This was first tagged as 2.15.0, 1½ years ago; plenty of time for
everyone to catch up.
By now, the warning is causing more confusion than that it is helpful,
because passing a `.drv` or `drvPath` has legitimate use cases.
(cherry picked from commit f534a7a524)
This interferes with the progress bar, resulting in output like
evaluating derivation 'git+file:///home/eelco/Dev/nix-master#packages.x86_64-linux.default'/nix/store/zz8v96j5md952x0mxfix12xqnvq5qv5x-nix-2.26.0pre20241114_a95f6ea.drv
(cherry picked from commit 33a0fa882f)
It seems that I copied the expression for baseDir thoughtlessly and
did not come back to it.
- `baseDir` was only used in the `fromArgs` branch.
- `fromArgs` is true when `packages` is true.
(cherry picked from commit c4b95dbdd1)
In these trivial cases the final vector size (or lower bound on the size) is known,
so we can avoid some vector reallocations. This is not very important, but is just
good practice and general hygiene.
This is good practice to avoid pessimisations.
Left comments for the reasoning why ctors should be noexcept.
There are some tricky cases where we intentionally want throwing move ctors/assignments.
But those cases should really be reviewed, since some of those can be replaced
with more idiomatic copy/move-and-swap.
`auto &&` and `T &&` are forwarding references and can be
either lvalue or rvalue references. Moving from universal references
is incorrect and should not be done.
Moving from integral or floating-point values is pointless and just
worsens debug performance.
Naming class member variables the same as constructor arguments is a very
slippery slope because of how member variable names get resolved. Compiler
is not very helpful here and we need static analysis to forbid this kind of
stuff.
The following example illustrates the cause quite well:
```cpp
struct B {
B(int) {}
};
struct A {
A(int b): b([&](){
return b;
static_assert(std::is_same_v<decltype(b), int>);
}()) {
static_assert(std::is_same_v<decltype(b), int>);
}
void member() {
static_assert(std::is_same_v<decltype(b), B>);
}
B b;
};
int main() {
A(1).member();
}
```
From N4861 6.5.1 Unqualified name lookup:
> In all the cases listed in [basic.lookup.unqual], the scopes are searched
> for a declaration in the order listed in each of the respective categories;
> name lookup ends as soon as a declaration is found for the name.
> If no declaration is found, the program is ill-formed.
In the affected code there was a use-after-move for all accesses in the constructor
body, but this UB wasn't triggered.
These types of errors are trivial to catch via clang-tidy's [clang-analyzer-cplusplus.Move].
This was broken since a03bb4455c because
Nix 2.18 does not support broken $SHELL settings. So don't try a
broken $SHELL on old Nix versions. (It's a mystery though why
tests.remoteBuilds_local_nix_2_13 and tests.remoteBuilds_local_nix_2_3
didn't fail...)
https://hydra.nixos.org/build/277366807
This may occur when stderr is a tty but stdin is empty.
E.g.
$ nix build </dev/null
error: unexpected EOF reading a line
These stdio handles are how some non-interactive sandboxes behave,
including the Nix build sandbox and Hercules CI Effects.
Unfortunately `StringSource` class is very easy was very easy to misuse
because the ctor took a plain `std::string_view` which has a bad habit
of being implicitly convertible from an rvalue `std::string`. This lead
to unintentional use-after-free bugs.
This patch makes `StringSource` much harder to misuse by disabling the ctor
from a `std::string &&` (but `const std::string &` is ok).
Fix affected tests from libstore-tests.
Reformat those tests with clangd's range formatting since the diff is tiny
and it seems appropriate.
It had gotten rather big. Hopefully we'll eventually have some generic
infra for a "multi-package dev shell" and not need so much code for
this, but until then it's better in a separate file.
operators are an everyday thing in the Nix language, and this page will
hopefully be consulted by many users.
string contexts are quite exotic, and not linking to the detailed
explanation will require readers to figure out manually what this is
about, or worse, skim over and run into problems later.
