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2016-07-21 remove outdated install instructionsLangston Barrett1-229/+0
2016-07-21 Merge pull request #961 from OptiverTimAll/fix-spec-fileEelco Dolstra1-10/+13
Fix spec file
2016-07-21 Grammar/spellingEelco Dolstra1-2/+2
2016-07-21 NIX_REMOTE_SYSTEMS path must be absolute (#957)Matthias Beyer1-1/+2
Once upon a time, I wrote my bachelors thesis about functional deployment mechanisms. I had to evaluate several szenarios where package management and deployment were relevant. One szenario was to do distributed builds over several machines. I told myself: Weee, nix can do this! And with nix, this is actually save, as you do not have side effects when building! So I started. I use a cloud to set up four virtual machines where I wanted to do the build. A fifth machine was used as master to distribute the builds. All was good. I created the necessary SSH keys, made sure every machine was reachable by the master and configured the build in my remotes.conf. When I started to try to build weechat from source, the build failed. It failed, telling me error: unable to start any build; either increase ‘--max-jobs’ or enable distributed builds And I started to dig around. I digged long and good. But I wasn't able to find the issue. I double and triple checked my environment variables, my settings, the SSH key and everything. I reached out to fellow Nixers by asking on the nixos IRC channel. And I got help. But we weren't able to find the issue, either. So I became frustrated. I re-did all the environment variables. And suddenly,... it worked! What did I change? Well... I made the environment variables which contained pathes contain absolute pathes rather than relatives. And because I like to share my knowledge, this should be put into the documentation, so others do not bang their heads against the wall because something is not documented somewhere.
2016-07-21 Capitalize NixEelco Dolstra1-1/+1
2016-07-20 Add link to hacking section of the manual (#973)Marc Scholten1-0/+5
2016-07-20 Dockerfile: specify NIX_PATHDomen Kožar1-1/+2
2016-07-20 documentation: mention required openssl dependency (#974)Dmitry Kalinkin1-0/+4
Fixes: a6ca68a7 ("Require OpenSSL")
2016-07-13 FdSink: Restore move constructor/assignmentShea Levy1-0/+2
2016-07-13 Make Buffered{Source,Sink} move-safeShea Levy2-27/+12
2016-07-11 Modernize AutoCloseFDShea Levy11-151/+137
2016-07-04 Merge pull request #959 from aszlig/fix-docbook-xsl-nsEelco Dolstra1-1/+1
Don't hardcode docbook XSL namespace URL
2016-07-04 Don't hardcode docbook XSL namespace URLaszlig1-1/+1
Docbook XSL got updated to version 1.79.1 in NixOS/nixpkgs@fb893a8 and we're still referring to the hardcoded previous version. So instead of just updating this to 1.79.1 we're going to use "current" in the hope that this won't happen again. I have tested this by building the manual under Nix(OS) but I haven't tested this in a non-Nix environment, so I'm not sure whether this could have implications. Signed-off-by: aszlig <aszlig@redmoonstudios.org> Cc: @edolstra
2016-07-01 nix.spec.in: RHEL 7/CentOS 7 supports systemd.Timothy Allen1-2/+2
2016-07-01 nix.spec.in: Create /nix/store at install time.Timothy Allen1-1/+4
Since we now chmod /nix/store at install time, we don't need to do it in the post install script. We still chgrp in the post-install, because the nixbld group doesn't exist at install time.
2016-07-01 nix.spec.in: RHEL 7/CentOS 7 do not require a group for each package.Timothy Allen1-5/+5
2016-07-01 nix.spec.in: Build from the .tar.xz file.Timothy Allen1-1/+1
The Nix download page only mentions the .xz source tarball, so that's what people are likely to have available. This means that somebody who downloads a Nix source tarball can turn it directly into an RPM with `rpmbuild -ta nix-*.tar.xz`.
2016-07-01 nix.spec.in: Use the default build group name.Timothy Allen1-1/+1
Nix expects build users to be in the "nixbld" group. You can change that in the config file, but `nix.spec` does not ship with a config file, so we should use the defaults.
2016-06-20 Re-implement negative binary cache lookup cachingEelco Dolstra2-15/+22
2016-06-20 Fix manual buildEelco Dolstra1-1/+1
http://hydra.nixos.org/build/36944270
2016-06-17 Restore instructions on how to install a binary tarballEelco Dolstra1-1/+1
Looks like these were accidentally commented out in 9ffc4f4363d9596e2477645eab94e4140cd47c19.
2016-06-17 Fix testEelco Dolstra1-1/+1
http://hydra.nixos.org/build/36631898
2016-06-16 Merge pull request #939 from discordianfish/patch-1Eelco Dolstra1-6/+6
Remove nix-copy-closure reference note from nix-store docs
2016-06-15 Remove nix-copy-closure reference note from nix-store docsJohannes 'fish' Ziemke1-6/+6
nix-copy-closure is not using nix-store directly anymore.
