* Mark as stable.

.clang-format

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-BasedOnStyle: LLVM
-IndentWidth: 4
-BreakBeforeBraces: Custom
-BraceWrapping:
-  AfterStruct: true
-  AfterClass: true
-  AfterFunction: true
-  AfterUnion: true
-  SplitEmptyRecord: false
-PointerAlignment: Middle
-FixNamespaceComments: true
-SortIncludes: Never
-#IndentPPDirectives: BeforeHash
-SpaceAfterCStyleCast: true
-SpaceAfterTemplateKeyword: false
-AccessModifierOffset: -4
-AlignAfterOpenBracket: AlwaysBreak
-AlignEscapedNewlines: Left
-ColumnLimit: 120
-BreakStringLiterals: false
-BitFieldColonSpacing: None
-AllowShortFunctionsOnASingleLine: Empty
-AlwaysBreakTemplateDeclarations: Yes
-BinPackParameters: false
-BreakConstructorInitializers: BeforeComma
-EmptyLineAfterAccessModifier: Leave # change to always/never later?
-EmptyLineBeforeAccessModifier: Leave
-#PackConstructorInitializers: BinPack
-BreakBeforeBinaryOperators: NonAssignment
-AlwaysBreakBeforeMultilineStrings: true
-IndentPPDirectives: AfterHash
-PPIndentWidth: 2
-BinPackArguments: false
-BreakBeforeTernaryOperators: true
-SeparateDefinitionBlocks: Always

.clang-tidy

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-# We use pointers to aggregates in a couple of places, intentionally.
-# void * would look weird.
-Checks: '-bugprone-sizeof-expression'

.coderabbit.yaml

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-# yaml-language-server: $schema=https://coderabbit.ai/integrations/schema.v2.json
-# Disable CodeRabbit auto-review to prevent verbose comments on PRs.
-# When enabled: false, CodeRabbit won't attempt reviews and won't post
-# "Review skipped" or other automated comments.
-reviews:
-  auto_review:
-    enabled: false
-  review_status: false
-  high_level_summary: false
-  poem: false
-  sequence_diagrams: false
-  changed_files_summary: false
-  tools:
-    github-checks:
-      enabled: false
-chat:
-  art: false
-  auto_reply: false

.dir-locals.el

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-((c++-mode . (
-  (c-file-style . "k&r")
-  (c-basic-offset . 4)
-  (c-block-comment-prefix . "  ")
-  (indent-tabs-mode . nil)
-  (tab-width . 4)
-  (show-trailing-whitespace . t)
-  (indicate-empty-lines . t)
-  (eval . (c-set-offset 'innamespace 0))
-  (eval . (c-set-offset 'defun-open 0))
-  (eval . (c-set-offset 'inline-open 0))
-  (eval . (c-set-offset 'arglist-intro '+))
-  (eval . (c-set-offset 'arglist-cont 0))
-  (eval . (c-set-offset 'arglist-cont-nonempty '+))
-  (eval . (c-set-offset 'substatement-open 0))
-  (eval . (c-set-offset 'access-label '-))
-  (eval . (c-set-offset 'inlambda 0))
-  )))

.editorconfig

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-# EditorConfig configuration for nix
-# http://EditorConfig.org
-
-# Top-most EditorConfig file
-root = true
-
-# Unix-style newlines with a newline ending every file, UTF-8 charset
-[*]
-end_of_line = lf
-insert_final_newline = true
-trim_trailing_whitespace = true
-charset = utf-8
-
-# Match Nix files, set indent to spaces with width of two
-[*.nix]
-indent_style = space
-indent_size = 2
-
-# Match C++/C/shell/Perl, set indent to spaces with width of four
-[*.{hpp,cc,hh,c,h,sh,pl,xs}]
-indent_style = space
-indent_size = 4
-
-# Match diffs, avoid to trim trailing whitespace
-[*.{diff,patch}]
-trim_trailing_whitespace = false

.git-blame-ignore-revs

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-# bulk initial re-formatting with clang-format
-e4f62e46088919428a68bd8014201dc8e379fed7 # !autorebase ./maintainers/format.sh --until-stable
-# meson re-formatting
-385e2c3542c707d95e3784f7f6d623f67e77ab61 # !autorebase ./maintainers/format.sh --until-stable
-# nixfmt 1.0.0
-1d943f581908f35075a84a3d89c2eba3ff35067f # !autorebase ./maintainers/format.sh --until-stable

.github/CODEOWNERS

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-# Pull requests concerning the listed files will automatically invite the respective maintainers as reviewers.
-# This file is not used for denoting any kind of ownership, but is merely a tool for handling notifications.
-#
-# Merge permissions are required for maintaining an entry in this file.
-# For documentation on this mechanism, see https://help.github.com/articles/about-codeowners/
-
-# Default reviewers if nothing else matches
-* @edolstra
-
-# This file
-.github/CODEOWNERS @edolstra
-
-# Documentation of built-in functions
-src/libexpr/primops.cc @roberth
-
-# Libstore layer
-/src/libstore @ericson2314

.github/ISSUE_TEMPLATE/bug_report.md

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----
-name: Bug report
-about: Report unexpected or incorrect behaviour
-title: ''
-labels: bug
-assignees: ''
-
----
-
-## Describe the bug
-
-<!--
-  A clear and concise description of what the bug is.
-
-  If you have a problem with a specific package or NixOS,
-  you probably want to file an issue at https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/issues.
--->
-
-## Steps To Reproduce
-
-<!--
-  Example:
-
-  1. Clone this repository: ...
-  2. Run `nix-... ...`
-  3. Observe unexpected behaviour
--->
-
-## Expected behavior
-
-<!-- A clear and concise description of what you expected to happen. -->
-
-## Metadata
-
-<!-- Please insert the output of running `nix-env --version` below this line -->
-
-## Additional context
-
-<!-- Add any other context about the problem here. -->
-
-## Checklist
-
-<!-- make sure this issue is not redundant or obsolete -->
-
-- [ ] checked [latest Nix manual] \([source])
-- [ ] checked [open bug issues and pull requests] for possible duplicates
-
-[latest Nix manual]: https://nix.dev/manual/nix/development/
-[source]: https://github.com/NixOS/nix/tree/master/doc/manual/source
-[open bug issues and pull requests]: https://github.com/NixOS/nix/labels/bug
-
----
-
-Add :+1: to [issues you find important](https://github.com/NixOS/nix/issues?q=is%3Aissue+is%3Aopen+sort%3Areactions-%2B1-desc).

.github/ISSUE_TEMPLATE/feature_request.md

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----
-name: Feature request
-about: Suggest a new feature
-title: ''
-labels: feature
-assignees: ''
-
----
-
-## Is your feature request related to a problem?
-
-<!-- A clear and concise description of what the problem is. Ex. I'm always frustrated when [...] -->
-
-## Proposed solution
-
-<!-- A clear and concise description of what you want to happen. -->
-
-## Alternative solutions
-
-<!-- A clear and concise description of any alternative solutions or features you've considered. -->
-
-## Additional context
-
-<!-- Add any other context or screenshots about the feature request here. -->
-
-## Checklist
-
-<!-- make sure this issue is not redundant or obsolete -->
-
-- [ ] checked [latest Nix manual] \([source])
-- [ ] checked [open feature issues and pull requests] for possible duplicates
-
-[latest Nix manual]: https://nix.dev/manual/nix/development/
-[source]: https://github.com/NixOS/nix/tree/master/doc/manual/source
-[open feature issues and pull requests]: https://github.com/NixOS/nix/labels/feature
-
----
-
-Add :+1: to [issues you find important](https://github.com/NixOS/nix/issues?q=is%3Aissue+is%3Aopen+sort%3Areactions-%2B1-desc).

.github/ISSUE_TEMPLATE/installer.md

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----
-name: Installer issue
-about: Report problems with installation
-title: ''
-labels: installer
-assignees: ''
-
----
-
-## Platform
-
-<!-- select the platform on which you tried to install Nix -->
-
-- [ ] Linux: <!-- state your distribution, e.g. Arch Linux, Ubuntu, ... -->
-- [ ] macOS
-- [ ] WSL
-
-## Additional information
-
-<!-- state special circumstances on your system or additional steps you have taken prior to installation -->
-
-## Output
-
-<details><summary>Output</summary>
-
-<!-- paste console output inside the below code block -->
-
-```log
-
-```
-
-</details>
-
-## Checklist
-
-<!-- make sure this issue is not redundant or obsolete -->
-
-- [ ] checked [latest Nix manual] \([source])
-- [ ] checked [open installer issues and pull requests] for possible duplicates
-
-[latest Nix manual]: https://nix.dev/manual/nix/development/
-[source]: https://github.com/NixOS/nix/tree/master/doc/manual/source
-[open installer issues and pull requests]: https://github.com/NixOS/nix/labels/installer
-
----
-
-Add :+1: to [issues you find important](https://github.com/NixOS/nix/issues?q=is%3Aissue+is%3Aopen+sort%3Areactions-%2B1-desc).

.github/ISSUE_TEMPLATE/missing_documentation.md

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----
-name: Missing or incorrect documentation
-about: Help us improve the reference manual
-title: ''
-labels: documentation
-assignees: ''
-
----
-
-## Problem
-
-<!-- describe your problem -->
-
-## Proposal
-
-<!-- propose a solution -->
-
-## Checklist
-
-<!-- make sure this issue is not redundant or obsolete -->
-
-- [ ] checked [latest Nix manual] \([source])
-- [ ] checked [open documentation issues and pull requests] for possible duplicates
-
-[latest Nix manual]: https://nix.dev/manual/nix/development/
-[source]: https://github.com/NixOS/nix/tree/master/doc/manual/source
-[open documentation issues and pull requests]: https://github.com/NixOS/nix/labels/documentation
-
----
-
-Add :+1: to [issues you find important](https://github.com/NixOS/nix/issues?q=is%3Aissue+is%3Aopen+sort%3Areactions-%2B1-desc).

.github/PULL_REQUEST_TEMPLATE.md

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-<!--
-
-IMPORTANT
-
-Nix is a non-trivial project, so for your contribution to be successful,
-it really is important to follow the contributing guidelines:
-
-https://github.com/NixOS/nix/blob/master/CONTRIBUTING.md
-
-Even if you've contributed to open source before, take a moment to read it,
-so you understand the process and the expectations.
-
-- what information to include in commit messages
-- proper attribution
-- volunteering contributions effectively
-- how to get help and our review process.
-
-PR stuck in review? We have two Nix team meetings per week online that are open for everyone in a jitsi conference:
-
-- https://calendar.google.com/calendar/u/0/embed?src=b9o52fobqjak8oq8lfkhg3t0qg@group.calendar.google.com
-
--->
-
-## Motivation
-
-<!-- Briefly explain what the change is about and why it is desirable. -->
-
-## Context
-
-<!-- Provide context. Reference open issues if available. -->
-
-<!-- Non-trivial change: Briefly outline the implementation strategy. -->
-
-<!-- Invasive change: Discuss alternative designs or approaches you considered. -->
-
-<!-- Large change: Provide instructions to reviewers how to read the diff. -->
-
----
-
-Add :+1: to [pull requests you find important](https://github.com/NixOS/nix/pulls?q=is%3Aopen+sort%3Areactions-%2B1-desc).
-
-The Nix maintainer team uses a [GitHub project board](https://github.com/orgs/NixOS/projects/19) to [schedule and track reviews](https://github.com/NixOS/nix/tree/master/maintainers#project-board-protocol). 

.github/STALE-BOT.md

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-# Stale bot information
-
-- Thanks for your contribution!
-- To remove the stale label, just leave a new comment.
-- _How to find the right people to ping?_ → [`git blame`](https://git-scm.com/docs/git-blame) to the rescue! (or GitHub's history and blame buttons.)
-- You can always ask for help on [our Discourse Forum](https://discourse.nixos.org/) or on [Matrix - #users:nixos.org](https://matrix.to/#/#users:nixos.org).
-
-## Suggestions for PRs
-
-1. GitHub sometimes doesn't notify people who commented / reviewed a PR previously, when you (force) push commits. If you have addressed the reviews you can [officially ask for a review](https://docs.github.com/en/free-pro-team@latest/github/collaborating-with-issues-and-pull-requests/requesting-a-pull-request-review) from those who commented to you or anyone else.
-2. If it is unfinished but you plan to finish it, please mark it as a draft.
-3. If you don't expect to work on it any time soon, closing it with a short comment may encourage someone else to pick up your work.
-4. To get things rolling again, rebase the PR against the target branch and address valid comments.
-5. If you need a review to move forward, ask in [the Discourse thread for PRs that need help](https://discourse.nixos.org/t/prs-in-distress/3604).
-6. If all you need is a merge, check the git history to find and [request reviews](https://docs.github.com/en/github/collaborating-with-issues-and-pull-requests/requesting-a-pull-request-review) from people who usually merge related contributions.
-
-## Suggestions for issues
-
-1. If it is resolved (either for you personally, or in general), please consider closing it.
-2. If this might still be an issue, but you are not interested in promoting its resolution, please consider closing it while encouraging others to take over and reopen an issue if they care enough.
-3. If you still have interest in resolving it, try to ping somebody who you believe might have an interest in the topic. Consider discussing the problem in [our Discourse Forum](https://discourse.nixos.org/).
-4. As with all open source projects, your best option is to submit a Pull Request that addresses this issue. We :heart: this attitude!
-
-**Memorandum on closing issues**
-
-Don't be afraid to close an issue that holds valuable information. Closed issues stay in the system for people to search, read, cross-reference, or even reopen--nothing is lost! Closing obsolete issues is an important way to help maintainers focus their time and effort.
-
-## Useful GitHub search queries
-
-- [Open PRs with any stale-bot interaction](https://github.com/NixOS/nix/pulls?q=is%3Apr+is%3Aopen+commenter%3Aapp%2Fstale+)
-- [Open PRs with any stale-bot interaction and `stale`](https://github.com/NixOS/nix/pulls?q=is%3Apr+is%3Aopen+commenter%3Aapp%2Fstale+label%3A%22stale%22)
-- [Open PRs with any stale-bot interaction and NOT `stale`](https://github.com/NixOS/nix/pulls?q=is%3Apr+is%3Aopen+commenter%3Aapp%2Fstale+-label%3A%22stale%22+)
-- [Open Issues with any stale-bot interaction](https://github.com/NixOS/nix/issues?q=is%3Aissue+is%3Aopen+commenter%3Aapp%2Fstale+)
-- [Open Issues with any stale-bot interaction and `stale`](https://github.com/NixOS/nix/issues?q=is%3Aissue+is%3Aopen+commenter%3Aapp%2Fstale+label%3A%22stale%22+)
-- [Open Issues with any stale-bot interaction and NOT `stale`](https://github.com/NixOS/nix/issues?q=is%3Aissue+is%3Aopen+commenter%3Aapp%2Fstale+-label%3A%22stale%22+)

.github/actions/install-nix-action/action.yaml

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-name: "Install Nix"
-description: "Helper action for installing Nix with support for dogfooding from master"
-inputs:
-  dogfood:
-    description: "Whether to use Nix installed from the latest artifact from master branch"
-    required: true # Be explicit about the fact that we are using unreleased artifacts
-  experimental-installer:
-    description: "Whether to use the experimental installer to install Nix"
-    default: false
-  experimental-installer-version:
-    description: "Version of the experimental installer to use. If `latest`, the newest artifact from the default branch is used."
-    # TODO: This should probably be pinned to a release after https://github.com/NixOS/experimental-nix-installer/pull/49 lands in one
-    default: "latest"
-  extra_nix_config:
-    description: "Gets appended to `/etc/nix/nix.conf` if passed."
-  install_url:
-    description: "URL of the Nix installer"
-    required: false
-    default: "https://releases.nixos.org/nix/nix-2.32.1/install"
-  tarball_url:
-    description: "URL of the Nix tarball to use with the experimental installer"
-    required: false
-  github_token:
-    description: "Github token"
-    required: true
-  use_cache:
-    description: "Whether to setup magic-nix-cache"
-    default: true
-    required: false
-runs:
-  using: "composite"
-  steps:
-    - name: "Download nix install artifact from master"
-      shell: bash
-      id: download-nix-installer
-      if: inputs.dogfood == 'true'
-      run: |
-        RUN_ID=$(gh run list --repo "$DOGFOOD_REPO" --workflow ci.yml --branch master --status success --json databaseId --jq ".[0].databaseId")
-
-        if [ "$RUNNER_OS" == "Linux" ]; then
-          INSTALLER_ARTIFACT="installer-linux"
-        elif [ "$RUNNER_OS" == "macOS" ]; then
-          INSTALLER_ARTIFACT="installer-darwin"
-        else
-          echo "::error ::Unsupported RUNNER_OS: $RUNNER_OS"
-          exit 1
-        fi
-
-        INSTALLER_DOWNLOAD_DIR="$GITHUB_WORKSPACE/$INSTALLER_ARTIFACT"
-        mkdir -p "$INSTALLER_DOWNLOAD_DIR"
-
-        gh run download "$RUN_ID" --repo "$DOGFOOD_REPO" -n "$INSTALLER_ARTIFACT" -D "$INSTALLER_DOWNLOAD_DIR"
-        echo "installer-path=file://$INSTALLER_DOWNLOAD_DIR" >> "$GITHUB_OUTPUT"
-        TARBALL_PATH="$(find "$INSTALLER_DOWNLOAD_DIR" -name 'nix*.tar.xz' -print | head -n 1)"
-        echo "tarball-path=file://$TARBALL_PATH" >> "$GITHUB_OUTPUT"
-
-        echo "::notice ::Dogfooding Nix installer from master (https://github.com/$DOGFOOD_REPO/actions/runs/$RUN_ID)"
-      env:
-        GH_TOKEN: ${{ inputs.github_token }}
-        DOGFOOD_REPO: "NixOS/nix"
-    - name: "Gather system info for experimental installer"
-      shell: bash
-      if: ${{ inputs.experimental-installer == 'true' }}
-      run: |
-        echo "::notice Using experimental installer from $EXPERIMENTAL_INSTALLER_REPO (https://github.com/$EXPERIMENTAL_INSTALLER_REPO)"
-
-        if [ "$RUNNER_OS" == "Linux" ]; then
-          EXPERIMENTAL_INSTALLER_SYSTEM="linux"
-          echo "EXPERIMENTAL_INSTALLER_SYSTEM=$EXPERIMENTAL_INSTALLER_SYSTEM" >> "$GITHUB_ENV"
-        elif [ "$RUNNER_OS" == "macOS" ]; then
-          EXPERIMENTAL_INSTALLER_SYSTEM="darwin"
-          echo "EXPERIMENTAL_INSTALLER_SYSTEM=$EXPERIMENTAL_INSTALLER_SYSTEM" >> "$GITHUB_ENV"
-        else
-          echo "::error ::Unsupported RUNNER_OS: $RUNNER_OS"
-          exit 1
-        fi
-
-        if [ "$RUNNER_ARCH" == "X64" ]; then
-          EXPERIMENTAL_INSTALLER_ARCH=x86_64
-          echo "EXPERIMENTAL_INSTALLER_ARCH=$EXPERIMENTAL_INSTALLER_ARCH" >> "$GITHUB_ENV"
-        elif [ "$RUNNER_ARCH" == "ARM64" ]; then
-          EXPERIMENTAL_INSTALLER_ARCH=aarch64
-          echo "EXPERIMENTAL_INSTALLER_ARCH=$EXPERIMENTAL_INSTALLER_ARCH" >> "$GITHUB_ENV"
-        else
-          echo "::error ::Unsupported RUNNER_ARCH: $RUNNER_ARCH"
-          exit 1
-        fi
-
-        echo "EXPERIMENTAL_INSTALLER_ARTIFACT=nix-installer-$EXPERIMENTAL_INSTALLER_ARCH-$EXPERIMENTAL_INSTALLER_SYSTEM" >> "$GITHUB_ENV"
-      env:
-        EXPERIMENTAL_INSTALLER_REPO: "NixOS/experimental-nix-installer"
-    - name: "Download latest experimental installer"
-      shell: bash
-      id: download-latest-experimental-installer
-      if: ${{ inputs.experimental-installer == 'true' && inputs.experimental-installer-version == 'latest' }}
-      run: |
-        RUN_ID=$(gh run list --repo "$EXPERIMENTAL_INSTALLER_REPO" --workflow ci.yml --branch main --status success --json databaseId --jq ".[0].databaseId")
-
-        EXPERIMENTAL_INSTALLER_DOWNLOAD_DIR="$GITHUB_WORKSPACE/$EXPERIMENTAL_INSTALLER_ARTIFACT"
-        mkdir -p "$EXPERIMENTAL_INSTALLER_DOWNLOAD_DIR"
-
-        gh run download "$RUN_ID" --repo "$EXPERIMENTAL_INSTALLER_REPO" -n "$EXPERIMENTAL_INSTALLER_ARTIFACT" -D "$EXPERIMENTAL_INSTALLER_DOWNLOAD_DIR"
-        # Executable permissions are lost in artifacts
-        find $EXPERIMENTAL_INSTALLER_DOWNLOAD_DIR -type f -exec chmod +x {} +
-        echo "installer-path=$EXPERIMENTAL_INSTALLER_DOWNLOAD_DIR" >> "$GITHUB_OUTPUT"
-      env:
-        GH_TOKEN: ${{ inputs.github_token }}
-        EXPERIMENTAL_INSTALLER_REPO: "NixOS/experimental-nix-installer"
-    - uses: cachix/install-nix-action@c134e4c9e34bac6cab09cf239815f9339aaaf84e # v31.5.1
-      if: ${{ inputs.experimental-installer != 'true' }}
-      with:
-        # Ternary operator in GHA: https://www.github.com/actions/runner/issues/409#issuecomment-752775072
-        install_url: ${{ inputs.dogfood == 'true' && format('{0}/install', steps.download-nix-installer.outputs.installer-path) || inputs.install_url }}
-        install_options: ${{ inputs.dogfood == 'true' && format('--tarball-url-prefix {0}', steps.download-nix-installer.outputs.installer-path) || '' }}
-        extra_nix_config: ${{ inputs.extra_nix_config }}
-    - uses: DeterminateSystems/nix-installer-action@786fff0690178f1234e4e1fe9b536e94f5433196 # v20
-      if: ${{ inputs.experimental-installer == 'true' }}
-      with:
-        diagnostic-endpoint: ""
-        # TODO: It'd be nice to use `artifacts.nixos.org` for both of these, maybe through an `/experimental-installer/latest` endpoint? or `/commit/<hash>`?
-        local-root: ${{ inputs.experimental-installer-version == 'latest' && steps.download-latest-experimental-installer.outputs.installer-path || '' }}
-        source-url: ${{ inputs.experimental-installer-version != 'latest' && 'https://artifacts.nixos.org/experimental-installer/tag/${{ inputs.experimental-installer-version }}/${{ env.EXPERIMENTAL_INSTALLER_ARTIFACT }}' || '' }}
-        nix-package-url: ${{ inputs.dogfood == 'true' && steps.download-nix-installer.outputs.tarball-path || (inputs.tarball_url || '') }}
-        extra-conf: ${{ inputs.extra_nix_config }}
-    - uses: DeterminateSystems/magic-nix-cache-action@565684385bcd71bad329742eefe8d12f2e765b39 # v13
-      if: ${{ inputs.use_cache == 'true' }}
-      with:
-        diagnostic-endpoint: ''
-        use-flakehub: false
-        use-gha-cache: true
-        source-revision: 92d9581367be2233c2d5714a2640e1339f4087d8 # main

.github/dependabot.yml

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-version: 2
-updates:
-  - package-ecosystem: "github-actions"
-    directory: "/"
-    schedule:
-      interval: "weekly"

.github/labeler.yml

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-"c api":
-  - changed-files:
-    - any-glob-to-any-file: "src/lib*-c/**/*"
-    - any-glob-to-any-file: "src/*test*/**/nix_api_*"
-    - any-glob-to-any-file: "doc/external-api/**/*"
-
-"contributor-experience":
-  - changed-files:
-    - any-glob-to-any-file: "CONTRIBUTING.md"
-    - any-glob-to-any-file: ".github/ISSUE_TEMPLATE/*"
-    - any-glob-to-any-file: ".github/PULL_REQUEST_TEMPLATE.md"
-    - any-glob-to-any-file: "doc/manual/source/contributing/**"
-
-"documentation":
-  - changed-files:
-    - any-glob-to-any-file: "doc/manual/**/*"
-    - any-glob-to-any-file: "src/nix/**/*.md"
-
-"store":
-  - changed-files:
-    - any-glob-to-any-file: "src/libstore/store-api.*"
-    - any-glob-to-any-file: "src/libstore/*-store.*"
-
-"fetching":
-  - changed-files:
-    - any-glob-to-any-file: "src/libfetchers/**/*"
-
-"repl":
-  - changed-files:
-    - any-glob-to-any-file: "src/libcmd/repl.*"
-    - any-glob-to-any-file: "src/nix/repl.*"
-
-"new-cli":
-  - changed-files:
-    - any-glob-to-any-file: "src/nix/**/*"
-
-"with-tests":
-  - changed-files:
-    # Unit tests
-    - any-glob-to-any-file: "src/*/tests/**/*"
-    # Functional and integration tests
-    - any-glob-to-any-file: "tests/functional/**/*"
-

.github/stale.yml

@@ -1,9 +0,0 @@
-# Configuration for probot-stale - https://github.com/probot/stale
-daysUntilStale: 180
-daysUntilClose: false
-exemptLabels:
-  - "critical"
-  - "never-stale"
-staleLabel: "stale"
-markComment: false
-closeComment: false

.github/workflows/backport.yml

@@ -1,37 +0,0 @@
-name: Backport
-on:
-  pull_request_target:
-    types: [closed, labeled]
-permissions:
-  contents: read
-jobs:
-  backport:
-    name: Backport Pull Request
-    permissions:
-      # for korthout/backport-action
-      contents: write
-      pull-requests: write
-    if: github.repository_owner == 'NixOS' && github.event.pull_request.merged == true && (github.event_name != 'labeled' || startsWith('backport', github.event.label.name))
-    runs-on: ubuntu-24.04-arm
-    steps:
-      - name: Generate GitHub App token
-        id: generate-token
-        uses: actions/create-github-app-token@v2
-        with:
-          app-id: ${{ vars.CI_APP_ID }}
-          private-key: ${{ secrets.CI_APP_PRIVATE_KEY }}
-      - uses: actions/checkout@v5
-        with:
-          ref: ${{ github.event.pull_request.head.sha }}
-          # required to find all branches
-          fetch-depth: 0
-      - name: Create backport PRs
-        uses: korthout/backport-action@d07416681cab29bf2661702f925f020aaa962997 # v3.4.1
-        id: backport
-        with:
-          # Config README: https://github.com/korthout/backport-action#backport-action
-          github_token: ${{ steps.generate-token.outputs.token }}
-          github_workspace: ${{ github.workspace }}
-          auto_merge_enabled: true
-          pull_description: |-
-            Automatic backport to `${target_branch}`, triggered by a label in #${pull_number}.

