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Eelco Dolstra 59683733f5
Merge pull request #6089 from edolstra/dot-default
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
This documents 3023c7700.
2022-01-18 16:10:44 -07:00
Eelco Dolstra 4dda1f92aa Add command 'nix store copy-log'
Fixes #5222.
2022-01-18 14:08:49 +01:00
Théophane Hufschmitt dc4730ee94
Merge pull request #5720 from tomberek/flake_search
flakes: search up to git or filesystem boundary
2022-01-18 10:59:12 +01:00
tomberek 2dead20924
Apply suggestions from code review
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
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
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
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
Resolves #5767
2021-12-15 10:55:34 -08:00
Théophane Hufschmitt 6234e1c811
Merge pull request #5702 from baloo/baloo/hide-non-reproducible-settings
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
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
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
document some darwin mount settings
2021-12-07 22:24:40 +01:00
Alexander Bantyev 33926ed1e7
nix repl: add :log
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
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
Introduce `builtins.groupBy` primop
2021-12-03 13:21:14 +01:00
David Purdum 69b9198875
Fix docker command
`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
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
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
Co-authored-by: Eelco Dolstra <edolstra@gmail.com>
2021-11-30 13:19:42 -05:00
Eli Flanagan a473e85c80
docs: document set theory symbols
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
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
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
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
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"
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
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
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
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
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
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
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"
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
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
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
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
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
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=...'
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
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
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
- 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
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
doc: builtins: use a definition list
2021-07-05 14:03:15 +02:00
Keshav Kini f35f9af787 Improve explanation of NIX_PATH prefix syntax
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
This behaviour was removed in 65f6d5db6f.
2021-05-11 14:33:35 +02:00
Alyssa Ross 5f07f2ff2b
doc: builtins: use a definition list
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
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
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
(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
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"
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
Fixes #4671.
2021-03-26 16:14:38 +01:00
Travis A. Everett ac8ba2eae4
remove doc for obsolete --no-build-hook flag
`--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
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
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
Fixes #4552.
2021-02-17 15:30:49 +01:00
Mauricio Scheffer 5f4701e70d
Update doc/manual/src/command-ref/nix-shell.md
Co-authored-by: Cole Helbling <cole.e.helbling@outlook.com>
2021-02-16 23:27:04 +00:00
Mauricio Scheffer 35129884f9
Fix Haskell example
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
Eelco Dolstra d33eca8539 Rename 'nix store sign-paths' to 'nix store sign' 2021-01-13 23:32:37 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra 77c9ceda4b Tweak 2021-01-11 19:42:24 +01:00
Sam Lidder e069ddf325 Fix configure error in introduction doc 2020-12-31 20:17:37 -05:00
Sevan Janiyan 9d3aad7b92
Update URL where bzip2 can be obtained 2020-12-25 01:43:22 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra 1047cb1e53
Command: Remove examples() 2020-12-23 18:26:40 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra 9dcd0aebc5
generate-manpage.nix: Fix short names 2020-12-21 13:32:27 +01:00
Rok Garbas 7de4b1e9aa
smaller fixes 2020-12-17 23:42:49 +01:00
Rok Garbas ae77f21474
Switch away from classification as Tier1-3
to classification to a more descriptive classification.
2020-12-08 11:59:23 +01:00
Rok Garbas 0d7714b0d7
forgot to add the files 2020-12-08 10:25:03 +01:00
Rok Garbas 24db5b125f
Merge remote-tracking branch 'origin/master' into cli-guideline 2020-12-07 15:13:36 +01:00
regnat 5f66edf245 Make make install less noisy
Remove the printing and useless output of a couple of commands when running `make install`
2020-12-04 14:50:47 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra 8ad2c9c4b9 Remove 'dist' target
We're not producing source tarballs anymore so this has been
bitrotting.
2020-12-03 16:17:58 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra c3c858ac6d Make doc() return arbitrary Markdown rather than the contents of the "Description" section
Thus we can return the examples section (and any other sections) from
doc() and don't need examples() anymore.
2020-12-03 16:17:58 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra e2efc63979 Put examples first in the manpages 2020-12-02 23:23:23 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra 72428e38d9 Generate separate manpages for each nix subcommand 2020-12-02 23:23:23 +01:00
Rok Garbas 44da19f73c
Adds Nix CLI Guideline to docs
As we are working towards Nix 3.0 we want to make sure that we make a
huge step forward in Nix's user experience. And once 3.0 is out of the
door we need to make sure that all future commands and features keep up
the standard of user experience.

