Eelco Dolstra
2142f47c06
Add section on SSH substituter
2014-12-14 03:19:15 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra
68b4717873
Delete the stdenv section
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It's outdated and better covered in the Nixpkgs manual.
2014-12-14 01:39:32 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra
6466d56f42
Bla
2014-12-14 01:33:16 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra
e90e7b5e0a
Fix build
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http://hydra.nixos.org/build/17894500
2014-12-14 01:29:35 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra
eb53f592b8
Fix image in PDF
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Closes #415 .
2014-12-14 01:23:06 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra
9c830394ec
Rename files
2014-12-14 01:07:23 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra
4c4e891652
Update .nixpkg description
2014-12-13 23:27:22 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra
be79773542
ReiserFS -> ext4
2014-12-13 23:23:19 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra
4eace5adda
Style
2014-12-13 23:21:14 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra
751ae181a1
Undocument nix-generate-patches
2014-12-13 23:17:26 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra
3b88d03714
Document channel format and excise most mentions of manifests and nix-pull
2014-12-13 23:16:08 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra
e5a51fab24
Style
2014-12-13 21:50:01 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra
a144eb1415
Don't use ?=
2014-12-11 10:44:02 +01:00
darealshinji
40e1203abc
allow custom docbook paths/URLs, use a working URL for docbook.rng
2014-12-11 10:43:46 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra
d44d923be9
Add option to disable binary cache certificate checking
2014-12-09 13:16:02 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra
e5891f2ea8
Use https://cache.nixos.org instead of http://cache.nixos.org
2014-12-09 13:16:02 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra
5f04da905f
Intro: Mention binary caches
2014-11-25 15:55:28 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra
d4c8ee7059
Rely on XML catalogs to find the DocBook schemas and stylesheets
2014-11-25 15:54:26 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra
976b949e4d
More build-cache-failures -> build-cache-failure
2014-11-24 16:52:13 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra
215745415e
Update installation section
2014-11-24 16:50:46 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra
103e4e43cc
Update quick start section
2014-11-24 16:50:46 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra
2b74354e52
Combine introduction / quick start parts
2014-11-24 16:50:45 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra
5e04992d1f
Manual: Bump date
2014-11-24 16:50:45 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra
69f91e3645
Don't claim FreeBSD support
2014-11-24 16:50:45 +01:00
Rob Vermaas
328a80e60a
'build-cache-failures' -> 'build-cache-failure' in nix.conf documentation.
2014-11-24 13:16:45 +01:00
Shea Levy
3d604ac88c
Document functors
2014-11-15 16:25:47 -05:00
Eelco Dolstra
6f6b75cd09
Typo
2014-11-04 10:15:55 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra
1683fffd09
Update release notes
2014-10-29 16:18:39 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra
722bd041ce
Document some primops
2014-10-29 16:18:03 +01:00
Bob van der Linden
5f7ded7d22
doc: fixed nix-instantiate --find-file
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The manual said --file-file, which should be --find-file.
2014-10-27 08:45:10 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra
2c1711ae33
nix-channel: Add --rollback flag
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Fixes #368 .
2014-10-14 12:08:04 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra
104e55bb7f
nix-env: Add regular expression support in selectors
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So you can now do things like:
$ nix-env -qa '.*zip.*'
$ nix-env -qa '.*(firefox|chromium).*'
2014-10-03 21:29:40 +02:00
wmertens
e83a027e00
Remove bash requirement
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As per https://github.com/NixOS/nixos-homepage/pull/16
2014-09-24 11:42:41 +02:00
Shell Turner
147fcdd137
Updated documentation for nix-install-package to mention --set flag
2014-09-23 15:11:25 +02:00
darealshinji
a5b5ebc45f
add manpage for nix-generate-patches
2014-09-23 15:10:18 +02:00
Vladimír Čunát
c313d86bb8
manual: add a note that lists are strict in length
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Close #345 .
2014-09-23 15:08:33 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra
a2fc9c6b57
Remove unhelpful suggestion
2014-09-16 15:42:20 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra
3a52104bee
Delete bugs.xml
2014-09-16 15:40:03 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra
5a0181c7f2
Make troubleshooting an appendix
2014-09-16 15:39:08 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra
f77d83c26b
Style tweak
2014-09-16 15:37:38 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra
3c8522cc22
Fix parallel make of manpages
2014-09-16 15:29:55 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra
54adf344a3
Fix references to version.txt
2014-09-16 14:57:45 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra
7a740c9288
Drop separate release notes
2014-09-16 14:52:44 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra
b1af336132
Undocument NIX_OTHER_STORES
2014-09-16 14:49:00 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra
57f6463ec0
Tweak some chapter titles
2014-09-16 14:38:37 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra
d0608da13f
Drop "service deployment" bla bla
2014-09-16 14:36:32 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra
8b760182cd
Drop reference to FreeBSD
2014-09-16 14:35:11 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra
f271b94652
Remove pointless "license" section
2014-09-16 14:33:39 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra
7a68b4e4d3
Release notes: Use a section per version
2014-09-16 14:29:00 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra
9ed49c1da0
Nicer file names for the release notes
2014-09-16 14:18:55 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra
8259a392da
Manual build fixes
2014-09-16 14:14:09 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra
f0ef6b74b9
Merge branch 'master' of github.com:thatdocslady/nix
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Conflicts:
doc/manual/release-notes.xml
doc/manual/writing-nix-expressions.xml
2014-09-16 14:13:36 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra
67e5dd3ce9
Add some hyperlinks between NIXPATH and -I
2014-09-16 11:20:09 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra
9eddf6f0b6
allowedRequisites: Drop stdenv mention
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I don't think it's a good idea to use allowedRequisites for stdenv, so
don't mention it here.
