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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")
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
2016-06-20 Fix manual buildEelco Dolstra1-1/+1
http://hydra.nixos.org/build/36944270
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