2016-06-09 Run builds in a user namespaceEelco Dolstra1-14/+65
This way, all builds appear to have a uid/gid of 0 inside the chroot. In the future, this may allow using programs like systemd-nspawn inside builds, but that will require assigning a larger UID/GID map to the build. Issue #625.
2016-06-09 Use O_CLOEXEC in most placesEelco Dolstra9-19/+23
2016-06-03 Fix "creating statement: table ValidPaths has no column named ultimate"Eelco Dolstra1-41/+29
2016-06-03 Support sandbox builds by non-root usersEelco Dolstra3-53/+69
This allows an unprivileged user to perform builds on a diverted store (i.e. where the physical store location differs from the logical location). Example: $ NIX_LOG_DIR=/tmp/log NIX_REMOTE="local?real=/tmp/store&state=/tmp/var" nix-build -E \ 'with import <nixpkgs> {}; runCommand "foo" { buildInputs = [procps nettools]; } "id; ps; ifconfig; echo $out > $out"' will do a build in the Nix store physically in /tmp/store but logically in /nix/store (and thus using substituters for the latter).
2016-06-03 Consistent quotesEelco Dolstra1-1/+1
2016-06-03 Don't call shared_from_this() from a destructorEelco Dolstra1-1/+1
2016-06-03 Fix some more references to storeDirEelco Dolstra1-2/+2
2016-06-03 Merge pull request #925 from abbradar/masterEelco Dolstra1-5/+5
Show both cycle ends
2016-06-03 Show both cycle endsNikolay Amiantov1-5/+5
2016-06-03 Fix narrowing conversion from int64_t to boolEelco Dolstra1-1/+1
http://hydra.nixos.org/build/36613774
2016-06-02 nix run: Set a reasonable uid/gidEelco Dolstra1-0/+7
2016-06-02 Make derivationFromPath work on diverted storesEelco Dolstra5-18/+27
2016-06-02 nix run: Handle the case where the /nix/store mount point doesn't existEelco Dolstra1-2/+39
2016-06-02 createTempDir(): Don't do a chown on LinuxEelco Dolstra1-0/+2
It's not needed and can cause problems in a user namespace.
2016-06-02 nix run: Mount the Nix store in a private namespaceEelco Dolstra2-1/+25
This is a convenience command to allow users who are not privileged to create /nix/store to use Nix with regular binary caches. For example, $ NIX_REMOTE="local?state=$HOME/nix/var&real=/$HOME/nix/store" nix run firefox bashInteractive will download Firefox and bash from cache.nixos.org, then start a shell in which $HOME/nix/store is mounted on /nix/store.
2016-06-02 Add basic "nix run" commandEelco Dolstra1-0/+62
2016-06-02 LocalStore: Allow the physical and logical store directories to differEelco Dolstra7-158/+68
This is primarily to subsume the functionality of the copy-from-other-stores substituter. For example, in the NixOS installer, we can now do (assuming we're in the target chroot, and the Nix store of the installation CD is bind-mounted on /tmp/nix): $ nix-build ... --option substituters 'local?state=/tmp/nix/var&real=/tmp/nix/store' However, unlike copy-from-other-stores, this also allows write access to such a store. One application might be fetching substitutes for /nix/store in a situation where the user doesn't have sufficient privileges to create /nix, e.g.: $ NIX_REMOTE="local?state=/home/alice/nix/var&real=/home/alice/nix/store" nix-build ...
2016-06-02 Respect build-use-substitutesEelco Dolstra2-1/+3
2016-06-02 Allow setting the state directory as a store parameterEelco Dolstra13-77/+112
E.g. "local?store=/tmp/store&state=/tmp/var".
2016-06-01 <nix/fetchurl.nix>: Use tarballs.nixos.orgEelco Dolstra1-20/+35
This ensures that the disappearance of upstream bootstrap tarballs (e.g. https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs-channels/pull/1) doesn't break stdenv rebuilds.
2016-06-01 TypoEelco Dolstra1-1/+1
2016-06-01 Skip substituters with an incompatible store directoryEelco Dolstra2-0/+7
2016-06-01 HttpBinaryCacheStore: Fix caching of WantMassQueryEelco Dolstra6-38/+59
Also, test HttpBinaryCacheStore in addition to LocalBinaryCacheStore.
2016-06-01 Make the store directory a member variable of StoreEelco Dolstra35-296/+315
2016-05-31 Fix OOM in the installer testEelco Dolstra1-2/+4
http://hydra.nixos.org/build/36462209
2016-05-31 Fix reference to $NIX_LINKEelco Dolstra1-1/+1