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Eelco Dolstra 320126aeeb
Tweak min-free/max-free descriptions 2019-08-02 14:04:09 +02:00
Graham Christensen cf6172f05e
docs: document balancing cores and max-jobs 2019-07-19 08:28:44 -04:00
Eelco Dolstra b5ae85f088
Merge pull request #2882 from grahamc/docs/1115-tarball-ttl 
tarball-ttl: document
 2019-07-06 00:15:27 +02:00
Graham Christensen 648bdf153d
tarball-ttl: document 
Incorporates text from Niklas Hambüchen in #2978

Closes #1115
 2019-07-05 15:55:28 -04:00
Eelco Dolstra 7d6ba1dc90
Merge branch 'autoconf-ubuntu-16.04-fixes' of https://github.com/nh2/nix 2019-07-03 08:02:45 +02:00
Niklas Hambüchen 57daa860e8 autoconf: Fix C++17 detection not working on Ubuntu 16.04. 
And probably many other distributions.

Until now, ./configure would fail silently printing a warning

    ./configure: line 4621: AX_CXX_COMPILE_STDCXX_17: command not found

and then continuing, later failing with a C++ #error saying that some C++11
feature isn't supported (it didn't even get to the C++17 features).

This is because older distributions don't come with the
`AX_CXX_COMPILE_STDCXX_17` m4 macro.

This commit vendors that macro accordingly.

Now ./configure complains correctly:

    configure: error: *** A compiler with support for C++17 language features is required.

On Ubuntu 16.04, ./configure completes if a newer compiler is used, e.g. with
gcc-7 from https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-toolchain-r/+archive/ubuntu/test
using:

    ./bootstrap.sh
    ./configure CXX=g++-7 --disable-doc-gen --with-boost=$(nix-build --no-link '<nixpkgs>' -A boost.dev)
 2019-07-03 04:32:25 +02:00
Niklas Hambüchen 1f97b16b1d autoconf: Work around editline not being found on Ubuntu 16.04. 
And probably other Linux distributions with long-term support releases.

Also update manual stating what version is needed;
I checked that 1.14 is the oldest version with which current nix compiles,
and added autoconf feature checks for some functions added in that release
that nix uses.
 2019-07-03 04:32:25 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra 7e1c85c5fb
Merge pull request #2779 from LnL7/build-exit-codes 
build: add exit code for hash and check mismatches
 2019-07-02 17:37:49 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra 7c0b0dbec8
Merge pull request #2724 from LnL7/manpage-add-fixed 
nix-store: document --add-fixed
 2019-07-02 15:47:40 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra 33db1d35ae
Merge pull request #2582 from LnL7/fetchgit-refs 
fetchGit: allow fetching explicit refs
 2019-07-02 15:44:31 +02:00
Daiderd Jordan a3c77c1536
nix-store: document --add-fixed 2019-07-02 09:12:02 -04:00
Graham Christensen c8205a3413
builtins.fetchGit: document absolute ref support 2019-07-02 09:05:56 -04:00
Daiderd Jordan a52c331edb
build: replace 100 offset for build exit codes 2019-07-02 00:12:38 +02:00
Daiderd Jordan 1ac399dd11
nix-store: document exit codes 2019-07-02 00:12:38 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra 88571219d9
nix-channel: Don't fetch binary-cache-url 
This has been ignored since the Perl->C++ rewrite.
 2019-06-25 13:27:16 +02:00
Bruno Bieth 74a65d313f Nix uses the CPP SDK, not Java 2019-06-20 14:47:45 +02:00
JorisE 4b0d613383
Minor typo 2019-06-04 14:12:03 +02:00
Maximilian Bosch b502b6682b
doc: clarify that optional attrs in a function argument will be ignored unless specified 
In `args@{ a ? 1 }: /* ... */` the value `a` won't be a part of `args`
unless it's specified when calling the function, the default value will
be ignored in this case.

My personal point of view is that this behavior is a matter of taste, at
least I was pretty sure that unmatched arguments will be a part of
`args@` while debugging some Nix code last week.

