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Author SHA1 Message Date
Eelco Dolstra
924e19341a Don't barf when installing as root 2014-04-10 23:42:48 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra
b0a09a6f32 Add docbook icons to the distribution
Grmbl...
2014-04-09 14:52:43 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra
e0a947cde6 Simplify quick start section 2014-04-08 16:28:39 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra
d23931f3a4 Remove redundant stuff 2014-04-08 16:10:25 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra
4846005741 Update installation instructions 2014-04-08 16:09:56 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra
89f9232813 Update release notes 2014-04-07 12:00:23 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra
3f8e1f5682 Update release notes 2014-04-04 14:51:07 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra
1f19fdbd45 Document that we require a C++11 compiler 2014-04-04 13:49:53 +02:00
Ricardo M. Correia
034b6f6062 nix-collect-garbage: Add --delete-older-than option 2014-03-30 00:54:16 +01:00
Ricardo M. Correia
7ef7597f71 nix-env: Add support for --delete-generations 15d
It will delete all generations older than the specified number of days.
2014-03-30 00:54:16 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra
006f24c7fa Document nix-env -q --json 2014-03-12 14:25:48 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra
d435e46daa Generate release notes again 2014-03-12 14:24:29 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra
e9934bb5ad Update release notes for 1.7 2014-03-12 13:58:06 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra
92a848f674 Fix typos 2014-03-11 13:16:21 +01:00
Shea Levy
2f2a20ed18 Document null dynamic attrs 2014-03-11 13:15:06 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra
3a86888fd7 Typo 2014-02-28 14:01:31 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra
7f74513b4e Also provide an option for setting the curl connection timeout 2014-02-26 16:07:43 +01:00
Shea Levy
733214144a Document dynamic attributes
Signed-off-by: Shea Levy <shea@shealevy.com>
2014-02-26 14:06:45 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra
36b90e72d7 nix-shell: Add --packages flag
This allows you to easily set up a build environment containing the
specified packages from Nixpkgs.  For example:

  $ nix-shell -p sqlite xorg.libX11 hello

will start a shell in which the given packages are present.
2014-02-19 17:08:01 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra
e1cf40fa95 nix-instantiate: Rename --eval-only to --eval, --parse-only to --parse 2014-02-19 16:34:24 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra
c31836008e nix-instantiate: Add a flag --expr / -E to read expressions from the command line
This is basically a shortcut for ‘echo 'expr...' | nix-instantiate -’.
Also supported by nix-build and nix-shell.
2014-02-19 16:30:19 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra
e707a8a526 Move manpages around 2014-02-19 15:32:19 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra
1da6ae4f99 nix-store --gc --max-freed: Support a unit specifier
E.g. "--max-freed 10G" means "free ten gigabytes".
2014-02-17 14:48:50 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra
e81d38c02b nix-shell: Execute shellHook if it exists
Since normal builds don't execute shellHook, this allows nix-shell
specific customisation.  Suggested by Domen.
2014-02-17 13:34:24 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra
f9fc6acbf4 Document current meaning of preferLocalBuild
Closes #208.
2014-02-12 10:53:22 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra
57386c9bae Binary tarball: Automatically create /nix
The tarball can now be unpacked anywhere.  The installation script
uses "sudo" to create /nix if it doesn't exist.  It also fetches the
nixpkgs-unstable channel.
2014-02-10 16:35:59 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra
b632153ebd nix-shell: Use shell.nix as the default expression if it exists 2014-02-10 10:25:13 +01:00
Shea Levy
e4058fab64 Rename --no-readonly-mode --read-write-mode
Signed-off-by: Shea Levy <shea@shealevy.com>
2014-02-07 18:03:38 +01:00
Shea Levy
0c3e8a616e nix-instantiate: Add a --no-readonly-mode flag
This allows running nix-instantiate --eval-only without performing the
evaluation in readonly mode, letting features like import from
derivation and automatic substitution of builtins.storePath paths work.

