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2017-05-03 Merge pull request #1371 from regnat/doc_--xml_fixEelco Dolstra1-10/+8
fix the description of --xml and --json
2017-05-03 doc: fix the description of --xml and --jsonregnat1-10/+8
Those options seem to only apply with --eval and not with --parse.
2017-05-01 Remove $NIX_BUILD_HOOK and $NIX_CURRENT_LOADEelco Dolstra2-146/+2
This is to simplify remote build configuration. These environment variables predate nix.conf. The build hook now has a sensible default (namely build-remote). The current load is kept in the Nix state directory now.
2017-04-24 Merge pull request #1347 from kennyballou/sm-grammar-fixEelco Dolstra1-1/+1
Fix small grammar issue about page
2017-04-24 Merge pull request #1351 from earldouglas/ellipsesEelco Dolstra1-1/+1
Drop misleading ellipses
2017-04-24 Merge pull request #1348 from armijnhemel/nix-envEelco Dolstra1-1/+1
better document --meta option for nix-env
2017-04-20 Drop misleading ellipsesJames Earl Douglas1-1/+1
This portion of the quick start guide may lead to confusion for newcomers to Nix. This change clarifies the example to one that can be copied in its entirety.
2017-04-20 Read per-user settings from ~/.config/nix/nix.confEelco Dolstra1-8/+28
2017-04-20 binary-caches-parallel-connections -> http-connectionsEelco Dolstra1-1/+1
2017-04-20 nix.conf man page: binary-caches -> substitutersEelco Dolstra1-21/+13
2017-04-19 document optionArmijn Hemel1-1/+1
2017-04-19 Fix small grammar issue about pagekballou1-1/+1
Fix subject-verb agreement issue in introduction/about.
2017-04-17 Manual: document tryEvalLinus Heckemann1-0/+13
2017-04-13 Convert Settings to the new config systemEelco Dolstra1-10/+0
This makes all config options self-documenting. Unknown or unparseable config settings and --option flags now cause a warning.
2017-04-12 Move note about float support out of the wrong release notesBenjamin Staffin2-7/+7
Looks like this snuck into the 1.11 release notes post-release, but float support isn't actually present until 1.12.
2017-03-31 Merge branch 'remove-perl' of https://github.com/shlevy/nixEelco Dolstra2-12/+5
2017-03-21 Fix tests to reflect the signed-binary-caches default changeEelco Dolstra1-3/+4
2017-03-15 Store: Add a method for getting build logsEelco Dolstra2-20/+1
This allows various Store implementations to provide different ways to get build logs. For example, BinaryCacheStore can get the build logs from the binary cache. Also, remove the log-servers option since we can use substituters for this.
2017-03-09 nix -> NixEelco Dolstra1-2/+2
2017-03-08 Add docs for allow-import-from-derivationShea Levy1-0/+10
2017-02-28 Support auto-configuration of build-max-jobsEelco Dolstra2-5/+6
"build-max-jobs" and the "-j" option can now be set to "auto" to use the number of CPUs in the system. (Unlike build-cores, it doesn't use 0 to imply auto-configuration, because a) magic values are a bad idea in general; b) 0 is a legitimate value used to disable local building.) Fixes #1198.
2017-02-27 Fix 1.8 release note about build-max-jobsEelco Dolstra1-2/+2
We set build-cores automatically, not build-max-jobs. (The commit message for de4cdd0d47adc70a4db12397a42c18ee50b4e662 also got this wrong.)
2017-02-21 Fix XML validityEelco Dolstra1-9/+8
2017-02-20 Document toString betterLinus Heckemann1-4/+12
2017-02-16 Tweak netrc docsEelco Dolstra1-4/+12
2017-02-07 Remove Perl dependency listing in docJanus Troelsen1-7/+0
2017-02-07 Remove perl dependency.Shea Levy1-5/+5
Fixes #341
2017-02-02 Add netrc-file supportRenzo Carbonara1-0/+15
2017-01-03 Drop a few more references to all-packages.nixEelco Dolstra2-13/+6
And also don't refer to f-spot, which apparently no longer exists. Issue #1170.
2016-12-28 Document the common --no-build-hook optionzimbatm1-0/+17
2016-12-16 manual: add NIX_CONF_DIR to conf-file sectionDaiderd Jordan1-1/+2
2016-12-11 Document path-search behaviourLinus Heckemann1-1/+10
2016-12-09 Document builtins.match, fixes #1145Domen Kožar1-0/+29
2016-12-06 Add shell.nixEelco Dolstra1-2/+2
2016-12-06 Drop unused WWW::Curl dependencyEelco Dolstra1-1/+1
2016-11-03 installation: allow profile modification to be skipped (#1072)Manav Rathi1-0/+8
The current behaviour modifies the first writeable file from amongst .bash_profile, .bash_login and .profile. So .bash_profile (if it is writable) would be modified even if a user has already sourced nix.sh in, say, .profile. This commit introduces a new environment variable, NIX_INSTALLER_NO_MODIFY_PROFILE. If this is set during installation, then the modifications are unconditionally skipped. This is useful for users who have a manually curated set of dotfiles that they are porting to a new machine. In such scenarios, nix.sh is already sourced at a place where the user prefers. Without this change, the nix installer would insist on modifying .bash_profile if it exists. This commit also add documentations for both the current behaviour and the new override.
2016-10-31 Support optional sandbox pathsEelco Dolstra1-1/+6
For example, you can now set build-sandbox-paths = /dev/nvidiactl? to specify that /dev/nvidiactl should only be mounted in the sandbox if it exists in the host filesystem. This is useful e.g. for EC2 images that should support both CUDA and non-CUDA instances.
2016-09-21 Add sandbox-dev-shm-size optionEelco Dolstra1-0/+13
Fixes #1069.
2016-09-21 Document the { __toString } interfacezimbatm1-2/+2
2016-09-20 Add a new option to disable documentation generation at configure timeAdrien Devresse1-0/+9
2016-09-14 Revive binary-caches-parallel-connectionsEelco Dolstra1-4/+3
It's a slight misnomer now because it actually limits *all* downloads, not just binary cache lookups. Also add a "enable-http2" option to allow disabling use of HTTP/2 (enabled by default).
2016-08-26 doc: move set functor para to Sets sectionDomen Kožar2-18/+17
2016-08-11 doc: add an example for builtins.substringDomen Kožar1-1/+8
2016-08-10 s/powerpc-darwin/x86_64-darwin/Domen Kožar4-9/+9
Let's step in line with time and document more realistic values.
2016-08-10 Remove $NIX_DB_DIREelco Dolstra1-9/+0
This variable has no reason to exist, given $NIX_STATE_DIR.
2016-08-10 Nuke nix-push.Shea Levy5-456/+3
Rarely used, nix copy replaces it.
2016-08-10 Remove nix-install-package.Shea Levy6-260/+1
Refs #831
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.
2016-07-20 documentation: mention required openssl dependency (#974)Dmitry Kalinkin1-0/+4
Fixes: a6ca68a7 ("Require OpenSSL")
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