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Author SHA1 Message Date
Andreas Rammhold fc137d2f00
config.hh: Add documentation
Provides some general overview on the mechanics of Config/Setting and
comments for the public methods of Config.
2020-05-27 17:47:18 +02:00
Andreas Rammhold e1b8c64c04
config.cc: extract parts of applyConfigFile into applyConfig
This moves the actual parsing of configuration contents into applyConfig
which applyConfigFile is then going to call. By changing this we can now
test the configuration file parsing without actually create a file on
disk.
2020-05-27 17:47:18 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra f8abbdd456 Add priority setting to stores
This allows overriding the priority of substituters, e.g.

  $ nix-store --store ~/my-nix/ -r /nix/store/df3m4da96d84ljzxx4mygfshm1p0r2n3-geeqie-1.4 \
    --substituters 'http://cache.nixos.org?priority=100 daemon?priority=10'

Fixes #3264.
2019-12-17 17:17:53 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra 737ed88f35
Modularize config settings
Allow global config settings to be defined in multiple Config
classes. For example, this means that libutil can have settings and
evaluator settings can be moved out of libstore. The Config classes
are registered in a new GlobalConfig class to which config files
etc. are applied.

Relevant to https://github.com/NixOS/nix/issues/2009 in that it
removes the need for ad hoc handling of useCaseHack, which was the
underlying cause of that issue.
2018-05-30 13:28:01 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra ed73d40c3b
Config::handleUnknownSettings(): Remove unused 'fatal' argument 2018-02-19 14:00:34 +01:00
Shea Levy de4934ab3b
Allow plugins to define new settings. 2018-02-13 14:43:32 -05:00
Eelco Dolstra 6cdaa858d0
Propagate flags like --sandbox to the daemon properly 2017-11-21 18:50:56 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra 186571965d
Don't show flags from config settings in "nix --help" 2017-06-07 18:41:20 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra aa952d5f0b
nix: Add --help-config flag 2017-06-07 16:49:54 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra b8283773bd
nix: Make all options available as flags
Thus, instead of ‘--option <name> <value>’, you can write ‘--<name>
<value>’. So

  --option http-connections 100

becomes

  --http-connections 100

Apart from brevity, the difference is that it's not an error to set a
non-existent option via --option, but unrecognized arguments are
fatal.

Boolean options have special treatment: they're mapped to the
argument-less flags ‘--<name>’ and ‘--no-<name>’. E.g.

  --option auto-optimise-store false

becomes

  --no-auto-optimise-store
2017-06-07 16:17:17 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra 72fb2a7edc
Fix build on gcc 4.9
http://hydra.nixos.org/build/52408843
2017-05-03 16:08:48 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra efa4bdbfcd
Improve nix show-config --json
In particular, show descriptions. This could be used for manpage
generation etc.
2017-04-20 17:34:47 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra 4410e9d995
Setting: Remove "Tag" template argument 2017-04-20 16:52:53 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra f05d5f89ff
Read per-user settings from ~/.config/nix/nix.conf 2017-04-20 14:58:16 +02:00
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
Eelco Dolstra 2040240e23
Add a Config class to simplify adding configuration settings
The typical use is to inherit Config and add Setting<T> members:

  class MyClass : private Config
  {
    Setting<int> foo{this, 123, "foo", "the number of foos to use"};
    Setting<std::string> bar{this, "blabla", "bar", "the name of the bar"};

    MyClass() : Config(readConfigFile("/etc/my-app.conf"))
    {
      std::cout << foo << "\n"; // will print 123 unless overriden
    }
  };

Currently, this is used by Store and its subclasses for store
parameters. You now get a warning if you specify a non-existant store
parameter in a store URI.
2017-04-13 16:03:31 +02:00