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Doron Behar 76287a9207 distributed-builds.md: Clarify warning ssh access requirements 2023-05-31 01:28:15 +02:00
Valentin Gagarin 7a5731aa07 link to mentioned builtin 2023-05-30 22:58:00 +02:00
polykernel a382919d7d
primops: lazy evaluation of replaceStrings replacements
The primop `builtins.replaceStrings` currently always strictly evaluates the
replacement strings, however time and space are wasted for their computation
if the corresponding pattern do not occur in the input string. This commit
makes the evaluation of the replacement strings lazy by deferring their
evaluation to when the corresponding pattern are matched and memoize the result
for efficient retrieval on subsequent matches.

The testcases for replaceStrings was updated to check for lazy evaluation
of the replacements. A note was also added in the release notes to
document the behavior change.
2023-05-25 18:35:23 -04:00
Bernardo Meurer bf693319f6
feat: add always-allow-substitutes
This adds a new configuration option to Nix, `always-allow-substitutes`,
whose effect is simple: it causes the `allowSubstitutes` attribute in
derivations to be ignored, and for substituters to always be used.

This is extremely valuable for users of Nix in CI, where usually
`nix-build-uncached` is used. There, derivations which disallow
substitutes cause headaches as the inputs for building already-cached
derivations need to be fetched to spuriously rebuild some simple text
file.

This option should be a good middle-ground, since it doesn't imply
rebuilding the world, such as the approach I took in
https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/pull/221048
2023-05-22 19:42:29 +01:00
John Ericson 684e9be8b9
Merge pull request #8337 from fricklerhandwerk/channel-files
list files used by `nix-channel` on its own man page
2023-05-17 12:21:20 -04:00
John Ericson 16a60520f2
Merge pull request #8358 from fricklerhandwerk/output-addressed-references
fix wording on output-addressed store objects
2023-05-17 09:38:18 -04:00
Valentin Gagarin 76f40c02bf fix wording on output-addressed store objects
hashing is an implementation detail.
add references to the other terms.
2023-05-17 15:04:08 +02:00
Valentin Gagarin 6a5a8f51bb add cross-references to pure evaluation mode
use consistent wording everywhere.
add some details on the configuration option documentation.
2023-05-17 15:01:54 +02:00
Valentin Gagarin 549f8dc97b document builtins.currentTime 2023-05-17 13:49:35 +02:00
Valentin Gagarin d8bfeda164 document identifier syntax for attribute sets
it's more likely for readers to find it right there.

this also slightly rewords examples to make them stand out better.
in the long run there probably needs to be a dedicated section on formal syntax, and better highlighting of examples.
2023-05-17 13:41:34 +02:00
Alexander Schmolck 8d4b6766e2 Convert short nix options to long ones
e.g. nix-env -e subversion => nix-env --uninstall subversion

The aim is to make the documentation less cryptic for newcomers and the
long options are more self-documenting.

The change was made with the following script:

<https://github.com/aschmolck/convert-short-nix-opts-to-long-ones>

and sanity checked visually.
2023-05-17 08:10:30 +01:00
Valentin Gagarin 8976769a1c
Reword info on XDG base dirs (#8338)
This gives some more context and should clarify why it works that way.
Also link it from the section on `NIX_USER_CONF_FILES`.

Co-authored-by: John Ericson <git@JohnEricson.me>
2023-05-15 23:30:20 -04:00
Valentin Gagarin 275468a1f0 list files used by nix-channel 2023-05-15 15:26:14 +02:00
John Ericson 914672dc4f
Merge pull request #8141 from tweag/user-files-doc
Document user files of nix
2023-05-15 07:11:47 -04:00
Victor Engmark 6e1bfb93dc refactor: Join commands to remove files 2023-05-15 11:05:26 +12:00
Victor Engmark ed016a5bb0 docs: Mention more files referenced by the installer
`/etc/bash.bashrc` is backed up as `/etc/bash.bashrc.backup-before-nix`,
but since other changes might have been introduced in the meantime we can't
just tell the user to revert.
2023-05-15 11:03:27 +12:00
Victor Engmark e26aad22c6 docs: Remove references to non-existing files
At least on Ubuntu 22.04, these files are not created as part of a multi-
user installation.
2023-05-15 10:26:47 +12:00
Victor Engmark 17a1c1ee4e docs: Sort files by name 2023-05-15 10:16:12 +12:00
Victor Engmark 3cc9b8630b docs: Remove Nix profile content from correct directory
At least on Ubuntu 22.04, the Nix installer creates
`/etc/profile.d/nix.sh`, not `/etc/profile/nix.sh`.
2023-05-15 10:13:46 +12:00
Victor Engmark ccf512f4b8 docs: Remove redundant uninstall command
`sudo systemctl disable nix-daemon.socket nix-daemon.service` removes these
files already.
2023-05-15 10:06:27 +12:00
Valentin Gagarin 454e273451
Merge pull request #8328 from urbas/max-substitution-jobs 2023-05-14 11:59:40 +02:00
Matej Urbas c66a7af0c6 max-substitution-jobs release note entry 2023-05-14 09:51:11 +01:00
Ana Hobden 17fb346ec6 Describe the or operation on attribute sets slightly more 2023-05-12 11:03:09 -07:00
Alexander Bantyev 992be330ab
Update doc/manual/src/SUMMARY.md.in
Co-authored-by: Valentin Gagarin <valentin.gagarin@tweag.io>
2023-05-12 16:58:01 +04:00
Valentin Gagarin 70eb9c7ddb reword introduction to built-in functions
add anchor to `builtins.derivation` and list some built-in functions that are
exposed in the global scope.

I decided not to list everything, because we probably don't want to
encourage people using them that way.
2023-05-11 20:07:42 +02:00
Valentin Gagarin 69a0e6f86c reword documentation on builtins
- add anchor to `builtins`
- add type information
- reword description of `builtins` to offer more information concisely
2023-05-11 17:46:37 +02:00
Valentin Gagarin 2ef7f14e28 do not indent markdown list 2023-05-11 15:29:03 +02:00
Valentin Gagarin dc8191ae14 add redirect to track moved uninstall section 2023-05-03 11:39:29 +02:00
Valentin Gagarin 5d78dc4176
doc rendering: add functions to scope explicitly (#7378)
* doc rendering: add functions to scope explicitly

this especially helps beginners with code readability, since the origin
of names is always immediately visible.
2023-05-03 07:16:29 +00:00
Valentin Gagarin f8620758aa display documentation on manifest files separately
it's probably better not to show the manifest file documentation in the
command-specific pages, because these are implementation details that are not really practically useful.

this means no additional hassle for building the manual, but clutters
the table of contents a bit.
2023-04-28 12:10:36 +02:00
Valentin Gagarin 9b2a4a4729 move uninstall instructions to a separate page
placed in a subsection of the binary install, the instructions are hard
to find. putting them in a separate page that is shown in the table of
contents should make it easier for users to find what they need when
they need it.
2023-04-28 11:53:38 +02:00
Valentin Gagarin da0dbf36cb move manifest information to the bottom of the page 2023-04-26 15:39:35 +02:00
Valentin Gagarin be7c236565 move compatibility info to nix profile docs 2023-04-26 15:39:35 +02:00
Valentin Gagarin 219aaf5a0b increase heading level
otherwise the headings won't match at the point where they are included.
this is a bit hacky and brittle, but works for now.
2023-04-26 15:39:35 +02:00
Valentin Gagarin bb8e3b5d86 update description on how profiles work
adapt to the example listing
2023-04-26 15:39:35 +02:00
Valentin Gagarin 7770d82240 fix typos and wording 2023-04-26 15:39:24 +02:00
Valentin Gagarin 9d386fe2ee add colons to connect listings with descriptions 2023-04-26 15:39:16 +02:00
Valentin Gagarin a1c996dc7e list information regular users first
this is to make it consistent everywhere
2023-04-26 15:39:02 +02:00
Alexander Bantyev 8a93b5a551 Document user files of nix 2023-04-26 15:38:19 +02:00
Rynn Blackmon c4df53f154
Mention $DRV_PATH in post-build-hook docs 2023-04-19 16:32:47 -07:00
Michael Utz 40fcb22313
Update installing-binary.md 2023-04-18 13:18:30 +03:00
Noah Snelson 324ed0c367 Documentation: fix typo for Nix database link in manual
Fixes broken link for `Nix database` anchor in the Glossary page of the
Nix manual.
2023-04-17 20:15:08 -07:00
Valentin Gagarin 39e0f609cc
Merge pull request #7514 from fricklerhandwerk/opt-I
remove incorrect reference to `NIX_PATH` documentation
2023-04-17 16:27:23 +02:00
Valentin Gagarin f4119a67cc
use @docroot@ link 2023-04-17 14:54:30 +02:00
Valentin Gagarin d0cf615cbb
add link to nix-conf setting
Co-authored-by: John Ericson <git@JohnEricson.me>
2023-04-17 14:27:26 +02:00
John Ericson 9800c1e807 Mark experimental configuration settings programmatically
Fix #8162

