bail out if macOS 10.9 or lower is used during installer

(cherry picked from commit 48d4a23aa0)
Signed-off-by: Domen Kožar <domen@dev.si>

cc @edolstra

.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

@@ -1,17 +0,0 @@
-# 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

@@ -1,54 +0,0 @@
----
-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
-
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-## Motivation
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-
-## Context
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-<!-- Provide context. Reference open issues if available. -->
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-<!-- 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**
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-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@456688f15bc354bef6d396e4a35f4f89d40bf2b7 # v31.8.2
-      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 +1,125 @@
-# Default meson build dir
-/build
+Makefile.config
 
-# /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
+# /
+/aclocal.m4
+/autom4te.cache
+/config.*
+/configure
+/nix.spec
+/stamp-h1
+/svn-revision
+/libtool
 
-# /tests/functional/lang/
-/tests/functional/lang/*.out
-/tests/functional/lang/*.out.xml
-/tests/functional/lang/*.err
-/tests/functional/lang/*.ast
+/corepkgs/config.nix
 
-/outputs
+# /corepkgs/buildenv/
+/corepkgs/buildenv/builder.pl
 
+# /corepkgs/channels/
+/corepkgs/channels/unpack.sh
+
+# /corepkgs/nar/
+/corepkgs/nar/nar.sh
+/corepkgs/nar/unnar.sh
+
+# /doc/manual/
+/doc/manual/manual.html
+/doc/manual/manual.xmli
+/doc/manual/manual.pdf
+/doc/manual/manual.is-valid
+/doc/manual/*.1
+/doc/manual/*.5
+/doc/manual/*.8
+/doc/manual/version.txt
+
+# /scripts/
+/scripts/nix-profile.sh
+/scripts/nix-pull
+/scripts/nix-push
+/scripts/nix-switch
+/scripts/nix-collect-garbage
+/scripts/nix-prefetch-url
+/scripts/nix-install-package
+/scripts/nix-channel
+/scripts/nix-build
+/scripts/nix-copy-closure
+/scripts/nix-generate-patches
+/scripts/NixConfig.pm
+/scripts/NixManifest.pm
+/scripts/GeneratePatches.pm
+/scripts/download-using-manifests.pl
+/scripts/copy-from-other-stores.pl
+/scripts/download-from-binary-cache.pl
+/scripts/find-runtime-roots.pl
+/scripts/build-remote.pl
+/scripts/nix-reduce-build
+/scripts/nix-http-export.cgi
+
+# /src/bsdiff-4.3/
+/src/bsdiff-4.3/bsdiff
+/src/bsdiff-4.3/bspatch
+
+# /src/libexpr/
+/src/libexpr/lexer-tab.cc
+/src/libexpr/lexer-tab.hh
+/src/libexpr/parser-tab.cc
+/src/libexpr/parser-tab.hh
+/src/libexpr/parser-tab.output
+/src/libexpr/nix.tbl
+
+# /src/libstore/
+/src/libstore/schema.sql.hh
+
+# /src/nix-env/
+/src/nix-env/nix-env
+
+# /src/nix-hash/
+/src/nix-hash/nix-hash
+
+# /src/nix-instantiate/
+/src/nix-instantiate/nix-instantiate
+
+# /src/nix-log2xml/
+/src/nix-log2xml/nix-log2xml
+
+# /src/nix-store/
+/src/nix-store/nix-store
+
+# /src/nix-daemon/
+/src/nix-daemon/nix-daemon
+
+# /src/download-via-ssh/
+/src/download-via-ssh/download-via-ssh
+
+# /tests/
+/tests/test-tmp
+/tests/common.sh
+/tests/dummy
+/tests/result*
+
+# /tests/lang/
+/tests/lang/*.out
+/tests/lang/*.out.xml
+/tests/lang/*.ast
+
+/perl/lib/Nix/Config.pm
+/perl/lib/Nix/Store.cc
+
+/misc/systemd/nix-daemon.service
+/misc/systemd/nix-daemon.socket
+/misc/upstart/nix-daemon.conf
+
+*.a
+*.o
+*.so
+*.dll
+*.exe
+*.dep
 *~
+*.pc
 
 # 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

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
-
-Whenever you're stuck or do not know how to proceed, you can always ask for help.
-We invite you to use our [Matrix room](https://matrix.to/#/#nix-dev:nixos.org) to ask questions.

COPYING

@@ -1,8 +1,8 @@
-                  GNU LESSER GENERAL PUBLIC LICENSE
-                       Version 2.1, February 1999
+		  GNU LESSER GENERAL PUBLIC LICENSE
+		       Version 2.1, February 1999
 
  Copyright (C) 1991, 1999 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
- <https://fsf.org/>
+ 51 Franklin Street, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA  02110-1301  USA
  Everyone is permitted to copy and distribute verbatim copies
  of this license document, but changing it is not allowed.
 
@@ -10,7 +10,7 @@
  as the successor of the GNU Library Public License, version 2, hence
  the version number 2.1.]
 
-                            Preamble
+			    Preamble
 
   The licenses for most software are designed to take away your
 freedom to share and change it.  By contrast, the GNU General Public
@@ -112,7 +112,7 @@ modification follow.  Pay close attention to the difference between a
 former contains code derived from the library, whereas the latter must
 be combined with the library in order to run.
 
-                  GNU LESSER GENERAL PUBLIC LICENSE
+		  GNU LESSER GENERAL PUBLIC LICENSE
    TERMS AND CONDITIONS FOR COPYING, DISTRIBUTION AND MODIFICATION
 
   0. This License Agreement applies to any software library or other
@@ -146,7 +146,7 @@ such a program is covered only if its contents constitute a work based
 on the Library (independent of the use of the Library in a tool for
 writing it).  Whether that is true depends on what the Library does
 and what the program that uses the Library does.
-
+  
   1. You may copy and distribute verbatim copies of the Library's
 complete source code as you receive it, in any medium, provided that
 you conspicuously and appropriately publish on each copy an
@@ -432,7 +432,7 @@ decision will be guided by the two goals of preserving the free status
 of all derivatives of our free software and of promoting the sharing
 and reuse of software generally.
 
-                            NO WARRANTY
+			    NO WARRANTY
 
   15. BECAUSE THE LIBRARY IS LICENSED FREE OF CHARGE, THERE IS NO
 WARRANTY FOR THE LIBRARY, TO THE EXTENT PERMITTED BY APPLICABLE LAW.
@@ -455,7 +455,7 @@ 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
+		     END OF TERMS AND CONDITIONS
 
            How to Apply These Terms to Your New Libraries
 
@@ -484,7 +484,8 @@ convey the exclusion of warranty; and each file should have at least the
     Lesser General Public License for more details.
 
     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/>.
+    License along with this library; if not, write to the Free Software
+    Foundation, Inc., 51 Franklin Street, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA  02110-1301  USA
 
 Also add information on how to contact you by electronic and paper mail.
 
@@ -495,7 +496,9 @@ 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.
 
-  <signature of Moe Ghoul>, 1 April 1990
-  Moe Ghoul, President of Vice
+  <signature of Ty Coon>, 1 April 1990
+  Ty Coon, President of Vice
 
 That's all there is to it!
+
+

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

@@ -0,0 +1,39 @@
+makefiles = \
+  local.mk \
+  src/boost/format/local.mk \
+  src/libutil/local.mk \
+  src/libstore/local.mk \
+  src/libmain/local.mk \
+  src/libexpr/local.mk \
+  src/nix-hash/local.mk \
+  src/nix-store/local.mk \
+  src/nix-instantiate/local.mk \
+  src/nix-env/local.mk \
+  src/nix-daemon/local.mk \
+  src/nix-collect-garbage/local.mk \
+  src/download-via-ssh/local.mk \
+  src/nix-log2xml/local.mk \
+  src/nix-prefetch-url/local.mk \
+  src/bsdiff-4.3/local.mk \
+  perl/local.mk \
+  scripts/local.mk \
+  corepkgs/local.mk \
+  misc/systemd/local.mk \
+  misc/launchd/local.mk \
+  misc/upstart/local.mk \
+  misc/emacs/local.mk \
+  doc/manual/local.mk \
+  tests/local.mk
+
+GLOBAL_CXXFLAGS += -std=c++0x -g -Wall
+
+-include Makefile.config
+
+OPTIMIZE = 1
+
+ifeq ($(OPTIMIZE), 1)
+  GLOBAL_CFLAGS += -O3
+  GLOBAL_CXXFLAGS += -O3
+endif
+
+include mk/lib.mk

Makefile.config.in

@@ -0,0 +1,35 @@
+BDW_GC_LIBS = @BDW_GC_LIBS@
+CC = @CC@
+CFLAGS = @CFLAGS@
+CXX = @CXX@
+CXXFLAGS = @CXXFLAGS@
+HAVE_SODIUM = @HAVE_SODIUM@
+LIBCURL_LIBS = @LIBCURL_LIBS@
+OPENSSL_LIBS = @OPENSSL_LIBS@
+PACKAGE_NAME = @PACKAGE_NAME@
+PACKAGE_VERSION = @PACKAGE_VERSION@
+SODIUM_LIBS = @SODIUM_LIBS@
+SQLITE3_LIBS = @SQLITE3_LIBS@
+bash = @bash@
+bindir = @bindir@
+bsddiff_compat_include = @bsddiff_compat_include@
+curl = @curl@
+datadir = @datadir@
+datarootdir = @datarootdir@
+dblatex = @dblatex@
+docdir = @docdir@
+exec_prefix = @exec_prefix@
+includedir = @includedir@
+libdir = @libdir@
+libexecdir = @libexecdir@
+localstatedir = @localstatedir@
+mandir = @mandir@
+perl = @perl@
+perlbindings = @perlbindings@
+perllibdir = @perllibdir@
+pkglibdir = $(libdir)/$(PACKAGE_NAME)
+prefix = @prefix@
+storedir = @storedir@
+sysconfdir = @sysconfdir@
+xmllint = @xmllint@
+xsltproc = @xsltproc@

README

@@ -0,0 +1,10 @@
+Nix is a purely functional package manager.  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://nixos.org/>.
+
+
+Acknowledgments
+
+This product includes software developed by the OpenSSL Project for
+use in the OpenSSL Toolkit (http://www.OpenSSL.org/).

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 +1,4 @@
+#! /bin/sh -e
+rm -f aclocal.m4
+mkdir -p config
+exec autoreconf -vfi

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;
-  }
-)

