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Eelco Dolstra 36b90e72d7 nix-shell: Add --packages flag
This allows you to easily set up a build environment containing the
specified packages from Nixpkgs.  For example:

  $ nix-shell -p sqlite xorg.libX11 hello

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

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

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

now reads

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

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

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

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

  $ nix-env -f profile.nix -ir

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

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

Fixes #163.
2013-09-02 13:19:34 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra ecd830b3b9 Update the release notes 2013-09-02 13:11:36 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra efe4289464 Add an option to limit the log output of builders
This is mostly useful for Hydra to deal with builders that get stuck
in an infinite loop writing data to stdout/stderr.
2013-09-02 11:58:18 +02:00
Ivan Kozik 6cd6ce5608 Fix nix-shell command 2013-08-26 11:15:22 +02:00
Ivan Kozik 34bb806f74 Fix typos, especially those that end up in the Nix manual 2013-08-26 11:15:22 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra 03eaef3d7a Manual: Don't use actual hashes of Nix dependencies
These cause an unnecessary runtime dependency :-)
2013-08-23 10:12:20 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra b3110a15e9 Fix corrupt PNG
Libpng used to accept this, but no longer does.
2013-08-21 12:53:51 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra 7b09e9f2c4 Add hacking notes plus a script for running nix-shell 2013-07-19 16:51:31 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra 2bc5de8635 Rename ‘nix-build --run-env’ to ‘nix-shell’ 2013-07-19 12:02:44 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra dc5f2e7da6 nix-build --run-env: Add a ‘--pure’ flag
This causes the environment to be (almost) cleared, thus giving a
shell that more closely resembled the actual Nix derivation.
2013-07-19 11:23:32 +02:00
Domen Kožar 620d57f036 doc: typo 2013-07-12 11:27:43 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra 656390062a nix-build --run-env: Source $stdenv/setup in the interactive shell
This ensures that not just environment variables are set, but also
shell functions such as unpackPhase, configurePhase and so on.
2013-07-11 14:32:22 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra b584a42e3d Manual: auto-optimise-store is disabled by default 2013-07-03 18:35:59 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra 5116214343 Add support for uncompressed NARs in binary caches
Issue NixOS/hydra#102.
2013-07-01 21:03:14 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra 6016bcd30e Update release notes for Nix 1.5.3 2013-06-17 11:47:38 +02:00