The test is changed to compare `nlohmann::json` values, not strings of dumped
JSON, which allows us to format things more nicely.
2023-04-16 10:58:04 -04:00
John Ericson ba9ae691b6 Add optionalString to manual Nix lang utilities
Use it everywhere it could be also.
2023-04-16 10:57:46 -04:00
John Ericson b41f739068
Merge pull request #7864 from obsidiansystems/quickstart-long-options
Use long options instead of short ones in the "quick start"
2023-04-14 09:13:16 -04:00
John Ericson d93e76fbb8 Start cross-referencing experimental features
- Create a glossary entry for experimental features.

- Have the man page experimental feature notice link `nix-commmand`.

  (Eventually this should be programmed, based on whether the command is
  experimental, and if so what experimental feature does it depend on.)

- Document which installables depend on which experimental features.

  I tried to use the same style (bold warning and block quote) that the
  top of the man page uses.

Co-authored-by: Valentin Gagarin <valentin.gagarin@tweag.io>
2023-04-14 07:45:08 -04:00
Eelco Dolstra e570a91661 Release notes 2023-04-11 12:40:56 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra 60a1bf08b6
Merge pull request #7798 from peeley/list-experimental-features
Documentation: list experimental features in manual
2023-04-11 11:55:35 +02:00
John Ericson 73eb6a2a57 Single page for experimental feature descriptions
As requested by @fricklerhandwerk.
2023-04-09 11:01:23 -04:00
John Ericson 9d1105824f Add release notes for nix derivation {add,show} 2023-04-07 08:35:59 -04:00
John Ericson 2b98af2e62 nix show-derivation -> nix derivation show 2023-04-07 08:34:58 -04:00
matthewcroughan 9207f94582 Add Store::isTrustedClient()
This function returns true or false depending on whether the Nix client
is trusted or not. Mostly relevant when speaking to a remote store with
a daemon.

We include this information in `nix ping store` and `nix doctor`

Co-Authored-By: John Ericson <John.Ericson@Obsidian.Systems>
2023-04-06 19:59:57 -04:00
John Ericson bc192a95ef Describe active experimental features in the contributing guide
They are put in the manual separate pages under the new overarching
description of experimental features.

The settings page just lists the valid experimental feature names (so
people know what a valid setting entry looks like), with links to those
pages. It doesn't attempt to describe each experimental feature as that
is too much information for the configuration settings section.
2023-04-06 18:07:59 -04:00
John Ericson b7cd87a853 Merge remote-tracking branch 'upstream/master' into list-experimental-features 2023-04-06 18:07:46 -04:00
Théophane Hufschmitt 9185639631
Document the concept of “experimental feature” (#5930)
Add a page explaining what “experimental features” are, when and how they should be used

Co-authored-by: Valentin Gagarin <valentin.gagarin@tweag.io>
Co-authored-by: Eelco Dolstra <edolstra@gmail.com>
Co-authored-by: John Ericson <John.Ericson@Obsidian.Systems>
2023-04-06 11:25:22 +00:00
Valentin Gagarin b11ae93581 remove incorrect reference
the semantics are not explained in the referenced section any more, they
have been moved to the documentation for common options in the new CLI [0].

[0]: 703d863a48
2023-04-05 14:03:11 +02:00
Valentin Gagarin bbdb5a58c7
Merge pull request #7849 from milahu/fix-man-nix-shell
docs: fix nix-shell commands
2023-04-05 13:06:59 +02:00
milahu 1ac10808ba docs: fix nix-shell commands 2023-04-05 12:38:36 +02:00
Mike (stew) O'Connor cab5266092 add a definition of the nix database to the glossary
Co-authored-by: Valentin Gagarin <valentin.gagarin@tweag.io>
2023-04-05 10:50:34 +02:00
Valentin Gagarin ed5d0c1362 add anchor to 'local store' 2023-04-05 10:48:59 +02:00
John Ericson 53d0836347 Assemble experimental feature docs outside of Nix itself
Instead of constructing a markdown list in C++ (which involved all sorts
of nasty string literals), export some JSON and assemble it with the
manual build system.

Besides following the precedent set with other dumped data, this is a
better separate of content and presentation; if we decide for example we
want to display this information in a different way, or in a different
section of the manual, it will become much easier to do so.
2023-04-04 22:57:11 -04:00
Valentin Gagarin cde78f9417 process includes first
otherwise the order of found `.md` files will influence if `@docroot@`
is replaced before them being included, which may mess up relative
links.

the weirdest thing about it is that the mess-up happens
deterministically on macOS, but deterministically doesn't happen on
Linux!
2023-03-30 13:55:44 +02:00
Alexander Bantyev 36b059748d Split nix-env and nix-store documentation per-subcommand
Documentation on "classic" commands with many sub-commands are
notoriously hard to discover due to lack of overview and anchor links.
Additionally the information on common options and environment variables
is not accessible offline in man pages, and therefore often overlooked
by readers.

With this change, each sub-command of nix-store and nix-env gets its
own page in the manual (listed in the table of contents), and each own
man page.

Also, man pages for each subcommand now (again) list common options
and environment variables. While this makes each page quite long and
some common parameters don't apply, this should still make it easier
to navigate as that additional information was not accessible on the
command line at all.

It is now possible to run 'nix-store --<subcommand> --help` to display
help pages for the given subcommand.

Co-authored-by: Valentin Gagarin <valentin.gagarin@tweag.io>
2023-03-30 09:46:28 +02:00
Alexander Bantyev 84c2c09ec2 Manual: fail when #include-d file does not exist 2023-03-30 09:41:46 +02:00
John Ericson 8df6f7bb0f Fix more profile dirs in docs
Picking up where #8078 left off.
2023-03-27 12:10:32 -04:00
Eelco Dolstra 237587bc0a
Merge pull request #8084 from edolstra/store-docs
Auto-generate store documentation
2023-03-27 15:46:18 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra 5a0f5b5c34
Merge pull request #8062 from edolstra/ssl-cert-file
Add a setting for configuring the SSL certificates file
2023-03-27 15:37:15 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra 7a61a9aba3 Update release notes 2023-03-23 15:27:06 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra 05d9918a9c
Update doc/manual/src/release-notes/rl-next.md
Co-authored-by: Valentin Gagarin <valentin.gagarin@tweag.io>
2023-03-23 10:13:51 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra 4d31618c15 showSetting: Drop ... 2023-03-23 10:09:25 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra 2851e239a7 Make useAnchors a named argument 2023-03-23 10:08:49 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra fbc296e00f
Merge pull request #8095 from fricklerhandwerk/operators-formatting
doc: force line breaks where needed
2023-03-23 09:24:54 +01:00
Valentin Gagarin 0ced5132fd
Merge pull request #6865 from zuzuleinen/manual-nix-path-empty
document what happens when NIX_PATH is empty
2023-03-23 00:10:17 +01:00
Valentin Gagarin 96129246ad
add links 2023-03-22 23:37:27 +01:00
Valentin Gagarin 40eb88e427 doc: force line breaks where needed 2023-03-22 22:46:23 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra 5691bac202 Improve store setting descriptions / Markdown formatting 2023-03-22 14:23:36 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra da8903ecc3 nix help-stores: Don't include anchors
Since setting names are not unique we don't have an easy way to
produce unique anchors.
2023-03-22 13:11:35 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra 006291e5be
Merge pull request #8082 from edolstra/add-links
Add links to API docs / coverage analysis to the hacking section
2023-03-22 11:27:18 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra 3fc4659d22 Formatting 2023-03-21 14:12:15 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra 9eb53bbf17 Support per-store Markdown documentation 2023-03-21 14:03:40 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra 7704118d28 nix describe-stores: Remove
This command was intended for docs generation, but it was never used
for that and we don't need it.
2023-03-21 14:03:40 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra 8d6d59cb1b nix store --help: Include store type documentation 2023-03-21 14:03:40 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra 6f62cb3611 generate-manpage.nix: Make more readable 2023-03-21 12:11:32 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra 4b9add9b35 Add links to API docs / coverage analysis to the hacking section 2023-03-21 11:47:21 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra e53e5c38d4 Add a setting for configuring the SSL certificates file
This provides a platform-independent way to configure the SSL
certificates file in the Nix daemon. Previously we provided
instructions for overriding the environment variable in launchd, but
that obviously doesn't work with systemd. Now we can just tell users
to add

  ssl-cert-file = /etc/ssl/my-certificate-bundle.crt

to their nix.conf.
2023-03-17 18:32:18 +01:00
Yueh-Shun Li c27d358abb nix-hash: support base-64 and SRI format
Add the --base64 and --sri flags for the Base64 and SRI format output.

