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builds, and Nix expressions are self-contained.</para></listitem>
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<listitem><para>Nix will only rebuild things that have actually
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changed. For instance, if the sources of a component haven't
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changed between runs of the build farm, the component won't be
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rebuild (unless it was garbage-collected). Also, dependencies
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typically don't change very often, so they only need to be built
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changed. For instance, if the sources of a package haven't changed
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between runs of the build farm, the package won't be rebuilt (unless
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it was garbage-collected). Also, dependencies typically don't
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change very often, so they only need to be built
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once.</para></listitem>
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<listitem><para>The results of a Nix build farm can be made
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<glossentry><glossterm>Nix expression</glossterm>
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<glossdef><para>A high-level description of software components and
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<glossdef><para>A high-level description of software packages and
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compositions thereof. Deploying software using Nix entails writing
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Nix expressions for your components. Nix expressions are translated
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Nix expressions for your packages. Nix expressions are translated
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to derivations that are stored in the Nix store. These derivations
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can then be built.</para></glossdef>
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<section><title>Obtaining Nix</title>
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<para>The easiest way to obtain Nix is to download a <link
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xlink:href="http://www.cs.uu.nl/groups/ST/Trace/Nix">source
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distribution</link>. RPMs for Red Hat, SuSE, and Fedora Core are also
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available.</para>
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xlink:href="http://nix.cs.uu.nl/">source distribution</link>. RPMs
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for Red Hat, SuSE, and Fedora Core are also available.</para>
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<para>Alternatively, the most recent sources of Nix can be obtained
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from its <link
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<section><title>Installing from RPMs</title>
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<para>RPM packages of Nix can be downloaded from <uri
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xlink:href="http://www.cs.uu.nl/groups/ST/Trace/Nix">http://www.cs.uu.nl/groups/ST/Trace/Nix</uri>.
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These RPMs should work for most fairly recent releases of SuSE and Red
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Hat Linux. They have been known to work work on SuSE Linux 8.1 and
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9.0, and Red Hat 9.0. In fact, it should work on any RPM-based Linux
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distribution based on <literal>glibc</literal> 2.3 or later.</para>
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<para>RPM packages of Nix can be downloaded from <link
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xlink:href="http://nix.cs.uu.nl/" />. These RPMs should work for most
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fairly recent releases of SuSE and Red Hat Linux. They have been
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known to work work on SuSE Linux 8.1 and 9.0, and Red Hat 9.0. In
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fact, it should work on any RPM-based Linux distribution based on
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<literal>glibc</literal> 2.3 or later.</para>
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<para>Once downloaded, the RPMs can be installed or upgraded using
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<command>rpm -U</command>. For example,
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management system like RPM, you have to specify for each package what
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its dependencies are, but there are no guarantees that this
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specification is complete. If you forget a dependency, then the
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component will build and work correctly on <emphasis>your</emphasis>
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package will build and work correctly on <emphasis>your</emphasis>
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machine if you have the dependency installed, but not on the end
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user's machine if it's not there.</para>
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<refsection><title>Description</title>
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<para>The command <command>nix-env</command> is used to manipulate Nix
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user environments. User environments are sets of software components
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user environments. User environments are sets of software packages
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available to a user at some point in time. In other words, they are a
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synthesised view of the programs available in the Nix store. There
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may be many user environments: different users can have different
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<listitem><para>Compare installed versions to available versions,
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or vice versa (if <option>--available</option> is given). This is
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useful for quickly seeing whether upgrades for installed
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components are available in a Nix expression. A column is added
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packages are available in a Nix expression. A column is added
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with the following meaning:
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<variablelist>
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<varlistentry><term><literal><</literal> <replaceable>version</replaceable></term>
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<listitem><para>A newer version of the component is available
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<listitem><para>A newer version of the package is available
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or installed.</para></listitem>
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</varlistentry>
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<varlistentry><term><literal>=</literal> <replaceable>version</replaceable></term>
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<listitem><para>At most the same version of the component is
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<listitem><para>At most the same version of the package is
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available or installed.</para></listitem>
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</varlistentry>
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<varlistentry><term><literal>></literal> <replaceable>version</replaceable></term>
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<listitem><para>Only older versions of the component are
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<listitem><para>Only older versions of the package are
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available or installed.</para></listitem>
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</varlistentry>
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<varlistentry><term><literal>- ?</literal></term>
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<listitem><para>No version of the component is available or
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<listitem><para>No version of the package is available or
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installed.</para></listitem>
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</varlistentry>
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<para>This chapter discusses how to do package management with Nix,
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i.e., how to obtain, install, upgrade, and erase components. This is
