Mikey Ariel
8901acc976
Restructuring the Nix manual
2014-08-27 18:41:09 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra
7018830509
Update manual
2014-08-04 18:00:33 +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
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
Eelco Dolstra
7f74513b4e
Also provide an option for setting the curl connection timeout
2014-02-26 16:07:43 +01:00
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
34bb806f74
Fix typos, especially those that end up in the Nix manual
2013-08-26 11:15:22 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra
b584a42e3d
Manual: auto-optimise-store is disabled by default
2013-07-03 18:35:59 +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
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
aebea2e489
Reinstate the http://nixos.org/binary-cache default for the binary-caches setting
2013-01-02 22:16:37 +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
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
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
c845c0ccad
nix-channel: Add option to force fetching of manifests
2012-09-13 12:11:40 -04:00
Eelco Dolstra
9e2fc6951c
Disable the binary cache substituter by default for now
2012-08-27 14:20:14 -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
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
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
fe241ece29
Merge branch 'master' into no-manifests
2012-07-18 10:47:59 -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
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
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
cb1248d208
Document some nix-store subcommands
2012-05-09 19:06:39 -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
daed9aeac5
2011-11-03 19:22:24 +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
955d11aae7
* Sync with the trunk.
2010-08-24 09:56:28 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
86f65edf4e
* Document --cores in the manual.
2010-08-17 07:22:05 +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
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
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
e007b50eb7
2007-10-29 22:16:36 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
6f2bfd92b6
* Manual.
2006-10-05 08:21:52 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
f316b6c1a9
* Manual updates (especially how nix-build makes testing packages much
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easier; no longer need a helper expression).
2006-10-02 11:50:55 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
1a9a1f2768
* Convert to DocBook 5.
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* Use Jing for RelaxNG validation, xmllint seems buggy.
2006-08-21 16:05:11 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
345a95afe9
* Allow the size of the GC reserved file to be specified in nix.conf
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through the new `gc-reserved-space' option.
2006-02-16 13:58:10 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
fb45b0f548
* Document nix-channel.
2005-04-09 17:16:00 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
8b70f138e0
* Lots of manual updates, in particular the new `nix-store --query'
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options were documented, as well as the Nix configuration file.
2005-04-08 13:00:38 +00:00