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Krzysztof Gogolewski c8cb558849 documentation: avoid unquoted URLs 2020-05-21 19:29:13 +02:00
Benjamin Hipple 146f9c114f doc: consistently refer to 'fixed-output' with a dash
General cleanup that makes it easier to search for the term.
2020-05-09 10:58:43 -04:00
Jonas Chevalier 895516cadf
add NIX_USER_CONF_FILES
Motivation: maintain project-level configuration files.

Document the whole situation a bit better so that it corresponds to the
implementation, and add NIX_USER_CONF_FILES that allows overriding
which user files Nix will load during startup.
2020-04-14 18:45:06 +02:00
Greg Price e40e01c1dd doc: Files in the store have modes 444/555, not 644/755
This line has been this way since it was written, in 9e08f5efe
in 2006.

I think it was just a small mistake then; Eelco's thesis earlier
that year says the permission on each file is set to 0444 or 0555
in a derivation's output as part of the build process.  In any
case I'm pretty sure that's the behavior now.
2020-03-23 20:23:27 -07:00
jakobrs c5a488afc0 Remove the --delete option for --gc
Running `nix-store --gc --delete` will, as of Nix 2.3.3, simply fail
because the --delete option conflicts with the --delete operation.

  $ nix-store --gc --delete
  error: only one operation may be specified
  Try 'nix-store --help' for more information.

Furthermore, it has been broken since at least Nix 0.16 (which was
released sometime in 2010), which means that any scripts which depend
on it should have been broken at least nine years ago. This commit
simply formally removes the option. There should be no actual difference
in behaviour as far as the user is concerned: it errors with the exact
same error message. The manual has been edited to remove any references
to the (now gone) --delete option.

Other information:
* Path for Nix 0.16 used:
  /nix/store/rp3sgmskn0p0pj1ia2qwd5al6f6pinz4-nix-0.16
2020-03-19 19:41:23 +01:00
YI b6d794fb8d display attr-path only when queried available 2020-03-14 00:36:26 +08:00
Joe Pea 3895e78794
Add link to official channels in nix-channel command ref 2020-01-09 14:20:08 -08:00
Eelco Dolstra 0be8d7784f
Typo 2019-11-26 20:33:46 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra 73efc1e8e7
Merge branch 'document-dry-run-option' of https://github.com/Ma27/nix 2019-11-26 20:32:50 +01:00
Niklas Hambüchen 07294e988c manual: nix-shell: Elaborate on using -p with expressions.
This documents the outcome of the change in
https://github.com/NixOS/nix/issues/454:

> We can also automatically add parentheses in the generated
> `buildInputs`, so you can type `nix-shell -p "expr"`
> instead of `"(expr").
2019-11-10 17:29:13 +01:00
Maximilian Bosch 52ffe2797a
doc: Document --dry-run option for nix-build 2019-11-07 00:11:57 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra 81a9b93689
Fix manual build 2019-11-05 11:21:32 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra 7876027071
Merge pull request #3193 from matthewbauer/patch-11
Update man to show that nix-shell allows --arg
2019-11-05 11:18:24 +01:00
Kevin Stock cea05e5ee7
docs: correct default location of log directory 2019-11-04 16:23:03 -05:00
Matthew Bauer f1d4ba2afd
Update man to show that nix-shell allows --arg 2019-11-01 13:25:15 -04:00
Eelco Dolstra ab4dd1d783
Merge pull request #2291 from Taneb/master
nix-channel documentation: don't suggest deprecated function
2019-10-17 12:53:42 +02:00
Danny Bautista 00a567588e Fix typos in the Nix Manual. 2019-10-08 14:02:40 -04:00
toonn 5bdac86be2 Reword to clarify newer generations are left alone
My attempt at clarifying the docs resulted in a false explanation. This
is now fixed and I added an example to eliminate all possible confusion.
2019-08-29 13:56:21 +02:00
Toon Nolten 1dbaf11948 Fix nix-env documentation for --delete-generations
The documentation for `--delete-generations` had an erroneous fullstop
and as it turns out inaccurate information on the `+No.` syntax.
2019-08-17 16:33:35 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra b7ea98bf34
Merge pull request #2945 from danidiaz/doc001
Expanded documentation for .nix-defexpr
2019-08-15 15:03:21 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra 477f82e5a7
Merge pull request #2782 from grahamc/flames
Track function start and end
2019-08-15 14:20:42 +02:00
Daniel Diaz 653c407784
Expanded documentation for .nix-defexpr 2019-08-15 08:05:22 -04:00
Graham Christensen ee9c988a1b
Track function start and ends for flame graphs
With this patch, and this file I called `log.py`:

