatile to be hard-coded into nix. Currently, the pre-build hook can
only add chroot dirs/files.

The specific use case for this is systems where the operating system ABI
is more complex than just the kernel-supported system calls. For
example, on OS X there is a set of system-provided frameworks that can
reliably be accessed by any program linked to them, no matter the
version the program is running on. Unfortunately, those frameworks do
not necessarily live in the same locations on each version of OS X, nor
do their dependencies, and thus nix needs to know the specific version
of OS X currently running in order to make those frameworks available.
The pre-build hook is a perfect mechanism for doing just that.
2015-04-12 12:56:38 -04:00
Daniel Hahler e659978ced Fix typos: s/the the/the/ 2015-03-06 16:43:22 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra cffa7f80ab Typo 2015-02-23 16:02:50 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra 99897f6979 Use chroots for all derivations
If ‘build-use-chroot’ is set to ‘true’, fixed-output derivations are
now also chrooted. However, unlike normal derivations, they don't get
a private network namespace, so they can still access the
network. Also, the use of the ‘__noChroot’ derivation attribute is
no longer allowed.

Setting ‘build-use-chroot’ to ‘relaxed’ gives the old behaviour.
2015-02-23 15:54:31 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra 15d2d3c34e Add restricted evaluation mode
If ‘--option restrict-eval true’ is given, the evaluator will throw an
exception if an attempt is made to access any file outside of the Nix
search path. This is primarily intended for Hydra, where we don't want
people doing ‘builtins.readFile ~/.ssh/id_dsa’ or stuff like that.
2015-02-23 15:54:31 +01:00
Shea Levy a8494de0be Merge branch 'docs/channels-path' of git://github.com/iElectric/nix 2015-02-22 11:59:38 -05:00
Domen Kožar 7bd8299c6c fixes https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/issues/6485 2015-02-22 08:39:29 -08:00
Shea Levy e0953d53de Allow the leading component of a path to be a ~ 2015-02-19 08:05:16 -05:00
Eelco Dolstra bd91064150 Use $<attr>Path instead of $<attr> for passAsFile 2015-02-17 16:42:54 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra a70d275f3d Allow passing attributes via files instead of environment variables
Closes #473.
2015-02-17 14:42:15 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra 29e1ff675b Keep sorted 2015-02-17 13:55:37 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra de8ed5c1d3 Typo 2015-02-04 18:17:06 +01:00
Shea Levy d66d9e8425 Require linux 3.13 or later for chroot
Fixes #453
2015-02-04 18:15:56 +01:00
Tobias Geerinckx-Rice c23d67920e doc: nix-channel --remove takes a name, not a url 2015-01-12 10:56:58 +01:00
Данило Глинський (Danylo Hlynskyi) ed56ea980b Fix typo (assuming this is a typo)
Fix typo (assuming this is a typo)
`allowedRequisites` mentions `allowedReferences` in code example
2015-01-08 16:43:56 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra 128538ef06 nix-shell: Add --run flag
‘--run’ is like ‘--command’, except that it runs the command in a
non-interactive shell. This is important if you do things like:

  $ nix-shell --command make

Hitting Ctrl-C while make is running drops you into the interactive
Nix shell, which is probably not what you want. So you can now do