Add the --base16 flag to explicitly specify the hexadecimal format.

Add the --to-base64 and --to-sri flag to convert a hash to the above
mentioned format.
2023-03-16 03:08:42 +08:00
Valentin Gagarin d37b8a29ce
Merge pull request #8036 from Freed-Wu/patch-1 2023-03-13 14:35:09 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra 6f22e8b7d8
Merge pull request #7486 from fricklerhandwerk/doc-reference
reword definition of "reference"
2023-03-13 14:04:14 +01:00
wzy 5bf4ade0fa
Fix a typo of values.md 2023-03-13 15:34:01 +08:00
John Ericson 6910f5dcb6 Generate API docs with Doxygen
The motivation is as stated in issue #7814: even though the the C++ API
is internal and unstable, people still want it to be well documented for
sake of learning, code review, and other purposes that aren't predicated
on it being stable.

Fixes #7814

Co-authored-by: Robert Hensing <roberth@users.noreply.github.com>
2023-03-10 12:51:06 -05:00
Valentin Gagarin 66f49864f3
Merge pull request #7928 from serokell/doc-includes
Documentation: process `#include` directives
2023-03-10 17:06:42 +01:00
Valentin Gagarin 2af9fd20c6 clarify definition of "installable"
the term was hard to discover, as its definition and explanation were in
a very long document lacking an overview section.
search did not help because it occurs so often.

- clarify wording in the definition
- add an overview of installable types
- add "installable" to glossary
- link to definition from occurrences of the term
- be more precise about where store derivation outputs are processed
- installable Nix expressions must evaluate to a derivation

Co-authored-by: Adam Joseph <54836058+amjoseph-nixpkgs@users.noreply.github.com>
2023-03-05 01:46:17 +01:00
Valentin Gagarin e065131c1b
cosmetic indentation
Co-authored-by: Théophane Hufschmitt <7226587+thufschmitt@users.noreply.github.com>
2023-03-03 12:56:23 +01:00
Théophane Hufschmitt 1f394d2107
Merge branch 'master' into paths-from-stdin 2023-03-02 19:20:51 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra 96111ad902
Merge pull request #7901 from hercules-ci/disable-tests
Add ./configure --disable-tests option
2023-03-02 10:00:15 +01:00
Alexander Bantyev dd0aab2f94
Documentation: process #include directives 2023-03-01 14:01:45 +04:00
Alexander Bantyev 21fb1a5ec2
doc/manual/local.mk: Use tabs instead of spaces everywhere 2023-03-01 14:01:23 +04:00
Alexander Bantyev 2fc3a15861
Make nix-env less prominent in manual TOC 2023-03-01 13:54:45 +04:00
John Ericson ea0adfc582 Get rid of .drv special-casing for store path installables
The release notes document the change in behavior, I don't include it
here so there is no risk to it getting out of sync.

> Motivation

>> Plumbing CLI should be simple

Store derivation installations are intended as "plumbing": very simple
utilities for advanced users and scripts, and not what regular users
interact with. (Similarly, regular Git users will use branch and tag
names not explicit hashes for most things.)

The plumbing CLI should prize simplicity over convenience; that is its
raison d'etre. If the user provides a path, we should treat it the same
way not caring what sort of path it is.

>> Scripting

This is especially important for the scripting use-case. when arbitrary
paths are sent to e.g. `nix copy` and the script author wants consistent
behavior regardless of what those store paths are. Otherwise the script
author needs to be careful to filter out `.drv` ones, and then run `nix
copy` again with those paths and `--derivation`. That is not good!

>> Surprisingly low impact

Only two lines in the tests need changing, showing that the impact of
this is pretty light.

Many command, like `nix log` will continue to work with just the
derivation passed as before. This because we used to:

- Special case the drv path and replace it with it's outputs (what this
  gets rid of).

- Turn those output path *back* into the original drv path.

Now we just skip that entire round trip!

> Context

Issue #7261 lays out a broader vision for getting rid of `--derivation`,
and has this as one of its dependencies. But we can do this with or
without that.

`Installable::toDerivations` is changed to handle the case of a
`DerivedPath::Opaque` ending in `.drv`, which is new: it simply doesn't
need to do any extra work in that case. On this basis, commands like
`nix {show-derivation,log} /nix/store/...-foo.drv` still work as before,
as described above.

When testing older daemons, the post-build-hook will be run against the
old CLI, so we need the old version of the post-build-hook to support
that use-case.

Co-authored-by: Travis A. Everett <travis.a.everett@gmail.com>
Co-authored-by: Valentin Gagarin <valentin.gagarin@tweag.io>
2023-02-28 17:07:05 -05:00
Timothy DeHerrera 639659dec2
doc/manual: add release note for --stdin flag 2023-02-28 12:31:05 -07:00
Timothy DeHerrera df643051e2
nix-store: read paths from standard input
Resolves #7437 for new `nix-store` by adding a `--stdin` flag.
2023-02-28 12:29:16 -07:00
Robert Hensing d0d0b9a748 doc/cli-guideline: Improve examples
Turns out that the settings themselves have a bad data model anyway, so we cut that. They do still occur in the first example, but not in focus.
2023-02-28 16:35:47 +01:00
Robert Hensing 17f70b10bf doc/cli-guideline: Apply suggestions from code review
Thanks Valentin!
2023-02-28 16:35:42 +01:00
Robert Hensing f09ccd8ea9 doc/cli-guideline: Add JSON guideline 2023-02-28 16:35:36 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra 1e07102937 Release notes 2023-02-28 13:44:14 +01:00
Valentin Gagarin 1b49e6fea9
use the term reference correctly 2023-02-27 13:04:54 +01:00
Valentin Gagarin b0c23999d2
add link to definition 2023-02-27 12:56:22 +01:00
Valentin Gagarin ec317949f9
remove "references" as distinct term 2023-02-27 12:55:14 +01:00
Robert Hensing e76619a402 rl-next: Describe fixed flake outPath semantics
The reference documentation already implies the correct semantics.
2023-02-26 14:41:23 +01:00
Robert Hensing c6051cac6f doc: Add test dependencies to prerequisites 2023-02-24 09:59:25 +01:00
Robert Hensing df6829e0d7
Merge pull request #7867 from NixOS/hacking-cross
doc/hacking.md: Corrections and additions for cross
2023-02-20 22:25:55 +01:00
Robert Hensing 807ef8f734
doc/hacking.md: Corrections and additions for cross 2023-02-20 12:20:08 +01:00
John Ericson d7a4f08d42
Nix's own flake: Dedup and memoize more
- `nixpkgsFor` does all of native, static, cross, and the different stdenvs.

- The main Nix derivation is no longer duplicated for static.