config/install-sh

@@ -0,0 +1,527 @@
+#!/bin/sh
+# install - install a program, script, or datafile
+
+scriptversion=2011-11-20.07; # UTC
+
+# This originates from X11R5 (mit/util/scripts/install.sh), which was
+# later released in X11R6 (xc/config/util/install.sh) with the
+# following copyright and license.
+#
+# Copyright (C) 1994 X Consortium
+#
+# Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy
+# of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to
+# deal in the Software without restriction, including without limitation the
+# rights to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or
+# sell copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the Software is
+# furnished to do so, subject to the following conditions:
+#
+# The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included in
+# all copies or substantial portions of the Software.
+#
+# THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS", WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR
+# IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY,
+# FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NONINFRINGEMENT.  IN NO EVENT SHALL THE
+# X CONSORTIUM BE LIABLE FOR ANY CLAIM, DAMAGES OR OTHER LIABILITY, WHETHER IN
+# AN ACTION OF CONTRACT, TORT OR OTHERWISE, ARISING FROM, OUT OF OR IN CONNEC-
+# TION WITH THE SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR OTHER DEALINGS IN THE SOFTWARE.
+#
+# Except as contained in this notice, the name of the X Consortium shall not
+# be used in advertising or otherwise to promote the sale, use or other deal-
+# ings in this Software without prior written authorization from the X Consor-
+# tium.
+#
+#
+# FSF changes to this file are in the public domain.
+#
+# Calling this script install-sh is preferred over install.sh, to prevent
+# 'make' implicit rules from creating a file called install from it
+# when there is no Makefile.
+#
+# This script is compatible with the BSD install script, but was written
+# from scratch.
+
+nl='
+'
+IFS=" ""	$nl"
+
+# set DOITPROG to echo to test this script
+
+# Don't use :- since 4.3BSD and earlier shells don't like it.
+doit=${DOITPROG-}
+if test -z "$doit"; then
+  doit_exec=exec
+else
+  doit_exec=$doit
+fi
+
+# Put in absolute file names if you don't have them in your path;
+# or use environment vars.
+
+chgrpprog=${CHGRPPROG-chgrp}
+chmodprog=${CHMODPROG-chmod}
+chownprog=${CHOWNPROG-chown}
+cmpprog=${CMPPROG-cmp}
+cpprog=${CPPROG-cp}
+mkdirprog=${MKDIRPROG-mkdir}
+mvprog=${MVPROG-mv}
+rmprog=${RMPROG-rm}
+stripprog=${STRIPPROG-strip}
+
+posix_glob='?'
+initialize_posix_glob='
+  test "$posix_glob" != "?" || {
+    if (set -f) 2>/dev/null; then
+      posix_glob=
+    else
+      posix_glob=:
+    fi
+  }
+'
+
+posix_mkdir=
+
+# Desired mode of installed file.
+mode=0755
+
+chgrpcmd=
+chmodcmd=$chmodprog
+chowncmd=
+mvcmd=$mvprog
+rmcmd="$rmprog -f"
+stripcmd=
+
+src=
+dst=
+dir_arg=
+dst_arg=
+
+copy_on_change=false
+no_target_directory=
+
+usage="\
+Usage: $0 [OPTION]... [-T] SRCFILE DSTFILE
+   or: $0 [OPTION]... SRCFILES... DIRECTORY
+   or: $0 [OPTION]... -t DIRECTORY SRCFILES...
+   or: $0 [OPTION]... -d DIRECTORIES...
+
+In the 1st form, copy SRCFILE to DSTFILE.
+In the 2nd and 3rd, copy all SRCFILES to DIRECTORY.
+In the 4th, create DIRECTORIES.
+
+Options:
+     --help     display this help and exit.
+     --version  display version info and exit.
+
+  -c            (ignored)
+  -C            install only if different (preserve the last data modification time)
+  -d            create directories instead of installing files.
+  -g GROUP      $chgrpprog installed files to GROUP.
+  -m MODE       $chmodprog installed files to MODE.
+  -o USER       $chownprog installed files to USER.
+  -s            $stripprog installed files.
+  -t DIRECTORY  install into DIRECTORY.
+  -T            report an error if DSTFILE is a directory.
+
+Environment variables override the default commands:
+  CHGRPPROG CHMODPROG CHOWNPROG CMPPROG CPPROG MKDIRPROG MVPROG
+  RMPROG STRIPPROG
+"
+
+while test $# -ne 0; do
+  case $1 in
+    -c) ;;
+
+    -C) copy_on_change=true;;
+
+    -d) dir_arg=true;;
+
+    -g) chgrpcmd="$chgrpprog $2"
+	shift;;
+
+    --help) echo "$usage"; exit $?;;
+
+    -m) mode=$2
+	case $mode in
+	  *' '* | *'	'* | *'
+'*	  | *'*'* | *'?'* | *'['*)
+	    echo "$0: invalid mode: $mode" >&2
+	    exit 1;;
+	esac
+	shift;;
+
+    -o) chowncmd="$chownprog $2"
+	shift;;
+
+    -s) stripcmd=$stripprog;;
+
+    -t) dst_arg=$2
+	# Protect names problematic for 'test' and other utilities.
+	case $dst_arg in
+	  -* | [=\(\)!]) dst_arg=./$dst_arg;;
+	esac
+	shift;;
+
+    -T) no_target_directory=true;;
+
+    --version) echo "$0 $scriptversion"; exit $?;;
+
+    --)	shift
+	break;;
+
+    -*)	echo "$0: invalid option: $1" >&2
+	exit 1;;
+
+    *)  break;;
+  esac
+  shift
+done
+
+if test $# -ne 0 && test -z "$dir_arg$dst_arg"; then
+  # When -d is used, all remaining arguments are directories to create.
+  # When -t is used, the destination is already specified.
+  # Otherwise, the last argument is the destination.  Remove it from $@.
+  for arg
+  do
+    if test -n "$dst_arg"; then
+      # $@ is not empty: it contains at least $arg.
+      set fnord "$@" "$dst_arg"
+      shift # fnord
+    fi
+    shift # arg
+    dst_arg=$arg
+    # Protect names problematic for 'test' and other utilities.
+    case $dst_arg in
+      -* | [=\(\)!]) dst_arg=./$dst_arg;;
+    esac
+  done
+fi
+
+if test $# -eq 0; then
+  if test -z "$dir_arg"; then
+    echo "$0: no input file specified." >&2
+    exit 1
+  fi
+  # It's OK to call 'install-sh -d' without argument.
+  # This can happen when creating conditional directories.
+  exit 0
+fi
+
+if test -z "$dir_arg"; then
+  do_exit='(exit $ret); exit $ret'
+  trap "ret=129; $do_exit" 1
+  trap "ret=130; $do_exit" 2
+  trap "ret=141; $do_exit" 13
+  trap "ret=143; $do_exit" 15
+
+  # Set umask so as not to create temps with too-generous modes.
+  # However, 'strip' requires both read and write access to temps.
+  case $mode in
+    # Optimize common cases.
+    *644) cp_umask=133;;
+    *755) cp_umask=22;;
+
+    *[0-7])
+      if test -z "$stripcmd"; then
+	u_plus_rw=
+      else
+	u_plus_rw='% 200'
+      fi
+      cp_umask=`expr '(' 777 - $mode % 1000 ')' $u_plus_rw`;;
+    *)
+      if test -z "$stripcmd"; then
+	u_plus_rw=
+      else
+	u_plus_rw=,u+rw
+      fi
+      cp_umask=$mode$u_plus_rw;;
+  esac
+fi
+
+for src
+do
+  # Protect names problematic for 'test' and other utilities.
+  case $src in
+    -* | [=\(\)!]) src=./$src;;
+  esac
+
+  if test -n "$dir_arg"; then
+    dst=$src
+    dstdir=$dst
+    test -d "$dstdir"
+    dstdir_status=$?
+  else
+
+    # Waiting for this to be detected by the "$cpprog $src $dsttmp" command
+    # might cause directories to be created, which would be especially bad
+    # if $src (and thus $dsttmp) contains '*'.
+    if test ! -f "$src" && test ! -d "$src"; then
+      echo "$0: $src does not exist." >&2
+      exit 1
+    fi
+
+    if test -z "$dst_arg"; then
+      echo "$0: no destination specified." >&2
+      exit 1
+    fi
+    dst=$dst_arg
+
+    # If destination is a directory, append the input filename; won't work
+    # if double slashes aren't ignored.
+    if test -d "$dst"; then
+      if test -n "$no_target_directory"; then
+	echo "$0: $dst_arg: Is a directory" >&2
+	exit 1
+      fi
+      dstdir=$dst
+      dst=$dstdir/`basename "$src"`
+      dstdir_status=0
+    else
+      # Prefer dirname, but fall back on a substitute if dirname fails.
+      dstdir=`
+	(dirname "$dst") 2>/dev/null ||
+	expr X"$dst" : 'X\(.*[^/]\)//*[^/][^/]*/*$' \| \
+	     X"$dst" : 'X\(//\)[^/]' \| \
+	     X"$dst" : 'X\(//\)$' \| \
+	     X"$dst" : 'X\(/\)' \| . 2>/dev/null ||
+	echo X"$dst" |
+	    sed '/^X\(.*[^/]\)\/\/*[^/][^/]*\/*$/{
+		   s//\1/
+		   q
+		 }
+		 /^X\(\/\/\)[^/].*/{
+		   s//\1/
+		   q
+		 }
+		 /^X\(\/\/\)$/{
+		   s//\1/
+		   q
+		 }
+		 /^X\(\/\).*/{
+		   s//\1/
+		   q
+		 }
+		 s/.*/./; q'
+      `
+
+      test -d "$dstdir"
+      dstdir_status=$?
+    fi
+  fi
+
+  obsolete_mkdir_used=false
+
+  if test $dstdir_status != 0; then
+    case $posix_mkdir in
+      '')
+	# Create intermediate dirs using mode 755 as modified by the umask.
+	# This is like FreeBSD 'install' as of 1997-10-28.
+	umask=`umask`
+	case $stripcmd.$umask in
+	  # Optimize common cases.
+	  *[2367][2367]) mkdir_umask=$umask;;
+	  .*0[02][02] | .[02][02] | .[02]) mkdir_umask=22;;
+
+	  *[0-7])
+	    mkdir_umask=`expr $umask + 22 \
+	      - $umask % 100 % 40 + $umask % 20 \
+	      - $umask % 10 % 4 + $umask % 2
+	    `;;
+	  *) mkdir_umask=$umask,go-w;;
+	esac
+
+	# With -d, create the new directory with the user-specified mode.
+	# Otherwise, rely on $mkdir_umask.
+	if test -n "$dir_arg"; then
+	  mkdir_mode=-m$mode
+	else
+	  mkdir_mode=
+	fi
+
+	posix_mkdir=false
+	case $umask in
+	  *[123567][0-7][0-7])
+	    # POSIX mkdir -p sets u+wx bits regardless of umask, which
+	    # is incompatible with FreeBSD 'install' when (umask & 300) != 0.
+	    ;;
+	  *)
+	    tmpdir=${TMPDIR-/tmp}/ins$RANDOM-$$
+	    trap 'ret=$?; rmdir "$tmpdir/d" "$tmpdir" 2>/dev/null; exit $ret' 0
+
+	    if (umask $mkdir_umask &&
+		exec $mkdirprog $mkdir_mode -p -- "$tmpdir/d") >/dev/null 2>&1
+	    then
+	      if test -z "$dir_arg" || {
+		   # Check for POSIX incompatibilities with -m.
+		   # HP-UX 11.23 and IRIX 6.5 mkdir -m -p sets group- or
+		   # other-writable bit of parent directory when it shouldn't.
+		   # FreeBSD 6.1 mkdir -m -p sets mode of existing directory.
+		   ls_ld_tmpdir=`ls -ld "$tmpdir"`
+		   case $ls_ld_tmpdir in
+		     d????-?r-*) different_mode=700;;
+		     d????-?--*) different_mode=755;;
+		     *) false;;
+		   esac &&
+		   $mkdirprog -m$different_mode -p -- "$tmpdir" && {
+		     ls_ld_tmpdir_1=`ls -ld "$tmpdir"`
+		     test "$ls_ld_tmpdir" = "$ls_ld_tmpdir_1"
+		   }
+		 }
+	      then posix_mkdir=:
+	      fi
+	      rmdir "$tmpdir/d" "$tmpdir"
+	    else
+	      # Remove any dirs left behind by ancient mkdir implementations.
+	      rmdir ./$mkdir_mode ./-p ./-- 2>/dev/null
+	    fi
+	    trap '' 0;;
+	esac;;
+    esac
+
+    if
+      $posix_mkdir && (
+	umask $mkdir_umask &&
+	$doit_exec $mkdirprog $mkdir_mode -p -- "$dstdir"
+      )
+    then :
+    else
+
+      # The umask is ridiculous, or mkdir does not conform to POSIX,
+      # or it failed possibly due to a race condition.  Create the
+      # directory the slow way, step by step, checking for races as we go.
+
+      case $dstdir in
+	/*) prefix='/';;
+	[-=\(\)!]*) prefix='./';;
+	*)  prefix='';;
+      esac
+
+      eval "$initialize_posix_glob"
+
+      oIFS=$IFS
+      IFS=/
+      $posix_glob set -f
+      set fnord $dstdir
+      shift
+      $posix_glob set +f
+      IFS=$oIFS
+
+      prefixes=
+
+      for d
+      do
+	test X"$d" = X && continue
+
+	prefix=$prefix$d
+	if test -d "$prefix"; then
+	  prefixes=
+	else
+	  if $posix_mkdir; then
+	    (umask=$mkdir_umask &&
+	     $doit_exec $mkdirprog $mkdir_mode -p -- "$dstdir") && break
+	    # Don't fail if two instances are running concurrently.
+	    test -d "$prefix" || exit 1
+	  else
+	    case $prefix in
+	      *\'*) qprefix=`echo "$prefix" | sed "s/'/'\\\\\\\\''/g"`;;
+	      *) qprefix=$prefix;;
+	    esac
+	    prefixes="$prefixes '$qprefix'"
+	  fi
+	fi
+	prefix=$prefix/
+      done
+
+      if test -n "$prefixes"; then
+	# Don't fail if two instances are running concurrently.
+	(umask $mkdir_umask &&
+	 eval "\$doit_exec \$mkdirprog $prefixes") ||
+	  test -d "$dstdir" || exit 1
+	obsolete_mkdir_used=true
+      fi
+    fi
+  fi
+
+  if test -n "$dir_arg"; then
+    { test -z "$chowncmd" || $doit $chowncmd "$dst"; } &&
+    { test -z "$chgrpcmd" || $doit $chgrpcmd "$dst"; } &&
+    { test "$obsolete_mkdir_used$chowncmd$chgrpcmd" = false ||
+      test -z "$chmodcmd" || $doit $chmodcmd $mode "$dst"; } || exit 1
+  else
+
+    # Make a couple of temp file names in the proper directory.
+    dsttmp=$dstdir/_inst.$$_
+    rmtmp=$dstdir/_rm.$$_
+
+    # Trap to clean up those temp files at exit.
+    trap 'ret=$?; rm -f "$dsttmp" "$rmtmp" && exit $ret' 0
+
+    # Copy the file name to the temp name.
+    (umask $cp_umask && $doit_exec $cpprog "$src" "$dsttmp") &&
+
+    # and set any options; do chmod last to preserve setuid bits.
+    #
+    # If any of these fail, we abort the whole thing.  If we want to
+    # ignore errors from any of these, just make sure not to ignore
+    # errors from the above "$doit $cpprog $src $dsttmp" command.
+    #
+    { test -z "$chowncmd" || $doit $chowncmd "$dsttmp"; } &&
+    { test -z "$chgrpcmd" || $doit $chgrpcmd "$dsttmp"; } &&
+    { test -z "$stripcmd" || $doit $stripcmd "$dsttmp"; } &&
+    { test -z "$chmodcmd" || $doit $chmodcmd $mode "$dsttmp"; } &&
+
+    # If -C, don't bother to copy if it wouldn't change the file.
+    if $copy_on_change &&
+       old=`LC_ALL=C ls -dlL "$dst"	2>/dev/null` &&
+       new=`LC_ALL=C ls -dlL "$dsttmp"	2>/dev/null` &&
+
+       eval "$initialize_posix_glob" &&
+       $posix_glob set -f &&
+       set X $old && old=:$2:$4:$5:$6 &&
+       set X $new && new=:$2:$4:$5:$6 &&
+       $posix_glob set +f &&
+
+       test "$old" = "$new" &&
+       $cmpprog "$dst" "$dsttmp" >/dev/null 2>&1
+    then
+      rm -f "$dsttmp"
+    else
+      # Rename the file to the real destination.
+      $doit $mvcmd -f "$dsttmp" "$dst" 2>/dev/null ||
+
+      # The rename failed, perhaps because mv can't rename something else
+      # to itself, or perhaps because mv is so ancient that it does not
+      # support -f.
+      {
+	# Now remove or move aside any old file at destination location.
+	# We try this two ways since rm can't unlink itself on some
+	# systems and the destination file might be busy for other
+	# reasons.  In this case, the final cleanup might fail but the new
+	# file should still install successfully.
+	{
+	  test ! -f "$dst" ||
+	  $doit $rmcmd -f "$dst" 2>/dev/null ||
+	  { $doit $mvcmd -f "$dst" "$rmtmp" 2>/dev/null &&
+	    { $doit $rmcmd -f "$rmtmp" 2>/dev/null; :; }
+	  } ||
+	  { echo "$0: cannot unlink or rename $dst" >&2
+	    (exit 1); exit 1
+	  }
+	} &&
+
+	# Now rename the file to the real destination.
+	$doit $mvcmd "$dsttmp" "$dst"
+      }
+    fi || exit 1
+
+    trap '' 0
+  fi
+done
+
+# Local variables:
+# eval: (add-hook 'write-file-hooks 'time-stamp)
+# time-stamp-start: "scriptversion="
+# time-stamp-format: "%:y-%02m-%02d.%02H"
+# time-stamp-time-zone: "UTC"
+# time-stamp-end: "; # UTC"
+# End:

configure.ac

@@ -0,0 +1,326 @@
+AC_INIT(nix, m4_esyscmd([bash -c "echo -n $(cat ./version)$VERSION_SUFFIX"]))
+AC_CONFIG_SRCDIR(README)
+AC_CONFIG_AUX_DIR(config)
+
+AC_PROG_SED
+
+# Construct a Nix system name (like "i686-linux").
+AC_CANONICAL_HOST
+AC_MSG_CHECKING([for the canonical Nix system name])
+
+AC_ARG_WITH(system, AC_HELP_STRING([--with-system=SYSTEM],
+  [Platform identifier (e.g., `i686-linux').]),
+  [system=$withval],
+  [case "$host_cpu" in
+     i*86)
+        machine_name="i686";;
+     amd64)
+        machine_name="x86_64";;
+     *)
+        machine_name="$host_cpu";;
+   esac
+
+   case "$host_os" in
+     linux-gnu*)
+        # For backward compatibility, strip the `-gnu' part.
+        system="$machine_name-linux";;
+     *)
+        # Strip the version number from names such as `gnu0.3',
+        # `darwin10.2.0', etc.
+        system="$machine_name-`echo $host_os | "$SED" -e's/@<:@0-9.@:>@*$//g'`";;
+   esac])
+
+sys_name=$(uname -s | tr 'A-Z ' 'a-z_')
+
+case $sys_name in
+    cygwin*)
+        sys_name=cygwin
+        ;;
+esac
+
+AC_MSG_RESULT($system)
+AC_SUBST(system)
+AC_DEFINE_UNQUOTED(SYSTEM, ["$system"], [platform identifier (`cpu-os')])
+
+
+# State should be stored in /nix/var, unless the user overrides it explicitly.
+test "$localstatedir" = '${prefix}/var' && localstatedir=/nix/var
+
+
+# Solaris-specific stuff.
+AC_STRUCT_DIRENT_D_TYPE
+if test "$sys_name" = sunos; then
+    # Solaris requires -lsocket -lnsl for network functions
+    LIBS="-lsocket -lnsl $LIBS"
+fi
+
+
+CFLAGS=
+CXXFLAGS=
+AC_PROG_CC
+AC_PROG_CXX
+
+
+# Use 64-bit file system calls so that we can support files > 2 GiB.
+AC_SYS_LARGEFILE
+
+
+# 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++)
+
+
+AC_CHECK_FUNCS([statvfs])
+
+
+# Check for lutimes, optionally used for changing the mtime of
+# symlinks.
+AC_CHECK_FUNCS([lutimes])
+
+
+# Check whether the store optimiser can optimise symlinks.
+AC_MSG_CHECKING([whether it is possible to create a link to a symlink])
+ln -s bla tmp_link
+if ln tmp_link tmp_link2 2> /dev/null; then
+    AC_MSG_RESULT(yes)
+    AC_DEFINE(CAN_LINK_SYMLINK, 1, [Whether link() works on symlinks.])
+else
+    AC_MSG_RESULT(no)
+fi
+rm -f tmp_link tmp_link2
+
+
+# Check for <locale>.
+AC_LANG_PUSH(C++)
+AC_CHECK_HEADERS([locale])
+AC_LANG_POP(C++)
+
+
+# Check for <err.h>.
+AC_CHECK_HEADER([err.h], [], [bsddiff_compat_include="-Icompat-include"])
+AC_SUBST([bsddiff_compat_include])
+
+
+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(bash, bash)
+NEED_PROG(patch, patch)
+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)
+NEED_PROG(sed, sed)
+NEED_PROG(tar, tar)
+NEED_PROG(bzip2, bzip2)
+NEED_PROG(gzip, gzip)
+NEED_PROG(xz, xz)
+AC_PATH_PROG(dot, dot)
+AC_PATH_PROG(dblatex, dblatex)
+AC_PATH_PROG(pv, pv, pv)
+
+
+# Test that Perl has the open/fork feature (Perl 5.8.0 and beyond).
+AC_MSG_CHECKING([whether Perl is recent enough])
+if ! $perl -e 'open(FOO, "-|", "true"); while (<FOO>) { print; }; close FOO or die;'; then
+    AC_MSG_RESULT(no)
+    AC_MSG_ERROR([Your Perl version is too old.  Nix requires Perl 5.8.0 or newer.])
+fi
+AC_MSG_RESULT(yes)
+
+
+# Figure out where to install Perl modules.
+AC_MSG_CHECKING([for the Perl installation prefix])
+perlversion=$($perl -e 'use Config; print $Config{version};')
+perlarchname=$($perl -e 'use Config; print $Config{archname};')
+AC_SUBST(perllibdir, [${libdir}/perl5/site_perl/$perlversion/$perlarchname])
+AC_MSG_RESULT($perllibdir)
+
+
+NEED_PROG(cat, cat)
+NEED_PROG(tr, tr)
+AC_ARG_WITH(coreutils-bin, AC_HELP_STRING([--with-coreutils-bin=PATH],
+  [path of cat, mkdir, etc.]),
+  coreutils=$withval, coreutils=$(dirname $cat))
+AC_SUBST(coreutils)
+
+
+AC_ARG_WITH(store-dir, AC_HELP_STRING([--with-store-dir=PATH],
+  [path of the Nix store (defaults to /nix/store)]),
+  storedir=$withval, storedir='/nix/store')
+AC_SUBST(storedir)
+
+
+# Look for OpenSSL, a required dependency.
+AC_PATH_PROG(openssl, openssl, openssl) # if not found, call openssl in $PATH
+AC_SUBST(openssl)
+AC_DEFINE_UNQUOTED(OPENSSL_PATH, ["$openssl"], [Path of the OpenSSL binary])
+
+PKG_CHECK_MODULES([OPENSSL], [libcrypto], [CXXFLAGS="$OPENSSL_CFLAGS $CXXFLAGS"])
+
+
+# Look for libbz2, a required dependency.
+AC_CHECK_LIB([bz2], [BZ2_bzWriteOpen], [true],
+  [AC_MSG_ERROR([Nix requires libbz2, which is part of bzip2.  See http://www.bzip.org/.])])
+AC_CHECK_HEADERS([bzlib.h], [true],
+  [AC_MSG_ERROR([Nix requires libbz2, which is part of bzip2.  See http://www.bzip.org/.])])
+
+
+# Look for SQLite, a required dependency.
+PKG_CHECK_MODULES([SQLITE3], [sqlite3 >= 3.6.19], [CXXFLAGS="$SQLITE3_CFLAGS $CXXFLAGS"])
+
+
+# Look for libcurl, a required dependency.
+PKG_CHECK_MODULES([LIBCURL], [libcurl], [CXXFLAGS="$LIBCURL_CFLAGS $CXXFLAGS"])
+
+
+# Look for libsodium, an optional dependency.
+PKG_CHECK_MODULES([SODIUM], [libsodium],
+  [AC_DEFINE([HAVE_SODIUM], [1], [Whether to use libsodium for cryptography.])
+   CXXFLAGS="$SODIUM_CFLAGS $CXXFLAGS"
+   have_sodium=1], [have_sodium=])
+AC_SUBST(HAVE_SODIUM, [$have_sodium])
+
+
+# Look for liblzma, a required dependency.
+PKG_CHECK_MODULES([LIBLZMA], [liblzma], [CXXFLAGS="$LIBLZMA_CFLAGS $CXXFLAGS"])
+
+
+# Whether to use the Boehm garbage collector.
+AC_ARG_ENABLE(gc, AC_HELP_STRING([--enable-gc],
+  [enable garbage collection in the Nix expression evaluator (requires Boehm GC) [default=no]]),
+  gc=$enableval, gc=no)
+if test "$gc" = yes; then
+  PKG_CHECK_MODULES([BDW_GC], [bdw-gc])
+  CXXFLAGS="$BDW_GC_CFLAGS $CXXFLAGS"
+  AC_DEFINE(HAVE_BOEHMGC, 1, [Whether to use the Boehm garbage collector.])
+fi
+
+
+# Check for the required Perl dependencies (DBI, DBD::SQLite and WWW::Curl).
+perlFlags="-I$perllibdir"
+
+AC_ARG_WITH(dbi, AC_HELP_STRING([--with-dbi=PATH],
+  [prefix of the Perl DBI library]),
+  perlFlags="$perlFlags -I$withval")
+
+AC_ARG_WITH(dbd-sqlite, AC_HELP_STRING([--with-dbd-sqlite=PATH],
+  [prefix of the Perl DBD::SQLite library]),
+  perlFlags="$perlFlags -I$withval")
+
+AC_ARG_WITH(www-curl, AC_HELP_STRING([--with-www-curl=PATH],
+  [prefix of the Perl WWW::Curl library]),
+  perlFlags="$perlFlags -I$withval")
+
+AC_MSG_CHECKING([whether DBD::SQLite works])
+if ! $perl $perlFlags -e 'use DBI; use DBD::SQLite;' 2>&5; then
+    AC_MSG_RESULT(no)
+    AC_MSG_FAILURE([The Perl modules DBI and/or DBD::SQLite are missing.])
+fi
+AC_MSG_RESULT(yes)
+
+AC_MSG_CHECKING([whether WWW::Curl works])
+if ! $perl $perlFlags -e 'use WWW::Curl;' 2>&5; then
+    AC_MSG_RESULT(no)
+    AC_MSG_FAILURE([The Perl module WWW::Curl is missing.])
+fi
+AC_MSG_RESULT(yes)
+
+AC_SUBST(perlFlags)
+
+
+# Check for otool, an optional dependency on Darwin.
+AC_PATH_PROG(otool, otool)
+AC_MSG_CHECKING([that otool works])
+case $host_os in
+  darwin*)
+    if test -z "$otool" || ! $otool --version 2>/dev/null; then
+      AC_MSG_RESULT(no)
+      AC_MSG_ERROR([Can't get version from otool; do you need to install developer tools?])
+    fi
+    AC_MSG_RESULT(yes)
+    ;;
+  *)
+    AC_MSG_RESULT(not needed)
+    ;;
+esac
+
+
+# Whether to build the Perl bindings
+AC_MSG_CHECKING([whether to build the Perl bindings])
+AC_ARG_ENABLE(perl-bindings, AC_HELP_STRING([--enable-perl-bindings],
+  [whether to build the Perl bindings (recommended) [default=yes]]),
+  perlbindings=$enableval, perlbindings=yes)
+if test "$enable_shared" = no; then
+   # Perl bindings require shared libraries.
+   perlbindings=no
+fi
+AC_SUBST(perlbindings)
+AC_MSG_RESULT($perlbindings)
+
+
+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")
+
+
+# Setuid installations.
+AC_CHECK_FUNCS([setresuid setreuid lchown])
+
+
+# Nice to have, but not essential.
+AC_CHECK_FUNCS([strsignal posix_fallocate nanosleep sysconf])
+
+
+# This is needed if bzip2 is a static library, and the Nix libraries
+# are dynamic.
+if test "$(uname)" = "Darwin"; then
+    LDFLAGS="-all_load $LDFLAGS"
+fi
+
+
+# Figure out the extension of dynamic libraries.
+eval dynlib_suffix=$shrext_cmds
+AC_SUBST(dynlib_suffix)
+
+
+# Do we have GNU tar?
+AC_MSG_CHECKING([if you have a recent GNU tar])
+if $tar --version 2> /dev/null | grep -q GNU && tar cvf /dev/null --warning=no-timestamp ./config.log > /dev/null; then
+    AC_MSG_RESULT(yes)
+    tarFlags="--warning=no-timestamp"
+else
+    AC_MSG_RESULT(no)
+fi
+AC_SUBST(tarFlags)
+
+
+# Expand all variables in config.status.
+test "$prefix" = NONE && prefix=$ac_default_prefix
+test "$exec_prefix" = NONE && exec_prefix='${prefix}'
+for name in $ac_subst_vars; do
+    declare $name="$(eval echo "${!name}")"
+    declare $name="$(eval echo "${!name}")"
+    declare $name="$(eval echo "${!name}")"
+done
+
+rm -f Makefile.config
+
+AC_CONFIG_HEADER([config.h])
+AC_CONFIG_FILES([])
+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/buildenv.nix

