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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
2016-06-17 Restore instructions on how to install a binary tarballEelco Dolstra1-1/+1
Looks like these were accidentally commented out in 9ffc4f4363d9596e2477645eab94e4140cd47c19.
2016-06-15 Remove nix-copy-closure reference note from nix-store docsJohannes 'fish' Ziemke1-6/+6
nix-copy-closure is not using nix-store directly anymore.
2016-05-30 Merge pull request #576 from qknight/args_explanationDomen Kožar1-5/+11
extended args@ explanation
2016-05-30 Update language-constructs.xmlJoachim Schiele1-1/+1
2016-05-30 Update language-constructs.xmlJoachim Schiele1-2/+2
2016-05-03 Merge pull request #884 from srp/fix-nix-build-examplesEelco Dolstra1-10/+8
fix "nix-build" examples
2016-04-29 BinaryCacheStore: Make the signing key a parameterEelco Dolstra1-10/+0
2016-04-26 fix "nix-build" examplesScott R. Parish1-10/+8
The existing "nix-build" examples were failing: error: cannot auto-call a function that has an argument without a default value (‘system’) Thanks to @groxxda on irc for pointing out the fix! Updated to completely remove unneeded path argument, suggested by @joachifm Updated to remove other occurences of `all-packages.nix` from files as suggested by @domenkozar
2016-04-25 Improved logging abstractionEelco Dolstra2-56/+0
This also gets rid of --log-type, since the nested log type isn't useful in a multi-threaded situation, and nobody cares about the "pretty" log type.
2016-04-14 Merge pull request #815 from vcunat/p/outputsToInstallEelco Dolstra1-0/+4
nix-env: respect meta.outputsToInstall
2016-04-14 Remove PDF manualEelco Dolstra1-14/+0
More spring cleaning.
2016-04-11 Remove manifest supportEelco Dolstra8-149/+7
Manifests have been superseded by binary caches for years. This also gets rid of nix-pull, nix-generate-patches and bsdiff/bspatch.
2016-04-08 Remove failed build cachingEelco Dolstra2-91/+0
This feature was implemented for Hydra, but Hydra no longer uses it.
2016-03-22 Remove references to old-school signingEelco Dolstra1-18/+0
2016-03-14 Fix bad DocBookEelco Dolstra1-2/+3
http://hydra.nixos.org/build/33087405
2016-03-10 Merge pull request #822 from cstrahan/nix-store-serveEelco Dolstra1-0/+58
add docs for `nix-store --serve`
2016-03-04 Add option binary-cache-secret-key-file for signing binary cachesEelco Dolstra1-0/+10
2016-02-27 add docs for `nix-store --serve`Charles Strahan1-0/+58
2016-02-23 nix-env: respect meta.outputsToInstallVladimír Čunát1-0/+4
Discussed on https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/pull/12653#discussion_r51601849
2016-02-22 Merge branch 'docs' of git://github.com/joelmo/nixShea Levy1-0/+6
2016-02-18 context for introducing runtime dependenciesDan Connolly1-3/+4
The first occurrence of "runtime dependencies" wasn't related to the surrounding narrative.
2016-02-18 Document IN_NIX_SHELL variableJoel Moberg1-0/+6
2016-02-13 Fix typo in nix-shell command reference.Scott Olson1-1/+1
2016-02-12 Merge pull request #762 from ctheune/ctheune-floatsEelco Dolstra4-11/+23
Implement floats
2016-01-31 Use the daemon when we don't have write access to the Nix databaseEelco Dolstra2-0/+25
2016-01-19 GrmblEelco Dolstra1-1/+1
2016-01-18 Update release notesEelco Dolstra1-2/+38
2016-01-18 Document --checkEelco Dolstra1-0/+27
2016-01-18 doc/manual/command-ref/nix-collect-garbage.xml: document --max-freed optionPeter Simons1-0/+1
Mention the --max-freed option in the nix-collect-garbage man page. Related to https://github.com/NixOS/nix/issues/609.
2016-01-06 Update documentation for floats.Christian Theune4-12/+24
2016-01-05 propagate NIX_BUILD_SHELL also in pure builds document NIX_BUILD_SHELL in ↵Fabian Schmitthenner1-0/+16
the nix-shell command documentation
2016-01-05 doc: Clarify why multiple arguments are not supported in shebang lineTim Cuthbertson1-2/+2
It's not a limitation of `/usr/bin/env`, it's just how the OS processes shebang lines (see http://stackoverflow.com/a/4304187)
2016-01-05 manual: document builtins.functionArgsVladimír Čunát1-1/+19
The text is just a conversion of comment from src/libexpr/primops.cc
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