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i.e., how to obtain, install, upgrade, and erase packages. This is
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the “user’s” perspective of the Nix system — people
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who want to <emphasis>create</emphasis> components should consult
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who want to <emphasis>create</emphasis> packages should consult
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<xref linkend='chap-writing-nix-expressions' />.</para>
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<para>The main command for package management is <link
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linkend="sec-nix-env"><command>nix-env</command></link>. You can use
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it to install, upgrade, and erase components, and to query what
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components are installed or are available for installation.</para>
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it to install, upgrade, and erase packages, and to query what
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packages are installed or are available for installation.</para>
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<para>In Nix, different users can have different “views”
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on the set of installed applications. That is, there might be lots of
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symlinks to the files of the active applications. </para>
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<para>Components are installed from a set of <emphasis>Nix
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expressions</emphasis> that tell Nix how to build those components,
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expressions</emphasis> that tell Nix how to build those packages,
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including, if necessary, their dependencies. There is a collection of
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Nix expressions called the Nix Package collection that contains
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components ranging from basic development stuff such as GCC and Glibc,
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packages ranging from basic development stuff such as GCC and Glibc,
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to end-user applications like Mozilla Firefox. (Nix is however not
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tied to the Nix Package collection; you could write your own Nix
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expressions based on it, or completely new ones.) You can download
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xlink:href='http://nix.cs.uu.nl/dist/nix' />.</para>
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<para>Assuming that you have downloaded and unpacked a release of Nix
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Packages, you can view the set of available components in the release:
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Packages, you can view the set of available packages in the release:
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<screen>
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$ nix-env -qaf nixpkgs-<replaceable>version</replaceable> '*'
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</para>
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<para>It is also possible to see the <emphasis>status</emphasis> of
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available components, i.e., whether they are installed into the user
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available packages, i.e., whether they are installed into the user
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environment and/or present in the system:
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<screen>
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...</screen>
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The first character (<literal>I</literal>) indicates whether the
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component is installed in your current user environment. The second
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package is installed in your current user environment. The second
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(<literal>P</literal>) indicates whether it is present on your system
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(in which case installing it into your user environment would be a
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very quick operation). The last one (<literal>S</literal>) indicates
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whether there is a so-called <emphasis>substitute</emphasis> for the
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component, which is Nix’s mechanism for doing binary deployment. It
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just means that Nix knows that it can fetch a pre-built component from
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package, which is Nix’s mechanism for doing binary deployment. It
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just means that Nix knows that it can fetch a pre-built package from
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somewhere (typically a network server) instead of building it
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locally.</para>
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<para>So now that we have a set of Nix expressions we can build the
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components contained in them. This is done using <literal>nix-env
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packages contained in them. This is done using <literal>nix-env
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-i</literal>. For instance,
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<screen>
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$ nix-env -f nixpkgs-<replaceable>version</replaceable> -i subversion</screen>
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will install the component called <literal>subversion</literal> (which
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will install the package called <literal>subversion</literal> (which
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is, of course, the <link
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xlink:href='http://subversion.tigris.org/'>Subversion version
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management system</link>).</para>
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Subversion and all its dependencies. This will take quite a while —
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typically an hour or two on modern machines. Fortunately, there is a
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faster way (so do a Ctrl-C on that install operation!): you just need
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to tell Nix that pre-built binaries of all those components are
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to tell Nix that pre-built binaries of all those packages are
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available somewhere. This is done using the
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<command>nix-pull</command> command, which must be supplied with a URL
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containing a <emphasis>manifest</emphasis> describing what binaries
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<parameter>-u</parameter>; <parameter>-i</parameter> will remove
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whatever version is already installed.</para>
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<para>You can also upgrade all components for which there are newer
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<para>You can also upgrade all packages for which there are newer
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versions:
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<screen>
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implementing the ability to allow different users to have different
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configurations, and to do atomic upgrades and rollbacks. To
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understand how they work, it’s useful to know a bit about how Nix
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works. In Nix, components are stored in unique locations in the
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works. In Nix, packages are stored in unique locations in the
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<emphasis>Nix store</emphasis> (typically,
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<filename>/nix/store</filename>). For instance, a particular version
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of the Subversion component might be stored in a directory
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of the Subversion package might be stored in a directory
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<filename>/nix/store/dpmvp969yhdqs7lm2r1a3gng7pyq6vy4-subversion-1.1.3/</filename>,
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while another version might be stored in
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<filename>/nix/store/5mq2jcn36ldlmh93yj1n8s9c95pj7c5s-subversion-1.1.2</filename>.