This PR adds a CLI guideline document to the Nix documentation. Consider
this document a good starting point and a checklist when somebody will
be (re)implementing commands.

Clearly this guideline does nothing to improve user experience on its
own and can only be useful as long as it is going to be read and
cared for. But it is a first step into that direction.
2020-12-02 17:00:32 +01:00
Fabian Möller 5b0790355f
Fix macOS sandbox build
Since c4c3c15c19 (#4251) building Nix for
macOS with sandboxing fails:
```
getting status of /nix/var/nix/profiles/per-user/root/channels/nixpkgs: Operation not permitted
```

This happens, because `EvalSettings::getDefaultNixPath` tries to access
paths outside the sandbox. Since the state-dir is not required for
doc generation, it is set to the dummy folder. This needs to be done
for all nix invocations during doc generation, as
`EvalSettings::getDefaultNixPath` is called unconditionally.
2020-11-23 17:40:17 +01:00
mkenigs 8b15650e74
docs: consistent console prompt (#4213)
Everywhere else a $ is used
2020-11-02 16:32:05 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra a3a22bd804
Merge pull request #4202 from hercules-ci/nix-shell-doc
Nix shell doc
2020-10-30 11:36:24 +01:00
Robert Hensing d4c5d8d32a nix-shell.md: Extend shellHook example 2020-10-30 11:12:28 +01:00
Robert Hensing b809c48ebb nix-shell.md: evaluated -> run
Use "run" to avoid confusion with Nix evaluation.
"evaluated" was intended to reference bash eval but it's ambiguous.
2020-10-30 11:01:33 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra ff4dea63c9 Generalize extra-* settings
This removes the extra-substituters and extra-sandbox-paths settings
and instead makes every array setting extensible by setting
"extra-<name> = <value>" in the configuration file or passing
"--<name> <value>" on the command line.
2020-10-29 18:17:39 +01:00
tnias c189cf7e33
Add sha512 to hashAlgo listings in manpages (#4186) 2020-10-25 22:16:53 +00:00
Josef Kemetmüller 7f60f48e1a Fix the docs about the new NIX_CONFIG env var
This was accidentally documented as NIX_OPTIONS.
2020-10-21 17:04:36 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra ecfebde6ff
Merge pull request #4166 from kampka/nix-conf-env
Add NIX_CONFIG env var for applying nix.conf overrides
2020-10-21 14:26:45 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra bdf2bcc989 Remove conf-file.xml
This was probably revived in a bad merge.
2020-10-21 14:24:26 +02:00
Christian Kampka 461cf2b856
Add NIX_CONFIG env var for applying nix.conf overrides 2020-10-21 13:41:26 +02:00
Stefan Frijters a53438d18f
doc: nix-shell in pure mode does *not* source user bashrc 2020-10-18 14:26:05 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra 58dadf2954 Remove stray 'Title:' from the manual
Closes #4096.
2020-10-08 17:30:40 +02:00
Fabian Möller 4abd5554ad
Fix macOS sandbox build 2020-10-02 15:40:55 +02:00
Kevin Quick 66c3959e8c
Merge branch 'master' into access-tokens 2020-09-29 08:32:06 -07:00
Maximilian Bosch 3655875483
doc/manual: update hacking docs (#4078)
* By default, build artifacts should be installed into `outputs/` rather
  than `inst/`[1].
* Add instructions on how to run unit-tests.