* doc/manual: Add 'Debugging Nix' section
This commit adds a new 'Debugging Nix' section to the Nix manual. It provides instructions on how to build Nix with debug symbols and how to debug the Nix binary using debuggers like `lldb`.
Co-authored-by: Jörg Thalheim <Mic92@users.noreply.github.com>
Co-authored-by: Valentin Gagarin <valentin.gagarin@tweag.io>
We now just check that the fetcher doesn't change any attributes in
the input, and return all the original attributes (i.e. discarding any
new attributes and keeping any attributes that the fetcher didn't
keep).
This fixes the error
'{"__final":true,"lastModified":1686592866,"narHash":"sha256-riGg89eWhXJcPNrQGcSwTEEm7CGxWC06oSX44hajeMw","owner":"nixos","repo":"nixpkgs","rev":"0eeebd64de89e4163f4d3cf34ffe925a5cf67a05","type":"github"}' resulted in different input
'{"__final":true,"lastModified":1686592866,"narHash":"sha256-riGg89eWhXJcPNrQGcSwTEEm7CGxWC06oSX44hajeMw=","owner":"nixos","repo":"nixpkgs","rev":"0eeebd64de89e4163f4d3cf34ffe925a5cf67a05","type":"github"}'
in flake-regressions/tests/nix-community/patsh/0.2.1 (note the lack of
a trailing '=' in the NAR hash in the lock file).
OpenBSD doesn't support `lutimes`, but does support `utimensat` which
subsumes it. In fact, all the BSDs, Linux, and newer macOS all support
it. So lets make this our first choice for the implementation.
In addition, let's get rid of the `lutimes` `ENOSYS` special case. The
Linux manpage says
> ENOSYS
>
> The kernel does not support this call; Linux 2.6.22 or later is
> required.
which I think is the origin of this check, but that's a very old version
of Linux at this point. The code can be simplified a lot of we drop
support for it here (as we've done elsewhere, anyways).
Co-Authored-By: John Ericson <John.Ericson@Obsidian.Systems>
OpenBSD dynamic libraries never link to libc directly.
Instead, they have undefined symbols for all libc functions they use
that ld.so resolves to the libc referred to in the main executable.
Thus, disallowing undefined symbols will always fail
the default int64_t max was still overflowing for me, when this was dumped as json (noticed during building the manual).
So making 0, the default and define it as "no warnings" fixes the situtation.
Also it's much more human-readable in documentation.
This works because the `builder` and `args` variables are only used
in the non-builtin code path.
Co-Authored-By: Théophane Hufschmitt <theophane.hufschmitt@tweag.io>
tests/functional/help.sh calls nix-* commands with option --help
if nix is built without documentation the option --help throws an error
because the man page it wants to display is missing
This overall seems like insecure tmp file handling to me. Because other
users could replace files in /tmp with a symlink and make the nix-shell
override other files.
fixes https://github.com/NixOS/nix/issues/11470
Introduced in 8f6b347abd without explanation.
Throwing anything that's not that is a programming mistake that we don't want
to ignore silently. A crash would be ok, because that means we/they can fix
the offending throw.
Otherwise, if checkInterrupt() in any of the supported store operations
would catch onto a user interrupt, the exception would bubble to the thread
start and be handled by std::terminate(): a crash.
We haven't added the narHash attribute yet at that point. And if the
caller uses getAccesor() instead of fetchToStore() (e.g. in `nix
registry pin`), the narHash attribute will never be added. This could
lead to a mismatch.
The ability to substitute inputs was removed in #10612 because it was
broken: with user-specified inputs containing a `narHash` attribute,
substitution resulted in an input that lacked the attributes returned
by the real fetcher (such as `lastModified`).
To fix this, we introduce a new input attribute `final`. If `final =
true`, fetching the input cannot add or change any attributes.