@@ -0,0 +1,45 @@
+with import <nix/config.nix>;
+
+{ derivations, manifest }:
+
+derivation {
+  name = "user-environment";
+  system = builtins.currentSystem;
+  builder = perl;
+  args = [ "-w" ./buildenv.pl ];
+
+  inherit manifest;
+
+  # !!! grmbl, need structured data for passing this in a clean way.
+  derivations =
+    map (d:
+      [ (d.meta.active or "true")
+        (d.meta.priority or 5)
+        (builtins.length d.outputs)
+      ] ++ map (output: builtins.getAttr output d) d.outputs)
+      derivations;
+
+  # Building user environments remotely just causes huge amounts of
+  # network traffic, so don't do that.
+  preferLocalBuild = true;
+
+  # Also don't bother substituting.
+  allowSubstitutes = false;
+
+  __sandboxProfile = ''
+    (allow sysctl-read)
+    (allow file-read*
+           (literal "/usr/lib/libSystem.dylib")
+           (literal "/usr/lib/libSystem.B.dylib")
+           (literal "/usr/lib/libobjc.A.dylib")
+           (literal "/usr/lib/libobjc.dylib")
+           (literal "/usr/lib/libauto.dylib")
+           (literal "/usr/lib/libc++abi.dylib")
+           (literal "/usr/lib/libc++.1.dylib")
+           (literal "/usr/lib/libDiagnosticMessagesClient.dylib")
+           (subpath "/usr/lib/system")
+           (subpath "/dev"))
+  '';
+
+  inherit chrootDeps;
+}

corepkgs/buildenv.pl

@@ -0,0 +1,168 @@
+use strict;
+use Cwd;
+use IO::Handle;
+use utf8;
+
+STDOUT->autoflush(1);
+
+my $out = $ENV{"out"};
+mkdir "$out", 0755 || die "error creating $out";
+
+
+my $symlinks = 0;
+
+my %priorities;
+
+
+# For each activated package, create symlinks.
+
+sub createLinks {
+    my $srcDir = shift;
+    my $dstDir = shift;
+    my $priority = shift;
+
+    my @srcFiles = glob("$srcDir/*");
+
+    foreach my $srcFile (@srcFiles) {
+        my $baseName = $srcFile;
+        $baseName =~ s/^.*\///g; # strip directory
+        my $dstFile = "$dstDir/$baseName";
+
+        # The files below are special-cased so that they don't show up
+        # in user profiles, either because they are useless, or
+        # because they would cause pointless collisions (e.g., each
+        # Python package brings its own
+        # `$out/lib/pythonX.Y/site-packages/easy-install.pth'.)
+        # Urgh, hacky...
+        if ($srcFile =~ /\/propagated-build-inputs$/ ||
+            $srcFile =~ /\/nix-support$/ ||
+            $srcFile =~ /\/perllocal.pod$/ ||
+            $srcFile =~ /\/info\/dir$/ ||
+            $srcFile =~ /\/log$/)
+        {
+            # Do nothing.
+        }
+
+        elsif (-d $srcFile) {
+
+            lstat $dstFile;
+
+            if (-d _) {
+                createLinks($srcFile, $dstFile, $priority);
+            }
+
+            elsif (-l _) {
+                my $target = readlink $dstFile or die;
+                if (!-d $target) {
+                    die "collision between directory ‘$srcFile’ and non-directory ‘$target’";
+                }
+                unlink $dstFile or die "error unlinking ‘$dstFile’: $!";
+                mkdir $dstFile, 0755 ||
+                    die "error creating directory ‘$dstFile’: $!";
+                createLinks($target, $dstFile, $priorities{$dstFile});
+                createLinks($srcFile, $dstFile, $priority);
+            }
+
+            else {
+                symlink($srcFile, $dstFile) ||
+                    die "error creating link ‘$dstFile’: $!";
+                $priorities{$dstFile} = $priority;
+                $symlinks++;
+            }
+        }
+
+        else {
+
+            if (-l $dstFile) {
+                my $target = readlink $dstFile;
+                my $prevPriority = $priorities{$dstFile};
+                die("collision between ‘$srcFile’ and ‘$target’; " .
+                    "use ‘nix-env --set-flag priority NUMBER PKGNAME’ " .
+                    "to change the priority of one of the conflicting packages\n")
+                    if $prevPriority == $priority;
+                next if $prevPriority < $priority;
+                unlink $dstFile or die;
+            }
+
+            symlink($srcFile, $dstFile) ||
+                die "error creating link ‘$dstFile’: $!";
+            $priorities{$dstFile} = $priority;
+            $symlinks++;
+        }
+    }
+}
+
+
+my %done;
+my %postponed;
+
+sub addPkg;
+sub addPkg {
+    my $pkgDir = shift;
+    my $priority = shift;
+
+    return if (defined $done{$pkgDir});
+    $done{$pkgDir} = 1;
+
+#    print "symlinking $pkgDir\n";
+    createLinks("$pkgDir", "$out", $priority);
+
+    my $propagatedFN = "$pkgDir/nix-support/propagated-user-env-packages";
+    if (-e $propagatedFN) {
+        open PROP, "<$propagatedFN" or die;
+        my $propagated = <PROP>;
+        close PROP;
+        my @propagated = split ' ', $propagated;
+        foreach my $p (@propagated) {
+            $postponed{$p} = 1 unless defined $done{$p};
+        }
+    }
+}
+
+
+# Convert the stuff we get from the environment back into a coherent
+# data type.
+my @pkgs;
+my @derivations = split ' ', $ENV{"derivations"};
+while (scalar @derivations) {
+    my $active = shift @derivations;
+    my $priority = shift @derivations;
+    my $outputs = shift @derivations;
+    for (my $n = 0; $n < $outputs; $n++) {
+        my $path = shift @derivations;
+        push @pkgs,
+            { path => $path
+            , active => $active ne "false"
+            , priority => int($priority) };
+    }
+}
+
+
+# Symlink to the packages that have been installed explicitly by the
+# user.  Process in priority order to reduce unnecessary
+# symlink/unlink steps.
+@pkgs = sort { $a->{priority} <=> $b->{priority} || $a->{path} cmp $b->{path} } @pkgs;
+foreach my $pkg (@pkgs) {
+    #print $pkg, " ", $pkgs{$pkg}->{priority}, "\n";
+    addPkg($pkg->{path}, $pkg->{priority}) if $pkg->{active};
+}
+
+
+# Symlink to the packages that have been "propagated" by packages
+# installed by the user (i.e., package X declares that it wants Y
+# installed as well).  We do these later because they have a lower
+# priority in case of collisions.
+my $priorityCounter = 1000; # don't care about collisions
+while (scalar(keys %postponed) > 0) {
+    my @pkgDirs = keys %postponed;
+    %postponed = ();
+    foreach my $pkgDir (sort @pkgDirs) {
+        addPkg($pkgDir, $priorityCounter++);
+    }
+}
+
+
+print STDERR "created $symlinks symlinks in user environment\n";
+
+
+symlink($ENV{"manifest"}, "$out/manifest.nix") or die "cannot create manifest";

corepkgs/config.nix.in

@@ -0,0 +1,26 @@
+let
+  fromEnv = var: def:
+    let val = builtins.getEnv var; in
+    if val != "" then val else def;
+in rec {
+  perl = "@perl@";
+  shell = "@bash@";
+  coreutils = "@coreutils@";
+  bzip2 = "@bzip2@";
+  gzip = "@gzip@";
+  xz = "@xz@";
+  tar = "@tar@";
+  tarFlags = "@tarFlags@";
+  tr = "@tr@";
+  nixBinDir = fromEnv "NIX_BIN_DIR" "@bindir@";
+  nixPrefix = "@prefix@";
+
+  # If Nix is installed in the Nix store, then automatically add it as
+  # a dependency to the core packages. This ensures that they work
+  # properly in a chroot.
+  chrootDeps =
+    if dirOf nixPrefix == builtins.storeDir then
+      [ (builtins.storePath nixPrefix) ]
+    else
+      [ ];
+}

corepkgs/derivation.nix

@@ -0,0 +1,27 @@
+/* This is the implementation of the ‘derivation’ builtin function.
+   It's actually a wrapper around the ‘derivationStrict’ primop. */
+
+drvAttrs @ { outputs ? [ "out" ], ... }:
+
+let
+
+  strict = derivationStrict drvAttrs;
+
+  commonAttrs = drvAttrs // (builtins.listToAttrs outputsList) //
+    { all = map (x: x.value) outputsList;
+      inherit drvAttrs;
+    };
+
+  outputToAttrListElement = outputName:
+    { name = outputName;
+      value = commonAttrs // {
+        outPath = builtins.getAttr outputName strict;
+        drvPath = strict.drvPath;
+        type = "derivation";
+        inherit outputName;
+      };
+    };
+
+  outputsList = map outputToAttrListElement outputs;
+
+in (builtins.head outputsList).value

corepkgs/fetchurl.nix

@@ -0,0 +1,38 @@
+with import <nix/config.nix>;
+
+{ system ? builtins.currentSystem
+, url
+, outputHash ? ""
+, outputHashAlgo ? ""
+, md5 ? "", sha1 ? "", sha256 ? ""
+, executable ? false
+, unpack ? false
+, name ? baseNameOf (toString url)
+}:
+
+assert (outputHash != "" && outputHashAlgo != "")
+    || md5 != "" || sha1 != "" || sha256 != "";
+
+derivation {
+  builder = "builtin:fetchurl";
+
+  # New-style output content requirements.
+  outputHashAlgo = if outputHashAlgo != "" then outputHashAlgo else
+      if sha256 != "" then "sha256" else if sha1 != "" then "sha1" else "md5";
+  outputHash = if outputHash != "" then outputHash else
+      if sha256 != "" then sha256 else if sha1 != "" then sha1 else md5;
+  outputHashMode = if unpack || executable then "recursive" else "flat";
+
+  inherit name system url executable unpack;
+
+  # No need to double the amount of network traffic
+  preferLocalBuild = true;
+
+  impureEnvVars = [
+    # We borrow these environment variables from the caller to allow
+    # easy proxy configuration.  This is impure, but a fixed-output
+    # derivation like fetchurl is allowed to do so since its result is
+    # by definition pure.
+    "http_proxy" "https_proxy" "ftp_proxy" "all_proxy" "no_proxy"
+  ];
+}

corepkgs/imported-drv-to-derivation.nix

@@ -0,0 +1,21 @@
+attrs @ { drvPath, outputs, name, ... }:
+
+let
+
+  commonAttrs = (builtins.listToAttrs outputsList) //
+    { all = map (x: x.value) outputsList;
+      inherit drvPath name;
+      type = "derivation";
+    };
+
+  outputToAttrListElement = outputName:
+    { name = outputName;
+      value = commonAttrs // {
+        outPath = builtins.getAttr outputName attrs;
+        inherit outputName;
+      };
+    };
+    
+  outputsList = map outputToAttrListElement outputs;
+    
+in (builtins.head outputsList).value

corepkgs/local.mk

@@ -0,0 +1,5 @@
+corepkgs_FILES = nar.nix buildenv.nix buildenv.pl unpack-channel.nix derivation.nix fetchurl.nix imported-drv-to-derivation.nix
+
+$(foreach file,config.nix $(corepkgs_FILES),$(eval $(call install-data-in,$(d)/$(file),$(datadir)/nix/corepkgs)))
+
+template-files += $(d)/config.nix

corepkgs/nar.nix

@@ -0,0 +1,48 @@
+with import <nix/config.nix>;
+
+let
+
+  builder = builtins.toFile "nar.sh"
+    ''
+      export PATH=${nixBinDir}:${coreutils}
+
+      if [ $compressionType = xz ]; then
+        ext=.xz
+        compressor="| ${xz} -7"
+      elif [ $compressionType = bzip2 ]; then
+        ext=.bz2
+        compressor="| ${bzip2}"
+      else
+        ext=
+        compressor=
+      fi
+
+      echo "packing ‘$storePath’..."
+      mkdir $out
+      dst=$out/tmp.nar$ext
+
+      set -o pipefail
+      eval "nix-store --dump \"$storePath\" $compressor > $dst"
+
+      hash=$(nix-hash --flat --type $hashAlgo --base32 $dst)
+      echo -n $hash > $out/nar-compressed-hash
+
+      mv $dst $out/$hash.nar$ext
+    '';
+
+in
+
+{ storePath, hashAlgo, compressionType }:
+
+derivation {
+  name = "nar";
+  system = builtins.currentSystem;
+  builder = shell;
+  args = [ "-e" builder ];
+  inherit storePath hashAlgo compressionType;
+
+  # Remote machines may not have ${nixBinDir} or ${coreutils} in the same prefixes
+  preferLocalBuild = true;
+
+  inherit chrootDeps;
+}

corepkgs/unpack-channel.nix

@@ -0,0 +1,41 @@
+with import <nix/config.nix>;
+
+let
+
+  builder = builtins.toFile "unpack-channel.sh"
+    ''
+      mkdir $out
+      cd $out
+      xzpat="\.xz\$"
+      gzpat="\.gz\$"
+      if [[ "$src" =~ $xzpat ]]; then
+        ${xz} -d < $src | ${tar} xf - ${tarFlags}
+      elif [[ "$src" =~ $gzpat ]]; then
+        ${gzip} -d < $src | ${tar} xf - ${tarFlags}
+      else
+        ${bzip2} -d < $src | ${tar} xf - ${tarFlags}
+      fi
+      mv * $out/$channelName
+      if [ -n "$binaryCacheURL" ]; then
+        mkdir $out/binary-caches
+        echo -n "$binaryCacheURL" > $out/binary-caches/$channelName
+      fi
+    '';
+
+in
+
+{ name, channelName, src, binaryCacheURL ? "" }:
+
+derivation {
+  system = builtins.currentSystem;
+  builder = shell;
+  args = [ "-e" builder ];
+  inherit name channelName src binaryCacheURL;
+
+  PATH = "${nixBinDir}:${coreutils}";
+
+  # No point in doing this remotely.
+  preferLocalBuild = true;
+
+  inherit chrootDeps;
+}

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

dev-shell

@@ -0,0 +1,18 @@
+#!/usr/bin/env bash
+if [ -e tests/test-tmp ]; then
+    chmod -R u+w tests/test-tmp
+    rm -rf tests/test-tmp
+fi
+
+s=$(type -p nix-shell)
+exec $s release.nix -A tarball --command "
+    unset http_proxy
+    export NIX_REMOTE=$NIX_REMOTE
+    export NIX_PATH='$NIX_PATH'
+    export NIX_BUILD_SHELL=$(type -p bash)
+    export c=\$configureFlags
+    exec $s release.nix -A build.$(if [ $(uname -s) = Darwin ]; then echo x86_64-darwin; else echo x86_64-linux; fi) --exclude tarball --command '
+        configureFlags+=\" \$c --prefix=$(pwd)/inst --sysconfdir=$(pwd)/inst/etc\"
+        return
+    '" \
+    "$@"

doc/manual/.version

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

doc/manual/advanced-topics/advanced-topics.xml

@@ -0,0 +1,10 @@
+<part xmlns="http://docbook.org/ns/docbook"
+      xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink"
+      xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XInclude"
+      version="5.0">
+
+<title>Advanced Topics</title>
+
+<xi:include href="distributed-builds.xml" />
+
+</part>

doc/manual/advanced-topics/distributed-builds.xml

@@ -0,0 +1,115 @@
+<chapter xmlns="http://docbook.org/ns/docbook"
+      xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink"
+      xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XInclude"
+      version="5.0"
+      xml:id='chap-distributed-builds'>
+
+<title>Distributed Builds</title>
+
+<para>Nix supports distributed builds, where 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) and 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>
+
+<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.  The details of the build hook protocol are described in
+the documentation of the <link
+linkend="envar-build-hook"><envar>NIX_BUILD_HOOK</envar>
+variable</link>.</para>
+
+<example xml: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        8 1 kvm
+nix@itchy.labs.cs.uu.nl     i686-linux      /home/nix/.ssh/id_scratchy_auto        8 2
+nix@poochie.labs.cs.uu.nl   i686-linux      /home/nix/.ssh/id_scratchy_auto        8 2 kvm perf
+</programlisting>
+</example>
+
+<para>Nix ships with a build hook that should be suitable for most
+purposes.  It uses <command>ssh</command> and
+<command>nix-copy-closure</command> to copy the build inputs and
+outputs and perform the remote build.  To use it, you should set
+<envar>NIX_BUILD_HOOK</envar> to
+<filename><replaceable>prefix</replaceable>/libexec/nix/build-remote.pl</filename>.
+You should also define a list of available build machines and point
+the environment variable <envar>NIX_REMOTE_SYSTEMS</envar> 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>A comma-separated list of Nix platform type
+  identifiers, such as <literal>powerpc-darwin</literal>.  It is
+  possible for a machine to support multiple platform types, e.g.,
+  <literal>i686-linux,x86_64-linux</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 number of builds that
+  <filename>build-remote.pl</filename> will execute in parallel on the
+  machine.  Typically this should be equal to the number of CPU cores.
+  For instance, the machine <literal>itchy</literal> in the example
+  will execute up to 8 builds in parallel.</para></listitem>
+
+  <listitem><para>The “speed factor”, indicating the relative speed of
+  the machine.  If there are multiple machines of the right type, Nix
+  will prefer the fastest, taking load into account.</para></listitem>
+
+  <listitem><para>A comma-separated list of <emphasis>supported
+  features</emphasis>.  If a derivation has the
+  <varname>requiredSystemFeatures</varname> attribute, then
+  <filename>build-remote.pl</filename> will only perform the
+  derivation on a machine that has the specified features.  For
+  instance, the attribute
+
+<programlisting>
+requiredSystemFeatures = [ "kvm" ];
+</programlisting>
+
+  will cause the build to be performed on a machine that has the
+  <literal>kvm</literal> feature (i.e., <literal>scratchy</literal> in
+  the example above).</para></listitem>
+
+  <listitem><para>A comma-separated list of <emphasis>mandatory
+  features</emphasis>.  A machine will only be used to build a
+  derivation if all of the machine’s mandatory features appear in the
+  derivation’s <varname>requiredSystemFeatures</varname> attribute.
+  Thus, in the example, the machine <literal>poochie</literal> will
+  only do derivations that have
+  <varname>requiredSystemFeatures</varname> set to <literal>["kvm"
+  "perf"]</literal> or <literal>["perf"]</literal>.</para></listitem>
+
+</orderedlist>
+
+You should also set up the environment variable
+<envar>NIX_CURRENT_LOAD</envar> to point at a directory (e.g.,
+<filename>/var/run/nix/current-load</filename>) that
+<filename>build-remote.pl</filename> uses to remember how many builds
+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>NIX_CURRENT_LOAD</envar>
+file.  Maybe in the future <filename>build-remote.pl</filename> will
+look at the actual remote load.</para>
+
+</chapter>