I decided to add a warning to the docs which hopefully reduces the
confusion of further Nix developers who thought the same about `args@`.
 2019-05-21 18:08:26 +02:00
Vladimír Čunát c0559a1d60
docs: describe $IN_NIX_SHELL values (#2796) 
See commit 1bffd83e1a
 2019-05-17 09:50:42 +02:00
Graham Christensen a5efe61786
Clarify where output from the diff hook goes. 2019-05-12 13:23:30 -04:00
Graham Christensen 6df61db060
diff hook: execute as the build user, and pass the temp dir 2019-05-12 13:17:26 -04:00
Graham Christensen c78686e411
build: run diff-hook under --check and document diff-hook 2019-05-12 13:17:24 -04:00
Eelco Dolstra 71eb76a0d4
Merge pull request #2765 from nh2/manual-nixpkgs-word 
manual: "Nix Package collection" -> "Nixpkgs package collection".
 2019-05-08 10:19:59 +02:00
Daniel Schaefer 3f192ac80c Add builtins.hashFile 
For text files it is possible to do it like so:
`builtins.hashString "sha256" (builtins.readFile /tmp/a)`
but that doesn't work for binary files.

With builtins.hashFile any kind of file can be conveniently hashed.
 2019-05-03 17:23:36 +02:00
Niklas Hambüchen 288f93cec0 manual: "Nix Package collection" -> "Nixpkgs package collection". 
Makes difference between Nix and Nixpkgs clearer to avoid
some common confusion this sentence on IRC.

Also disambiguate an "it" reference.
 2019-04-14 03:20:57 +02:00
Niklas Hambüchen caa76c369a docs: Mention --max-jobs 0 to build remotely only 2019-03-31 03:57:45 +02:00
Dmitry Kalinkin 75ec68f93a
manual: mention the "channel:" shorthand for NIX_PATH 
Bumped to 15.09 because older channels, when downloaded from
nixos.org, require firefox to be accessed via `pkgs.firefox`
 2019-03-25 20:55:28 -04:00
Jonas Chevalier 514b3c7f83
Add isPath primop 
this is added for completeness' sake since all the other possible
`builtins.typeOf` results have a corresponding `builtins.is<Type>`
 2019-03-24 11:36:49 +01:00
Linus Heckemann 6f093073b6 manual: include builtins.* for globally available builtins 
This improves searchability.
 2019-03-21 09:37:22 +01:00
Joachim Breitner 684c7fff80 Link to builders-use-substitutes in chapter on distributed builds 
fixes #2730.
 2019-03-16 19:03:40 +01:00
Andreas Rammhold 34fade478a
docs: fix typo in AllowDirectReads 
It was just missing an `l` but should be fixed anyway.
 2019-03-14 23:51:18 +01:00
Vladimír Čunát 4cfc131ec4
manual nitpick: document sha512 support in hashString 2019-03-01 14:30:30 +01:00
Spencer Baugh 5f1891b795 nix-store: make --dump-db take a list of paths to dump 
Inside a derivation, exportReferencesGraph already provides a way to
dump the Nix database for a specific closure. On the command line,
--dump-db gave us the same information, but only for the entire Nix
database at once.

With this change, one can now pass a list of paths to --dump-db to get
the Nix database dumped for just those paths. (The user is responsible
for ensuring this is a closure, like for --export).

