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Author SHA1 Message Date
Eelco Dolstra
da196ec68f Document tarball downloading 2015-06-01 15:14:44 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra
feca5cb67f Document nix-shell #!-scripts 2015-06-01 13:49:11 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra
99c2c14f50 Typo 2015-06-01 13:04:10 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra
d68941d89d Nix 1.9 release notes 2015-06-01 12:57:43 +02:00
Charles Strahan
9c6328a7bf nix-env: document --set option 2015-05-19 11:00:15 +02:00
Shea Levy
4d652875bd Add the pre-build hook.
This hook can be used to set system-specific per-derivation build
settings that don't fit into the derivation model and are too complex or
volatile to be hard-coded into nix. Currently, the pre-build hook can
only add chroot dirs/files through the interface, but it also has full
access to the chroot root.

The specific use case for this is systems where the operating system ABI
is more complex than just the kernel-support system calls. For example,
on OS X there is a set of system-provided frameworks that can reliably
be accessed by any program linked to them, no matter the version the
program is running on. Unfortunately, those frameworks do not
necessarily live in the same locations on each version of OS X, nor do
their dependencies, and thus nix needs to know the specific version of
OS X currently running in order to make those frameworks available. The
pre-build hook is a perfect mechanism for doing just that.
2015-04-18 16:56:02 -04:00
Shea Levy
fd6774e285 Revert "Add the pre-build hook."
Going to reimplement differently.

This reverts commit 1e4a4a2e9f.
2015-04-18 14:59:58 -04:00
Shea Levy
1e4a4a2e9f Add the pre-build hook.
This hook can be used to set system specific per-derivation build
settings that don't fit into the derivation model and are too complex or
volatile to be hard-coded into nix. Currently, the pre-build hook can
only add chroot dirs/files.

The specific use case for this is systems where the operating system ABI
is more complex than just the kernel-supported system calls. For
example, on OS X there is a set of system-provided frameworks that can
reliably be accessed by any program linked to them, no matter the
version the program is running on. Unfortunately, those frameworks do
not necessarily live in the same locations on each version of OS X, nor
do their dependencies, and thus nix needs to know the specific version
of OS X currently running in order to make those frameworks available.
The pre-build hook is a perfect mechanism for doing just that.
2015-04-12 12:56:38 -04:00
Daniel Hahler
e659978ced Fix typos: s/the the/the/ 2015-03-06 16:43:22 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra
cffa7f80ab Typo 2015-02-23 16:02:50 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra
99897f6979 Use chroots for all derivations
If ‘build-use-chroot’ is set to ‘true’, fixed-output derivations are
now also chrooted. However, unlike normal derivations, they don't get
a private network namespace, so they can still access the
network. Also, the use of the ‘__noChroot’ derivation attribute is
no longer allowed.

Setting ‘build-use-chroot’ to ‘relaxed’ gives the old behaviour.
2015-02-23 15:54:31 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra
15d2d3c34e Add restricted evaluation mode
If ‘--option restrict-eval true’ is given, the evaluator will throw an
exception if an attempt is made to access any file outside of the Nix
search path. This is primarily intended for Hydra, where we don't want
people doing ‘builtins.readFile ~/.ssh/id_dsa’ or stuff like that.
2015-02-23 15:54:31 +01:00
Shea Levy
a8494de0be Merge branch 'docs/channels-path' of git://github.com/iElectric/nix 2015-02-22 11:59:38 -05:00
Domen Kožar
7bd8299c6c fixes https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/issues/6485 2015-02-22 08:39:29 -08:00
Shea Levy
e0953d53de Allow the leading component of a path to be a ~ 2015-02-19 08:05:16 -05:00
Eelco Dolstra
bd91064150 Use $<attr>Path instead of $<attr> for passAsFile 2015-02-17 16:42:54 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra
a70d275f3d Allow passing attributes via files instead of environment variables
Closes #473.
2015-02-17 14:42:15 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra
29e1ff675b Keep sorted 2015-02-17 13:55:37 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra
de8ed5c1d3 Typo 2015-02-04 18:17:06 +01:00
Shea Levy
d66d9e8425 Require linux 3.13 or later for chroot
Fixes #453
2015-02-04 18:15:56 +01:00
Tobias Geerinckx-Rice
c23d67920e doc: nix-channel --remove takes a name, not a url 2015-01-12 10:56:58 +01:00
Данило Глинський (Danylo Hlynskyi)
ed56ea980b Fix typo (assuming this is a typo)
Fix typo (assuming this is a typo)
`allowedRequisites` mentions `allowedReferences` in code example
2015-01-08 16:43:56 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra
128538ef06 nix-shell: Add --run flag
‘--run’ is like ‘--command’, except that it runs the command in a
non-interactive shell. This is important if you do things like:

