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Manav Rathi eec5409a69 installation: allow profile modification to be skipped (#1072)
The current behaviour modifies the first writeable file from amongst
.bash_profile, .bash_login and .profile.  So .bash_profile (if it is
writable) would be modified even if a user has already sourced nix.sh
in, say, .profile.

This commit introduces a new environment variable,
NIX_INSTALLER_NO_MODIFY_PROFILE.  If this is set during installation,
then the modifications are unconditionally skipped.

This is useful for users who have a manually curated set of dotfiles
that they are porting to a new machine. In such scenarios, nix.sh is
already sourced at a place where the user prefers.  Without this
change, the nix installer would insist on modifying .bash_profile if
it exists.

This commit also add documentations for both the current behaviour and
the new override.
2016-11-03 18:02:29 +01:00
config Add config.guess, config.sub and install-sh 2013-11-25 11:26:02 +00:00
corepkgs <nix/fetchurl.nix>: Support nix-prefetch-url 2016-09-22 15:48:14 +02:00
doc/manual installation: allow profile modification to be skipped (#1072) 2016-11-03 18:02:29 +01:00
maintainers upload-release.pl: Update Nixpkgs 2016-09-07 15:34:54 +02:00
misc SSL_CERT_FILE -> NIX_SSL_CERT_FILE 2016-10-13 17:09:10 +02:00
mk Don't pass "--no-copy-dt-needed-entries" option to linker on FreeBSD. 2015-10-06 22:28:30 +02:00
perl makeFixedOutputPath(): Drop superfluous HashType argument 2016-07-26 21:25:52 +02:00
scripts installation: allow profile modification to be skipped (#1072) 2016-11-03 18:02:29 +01:00
src Support optional sandbox paths 2016-10-31 17:09:52 +01:00
tests Handle $TMPDIR ending with a slash 2016-10-19 15:19:38 +02:00
.dir-locals.el Add .dir-locals.el for Emacs 2016-01-28 11:12:04 +01:00
.gitignore .gitignore: catch up with perl -> c conversion 2016-10-17 00:15:18 +02:00
bootstrap.sh bootstrap: Simplify & make more robust. 2011-09-06 12:11:05 +00:00
configure.ac Add a new option to disable documentation generation at configure time 2016-09-20 14:34:43 +00:00
COPYING * Change this to LGPL to keep the government happy. 2006-04-25 16:41:06 +00:00
dev-shell Add 32bit linux clause to dev-shell 2016-03-22 11:38:56 +00:00
local.mk Don't depend on git when generating source tarball 2015-10-15 11:53:45 -07:00
Makefile Merge branch 'nix-build-c++' 2016-08-31 12:10:21 -04:00
Makefile.config.in Add a new option to disable documentation generation at configure time 2016-09-20 14:34:43 +00:00
nix.spec.in Revert "nix.spec.in: Build from the .tar.xz file." 2016-08-30 13:38:18 +02:00
README.md Capitalize Nix 2016-07-21 11:08:13 +02:00
release.nix Drop Fedora 19/20 builds 2016-08-30 14:36:04 +02:00
version Bump 2016-01-20 16:34:37 +01:00

Nix, the purely functional package manager

Nix is a new take on package management that is fairly unique. Because of it's purity aspects, a lot of issues found in traditional package managers don't appear with Nix.

To find out more about the tool, usage and installation instructions, please read the manual, which is available on the Nix website at http://nixos.org/nix/manual.

Contributing

Take a look at the Hacking Section of the manual. It helps you to get started with building Nix from source.

License

Nix is released under the LGPL v2.1

This product includes software developed by the OpenSSL Project for use in the OpenSSL Toolkit (http://www.OpenSSL.org/).