2014-08-28 18:26:01 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra
b5da80e627
Fix manual build
2014-08-28 18:25:16 +02:00
Gergely Risko
fd61069a42
Introduce allowedRequisites feature
2014-08-28 18:23:55 +02:00
Mikey Ariel
8901acc976
Restructuring the Nix manual
2014-08-27 18:41:09 +02:00
Gergely Risko
4b0a720ddf
Document the "out" usage in allowedReferences
2014-08-23 11:11:19 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra
401ab50566
Remove pointless NIX_LOG_TYPE environment variable
2014-08-13 01:19:02 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra
7018830509
Update manual
2014-08-04 18:00:33 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra
1a44f1cb65
nix-copy-closure: Drop --bzip2, --xz, --show-progress
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These are too difficult to implement via nix-store --serve.
‘--show-progress’ could be re-implemented fairly easily via a
sink/source wrapper class.
2014-07-24 17:11:54 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra
f609eec71a
Bump
2014-07-18 00:01:06 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra
049c0eb49c
nix-daemon: Add trusted-users and allowed-users options
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‘trusted-users’ is a list of users and groups that have elevated
rights, such as the ability to specify binary caches. It defaults to
‘root’. A typical value would be ‘@wheel’ to specify all users in the
wheel group.
‘allowed-users’ is a list of users and groups that are allowed to
connect to the daemon. It defaults to ‘*’. A typical value would be
‘@users’ to specify the ‘users’ group.
2014-07-17 16:57:07 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra
a2c85b2ef8
Manual: Typo
2014-07-16 11:21:44 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra
beaf3e90af
Add builtin function ‘fromJSON’
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Fixes #294 .
2014-07-04 13:34:15 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra
e82951fe23
Manual: html -> xhtml
2014-07-03 12:36:58 +02:00
Paul Colomiets
858b8f9760
Add --json
argument to nix-instantiate
2014-06-27 11:23:40 +02:00
Adam Szkoda
8ea9fd7aa6
Rephrase @ operator description
2014-05-26 17:20:58 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra
9f9080e2c0
nix-store -l: Fetch build logs from the Internet
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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
Charles Strahan
a55e77ae10
fix typo
2014-05-13 10:54:03 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra
a8c31d5011
Simplify multi-user installation instructions
2014-05-02 14:44:44 +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
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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
a1917208c0
Bump date
2014-04-11 15:11:28 +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
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Grmbl...
2014-04-09 14:52:43 +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
89f9232813
Update release notes
2014-04-07 12:00:23 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra
3f8e1f5682
Update release notes
2014-04-04 14:51:07 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra
1f19fdbd45
Document that we require a C++11 compiler
2014-04-04 13:49:53 +02:00
Ricardo M. Correia
034b6f6062
nix-collect-garbage: Add --delete-older-than option
2014-03-30 00:54:16 +01:00
Ricardo M. Correia
7ef7597f71
nix-env: Add support for --delete-generations 15d
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It will delete all generations older than the specified number of days.
2014-03-30 00:54:16 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra
006f24c7fa
Document nix-env -q --json
2014-03-12 14:25:48 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra
d435e46daa
Generate release notes again
2014-03-12 14:24:29 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra
e9934bb5ad
Update release notes for 1.7
2014-03-12 13:58:06 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra
92a848f674
Fix typos
2014-03-11 13:16:21 +01:00
Shea Levy
2f2a20ed18
Document null dynamic attrs
2014-03-11 13:15:06 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra
3a86888fd7
Typo
2014-02-28 14:01:31 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra
7f74513b4e
Also provide an option for setting the curl connection timeout
2014-02-26 16:07:43 +01:00
Shea Levy
733214144a
Document dynamic attributes
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Signed-off-by: Shea Levy <shea@shealevy.com>
2014-02-26 14:06:45 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra
36b90e72d7
nix-shell: Add --packages flag
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This allows you to easily set up a build environment containing the
specified packages from Nixpkgs. For example:
$ nix-shell -p sqlite xorg.libX11 hello
will start a shell in which the given packages are present.
2014-02-19 17:08:01 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra
e1cf40fa95
nix-instantiate: Rename --eval-only to --eval, --parse-only to --parse
2014-02-19 16:34:24 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra
c31836008e
nix-instantiate: Add a flag --expr / -E to read expressions from the command line
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This is basically a shortcut for ‘echo 'expr...' | nix-instantiate -’.
Also supported by nix-build and nix-shell.
2014-02-19 16:30:19 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra
e707a8a526
Move manpages around
2014-02-19 15:32:19 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra
1da6ae4f99
nix-store --gc --max-freed: Support a unit specifier
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E.g. "--max-freed 10G" means "free ten gigabytes".