[1] 733d2e9402
2020-09-27 20:35:03 +00:00
Kevin Quick 83fec38fc9
Update document generation for empty json object values. 2020-09-24 22:41:24 -07:00
Bryan Richter 5fe375a8f1
nix-prefetch-url: Add --executable flag
pkgs.fetchurl supports an executable argument, which is especially nice
when downloading a large executable. This patch adds the same option to
nix-prefetch-url.

I have tested this to work on the simple case of prefetching a little
executable:

1. nix-prefetch-url --executable https://my/little/script
2. Paste the hash into a pkgs.fetchurl-based package, script-pkg.nix
3. Delete the output from the store to avoid any misidentified artifacts
4. Realise the package script-pkg.nix
5. Run the executable

I repeated the above while using --name, as well.

I suspect --executable would have no meaningful effect if combined with
--unpack, but I have not tried it.
2020-09-18 19:09:45 +03:00
Eelco Dolstra 0066ef6c59 Fix doc generation 2020-09-16 16:56:28 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra 39bc49318f jq -> nix 2020-09-16 14:58:06 +02:00
Jade Lovelace 7cb5f643a6
docs+test: fix remaining installer downloads without -L (#4006)
Co-authored-by: lf- <lf-@users.noreply.github.com>
2020-09-12 22:08:40 +02:00
Vladimír Čunát 77d4758cf2
Merge #3982: Minor docs updates 2020-09-07 21:54:59 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra 00d25e8457
Remove the --indirect flag
All GC roots are now indirect.
2020-09-03 11:22:00 +02:00
Cole Helbling a72ed3e8a1
hacking.md: add --prefix flag to configure
Otherwise, the steps advertised in this document won't actually work
(e.g. `make install` will fail, trying to access /usr, and
`./inst/bin/nix` won't exist).
2020-09-01 12:06:02 -07:00
Eelco Dolstra 84f5cabbea Merge remote-tracking branch 'origin/master' into markdown 2020-08-31 14:24:26 +02:00
Domen Kožar 8757e7022a
mention how to run a single functional test for faster feedback loop 2020-08-30 19:41:21 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra 691a1bd717 Merge branch 'minimal-logger' of https://github.com/Ma27/nix 2020-08-28 10:50:52 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra 7a02865b94
Move import docs 2020-08-25 14:06:01 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra 0f314f3c25
Generate builtins section of the manual 2020-08-24 14:49:30 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra a990f063ff
Move primop docs inline
This makes them available to 'nix repl'.
2020-08-24 14:31:10 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra 33b1679d75
Allow primops to have Markdown documentation 2020-08-24 13:16:02 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra dc2f278c95
Allow 'nix' subcommands to provide docs in Markdown format 2020-08-20 12:21:46 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra 3c4f8c9175
List deprecated option aliases in the docs 2020-08-20 11:13:17 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra c3e20d8c28
Consistency 2020-08-19 18:30:17 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra c8fa39324a
Generate the nix.conf docs from the source code
This means we don't have two (divergent) sets of option descriptions
anymore.
2020-08-19 18:28:04 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra 8a97b11374
Improve margins between sections
The default CSS puts almost no space between sections, but a lot of
space between subsections. This flips that around.
2020-08-19 12:31:18 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra 069340179e
Improve nix.1 manpage generator 2020-08-18 15:15:35 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra 6f19c776db
Start generation of the nix.1 manpage 2020-08-17 19:33:18 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra 7cdc739ece
Merge remote-tracking branch 'origin/master' into markdown 2020-08-17 13:43:39 +02:00
Matthew Bauer 641c950701 Add hashed-mirrors back
Some users have their own hashed-mirrors setup, that is used to mirror
things in addition to what’s available on tarballs.nixos.org. Although
this should be feasable to do with a Binary Cache, it’s not always
easy, since you have to remember what "name" each of the tarballs has.
Continuing to support hashed-mirrors is cheap, so it’s best to leave
support in Nix. Note that NIX_HASHED_MIRRORS is also supported in
Nixpkgs through fetchurl.nix.

