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<book>
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<title>Nix: The Manual</title>
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<bookinfo>
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<author>
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<firstname>Eelco</firstname>
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<surname>Dolstra</surname>
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</author>
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<copyright>
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<year>2003</year>
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<holder>Eelco Dolstra</holder>
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</copyright>
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</bookinfo>
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&introduction;
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&installation;
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<chapter>
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<title>A Guided Tour</title>
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<para>
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Bla bla
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</para>
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</chapter>
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<chapter>
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<title>Fix Language Reference</title>
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<para>
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Bla bla
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</para>
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</chapter>
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<chapter>
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<title>Nix Syntax and Semantics</title>
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<para>
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Bla bla
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</para>
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</chapter>
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<chapter>
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<title>Fix Language Reference</title>
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<para>
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</para>
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</chapter>
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<chapter>
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<title>Writing Builders</title>
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<para>
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</para>
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</chapter>
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</para>
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<screen>
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$ svn checkout http://losser.st-lab.cs.uu.nl:12080/repos/trace/nix/trunk
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nix</screen>
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$ svn checkout http://losser.st-lab.cs.uu.nl:12080/repos/trace/nix/trunk nix</screen>
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<para>
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Likewise, specific releases can be obtained from the <ulink
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</para>
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<screen>
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$ autoreconf -i $ ./configure <replaceable>options...</replaceable> $
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make $ make install</screen>
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$ autoreconf -i
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$ ./configure <replaceable>options...</replaceable>
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$ make
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$ make install</screen>
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<para>
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Currently, the only useful switch for <command>configure</command> is
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<title>Build management</title>
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<para>
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Build management tools are used to perform <emphasis>software
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Build management tools are used to perform <emphasis>software
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builds</emphasis>, that is, the construction of derived products such
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as executable programs from source code. A commonly used build tool is
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Make, which is a standard tool on Unix systems. These tools have to
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deal with several issues:
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<itemizedlist>
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<itemizedlist>
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<listitem>
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<para>
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</para>
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</itemizedlist>
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</itemizedlist>
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</para>
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</sect2>
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<title>Package management</title>
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<para>
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After software has been built, is must also be
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After software has been built, is must also be
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<emphasis>deployed</emphasis> in the intended target environment, e.g.,
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the user's workstation. Examples include the Red Hat package manager
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(RPM), Microsoft's MSI, and so on. Here also we have to deal with
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several issues:
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<itemizedlist>
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<listitem>
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<para>
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The <emphasis>creation</emphasis> of packages from some formal
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the system administrator should be constant, not linear).
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</para>
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</listitem>
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</itemizedlist>
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</itemizedlist>
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</para>
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</sect2>
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</sect1>
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<!--######################################################################-->
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<sect1>
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<title>What Nix can do for you</title>
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<para>
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Here is a summary of what Nix provides:
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</para>
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<itemizedlist>
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<listitem>
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<para>
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<emphasis>Reliable dependencies.</emphasis>
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</para>
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</listitem>
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<para>
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<emphasis>Support for variability.</emphasis>
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</para>
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</listitem>
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<listitem>
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<para>
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<emphasis>Transparent source/binary deployment.</emphasis>
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</para>
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</listitem>
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<listitem>
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<para>
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<emphasis>Easy configuration duplication.</emphasis>
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</para>
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</listitem>
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<para>
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<emphasis>Automatic storage management.</emphasis>
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</para>
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</listitem>
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<listitem>
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<para>
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<emphasis>Atomic upgrades and rollbacks.</emphasis>
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</para>
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<listitem>
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<para>
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<emphasis>Support for many simultaneous configurations.</emphasis>
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</para>
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</itemizedlist>
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<para>
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Here is what Nix doesn't yet provide, but will:
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</para>
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<para>
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<emphasis>Build management.</emphasis> In principle it is already
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possible to do build management using Fix (by writing builders that
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perform appropriate build steps), but the Fix language is not yet
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powerful enough to make this pleasant. The <ulink
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url='http://www.cs.uu.nl/~eelco/maak/'>Maak build manager</ulink>
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should be retargeted to produce Nix expressions, or alternatively,
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extend Fix with Maak's semantics and concrete syntax (since Fix needs
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a concrete syntax anyway). Another interesting idea is to write a
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<command>make</command> implementation that uses Nix as a back-end to
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support <ulink
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url='http://www.research.att.com/~bs/bs_faq.html#legacy'>legacy</ulink>
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build files.
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</para>
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</itemizedlist>
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</sect1>
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<!--######################################################################-->
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<sect1>
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<title>The Nix system</title>
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