We only attempt to substitute inputs that have `final = true`. This is
implied by lock file entries; we only write a lock file if all its
entries are "final".
The user can specified `final = true` in `fetchTree`, in which case it
is their responsibility to ensure that all attributes returned by the
fetcher are included in the `fetchTree` call. For example,
nix eval --impure --expr 'builtins.fetchTree { type = "github"; owner = "NixOS"; repo = "patchelf"; final = true; narHash = "sha256-FSoxTcRZMGHNJh8dNtKOkcUtjhmhU6yQXcZZfUPLhQM="; }'
succeeds in a store path with the specified NAR hash exists or is
substitutable, but fails with
error: fetching final input '{"final":true,"narHash":"sha256-FSoxTcRZMGHNJh8dNtKOkcUtjhmhU6yQXcZZfUPLhQM=","owner":"NixOS","repo":"patchelf","type":"github"}' resulted in different input '{"final":true,"lastModified":1718457448,"narHash":"sha256-FSoxTcRZMGHNJh8dNtKOkcUtjhmhU6yQXcZZfUPLhQM=","owner":"NixOS","repo":"patchelf","rev":"a0f54334df36770b335c051e540ba40afcbf8378","type":"github"}'
... and remove a few unused arguments.
This adds pkg-config to a two or three packages that don't use it,
but we shouldn't let that bother us. It's like our personal stdenv.
If you have the Nix store mounted from a nonlocal filesystem whose
exporter is not running as root, making the directory mode 000 makes it
inaccessible to that remote unprivileged user and therefore breaks the
build. (Specifically, I am running into this with a virtiofs mount using
Apple Virtualization.framework as a non-root user, but I expect the
same thing would happen with virtiofs in qemu on Linux as a non-root
user or with various userspace network file servers.)
Make the directory mode 500 (dr-x------) to make the sandbox work in
this use case, which explicitly conveys our intention to read and search
the directory. The code only works because root can already bypass
directory checks, so this does not actually grant more permissions to
the directory owner / does not make the sandbox less secure.
This caused nlohmann/json.hpp to leak into a lot of compilation units,
which is slow (when not using precompiled headers).
Cuts build time from 46m24s to 42m5s (real time with -j24: 2m42s to
2m24s).
These versions are more than 3 years old and were very early in the
existence of CA derivations support (which was and is experimental),
so they're unlikely to still exist in the real world. So let's get rid
of support for them.
The previous documentation was inaccurate, stating that it would not update existing inputs. However these inputs will be updated if they are outdated (for example the version of an existing input has been changed). The new text properly reflects this behaviour.
A test added recently checks that when trying to deserialize a NAR with
two files that Unicode-normalize to the same result either succeeds on
Linux, or fails with an "already exists" error on Darwin. However,
failing with an "already exists" error can in fact also happen on Linux,
when using ZFS with the proper utf8 and Unicode normalization options
set.
This commit fixes the issue by not assuming the behavior from the
current system, but just by blindly checking that either one of the two
aforementioned possibilities happen, whether on Darwin or on Linux.
Additionally, we check that the Unicode normalization behaviour of
nix-store is the same as the host file system.
This leads to confusion about what the command does.
