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Théophane Hufschmitt 7c75f1d52b Expand the testing section of the hacking docs
- Make it clear what the different kind of tests are, where they live
  and how they can be ran
- Ask people to primarily write unit tests
2022-05-10 13:35:23 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra 4a79cba511 Allow selecting derivation outputs using 'installable!outputs'
E.g. 'nixpkgs#glibc^dev,static' or 'nixpkgs#glibc^*'.
2022-05-03 13:43:52 +02:00
pennae d6d6bbd9ef
Merge branch 'master' into lto 2022-04-25 14:02:37 +00:00
midchildan c67d8876c3
feat: add integration with zsh's run-help 2022-04-25 02:21:41 +09:00
Théophane Hufschmitt be28603dca Merge remote-tracking branch 'origin/master' into nixbuildaddprintstorepaths 2022-04-22 11:11:01 +02:00
Tom Bereknyei f25112d383 fix: builtins.toFile adds path to allowedPaths
The produced path is then allowed be imported or utilized elsewhere:
```
assert (43 == import (builtins.toFile "source" "43")); "good"
```

This will still fail on write-only stores.
2022-04-21 16:41:37 -04:00
Artturin 51cfea8bb0 nix build: add --print-out-paths flag
has the same functionality as default nix-build

$ nix-build . -A "bash" -A "bash.dev" -A "tinycc"
/nix/store/4nmqxajzaf60yjribkgvj5j54x9yvr1r-bash-5.1-p12
/nix/store/c49i1ggnr5cc8gxmk9xm0cn961z104dn-bash-5.1-p12-dev
/nix/store/dbapb08862ajgaax3621fz8hly9fdah3-tcc-0.9.27+date=2022-01-11

$ nix-build . -A "bash"
/nix/store/4nmqxajzaf60yjribkgvj5j54x9yvr1r-bash-5.1-p12

$ $HOME/nixgits/nix/result/bin/nix build "nixpkgs#bash" "nixpkgs#bash.dev" "nixpkgs#tinycc" --print-out-paths
/nix/store/4nmqxajzaf60yjribkgvj5j54x9yvr1r-bash-5.1-p12
/nix/store/c49i1ggnr5cc8gxmk9xm0cn961z104dn-bash-5.1-p12-dev
/nix/store/dbapb08862ajgaax3621fz8hly9fdah3-tcc-0.9.27+date=2022-01-11

$ $HOME/nixgits/nix/result/bin/nix build "nixpkgs#bash" --print-out-paths
/nix/store/4nmqxajzaf60yjribkgvj5j54x9yvr1r-bash-5.1-p12
2022-04-20 19:35:46 +03:00
mei (ckie) 0e2b01b14e
nix repl: make symlinks with the :bl command
Requested by ppepino on the Matrix:
https://matrix.to/#/!KqkRjyTEzAGRiZFBYT:nixos.org/$Tb32BS3rVE2BSULAX4sPm0h6CDewX2hClOTGzTC7gwM?via=nixos.org&via=matrix.org&via=nixos.dev

This adds a new command, :bl, which works like :b but also creates
a GC root symlink to the various derivation outputs.

ckie@cookiemonster ~/git/nix -> ./outputs/out/bin/nix repl
Welcome to Nix 2.6.0. Type :? for help.

nix-repl> :l <nixpkgs>
Added 16118 variables.

nix-repl> :b runCommand "hello" {} "echo hi > $out"