Among other things, this is useful for deploying a closure to a new
host without using --import/--export; one can use tar to transfer the
store paths, and --dump-db/--load-db to transfer the validity
information. This is useful if the new host doesn't actually have Nix
yet, and the closure that is being deployed itself contains Nix.
 2019-01-23 01:24:34 +00:00
Domen Kožar 92d08c02c8
Merge pull request #2635 from veprbl/patch-7 
manual: "sandbox" option default is "true" on Linux
 2019-01-20 09:43:26 +07:00
Dmitry Kalinkin 15efd54373
manual: "sandbox" option default is "true" on Linux 
Fixes: 812e39313c ('Enable sandboxing by default')
 2019-01-19 15:04:43 -05:00
Samuel Evans-Powell 2ae5624b2f Update instructions for Haskell script using nix-shell interpreter 
- The instructions for using nix-shell as an interpreter has a Haskell script
  example that doesn't work on more recent versions of Nix. Update the
  instructions with a working command
 2019-01-18 10:50:54 +10:00
Eelco Dolstra bbaf865655 Add 2.2 release notes 2019-01-10 21:02:09 +01:00
John Ericson 2733287046 Don't look for a "pv" program, or mention it in the manual source 
The manual reference was commented out, and the sole reference to this
program other than the configure script. Removed both.
 2019-01-07 16:40:19 -05:00
Patrick Hilhorst 567941fb59
Clarify nix-instantiate --read-write-mode 2018-12-14 09:36:40 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra c37e6d77ea
Merge pull request #2569 from veprbl/pr/update_prerequisites 
docs: add missing prerequisites: brotli, boost, libseccomp
 2018-12-13 10:42:02 +01:00
Dmitry Kalinkin 0cc4728f71
docs: raise minimal boost version to 1.66 2018-12-13 01:50:39 -05:00
Dmitry Kalinkin 419949bf61
docs: add missing prerequisites: brotli, boost, libseccomp 2018-12-10 12:37:15 -05:00
Daiderd Jordan 77cc632186
s3: document scheme query parameter 2018-12-08 00:15:00 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra 6c6bbeb439 Merge branch 'feature/editline-pr' of https://github.com/dtzWill/nix 2018-11-13 20:42:13 +01:00
Felix C. Stegerman fb2c21f71c
manual: quote $servlets 2018-11-13 01:18:26 +01:00
Felix C. Stegerman 18215be59d
fix typo (s/gift/git/) 2018-11-12 17:50:39 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra b05d6dac7b
Manual: build locally -> build 2018-11-09 16:08:36 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra 4ea4d0b1a3
Urgh 2018-11-09 10:29:16 +01:00
Linus Heckemann 34d2948f21 Fix manual build 
This was broken by some missing closing tags in 0bea4a50e0
 2018-11-08 14:07:19 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra 750400e0fa
Merge pull request #2524 from domenkozar/deprecate-toPath 
Deprecate builtins.toPath
 2018-11-08 13:22:21 +01:00
Domen Kožar 0bea4a50e0
Deprecate builtins.toPath 2018-11-08 12:03:50 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra 812e39313c
Enable sandboxing by default 
Closes #179.
 2018-11-07 17:08:28 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra 5a3f140856
Document allowSubstitutes 2018-11-07 11:42:22 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra 1109193ea3
Fix preferLocalBuild description 
preferLocalBuild does not in fact prevent substitution.
 2018-11-07 11:37:43 +01:00
Will Dietz 3d974d31fa editline: wip 2018-10-29 08:44:58 -05:00
Antoine Eiche 73c2ae43f0 Add --graphml option to the nix-store --query command 
This prints the references graph of the store paths in the graphML
format [1]. The graphML format is supported by several graph tools
such as the Python Networkx library or the Apache Thinkerpop project.

[1] http://graphml.graphdrawing.org
 2018-10-20 09:48:34 +02:00
Benjamin Hipple 65453e2d77 Docs: update fixed output hashes 
`fetchurl` will now throw if given an `md5`, and the hashes have generally
been upgraded to avoid it and use `sha256` as a default. This updates the
documentation examples in the manual accordingly.
 2018-10-04 02:37:15 +00:00
Profpatsch 05cfc71cab manual: add XML IDs to all builtin list entries 2018-10-02 15:38:16 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra aa5e47b2f4
Merge pull request #2456 from grahamc/s3-substituters 
Update docs to describe how s3:// URLS does in fact support endpoint, region, and profile for upload
 2018-10-01 22:47:00 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra 5b7cfa487e
Add missing file 2018-10-01 11:58:54 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra 1e7b8deea7
Check requiredSystemFeatures for local builds 
For example, this prevents a "kvm" build on machines that don't have
KVM.

Fixes #2012.
 2018-09-28 16:10:27 +02:00
Graham Christensen 51cbeec49a
Update docs to describe how s3:// URLS does in fact support endpoint, region, and profile for upload 2018-09-27 17:01:39 -04:00
Eelco Dolstra a48c2e3411
Merge pull request #2434 from grahamc/graham-improve-upgrade 
Upgrade docs: improve the upgrade command
 2018-09-19 21:53:50 +02:00
Anders Riutta 1915862767
Upgrade docs: improve the upgrade command 
and make it more copy-pastable.
 2018-09-19 14:17:06 -04:00
Graham Christensen be9e356e61
nix-shell: document double quotes being necessary for a simple Nix expression in the shebang 2018-09-19 13:01:27 -04:00
Graham Christensen 10a7f19937
nix-shell: explain the merging property close to the example 2018-09-19 12:48:08 -04:00
Graham Christensen 0cd863197b
docs: document deprecated aliases 2018-09-18 12:23:32 -04:00
Graham Christensen 0aca1ffb6e Prefer 'remote builder' over 'slave' 2018-09-10 18:57:46 +02:00
Vladimír Čunát 5f3b72cfc2
docs: change expired bzip2.org to archive.org 
Fixes #2396.
 2018-09-03 17:57:13 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra 4dd09210d7
Release notes tweaks 2018-09-02 21:47:10 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra 1f49926601
Merge pull request #2388 from grahamc/graham/document-multi-user 
Document multi-user installation, and add release notes about it not being the default on 2.1
 2018-09-01 22:43:48 +02:00
Graham Christensen c42eaaf684
Create upgrade notes 2018-09-01 15:35:46 -04:00
Eelco Dolstra c5ab07ec2b
Merge pull request #2168 from grahamc/explain-why-netrc-is-busted 
manual: document why ~/.netrc doesn't work
 2018-09-01 21:25:04 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra 51003f892d
Merge pull request #2309 from symphorien/disallowed-man 
add manual entries for disallowedRequisites and disallowedReferences
 2018-09-01 21:01:41 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra 291f67aecf
Merge pull request #2237 from nh2/patch-1 
manual: distributed-builds: Mention - as default
 2018-09-01 20:41:49 +02:00
Graham Christensen 4be7652dd3
release notes: note that the multi-user installer is available but not selected for Linux with systemd, and the bug about selinux 2018-09-01 10:45:57 -04:00
Graham Christensen c3e508d924
Document the multi-user installer some 
Use sh <(...) syntax for installation to preserve stdin and prompting