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The long strings prefixed to the directory names are cryptographic
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hashes<footnote><para>160-bit truncations of SHA-256 hashes encoded in
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a base-32 notation, to be precise.</para></footnote> of
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<emphasis>all</emphasis> inputs involved in building the component —
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<emphasis>all</emphasis> inputs involved in building the package —
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sources, dependencies, compiler flags, and so on. So if two
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components differ in any way, they end up in different locations in
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every time you want to run Subversion. Of course we could set up the
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<envar>PATH</envar> environment variable to include the
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<filename>bin</filename> directory of every component we want to use,
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<filename>bin</filename> directory of every package we want to use,
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but this is not very convenient since changing <envar>PATH</envar>
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doesn’t take effect for already existing processes. The solution Nix
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<emphasis>user environments</emphasis> and they are components
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<emphasis>activated</emphasis> packages. These are called
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<emphasis>user environments</emphasis> and they are packages
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<command>nix-env</command>), so they too reside in the Nix store. For
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symlink is made to point at the new generation. This last step is
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atomic on Unix, which explains how we can do atomic upgrades. (Note
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any way with old packages, since they are stored in different
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locations in the Nix store.)</para>
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<para><command>nix-env</command> operations such as upgrades
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actually delete components from the system. All they do (as shown
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actually delete packages from the system. All they do (as shown
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above) is to create a new user environment that no longer contains
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should be removed at some point. You can do this by running the Nix
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garbage collector. It will remove from the Nix store any package
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not used (directly or indirectly) by any generation of any
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<para>Note however that as long as old generations reference a
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component, it will not be deleted. After all, we wouldn’t be able to
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package, it will not be deleted. After all, we wouldn’t be able to
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do a rollback otherwise. So in order for garbage collection to be
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to upgrade all components in your profile to the latest versions
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to upgrade all packages in your profile to the latest versions
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available in the subscribed channels.</para>
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<orderedlist>
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xlink:href='http://www.cs.uu.nl/groups/ST/Trace/Nix'/>. Build source
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xlink:href='http://nix.cs.uu.nl/'/>. Build source
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distributions using the regular sequence:
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This will install Nix in <filename>/nix</filename>. You shouldn't
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change the prefix if at all possible since that will make it
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impossible to use our pre-built components. Alternatively, you could
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grab an RPM if you're on an RPM-based system. You should also add
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impossible to use pre-built binaries from the Nixpkgs channel and
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other channels. Alternatively, you could grab an RPM if you're on an
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RPM-based system. You should also add
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<filename>/nix/etc/profile.d/nix.sh</filename> to your
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<filename>~/.bashrc</filename> (or some other login
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somewhere (under <filename>~/.nix-defexpr</filename>, in case you're
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curious). Also, it registers the fact that pre-built binaries are
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<listitem><para>See what installable components are currently
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<listitem><para>See what installable packages are currently available
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This should download the pre-built components; it should not build
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locally (if it does, something went wrong).</para></listitem>
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The latter command will upgrade each installed component for which
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<listitem><para>If you're unhappy with the result of a
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<command>nix-env</command> action (e.g., an upgraded component turned
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<command>nix-env</command> action (e.g., an upgraded package turned
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<para>This chapter shows you how to write Nix expressions, which are
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the things that tell Nix how to build components. It starts with a
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the things that tell Nix how to build packages. It starts with a
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simple example (a Nix expression for GNU Hello), and then moves
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on to a more in-depth look at the Nix expression language.</para>
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package</link> to the Nix Packages collection. Hello is a program
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that prints out the text <quote>Hello, world!</quote>.</para>
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<para>To add a component to the Nix Packages collection, you generally
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<para>To add a package to the Nix Packages collection, you generally
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need to do three things:
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<orderedlist>
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<listitem><para>Write a Nix expression for the component. This is a
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file that describes all the inputs involved in building the
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component, such as dependencies (other components required by the
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component), sources, and so on.</para></listitem>
