The command ":a <expr>" evaluates <expr> and adds the attributes in
the resulting attribute set to the interpreter scope. For instance:
nix-repl> :a import <nixpkgs> {}
nix-repl> lib.range 0 10
[ 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 ]
This reduces the difference between inherited and non-inherited
attribute handling to the choice of which env to use (in recs and lets)
by setting the AttrDef::e to a new ExprVar in the parser rather than
carrying a separate AttrDef::v VarRef member.
As an added bonus, this allows inherited attributes that inherit from a
with to delay forcing evaluation of the with's attributes.
Signed-off-by: Shea Levy <shea@shealevy.com>
On Linux, Nix can build i686 packages even on x86_64 systems. It's not
enough to recognize this situation by settings.thisSystem, we also have
to consult uname(). E.g. we can be running on a i686 Debian with an
amd64 kernel. In that situation settings.thisSystem is i686-linux, but
we still need to change personality to i686 to make builds consistent.
nar.nix's builder depends on coreutils and nix itself being in $PATH.
Unfortunately, there's no good way to ensure that these packages exist
in the same place on the remote machine: The local machine may have nix
installed in /usr, and the remote machine in /usr/local, but the
generated nar.sh builder will refer to /usr and thus fail on the remote
machine. This ensures that nar.sh is run on the same machine that
instantiates it.
Signed-off-by: Shea Levy <shea@shealevy.com>
On a system with multiple CPUs, running Nix operations through the
daemon is significantly slower than "direct" mode:
$ NIX_REMOTE= nix-instantiate '<nixos>' -A system
real 0m0.974s
user 0m0.875s
sys 0m0.088s
$ NIX_REMOTE=daemon nix-instantiate '<nixos>' -A system
real 0m2.118s
user 0m1.463s
sys 0m0.218s
The main reason seems to be that the client and the worker get moved
to a different CPU after every call to the worker. This patch adds a
hack to lock them to the same CPU. With this, the overhead of going
through the daemon is very small:
$ NIX_REMOTE=daemon nix-instantiate '<nixos>' -A system
real 0m1.074s
user 0m0.809s
sys 0m0.098s
* Moved load-file-if-exists to init-functions
* Added init-misc.el for random things that don't fit anywhere else
* Never any tabs, ever. Go away!
Bindings:
* quit Emacs -> C-x r q ("real quit")
* delete-frame -> C-x C-c
* make-frame -> C-x C-n
* changed 'custom-clone-git and 'custom-download-script to place things in special folders
* added those folders and some other things to .gitignore
* changed binding for iy-go-to-char to C-c f