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/command-ref/command-ref.xml

@@ -0,0 +1,20 @@
+<part xmlns="http://docbook.org/ns/docbook"
+      xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink"
+      xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XInclude"
+      version="5.0"
+      xml:id='part-command-ref'>
+
+<title>Command Reference</title>
+
+<partintro>
+<para>This section lists commands and options that you can use when you
+work with Nix.</para>
+</partintro>
+
+<xi:include href="opt-common.xml" />
+<xi:include href="env-common.xml" />
+<xi:include href="main-commands.xml" />
+<xi:include href="utilities.xml" />
+<xi:include href="files.xml" />
+
+</part>

doc/manual/command-ref/conf-file.xml

@@ -0,0 +1,644 @@
+<refentry xmlns="http://docbook.org/ns/docbook"
+          xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink"
+          xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XInclude"
+          xml:id="sec-conf-file">
+
+<refmeta>
+  <refentrytitle>nix.conf</refentrytitle>
+  <manvolnum>5</manvolnum>
+  <refmiscinfo class="source">Nix</refmiscinfo>
+  <refmiscinfo class="version"><xi:include href="../version.txt" parse="text"/></refmiscinfo>
+</refmeta>
+
+<refnamediv>
+  <refname>nix.conf</refname>
+  <refpurpose>Nix configuration file</refpurpose>
+</refnamediv>
+
+<refsection><title>Description</title>
+
+<para>A number of persistent settings of Nix are stored in the file
+<filename><replaceable>sysconfdir</replaceable>/nix/nix.conf</filename>.
+This file is a list of <literal><replaceable>name</replaceable> =
+<replaceable>value</replaceable></literal> pairs, one per line.
+Comments start with a <literal>#</literal> character.  Here is an example
+configuration file:</para>
+
+<programlisting>
+gc-keep-outputs = true       # Nice for developers
+gc-keep-derivations = true   # Idem
+env-keep-derivations = false
+</programlisting>
+
+<para>You can override settings using the <option>--option</option>
+flag, e.g. <literal>--option gc-keep-outputs false</literal>.</para>
+
+<para>The following settings are currently available:
+
+<variablelist>
+
+
+  <varlistentry xml:id="conf-gc-keep-outputs"><term><literal>gc-keep-outputs</literal></term>
+
+    <listitem><para>If <literal>true</literal>, the garbage collector
+    will keep the outputs of non-garbage derivations.  If
+    <literal>false</literal> (default), outputs will be deleted unless
+    they are GC roots themselves (or reachable from other roots).</para>
+
+    <para>In general, outputs must be registered as roots separately.
+    However, even if the output of a derivation is registered as a
+    root, the collector will still delete store paths that are used
+    only at build time (e.g., the C compiler, or source tarballs
+    downloaded from the network).  To prevent it from doing so, set
+    this option to <literal>true</literal>.</para></listitem>
+
+  </varlistentry>
+
+
+  <varlistentry xml:id="conf-gc-keep-derivations"><term><literal>gc-keep-derivations</literal></term>
+
+    <listitem><para>If <literal>true</literal> (default), the garbage
+    collector will keep the derivations from which non-garbage store
+    paths were built.  If <literal>false</literal>, they will be
+    deleted unless explicitly registered as a root (or reachable from
+    other roots).</para>
+
+    <para>Keeping derivation around is useful for querying and
+    traceability (e.g., it allows you to ask with what dependencies or
+    options a store path was built), so by default this option is on.
+    Turn it off to save a bit of disk space (or a lot if
+    <literal>gc-keep-outputs</literal> is also turned on).</para></listitem>
+
+  </varlistentry>
+
+
+  <varlistentry><term><literal>env-keep-derivations</literal></term>
+
+    <listitem><para>If <literal>false</literal> (default), derivations
+    are not stored in Nix user environments.  That is, the derivation
+    any build-time-only dependencies may be garbage-collected.</para>
+
+    <para>If <literal>true</literal>, when you add a Nix derivation to
+    a user environment, the path of the derivation is stored in the
+    user environment.  Thus, the derivation will not be
+    garbage-collected until the user environment generation is deleted
+    (<command>nix-env --delete-generations</command>).  To prevent
+    build-time-only dependencies from being collected, you should also
+    turn on <literal>gc-keep-outputs</literal>.</para>
+
+    <para>The difference between this option and
+    <literal>gc-keep-derivations</literal> is that this one is
+    “sticky”: it applies to any user environment created while this
+    option was enabled, while <literal>gc-keep-derivations</literal>
+    only applies at the moment the garbage collector is
+    run.</para></listitem>
+
+  </varlistentry>
+
+
+  <varlistentry xml:id="conf-build-max-jobs"><term><literal>build-max-jobs</literal></term>
+
+    <listitem><para>This option defines the maximum number of jobs
+    that Nix will try to build in parallel.  The default is
+    <literal>1</literal>.  You should generally set it to the number
+    of CPUs in your system (e.g., <literal>2</literal> on an Athlon 64
+    X2).  It can be overridden using the <option
+    linkend='opt-max-jobs'>--max-jobs</option> (<option>-j</option>)
+    command line switch.</para></listitem>
+
+  </varlistentry>
+
+
+  <varlistentry xml:id="conf-build-cores"><term><literal>build-cores</literal></term>
+
+    <listitem><para>Sets the value of the
+    <envar>NIX_BUILD_CORES</envar> environment variable in the
+    invocation of builders.  Builders can use this variable at their
+    discretion to control the maximum amount of parallelism.  For
+    instance, in Nixpkgs, if the derivation attribute
+    <varname>enableParallelBuilding</varname> is set to
+    <literal>true</literal>, the builder passes the
+    <option>-j<replaceable>N</replaceable></option> flag to GNU Make.
+    It can be overridden using the <option
+    linkend='opt-cores'>--cores</option> command line switch and
+    defaults to <literal>1</literal>.  The value <literal>0</literal>
+    means that the builder should use all available CPU cores in the
+    system.</para></listitem>
+
+  </varlistentry>
+
+
+  <varlistentry xml:id="conf-build-max-silent-time"><term><literal>build-max-silent-time</literal></term>
+
+    <listitem>
+
+      <para>This option defines the maximum number of seconds that a
+      builder can go without producing any data on standard output or
+      standard error.  This is useful (for instance in an automated
+      build system) to catch builds that are stuck in an infinite
+      loop, or to catch remote builds that are hanging due to network
+      problems.  It can be overridden using the <option
+      linkend="opt-max-silent-time">--max-silent-time</option> command
+      line switch.</para>
+
+      <para>The value <literal>0</literal> means that there is no
+      timeout.  This is also the default.</para>
+
+    </listitem>
+
+  </varlistentry>
+
+
+  <varlistentry xml:id="conf-build-timeout"><term><literal>build-timeout</literal></term>
+
+    <listitem>
+
+      <para>This option defines the maximum number of seconds that a
+      builder can run.  This is useful (for instance in an automated
+      build system) to catch builds that are stuck in an infinite loop
+      but keep writing to their standard output or standard error.  It
+      can be overridden using the <option
+      linkend="opt-timeout">--timeout</option> command line
+      switch.</para>
+
+      <para>The value <literal>0</literal> means that there is no
+      timeout.  This is also the default.</para>
+
+    </listitem>
+
+  </varlistentry>
+
+
+  <varlistentry xml:id="conf-build-max-log-size"><term><literal>build-max-log-size</literal></term>
+
+    <listitem>
+
+      <para>This option defines the maximum number of bytes that a
+      builder can write to its stdout/stderr.  If the builder exceeds
+      this limit, it’s killed.  A value of <literal>0</literal> (the
+      default) means that there is no limit.</para>
+
+    </listitem>
+
+  </varlistentry>
+
+
+  <varlistentry xml:id="conf-build-users-group"><term><literal>build-users-group</literal></term>
+
+    <listitem><para>This options specifies the Unix group containing
+    the Nix build user accounts.  In multi-user Nix installations,
+    builds should not be performed by the Nix account since that would
+    allow users to arbitrarily modify the Nix store and database by
+    supplying specially crafted builders; and they cannot be performed
+    by the calling user since that would allow him/her to influence
+    the build result.</para>
+
+    <para>Therefore, if this option is non-empty and specifies a valid
+    group, builds will be performed under the user accounts that are a
+    member of the group specified here (as listed in
+    <filename>/etc/group</filename>).  Those user accounts should not
+    be used for any other purpose!</para>
+
+    <para>Nix will never run two builds under the same user account at
+    the same time.  This is to prevent an obvious security hole: a
+    malicious user writing a Nix expression that modifies the build
+    result of a legitimate Nix expression being built by another user.
+    Therefore it is good to have as many Nix build user accounts as
+    you can spare.  (Remember: uids are cheap.)</para>
+
+    <para>The build users should have permission to create files in
+    the Nix store, but not delete them.  Therefore,
+    <filename>/nix/store</filename> should be owned by the Nix
+    account, its group should be the group specified here, and its
+    mode should be <literal>1775</literal>.</para>
+
+    <para>If the build users group is empty, builds will be performed
+    under the uid of the Nix process (that is, the uid of the caller
+    if <envar>NIX_REMOTE</envar> is empty, the uid under which the Nix
+    daemon runs if <envar>NIX_REMOTE</envar> is
+    <literal>daemon</literal>).  Obviously, this should not be used in
+    multi-user settings with untrusted users.</para>
+
+    </listitem>
+
+  </varlistentry>
+
+
+  <varlistentry><term><literal>build-use-sandbox</literal></term>
+
+    <listitem><para>If set to <literal>true</literal>, builds will be
+    performed in a <emphasis>sandboxed environment</emphasis>, i.e.,
+    they’re isolated from the normal file system hierarchy and will
+    only see their dependencies in the Nix store, the temporary build
+    directory, private versions of <filename>/proc</filename>,
+    <filename>/dev</filename>, <filename>/dev/shm</filename> and
+    <filename>/dev/pts</filename> (on Linux), and the paths configured with the
+    <link linkend='conf-build-sandbox-paths'><literal>build-sandbox-paths</literal>
+    option</link>. This is useful to prevent undeclared dependencies
+    on files in directories such as <filename>/usr/bin</filename>. In
+    addition, on Linux, builds run in private PID, mount, network, IPC
+    and UTS namespaces to isolate them from other processes in the
+    system (except that fixed-output derivations do not run in private
+    network namespace to ensure they can access the network).</para>
+
+    <para>Currently, sandboxing only work on Linux and Mac OS X. The use
+    of a sandbox requires that Nix is run as root (so you should use
+    the <link linkend='conf-build-users-group'>“build users”
+    feature</link> to perform the actual builds under different users
+    than root).</para>
+
+    <para>If this option is set to <literal>relaxed</literal>, then
+    fixed-output derivations and derivations that have the
+    <varname>__noChroot</varname> attribute set to
+    <literal>true</literal> do not run in sandboxes.</para>
+
+    <para>The default is <literal>false</literal>.</para>
+
+    </listitem>
+
+  </varlistentry>
+
+
+  <varlistentry xml:id="conf-build-sandbox-paths">
+    <term><literal>build-sandbox-paths</literal></term>
+
+    <listitem><para>A list of paths bind-mounted into Nix sandbox
+    environments. You can use the syntax
+    <literal><replaceable>target</replaceable>=<replaceable>source</replaceable></literal>
+    to mount a path in a different location in the sandbox; for
+    instance, <literal>/bin=/nix-bin</literal> will mount the path
+    <literal>/nix-bin</literal> as <literal>/bin</literal> inside the
+    sandbox. If <replaceable>source</replaceable> is followed by
+    <literal>?</literal>, then it is not an error if
+    <replaceable>source</replaceable> does not exist; for example,
+    <literal>/dev/nvidiactl?</literal> specifies that
+    <filename>/dev/nvidiactl</filename> will only be mounted in the
+    sandbox if it exists in the host filesystem.</para>
+
+    <para>Depending on how Nix was built, the default value for this option
+    may be empty or provide <filename>/bin/sh</filename> as a
+    bind-mount of <command>bash</command>.</para></listitem>
+
+  </varlistentry>
+
+
+  <varlistentry xml:id="conf-build-extra-sandbox-paths">
+    <term><literal>build-extra-sandbox-paths</literal></term>
+
+    <listitem><para>A list of additional paths appended to
+    <option>build-sandbox-paths</option>. Useful if you want to extend
+    its default value.</para></listitem>
+
+  </varlistentry>
+
+
+  <varlistentry><term><literal>build-use-substitutes</literal></term>
+
+    <listitem><para>If set to <literal>true</literal> (default), Nix
+    will use binary substitutes if available.  This option can be
+    disabled to force building from source.</para></listitem>
+
+  </varlistentry>
+
+
+  <varlistentry><term><literal>build-fallback</literal></term>
+
+    <listitem><para>If set to <literal>true</literal>, Nix will fall
+    back to building from source if a binary substitute fails.  This
+    is equivalent to the <option>--fallback</option> flag.  The
+    default is <literal>false</literal>.</para></listitem>
+
+  </varlistentry>
+
+
+  <varlistentry><term><literal>build-cache-failure</literal></term>
+
+    <listitem><para>If set to <literal>true</literal>, Nix will
+    “cache” build failures, meaning that it will remember (in its
+    database) that a derivation previously failed.  If you then try to
+    build the derivation again, Nix will immediately fail rather than
+    perform the build again.  Failures in fixed-output derivations
+    (such as <function>fetchurl</function> calls) are never cached.
+    The “failed” status of a derivation can be cleared using
+    <command>nix-store --clear-failed-paths</command>.  By default,
+    failure caching is disabled.</para></listitem>
+
+  </varlistentry>
+
+
+  <varlistentry><term><literal>build-keep-log</literal></term>
+
+    <listitem><para>If set to <literal>true</literal> (the default),
+    Nix will write the build log of a derivation (i.e. the standard
+    output and error of its builder) to the directory
+    <filename>/nix/var/log/nix/drvs</filename>.  The build log can be
+    retrieved using the command <command>nix-store -l
+    <replaceable>path</replaceable></command>.</para></listitem>
+
+  </varlistentry>
+
+
+  <varlistentry><term><literal>build-compress-log</literal></term>
+
+    <listitem><para>If set to <literal>true</literal> (the default),
+    build logs written to <filename>/nix/var/log/nix/drvs</filename>
+    will be compressed on the fly using bzip2.  Otherwise, they will
+    not be compressed.</para></listitem>
+
+  </varlistentry>
+
+
+  <varlistentry><term><literal>use-binary-caches</literal></term>
+
+    <listitem><para>If set to <literal>true</literal> (the default),
+    Nix will check the binary caches specified by
+    <option>binary-caches</option> and related options to obtain
+    binary substitutes.</para></listitem>
+
+  </varlistentry>
+
+
+  <varlistentry><term><literal>binary-caches</literal></term>
+
+    <listitem><para>A list of URLs of binary caches, separated by
+    whitespace.  The default is
+    <literal>https://cache.nixos.org</literal>.</para></listitem>
+
+  </varlistentry>
+
+
+  <varlistentry><term><literal>binary-caches-files</literal></term>
+
+    <listitem><para>A list of names of files that will be read to
+    obtain additional binary cache URLs.  The default is
+    <literal>/nix/var/nix/profiles/per-user/<replaceable>username</replaceable>/channels/binary-caches/*</literal>.
+    Note that when you’re using the Nix daemon,
+    <replaceable>username</replaceable> is always equal to
+    <literal>root</literal>, so Nix will only use the binary caches
+    provided by the channels installed by root.  Do not set this
+    option to read files created by untrusted users!</para></listitem>
+
+  </varlistentry>
+
+
+  <varlistentry><term><literal>trusted-binary-caches</literal></term>
+
+    <listitem><para>A list of URLs of binary caches, separated by
+    whitespace.  These are not used by default, but can be enabled by
+    users of the Nix daemon by specifying <literal>--option
+    binary-caches <replaceable>urls</replaceable></literal> on the
+    command line.  Unprivileged users are only allowed to pass a
+    subset of the URLs listed in <literal>binary-caches</literal> and
+    <literal>trusted-binary-caches</literal>.</para></listitem>
+
+  </varlistentry>
+
+
+  <varlistentry><term><literal>extra-binary-caches</literal></term>
+
+    <listitem><para>Additional binary caches appended to those
+    specified in <option>binary-caches</option> and
+    <option>binary-caches-files</option>.  When used by unprivileged
+    users, untrusted binary caches (i.e. those not listed in
+    <option>trusted-binary-caches</option>) are silently
+    ignored.</para></listitem>
+
+  </varlistentry>
+
+
+  <varlistentry><term><literal>signed-binary-caches</literal></term>
+
+    <listitem><para>If set to <literal>*</literal>, Nix will only
+    download binaries if they are signed using one of the keys listed
+    in <option>binary-cache-public-keys</option>.</para></listitem>
+
+  </varlistentry>
+
+
+  <varlistentry><term><literal>binary-cache-public-keys</literal></term>
+
+    <listitem><para>A whitespace-separated list of public keys
+    corresponding to the secret keys trusted to sign binary
+    caches. For example:
+    <literal>cache.nixos.org-1:6NCHdD59X431o0gWypbMrAURkbJ16ZPMQFGspcDShjY=
+    hydra.nixos.org-1:CNHJZBh9K4tP3EKF6FkkgeVYsS3ohTl+oS0Qa8bezVs=</literal>.</para></listitem>
+
+  </varlistentry>
+
+
+  <varlistentry><term><literal>binary-caches-parallel-connections</literal></term>
+
+    <listitem><para>The maximum number of parallel HTTP connections
+    used by the binary cache substituter to get NAR info files.  This
+    number should be high to minimise latency.  It defaults to
+    25.</para></listitem>
+
+  </varlistentry>
+
+
+  <varlistentry><term><literal>verify-https-binary-caches</literal></term>
+
+    <listitem><para>Whether HTTPS binary caches are required to have a
+    certificate that can be verified. Defaults to
+    <literal>true</literal>.</para></listitem>
+
+  </varlistentry>
+
+
+  <varlistentry><term><literal>force-manifest</literal></term>
+
+    <listitem><para>If this option is set to <literal>false</literal>
+    (default) and a Nix channel provides both a manifest and a binary
+    cache, only the binary cache will be used.  If set to
+    <literal>true</literal>, the manifest will be fetched as well.
+    This is useful if you want to use binary patches (which are
+    currently not supported by binary caches).</para></listitem>
+
+  </varlistentry>
+
+
+  <varlistentry><term><literal>system</literal></term>
+
+    <listitem><para>This option specifies the canonical Nix system
+    name of the current installation, such as
+    <literal>i686-linux</literal> or
+    <literal>powerpc-darwin</literal>.  Nix can only build derivations
+    whose <literal>system</literal> attribute equals the value
+    specified here.  In general, it never makes sense to modify this
+    value from its default, since you can use it to ‘lie’ about the
+    platform you are building on (e.g., perform a Mac OS build on a
+    Linux machine; the result would obviously be wrong).  It only
+    makes sense if the Nix binaries can run on multiple platforms,
+    e.g., ‘universal binaries’ that run on <literal>powerpc-darwin</literal> and
+    <literal>i686-darwin</literal>.</para>
+
+    <para>It defaults to the canonical Nix system name detected by
+    <filename>configure</filename> at build time.</para></listitem>
+
+  </varlistentry>
+
+
+  <varlistentry><term><literal>fsync-metadata</literal></term>
+
+    <listitem><para>If set to <literal>true</literal>, changes to the
+    Nix store metadata (in <filename>/nix/var/nix/db</filename>) are
+    synchronously flushed to disk.  This improves robustness in case
+    of system crashes, but reduces performance.  The default is
+    <literal>true</literal>.</para></listitem>
+
+  </varlistentry>
+
+
+  <varlistentry><term><literal>auto-optimise-store</literal></term>
+
+    <listitem><para>If set to <literal>true</literal>, Nix
+    automatically detects files in the store that have identical
+    contents, and replaces them with hard links to a single copy.
+    This saves disk space.  If set to <literal>false</literal> (the
+    default), you can still run <command>nix-store
+    --optimise</command> to get rid of duplicate
+    files.</para></listitem>
+
+  </varlistentry>
+
+
+  <varlistentry xml:id="conf-connect-timeout"><term><literal>connect-timeout</literal></term>
+
+    <listitem>
+
+      <para>The timeout (in seconds) for establishing connections in
+      the binary cache substituter.  It corresponds to
+      <command>curl</command>’s <option>--connect-timeout</option>
+      option.</para>
+
+    </listitem>
+
+  </varlistentry>
+
+
+  <varlistentry xml:id="conf-log-servers"><term><literal>log-servers</literal></term>
+
+    <listitem>
+
+      <para>A list of URL prefixes (such as
+      <literal>http://hydra.nixos.org/log</literal>) from which
+      <command>nix-store -l</command> will try to fetch build logs if
+      they’re not available locally.</para>
+
+    </listitem>
+
+  </varlistentry>
+
+
+  <varlistentry xml:id="conf-trusted-users"><term><literal>trusted-users</literal></term>
+
+    <listitem>
+
+      <para>A list of names of users (separated by whitespace) that
+      have additional rights when connecting to the Nix daemon, such
+      as the ability to specify additional binary caches, or to import
+      unsigned NARs. You can also specify groups by prefixing them
+      with <literal>@</literal>; for instance,
+      <literal>@wheel</literal> means all users in the
+      <literal>wheel</literal> group. The default is
+      <literal>root</literal>.</para>
+
+      <warning><para>The users listed here have the ability to
+      compromise the security of a multi-user Nix store. For instance,
+      they could install Trojan horses subsequently executed by other
+      users. So you should consider carefully whether to add users to
+      this list.</para></warning>
+
+    </listitem>
+
+  </varlistentry>
+
+
+  <varlistentry xml:id="conf-allowed-users"><term><literal>allowed-users</literal></term>
+
+    <listitem>
+
+      <para>A list of names of users (separated by whitespace) that
+      are allowed to connect to the Nix daemon. As with the
+      <option>trusted-users</option> option, you can specify groups by
+      prefixing them with <literal>@</literal>. Also, you can allow
+      all users by specifying <literal>*</literal>. The default is
+      <literal>*</literal>.</para>
+
+      <para>Note that trusted users are always allowed to connect.</para>
+
+    </listitem>
+
+  </varlistentry>
+
+
+  <varlistentry xml:id="conf-restrict-eval"><term><literal>restrict-eval</literal></term>
+
+    <listitem>
+
+      <para>If set to <literal>true</literal>, the Nix evaluator will
+      not allow access to any files outside of the Nix search path (as
+      set via the <envar>NIX_PATH</envar> environment variable or the
+      <option>-I</option> option). The default is
+      <literal>false</literal>.</para>
+
+    </listitem>
+
+  </varlistentry>
+
+
+  <varlistentry xml:id="conf-pre-build-hook"><term><literal>pre-build-hook</literal></term>
+
+    <listitem>
+
+
+      <para>If set, the path to a program that can set extra
+      derivation-specific settings for this system. This is used for settings
+      that can't be captured by the derivation model itself and are too variable
+      between different versions of the same system to be hard-coded into nix.
+      </para>
+
+      <para>The hook is passed the derivation path and, if sandboxes are enabled,
+      the sandbox directory. It can then modify the sandbox and send a series of
+      commands to modify various settings to stdout. The currently recognized
+      commands are:</para>
+
+      <variablelist>
+        <varlistentry xml:id="extra-sandbox-paths">
+          <term><literal>extra-sandbox-paths</literal></term>
+
+          <listitem>
+
+            <para>Pass a list of files and directories to be included in the
+            sandbox for this build. One entry per line, terminated by an empty
+            line. Entries have the same format as
+            <literal>build-sandbox-paths</literal>.</para>
+
+          </listitem>
+
+        </varlistentry>
+      </variablelist>
+    </listitem>
+
+  </varlistentry>
+
+
+  <varlistentry xml:id="conf-build-repeat"><term><literal>build-repeat</literal></term>
+
+    <listitem><para>How many times to repeat builds to check whether
+    they are deterministic. The default value is 0. If the value is
+    non-zero, every build is repeated the specified number of
+    times. If the contents of any of the runs differs from the
+    previous ones, the build is rejected and the resulting store paths
+    are not registered as “valid” in Nix’s database.</para></listitem>
+
+  </varlistentry>
+
+
+</variablelist>
+
+</para>
+
+</refsection>
+
+</refentry>