  $ nix-shell --run make

instead.
2015-01-08 15:14:38 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra 4d5c9d85ea Document how to set up build users on Mac OS X 2015-01-06 11:17:11 +01:00
j-keck 14fb7378df doc: remove wrong phrase.
'... another level of indirection not shown in the figure above ...'
but in the 'user-environments.png' figure there is '~/.nix-profile'.
the figure was updated with the commit: f982df3 on Mar 16, 2005.
2015-01-05 15:08:53 +01:00
j-keck 2c052278d2 doc: remove double word
'... when when ...' -> '... when ...'
2015-01-05 13:40:19 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra 411b237ee5 edition -> subtitle
For some reason, docbook-xsl doesn't render edition.
2015-01-02 12:53:32 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra f16b8786a2 Belatedly add contributors 2014-12-16 18:58:04 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra c2384052e3 Grmbl 2014-12-14 03:38:54 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra 47ed06a290 Add a section on nix-serve 2014-12-14 03:37:41 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra 2142f47c06 Add section on SSH substituter 2014-12-14 03:19:15 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra 68b4717873 Delete the stdenv section
It's outdated and better covered in the Nixpkgs manual.
2014-12-14 01:39:32 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra 6466d56f42 Bla 2014-12-14 01:33:16 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra e90e7b5e0a Fix build
http://hydra.nixos.org/build/17894500
2014-12-14 01:29:35 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra eb53f592b8 Fix image in PDF
Closes #415.
2014-12-14 01:23:06 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra 9c830394ec Rename files 2014-12-14 01:07:23 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra 4c4e891652 Update .nixpkg description 2014-12-13 23:27:22 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra be79773542 ReiserFS -> ext4 2014-12-13 23:23:19 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra 4eace5adda Style 2014-12-13 23:21:14 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra 751ae181a1 Undocument nix-generate-patches 2014-12-13 23:17:26 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra 3b88d03714 Document channel format and excise most mentions of manifests and nix-pull 2014-12-13 23:16:08 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra e5a51fab24 Style 2014-12-13 21:50:01 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra a144eb1415 Don't use ?= 2014-12-11 10:44:02 +01:00
darealshinji 40e1203abc allow custom docbook paths/URLs, use a working URL for docbook.rng 2014-12-11 10:43:46 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra d44d923be9 Add option to disable binary cache certificate checking 2014-12-09 13:16:02 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra e5891f2ea8 Use https://cache.nixos.org instead of http://cache.nixos.org 2014-12-09 13:16:02 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra 5f04da905f Intro: Mention binary caches 2014-11-25 15:55:28 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra d4c8ee7059 Rely on XML catalogs to find the DocBook schemas and stylesheets 2014-11-25 15:54:26 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra 976b949e4d More build-cache-failures -> build-cache-failure 2014-11-24 16:52:13 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra 215745415e Update installation section 2014-11-24 16:50:46 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra 103e4e43cc Update quick start section 2014-11-24 16:50:46 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra 2b74354e52 Combine introduction / quick start parts 2014-11-24 16:50:45 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra 5e04992d1f Manual: Bump date 2014-11-24 16:50:45 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra 69f91e3645 Don't claim FreeBSD support 2014-11-24 16:50:45 +01:00
Rob Vermaas 328a80e60a 'build-cache-failures' -> 'build-cache-failure' in nix.conf documentation. 2014-11-24 13:16:45 +01:00
Shea Levy 3d604ac88c Document functors 2014-11-15 16:25:47 -05:00
Eelco Dolstra 6f6b75cd09 Typo 2014-11-04 10:15:55 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra 1683fffd09 Update release notes 2014-10-29 16:18:39 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra 722bd041ce Document some primops 2014-10-29 16:18:03 +01:00
Bob van der Linden 5f7ded7d22 doc: fixed nix-instantiate --find-file
The manual said --file-file, which should be --find-file.
2014-10-27 08:45:10 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra 2c1711ae33 nix-channel: Add --rollback flag
Fixes #368.
2014-10-14 12:08:04 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra 104e55bb7f nix-env: Add regular expression support in selectors
So you can now do things like:

  $ nix-env -qa '.*zip.*'
  $ nix-env -qa '.*(firefox|chromium).*'
2014-10-03 21:29:40 +02:00
wmertens e83a027e00 Remove bash requirement
As per https://github.com/NixOS/nixos-homepage/pull/16
2014-09-24 11:42:41 +02:00
Shell Turner 147fcdd137 Updated documentation for nix-install-package to mention --set flag 2014-09-23 15:11:25 +02:00
darealshinji a5b5ebc45f add manpage for nix-generate-patches 2014-09-23 15:10:18 +02:00
Vladimír Čunát c313d86bb8 manual: add a note that lists are strict in length
Close #345.
2014-09-23 15:08:33 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra a2fc9c6b57 Remove unhelpful suggestion 2014-09-16 15:42:20 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra 3a52104bee Delete bugs.xml 2014-09-16 15:40:03 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra 5a0181c7f2 Make troubleshooting an appendix 2014-09-16 15:39:08 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra f77d83c26b Style tweak 2014-09-16 15:37:38 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra 3c8522cc22 Fix parallel make of manpages 2014-09-16 15:29:55 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra 54adf344a3 Fix references to version.txt 2014-09-16 14:57:45 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra 7a740c9288 Drop separate release notes 2014-09-16 14:52:44 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra b1af336132 Undocument NIX_OTHER_STORES 2014-09-16 14:49:00 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra 57f6463ec0 Tweak some chapter titles 2014-09-16 14:38:37 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra d0608da13f Drop "service deployment" bla bla 2014-09-16 14:36:32 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra 8b760182cd Drop reference to FreeBSD 2014-09-16 14:35:11 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra f271b94652 Remove pointless "license" section 2014-09-16 14:33:39 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra 7a68b4e4d3 Release notes: Use a section per version 2014-09-16 14:29:00 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra 9ed49c1da0 Nicer file names for the release notes 2014-09-16 14:18:55 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra 8259a392da Manual build fixes 2014-09-16 14:14:09 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra f0ef6b74b9 Merge branch 'master' of github.com:thatdocslady/nix
Conflicts:
	doc/manual/release-notes.xml
	doc/manual/writing-nix-expressions.xml
2014-09-16 14:13:36 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra 67e5dd3ce9 Add some hyperlinks between NIXPATH and -I 2014-09-16 11:20:09 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra 9eddf6f0b6 allowedRequisites: Drop stdenv mention
I don't think it's a good idea to use allowedRequisites for stdenv, so
don't mention it here.
2014-08-28 18:26:01 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra b5da80e627 Fix manual build 2014-08-28 18:25:16 +02:00
Gergely Risko fd61069a42 Introduce allowedRequisites feature 2014-08-28 18:23:55 +02:00
Mikey Ariel 8901acc976 Restructuring the Nix manual 2014-08-27 18:41:09 +02:00
Gergely Risko 4b0a720ddf Document the "out" usage in allowedReferences 2014-08-23 11:11:19 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra 401ab50566 Remove pointless NIX_LOG_TYPE environment variable 2014-08-13 01:19:02 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra 7018830509 Update manual 2014-08-04 18:00:33 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra 1a44f1cb65 nix-copy-closure: Drop --bzip2, --xz, --show-progress
These are too difficult to implement via nix-store --serve.

‘--show-progress’ could be re-implemented fairly easily via a
sink/source wrapper class.
2014-07-24 17:11:54 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra f609eec71a Bump 2014-07-18 00:01:06 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra 049c0eb49c nix-daemon: Add trusted-users and allowed-users options
‘trusted-users’ is a list of users and groups that have elevated
rights, such as the ability to specify binary caches. It defaults to
‘root’. A typical value would be ‘@wheel’ to specify all users in the
wheel group.

‘allowed-users’ is a list of users and groups that are allowed to
connect to the daemon. It defaults to ‘*’. A typical value would be
‘@users’ to specify the ‘users’ group.
2014-07-17 16:57:07 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra a2c85b2ef8 Manual: Typo 2014-07-16 11:21:44 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra beaf3e90af Add builtin function ‘fromJSON’
Fixes #294.
2014-07-04 13:34:15 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra e82951fe23 Manual: html -> xhtml 2014-07-03 12:36:58 +02:00
Paul Colomiets 858b8f9760 Add --json argument to nix-instantiate 2014-06-27 11:23:40 +02:00
Adam Szkoda 8ea9fd7aa6 Rephrase @ operator description 2014-05-26 17:20:58 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra 9f9080e2c0 nix-store -l: Fetch build logs from the Internet
If a build log is not available locally, then ‘nix-store -l’ will now
try to download it from the servers listed in the ‘log-servers’ option
in nix.conf. For instance, if you have:

  log-servers = http://hydra.nixos.org/log

then it will try to get logs from http://hydra.nixos.org/log/<base
name of the store path>. So you can do things like:

  $ nix-store -l $(which xterm)

and get a log even if xterm wasn't built locally.
2014-05-21 17:19:36 +02:00
Charles Strahan a55e77ae10 fix typo 2014-05-13 10:54:03 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra a8c31d5011 Simplify multi-user installation instructions 2014-05-02 14:44:44 +02:00
Charles Strahan eeffdb74dc doc fix: swap 'import' and 'export' 2014-04-28 13:42:03 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra 31fe55bb8e trunk -> master 2014-04-25 14:55:13 +02:00
Ricardo M. Correia 700c678c2e nix-env: Minor change to '--delete-generations Nd' semantics
The option '--delete-generations Nd' deletes all generations older than N
days. However, most likely the user does not want to delete the
generation that was active N days ago.

For example, say that you have these 3 generations:

1: <30 days ago>
2: <15 days ago>
3: <1 hour ago>

If you do --delete-generations 7d (say, as part of a cron job), most
likely you still want to keep generation 2, i.e. the generation that was
active 7 days ago (and for most of the past 7 days, in fact).