2014-02-17 14:48:50 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra
e81d38c02b
nix-shell: Execute shellHook if it exists
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Since normal builds don't execute shellHook, this allows nix-shell
specific customisation. Suggested by Domen.
2014-02-17 13:34:24 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra
f9fc6acbf4
Document current meaning of preferLocalBuild
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Closes #208 .
2014-02-12 10:53:22 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra
57386c9bae
Binary tarball: Automatically create /nix
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The tarball can now be unpacked anywhere. The installation script
uses "sudo" to create /nix if it doesn't exist. It also fetches the
nixpkgs-unstable channel.
2014-02-10 16:35:59 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra
b632153ebd
nix-shell: Use shell.nix as the default expression if it exists
2014-02-10 10:25:13 +01:00
Shea Levy
e4058fab64
Rename --no-readonly-mode --read-write-mode
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Signed-off-by: Shea Levy <shea@shealevy.com>
2014-02-07 18:03:38 +01:00
Shea Levy
0c3e8a616e
nix-instantiate: Add a --no-readonly-mode flag
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This allows running nix-instantiate --eval-only without performing the
evaluation in readonly mode, letting features like import from
derivation and automatic substitution of builtins.storePath paths work.
Signed-off-by: Shea Levy <shea@shealevy.com>
2014-02-07 18:03:38 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra
6dca72006a
Only run "git ls-files" when doing "make check"
2014-02-01 16:30:24 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra
844d83352c
More "make dist" fixes
2014-02-01 15:18:48 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra
6ef32bddc1
Fix "make dist"
2014-02-01 14:38:12 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra
0c6d62cf27
Remove Automakefiles
2014-02-01 13:54:38 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra
16e7d69209
Update Makefile variable names
2014-02-01 13:54:38 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra
ac8c2ef1aa
Build/install manual
2014-02-01 11:30:21 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra
e640d67144
Document nulls
2014-01-13 13:50:12 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra
77c13cdf56
Add a toJSON primop
2013-11-19 00:04:11 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra
a478e8a7bb
Remove nix-setuid-helper
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AFAIK, nobody uses it, it's not maintained, and it has no tests.
2013-11-14 11:57:37 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra
1dacd427cd
Update release notes, set version for 1.6.1 release
2013-10-28 11:56:21 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
36e67ff16b
Undocument obsolete form of "let"
2013-10-24 22:06:39 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra
fba17a9043
Doc fix
2013-10-24 22:05:58 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra
5bc41d78ff
Rename "attribute sets" to "sets"
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We don't have any other kind of sets so calling them attribute sets is
unnecessarily verbose.
2013-10-24 16:41:04 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra
9e4bb20455
Manual: Fix broken URLs
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Fixes #172 .
2013-10-24 16:02:08 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra
a5684e09d3
Document typeOf
2013-10-24 02:56:00 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra
6da92d96ae
Document NIX_SHOW_STATS and NIX_COUNT_CALLS
2013-10-24 02:22:24 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra
792fd51f41
Fold two stack trace messages in derivations
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Combined with the previous changes, stack traces involving derivations
are now much less verbose, since something like
while evaluating the builtin function `getAttr':
while evaluating the builtin function `derivationStrict':
while instantiating the derivation named `gtk+-2.24.20' at `/home/eelco/Dev/nixpkgs/pkgs/development/libraries/gtk+/2.x.nix:11:3':
while evaluating the derivation attribute `propagatedNativeBuildInputs' at `/home/eelco/Dev/nixpkgs/pkgs/stdenv/generic/default.nix:78:17':
while evaluating the attribute `outPath' at `/nix/store/212ngf4ph63mp6p1np2bapkfikpakfv7-nix-1.6/share/nix/corepkgs/derivation.nix:18:9':
...
now reads
while evaluating the attribute `propagatedNativeBuildInputs' of the derivation `gtk+-2.24.20' at `/home/eelco/Dev/nixpkgs/pkgs/development/libraries/gtk+/2.x.nix:11:3':
...
2013-10-17 11:57:25 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra
bb659bad81
Nix 1.6.1 release notes
2013-10-17 11:40:20 +02:00
goblin
d7625b5c2d
two typos
2013-10-17 00:59:19 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra
d5529f5b85
Version was called 1.6, not 1.6.0
2013-09-10 17:48:11 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra
fecad91b67
Update release notes
2013-09-10 11:21:30 +02:00
Domen Kožar
4b83830d0c
typo
2013-09-06 15:18:07 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra
2c1ecf8e81
nix-env -i: Add a flag ‘--remove-all’ / ‘-r’
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This is equivalent to running ‘nix-env -e '*'’ first, except that it
happens in a single transaction. Thus, ‘nix-env -i pkgs...’ replaces
the profile with the specified set of packages.
The main motivation is to support declarative package management
(similar to environment.systemPackages in NixOS). That is, if you
have a specification ‘profile.nix’ like this:
with import <nixpkgs> {};
[ thunderbird
geeqie
...
]
then after any change to ‘profile.nix’, you can run:
$ nix-env -f profile.nix -ir
to update the profile to match the specification. (Without the ‘-r’
flag, if you remove a package from ‘profile.nix’, it won't be removed
from the actual profile.)
Suggested by @zefhemel.