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+<chapter xmlns="http://docbook.org/ns/docbook"
+      xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink"
+      xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XInclude"
+      version="5.0"
+      xml:id="sec-common-env">
+
+<title>Common Environment Variables</title>
+
+
+<para>Most Nix commands interpret the following environment variables:</para>
+
+<variablelist xml:id="env-common">
+
+
+<varlistentry xml:id="env-NIX_PATH"><term><envar>NIX_PATH</envar></term>
+
+  <listitem>
+
+    <para>A colon-separated list of directories used to look up Nix
+    expressions enclosed in angle brackets (i.e.,
+    <literal>&lt;<replaceable>path</replaceable>></literal>).  For
+    instance, the value
+
+    <screen>
+/home/eelco/Dev:/etc/nixos</screen>
+
+    will cause Nix to look for paths relative to
+    <filename>/home/eelco/Dev</filename> and
+    <filename>/etc/nixos</filename>, in that order.  It is also
+    possible to match paths against a prefix.  For example, the value
+
+    <screen>
+nixpkgs=/home/eelco/Dev/nixpkgs-branch:/etc/nixos</screen>
+
+    will cause Nix to search for
+    <literal>&lt;nixpkgs/<replaceable>path</replaceable>></literal> in
+    <filename>/home/eelco/Dev/nixpkgs-branch/<replaceable>path</replaceable></filename>
+    and
+    <filename>/etc/nixos/nixpkgs/<replaceable>path</replaceable></filename>.</para>
+
+    <para>If a path in the Nix search path starts with
+    <literal>http://</literal> or <literal>https://</literal>, it is
+    interpreted as the URL of a tarball that will be downloaded and
+    unpacked to a temporary location. The tarball must consist of a
+    single top-level directory. For example, setting
+    <envar>NIX_PATH</envar> to
+
+    <screen>
+nixpkgs=https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs-channels/archive/nixos-14.12.tar.gz</screen>
+
+    tells Nix to download the latest revision in the Nixpkgs/NixOS
+    14.12 channel.</para>
+
+    <para>The search path can be extended using the <option
+    linkend="opt-I">-I</option> option, which takes precedence over
+    <envar>NIX_PATH</envar>.</para></listitem>
+
+</varlistentry>
+
+
+<varlistentry><term><envar>NIX_IGNORE_SYMLINK_STORE</envar></term>
+
+  <listitem>
+
+  <para>Normally, the Nix store directory (typically
+  <filename>/nix/store</filename>) is not allowed to contain any
+  symlink components.  This is to prevent “impure” builds.  Builders
+  sometimes “canonicalise” paths by resolving all symlink components.
+  Thus, builds on different machines (with
+  <filename>/nix/store</filename> resolving to different locations)
+  could yield different results.  This is generally not a problem,
+  except when builds are deployed to machines where
+  <filename>/nix/store</filename> resolves differently.  If you are
+  sure that you’re not going to do that, you can set
+  <envar>NIX_IGNORE_SYMLINK_STORE</envar> to <envar>1</envar>.</para>
+
+  <para>Note that if you’re symlinking the Nix store so that you can
+  put it on another file system than the root file system, on Linux
+  you’re better off using <literal>bind</literal> mount points, e.g.,
+
+  <screen>
+$ mkdir /nix
+$ mount -o bind /mnt/otherdisk/nix /nix</screen>
+
+  Consult the <citerefentry><refentrytitle>mount</refentrytitle>
+  <manvolnum>8</manvolnum></citerefentry> manual page for details.</para>
+
+  </listitem>
+
+</varlistentry>
+
+
+<varlistentry><term><envar>NIX_STORE_DIR</envar></term>
+
+  <listitem><para>Overrides the location of the Nix store (default
+  <filename><replaceable>prefix</replaceable>/store</filename>).</para></listitem>
+
+</varlistentry>
+
+
+<varlistentry><term><envar>NIX_DATA_DIR</envar></term>
+
+  <listitem><para>Overrides the location of the Nix static data
+  directory (default
+  <filename><replaceable>prefix</replaceable>/share</filename>).</para></listitem>
+
+</varlistentry>
+
+
+<varlistentry><term><envar>NIX_LOG_DIR</envar></term>
+
+  <listitem><para>Overrides the location of the Nix log directory
+  (default <filename><replaceable>prefix</replaceable>/log/nix</filename>).</para></listitem>
+
+</varlistentry>
+
+
+<varlistentry><term><envar>NIX_STATE_DIR</envar></term>
+
+  <listitem><para>Overrides the location of the Nix state directory
+  (default <filename><replaceable>prefix</replaceable>/var/nix</filename>).</para></listitem>
+
+</varlistentry>
+
+
+<varlistentry><term><envar>NIX_DB_DIR</envar></term>
+
+  <listitem><para>Overrides the location of the Nix database (default
+  <filename><replaceable>$NIX_STATE_DIR</replaceable>/db</filename>, i.e.,
+  <filename><replaceable>prefix</replaceable>/var/nix/db</filename>).</para></listitem>
+
+</varlistentry>
+
+
+<varlistentry><term><envar>NIX_CONF_DIR</envar></term>
+
+  <listitem><para>Overrides the location of the Nix configuration
+  directory (default
+  <filename><replaceable>prefix</replaceable>/etc/nix</filename>).</para></listitem>
+
+</varlistentry>
+
+
+<varlistentry><term><envar>TMPDIR</envar></term>
+
+  <listitem><para>Use the specified directory 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>
+
+
+<varlistentry xml:id="envar-build-hook"><term><envar>NIX_BUILD_HOOK</envar></term>
+
+  <listitem>
+
+  <para>Specifies the location of the <emphasis>build hook</emphasis>,
+  which is a program (typically some script) that Nix will call
+  whenever it wants to build a derivation.  This is used to implement
+  distributed builds<phrase condition="manual"> (see <xref
+  linkend="chap-distributed-builds" />)</phrase>.</para>
+
+  <!--
+  The protocol by
+  which the calling Nix process and the build hook communicate is as
+  follows.
+
+  <para>The build hook is called with the following command-line
+  arguments:
+
+  <orderedlist>
+
+    <listitem><para>A boolean value <literal>0</literal> or
+    <literal>1</literal> specifying whether Nix can locally execute
+    more builds, as per the <link
+    linkend="opt-max-jobs"><option>- -max-jobs</option> option</link>.
+    The purpose of this argument is to allow the hook to not have to
+    maintain bookkeeping for the local machine.</para></listitem>
+
+    <listitem><para>The Nix platform identifier for the local machine
+    (e.g., <literal>i686-linux</literal>).</para></listitem>
+
+    <listitem><para>The Nix platform identifier for the derivation,
+    i.e., its <link linkend="attr-system"><varname>system</varname>
+    attribute</link>.</para></listitem>
+
+    <listitem><para>The store path of the derivation.</para></listitem>
+
+  </orderedlist>
+
+  </para>
+
+  <para>On the basis of this information, and whatever persistent
+  state the build hook keeps about other machines and their current
+  load, it has to decide what to do with the build.  It should print
+  out on standard error one of the following responses (terminated by
+  a newline, <literal>"\n"</literal>):
+
+  <variablelist>
+
+    <varlistentry><term><literal># decline</literal></term>
+
+      <listitem><para>The build hook is not willing or able to perform
+      the build; the calling Nix process should do the build itself,
+      if possible.</para></listitem>
+
+    </varlistentry>
+
+    <varlistentry><term><literal># postpone</literal></term>
+
+      <listitem><para>The build hook cannot perform the build now, but
+      can do so in the future (e.g., because all available build slots
+      on remote machines are in use).  The calling Nix process should
+      postpone this build until at least one currently running build
+      has terminated.</para></listitem>
+
+    </varlistentry>
+
+    <varlistentry><term><literal># accept</literal></term>
+
+      <listitem><para>The build hook has accepted the
+      build.</para></listitem>
+
+    </varlistentry>
+
+  </variablelist>
+
+  </para>
+
+  <para>After sending <literal># accept</literal>, the hook should
+  read one line from standard input, which will be the string
+  <literal>okay</literal>.  It can then proceed with the build.
+  Before sending <literal>okay</literal>, Nix will store in the hook’s
+  current directory a number of text files that contain information
+  about the derivation:
+
+  <variablelist>
+
+    <varlistentry><term><filename>inputs</filename></term>
+
+      <listitem><para>The set of store paths that are inputs to the
+      build process (one per line).  These have to be copied
+      <emphasis>to</emphasis> the remote machine (in addition to the
+      store derivation itself).</para></listitem>
+
+    </varlistentry>
+
+    <varlistentry><term><filename>outputs</filename></term>
+
+      <listitem><para>The set of store paths that are outputs of the
+      derivation (one per line).  These have to be copied
+      <emphasis>from</emphasis> the remote machine if the build
+      succeeds.</para></listitem>
+
+    </varlistentry>
+
+    <varlistentry><term><filename>references</filename></term>
+
+      <listitem><para>The reference graph of the inputs, in the format
+      accepted by the command <command>nix-store
+      - -register-validity</command>.  It is necessary to run this
+      command on the remote machine after copying the inputs to inform
+      Nix on the remote machine that the inputs are valid
+      paths.</para></listitem>
+
+    </varlistentry>
+
+  </variablelist>
+
+  </para>
+
+  <para>The hook should copy the inputs to the remote machine,
+  register the validity of the inputs, perform the remote build, and
+  copy the outputs back to the local machine.  An exit code other than
+  <literal>0</literal> indicates that the hook has failed.  An exit
+  code equal to 100 means that the remote build failed (as opposed to,
+  e.g., a network error).</para>
+  -->
+
+  </listitem>
+
+
+</varlistentry>
+
+
+<varlistentry xml:id="envar-remote"><term><envar>NIX_REMOTE</envar></term>
+
+  <listitem><para>This variable should be set to
+  <literal>daemon</literal> if you want to use the Nix daemon to
+  execute Nix operations. This is necessary in <link
+  linkend="ssec-multi-user">multi-user Nix installations</link>.
+  Otherwise, it should be left unset.</para></listitem>
+
+</varlistentry>
+
+
+<varlistentry><term><envar>NIX_SHOW_STATS</envar></term>
+
+  <listitem><para>If set to <literal>1</literal>, Nix will print some
+  evaluation statistics, such as the number of values
+  allocated.</para></listitem>
+
+</varlistentry>
+
+
+<varlistentry><term><envar>NIX_COUNT_CALLS</envar></term>
+
+  <listitem><para>If set to <literal>1</literal>, Nix will print how
+  often functions were called during Nix expression evaluation.  This
+  is useful for profiling your Nix expressions.</para></listitem>
+
+</varlistentry>
+
+
+<varlistentry><term><envar>GC_INITIAL_HEAP_SIZE</envar></term>
+
+  <listitem><para>If Nix has been configured to use the Boehm garbage
+  collector, this variable sets the initial size of the heap in bytes.
+  It defaults to 384 MiB.  Setting it to a low value reduces memory
+  consumption, but will increase runtime due to the overhead of
+  garbage collection.</para></listitem>
+
+</varlistentry>
+
+
+</variablelist>
+
+
+</chapter>

doc/manual/command-ref/files.xml

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+<chapter xmlns="http://docbook.org/ns/docbook"
+      xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink"
+      xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XInclude"
+      version="5.0"
+      xml:id='ch-files'>
+
+<title>Files</title>
+
+<para>This section lists configuration files that you can use when you
+work with Nix.</para>
+
+<xi:include href="conf-file.xml" />
+
+</chapter>

doc/manual/command-ref/main-commands.xml

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+<chapter xmlns="http://docbook.org/ns/docbook"
+      xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink"
+      xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XInclude"
+      version="5.0"
+      xml:id='ch-main-commands'>
+
+<title>Main Commands</title>
+
+<para>This section lists commands and options that you can use when you
+work with Nix.</para>
+
+<xi:include href="nix-env.xml" />
+<xi:include href="nix-build.xml" />
+<xi:include href="nix-shell.xml" />
+<xi:include href="nix-store.xml" />
+
+</chapter>