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<listitem><para>Write a Nix expression for the package. This is a
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file that describes all the inputs involved in building the package,
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such as dependencies, sources, and so on.</para></listitem>
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<listitem><para>Write a <emphasis>builder</emphasis>. This is a
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shell script<footnote><para>In fact, it can be written in any
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language, but typically it's a <command>bash</command> shell
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script.</para></footnote> that actually builds the component from
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script.</para></footnote> that actually builds the package from
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the inputs.</para></listitem>
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<listitem><para>Add the component to the file
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<listitem><para>Add the package to the file
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<filename>pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix</filename>. The Nix
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expression written in the first step is a
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<emphasis>function</emphasis>; it requires other components in order
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<emphasis>function</emphasis>; it requires other packages in order
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to build it. In this step you put it all together, i.e., you call
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the function with the right arguments to build the actual
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component.</para></listitem>
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package.</para></listitem>
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</orderedlist>
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arguments: <varname>stdenv</varname>, <varname>fetchurl</varname>,
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and <varname>perl</varname>. They are needed to build Hello, but
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we don't know how to build them here; that's why they are function
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arguments. <varname>stdenv</varname> is a component that is used
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by almost all Nix Packages components; it provides a
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arguments. <varname>stdenv</varname> is a package that is used
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by almost all Nix Packages packages; it provides a
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<quote>standard</quote> environment consisting of the things you
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would expect in a basic Unix environment: a C/C++ compiler (GCC,
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to be precise), the Bash shell, fundamental Unix tools such as
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<replaceable>e</replaceable> is the body of the function. So
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here, the entire remainder of the file is the body of the
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function; when given the required arguments, the body should
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describe how to build an instance of the Hello component.</para>
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describe how to build an instance of the Hello package.</para>
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</callout>
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<callout arearefs='ex-hello-nix-co-2'>
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<para>So we have to build a component. Building something from
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<para>So we have to build a package. Building something from
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other stuff is called a <emphasis>derivation</emphasis> in Nix (as
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opposed to sources, which are built by humans instead of
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computers). We perform a derivation by calling
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<varname>stdenv.mkDerivation</varname>.
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<varname>mkDerivation</varname> is a function provided by
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<varname>stdenv</varname> that builds a component from a set of
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<varname>stdenv</varname> that builds a package from a set of
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<emphasis>attributes</emphasis>. An attribute set is just a list
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of key/value pairs where each value is an arbitrary Nix
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expression. They take the general form
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<callout arearefs='ex-hello-nix-co-3'>
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<para>The attribute <varname>name</varname> specifies the symbolic
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name and version of the component. Nix doesn't really care about
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name and version of the package. Nix doesn't really care about
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these things, but they are used by for instance <command>nix-env
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-q</command> to show a <quote>human-readable</quote> name for
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components. This attribute is required by
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packages. This attribute is required by
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<varname>mkDerivation</varname>.</para>
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</callout>
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@ -149,7 +148,7 @@ the single Nix expression in that directory
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<callout arearefs='ex-hello-nix-co-5'>
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<para>The builder has to know what the sources of the component
|
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<para>The builder has to know what the sources of the package
|
||||
are. Here, the attribute <varname>src</varname> is bound to the
|
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result of a call to the <command>fetchurl</command> function.
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Given a URL and an MD5 hash of the expected contents of the file
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|
@ -246,7 +245,7 @@ steps:</para>
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<para>Since Hello needs Perl, we have to make sure that Perl is in
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the <envar>PATH</envar>. The <envar>perl</envar> environment
|
||||
variable points to the location of the Perl component (since it
|
||||
variable points to the location of the Perl package (since it
|
||||
was passed in as an attribute to the derivation), so
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<filename><replaceable>$perl</replaceable>/bin</filename> is the
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directory containing the Perl interpreter.</para>
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|
@ -276,7 +275,7 @@ steps:</para>
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<para>GNU Hello is a typical Autoconf-based package, so we first
|
||||
have to run its <filename>configure</filename> script. In Nix
|
||||
every component is stored in a separate location in the Nix store,
|
||||
every package is stored in a separate location in the Nix store,
|
||||
for instance
|
||||
<filename>/nix/store/9a54ba97fb71b65fda531012d0443ce2-hello-2.1.1</filename>.