.github/workflows/ci.yml

@@ -1,318 +0,0 @@
-name: "CI"
-
-on:
-  pull_request:
-  merge_group:
-  push:
-    branches:
-      - master
-  workflow_dispatch:
-    inputs:
-      dogfood:
-        description: 'Use dogfood Nix build'
-        required: false
-        default: true
-        type: boolean
-
-concurrency:
-  group: ${{ github.workflow }}-${{ github.event.pull_request.number || github.ref }}
-  cancel-in-progress: true
-
-permissions: read-all
-
-jobs:
-  eval:
-    runs-on: ubuntu-24.04
-    steps:
-    - uses: actions/checkout@v5
-      with:
-        fetch-depth: 0
-    - uses: ./.github/actions/install-nix-action
-      with:
-        dogfood: ${{ github.event_name == 'workflow_dispatch' && inputs.dogfood || github.event_name != 'workflow_dispatch' }}
-        extra_nix_config:
-          experimental-features = nix-command flakes
-        github_token: ${{ secrets.GITHUB_TOKEN }}
-        use_cache: false
-    - run: nix flake show --all-systems --json
-
-  pre-commit-checks:
-    name: pre-commit checks
-    runs-on: ubuntu-24.04
-    steps:
-      - uses: actions/checkout@v5
-      - uses: ./.github/actions/install-nix-action
-        with:
-          dogfood: ${{ github.event_name == 'workflow_dispatch' && inputs.dogfood || github.event_name != 'workflow_dispatch' }}
-          extra_nix_config: experimental-features = nix-command flakes
-          github_token: ${{ secrets.GITHUB_TOKEN }}
-      - run: ./ci/gha/tests/pre-commit-checks
-
-  basic-checks:
-    name: aggregate basic checks
-    if: ${{ always() }}
-    runs-on: ubuntu-24.04
-    needs: [pre-commit-checks, eval]
-    steps:
-      - name: Exit with any errors
-        if: ${{ contains(needs.*.result, 'failure') || contains(needs.*.result, 'cancelled') }}
-        run: |
-          exit 1
-
-  tests:
-    needs: basic-checks
-    strategy:
-      fail-fast: false
-      matrix:
-        include:
-          - scenario: on ubuntu
-            runs-on: ubuntu-24.04
-            os: linux
-            instrumented: false
-            primary: true
-            stdenv: stdenv
-          - scenario: on macos
-            runs-on: macos-14
-            os: darwin
-            instrumented: false
-            primary: true
-            stdenv: stdenv
-          - scenario: on ubuntu (with sanitizers / coverage)
-            runs-on: ubuntu-24.04
-            os: linux
-            instrumented: true
-            primary: false
-            stdenv: clangStdenv
-    name: tests ${{ matrix.scenario }}
-    runs-on: ${{ matrix.runs-on }}
-    timeout-minutes: 60
-    steps:
-    - uses: actions/checkout@v5
-      with:
-        fetch-depth: 0
-    - uses: ./.github/actions/install-nix-action
-      with:
-        github_token: ${{ secrets.GITHUB_TOKEN }}
-        dogfood: ${{ github.event_name == 'workflow_dispatch' && inputs.dogfood || github.event_name != 'workflow_dispatch' }}
-        # The sandbox would otherwise be disabled by default on Darwin
-        extra_nix_config: "sandbox = true"
-    # Since ubuntu 22.30, unprivileged usernamespaces are no longer allowed to map to the root user:
-    # https://ubuntu.com/blog/ubuntu-23-10-restricted-unprivileged-user-namespaces
-    - run: sudo sysctl -w kernel.apparmor_restrict_unprivileged_userns=0
-      if: matrix.os == 'linux'
-    - name: Run component tests
-      run: |
-        nix build --file ci/gha/tests/wrapper.nix componentTests -L \
-          --arg withInstrumentation ${{ matrix.instrumented }} \
-          --argstr stdenv "${{ matrix.stdenv }}"
-    - name: Run VM tests
-      run: |
-        nix build --file ci/gha/tests/wrapper.nix vmTests -L \
-          --arg withInstrumentation ${{ matrix.instrumented }} \
-          --argstr stdenv "${{ matrix.stdenv }}"
-      if: ${{ matrix.os == 'linux' }}
-    - name: Run flake checks and prepare the installer tarball
-      run: |
-        ci/gha/tests/build-checks
-        ci/gha/tests/prepare-installer-for-github-actions
-      if: ${{ matrix.primary }}
-    - name: Collect code coverage
-      run: |
-        nix build --file ci/gha/tests/wrapper.nix codeCoverage.coverageReports -L \
-          --arg withInstrumentation ${{ matrix.instrumented }} \
-          --argstr stdenv "${{ matrix.stdenv }}" \
-          --out-link coverage-reports
-        cat coverage-reports/index.txt >> $GITHUB_STEP_SUMMARY
-      if: ${{ matrix.instrumented }}
-    - name: Upload coverage reports
-      uses: actions/upload-artifact@v5
-      with:
-        name: coverage-reports
-        path: coverage-reports/
-      if: ${{ matrix.instrumented }}
-    - name: Upload installer tarball
-      uses: actions/upload-artifact@v5
-      with:
-        name: installer-${{matrix.os}}
-        path: out/*
-      if: ${{ matrix.primary }}
-
-  installer_test:
-    needs: [tests]
-    strategy:
-      fail-fast: false
-      matrix:
-        include:
-          - scenario: on ubuntu
-            runs-on: ubuntu-24.04
-            os: linux
-            experimental-installer: false
-          - scenario: on macos
-            runs-on: macos-14
-            os: darwin
-            experimental-installer: false
-          - scenario: on ubuntu (experimental)
-            runs-on: ubuntu-24.04
-            os: linux
-            experimental-installer: true
-          - scenario: on macos (experimental)
-            runs-on: macos-14
-            os: darwin
-            experimental-installer: true
-    name: installer test ${{ matrix.scenario }}
-    runs-on: ${{ matrix.runs-on }}
-    steps:
-    - uses: actions/checkout@v5
-    - name: Download installer tarball
-      uses: actions/download-artifact@v6
-      with:
-        name: installer-${{matrix.os}}
-        path: out
-    - name: Looking up the installer tarball URL
-      id: installer-tarball-url
-      run: |
-        echo "installer-url=file://$GITHUB_WORKSPACE/out" >> "$GITHUB_OUTPUT"
-        TARBALL_PATH="$(find "$GITHUB_WORKSPACE/out" -name 'nix*.tar.xz' -print | head -n 1)"
-        echo "tarball-path=file://$TARBALL_PATH" >> "$GITHUB_OUTPUT"
-    - uses: cachix/install-nix-action@0b0e072294b088b73964f1d72dfdac0951439dbd # v31.8.4
-      if: ${{ !matrix.experimental-installer }}
-      with:
-        install_url: ${{ format('{0}/install', steps.installer-tarball-url.outputs.installer-url) }}
-        install_options: ${{ format('--tarball-url-prefix {0}', steps.installer-tarball-url.outputs.installer-url) }}
-    - uses: ./.github/actions/install-nix-action
-      if: ${{ matrix.experimental-installer }}
-      with:
-        dogfood: false
-        experimental-installer: true
-        tarball_url: ${{ steps.installer-tarball-url.outputs.tarball-path }}
-        github_token: ${{ secrets.GITHUB_TOKEN }}
-    - run: sudo apt install fish zsh
-      if: matrix.os == 'linux'
-    - run: brew install fish
-      if: matrix.os == 'darwin'
-    - run: exec bash -c "nix-instantiate -E 'builtins.currentTime' --eval"
-    - run: exec sh -c "nix-instantiate -E 'builtins.currentTime' --eval"
-    - run: exec zsh -c "nix-instantiate -E 'builtins.currentTime' --eval"
-    - run: exec fish -c "nix-instantiate -E 'builtins.currentTime' --eval"
-    - run: exec bash -c "nix-channel --add https://releases.nixos.org/nixos/unstable/nixos-23.05pre466020.60c1d71f2ba nixpkgs"
-    - run: exec bash -c "nix-channel --update && nix-env -iA nixpkgs.hello && hello"
-
-  # Steps to test CI automation in your own fork.
-  # 1. Sign-up for https://hub.docker.com/
-  # 2. Store your dockerhub username as DOCKERHUB_USERNAME in "Repository secrets" of your fork repository settings (https://github.com/$githubuser/nix/settings/secrets/actions)
-  # 3. Create an access token in https://hub.docker.com/settings/security and store it as DOCKERHUB_TOKEN in "Repository secrets" of your fork
-  check_secrets:
-    permissions:
-      contents: none
-    name: Check presence of secrets
-    runs-on: ubuntu-24.04
-    outputs:
-      docker: ${{ steps.secret.outputs.docker }}
-    steps:
-      - name: Check for DockerHub secrets
-        id: secret
-        env:
-          _DOCKER_SECRETS: ${{ secrets.DOCKERHUB_USERNAME }}${{ secrets.DOCKERHUB_TOKEN }}
-        run: |
-          echo "docker=${{ env._DOCKER_SECRETS != '' }}" >> $GITHUB_OUTPUT
-
-  docker_push_image:
-    needs: [tests, check_secrets]
-    permissions:
-      contents: read
-      packages: write
-    if: >-
-      needs.check_secrets.outputs.docker == 'true' &&
-      github.event_name == 'push' &&
-      github.ref_name == 'master'
-    runs-on: ubuntu-24.04
-    steps:
-    - uses: actions/checkout@v5
-      with:
-        fetch-depth: 0
-    - uses: ./.github/actions/install-nix-action
-      with:
-        dogfood: false
-        extra_nix_config: |
-          experimental-features = flakes nix-command
-    - run: echo NIX_VERSION="$(nix eval .\#nix.version | tr -d \")" >> $GITHUB_ENV
-    - run: nix build .#dockerImage -L
-    - run: docker load -i ./result/image.tar.gz
-    - run: docker tag nix:$NIX_VERSION ${{ secrets.DOCKERHUB_USERNAME }}/nix:$NIX_VERSION
-    - run: docker tag nix:$NIX_VERSION ${{ secrets.DOCKERHUB_USERNAME }}/nix:master
-    # We'll deploy the newly built image to both Docker Hub and Github Container Registry.
-    #
-    # Push to Docker Hub first
-    - name: Login to Docker Hub
-      uses: docker/login-action@v3
-      with:
-        username: ${{ secrets.DOCKERHUB_USERNAME }}
-        password: ${{ secrets.DOCKERHUB_TOKEN }}
-    - run: docker push ${{ secrets.DOCKERHUB_USERNAME }}/nix:$NIX_VERSION
-    - run: docker push ${{ secrets.DOCKERHUB_USERNAME }}/nix:master
-    # Push to GitHub Container Registry as well
-    - name: Login to GitHub Container Registry
-      uses: docker/login-action@v3
-      with:
-        registry: ghcr.io
-        username: ${{ github.actor }}
-        password: ${{ secrets.GITHUB_TOKEN }}
-    - name: Push image
-      run: |
-        IMAGE_ID=ghcr.io/${{ github.repository_owner }}/nix
-        # Change all uppercase to lowercase
-        IMAGE_ID=$(echo $IMAGE_ID | tr '[A-Z]' '[a-z]')
-
-        docker tag nix:$NIX_VERSION $IMAGE_ID:$NIX_VERSION
-        docker tag nix:$NIX_VERSION $IMAGE_ID:latest
-        docker push $IMAGE_ID:$NIX_VERSION
-        docker push $IMAGE_ID:latest
-        # deprecated 2024-02-24
-        docker tag nix:$NIX_VERSION $IMAGE_ID:master
-        docker push $IMAGE_ID:master
-
-  flake_regressions:
-    needs: tests
-    runs-on: ubuntu-24.04
-    steps:
-      - name: Checkout nix
-        uses: actions/checkout@v5
-      - name: Checkout flake-regressions
-        uses: actions/checkout@v5
-        with:
-          repository: NixOS/flake-regressions
-          path: flake-regressions
-      - name: Checkout flake-regressions-data
-        uses: actions/checkout@v5
-        with:
-          repository: NixOS/flake-regressions-data
-          path: flake-regressions/tests
-      - uses: ./.github/actions/install-nix-action
-        with:
-          dogfood: ${{ github.event_name == 'workflow_dispatch' && inputs.dogfood || github.event_name != 'workflow_dispatch' }}
-          extra_nix_config:
-            experimental-features = nix-command flakes
-          github_token: ${{ secrets.GITHUB_TOKEN }}
-      - run: nix build -L --out-link ./new-nix && PATH=$(pwd)/new-nix/bin:$PATH MAX_FLAKES=25 flake-regressions/eval-all.sh
-
-  profile_build:
-    needs: tests
-    runs-on: ubuntu-24.04
-    timeout-minutes: 60
-    if: >-
-      github.event_name == 'push' &&
-      github.ref_name == 'master'
-    steps:
-    - uses: actions/checkout@v5
-      with:
-        fetch-depth: 0
-    - uses: ./.github/actions/install-nix-action
-      with:
-        github_token: ${{ secrets.GITHUB_TOKEN }}
-        dogfood: ${{ github.event_name == 'workflow_dispatch' && inputs.dogfood || github.event_name != 'workflow_dispatch' }}
-        extra_nix_config: |
-          experimental-features = flakes nix-command ca-derivations impure-derivations
-          max-jobs = 1
-    - run: |
-        nix build -L --file ./ci/gha/profile-build buildTimeReport --out-link build-time-report.md
-        cat build-time-report.md >> $GITHUB_STEP_SUMMARY

.github/workflows/labels.yml

@@ -1,24 +0,0 @@
-name: "Label PR"
-
-on:
-  pull_request_target:
-    types: [edited, opened, synchronize, reopened]
-
-# WARNING:
-# When extending this action, be aware that $GITHUB_TOKEN allows some write
-# access to the GitHub API. This means that it should not evaluate user input in
-# a way that allows code injection.
-
-permissions:
-  contents: read
-  pull-requests: write
-
-jobs:
-  labels:
-    runs-on: ubuntu-24.04
-    if: github.repository_owner == 'NixOS'
-    steps:
-    - uses: actions/labeler@v6
-      with:
-        repo-token: ${{ secrets.GITHUB_TOKEN }}
-        sync-labels: false

.gitignore

@@ -1,52 +0,0 @@
-# Default meson build dir
-/build
-
-# /tests/functional/
-/tests/functional/common/subst-vars.sh
-/tests/functional/restricted-innocent
-/tests/functional/debugger-test-out
-/tests/functional/test-libstoreconsumer/test-libstoreconsumer
-/tests/functional/nix-shell
-
-# /tests/functional/lang/
-/tests/functional/lang/*.out
-/tests/functional/lang/*.out.xml
-/tests/functional/lang/*.err
-/tests/functional/lang/*.ast
-
-/outputs
-
-*~
-
-# GNU Global
-GPATH
-GRTAGS
-GSYMS
-GTAGS
-
-# ccls
-/.ccls-cache
-
-# auto-generated compilation database
-compile_commands.json
-*.compile_commands.json
-
-result
-result-*
-
-# IDE
-.vscode/
-.idea/
-
-.pre-commit-config.yaml
-
-# clangd and possibly more
-.cache/
-
-# Mac OS
-.DS_Store
-
-flake-regressions
-
-# direnv
-.direnv/

.shellcheckrc

@@ -1,4 +0,0 @@
-external-sources=true
-source-path=SCRIPTDIR
-# Hack for scripts in e.g. tests/functional/ca
-source-path=SCRIPTDIR/..

.version

@@ -1 +0,0 @@
-2.33.0

AUTHORS

@@ -0,0 +1,8 @@
+The following people contributed to Nix, in alphabetical order:
+
+Martin Bravenboer
+Eelco Dolstra
+Niels Janssen
+Armijn Hemel
+Rob Vermaas
+Eelco Visser

CITATION.cff

@@ -1,42 +0,0 @@
-cff-version: 1.2.0
-title: Nix
-message: >-
-  If you use this software, please cite it using the
-  metadata from this file.
-type: software
-authors:
-  - given-names: Eelco
-    family-names: Dolstra
-    email: edolstra@gmail.com
-  - name: The Nix contributors
-    website: 'https://github.com/NixOS/nix'
-references:
-  - title: The Purely Functional Software Deployment Model
-    authors:
-    - family-names: Dolstra
-      given-names: Eelco
-    year: 2006
-    type: thesis
-    thesis-type: PhD thesis
-    isbn: 90-393-4130-3
-    url: https://dspace.library.uu.nl/handle/1874/7540
-    database-provider: Utrecht University Repository
-    institution:
-      name: Utrecht University
-    keywords:
-    - configuration management
-    - software deployment
-    - purely functional
-    - component-based software engineering
-repository-code: 'https://github.com/NixOS/nix'
-url: 'https://nixos.org/'
-abstract: >-
-  Nix, a purely functional package manager, is a powerful
-  package manager for Linux and other Unix systems that
-  makes package management reliable and reproducible.
-keywords:
-  - reproducibility
-  - open-source
-  - c++
-  - functional
-license: LGPL-2.1

CONTRIBUTING.md

@@ -1,100 +0,0 @@
-# Contributing to Nix
-
-Welcome and thank you for your interest in contributing to Nix!
-We appreciate your support.
-
-Reading and following these guidelines will help us make the contribution process easy and effective for everyone involved.
-
-## Report a bug
-
-1. Check on the [GitHub issue tracker](https://github.com/NixOS/nix/issues) if your bug was already reported.
-
-2. If you were not able to find the bug or feature [open a new issue](https://github.com/NixOS/nix/issues/new/choose)
-
-3. The issue templates will guide you in specifying your issue.
-   The more complete the information you provide, the more likely it can be found by others and the more useful it is in the future.
-   Make sure reported bugs can be reproduced easily.
-
-4. Once submitted, do not expect issues to be picked up or solved right away.
-   The only way to ensure this, is to [work on the issue yourself](#making-changes-to-nix).
-
-## Report a security vulnerability
-
-Check out the [security policy](https://github.com/NixOS/nix/security/policy).
-
-## Making changes to Nix
-
-1. Search for related issues that cover what you're going to work on.
-   It could help to mention there that you will work on the issue.
-
-   We strongly recommend first-time contributors not to propose new features but rather fix tightly-scoped problems in order to build trust and a working relationship with maintainers.
-
-   Issues labeled [good first issue](https://github.com/NixOS/nix/labels/good%20first%20issue) should be relatively easy to fix and are likely to get merged quickly.
-   Pull requests addressing issues labeled [idea approved](https://github.com/NixOS/nix/labels/idea%20approved) or [RFC](https://github.com/NixOS/nix/labels/RFC) are especially welcomed by maintainers and will receive prioritised review.
-
-   If you are proficient with C++, addressing one of the [popular issues](https://github.com/NixOS/nix/issues?q=is%3Aissue+is%3Aopen+sort%3Areactions-%2B1-desc) will be highly appreciated by maintainers and Nix users all over the world.
-   For far-reaching changes, please investigate possible blockers and design implications, and coordinate with maintainers before investing too much time in writing code that may not end up getting merged.
-
-   If there is no relevant issue yet and you're not sure whether your change is likely to be accepted, [open an issue](https://github.com/NixOS/nix/issues/new/choose) yourself.
-
-2. Check for [pull requests](https://github.com/NixOS/nix/pulls) that might already cover the contribution you are about to make.
-   There are many open pull requests that might already do what you intend to work on.
-   You can use [labels](https://github.com/NixOS/nix/labels) to filter for relevant topics.
-
-3. Check the [Nix reference manual](https://nix.dev/manual/nix/development/development/building.html) for information on building Nix and running its tests.
-
-   For contributions to the command line interface, please check the [CLI guidelines](https://nix.dev/manual/nix/development/development/cli-guideline.html).
-
-4. Make your change!
-
-5. [Create a pull request](https://docs.github.com/en/pull-requests/collaborating-with-pull-requests/proposing-changes-to-your-work-with-pull-requests/creating-a-pull-request) for your changes.
-   * Clearly explain the problem that you're solving.
-
-     Link related issues to inform interested parties and future contributors about your change.
-     If your pull request closes one or multiple issues, mention that in the description using `Closes: #<number>`, as it will then happen automatically when your change is merged.
-   * Credit original authors when you're reusing or building on their work.
-   * Link to relevant changes in other projects, so that others can understand the full context of the change in the future when you or someone else will change or troubleshoot the code.
-     This is especially important when your change is based on work done in other repositories.
-
-     Example:
-     ```
-     This is based on the work of @user in <url>.
-     This solution took inspiration from <url>.
-
-     Co-authored-by: User Name <user@example.com>
-     ```
-
-     When cherry-picking from a different repository, use the `-x` flag, and then amend the commits to turn the hashes into URLs.
-
-   * Make sure to have [a clean history of commits on your branch by using rebase](https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/how-to-rebase-and-update-a-pull-request).
-   * [Mark the pull request as draft](https://docs.github.com/en/pull-requests/collaborating-with-pull-requests/proposing-changes-to-your-work-with-pull-requests/changing-the-stage-of-a-pull-request) if you're not done with the changes.
-
-6. Do not expect your pull request to be reviewed immediately.
-   Nix maintainers follow a [structured process for reviews and design decisions](https://github.com/NixOS/nix/tree/master/maintainers#project-board-protocol), which may or may not prioritise your work.
-
-   Following this checklist will make the process smoother for everyone:
-
-   - [ ] Fixes an [idea approved](https://github.com/NixOS/nix/labels/idea%20approved) issue
-   - [ ] Tests, as appropriate:
-     - Functional tests – [`tests/functional/**.sh`](./tests/functional)
-     - Unit tests – [`src/*/tests`](./src/)
-     - Integration tests – [`tests/nixos/*`](./tests/nixos)
-   - [ ] User documentation in the [manual](./doc/manual/source)
-   - [ ] API documentation in header files
-   - [ ] Code and comments are self-explanatory
-   - [ ] Commit message explains **why** the change was made
-   - [ ] New feature or incompatible change: [add a release note](https://nix.dev/manual/nix/development/development/contributing.html#add-a-release-note)
-
-7. If you need additional feedback or help to getting pull request into shape, ask other contributors using [@mentions](https://docs.github.com/en/get-started/writing-on-github/getting-started-with-writing-and-formatting-on-github/basic-writing-and-formatting-syntax#mentioning-people-and-teams).
-
-## Making changes to the Nix manual
-
-The Nix reference manual is hosted on https://nix.dev/manual/nix.
-The underlying source files are located in [`doc/manual/source`](./doc/manual/source).
-For small changes you can [use GitHub to edit these files](https://docs.github.com/en/repositories/working-with-files/managing-files/editing-files)
-For larger changes see the [Nix reference manual](https://nix.dev/manual/nix/development/development/contributing.html).
-
-## Getting help
-
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-LIBRARY IS WITH YOU.  SHOULD THE LIBRARY PROVE DEFECTIVE, YOU ASSUME
-THE COST OF ALL NECESSARY SERVICING, REPAIR OR CORRECTION.
+  To do so, attach the following notices to the program.  It is safest
+to attach them to the start of each source file to most effectively
+convey the exclusion of warranty; and each file should have at least
+the "copyright" line and a pointer to where the full notice is found.
 
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-WRITING WILL ANY COPYRIGHT HOLDER, OR ANY OTHER PARTY WHO MAY MODIFY
-AND/OR REDISTRIBUTE THE LIBRARY AS PERMITTED ABOVE, BE LIABLE TO YOU
-FOR DAMAGES, INCLUDING ANY GENERAL, SPECIAL, INCIDENTAL OR
-CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES ARISING OUT OF THE USE OR INABILITY TO USE THE
-LIBRARY (INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO LOSS OF DATA OR DATA BEING
-RENDERED INACCURATE OR LOSSES SUSTAINED BY YOU OR THIRD PARTIES OR A
-FAILURE OF THE LIBRARY TO OPERATE WITH ANY OTHER SOFTWARE), EVEN IF
-SUCH HOLDER OR OTHER PARTY HAS BEEN ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH
-DAMAGES.
-
-                     END OF TERMS AND CONDITIONS
-
-           How to Apply These Terms to Your New Libraries
-
-  If you develop a new library, and you want it to be of the greatest
-possible use to the public, we recommend making it free software that
-everyone can redistribute and change.  You can do so by permitting
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-safest to attach them to the start of each source file to most effectively
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-"copyright" line and a pointer to where the full notice is found.
-
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+    <one line to give the program's name and a brief idea of what it does.>
     Copyright (C) <year>  <name of author>
 
-    This library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or
-    modify it under the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public
-    License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either
-    version 2.1 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.
+    This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
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+    the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or
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-    Lesser General Public License for more details.
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+
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+    along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software
+    Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place, Suite 330, Boston, MA  02111-1307  USA
 
-    You should have received a copy of the GNU Lesser General Public
-    License along with this library; if not, see <https://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
 
 Also add information on how to contact you by electronic and paper mail.
 
+If the program is interactive, make it output a short notice like this
+when it starts in an interactive mode:
+
+    Gnomovision version 69, Copyright (C) year  name of author
+    Gnomovision comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY; for details type `show w'.
+    This is free software, and you are welcome to redistribute it
+    under certain conditions; type `show c' for details.
+
+The hypothetical commands `show w' and `show c' should show the appropriate
+parts of the General Public License.  Of course, the commands you use may
+be called something other than `show w' and `show c'; they could even be
+mouse-clicks or menu items--whatever suits your program.
+
 You should also get your employer (if you work as a programmer) or your
-school, if any, to sign a "copyright disclaimer" for the library, if
+school, if any, to sign a "copyright disclaimer" for the program, if
 necessary.  Here is a sample; alter the names:
 
-  Yoyodyne, Inc., hereby disclaims all copyright interest in the
-  library `Frob' (a library for tweaking knobs) written by James Random Hacker.
+  Yoyodyne, Inc., hereby disclaims all copyright interest in the program
+  `Gnomovision' (which makes passes at compilers) written by James Hacker.
 
-  <signature of Moe Ghoul>, 1 April 1990
-  Moe Ghoul, President of Vice
+  <signature of Ty Coon>, 1 April 1989
+  Ty Coon, President of Vice
 
-That's all there is to it!
+This General Public License does not permit incorporating your program into
+proprietary programs.  If your program is a subroutine library, you may
+consider it more useful to permit linking proprietary applications with the
+library.  If this is what you want to do, use the GNU Library General
+Public License instead of this License.

HACKING.md

@@ -1 +0,0 @@
-doc/manual/source/development/building.md

INSTALL

@@ -0,0 +1,229 @@
+Copyright 1994, 1995, 1996, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002 Free Software
+Foundation, Inc.
+
+   This file is free documentation; the Free Software Foundation gives
+unlimited permission to copy, distribute and modify it.
+
+Basic Installation
+==================
+
+   These are generic installation instructions.
+
+   The `configure' shell script attempts to guess correct values for
+various system-dependent variables used during compilation.  It uses
+those values to create a `Makefile' in each directory of the package.
+It may also create one or more `.h' files containing system-dependent
+definitions.  Finally, it creates a shell script `config.status' that
+you can run in the future to recreate the current configuration, and a
+file `config.log' containing compiler output (useful mainly for
+debugging `configure').
+
+   It can also use an optional file (typically called `config.cache'
+and enabled with `--cache-file=config.cache' or simply `-C') that saves
+the results of its tests to speed up reconfiguring.  (Caching is
+disabled by default to prevent problems with accidental use of stale
+cache files.)
+
+   If you need to do unusual things to compile the package, please try
+to figure out how `configure' could check whether to do them, and mail
+diffs or instructions to the address given in the `README' so they can
+be considered for the next release.  If you are using the cache, and at
+some point `config.cache' contains results you don't want to keep, you
+may remove or edit it.
+
+   The file `configure.ac' (or `configure.in') is used to create
+`configure' by a program called `autoconf'.  You only need
+`configure.ac' if you want to change it or regenerate `configure' using
+a newer version of `autoconf'.
+
+The simplest way to compile this package is:
+
+  1. `cd' to the directory containing the package's source code and type
+     `./configure' to configure the package for your system.  If you're
+     using `csh' on an old version of System V, you might need to type
+     `sh ./configure' instead to prevent `csh' from trying to execute
+     `configure' itself.
+
+     Running `configure' takes awhile.  While running, it prints some
+     messages telling which features it is checking for.
+
+  2. Type `make' to compile the package.
+
+  3. Optionally, type `make check' to run any self-tests that come with
+     the package.
+
+  4. Type `make install' to install the programs and any data files and
+     documentation.
+
+  5. You can remove the program binaries and object files from the
+     source code directory by typing `make clean'.  To also remove the
+     files that `configure' created (so you can compile the package for
+     a different kind of computer), type `make distclean'.  There is
+     also a `make maintainer-clean' target, but that is intended mainly
+     for the package's developers.  If you use it, you may have to get
+     all sorts of other programs in order to regenerate files that came
+     with the distribution.
+
+Compilers and Options
+=====================
+
+   Some systems require unusual options for compilation or linking that
+the `configure' script does not know about.  Run `./configure --help'
+for details on some of the pertinent environment variables.
+
+   You can give `configure' initial values for configuration parameters
+by setting variables in the command line or in the environment.  Here
+is an example:
+
+     ./configure CC=c89 CFLAGS=-O2 LIBS=-lposix
+
+   *Note Defining Variables::, for more details.
+
+Compiling For Multiple Architectures
+====================================
+
+   You can compile the package for more than one kind of computer at the
+same time, by placing the object files for each architecture in their
+own directory.  To do this, you must use a version of `make' that
+supports the `VPATH' variable, such as GNU `make'.  `cd' to the
+directory where you want the object files and executables to go and run
+the `configure' script.  `configure' automatically checks for the
+source code in the directory that `configure' is in and in `..'.
+
+   If you have to use a `make' that does not support the `VPATH'
+variable, you have to compile the package for one architecture at a
+time in the source code directory.  After you have installed the
+package for one architecture, use `make distclean' before reconfiguring
+for another architecture.
+
+Installation Names
+==================
+
+   By default, `make install' will install the package's files in
+`/usr/local/bin', `/usr/local/man', etc.  You can specify an
+installation prefix other than `/usr/local' by giving `configure' the
+option `--prefix=PATH'.
+
+   You can specify separate installation prefixes for
+architecture-specific files and architecture-independent files.  If you
+give `configure' the option `--exec-prefix=PATH', the package will use
+PATH as the prefix for installing programs and libraries.
+Documentation and other data files will still use the regular prefix.
+
+   In addition, if you use an unusual directory layout you can give
+options like `--bindir=PATH' to specify different values for particular
+kinds of files.  Run `configure --help' for a list of the directories
+you can set and what kinds of files go in them.
+
+   If the package supports it, you can cause programs to be installed
+with an extra prefix or suffix on their names by giving `configure' the
+option `--program-prefix=PREFIX' or `--program-suffix=SUFFIX'.
+
+Optional Features
+=================
+
+   Some packages pay attention to `--enable-FEATURE' options to
+`configure', where FEATURE indicates an optional part of the package.
+They may also pay attention to `--with-PACKAGE' options, where PACKAGE
+is something like `gnu-as' or `x' (for the X Window System).  The
+`README' should mention any `--enable-' and `--with-' options that the
+package recognizes.
+
+   For packages that use the X Window System, `configure' can usually
+find the X include and library files automatically, but if it doesn't,
+you can use the `configure' options `--x-includes=DIR' and
+`--x-libraries=DIR' to specify their locations.
+
+Specifying the System Type
+==========================
+
+   There may be some features `configure' cannot figure out
+automatically, but needs to determine by the type of machine the package
+will run on.  Usually, assuming the package is built to be run on the
+_same_ architectures, `configure' can figure that out, but if it prints
+a message saying it cannot guess the machine type, give it the
+`--build=TYPE' option.  TYPE can either be a short name for the system
+type, such as `sun4', or a canonical name which has the form:
+
+     CPU-COMPANY-SYSTEM
+
+where SYSTEM can have one of these forms:
+
+     OS KERNEL-OS
+
+   See the file `config.sub' for the possible values of each field.  If
+`config.sub' isn't included in this package, then this package doesn't
+need to know the machine type.
+
+   If you are _building_ compiler tools for cross-compiling, you should
+use the `--target=TYPE' option to select the type of system they will
+produce code for.
+
+   If you want to _use_ a cross compiler, that generates code for a
+platform different from the build platform, you should specify the
+"host" platform (i.e., that on which the generated programs will
+eventually be run) with `--host=TYPE'.
+
+Sharing Defaults
+================
+
+   If you want to set default values for `configure' scripts to share,
+you can create a site shell script called `config.site' that gives
+default values for variables like `CC', `cache_file', and `prefix'.
+`configure' looks for `PREFIX/share/config.site' if it exists, then
+`PREFIX/etc/config.site' if it exists.  Or, you can set the
+`CONFIG_SITE' environment variable to the location of the site script.
+A warning: not all `configure' scripts look for a site script.
+
+Defining Variables
+==================
+
+   Variables not defined in a site shell script can be set in the
+environment passed to `configure'.  However, some packages may run
+configure again during the build, and the customized values of these
+variables may be lost.  In order to avoid this problem, you should set
+them in the `configure' command line, using `VAR=value'.  For example:
+
+     ./configure CC=/usr/local2/bin/gcc
+
+will cause the specified gcc to be used as the C compiler (unless it is
+overridden in the site shell script).
+
+`configure' Invocation
+======================
+
+   `configure' recognizes the following options to control how it
+operates.
+
+`--help'
+`-h'
+     Print a summary of the options to `configure', and exit.
+
+`--version'
+`-V'
+     Print the version of Autoconf used to generate the `configure'
+     script, and exit.
+
+`--cache-file=FILE'
+     Enable the cache: use and save the results of the tests in FILE,
+     traditionally `config.cache'.  FILE defaults to `/dev/null' to
+     disable caching.
+
+`--config-cache'
+`-C'
+     Alias for `--cache-file=config.cache'.
+
+`--quiet'
+`--silent'
+`-q'
+     Do not print messages saying which checks are being made.  To
+     suppress all normal output, redirect it to `/dev/null' (any error
+     messages will still be shown).
+
+`--srcdir=DIR'
+     Look for the package's source code in directory DIR.  Usually
+     `configure' can determine that directory automatically.
+
+`configure' also accepts some other, not widely useful, options.  Run
+`configure --help' for more details.
+

Makefile.am

@@ -0,0 +1,39 @@
+SUBDIRS = externals src scripts corepkgs doc misc tests
+EXTRA_DIST = substitute.mk nix.spec nix.spec.in bootstrap.sh svn-revision
+
+include ./substitute.mk
+
+nix.spec: nix.spec.in
+
+rpm: nix.spec dist
+	rpm $(EXTRA_RPM_FLAGS) -ta $(distdir).tar.gz
+
+relname:
+	echo -n $(distdir) > relname
+
+install-data-local: init-state
+
+if INIT_STATE
+if SETUID_HACK
+INIT_FLAGS = -g @NIX_GROUP@ -o @NIX_USER@
+GROUP_WRITABLE = -m 775
+endif
+init-state:
+	$(INSTALL) $(INIT_FLAGS) -d $(DESTDIR)$(localstatedir)/nix
+	$(INSTALL) $(INIT_FLAGS) -d $(DESTDIR)$(localstatedir)/nix/db
+	$(INSTALL) $(INIT_FLAGS) -d $(DESTDIR)$(localstatedir)/log/nix
+	$(INSTALL) $(INIT_FLAGS) -d $(DESTDIR)$(localstatedir)/nix/profiles
+	$(INSTALL) $(INIT_FLAGS) -d $(DESTDIR)$(localstatedir)/nix/gcroots
+	$(INSTALL) $(INIT_FLAGS) $(GROUP_WRITABLE) -d $(DESTDIR)$(localstatedir)/nix/gcroots/tmp
+	$(INSTALL) $(INIT_FLAGS) $(GROUP_WRITABLE) -d $(DESTDIR)$(localstatedir)/nix/gcroots/channels
+	rm -f $(DESTDIR)$(localstatedir)/nix/gcroots/profiles
+	ln -s $(localstatedir)/nix/profiles $(DESTDIR)$(localstatedir)/nix/gcroots/profiles
+	$(INSTALL) $(INIT_FLAGS) -d $(DESTDIR)$(prefix)/store
+	$(INSTALL) $(INIT_FLAGS) $(GROUP_WRITABLE) -d $(DESTDIR)$(localstatedir)/nix/manifests
+#	$(bindir)/nix-store --init
+else
+init-state:
+endif
+
+svn-revision:
+	svnversion . > svn-revision

NEWS

@@ -0,0 +1,91 @@
+Version 0.7
+
+* Binary patching.  When upgrading components using pre-built binaries
+  (through nix-pull / nix-channel), Nix can automatically download and
+  apply binary patches to already installed components instead of full
+  downloads.  Patching is "smart": if there is a *sequence* of patches
+  to an installed component, Nix will use it.  Patches are currently
+  generated automatically between Nixpkgs (pre-)releases.
+
+* Simplifications to the substitute mechanism.
+
+* Nix-pull now stores downloaded manifests in /nix/var/nix/manifests.
+
+* Metadata on files in the Nix store is canonicalised after builds:
+  the last-modified timestamp is set to 0 (00:00:00 1/1/1970), the
+  mode is set to 0444 or 0555 (readable and possibly executable by
+  all; setuid/setgid bits are dropped), and the group is set to the
+  default.  This ensures that the result of a build and an
+  installation through a substitute is the same; and that timestamp
+  dependencies are revealed.
+
+
+Version 0.6
+
+Major changes include the following:
+
+* Rewrite of the normalisation engine.
+
+  * Multiple builds can now be performed in parallel (option `-j').
+
+  * Distributed builds.  Nix can now call a shell script to forward
+    builds to Nix installations on remote machines, which may or may
+    not be of the same platform type.
+
+  * Option `--fallback' allows recovery from broken substitutes.
+
+  * Option `--keep-going' causes building of other (unaffected)
+    derivations to continue if one failed.
+    
+* Improvements to the garbage collector (i.e., it should actually work
+  now).
+
+* Setuid Nix installations allow a Nix store to be shared among
+  multiple users.
+
+* Substitute registration is much faster now.
+
+* A utility `nix-build' to build a Nix expression and create a symlink
+  to the result int the current directory; useful for testing Nix
+  derivations.
+
+* Manual updates.
+
+* `nix-env' changes:
+
+  * Derivations for other platforms are filtered out (which can be
+    overriden using `--system-filter').
+
+  * `--install' by default now uninstall previous derivations with the
+    same name.
+
+  * `--upgrade' allows upgrading to a specific version.
+
+  * New operation `--delete-generations' to remove profile
+    generations (necessary for effective garbage collection).
+
+  * Nicer output (sorted, columnised).
+
+* More sensible verbosity levels all around (builder output is now
+  shown always, unless `-Q' is given).
+
+* Nix expression language changes:
+
+  * New language construct: `with E1; E2' brings all attributes
+    defined in the attribute set E1 in scope in E2.
+
+  * Added a `map' function.
+
+  * Various new operators (e.g., string concatenation).
+
+* Expression evaluation is much faster.
+
+* An Emacs mode for editing Nix expressions (with syntax highlighting
+  and indentation) has been added.
+
+* Many bug fixes.
+
+
+Version 0.5 and earlier
+
+Please refer to the Subversion commit log messages.