doc/manual/command-ref/nix-build.xml

@@ -0,0 +1,206 @@
+<refentry xmlns="http://docbook.org/ns/docbook"
+      xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink"
+      xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XInclude"
+      version="5.0"
+      xml:id="sec-nix-build">
+
+<refmeta>
+  <refentrytitle>nix-build</refentrytitle>
+  <manvolnum>1</manvolnum>
+  <refmiscinfo class="source">Nix</refmiscinfo>
+  <refmiscinfo class="version"><xi:include href="../version.txt" parse="text"/></refmiscinfo>
+</refmeta>
+
+<refnamediv>
+  <refname>nix-build</refname>
+  <refpurpose>build a Nix expression</refpurpose>
+</refnamediv>
+
+<refsynopsisdiv>
+  <cmdsynopsis>
+    <command>nix-build</command>
+    <xi:include xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XInclude" href="opt-common-syn.xml#xmlns(db=http://docbook.org/ns/docbook)xpointer(/db:nop/*)" />
+    <arg><option>--arg</option> <replaceable>name</replaceable> <replaceable>value</replaceable></arg>
+    <arg><option>--argstr</option> <replaceable>name</replaceable> <replaceable>value</replaceable></arg>
+    <arg>
+      <group choice='req'>
+        <arg choice='plain'><option>--attr</option></arg>
+        <arg choice='plain'><option>-A</option></arg>
+      </group>
+      <replaceable>attrPath</replaceable>
+    </arg>
+    <arg><option>--drv-link</option> <replaceable>drvlink</replaceable></arg>
+    <arg><option>--add-drv-link</option></arg>
+    <arg><option>--no-out-link</option></arg>
+    <arg>
+      <group choice='req'>
+        <arg choice='plain'><option>--out-link</option></arg>
+        <arg choice='plain'><option>-o</option></arg>
+      </group>
+      <replaceable>outlink</replaceable>
+    </arg>
+    <arg choice='plain' rep='repeat'><replaceable>paths</replaceable></arg>
+  </cmdsynopsis>
+</refsynopsisdiv>
+
+<refsection><title>Description</title>
+
+<para>The <command>nix-build</command> command builds the derivations
+described by the Nix expressions in <replaceable>paths</replaceable>.
+If the build succeeds, it places a symlink to the result in the
+current directory.  The symlink is called <filename>result</filename>.
+If there are multiple Nix expressions, or the Nix expressions evaluate
+to multiple derivations, multiple sequentially numbered symlinks are
+created (<filename>result</filename>, <filename>result-2</filename>,
+and so on).</para>
+
+<para>If no <replaceable>paths</replaceable> are specified, then
+<command>nix-build</command> will use <filename>default.nix</filename>
+in the current directory, if it exists.</para>
+
+<para>If an element of <replaceable>paths</replaceable> starts with
+<literal>http://</literal> or <literal>https://</literal>, it is
+interpreted as the URL of a tarball that will be downloaded and
+unpacked to a temporary location. The tarball must include a single
+top-level directory containing at least a file named
+<filename>default.nix</filename>.</para>
+
+<para><command>nix-build</command> is essentially a wrapper around
+<link
+linkend="sec-nix-instantiate"><command>nix-instantiate</command></link>
+(to translate a high-level Nix expression to a low-level store
+derivation) and <link
+linkend="rsec-nix-store-realise"><command>nix-store
+--realise</command></link> (to build the store derivation).</para>
+
+<warning><para>The result of the build is automatically registered as
+a root of the Nix garbage collector.  This root disappears
+automatically when the <filename>result</filename> symlink is deleted
+or renamed.  So don’t rename the symlink.</para></warning>
+
+</refsection>
+
+
+<refsection><title>Options</title>
+
+<para>All options not listed here are passed to <command>nix-store
+--realise</command>, except for <option>--arg</option> and
+<option>--attr</option> / <option>-A</option> which are passed to
+<command>nix-instantiate</command>.  <phrase condition="manual">See
+also <xref linkend="sec-common-options" />.</phrase></para>
+
+<variablelist>
+
+  <varlistentry><term><option>--drv-link</option> <replaceable>drvlink</replaceable></term>
+
+    <listitem><para>Add a symlink named
+    <replaceable>drvlink</replaceable> to the store derivation
+    produced by <command>nix-instantiate</command>.  The derivation is
+    a root of the garbage collector until the symlink is deleted or
+    renamed.  If there are multiple derivations, numbers are suffixed
+    to <replaceable>drvlink</replaceable> to distinguish between
+    them.</para></listitem>
+
+  </varlistentry>
+
+  <varlistentry><term><option>--add-drv-link</option></term>
+
+    <listitem><para>Shorthand for <option>--drv-link</option>
+    <filename>./derivation</filename>.</para></listitem>
+
+  </varlistentry>
+
+  <varlistentry><term><option>--no-out-link</option></term>
+
+    <listitem><para>Do not create a symlink to the output path.  Note
+    that as a result the output does not become a root of the garbage
+    collector, and so might be deleted by <command>nix-store
+    --gc</command>.</para></listitem>
+
+  </varlistentry>
+
+  <varlistentry xml:id='opt-out-link'><term><option>--out-link</option> /
+  <option>-o</option> <replaceable>outlink</replaceable></term>
+
+    <listitem><para>Change the name of the symlink to the output path
+    created from <filename>result</filename> to
+    <replaceable>outlink</replaceable>.</para></listitem>
+
+  </varlistentry>
+
+</variablelist>
+
+<para>The following common options are supported:</para>
+
+<variablelist condition="manpage">
+  <xi:include href="opt-common.xml#xmlns(db=http://docbook.org/ns/docbook)xpointer(//db:variablelist[@xml:id='opt-common']/*)" />
+</variablelist>
+
+</refsection>
+
+
+<refsection><title>Examples</title>
+
+<screen>
+$ nix-build '&lt;nixpkgs>' -A firefox
+store derivation is /nix/store/qybprl8sz2lc...-firefox-1.5.0.7.drv
+/nix/store/d18hyl92g30l...-firefox-1.5.0.7
+
+$ ls -l result
+lrwxrwxrwx  <replaceable>...</replaceable>  result -> /nix/store/d18hyl92g30l...-firefox-1.5.0.7
+
+$ ls ./result/bin/
+firefox  firefox-config</screen>
+
+<para>If a derivation has multiple outputs,
+<command>nix-build</command> will build the default (first) output.
+You can also build all outputs:
+<screen>
+$ nix-build '&lt;nixpkgs>' -A openssl.all
+</screen>
+This will create a symlink for each output named
+<filename>result-<replaceable>outputname</replaceable></filename>.
+The suffix is omitted if the output name is <literal>out</literal>.
+So if <literal>openssl</literal> has outputs <literal>out</literal>,
+<literal>bin</literal> and <literal>man</literal>,
+<command>nix-build</command> will create symlinks
+<literal>result</literal>, <literal>result-bin</literal> and
+<literal>result-man</literal>.  It’s also possible to build a specific
+output:
+<screen>
+$ nix-build '&lt;nixpkgs>' -A openssl.man
+</screen>
+This will create a symlink <literal>result-man</literal>.</para>
+
+<para>Build a Nix expression given on the command line:
+
+<screen>
+$ nix-build -E 'with import &lt;nixpkgs> { }; runCommand "foo" { } "echo bar > $out"'
+$ cat ./result
+bar
+</screen>
+
+</para>
+
+<para>Build the GNU Hello package from the latest revision of the
+master branch of Nixpkgs:
+
+<screen>
+$ nix-build https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/archive/master.tar.gz -A hello
+</screen>
+
+</para>
+
+</refsection>
+
+
+<refsection condition="manpage"><title>Environment variables</title>
+
+<variablelist>
+  <xi:include href="env-common.xml#xmlns(db=http://docbook.org/ns/docbook)xpointer(//db:variablelist[@xml:id='env-common']/*)" />
+</variablelist>
+
+</refsection>
+
+
+</refentry>

doc/manual/command-ref/nix-channel.xml

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+<refentry xmlns="http://docbook.org/ns/docbook"
+      xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink"
+      xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XInclude"
+      version="5.0"
+      xml:id="sec-nix-channel">
+
+<refmeta>
+  <refentrytitle>nix-channel</refentrytitle>
+  <manvolnum>1</manvolnum>
+  <refmiscinfo class="source">Nix</refmiscinfo>
+  <refmiscinfo class="version"><xi:include href="../version.txt" parse="text"/></refmiscinfo>
+</refmeta>
+
+<refnamediv>
+  <refname>nix-channel</refname>
+  <refpurpose>manage Nix channels</refpurpose>
+</refnamediv>
+
+<refsynopsisdiv>
+  <cmdsynopsis>
+    <command>nix-channel</command>
+    <group choice='req'>
+      <arg choice='plain'><option>--add</option> <replaceable>url</replaceable> <arg choice='opt'><replaceable>name</replaceable></arg></arg>
+      <arg choice='plain'><option>--remove</option> <replaceable>name</replaceable></arg>
+      <arg choice='plain'><option>--list</option></arg>
+      <arg choice='plain'><option>--update</option> <arg rep='repeat'><replaceable>names</replaceable></arg></arg>
+      <arg choice='plain'><option>--rollback</option> <arg choice='opt'><replaceable>generation</replaceable></arg></arg>
+    </group>
+  </cmdsynopsis>
+</refsynopsisdiv>
+
+<refsection><title>Description</title>
+
+<para>A Nix channel is mechanism that allows you to automatically stay
+up-to-date with a set of pre-built Nix expressions.  A Nix channel is
+just a URL that points to a place containing both a set of Nix
+expressions and a pointer to a binary cache.  <phrase
+condition="manual">See also <xref linkend="sec-channels"
+/>.</phrase></para>
+
+<para>This command has the following operations:
+
+<variablelist>
+
+  <varlistentry><term><option>--add</option> <replaceable>url</replaceable> [<replaceable>name</replaceable>]</term>
+
+    <listitem><para>Adds a channel named
+    <replaceable>name</replaceable> with URL
+    <replaceable>url</replaceable> to the list of subscribed channels.
+    If <replaceable>name</replaceable> is omitted, it defaults to the
+    last component of <replaceable>url</replaceable>, with the
+    suffixes <literal>-stable</literal> or
+    <literal>-unstable</literal> removed.</para></listitem>
+
+  </varlistentry>
+
+  <varlistentry><term><option>--remove</option> <replaceable>name</replaceable></term>
+
+    <listitem><para>Removes the channel named
+    <replaceable>name</replaceable> from the list of subscribed
+    channels.</para></listitem>
+
+  </varlistentry>
+
+  <varlistentry><term><option>--list</option></term>
+
+    <listitem><para>Prints the names and URLs of all subscribed
+    channels on standard output.</para></listitem>
+
+  </varlistentry>
+
+  <varlistentry><term><option>--update</option> [<replaceable>names</replaceable>…]</term>
+
+    <listitem><para>Downloads the Nix expressions of all subscribed
+    channels (or only those included in
+    <replaceable>names</replaceable> if specified), makes them the
+    default for <command>nix-env</command> operations (by symlinking
+    them from the directory <filename>~/.nix-defexpr</filename>), and
+    performs a <command>nix-pull</command> on the manifests of all
+    channels to make pre-built binaries available.</para></listitem>
+
+  </varlistentry>
+
+  <varlistentry><term><option>--rollback</option> [<replaceable>generation</replaceable>]</term>
+
+    <listitem><para>Reverts the previous call to <command>nix-channel
+    --update</command>. Optionally, you can specify a specific channel
+    generation number to restore.</para></listitem>
+
+  </varlistentry>
+
+</variablelist>
+
+</para>
+
+<para>Note that <option>--add</option> does not automatically perform
+an update.</para>
+
+<para>The list of subscribed channels is stored in
+<filename>~/.nix-channels</filename>.</para>
+
+</refsection>
+
+<refsection><title>Examples</title>
+
+<para>To subscribe to the Nixpkgs channel and install the GNU Hello package:</para>
+
+<screen>
+$ nix-channel --add https://nixos.org/channels/nixpkgs-unstable
+$ nix-channel --update
+$ nix-env -iA nixpkgs.hello</screen>
+
+<para>You can revert channel updates using <option>--rollback</option>:</para>
+
+<screen>
+$ nix-instantiate --eval -E '(import &lt;nixpkgs> {}).lib.nixpkgsVersion'
+"14.04.527.0e935f1"
+
+$ nix-channel --rollback
+switching from generation 483 to 482
+
+$ nix-instantiate --eval -E '(import &lt;nixpkgs> {}).lib.nixpkgsVersion'
+"14.04.526.dbadfad"
+</screen>
+
+</refsection>
+
+<refsection><title>Files</title>
+
+<variablelist>
+
+  <varlistentry><term><filename>/nix/var/nix/profiles/per-user/<replaceable>username</replaceable>/channels</filename></term>
+
+    <listitem><para><command>nix-channel</command> uses a
+    <command>nix-env</command> profile to keep track of previous
+    versions of the subscribed channels. Every time you run
+    <command>nix-channel --update</command>, a new channel generation
+    (that is, a symlink to the channel Nix expressions in the Nix store)
+    is created. This enables <command>nix-channel --rollback</command>
+    to revert to previous versions.</para></listitem>
+
+  </varlistentry>
+
+  <varlistentry><term><filename>~/.nix-defexpr/channels</filename></term>
+
+    <listitem><para>This is a symlink to
+    <filename>/nix/var/nix/profiles/per-user/<replaceable>username</replaceable>/channels</filename>. It
+    ensures that <command>nix-env</command> can find your channels. In
+    a multi-user installation, you may also have
+    <filename>~/.nix-defexpr/channels_root</filename>, which links to
+    the channels of the root user.</para></listitem>
+
+  </varlistentry>
+
+</variablelist>
+
+</refsection>
+
+<refsection><title>Channel format</title>
+
+<para>A channel URL should point to a directory containing the
+following files:</para>
+
+<variablelist>
+
+  <varlistentry><term><filename>nixexprs.tar.xz</filename></term>
+
+    <listitem><para>A tarball containing Nix expressions and files
+    referenced by them (such as build scripts and patches). At
+    top-level, the tarball should contain a single directory. That
+    directory must contain a file <filename>default.nix</filename>
+    that serves as the channel’s “entry point”.</para></listitem>
+
+  </varlistentry>
+
+  <varlistentry><term><filename>binary-cache-url</filename></term>
+
+    <listitem><para>A file containing the URL to a binary cache (such
+    as <uri>https://cache.nixos.org</uri>. Nix will automatically
+    check this cache for pre-built binaries, if the user has
+    sufficient rights to add binary caches. For instance, in a
+    multi-user Nix setup, the binary caches provided by the channels
+    of the root user are used automatically, but caches corresponding
+    to the channels of non-root users are ignored. Binary caches can
+    be created and maintained using
+    <command>nix-push</command>.</para></listitem>
+
+  </varlistentry>
+
+  <varlistentry><term><filename>MANIFEST.bz2</filename></term>
+
+    <listitem><para>(Deprecated in favour of binary caches.) A
+    manifest as created by <command>nix-push</command>. Only used if
+    <filename>binary-cache-url</filename> is not present or if the
+    <filename>nix.conf</filename> option
+    <option>force-manifest</option> is set.</para></listitem>
+
+  </varlistentry>
+
+</variablelist>
+
+</refsection>
+
+</refentry>

doc/manual/command-ref/nix-collect-garbage.xml

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+<refentry xmlns="http://docbook.org/ns/docbook"
+      xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink"
+      xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XInclude"
+      version="5.0"
+      xml:id="sec-nix-collect-garbage">
+  
+<refmeta>
+  <refentrytitle>nix-collect-garbage</refentrytitle>
+  <manvolnum>1</manvolnum>
+  <refmiscinfo class="source">Nix</refmiscinfo>
+  <refmiscinfo class="version"><xi:include href="../version.txt" parse="text"/></refmiscinfo>
+</refmeta>
+
+<refnamediv>
+  <refname>nix-collect-garbage</refname>
+  <refpurpose>delete unreachable store paths</refpurpose>
+</refnamediv>
+
+<refsynopsisdiv>
+  <cmdsynopsis>
+    <command>nix-collect-garbage</command>
+    <arg><option>--delete-old</option></arg>
+    <arg><option>-d</option></arg>
+    <arg><option>--delete-older-than</option> <replaceable>period</replaceable></arg>
+    <group choice='opt'>
+      <arg choice='plain'><option>--print-roots</option></arg>
+      <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>--max-freed</option> <replaceable>bytes</replaceable></arg>
+    <arg><option>--dry-run</option></arg>
+  </cmdsynopsis>
+</refsynopsisdiv>
+
+<refsection><title>Description</title>
+
+<para>The command <command>nix-collect-garbage</command> is mostly an
+alias of <link linkend="rsec-nix-store-gc"><command>nix-store
+--gc</command></link>, that is, it deletes all unreachable paths in
+the Nix store to clean up your system.  However, it provides two
+additional options: <option>-d</option> (<option>--delete-old</option>),
+which deletes all old generations of all profiles in
+<filename>/nix/var/nix/profiles</filename> by invoking
+<literal>nix-env --delete-generations old</literal> on all profiles
+(of course, this makes rollbacks to previous configurations
+impossible); and
+<option>--delete-older-than</option> <replaceable>period</replaceable>,
+where period is a value such as <literal>30d</literal>, which deletes
+all generations older than the specified number of days in all profiles
+in <filename>/nix/var/nix/profiles</filename> (except for the generations
+that were active at that point in time).
+</para>
+
+</refsection>
+
+<refsection><title>Example</title>
+
+<para>To delete from the Nix store everything that is not used by the
+current generations of each profile, do
+
+<screen>
+$ nix-collect-garbage -d</screen>
+
+</para>
+
+</refsection>
+
+</refentry>

