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Eelco Dolstra 62a6eeb1f3 Make the Nix search path declarative
Nix search path lookups like <nixpkgs> are now desugared to ‘findFile
nixPath <nixpkgs>’, where ‘findFile’ is a new primop. Thus you can
override the search path simply by saying

  let
    nixPath = [ { prefix = "nixpkgs"; path = "/my-nixpkgs"; } ];
  in ... <nixpkgs> ...

In conjunction with ‘scopedImport’ (commit
c273c15cb1), the Nix search path can be
propagated across imports, e.g.

  let

    overrides = {
      nixPath = [ ... ] ++ builtins.nixPath;
      import = fn: scopedImport overrides fn;
      scopedImport = attrs: fn: scopedImport (overrides // attrs) fn;
      builtins = builtins // overrides;
    };

  in scopedImport overrides ./nixos
2014-05-26 17:02:22 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra 39d72640c2 Ensure that -I flags get included in nixPath
Also fixes #261.
2014-05-26 16:52:31 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra a8edf185a9 Add constant ‘nixPath’
It contains the Nix expression search path as a list of { prefix, path
} sets, e.g.

  [ { path = "/nix/var/nix/profiles/per-user/root/channels/nixos"; prefix = ""; }
    { path = "/etc/nixos/configuration.nix"; prefix = "nixos-config"; }
    { path = "/home/eelco/Dev/nix/inst/share/nix/corepkgs"; prefix = "nix"; }
  ]
2014-05-26 14:55:47 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra c273c15cb1 Add primop ‘scopedImport’
‘scopedImport’ works like ‘import’, except that it takes a set of
attributes to be added to the lexical scope of the expression,
essentially extending or overriding the builtin variables.  For
instance, the expression

  scopedImport { x = 1; } ./foo.nix

where foo.nix contains ‘x’, will evaluate to 1.

This has a few applications:

* It allows getting rid of function argument specifications in package
  expressions. For instance, a package expression like:

    { stdenv, fetchurl, libfoo }:

    stdenv.mkDerivation { ... buildInputs = [ libfoo ]; }

  can now we written as just

    stdenv.mkDerivation { ... buildInputs = [ libfoo ]; }

  and imported in all-packages.nix as:

    bar = scopedImport pkgs ./bar.nix;

  So whereas we once had dependencies listed in three places
  (buildInputs, the function, and the call site), they now only need
  to appear in one place.

* It allows overriding builtin functions. For instance, to trace all
  calls to ‘map’:

  let
    overrides = {
      map = f: xs: builtins.trace "map called!" (map f xs);

      # Ensure that our override gets propagated by calls to
      # import/scopedImport.
      import = fn: scopedImport overrides fn;

      scopedImport = attrs: fn: scopedImport (overrides // attrs) fn;

      # Also update ‘builtins’.
      builtins = builtins // overrides;
    };
  in scopedImport overrides ./bla.nix

* Similarly, it allows extending the set of builtin functions. For
  instance, during Nixpkgs/NixOS evaluation, the Nixpkgs library
  functions could be added to the default scope.

There is a downside: calls to scopedImport are not memoized, unlike
import. So importing a file multiple times leads to multiple parsings
/ evaluations. It would be possible to construct the AST only once,
but that would require careful handling of variables/environments.
2014-05-26 14:26:29 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra f0fdbd0897 Shut up some signedness warnings 2014-05-26 12:34:15 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra 0321ef9bb2 Ugly hack to allow --argstr values starting with a dash
Fixes #265.
2014-05-23 14:43:58 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra 3064a82156 Disable parallel.sh test
It breaks randomly: http://hydra.nixos.org/build/11152871
2014-05-22 11:38:50 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra 9f9080e2c0 nix-store -l: Fetch build logs from the Internet
If a build log is not available locally, then ‘nix-store -l’ will now
try to download it from the servers listed in the ‘log-servers’ option
in nix.conf. For instance, if you have:

  log-servers = http://hydra.nixos.org/log

then it will try to get logs from http://hydra.nixos.org/log/<base
name of the store path>. So you can do things like:

  $ nix-store -l $(which xterm)

and get a log even if xterm wasn't built locally.
2014-05-21 17:19:36 +02:00
Shea Levy eac5841970 Provide a more useful error message when a dynamic attr lookup fails 2014-05-15 17:56:24 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra 8d5f472f2c lvlInfo -> lvlTalkative 2014-05-15 11:37:44 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra 84813af5b9 nix-store --optimise: Remove bogus statistics 2014-05-15 11:33:46 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra 690adeb03d Remove tab 2014-05-15 11:19:16 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra a1b66f316e Merge branch 'master' of github.com:wmertens/nix 2014-05-15 11:18:29 +02:00
Wout Mertens 3b9ea8452f Shortcut store files before lstat
readdir() already returns the inode numbers, so we don't need to call
lstat to know if a file was already linked or not.
2014-05-15 09:02:22 +02:00
Wout Mertens d73ffc552f Use the inodes given by readdir directly 2014-05-14 22:52:10 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra e384e7b387 Remove redundant code 2014-05-14 22:25:25 +02:00
Wout Mertens e974f20c98 Preload linked hashes to speed up lookups
By preloading all inodes in the /nix/store/.links directory, we can
quickly determine of a hardlinked file was already linked to the hashed
links.
This is tolerant of removing the .links directory, it will simply
recalculate all hashes in the store.
2014-05-13 23:10:06 +02:00
Ricky Elrod 36662eb562 Prepare nix-mode to be uploaded to marmalade
Signed-off-by: Ricky Elrod <ricky@elrod.me>
2014-05-13 12:58:13 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra 95501c4dee nix-instantiate --eval: Apply auto-arguments if the result is a function
Fixes #254.
2014-05-13 12:56:48 +02:00
Charles Strahan a55e77ae10 fix typo 2014-05-13 10:54:03 +02:00
wmertens a84f503d86 Shortcut already-hardlinked files
If an inode in the Nix store has more than 1 link, it probably means that it was linked into .links/ by us. If so, skip.