- DRY nixpkgs.lib and lib.genAttrs calls.
2023-02-20 11:35:51 +01:00
Théophane Hufschmitt 9a3f66d9d9
Merge pull request #7433 from yorickvP/improv-onboarding
Improve hacking.md and add clangd+bear to devshell
2023-02-20 10:50:08 +01:00
John Ericson ddb40ddd47
Update doc/manual/src/quick-start.md
Co-authored-by: Valentin Gagarin <valentin.gagarin@tweag.io>
2023-02-19 20:00:02 -05:00
Clemens Tolboom 8c09888de4 Use long options instead of short ones
It is a little hard to learn what the options mean.
2023-02-19 13:48:37 -05:00
Eelco Dolstra c205d10c66
Merge pull request #7616 from hercules-ci/fix-3898
Fix foreign key error inserting into NARs #3898
2023-02-13 13:02:19 +01:00
Yorick f2e427942d
Improve hacking.md
- Refer to current version in readme
- Split into flakes and non-flakes section
- Change order to move nix-build to the end, since people often start
  with it in the beginning.
- Use proper "Note" syntax
- Add notes about editor integration
- Move information about target platforms and stdenvs into separate
  sections

Co-authored-by: Valentin Gagarin <valentin.gagarin@tweag.io>
Co-authored-by: Alexander Bantyev <alexander.bantyev@tweag.io>
Co-authored-by: Théophane Hufschmitt <theophane.hufschmitt@tweag.io>
2023-02-13 12:00:00 +04:00
Théophane Hufschmitt 9ebbe35817
Merge pull request #5588 from tweag/balsoft/xdg
Follow XDG Base Directory standard
2023-02-10 18:05:50 +01:00
Alexander Bantyev 2384d36083
A setting to follow XDG Base Directory standard
XDG Base Directory is a standard for locations for storing various
files. Nix has a few files which seem to fit in the standard, but
currently use a custom location directly in the user's ~, polluting
it:

- ~/.nix-profile
- ~/.nix-defexpr
- ~/.nix-channels

This commit adds a config option (use-xdg-base-directories) to follow
the XDG spec and instead use the following locations:

- $XDG_STATE_HOME/nix/profile
- $XDG_STATE_HOME/nix/defexpr
- $XDG_STATE_HOME/nix/channels

If $XDG_STATE_HOME is not set, it is assumed to be ~/.local/state.

Co-authored-by: Théophane Hufschmitt <7226587+thufschmitt@users.noreply.github.com>
Co-authored-by: Tim Fenney <kodekata@gmail.com>
Co-authored-by: pasqui23 <pasqui23@users.noreply.github.com>
Co-authored-by: Artturin <Artturin@artturin.com>
Co-authored-by: John Ericson <Ericson2314@Yahoo.com>
2023-02-10 20:14:06 +04:00
Eelco Dolstra bffb76264e
Merge pull request #7800 from PicoGeyer/patch-1
Fix minor syntax issue in one of the examples.
2023-02-10 17:09:19 +01:00
Théophane Hufschmitt 320e391171
Merge pull request #7403 from fricklerhandwerk/noselect
disallow selecting shell prompt in code samples
2023-02-10 13:12:23 +01:00
Pico Geyer a0f1cb0ce7 Fix minor syntax issue in the one of the examples.
Attribute set expressions need to end with a ;
2023-02-10 12:01:44 +02:00
Valentin Gagarin c1921514d4
Merge pull request #7700 from iFreilicht/patch-1
docs: Fix small formatting errors
2023-02-07 23:37:42 +01:00
Robert Hensing 1a86d3e98e local.mk: Don't log docroot comments
These were accidentally logged and do not need to appear in make's
log output.
2023-02-07 23:34:36 +01:00
David Dunn 9aeaf98c4b
Make install command in documentation compatible with fish shell (#7474)
Use a pipe for all install commands

Co-authored-by: Valentin Gagarin <valentin.gagarin@tweag.io>
2023-02-07 22:32:27 +00:00
Felix Uhl d910dfe978 docs: Fix formatting of || operator
This is a workaround for
[mdBook#2000](https://github.com/rust-lang/mdBook/issues/2000)
2023-02-07 23:06:14 +01:00
Felix Uhl 32db5e6349 docs: Fix broken anchor link 2023-02-07 23:06:14 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra 1ba13b17db
Merge pull request #7758 from peterbecich/clang11-devshell-documentation
fix documentation for `clang11Stdenv` dev shell
2023-02-07 22:35:31 +01:00
Valentin Gagarin f370a5a26c
Update doc/manual/src/glossary.md
Co-authored-by: John Ericson <git@JohnEricson.me>
2023-02-07 20:40:29 +01:00
Valentin Gagarin 8ab9fdac01
Merge pull request #7768 from ncfavier/fixup-7714 2023-02-07 16:24:19 +01:00
Valentin Gagarin c20394245d add "instantiate" to glossary 2023-02-07 12:09:26 +01:00
Valentin Gagarin e4f12ff482
store paths are not uniquely determined 2023-02-07 11:59:18 +01:00
Naïm Favier 2915db7b28
doc: fixup 7714 2023-02-07 11:38:09 +01:00
Peter Becich b8e96351f7
fix clang11Stdenv dev shell documentation
`clang11StdenvPackages` does not exist

```
│   └───x86_64-linux
│       ├───ccacheStdenv: development environment 'nix'
│       ├───clang11Stdenv: development environment 'nix'
│       ├───clangStdenv: development environment 'nix'
│       ├───default: development environment 'nix'
│       ├───gccStdenv: development environment 'nix'
│       ├───libcxxStdenv: development environment 'nix'
│       └───stdenv: development environment 'nix'
```
2023-02-05 12:00:48 -08:00
Eelco Dolstra 5cbeff64f2
Merge pull request #7607 from Hoverbear/installation-expand
Expand installation.md
2023-02-02 17:05:54 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra 6f0436a337
Merge pull request #7719 from andersk/manual-timestamp
manual: Document that the store timestamp is now 1, not 0
2023-02-01 15:50:36 +01:00
Anders Kaseorg c5d4c50aba manual: Document that the store timestamp is now 1, not 0
Commit 14bc3ce3d6 (0.13~43) changed the
timestamps in the Nix store from 0 to 1.  Update the nix-store man
page to match.

Signed-off-by: Anders Kaseorg <andersk@mit.edu>
2023-01-30 23:51:35 -08:00
Naïm Favier 0b3464a107
doc: add __structuredAttrs, outputChecks, unsafeDiscardReferences 2023-01-30 14:49:45 +01:00
Théophane Hufschmitt 7408776b00 Fix the release-notes
Slightly butchered during the merge
2023-01-30 10:32:23 +01:00
Théophane Hufschmitt 4aaf0ee52e
Merge branch 'master' into referenceablePaths 2023-01-30 10:31:00 +01:00
John Ericson f465e378c4
Update doc/manual/src/release-notes/rl-2.13.md
Co-authored-by: Eelco Dolstra <edolstra@gmail.com>
2023-01-25 08:58:41 -05:00
John Ericson 816031173c Fix the 2.13 changelog
It is just the new CLI that gets the `^` syntax. The old CLI already has
a (slightly different) `!` syntax.

Fixes #7682
2023-01-24 18:53:46 -05:00
Felix Uhl dc4aa383e9 doc: fix anchor links in and to glossary 2023-01-24 00:19:43 +01:00
Robert Hensing 9b56683398
Merge pull request #7447 from aakropotkin/read-file-type
Read file type
2023-01-23 17:37:22 +01:00
John Ericson 7fe308c2f8 Add rapidcheck dependency for testing
Property tests are great!

Co-authored-by: Cole Helbling <cole.e.helbling@outlook.com>
2023-01-23 07:05:50 -05:00
Robert Hensing 37c533ed27
rl-next.md: Minor improvement 2023-01-23 11:28:31 +01:00
Théophane Hufschmitt 90e630a542
Merge pull request #7641 from layus/coerce-strings-fixups
Coerce strings fixups
2023-01-23 09:39:00 +01:00
Alex Ameen 153ee460c5 primop: add readFileType, optimize readDir
Allows checking directory entry type of a single file/directory.

This was added to optimize the use of `builtins.readDir` on some
filesystems and operating systems which cannot detect this information
using POSIX's `readdir`.