doc/manual/command-ref/nix-copy-closure.xml

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+<refentry xmlns="http://docbook.org/ns/docbook"
+          xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink"
+          xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XInclude"
+          xml:id="sec-nix-copy-closure">
+
+<refmeta>
+  <refentrytitle>nix-copy-closure</refentrytitle>
+  <manvolnum>1</manvolnum>
+  <refmiscinfo class="source">Nix</refmiscinfo>
+  <refmiscinfo class="version"><xi:include href="../version.txt" parse="text"/></refmiscinfo>
+</refmeta>
+
+<refnamediv>
+  <refname>nix-copy-closure</refname>
+  <refpurpose>copy a closure to or from a remote machine via SSH</refpurpose>
+</refnamediv>
+
+<refsynopsisdiv>
+  <cmdsynopsis>
+    <command>nix-copy-closure</command>
+    <group>
+      <arg choice='plain'><option>--to</option></arg>
+      <arg choice='plain'><option>--from</option></arg>
+    </group>
+    <arg><option>--sign</option></arg>
+    <arg><option>--gzip</option></arg>
+    <!--
+    <arg><option>- -show-progress</option></arg>
+    -->
+    <arg><option>--include-outputs</option></arg>
+    <arg><option>--use-substitutes</option></arg>
+    <arg><option>-s</option></arg>
+    <arg><option>-v</option></arg>
+    <arg choice='plain'>
+      <replaceable>user@</replaceable><replaceable>machine</replaceable>
+    </arg>
+    <arg choice='plain'><replaceable>paths</replaceable></arg>
+  </cmdsynopsis>
+</refsynopsisdiv>
+
+
+<refsection><title>Description</title>
+
+<para><command>nix-copy-closure</command> gives you an easy and
+efficient way to exchange software between machines.  Given one or
+more Nix store <replaceable>paths</replaceable> on the local
+machine, <command>nix-copy-closure</command> computes the closure of
+those paths (i.e. all their dependencies in the Nix store), and copies
+all paths in the closure to the remote machine via the
+<command>ssh</command> (Secure Shell) command.  With the
+<option>--from</option>, the direction is reversed:
+the closure of <replaceable>paths</replaceable> on a remote machine is
+copied to the Nix store on the local machine.</para>
+
+<para>This command is efficient because it only sends the store paths
+that are missing on the target machine.</para>
+
+<para>Since <command>nix-copy-closure</command> calls
+<command>ssh</command>, you may be asked to type in the appropriate
+password or passphrase.  In fact, you may be asked
+<emphasis>twice</emphasis> because <command>nix-copy-closure</command>
+currently connects twice to the remote machine, first to get the set
+of paths missing on the target machine, and second to send the dump of
+those paths.  If this bothers you, use
+<command>ssh-agent</command>.</para>
+
+
+<refsection><title>Options</title>
+
+<variablelist>
+
+  <varlistentry><term><option>--to</option></term>
+
+    <listitem><para>Copy the closure of
+    <replaceable>paths</replaceable> from the local Nix store to the
+    Nix store on <replaceable>machine</replaceable>.  This is the
+    default.</para></listitem>
+
+  </varlistentry>
+
+  <varlistentry><term><option>--from</option></term>
+
+    <listitem><para>Copy the closure of
+    <replaceable>paths</replaceable> from the Nix store on
+    <replaceable>machine</replaceable> to the local Nix
+    store.</para></listitem>
+
+  </varlistentry>
+
+  <varlistentry><term><option>--sign</option></term>
+
+    <listitem><para>Let the sending machine cryptographically sign the
+    dump of each path with the key in
+    <filename><replaceable>sysconfdir</replaceable>/nix/signing-key.sec</filename>.
+    If the user on the target machine does not have direct access to
+    the Nix store (i.e., if the target machine has a multi-user Nix
+    installation), then the target machine will check the dump against
+    <filename><replaceable>sysconfdir</replaceable>/nix/signing-key.pub</filename>
+    before unpacking it in its Nix store.  This allows secure sharing
+    of store paths between untrusted users on two machines, provided
+    that there is a trust relation between the Nix installations on
+    both machines (namely, they have matching public/secret
+    keys).</para></listitem>
+
+  </varlistentry>
+
+  <varlistentry><term><option>--gzip</option></term>
+
+    <listitem><para>Enable compression of the SSH
+    connection.</para></listitem>
+
+  </varlistentry>
+
+  <!--
+  <varlistentry><term><option>- -show-progress</option></term>
+
+    <listitem><para>Show the progress of each path's transfer as it's made.
+    This requires the <command>pv</command> utility to be in <envar>PATH</envar>.</para></listitem>
+
+  </varlistentry>
+  -->
+
+  <varlistentry><term><option>--include-outputs</option></term>
+
+    <listitem><para>Also copy the outputs of store derivations
+    included in the closure.</para></listitem>
+
+  </varlistentry>
+
+  <varlistentry><term><option>--use-substitutes</option> / <option>-s</option></term>
+
+    <listitem><para>Attempt to download missing paths on the target
+    machine using Nix’s substitute mechanism.  Any paths that cannot
+    be substituted on the target are still copied normally from the
+    source.  This is useful, for instance, if the connection between
+    the source and target machine is slow, but the connection between
+    the target machine and <literal>nixos.org</literal> (the default
+    binary cache server) is fast.</para></listitem>
+
+  </varlistentry>
+
+  <varlistentry><term><option>-v</option></term>
+
+    <listitem><para>Show verbose output.</para></listitem>
+
+  </varlistentry>
+
+</variablelist>
+
+</refsection>
+
+
+<refsection><title>Environment variables</title>
+
+<variablelist>
+
+  <varlistentry><term><envar>NIX_SSHOPTS</envar></term>
+
+    <listitem><para>Additional options to be passed to
+    <command>ssh</command> on the command line.</para></listitem>
+
+  </varlistentry>
+
+</variablelist>
+
+</refsection>
+
+
+<refsection><title>Examples</title>
+
+<para>Copy Firefox with all its dependencies to a remote machine:
+
+<screen>
+$ nix-copy-closure --to alice@itchy.labs $(type -tP firefox)</screen>
+
+</para>
+
+<para>Copy Subversion from a remote machine and then install it into a
+user environment:
+
+<screen>
+$ nix-copy-closure --from alice@itchy.labs \
+    /nix/store/0dj0503hjxy5mbwlafv1rsbdiyx1gkdy-subversion-1.4.4
+$ nix-env -i /nix/store/0dj0503hjxy5mbwlafv1rsbdiyx1gkdy-subversion-1.4.4
+</screen>
+
+</para>
+
+</refsection>
+
+
+</refsection>
+
+</refentry>

doc/manual/command-ref/nix-daemon.xml

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+<refentry xmlns="http://docbook.org/ns/docbook"
+      xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink"
+      xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XInclude"
+      version="5.0"
+      xml:id="sec-nix-daemon">
+
+<refmeta>
+  <refentrytitle>nix-daemon</refentrytitle>
+  <manvolnum>8</manvolnum>
+  <refmiscinfo class="source">Nix</refmiscinfo>
+  <refmiscinfo class="version"><xi:include href="../version.txt" parse="text"/></refmiscinfo>
+</refmeta>
+
+<refnamediv>
+  <refname>nix-daemon</refname>
+  <refpurpose>Nix multi-user support daemon</refpurpose>
+</refnamediv>
+
+<refsynopsisdiv>
+  <cmdsynopsis>
+    <command>nix-daemon</command>
+  </cmdsynopsis>
+</refsynopsisdiv>
+
+
+<refsection><title>Description</title>
+
+<para>The Nix daemon is necessary in multi-user Nix installations.  It
+performs build actions and other operations on the Nix store on behalf
+of unprivileged users.</para>
+
+
+</refsection>
+
+</refentry>

doc/manual/command-ref/nix-generate-patches.xml

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+<refentry xmlns="http://docbook.org/ns/docbook"
+      xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink"
+      xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XInclude"
+      version="5.0"
+      xml:id="sec-nix-generate-patches">
+
+<refmeta>
+  <refentrytitle>nix-generate-patches</refentrytitle>
+  <manvolnum>1</manvolnum>
+  <refmiscinfo class="source">Nix</refmiscinfo>
+  <refmiscinfo class="version"><xi:include href="../version.txt" parse="text"/></refmiscinfo>
+</refmeta>
+
+<refnamediv>
+  <refname>nix-generate-patches</refname>
+  <refpurpose>generates binary patches between NAR files</refpurpose>
+</refnamediv>
+
+<refsynopsisdiv>
+  <cmdsynopsis>
+    <command>nix-generate-patches</command>
+    <arg choice='plain'><replaceable>NAR-DIR</replaceable></arg>
+	<arg choice='plain'><replaceable>PATCH-DIR</replaceable></arg>
+	<arg choice='plain'><replaceable>PATCH-URI</replaceable></arg>
+	<arg choice='plain'><replaceable>OLD-MANIFEST</replaceable></arg>
+	<arg choice='plain'><replaceable>NEW-MANIFEST</replaceable></arg>
+  </cmdsynopsis>
+</refsynopsisdiv>
+
+
+<refsection><title>Description</title>
+
+<para>The command <command>nix-generate-patches</command> generates
+binary patches between NAR files listed in OLD-MANIFEST and NEW-MANIFEST.
+The patches are written to the directory PATCH-DIR, and the prefix
+PATCH-URI is used to generate URIs for the patches.  The patches are
+added to NEW-MANIFEST.  All NARs are required to exist in NAR-DIR.
+Patches are generated between succeeding versions of packages with
+the same name.</para>
+
+</refsection>
+
+
+</refentry>

doc/manual/command-ref/nix-hash.xml

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+<refentry xmlns="http://docbook.org/ns/docbook"
+      xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink"
+      xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XInclude"
+      version="5.0"
+      xml:id="sec-nix-hash">
+  
+<refmeta>
+  <refentrytitle>nix-hash</refentrytitle>
+  <manvolnum>1</manvolnum>
+  <refmiscinfo class="source">Nix</refmiscinfo>
+  <refmiscinfo class="version"><xi:include href="../version.txt" parse="text"/></refmiscinfo>
+</refmeta>
+
+<refnamediv>
+  <refname>nix-hash</refname>
+  <refpurpose>compute the cryptographic hash of a path</refpurpose>
+</refnamediv>
+
+<refsynopsisdiv>
+  <cmdsynopsis>
+    <command>nix-hash</command>
+    <arg><option>--flat</option></arg>
+    <arg><option>--base32</option></arg>
+    <arg><option>--truncate</option></arg>
+    <arg><option>--type</option> <replaceable>hashAlgo</replaceable></arg>
+    <arg choice='plain' rep='repeat'><replaceable>path</replaceable></arg>
+  </cmdsynopsis>
+  <cmdsynopsis>
+    <command>nix-hash</command>
+    <arg choice='plain'><option>--to-base16</option></arg>
+    <arg choice='plain' rep='repeat'><replaceable>hash</replaceable></arg>
+  </cmdsynopsis>
+  <cmdsynopsis>
+    <command>nix-hash</command>
+    <arg choice='plain'><option>--to-base32</option></arg>
+    <arg choice='plain' rep='repeat'><replaceable>hash</replaceable></arg>
+  </cmdsynopsis>
+</refsynopsisdiv>
+
+
+<refsection><title>Description</title>
+
+<para>The command <command>nix-hash</command> computes the
+cryptographic hash of the contents of each
+<replaceable>path</replaceable> and prints it on standard output.  By
+default, it computes an MD5 hash, but other hash algorithms are
+available as well.  The hash is printed in hexadecimal.</para>
+
+<para>The hash is computed over a <emphasis>serialisation</emphasis>
+of each path: a dump of the file system tree rooted at the path.  This
+allows directories and symlinks to be hashed as well as regular files.
+The dump is in the <emphasis>NAR format</emphasis> produced by <link
+linkend="refsec-nix-store-dump"><command>nix-store</command>
+<option>--dump</option></link>.  Thus, <literal>nix-hash
+<replaceable>path</replaceable></literal> yields the same
+cryptographic hash as <literal>nix-store --dump
+<replaceable>path</replaceable> | md5sum</literal>.</para>
+
+</refsection>
+
+
+<refsection><title>Options</title>
+
+<variablelist>
+  
+  <varlistentry><term><option>--flat</option></term>
+
+    <listitem><para>Print the cryptographic hash of the contents of
+    each regular file <replaceable>path</replaceable>.  That is, do
+    not compute the hash over the dump of
+    <replaceable>path</replaceable>.  The result is identical to that
+    produced by the GNU commands <command>md5sum</command> and
+    <command>sha1sum</command>.</para></listitem>
+
+  </varlistentry>
+
+  <varlistentry><term><option>--base32</option></term>
+
+    <listitem><para>Print the hash in a base-32 representation rather
+    than hexadecimal.  This base-32 representation is more compact and
+    can be used in Nix expressions (such as in calls to
+    <function>fetchurl</function>).</para></listitem>
+
+  </varlistentry>
+
+  <varlistentry><term><option>--truncate</option></term>
+
+    <listitem><para>Truncate hashes longer than 160 bits (such as
+    SHA-256) to 160 bits.</para></listitem>
+
+  </varlistentry>
+
+  <varlistentry><term><option>--type</option> <replaceable>hashAlgo</replaceable></term>
+
+    <listitem><para>Use the specified cryptographic hash algorithm,
+    which can be one of <literal>md5</literal>,
+    <literal>sha1</literal>, and
+    <literal>sha256</literal>.</para></listitem>
+
+  </varlistentry>
+
+  <varlistentry><term><option>--to-base16</option></term>
+
+    <listitem><para>Don’t hash anything, but convert the base-32 hash
+    representation <replaceable>hash</replaceable> to
+    hexadecimal.</para></listitem>
+
+  </varlistentry>
+
+  <varlistentry><term><option>--to-base32</option></term>
+
+    <listitem><para>Don’t hash anything, but convert the hexadecimal
+    hash representation <replaceable>hash</replaceable> to
+    base-32.</para></listitem>
+
+  </varlistentry>
+
+</variablelist>
+
+</refsection>
+
+
+<refsection><title>Examples</title>
+
+<para>Computing hashes:
+
+<screen>
+$ mkdir test
+$ echo "hello" > test/world
+
+$ nix-hash test/ <lineannotation>(MD5 hash; default)</lineannotation>
+8179d3caeff1869b5ba1744e5a245c04
+
+$ nix-store --dump test/ | md5sum <lineannotation>(for comparison)</lineannotation>
+8179d3caeff1869b5ba1744e5a245c04  -
+
+$ nix-hash --type sha1 test/
+e4fd8ba5f7bbeaea5ace89fe10255536cd60dab6
+
+$ nix-hash --type sha1 --base32 test/
+nvd61k9nalji1zl9rrdfmsmvyyjqpzg4
+
+$ nix-hash --type sha256 --flat test/
+error: reading file `test/': Is a directory
+
+$ nix-hash --type sha256 --flat test/world
+5891b5b522d5df086d0ff0b110fbd9d21bb4fc7163af34d08286a2e846f6be03</screen>
+
+</para>
+
+<para>Converting between hexadecimal and base-32:
+
+<screen>
+$ nix-hash --type sha1 --to-base32 e4fd8ba5f7bbeaea5ace89fe10255536cd60dab6
+nvd61k9nalji1zl9rrdfmsmvyyjqpzg4
+
+$ nix-hash --type sha1 --to-base16 nvd61k9nalji1zl9rrdfmsmvyyjqpzg4
+e4fd8ba5f7bbeaea5ace89fe10255536cd60dab6</screen>
+
+</para>
+
+</refsection>
+
+
+</refentry>

doc/manual/command-ref/nix-install-package.xml

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+<refentry xmlns="http://docbook.org/ns/docbook"
+      xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink"
+      xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XInclude"
+      version="5.0"
+      xml:id="sec-nix-install-package">
+
+<refmeta>
+  <refentrytitle>nix-install-package</refentrytitle>
+  <manvolnum>1</manvolnum>
+  <refmiscinfo class="source">Nix</refmiscinfo>
+  <refmiscinfo class="version"><xi:include href="../version.txt" parse="text"/></refmiscinfo>
+</refmeta>
+
+<refnamediv>
+  <refname>nix-install-package</refname>
+  <refpurpose>install a Nix Package file</refpurpose>
+</refnamediv>
+
+<refsynopsisdiv>
+  <cmdsynopsis>
+    <command>nix-install-package</command>
+    <arg><option>--non-interactive</option></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>--set</option></arg>
+    <sbr />
+    <group choice='req'>
+      <arg choice='req'>
+        <option>--url</option>
+        <arg choice='plain'><replaceable>url</replaceable></arg>
+      </arg>
+      <arg choice='req'>
+        <arg choice='plain'><replaceable>file</replaceable></arg>
+      </arg>
+    </group>
+  </cmdsynopsis>
+</refsynopsisdiv>
+
+
+<refsection><title>Description</title>
+
+<para>The command <command>nix-install-package</command> interactively
+installs a Nix Package file (<filename>*.nixpkg</filename>), which is
+a small file that contains a store path to be installed along with the
+URL of a binary cache.  The Nix Package file is either
+<replaceable>file</replaceable>, or automatically downloaded from
+<replaceable>url</replaceable> if the <option>--url</option> switch is
+used.</para>
+
+<para><command>nix-install-package</command> is used in <link
+linkend="sec-one-click">one-click installs</link> to download and
+install pre-built binary packages with all necessary dependencies.
+<command>nix-install-package</command> is intended to be associated
+with the MIME type <literal>application/nix-package</literal> in a web
+browser so that it is invoked automatically when you click on
+<filename>*.nixpkg</filename> files.  When invoked, it restarts itself
+in a terminal window (since otherwise it would be invisible when run
+from a browser), asks the user to confirm whether to install the
+package, and if so downloads and installs the package into the user’s
+current profile.</para>
+
+<para>To obtain a window, <command>nix-install-package</command> tries
+to restart itself with <command>xterm</command>,
+<command>konsole</command> and
+<command>gnome-terminal</command>.</para>
+
+</refsection>
+
+
+<refsection><title>Options</title>
+
+<variablelist>
+
+  <varlistentry><term><option>--non-interactive</option></term>
+
+    <listitem><para>Do not open a new terminal window and do not ask
+    for confirmation.</para></listitem>
+
+  </varlistentry>
+
+  <varlistentry><term><option>--profile</option></term>
+    <term><option>-p</option></term>
+
+    <listitem><para>Install the package into the specified profile
+    rather than the user’s current profile.</para></listitem>
+
+  </varlistentry>
+
+  <varlistentry><term><option>--set</option></term>
+
+    <listitem><para>Install the package as the profile so that the
+    profile contains exactly the contents of the package.</para></listitem>
+
+  </varlistentry>
+
+</variablelist>
+
+</refsection>
+
+
+<refsection><title>Examples</title>
+
+<para>To install <filename>subversion-1.4.0.nixpkg</filename> into the
+user’s current profile, without any prompting:
+
+<screen>
+$ nix-install-package --non-interactive subversion-1.4.0.nixpkg</screen>
+
+</para>
+
+<para>To install the same package from some URL into a different
+profile:
+
+<screen>
+$ nix-install-package --non-interactive -p /nix/var/nix/profiles/eelco \
+    --url http://nix.cs.uu.nl/dist/nix/nixpkgs-0.10pre6622/pkgs/subversion-1.4.0-i686-linux.nixpkg</screen>
+
+</para>
+
+</refsection>
+
+
+<refsection><title>Format of <literal>nixpkg</literal> files</title>
+
+<para>A Nix Package file consists of a single line with the following
+format:
+
+<screen>
+NIXPKG1 <replaceable>manifestURL</replaceable> <replaceable>name</replaceable> <replaceable>system</replaceable> <replaceable>drvPath</replaceable> <replaceable>outPath</replaceable></screen>
+
+The elements are as follows:
+
+<variablelist>
+
+  <varlistentry><term><literal>NIXPKG1</literal></term>
+
+    <listitem><para>The version of the Nix Package
+    file.</para></listitem>
+
+  </varlistentry>
+
+  <varlistentry><term><replaceable>manifestURL</replaceable></term>
+
+    <listitem><para>The manifest to be pulled by
+    <command>nix-pull</command>.  The manifest must contain
+    <replaceable>outPath</replaceable>.</para></listitem>
+
+  </varlistentry>
+
+  <varlistentry><term><replaceable>name</replaceable></term>
+
+    <listitem><para>The symbolic name and version of the
+    package.</para></listitem>
+
+  </varlistentry>
+
+  <varlistentry><term><replaceable>system</replaceable></term>
+
+    <listitem><para>The platform identifier of the platform for which
+    this binary package is intended.</para></listitem>
+
+  </varlistentry>
+
+  <varlistentry><term><replaceable>drvPath</replaceable></term>
+
+    <listitem><para>The path in the Nix store of the derivation from
+    which <replaceable>outPath</replaceable> was built.  Not currently
+    used.</para></listitem>
+
+  </varlistentry>
+
+  <varlistentry><term><replaceable>outPath</replaceable></term>
+
+    <listitem><para>The path in the Nix store of the
+    package.</para></listitem>
+
+  </varlistentry>
+
+  <varlistentry><term><replaceable>binaryCacheURL</replaceable></term>
+
+    <listitem><para>The URL of a binary cache containing the closure
+    of <replaceable>outPath</replaceable>.</para></listitem>
+
+  </varlistentry>
+
+</variablelist>
+
+</para>
+
+<para>An example follows:
+
+<screen>
+NIXPKG1 http://.../nixpkgs-0.10pre6622/MANIFEST subversion-1.4.0 i686-darwin \
+  /nix/store/4kh60jkp...-subversion-1.4.0.drv \
+  /nix/store/nkw7wpgb...-subversion-1.4.0</screen>
+
+(The line breaks (<literal>\</literal>) are for presentation purposes
+and not part of the actual file.)
+
+</para>
+
+</refsection>
+
+
+</refentry>