also update installation docs to account for changes in multi-user selection
 2018-09-01 10:45:50 -04:00
Graham Christensen f66fa7cd20
We support aarch64 now 2018-09-01 10:44:33 -04:00
Eelco Dolstra 6ed4a6bd0e
Merge pull request #2384 from graham-at-target/fetch-git-examples 
docs: Add some examples to fetchGit
 2018-09-01 14:08:32 +02:00
Graham Christensen 0b7568fb73
Drop ssh://... as a required formatting for builtins.fetchGit 2018-08-31 19:49:56 -04:00
Eelco Dolstra 4095cd6438
Add contributors 2018-09-01 00:01:05 +02:00
Graham Christensen 149d10c308 docs: Add IDs to important sections 2018-08-31 10:06:33 -04:00
Graham Christensen 2df21b78b9 docs: Add some examples to fetchGit 2018-08-31 10:00:32 -04:00
Eelco Dolstra 308689f94b
Merge pull request #2365 from erikarvstedt/fix-docs 
Docs: Fix install prefix
 2018-08-30 16:24:52 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra 64d7d1a884
Update release notes 2018-08-30 15:28:18 +02:00
Domen Kožar d16ff76c69
nix.conf: clarify -j0 doesn't affect preferLocalBuild 2018-08-29 14:33:14 +01:00
Domen Kožar 54df4bb0b5
nix.conf: mention -j0 is useful 2018-08-29 11:51:51 +01:00
Erik Arvstedt 8ad2defdf0 Docs: Fix install prefix 
shell.nix defines the install prefix as $(pwd)/inst
 2018-08-21 21:46:43 +02:00
Graham Christensen 06080e4abc
2.1 release notes: Add note about s3-compatible stores 2018-08-03 11:09:31 -04:00
Eelco Dolstra 87356cc8a4
Add Nix 2.1 release notes 2018-08-03 17:05:17 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra 122e1a61f8
Merge pull request #2323 from samueldr/feature/selective-impurity 
Allows selectively adding environment variables to pure shells.
 2018-08-03 16:58:18 +02:00
Samuel Dionne-Riel 438e02529d Allows selectively adding environment variables to pure shells. 
Includes documentation and test.
 2018-08-02 08:21:30 -04:00
Graham Christensen 49a53c1d3f s3 binary cache: support specifying an endpoint 
Works for uploading and not downloading.
 2018-08-02 08:19:50 -04:00
Graham Christensen b27431b7cb Document s3 substitutions 2018-08-01 11:07:41 -04:00
Symphorien Gibol 81d1385437 add manual entries for disallowedRequisites and disallowedReferences 2018-07-26 18:14:50 +02:00
Nathan van Doorn 41f38fbb4b
nix-channel documentation: don't suggest deprecated function 
Running `nix-instantiate --eval -E '(import <nixpkgs> {}).lib.nixpkgsVersion` emits a warning
```
trace: `lib.nixpkgsVersion` is deprecated, use `lib.version` instead!
```
 2018-07-16 10:00:42 +01:00
Niklas Hambüchen 10ebcf8670
manual: distributed-builds: Mention - as default 2018-06-17 19:01:07 +02:00
Michael Raskin 17bc757980 manual: builtins.fromJSON: remove the claim that floats are not allowed 
floating-point numbers are supported now, including the fromJSON
builtin. Reported on IRC by inquisitiv3
 2018-06-10 14:20:18 +02:00
Peter Simons 93aa3bea2e
Merge pull request #767 from mogorman/garbage_collect_keep_last_few 
Implement --delete-generations + flag for keeping last N number of gens
 2018-05-31 10:00:21 +02:00
Shea Levy bbbfc180d9
Explicitly describe the effects of filterSource excluding a directory. 2018-05-30 12:34:41 -04:00
Graham Christensen f9940f47b3
Merge pull request #2164 from mickours/doc-fetchTarball-timout 
Explain fetchTarball timeout behavior in the doc
 2018-05-30 08:04:26 -04:00
Michael Mercier 8dd2e28374
Explain fetchTarball timeout behavior in the doc 2018-05-30 08:02:46 -04:00
Graham Christensen e6466c20b3
Document NIX_SSL_CERT_FILE for installation 2018-05-25 15:59:14 -04:00
Eelco Dolstra 743359bc8a
Merge pull request #2157 from volth/bitwise 
add builtins: __bitAnd,  __bitOr,  __bitXor
 2018-05-24 15:00:39 +02:00
volth 88c1ea30e4 add docs and tests 2018-05-24 12:51:34 +00:00
Alexandre Esteves 579f3895b4
Fix docs on --check suffix 2018-05-23 22:26:06 +01:00
Graham Christensen 33712fed38
manual: document why ~/.netrc doesn't work 
Maybe there is a better place to document this, which is more generic?
 2018-05-18 14:21:47 -04:00
Gleb Peregud 5ba6395378 docs: mention source of env variables used by impureEnvVars. 2018-05-02 22:45:20 +02:00
Danylo Hlynskyi ac22d77fd1 nix-collect-garbage: little doc fix 
This removes confusing documentation. It's better to remove doc than add implementation, because Nix 1.12 will surely have new GC interface anyway.

