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).
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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
Eelco Dolstra
14bc3ce3d6
* Canonicalise timestamps in the Nix store to 1 (1970-01-01 00:00:01
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UTC) rather than 0 (00:00:00). 1 is a better choice because some
programs use 0 as a special value. For instance, the Template
Toolkit uses a timestamp of 0 to denote the non-existence of a file,
so it barfs on files in the Nix store (see
template-toolkit-nix-store.patch in Nixpkgs). Similarly, Maya 2008
fails to load script directories with a timestamp of 0 and can't be
patched because it's closed source.
This will also shut up those "implausibly old time stamp" GNU tar
warnings.
2009-06-13 16:30:58 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
c6cb792d48
2009-05-26 16:32:02 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
f751c2966b
* Don't have a bugs section in the manual. Bugs should be kept in the
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bug tracker.
2009-05-07 13:11:58 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
435a93b5d8
* Remove references to __XXX primops.
2009-04-14 13:03:27 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
8b2a01a8c2
* Release notes.
2009-04-14 12:02:22 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
3a2bbe7f8a
* Simplify communication with the hook a bit (don't use file
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descriptors 3/4, just use stdin/stderr).
2009-03-28 19:29:55 +00:00
Marc Weber
2ef579d1aa
documentation for previous commit
2009-02-05 19:35:44 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
09bc0c502c
* Install the release notes.
2008-11-29 00:31:39 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
c202523e53
2008-11-20 12:01:05 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
60564410ef
* Patterns.
2008-11-19 17:50:25 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
2668a43388
2008-11-19 17:27:52 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
63ccd72496
* Updated the manual.
2008-11-19 17:00:32 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
7509d70f9d
* Documented some of the sharing mechanisms.
2008-11-19 15:20:46 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
2369b122d1
* Install documentation in $(docdir) (i.e. share/doc/nix).
2008-11-19 13:19:09 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
07d3a38726
* Remove references to Berkeley DB, including most of the
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troubleshooting section. W00t.
2008-11-19 11:58:33 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
f5325d292d
* Release notes.
2008-11-19 10:59:36 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
fa791116a3
* Get rid of nix-pack-closure / nix-unpack-closure, they're redundant.
2008-11-18 14:43:40 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
72f3ea7358
* Moved some stuff to the Nixpkgs manual.
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* Updated the release notes.
2008-08-05 11:03:05 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
7cd88b1dec
* Generalised the dependencyClosure primop to builtins.genericClosure,
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which is hopefully more useful.
* New primops: length, mul, div.
2008-07-11 13:29:04 +00:00