There's a possibility that something else hardlinked the file, so it would be nice to be able to override this.

Also, by looking at the number of hardlinks for each of the files in .links/, you can get deduplication numbers and space savings.
2014-05-10 15:53:01 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra aa9b1cf48e Really fix the RPM builds
http://hydra.nixos.org/build/10840199
2014-05-06 10:51:16 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra 2c4affbaa8 Fix RPM build
We don't install a nix.conf anymore.

http://hydra.nixos.org/build/10826143
2014-05-05 20:22:35 +02:00
Rob Vermaas 93506e60d2 Add ubuntu 14.04 2014-05-03 17:54:48 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra 40250f23a0 Don't install Upstart job on Fedora
Also, don't install a nix.conf anymore, it's not needed.

http://hydra.nixos.org/build/10775854
2014-05-02 19:05:08 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra 6dd1087396 Fix Debian tests
These actually run as root in a VM, so they get confused.

http://hydra.nixos.org/build/10775854
2014-05-02 19:02:10 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra a8c31d5011 Simplify multi-user installation instructions 2014-05-02 14:44:44 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra 696f960dee Set up directories and permissions for multi-user install automatically
This automatically creates /nix/var/nix/profiles/per-user and sets the
permissions/ownership on /nix/store to 1775 and root:nixbld.
2014-05-02 14:31:15 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra 20668b1363 Install an Upstart service 2014-05-02 13:14:10 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra de4cdd0d47 Set build-max-jobs to the number of available cores by default
More zero configuration.
2014-05-02 12:51:43 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra ada3e3fa15 When running as root, use build users by default
This removes the need to have a nix.conf, and prevents people from
accidentally running Nix builds as root.
2014-05-02 12:46:03 +02:00
Charles Strahan eeffdb74dc doc fix: swap 'import' and 'export' 2014-04-28 13:42:03 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra 31fe55bb8e trunk -> master 2014-04-25 14:55:13 +02:00
Ricardo M. Correia 700c678c2e nix-env: Minor change to '--delete-generations Nd' semantics
The option '--delete-generations Nd' deletes all generations older than N
days. However, most likely the user does not want to delete the
generation that was active N days ago.

For example, say that you have these 3 generations:

1: <30 days ago>
2: <15 days ago>
3: <1 hour ago>

If you do --delete-generations 7d (say, as part of a cron job), most
likely you still want to keep generation 2, i.e. the generation that was
active 7 days ago (and for most of the past 7 days, in fact).

This patch fixes this issue. Note that this also affects
'nix-collect-garbage --delete-older-than Nd'.

Thanks to @roconnor for noticing the issue!
2014-04-15 15:34:58 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra fb5d76b89e Fix test evaluation 2014-04-15 15:32:27 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra a1917208c0 Bump date 2014-04-11 15:11:28 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra 742933116f Bump version to 1.8 2014-04-11 11:15:24 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra 924e19341a Don't barf when installing as root 2014-04-10 23:42:48 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra b0a09a6f32 Add docbook icons to the distribution
Grmbl...
2014-04-09 14:52:43 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra dfa2f77d2e If a .drv cannot be parsed, show its path
Otherwise you just get ‘expected string `Derive(['’ which isn't very helpful.
2014-04-08 19:24:29 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra e0a947cde6 Simplify quick start section 2014-04-08 16:28:39 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra d23931f3a4 Remove redundant stuff 2014-04-08 16:10:25 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra 4846005741 Update installation instructions 2014-04-08 16:09:56 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra 2b6c8ef401 nix-shell --pure: Keep the user's $PAGER 2014-04-08 14:08:57 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra 76cbf55a6d Ensure that systemd units to into lib, not lib64
http://hydra.nixos.org/build/10170940
2014-04-08 13:51:34 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra 89f9232813 Update release notes 2014-04-07 12:00:23 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra 84d6936371 Install systemd units 2014-04-07 11:50:55 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra 8e5fbf4d73 Show position info in attribute selection errors 2014-04-04 22:52:14 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra 4c5faad994 Show position info in Boolean operations 2014-04-04 22:43:52 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra bd9b1d97b4 Show position info in string concatenation / addition errors 2014-04-04 22:19:33 +02:00