Signed-off-by: Shea Levy <shea@shealevy.com>
2014-02-07 18:03:38 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra
6dca72006a Only run "git ls-files" when doing "make check" 2014-02-01 16:30:24 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra
844d83352c More "make dist" fixes 2014-02-01 15:18:48 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra
6ef32bddc1 Fix "make dist" 2014-02-01 14:38:12 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra
0c6d62cf27 Remove Automakefiles 2014-02-01 13:54:38 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra
16e7d69209 Update Makefile variable names 2014-02-01 13:54:38 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra
ac8c2ef1aa Build/install manual 2014-02-01 11:30:21 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra
e640d67144 Document nulls 2014-01-13 13:50:12 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra
77c13cdf56 Add a toJSON primop 2013-11-19 00:04:11 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra
a478e8a7bb Remove nix-setuid-helper
AFAIK, nobody uses it, it's not maintained, and it has no tests.
2013-11-14 11:57:37 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra
1dacd427cd Update release notes, set version for 1.6.1 release 2013-10-28 11:56:21 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
36e67ff16b Undocument obsolete form of "let" 2013-10-24 22:06:39 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra
fba17a9043 Doc fix 2013-10-24 22:05:58 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra
5bc41d78ff Rename "attribute sets" to "sets"
We don't have any other kind of sets so calling them attribute sets is
unnecessarily verbose.
2013-10-24 16:41:04 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra
9e4bb20455 Manual: Fix broken URLs
Fixes #172.
2013-10-24 16:02:08 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra
a5684e09d3 Document typeOf 2013-10-24 02:56:00 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra
6da92d96ae Document NIX_SHOW_STATS and NIX_COUNT_CALLS 2013-10-24 02:22:24 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra
792fd51f41 Fold two stack trace messages in derivations
Combined with the previous changes, stack traces involving derivations
are now much less verbose, since something like

  while evaluating the builtin function `getAttr':
  while evaluating the builtin function `derivationStrict':
  while instantiating the derivation named `gtk+-2.24.20' at `/home/eelco/Dev/nixpkgs/pkgs/development/libraries/gtk+/2.x.nix:11:3':
  while evaluating the derivation attribute `propagatedNativeBuildInputs' at `/home/eelco/Dev/nixpkgs/pkgs/stdenv/generic/default.nix:78:17':
  while evaluating the attribute `outPath' at `/nix/store/212ngf4ph63mp6p1np2bapkfikpakfv7-nix-1.6/share/nix/corepkgs/derivation.nix:18:9':
  ...

now reads

  while evaluating the attribute `propagatedNativeBuildInputs' of the derivation `gtk+-2.24.20' at `/home/eelco/Dev/nixpkgs/pkgs/development/libraries/gtk+/2.x.nix:11:3':
  ...
2013-10-17 11:57:25 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra
bb659bad81 Nix 1.6.1 release notes 2013-10-17 11:40:20 +02:00
goblin
d7625b5c2d two typos 2013-10-17 00:59:19 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra
d5529f5b85 Version was called 1.6, not 1.6.0 2013-09-10 17:48:11 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra
fecad91b67 Update release notes 2013-09-10 11:21:30 +02:00
Domen Kožar
4b83830d0c typo 2013-09-06 15:18:07 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra
2c1ecf8e81 nix-env -i: Add a flag ‘--remove-all’ / ‘-r’
This is equivalent to running ‘nix-env -e '*'’ first, except that it
happens in a single transaction.  Thus, ‘nix-env -i pkgs...’ replaces
the profile with the specified set of packages.

The main motivation is to support declarative package management
(similar to environment.systemPackages in NixOS).  That is, if you
have a specification ‘profile.nix’ like this:

  with import <nixpkgs> {};
  [ thunderbird
    geeqie
    ...
  ]

then after any change to ‘profile.nix’, you can run:

  $ nix-env -f profile.nix -ir

to update the profile to match the specification.  (Without the ‘-r’
flag, if you remove a package from ‘profile.nix’, it won't be removed
from the actual profile.)

Suggested by @zefhemel.
2013-09-03 21:21:14 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra
c28dfc0305 Manual: Make '' a bit clearer
Issue #162.
2013-09-02 13:24:29 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra
e9b92169a5 Fix manual error
Reported by Matija Šuklje.