E.g. https://github.com/NixOS/nix/issues/9359
- Move the description up
- Remove details about the individual formatters
This patch has been manually adapted from
14dc84ed03
Tested with:
$ NIX_SSL_CERT_FILE=$(nix-build '<nixpkgs>' -A cacert)/etc/ssl/certs/ca-bundle.crt nix-build --store $(mktemp -d) -E 'import <nix/fetchurl.nix> { url = https://google.com; }'
Finished at 16:57:50 after 1s
warning: found empty hash, assuming 'sha256-AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA='
this derivation will be built:
nix-output-monitor error: DerivationReadError /nix/store/4qljhy0jj2b0abjzpsbyarpia1bqylwc-google.com.drv: openFile: does not exist (No such file or directory)
/nix/store/4qljhy0jj2b0abjzpsbyarpia1bqylwc-google.com.drv
nix-output-monitor error: DerivationReadError /nix/store/4qljhy0jj2b0abjzpsbyarpia1bqylwc-google.com.drv: openFile: does not exist (No such file or directory)
nix-output-monitor error: DerivationReadError /nix/store/4qljhy0jj2b0abjzpsbyarpia1bqylwc-google.com.drv: openFile: does not exist (No such file or directory)
nix-output-monitor error: DerivationReadError /nix/store/4qljhy0jj2b0abjzpsbyarpia1bqylwc-google.com.drv: openFile: does not exist (No such file or directory)
google.com> building '/nix/store/4qljhy0jj2b0abjzpsbyarpia1bqylwc-google.com.drv'
nix-output-monitor error: DerivationReadError /nix/store/4qljhy0jj2b0abjzpsbyarpia1bqylwc-google.com.drv: openFile: does not exist (No such file or directory)
google.com> error:
nix-output-monitor error: DerivationReadError /nix/store/4qljhy0jj2b0abjzpsbyarpia1bqylwc-google.com.drv: openFile: does not exist (No such file or directory)
google.com> … writing file '/nix/store/0zynn4n8yx59bczy1mgh1lq2rnprvvrc-google.com'
nix-output-monitor error: DerivationReadError /nix/store/4qljhy0jj2b0abjzpsbyarpia1bqylwc-google.com.drv: openFile: does not exist (No such file or directory)
google.com>
nix-output-monitor error: DerivationReadError /nix/store/4qljhy0jj2b0abjzpsbyarpia1bqylwc-google.com.drv: openFile: does not exist (No such file or directory)
google.com> error: unable to download 'https://google.com': Problem with the SSL CA cert (path? access rights?) (77) error setting certificate file: /nix/store/nlgbippbbgn38hynjkp1ghiybcq1dqhx-nss-cacert-3.101.1/etc/ssl/certs/ca-bundle.crt
nix-output-monitor error: DerivationReadError /nix/store/4qljhy0jj2b0abjzpsbyarpia1bqylwc-google.com.drv: openFile: does not exist (No such file or directory)
nix-output-monitor error: DerivationReadError /nix/store/4qljhy0jj2b0abjzpsbyarpia1bqylwc-google.com.drv: openFile: does not exist (No such file or directory)
error: builder for '/nix/store/4qljhy0jj2b0abjzpsbyarpia1bqylwc-google.com.drv' failed with exit code 1
Now returns:
nix-env % NIX_SSL_CERT_FILE=$(nix-build '<nixpkgs>' -A cacert)/etc/ssl/certs/ca-bundle.crt nix-build --store $(mktemp -d) -E 'import <nix/fetchurl.nix> { url = https://google.com; }'
Finished at 17:05:48 after 0s
warning: found empty hash, assuming 'sha256-AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA='
this derivation will be built:
nix-output-monitor error: DerivationReadError /nix/store/4qljhy0jj2b0abjzpsbyarpia1bqylwc-google.com.drv: openFile: does not exist (No such file or directory)
/nix/store/4qljhy0jj2b0abjzpsbyarpia1bqylwc-google.com.drv
nix-output-monitor error: DerivationReadError /nix/store/4qljhy0jj2b0abjzpsbyarpia1bqylwc-google.com.drv: openFile: does not exist (No such file or directory)
nix-output-monitor error: DerivationReadError /nix/store/4qljhy0jj2b0abjzpsbyarpia1bqylwc-google.com.drv: openFile: does not exist (No such file or directory)
nix-output-monitor error: DerivationReadError /nix/store/4qljhy0jj2b0abjzpsbyarpia1bqylwc-google.com.drv: openFile: does not exist (No such file or directory)
google.com> building '/nix/store/4qljhy0jj2b0abjzpsbyarpia1bqylwc-google.com.drv'
nix-output-monitor error: DerivationReadError /nix/store/4qljhy0jj2b0abjzpsbyarpia1bqylwc-google.com.drv: openFile: does not exist (No such file or directory)
nix-output-monitor error: DerivationReadError /nix/store/4qljhy0jj2b0abjzpsbyarpia1bqylwc-google.com.drv: openFile: does not exist (No such file or directory)
error: hash mismatch in fixed-output derivation '/nix/store/4qljhy0jj2b0abjzpsbyarpia1bqylwc-google.com.drv':
specified: sha256-AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA=
This method is marked as `noexcept`, but `enqueueFileTransfer()` can
throw `Interrupted` if the user has hit Ctrl-C or if the `ThreadPool`
that the thread is a part of is shutting down.