Note that this excludes tarballs.nixos.org from the default, as in
\#3689. All of these are available on cache.nixos.org.
2020-08-06 18:19:09 -05:00
Eelco Dolstra bf290c2306
Merge remote-tracking branch 'origin/master' into markdown 2020-07-31 16:07:04 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra 2ae9ac2369
console -> shell 2020-07-31 16:02:37 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra 1d0a7b54fa
Enable syntax highlighting 2020-07-31 15:43:25 +02:00
Matthew Bauer 05ac4db39a Merge remote-tracking branch 'origin/master' into substitute-other-storedir 2020-07-30 12:38:24 -05:00
Maximilian Bosch 6ccfdb79c7
libutil/logging: extend internal-json logger to make it more machine-readable
The new error-format is pretty nice from a UX point-of-view, however
it's fairly hard to parse the output e.g. for editor plugins such as
vim-ale[1] that use `nix-instantiate --parse` to determine syntax errors in
Nix expression files.

This patch extends the `internal-json` logger by adding the fields
`line`, `column` and `file` to easily locate an error in a file and the
field `raw_msg` which contains the error-message itself without
code-lines and additional helpers.

An exemplary output may look like this:

```
[nix-shell]$ ./inst/bin/nix-instantiate ~/test.nix --log-format minimal
{"action":"msg","column":1,"file":"/home/ma27/test.nix","level":0,"line":4,"raw_msg":"syntax error, unexpected IF, expecting $end","msg":"<full error-msg with code-lines etc>"}
```

[1] https://github.com/dense-analysis/ale
2020-07-26 02:29:57 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra 1308c8404e
Remove DocBook manual 2020-07-24 15:48:40 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra 05a282295f
Fix internal links 2020-07-24 15:46:16 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra da3d776cb9
Fix some dangling references 2020-07-24 14:31:33 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra 4a79b3598f
Fix nix-copy-closure manpage 2020-07-24 13:01:00 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra 7a0e6f076a
Move figures 2020-07-24 12:58:31 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra 758c9ee1bb
Clean up the manpages 2020-07-24 12:56:19 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra 8d0b311a1c
Get rid of footnotes
Markdown doesn't support them.
2020-07-24 11:43:44 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra 69333cb62c
Sigh 2020-07-23 18:27:20 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra 802150f987
<replaceable> -> <emphasis>
Pandoc doesn't know <replaceable> so let's force it to be rendered as
italics.
2020-07-23 18:27:20 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra ee05108472
<simplesect> -> <section>
Pandoc silently ignores <simplesect>...
2020-07-23 18:27:20 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra 136fd55bb2
Get rid of <figure> 2020-07-23 18:27:20 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra ca130b73a0
Get rid of <example>
Markdown doesn't have floats so we can't have this.
2020-07-23 18:27:20 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra 13df1faf25
Get rid of callouts since Markdown doesn't support them 2020-07-23 18:27:20 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra efff6cf163
Install all manpages 2020-07-23 18:27:12 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra 504b7abc45
Convert commands 2020-07-23 18:27:12 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra efdb89994c
Convert nix.conf manpage 2020-07-23 18:27:11 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra f390303566
Reconvert 2020-07-23 18:27:11 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra c20c082383
<envar> -> <literal> 2020-07-23 18:27:11 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra 942cd687f9
Remove libxml2 / libxslt prerequisites 2020-07-23 18:26:48 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra ef606760ab
Pandoc conversion 2020-07-23 18:26:48 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra d004715665
Fix link 2020-07-23 18:26:48 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra 315407c16f
Remove subtitles 2020-07-23 18:26:48 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra ebdc1f6dfb
Typo 2020-07-23 18:26:48 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra 8e41c38867
Remove references to xmllint 2020-07-23 18:26:48 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra e0ea3c82ca
Use mdbook 2020-07-23 18:26:48 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra 650ae14ced
Markdown test 2020-07-23 18:26:48 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra 26fcab53e0
Remove unused file 2020-07-23 18:25:09 +02:00
Jörg Thalheim 6633605341
Update doc/manual/hacking.xml
Co-authored-by: Eelco Dolstra <edolstra@gmail.com>
2020-07-20 22:30:39 +01:00
Jörg Thalheim f0100f5590
README: improve development docs 2020-07-20 15:46:28 +01:00
Matthew Bauer bcf8582091 Merge remote-tracking branch 'origin/master' into substitute-other-storedir 2020-06-24 12:52:09 -04:00
Jörg Thalheim 3685f4eec6
docs/installer: add correct curl flags
also see https://nixos.org/download.html
2020-06-23 23:04:10 +01:00
Matthew Bauer 2796b01e86 Merge remote-tracking branch 'origin/master' into substitute-other-storedir 2020-06-19 14:22:06 -04:00
Eelco Dolstra 6c000eed80
Merge pull request #3709 from expipiplus1/master
Mention number of derivations to be build/fetched in output
2020-06-18 19:03:05 +02:00
Samir Talwar 9069759767
Instruct the user to follow redirects when installing Nix.
Nix installation now requires following redirects using `curl -L`. This
is currently represented on the [Nix download page][] but not in the
manual. This change updates the manual to reflect this.