Previously `builtins.readDir` would eagerly use system calls to lookup
these filetypes using other interfaces; this change makes these
operations lazy in the attribute values for each file with application
of `builtins.readFileType`.
2023-01-22 13:45:02 -06:00
Florian Paul Schmidt 4ff9ed5c2d doc: fix update operator description 2023-01-20 13:21:45 +01:00
Théophane Hufschmitt fdc02d2b6a
Merge pull request #7490 from fricklerhandwerk/doc-realise
define the terms "realise" and "valid" for store paths
2023-01-20 11:19:45 +01:00
Valentin Gagarin b911307d7a
Merge pull request #7629 from phip1611/patch-3 2023-01-19 16:41:20 +01:00
Philipp Schuster 9469b1bb30 doc: update language/index.md
- make `<nixpkgs>` visible (was blank in the rendered version)
2023-01-19 15:11:20 +01:00
Guillaume Maudoux e4726a0c79 Revert "Revert "Merge pull request #6204 from layus/coerce-string""
This reverts commit 9b33ef3879.
2023-01-19 13:23:04 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra 38b90c618f
Merge pull request #7640 from marceltransier/patch-2
Fix update operator usage in operators.md
2023-01-19 11:12:10 +01:00
Marcel Transier 8b9325ec4a
Fix update operator usage in operators.md 2023-01-19 10:20:41 +01:00
Marcel Transier 9141b74eb7
Fix markdown error in operators.md
Escape logical or pipe in markdown table according to https://github.github.com/gfm/#example-200
2023-01-18 22:34:49 +01:00
Lorenzo Manacorda 913782af4d Relase notes: add empty flake registry
Introduced in #5420
2023-01-18 17:34:19 +01:00
Philipp Schuster 70e193d64b
Update binary-cache-substituter.md (#7628)
`binary-caches` is deprecated and `substituters` the new recommended option.
2023-01-18 15:08:20 +00:00
Robert Hensing 9b33ef3879 Revert "Merge pull request #6204 from layus/coerce-string"
This reverts commit a75b7ba30f, reversing
changes made to 9af16c5f74.
2023-01-18 01:34:07 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra 3ff9fc0d7d Typo 2023-01-17 17:03:30 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra c1934eb074 Release notes 2023-01-17 13:23:31 +01:00
Valentin Gagarin 9be3c6c7c7 add note on self-references and cycles
Co-authored-by: John Ericson <git@JohnEricson.me>
2023-01-17 12:33:23 +01:00
Valentin Gagarin 59f03437c2 references refer to store objects, not paths
as noted by @Ericson2314
2023-01-17 12:29:45 +01:00
Valentin Gagarin bc9de373c7 reword definition of "reference" 2023-01-17 12:29:45 +01:00
Ana Hobden 763c1dfc2b Expand installation.md
Changes the `quick-start.md` to recommend a multi-user install, since
single-user is not supported on MacOS and https://nixos.org/download.html
recommends multi-user.

Expands `installation.md` to reflect wording on https://nixos.org/download.html
2023-01-16 11:38:50 -08:00
Robert Hensing f58c301112
Merge pull request #7541 from hercules-ci/check-manual-links
Check links in the manual
2023-01-10 23:07:38 +01:00
Robert Hensing 6ae4d762d0 doc/manual/src/contributing/hacking.md: Apply suggestion
Co-authored-by: Valentin Gagarin <valentin.gagarin@tweag.io>
2023-01-10 22:30:41 +01:00
Robert Hensing da4d4feacf doc/manual/hacking: Document @docroot@ variable 2023-01-10 22:30:41 +01:00
Robert Hensing fefa3a49ce doc/manual: Apply suggestions from code review
Co-authored-by: Valentin Gagarin <valentin.gagarin@tweag.io>
2023-01-10 22:30:41 +01:00
Robert Hensing fd2af69e60 doc/manual: Move the html files back where they were before
... before the link checking "output" was added, bumping the
html output into a subdirectory.
2023-01-10 22:30:41 +01:00
Robert Hensing d5c8289f1e doc/manual: Document hacking on the manual links 2023-01-10 22:30:41 +01:00
Robert Hensing e79f935718 doc/manual: Fix broken internal links
The targets I could find.
2023-01-10 22:30:41 +01:00
Robert Hensing 34a1e0d29b doc/manual: Introduce @docroot@ as a stable base for includable snippets
This way the links are clearly within the manual (ie not absolute paths),
while allowing snippets to reference the documentation root reliably,
regardless of at which base url they're included.
2023-01-10 22:30:41 +01:00
Robert Hensing be10c09d23 manual: Check links
mdbook-linkcheck is not consistent about its warning setting.
It disables some warnings, but not the warnings about lack of
fragment checking support; hence the extra filtering.
2023-01-10 22:30:41 +01:00
Jeremy Fleischman 89ef26664d
Add a pointer from "realising" to nix log. (#4876) 2023-01-09 09:49:46 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra 3172c51baf
Merge pull request #7498 from fricklerhandwerk/path+string
refactor documentation of operators, document `+` for strings and paths
2023-01-06 13:46:31 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra d02c5a41da
Merge pull request #7500 from akhildevelops/patch-1
Updated docs to delete build users and group
2023-01-05 17:25:06 +01:00
Valentin Gagarin e57165b85a bring back table, extract annotations
this makes the table less unwieldy, and leaves enough space for
extensive explanations.
2023-01-05 15:16:16 +01:00
Valentin Gagarin 7da59e94ae add links to documentation for data types 2023-01-05 14:15:01 +01:00
Valentin Gagarin 7b2b9e3648 use more self-explanatory placeholder names 2023-01-05 14:15:01 +01:00
Valentin Gagarin 969e5ad5bf add semantics of overloaded + operator 2023-01-05 14:15:01 +01:00
Valentin Gagarin 63b640e0c2 reword descriptions of operators
add notes on semantics where appropriate
2023-01-05 14:15:01 +01:00
Valentin Gagarin e07448ba6b convert table to subsections
this form is much easier to maintain (also with minimal diffs), and
allows for more details on each operator.

this change a purely mechanical transformation, without changing any contents.
2023-01-05 14:15:01 +01:00
Valentin Gagarin caebe4112e reorder columns
this is for a simpler transformation into a series of subsections
2023-01-05 14:15:01 +01:00
Naïm Favier 3c968191f1
move unsafeDiscardReferences out of outputChecks
It's not a check.
2023-01-03 18:53:01 +01:00
Naïm Favier 15f7fa59be
unsafeDiscardReferences
Adds a new boolean structured attribute
`outputChecks.<output>.unsafeDiscardReferences` which disables scanning
an output for runtime references.

    __structuredAttrs = true;
    outputChecks.out.unsafeDiscardReferences = true;

This is useful when creating filesystem images containing their own embedded Nix
store: they are self-contained blobs of data with no runtime dependencies.

Setting this attribute requires the experimental feature
`discard-references` to be enabled.
2023-01-03 17:19:16 +01:00
Valentin Gagarin 9cb1610257 define the terms "realise" and "valid" for store paths
add links to the glossary definition where the terms are used
2023-01-03 13:53:53 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra 6b69652385 Merge remote-tracking branch 'origin/master' into coerce-string 2023-01-02 20:53:39 +01:00
Théophane Hufschmitt 34a31b33f1
Merge pull request #7278 from fricklerhandwerk/antiquotation
antiquotation -> string interpolation
2023-01-02 15:03:45 +01:00
Théophane Hufschmitt a654ae8269
Merge pull request #7066 from fricklerhandwerk/architecture-overview
manual: architecture overview
2023-01-02 14:42:01 +01:00
Valentin Gagarin e0c4a95611 antiquotation -> string interpolation
as proposed by @mkaito[1] and @tazjin[2] and discussed with @edolstra
and Nix maintainers

[1]: https://github.com/NixOS/nix.dev/pull/267#issuecomment-1270076332
[2]: https://github.com/NixOS/nix.dev/pull/267#issuecomment-1270201979

Co-authored-by: John Ericson <git@JohnEricson.me>
Co-authored-by: Eelco Dolstra <edolstra@gmail.com>
2023-01-02 14:38:57 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra 80a0f77e49
Merge pull request #7470 from obsidiansystems/simplify-tests-slightly
Make `./mk/run-test.sh` work by itself; add `mk/debug-test.sh`
2023-01-02 14:14:30 +01:00
Théophane Hufschmitt cfd6c7fc9b
Merge pull request #7485 from fricklerhandwerk/doc-store-derivation
define "store derivation"
2023-01-02 13:26:41 +01:00
John Ericson efbd1d15c6
Apply suggestions from code review
Co-authored-by: Valentin Gagarin <valentin.gagarin@tweag.io>
2022-12-23 08:59:36 -08:00
Eelco Dolstra c164d304f3 nix develop: Set personality
This makes 'nix develop' set the Linux personality in the same way
that the actual build does, allowing a command like 'nix develop
nix#devShells.i686-linux.default' on x86_64-linux to work correctly.
2022-12-23 16:33:55 +01:00
Akhil a3a0e414c2
Deletes build users and group 2022-12-23 14:06:51 +05:30
Valentin Gagarin 7797661a70 link "store derivation" to glossary definition 2022-12-21 11:42:50 +01:00
Valentin Gagarin 3a66d82e1d update description of "store derivation" in installables section
a store derivation is not a store path itself, it has a store path.
2022-12-21 11:42:22 +01:00
Valentin Gagarin 62f4f883a7 define "store derivation" 2022-12-21 11:42:22 +01:00
John Ericson 0251d44cc2 Make ./mk/run-test.sh work by itself; add mk/debug-test.sh
First, logic is consolidated in the shell script instead of being spread
between them and makefiles. That makes understanding what is going on a
little easier.