2013-09-03 21:21:14 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra
c28dfc0305
Manual: Make '' a bit clearer
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Issue #162 .
2013-09-02 13:24:29 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra
e9b92169a5
Fix manual error
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Reported by Matija Šuklje.
Fixes #163 .
2013-09-02 13:19:34 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra
ecd830b3b9
Update the release notes
2013-09-02 13:11:36 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra
efe4289464
Add an option to limit the log output of builders
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This is mostly useful for Hydra to deal with builders that get stuck
in an infinite loop writing data to stdout/stderr.
2013-09-02 11:58:18 +02:00
Ivan Kozik
6cd6ce5608
Fix nix-shell command
2013-08-26 11:15:22 +02:00
Ivan Kozik
34bb806f74
Fix typos, especially those that end up in the Nix manual
2013-08-26 11:15:22 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra
03eaef3d7a
Manual: Don't use actual hashes of Nix dependencies
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These cause an unnecessary runtime dependency :-)
2013-08-23 10:12:20 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra
b3110a15e9
Fix corrupt PNG
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Libpng used to accept this, but no longer does.
2013-08-21 12:53:51 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra
7b09e9f2c4
Add hacking notes plus a script for running nix-shell
2013-07-19 16:51:31 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra
2bc5de8635
Rename ‘nix-build --run-env’ to ‘nix-shell’
2013-07-19 12:02:44 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra
dc5f2e7da6
nix-build --run-env: Add a ‘--pure’ flag
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This causes the environment to be (almost) cleared, thus giving a
shell that more closely resembled the actual Nix derivation.
2013-07-19 11:23:32 +02:00
Domen Kožar
620d57f036
doc: typo
2013-07-12 11:27:43 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra
656390062a
nix-build --run-env: Source $stdenv/setup in the interactive shell
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This ensures that not just environment variables are set, but also
shell functions such as unpackPhase, configurePhase and so on.
2013-07-11 14:32:22 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra
b584a42e3d
Manual: auto-optimise-store is disabled by default
2013-07-03 18:35:59 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra
5116214343
Add support for uncompressed NARs in binary caches
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Issue NixOS/hydra#102 .
2013-07-01 21:03:14 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra
6016bcd30e
Update release notes for Nix 1.5.3
2013-06-17 11:47:38 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra
bfee9a2581
Typo
2013-06-13 14:51:11 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra
f0576d6775
Update the default binary cache URL to cache.nixos.org
2013-06-05 13:36:43 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra
039d5a023f
.bashrc -> .profile
2013-05-29 12:36:56 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra
6e85d1b5ba
Bump release date
2013-05-13 16:52:08 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra
806970349b
Update release date
2013-05-07 15:46:25 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra
ea019e9a26
Add option ‘extra-binary-caches’
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This allows providing additional binary caches, useful in scripts like
Hydra's build reproduction scripts, in particular because untrusted
caches are ignored.
2013-05-07 15:37:28 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra
93f4fa8a15
Update release notes
2013-05-03 11:28:32 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra
3628b61ce0
Nix 1.5.2 release notes
2013-05-01 13:31:33 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra
05420e7883
Manual: Add a missing step to the build instructions
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Reported by Johan Grande.
2013-04-09 17:57:48 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra
a68ebf8e37
Require Bison 2.6
2013-03-14 18:33:15 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra
bdd4646338
Revert "Prevent config.h from being clobbered"
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This reverts commit 28bba8c44f
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2013-03-08 01:24:59 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra
28bba8c44f
Prevent config.h from being clobbered
2013-03-07 23:55:55 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra
9fa1bee575
Update release notes
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Also use a point release version number as suggested by several
people.
2013-02-28 19:36:02 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra
0111ba98ea
Handle hard links to other files in the output
2013-02-27 17:18:41 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra
ca9c02dff1
Update release notes
2013-02-26 13:23:09 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra
79a3ba7fa3
Document ‘hashString’
2013-02-08 20:04:14 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra
9842077cb2
Improve -I description
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Issue #88 .
2013-01-24 13:00:44 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra
92926be2fe
Fix "0 store paths deleted" message
2013-01-04 15:17:19 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra
def5160b61
Clear any immutable bits in the Nix store
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Doing this once makes subsequent operations like garbage collecting
more efficient since we don't have to call makeMutable() first.
2013-01-03 12:59:23 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra
f12492c66d
Manual: Fix "nix-store --export" example
2013-01-02 22:36:08 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra
aebea2e489
Reinstate the http://nixos.org/binary-cache default for the binary-caches setting
2013-01-02 22:16:37 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra
42d6f640c1
Update release notes
2013-01-02 13:00:55 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra
b7629778ef
Allow mounting a path in a different location in the chroot
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Fixes #24 .
2012-12-29 23:04:02 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra
68dcbb187e
download-from-binary-cache: Use the channels of the calling user rather than root
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This should make live easier for single-user (non-daemon)
installations. Note that when the daemon is used, the "calling user"
is root so we're not using any untrusted caches.
2012-12-21 15:00:07 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra
5ee7d8fbab
Typo fix
2012-12-21 00:18:59 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra
9fa12fc201
Allow setting the profile location using $NIX_PROFILE
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Fixes #69 .