Fixes #163.
2013-09-02 13:19:34 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra
ecd830b3b9 Update the release notes 2013-09-02 13:11:36 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra
efe4289464 Add an option to limit the log output of builders
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
6cd6ce5608 Fix nix-shell command 2013-08-26 11:15:22 +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
03eaef3d7a Manual: Don't use actual hashes of Nix dependencies
These cause an unnecessary runtime dependency :-)
2013-08-23 10:12:20 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra
b3110a15e9 Fix corrupt PNG
Libpng used to accept this, but no longer does.
2013-08-21 12:53:51 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra
7b09e9f2c4 Add hacking notes plus a script for running nix-shell 2013-07-19 16:51:31 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra
2bc5de8635 Rename ‘nix-build --run-env’ to ‘nix-shell’ 2013-07-19 12:02:44 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra
dc5f2e7da6 nix-build --run-env: Add a ‘--pure’ flag
This causes the environment to be (almost) cleared, thus giving a
shell that more closely resembled the actual Nix derivation.
2013-07-19 11:23:32 +02:00
Domen Kožar
620d57f036 doc: typo 2013-07-12 11:27:43 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra
656390062a nix-build --run-env: Source $stdenv/setup in the interactive shell
This ensures that not just environment variables are set, but also
shell functions such as unpackPhase, configurePhase and so on.
2013-07-11 14:32:22 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra
b584a42e3d Manual: auto-optimise-store is disabled by default 2013-07-03 18:35:59 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra
5116214343 Add support for uncompressed NARs in binary caches
Issue NixOS/hydra#102.
2013-07-01 21:03:14 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra
6016bcd30e Update release notes for Nix 1.5.3 2013-06-17 11:47:38 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra
bfee9a2581 Typo 2013-06-13 14:51:11 +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
039d5a023f .bashrc -> .profile 2013-05-29 12:36:56 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra
6e85d1b5ba Bump release date 2013-05-13 16:52:08 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra
806970349b Update release date 2013-05-07 15:46:25 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra
ea019e9a26 Add option ‘extra-binary-caches’
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
93f4fa8a15 Update release notes 2013-05-03 11:28:32 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra
3628b61ce0 Nix 1.5.2 release notes 2013-05-01 13:31:33 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra
05420e7883 Manual: Add a missing step to the build instructions
Reported by Johan Grande.
2013-04-09 17:57:48 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra
a68ebf8e37 Require Bison 2.6 2013-03-14 18:33:15 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra
bdd4646338 Revert "Prevent config.h from being clobbered"
This reverts commit 28bba8c44f.
2013-03-08 01:24:59 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra
28bba8c44f Prevent config.h from being clobbered 2013-03-07 23:55:55 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra
9fa1bee575 Update release notes
Also use a point release version number as suggested by several
people.
2013-02-28 19:36:02 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra
0111ba98ea Handle hard links to other files in the output 2013-02-27 17:18:41 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra
ca9c02dff1 Update release notes 2013-02-26 13:23:09 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra
79a3ba7fa3 Document ‘hashString’ 2013-02-08 20:04:14 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra
9842077cb2 Improve -I description
Issue #88.
2013-01-24 13:00:44 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra
92926be2fe Fix "0 store paths deleted" message 2013-01-04 15:17:19 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra
def5160b61 Clear any immutable bits in the Nix store
Doing this once makes subsequent operations like garbage collecting
more efficient since we don't have to call makeMutable() first.
2013-01-03 12:59:23 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra
f12492c66d Manual: Fix "nix-store --export" example 2013-01-02 22:36:08 +01:00
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
42d6f640c1 Update release notes 2013-01-02 13:00:55 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra
b7629778ef Allow mounting a path in a different location in the chroot
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
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
5ee7d8fbab Typo fix 2012-12-21 00:18:59 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra
9fa12fc201 Allow setting the profile location using $NIX_PROFILE
Fixes #69.
2012-12-12 16:01:46 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra
8cc19ed089 Set a long SQLite timeout in the binary cache substituter 2012-12-06 11:43:34 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra
0f96966a44 Add release date 2012-12-05 11:03:06 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra
a7b4aaa2c3 Updated release notes 2012-12-04 17:41:51 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra
094a08f839 Document new primops 2012-12-04 17:15:32 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra
24d5875514 Document multiple output support 2012-12-04 16:03:56 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra
a3d6585c5a nix-copy-closure: Add flag ‘--use-substitutes’ 2012-11-23 16:20:16 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra
9de6bc5d05 nix-store -r: Add ‘--ignore-unknown’ flag
This flag causes paths that do not have a known substitute to be
quietly ignored.  This is mostly useful for Charon, allowing it to
speed up deployment by letting a machine use substitutes for all
substitutable paths, instead of uploading them.  The latter is
frequently faster, e.g. if the target machine has a fast Internet
connection while the source machine is on a slow ADSL line.
2012-11-20 00:27:25 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra
182e15b661 Manual: Don't use a store path in our closure
http://hydra.nixos.org/build/3313227
2012-11-09 16:30:15 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra
a9a8baaccb Use a shorter Nixpkgs channel URL 2012-11-09 13:33:35 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra
c31ebc50aa Update release notes 2012-11-09 13:33:24 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra
bbc107ef1e Process binary caches in order of priority
Binary caches can now specify a priority in their nix-cache-info file.
The binary cache substituter checks caches in order of priority.  This
is to ensure that fast, static caches like nixos.org/binary-cache are
processed before slow, dynamic caches like hydra.nixos.org.
2012-11-06 17:45:20 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra
3a95e1a17c Update nix-push manpage and document the binary cache format 2012-11-06 15:49:53 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra
620e92e880 Add an option ‘use-binary-caches’
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
a28b4445a4 nix-prefetch-url: Improve option handling 2012-10-23 18:04:11 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra
ac238d619c Typo
Reported by Shea.
2012-10-12 10:21:04 -04:00
Eelco Dolstra
bfaa5635de Manual: Don't use a store path that actually exists
http://hydra.nixos.org/build/3124130
2012-10-04 13:37:30 -04:00
Eelco Dolstra
e35d6f78dc Rename nix-worker to nix-daemon 2012-10-03 17:59:23 -04:00
Eelco Dolstra
522ecab9b8 Drop support for running nix-worker in "slave" mode
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
9c41c66c5b Document ‘--repair’ 2012-10-03 15:53:25 -04:00
Eelco Dolstra
8e3a7bd712 nix-store --verify: Add an option ‘--repair’ to repair all missing/corrupt paths
Also, return a non-zero exit code if errors remain after
verifying/repairing.
2012-10-02 15:12:56 -04:00
Eelco Dolstra
9958bd6992 Add operation ‘nix-store --repair-path’
This operation allows fixing corrupted or accidentally deleted store
paths by redownloading them using substituters, if available.