This would not be super interesting by itself, but it gives us a way to
debug tests more easily. *That* in turn I hope is much more compelling.
See the updated manual for details.

Co-authored-by: Valentin Gagarin <valentin.gagarin@tweag.io>
Co-authored-by: Eelco Dolstra <edolstra@gmail.com>
Co-authored-by: Robert Hensing <roberth@users.noreply.github.com>
2022-12-21 02:28:33 -05:00
Robert Hensing 1437582ccd
doc/book.toml: Improve config (#7300)
* doc/book.toml: Improve config

 - `title` value will be added to the HTML <title> - here</title>

 - `git-repository-url` adds a link to the GitHub repo in the top right corner

 - `edit-url-template` adds an edit link, inviting contributions

Co-authored-by: Valentin Gagarin <valentin.gagarin@tweag.io>
2022-12-20 16:29:32 +01:00
Valentin Gagarin 7e31a991db make relative links explicit 2022-12-20 14:28:43 +01:00
Valentin Gagarin c162c90b43 add more explanation to diagrams
this is to help reading the diagrams, otherwise arrows and labels were
reported as being ambiguous.
2022-12-20 09:59:59 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra 9fa8b02c41
Merge pull request #7456 from ncfavier/fix-links
doc: fix links
2022-12-13 17:27:13 +01:00
Naïm Favier 129ece7ce9
doc: fix links 2022-12-13 15:49:40 +01:00
John Ericson 5273cf4c97 Merge remote-tracking branch 'upstream/master' into indexed-store-path-outputs 2022-12-12 17:40:49 -05:00
John Ericson dabb03b8d0 Merge remote-tracking branch 'upstream/master' into indexed-store-path-outputs 2022-12-12 17:36:02 -05:00
John Ericson c7cce3e4e1 Improve release notes 2022-12-12 16:29:49 -05:00
Valentin Gagarin 4ed8bb1cb1 suggestions from review 2022-12-12 14:29:24 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra fa409131cd Add links to the manual
Co-authored-by: Valentin Gagarin <valentin.gagarin@tweag.io>
2022-12-12 14:05:54 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra fd0ed75118 Support flake references in the old CLI
Fixes #7026.
2022-12-12 14:05:52 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra 7396844676
Merge pull request #7421 from edolstra/lazy-trees-trivial-changes
Trivial changes from the lazy-trees branch
2022-12-12 13:52:56 +01:00
John Ericson 1879c7c95e
Merge branch 'master' into indexed-store-path-outputs 2022-12-12 07:33:36 -05:00
Eelco Dolstra c66c904a05 Tweak NIX_PATH description 2022-12-12 12:54:15 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra add417ec14 Fix indentation 2022-12-12 12:46:54 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra 037d5c4299
Manual improvements
Co-authored-by: Valentin Gagarin <valentin.gagarin@tweag.io>
2022-12-12 12:43:44 +01:00
Théophane Hufschmitt 830b3bddf9
Merge pull request #7324 from CircuitCoder/master
Update uninstall guide involving systemd
2022-12-09 13:57:26 +01:00
Théophane Hufschmitt 1dd7779c7c
Merge pull request #7379 from fricklerhandwerk/refactor-generate-options
refactor rendering documentation of options
2022-12-08 06:39:13 +01:00
Valentin Gagarin ebeaf03558 do not render links in man pages
this is a follow-up on e7dcacb.

most links are relative and this should not be too much of a detriment.
2022-12-07 16:20:25 +01:00
Valentin Gagarin b8a1ff98c1 use HTML anchors for config parameters
this avoids incorrect rendering on the man pages, since `lowdown`
neither parses the anchor syntax nor HTML.

this should rather be fixed in lowdown, as adding more anchors
would otherwise produce ever more noise and error-prone repetition.
2022-12-07 16:18:50 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra b5b7902a08
Merge branch 'master' into remove-repeat 2022-12-07 16:04:47 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra 703d863a48 Trivial changes from the lazy-trees branch 2022-12-07 14:06:34 +01:00
endgame c710aa1abd
Post build hook signing (#7408)
* docs: Use secret-key-files when demonstrating post-build-hooks

The docs used to recommend calling `nix store sign` in a post-build
hook, but on more recent versions of nix, this results in unsigned
store paths being copied into binary caches. See
https://github.com/NixOS/nix/issues/6960 for details.

Instead, use the `secret-key-files` config option, which signs all
locally-built derivations with the private key.

Co-authored-by: Valentin Gagarin <valentin.gagarin@tweag.io>
2022-12-07 13:55:02 +01:00
Linus Heckemann 8e0946e8df Remove repeat and enforce-determinism options
These only functioned if a very narrow combination of conditions held:

- The result path does not yet exist (--check did not result in
  repeated builds), AND
- The result path is not available from any configured substituters, AND
- No remote builders that can build the path are available.

If any of these do not hold, a derivation would be built 0 or 1 times
regardless of the repeat option. Thus, remove it to avoid confusion.
2022-12-07 11:36:48 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra 5b4b2eefa1 Release notes 2022-12-06 13:55:09 +01:00
Valentin Gagarin 180538672a disallow selecting shell prompt in code samples
this is a quick half-fix for command line examples, as discussed
discussed in [1].

[1]: https://github.com/NixOS/nix/pull/7389

examples which look like this

    $ foo bar
    baz

are confusing for Unix shell beginners, because it's hard to discern
what is supposed to be entered into the actual command line when the
convention of prefixing `$` is not known, as barely any real-world shell
looks that way any more.

this change prevents selecting the prompt part with the mouse in the
HTML representation of the Nix manual.

it does not prevent selecting the output part of the shell example.
it also does not address that the copy button provided by mdBook takes
the entire sample, including the prompts, into the clipboard.
2022-12-05 11:01:46 +01:00
Valentin Gagarin ca42068bdc
Merge pull request #7251 from RelationalAI-oss/sp-docs-uninstall-prompt
docs: drop shell prompt character for consistency
2022-12-01 19:24:09 +01:00
Valentin Gagarin dfa27e6b2f refactor rendering documentation of options
this makes more obvious what the code produces, and the structure of the
output easier to change
2022-12-01 06:08:08 +01:00
Valentin Gagarin 0ea62670ed move documentation on auto-allocate-uids to options docs
this is where it belongs and can be found together with the other
options.
2022-12-01 04:40:02 +01:00
Valentin Gagarin 3f881e3378
add missing newline, for consistent formatting 2022-11-30 23:40:53 +01:00
Théophane Hufschmitt 0596bdf3a9
Merge pull request #7342 from fricklerhandwerk/refactor-generate-builtins
refactor rendering documentation of builtins
2022-11-29 15:55:43 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra 7dd3e1fec4 Add example 2022-11-28 22:04:51 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra 67bcb99700 Add a setting for enabling cgroups 2022-11-28 21:54:02 +01:00
Liu Xiaoyi c4ce89f772
Clarify uninstallation steps on Linux
Co-authored-by: Valentin Gagarin <valentin.gagarin@tweag.io>
2022-11-26 22:01:51 +08:00
John Ericson 26534f141c
Merge branch 'master' into indexed-store-path-outputs 2022-11-25 08:14:32 -05:00
Valentin Gagarin d6318e1638 refactor rendering documentation of builtins
as in [1], make the document structure visible, like in a template