This derivation produced the following outputs:
  ./repl-result-out -> /nix/store/kidqq2acdpi05c4a9mlbg2baikmzik44-hello
[1 built, 0.0 MiB DL]
ckie@cookiemonster ~/git/nix -> cat ./repl-result-out
hi
2022-04-20 00:20:29 +03:00
Eelco Dolstra 1cdad1074c Move rl-next.md to rl-2.8.md 2022-04-19 21:12:33 +02:00
Tom Bereknyei 9b41239d8f fix: ensure apps are apps and packages are packages 2022-04-14 23:57:52 -04:00
Rehno Lindeque 5ff4c42608 Update release notes 2022-04-06 12:24:35 -04:00
Eelco Dolstra 71c07ac0e7
Merge pull request #6363 from thufschmitt/definition-list-in-nix.conf-manual
Add anchors to the nix.conf options in the manual
2022-04-05 17:32:48 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra f98d76ff1a rl-2.7.md: Fix title 2022-04-05 14:13:26 +02:00
Théophane Hufschmitt 660c19eb49 manual: Add some anchor targets for the nix.conf options
For each `nix.conf` option, add an empty html node with a unique `id`
that can be used as an anchor target. Also make the name of the option
be a link to that target so that it’s easily discoverable.

We can’t rewrite the whole list as an html definition list like it’s
done for the builtins because these options also appear in a man page,
and the manpage renderer (lowdown) can’t render arbitrary html. But the
hack here allows to keep the manpage and have the links in the html
version.

Fix https://github.com/NixOS/nix/issues/5745
2022-04-05 13:50:42 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra d63a5f5dd3 Update release notes 2022-03-31 17:33:06 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra 86b05ccd54 Only provide builtin.{getFlake,fetchClosure} is the corresponding experimental feature is enabled
This allows writing fallback code like

  if builtins ? fetchClosure then
    builtins.fetchClose { ... }
  else
    builtins.storePath ...
2022-03-25 14:04:18 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra 98658ae9d2 Document fetchClosure 2022-03-24 21:33:33 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra 5acaf13d35 Rename 'nix store make-content-addressable' to 'nix store make-content-addressed' 2022-03-24 21:33:33 +01:00
Domen Kožar 98ce1a21b7
Merge pull request #6144 from toonn/doc-macos-uninstall
doc: Add detailed uninstall section for macOS
2022-03-23 08:53:48 +01:00
Théophane Hufschmitt 7117053457
Merge pull request #6270 from Artturin/stdineval
nix: allow using --file - to read from stdin
2022-03-17 14:35:01 +01:00
Artturin a5c969db49 nix: allow using --file - to read from stdin 2022-03-16 21:01:51 +02:00
Joachim Breitner af013281c9
distributed-builds.md: fixing typo of the most minor sort 2022-03-16 12:53:38 +01:00
pennae f2603e9c92
Merge branch 'master' into lto 2022-03-10 00:32:34 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra ad7c99ef20 Move rl-next.md to rl-2.7.md 2022-03-07 20:10:18 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra 0123b9aec8 Tweak release notes 2022-03-07 19:56:10 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra 30ddd37873 Merge branch 'cli-suggestions' of https://github.com/thufschmitt/nix 2022-03-07 19:47:45 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra c28e2b1b29 Tweak release notes 2022-03-07 11:30:40 +01:00
regnat b44cebd1fd Add a release-notes entry for the cli suggestions 2022-03-07 10:09:10 +01:00
pennae 2799fe4cdb enable LTO in optimized builds
gives 2-5% performance improvement across a board of tests.
LTO is broken when using clang; some libs link fine while others crash
the linker with a segfault in the llvm linker plugin. 🙁
2022-03-03 17:47:49 +01:00
toonn 947d4761b3
doc: Add removal of darwin-store LaunchDaemon
The uninstall instructions used to accidentally remove the nix-darwin
LaunchDaemon, this was dropped. However, the original intent was to
remove the Store volume mounting LaunchDaemon.
2022-02-26 14:16:35 +01:00
toonn 2df23e2b3e
doc: Drop nix-darwin service from macOS uninstall 2022-02-25 10:50:01 +01:00
toonn 064cad7e9f
doc: Add macOS uninstall note about /nix
Clarify that `/nix` being present after the uninstall is normal and it
will only disappear after a reboot.