README

@@ -0,0 +1,5 @@
+                             *** Nix ***
+
+For installation and usage instructions, please read the manual, which
+can be found in `docs/manual/manual.html', and additionally at the Nix
+website at <http://www.cs.uu.nl/groups/ST/Trace/Nix>.

README.md

@@ -1,38 +0,0 @@
-# Nix
-
-[![Open Collective supporters](https://opencollective.com/nixos/tiers/supporter/badge.svg?label=Supporters&color=brightgreen)](https://opencollective.com/nixos)
-[![CI](https://github.com/NixOS/nix/workflows/CI/badge.svg)](https://github.com/NixOS/nix/actions/workflows/ci.yml)
-
-Nix is a powerful package manager for Linux and other Unix systems that makes package
-management reliable and reproducible. Please refer to the [Nix manual](https://nix.dev/reference/nix-manual)
-for more details.
-
-## Installation and first steps
-
-Visit [nix.dev](https://nix.dev) for [installation instructions](https://nix.dev/tutorials/install-nix) and [beginner tutorials](https://nix.dev/tutorials/first-steps).
-
-Full reference documentation can be found in the [Nix manual](https://nix.dev/reference/nix-manual).
-
-## Building and developing
-
-Follow instructions in the Nix reference manual to [set up a development environment and build Nix from source](https://nix.dev/manual/nix/development/development/building.html).
-
-## Contributing
-
-Check the [contributing guide](./CONTRIBUTING.md) if you want to get involved with developing Nix.
-
-## Additional resources
-
-Nix was created by Eelco Dolstra and developed as the subject of his PhD thesis [The Purely Functional Software Deployment Model](https://edolstra.github.io/pubs/phd-thesis.pdf), published 2006.
-Today, a world-wide developer community contributes to Nix and the ecosystem that has grown around it.
-
-- [The Nix, Nixpkgs, NixOS Community on nixos.org](https://nixos.org/)
-- [Official documentation on nix.dev](https://nix.dev)
-- [Nixpkgs](https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs) is [the largest, most up-to-date free software repository in the world](https://repology.org/repositories/graphs)
-- [NixOS](https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/tree/master/nixos) is a Linux distribution that can be configured fully declaratively
-- [Discourse](https://discourse.nixos.org/)
-- Matrix: [#users:nixos.org](https://matrix.to/#/#users:nixos.org) for user support and [#nix-dev:nixos.org](https://matrix.to/#/#nix-dev:nixos.org) for development
-
-## License
-
-Nix is released under the [LGPL v2.1](./COPYING).

bootstrap.sh

@@ -0,0 +1,5 @@
+#! /bin/sh -e
+aclocal
+autoheader
+automake --add-missing --copy
+autoconf

ci/gha/profile-build/default.nix

@@ -1,101 +0,0 @@
-{
-  nixFlake ? builtins.getFlake ("git+file://" + toString ../../..),
-  system ? builtins.currentSystem,
-  pkgs ? nixFlake.inputs.nixpkgs.legacyPackages.${system},
-}:
-
-let
-  inherit (pkgs) lib;
-
-  nixComponentsInstrumented =
-    (nixFlake.lib.makeComponents {
-      inherit pkgs;
-      getStdenv = p: p.clangStdenv;
-    }).overrideScope
-      (
-        _: _: {
-          mesonComponentOverrides = finalAttrs: prevAttrs: {
-            outputs = (prevAttrs.outputs or [ "out" ]) ++ [ "buildprofile" ];
-            nativeBuildInputs = [ pkgs.clangbuildanalyzer ] ++ prevAttrs.nativeBuildInputs or [ ];
-            __impure = true;
-
-            env = {
-              CFLAGS = "-ftime-trace";
-              CXXFLAGS = "-ftime-trace";
-            };
-
-            preBuild = ''
-              ClangBuildAnalyzer --start $PWD
-            '';
-
-            postBuild = ''
-              ClangBuildAnalyzer --stop $PWD $buildprofile
-            '';
-          };
-        }
-      );
-
-  componentsToProfile = {
-    "nix-util" = { };
-    "nix-util-c" = { };
-    "nix-util-test-support" = { };
-    "nix-util-tests" = { };
-    "nix-store" = { };
-    "nix-store-c" = { };
-    "nix-store-test-support" = { };
-    "nix-store-tests" = { };
-    "nix-fetchers" = { };
-    "nix-fetchers-c" = { };
-    "nix-fetchers-tests" = { };
-    "nix-expr" = { };
-    "nix-expr-c" = { };
-    "nix-expr-test-support" = { };
-    "nix-expr-tests" = { };
-    "nix-flake" = { };
-    "nix-flake-c" = { };
-    "nix-flake-tests" = { };
-    "nix-main" = { };
-    "nix-main-c" = { };
-    "nix-cmd" = { };
-    "nix-cli" = { };
-  };
-
-  componentDerivationsToProfile = builtins.intersectAttrs componentsToProfile nixComponentsInstrumented;
-  componentBuildProfiles = lib.mapAttrs (
-    n: v: lib.getOutput "buildprofile" v
-  ) componentDerivationsToProfile;
-
-  buildTimeReport =
-    pkgs.runCommand "build-time-report"
-      {
-        __impure = true;
-        __structuredAttrs = true;
-        nativeBuildInputs = [ pkgs.clangbuildanalyzer ];
-        inherit componentBuildProfiles;
-      }
-      ''
-        {
-          echo "# Build time performance profile for components:"
-          echo
-          echo "This reports the build profile collected via \`-ftime-trace\` for each component."
-          echo
-        } >> $out
-
-        for name in "''\${!componentBuildProfiles[@]}"; do
-          {
-            echo "<details><summary><strong>$name</strong></summary>"
-            echo
-            echo '````'
-            ClangBuildAnalyzer --analyze "''\${componentBuildProfiles[$name]}"
-            echo '````'
-            echo
-            echo "</details>"
-          } >> $out
-        done
-      '';
-in
-
-{
-  inherit buildTimeReport;
-  inherit componentDerivationsToProfile;
-}

ci/gha/tests/build-checks

@@ -1,6 +0,0 @@
-#!/usr/bin/env bash
-set -euo pipefail
-system=$(nix eval --raw --impure --expr builtins.currentSystem)
-nix eval --json ".#checks.$system" --apply builtins.attrNames | \
-  jq -r '.[]' | \
-  xargs -P0 -I '{}' sh -c "nix build -L .#checks.$system.{} || { echo 'FAILED: \033[0;31mnix build -L .#checks.$system.{}\\033[0m'; kill 0; }"

ci/gha/tests/default.nix

@@ -1,257 +0,0 @@
-{
-  nixFlake ? builtins.getFlake ("git+file://" + toString ../../..),
-  system ? builtins.currentSystem,
-  pkgs ? nixFlake.inputs.nixpkgs.legacyPackages.${system},
-  nixComponents ? (
-    nixFlake.lib.makeComponents {
-      inherit pkgs;
-      inherit getStdenv;
-    }
-  ),
-  getStdenv ? p: p.stdenv,
-  componentTestsPrefix ? "",
-  withSanitizers ? false,
-  withCoverage ? false,
-  ...
-}:
-
-let
-  inherit (pkgs) lib;
-  hydraJobs = nixFlake.hydraJobs;
-  packages' = nixFlake.packages.${system};
-  stdenv = (getStdenv pkgs);
-
-  collectCoverageLayer = finalAttrs: prevAttrs: {
-    env =
-      let
-        # https://clang.llvm.org/docs/SourceBasedCodeCoverage.html#the-code-coverage-workflow
-        coverageFlags = [
-          "-fprofile-instr-generate"
-          "-fcoverage-mapping"
-        ];
-      in
-      {
-        CFLAGS = toString coverageFlags;
-        CXXFLAGS = toString coverageFlags;
-      };
-
-    # Done in a pre-configure hook, because $NIX_BUILD_TOP needs to be substituted.
-    preConfigure = prevAttrs.preConfigure or "" + ''
-      mappingFlag=" -fcoverage-prefix-map=$NIX_BUILD_TOP/${finalAttrs.src.name}=${finalAttrs.src}"
-      CFLAGS+="$mappingFlag"
-      CXXFLAGS+="$mappingFlag"
-    '';
-  };
-
-  componentOverrides = (lib.optional withCoverage collectCoverageLayer);
-in
-
-rec {
-  nixComponentsInstrumented = nixComponents.overrideScope (
-    final: prev: {
-      withASan = withSanitizers;
-      withUBSan = withSanitizers;
-
-      nix-store-tests = prev.nix-store-tests.override { withBenchmarks = true; };
-      # Boehm is incompatible with ASAN.
-      nix-expr = prev.nix-expr.override { enableGC = !withSanitizers; };
-
-      mesonComponentOverrides = lib.composeManyExtensions componentOverrides;
-      # Unclear how to make Perl bindings work with a dynamically linked ASAN.
-      nix-perl-bindings = if withSanitizers then null else prev.nix-perl-bindings;
-    }
-  );
-
-  # Import NixOS tests using the instrumented components
-  nixosTests = import ../../../tests/nixos {
-    inherit lib pkgs;
-    nixComponents = nixComponentsInstrumented;
-    nixpkgs = nixFlake.inputs.nixpkgs;
-    inherit (nixFlake.inputs) nixpkgs-23-11;
-  };
-
-  /**
-    Top-level tests for the flake outputs, as they would be built by hydra.
-    These tests generally can't be overridden to run with sanitizers.
-  */
-  topLevel = {
-    installerScriptForGHA = hydraJobs.installerScriptForGHA.${system};
-    installTests = hydraJobs.installTests.${system};
-    nixpkgsLibTests = hydraJobs.tests.nixpkgsLibTests.${system};
-    rl-next = pkgs.buildPackages.runCommand "test-rl-next-release-notes" { } ''
-      LANG=C.UTF-8 ${pkgs.changelog-d}/bin/changelog-d ${../../../doc/manual/rl-next} >$out
-    '';
-    repl-completion = pkgs.callPackage ../../../tests/repl-completion.nix { inherit (packages') nix; };
-
-    /**
-      Checks for our packaging expressions.
-      This shouldn't build anything significant; just check that things
-      (including derivations) are _set up_ correctly.
-    */
-    packaging-overriding =
-      let
-        nix = packages'.nix;
-      in
-      assert (nix.appendPatches [ pkgs.emptyFile ]).libs.nix-util.src.patches == [ pkgs.emptyFile ];
-      if pkgs.stdenv.buildPlatform.isDarwin then
-        lib.warn "packaging-overriding check currently disabled because of a permissions issue on macOS" pkgs.emptyFile
-      else
-        # If this fails, something might be wrong with how we've wired the scope,
-        # or something could be broken in Nixpkgs.
-        pkgs.testers.testEqualContents {
-          assertion = "trivial patch does not change source contents";
-          expected = "${../../..}";
-          actual =
-            # Same for all components; nix-util is an arbitrary pick
-            (nix.appendPatches [ pkgs.emptyFile ]).libs.nix-util.src;
-        };
-  };
-
-  disable =
-    let
-      inherit (pkgs.stdenv) hostPlatform;
-    in
-    args@{
-      pkgName,
-      testName,
-      test,
-    }:
-    lib.any (b: b) [
-      # FIXME: Nix manual is impure and does not produce all settings on darwin
-      (hostPlatform.isDarwin && pkgName == "nix-manual" && testName == "linkcheck")
-    ];
-
-  componentTests =
-    (lib.concatMapAttrs (
-      pkgName: pkg:
-      lib.concatMapAttrs (
-        testName: test:
-        lib.optionalAttrs (!disable { inherit pkgName testName test; }) {
-          "${componentTestsPrefix}${pkgName}-${testName}" = test;
-        }
-      ) (pkg.tests or { })
-    ) nixComponentsInstrumented)
-    // lib.optionalAttrs (pkgs.stdenv.hostPlatform == pkgs.stdenv.buildPlatform) {
-      "${componentTestsPrefix}nix-functional-tests" = nixComponentsInstrumented.nix-functional-tests;
-      "${componentTestsPrefix}nix-json-schema-checks" = nixComponentsInstrumented.nix-json-schema-checks;
-    };
-
-  codeCoverage =
-    let
-      componentsTestsToProfile =
-        (builtins.mapAttrs (n: v: nixComponentsInstrumented.${n}.tests.run) {
-          "nix-util-tests" = { };
-          "nix-store-tests" = { };
-          "nix-fetchers-tests" = { };
-          "nix-expr-tests" = { };
-          "nix-flake-tests" = { };
-        })
-        // {
-          inherit (nixComponentsInstrumented) nix-functional-tests;
-        };
-
-      coverageProfileDrvs = lib.mapAttrs (
-        n: v:
-        v.overrideAttrs (
-          finalAttrs: prevAttrs: {
-            outputs = (prevAttrs.outputs or [ "out" ]) ++ [ "profraw" ];
-            env = {
-              LLVM_PROFILE_FILE = "${placeholder "profraw"}/%m";
-            };
-          }
-        )
-      ) componentsTestsToProfile;
-
-      coverageProfiles = lib.mapAttrsToList (n: v: lib.getOutput "profraw" v) coverageProfileDrvs;
-
-      mergedProfdata =
-        pkgs.runCommand "merged-profdata"
-          {
-            __structuredAttrs = true;
-            nativeBuildInputs = [ pkgs.llvmPackages.libllvm ];
-            inherit coverageProfiles;
-          }
-          ''
-            rawProfiles=()
-            for dir in "''\${coverageProfiles[@]}"; do
-              rawProfiles+=($dir/*)
-            done
-            llvm-profdata merge -sparse -output $out "''\${rawProfiles[@]}"
-          '';
-
-      coverageReports =
-        let
-          nixComponentDrvs = lib.filter (lib.isDerivation) (lib.attrValues nixComponentsInstrumented);
-        in
-        pkgs.runCommand "code-coverage-report"
-          {
-            nativeBuildInputs = [
-              pkgs.llvmPackages.libllvm
-              pkgs.jq
-            ];
-            __structuredAttrs = true;
-            nixComponents = nixComponentDrvs;
-          }
-          ''
-            # ${toString (lib.map (v: v.src) nixComponentDrvs)}
-
-            binaryFiles=()
-            for dir in "''\${nixComponents[@]}"; do
-              readarray -t filesInDir < <(find "$dir" -type f -executable)
-              binaryFiles+=("''\${filesInDir[@]}")
-            done
-
-            arguments=$(concatStringsSep " -object " binaryFiles)
-            llvm-cov show $arguments -instr-profile ${mergedProfdata} -output-dir $out -format=html
-
-            {
-              echo "# Code coverage summary (generated via \`llvm-cov\`):"
-              echo
-              echo '```'
-              llvm-cov report $arguments -instr-profile ${mergedProfdata} -format=text -use-color=false
-              echo '```'
-              echo
-            } >> $out/index.txt
-
-            llvm-cov export $arguments -instr-profile ${mergedProfdata} -format=text > $out/coverage.json
-
-            mkdir -p $out/nix-support
-
-            coverageTotals=$(jq ".data[0].totals" $out/coverage.json)
-
-            # Mostly inline from pkgs/build-support/setup-hooks/make-coverage-analysis-report.sh [1],
-            # which we can't use here, because we rely on LLVM's infra for source code coverage collection.
-            # [1]: https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/blob/67bb48c4c8e327417d6d5aa7e538244b209e852b/pkgs/build-support/setup-hooks/make-coverage-analysis-report.sh#L16
-            declare -A metricsArray=(["lineCoverage"]="lines" ["functionCoverage"]="functions" ["branchCoverage"]="branches")
-
-            for metricName in "''\${!metricsArray[@]}"; do
-              key="''\${metricsArray[$metricName]}"
-              metric=$(echo "$coverageTotals" | jq ".$key.percent * 10 | round / 10")
-              echo "$metricName $metric %" >> $out/nix-support/hydra-metrics
-            done
-
-            echo "report coverage $out" >> $out/nix-support/hydra-build-products
-          '';
-    in
-    assert withCoverage;
-    assert stdenv.cc.isClang;
-    {
-      inherit coverageProfileDrvs mergedProfdata coverageReports;
-    };
-
-  vmTests = {
-    inherit (nixosTests) s3-binary-cache-store;
-  }
-  // lib.optionalAttrs (!withSanitizers && !withCoverage) {
-    # evalNixpkgs uses non-instrumented components from hydraJobs, so only run it
-    # when not testing with sanitizers to avoid rebuilding nix
-    inherit (hydraJobs.tests) evalNixpkgs;
-    # FIXME: CI times out when building vm tests instrumented
-    inherit (nixosTests)
-      functional_user
-      githubFlakes
-      nix-docker
-      tarballFlakes
-      ;
-  };
-}

ci/gha/tests/pre-commit-checks

@@ -1,24 +0,0 @@
-#!/usr/bin/env bash
-
-set -euo pipefail
-
-system=$(nix eval --raw --impure --expr builtins.currentSystem)
-
-echo "::group::Running pre-commit checks"
-
-if nix build ".#checks.$system.pre-commit" -L; then
-    echo "::endgroup::"
-    exit 0
-fi
-
-echo "::error ::Changes do not pass pre-commit checks"
-
-cat <<EOF
-The code isn't formatted or doesn't pass lints. You can run pre-commit locally with:
-
-    nix develop -c ./maintainers/format.sh
-EOF
-
-echo "::endgroup::"
-
-exit 1

ci/gha/tests/prepare-installer-for-github-actions

@@ -1,11 +0,0 @@
-#!/usr/bin/env bash
-
-set -euo pipefail
-
-nix build -L ".#installerScriptForGHA" ".#binaryTarball"
-
-mkdir -p out
-cp ./result/install "out/install"
-name="$(basename "$(realpath ./result-1)")"
-# everything before the first dash
-cp -r ./result-1 "out/${name%%-*}"

ci/gha/tests/wrapper.nix

@@ -1,16 +0,0 @@
-{
-  nixFlake ? builtins.getFlake ("git+file://" + toString ../../..),
-  system ? builtins.currentSystem,
-  pkgs ? nixFlake.inputs.nixpkgs.legacyPackages.${system},
-  stdenv ? "stdenv",
-  componentTestsPrefix ? "",
-  withInstrumentation ? false,
-}@args:
-import ./. (
-  args
-  // {
-    getStdenv = p: p.${stdenv};
-    withSanitizers = withInstrumentation;
-    withCoverage = withInstrumentation;
-  }
-)

configure.ac

@@ -0,0 +1,205 @@
+AC_INIT(nix, "0.7")
+AC_CONFIG_SRCDIR(README)
+AC_CONFIG_AUX_DIR(config)
+AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE
+
+# Change to `1' to produce a `stable' release (i.e., the `preREVISION'
+# suffix is not added).
+STABLE=1
+
+# Put the revision number in the version.
+if test "$STABLE" != "1"; then
+    if REVISION=`test -d $srcdir/.svn && svnversion $srcdir 2> /dev/null`; then
+        VERSION="${VERSION}pre${REVISION}"
+    elif REVISION=`cat $srcdir/svn-revision 2> /dev/null`; then
+        VERSION="${VERSION}pre${REVISION}"
+    fi
+fi
+
+AC_PREFIX_DEFAULT(/nix)
+
+AC_CANONICAL_HOST
+
+# Construct a Nix system name (like "i686-linux").
+AC_MSG_CHECKING([for the canonical Nix system name])
+cpu_name=$(uname -p | tr 'A-Z ' 'a-z_')
+machine_name=$(uname -m | tr 'A-Z ' 'a-z_')
+
+case $machine_name in
+    i*86)
+        machine_name=i686
+        ;;
+    *)
+        if test "$cpu_name" != "unknown"; then
+            machine_name=$cpu_name
+        fi
+        ;;
+esac
+
+sys_name=$(uname -s | tr 'A-Z ' 'a-z_')
+AC_ARG_WITH(system, AC_HELP_STRING([--with-system=SYSTEM],
+  [platform identifier (e.g., `i686-linux')]),
+  system=$withval, system="${machine_name}-${sys_name}")
+AC_MSG_RESULT($system)
+AC_SUBST(system)
+AC_DEFINE_UNQUOTED(SYSTEM, ["$system"], [platform identifier (`cpu-os')])
+
+AC_PROG_CC
+AC_PROG_CXX
+AC_PROG_RANLIB
+
+# Check for pubsetbuf.
+AC_MSG_CHECKING([for pubsetbuf])
+AC_LANG_PUSH(C++)
+AC_COMPILE_IFELSE([AC_LANG_PROGRAM([[#include <iostream>
+using namespace std;
+static char buf[1024];]],
+    [[cerr.rdbuf()->pubsetbuf(buf, sizeof(buf));]])],
+    [AC_MSG_RESULT(yes) AC_DEFINE(HAVE_PUBSETBUF, 1, [whether pubsetbuf is available])],
+    AC_MSG_RESULT(no))
+AC_LANG_POP(C++)
+
+# Check for <locale>
+AC_LANG_PUSH(C++)
+AC_CHECK_HEADERS([locale])
+AC_LANG_POP(C++)
+
+AC_DEFUN([NEED_PROG],
+[
+AC_PATH_PROG($1, $2)
+if test -z "$$1"; then
+    AC_MSG_ERROR([$2 is required])
+fi
+])
+
+NEED_PROG(curl, curl)
+NEED_PROG(bzip2, bzip2)
+NEED_PROG(bunzip2, bunzip2)
+NEED_PROG(shell, sh)
+AC_PATH_PROG(xmllint, xmllint, false)
+AC_PATH_PROG(xsltproc, xsltproc, false)
+AC_PATH_PROG(flex, flex, false)
+AC_PATH_PROG(bison, bison, false)
+NEED_PROG(perl, perl)
+
+AC_ARG_WITH(docbook-catalog, AC_HELP_STRING([--with-docbook-catalog=PATH],
+  [path of the DocBook XML DTD]),
+  docbookcatalog=$withval, docbookcatalog=/docbook-dtd-missing)
+AC_SUBST(docbookcatalog)
+
+AC_ARG_WITH(docbook-ebnf-catalog, AC_HELP_STRING([--with-docbook-ebnf-catalog=PATH],
+  [path of the DocBook XML EBNF module DTD]),
+  docbookebnfcatalog=$withval, docbookcatalog=/docbook-ebnf-dtd-missing)
+AC_SUBST(docbookebnfcatalog)
+
+AC_ARG_WITH(docbook-xsl, AC_HELP_STRING([--with-docbook-xsl=PATH],
+  [path of the DocBook XSL stylesheets]),
+  docbookxsl=$withval, docbookxsl=/docbook-xsl-missing)
+AC_SUBST(docbookxsl)
+
+AC_ARG_WITH(xml-flags, AC_HELP_STRING([--with-xml-flags=FLAGS],
+  [extra flags to be passed to xmllint and xsltproc]),
+  xmlflags=$withval, xmlflags=)
+AC_SUBST(xmlflags)
+
+AC_ARG_WITH(store-dir, AC_HELP_STRING([--with-store-dir=PATH],
+  [path of the Nix store]),
+  storedir=$withval, storedir='${prefix}/store')
+AC_SUBST(storedir)
+
+AC_ARG_WITH(bdb, AC_HELP_STRING([--with-bdb=PATH],
+  [prefix of Berkeley DB]),
+  bdb=$withval, bdb=)
+AM_CONDITIONAL(HAVE_BDB, test -n "$bdb")
+if test -z "$bdb"; then
+  bdb_lib='-L${top_builddir}/externals/inst-bdb/lib -ldb_cxx'
+  bdb_include='-I${top_builddir}/externals/inst-bdb/include'
+else
+  bdb_lib="-L$bdb/lib -ldb_cxx"
+  bdb_include="-I$bdb/include"
+fi
+AC_SUBST(bdb_lib)
+AC_SUBST(bdb_include)
+
+AC_ARG_WITH(aterm, AC_HELP_STRING([--with-aterm=PATH],
+  [prefix of CWI ATerm library]),
+  aterm=$withval, aterm=)
+AM_CONDITIONAL(HAVE_ATERM, test -n "$aterm")
+if test -z "$aterm"; then
+  aterm_lib='-L${top_builddir}/externals/inst-aterm/lib -lATerm'
+  aterm_include='-I${top_builddir}/externals/inst-aterm/include'
+  aterm_bin='${top_builddir}/externals/inst-aterm/bin'
+else
+  aterm_lib="-L$aterm/lib -lATerm"
+  aterm_include="-I$aterm/include"
+  aterm_bin="$aterm/bin"
+fi
+AC_SUBST(aterm_lib)
+AC_SUBST(aterm_include)
+AC_SUBST(aterm_bin)
+
+AC_CHECK_LIB(pthread, pthread_mutex_init)
+
+AC_ARG_ENABLE(init-state, AC_HELP_STRING([--disable-init-state],
+  [do not initialise DB etc. in `make install']),
+  init_state=$enableval, init_state=yes)
+AM_CONDITIONAL(INIT_STATE, test "$init_state" = "yes")
+
+
+AC_ARG_ENABLE(setuid, AC_HELP_STRING([--enable-setuid],
+  [install Nix setuid]),
+  setuid_hack=$enableval, setuid_hack=no)
+AM_CONDITIONAL(SETUID_HACK, test "$setuid_hack" = "yes")
+if test "$setuid_hack" = "yes"; then
+    AC_DEFINE(SETUID_HACK, 1, [whether to install Nix setuid])
+fi
+
+AC_CHECK_FUNC(setresuid, [HAVE_SETRESUID=1], [HAVE_SETRESUID=])
+AM_CONDITIONAL(HAVE_SETRESUID, test "$HAVE_SETRESUID" = "1")
+if test "$HAVE_SETRESUID" = "1"; then
+    AC_DEFINE(HAVE_SETRESUID, 1, [whether we have setresuid()])
+fi
+
+AC_ARG_WITH(nix-user, AC_HELP_STRING([--with-nix-user=USER],
+  [user for Nix setuid binaries]),
+  NIX_USER=$withval, NIX_USER=nix)
+AC_SUBST(NIX_USER)
+AC_DEFINE_UNQUOTED(NIX_USER, ["$NIX_USER"], [Nix user])
+                                                      
+AC_ARG_WITH(nix-group, AC_HELP_STRING([--with-nix-group=USER],
+  [group for Nix setuid binaries]),
+  NIX_GROUP=$withval, NIX_GROUP=nix)
+AC_SUBST(NIX_GROUP)
+AC_DEFINE_UNQUOTED(NIX_GROUP, ["$NIX_GROUP"], [Nix group])
+
+                                                                                                            
+AM_CONFIG_HEADER([config.h])
+AC_CONFIG_FILES([Makefile
+   externals/Makefile
+   src/Makefile
+   src/bin2c/Makefile
+   src/boost/Makefile
+   src/boost/format/Makefile
+   src/libutil/Makefile
+   src/libstore/Makefile
+   src/libmain/Makefile
+   src/nix-store/Makefile
+   src/nix-hash/Makefile
+   src/libexpr/Makefile
+   src/nix-instantiate/Makefile
+   src/nix-env/Makefile
+   src/log2xml/Makefile
+   src/bsdiff-4.2/Makefile
+   scripts/Makefile
+   corepkgs/Makefile
+   corepkgs/fetchurl/Makefile
+   corepkgs/nar/Makefile
+   corepkgs/buildenv/Makefile
+   corepkgs/channels/Makefile
+   doc/Makefile
+   doc/manual/Makefile
+   misc/Makefile
+   misc/emacs/Makefile
+   tests/Makefile
+  ])
+AC_OUTPUT

contrib/stack-collapse.py

@@ -1,38 +0,0 @@
-#!/usr/bin/env nix-shell
-#!nix-shell -i python3 -p python3 --pure
-
-# To be used with `--trace-function-calls` and `flamegraph.pl`.
-#
-# For example:
-#
-# nix-instantiate --trace-function-calls '<nixpkgs>' -A hello 2> nix-function-calls.trace
-# ./contrib/stack-collapse.py nix-function-calls.trace > nix-function-calls.folded
-# nix-shell -p flamegraph --run "flamegraph.pl nix-function-calls.folded > nix-function-calls.svg"
-
-import sys
-from pprint import pprint
-import fileinput
-
-stack = []
-timestack = []
-
-for line in fileinput.input():
-    components = line.strip().split(" ", 2)
-    if components[0] != "function-trace":
-        continue
-
-    direction = components[1]
-    components = components[2].rsplit(" ", 2)
-
-    loc = components[0]
-    _at = components[1]
-    time = int(components[2])
-
-    if direction == "entered":
-        stack.append(loc)
-        timestack.append(time)
-    elif direction == "exited":
-        dur = time - timestack.pop()
-        vst = ";".join(stack)
-        print(f"{vst} {dur}")
-        stack.pop()

corepkgs/Makefile.am

@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+SUBDIRS = fetchurl nar buildenv channels

corepkgs/buildenv/Makefile.am

@@ -0,0 +1,11 @@
+all-local: builder.pl
+
+install-exec-local:
+	$(INSTALL) -d $(DESTDIR)$(datadir)/nix/corepkgs
+	$(INSTALL) -d $(DESTDIR)$(datadir)/nix/corepkgs/buildenv
+	$(INSTALL_DATA) default.nix $(DESTDIR)$(datadir)/nix/corepkgs/buildenv
+	$(INSTALL_PROGRAM) builder.pl $(DESTDIR)$(datadir)/nix/corepkgs/buildenv
+
+include ../../substitute.mk
+
+EXTRA_DIST = default.nix builder.pl.in

corepkgs/buildenv/builder.pl.in

@@ -0,0 +1,94 @@
+#! @perl@ -w
+
+use strict;
+use Cwd;
+use IO::Handle;
+
+STDOUT->autoflush(1);
+
+my $out = $ENV{"out"};
+mkdir "$out", 0755 || die "error creating $out";
+
+
+# For each activated package, create symlinks.
+
+sub createLinks {
+    my $srcDir = shift;
+    my $dstDir = shift;
+
+    my @srcFiles = glob("$srcDir/*");
+
+    foreach my $srcFile (@srcFiles) {
+        my $baseName = $srcFile;
+        $baseName =~ s/^.*\///g; # strip directory
+        my $dstFile = "$dstDir/$baseName";
+        
+	if ($srcFile =~ /\/propagated-build-inputs$/ ||
+            $srcFile =~ /\/nix-support$/ ||
+            $srcFile =~ /\/log$/)
+        {
+            # Do nothing.
+	}
+
+        elsif (-d $srcFile) {
+
+            lstat $dstFile;
+            
+            if (-d _) {
+                createLinks($srcFile, $dstFile);
+            }
+
+            elsif (-l _) {
+                my $target = readlink $dstFile or die;
+                if (!-d $target) {
+                    die "collission between directory `$srcFile' and non-directory `$target'";
+                }
+                unlink $dstFile or die "error unlinking `$dstFile': $!";
+                mkdir $dstFile, 0755 || 
+                    die "error creating directory `$dstFile': $!";
+                createLinks($target, $dstFile);
+                createLinks($srcFile, $dstFile);
+            }
+
+            else {
+                symlink($srcFile, $dstFile) ||
+                    die "error creating link `$dstFile': $!";
+            }
+        }
+
+        elsif (-l $dstFile) {
+            my $target = readlink $dstFile;
+            die "collission between `$srcFile' and `$target'";
+        }
+
+        else {
+#            print "linking $dstFile to $srcFile\n";
+            symlink($srcFile, $dstFile) ||
+                die "error creating link `$dstFile': $!";
+        }
+    }
+}
+
+
+my %done;
+
+sub addPkg {
+    my $pkgDir = shift;
+
+    return if (defined $done{$pkgDir});
+    $done{$pkgDir} = 1;
+
+    createLinks("$pkgDir", "$out");
+}
+
+
+my @args = split ' ', $ENV{"derivations"};
+
+while (scalar @args > 0) {
+    my $drvPath = shift @args;
+    print "adding $drvPath\n";
+    addPkg($drvPath);
+}
+
+
+symlink($ENV{"manifest"}, "$out/manifest") or die "cannot create manifest";

corepkgs/buildenv/default.nix

@@ -0,0 +1,9 @@
+{system, derivations, manifest}:
+
+derivation { 
+  name = "user-environment";
+  system = system;
+  builder = ./builder.pl;
+  derivations = derivations;
+  manifest = manifest;
+}

corepkgs/channels/Makefile.am

@@ -0,0 +1,11 @@
+all-local: unpack.sh
+
+install-exec-local:
+	$(INSTALL) -d $(DESTDIR)$(datadir)/nix/corepkgs
+	$(INSTALL) -d $(DESTDIR)$(datadir)/nix/corepkgs/channels
+	$(INSTALL_DATA) unpack.nix $(DESTDIR)$(datadir)/nix/corepkgs/channels
+	$(INSTALL_PROGRAM) unpack.sh $(DESTDIR)$(datadir)/nix/corepkgs/channels
+
+include ../../substitute.mk
+
+EXTRA_DIST = unpack.nix unpack.sh.in

