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| author | Spencer Baugh <sbaugh@catern.com> | 2018-01-31T22·47+0000 |
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| committer | Spencer Baugh <sbaugh@catern.com> | 2018-01-31T22·47+0000 |
| commit | e5432574e2d54388eb52292da540f2d4de07e9dc (patch) | |
| tree | 3f8f75c342a7cc9b268586ed40d32459ee42a17c | |
| parent | c129fc6ee8a8bf6de633dc1b91869a0c428ca75c (diff) | |
document ability to set NIX_REMOTE=unix://path/to/socket
| -rw-r--r-- | doc/manual/command-ref/env-common.xml | 2 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | src/libstore/store-api.hh | 3 |
2 files changed, 5 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/doc/manual/command-ref/env-common.xml b/doc/manual/command-ref/env-common.xml index a83aeaf2e575..361d3e2b0330 100644 --- a/doc/manual/command-ref/env-common.xml +++ b/doc/manual/command-ref/env-common.xml @@ -154,6 +154,8 @@ $ mount -o bind /mnt/otherdisk/nix /nix</screen> <literal>daemon</literal> if you want to use the Nix daemon to execute Nix operations. This is necessary in <link linkend="ssec-multi-user">multi-user Nix installations</link>. + If the Nix daemon's Unix socket is at some non-standard path, + this variable should be set to <literal>unix://path/to/socket</literal>. Otherwise, it should be left unset.</para></listitem> </varlistentry> diff --git a/src/libstore/store-api.hh b/src/libstore/store-api.hh index c0e735cd314c..b21d3dd8a93b 100644 --- a/src/libstore/store-api.hh +++ b/src/libstore/store-api.hh @@ -705,6 +705,9 @@ void removeTempRoots(); * ‘daemon’: The Nix store accessed via a Unix domain socket connection to nix-daemon. + * ‘unix://<path>’: The Nix store accessed via a Unix domain socket + connection to nix-daemon, with the socket located at <path>. + * ‘auto’ or ‘’: Equivalent to ‘local’ or ‘daemon’ depending on whether the user has write access to the local Nix store/database. |