[1]: 4655563470
2022-11-24 14:15:43 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra 2aa3f2e810 Include UID in hex 2022-11-23 17:07:59 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra 989fc8a8b9 Add release notes 2022-11-23 15:24:50 +01:00
Valentin Gagarin 52f0c80917 fix error in language overview
it is not possible to antiquote numbers.
2022-11-22 10:36:21 +01:00
Liu Xiaoyi 4d55acf515
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Co-authored-by: Sandro <sandro.jaeckel@gmail.com>
2022-11-21 13:46:22 +08:00
Liu Xiaoyi cc620d961f Updated uninstall guide involving systemd
Co-authored-by: sequencer <liu@jiuyang.me>
2022-11-20 20:04:29 +08:00
Théophane Hufschmitt 6bf8736517 Add release-notes for the context-restriction in readFile 2022-11-14 15:03:53 +01:00
Théophane Hufschmitt 302ddee749
Merge pull request #7279 from fricklerhandwerk/uninstall
add removing users to uninstall instructions
2022-11-11 14:39:07 +01:00
Valentin Gagarin 2af036e5a3
remove stray comma 2022-11-11 14:01:13 +01:00
Théophane Hufschmitt f225f43076
Merge pull request #7006 from fricklerhandwerk/redirects
manual: generalize anchor redirects
2022-11-09 11:23:26 +01:00
Valentin Gagarin 9d20a056c8 remove external link
the language has its own overview page where its properties are
described in sufficient detail.
2022-11-09 01:36:17 +01:00
Valentin Gagarin 3d716df7ce make diagrams compatible with svgbob
this will at some point enable rendering them nicely for the web
2022-11-09 01:29:01 +01:00
Valentin Gagarin 98447c1a7f clarify subject of sentence
Co-authored-by: Bryan Honof <bryan.honof@tweag.io>
2022-11-09 01:29:01 +01:00
Valentin Gagarin b5728ace5d add articles 2022-11-09 01:29:01 +01:00
Valentin Gagarin be8744f937 manual: architecture overview
these changes were not merged properly and had to be reverted.

see merge commit d8e54d19f7 for full
history leading up to here.
2022-11-09 01:29:01 +01:00
Valentin Gagarin d8781c4fc5 add removing users to uninstall instructions 2022-11-09 01:11:47 +01:00
Valentin Gagarin ffca3e34cb
Merge pull request #6906 from fricklerhandwerk/language-overview
add syntax overview from NixOS manual
2022-11-09 00:52:53 +01:00
Valentin Gagarin daedaa197d fix typos in comments 2022-11-09 00:49:34 +01:00
Valentin Gagarin f7ab93b068 manual: build action -> build task
after discussing this with multiple people, I'm convinced that "build
task" is more precise: a derivation is not an action, but inert until it
is built. also it's easier to pronounce.

proposal: use "build task" for the generic concept "description of how
to derive new files from the contents of existing files". then it will
be easier to distinguish what we mean by "derivation" (a specific data
structure and Nix language value type) and "store derivation" (a
serialisation of a derivation into a file in the Nix store).
2022-11-06 13:28:18 +01:00
Sagar Patel c068cce107
docs: drop shell prompt character for consistency
In addition to consistency, the fancy "Copy to clipboard" button on the
website will copy the prompt character. Retaining the prompt character
would mean having to edit each command after pasting in the terminal.
2022-11-01 00:09:00 -04:00
John Ericson 13f2a6f38d
Merge branch 'master' into indexed-store-path-outputs 2022-10-28 23:22:18 +01:00
Théophane Hufschmitt 74cc24f4cf
Merge pull request #7191 from jherland/antiquoted-paths
Explain how Nix handles antiquotation of paths
2022-10-26 12:42:59 +02:00
Guillaume Maudoux 2a7348f986 Fixup merge typo 2022-10-22 23:38:50 +02:00
Patrick Jackson b44df13701 manual: update options generation code to use default values 2022-10-20 12:05:04 -07:00
Johan Herland 1ec8810687 Explain how Nix handles antiquotation of paths
Specifically, explain why Nix does not _re_evaluate paths during a
`nix repl` session. This is a thing that bit me while playing around
with paths and antiquotation in `nix repl` while reading the Nix
language tutorial at https://nix.dev/tutorials/nix-language.

Co-authored-by: Valentin Gagarin <valentin.gagarin@tweag.io>
2022-10-19 11:50:58 +02:00
Guillaume Maudoux 3f9f6ae127 Merge remote-tracking branch 'origin/master' into coerce-string 2022-10-16 20:39:19 +02:00
Ana Hobden 069409d167 Print common flags in --help 2022-10-07 09:07:22 -07:00
Valentin Gagarin ac0fb38e8a
Merge pull request #6652 from abathur/doc_install_tests 2022-10-05 17:45:42 +02:00
Travis A. Everett e1418430ac
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2022-10-05 09:52:53 -05:00
Valentin Gagarin 927234cfb2
Merge pull request #6870 from amjoseph-nixpkgs/pr/doc/explain-local-remote-binary-substituter 2022-10-05 09:01:42 +02:00
Théophane Hufschmitt 3ae9467d57
Merge pull request #6969 from fricklerhandwerk/refactor-generate-manpage
refactor rendering command documentation to markdown
2022-10-03 15:50:17 +02:00
Valentin Gagarin d8bef7358f bring back lost newline 2022-09-30 01:43:57 +02:00
Valentin Gagarin 70eea97742 use more self-explanatory names 2022-09-30 01:43:57 +02:00
Valentin Gagarin 61188cb820 move final template to the top
this allows readers to enter the code starting with what is visible from
the outside, instead of working themselves up from purely technical details.
2022-09-30 01:43:57 +02:00
Valentin Gagarin 0e0f1832de remove superfluous let-in pair 2022-09-30 01:43:57 +02:00
Valentin Gagarin a85df04fcb refactor showOptions
it was quite a pain to manipulate strings just with `builtins`
2022-09-30 01:43:53 +02:00
Valentin Gagarin 4655563470 refactor rendering command documentation to markdown
idea:
- make document structure visible, like in a template
- order functions by descending abstraction
- avoid nested let bindings
2022-09-30 01:42:46 +02:00
Valentin Gagarin 6b56bb4a79 use indented strings where appropriate 2022-09-30 01:42:46 +02:00
Solene Rapenne 847cd49909 nix-copy-closure: improve wording 2022-09-28 01:05:46 +02:00
Théophane Hufschmitt 6a64820cb4
Merge pull request #7082 from rapenne-s/ccache
add ccacheStdenv
2022-09-24 12:45:27 +02:00
Solène Rapenne e04b38f789 add ccacheStdenv
when using ccache, rebuild time has been measured
89% faster while not slowing the speed of cold builds
2022-09-23 11:21:19 +02:00
Travis A. Everett 84bdb0e3ad address review feedback
Mainly:
- Try to triangulate between narrative that framed this as
  a new/easy process and the need for a reference that will
  not quickly grow stale.
- Fix a ~continuity issue where the text was talking about
  "your Cachix cache" before saying that you'd need to make
  a Cachix cache to enable the installer tests.
- Adopt suggestion on titling, and nest subtitles in the
  installer test section.
2022-09-18 13:02:42 -05:00
Travis A. Everett 4bd52bf6c4
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2022-09-17 13:20:11 -05:00
Adam Joseph ad5b09423a release-notes/rl-next.md: note new argument to fetchurl.nix 2022-09-16 01:59:24 -07:00
Valentin Gagarin dc8c0b173c
Update doc/manual/src/contributing/hacking.md 2022-09-16 09:36:55 +02:00
Valentin Gagarin 1ae974120a
Update doc/manual/src/contributing/hacking.md 2022-09-16 09:36:37 +02:00
Valentin Gagarin 0a4bd9fe88
Update doc/manual/src/contributing/hacking.md 2022-09-16 09:36:30 +02:00
Valentin Gagarin 47fa1087c8
Update doc/manual/src/contributing/hacking.md 2022-09-16 09:36:20 +02:00
Valentin Gagarin 1d295e5fe7
Merge pull request #6934 from fricklerhandwerk/revert-architecture
Revert #6420 "Document what Nix *is*" so we can start over with smaller change sets
2022-09-09 13:31:05 +02:00
Valentin Gagarin 8dd5ba2f47 more precise variable types 2022-09-09 09:54:24 +02:00
Valentin Gagarin 548c904d40 optimize performance
remove loops and function calls, modify arrays in place

this makes the whole thing harder to read, and probably only
marginally faster.
2022-09-08 11:58:43 +02:00
Guillaume Maudoux eb460a9529 WIP: broken merge but need a git checkpoint 2022-09-07 00:34:03 +02:00
Valentin Gagarin 59be1e500a generalize anchor redirects
renaming section headers and changing manually set `id`s will break URLs
in the wild.