2012-12-12 16:01:46 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra
8cc19ed089
Set a long SQLite timeout in the binary cache substituter
2012-12-06 11:43:34 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra
0f96966a44
Add release date
2012-12-05 11:03:06 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra
a7b4aaa2c3
Updated release notes
2012-12-04 17:41:51 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra
094a08f839
Document new primops
2012-12-04 17:15:32 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra
24d5875514
Document multiple output support
2012-12-04 16:03:56 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra
a3d6585c5a
nix-copy-closure: Add flag ‘--use-substitutes’
2012-11-23 16:20:16 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra
9de6bc5d05
nix-store -r: Add ‘--ignore-unknown’ flag
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This flag causes paths that do not have a known substitute to be
quietly ignored. This is mostly useful for Charon, allowing it to
speed up deployment by letting a machine use substitutes for all
substitutable paths, instead of uploading them. The latter is
frequently faster, e.g. if the target machine has a fast Internet
connection while the source machine is on a slow ADSL line.
2012-11-20 00:27:25 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra
182e15b661
Manual: Don't use a store path in our closure
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http://hydra.nixos.org/build/3313227
2012-11-09 16:30:15 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra
a9a8baaccb
Use a shorter Nixpkgs channel URL
2012-11-09 13:33:35 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra
c31ebc50aa
Update release notes
2012-11-09 13:33:24 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra
bbc107ef1e
Process binary caches in order of priority
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Binary caches can now specify a priority in their nix-cache-info file.
The binary cache substituter checks caches in order of priority. This
is to ensure that fast, static caches like nixos.org/binary-cache are
processed before slow, dynamic caches like hydra.nixos.org.
2012-11-06 17:45:20 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra
3a95e1a17c
Update nix-push manpage and document the binary cache format
2012-11-06 15:49:53 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra
620e92e880
Add an option ‘use-binary-caches’
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This allows disabling the use of binary caches, e.g.
$ nix-build ... --option use-binary-caches false
Note that
$ nix-build ... --option binary-caches ''
does not disable all binary caches, since the caches defined by
channels will still be used.
2012-11-06 13:44:59 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra
a28b4445a4
nix-prefetch-url: Improve option handling
2012-10-23 18:04:11 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra
ac238d619c
Typo
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Reported by Shea.
2012-10-12 10:21:04 -04:00
Eelco Dolstra
bfaa5635de
Manual: Don't use a store path that actually exists
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http://hydra.nixos.org/build/3124130
2012-10-04 13:37:30 -04:00
Eelco Dolstra
e35d6f78dc
Rename nix-worker to nix-daemon
2012-10-03 17:59:23 -04:00
Eelco Dolstra
522ecab9b8
Drop support for running nix-worker in "slave" mode
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AFAIK nobody uses this, setuid binaries are evil, and there is no good
reason why people can't just run the daemon.
2012-10-03 17:30:45 -04:00
Eelco Dolstra
9c41c66c5b
Document ‘--repair’
2012-10-03 15:53:25 -04:00
Eelco Dolstra
8e3a7bd712
nix-store --verify: Add an option ‘--repair’ to repair all missing/corrupt paths
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Also, return a non-zero exit code if errors remain after
verifying/repairing.
2012-10-02 15:12:56 -04:00
Eelco Dolstra
9958bd6992
Add operation ‘nix-store --repair-path’
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This operation allows fixing corrupted or accidentally deleted store
paths by redownloading them using substituters, if available.
Since the corrupted path cannot be replaced atomically, there is a
very small time window (one system call) during which neither the old
(corrupted) nor the new (repaired) contents are available. So
repairing should be used with some care on critical packages like
Glibc.
2012-10-02 14:08:59 -04:00
Eelco Dolstra
95c74eae26
Allow dashes in identifiers
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In Nixpkgs, the attribute in all-packages.nix corresponding to a
package is usually equal to the package name. However, this doesn't
work if the package contains a dash, which is fairly common. The
convention is to replace the dash with an underscore (e.g. "dbus-lib"
becomes "dbus_glib"), but that's annoying. So now dashes are valid in
variable / attribute names, allowing you to write:
dbus-glib = callPackage ../development/libraries/dbus-glib { };
and
buildInputs = [ dbus-glib ];
Since we don't have a negation or subtraction operation in Nix, this
is unambiguous.
2012-09-27 15:49:20 -04:00
Eelco Dolstra
f46612be96
Add "on Linux" qualifier
2012-09-25 16:30:37 -04:00
Eelco Dolstra
0f358ca5b6
Document that Nix requires GNU Make
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Fixes #44 .
2012-09-25 16:17:30 -04:00
Eelco Dolstra
cb6651e878
Update release notes
2012-09-25 16:04:50 -04:00
Eelco Dolstra
983220bcd4
nix-collect-garbage: Support --dry-run
2012-09-13 18:09:20 -04:00
Eelco Dolstra
9fd9dedf12
nix-env --delete-generations: Support --dry-run flag
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Fixes #43 .