corepkgs/channels/unpack.nix

@@ -0,0 +1,7 @@
+{system, inputs}:
+
+derivation {
+  name = "channels";
+  builder = ./unpack.sh;
+  inherit system inputs;
+}

corepkgs/channels/unpack.sh.in

@@ -0,0 +1,24 @@
+#! @shell@ -e
+
+export PATH=/bin:/usr/bin # !!! impure
+
+mkdir $out
+mkdir $out/tmp
+cd $out/tmp
+
+expr=$out/default.nix
+echo '[' > $expr
+
+nr=0
+for i in $inputs; do
+    echo "unpacking $i"
+    @bunzip2@ < $i | tar xvf -
+    mv * ../$nr # !!! hacky
+    echo "(import ./$nr)" >> $expr
+    nr=$(($nr + 1))
+done
+
+echo ']' >> $expr
+
+cd ..
+rmdir tmp

corepkgs/fetchurl/Makefile.am

@@ -0,0 +1,11 @@
+all-local: builder.sh
+
+install-exec-local:
+	$(INSTALL) -d $(DESTDIR)$(datadir)/nix/corepkgs
+	$(INSTALL) -d $(DESTDIR)$(datadir)/nix/corepkgs/fetchurl
+	$(INSTALL_DATA) default.nix $(DESTDIR)$(datadir)/nix/corepkgs/fetchurl
+	$(INSTALL_PROGRAM) builder.sh $(DESTDIR)$(datadir)/nix/corepkgs/fetchurl
+
+include ../../substitute.mk
+
+EXTRA_DIST = default.nix builder.sh.in

corepkgs/fetchurl/builder.sh.in

@@ -0,0 +1,19 @@
+#! @shell@ -e
+
+export PATH=/bin:/usr/bin
+
+echo "downloading $url into $out"
+
+prefetch=@storedir@/nix-prefetch-url-$md5
+if test -f "$prefetch"; then
+    echo "using prefetched $prefetch";
+    mv $prefetch $out
+else
+    @curl@ --fail --location --max-redirs 20 "$url" > "$out"
+fi
+
+actual=$(@bindir@/nix-hash --flat $out)
+if test "$actual" != "$md5"; then
+    echo "hash is $actual, expected $md5"
+    exit 1
+fi

corepkgs/fetchurl/default.nix

@@ -0,0 +1,8 @@
+{system, url, md5}:
+
+derivation {
+  name = baseNameOf (toString url);
+  builder = ./builder.sh;
+  id = md5;
+  inherit system url md5;
+}

corepkgs/nar/Makefile.am

@@ -0,0 +1,13 @@
+all-local: nar.sh unnar.sh
+
+install-exec-local:
+	$(INSTALL) -d $(DESTDIR)$(datadir)/nix/corepkgs
+	$(INSTALL) -d $(DESTDIR)$(datadir)/nix/corepkgs/nar
+	$(INSTALL_DATA) nar.nix $(DESTDIR)$(datadir)/nix/corepkgs/nar
+	$(INSTALL_PROGRAM) nar.sh $(DESTDIR)$(datadir)/nix/corepkgs/nar
+	$(INSTALL_DATA) unnar.nix $(DESTDIR)$(datadir)/nix/corepkgs/nar
+	$(INSTALL_PROGRAM) unnar.sh $(DESTDIR)$(datadir)/nix/corepkgs/nar
+
+include ../../substitute.mk
+
+EXTRA_DIST = nar.nix nar.sh.in unnar.nix unnar.sh.in

corepkgs/nar/nar.nix

@@ -0,0 +1,6 @@
+{system, path}: derivation {
+  name = "nar";
+  builder = ./nar.sh;
+  system = system;
+  path = path;
+}

corepkgs/nar/nar.sh.in

@@ -0,0 +1,19 @@
+#! @shell@ -e
+
+# !!! impure; fix this
+export PATH=/bin:/usr/bin
+
+echo "packing $path into $out..."
+mkdir $out
+dst=$out/$(basename $path).nar.bz2
+@bindir@/nix-store --dump "$path" > tmp
+
+@bzip2@ < tmp > $dst
+
+narHash=$(md5sum -b tmp | cut -c1-32)
+if test $? != 0; then exit 1; fi
+echo $narHash > $out/nar-hash
+
+narbz2Hash=$(md5sum -b $dst | cut -c1-32)
+if test $? != 0; then exit 1; fi
+echo $narbz2Hash > $out/narbz2-hash

corepkgs/nar/unnar.nix

@@ -0,0 +1,7 @@
+{system, narFile, outPath}: derivation {
+  name = "unnar";
+  builder = ./unnar.sh;
+  system = system;
+  narFile = narFile;
+  outPath = outPath;
+}

corepkgs/nar/unnar.sh.in

@@ -0,0 +1,4 @@
+#! @shell@ -e
+
+echo "unpacking $narFile to $out..."
+@bunzip2@ < $narFile | @bindir@/nix-store --restore "$out"

default.nix

@@ -1,9 +0,0 @@
-(import (
-  let
-    lock = builtins.fromJSON (builtins.readFile ./flake.lock);
-  in
-  fetchTarball {
-    url = "https://github.com/edolstra/flake-compat/archive/${lock.nodes.flake-compat.locked.rev}.tar.gz";
-    sha256 = lock.nodes.flake-compat.locked.narHash;
-  }
-) { src = ./.; }).defaultNix

doc/Makefile.am

@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+SUBDIRS = manual

doc/dev/release-procedures.txt

@@ -0,0 +1,30 @@
+To produce a `stable' release from the trunk:
+
+0. Make sure that the trunk builds in the release supervisor.
+
+1. Branch the trunk, e.g., `svn cp .../trunk
+   .../branches/0.5-release'.
+
+2. Switch to the branch, e.g., `svn switch .../branches/0.5-release'.
+
+3. In `configure.ac', change `STABLE=0' into `STABLE=1' and commit.
+
+4. In the release supervisor, add a one-time job to build
+   `.../branches/0.5-release'.
+
+5. Make sure that the release succeeds.
+
+6. Move the branch to a tag, e.g., `svn mv .../branches/0.5-release
+   .../tags/0.5'.
+
+   Note that the branch should not be used for maintenance; it should
+   be deleted after the release has been created.  A maintenance
+   branch (e.g., `.../branches/0.5') should be created from the
+   original revision of the trunk (since maintenance releases should
+   also be tested first; hence, we cannot have `STABLE=1').  The same
+   procedure can then be followed to produce maintenance release; just
+   substitute `.../branches/VERSION' for the trunk.
+
+7. Switch back to the trunk.
+
+8. Bump the version number in `configure.ac' (in AC_INIT).

doc/manual/.version

@@ -1 +0,0 @@
-../../.version

doc/manual/Makefile.am

@@ -0,0 +1,57 @@
+ENV = SGML_CATALOG_FILES=$(docbookcatalog):$(docbookebnfcatalog)
+
+XMLLINT = $(ENV) $(xmllint) $(xmlflags) --catalogs
+XSLTPROC = $(ENV) $(xsltproc) $(xmlflags) --catalogs \
+ --param section.autolabel 1 \
+ --param section.label.includes.component.label 1 \
+ --param html.stylesheet \'style.css\' \
+ --param xref.with.number.and.title 0
+
+man1_MANS = nix-env.1 nix-store.1 nix-instantiate.1 \
+ nix-collect-garbage.1 nix-push.1 nix-pull.1 \
+ nix-prefetch-url.1
+
+FIGURES = figures/user-environments.png
+
+SOURCES = manual.xml introduction.xml installation.xml \
+ package-management.xml writing-nix-expressions.xml \
+ build-farm.xml \
+ $(man1_MANS:.1=.xml) \
+ troubleshooting.xml bugs.xml opt-common.xml opt-common-syn.xml \
+ quick-start.xml nix-lang-ref.xml style.css images
+
+manual.is-valid: $(SOURCES) version.xml
+	$(XMLLINT) --noout --valid manual.xml
+	touch $@
+
+version.xml:
+	echo -n $(VERSION) > version.xml
+
+man $(MANS): $(SOURCES) manual.is-valid
+	$(XSLTPROC) $(docbookxsl)/manpages/docbook.xsl manual.xml
+
+manual.html: $(SOURCES) manual.is-valid images
+	$(XSLTPROC) --output manual.html $(docbookxsl)/html/docbook.xsl manual.xml
+
+all-local: manual.html
+
+install-data-local: manual.html
+	$(INSTALL) -d $(DESTDIR)$(datadir)/nix/manual
+	$(INSTALL_DATA) manual.html $(DESTDIR)$(datadir)/nix/manual
+	$(INSTALL_DATA) style.css $(DESTDIR)$(datadir)/nix/manual
+	cp -r images $(DESTDIR)$(datadir)/nix/manual/images
+	$(INSTALL) -d $(DESTDIR)$(datadir)/nix/manual/figures
+	$(INSTALL_DATA) $(FIGURES) $(DESTDIR)$(datadir)/nix/manual/figures
+
+images:
+	mkdir images
+	cp $(docbookxsl)/images/*.png images
+	mkdir images/callouts
+	cp $(docbookxsl)/images/callouts/*.png images/callouts
+	chmod +w -R images
+
+KEEP = manual.html manual.is-valid version.xml $(MANS)
+
+EXTRA_DIST = $(SOURCES) $(FIGURES) $(KEEP)
+
+DISTCLEANFILES = $(KEEP)

doc/manual/anchors.jq

@@ -1,31 +0,0 @@
-"\\[\\]\\{#(?<anchor>[^\\}]+?)\\}" as $empty_anchor_regex |
-"\\[(?<text>[^\\]]+?)\\]\\{#(?<anchor>[^\\}]+?)\\}" as $anchor_regex |
-
-
-def transform_anchors_html:
-    . | gsub($empty_anchor_regex; "<a id=\"" + .anchor + "\"></a>")
-      | gsub($anchor_regex; "<a href=\"#" + .anchor + "\" id=\"" + .anchor + "\">" + .text + "</a>");
-
-
-def transform_anchors_strip:
-    . | gsub($empty_anchor_regex; "")
-      | gsub($anchor_regex; .text);
-
-
-def map_contents_recursively(transformer):
-    . + {
-        Chapter: (.Chapter + {
-            content: .Chapter.content | transformer,
-            sub_items: .Chapter.sub_items | map(map_contents_recursively(transformer)),
-        }),
-    };
-
-
-def process_command:
-    .[0] as $context |
-    .[1] as $body |
-    $body + {
-        sections: $body.sections | map(map_contents_recursively(if $context.renderer == "html" then transform_anchors_html else transform_anchors_strip end)),
-    };
-
-process_command

doc/manual/book.toml.in

@@ -1,35 +0,0 @@
-[book]
-title = "Nix @version@ Reference Manual"
-src = "source"
-
-[output.html]
-additional-css = ["custom.css"]
-additional-js = ["redirects.js"]
-edit-url-template = "https://github.com/NixOS/nix/tree/master/doc/manual/{path}"
-git-repository-url = "https://github.com/NixOS/nix"
-mathjax-support = true
-
-# Handles replacing @docroot@ with a path to ./source relative to that markdown file,
-# {{#include handlebars}}, and the @generated@ syntax used within these. it mostly
-# but not entirely replaces the links preprocessor (which we cannot simply use due
-# to @generated@ files living in a different directory to make meson happy). we do
-# not want to disable the links preprocessor entirely though because that requires
-# disabling *all* built-in preprocessors and selectively reenabling those we want.
-[preprocessor.substitute]
-command = "python3 ./substitute.py"
-before = ["anchors", "links"]
-
-[preprocessor.anchors]
-renderers = ["html"]
-command = "jq --from-file ./anchors.jq"
-
-[output.markdown]
-
-[output.linkcheck]
-# no Internet during the build (in the sandbox)
-follow-web-links = false
-
-# mdbook-linkcheck does not understand [foo]{#bar} style links, resulting in
-# excessive "Potential incomplete link" warnings. No other kind of warning was
-# produced at the time of writing.
-warning-policy = "ignore"

doc/manual/bugs.xml

@@ -0,0 +1,108 @@
+<appendix><title>Bugs / To-Do</title>
+
+<itemizedlist>
+
+    <listitem>
+      <para>
+        The man-pages generated from the DocBook documentation are ugly.
+      </para>
+    </listitem>
+
+    <listitem>
+      <para>
+        Generations properly form a tree.  E.g., if after switching to
+        generation 39, we perform an installation action, a generation
+        43 is created which is a descendant of 39, not 42.  So a
+        rollback from 43 ought to go back to 39.  This is not
+        currently implemented; generations form a linear sequence.
+      </para>
+    </listitem>
+
+    <listitem>
+      <para>
+        Unify the concepts of successors and substitutes into a
+        general notion of <emphasis>equivalent expressions</emphasis>.
+        Expressions are equivalent if they have the same target paths
+        with the same identifiers.  However, even though they are
+        functionally equivalent, they may differ stronly with respect
+        to their <emphasis>performance characteristics</emphasis>.
+        For example, realising a closure expression is more efficient
+        that realising the derivation expression from which it was
+        produced.  On the other hand, distributing sources may be more
+        efficient (storage- or bandwidth-wise) than distributing
+        binaries.  So we need to be able to attach weigths or
+        priorities or performance annotations to expressions; Nix can
+        then choose the most efficient expression dependent on the
+        context.
+      </para>
+    </listitem>
+
+    <listitem>
+      <para>
+        <emphasis>Build management.</emphasis>  In principle it is already
+        possible to do build management using Nix (by writing builders that
+        perform appropriate build steps), but the Nix expression language is
+        not yet powerful enough to make this pleasant (?).  The language should
+        be extended with features from the <ulink
+          url='http://www.cs.uu.nl/~eelco/maak/'>Maak build manager</ulink>.
+        Another interesting idea is to write a <command>make</command>
+        implementation that uses Nix as a back-end to support <ulink
+          url='http://www.research.att.com/~bs/bs_faq.html#legacy'>legacy</ulink> 
+        build files.
+      </para>
+    </listitem>
+
+    <listitem>
+      <para>
+        There are race conditions between the garbage collector and
+        other Nix tools.  For instance, when we run
+        <command>nix-env</command> to build and install a derivation
+        and run the garbage collector at the same time, the garbage
+        collector may kick in exactly between the build and
+        installation steps, i.e., before the newly built derivation
+        has become reachable from a root of the garbage collector.
+      </para>
+
+      <para>
+        One solution would be for these programs to properly register
+        temporary roots for the collector.  Another would be to use
+        stop-the-world garbage collection: if any tool is running, the
+        garbage collector blocks, and vice versa.  These solutions do
+        not solve the situation where multiple tools are involved,
+        e.g.,
+
+        <screen>
+$ nix-store -r $(nix-instantiate foo.nix)</screen>
+
+        since even if <command>nix-instantiate</command> where to
+        register a temporary root, it would be released by the time
+        <command>nix-store</command> is started.  A solution would be
+        to write the intermediate value to a file that is used as a
+        root to the collector, e.g.,
+        
+        <screen>
+$ nix-instantiate foo.nix > /nix/var/nix/roots/bla
+$ nix-store -r $(cat /nix/var/nix/roots/bla)</screen>
+
+      </para>
+    </listitem>
+
+<listitem><para>For security, <command>nix-push</command> manifests
+should be digitally signed, and <command>nix-pull</command> should
+verify the signatures.  The actual NAR archives in the cache do not
+need to be signed, since the manifest contains cryptographic hashes of
+these files (and <filename>fetchurl.nix</filename> checks
+them).</para></listitem>
+
+<listitem><para>We should switch away from MD5, since it has been
+more-or-less cracked.  We don't currently depend very much on the
+collision-resistance of MD5, but we will once we start sharing build
+results between users.</para></listitem>
+
+<listitem><para>It would be useful to have an option in
+<command>nix-env --delete-generations</command> to remove non-current
+generations older than a certain age.</para></listitem>
+
+</itemizedlist>
+
+</appendix>

doc/manual/build-farm.xml

@@ -0,0 +1,129 @@
+<chapter id='chap-build-farm'><title>Setting up a Build Farm</title>
+
+<para>This chapter provides some sketchy information on how to set up
+a Nix-based build farm.  Nix is particularly suited as a basis for a
+build farm, since:
+
+<itemizedlist>
+
+  <listitem><para>Nix supports distributed builds: a local Nix
+  installation can forward Nix builds to other machines over the
+  network.  This allows multiple builds to be performed in parallel
+  (thus improving performance), but more in importantly, it allows Nix
+  to perform multi-platform builds in a semi-transparent way.  For
+  instance, if you perform a build for a
+  <literal>powerpc-darwin</literal> on an
+  <literal>i686-linux</literal> machine, Nix can automatically forward
+  the build to a <literal>powerpc-darwin</literal> machine, if
+  available.</para></listitem>
+
+  <listitem><para>The Nix expression language is ideal for describing
+  build jobs, plus all their dependencies.  For instance, if your
+  package has some dependency, you don't have to manually install it
+  on all the machines in the build farm; they will be built
+  automatically.</para></listitem>
+
+  <listitem><para>Proper release management requires that builds (if
+  deployed) are traceable: it should be possible to figure out from
+  exactly what sources they were built, in what configuration, etc.;
+  and it should be possible to reproduce the build, if necessary.  Nix
+  makes this possible since Nix's hashing scheme uniquely identifies
+  builds, and Nix expressions are self-contained.</para></listitem>
+
+  <listitem><para>Nix will only rebuild things that have actually
+  changed.  For instance, if the sources of a component haven't
+  changed between runs of the build farm, the component won't be
+  rebuild (unless it was garbage-collected).  Also, dependencies
+  typically don't change very often, so they only need to be built
+  once.</para></listitem>
+
+  <listitem><para>The results of a Nix build farm can be made
+  available through a channel, so successful builds can be deployed to
+  users immediately.</para></listitem>
+
+</itemizedlist>
+
+</para>
+
+
+<section><title>Overview</title>
+
+<para>TODO</para>
+
+<para>The sources of the Nix build farm are at <ulink
+url='https://svn.cs.uu.nl:12443/repos/trace/release/trunk' />.</para>
+
+</section>
+
+
+<section id='sec-distributed-builds'><title>Setting up distributed builds</title>
+
+<para>You can enable distributed builds by setting the environment
+variable <envar>NIX_BUILD_HOOK</envar> to point to a program that Nix
+will call whenever it wants to build a derivation.  The build hook
+(typically a shell or Perl script) can decline the build, in which Nix
+will perform it in the usual way if possible, or it can accept it, in
+which case it is responsible for somehow getting the inputs of the
+build to another machine, doing the build there, and getting the
+results back.</para>
+
+<example id='ex-remote-systems'><title>Remote machine configuration:
+<filename>remote-systems.conf</filename></title>
+<programlisting>
+nix@mcflurry.labs.cs.uu.nl  powerpc-darwin  /home/nix/.ssh/id_quarterpounder_auto  2
+nix@scratchy.labs.cs.uu.nl  i686-linux      /home/nix/.ssh/id_scratchy_auto        1
+</programlisting>
+</example>
+
+<para>An example build hook can be found in the Nix build farm
+sources: <ulink
+url='https://svn.cs.uu.nl:12443/repos/trace/release/trunk/common/distributed/build-remote.pl'
+/>.  It should be suitable for most purposes, with maybe some minor
+adjustments.  It uses <command>ssh</command> and
+<command>rsync</command> to copy the build inputs and outputs and
+perform the remote build.  You should define a list of available build
+machines and set the environment variable
+<envar>REMOTE_SYSTEMS</envar> to point to it.  An example
+configuration is shown in <xref linkend='ex-remote-systems' />.  Each
+line in the file specifies a machine, with the following bits of
+information:
+
+<orderedlist>
+  
+  <listitem><para>The name of the remote machine, with optionally the
+  user under which the remote build should be performed.  This is
+  actually passed as an argument to <command>ssh</command>, so it can
+  be an alias defined in your
+  <filename>~/.ssh/config</filename>.</para></listitem>
+
+  <listitem><para>The Nix platform type identifier, such as
+  <literal>powerpc-darwin</literal>.</para></listitem>
+
+  <listitem><para>The SSH private key to be used to log in to the
+  remote machine.  Since builds should be non-interactive, this key
+  should not have a passphrase!</para></listitem>
+
+  <listitem><para>The maximum <quote>load</quote> of the remote
+  machine.  This is just the maximum number of jobs that
+  <filename>build-remote.pl</filename> will execute in parallel on the
+  machine.  Typically this should be equal to the number of
+  CPUs.</para></listitem>
+
+</orderedlist>
+
+You should also set up the environment variable
+<envar>CURRENT_LOAD</envar> to point at a file that
+<filename>build-remote.pl</filename> uses to remember how many jobs it
+is currently executing remotely.  It doesn't look at the actual load
+on the remote machine, so if you have multiple instances of Nix
+running, they should use the same <envar>CURRENT_LOAD</envar>
+file<footnote><para>Although there are probably some race conditions
+in the script right now.</para></footnote>.  Maybe in the future
+<filename>build-remote.pl</filename> will look at the actual remote
+load.  The load file should exist, so you should just create it as an
+empty file initially.</para>
+  
+</section>
+
+
+</chapter>

doc/manual/custom.css

@@ -1,33 +0,0 @@
-:root {
-    --sidebar-width: 23em;
-}
-
-h1.menu-title::before {
-  content: "";
-  background-image: url("./favicon.svg");
-  padding: 1.25em;
-  background-position: center center;
-  background-size: 2em;
-  background-repeat: no-repeat;
-}
-
-
-.menu-bar {
-  padding: 0.5em 0em;
-}
-
-.sidebar .sidebar-scrollbox {
-  padding: 1em;
-}
-
-h1:not(:first-of-type) {
-    margin-top: 1.3em;
-}
-
-h2 {
-    margin-top: 1em;
-}
-
-.hljs-meta {
-    user-select: none;
-}

doc/manual/generate-builtins.nix

@@ -1,53 +0,0 @@
-let
-  inherit (builtins) concatStringsSep attrValues mapAttrs;
-  inherit (import <nix/utils.nix>) optionalString squash;
-in
-
-builtinsInfo:
-let
-  showBuiltin =
-    name:
-    {
-      doc,
-      type ? null,
-      args ? [ ],
-      experimental-feature ? null,
-      impure-only ? false,
-    }:
-    let
-      type' = optionalString (type != null) " (${type})";
-
-      experimentalNotice = optionalString (experimental-feature != null) ''
-        > **Note**
-        >
-        > This function is only available if the [`${experimental-feature}` experimental feature](@docroot@/development/experimental-features.md#xp-feature-${experimental-feature}) is enabled.
-        >
-        > For example, include the following in [`nix.conf`](@docroot@/command-ref/conf-file.md):
-        >
-        > ```
-        > extra-experimental-features = ${experimental-feature}
-        > ```
-      '';
-
-      impureNotice = optionalString impure-only ''
-        > **Note**
-        >
-        > Not available in [pure evaluation mode](@docroot@/command-ref/conf-file.md#conf-pure-eval).
-      '';
-    in
-    squash ''
-      <dt id="builtins-${name}">
-        <a href="#builtins-${name}"><code>${name}${listArgs args}</code></a>${type'}
-      </dt>
-      <dd>
-
-      ${experimentalNotice}
-
-      ${doc}
-
-      ${impureNotice}
-      </dd>
-    '';
-  listArgs = args: concatStringsSep "" (map (s: " <var>${s}</var>") args);
-in
-concatStringsSep "\n" (attrValues (mapAttrs showBuiltin builtinsInfo))

doc/manual/generate-deps.py

@@ -1,22 +0,0 @@
-#!/usr/bin/env python3
-
-import glob
-import sys
-
-# meson expects makefile-style dependency declarations, i.e.
-#
-#   target: dependency...
-#
-# meson seems to pass depfiles straight on to ninja even though
-# it also parses the file itself (or at least has code to do so
-# in its tree), so we must live by ninja's rules: only slashes,
-# spaces and octothorpes can be escaped, anything else is taken
-# literally. since the rules for these aren't even the same for
-# all three we will just fail when we encounter any of them (if
-# asserts are off for some reason the depfile will likely point
-# to nonexistent paths, making everything phony and thus fine.)
-for path in glob.glob(sys.argv[1] + '/**', recursive=True):
-    assert '\\' not in path
-    assert ' ' not in path
-    assert '#' not in path
-    print("ignored:", path)

doc/manual/generate-manpage.nix

@@ -1,235 +0,0 @@
-let
-  inherit (builtins)
-    attrNames
-    attrValues
-    concatMap
-    concatStringsSep
-    fromJSON
-    groupBy
-    length
-    lessThan
-    listToAttrs
-    mapAttrs
-    match
-    replaceStrings
-    sort
-    ;
-  inherit (import <nix/utils.nix>)
-    attrsToList
-    concatStrings
-    filterAttrs
-    optionalString
-    squash
-    trim
-    unique
-    ;
-  showStoreDocs = import <nix/generate-store-info.nix>;
-in
-
-inlineHTML: commandDump:
-
-let
-
-  commandInfo = fromJSON commandDump;
-
-  showCommand =
-    {
-      command,
-      details,
-      filename,
-      toplevel,
-    }:
-    let
-
-      result = ''
-        > **Warning** \
-        > This program is
-        > [**experimental**](@docroot@/development/experimental-features.md#xp-feature-nix-command)
-        > and its interface is subject to change.
-
-        # Name
-
-        `${command}` - ${details.description}
-
-        # Synopsis
-
-        ${showSynopsis command details.args}
-
-        ${maybeSubcommands}
-
-        ${maybeProse}
-
-        ${maybeOptions}
-      '';
-
-      showSynopsis =
-        command: args:
-        let
-          showArgument = arg: "*${arg.label}*" + optionalString (!arg ? arity) "...";
-          arguments = concatStringsSep " " (map showArgument args);
-        in
-        ''
-          `${command}` [*option*...] ${arguments}
-        '';
-
-      maybeSubcommands = optionalString (details ? commands && details.commands != { }) ''
-        where *subcommand* is one of the following:
-
-        ${subcommands}
-      '';
-
-      subcommands = if length categories > 1 then listCategories else listSubcommands details.commands;
-
-      categories = sort (x: y: x.id < y.id) (
-        unique (map (cmd: cmd.category) (attrValues details.commands))
-      );
-
-      listCategories = concatStrings (map showCategory categories);
-
-      showCategory = cat: ''
-        **${toString cat.description}:**
-
-        ${listSubcommands (filterAttrs (n: v: v.category == cat) details.commands)}
-      '';
-
-      listSubcommands = cmds: concatStrings (attrValues (mapAttrs showSubcommand cmds));
-
-      showSubcommand = name: subcmd: ''
-        * [`${command} ${name}`](./${appendName filename name}.md) - ${subcmd.description}
-      '';
-
-      maybeProse =
-        # FIXME: this is a horrible hack to keep `nix help-stores` working.
-        let
-          help-stores = ''
-            ${index}
-
-            ${allStores}
-          '';
-          index =
-            replaceStrings
-              [ "@store-types@" "./local-store.md" "./local-daemon-store.md" ]
-              [ storesOverview "#local-store" "#local-daemon-store" ]
-              details.doc;
-          storesOverview =
-            let
-              showEntry = store: "- [${store.name}](#${store.slug})";
-            in
-            concatStringsSep "\n" (map showEntry storesList) + "\n";
-          allStores = concatStringsSep "\n" (attrValues storePages);
-          storePages = listToAttrs (
-            map (s: {
-              name = s.filename;
-              value = s.page;
-            }) storesList
-          );
-          storesList = showStoreDocs {
-            storeInfo = commandInfo.stores;
-            inherit inlineHTML;
-          };
-          hasInfix =
-            infix: content:
-            builtins.stringLength content != builtins.stringLength (replaceStrings [ infix ] [ "" ] content);
-        in
-        optionalString (details ? doc) (
-          # An alternate implementation with builtins.match stack overflowed on some systems.
-          if hasInfix "@store-types@" details.doc then help-stores else details.doc
-        );
-
-      maybeOptions =
-        let
-          allVisibleOptions = filterAttrs (_: o: !o.hiddenCategory) (details.flags // toplevel.flags);
-        in
-        optionalString (allVisibleOptions != { }) ''
-          # Options
-
-          ${showOptions inlineHTML allVisibleOptions}
-
-          > **Note**
-          >
-          > See [`man nix.conf`](@docroot@/command-ref/conf-file.md#command-line-flags) for overriding configuration settings with command line flags.
-        '';
-
-      showOptions =
-        inlineHTML: allOptions:
-        let
-          showCategory = cat: opts: ''
-            ${optionalString (cat != "") "## ${cat}"}
-
-            ${concatStringsSep "\n" (attrValues (mapAttrs showOption opts))}
-          '';
-          showOption =
-            name: option:
-            let
-              result = trim ''
-                - ${item}
-
-                  ${option.description}
-              '';
-              item =
-                if inlineHTML then
-                  ''<span id="opt-${name}">[`--${name}`](#opt-${name})</span> ${shortName} ${labels}''
-                else
-                  "`--${name}` ${shortName} ${labels}";
-              shortName = optionalString (option ? shortName) ("/ `-${option.shortName}`");
-              labels = optionalString (option ? labels) (concatStringsSep " " (map (s: "*${s}*") option.labels));
-            in
-            result;
-          categories =
-            mapAttrs
-              # Convert each group from a list of key-value pairs back to an attrset
-              (_: listToAttrs)
-              (groupBy (cmd: cmd.value.category) (attrsToList allOptions));
-        in
-        concatStrings (attrValues (mapAttrs showCategory categories));
-    in
-    squash result;
-
-  appendName = filename: name: (if filename == "nix" then "nix3" else filename) + "-" + name;
-
-  processCommand =
-    {
-      command,
-      details,
-      filename,
-      toplevel,
-    }:
-    let
-      cmd = {
-        inherit command;
-        name = filename + ".md";
-        value = showCommand {
-          inherit
-            command
-            details
-            filename
-            toplevel
-            ;
-        };
-      };
-      subcommand =
-        subCmd:
-        processCommand {
-          command = command + " " + subCmd;
-          details = details.commands.${subCmd};
-          filename = appendName filename subCmd;
-          inherit toplevel;
-        };
-    in
-    [ cmd ] ++ concatMap subcommand (attrNames details.commands or { });
-
-  manpages = processCommand {
-    command = "nix";
-    details = commandInfo.args;
-    filename = "nix";
-    toplevel = commandInfo.args;
-  };
-
-  tableOfContents =
-    let
-      showEntry = page: "    - [${page.command}](command-ref/new-cli/${page.name})";
-    in
-    concatStringsSep "\n" (map showEntry manpages) + "\n";
-
-in
-(listToAttrs manpages) // { "SUMMARY.md" = tableOfContents; }

doc/manual/generate-settings.nix

@@ -1,99 +0,0 @@
-let
-  inherit (builtins)
-    attrValues
-    concatStringsSep
-    isAttrs
-    isBool
-    mapAttrs
-    ;
-  inherit (import <nix/utils.nix>)
-    concatStrings
-    indent
-    optionalString
-    squash
-    ;
-in
-
-# `inlineHTML` is a hack to accommodate inconsistent output from `lowdown`
-{
-  prefix,
-  inlineHTML ? true,
-}:
-settingsInfo:
-
-let
-
-  showSetting =
-    prefix: setting:
-    {
-      description,
-      documentDefault,
-      defaultValue,
-      aliases,
-      value,
-      experimentalFeature,
-    }:
-    let
-      result = squash ''
-        - ${item}
-
-        ${indent "  " body}
-      '';
-      item =
-        if inlineHTML then
-          ''<span id="${prefix}-${setting}">[`${setting}`](#${prefix}-${setting})</span>''
-        else
-          "`${setting}`";
-      # separate body to cleanly handle indentation
-      body = ''
-        ${experimentalFeatureNote}
-
-        ${description}
-
-        **Default:** ${showDefault documentDefault defaultValue}
-
-        ${showAliases aliases}
-      '';
-
-      experimentalFeatureNote = optionalString (experimentalFeature != null) ''
-        > **Warning**
-        >
-        > This setting is part of an
-        > [experimental feature](@docroot@/development/experimental-features.md).
-        >
-        > To change this setting, make sure the
-        > [`${experimentalFeature}` experimental feature](@docroot@/development/experimental-features.md#xp-feature-${experimentalFeature})
-        > is enabled.
-        > For example, include the following in [`nix.conf`](@docroot@/command-ref/conf-file.md):
-        >
-        > ```
-        > extra-experimental-features = ${experimentalFeature}
-        > ${setting} = ...
-        > ```
-      '';
-
-      showDefault =
-        documentDefault: defaultValue:
-        if documentDefault then
-          # a StringMap value type is specified as a string, but
-          # this shows the value type. The empty stringmap is `null` in
-          # JSON, but that converts to `{ }` here.
-          if defaultValue == "" || defaultValue == [ ] || isAttrs defaultValue then
-            "*empty*"
-          else if isBool defaultValue then
-            if defaultValue then "`true`" else "`false`"
-          else
-            "`${toString defaultValue}`"
-        else
-          "*machine-specific*";
-
-      showAliases =
-        aliases:
-        optionalString (aliases != [ ])
-          "**Deprecated alias:** ${(concatStringsSep ", " (map (s: "`${s}`") aliases))}";
-
-    in
-    result;
-
-in
-concatStrings (attrValues (mapAttrs (showSetting prefix) settingsInfo))