Fixes https://github.com/NixOS/nix/issues/641
 2018-04-30 09:36:46 -07:00
Shea Levy 8e6108ff71
Merge branch 'aarch64-armv7' of git://github.com/lheckemann/nix 
Support extra compatible architectures (#1916)
 2018-04-23 08:48:22 -04:00
Samuel Dionne-Riel 4b3a7f93a5 doc: Adds --quiet to the common options. 
Fixes #1298
 2018-04-20 16:34:06 -04:00
Eelco Dolstra 4fd28bee89
Fix broken DocBook 2018-04-13 15:12:58 +02:00
Sean Seefried 2ef8f0608c Add to glossary and clarify garbage collection 
While trying to understand garbage collection it was not immediately
clear that only the runtime dependency closure of output paths
would be kept (instead of the build-time dependency closure).
This commit attempts to clarify this by expanding some of the
glossary definitions and extending the Garbage Collection
section.
 2018-04-12 19:23:24 +10:00
John Arnold a405d25fa3 manual: Add all dependencies to source prerequisites (#2060) 2018-04-09 17:31:39 -04:00
Nicolas Dudebout d8a1c27806
fix typo in nix-env man page 2018-04-07 21:10:46 -04:00
AmineChikhaoui e01b01c579
update/re-order the options docs 2018-04-06 11:09:52 +01:00
AmineChikhaoui 33b08899d5
re-order the options using the alphabetical order and improve the example in the positive lookup case 2018-04-06 10:51:19 +01:00
AmineChikhaoui 86930ed414
add documentation for the local disk cache TTL config 2018-04-06 10:51:18 +01:00
Justin Humm 045eb84409
document that writeTextFile from Nixpkgs is an alternative to builtins.toFile 2018-04-03 23:26:47 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra e01c01f72c
Merge pull request #2005 from shlevy/fetchgit-docs 
Document fetchGit.
 2018-03-27 15:57:48 +02:00
Shea Levy 6856fe62b0
Document fetchGit. 
Fixes #1981.
 2018-03-23 07:02:45 -04:00
Dmitry Kalinkin e2f56c1333
doc: don't mention obsolete ssh-substituter-hosts 
#1840
 2018-03-22 19:17:45 -04:00
Corey O'Connor 22b144fea6 manual: correct repeated "--deriver". Add missing single char option aliases. 2018-03-20 17:58:25 -07:00
Eelco Dolstra b2074f0892 Fix bad XML 2018-03-18 13:27:30 +01:00
Jonas Chevalier 43bef1b82c doc: document the min-free and max-free options 2018-03-17 21:29:03 +00:00
Jonas Chevalier fef8ebf51d doc: add xml:id to all the config options 2018-03-17 21:17:28 +00:00
Linus Heckemann 637701b604 rename build-extra-platforms -> extra-platforms 
also document it
 2018-03-16 22:50:27 +00:00
Matthew O'Gorman 467fdd8ca4 only delete things older than current gen and update logic in doc as 
well
 2018-03-01 22:59:00 -05:00
Matthew O'Gorman 429154b74c Implement --delete-generations + flag for keeping last N number of generations 2018-03-01 21:47:57 -05:00
Michael Fiano ad97d1a786
nix-channel grammar and punctuation 
Minor changes to the nix-channel manpage for my first contribution
 2018-03-01 00:27:25 -05:00
Graham Christensen 9432f3fb7d
Merge pull request #1901 from veprbl/patch-5 
Fix a small typo in the release notes
 2018-02-24 10:26:14 -05:00
Michael Weiss bd94e63853 doc: Fix a URL in the release notes for Nix 2.0 2018-02-24 16:07:10 +01:00
Dmitry Kalinkin d9d8a84a96
Fix a small typo in the release notes 2018-02-23 23:45:42 -05:00
Eelco Dolstra 39b4177500
Fix example in release notes 2018-02-22 17:42:06 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra 2691d51a33
Doh 2018-02-22 17:14:35 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra e8d53bfdc9
Revert "Enable sandbox builds on Linux by default" 
This reverts commit ddc58e7896.