Co-authored-by: Travis A. Everett <travis.a.everett@gmail.com>
2022-02-25 10:32:45 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra 59683733f5
Merge pull request #6089 from edolstra/dot-default
Replace defaultBla.$system with bla.$system.default
2022-02-24 21:16:58 +01:00
Guillaume Desforges cfbf9ee2ce Anchor with prefix 2022-02-24 13:50:50 +01:00
Guillaume Desforges 6462ee61c7 Anchor link for builtin functions in HTML doc 2022-02-23 15:07:01 +01:00
Guillaume Desforges 2cc645a91a Add html make target 2022-02-23 15:06:13 +01:00
Théophane Hufschmitt 54f07b66c8
Precise the doc for --include-outputs
Make it explicit that it only includes the existing outputs and not the ones that haven’t been realised
2022-02-23 09:17:08 +01:00
toonn 400d70a3a9
doc: Add detailed uninstall section for macOS
The multi-user installation on macOS, which is now the only option, has
gotten complicated enough that it discourages some users from checking
Nix out for fear of being left with a "dirty" system. Detailed
uninstallation instructions should make this less of an issue.
2022-02-22 16:28:24 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra 38eea2c503 Update release notes 2022-02-22 14:23:39 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra 26e99c817c
Merge pull request #6114 from Radvendii/welcomeText
add release notes for welcomeText
2022-02-18 10:52:03 +01:00
Taeer Bar-Yam 219fa2e43d add release notes for welcomeText 2022-02-17 15:17:20 -05:00
Rahul Butani d82cf4a016
manual: fix formatting for options with "machine-specific" defaults 2022-02-15 15:44:05 -06:00
tomberek 2bf96bd9f2
Merge branch 'master' into bundler_drv 2022-01-28 10:18:29 -05:00
Eelco Dolstra 35dbdbedd4 nix store ping: Report Nix daemon version
Fixes #5952.
2022-01-25 21:15:58 +01:00
Tom Bereknyei dc85e20684 bundler: notes and doc update to include bundlers repo 2022-01-25 03:48:44 -05:00
Eelco Dolstra 9faad4c5eb Move rl-next.md to rl-2.5.md 2022-01-25 00:11:00 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra edf0cde1a7
Merge pull request #5960 from zombiezen/patch-1
Correct `NIX_BUILD_PATH` default description
2022-01-24 12:46:43 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra 3782017272 Tweak release notes 2022-01-24 12:45:35 +01:00
Ross Light 7477974b93
Correct NIX_BUILD_PATH default description
Source: 067076287b/src/nix-build/nix-build.cc (L362-L381)
2022-01-21 18:45:19 -08:00
Rok Garbas d463e11760
Adding docs regarding the docker image from master 2022-01-21 14:50:34 +01:00
lincoln auster [they/them] 7d4f86f032 release-notes: document commit-lockfile-summary option
This documents 3023c7700.
2022-01-18 16:10:44 -07:00
Eelco Dolstra 4dda1f92aa Add command 'nix store copy-log'
Fixes #5222.
2022-01-18 14:08:49 +01:00
Théophane Hufschmitt dc4730ee94
Merge pull request #5720 from tomberek/flake_search
flakes: search up to git or filesystem boundary
2022-01-18 10:59:12 +01:00
tomberek 2dead20924
Apply suggestions from code review
Co-authored-by: Théophane Hufschmitt <7226587+thufschmitt@users.noreply.github.com>
2022-01-14 09:16:34 -05:00
Eelco Dolstra 5e9653c370 Tweak 2022-01-13 14:33:41 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra 66424cd29f Merge branch 'patch-1' of https://github.com/TheodorRene/nix 2022-01-13 14:31:49 +01:00
Profpatsch a51c457204 Release Notes 2.4: add --indirect no-op change
Since
00d25e8457
which was first included in nix 2.4.