|
||||
Nix computes this path by cryptographically hashing all attributes
|
||||
|
@ -338,7 +337,7 @@ rec { <co xml:id='ex-hello-composition-co-1' />
|
|||
function; it is missing some arguments that have to be filled in
|
||||
somewhere. In the Nix Packages collection this is done in the file
|
||||
<filename>pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix</filename>, where all
|
||||
Nix expressions for components are imported and called with the
|
||||
Nix expressions for packages are imported and called with the
|
||||
appropriate arguments. <xref linkend='ex-hello-composition' /> shows
|
||||
some fragments of
|
||||
<filename>all-packages.nix</filename>.</para>
|
||||
|
@ -352,7 +351,7 @@ some fragments of
|
|||
<emphasis>mutually recursive</emphasis> set of attributes. That
|
||||
is, the attributes can refer to each other. This is precisely
|
||||
what we want since we want to <quote>plug</quote> the
|
||||
various components into each other.</para>
|
||||
various packages into each other.</para>
|
||||
|
||||
</callout>
|
||||
|
||||
|
@ -522,8 +521,8 @@ genericBuild <co xml:id='ex-hello-builder2-co-3' /></programlisting>
|
|||
<callout arearefs='ex-hello-builder2-co-1'>
|
||||
|
||||
<para>The <envar>buildInputs</envar> variable tells
|
||||
<filename>setup</filename> to use the indicated components as
|
||||
<quote>inputs</quote>. This means that if a component provides a
|
||||
<filename>setup</filename> to use the indicated packages as
|
||||
<quote>inputs</quote>. This means that if a package provides a
|
||||
<filename>bin</filename> subdirectory, it's added to
|
||||
<envar>PATH</envar>; if it has a <filename>include</filename>
|
||||
subdirectory, it's added to GCC's header search path; and so
|
||||
|
@ -594,9 +593,9 @@ Laziness means that arguments to functions are evaluated only when
|
|||
they are needed. Functional means that functions are
|
||||
<quote>normal</quote> values that can be passed around and manipulated
|
||||
in interesting ways. The language is not a full-featured, general
|
||||
purpose language. It's main job is to describe components,
|
||||
compositions of components, and the variability within
|
||||
components.</para>
|
||||
purpose language. It's main job is to describe packages,
|
||||
compositions of packages, and the variability within
|
||||
packages.</para>
|
||||
|
||||
<para>This section presents the various features of the
|
||||
language.</para>
|
||||
|
@ -1191,7 +1190,7 @@ set, the attributes of which specify the inputs of the build.</para>
|
|||
|
||||
<listitem><para>There must be an attribute named
|
||||
<varname>name</varname> whose value must be a string. This is used
|
||||
as a symbolic name for the component by <command>nix-env</command>,
|
||||
as a symbolic name for the package by <command>nix-env</command>,
|
||||
and it is appended to the hash in the output path of the
|
||||
derivation.</para></listitem>
|
||||
|
||||
|
@ -1579,7 +1578,7 @@ impureEnvVars = ["http_proxy" "https_proxy" <replaceable>...</replaceable>];
|
|||
|
||||
<para>The standard build environment in the Nix Packages collection
|
||||
provides a basic environment for building Unix packages. It consists
|
||||
of the following components:
|
||||
of the following packages:
|
||||
|
||||
<itemizedlist>
|
||||
|
||||
|
@ -1645,13 +1644,13 @@ following:
|
|||
|
||||
<itemizedlist>
|
||||
|
||||
<listitem><para>All input components specified in the
|
||||
<listitem><para>All input packages specified in the
|
||||
<envar>buildInputs</envar> environment variable have their
|
||||
<filename>/bin</filename> subdirectory added to <envar>PATH</envar>,
|
||||
their <filename>/include</filename> subdirectory added to the C/C++
|
||||
header file search path, and their <filename>/lib</filename>
|
||||
subdirectory added to the linker search path. This can be extended.
|
||||
For instance, when the <command>pkgconfig</command> component is
|
||||
For instance, when the <command>pkgconfig</command> package is
|
||||
used, the subdirectory <filename>/lib/pkgconfig</filename> of each
|
||||
input is added to the <envar>PKG_CONFIG_PATH</envar> environment
|
||||
variable.</para></listitem>
|
||||
|
@ -1668,8 +1667,8 @@ following:
|
|||
|
||||
<para>The <filename>setup</filename> script also exports a function
|
||||
called <function>genericBuild</function> that knows how to build
|
||||
typical Autoconf-style components. It can be customised to perform
|
||||
builds for any type of component. It is advisable to use
|
||||
typical Autoconf-style packages. It can be customised to perform
|
||||
builds for any type of package. It is advisable to use
|
||||
<function>genericBuild</function> since it provides facilities that
|
||||
are almost always useful such as unpacking of sources, patching of
|
||||
sources, nested logging, etc.</para>
|
||||
|
|
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