doc/manual/generate-store-info.nix

@@ -1,81 +0,0 @@
-let
-  inherit (builtins)
-    attrNames
-    listToAttrs
-    concatStringsSep
-    readFile
-    replaceStrings
-    ;
-  inherit (import <nix/utils.nix>)
-    optionalString
-    filterAttrs
-    trim
-    squash
-    toLower
-    unique
-    indent
-    ;
-  showSettings = import <nix/generate-settings.nix>;
-in
-
-{
-  # data structure describing all stores and their parameters
-  storeInfo,
-  # whether to add inline HTML tags
-  # `lowdown` does not eat those for one of the output modes
-  inlineHTML,
-}:
-
-let
-
-  showStore =
-    { name, slug }:
-    {
-      settings,
-      doc,
-      uri-schemes,
-      experimentalFeature,
-    }:
-    let
-      result = squash ''
-        # ${name}
-
-        ${experimentalFeatureNote}
-
-        ${doc}
-
-        ## Settings
-
-        ${showSettings {
-          prefix = "store-${slug}";
-          inherit inlineHTML;
-        } settings}
-      '';
-
-      experimentalFeatureNote = optionalString (experimentalFeature != null) ''
-        > **Warning**
-        >
-        > This store is part of an
-        > [experimental feature](@docroot@/development/experimental-features.md).
-        >
-        > To use this store, make sure the
-        > [`${experimentalFeature}` experimental feature](@docroot@/development/experimental-features.md#xp-feature-${experimentalFeature})
-        > is enabled.
-        > For example, include the following in [`nix.conf`](@docroot@/command-ref/conf-file.md):
-        >
-        > ```
-        > extra-experimental-features = ${experimentalFeature}
-        > ```
-      '';
-    in
-    result;
-
-  storesList = map (name: rec {
-    inherit name;
-    slug = replaceStrings [ " " ] [ "-" ] (toLower name);
-    filename = "${slug}.md";
-    page = showStore { inherit name slug; } storeInfo.${name};
-  }) (attrNames storeInfo);
-
-in
-storesList

doc/manual/generate-store-types.nix

@@ -1,47 +0,0 @@
-let
-  inherit (builtins)
-    attrNames
-    listToAttrs
-    concatStringsSep
-    readFile
-    replaceStrings
-    ;
-  showSettings = import <nix/generate-settings.nix>;
-  showStoreDocs = import <nix/generate-store-info.nix>;
-in
-
-storeInfo:
-
-let
-  storesList = showStoreDocs {
-    inherit storeInfo;
-    inlineHTML = true;
-  };
-
-  index =
-    let
-      showEntry = store: "- [${store.name}](./${store.filename})";
-    in
-    concatStringsSep "\n" (map showEntry storesList);
-
-  "index.md" = replaceStrings [ "@store-types@" ] [ index ] (
-    readFile ./source/store/types/index.md.in
-  );
-
-  tableOfContents =
-    let
-      showEntry = store: "    - [${store.name}](store/types/${store.filename})";
-    in
-    concatStringsSep "\n" (map showEntry storesList) + "\n";
-
-  "SUMMARY.md" = tableOfContents;
-
-  storePages = listToAttrs (
-    map (s: {
-      name = s.filename;
-      value = s.page;
-    }) storesList
-  );
-
-in
-storePages // { inherit "index.md" "SUMMARY.md"; }

doc/manual/generate-xp-features-shortlist.nix

@@ -1,9 +0,0 @@
-with builtins;
-with import <nix/utils.nix>;
-
-let
-  showExperimentalFeature = name: doc: ''
-    - [`${name}`](@docroot@/development/experimental-features.md#xp-feature-${name})
-  '';
-in
-xps: indent "  " (concatStrings (attrValues (mapAttrs showExperimentalFeature xps)))

doc/manual/generate-xp-features.nix

@@ -1,14 +0,0 @@
-with builtins;
-with import <nix/utils.nix>;
-
-let
-  showExperimentalFeature =
-    name: doc:
-    squash ''
-      ## [`${name}`]{#xp-feature-${name}}
-
-      ${doc}
-    '';
-in
-
-xps: (concatStringsSep "\n" (attrValues (mapAttrs showExperimentalFeature xps)))

doc/manual/installation.xml

@@ -0,0 +1,212 @@
+<chapter id='chap-installation'><title>Installation</title>
+
+
+<sect1><title>Obtaining Nix</title>
+
+<para>The easiest way to obtain Nix is to download a <ulink
+url='http://www.cs.uu.nl/groups/ST/Trace/Nix'>source
+distribution</ulink>.  RPMs for Red Hat 9 are also available.  These
+distributions are generated automatically.</para>
+
+<para>Alternatively, the most recent sources of Nix can be obtained
+from its <ulink
+url='https://svn.cs.uu.nl:12443/repos/trace/nix/trunk'>Subversion
+repository</ulink>.  For example, the following command will check out
+the latest revision into a directory called <filename>nix</filename>:</para>
+
+<screen>
+$ svn checkout https://svn.cs.uu.nl:12443/repos/trace/nix/trunk nix</screen>
+
+<para>Likewise, specific releases can be obtained from the <ulink
+url='https://svn.cs.uu.nl:12443/repos/trace/nix/tags'>tags
+directory</ulink> of the repository.  If you don't have Subversion,
+you can also download an automatically generated <ulink
+url='https://svn.cs.uu.nl:12443/dist/trace/'>compressed
+tar-file</ulink> of the head revision of the trunk.</para>
+
+</sect1>
+
+
+<sect1><title>Prerequisites</title>
+
+<para>The following prerequisites only apply when you build from
+source.  Binary releases (e.g., RPMs) have no prerequisites.</para>
+
+<para>A fairly recent version of GCC/G++ is required.  Version 2.95
+and higher should work.</para>
+
+<para>To build this manual and the man-pages you need the
+<command>xmllint</command> and <command>xsltproc</command> programs,
+which are part of the <literal>libxml2</literal> and
+<literal>libxslt</literal> packages, respectively.  You also need the
+<ulink url='http://docbook.sourceforge.net/projects/xsl/'>DocBook XSL
+stylesheets</ulink> and optionally the <ulink
+url='http://www.oasis-open.org/docbook/xml/4.2/docbook-xml-4.2.zip'>
+DocBook XML 4.2 DTD</ulink>.  Note that these are only required if you
+modify the manual sources or when you are building from the Subversion
+repository.</para>
+
+<para>To build the parser, very <emphasis>recent</emphasis> versions
+of Bison and Flex are required.  (This is because Nix needs GLR
+support in Bison and reentrancy support in Flex.)  For Bison, you need
+version 1.875c or higher (1.875 does <emphasis>not</emphasis> work),
+which can be obtained from the <ulink
+url='ftp://alpha.gnu.org/pub/gnu/bison'>GNU FTP server</ulink>.  For
+Flex, you need version 2.5.31, which is available on <ulink
+url='http://lex.sourceforge.net/'>SourceForge</ulink>.  Slightly older
+versions may also work, but ancient versions like the ubiquitous
+2.5.4a won't.  Note that these are only required if you modify the
+parser or when you are building from the Subversion repository.</para>
+
+<para>Nix uses Sleepycat's Berkeley DB and CWI's ATerm library.  These
+are included in the Nix source distribution.  If you build from the
+Subversion repository, you must download them yourself and place them
+in the <filename>externals/</filename> directory.  See
+<filename>externals/Makefile.am</filename> for the precise URLs of
+these packages.  Alternatively, if you already have them installed,
+you can use <command>configure</command>'s <option>--with-bdb</option>
+and <option>--with-aterm</option> options to point to their respective
+locations.  Note that Berkeley DB <emphasis>must</emphasis> be version
+4.2; other versions may not have compatible database formats.</para>
+
+</sect1>
+
+
+<sect1><title>Building Nix from source</title>
+
+<para>After unpacking or checking out the Nix sources, issue the
+following commands:
+    </para>
+
+<screen>
+$ ./configure <replaceable>options...</replaceable>
+$ make
+$ make install</screen>
+
+<para>When building from the Subversion repository, these should be
+preceded by the command:
+    </para>
+
+<screen>
+$ autoreconf -i</screen>
+
+<para>The installation path can be specified by passing the
+<option>--prefix=<replaceable>prefix</replaceable></option> to
+<command>configure</command>.  The default installation directory is
+<filename>/nix</filename>.  You can change this to any location you
+like.  You must have write permission to the
+<replaceable>prefix</replaceable> path.</para>
+
+<warning><para>It is advisable <emphasis>not</emphasis> to change the
+installation prefix from its default, since doing so will in all
+likelihood make it impossible to use derivations built on other
+systems.</para></warning>
+
+<para>If you want to rebuilt the documentation, pass the full path to
+the DocBook XML catalog file (<filename>docbook.cat</filename>) and to
+the DocBook XSL stylesheets using the
+<option>--with-docbook-catalog=<replaceable>path</replaceable></option>
+and
+<option>--with-docbook-xsl=<replaceable>path</replaceable></option>
+options.</para>
+
+</sect1>
+
+
+<sect1><title>Installing from RPMs</title>
+
+<para>RPM packages of Nix can be downloaded from <ulink
+url='http://www.cs.uu.nl/groups/ST/Trace/Nix' />.  These RPMs should
+work for most fairly recent releases of SuSE and Red Hat Linux.  They
+have been known to work work on SuSE Linux 8.1 and 9.0, and Red Hat
+9.0.  In fact, it should work on any RPM-based Linux distribution
+based on <literal>glibc</literal> 2.3 or later.</para>
+
+<para>Once downloaded, the RPMs can be installed or upgraded using
+<command>rpm -U</command>.  For example,</para>
+
+<screen>
+$ rpm -U nix-0.5pre664-1.i386.rpm</screen>
+
+<para>The RPMs install into the directory <filename>/nix</filename>.
+Nix can be uninstalled using <command>rpm -e nix</command>.  After
+this it will be necessary to manually remove the Nix store and other
+auxiliary data:</para>
+
+<screen>
+$ rm -rf /nix/store
+$ rm -rf /nix/var</screen>
+
+</sect1>
+
+
+<sect1><title>Permissions</title>
+
+<para>All Nix operations must be performed under the user ID that owns
+the Nix store and database
+(<filename><replaceable>prefix</replaceable>/store</filename> and
+<filename><replaceable>prefix</replaceable>/var/nix/db</filename>,
+respectively).  When installed from the RPM packages, these
+directories are owned by <systemitem
+class='username'>root</systemitem>.</para>
+
+<sect2><title>Setuid installation</title>
+
+<para>As a somewhat <emphasis>ad hoc</emphasis> hack, you can also
+install the Nix binaries <quote>setuid</quote> so that a Nix store can
+be shared among several users.  To do this, configure Nix with the
+<emphasis>--enable-setuid</emphasis> option.  Nix will be installed as
+owned by a user and group specified by the
+<option>--with-nix-user=<parameter>user</parameter></option> and
+<option>--with-nix-group=<parameter>group</parameter></option>
+options.  E.g.,
+
+<screen>
+$ ./configure --enable-setuid --with-nix-user=my_nix_user --with-nix-group=my_nix_group</screen>
+
+The user and group default to <literal>nix</literal>.  You should make
+sure that both the user and the group exist.  Any <quote>real</quote>
+users that you want to allow access should be added to the Nix
+group.</para>
+
+<warning><para>A setuid installation should only by used if the users
+in the Nix group are mutually trusted, since any user in that group
+has the ability to change anything in the Nix store or database.  For
+instance, they could install a trojan horse in executables used by
+other users.</para></warning>
+
+<warning><para>On some platforms, the Nix binaries will be installed
+as setuid <literal>root</literal>.  They drop root privileges
+immediately after startup and switch to the Nix user.  The reason for
+this is that both the real and effective user must be set to the Nix
+user, and POSIX has no system call to do this.  This is not the case
+on systems that have the <function>setresuid()</function> system call
+(such as Linux and FreeBSD), so on those systems the binaries are
+simply owned by the Nix user.</para></warning>
+
+</sect2>
+
+</sect1>
+
+
+<sect1><title>Using Nix</title>
+
+<para>To use Nix, some environment variables should be set.  In
+particular, <envar>PATH</envar> should contain the directories
+<filename><replaceable>prefix</replaceable>/bin</filename> and
+<filename>~/.nix-profile/bin</filename>.  The first directory contains
+the Nix tools themselves, while <filename>~/.nix-profile</filename> is
+a symbolic link to the current <emphasis>user environment</emphasis>
+(an automatically generated package consisting of symlinks to
+installed packages).  The simplest way to set the required environment
+variables is to include the file
+<filename><replaceable>prefix</replaceable>/etc/profile.d/nix.sh</filename>
+in your <filename>~/.bashrc</filename> (or similar), like this:</para>
+
+<screen>
+source <replaceable>prefix</replaceable>/etc/profile.d/nix.sh</screen>
+
+</sect1>
+
+
+</chapter>

doc/manual/introduction.xml

@@ -0,0 +1,150 @@
+<chapter><title>Introduction</title>
+
+<!--
+<epigraph><para><quote>The number of Nix installations in the world
+has grown to 5, with more expected.</quote></para></epigraph>
+-->
+
+<para>Nix is a system for the deployment of software.  Software
+deployment is concerned with the creation, distribution, and
+management of software components (<quote>packages</quote>).  Its main
+features are:
+
+<itemizedlist>
+
+<listitem><para>It helps you make sure that dependency specifications
+are complete.  In general in a deployment system you have to specify
+for each component what its dependencies are, but there are no
+guarantees that this specification is complete.  If you forget a
+dependency, then the component will build and work correctly on
+<emphasis>your</emphasis> machine if you have the dependency
+installed, but not on the end user's machine if it's not
+there.</para></listitem>
+
+<listitem><para>It is possible to have <emphasis>multiple versions or
+variants</emphasis> of a component installed at the same time.  In
+contrast, in systems such as RPM different versions of the same
+package tend to install to the same location in the file system, so
+installing one version will remove the other.  This is especially
+important if you want to use applications that have conflicting
+requirements on different versions of a component (e.g., application A
+requires version 1.0 of library X, while application B requires a
+non-backwards compatible version 1.1).</para></listitem>
+
+<listitem><para>Users can have different <quote>views</quote>
+(<quote>profiles</quote> in Nix parlance) on the set of installed
+applications in a system.  For instance, one user can have version 1.0
+of some package visible, while another is using version 1.1, and a
+third doesn't use it at all.</para></listitem>
+
+<listitem><para>It is possible to atomically
+<emphasis>upgrade</emphasis> software.  I.e., there is no time window
+during an upgrade in which part of the old version and part of the new
+version are simultaneously visible (which might well cause the
+component to fail).</para></listitem>
+
+<listitem><para>Likewise, it is possible to atomically roll back after
+an install, upgrade, or uninstall action.  That is, in a fast (O(1))
+operation the previous configuration of the system can be restored.
+This is because upgrade or uninstall actions don't actually remove
+components from the system.</para></listitem>
+
+<listitem><para>Unused components can be
+<emphasis>garbage-collected</emphasis> automatically and safely: when
+you remove an application from a profile, its dependencies will be
+deleted by the garbage collector only if there are no other active
+applications using them.</para></listitem>
+
+<listitem><para>Nix supports both source-based deployment models
+(where you distribute <emphasis>Nix expressions</emphasis> that tell
+Nix how to build software from source) and binary-based deployment
+models.  The latter is more-or-less transparent: installation of
+components is always based on Nix expressions, but if the expressions
+have been built before and Nix knows that the resulting binaries are
+available somewhere, it will use those instead.</para></listitem>
+
+<listitem><para>Nix is flexible in the deployment policies that it
+supports.  There is a clear separation between the tools that
+implement basic Nix <emphasis>mechanisms</emphasis> (e.g., building
+Nix expressions), and the tools that implement various deployment
+<emphasis>policies</emphasis>.  For instance, there is a concept of
+<quote>Nix channels</quote> that can be used to keep software
+installations up-to-date automatically from a network source.  This is
+a policy that is implemented by a fairly short Perl script, which can
+be adapted easily to achieve similar policies.</para></listitem>
+
+<listitem><para>Nix component builds aim to be <quote>pure</quote>;
+that is, unaffected by anything other than the declared dependencies.
+This means that if a component was built successfully once, it can be
+rebuilt again on another machine and the result will be the same.  We
+cannot <emphasis>guarantee</emphasis> this (e.g., if the build depends
+on the time-of-day), but Nix (and the tools in the Nix Packages
+collection) takes special care to help achieve this.</para></listitem>
+
+<listitem><para>Nix expressions (the things that tell Nix how to build
+components) are self-contained: they describe not just components but
+complete compositions.  In other words, Nix expressions also describe
+how to build all the dependencies.  This is in contrast to component
+specification languages like RPM spec files, which might say that a
+component X depends on some other component Y, but since it does not
+describe <emphasis>exactly</emphasis> what Y is, the result of
+building or running X might be different on different machines.
+Combined with purity, self-containedness ensures that a component that
+<quote>works</quote> on one machine also works on another, when
+deployed using Nix.</para></listitem>
+
+<listitem><para>The Nix expression language makes it easy to describe
+variability in components (e.g., optional features or
+dependencies).</para></listitem>
+
+<listitem><para>Nix is ideal for building build farms that do
+continuous builds of software from a version management system, since
+it can take care of building all the dependencies as well.  Also, Nix
+only rebuilds components that have changed, so there are no
+unnecessary builds.  In addition, Nix can transparently distribute
+build jobs over different machines, including different
+platforms.</para></listitem>
+
+<listitem><para>Nix can be used not only for software deployment, but
+also for <emphasis>service deployment</emphasis>, such as the
+deployment of a complete web server with all its configuration files,
+static pages, software dependencies, and so on.  Nix's advantages for
+software deployment also apply here: for instance, the ability
+trivially to have multiple configurations at the same time, or the
+ability to do rollbacks.</para></listitem>
+
+<listitem><para>Nix can efficiently upgrade between different versions
+of a component through <emphasis>binary patching</emphasis>.  If
+patches are available on a server, and you try to install a new
+version of some component, Nix will automatically apply a patch (or
+sequence of patches), if available, to transform the installed
+component into the new version.</para></listitem> 
+
+</itemizedlist>
+
+</para>
+
+<para>This manual tells you how to install and use Nix and how to
+write Nix expressions for software not already in the Nix Packages
+collection.  It also discusses some advanced topics, such as setting
+up a Nix-based build farm, and doing service deployment using
+Nix.</para>
+
+<warning><para>This manual is a work in progress.  It's quite likely
+to be incomplete, inconsistent with the current implementation, or
+simply wrong.</para></warning>
+
+<note><para>Some background information on Nix can be found in two
+papers.  The ICSE 2004 paper <ulink
+url='http://www.cs.uu.nl/~eelco/pubs/immdsd-icse2004-final.pdf'><citetitle>Imposing
+a Memory Management Discipline on Software
+Deployment</citetitle></ulink> discusses the hashing mechanism used to
+ensure reliable dependency identification and non-interference between
+different versions and variants of packages.  The LISA 2004 paper
+<ulink
+url='http://www.cs.uu.nl/~eelco/pubs/nspfssd-lisa2004-final.pdf'><citetitle>Nix:
+A Safe and Policy-Free System for Software
+Deployment</citetitle></ulink> gives a more general discussion of Nix
+from a system-administration perspective.</para></note>
+
+</chapter>

doc/manual/manual.xml

@@ -0,0 +1,87 @@
+<?xml version="1.0"?>
+<!DOCTYPE book
+    PUBLIC "-//OASIS//DTD DocBook XML V4.3//EN"
+    "http://www.docbook.org/xml/4.3/docbook-xml-4.3.zip"
+[
+<!ENTITY introduction SYSTEM "introduction.xml">
+<!ENTITY quick-start SYSTEM "quick-start.xml">
+<!ENTITY installation SYSTEM "installation.xml">
+<!ENTITY package-management SYSTEM "package-management.xml">
+<!ENTITY writing-nix-expressions SYSTEM "writing-nix-expressions.xml">
+<!ENTITY build-farm SYSTEM "build-farm.xml">
+<!ENTITY opt-common SYSTEM "opt-common.xml">
+<!ENTITY opt-common-syn SYSTEM "opt-common-syn.xml">
+<!ENTITY nix-env SYSTEM "nix-env.xml">
+<!ENTITY nix-store SYSTEM "nix-store.xml">
+<!ENTITY nix-instantiate SYSTEM "nix-instantiate.xml">
+<!ENTITY nix-collect-garbage SYSTEM "nix-collect-garbage.xml">
+<!ENTITY nix-push SYSTEM "nix-push.xml">
+<!ENTITY nix-pull SYSTEM "nix-pull.xml">
+<!ENTITY nix-prefetch-url SYSTEM "nix-prefetch-url.xml">
+<!-- <!ENTITY nix-lang-ref SYSTEM "nix-lang-ref.xml"> -->
+<!ENTITY troubleshooting SYSTEM "troubleshooting.xml">
+<!ENTITY bugs SYSTEM "bugs.xml">
+<!ENTITY version SYSTEM "version.xml">
+]>
+
+<book>
+  <title>Nix User's Guide</title>
+
+  <subtitle>Draft (Version &version;)</subtitle>
+  
+  <bookinfo>
+    <author>
+      <firstname>Eelco</firstname>
+      <surname>Dolstra</surname>
+    </author>
+    <copyright>
+      <year>2004</year>
+      <holder>Eelco Dolstra</holder>
+    </copyright>
+  </bookinfo>
+
+  &introduction;
+  &quick-start;
+  &installation;
+  &package-management;
+  &writing-nix-expressions;
+  &build-farm;
+
+  <appendix>
+    <title>Command Reference</title>
+    <sect1>
+      <title>nix-env</title>
+      &nix-env;
+    </sect1>
+    <sect1>
+      <title>nix-store</title>
+      &nix-store;
+    </sect1>
+    <sect1>
+      <title>nix-instantiate</title>
+      &nix-instantiate;
+    </sect1>
+    <sect1>
+      <title>nix-collect-garbage</title>
+      &nix-collect-garbage;
+    </sect1>
+    <sect1>
+      <title>nix-push</title>
+      &nix-push;
+    </sect1>
+    <sect1>
+      <title>nix-pull</title>
+      &nix-pull;
+    </sect1>
+    <sect1>
+      <title>nix-prefetch-url</title>
+      &nix-prefetch-url;
+    </sect1>
+  </appendix>
+
+<!--  &nix-lang-ref; -->
+
+  &troubleshooting;
+  &bugs;
+
+</book>

doc/manual/meson.build

@@ -1,368 +0,0 @@
-project(
-  'nix-manual',
-  version : files('.version'),
-  meson_version : '>= 1.1',
-  license : 'LGPL-2.1-or-later',
-)
-
-nix = find_program('nix', native : true)
-
-mdbook = find_program('mdbook', native : true)
-bash = find_program('bash', native : true)
-rsync = find_program('rsync', required : true, native : true)
-
-pymod = import('python')
-python = pymod.find_installation('python3')
-
-nix_env_for_docs = {
-  'HOME' : '/dummy',
-  'NIX_CONF_DIR' : '/dummy',
-  'NIX_SSL_CERT_FILE' : '/dummy/no-ca-bundle.crt',
-  'NIX_STATE_DIR' : '/dummy',
-  'NIX_CONFIG' : 'cores = 0',
-}
-
-nix_for_docs = [ nix, '--experimental-features', 'nix-command' ]
-nix_eval_for_docs_common = nix_for_docs + [
-  'eval',
-  '-I',
-  'nix=' + meson.current_source_dir(),
-  '--store', 'dummy://',
-  '--impure',
-]
-nix_eval_for_docs = nix_eval_for_docs_common + '--raw'
-
-conf_file_json = custom_target(
-  command : nix_for_docs + [ 'config', 'show', '--json' ],
-  capture : true,
-  output : 'conf-file.json',
-  env : nix_env_for_docs,
-)
-
-language_json = custom_target(
-  command : [ nix, '__dump-language' ],
-  output : 'language.json',
-  capture : true,
-  env : nix_env_for_docs,
-)
-
-nix3_cli_json = custom_target(
-  command : [ nix, '__dump-cli' ],
-  capture : true,
-  output : 'nix.json',
-  env : nix_env_for_docs,
-)
-
-generate_manual_deps = files(
-  'generate-deps.py',
-)
-
-# Generates types
-subdir('source/store')
-# Generates builtins.md and builtin-constants.md.
-subdir('source/language')
-# Generates new-cli pages, experimental-features-shortlist.md, and conf-file.md.
-subdir('source/command-ref')
-# Generates experimental-feature-descriptions.md.
-subdir('source/development')
-# Generates rl-next-generated.md.
-subdir('source/release-notes')
-subdir('source')
-
-# Hacky way to figure out if `nix` is an `ExternalProgram` or
-# `Executable`. Only the latter can occur in custom target input lists.
-if nix.full_path().startswith(meson.build_root())
-  nix_input = nix
-else
-  nix_input = []
-endif
-
-manual = custom_target(
-  'manual',
-  command : [
-    bash,
-    '-euo',
-    'pipefail',
-    '-c',
-    '''
-        @0@ @INPUT0@ @CURRENT_SOURCE_DIR@ > @DEPFILE@
-        @0@ @INPUT1@ summary @2@ < @CURRENT_SOURCE_DIR@/source/SUMMARY.md.in > @2@/source/SUMMARY.md
-        sed -e 's|@version@|@3@|g' < @INPUT2@ > @2@/book.toml
-        @4@ -r -L --include='*.md' @CURRENT_SOURCE_DIR@/ @2@/
-        (cd @2@; RUST_LOG=warn @1@ build -d @2@ 3>&2 2>&1 1>&3) | { grep -Fv "because fragment resolution isn't implemented" || :; } 3>&2 2>&1 1>&3
-        rm -rf @2@/manual
-        mv @2@/html @2@/manual
-        # Remove Mathjax 2.7, because we will actually use MathJax 3.x
-        find @2@/manual | grep .html | xargs sed -i -e '/2.7.1.MathJax.js/d'
-        find @2@/manual -iname meson.build -delete
-    '''.format(
-      python.full_path(),
-      mdbook.full_path(),
-      meson.current_build_dir(),
-      meson.project_version(),
-      rsync.full_path(),
-    ),
-  ],
-  input : [
-    generate_manual_deps,
-    'substitute.py',
-    'book.toml.in',
-    'anchors.jq',
-    'custom.css',
-    nix3_cli_files,
-    experimental_features_shortlist_md,
-    experimental_feature_descriptions_md,
-    types_dir,
-    conf_file_md,
-    builtins_md,
-    rl_next_generated,
-    summary_rl_next,
-    json_schema_generated_files,
-    nix_input,
-  ],
-  output : [
-    'manual',
-    'markdown',
-  ],
-  depfile : 'manual.d',
-  env : {
-    'RUST_LOG' : 'info',
-    'MDBOOK_SUBSTITUTE_SEARCH' : meson.current_build_dir() / 'source',
-  },
-)
-manual_html = manual[0]
-manual_md = manual[1]
-
-install_subdir(
-  manual_html.full_path(),
-  install_dir : get_option('datadir') / 'doc/nix',
-)
-
-nix_nested_manpages = [
-  [
-    'nix-env',
-    [
-      'delete-generations',
-      'install',
-      'list-generations',
-      'query',
-      'rollback',
-      'set-flag',
-      'set',
-      'switch-generation',
-      'switch-profile',
-      'uninstall',
-      'upgrade',
-    ],
-  ],
-  [
-    'nix-store',
-    [
-      'add-fixed',
-      'add',
-      'delete',
-      'dump-db',
-      'dump',
-      'export',
-      'gc',
-      'generate-binary-cache-key',
-      'import',
-      'load-db',
-      'optimise',
-      'print-env',
-      'query',
-      'read-log',
-      'realise',
-      'repair-path',
-      'restore',
-      'serve',
-      'verify',
-      'verify-path',
-    ],
-  ],
-]
-
-foreach command : nix_nested_manpages
-  foreach page : command[1]
-    title = command[0] + ' --' + page
-    section = '1'
-    custom_target(
-      command : [
-        bash,
-        files('./render-manpage.sh'),
-        '--out-no-smarty',
-        title,
-        section,
-        '@INPUT0@/command-ref' / command[0] / (page + '.md'),
-        '@OUTPUT0@',
-      ],
-      input : [
-        manual_md,
-        nix_input,
-      ],
-      output : command[0] + '-' + page + '.1',
-      install : true,
-      install_dir : get_option('mandir') / 'man1',
-    )
-  endforeach
-endforeach
-
-nix3_manpages = [
-  'nix3-build',
-  'nix3-bundle',
-  'nix3-config',
-  'nix3-config-check',
-  'nix3-config-show',
-  'nix3-copy',
-  'nix3-daemon',
-  'nix3-derivation-add',
-  'nix3-derivation',
-  'nix3-derivation-show',
-  'nix3-develop',
-  'nix3-edit',
-  'nix3-env-shell',
-  'nix3-eval',
-  'nix3-flake-archive',
-  'nix3-flake-check',
-  'nix3-flake-clone',
-  'nix3-flake-info',
-  'nix3-flake-init',
-  'nix3-flake-lock',
-  'nix3-flake',
-  'nix3-flake-metadata',
-  'nix3-flake-new',
-  'nix3-flake-prefetch',
-  'nix3-flake-show',
-  'nix3-flake-update',
-  'nix3-fmt',
-  'nix3-hash-file',
-  'nix3-hash',
-  'nix3-hash-convert',
-  'nix3-hash-path',
-  'nix3-hash-to-base16',
-  'nix3-hash-to-base32',
-  'nix3-hash-to-base64',
-  'nix3-hash-to-sri',
-  'nix3-help',
-  'nix3-help-stores',
-  'nix3-key-convert-secret-to-public',
-  'nix3-key-generate-secret',
-  'nix3-key',
-  'nix3-log',
-  'nix3-nar-cat',
-  'nix3-nar-dump-path',
-  'nix3-nar-ls',
-  'nix3-nar-pack',
-  'nix3-nar',
-  'nix3-path-info',
-  'nix3-print-dev-env',
-  'nix3-profile',
-  'nix3-profile-add',
-  'nix3-profile-diff-closures',
-  'nix3-profile-history',
-  'nix3-profile-list',
-  'nix3-profile-remove',
-  'nix3-profile-rollback',
-  'nix3-profile-upgrade',
-  'nix3-profile-wipe-history',
-  'nix3-realisation-info',
-  'nix3-realisation',
-  'nix3-registry-add',
-  'nix3-registry-list',
-  'nix3-registry',
-  'nix3-registry-pin',
-  'nix3-registry-remove',
-  'nix3-repl',
-  'nix3-run',
-  'nix3-search',
-  'nix3-store-add',
-  'nix3-store-add-file',
-  'nix3-store-add-path',
-  'nix3-store-cat',
-  'nix3-store-copy-log',
-  'nix3-store-copy-sigs',
-  'nix3-store-delete',
-  'nix3-store-diff-closures',
-  'nix3-store-dump-path',
-  'nix3-store-gc',
-  'nix3-store-info',
-  'nix3-store-ls',
-  'nix3-store-make-content-addressed',
-  'nix3-store',
-  'nix3-store-optimise',
-  'nix3-store-path-from-hash-part',
-  'nix3-store-prefetch-file',
-  'nix3-store-repair',
-  'nix3-store-sign',
-  'nix3-store-verify',
-  'nix3-upgrade-nix',
-  'nix3-why-depends',
-  'nix',
-]
-
-foreach page : nix3_manpages
-  section = '1'
-  custom_target(
-    command : [
-      bash,
-      '@INPUT0@',
-      page,
-      section,
-      '@INPUT1@/command-ref/new-cli/@0@.md'.format(page),
-      '@OUTPUT@',
-    ],
-    input : [
-      files('./render-manpage.sh'),
-      manual_md,
-      nix_input,
-    ],
-    output : page + '.1',
-    install : true,
-    install_dir : get_option('mandir') / 'man1',
-  )
-endforeach
-
-nix_manpages = [
-  [ 'nix-env', 1 ],
-  [ 'nix-store', 1 ],
-  [ 'nix-build', 1 ],
-  [ 'nix-shell', 1 ],
-  [ 'nix-instantiate', 1 ],
-  [ 'nix-collect-garbage', 1 ],
-  [ 'nix-prefetch-url', 1 ],
-  [ 'nix-channel', 1 ],
-  [ 'nix-hash', 1 ],
-  [ 'nix-copy-closure', 1 ],
-  [ 'nix.conf', 5, conf_file_md.full_path() ],
-  [ 'nix-daemon', 8 ],
-  [ 'nix-profiles', 5, 'files/profiles.md' ],
-]
-
-foreach entry : nix_manpages
-  title = entry[0]
-  # nix.conf.5 and nix-profiles.5 are based off of conf-file.md and files/profiles.md,
-  # rather than a stem identical to its mdbook source.
-  # Therefore we use an optional third element of this array to override the name pattern
-  md_file = entry.get(2, title + '.md')
-  section = entry[1].to_string()
-  md_file_resolved = join_paths('@INPUT1@/command-ref/', md_file)
-  custom_target(
-    command : [
-      bash,
-      '@INPUT0@',
-      title,
-      section,
-      md_file_resolved,
-      '@OUTPUT@',
-    ],
-    input : [
-      files('./render-manpage.sh'),
-      manual_md,
-      entry.get(3, []),
-      nix_input,
-    ],
-    output : '@0@.@1@'.format(entry[0], entry[1]),
-    install : true,
-    install_dir : get_option('mandir') / 'man@0@'.format(entry[1]),
-  )
-endforeach

doc/manual/nix-collect-garbage.xml

@@ -0,0 +1,87 @@
+<refentry>
+  <refnamediv>
+    <refname>nix-collect-garbage</refname>
+    <refpurpose>remove unreachable store paths</refpurpose>
+  </refnamediv>
+
+  <refsynopsisdiv>
+    <cmdsynopsis>
+      <command>nix-collect-garbage</command>
+      <group choice='opt'>
+        <arg choice='plain'><option>--print-live</option></arg>
+        <arg choice='plain'><option>--print-dead</option></arg>
+      </group>
+      <arg><option>--min-age</option> <replaceable>age</replaceable></arg>
+    </cmdsynopsis>
+  </refsynopsisdiv>
+
+  <refsection>
+    <title>Description</title>
+
+    <para>
+      The command <command>nix-collect-garbage</command> performs a
+      garbage collection on the Nix store: any paths in the Nix store
+      that are garbage (not reachable from a set of root store
+      expressions) are deleted.
+    </para>
+
+    <para>
+      The roots of the garbage collector are the store expressions
+      mentioned in the files in the directory
+      <filename><replaceable>prefix</replaceable>/var/nix/gcroots</filename>.
+      By default, the roots are all user environments in
+      <filename><replaceable>prefix</replaceable>/var/nix/profiles</filename>.
+      You can register other store expressions as roots by writing the
+      full path of the store expression to an arbitrary file in the
+      <filename>gcroots</filename> directory (or a subdirectory
+      thereof).
+    </para>
+
+  </refsection>
+
+  <refsection>
+    <title>Options</title>
+
+    <variablelist>
+
+      <varlistentry>
+        <term><option>--print-live</option> / <option>--print-dead</option></term>
+        <listitem>
+          <para>
+            These options cause the set of live or dead paths to be
+            printed, respectively, rather than performing an actual
+            garbage collector.  They correspond exactly with the
+            sub-operations in <command>nix-store
+            <option>--gc</option></command>.
+          </para>
+        </listitem>
+      </varlistentry>
+      
+      <varlistentry>
+        <term><option>--min-age</option> <replaceable>age</replaceable></term>
+        <listitem>
+          <para>
+            This option corresponds to the <option>--min-age</option>
+            option in <command>nix-store <option>--gc</option></command>.
+          </para>
+        </listitem>
+      </varlistentry>
+      
+    </variablelist>
+
+  </refsection>
+
+  <refsection>
+    <title>Examples</title>
+
+    <para>
+      To delete all unreachable paths, just do:
+    
+      <screen>
+$ nix-collect-garbage</screen>
+
+    </para>
+
+  </refsection>
+    
+</refentry>