When working on speeding up the CI,
I triggered a race condition in the creation of the tarball cache.
This code now instead will ensure that half-initialized repositories
are no longer visible to any other nix process.
This is the error message that I got before:
error: opening Git repository '"/Users/runner/.cache/nix/tarball-cache"': could not find repository at '/Users/runner/.cache/nix/tarball-cache'
* docs: specify that flake.lock files are JSON
Recently, I decided that I was going to write some code that would parse
flake.lock files. I went to the Nix Reference Manual in order to look up
information on the format of flake.lock files, and I realized that a key
detail was missing from the Nix Reference Manual: it never says that
flake.lock files are JSON files. This commit fixes that issue.
This commit makes sure to specify that flake.lock files are encoded in
UTF-8. Confusingly, there’s multiple different JSON standards. Neither
ECMA-404, 2nd Edition [1] nor ISO/IEC 21778:2017 [2] mention UTF-8. RFC
8259 requires UTF-8, but only sometimes [3]. I chose to explicitly
specify that flake.lock files are UTF-8 in order to avoid any possible
ambiguities from the JSON standards.
[1]: <https://ecma-international.org/publications-and-standards/standards/ecma-404>
[2]: <https://www.iso.org/standard/71616.html>
[3]: <https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc8259.html#section-8.1>
Most of the time people run single tests for debugging reason,
so it's a sane default to have them see all the console output.
This commit still retains the section about running tests directly with
meson, because in some debugging cases it's just nice to have less
abstractions i.e. when using strace.
Since #8766, invalid base64 is rendered in errors, but we don't actually
want to show this in the case of an invalid private keys.
Co-Authored-By: Eelco Dolstra <edolstra@gmail.com>
This is better for privacy and to avoid leaking netrc credentials in a
MITM attack, but also the assumption that we check the hash no longer
holds in some cases (in particular for impure derivations).
Partially reverts 5db358d4d7.
As a prelude to making "or" work like a normal variable, emit a warning
any time the "fn or" production is used in a context that will change
how it is parsed when that production is refactored.
In detail: in the future, OR_KW will be moved to expr_simple, and the
cursed ExprCall production that is currently part of the expr_select
nonterminal will be generated "normally" in expr_app instead. Any
productions that accept an expr_select will be affected, except for the
expr_app nonterminal itself (because, while expr_app has a production
accepting a bare expr_select, its other production will continue to
accept "fn or" expressions). So all we need to do is emit an appropriate
warning when an expr_simple representing a cursed ExprCall is accepted
in one of those productions without first going through expr_app.
As the warning message describes, users can suppress the warning by
wrapping their problematic "fn or" expressions in parentheses. For
example, "f g or" can be made future-proof by rewriting it as
"f (g or)"; similarly "[ x y or ]" can be rewritten as "[ x (y or) ]",
etc. The parentheses preserve the current grouping behavior, as in the
future "f g or" will be parsed as "(f g) or", just like
"f g anything-else" is grouped. (Mechanically, this suppresses the
warning because the problem ExprCalls go through the
"expr_app : expr_select" production, which resets the cursed status on
the ExprCall.)
synopsis: Use envvars NIX_CACHE_HOME, NIX_CONFIG_HOME, NIX_DATA_HOME, NIX_STATE_HOME if defined
prs: [11351]
---
Added new environment variables:
-`NIX_CACHE_HOME`
-`NIX_CONFIG_HOME`
-`NIX_DATA_HOME`
-`NIX_STATE_HOME`
Each, if defined, takes precedence over the corresponding [XDG environment variable](@docroot@/command-ref/env-common.md#xdg-base-directories).
