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| author | Peter Simons <simons@cryp.to> | 2018-05-03T14·19+0200 |
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| committer | GitHub <noreply@github.com> | 2018-05-03T14·19+0200 |
| commit | f02eadfda59e2c98c0638f94a4b5342cf50a2586 (patch) | |
| tree | 204240981ea394489e96ee72f0072b1b1b81d8b2 | |
| parent | c717d8e3bd96db9a597e11f067585cf1aee50a40 (diff) | |
| parent | 5ba6395378e6e92266bba0dd46e3cf3ab6e2fce8 (diff) | |
Merge pull request #2132 from gleber/docs-impureEnvVars-env-source
docs: mention source of env variables used by `impureEnvVars`.
| -rw-r--r-- | doc/manual/expressions/advanced-attributes.xml | 8 |
1 files changed, 7 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/doc/manual/expressions/advanced-attributes.xml b/doc/manual/expressions/advanced-attributes.xml index f3cf98371302..dfd013b5cf31 100644 --- a/doc/manual/expressions/advanced-attributes.xml +++ b/doc/manual/expressions/advanced-attributes.xml @@ -112,7 +112,13 @@ impureEnvVars = [ "http_proxy" "https_proxy" <replaceable>...</replaceable> ]; linkend="fixed-output-drvs">fixed-output derivations</link>, where impurities such as these are okay since (the hash of) the output is known in advance. It is ignored for all other - derivations.</para></listitem> + derivations.</para> + + <warning><para><varname>impureEnvVars</varname> implementation takes + environment variables from the current builder process. When a daemon is + building its environmental variables are used. Without the daemon, the + environmental variables come from the environment of the + <command>nix-build</command>.</para></warning></listitem> </varlistentry> |