This patch fixes this issue. Note that this also affects
'nix-collect-garbage --delete-older-than Nd'.

Thanks to @roconnor for noticing the issue!
2014-04-15 15:34:58 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra a1917208c0 Bump date 2014-04-11 15:11:28 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra 924e19341a Don't barf when installing as root 2014-04-10 23:42:48 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra b0a09a6f32 Add docbook icons to the distribution
Grmbl...
2014-04-09 14:52:43 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra e0a947cde6 Simplify quick start section 2014-04-08 16:28:39 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra d23931f3a4 Remove redundant stuff 2014-04-08 16:10:25 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra 4846005741 Update installation instructions 2014-04-08 16:09:56 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra 89f9232813 Update release notes 2014-04-07 12:00:23 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra 3f8e1f5682 Update release notes 2014-04-04 14:51:07 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra 1f19fdbd45 Document that we require a C++11 compiler 2014-04-04 13:49:53 +02:00
Ricardo M. Correia 034b6f6062 nix-collect-garbage: Add --delete-older-than option 2014-03-30 00:54:16 +01:00
Ricardo M. Correia 7ef7597f71 nix-env: Add support for --delete-generations 15d
It will delete all generations older than the specified number of days.
2014-03-30 00:54:16 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra 006f24c7fa Document nix-env -q --json 2014-03-12 14:25:48 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra d435e46daa Generate release notes again 2014-03-12 14:24:29 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra e9934bb5ad Update release notes for 1.7 2014-03-12 13:58:06 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra 92a848f674 Fix typos 2014-03-11 13:16:21 +01:00
Shea Levy 2f2a20ed18 Document null dynamic attrs 2014-03-11 13:15:06 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra 3a86888fd7 Typo 2014-02-28 14:01:31 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra 7f74513b4e Also provide an option for setting the curl connection timeout 2014-02-26 16:07:43 +01:00
Shea Levy 733214144a Document dynamic attributes
Signed-off-by: Shea Levy <shea@shealevy.com>
2014-02-26 14:06:45 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra 36b90e72d7 nix-shell: Add --packages flag
This allows you to easily set up a build environment containing the
specified packages from Nixpkgs.  For example:

  $ nix-shell -p sqlite xorg.libX11 hello

will start a shell in which the given packages are present.
2014-02-19 17:08:01 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra e1cf40fa95 nix-instantiate: Rename --eval-only to --eval, --parse-only to --parse 2014-02-19 16:34:24 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra c31836008e nix-instantiate: Add a flag --expr / -E to read expressions from the command line
This is basically a shortcut for ‘echo 'expr...' | nix-instantiate -’.
Also supported by nix-build and nix-shell.
2014-02-19 16:30:19 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra e707a8a526 Move manpages around 2014-02-19 15:32:19 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra 1da6ae4f99 nix-store --gc --max-freed: Support a unit specifier
E.g. "--max-freed 10G" means "free ten gigabytes".
2014-02-17 14:48:50 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra e81d38c02b nix-shell: Execute shellHook if it exists
Since normal builds don't execute shellHook, this allows nix-shell
specific customisation.  Suggested by Domen.
2014-02-17 13:34:24 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra f9fc6acbf4 Document current meaning of preferLocalBuild
Closes #208.
2014-02-12 10:53:22 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra 57386c9bae Binary tarball: Automatically create /nix
The tarball can now be unpacked anywhere.  The installation script
uses "sudo" to create /nix if it doesn't exist.  It also fetches the
nixpkgs-unstable channel.
2014-02-10 16:35:59 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra b632153ebd nix-shell: Use shell.nix as the default expression if it exists 2014-02-10 10:25:13 +01:00
Shea Levy e4058fab64 Rename --no-readonly-mode --read-write-mode
Signed-off-by: Shea Levy <shea@shealevy.com>
2014-02-07 18:03:38 +01:00
Shea Levy 0c3e8a616e nix-instantiate: Add a --no-readonly-mode flag
This allows running nix-instantiate --eval-only without performing the
evaluation in readonly mode, letting features like import from
derivation and automatic substitution of builtins.storePath paths work.