It is a backwards-compatible change since the flag will just be
ignored.
2022-01-12 23:19:15 +01:00
Theodor René Carlsen 89b4df8d92
Add link to explanation when introducing a new operator
The logical implication operator is included in this section but never explained. It might stump new readers with a pretty uncommon operator, and it's never referenced explicitly.
2022-01-11 17:01:43 +01:00
pennae 00c993f48b add zipAttrsWith primop
nixpkgs can save a good bit of eval memory with this primop. zipAttrsWith is
used quite a bit around nixpkgs (eg in the form of recursiveUpdate), but the
most costly application for this primop is in the module system. it improves
the implementation of zipAttrsWith from nixpkgs by not checking an attribute
multiple times if it occurs more than once in the input list, allocates less
values and set elements, and just avoids many a temporary object in general.

nixpkgs has a more generic version of this operation, zipAttrsWithNames, but
this version is only used once so isn't suitable for being the base of a new
primop. if it were to be used more we should add a second primop instead.
2022-01-03 21:05:53 +01:00
Alexander Bantyev a26351da02
Add ability to toggle show-trace from within the repl 2021-12-29 02:54:36 +03:00
tomberek f404189368
Merge branch 'master' into flake_search 2021-12-23 15:22:52 -05:00
Eelco Dolstra 881b610266 Update release notes 2021-12-21 14:19:21 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra c260640dec Fix docker instructions 2021-12-16 21:48:38 +01:00
jesse 11ee875a6d List aarch64 as supported macOS hardware
Resolves #5767
2021-12-15 10:55:34 -08:00
Théophane Hufschmitt 6234e1c811
Merge pull request #5702 from baloo/baloo/hide-non-reproducible-settings
reproducibility: hide non-reproducible settings from manual
2021-12-14 09:14:25 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra 18cb094aab rl-2.5.md: Set date 2021-12-13 19:57:06 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra f133001dc8 Move rl-next.md to rl-2.5.md 2021-12-13 16:48:44 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra 3f417c8d1c Add release notes entry for #5149 2021-12-13 16:43:42 +01:00
Janne Heß 4194b68250
doc: Fix command for distributed builds
We also need to build impurely or the <nixpkgs> lookup will not work.
2021-12-10 12:58:12 +01:00
Amon Stopinšek 0bd93ed747
Fix link to nixos channel
The old link returned 404 errror.
2021-12-09 16:44:24 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra 167e864697
Merge pull request #5730 from abathur/darwin_document_fstab_settings
document some darwin mount settings
2021-12-07 22:24:40 +01:00
Alexander Bantyev 33926ed1e7
nix repl: add :log
Add a :log command that shows logs for a derivation.