https://hydra.nixos.org/eval/1435322
 2018-02-22 14:20:07 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra eaa52c34b4
Set release date 2018-02-22 12:44:46 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra ddc58e7896
Enable sandbox builds on Linux by default 
The overhead of sandbox builds is a problem on NixOS (since building a
NixOS configuration involves a lot of small derivations) but not for
typical non-NixOS use cases. So outside of NixOS we can enable it.

Issue #179.
 2018-02-22 12:27:25 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra 88c90d5e6d
Manual: Put configuration options in sorted order 2018-02-21 18:08:47 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra 0d54671b7b
Manual: Update chapter on remote builds 
Alos add a command "nix ping-store" to make it easier to see if Nix
can connect to a remote builder (e.g. 'nix ping-store --store
ssh://mac').
 2018-02-21 16:24:26 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra 4e44025ac5
Release notes: Add contributors 2018-02-20 15:20:14 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra d7fdfe322b
Remove macOS multi-user instructions 
This is already handled by the installer.
 2018-02-19 20:40:25 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra 70eb64147e
Update release notes 
Also add some examples to nix --help.
 2018-02-19 20:38:53 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra 75a1d96cfd
Merge branch 'register-settings' of https://github.com/shlevy/nix 2018-02-19 13:58:34 +01:00
Shea Levy b095c06139
Add splitVersion primop. 
Fixes #1868.
 2018-02-14 09:55:43 -05:00
Shea Levy de4934ab3b
Allow plugins to define new settings. 2018-02-13 14:43:32 -05:00
Eelco Dolstra 52c777a793
Merge pull request #1863 from shlevy/conf-includes 
Allow includes from nix.conf
 2018-02-13 17:33:07 +01:00
Shea Levy b8739f2fb3
Enable specifying directories in plugin-files. 2018-02-13 11:25:01 -05:00
Shea Levy 6eb1040e90
Allow includes from nix.conf 2018-02-13 08:16:32 -05:00
Shea Levy 081f14a169
Allow using RegisterPrimop to define constants. 
This enables plugins to add new constants, as well as new primops.
 2018-02-08 14:35:50 -05:00
Shea Levy 88cd2d41ac
Add plugins to make Nix more extensible. 
All plugins in plugin-files will be dlopened, allowing them to
statically construct instances of the various Register* types Nix
supports.
 2018-02-08 12:44:37 -05:00
Eelco Dolstra abe6be578b
Merge pull request #1816 from shlevy/add-path 
Add path primop.
 2018-02-07 13:32:35 +01:00
Shea Levy 69d82e5c58
Add path primop. 
builtins.path allows specifying the name of a path (which makes paths
with store-illegal names now addable), allows adding paths with flat
instead of recursive hashes, allows specifying a filter (so is a
generalization of filterSource), and allows specifying an expected
hash (enabling safe path adding in pure mode).
 2018-02-06 16:48:08 -05:00
Eelco Dolstra 84722d67d2
Remove nix-build --hash 
Instead, if a fixed-output derivation produces has an incorrect output
hash, we now unconditionally move the outputs to the path
corresponding with the actual hash and register it as valid. Thus,
after correcting the hash in the Nix expression (e.g. in a fetchurl
call), the fixed-output derivation doesn't have to be built again.