This provides more fine-grained control over where Nix looks for files, and allows to have a stand-alone Nix environment, which only uses files in a specific directory, and doesn't interfere with the user environment.
synopsis: Define integer overflow in the Nix language as an error
issues: [10968]
prs: [11188]
---
Previously, integer overflow in the Nix language invoked C++ level signed overflow, which was undefined behaviour, but *usually* manifested as wrapping around on overflow.
Since prior to the public release of Lix, Lix had C++ signed overflow defined to crash the process and nobody noticed this having accidentally removed overflow from the Nix language for three months until it was caught by fiddling around.
Given the significant body of actual Nix code that has been evaluated by Lix in that time, it does not appear that nixpkgs or much of importance depends on integer overflow, so it appears safe to turn into an error.
Some other overflows were fixed:
-`builtins.fromJSON` of values greater than the maximum representable value in a signed 64-bit integer will generate an error.
-`nixConfig` in flakes will no longer accept negative values for configuration options.
Integer overflow now looks like the following:
```
$ nix eval --expr '9223372036854775807 + 1'
error: integer overflow in adding 9223372036854775807 + 1
The `build-hook` setting's default is less useful when using `libnixstore` as a library
prs:
- 11178
---
*This is an obscure issue that only affects usage of the `libnixstore` library outside of the Nix executable.*
As part the ongoing [rewrite of the build system](https://github.com/NixOS/nix/issues/2503) to use [Meson](https://mesonbuild.com/), we are also switching to packaging individual Nix components separately (and building them in separate derivations).
This means that when building `libnixstore` we do not know where the Nix binaries will be installed --- `libnixstore` doesn't know about downstream consumers like the Nix binaries at all.
*This is also unrelated to the _`post`_-`build-hook`*, which is often used for pushing to a cache.*
This has a small adverse affect on remote building --- the `build-remote` executable that is specified from the [`build-hook`](@docroot@/command-ref/conf-file.md#conf-build-hook) setting will not be gotten from the (presumed) installation location, but instead looked up on the `PATH`.
This means that other applications linking `libnixstore` that wish to use remote building must arrange for the `nix` command to be on the PATH (or manually overriding `build-hook`) in order for that to work.
Long term we don't envision this being a downside, because we plan to [get rid of `build-remote` and the build hook setting entirely](https://github.com/NixOS/nix/issues/1221).
There is simply no need to add a second layer of remote-procedure-calling when we want to connect to a remote builder.
The build hook protocol did in principle support custom ways of remote building, but that can also be accomplished with a custom service for the ssh or daemon/ssh-ng protocols, or with a custom [store type](@docroot@/store/types/index.md) i.e. `Store` subclass. <!-- we normally don't mention classes, but consider that this release note is about a library use case -->
The Perl bindings no longer expose `getBinDir` either, since they libraries those bindings wrap no longer know the location of installed binaries as described above.
synopsis: wrap filesystem exceptions more correctly
issues: []
prs: [11378]
---
With the switch to `std::filesystem` in different places, Nix started to throw `std::filesystem::filesystem_error` in many places instead of its own exceptions.
This lead to no longer generating error traces, for example when listing a non-existing directory, and can also lead to crashes inside the Nix REPL.
This version catches these types of exception correctly and wrap them into Nix's own exeception type.
