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Author SHA1 Message Date
Chris Wögi 51b3cc151e Explain exactly what nix-upgrade nix does 2022-06-02 15:05:27 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra d62a9390fc Get rid of std::shared_ptr<std::string> and ref<std::string>
These were needed back in the pre-C++11 era because we didn't have
move semantics. But now we do.
2022-01-18 11:12:30 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra 8d4268d190 Improve error formatting
Changes:

* The divider lines are gone. These were in practice a bit confusing,
  in particular with --show-trace or --keep-going, since then there
  were multiple lines, suggesting a start/end which wasn't the case.

* Instead, multi-line error messages are now indented to align with
  the prefix (e.g. "error: ").

* The 'description' field is gone since we weren't really using it.

* 'hint' is renamed to 'msg' since it really wasn't a hint.

* The error is now printed *before* the location info.

* The 'name' field is no longer printed since most of the time it
  wasn't very useful since it was just the name of the exception (like
  EvalError). Ideally in the future this would be a unique, easily
  googleable error ID (like rustc).

* "trace:" is now just "…". This assumes error contexts start with
  something like "while doing X".

Example before:

  error: --- AssertionError ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- nix
  at: (7:7) in file: /home/eelco/Dev/nixpkgs/pkgs/applications/misc/hello/default.nix

       6|
       7|   x = assert false; 1;
        |       ^
       8|

  assertion 'false' failed
  ----------------------------------------------------- show-trace -----------------------------------------------------
  trace: while evaluating the attribute 'x' of the derivation 'hello-2.10'
  at: (192:11) in file: /home/eelco/Dev/nixpkgs/pkgs/stdenv/generic/make-derivation.nix

     191|         // (lib.optionalAttrs (!(attrs ? name) && attrs ? pname && attrs ? version)) {
     192|           name = "${attrs.pname}-${attrs.version}";
        |           ^
     193|         } // (lib.optionalAttrs (stdenv.hostPlatform != stdenv.buildPlatform && !dontAddHostSuffix && (attrs ? name || (attrs ? pname && attrs ? version)))) {

Example after:

  error: assertion 'false' failed

         at: (7:7) in file: /home/eelco/Dev/nixpkgs/pkgs/applications/misc/hello/default.nix

              6|
              7|   x = assert false; 1;
               |       ^
              8|

         … while evaluating the attribute 'x' of the derivation 'hello-2.10'

         at: (192:11) in file: /home/eelco/Dev/nixpkgs/pkgs/stdenv/generic/make-derivation.nix

            191|         // (lib.optionalAttrs (!(attrs ? name) && attrs ? pname && attrs ? version)) {
            192|           name = "${attrs.pname}-${attrs.version}";
               |           ^
            193|         } // (lib.optionalAttrs (stdenv.hostPlatform != stdenv.buildPlatform && !dontAddHostSuffix && (attrs ? name || (attrs ? pname && attrs ? version)))) {
2021-01-21 11:02:09 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra 3da9a9241c Convert option descriptions to Markdown 2021-01-13 14:18:04 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra 6b32551aba
Add 'nix upgrade-nix' manpage 2020-12-21 13:32:28 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra 85c8be6286 Remove static variable name clashes
This was useful for an experiment with building Nix as a single
compilation unit. It's not very useful otherwise but also doesn't
hurt...
2020-10-06 13:49:20 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra 1fb762d11f Get rid of explicit ErrorInfo constructors 2020-06-15 14:06:58 +02:00
Ben Burdette bfca5fc395 change status messages to info level 2020-05-13 09:52:36 -06:00
Ben Burdette 59b1f5c701 Merge branch 'master' into errors-phase-2 2020-05-11 14:35:30 -06:00
Ben Burdette e3901638b5 todo removal 2020-05-06 15:01:13 -06:00
Eelco Dolstra f132d82a79 nix --help: Group commands 2020-05-05 15:18:23 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra a721a0b114 Flag: Use designated initializers 2020-05-04 22:40:19 +02:00
Ben Burdette ab6f0b9641 convert some printError calls to logError 2020-05-03 08:01:25 -06:00
Nikola Knezevic f5095594e7 datatransfer.{cc,hh} -> filetransfer.{cc,hh} 2020-04-08 22:26:57 +02:00
Nikola Knezevic c330109bfa DataTransfer -> FileTransfer 2020-04-08 22:26:57 +02:00
Nikola Knezevic cd391206e6 {get,make,new}Downloader -> DataTransfer 2020-04-08 22:26:57 +02:00
Nikola Knezevic 741e9012d3 Rename src/lib/download.* to src/lib/datatransfer.* 2020-04-08 22:26:57 +02:00
Nikola Knezevic 65ef57e0cb DownloadRequest -> DataTransferRequest 2020-04-08 22:26:57 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra c1ca4f0acc findAlongAttrPath(): Return position
(cherry picked from commit 0b013a54dc)
2020-03-24 14:06:47 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra bbe97dff8b Make the Store API more type-safe
Most functions now take a StorePath argument rather than a Path (which
is just an alias for std::string). The StorePath constructor ensures
that the path is syntactically correct (i.e. it looks like
<store-dir>/<base32-hash>-<name>). Similarly, functions like
buildPaths() now take a StorePathWithOutputs, rather than abusing Path
by adding a '!<outputs>' suffix.