Since the corrupted path cannot be replaced atomically, there is a
very small time window (one system call) during which neither the old
(corrupted) nor the new (repaired) contents are available.  So
repairing should be used with some care on critical packages like
Glibc.
2012-10-02 14:08:59 -04:00
Eelco Dolstra
95c74eae26 Allow dashes in identifiers
In Nixpkgs, the attribute in all-packages.nix corresponding to a
package is usually equal to the package name.  However, this doesn't
work if the package contains a dash, which is fairly common.  The
convention is to replace the dash with an underscore (e.g. "dbus-lib"
becomes "dbus_glib"), but that's annoying.  So now dashes are valid in
variable / attribute names, allowing you to write:

  dbus-glib = callPackage ../development/libraries/dbus-glib { };

and

  buildInputs = [ dbus-glib ];

Since we don't have a negation or subtraction operation in Nix, this
is unambiguous.
2012-09-27 15:49:20 -04:00
Eelco Dolstra
f46612be96 Add "on Linux" qualifier 2012-09-25 16:30:37 -04:00
Eelco Dolstra
0f358ca5b6 Document that Nix requires GNU Make
Fixes #44.
2012-09-25 16:17:30 -04:00
Eelco Dolstra
cb6651e878 Update release notes 2012-09-25 16:04:50 -04:00
Eelco Dolstra
983220bcd4 nix-collect-garbage: Support --dry-run 2012-09-13 18:09:20 -04:00
Eelco Dolstra
9fd9dedf12 nix-env --delete-generations: Support --dry-run flag
Fixes #43.
2012-09-13 18:05:04 -04:00
Eelco Dolstra
c845c0ccad nix-channel: Add option to force fetching of manifests 2012-09-13 12:11:40 -04:00
Shea Levy
360056e174 Document importing from a directory in the import documentation 2012-08-29 18:07:51 -04:00
Eelco Dolstra
9e2fc6951c Disable the binary cache substituter by default for now 2012-08-27 14:20:14 -04:00
Eelco Dolstra
9c2decaa19 Merge branch 'master' into no-manifests 2012-08-01 18:03:49 -04:00
Eelco Dolstra
5170c5691a nix-channel: Use binary caches advertised by channels
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’
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
157170059d Manual: Remove reference to non-existent -I option 2012-07-30 22:29:42 -04:00
Eelco Dolstra
9de6d10d11 Get rid of $NIX_BINARY_CACHES
You can use ‘--option binary-caches URLs’ instead.
2012-07-30 16:39:31 -04:00
Eelco Dolstra
f15083c10a Document the --option flag
Pointed out by Daniel Santa Cruz on IRC.
2012-07-29 14:37:40 -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
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
58337e0e61 Set release date 2012-07-18 11:51:27 -04:00
Eelco Dolstra
fe241ece29 Merge branch 'master' into no-manifests 2012-07-18 10:47:59 -04:00
Eelco Dolstra
51d71ad3d7 Manual: Don't claim we support Cygwin 2012-07-17 11:49:47 -04:00
Eelco Dolstra
6c01fb4d68 Update Nix 1.1 release notes 2012-07-17 10:06:20 -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
e4d6bcb6cd Update release notes 2012-07-11 18:52:23 -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
8da6772ed4 Update release notes 2012-06-23 14:59:13 -04:00
Eelco Dolstra
2c26985835 Add option ‘build-keep-log’ to enable/disable writing of build logs
Fixes #26.
2012-05-29 16:42:05 -04:00
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