Nix now has a setting `fsync-store-paths` that ensures that new store paths are durably written to disk before they are registered as "valid" in Nix's database. This can prevent Nix store corruption if the system crashes or there is a power loss. This setting defaults to `false`.
synopsis: Show package descriptions with `nix flake show`
issues: [10977]
prs: [10980]
---
`nix flake show` will now display a package's `meta.description` if it exists. If the description does not fit in the terminal it will be truncated to fit the terminal width. If the size of the terminal width is unknown the description will be capped at 80 characters.
Nix will no longer attempt to substitute the source code of flakes from a binary cache. This functionality was broken because it could lead to different evaluation results depending on whether the flake was available in the binary cache, or even depending on whether the flake was already in the local store.
A local Nix installation can forward Nix builds to other machines,
this allows multiple builds to be performed in parallel.
Remote builds also allow Nix to perform multi-platform builds in a
semi-transparent way. For example, if you perform a build for a
`x86_64-darwin` on an `i686-linux` machine, Nix can automatically
forward the build to a `x86_64-darwin` machine, if one is available.
## Requirements
For a local machine to forward a build to a remote machine, the remote machine must:
- Have Nix installed
- Be running an SSH server, e.g. `sshd`
- Be accessible via SSH from the local machine over the network
- Have the local machine's public SSH key in `/etc/ssh/authorized_keys.d/<username>`
- Have the username of the SSH user in the `trusted-users` setting in `nix.conf`
## Testing
To test connecting to a remote Nix instance (in this case `mac`), run:
```console
nix store info --store ssh://username@mac
```
To specify an SSH identity file as part of the remote store URI add a
query paramater, e.g.
```console
nix store info --store ssh://username@mac?ssh-key=/home/alice/my-key
```
Since builds should be non-interactive, the key should not have a
passphrase. Alternatively, you can load identities ahead of time into
`ssh-agent` or `gpg-agent`.
In a multi-user installation (default), builds are executed by the Nix
Daemon. The Nix Daemon cannot prompt for a passphrase via the terminal
or `ssh-agent`, so the SSH key must not have a passphrase.
In addition, the Nix Daemon's user (typically root) needs to have SSH
access to the remote builder.
Access can be verified by running `sudo su`, and then validating SSH
access, e.g. by running `ssh mac`. SSH identity files for root users
are usually stored in `/root/.ssh/` (Linux) or `/var/root/.ssh` (MacOS).
If you get the error
```console
bash: nix: command not found
error: cannot connect to 'mac'
```
then you need to ensure that the `PATH` of non-interactive login shells
contains Nix.
The [list of remote build machines](@docroot@/command-ref/conf-file.md#conf-builders) can be specified on the command line or in the Nix configuration file.
For example, the following command allows you to build a derivation for `x86_64-darwin` on a Linux machine:
@@ -62,7 +62,7 @@ These pages can be viewed offline:
Several operations, such as [`nix-env --query`](./nix-env/query.md) and [`nix-env --install`](./nix-env/install.md), take a list of *arguments* that specify the packages on which to operate.
Packages are identified based on a `name` part and a `version` part of a [symbolic derivation name](@docroot@/language/derivations.md#attr-names):
Packages are identified based on a `name` part and a `version` part of a [symbolic derivation name](@docroot@/language/derivations.md#attr-name):
- `name`: Everything up to but not including the first dash (`-`) that is *not* followed by a letter.
- `version`: The rest, excluding the separating dash.
The [URL to the Nix store](@docroot@/store/types/index.md#store-url-format) to use for evaluation, i.e. where to store derivations (`.drv` files) and inputs referenced by them.
Interpret the command line arguments as a list of Nix expressions to be parsed and evaluated, rather than as a list of file names of Nix expressions.
@@ -194,6 +210,10 @@ Most Nix commands accept the following command-line options:
Paths added through `-I` take precedence over the [`nix-path` configuration setting](@docroot@/command-ref/conf-file.md#conf-nix-path) and the [`NIX_PATH` environment variable](@docroot@/command-ref/env-common.md#env-NIX_PATH).
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