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+<refentry>
+  <refnamediv>
+    <refname>nix-env</refname>
+    <refpurpose>manipulate or query Nix user environments</refpurpose>
+  </refnamediv>
+
+  <refsynopsisdiv>
+    <cmdsynopsis>
+      <command>nix-env</command>
+      &opt-common-syn;
+      <arg>
+        <group choice='req'>
+          <arg choice='plain'><option>--file</option></arg>
+          <arg choice='plain'><option>-f</option></arg>
+        </group>
+        <replaceable>path</replaceable>
+      </arg>
+      <arg>
+        <group choice='req'>
+          <arg choice='plain'><option>--profile</option></arg>
+          <arg choice='plain'><option>-p</option></arg>
+        </group>
+        <replaceable>path</replaceable>
+      </arg>
+      <arg><option>--preserve-installed</option></arg>
+      <arg>
+        <arg choice='plain'><option>--system-filter</option></arg>
+        <replaceable>system</replaceable>
+      </arg>
+      <arg><option>--dry-run</option></arg>
+      <arg choice='plain'><replaceable>operation</replaceable></arg>
+      <arg rep='repeat'><replaceable>options</replaceable></arg>
+      <arg rep='repeat'><replaceable>arguments</replaceable></arg>
+    </cmdsynopsis>
+  </refsynopsisdiv>
+
+  <refsection>
+    <title>Description</title>
+
+    <para>
+      The command <command>nix-env</command> is used to manipulate Nix
+      user environments.  User environments are sets of software
+      components available to a user at some point in time.  In other
+      words, they are a synthesised view of the programs available in
+      the Nix store.  There may be many user environments: different
+      users can have different environments, and individual users can
+      switch between different environments.
+    </para>
+
+<!--    <para>
+      Environments are manipulated by operations such as the
+      installation and removal of components (hereafter called
+      <emphasis>derivations</emphasis>).  These operations are not
+      destructive: rather than overwrite the current environment, they
+      create a new environment to which we can then atomically
+      <emphasis>switch</emphasis> by flipping a symlink.
+    </para> -->
+
+    <para>
+      <command>nix-env</command> takes exactly one
+      <emphasis>operation</emphasis> flag which indicates the
+      subcommand to be performed.  These are documented below.
+    </para>
+    
+  </refsection>
+
+
+
+  <!--######################################################################-->
+
+  <refsection>
+    <title>Common options</title>
+
+    <para>
+      This section lists the options that are common to all
+      operations.  These options are allowed for every subcommand,
+      though they may not always have an effect.
+    </para>
+
+    <variablelist>
+
+      &opt-common;
+
+      <varlistentry>
+        <term><option>--file</option> / <option>-f</option></term>
+        <listitem>
+          <para>
+            Specifies the Nix expression (designated below as the
+            <emphasis>active Nix expression</emphasis>) used by the
+            <option>--install</option>, <option>--upgrade</option>,
+            and <option>--query --available</option> operations to
+            obtain derivations.  The default is
+            <filename>~/.nix-defexpr</filename>.
+          </para>
+        </listitem>
+      </varlistentry>
+      
+      <varlistentry>
+        <term><option>--profile</option> / <option>-p</option></term>
+        <listitem>
+          <para>
+            Specifies the profile to be used by those operations that
+            operate on a profile (designated below as the
+            <emphasis>active profile</emphasis>).  A profile is
+            sequence of user environments called
+            <emphasis>generations</emphasis>, one of which is the
+            <emphasis>current generation</emphasis>.  The default
+            profile is the target of the symbolic link
+            <filename>~/.nix-profile</filename> (see below).
+          </para>
+        </listitem>
+      </varlistentry>
+      
+      <varlistentry>
+        <term><option>--dry-run</option></term>
+        <listitem>
+          <para>
+            For the <option>--install</option>,
+            <option>--upgrade</option>, <option>--uninstall</option>,
+            <option>--switch-generation</option> and
+            <option>--rollback</option> operations, this flag will
+            cause <command>nix-env</command> to print what
+            <emphasis>would</emphasis> be done if this flag had not
+            been specified, without actually doing it.
+          </para>
+        </listitem>
+      </varlistentry>
+      
+      <varlistentry>
+        <term><option>--preserve-installed</option></term>
+        <listitem>
+          <para>
+            By default, when you install a derivation with the
+            <option>--install</option> operation, it will replace
+            previously installed versions with the same derivation
+            name (regardless of the version number).  This option
+            causes those previously installed versions to be kept in
+            the new generation of the profile.  Note that this will
+            generally cause conflicts in the creation of the user
+            environment (since multiple versions of a package
+            typically contain the same programs).
+          </para>
+        </listitem>
+      </varlistentry>
+      
+      <varlistentry>
+        <term><option>--system-filter</option> <replaceable>system</replaceable></term>
+        <listitem>
+          <para>
+            By default, operations such as <option>--query
+            --available</option> only include derivations matching the
+            current platform.  This option allows you to use
+            derivations for the specified platform
+            <replaceable>system</replaceable>.  The special value
+            <literal>*</literal> causes derivations for any platform
+            to be included.
+          </para>
+        </listitem>
+      </varlistentry>
+      
+    </variablelist>
+
+  </refsection>
+
+  
+
+  <!--######################################################################-->
+
+  <refsection>
+    <title>Files</title>
+
+    <variablelist>
+
+      <varlistentry>
+        <term><filename>~/.nix-defexpr</filename></term>
+        <listitem>
+          <para>
+            The default Nix expression used by the
+            <option>--install</option>, <option>--upgrade</option>,
+            and <option>--query --available</option> operations to
+            obtain derivations.  It is generally a symbolic link to
+            some other location set using the
+            <option>--import</option> operation.  The
+            <option>--file</option> option may be used to override
+            this default.
+          </para>
+        </listitem>
+      </varlistentry>
+
+      <varlistentry>
+        <term><filename>~/.nix-profile</filename></term>
+        <listitem>
+          <para>
+            A symbolic link to the user's current profile.  By
+            default, this symlink points to
+            <filename><replaceable>prefix</replaceable>/var/nix/profiles/default</filename>.
+            The <envar>PATH</envar> environment variable should
+            include <filename>~/.nix-profile/bin</filename> for the
+            user environment to be visible to the user.
+          </para>
+        </listitem>
+      </varlistentry>
+
+    </variablelist>
+        
+  </refsection>
+
+  
+
+  <!--######################################################################-->
+
+  <refsection>
+    <title>Operation <option>--install</option></title>
+
+    <refsection>
+      <title>Synopsis</title>
+      <cmdsynopsis>
+        <command>nix-env</command>
+        <group choice='req'>
+          <arg choice='plain'><option>--install</option></arg>
+          <arg choice='plain'><option>-i</option></arg>
+        </group>
+        <group choice='opt'>
+          <arg choice='plain'><option>--preserve-installed</option></arg>
+          <arg choice='plain'><option>-P</option></arg>
+        </group>
+        <arg choice='plain' rep='repeat'><replaceable>drvnames</replaceable></arg>
+      </cmdsynopsis>
+    </refsection>
+
+    <refsection>
+      <title>Description</title>
+            
+      <para>
+        The install operation creates a new user environment, based on
+        the current generation of the active profile, to which the
+        derivations designated by <replaceable>drvnames</replaceable>
+        in the active Nix expression are added.
+      </para>
+
+      <para>
+        Currently installed derivations with a name equal to the name
+        of a derivation being added are removed unless the option
+        <option>--preserve-installed</option> is specified.
+      </para>
+
+    </refsection>
+
+    <refsection>
+      <title>Flags</title>
+
+      <variablelist>
+
+        <varlistentry>
+          <term><option>--preserve-installed</option> / <option>-P</option></term>
+          <listitem>
+            <para>
+              Do not remove derivations with a name matching one of
+              the derivations being installed.  Usually, trying to
+              have two versions of the same package installed in the
+              same generation of a profile will lead to an error in
+              building the generation, due to file name clashes
+              between the two versions.  However, this is not the case
+              for all packages.
+            </para>
+          </listitem>
+        </varlistentry>
+
+      </variablelist>
+    </refsection>
+            
+    <refsection>
+      <title>Examples</title>
+
+      <screen>
+$ nix-env --install gcc-3.3.2 <lineannotation>(install specific version)</lineannotation>
+installing `gcc-3.3.2'
+uninstalling `gcc-3.1' <lineannotation>(previously installed version is removed)</lineannotation>
+
+$ nix-env --install gcc <lineannotation>(just pick any version)</lineannotation>
+
+$ nix-env -f ~/foo.nix -i '*' <lineannotation>(install everything in <filename>foo.nix</filename>)</lineannotation></screen>
+
+    </refsection>
+    
+  </refsection>
+
+
+  
+  <!--######################################################################-->
+
+  <refsection>
+    <title>Operation <option>--upgrade</option></title>
+
+    <refsection>
+      <title>Synopsis</title>
+      <cmdsynopsis>
+        <command>nix-env</command>
+        <group choice='req'>
+          <arg choice='plain'><option>--upgrade</option></arg>
+          <arg choice='plain'><option>-u</option></arg>
+        </group>
+        <group choice='opt'>
+          <arg choice='plain'><option>--lt</option></arg>
+          <arg choice='plain'><option>--leq</option></arg>
+          <arg choice='plain'><option>--always</option></arg>
+        </group>
+        <arg choice='plain' rep='repeat'><replaceable>drvnames</replaceable></arg>
+      </cmdsynopsis>
+    </refsection>
+
+    <refsection>
+      <title>Description</title>
+            
+      <para>
+        The upgrade operation creates a new user environment, based on
+        the current generation of the active profile, in which all
+        derivations designated by <replaceable>drvnames</replaceable>
+        for which there are newer versions in the active Nix
+        expression are replaced by those newer versions.  Matching
+        derivations for which there are no newer versions are left
+        untouched; this is not an error.  It is also not an error if
+        an element of <replaceable>drvnames</replaceable> matches no
+        installed derivations.
+      </para>
+
+      <para>
+        If multiple derivations in the active Nix expression match an
+        installed derivation, the one with the highest version is
+        selected.
+      </para>
+
+    </refsection>
+            
+    <refsection>
+      <title>Flags</title>
+
+      <variablelist>
+
+        <varlistentry>
+          <term><option>--lt</option></term>
+          <listitem>
+            <para>
+              Only upgrade a derivation to newer versions.  This is
+              the default.
+            </para>
+          </listitem>
+        </varlistentry>
+
+        <varlistentry>
+          <term><option>--leq</option></term>
+          <listitem>
+            <para>
+              In addition to upgrading to newer versions, also
+              <quote>upgrade</quote> to derivations that have the same
+              version.  Version are not a unique identification of a
+              derivation, so there may be many derivations that have
+              the same version.  This flag may be useful to force
+              <quote>synchronisation</quote> between the installed and
+              available derivations.
+            </para>
+          </listitem>
+        </varlistentry>
+
+        <varlistentry>
+          <term><option>--always</option></term>
+          <listitem>
+            <para>
+              In addition to upgrading to newer versions, also
+              <quote>upgrade</quote> to derivations that have the same
+              or a lower version.  I.e., derivations may actually be
+              downgraded depending on what is available in the active
+              Nix expression.
+            </para>
+          </listitem>
+        </varlistentry>
+
+      </variablelist>
+
+    </refsection>
+
+    <refsection>
+      <title>Examples</title>
+
+      <screen>
+$ nix-env --upgrade gcc
+upgrading `gcc-3.3.1' to `gcc-3.4'
+
+$ nix-env -u gcc-3.3.2 --always <lineannotation>(switch to a specific version)</lineannotation>
+upgrading `gcc-3.4' to `gcc-3.3.2'
+
+$ nix-env --upgrade pan
+<lineannotation>(no upgrades available, so nothing happens)</lineannotation>
+
+$ nix-env -u '*' <lineannotation>(try to upgrade everything)</lineannotation>
+upgrading `hello-2.1.2' to `hello-2.1.3'
+upgrading `mozilla-1.2' to `mozilla-1.4'</screen>        
+
+    </refsection>
+    
+    <refsection>
+      <title>Versions</title>
+
+      <para>
+        The upgrade operation determines whether a derivation
+        <varname>y</varname> is an upgrade of a derivation
+        <varname>x</varname> by looking at their respective
+        <literal>name</literal> attributes.  The names (e.g.,
+        <literal>gcc-3.3.1</literal> are split into two parts: the
+        package name (<literal>gcc</literal>), and the version
+        (<literal>3.3.1</literal>).  The version part starts after the
+        first dash not following by a letter.  <varname>x</varname> is
+        considered an upgrade of <varname>y</varname> if their package
+        names match, and the version of <varname>y</varname> is higher
+        that that of <varname>x</varname>.
+      </para>
+
+      <para>
+        The versions are compared by splitting them into contiguous
+        components of numbers and letters.  E.g.,
+        <literal>3.3.1pre5</literal> is split into <literal>[3, 3, 1,
+        "pre", 5]</literal>.  These lists are then compared
+        lexicographically (from left to right).  Corresponding
+        components <varname>a</varname> and <varname>b</varname> are
+        compared as follows.  If they are both numbers, integer
+        comparison is used.  If <varname>a</varname> is an empty
+        string and <varname>b</varname> is a number,
+        <varname>a</varname> is considered less than
+        <varname>b</varname>.  The special string component
+        <literal>pre</literal> (for <emphasis>pre-release</emphasis>)
+        is considered to be less than other components.  String
+        components are considered less than number components.
+        Otherwise, they are compared lexicographically (i.e., using
+        case-sensitive string comparison).
+      </para>
+
+      <para>
+        This is illustrated by the following examples:
+
+        <screen>
+1.0 &lt; 2.3
+2.1 &lt; 2.3
+2.3 = 2.3
+2.5 > 2.3
+3.1 > 2.3
+2.3.1 > 2.3
+2.3.1 > 2.3a
+2.3pre1 &lt; 2.3
+2.3pre3 &lt; 2.3pre12
+2.3a &lt; 2.3c
+2.3pre1 &lt; 2.3c
+2.3pre1 &lt; 2.3q</screen>
+        
+      </para>
+
+    </refsection>
+            
+  </refsection>
+
+  
+
+  <!--######################################################################-->
+
+  <refsection>
+    <title>Operation <option>--uninstall</option></title>
+
+    <refsection>
+      <title>Synopsis</title>
+      <cmdsynopsis>
+        <command>nix-env</command>
+        <group choice='req'>
+          <arg choice='plain'><option>--uninstall</option></arg>
+          <arg choice='plain'><option>-e</option></arg>
+        </group>
+        <arg choice='plain' rep='repeat'><replaceable>drvnames</replaceable></arg>
+      </cmdsynopsis>
+    </refsection>
+
+    <refsection>
+      <title>Description</title>
+            
+      <para>
+        The uninstall operation creates a new user environment, based
+        on the current generation of the active profile, from which the
+        derivations designated by <replaceable>drvnames</replaceable>
+        are removed.
+      </para>
+
+    </refsection>
+            
+    <refsection>
+      <title>Examples</title>
+
+      <screen>
+$ nix-env --uninstall gcc
+$ nix-env -e '*' <lineannotation>(remove everything)</lineannotation></screen>
+
+    </refsection>
+    
+  </refsection>
+
+
+  
+  <!--######################################################################-->
+
+  <refsection>
+    <title>Operation <option>--query</option></title>
+
+    <refsection>
+      <title>Synopsis</title>
+      <cmdsynopsis>
+        <command>nix-env</command>
+        <group choice='req'>
+          <arg choice='plain'><option>--query</option></arg>
+          <arg choice='plain'><option>-q</option></arg>
+        </group>
+        <group choice='opt'>
+          <arg choice='plain'><option>--installed</option></arg>
+          <arg choice='plain'><option>--available</option></arg>
+          <arg choice='plain'><option>-a</option></arg>
+        </group>
+        <group choice='req'>
+          <arg choice='plain'><option>--name</option></arg>
+          <arg choice='plain'><option>--expr</option></arg>
+          <arg choice='plain'><option>--status</option></arg>
+          <arg choice='plain'><option>-s</option></arg>
+        </group>
+      </cmdsynopsis>
+    </refsection>
+
+    <refsection>
+      <title>Description</title>
+            
+      <para>
+        The query operation displays information about either the
+        derivations that are installed in the current generation of
+        the active profile (<option>--installed</option>), or the
+        derivations that are available for installation in the active
+        Nix expression (<option>--available</option>).
+      </para>
+
+      <para>
+        The derivations are sorted by their <literal>name</literal>
+        attributes.
+      </para>
+
+    </refsection>
+
+    <refsection>
+      <title>Source selection</title>
+
+      <para>
+        The following flags specify the set of derivations on which
+        the query operates.
+      </para>
+
+      <variablelist>
+
+        <varlistentry>
+          <term><option>--installed</option></term>
+          <listitem>
+            <para>
+              The query operates on the derivations that are installed
+              in the current generation of the active profile.  This
+              is the default
+            </para>
+          </listitem>
+        </varlistentry>
+
+        <varlistentry>
+          <term><option>--available</option> / <option>-a</option></term>
+          <listitem>
+            <para>
+              The query operates on the derivations that are available
+              in the active Nix expression.
+            </para>
+          </listitem>
+        </varlistentry>
+
+      </variablelist>
+            
+    </refsection>
+
+    <refsection>
+      <title>Queries</title>
+
+      <para>
+        The following flags specify what information to display about
+        the selected derivations.  Only one type of query may be
+        specified.
+      </para>
+
+      <variablelist>
+
+        <varlistentry>
+          <term><option>--name</option></term>
+          <listitem>
+            <para>
+              Prints the <literal>name</literal> attribute of each
+              derivation.  This is the default.
+            </para>
+          </listitem>
+        </varlistentry>
+
+        <varlistentry>
+          <term><option>--expr</option></term>
+          <listitem>
+            <para>
+              Prints the store expression in the Nix store that
+              described the derivation.
+            </para>
+          </listitem>
+        </varlistentry>
+
+        <varlistentry>
+          <term><option>--status</option> / <option>-s</option></term>
+          <listitem>
+            <para>
+              Prints the <emphasis>status</emphasis> of each
+              derivation, followed by its <literal>name</literal>
+              attribute.  The status consists of three characters.
+              The first is <literal>I</literal> or
+              <literal>-</literal>, indicating whether the derivation
+              is currently installed in the current generation of the
+              active profile.  This is by definition the case for
+              <option>--installed</option>, but not for
+              <option>--available</option>.  The second is
+              <literal>P</literal> or <literal>-</literal>, indicating
+              whether the derivation is present on the system.  This
+              indicates whether installation of an available
+              derivation will require the derivation to be built.  The
+              third is <literal>S</literal> or <literal>-</literal>,
+              indicating whether a substitute is available for the
+              derivation.
+            </para>
+          </listitem>
+        </varlistentry>
+
+      </variablelist>
+              
+    </refsection>
+
+    <refsection>
+      <title>Examples</title>
+
+      <screen>
+$ nix-env -q <lineannotation>(show installed derivations)</lineannotation>
+MozillaFirebird-0.7
+bison-1.875c
+docbook-xml-4.2
+...
+
+$ nix-env -qa <lineannotation>(show available derivations)</lineannotation>
+GConf-2.4.0.1
+MPlayer-1.0pre3
+MozillaFirebird-0.7
+ORBit2-2.8.3
+...
+
+$ nix-env -qas <lineannotation>(show status of available derivations)</lineannotation>
+-P- GConf-2.4.0.1 <lineannotation>(not installed but present)</lineannotation>
+--S MPlayer-1.0pre3 <lineannotation>(not present, but there is a substitute for fast installation)</lineannotation>
+--S MozillaFirebird-0.7 <lineannotation>(i.e., this is not the installed Firebird, even though the version is the same!)</lineannotation>
+IP- bison-1.875c <lineannotation>(installed and by definition present)</lineannotation>
+...
+
+$ nix-env -f ./foo.nix -qa <lineannotation>(show available derivations in the Nix expression <filename>foo.nix</filename>)</lineannotation>
+foo-1.2.3</screen>
+
+    </refsection>
+    
+  </refsection>
+  
+    
+
+  <!--######################################################################-->
+
+  <refsection>
+    <title>Operation <option>--switch-profile</option></title>
+
+    <refsection>
+      <title>Synopsis</title>
+      <cmdsynopsis>
+        <command>nix-env</command>
+        <group choice='req'>
+          <arg choice='plain'><option>--switch-profile</option></arg>
+          <arg choice='plain'><option>-S</option></arg>
+        </group>
+        <arg choice='req'><replaceable>path</replaceable></arg>
+      </cmdsynopsis>
+    </refsection>
+
+    <refsection>
+      <title>Description</title>
+            
+      <para>
+        This operation makes <replaceable>path</replaceable> the
+        current profile for the user.  That is, the symlink
+        <filename>~/.nix-profile</filename> is made to point to
+        <replaceable>path</replaceable>.
+      </para>
+
+    </refsection>
+            
+    <refsection>
+      <title>Examples</title>
+
+      <screen>
+$ nix-env -S ~/my-profile</screen>
+
+    </refsection>
+    
+  </refsection>
+
+
+  
+  <!--######################################################################-->
+
+  <refsection>
+    <title>Operation <option>--list-generations</option></title>
+
+    <refsection>
+      <title>Synopsis</title>
+      <cmdsynopsis>
+        <command>nix-env</command>
+        <arg choice='req'><option>--list-generations</option></arg>
+      </cmdsynopsis>
+    </refsection>
+
+    <refsection>
+      <title>Description</title>
+            
+      <para>
+        This operation print a list of all the currently existing
+        generations for the active profile.  These may be switched to
+        using the <option>--switch-generation</option> operation.  It
+        also prints the creation date of the generation, and indicates
+        the current generation.
+      </para>
+
+    </refsection>
+            
+    <refsection>
+      <title>Examples</title>
+
+      <screen>
+$ nix-env --list-generations
+  95   2004-02-06 11:48:24
+  96   2004-02-06 11:49:01
+  97   2004-02-06 16:22:45
+  98   2004-02-06 16:24:33   (current)</screen>
+
+    </refsection>
+    
+  </refsection>
+
+
+  
+  <!--######################################################################-->
+
+  <refsection>
+    <title>Operation <option>--delete-generations</option></title>
+
+    <refsection>
+      <title>Synopsis</title>
+      <cmdsynopsis>
+        <command>nix-env</command>
+        <arg choice='req'><option>--delete-generations</option></arg>
+        <arg choice='plain' rep='repeat'><replaceable>generations</replaceable></arg>
+      </cmdsynopsis>
+    </refsection>
+
+    <refsection>
+      <title>Description</title>
+            
+      <para>
+        This operation deletes the specified generations of the
+        current profile.  The generations can be a list of generation
+        numbers, or the special value <literal>old</literal> to delete
+        all non-current generations.  Periodically deleting old
+        generations is important to make garbage collection effective.
+      </para>
+
+    </refsection>
+            
+    <refsection>
+      <title>Examples</title>
+
+      <screen>
+$ nix-env --delete-generations 3 4 8
+
+$ nix-env -p other_profile --delete-generations old</screen>
+
+    </refsection>
+    
+  </refsection>
+
+
+  
+  <!--######################################################################-->
+
+  <refsection>
+    <title>Operation <option>--switch-generation</option></title>
+
+    <refsection>
+      <title>Synopsis</title>
+      <cmdsynopsis>
+        <command>nix-env</command>
+        <group choice='req'>
+          <arg choice='plain'><option>--switch-generation</option></arg>
+          <arg choice='plain'><option>-G</option></arg>
+        </group>
+        <arg choice='req'><replaceable>generation</replaceable></arg>
+      </cmdsynopsis>
+    </refsection>
+
+    <refsection>
+      <title>Description</title>
+            
+      <para>
+        This operation makes generation number
+        <replaceable>generation</replaceable> the current generation
+        of the active profile.  That is, if the
+        <filename><replaceable>profile</replaceable></filename> is the
+        path to the active profile, then the symlink
+        <filename><replaceable>profile</replaceable></filename> is
+        made to point to
+        <filename><replaceable>profile</replaceable>-<replaceable>generation</replaceable>-link</filename>,
+        which is in turn a symlink to the actual user environment in
+        the Nix store.
+      </para>
+
+      <para>
+        Switching will fail if the specified generation does not
+        exist.
+      </para>
+
+    </refsection>
+            
+    <refsection>
+      <title>Examples</title>
+
+      <screen>
+$ nix-env -G 42
+switching from generation 50 to 42</screen>
+
+    </refsection>
+    
+  </refsection>
+
+
+  
+  <!--######################################################################-->
+
+  <refsection>
+    <title>Operation <option>--rollback</option></title>
+
+    <refsection>
+      <title>Synopsis</title>
+      <cmdsynopsis>
+        <command>nix-env</command>
+        <arg choice='req'><option>--rollback</option></arg>
+      </cmdsynopsis>
+    </refsection>
+
+    <refsection>
+      <title>Description</title>
+            
+      <para>
+        This operation switches to the <quote>previous</quote>
+        generation of the active profile, that is, the highest
+        numbered generation lower than the current generation, if it
+        exists.  It is just a convenience wrapper around
+        <option>--list-generations</option> and
+        <option>--switch-generation</option>.
+      </para>
+
+    </refsection>
+            
+    <refsection>
+      <title>Examples</title>
+
+      <screen>
+$ nix-env --rollback
+switching from generation 92 to 91
+
+$ nix-env --rolback
+error: no generation older than the current (91) exists</screen>
+
+    </refsection>
+    
+  </refsection>
+
+
+  
+  <!--######################################################################-->
+
+  <refsection>
+    <title>Operation <option>--import</option></title>
+
+    <refsection>
+      <title>Synopsis</title>
+      <cmdsynopsis>
+        <command>nix-env</command>
+        <group choice='req'>
+          <arg choice='plain'><option>--import</option></arg>
+          <arg choice='plain'><option>-I</option></arg>
+        </group>
+        <arg choice='req'><replaceable>path</replaceable></arg>
+      </cmdsynopsis>
+    </refsection>
+
+    <refsection>
+      <title>Description</title>
+            
+      <para>
+        This operation makes <replaceable>path</replaceable> the
+        default active Nix expression for the user.  That is, the
+        symlink <filename>~/.nix-userenv</filename> is made to point
+        to <replaceable>path</replaceable>.
+      </para>
+
+    </refsection>
+            
+    <refsection>
+      <title>Examples</title>
+
+      <screen>
+$ nix-env -I ~/nixpkgs-0.5/</screen>
+
+    </refsection>
+    
+  </refsection>
+
+
+  
+</refentry>

doc/manual/nix-instantiate.xml

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+<refentry>
+  <refnamediv>
+    <refname>nix-instantiate</refname>
+    <refpurpose>instantiate store expressions from Nix expressions</refpurpose>
+  </refnamediv>
+
+  <refsynopsisdiv>
+    <cmdsynopsis>
+      <command>nix-instantiate</command>
+      &opt-common-syn;
+      <group choice='opt'>
+        <arg choice='plain'><option>--parse-only</option></arg>
+        <arg choice='plain'><option>--eval-only</option></arg>
+      </group>
+      <arg choice='plain' rep='repeat'><replaceable>files</replaceable></arg>
+    </cmdsynopsis>
+  </refsynopsisdiv>
+
+  <refsection>
+    <title>Description</title>
+
+    <para>
+      The command <command>nix-instantiate</command> generates
+      (low-level) store expressions from (high-level) Nix expressions.
+      It loads and evaluates the Nix expressions in each of
+      <replaceable>files</replaceable>.  Each top-level expression
+      should evaluate to a derivation, a list of derivations, or a set
+      of derivations.  The paths of the resulting store expressions
+      are printed on standard output.
+    </para>
+
+    <para>
+      This command is generally used for testing Nix expression before
+      they are used with <command>nix-env</command>.
+    </para>
+
+  </refsection>
+
+  <refsection>
+    <title>Options</title>
+
+    <variablelist>
+
+      &opt-common;
+
+      <varlistentry>
+        <term><option>--parse-only</option></term>
+        <listitem>
+          <para>
+            Just parse the input files, and print their abstract
+            syntax trees on standard output in ATerm format.
+          </para>
+        </listitem>
+      </varlistentry>
+      
+      <varlistentry>
+        <term><option>--eval-only</option></term>
+        <listitem>
+          <para>
+            Just parse and evaluate the input files, and print the
+            resulting values on standard output.  No instantiation of
+            store expressions takes place.
+          </para>
+        </listitem>
+      </varlistentry>
+
+    </variablelist>
+
+  </refsection>
+
+  <refsection>
+    <title>Examples</title>
+
+    <screen>
+$ nix-instantiate gcc.nix <lineannotation>(instantiate)</lineannotation>
+/nix/store/468abdcb93aa22bb721142615b97698b-d-gcc-3.3.2.store
+
+$ nix-store -r $(nix-instantiate gcc.nix) <lineannotation>(build)</lineannotation>
+
+$ nix-store -r $(nix-instantiate gcc.nix) <lineannotation>(print output path)</lineannotation>
+/nix/store/9afa718cddfdfe94b5b9303d0430ceb1-gcc-3.3.2
+
+$ ls -l /nix/store/9afa718cddfdfe94b5b9303d0430ceb1-gcc-3.3.2
+dr-xr-xr-x    2 eelco    users         360 2003-12-01 16:12 bin
+dr-xr-xr-x    3 eelco    users          72 2003-12-01 16:12 include
+...</screen>
+
+  </refsection>
+    
+</refentry>