Note that the StorePath type is implemented in Rust. This involves
some hackery to allow Rust values to be used directly in C++, via a
helper type whose destructor calls the Rust type's drop()
function. The main issue is the dynamic nature of C++ move semantics:
after we have moved a Rust value, we should not call the drop function
on the original value. So when we move a value, we set the original
value to bitwise zero, and the destructor only calls drop() if the
value is not bitwise zero. This should be sufficient for most types.

Also lots of minor cleanups to the C++ API to make it more modern
(e.g. using std::optional and std::string_view in some places).
2019-12-10 22:06:05 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra ac67685606 Make subcommand construction in MultiCommand lazy
(cherry picked from commit a0de58f471)
2019-12-05 20:19:26 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra ba87b08f85
getEnv(): Return std::optional
This allows distinguishing between an empty value and no value.
2019-11-22 16:18:13 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra 39f1722f36
nix upgrade-nix: Handle .nix-profile being a link to .../profiles/per-user/...
Also some cosmetic improvements.
2018-08-30 21:18:56 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra f08b14c9d0
nix upgrade-nix: Improve error message if 'nix' is not in a profile
E.g.

  $ nix upgrade-nix
  error: directory '/home/eelco/Dev/nix/inst/bin' does not appear to be part of a Nix profile

instead of

  $ nix upgrade-nix
  error: '/home/eelco/Dev/nix/inst' is not a symlink
2018-08-30 17:14:17 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra ddeda0b62e
Merge branch 'nix-upgrade-profile' of https://github.com/LnL7/nix 2018-08-30 17:10:59 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra 264e66f696
Add simple test for nix upgrade-nix 2018-08-30 17:10:28 +02:00
Daiderd Jordan d85bb4814f
upgrade-nix: resolve profile symlinks
The profile present in PATH is not necessarily the actual profile
location. User profiles are generally added as $HOME/.nix-profile
in which case the indirect profile link needs to be resolved first.

/home/user/.nix-profile -> /nix/var/nix/profiles/per-user/user/profile
/nix/var/nix/profiles/per-user/user/profile -> profile-15-link
/nix/var/nix/profiles/per-user/user/profile-14-link -> /nix/store/hyi4kkjh3bwi2z3wfljrkfymz9904h62-user-environment
/nix/var/nix/profiles/per-user/user/profile-15-link -> /nix/store/6njpl3qvihz46vj911pwx7hfcvwhifl9-user-environment

To upgrade nix here we want /nix/var/nix/profiles/per-user/user/profile-16-link
instead of /home/user/.nix-profile-1-link. The latter is not a gcroot
and would be garbage collected, resulting in a broken profile.

Fixes #2175
2018-08-25 20:50:44 +02:00
Daiderd Jordan 414397759a
upgrade-nix: add --dry-run 2018-08-25 20:25:43 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra 0629601da1
Move EvalState from the stack to the heap
EvalState contains a few counters (e.g. nrValues) that increase
quickly enough that they end up being interpreted as pointers by the
garbage collector. Moving it to the heap makes them invisible to the
garbage collector.

This reduces the max RSS doing 100 evaluations of
nixos.tests.firefox.x86_64-linux.drvPath from 455 MiB to 292 MiB.

Note: ideally, allocations would be much further up in the 64-bit
address space to reduce the odds of an integer being misinterpreted as
a pointer. Maybe we can use some linker magic to move the .bss segment
to a higher address.
2018-06-12 17:49:55 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra 1672bcd230
Move evaluator-specific settings out of libstore 2018-05-30 13:29:50 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra 6fa690291a
Add 'nix upgrade-nix' command
This command upgrades Nix to the latest stable version by installing a
store path obtained from

  https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/raw/master/nixos/modules/installer/tools/nix-fallback-paths.nix

which is the same store path that the installer at
https://nixos.org/nix/install.sh uses.

The upgrade fails if Nix is not installed in a profile (e.g. on NixOS,
or when installed outside of the Nix store).
2018-01-31 16:24:43 +01:00