2012-09-13 18:05:04 -04:00
Eelco Dolstra
c845c0ccad
nix-channel: Add option to force fetching of manifests
2012-09-13 12:11:40 -04:00
Shea Levy
360056e174
Document importing from a directory in the import documentation
2012-08-29 18:07:51 -04:00
Eelco Dolstra
9e2fc6951c
Disable the binary cache substituter by default for now
2012-08-27 14:20:14 -04:00
Eelco Dolstra
9c2decaa19
Merge branch 'master' into no-manifests
2012-08-01 18:03:49 -04:00
Eelco Dolstra
5170c5691a
nix-channel: Use binary caches advertised by channels
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Channels can now advertise a binary cache by creating a file
<channel-url>/binary-cache-url. The channel unpacker puts these in
its "binary-caches" subdirectory. Thus, the URLS of the binary caches
for the channels added by root appear in
/nix/var/nix/profiles/per-user/eelco/channels/binary-caches/*. The
binary cache substituter reads these and adds them to the list of
binary caches.
2012-08-01 17:56:11 -04:00
Eelco Dolstra
4d1b64f118
Allow daemon users to override ‘binary-caches’
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For security reasons, daemon users can only specify caches that appear
in the ‘binary-caches’ and ‘trusted-binary-caches’ options in
nix.conf.
2012-07-31 18:56:22 -04:00
Eelco Dolstra
89a8207029
Add an option ‘build-fallback’ (equivalent to the --fallback flag)
2012-07-31 17:56:02 -04:00
Eelco Dolstra
157170059d
Manual: Remove reference to non-existent -I option
2012-07-30 22:29:42 -04:00
Eelco Dolstra
9de6d10d11
Get rid of $NIX_BINARY_CACHES
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You can use ‘--option binary-caches URLs’ instead.
2012-07-30 16:39:31 -04:00
Eelco Dolstra
f15083c10a
Document the --option flag
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Pointed out by Daniel Santa Cruz on IRC.
2012-07-29 14:37:40 -04:00
Eelco Dolstra
8c79100839
Merge branch 'master' into no-manifests
2012-07-26 15:14:33 -04:00
Eelco Dolstra
6193105710
Automatically optimise the Nix store when a new path is added
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Auto-optimisation is enabled by default. It can be turned off by
setting auto-optimise-store to false in nix.conf.
2012-07-23 17:14:15 -04:00
Eelco Dolstra
58337e0e61
Set release date
2012-07-18 11:51:27 -04:00
Eelco Dolstra
fe241ece29
Merge branch 'master' into no-manifests
2012-07-18 10:47:59 -04:00
Eelco Dolstra
51d71ad3d7
Manual: Don't claim we support Cygwin
2012-07-17 11:49:47 -04:00
Eelco Dolstra
6c01fb4d68
Update Nix 1.1 release notes
2012-07-17 10:06:20 -04:00
Eelco Dolstra
53b24f3518
Allow disabling log compression
2012-07-17 09:40:12 -04:00
Eelco Dolstra
04559a0d45
Merge branch 'master' of github.com:NixOS/nix into no-manifests
2012-07-11 18:53:27 -04:00
Eelco Dolstra
e4d6bcb6cd
Update release notes
2012-07-11 18:52:23 -04:00
Eelco Dolstra
5755a5c354
Install a nix.conf manpage
2012-07-09 11:33:38 -04:00
Eelco Dolstra
099125435f
download-from-binary-cache: add nix.conf options
2012-07-09 10:57:28 -04:00
Eelco Dolstra
8da6772ed4
Update release notes
2012-06-23 14:59:13 -04:00
Eelco Dolstra
2c26985835
Add option ‘build-keep-log’ to enable/disable writing of build logs
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Fixes #26 .
2012-05-29 16:42:05 -04:00
Eelco Dolstra
8058dab26e
Clean up the installation section; document the generic binary tarballs
2012-05-24 12:04:07 -04:00
Eelco Dolstra
587b408210
Set release date
2012-05-11 17:40:58 -04:00
Eelco Dolstra
8a08813d6c
Manual updates
2012-05-11 17:39:06 -04:00
Eelco Dolstra
2b00e6990c
CSS tweaks
2012-05-11 16:21:21 -04:00
Eelco Dolstra
4d383f57f4
Document "nix-build --run-env"
2012-05-10 19:29:36 -04:00
Eelco Dolstra
6a7b24a3f2
Document "nix-store --add"
2012-05-10 18:09:45 -04:00
Eelco Dolstra
cb1248d208
Document some nix-store subcommands
2012-05-09 19:06:39 -04:00
Eelco Dolstra
7a213ffc69
Document $NIX_PATH / -I
2012-05-09 19:06:13 -04:00
Eelco Dolstra
a58efdb69b
Update the release notes
2012-05-09 19:05:30 -04:00
Eelco Dolstra
afa7b8a479
nix-channel --update: allow updating only the specified channels
2012-05-07 17:55:56 -04:00
Eelco Dolstra
db5b86ef13
* Add an option ‘build-use-substitutes’, which can be set to ‘false’
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to disable use of substitutes; i.e., force building from source.
Fixes Nix/221.
2012-04-30 19:15:34 -04:00
Eelco Dolstra
59a26360c7
Support mandatory system features in the build hook
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Mandatory features are features that MUST be present in a derivation's
requiredSystemFeatures attribute. One application is performance
testing, where we have a dedicated machine to run performance tests
(and nothing else). Then we would add the label "perf" to the
machine's mandatory features and to the performance testing
derivations.