Using `curl` without the `-L` flag results in an empty body, making
installation a no-op.

[Nix download page]: https://nixos.org/download.html
2020-06-18 10:29:24 +02:00
Matthew Bauer 7bd88cc1dc Merge remote-tracking branch 'origin/master' into substitute-other-storedir 2020-06-17 13:32:29 -04:00
Joe Hermaszewski da8aac6ce8 Mention number of derivations to be build/fetched in output
Also correct grammar for the case of a single derivation.
2020-06-17 20:27:27 +08:00
Matthew Bauer 3e3eaa90dd Remove hashed-mirrors 2020-06-12 09:51:44 -05:00
Jonas Chevalier 2c4de6af10 add documentation 2020-06-08 09:31:15 +02:00
Joachim Breitner e2af11ce07 Manpages: Do not refer to nixpkgs-channels
Unless I am misinformed, using the `nixpkgs` repository directly is now
preferred?
2020-05-23 15:26:59 +02:00
Domen Kožar c129e7c8f4
Merge pull request #3212 from LnL7/darwin-10.15-install
install: configure and bootstrap synthetic.conf on darwin
2020-05-23 11:15:31 +02:00
Travis A. Everett 2b0a81d92d
focus on golden-path covering most scenarios
This should handle installation scenarios we can handle with
anything resembling confidence. Goal is approximating the existing
setup--not enforcing a best-practice...

Approaches (+ installer-handled, - manual) and configs each covers:

+ no change needed; /nix OK on boot volume:
  All pre-Catalina (regardless of T2 or FileVault use)

+ create new unencrypted volume:
  Catalina, pre-T2, no FileVault

+ create new encrypted-at-rest volume:
  Catalina, pre-T2, FileVault
  Catalina, T2, no FileVault

- require user to pre-create encrypted volume
  Catalina, T2, FileVault
2020-05-21 19:58:11 +02:00
Daiderd Jordan 477d7c2d07
installer: refuse apfs volume creation when FileVault is enabled 2020-05-21 19:58:11 +02:00
Daiderd Jordan 3386575296
manual: clarify volume creation section 2020-05-21 19:58:11 +02:00
Daiderd Jordan 04f597c3f4
install: improve output and error handling 2020-05-21 19:58:11 +02:00
Daiderd Jordan ee89b7797d
manual: add apfs volume section 2020-05-21 19:58:11 +02:00
Krzysztof Gogolewski c8cb558849 documentation: avoid unquoted URLs 2020-05-21 19:29:13 +02:00
Jörg Thalheim e223eeac09
Remove -j option from simple-build-testing
By default Nix/NixOS already set a reasonable default `max-jobs = auto`
so we don't need to mention it in this tutorial.
The option is still documented in other parts of the documentation
if users ever stumble over this.