It would still be good to have a command for reporting the actual hash
of a fixed-output derivation (instead of throwing an error), but
"nix-build --hash" didn't do that.
 2018-02-03 10:08:05 +01:00
Shea Levy de96daf54f
Merge branch 'master' of git://github.com/catern/nix 2018-02-01 13:21:45 -05:00
Eelco Dolstra e7b23eb5ab
Remove docs on removed --drv-link and --add-drv-link options 2018-02-01 16:40:58 +01:00
Spencer Baugh e5432574e2 document ability to set NIX_REMOTE=unix://path/to/socket 2018-01-31 22:47:16 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra c287d73121
Rename 1.12 -> 2.0 
Following discussion with Shea and Graham. It's a big enough change
from the last release. Also, from a semver perspective, 2.0 makes more
sense because we did remove some interfaces (like nix-pull/nix-push).
 2018-01-31 18:58:45 +01:00
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
Eelco Dolstra f8e8dd827e
Manual: Remove old cruft 2018-01-31 15:08:46 +01:00
Eric Wolf 0167eac571 Improve manual on inheriting attributes 
Expands first paragraph a bit
Adds a more comprehensive example
 2018-01-27 16:18:31 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra cfeff3b273
Move show-trace docs 2018-01-17 11:53:16 +01:00
Renzo Carbonara b0328c244d nix.conf: builders-use-substitutes 
Fixes #937
 2018-01-09 22:40:07 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra 44272d8719
Rename "use-substitutes" to "substitute" 
Commit c2154d4c84 renamed
"build-use-substitutes" to "use-substitutes", but that broke
"nix-copy-closure --use-substitutes".
 2018-01-04 16:58:39 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra e3c19ff9bc
Merge pull request #1725 from chris-martin/pr/concatStringsSep 
Add builtins.concatStringSep to the manual
 2017-12-12 11:46:10 +01:00
Chris Martin 2a8f09a8c1 Add builtins.concatStringSep to the manual 2017-12-11 14:28:03 -05:00
Eelco Dolstra 06d4566c2d
Merge pull request #1721 from expipiplus1/patch-2 
Escape left angle brackets in XML documentation
 2017-12-11 17:29:36 +01:00
Shea Levy 5ba5ca7888
Merge branch 'feature/linenoise-ng' of git://github.com/dtzWill/nix 2017-12-11 07:52:20 -05:00
Joe Hermaszewski 35a49f1d7f
Escape left angle brackets in XML documentation 2017-12-09 15:31:03 +00:00
Markus Hauck 0af668426d nix-hash: Add sentence and example for nix-prefetch-url hash 2017-12-08 10:27:34 +01:00
Will Dietz e50d7335bf doc: linenoise -> linenoise-ng 2017-11-27 18:36:20 -06:00
Eelco Dolstra 7536fe31dd
Add a warning about the 'trusted-users' option 2017-11-21 18:49:52 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra 8df60b4ea8
Document secret-key-files 2017-11-20 18:51:04 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra 91a1987607
signed-binary-caches -> require-sigs 
Unlike signed-binary-caches (which could only be '*' or ''),
require-sigs is a proper Boolean option. The default is true.
 2017-11-20 17:44:07 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra 7a2b64e55c
binary-cache-public-keys -> trusted-public-keys 
The name had become a misnomer since it's not only for substitution
from binary caches, but when adding/copying any
(non-content-addressed) path to a store.
 2017-11-20 17:32:34 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra 6cf7c6a6b0
Remove git:// support in NIX_PATH 
This didn't support specifying a revision/branch, and was restricted
to git:// URIs (since https:// or ssh:// would be ambiguous).
 2017-11-03 13:55:31 +01:00
Zoran Plesivčak ae506c1ea4 Mention isFloat function in "Built-in Functions" section 2017-11-01 23:00:08 +00:00
Zoran Plesivčak 3050395810 Mention "float" type in builtins.typeOf section of the docs 
+ remove trailing whitespace from the file
 2017-11-01 21:36:25 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra 812e027e1d
Add option allowed-uris 
This allows network access in restricted eval mode.
 2017-10-30 12:41:49 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra f1c555cef8
fetchurl/fetchTarball are *not* allowed in restricted mode 
Accidentally committed this change as part of
f9686885be.