Closes https://github.com/NixOS/nix/issues/3504

Co-authored-by: Taeer Bar-Yam <taeer@bar-yam.me>
2021-12-06 16:52:50 +03:00
Travis A. Everett 8093456111 document some darwin mount settings 2021-12-04 23:16:42 -06:00
Tom Bereknyei b6cc0a704d flakes: search up to git or filesystem boundary
While parsing a flakeref, upon not finding a flake.nix, search upwards
until git or filesystem boundary.
2021-12-03 10:55:30 -05:00
Eelco Dolstra 2e606e87c4
Merge pull request #5715 from Infinisil/groupBy-primop
Introduce `builtins.groupBy` primop
2021-12-03 13:21:14 +01:00
David Purdum 69b9198875
Fix docker command
`docker -ti run nixos` does not run on docker version 20.10.7 (my machine).  This fixes it to read `docker run -ti nixos`.
2021-12-02 23:38:33 -05:00
Silvan Mosberger 90700736c7 Introduce builtins.groupBy primop
This function is very useful in nixpkgs, but its implementation in Nix
itself is rather slow due to it requiring a lot of attribute set and
list appends.
2021-12-02 21:54:51 +01:00
Arthur Gautier 21520297da reproducibility: hide non-reproducible settings from manual
Because the manual is generated from default values which are themselves
generated from various sources (cpuid, bios settings (kvm), number of
cores). This commit hides non-reproducible settings from the manual
output.
2021-12-01 17:25:58 +01:00
Eli Flanagan 092c375cda
Update doc/manual/src/glossary.md
Co-authored-by: Eelco Dolstra <edolstra@gmail.com>
2021-11-30 13:19:42 -05:00
Eli Flanagan a473e85c80
docs: document set theory symbols
These symbols confused me so I wanted to gloss them to help future users. You can see the context here: https://discourse.nixos.org/t/flakes-what-does-mean-big-bundle-of-questions
2021-11-30 11:13:46 -05:00
Eelco Dolstra b96164f4af Merge remote-tracking branch 'origin/build-with-clang' 2021-11-30 11:50:56 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra ddf4fb750d
Merge pull request #5678 from t184256/document-libsodium
Document libsodium, which is now mandatory, as a dependency.
2021-11-29 11:11:10 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra 99804465af
Merge pull request #5679 from t184256/optional-libcpuid
Document libcpuid dependency and make it optional
2021-11-29 11:10:42 +01:00
Alexander Sosedkin a9bd06d0ea Make libcpuid dependency optional with --disable-cpuid 2021-11-28 00:52:35 +01:00
Alexander Sosedkin b73a1c0638 Document libcpuid dependency 2021-11-28 00:52:35 +01:00
Alexander Sosedkin 33a227503a Document libsodium, which is now mandatory, as a dependency 2021-11-27 23:11:11 +01:00
Tom Bereknyei 152e3cda0c reproducibility: determinstic man page output for cores 2021-11-26 10:55:43 -05:00
Pamplemousse 288c252570 Documentation: alternative stdenv for hacking
Signed-off-by: Pamplemousse <xav.maso@gmail.com>
2021-11-26 10:04:56 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra 986906e687 Update names 2021-11-25 17:09:11 +01:00
Silvan Mosberger 09471d2680 Make lists be comparable
Makes lists comparable using lexicographic comparison.

Increments builtins.langVersion in order for this change to be
detectable
2021-11-24 13:40:46 +01:00
Lorenz Leutgeb e1192116d3
doc: Fix escape for operator "logical or"
See https://matrix.to/#/!KqkRjyTEzAGRiZFBYT:nixos.org/$hhMb6AdRIXfRkv_LsNsiQJuch7AQ_b6szr4tfawFy-4
2021-11-18 15:08:01 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra e88fb63e28
Merge pull request #5585 from jtojnar/env-a
doc: De-emphasize nix-env without -A
2021-11-18 14:34:45 +01:00
Jan Tojnar ca4d8ce9e2 doc: De-emphasize nix-env without -A
The manual uses `nix-env -i` without `-A` prominently, teaching a bad practice to newcomers.
2021-11-17 17:04:25 +01:00
Jan Tojnar e96faadcd6 Fix XDG_CONFIG_DIRS fallback
According to XDG Base Directory Specification,
it should fall back to /etc/xdg when the env var is not present.
2021-11-17 14:31:15 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra 51ffc19f02 Merge branch 'add-docker-image-to-hydra-jobs' of https://github.com/garbas/nix 2021-11-16 13:00:54 +01:00
Kevin Amado eae54f2d52
fix many doc typos 2021-11-13 22:28:20 -05:00
Rok Garbas a118a70649
Documenting how to use/build Nix' Docker image 2021-11-11 16:07:01 +01:00
Théo Zimmermann d589782fb0
Fix some typos in CLI guideline. 2021-11-08 08:24:15 +01:00
Jan Tojnar e5d4c2235f
docs: Correct fallback user config path
This is in line with XDG Base Directory Specification, where ~/.config is supposed to be used when XDG_CONFIG_HOME is unset.

It also better matches the reality, where ~/.config/nix.conf does not seem to be used.
2021-11-04 11:41:29 +01:00
Dimitris Apostolou c34cc5e488
Fix typos 2021-11-03 18:11:20 +02:00