  $ nix-shell --command make

Hitting Ctrl-C while make is running drops you into the interactive
Nix shell, which is probably not what you want. So you can now do

  $ nix-shell --run make

instead.
2015-01-08 15:14:38 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra
4d5c9d85ea Document how to set up build users on Mac OS X 2015-01-06 11:17:11 +01:00
j-keck
14fb7378df doc: remove wrong phrase.
'... another level of indirection not shown in the figure above ...'
but in the 'user-environments.png' figure there is '~/.nix-profile'.
the figure was updated with the commit: f982df3 on Mar 16, 2005.
2015-01-05 15:08:53 +01:00
j-keck
2c052278d2 doc: remove double word
'... when when ...' -> '... when ...'
2015-01-05 13:40:19 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra
411b237ee5 edition -> subtitle
For some reason, docbook-xsl doesn't render edition.
2015-01-02 12:53:32 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra
f16b8786a2 Belatedly add contributors 2014-12-16 18:58:04 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra
c2384052e3 Grmbl 2014-12-14 03:38:54 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra
47ed06a290 Add a section on nix-serve 2014-12-14 03:37:41 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra
2142f47c06 Add section on SSH substituter 2014-12-14 03:19:15 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra
68b4717873 Delete the stdenv section
It's outdated and better covered in the Nixpkgs manual.
2014-12-14 01:39:32 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra
6466d56f42 Bla 2014-12-14 01:33:16 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra
e90e7b5e0a Fix build
http://hydra.nixos.org/build/17894500
2014-12-14 01:29:35 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra
eb53f592b8 Fix image in PDF
Closes #415.
2014-12-14 01:23:06 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra
9c830394ec Rename files 2014-12-14 01:07:23 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra
4c4e891652 Update .nixpkg description 2014-12-13 23:27:22 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra
be79773542 ReiserFS -> ext4 2014-12-13 23:23:19 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra
4eace5adda Style 2014-12-13 23:21:14 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra
751ae181a1 Undocument nix-generate-patches 2014-12-13 23:17:26 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra
3b88d03714 Document channel format and excise most mentions of manifests and nix-pull 2014-12-13 23:16:08 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra
e5a51fab24 Style 2014-12-13 21:50:01 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra
a144eb1415 Don't use ?= 2014-12-11 10:44:02 +01:00
darealshinji
40e1203abc allow custom docbook paths/URLs, use a working URL for docbook.rng 2014-12-11 10:43:46 +01:00
roconnor
2e98703c0c Update signing.txt 2014-12-10 12:27:30 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra
d44d923be9 Add option to disable binary cache certificate checking 2014-12-09 13:16:02 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra
e5891f2ea8 Use https://cache.nixos.org instead of http://cache.nixos.org 2014-12-09 13:16:02 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra
5f04da905f Intro: Mention binary caches 2014-11-25 15:55:28 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra
d4c8ee7059 Rely on XML catalogs to find the DocBook schemas and stylesheets 2014-11-25 15:54:26 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra
976b949e4d More build-cache-failures -> build-cache-failure 2014-11-24 16:52:13 +01:00