Signed-off-by: Shea Levy <shea@shealevy.com>
2014-02-07 18:03:38 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra 6dca72006a Only run "git ls-files" when doing "make check" 2014-02-01 16:30:24 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra 844d83352c More "make dist" fixes 2014-02-01 15:18:48 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra 6ef32bddc1 Fix "make dist" 2014-02-01 14:38:12 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra 0c6d62cf27 Remove Automakefiles 2014-02-01 13:54:38 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra 16e7d69209 Update Makefile variable names 2014-02-01 13:54:38 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra ac8c2ef1aa Build/install manual 2014-02-01 11:30:21 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra e640d67144 Document nulls 2014-01-13 13:50:12 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra 77c13cdf56 Add a toJSON primop 2013-11-19 00:04:11 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra a478e8a7bb Remove nix-setuid-helper
AFAIK, nobody uses it, it's not maintained, and it has no tests.
2013-11-14 11:57:37 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra 1dacd427cd Update release notes, set version for 1.6.1 release 2013-10-28 11:56:21 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra 36e67ff16b Undocument obsolete form of "let" 2013-10-24 22:06:39 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra fba17a9043 Doc fix 2013-10-24 22:05:58 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra 5bc41d78ff Rename "attribute sets" to "sets"
We don't have any other kind of sets so calling them attribute sets is
unnecessarily verbose.
2013-10-24 16:41:04 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra 9e4bb20455 Manual: Fix broken URLs
Fixes #172.
2013-10-24 16:02:08 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra a5684e09d3 Document typeOf 2013-10-24 02:56:00 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra 6da92d96ae Document NIX_SHOW_STATS and NIX_COUNT_CALLS 2013-10-24 02:22:24 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra 792fd51f41 Fold two stack trace messages in derivations
Combined with the previous changes, stack traces involving derivations
are now much less verbose, since something like

  while evaluating the builtin function `getAttr':
  while evaluating the builtin function `derivationStrict':
  while instantiating the derivation named `gtk+-2.24.20' at `/home/eelco/Dev/nixpkgs/pkgs/development/libraries/gtk+/2.x.nix:11:3':
  while evaluating the derivation attribute `propagatedNativeBuildInputs' at `/home/eelco/Dev/nixpkgs/pkgs/stdenv/generic/default.nix:78:17':
  while evaluating the attribute `outPath' at `/nix/store/212ngf4ph63mp6p1np2bapkfikpakfv7-nix-1.6/share/nix/corepkgs/derivation.nix:18:9':
  ...

now reads

  while evaluating the attribute `propagatedNativeBuildInputs' of the derivation `gtk+-2.24.20' at `/home/eelco/Dev/nixpkgs/pkgs/development/libraries/gtk+/2.x.nix:11:3':
  ...
2013-10-17 11:57:25 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra bb659bad81 Nix 1.6.1 release notes 2013-10-17 11:40:20 +02:00
goblin d7625b5c2d two typos 2013-10-17 00:59:19 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra d5529f5b85 Version was called 1.6, not 1.6.0 2013-09-10 17:48:11 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra fecad91b67 Update release notes 2013-09-10 11:21:30 +02:00
Domen Kožar 4b83830d0c typo 2013-09-06 15:18:07 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra 2c1ecf8e81 nix-env -i: Add a flag ‘--remove-all’ / ‘-r’
This is equivalent to running ‘nix-env -e '*'’ first, except that it
happens in a single transaction.  Thus, ‘nix-env -i pkgs...’ replaces
the profile with the specified set of packages.

The main motivation is to support declarative package management
(similar to environment.systemPackages in NixOS).  That is, if you
have a specification ‘profile.nix’ like this:

  with import <nixpkgs> {};
  [ thunderbird
    geeqie
    ...
  ]

then after any change to ‘profile.nix’, you can run:

  $ nix-env -f profile.nix -ir

to update the profile to match the specification.  (Without the ‘-r’
flag, if you remove a package from ‘profile.nix’, it won't be removed
from the actual profile.)

Suggested by @zefhemel.
2013-09-03 21:21:14 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra c28dfc0305 Manual: Make '' a bit clearer
Issue #162.
2013-09-02 13:24:29 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra e9b92169a5 Fix manual error
Reported by Matija Šuklje.

Fixes #163.
2013-09-02 13:19:34 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra ecd830b3b9 Update the release notes 2013-09-02 13:11:36 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra efe4289464 Add an option to limit the log output of builders
This is mostly useful for Hydra to deal with builders that get stuck
in an infinite loop writing data to stdout/stderr.
2013-09-02 11:58:18 +02:00