Restricted mode != pure mode.
 2017-10-30 12:41:48 +01:00
Domen Kožar 5cb78053f0
Merge pull request #1633 from orivej/doc 
Update the language documentation
 2017-10-30 12:21:54 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra 049322702b
fetchgit -> fetchGit 
Almost all other primops are camelCase so no reason not to use that
here.
 2017-10-30 10:25:08 +01:00
Orivej Desh 842ce8bafd Clarify indented string escaping rules 2017-10-26 18:53:36 +00:00
Orivej Desh 15457c5673 Describe "with" scoping precedence 2017-10-26 18:53:36 +00:00
Orivej Desh e5c499b833 Describe arithmetic operators 2017-10-26 18:53:35 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra 38dcd0c4b8
Release note updates 2017-10-23 20:50:28 +02:00
Keshav Kini 32940702fc Mention C++14 dependency in the manual. 
A couple makefiles in the sources have -std=c++14 in the CFLAGS.
 2017-10-19 18:03:26 -07:00
Eelco Dolstra 5324bb9399
Update release notes 2017-09-18 11:07:17 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra 0b606aad46
Add automatic garbage collection 
Nix can now automatically run the garbage collector during builds or
while adding paths to the store. The option "min-free = <bytes>"
specifies that Nix should run the garbage collector whenever free
space in the Nix store drops below <bytes>. It will then delete
garbage until "max-free" bytes are available.

Garbage collection during builds is asynchronous; running builds are
not paused and new builds are not blocked. However, there also is a
synchronous GC run prior to the first build/substitution.

Currently, no old GC roots are deleted (as in "nix-collect-garbage
-d").
 2017-09-05 20:43:42 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra c2154d4c84
Rename a few configuration options 
In particular, drop the "build-" and "gc-" prefixes which are
pointless. So now you can say

  nix build --no-sandbox

instead of

  nix build --no-build-use-sandbox
 2017-08-31 14:28:25 +02:00
Matthew Bauer 2c75945de5
Remove nix-mode.el from Nix. 
This removes the file nix-mode.el from Nix. The file is now available within the
repository https://github.com/NixOS/nix-mode.

Fixes #662
Fixes #1040
Fixes #1054
Fixes #1055
Closes #1119
Fixes #1419

NOTE: all of the above should be fixed within NixOS/nix-mode. If one of those
hasn’t please reopen within NixOS/nix-mode and not within NixOS/nix.
 2017-08-19 21:16:30 -07:00
Chase Adams 09a38f9125 update MD5 to SHA-256 in expression-syntax 2017-08-18 16:07:33 -07:00
Eelco Dolstra e2f9a61dc9 Update release notes 2017-08-16 21:36:47 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra 2ee1b9359b Merge branch 'tokenize' of https://github.com/nbp/nix 2017-08-16 21:21:36 +02:00
Nicolas B. Pierron b8867a0239 Add builtins.string function. 
The function 'builtins.split' takes a POSIX extended regular expression
and an arbitrary string. It returns a list of non-matching substring
interleaved by lists of matched groups of the regular expression.

```nix
with builtins;
assert split "(a)b" "abc"      == [ "" [ "a" ] "c" ];
assert split "([ac])" "abc"    == [ "" [ "a" ] "b" [ "c" ] "" ];
assert split "(a)|(c)" "abc"   == [ "" [ "a" null ] "b" [ null "c" ] "" ];
assert split "([[:upper:]]+)" "  FOO   "
                               == [ "  " [ "FOO" ] "   " ];
```
 2017-08-15 20:04:11 +00:00
Nicolas B. Pierron 27417c6160 Move builtins.match documentation between map and mul. 2017-08-15 18:34:24 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra f76e85d8f5
Start of 1.12 release notes 2017-08-10 18:44:45 +02:00
davidak 92bcb61127 replace "Mac OS X" with "macOS" 
except in older release notes where the name was actually Mac OS X.
 2017-07-30 12:26:17 +02:00
Graham Christensen da2ad30054 Update the mailing list. 2017-07-18 08:02:53 -04:00
Eelco Dolstra 49304bae81
Make the hashes mirrors used by builtins.fetchurl configurable 
In particular, this allows it to be disabled in our tests.
 2017-07-17 13:07:08 +02:00
Harmen 1e0f59ae14 use sha256 hashes in the examples 
And fix a dead link.
 2017-07-15 21:06:30 +02:00
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