this change allows keeping track of all changes to ensure backwards
compatibility.
2022-09-06 00:49:16 +02:00
Adam Joseph e90f2fcfc7 glossary: add entry for chroot store (used 11 times in nix) 2022-09-01 18:28:05 -07:00
Adam Joseph e6f5352e71 #binary-cache -> #gloss-binary-cache 2022-09-01 18:27:00 -07:00
Adam Joseph 59dc8346ca move substituter signature-checking conditions to configuration file documentation 2022-09-01 17:51:56 -07:00
Adam Joseph f6c750e8b2 glossary: remove extraneous comma 2022-09-01 17:48:34 -07:00
Adam Joseph 887e922be2 glossary: outputHash, not __outputHash 2022-09-01 17:47:13 -07:00
Adam Joseph d5e064d816 glossary: fix broken link 2022-09-01 17:46:31 -07:00
Adam Joseph 57f12df5e4 input-addressed store object: include FODOs 2022-09-01 15:09:10 -07:00
Adam Joseph 8139bbe2ba implement https://github.com/NixOS/nix/pull/6870#pullrequestreview-1093700220 2022-09-01 15:01:07 -07:00
Adam Joseph def4fb9a0f __outputHash: add link 2022-09-01 14:47:33 -07:00
Adam Joseph 1b2b8c39fd fix link to language/advanced-attributes.md#adv-attr-contentAddressed 2022-09-01 14:47:17 -07:00
Adam Joseph 0a98d564b3 glossary: resolve FIXME in #gloss-fixed-output-derivation 2022-09-01 14:41:27 -07:00
Adam Joseph 1f56b5d772 doc/manual: un-inline definitions from substitute 2022-09-01 14:13:21 -07:00
Adam Joseph 41153f30bd glossary: substituter: merge output-addressed cases 2022-09-01 14:13:21 -07:00
Adam Joseph 9cb8412143
Update doc/manual/src/glossary.md
Co-authored-by: John Ericson <git@JohnEricson.me>
2022-09-01 20:41:04 +00:00
Adam Joseph 2812682ebe
Update doc/manual/src/glossary.md
Co-authored-by: John Ericson <git@JohnEricson.me>
2022-09-01 20:40:39 +00:00
Adam Joseph 520587b9a0 glossary: local store: clarify 2022-09-01 13:39:48 -07:00
Valentin Gagarin f35b3aa47b do not use unwarranted pkgs in example 2022-08-31 09:16:37 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra 1f2b12b30e
Merge pull request #6968 from fricklerhandwerk/man-no-weblinks
do not render relative links in help pages
2022-08-29 08:46:35 +02:00
Valentin Gagarin e7dcacbd7c do not render relative links in help pages
this simplifies the setup a lot, and avoids weird looking `./file.md`
links showing up.

it also does not show regular URLs any more. currently the command
reference only has few of them, and not showing them in the offline
documentation is hopefully not a big deal.

instead of building more special-case solutions, clumsily preprocessing
the input, or issuing verbal rules on dealing with URLs, should better
be solved sustainably by not rendering relative links in `lowdown`:

https://github.com/kristapsdz/lowdown/issues/105
2022-08-26 17:10:41 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra b0488a29dc Branch 2.11 release notes 2022-08-24 22:44:58 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra 04e74f7c8b
Merge pull request #6612 from NixOS/parallel-nix-copy
Make nix copy parallel again
2022-08-24 15:31:42 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra 4c96761c2b Merge remote-tracking branch 'origin/master' into parallel-nix-copy 2022-08-22 15:29:10 +02:00
Valentin Gagarin d8e54d19f7 Revert "Merge pull request #6420 from nix-community/doc-what-is-nix"
This reverts commit 81e101345f, reversing
changes made to 7d1280bbaf.
2022-08-22 12:52:15 +02:00
Andrei Boar 50f5b6c733
Update doc/manual/src/command-ref/env-common.md
Co-authored-by: Valentin Gagarin <valentin.gagarin@tweag.io>
2022-08-19 12:28:51 +03:00
Andrei Boar 82b867d0b5 cover empty string case 2022-08-19 11:51:32 +03:00
Valentin Gagarin 703b335c1d reword description of language properties
the list style is supposed to give more structure.
each property is explained as concisely as possible while trying not to
sound too fancy.
2022-08-15 11:34:39 +02:00
Valentin Gagarin 71e9c28694 reword introduction to overview 2022-08-15 11:15:03 +02:00
Valentin Gagarin bc315326fa fix whitespace to please markdown
keep some indentation to ease source readability
2022-08-15 11:13:05 +02:00
Valentin Gagarin 6ba8d6dc82 add more examples on string interpolation 2022-08-15 11:06:40 +02:00
Valentin Gagarin c209e6e108 add more list examples 2022-08-15 10:18:56 +02:00
Valentin Gagarin 0378531bf2 add curried function 2022-08-15 10:18:56 +02:00
Valentin Gagarin 2e4704ca93 add second @ pattern example 2022-08-15 10:18:56 +02:00
Valentin Gagarin 5c25bdee50 add null 2022-08-15 10:18:56 +02:00
Valentin Gagarin 391fd10b12 add home path 2022-08-15 10:18:56 +02:00
Valentin Gagarin 587ae9ada5 add search path 2022-08-15 10:18:56 +02:00
Valentin Gagarin 21438acc70 add absolute path 2022-08-15 10:18:56 +02:00
Valentin Gagarin e6f7c180de add floating point number 2022-08-15 10:18:56 +02:00
Valentin Gagarin 292cab039d add multi-line string 2022-08-15 10:18:56 +02:00
Valentin Gagarin f165a8ae08 flarify relative path semantics 2022-08-15 10:18:56 +02:00
Valentin Gagarin 43188d3d18 make hash and version distinguishable as placeholder 2022-08-15 10:18:56 +02:00
Valentin Gagarin 90836397d3 remove stale section link 2022-08-15 10:18:56 +02:00
Valentin Gagarin 3378a3bce8 add syntax overview from NixOS manual
taken verbatim to keep track of required corrections.

made it an HTML table to more easily change structure and keep diffs
minimal.
2022-08-15 10:18:56 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra af4e8b00fb
Merge pull request #6882 from DeterminateSystems/allow-multi-user-as-root
Allow installing multi-user as root on macOS and Linux
2022-08-12 10:19:03 +02:00
Graham Christensen 7bb1e913b3 Don't prompt about using sudo if we're already root 2022-08-10 09:37:08 -04:00
Graham Christensen 88a0f3b6ba Strip whitespace in installing-binary.md 2022-08-10 09:37:08 -04:00
Adam Joseph bac1e1bf8c
Update doc/manual/src/glossary.md
Co-authored-by: Valentin Gagarin <valentin.gagarin@tweag.io>
2022-08-08 17:52:31 +00:00
Travis A. Everett 9b7bd2dd1f
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2022-08-08 10:04:27 -05:00
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2022-08-05 13:49:18 -05:00
Adam Joseph 1d3b92e80c move package-management/terminology into glossary.md 2022-08-05 10:39:43 -07:00
Adam Joseph 4de95f7f56 gesture at explanation of why binary caches exist 2022-08-05 10:33:48 -07:00
Adam Joseph d5506aa712
Update doc/manual/src/package-management/terminology.md
Co-authored-by: Attila Gulyas <toraritte@gmail.com>
2022-08-05 17:19:52 +00:00
Adam Joseph 66a93a76b9
Update doc/manual/src/package-management/terminology.md
Co-authored-by: Attila Gulyas <toraritte@gmail.com>
2022-08-05 17:15:37 +00:00
Adam Joseph 2eb74c918d derivations do not need to be signed 2022-08-05 10:13:41 -07:00
Adam Joseph aae771cad2 !implement https://github.com/NixOS/nix/pull/6870#discussion_r938912244 2022-08-05 10:12:46 -07:00
Eelco Dolstra 4eb566603a
Comment out the architecture section
This needs more review and probably should be a separate book.
2022-08-05 11:01:40 +02:00
Adam Joseph 1b97f3872e !fixup: transposed characters 2022-08-04 14:22:14 -07:00
Adam Joseph 62674659ed !fixup capitalize Nix 2022-08-04 14:21:17 -07:00
Adam Joseph 8f44d24c52 !fixup whitespace 2022-08-04 14:19:25 -07:00