    #!/usr/bin/env nix-shell
    #!nix-shell -i python3 -p python3 --pure

    import sys
    from pprint import pprint

    stack = []
    timestack = []

    for line in open(sys.argv[1]):
        components = line.strip().split(" ", 2)
        if components[0] != "function-trace":
            continue

        direction = components[1]
        components = components[2].rsplit(" ", 2)

        loc = components[0]
        _at = components[1]
        time = int(components[2])

        if direction == "entered":
            stack.append(loc)
            timestack.append(time)
        elif direction == "exited":
            dur = time - timestack.pop()
            vst = ";".join(stack)
            print(f"{vst} {dur}")
            stack.pop()

and:

    nix-instantiate --trace-function-calls -vvvv ../nixpkgs/pkgs/top-level/release.nix -A unstable > log.matthewbauer 2>&1
    ./log.py ./log.matthewbauer > log.matthewbauer.folded
    flamegraph.pl --title matthewbauer-post-pr log.matthewbauer.folded > log.matthewbauer.folded.svg

I can make flame graphs like: http://gsc.io/log.matthewbauer.folded.svg

---

Includes test cases around function call failures and tryEval. Uses
RAII so the finish is always called at the end of the function.
2019-08-14 16:09:35 -04:00
Graham Christensen a02457db71
conf: stalled-download-timeout: make tunable
Make curl's low speed limit configurable via stalled-download-timeout.
Before, this limit was five minutes without receiving a single byte.
This is much too long as if the remote end may not have even
acknowledged the HTTP request.
2019-08-08 10:22:13 -04:00
Graham Christensen 1eeaf99cf8
fixup: docs for post-build-hook 2019-08-07 14:53:11 -04:00
Eelco Dolstra 56df30cd3f
Merge pull request #2995 from tweag/post-build-hook
Add a post build hook
2019-08-07 15:02:29 +02:00
Graham Christensen 363a2f6826
post-build-hook: docs fixup 2019-08-06 14:26:43 -04:00
regnat 7c5596734f
Add a post-build-hook
Passing `--post-build-hook /foo/bar` to a nix-* command will cause
`/foo/bar` to be executed after each build with the following
environment variables set:

    DRV_PATH=/nix/store/drv-that-has-been-built.drv
    OUT_PATHS=/nix/store/...build /nix/store/...build-bin /nix/store/...build-dev

This can be useful in particular to upload all the builded artifacts to
the cache (including the ones that don't appear in the runtime closure
of the final derivation or are built because of IFD).

This new feature prints the stderr/stdout output to the `nix-build`
and `nix build` client, and the output is printed in a Nix 2
compatible format:

    [nix]$ ./inst/bin/nix-build ./test.nix
    these derivations will be built:
      /nix/store/ishzj9ni17xq4hgrjvlyjkfvm00b0ch9-my-example-derivation.drv
    building '/nix/store/ishzj9ni17xq4hgrjvlyjkfvm00b0ch9-my-example-derivation.drv'...
    hello!
    bye!
    running post-build-hook '/home/grahamc/projects/github.com/NixOS/nix/post-hook.sh'...
    post-build-hook: + sleep 1
    post-build-hook: + echo 'Signing paths' /nix/store/qr213vjmibrqwnyp5fw678y7whbkqyny-my-example-derivation
    post-build-hook: Signing paths /nix/store/qr213vjmibrqwnyp5fw678y7whbkqyny-my-example-derivation
    post-build-hook: + sleep 1
    post-build-hook: + echo 'Uploading paths' /nix/store/qr213vjmibrqwnyp5fw678y7whbkqyny-my-example-derivation
    post-build-hook: Uploading paths /nix/store/qr213vjmibrqwnyp5fw678y7whbkqyny-my-example-derivation
    post-build-hook: + sleep 1
    post-build-hook: + printf 'very important stuff'
    /nix/store/qr213vjmibrqwnyp5fw678y7whbkqyny-my-example-derivation

    [nix-shell:~/projects/github.com/NixOS/nix]$ ./inst/bin/nix build -L -f ./test.nix
    my-example-derivation> hello!
    my-example-derivation> bye!
    my-example-derivation (post)> + sleep 1
    my-example-derivation (post)> + echo 'Signing paths' /nix/store/c263gzj2kb2609mz8wrbmh53l14wzmfs-my-example-derivation
    my-example-derivation (post)> Signing paths /nix/store/c263gzj2kb2609mz8wrbmh53l14wzmfs-my-example-derivation
    my-example-derivation (post)> + sleep 1
    my-example-derivation (post)> + echo 'Uploading paths' /nix/store/c263gzj2kb2609mz8wrbmh53l14wzmfs-my-example-derivation
    my-example-derivation (post)> Uploading paths /nix/store/c263gzj2kb2609mz8wrbmh53l14wzmfs-my-example-derivation
    my-example-derivation (post)> + sleep 1
    my-example-derivation (post)> + printf 'very important stuff'
    [1 built, 0.0 MiB DL]

Co-authored-by: Graham Christensen <graham@grahamc.com>
Co-authored-by: Eelco Dolstra <edolstra@gmail.com>
2019-08-02 10:48:15 -04:00
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 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
Daiderd Jordan a3c77c1536
nix-store: document --add-fixed 2019-07-02 09:12:02 -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
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
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
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
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