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2015-06-12 TyposEelco Dolstra1-12/+12
2015-06-12 Update release notesEelco Dolstra1-1/+1
2015-06-08 Fix manualEelco Dolstra1-3/+3
2015-06-01 Document setting up signed binary cachesEelco Dolstra3-3/+138
2015-06-01 Document tarball downloadingEelco Dolstra5-15/+170
2015-06-01 Document nix-shell #!-scriptsEelco Dolstra1-0/+124
2015-06-01 TypoEelco Dolstra1-1/+1
2015-06-01 Nix 1.9 release notesEelco Dolstra2-0/+217
2015-05-19 nix-env: document --set optionCharles Strahan1-0/+38
2015-04-18 Add the pre-build hook.Shea Levy1-0/+34
This hook can be used to set system-specific per-derivation build settings that don't fit into the derivation model and are too complex or volatile to be hard-coded into nix. Currently, the pre-build hook can only add chroot dirs/files through the interface, but it also has full access to the chroot root. The specific use case for this is systems where the operating system ABI is more complex than just the kernel-support system calls. For example, on OS X there is a set of system-provided frameworks that can reliably be accessed by any program linked to them, no matter the version the program is running on. Unfortunately, those frameworks do not necessarily live in the same locations on each version of OS X, nor do their dependencies, and thus nix needs to know the specific version of OS X currently running in order to make those frameworks available. The pre-build hook is a perfect mechanism for doing just that.
2015-04-18 Revert "Add the pre-build hook."Shea Levy1-33/+0
Going to reimplement differently. This reverts commit 1e4a4a2e9fc382f47f58b448f3ee034cdd28218a.
2015-04-12 Add the pre-build hook.Shea Levy1-0/+33
This hook can be used to set system specific per-derivation build settings that don't fit into the derivation model and are too complex or volatile to be hard-coded into nix. Currently, the pre-build hook can only add chroot dirs/files. The specific use case for this is systems where the operating system ABI is more complex than just the kernel-supported system calls. For example, on OS X there is a set of system-provided frameworks that can reliably be accessed by any program linked to them, no matter the version the program is running on. Unfortunately, those frameworks do not necessarily live in the same locations on each version of OS X, nor do their dependencies, and thus nix needs to know the specific version of OS X currently running in order to make those frameworks available. The pre-build hook is a perfect mechanism for doing just that.
2015-03-06 Fix typos: s/the the/the/Daniel Hahler2-2/+2
2015-02-23 TypoEelco Dolstra1-1/+1
2015-02-23 Use chroots for all derivationsEelco Dolstra1-14/+22
If ‘build-use-chroot’ is set to ‘true’, fixed-output derivations are now also chrooted. However, unlike normal derivations, they don't get a private network namespace, so they can still access the network. Also, the use of the ‘__noChroot’ derivation attribute is no longer allowed. Setting ‘build-use-chroot’ to ‘relaxed’ gives the old behaviour.
2015-02-23 Add restricted evaluation modeEelco Dolstra1-0/+15
If ‘--option restrict-eval true’ is given, the evaluator will throw an exception if an attempt is made to access any file outside of the Nix search path. This is primarily intended for Hydra, where we don't want people doing ‘builtins.readFile ~/.ssh/id_dsa’ or stuff like that.
2015-02-22 Merge branch 'docs/channels-path' of git://github.com/iElectric/nixShea Levy1-2/+2
2015-02-22 fixes https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/issues/6485Domen Kožar1-2/+2
2015-02-19 Allow the leading component of a path to be a ~Shea Levy1-1/+8
2015-02-17 Use $<attr>Path instead of $<attr> for passAsFileEelco Dolstra1-5/+11
2015-02-17 Allow passing attributes via files instead of environment variablesEelco Dolstra1-0/+21
Closes #473.
2015-02-17 Keep sortedEelco Dolstra1-27/+27
2015-02-04 TypoEelco Dolstra1-1/+1
2015-02-04 Require linux 3.13 or later for chrootShea Levy1-1/+2
Fixes #453
2015-01-12 doc: `nix-channel --remove` takes a name, not a urlTobias Geerinckx-Rice1-1/+1
2015-01-08 Fix typo (assuming this is a typo)Данило Глинський (Danylo Hlynskyi)1-1/+1
Fix typo (assuming this is a typo) `allowedRequisites` mentions `allowedReferences` in code example
2015-01-08 nix-shell: Add --run flagEelco Dolstra1-5/+19
‘--run’ is like ‘--command’, except that it runs the command in a non-interactive shell. This is important if you do things like: $ nix-shell --command make Hitting Ctrl-C while make is running drops you into the interactive Nix shell, which is probably not what you want. So you can now do $ nix-shell --run make instead.
2015-01-06 Document how to set up build users on Mac OS XEelco Dolstra1-0/+28
2015-01-05 doc: remove wrong phrase.j-keck1-2/+1
'... another level of indirection not shown in the figure above ...' but in the 'user-environments.png' figure there is '~/.nix-profile'. the figure was updated with the commit: f982df3 on Mar 16, 2005.
2015-01-05 doc: remove double wordj-keck1-1/+1
'... when when ...' -> '... when ...'
2015-01-02 edition -> subtitleEelco Dolstra1-3/+1
For some reason, docbook-xsl doesn't render edition.
2014-12-16 Belatedly add contributorsEelco Dolstra1-0/+7
2014-12-14 GrmblEelco Dolstra1-1/+1
2014-12-14 Add a section on nix-serveEelco Dolstra3-1/+72
2014-12-14 Add section on SSH substituterEelco Dolstra4-43/+127
2014-12-14 Delete the stdenv sectionEelco Dolstra7-105/+21
It's outdated and better covered in the Nixpkgs manual.
2014-12-14 BlaEelco Dolstra1-1/+8
2014-12-14 Fix buildEelco Dolstra1-1/+1
http://hydra.nixos.org/build/17894500
2014-12-14 Fix image in PDFEelco Dolstra2-2/+3
Closes #415.
2014-12-14 Rename filesEelco Dolstra4-29/+26
2014-12-13 Update .nixpkg descriptionEelco Dolstra1-16/+19
2014-12-13 ReiserFS -> ext4Eelco Dolstra1-5/+5
2014-12-13 StyleEelco Dolstra1-0/+6
2014-12-13 Undocument nix-generate-patchesEelco Dolstra1-1/+3
2014-12-13 Document channel format and excise most mentions of manifests and nix-pullEelco Dolstra7-99/+164
2014-12-13 StyleEelco Dolstra1-1/+6
2014-12-11 Don't use ?=Eelco Dolstra1-2/+2
2014-12-11 allow custom docbook paths/URLs, use a working URL for docbook.rngdarealshinji1-2/+3
2014-12-10 Update signing.txtroconnor1-2/+2
2014-12-09 Add option to disable binary cache certificate checkingEelco Dolstra1-0/+9