2012-04-30 17:22:45 -04:00
Eelco Dolstra
82ae0e688c
Update the documentation of build-remote.pl
2012-04-30 16:49:00 -04:00
Eelco Dolstra
9cd3ff1059
nix-instantiate: default to "default.nix" if no arguments are given
2012-04-17 17:19:43 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra
8745fade03
Added utility command ‘nix-instantiate --find-file’ to look up a file in Nix's search path
2012-04-17 17:14:14 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra
e855c7e2c9
nix-channel improvements
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"nix-channel --add" now accepts a second argument: the channel name.
This allows channels to have a nicer name than (say) nixpkgs_unstable.
If no name is given, it defaults to the last component of the URL
(with "-unstable" or "-stable" removed).
Also, channels are now stored in a profile
(/nix/var/nix/profiles/per-user/$USER/channels). One advantage of
this is that it allows rollbacks (e.g. if "nix-channel --update" gives
an undesirable update).
2012-04-14 18:38:52 +02:00
Shea Levy
055e803851
Add the '--show-progress' flag to nix-copy-closure
2012-04-13 14:29:12 +02:00
Shea Levy
242a99c95a
Nix is on github now
2012-04-08 23:59:02 -04:00
Eelco Dolstra
533250a4a3
Fix building from the tarball
2012-04-06 22:54:15 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra
831c7aa410
Documentation fix
2012-04-06 22:03:19 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra
5863987bba
Include environment variables in the manpages
2012-04-06 21:56:20 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra
998b977ede
Include common options in the manpages using some XInclude hackery
2012-04-06 21:45:00 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra
d49ef039dd
Update affiliation
2012-04-06 21:43:56 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra
5a6d50998d
Add a missing DocBook source file to the tarball
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Reported on IRC by Adrian Siekierka.
2012-04-06 20:26:30 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra
8be1979f1a
Remove the --max-links GC option
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We don't need this anymore now that current filesystems support more
than 32,000 files in a directory.
2012-03-26 20:00:02 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra
b006a31d52
Drop the externals directory
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Nix now requires SQLite and bzip2 to be pre-installed. SQLite is
detected using pkg-config. We required DBD::SQLite anyway, so
depending on SQLite is not a big problem.
The --with-bzip2, --with-openssl and --with-sqlite flags are gone.
2012-03-18 23:54:57 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra
4e624849b6
* Added a command ‘nix-store --print-env $drvpath’ that prints out the
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environment of the given derivation in a format that can be sourced
by the shell, e.g.
$ eval "$(nix-store --print-env $(nix-instantiate /etc/nixos/nixpkgs -A pkg))"
$ NIX_BUILD_TOP=/tmp
$ source $stdenv/setup
This is especially useful to reproduce the environment used to build
a package outside of its builder for development purposes.
TODO: add a nix-build option to do the above and fetch the
dependencies of the derivation as well.
2012-01-17 23:07:22 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
2a3f4110c5
* nix-build: put the temporary derivation symlink in a temporary
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directory rather than the current directory.
* nix-build: --drv-link now implies --add-drv-link.
2012-01-13 23:35:07 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
93e71e6ab6
* Follow our own coding conventions.
2011-12-30 17:39:03 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
f2d65c9c80
* Remove a redundant dot (Nicolas Pierron).
2011-12-30 17:31:58 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
ed11b17b2e
* Fix doc error.
2011-12-30 13:43:29 +00:00
Peter Simons
be9be4c147
doc/manual/nix-env.xml: fixed "nix-env -qaA" typo
2011-12-01 08:03:30 +00:00
Peter Simons
3c7ec8fc1b
doc/manual/nix-env.xml: stripped trailing whitespace
2011-12-01 08:02:37 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
f3bc98b001
2011-11-23 15:39:54 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
10e2b2b79e
* Document the --include-outputs option.
2011-11-23 15:39:02 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
d5ac78e0d6
* Add bzip2 and xz support to nix-copy-closure.
2011-11-23 15:29:58 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
daed9aeac5
2011-11-03 19:22:24 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
d7b87bebe3
* The Nix configuration file is usually /etc/nix/nix.conf.
2011-11-03 18:47:10 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
325b5a8aee
* Fix permission on /nix/store in the manual for multi-user installs
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(reported by Silvio Frischknecht).
2011-11-02 19:14:54 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
e6cb3d0a0d
* Added a command ‘nix-store --verify-paths PATHS’ to check whether
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the contents of any of the given store paths have been modified.
E.g.
$ nix-store --verify-path $(nix-store -qR /var/run/current-system)
path `/nix/store/m2smyiwbxidlprfxfz4rjlvz2c3mg58y-etc' was modified! expected hash `fc87e271c5fdf179b47939b08ad13440493805584b35e3014109d04d8436e7b8', got `20f1a47281b3c0cbe299ce47ad5ca7340b20ab34246426915fce0ee9116483aa'
All paths are checked; the exit code is 1 if any path has been
modified, 0 otherwise.
2011-09-06 12:06:30 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
1ecc97b6bd
* Add a Nix expression search path feature. Paths between angle
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brackets, e.g.
import <nixpkgs/pkgs/lib>
are resolved by looking them up relative to the elements listed in
the search path. This allows us to get rid of hacks like
import "${builtins.getEnv "NIXPKGS_ALL"}/pkgs/lib"
The search path can be specified through the ‘-I’ command-line flag
and through the colon-separated ‘NIX_PATH’ environment variable,
e.g.,
$ nix-build -I /etc/nixos ...