doc/manual/nix-lang-ref.xml

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+<appendix>
+  <title>Nix Language Reference</title>
+
+  <sect1>
+    <title>Grammar</title>
+
+    <productionset>
+      <title>Expressions</title>
+      
+      <production id="nix.expr">
+        <lhs>Expr</lhs>
+        <rhs>
+          <nonterminal def="#nix.expr_function" />
+        </rhs>
+      </production>
+      
+      <production id="nix.expr_function">
+        <lhs>ExprFunction</lhs>
+        <rhs>
+          '{' <nonterminal def="#nix.formals" /> '}' ':' <nonterminal def="#nix.expr_function" />
+          <sbr />|
+          <nonterminal def="#nix.expr_assert" />
+        </rhs>
+      </production>
+      
+      <production id="nix.expr_assert">
+        <lhs>ExprAssert</lhs>
+        <rhs>
+          'assert' <nonterminal def="#nix.expr" /> ';' <nonterminal def="#nix.expr_assert" />
+          <sbr />|
+          <nonterminal def="#nix.expr_if" />
+        </rhs>
+      </production>
+      
+      <production id="nix.expr_if">
+        <lhs>ExprIf</lhs>
+        <rhs>
+          'if' <nonterminal def="#nix.expr" /> 'then' <nonterminal def="#nix.expr" />
+          'else' <nonterminal def="#nix.expr" />
+          <sbr />|
+          <nonterminal def="#nix.expr_op" />
+        </rhs>
+      </production>
+      
+      <production id="nix.expr_op">
+        <lhs>ExprOp</lhs>
+        <rhs>
+          '!' <nonterminal def="#nix.expr_op" />
+          <sbr />|
+          <nonterminal def="#nix.expr_op" /> '==' <nonterminal def="#nix.expr_op" />
+          <sbr />|
+          <nonterminal def="#nix.expr_op" /> '!=' <nonterminal def="#nix.expr_op" />
+          <sbr />|
+          <nonterminal def="#nix.expr_op" /> '&amp;&amp;' <nonterminal def="#nix.expr_op" />
+          <sbr />|
+          <nonterminal def="#nix.expr_op" /> '||' <nonterminal def="#nix.expr_op" />
+          <sbr />|
+          <nonterminal def="#nix.expr_op" /> '->' <nonterminal def="#nix.expr_op" />
+          <sbr />|
+          <nonterminal def="#nix.expr_op" /> '//' <nonterminal def="#nix.expr_op" />
+          <sbr />|
+          <nonterminal def="#nix.expr_op" /> '~' <nonterminal def="#nix.expr_op" />
+          <sbr />|
+          <nonterminal def="#nix.expr_op" /> '?' <nonterminal def="#nix.id" />
+          <sbr />|
+          <nonterminal def="#nix.expr_app" />
+        </rhs>
+      </production>
+      
+      <production id="nix.expr_app">
+        <lhs>ExprApp</lhs>
+        <rhs>
+          <nonterminal def="#nix.expr_app" /> '.' <nonterminal def="#nix.expr_select" />
+          <sbr />|
+          <nonterminal def="#nix.expr_select" />
+        </rhs>
+      </production>
+      
+      <production id="nix.expr_select">
+        <lhs>ExprSelect</lhs>
+        <rhs>
+          <nonterminal def="#nix.expr_select" /> <nonterminal def="#nix.id" />
+          <sbr />|
+          <nonterminal def="#nix.expr_simple" />
+        </rhs>
+      </production>
+      
+      <production id="nix.expr_simple">
+        <lhs>ExprSimple</lhs>
+        <rhs>
+          <nonterminal def="#nix.id" /> |
+          <nonterminal def="#nix.int" /> |
+          <nonterminal def="#nix.str" /> |
+          <nonterminal def="#nix.path" /> |
+          <nonterminal def="#nix.uri" />
+          <sbr />|
+          'true' | 'false' | 'null'
+          <sbr />|
+          '(' <nonterminal def="#nix.expr" /> ')'
+          <sbr />|
+          '{' <nonterminal def="#nix.bind" />* '}'
+          <sbr />|
+          'let' '{' <nonterminal def="#nix.bind" />* '}'
+          <sbr />|
+          'rec' '{' <nonterminal def="#nix.bind" />* '}'
+          <sbr />|
+          '[' <nonterminal def="#nix.expr_select" />* ']'
+        </rhs>
+      </production>
+
+      <production id="nix.bind">
+        <lhs>Bind</lhs>
+        <rhs>
+          <nonterminal def="#nix.id" /> '=' <nonterminal def="#nix.expr" /> ';'
+          <sbr />|
+          'inherit' ('(' <nonterminal def="#nix.expr" /> ')')? <nonterminal def="#nix.id" />* ';'
+        </rhs>
+      </production>
+
+      <production id="nix.formals">
+        <lhs>Formals</lhs>
+        <rhs>
+          <nonterminal def="#nix.formal" /> ',' <nonterminal def="#nix.formals" />
+          | <nonterminal def="#nix.formal" />
+        </rhs>
+      </production>
+          
+      <production id="nix.formal">
+        <lhs>Formal</lhs>
+        <rhs>
+          <nonterminal def="#nix.id" />
+          <sbr />|
+          <nonterminal def="#nix.id" /> '?' <nonterminal def="#nix.expr" />
+        </rhs>
+      </production>
+          
+    </productionset>
+
+    <productionset>
+      <title>Terminals</title>
+
+      <production id="nix.id">
+        <lhs>Id</lhs>
+        <rhs>[a-zA-Z\_][a-zA-Z0-9\_\']*</rhs>
+      </production>
+    
+      <production id="nix.int">
+        <lhs>Int</lhs>
+        <rhs>[0-9]+</rhs>
+      </production>
+    
+      <production id="nix.str">
+        <lhs>Str</lhs>
+        <rhs>\"[^\n\"]*\"</rhs>
+      </production>
+
+      <production id="nix.path">
+        <lhs>Path</lhs>
+        <rhs>[a-zA-Z0-9\.\_\-\+]*(\/[a-zA-Z0-9\.\_\-\+]+)+</rhs>
+      </production>
+    
+      <production id="nix.uri">
+        <lhs>Uri</lhs>
+        <rhs>[a-zA-Z][a-zA-Z0-9\+\-\.]*\:[a-zA-Z0-9\%\/\?\:\@\&amp;\=\+\$\,\-\_\.\!\~\*\']+</rhs>
+      </production>
+
+      <production id="nix.ws">
+        <lhs>Whitespace</lhs>
+        <rhs>
+          [ \t\n]+
+          <sbr />|
+          \#[^\n]*
+          <sbr />|
+          \/\*(.|\n)*\*\/
+        </rhs>
+      </production>
+
+    </productionset>
+    
+  </sect1>
+  
+
+
+  <sect1>
+    <title>Semantics</title>
+
+
+    
+    <sect2>
+      <title>Built-in functions</title>
+
+      <para>
+        The Nix language provides the following built-in function
+        (<quote>primops</quote>):
+      </para>
+
+      <variablelist>
+
+        <varlistentry>
+          <term><function>import</function>
+          <replaceable>e</replaceable></term>
+          <listitem>
+            <para>
+              Evaluates the expression <replaceable>e</replaceable>,
+              which must yield a path value.  The Nix expression
+              stored at this path in the file system is then read,
+              parsed, and evaluated.  Returns the result of the
+              evaluation of the Nix expression just read.
+            </para>
+
+            <para>
+              Example: <literal>import ./foo.nix</literal> evaluates
+              the expression stored in <filename>foo.nix</filename>
+              (in the directory containing the expression in which the
+              <function>import</function> occurs).
+            </para>
+          </listitem>
+        </varlistentry>
+
+        <varlistentry>
+          <term><function>derivation</function>
+          <replaceable>e</replaceable></term>
+          <listitem>
+            <para>
+              Evaluates the expression <replaceable>e</replaceable>,
+              which must yield an attribute set.  [...]
+            </para>
+          </listitem>
+        </varlistentry>
+
+        <varlistentry>
+          <term><function>baseNameOf</function>
+          <replaceable>e</replaceable></term>
+          <listitem>
+            <para>
+              Evaluates the expression <replaceable>e</replaceable>,
+              which must yield a string value, and returns a string
+              representing its <emphasis>base name</emphasis>.  This
+              is the substring following the last path separator
+              (<literal>/</literal>).
+            </para>
+
+            <para>
+              Example: <literal>baseNameOf "/foo/bar"</literal>
+              returns <literal>"bar"</literal>, and
+              <literal>baseNameOf "/foo/bar/"</literal> returns
+              <literal>""</literal>.
+            </para>
+          </listitem>
+        </varlistentry>
+
+        <varlistentry>
+          <term><function>toString</function>
+          <replaceable>e</replaceable></term>
+          <listitem>
+            <para>
+              Evaluates the expression <replaceable>e</replaceable>
+              and coerces it into a string, if possible.  Only
+              strings, paths, and URIs can be so coerced.
+            </para>
+
+            <para>
+              Example: <literal>toString
+              http://www.cs.uu.nl/</literal> returns
+              <literal>"http://www.cs.uu.nl/"</literal>.
+            </para>
+          </listitem>
+        </varlistentry>
+            
+      </variablelist>
+
+    </sect2>
+
+  </sect1>
+  
+
+</appendix>

doc/manual/nix-prefetch-url.xml

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+<refentry>
+  <refnamediv>
+    <refname>nix-prefetch-url</refname>
+    <refpurpose>copy a file from a URL into the store and print its MD5 hash</refpurpose>
+  </refnamediv>
+
+  <refsynopsisdiv>
+    <cmdsynopsis>
+      <command>nix-prefetch-url</command>
+      <arg choice='plain'><replaceable>url</replaceable></arg>
+    </cmdsynopsis>
+  </refsynopsisdiv>
+
+  <refsection>
+    <title>Description</title>
+
+    <para>
+      The command <command>nix-prefetch-url</command> downloads the
+      file referenced by the URL <replaceable>url</replaceable>,
+      prints its MD5 cryptographic hash code, and copies it into the
+      Nix store.  The file name in the store is
+      <filename><replaceable>hash</replaceable>-<replaceable>basename</replaceable></filename>,
+      where <replaceable>basename</replaceable> is everything
+      following the final slash in <replaceable>url</replaceable>.
+    </para>
+
+    <para>
+      This command is just a convenience to Nix expression writers.
+      Often a Nix expressions fetch some source distribution from the
+      network using the <literal>fetchurl</literal> expression
+      contained in <literal>nixpkgs</literal>.  However,
+      <literal>fetchurl</literal> requires an MD5 hash.  If you don't
+      know the hash, you would have to download the file first, and
+      then <literal>fetchurl</literal> would download it again when
+      you build your Nix expression.  Since
+      <literal>fetchurl</literal> uses the same name for the
+      downloaded file as <command>nix-prefetch-url</command>, the
+      redundant download can be avoided.
+    </para>
+
+  </refsection>
+
+  <refsection>
+    <title>Examples</title>
+
+    <screen>
+$ nix-prefetch-url ftp://ftp.nluug.nl/pub/gnu/make/make-3.80.tar.bz2
+...
+file has hash 0bbd1df101bc0294d440471e50feca71
+...</screen>
+
+  </refsection>
+    
+</refentry>

doc/manual/nix-pull.xml

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+<refentry>
+  <refnamediv>
+    <refname>nix-pull</refname>
+    <refpurpose>pull substitutes from a network cache</refpurpose>
+  </refnamediv>
+
+  <refsynopsisdiv>
+    <cmdsynopsis>
+      <command>nix-pull</command>
+      <arg choice='plain'><replaceable>url</replaceable></arg>
+    </cmdsynopsis>
+  </refsynopsisdiv>
+
+  <refsection>
+    <title>Description</title>
+
+    <para>
+      The command <command>nix-pull</command> obtains a list of
+      pre-built store paths from the URL
+      <replaceable>url</replaceable>, and for each of these store
+      paths, registers a substitute derivation that downloads and
+      unpacks it into the Nix store.  This is used to speed up
+      installations: if you attempt to install something that has
+      already been built and stored into the network cache, Nix can
+      transparently re-use the pre-built store paths.
+    </para>
+
+    <para>
+      The file at <replaceable>url</replaceable> must be compatible
+      with the files created by <replaceable>nix-push</replaceable>.
+    </para>
+
+  </refsection>
+
+  <refsection>
+    <title>Examples</title>
+
+    <screen>
+$ nix-pull http://catamaran.labs.cs.uu.nl/dist/nix/nixpkgs-0.5pre753/MANIFEST</screen>
+
+  </refsection>
+    
+</refentry>

doc/manual/nix-push.xml

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+<refentry>
+  <refnamediv>
+    <refname>nix-push</refname>
+    <refpurpose>push store paths onto a network cache</refpurpose>
+  </refnamediv>
+
+  <refsynopsisdiv>
+    <cmdsynopsis>
+      <command>nix-push</command>
+      <arg choice='plain'><replaceable>archives-put-url</replaceable></arg>
+      <arg choice='plain'><replaceable>archives-get-url</replaceable></arg>
+      <arg choice='plain'><replaceable>manifest-put-url</replaceable></arg>
+      <arg choice='plain' rep='repeat'><replaceable>paths</replaceable></arg>
+    </cmdsynopsis>
+  </refsynopsisdiv>
+
+  <refsection>
+    <title>Description</title>
+
+    <para>
+      The command <command>nix-push</command> builds a set of store
+      expressions (if necessary), and then packages and uploads all
+      store paths in the resulting closures to a server.  A network
+      cache thus populated can subsequently be used to speed up
+      software deployment on other machines using the
+      <command>nix-pull</command> command.
+    </para>
+
+    <para>
+      <command>nix-push</command> performs the following actions.
+      
+      <orderedlist>
+
+        <listitem>
+          <para>
+            The store expressions stored in
+            <replaceable>paths</replaceable> are realised (using
+            <literal>nix-store --realise</literal>).
+          </para>
+        </listitem>
+
+        <listitem>
+          <para>
+            All paths in the closure of the store expressions stored
+            in <replaceable>paths</replaceable> are determined (using
+            <literal>nix-store --query --requisites
+            --include-successors</literal>).  It should be noted that
+            since the <option>--include-successors</option> flag is
+            used, if you specify a derivation store expression, you
+            get a combined source/binary distribution.  If you only
+            want a binary distribution, you should specify the closure
+            store expression that result from realising these (see
+            below).
+          </para>
+        </listitem>
+
+        <listitem>
+          <para>
+            All store paths determined in the previous step are
+            packaged and compressed into a <command>bzip</command>ped
+            NAR archive (extension <filename>.nar.bz2</filename>).
+          </para>
+        </listitem>
+
+        <listitem>
+          <para>
+            A <emphasis>manifest</emphasis> is created that contains
+            information on the store paths, their eventual URLs in the
+            cache, and cryptographic hashes of the contents of the NAR
+            archives.
+          </para>
+        </listitem>
+
+        <listitem>
+          <para>
+            Each store path is uploaded to the remote directory
+            specified by <replaceable>archives-put-url</replaceable>.
+            HTTP PUT requests are used to do this.  However, before a
+            file <varname>x</varname> is uploaded to
+            <literal><replaceable>archives-put-url</replaceable>/<varname>x</varname></literal>,
+            <command>nix-push</command> first determines whether this
+            upload is unnecessary by issuing a HTTP HEAD request on
+            <literal><replaceable>archives-get-url</replaceable>/<varname>x</varname></literal>.
+            This allows a cache to be shared between many partially
+            overlapping <command>nix-push</command> invocations.
+            (We use two URLs because the upload URL typically
+            refers to a CGI script, while the download URL just refers
+            to a file system directory on the server.)
+          </para>
+        </listitem>
+
+        <listitem>
+          <para>
+            The manifest is uploaded using an HTTP PUT request to
+            <replaceable>manifest-put-url</replaceable>.  The
+            corresponding URL to download the manifest can then be
+            used by <command>nix-pull</command>.
+          </para>
+        </listitem>
+        
+      </orderedlist>
+    </para>
+            
+  </refsection>
+
+  <refsection>
+    <title>Examples</title>
+
+    <para>
+      To upload files there typically is some CGI script on the server
+      side.  This script should be be protected with a password.  The
+      following example uploads the store paths resulting from
+      building the Nix expressions in <filename>foo.nix</filename>,
+      passing appropriate authentication information:
+    
+      <screen>
+$ nix-push \
+    http://foo@bar:server.domain/cgi-bin/upload.pl/cache \
+    http://server.domain/cache \
+    http://foo@bar:server.domain/cgi-bin/upload.pl/MANIFEST \
+    $(nix-instantiate foo.nix)</screen>
+
+    This will push both sources and binaries (and any build-time
+    dependencies used in the build, such as compilers).
+    </para>
+
+    <para>
+      If we just want to push binaries, not sources and build-time
+      dependencies, we can do:
+      
+      <screen>
+$ nix-push <replaceable>urls</replaceable> $(nix-instantiate $(nix-store -r foo.nix))</screen>
+    
+    </para>
+
+  </refsection>
+    
+</refentry>

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+<refentry>
+  <refnamediv>
+    <refname>nix-store</refname>
+    <refpurpose>manipulate or query the Nix store</refpurpose>
+  </refnamediv>
+
+  <refsynopsisdiv>
+    <cmdsynopsis>
+      <command>nix-store</command>
+      &opt-common-syn;
+      <arg choice='plain'><replaceable>operation</replaceable></arg>
+      <arg rep='repeat'><replaceable>options</replaceable></arg>
+      <arg rep='repeat'><replaceable>arguments</replaceable></arg>
+    </cmdsynopsis>
+  </refsynopsisdiv>
+
+  <refsection>
+    <title>Description</title>
+
+    <para>
+      The command <command>nix-store</command> performs primitive
+      operations on the Nix store.  You generally do not need to run
+      this command manually.
+    </para>
+
+    <para>
+      <command>nix-store</command> takes exactly one
+      <emphasis>operation</emphasis> flag which indicates the
+      subcommand to be performed.  These are documented below.
+    </para>
+
+  </refsection>
+
+
+
+  <!--######################################################################-->
+
+  <refsection>
+    <title>Common options</title>
+
+    <para>
+      This section lists the options that are common to all
+      operations.  These options are allowed for every subcommand,
+      though they may not always have an effect.
+    </para>
+
+    <variablelist>
+
+      &opt-common;
+
+    </variablelist>
+
+  </refsection>
+
+  
+
+  <!--######################################################################-->
+
+  <refsection>
+    <title>Environment variables</title>
+
+    <para>
+      The following environment variables affect the behaviour of
+      <command>nix-store</command>.
+    </para>
+    
+    <variablelist>
+
+      <varlistentry>
+        <term><envar>TMPDIR</envar>=<replaceable>path</replaceable></term>
+        <listitem>
+          <para>
+            Use the directory <replaceable>path</replaceable> to store
+            temporary files.  In particular, this includes temporary
+            build directories; these can take up substantial amounts
+            of disk space.  The default is <filename>/tmp</filename>.
+          </para>
+        </listitem>
+      </varlistentry>
+
+    </variablelist>
+        
+  </refsection>
+
+  
+
+  <!--######################################################################-->
+
+  <refsection>
+    <title>Operation <option>--realise</option></title>
+
+    <refsection>
+      <title>Synopsis</title>
+      <cmdsynopsis>
+        <command>nix-store</command>
+        <group choice='req'>
+          <arg choice='plain'><option>--realise</option></arg>
+          <arg choice='plain'><option>-r</option></arg>
+        </group>
+        <arg choice='plain' rep='repeat'><replaceable>paths</replaceable></arg>
+      </cmdsynopsis>
+    </refsection>
+
+    <refsection>
+      <title>Description</title>
+            
+      <para>
+        The operation <option>--install</option> realises in the file
+        system the store expressions stored in
+        <replaceable>paths</replaceable>.  If these expressions are
+        derivation expressions, they are first
+        <emphasis>normalised</emphasis> into a closure expression.
+        This may happen in two ways.  First, the corresponding closure
+        expression (the <emphasis>successor</emphasis>) may already
+        known (either because the build has already been performed, or
+        because a successor was explicitly registered through the
+        <option>--successor</option> operation).  Otherwise, the build
+        action described by the derivation is performed, and a closure
+        expression is computed by scanning the result of the build for
+        references to other paths in the store.
+      </para>
+
+      <para>
+        The paths of the closure expression corresponding to each
+        expression in <replaceable>paths</replaceable> is printed on
+        standard output.
+      </para>
+
+    </refsection>
+            
+  </refsection>
+
+  
+
+  <!--######################################################################-->
+
+  <refsection>
+    <title>Operation <option>--gc</option></title>
+
+    <refsection>
+      <title>Synopsis</title>
+      <cmdsynopsis>
+        <command>nix-store</command>
+        <arg choice='plain'><option>--gc</option></arg>
+        <group choice='req'>
+          <arg choice='plain'><option>--print-live</option></arg>
+          <arg choice='plain'><option>--print-dead</option></arg>
+          <arg choice='plain'><option>--delete</option></arg>
+        </group>
+        <arg><option>--min-age</option> <replaceable>age</replaceable></arg>
+      </cmdsynopsis>
+    </refsection>
+
+    <refsection>
+      <title>Description</title>
+            
+      <para>
+        The operation <option>--gc</option> performs a garbage
+        collection on the Nix store.  What it does specifically is
+        determined by the sub-operation, which is one of the
+        following:
+      </para>
+
+      <variablelist>
+
+        <varlistentry>
+          <term><option>--print-live</option></term>
+          <listitem>
+            <para>
+              This operation prints on standard output the set of
+              <quote>live</quote> store paths, which are all the store
+              paths reachable from a set of <quote>root</quote> store
+              expressions read from standard input.  Live paths should
+              never be deleted, since that would break consistency —
+              it would become possible that applications are installed
+              that reference things that are no longer present in the
+              store.
+            </para>
+          </listitem>
+        </varlistentry>
+
+        <varlistentry>
+          <term><option>--print-dead</option></term>
+          <listitem>
+            <para>
+              This operation prints out on standard output the set of
+              <quote>dead</quote> store paths, which is just the
+              opposite of the set of live paths: any path in the store
+              that is not live (with respect to the roots) is dead.
+            </para>
+          </listitem>
+        </varlistentry>
+
+        <varlistentry>
+          <term><option>--delete</option></term>
+          <listitem>
+            <para>
+              This operation performs an actual garbage collection.
+              All dead paths are removed from the store.
+            </para>
+          </listitem>
+        </varlistentry>
+
+      </variablelist>
+
+      <para>
+        The set of root store expressions is read from standard input.
+        Each line should contain exactly one store path.
+      </para>
+
+      <para>
+        The option <option>--min-age</option> specifies a minimum time
+        in hours that an unreachable store path must not have been
+        used before it is considered dead.  The default is 0 (consider
+        all unreachable store paths dead).  Whether a store path has
+        been used is determined by looking at its access time
+        (<literal>atime</literal>), so this does not work if the store
+        is located on a file system that has the
+        <literal>noatime</literal> option set.
+      </para>
+
+      <warning>
+        <para>
+          You generally will want to use the command
+          <command>nix-collect-garbage</command>, which figures out
+          the roots and then calls this command automatically.
+        </para>
+      </warning>
+
+    </refsection>
+            
+  </refsection>
+
+
+  
+  <!--######################################################################-->
+
+  <refsection>
+    <title>Operation <option>--query</option></title>
+
+    <refsection>
+      <title>Synopsis</title>
+      <cmdsynopsis>
+        <command>nix-store</command>
+        <group choice='req'>
+          <arg choice='plain'><option>--query</option></arg>
+          <arg choice='plain'><option>-q</option></arg>
+        </group>
+        <group choice='req'>
+          <arg choice='plain'><option>--list</option></arg>
+          <arg choice='plain'><option>-l</option></arg>
+          <arg choice='plain'><option>--requisites</option></arg>
+          <arg choice='plain'><option>-R</option></arg>
+          <arg choice='plain'><option>--predecessors</option></arg>
+          <arg choice='plain'><option>--graph</option></arg>
+        </group>
+        <arg><option>--normalise</option></arg>
+        <arg><option>-n</option></arg>
+        <arg><option>--force-realise</option></arg>
+        <arg><option>-f</option></arg>
+        <arg choice='plain' rep='repeat'><replaceable>args</replaceable></arg>
+      </cmdsynopsis>
+    </refsection>
+
+    <refsection>
+      <title>Description</title>
+            
+      <para>
+        The operation <option>--query</option> displays various bits
+        of information about store expressions or store paths.  The
+        queries are described below.  At most one query can be
+        specified.  The default query is <option>--list</option>.
+      </para>
+
+    </refsection>
+
+
+    <refsection>
+      <title>Common query options</title>
+
+      <variablelist>
+
+        <varlistentry>
+          <term><option>--normalise</option> / <option>-n</option></term>
+          <listitem>
+            <para>
+              For those queries that take a Nix store expression, this
+              option causes those expressions to be normalised first.
+            </para>
+          </listitem>
+        </varlistentry>
+
+        <varlistentry>
+          <term><option>--force-realise</option> / <option>-f</option></term>
+          <listitem>
+            <para>
+              For those queries that take a Nix store expression, this
+              option causes those expressions to be realised first.
+              This is just a short-cut for the common idiom
+            </para>
+            <screen>
+nix-store --realise /nix/store/bla.store
+x=`nix-store --query --normalise /nix/store/bla.store`
+<emphasis>(do something with the path $x</emphasis></screen>
+            <para>
+              which using this flag can be written as
+            </para>
+            <screen>
+x=`nix-store --query --normalise --force-realise /nix/store/bla.store`
+<emphasis>(do something with the path $x</emphasis></screen>
+          </listitem>
+        </varlistentry>
+
+      </variablelist>
+        
+    </refsection>
+    
+
+    <refsection id='nixref-queries'>
+      <title>Queries</title>
+            
+      <variablelist>
+
+        <varlistentry>
+          <term><option>--list</option> / <option>-l</option></term>
+          <listitem>
+            <para>
+              Prints out the <emphasis>output paths</emphasis> of the
+              store expressions indicated by the identifiers
+              <replaceable>args</replaceable>.  In the case of a
+              derivation expression, these are the paths that will be
+              produced when the derivation is realised.  In the case
+              of a closure expression, these are the paths that were
+              produced the derivation expression of which the closure
+              expression is a successor.
+            </para>
+          </listitem>
+        </varlistentry>
+
+        <varlistentry>
+          <term><option>--requisites</option> / <option>-R</option></term>
+          <listitem>
+            <para>
+              Prints out the requisite paths of the store expressions
+              indicated by the identifiers
+              <replaceable>args</replaceable>.  The requisite paths of
+              a Nix expression are the paths that need to be present
+              in the system to be able to realise the expression.
+              That is, they form the <emphasis>closure</emphasis> of
+              the expression in the file system (i.e., no path in the
+              set of requisite paths points to anything outside the
+              set of requisite paths).
+            </para>
+
+            <para>
+              The notion of requisite paths is very useful when one
+              wants to distribute store expressions.  Since they form a
+              closure, they are the only paths one needs to distribute
+              to another system to be able to realise the expression
+              on the other system.
+            </para>
+
+            <para>
+              This query is generally used to implement various kinds
+              of deployment.  A <emphasis>source deployment</emphasis>
+              is obtained by distributing the requisite paths of a
+              derivation expression.  A <emphasis>binary
+              deployment</emphasis> is obtained by distributing the
+              requisite paths of a closure expression.  A
+              <emphasis>cache deployment</emphasis> is obtained by
+              distributing the requisite paths of a derivation
+              expression and specifying the option
+              <option>--include-successors</option>.  This will
+              include not just the paths of a source and binary
+              deployment, but also all expressions and paths of
+              subterms of the source.  This is useful if one wants to
+              realise on the target system a Nix expression that is
+              similar but not quite the same as the one being
+              distributed, since any common subterms will be reused.
+            </para>
+
+            <para>
+              This query has a number of options:
+            </para> 
+
+            <variablelist>
+
+              <varlistentry>
+                <term><option>--exclude-exprs</option></term>
+                <listitem>
+                  <para>
+                    Excludes the paths of store expressions.  This
+                    causes the closure property to be lost, that is,
+                    the resulting set of paths is not enough to ensure
+                    realisibility.
+                  </para>
+                </listitem>
+              </varlistentry>
+
+              <varlistentry>
+                <term><option>--include-successors</option></term>
+                <listitem>
+                  <para>
+                    Also include the requisites of successors (normal forms).
+                    Only the requisites of <emphasis>known</emphasis>
+                    successors are included, i.e., the normal forms of
+                    derivation expressions that have never been normalised will
+                    not be included.
+                  </para>
+
+                  <para>
+                    Note that not just the successor of a derivation expression
+                    will be included, but also the successors of all input
+                    expressions of that derivation expression.  I.e., all
+                    normal forms of subterms involved in the normalisation of
+                    the top-level term are included.
+                  </para>
+                </listitem>
+              </varlistentry>
+
+            </variablelist>
+
+          </listitem>
+        </varlistentry>
+
+        <varlistentry>
+          <term><option>--predecessors</option></term>
+          <listitem>
+            <para>
+              For each store expression stored at paths
+              <replaceable>args</replaceable>, prints its
+              <emphasis>predecessors</emphasis>.  A derivation
+              expression <varname>p</varname> is a predecessor of a
+              store expression <varname>q</varname> iff
+              <varname>q</varname> is a successor of
+              <varname>p</varname>.
+            </para>
+          </listitem>
+        </varlistentry>
+
+        <varlistentry>
+          <term><option>--graph</option></term>
+          <listitem>
+            <para>
+              Prints a graph of the closure of the store expressions
+              identified by <replaceable>args</replaceable> in the
+              format of the <command>dot</command> tool of AT&amp;T's
+              GraphViz package.
+            </para>
+          </listitem>
+        </varlistentry>
+
+      </variablelist>
+
+    </refsection>
+
+  </refsection>
+
+  
+
+  <!--######################################################################-->
+
+  <refsection>
+    <title>Operation <option>--successor</option></title>
+
+    <refsection>
+      <title>Synopsis</title>
+      <cmdsynopsis>
+        <command>nix-store</command>
+        <arg choice='req'><option>--successor</option></arg>
+        <arg choice='plain'
+        rep='repeat'><replaceable>srcpath</replaceable> <replaceable>sucpath</replaceable></arg>
+      </cmdsynopsis>
+    </refsection>
+
+    <refsection>
+      <title>Description</title>
+            
+      <para>
+        The operation <option>--successor</option> registers that the
+        closure expression in <replaceable>sucpath</replaceable> is a
+        successor of the derivation expression in
+        <replaceable>srcpath</replaceable>.  This is used to implement
+        binary deployment.
+      </para>
+
+    </refsection>
+            
+  </refsection>
+
+
+
+  <!--######################################################################-->
+
+  <refsection>
+    <title>Operation <option>--substitute</option></title>
+
+    <refsection>
+      <title>Synopsis</title>
+      <cmdsynopsis>
+        <command>nix-store</command>
+        <arg choice='req'><option>--substitute</option></arg>
+        <arg choice='plain'
+        rep='repeat'><replaceable>srcpath</replaceable> <replaceable>subpath</replaceable></arg>
+      </cmdsynopsis>
+    </refsection>
+
+    <refsection>
+      <title>Description</title>
+            
+      <para>
+        The operation <option>--substitute</option> registers that the
+        store path <replaceable>srcpath</replaceable> can be built by
+        realising the derivation expression in
+        <replaceable>subpath</replaceable>.  This is used to implement
+        binary deployment.
+      </para>
+
+    </refsection>
+            
+  </refsection>
+
+
+
+  <!--######################################################################-->
+
+  <refsection>
+    <title>Operation <option>--verify</option></title>
+
+    <refsection>
+      <title>Synopsis</title>
+      <cmdsynopsis>
+        <command>nix-store</command>
+        <arg choice='req'><option>--verify</option></arg>
+      </cmdsynopsis>
+    </refsection>
+
+    <refsection>
+      <title>Description</title>
+            
+      <para>
+        The operation <option>--verify</option> verifies the internal
+        consistency of the Nix database, and the consistency between
+        the Nix database and the Nix store.  Any inconsistencies
+        encountered are automatically repaired.  Inconsistencies are
+        generally the result of the Nix store or database being
+        modified by non-Nix tools, or of bugs in Nix itself.
+      </para>
+
+    </refsection>
+            
+  </refsection>
+
+
+
+</refentry>
+
+
+<!--
+local variables:
+sgml-parent-document: ("book.xml" "refentry")
+end:
+-->

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+<arg><option>--help</option></arg>
+<arg><option>--version</option></arg>
+<arg rep='repeat'><option>--verbose</option></arg>
+<arg rep='repeat'><option>-v</option></arg>
+<arg><option>--no-build-output</option></arg>
+<arg><option>-Q</option></arg>
+<arg>
+  <group choice='req'>
+    <arg choice='plain'><option>--max-jobs</option></arg>
+    <arg choice='plain'><option>-j</option></arg>
+  </group>
+  <replaceable>number</replaceable>
+</arg>
+<arg><option>--keep-going</option></arg>
+<arg><option>-k</option></arg>
+<arg><option>--keep-failed</option></arg>
+<arg><option>-K</option></arg>
+<arg><option>--fallback</option></arg>
+<arg><option>--readonly-mode</option></arg>