Fixes https://github.com/NixOS/nix/issues/2531
2020-05-16 08:45:19 +01:00
Domen Kožar 23e5b48ca4
Merge pull request #3581 from TerrorJack/patch-1
Update "Upgrading Nix" documentation
2020-05-11 18:12:35 +02:00
Domen Kožar 612d57c5de
Merge pull request #3582 from bhipple/doc/fixed-output
doc: consistently refer to 'fixed-output' with a dash
2020-05-11 18:10:19 +02:00
Benjamin Hipple 146f9c114f doc: consistently refer to 'fixed-output' with a dash
General cleanup that makes it easier to search for the term.
2020-05-09 10:58:43 -04:00
Shao Cheng 446649e540
Update "Upgrading Nix" documentation
This PR proposes two changes to the "Upgrading Nix" documentation:

* Besides updating `nixpkgs.nix`, we also update `nixpkgs.cacert`, so that the certificates are up-to-date as well.
* Add the instructions for multi-user mode on Linux.
2020-05-09 15:59:39 +02:00
Dani 52cffafd24
Fix typo 2020-05-09 13:48:31 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra 41caaaad36
Manual: Typo 2020-05-07 16:37:33 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra 479e8bf00b
Manual: Fix typo 2020-05-07 16:08:15 +02:00
Jonas Chevalier 895516cadf
add NIX_USER_CONF_FILES
Motivation: maintain project-level configuration files.

Document the whole situation a bit better so that it corresponds to the
implementation, and add NIX_USER_CONF_FILES that allows overriding
which user files Nix will load during startup.
2020-04-14 18:45:06 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra 55cefd41d6 Merge branch 'fetchgit-recursive' of https://github.com/blitz/nix 2020-04-07 13:45:17 +02:00
Julian Stecklina ea861be292 Add documentation for submodule support in fetchGit 2020-03-29 22:29:57 +02:00
Greg Price e40e01c1dd doc: Files in the store have modes 444/555, not 644/755
This line has been this way since it was written, in 9e08f5efe
in 2006.

I think it was just a small mistake then; Eelco's thesis earlier
that year says the permission on each file is set to 0444 or 0555
in a derivation's output as part of the build process.  In any
case I'm pretty sure that's the behavior now.
2020-03-23 20:23:27 -07:00
jakobrs c5a488afc0 Remove the --delete option for --gc
Running `nix-store --gc --delete` will, as of Nix 2.3.3, simply fail
because the --delete option conflicts with the --delete operation.

  $ nix-store --gc --delete
  error: only one operation may be specified
  Try 'nix-store --help' for more information.

Furthermore, it has been broken since at least Nix 0.16 (which was
released sometime in 2010), which means that any scripts which depend
on it should have been broken at least nine years ago. This commit
simply formally removes the option. There should be no actual difference
in behaviour as far as the user is concerned: it errors with the exact
same error message. The manual has been edited to remove any references
to the (now gone) --delete option.

Other information:
* Path for Nix 0.16 used:
  /nix/store/rp3sgmskn0p0pj1ia2qwd5al6f6pinz4-nix-0.16
2020-03-19 19:41:23 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra 779ef8f5ef
Merge pull request #3380 from contrun/no-attr-path-for-installed
display attr-path only when queried available
2020-03-13 19:26:20 +01:00
YI b6d794fb8d display attr-path only when queried available 2020-03-14 00:36:26 +08:00
Eelco Dolstra 858ad7a4b3 Remove callout graphics
Fixes #3396.
2020-03-13 16:32:43 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra 9c7e90f414
style.css: Remove
This file is licensed under the GPL. Originally, Nix was also
GPL-licensed so that was fine. However, we later changed the license
to the LGPL but missed the fact that style.css has an incompatible
license.

Since the Nix manual at nixos.org uses its own styling, we can remove
this file.

Fixes #3392.
2020-03-13 15:02:32 +01:00