If a file is not found in the search path, an error message is
lazily thrown.
2011-08-06 16:05:24 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
0a623a10c7
* Allow a default value in attribute selection by writing
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x.y.z or default
(as originally proposed in
https://mail.cs.uu.nl/pipermail/nix-dev/2009-September/002989.html ).
For instance, an expression like
stdenv.lib.attrByPath ["features" "ckSched"] false args
can now be written as
args.features.ckSched or false
2011-07-13 12:19:57 +00:00
Ludovic Courtès
1ea6e06445
doc: Fix typo.
2011-06-30 15:48:40 +00:00
Ludovic Courtès
5c9e9f732d
Add support for the build-timeout' and
--timeout' options.
2011-06-30 15:19:13 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
48bdbbf070
* Fix a bug in the documentation (reported by Olexiy Buyanskyy,
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Nix/215).
2011-03-15 13:12:59 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
e60c962fb8
* Add an operation `nix-store -q --size'.
2010-11-17 12:40:52 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
fb9368b5a0
* Sync with the trunk.
2010-11-16 12:49:47 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
26def5392f
* Document Boehm GC support.
2010-10-29 14:44:02 +00:00
Rob Vermaas
8dadcede65
nix manual: fix 'install' -> 'uninstall' in garbage collection section of introduction
2010-10-06 19:04:04 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
955d11aae7
* Sync with the trunk.
2010-08-24 09:56:28 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
2de17f4edc
* Update date.
2010-08-17 10:06:26 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
86f65edf4e
* Document --cores in the manual.
2010-08-17 07:22:05 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
b75e1043a3
* Typo.
2010-08-16 13:23:45 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
12721a3a9a
* Nix 0.16 release notes.
2010-08-16 12:38:32 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
aa45027818
* Sync with the trunk.
2010-05-12 22:13:09 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
83dfa89870
* Sync with the trunk.
2010-05-07 14:46:47 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
7fa338f4ba
* Don't use smart quotes where normal ASCII quotes are intended.
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Actually, don't use quotes at all. (Reported by Howard B. Golden.)
2010-05-02 21:27:50 +00:00
Lluís Batlle i Rossell
d77331d32f
Fixing a typo in the nix-store manual, that could confuse a bit too much (--delete/--gc)
2010-04-25 20:52:49 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
d66ea83a76
* Sync with the trunk.
2010-04-20 09:20:29 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
f3b8833a48
* Drop the dependency on the ATerm library.
2010-04-19 14:51:58 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
c4cfb392d3
2010-03-17 10:08:34 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
8e3d98eb41
* Release notes for Nix 0.15.
2010-03-16 13:12:18 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
fe1b8781ae
* Fix a broken link (reported by Peter Koppstein).
2010-03-16 12:58:20 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
a3c63d0d6c
* Disable fsync() in SQLite if the fsync-metadata option is set to
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false.
* Change the default for `fsync-metadata' to true.
* Disable `fsync-metadata' in `make check'.
2010-02-24 13:12:57 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
3b3e1025c3
* Typo. Reported by Peter Koppstein.
2010-02-12 10:50:30 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
e08dbff9a8
* Fix a broken link (reported by Bjorn Buckwalter).
2010-02-05 10:17:13 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
f36b7e7579
2010-02-04 14:00:47 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
4d8a85b8f5
* Updated the release notes.
2010-02-03 11:00:35 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
07ffdc2862
* Added an option "fsync-metadata" to fsync() changes to
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/nix/var/nix/db.
* Removed the function writeStringToFile since it does (almost) the
same thing as writeFile.
2010-01-29 12:22:58 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
3a78af1e24
* Release notes.
2009-12-09 21:02:24 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
3d55f1eb57
* A command `nix-store --query --roots <paths>' to find the garbage
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collector roots that point (directly or indirectly) to the given
paths.
2009-11-23 18:16:25 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
8824d60fe5
* Remove the --use-atime / --max-atime garbage collector flags. Many
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(Linux) machines no longer maintain the atime because it's too
expensive, and on the machines where --use-atime is useful (like the
buildfarm), reading the atimes on the entire Nix store takes way too
much time to make it practical.
2009-11-20 17:12:38 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
327a232c85
* Remove support for old (before Nix 0.12pre12020) databases.
2009-11-06 01:15:44 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
268d90a03e
* Various updates.
2009-11-05 09:07:43 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
1ff8758f76
* Manual updates.
2009-11-04 16:52:35 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
0f79ad47c5
2009-09-25 12:36:03 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
51ad64cc07
* Use xmllint (>= 2.7.4) for RelaxNG validation instead of Jing.
2009-09-18 11:45:56 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
d413612029
* Remove the redundant <sections> around refentries.
2009-07-14 14:58:12 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
1f169f43b3
* Leave out the collaborators / revision history page.
2009-07-10 13:42:12 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
5e2e2f10ef
2009-07-10 11:48:49 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
f2c3fc5191
* Don't show trace information by default (`--show-trace' to enable).
...
NixOS evaluation errors in particular look intimidating and
generally aren't very useful. Ideally the builtins.throw messages
should be self-contained.
2009-06-30 13:28:29 +00:00