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+<varlistentry>
+  <term><option>--help</option></term>
+  <listitem>
+    <para>
+      Prints out a summary of the command syntax and exits.
+    </para>
+  </listitem>
+</varlistentry>
+
+
+<varlistentry>
+  <term><option>--version</option></term>
+  <listitem>
+    <para>
+      Prints out the Nix version number on standard output and exits.
+    </para>
+  </listitem>
+</varlistentry>
+
+
+<varlistentry>
+  <term><option>--verbose</option> / <option>-v</option></term>
+  <listitem>
+    <para>
+      Increases the level of verbosity of diagnostic messages printed
+      on standard error.  For each Nix operation, the information
+      printed on standard output is well-defined; any diagnostic
+      information is printed on standard error, never on standard
+      output.
+    </para>
+
+    <para>
+      This option may be specified repeatedly.  Currently, the
+      following verbosity levels exist:
+    </para>
+
+    <variablelist>
+      <varlistentry>
+        <term>0</term>
+        <listitem>
+          <para>
+            <quote>Errors only</quote>: only print messages explaining
+            why the Nix invocation failed.
+          </para>
+        </listitem>
+      </varlistentry>
+      <varlistentry>
+        <term>1</term>
+        <listitem>
+          <para>
+            <quote>Informational</quote>: print
+            <emphasis>useful</emphasis> messages about what Nix is
+            doing.  This is the default.
+          </para>
+        </listitem>
+      </varlistentry>
+      <varlistentry>
+        <term>2</term>
+        <listitem>
+          <para>
+            <quote>Talkative</quote>: print more informational messages.
+          </para>
+        </listitem>
+      </varlistentry>
+      <varlistentry>
+        <term>3</term>
+        <listitem>
+          <para>
+            <quote>Chatty</quote>: print even more informational messages.
+          </para>
+        </listitem>
+      </varlistentry>
+      <varlistentry>
+        <term>4</term>
+        <listitem>
+          <para>
+            <quote>Debug</quote>: print debug information:
+          </para>
+        </listitem>
+      </varlistentry>
+      <varlistentry>
+        <term>5</term>
+        <listitem>
+          <para>
+            <quote>Vomit</quote>: print vast amounts of debug
+            information.
+          </para>
+        </listitem>
+      </varlistentry>
+    </variablelist>
+
+  </listitem>
+</varlistentry>
+
+
+<varlistentry>
+  <term><option>--no-build-output</option> / <option>-Q</option></term>
+  <listitem>
+    <para>
+      By default, output written by builders to standard output and
+      standard error is echoed to the Nix command's standard error.
+      This option suppresses this behaviour.  Note that the builder's
+      standard output and error are always written to a log file in
+      <filename><replaceable>prefix</replaceable>/nix/var/log/nix</filename>.
+    </para>
+  </listitem>
+</varlistentry>
+
+
+<varlistentry>
+  <term><option>--max-jobs</option> / <option>-j</option></term>
+  <listitem>
+    <para>
+      Sets the maximum number of build jobs that Nix will perform in
+      parallel to the specified number.  The default is 1.  A higher
+      value is useful on SMP systems or to exploit I/O latency.
+    </para>
+  </listitem>
+</varlistentry>
+
+
+<varlistentry>
+  <term><option>--keep-going</option> / <option>-k</option></term>
+  <listitem>
+    <para>
+      Keep going in case of failed builds, to the greatest extent
+      possible.  That is, if building an input of some derivation
+      fails, Nix will still build the other inputs, but not the
+      derivation itself.  Without this option, Nix stops if any build
+      fails (except for builds of substitutes), possibly killing
+      builds in progress (in case of parallel or distributed builds).
+    </para>
+  </listitem>
+</varlistentry>
+
+
+<varlistentry>
+  <term><option>--keep-failed</option> / <option>-K</option></term>
+  <listitem>
+    <para>
+      Specifies that in case of a build failure, the temporary
+      directory (usually in <filename>/tmp</filename>) in which the
+      build takes place should not be deleted.  The path of the build
+      directory is printed as an informational message.
+    </para>
+  </listitem>
+</varlistentry>
+
+
+<varlistentry>
+  <term><option>--fallback</option></term>
+  <listitem>
+    <para>
+      Whenever Nix attempts to realise a derivation for which a
+      closure is already known, but this closure cannot be realised,
+      fall back on normalising the derivation.
+    </para>
+
+    <para>
+      The most common scenario in which this is useful is when we have
+      registered substitutes in order to perform binary distribution
+      from, say, a network repository.  If the repository is down, the
+      realisation of the derivation will fail.  When this option is
+      specified, Nix will build the derivation instead.  Thus,
+      binary installation falls back on a source installation.  This
+      option is not the default since it is generally not desirable
+      for a transient failure in obtaining the substitutes to lead to
+      a full build from source (with the related consumption of
+      resources).
+    </para>
+  </listitem>
+</varlistentry>
+
+
+<varlistentry>
+  <term><option>--readonly-mode</option></term>
+  <listitem>
+    <para>
+      When this option is used, no attempt is made to open the Nix
+      database.  Most Nix operations do need database access, so those
+      operations will fail.
+    </para>
+  </listitem>
+</varlistentry>

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@@ -0,0 +1,455 @@
+<chapter id='chap-package-management'><title>Package Management</title>
+
+<para>This chapter discusses how to do package management with Nix,
+i.e., how to obtain, install, upgrade, and erase components.  This is
+the <quote>user's</quote> perspective of the Nix system — people
+who want to <emphasis>create</emphasis> components should consult
+<xref linkend='chap-writing-nix-expressions' />.</para>
+
+
+<sect1><title>Basic package management</title>
+
+<para>The main command for package management is
+<command>nix-env</command>.  You can use it to install, upgrade, and
+erase components, and to query what components are installed or are
+available for installation.</para>
+
+<para>In Nix, different users can have different <quote>views</quote>
+on the set of installed applications.  That is, there might be lots of
+applications present on the system (possibly in many different
+versions), but users can have a specific selection of those active —
+where <quote>active</quote> just means that it appears in a directory
+in the user's <envar>PATH</envar>.  Such a view on the set of
+installed applications is called a <emphasis>user
+environment</emphasis>, which is just a directory tree consisting of
+symlinks to the files of the active applications.  </para>
+
+<para>Components are installed from a set of <emphasis>Nix
+expressions</emphasis> that tell Nix how to build those components,
+including, if necessary, their dependencies.  There is a collection of
+Nix expressions called the Nix Package collection that contains
+components ranging from basic development stuff such as GCC and Glibc,
+to end-user applications like Mozilla Firefox.  (Nix is however not
+tied to the Nix Package collection; you could write your own Nix
+expression based on it, or completely new ones.)  You can download the
+latest version from <ulink
+url='http://catamaran.labs.cs.uu.nl/dist/nix' />.  You probably want
+the latest unstable release; currently the stable releases tend to lag
+behind quite a bit.</para>
+
+<para>Assuming that you have downloaded and unpacked a release of Nix
+Packages, you can view the set of available components in the release:
+
+<screen>
+$ nix-env -qaf nixpkgs-<replaceable>version</replaceable>
+ant-blackdown-1.4.2
+aterm-2.2
+bash-3.0
+binutils-2.15
+bison-1.875d
+blackdown-1.4.2
+bzip2-1.0.2
+...</screen>
+
+where <literal>nixpkgs-<replaceable>version</replaceable></literal> is
+where you've unpacked the release.</para>
+
+<para>It is also possible to see the <emphasis>status</emphasis> of
+available components, i.e., whether they are installed into the user
+environment and/or present in the system:
+
+<screen>
+$ nix-env -qasf nixpkgs-<replaceable>version</replaceable>
+...
+-PS bash-3.0
+--S binutils-2.15
+IPS bison-1.875d
+...</screen>
+
+The first character (<literal>I</literal>) indicates whether the
+component is installed in your current user environment.  The second
+(<literal>P</literal>) indicates whether it is present on your system
+(in which case installing it into your user environment would be a
+very quick operation).  The last one (<literal>S</literal>) indicates
+whether there is a so-called <emphasis>substitute</emphasis> for the
+component, which is Nix's mechanism for doing binary deployment.  It
+just means that Nix know that it can fetch a pre-built component from
+somewhere (typically a network server) instead of building it
+locally.</para>
+
+<para>So now that we have a set of Nix expressions we can build the
+components contained in them.  This is done using <literal>nix-env
+-i</literal>.  For instance,
+
+<screen>
+$ nix-env -f nixpkgs-<replaceable>version</replaceable> -i subversion</screen>
+
+will install the component called <literal>subversion</literal> (which
+is, of course, the <ulink
+url='http://subversion.tigris.org/'>Subversion version management
+system</ulink>).</para>
+
+<para>When you do this for the first time, Nix will start building
+Subversion and all its dependencies.  This will take quite a while —
+typically an hour or two on modern machines.  Fortunately, there is a
+faster way (so do a Ctrl-C on that install operation!): you just need
+to tell Nix that pre-built binaries of all those components are
+available somewhere.  This is done using the
+<command>nix-pull</command> command, which must be supplied with a URL
+containing a <emphasis>manifest</emphasis> describing what binaries
+are available.  This URL should correspond to the Nix Packages release
+that you're using.  For instance, if you obtained a release from
+<ulink
+url='http://catamaran.labs.cs.uu.nl/dist/nix/nixpkgs-0.6pre1554/' />,
+then you should do:
+
+<screen>
+$ nix-pull http://catamaran.labs.cs.uu.nl/dist/nix/nixpkgs-0.6pre1554/MANIFEST</screen>
+
+If you then issue the installation command, it should start
+downloading binaries from <systemitem
+class='fqdomainname'>catamaran.labs.cs.uu.nl</systemitem>, instead of
+building them from source.  This might still take a while since all
+dependencies must be downloaded, but on a reasonably fast connection
+such as an DSL line it's on the order of a few minutes.</para>
+
+<para>Naturally, packages can also be uninstalled:
+
+<screen>
+$ nix-env -e subversion</screen>
+
+</para>
+
+<para>Upgrading to a new version is just as easy.  If you have a new
+release of Nix Packages, you can do:
+
+<screen>
+$ nix-env -f nixpkgs-<replaceable>version</replaceable> -u subversion</screen>
+
+This will <emphasis>only</emphasis> upgrade Subversion if there is a
+<quote>newer</quote> version in the new set of Nix expressions, as
+defined by some pretty arbitrary rules regarding ordering of version
+numbers (which generally do what you'd expect of them).  To just
+unconditionally replace Subversion with whatever version is in the Nix
+expressions, use <parameter>-i</parameter> instead of
+<parameter>-u</parameter>; <parameter>-i</parameter> will remove
+whatever version is already installed.</para>
+
+<para>You can also upgrade all components for which there are newer
+versions:
+
+<screen>
+$ nix-env -f nixpkgs-<replaceable>version</replaceable> -u '*'</screen>
+
+</para>
+
+<para>Sometimes it's useful to be able to ask what
+<command>nix-env</command> would do, without actually doing it.  For
+instance, to find out what packages would be upgraded by
+<literal>nix-env -u '*'</literal>, you can do
+
+<screen>
+$ nix-env ... -u '*' --dry-run
+(dry run; not doing anything)
+upgrading `libxslt-1.1.0' to `libxslt-1.1.10'
+upgrading `graphviz-1.10' to `graphviz-1.12'
+upgrading `coreutils-5.0' to `coreutils-5.2.1'</screen>
+
+</para>
+
+<para>If you grow bored of specifying the Nix expressions using
+<parameter>-f</parameter> all the time, you can set a default
+location:
+
+<screen>
+$ nix-env -I nixpkgs-<replaceable>version</replaceable></screen>
+
+After this you can just say, for instance, <literal>nix-env -u
+'*'</literal>.<footnote><para>Setting a default using
+<parameter>-I</parameter> currently clashes with using Nix channels,
+since <literal>nix-channel --update</literal> calls <literal>nix-env
+-I</literal> to set the default to the Nix expressions it downloaded
+from the channel, replacing whatever default you had
+set.</para></footnote></para>
+
+</sect1>
+
+
+<sect1><title>Profiles</title>
+
+<para>Profiles and user environments are Nix's mechanism for
+implementing the ability to allow differens users to have different
+configurations, and to do atomic upgrades and rollbacks.  To
+understand how they work, it's useful to know a bit about how Nix
+works.  In Nix, components are stored in unique locations in the
+<emphasis>Nix store</emphasis> (typically,
+<filename>/nix/store</filename>).  For instance, a particular version
+of the Subversion component might be stored in a directory
+<filename>/nix/store/eeeeaf42e56b...-subversion-0.32.1/</filename>,
+while another version might be stored in
+<filename>/nix/store/58823d558a6a...-subversion-0.34/</filename>.  The
+long hexadecimal numbers prefixed to the directory names are
+cryptographic hashes<footnote><para>128 bit MD5 hashes, to be
+precise.</para></footnote> of <emphasis>all</emphasis> inputs involved
+in building the component — sources, dependencies, compiler flags, and
+so on.  So if two components differ in any way, they end up in
+different locations in the file system, so they don't interfere with
+each other.  <xref linkend='fig-user-environments'
+/><footnote><para>TODO: the figure isn't entirely up to date.  It
+should show multiple profiles and
+<filename>~/.nix-profile</filename>.</para></footnote> shows a part of
+a typical Nix store.</para>
+
+<figure id='fig-user-environments'><title>User environments</title>
+  <mediaobject>
+    <imageobject>
+      <imagedata fileref='figures/user-environments.png' format='PNG' />
+    </imageobject>
+  </mediaobject>
+</figure>
+
+<para>Of course, you wouldn't want to type
+
+<screen>
+$ /nix/store/eeeeaf42e56b...-subversion-0.32.1/bin/svn</screen>
+
+every time you want to run Subversion.  Of course we could set up the
+<envar>PATH</envar> environment variable to include the
+<filename>bin</filename> directory of every component we want to use,
+but this is not very convenient since changing <envar>PATH</envar>
+doesn't take effect for already existing processes.  The solution Nix
+uses is to create directory trees of symlinks to
+<emphasis>activated</emphasis> components.  These are called
+<emphasis>user environments</emphasis> and they are components
+themselves (though automatically generated by
+<command>nix-env</command>), so they too reside in the Nix store.  For
+instance, in <xref linkend='fig-user-environments' /> the user
+environment <filename>/nix/store/068150f63831...-user-env</filename>
+contains a symlink to just Subversion 0.32.1 (arrows in the figure
+indicate symlinks).  This would be what we would obtain if we had done
+
+<screen>
+$ nix-env -i subversion</screen>
+
+on a set of Nix expressions that contained Subversion 0.32.1.</para>
+
+<para>This doesn't in itself solve the problem, of course; you
+wouldn't want to type
+<filename>/nix/store/068150f63831...-user-env/bin/svn</filename>
+either.  Therefore there are symlinks outside of the store that point
+to the user environments in the store; for instance, the symlinks
+<filename>42</filename> and <filename>43</filename> in the example.
+These are called <emphasis>generations</emphasis> since every time you
+perform a <command>nix-env</command> operation, a new user environment
+is generated based on the current one.  For instance, generation 43
+was created from generation 42 when we did
+
+<screen>
+$ nix-env -i subversion mozilla</screen>
+
+on a set of Nix expressions that contained Mozilla and a new version
+of Subversion.</para>
+
+<para>Generations are grouped together into
+<emphasis>profiles</emphasis> so that different users don't interfere
+with each other if they don't want to.  For example:
+
+<screen>
+$ ls -l /nix/var/nix/profiles/
+...
+lrwxrwxrwx  1 eelco ... default-42-link -> /nix/store/068150f63831...-user-env
+lrwxrwxrwx  1 eelco ... default-43-link -> /nix/store/84c85f89ddbf...-user-env
+lrwxrwxrwx  1 eelco ... default -> default-43-link</screen>
+
+This shows a profile called <filename>default</filename>.  The file
+<filename>default</filename> itself is actually a symlink that points
+to the current generation.  When we do a <command>nix-env</command>
+operation, a new user environment and generation link are created
+based on the current one, and finally the <filename>default</filename>
+symlink is made to point at the new generation.  This last step is
+atomic on Unix, which explains how we can do atomic upgrades.  (Note
+that the building/installing of new components doesn't interfere in
+any way with old components, since they are stored in different
+locations in the Nix store.)</para>
+
+<para>If you find that you want to undo a <command>nix-env</command>
+operation, you can just do
+
+<screen>
+$ nix-env --rollback</screen>
+
+which will just make the current generation link point at the previous
+link.  E.g., <filename>default</filename> would be made to point at
+<filename>default-42-link</filename>.  You can also switch to a
+specific generation:
+
+<screen>
+$ nix-env --switch-generation 43</screen>
+
+which in this example would roll forward to generation 43 again.  You
+can also see all available generations:
+
+<screen>
+$ nix-env --list-generations</screen></para>
+
+<para>Actually, there is another level of indirection not shown in the
+figure above.  You generally wouldn't have
+<filename>/nix/var/nix/profiles/<replaceable>some-profile</replaceable>/bin</filename>
+in your <envar>PATH</envar>.  Rather, there is a symlink
+<filename>~/.nix-profile</filename> that points to your current
+profile.  This means that you should put
+<filename>~/.nix-profile/bin</filename> in your <envar>PATH</envar>
+(and indeed, that's what the initialisation script
+<filename>/nix/etc/profile.d/nix.sh</filename> does).  This makes it
+easier to switch to a different profile.  You can do that using the
+command <command>nix-env --switch-profile</command>:
+
+<screen>
+$ nix-env --switch-profile /nix/var/nix/profiles/my-profile
+
+$ nix-env --switch-profile /nix/var/nix/profiles/default</screen>
+
+These commands switch to the <filename>my-profile</filename> and
+default profile, respectively.  If the profile doesn't exist, it will
+be created automatically.  You should be careful about storing a
+profile in another location than the <filename>profiles</filename>
+directory, since otherwise it might not be used as a root of the
+garbage collector (see section <xref linkend='sec-garbage-collection'
+/>).</para>
+
+<para>All <command>nix-env</command> operations work on the profile
+pointed to by <command>~/.nix-profile</command>, but you can override
+this using the <option>--profile</option> option (abbreviation
+<option>-p</option>):
+
+<screen>
+$ nix-env -p /nix/var/nix/profiles/other-profile -i subversion</screen>
+
+This will <emphasis>not</emphasis> change the
+<command>~/.nix-profile</command> symlink.</para>
+
+</sect1>
+
+
+<sect1 id='sec-garbage-collection'><title>Garbage collection</title>
+
+<para><command>nix-env</command> operations such as upgrades
+(<option>-u</option>) and uninstall (<option>-e</option>) never
+actually delete components from the system.  All they do (as shown
+above) is to create a new user environment that no longer contains
+symlinks to the <quote>deleted</quote> components.</para>
+
+<para>Of course, since disk space is not infinite, unused components
+should be removed at some point.  You can do this by running the Nix
+garbage collector.  It will remove from the Nix store any component
+not used (directly or indirectly) by any generation of any
+profile.</para>
+
+<para>Note however that as long as old generations reference a
+component, it will not be deleted.  After all, we wouldn't be able to
+do a rollback otherwise.  So in order for garbage collection to be
+effective, you should also delete (some) old generations.  Of course,
+this should only be done if you are certain that you will not need to
+roll back.</para>
+
+<para>To delete all old (non-current) generations of your current
+profile:
+
+<screen>
+$ nix-env --delete-generations old</screen>
+
+Instead of <literal>old</literal> you can also specify a list of
+generations, e.g.,
+
+<screen>
+$ nix-env --delete-generations 10 11 14</screen>
+
+</para>
+
+<para>After removing appropriate old generations you can run the
+garbage collector as follows:
+
+<screen>
+$ nix-collect-garbage</screen>
+
+You can alo first view what files would be deleted:
+
+<screen>
+$ nix-collect-garbage --print-dead</screen>
+
+Likewise, the option <option>--print-live</option> will show the paths
+that <emphasis>won't</emphasis> be deleted.</para>
+
+<sect2><title>Garbage collector roots</title>
+
+<para>TODO</para>
+
+<para>The garbage collector uses as roots all store expressions
+mentioned in all files with extension <filename>.gcroot</filename> in
+the directory
+<filename><replaceable>prefix</replaceable>/var/nix/gcroots/</filename>,
+or in any file or directory symlinked to from that directory.  E.g.,
+by default,
+<filename><replaceable>prefix</replaceable>/var/nix/gcroots/</filename>
+contains a symlink to
+<filename><replaceable>prefix</replaceable>/var/nix/profiles/</filename>,
+so all generations of all profiles are also roots of the collector.</para>
+
+</sect2>
+
+</sect1>
+
+
+<sect1><title>Channels</title>
+
+<para>If you want to stay up to date with a set of packages, it's not
+very convenient to manually download the latest set of Nix expressions
+for those packages, use <command>nix-pull</command> to register
+pre-built binaries (if available), and upgrade using
+<command>nix-env</command>.  Fortunately, there's a better way:
+<emphasis>Nix channels</emphasis>.</para>
+
+<para>A Nix channel is just a URL that points to a place that contains
+a set of Nix expressions and a manifest.  Using the command
+<command>nix-channel</command> you can automatically stay up to date
+with whatever is available at that URL.</para>
+
+<para>You can <quote>subscribe</quote> to a channel using
+<command>nix-channel --add</command>, e.g.,
+
+<screen>
+$ nix-channel --add http://catamaran.labs.cs.uu.nl/dist/nix/channels/nixpkgs-unstable</screen>
+
+subscribes you to a channel that always contains that latest version
+of the Nix Packages collection.  (Instead of
+<literal>nixpkgs-unstable</literal> you could also subscribe to
+<literal>nixpkgs-stable</literal>, which should have a higher level of
+stability, but right now is just outdated.)  Subscribing really just
+means that the URL is added to the file
+<filename>~/.nix-channels</filename>.  Right now there is no command
+to <quote>unsubscribe</quote>; you should just edit that file manually
+and delete the offending URL.</para>
+
+<para>To obtain the latest Nix expressions available in a channel, do
+
+<screen>
+$ nix-channel --update</screen>
+
+This downloads the Nix expressions in every channel (downloaded from
+<literal><replaceable>url</replaceable>/nixexprs.tar.bz2</literal>)
+and registers any available pre-built binaries in every channel
+(by <command>nix-pull</command>ing
+<literal><replaceable>url</replaceable>/MANIFEST</literal>).  It also
+makes the union of each channel's Nix expressions the default for
+<command>nix-env</command> operations.  Consequently, you can then say
+
+<screen>
+$ nix-env -u '*'</screen>
+
+to upgrade all components in your profile to the latest versions
+available in the subscribed channels.</para>
+
+</sect1>
+
+
+</chapter>

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@@ -1,117 +0,0 @@
-{
-  lib,
-  mkMesonDerivation,
-
-  meson,
-  ninja,
-  lowdown-unsandboxed,
-  mdbook,
-  mdbook-linkcheck,
-  jq,
-  python3,
-  rsync,
-  nix-cli,
-  changelog-d,
-  json-schema-for-humans,
-  officialRelease,
-
-  # Configuration Options
-
-  version,
-
-  # `tests` attribute
-  testers,
-}:
-
-let
-  inherit (lib) fileset;
-in
-
-mkMesonDerivation (finalAttrs: {
-  pname = "nix-manual";
-  inherit version;
-
-  workDir = ./.;
-  fileset =
-    fileset.difference
-      (fileset.unions [
-        ../../.version
-        # For example JSON
-        ../../src/libutil-tests/data/hash
-        ../../src/libstore-tests/data/content-address
-        ../../src/libstore-tests/data/store-path
-        ../../src/libstore-tests/data/realisation
-        ../../src/libstore-tests/data/derived-path
-        ../../src/libstore-tests/data/path-info
-        ../../src/libstore-tests/data/nar-info
-        ../../src/libstore-tests/data/build-result
-        # Too many different types of files to filter for now
-        ../../doc/manual
-        ./.
-      ])
-      # Do a blacklist instead
-      ../../doc/manual/package.nix;
-
-  # TODO the man pages should probably be separate
-  outputs = [
-    "out"
-    "man"
-  ];
-
-  nativeBuildInputs = [
-    nix-cli
-    meson
-    ninja
-    (lib.getBin lowdown-unsandboxed)
-    mdbook
-    mdbook-linkcheck
-    jq
-    python3
-    rsync
-    json-schema-for-humans
-    changelog-d
-  ]
-  ++ lib.optionals (!officialRelease) [
-    # When not an official release, we likely have changelog entries that have
-    # yet to be rendered.
-    # When released, these are rendered into a committed file to save a dependency.
-    changelog-d
-  ];
-
-  preConfigure = ''
-    chmod u+w ./.version
-    echo ${finalAttrs.version} > ./.version
-  '';
-
-  postInstall = ''
-    mkdir -p ''$out/nix-support
-    echo "doc manual ''$out/share/doc/nix/manual" >> ''$out/nix-support/hydra-build-products
-  '';
-
-  /**
-    The root of the HTML manual.
-    E.g. "${nix-manual.site}/index.html" exists.
-  */
-  passthru.site = finalAttrs.finalPackage + "/share/doc/nix/manual";
-
-  passthru.tests = {
-    # https://nixos.org/manual/nixpkgs/stable/index.html#tester-lycheeLinkCheck
-    linkcheck = testers.lycheeLinkCheck {
-      inherit (finalAttrs.finalPackage) site;
-      extraConfig = {
-        exclude = [
-          # Exclude auto-generated JSON schema documentation which has
-          # auto-generated fragment IDs that don't match the link references
-          ".*/protocols/json/.*\\.html"
-          # Exclude undocumented builtins
-          ".*/language/builtins\\.html#builtins-addErrorContext"
-          ".*/language/builtins\\.html#builtins-appendContext"
-        ];
-      };
-    };
-  };
-
-  meta = {
-    platforms = lib.platforms.all;
-  };
-})

doc/manual/quick-start.xml

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+<chapter><title>Quick Start</title>
+
+<para>This chapter is for impatient people who don't like reading
+documentation.  For more in-depth information you are kindly referred
+to the following chapters.</para>
+
+<orderedlist>
+
+<listitem><para>Download a source tarball or RPM from <ulink
+url='http://www.cs.uu.nl/groups/ST/Trace/Nix'/>.  Build source
+distributions using the regular sequence:
+        
+<screen>
+$ tar xvfj nix-<replaceable>version</replaceable>.tar.bz2
+$ ./configure
+$ make
+$ make install <lineannotation>(as root)</lineannotation></screen>
+
+This will install Nix in <filename>/nix</filename>.  You shouldn't
+change the prefix if at all possible since that will make it
+impossible to use our pre-built components.  Alternatively, you could
+grab an RPM if you're on an RPM-based system.  You should also add
+<filename>/nix/etc/profile.d/nix.sh</filename> to your
+<filename>~/.bashrc</filename> (or some other login
+file).</para></listitem>
+
+<listitem><para>Subscribe to the Nix Packages channel.
+
+<screen>
+$ nix-channel --add http://catamaran.labs.cs.uu.nl/dist/nix/channels/nixpkgs-unstable</screen>
+
+</para></listitem>
+
+<listitem><para>Download the latest Nix expressions available in the channel.
+<screen>
+$ nix-channel --update</screen>
+
+Note that this in itself doesn't download any components, it just
+downloads the Nix expressions that build them and stores them
+somewhere (under <filename>~/.nix-defexpr</filename>, in case you're
+curious).  Also, it registers the fact that pre-built binaries are
+available remotely.</para></listitem>
+
+<listitem><para>See what installable components are currently
+available in the channel:
+
+<screen>
+$ nix-env -qa
+docbook-xml-4.2
+firefox-1.0pre-PR-0.10.1
+hello-2.1.1
+libxslt-1.1.0
+<replaceable>...</replaceable></screen>
+
+</para></listitem>
+
+<listitem><para>Install some components from the channel:
+        
+<screen>
+$ nix-env -i hello firefox <replaceable>...</replaceable> </screen>
+
+This should download the pre-built components; it should not build
+them locally (if it does, something went wrong).</para></listitem>
+
+<listitem><para>Test that they work:
+
+<screen>
+$ which hello
+/home/eelco/.nix-profile/bin/hello
+$ hello
+Hello, world!
+$ firefox
+<lineannotation>(read Slashdot or something)</lineannotation></screen>
+
+</para></listitem>
+    
+<listitem><para>Uninstall a package:
+
+<screen>
+$ nix-env -e hello</screen>
+
+</para></listitem>
+
+<listitem><para>To keep up-to-date with the channel, do:
+
+<screen>
+$ nix-channel --update
+$ nix-env -u '*'</screen>
+
+The latter command will upgrade each installed component for which
+there is a <quote>newer</quote> version (as determined by comparing
+the version numbers).</para></listitem>
+
+<listitem><para>If you're unhappy with the result of a
+<command>nix-env</command> action (e.g., an upgraded component turned
+out not to work properly), you can go back:
+
+<screen>
+$ nix-env --rollback</screen>
+
+</para></listitem>
+
+<listitem><para>You should periodically run the Nix garbage collector
+to get rid of unused packages, since uninstalls or upgrades don't
+actually delete them:
+
+<screen>
+$ nix-env --delete-generations old
+$ nix-collect-garbage</screen>
+
+The first command deletes old <quote>generations</quote> of your
+profile (making rollbacks impossible, but also making the components
+in those old generations available for garbage collection), while the
+second command actually deletes them.</para></listitem>
+
+</orderedlist>
+
+</chapter>

doc/manual/quote-literals.xsl

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-
-<xsl:stylesheet
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-  xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform"
-  xmlns:str="http://exslt.org/strings"
-  extension-element-prefixes="str">
-
-  <xsl:output method="xml"/>
-
-  <xsl:template match="function|command|literal|varname|filename|option|quote">`<xsl:apply-templates/>'</xsl:template>
-
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-
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-    <screen><xsl:apply-templates select="str:split(., '&#xA;')" /></screen>
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-
-  <xsl:template match="section[following::section]">
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-      <xsl:for-each select="@*">
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-// see source/_redirects for path redirects (server-side)
-
-// redirects are declared as follows:
-// each entry has as its key a path matching the requested URL path, relative to the mdBook document root.
-//
-//     IMPORTANT: it must specify the full path with file name and suffix
-//
-// each entry is itself a set of key-value pairs, where
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-// IMPORTANT: we use stateful array operations and their order matters!
-//
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-//
-//          `document.location.pathname`
-//        |------------------------------|
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-
-segments.push(file);
-
-// use `path_to_root` to discern prefix from path.
-const depth = path_to_root.split('/').length;
-
-// remove segments containing prefix. the following works because
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-//    hence first element of `segments` is always empty.
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-//
-// the following operations will then result in
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-//     path = 'bar/baz.html'
-//
-segments.splice(0, segments.length - depth);
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-
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-
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-    document.location.href = target;
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doc/manual/remove_before_wrapper.py

@@ -1,33 +0,0 @@
-#!/usr/bin/env python3
-
-import os
-import subprocess
-import sys
-import shutil
-import typing as t
-
-def main():
-    if len(sys.argv) < 4 or '--' not in sys.argv:
-        print("Usage: remove-before-wrapper <output> -- <nix command...>")
-        sys.exit(1)
-
-    # Extract the parts
-    output: str = sys.argv[1]
-    nix_command_idx: int = sys.argv.index('--') + 1
-    nix_command: t.List[str] = sys.argv[nix_command_idx:]
-
-    output_temp: str = output + '.tmp'
-
-    # Remove the output and temp output in case they exist
-    shutil.rmtree(output, ignore_errors=True)
-    shutil.rmtree(output_temp, ignore_errors=True)
-
-    # Execute nix command with `--write-to` tempary output
-    nix_command_write_to = nix_command + ['--write-to', output_temp]
-    subprocess.run(nix_command_write_to, check=True)
-
-    # Move the temporary output to the intended location
-    os.rename(output_temp, output)
-
-if __name__ == "__main__":
-    main()

doc/manual/render-manpage.sh

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-#!/usr/bin/env bash
-
-set -euo pipefail
-
-lowdown_args=
-
-if [ "$1" = --out-no-smarty ]; then
-    lowdown_args=--out-no-smarty
-    shift
-fi
-
-[ "$#" = 4 ] || {
-    echo "wrong number of args passed" >&2
-    exit 1
-}
-
-title="$1"
-section="$2"
-infile="$3"
-outfile="$4"
-
-(
-    printf "Title: %s\n\n" "$title"
-    cat "$infile"
-) | lowdown -sT man --nroff-nolinks $lowdown_args -M section="$section" -o "$outfile"

doc/manual/rl-next/channels-subdomain.md

@@ -1,9 +0,0 @@
----
-synopsis: Channel URLs migrated to channels.nixos.org subdomain
-prs: [14518]
-issues: [14517]
----
-
-Channel URLs have been updated from `https://nixos.org/channels/` to `https://channels.nixos.org/` throughout Nix.
-
-The subdomain provides better reliability with IPv6 support and improved CDN distribution. The old domain apex (`nixos.org/channels/`) currently redirects to the new location but may be deprecated in the future.

doc/manual/rl-next/config

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-organization: NixOS
-repository: nix