doc/manual/command-ref/nix-instantiate.xml

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+<refentry xmlns="http://docbook.org/ns/docbook"
+      xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink"
+      xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XInclude"
+      version="5.0"
+      xml:id="sec-nix-instantiate">
+
+<refmeta>
+  <refentrytitle>nix-instantiate</refentrytitle>
+  <manvolnum>1</manvolnum>
+  <refmiscinfo class="source">Nix</refmiscinfo>
+  <refmiscinfo class="version"><xi:include href="../version.txt" parse="text"/></refmiscinfo>
+</refmeta>
+
+<refnamediv>
+  <refname>nix-instantiate</refname>
+  <refpurpose>instantiate store derivations from Nix expressions</refpurpose>
+</refnamediv>
+
+<refsynopsisdiv>
+  <cmdsynopsis>
+    <command>nix-instantiate</command>
+    <group>
+      <arg choice='plain'><option>--parse</option></arg>
+      <arg choice='plain'>
+        <option>--eval</option>
+        <arg><option>--strict</option></arg>
+        <arg><option>--xml</option></arg>
+      </arg>
+    </group>
+    <arg><option>--read-write-mode</option></arg>
+    <arg><option>--arg</option> <replaceable>name</replaceable> <replaceable>value</replaceable></arg>
+    <arg>
+      <group choice='req'>
+        <arg choice='plain'><option>--attr</option></arg>
+        <arg choice='plain'><option>-A</option></arg>
+      </group>
+      <replaceable>attrPath</replaceable>
+    </arg>
+    <arg><option>--add-root</option> <replaceable>path</replaceable></arg>
+    <arg><option>--indirect</option></arg>
+    <group choice='req'>
+      <arg choice='plain'><option>--expr</option></arg>
+      <arg choice='plain'><option>-E</option></arg>
+    </group>
+    <arg choice='plain' rep='repeat'><replaceable>files</replaceable></arg>
+    <sbr/>
+    <command>nix-instantiate</command>
+    <arg choice='plain'><option>--find-file</option></arg>
+    <arg choice='plain' rep='repeat'><replaceable>files</replaceable></arg>
+  </cmdsynopsis>
+</refsynopsisdiv>
+
+
+<refsection><title>Description</title>
+
+<para>The command <command>nix-instantiate</command> generates <link
+linkend="gloss-derivation">store derivations</link> from (high-level)
+Nix expressions.  It evaluates the Nix expressions in each of
+<replaceable>files</replaceable> (which defaults to
+<replaceable>./default.nix</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 derivations are printed
+on standard output.</para>
+
+<para>If <replaceable>files</replaceable> is the character
+<literal>-</literal>, then a Nix expression will be read from standard
+input.</para>
+
+<para condition="manual">See also <xref linkend="sec-common-options"
+/> for a list of common options.</para>
+
+</refsection>
+
+
+<refsection><title>Options</title>
+
+<variablelist>
+
+  <varlistentry>
+    <term><option>--add-root</option> <replaceable>path</replaceable></term>
+    <term><option>--indirect</option></term>
+
+    <listitem><para>See the <link linkend="opt-add-root">corresponding
+    options</link> in <command>nix-store</command>.</para></listitem>
+
+  </varlistentry>
+
+  <varlistentry><term><option>--parse</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</option></term>
+
+    <listitem><para>Just parse and evaluate the input files, and print
+    the resulting values on standard output.  No instantiation of
+    store derivations takes place.</para></listitem>
+
+  </varlistentry>
+
+  <varlistentry><term><option>--find-file</option></term>
+
+    <listitem><para>Look up the given files in Nix’s search path (as
+    specified by the <envar linkend="env-NIX_PATH">NIX_PATH</envar>
+    environment variable).  If found, print the corresponding absolute
+    paths on standard output.  For instance, if
+    <envar>NIX_PATH</envar> is
+    <literal>nixpkgs=/home/alice/nixpkgs</literal>, then
+    <literal>nix-instantiate --find-file nixpkgs/default.nix</literal>
+    will print
+    <literal>/home/alice/nixpkgs/default.nix</literal>.</para></listitem>
+
+  </varlistentry>
+
+  <varlistentry><term><option>--xml</option></term>
+
+    <listitem><para>When used with <option>--parse</option> and
+    <option>--eval</option>, print the resulting expression as an
+    XML representation of the abstract syntax tree rather than as an
+    ATerm.  The schema is the same as that used by the <link
+    linkend="builtin-toXML"><function>toXML</function>
+    built-in</link>.</para></listitem>
+
+  </varlistentry>
+
+  <varlistentry><term><option>--json</option></term>
+
+    <listitem><para>When used with <option>--parse</option> and
+    <option>--eval</option>, print the resulting expression as an
+    JSON representation of the abstract syntax tree rather than as an
+    ATerm.</para></listitem>
+
+  </varlistentry>
+
+  <varlistentry><term><option>--strict</option></term>
+
+    <listitem><para>When used with <option>--eval</option>,
+    recursively evaluate list elements and attributes.  Normally, such
+    sub-expressions are left unevaluated (since the Nix expression
+    language is lazy).</para>
+
+    <warning><para>This option can cause non-termination, because lazy
+    data structures can be infinitely large.</para></warning>
+
+    </listitem>
+
+  </varlistentry>
+
+  <varlistentry><term><option>--read-write-mode</option></term>
+
+    <listitem><para>When used with <option>--eval</option>, perform
+    evaluation in read/write mode so nix language features that
+    require it will still work (at the cost of needing to do
+    instantiation of every evaluated derivation).</para>
+
+    </listitem>
+
+  </varlistentry>
+
+</variablelist>
+
+<variablelist condition="manpage">
+  <xi:include href="opt-common.xml#xmlns(db=http://docbook.org/ns/docbook)xpointer(//db:variablelist[@xml:id='opt-common']/*)" />
+</variablelist>
+
+</refsection>
+
+
+<refsection><title>Examples</title>
+
+<para>Instantiating store derivations from a Nix expression, and
+building them using <command>nix-store</command>:
+
+<screen>
+$ nix-instantiate test.nix <lineannotation>(instantiate)</lineannotation>
+/nix/store/cigxbmvy6dzix98dxxh9b6shg7ar5bvs-perl-BerkeleyDB-0.26.drv
+
+$ nix-store -r $(nix-instantiate test.nix) <lineannotation>(build)</lineannotation>
+<replaceable>...</replaceable>
+/nix/store/qhqk4n8ci095g3sdp93x7rgwyh9rdvgk-perl-BerkeleyDB-0.26 <lineannotation>(output path)</lineannotation>
+
+$ ls -l /nix/store/qhqk4n8ci095g3sdp93x7rgwyh9rdvgk-perl-BerkeleyDB-0.26
+dr-xr-xr-x    2 eelco    users        4096 1970-01-01 01:00 lib
+...</screen>
+
+</para>
+
+<para>You can also give a Nix expression on the command line:
+
+<screen>
+$ nix-instantiate -E 'with import &lt;nixpkgs> { }; hello'
+/nix/store/j8s4zyv75a724q38cb0r87rlczaiag4y-hello-2.8.drv
+</screen>
+
+This is equivalent to:
+
+<screen>
+$ nix-instantiate '&lt;nixpkgs>' -A hello
+</screen>
+
+</para>
+
+<para>Parsing and evaluating Nix expressions:
+
+<screen>
+$ nix-instantiate --parse -E '1 + 2'
+1 + 2
+
+$ nix-instantiate --eval -E '1 + 2'
+3
+
+$ nix-instantiate --eval --xml -E '1 + 2'
+<![CDATA[<?xml version='1.0' encoding='utf-8'?>
+<expr>
+  <int value="3" />
+</expr>]]></screen>
+
+</para>
+
+<para>The difference between non-strict and strict evaluation:
+
+<screen>
+$ nix-instantiate --eval --xml -E 'rec { x = "foo"; y = x; }'
+<replaceable>...</replaceable><![CDATA[
+  <attr name="x">
+    <string value="foo" />
+  </attr>
+  <attr name="y">
+    <unevaluated />
+  </attr>]]>
+<replaceable>...</replaceable></screen>
+
+Note that <varname>y</varname> is left unevaluated (the XML
+representation doesn’t attempt to show non-normal forms).
+
+<screen>
+$ nix-instantiate --eval --xml --strict -E 'rec { x = "foo"; y = x; }'
+<replaceable>...</replaceable><![CDATA[
+  <attr name="x">
+    <string value="foo" />
+  </attr>
+  <attr name="y">
+    <string value="foo" />
+  </attr>]]>
+<replaceable>...</replaceable></screen>
+
+</para>
+
+</refsection>
+
+
+<refsection condition="manpage"><title>Environment variables</title>
+
+<variablelist>
+  <xi:include href="env-common.xml#xmlns(db=http://docbook.org/ns/docbook)xpointer(//db:variablelist[@xml:id='env-common']/*)" />
+</variablelist>
+
+</refsection>
+
+
+</refentry>

doc/manual/command-ref/nix-prefetch-url.xml

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+<refentry xmlns="http://docbook.org/ns/docbook"
+      xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink"
+      xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XInclude"
+      version="5.0"
+      xml:id="sec-nix-prefetch-url">
+
+<refmeta>
+  <refentrytitle>nix-prefetch-url</refentrytitle>
+  <manvolnum>1</manvolnum>
+  <refmiscinfo class="source">Nix</refmiscinfo>
+  <refmiscinfo class="version"><xi:include href="../version.txt" parse="text"/></refmiscinfo>
+</refmeta>
+
+<refnamediv>
+  <refname>nix-prefetch-url</refname>
+  <refpurpose>copy a file from a URL into the store and print its hash</refpurpose>
+</refnamediv>
+
+<refsynopsisdiv>
+  <cmdsynopsis>
+    <command>nix-prefetch-url</command>
+    <arg><option>--type</option> <replaceable>hashAlgo</replaceable></arg>
+    <arg><option>--print-path</option></arg>
+    <arg choice='plain'><replaceable>url</replaceable></arg>
+    <arg><replaceable>hash</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
+cryptographic hash, 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 for Nix expression writers.
+Often a Nix expression fetches some source distribution from the
+network using the <literal>fetchurl</literal> expression contained in
+Nixpkgs.  However, <literal>fetchurl</literal> requires a
+cryptographic 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>
+
+<para>If <replaceable>hash</replaceable> is specified, then a download
+is not performed if the Nix store already contains a file with the
+same hash and base name.  Otherwise, the file is downloaded, and an
+error if signaled if the actual hash of the file does not match the
+specified hash.</para>
+
+<para>This command prints the hash on standard output.  Additionally,
+if the option <option>--print-path</option> is used, the path of the
+downloaded file in the Nix store is also printed.</para>
+
+</refsection>
+
+
+<refsection><title>Options</title>
+
+<variablelist>
+
+  <varlistentry><term><option>--type</option> <replaceable>hashAlgo</replaceable></term>
+
+    <listitem><para>Use the specified cryptographic hash algorithm,
+    which can be one of <literal>md5</literal>,
+    <literal>sha1</literal>, and
+    <literal>sha256</literal>.</para></listitem>
+
+  </varlistentry>
+
+  <varlistentry><term><option>--print-path</option></term>
+
+    <listitem><para>Print the store path of the downloaded file on
+    standard output.</para></listitem>
+
+  </varlistentry>
+
+  <varlistentry><term><option>--unpack</option></term>
+
+    <listitem><para>Unpack the archive (which must be a tarball or zip
+    file) and add the result to the Nix store. The resulting hash can
+    be used with functions such as Nixpkgs’s
+    <varname>fetchzip</varname> or
+    <varname>fetchFromGitHub</varname>.</para></listitem>
+
+  </varlistentry>
+
+  <varlistentry><term><option>--name</option></term>
+
+    <listitem><para>Override the name of the file in the Nix store. By
+    default, this is
+    <literal><replaceable>hash</replaceable>-<replaceable>basename</replaceable></literal>,
+    where <replaceable>basename</replaceable> is the last component of
+    <replaceable>url</replaceable>. Overriding the name is necessary
+    when <replaceable>basename</replaceable> contains characters that
+    are not allowed in Nix store paths.</para></listitem>
+
+  </varlistentry>
+
+</variablelist>
+
+</refsection>
+
+
+<refsection><title>Examples</title>
+
+<screen>
+$ nix-prefetch-url ftp://ftp.gnu.org/pub/gnu/hello/hello-2.10.tar.gz
+0ssi1wpaf7plaswqqjwigppsg5fyh99vdlb9kzl7c9lng89ndq1i
+
+$ nix-prefetch-url --print-path mirror://gnu/hello/hello-2.10.tar.gz
+0ssi1wpaf7plaswqqjwigppsg5fyh99vdlb9kzl7c9lng89ndq1i
+/nix/store/3x7dwzq014bblazs7kq20p9hyzz0qh8g-hello-2.10.tar.gz
+
+$ nix-prefetch-url --unpack --print-path https://github.com/NixOS/patchelf/archive/0.8.tar.gz
+079agjlv0hrv7fxnx9ngipx14gyncbkllxrp9cccnh3a50fxcmy7
+/nix/store/19zrmhm3m40xxaw81c8cqm6aljgrnwj2-0.8.tar.gz
+</screen>
+
+</refsection>
+
+
+</refentry>

doc/manual/command-ref/nix-pull.xml

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+<refentry xmlns="http://docbook.org/ns/docbook"
+      xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink"
+      xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XInclude"
+      version="5.0"
+      xml:id="sec-nix-pull">
+
+<refmeta>
+  <refentrytitle>nix-pull</refentrytitle>
+  <manvolnum>1</manvolnum>
+  <refmiscinfo class="source">Nix</refmiscinfo>
+  <refmiscinfo class="version"><xi:include href="../version.txt" parse="text"/></refmiscinfo>
+</refmeta>
+
+<refnamediv>
+  <refname>nix-pull</refname>
+  <refpurpose>register availability of pre-built binaries (deprecated)</refpurpose>
+</refnamediv>
+
+<refsynopsisdiv>
+  <cmdsynopsis>
+    <command>nix-pull</command>
+    <arg choice='plain'><replaceable>url</replaceable></arg>
+  </cmdsynopsis>
+</refsynopsisdiv>
+
+
+<refsection><title>Description</title>
+
+<note><para>This command and the use of manifests is deprecated. It is
+better to use binary caches.</para></note>
+
+<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 https://nixos.org/releases/nixpkgs/nixpkgs-15.05pre54468.69858d7/MANIFEST</screen>
+
+</refsection>
+
+
+</refentry>

doc/manual/command-ref/nix-push.xml

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+<refentry xmlns="http://docbook.org/ns/docbook"
+      xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink"
+      xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XInclude"
+      version="5.0"
+      xml:id="sec-nix-push">
+
+<refmeta>
+  <refentrytitle>nix-push</refentrytitle>
+  <manvolnum>1</manvolnum>
+  <refmiscinfo class="source">Nix</refmiscinfo>
+  <refmiscinfo class="version"><xi:include href="../version.txt" parse="text"/></refmiscinfo>
+</refmeta>
+
+<refnamediv>
+  <refname>nix-push</refname>
+  <refpurpose>generate a binary cache</refpurpose>
+</refnamediv>
+
+<refsynopsisdiv>
+  <cmdsynopsis>
+    <command>nix-push</command>
+    <arg choice='plain'><option>--dest</option> <replaceable>dest-dir</replaceable></arg>
+    <arg><option>--bzip2</option></arg>
+    <arg><option>--none</option></arg>
+    <arg><option>--force</option></arg>
+    <arg><option>--link</option></arg>
+    <arg><option>--manifest</option></arg>
+    <arg><option>--manifest-path</option> <replaceable>filename</replaceable></arg>
+    <arg><option>--url-prefix</option> <replaceable>url</replaceable></arg>
+    <arg><option>--key-file</option> <replaceable>path</replaceable></arg>
+    <arg choice='plain' rep='repeat'><replaceable>paths</replaceable></arg>
+  </cmdsynopsis>
+</refsynopsisdiv>
+
+
+<refsection><title>Description</title>
+
+<para>The command <command>nix-push</command> produces a
+<emphasis>binary cache</emphasis>, a directory containing compressed
+Nix archives (NARs) plus some metadata of the closure of the specified
+store paths.  This directory can then be made available through a web
+server to other Nix installations, allowing them to skip building from
+source and instead download binaries from the cache
+automatically.</para>
+
+<para><command>nix-push</command> performs the following actions.
+
+<orderedlist>
+
+  <listitem><para>Each path in <replaceable>paths</replaceable> is
+  built (using <link
+  linkend='rsec-nix-store-realise'><command>nix-store
+  --realise</command></link>).</para></listitem>
+
+  <listitem><para>All paths in the closure of
+  <replaceable>paths</replaceable> are determined (using
+  <command>nix-store --query --requisites
+  --include-outputs</command>).  Note that since the
+  <option>--include-outputs</option> flag is used, if
+  <replaceable>paths</replaceable> includes a store derivation, you
+  get a combined source/binary distribution (e.g., source tarballs
+  will be included).</para></listitem>
+
+  <listitem><para>All store paths determined in the previous step are
+  packaged into a NAR (using <command>nix-store --dump</command>) and
+  compressed using <command>xz</command> or <command>bzip2</command>.
+  The resulting files have the extension <filename>.nar.xz</filename>
+  or <filename>.nar.bz2</filename>.  Also for each store path, Nix
+  generates a file with extension <filename>.narinfo</filename>
+  containing metadata such as the references, cryptographic hash and
+  size of each path.</para></listitem>
+
+  <listitem><para>Optionally, a single <emphasis>manifest</emphasis>
+  file is created that contains the same metadata as the
+  <filename>.narinfo</filename> files.  This is for compatibility with
+  Nix versions prior to 1.2 (see <command>nix-pull</command> for
+  details).</para></listitem>
+
+  <listitem><para>A file named <option>nix-cache-info</option> is
+  placed in the destination directory.  The existence of this file
+  marks the directory as a binary cache.</para></listitem>
+
+</orderedlist>
+
+</para>
+
+</refsection>
+
+
+<refsection><title>Options</title>
+
+<variablelist>
+
+  <varlistentry><term><option>--dest</option> <replaceable>dest-dir</replaceable></term>
+
+    <listitem><para>Set the destination directory to
+    <replaceable>dir</replaceable>, which is created if it does not
+    exist.  This flag is required.</para></listitem>
+
+  </varlistentry>
+
+  <varlistentry><term><option>--bzip2</option></term>
+
+    <listitem><para>Compress NARs using <command>bzip2</command>
+    instead of <command>xz</command>.  The latter compresses about 30%
+    better on typical archives, decompresses about twice as fast, but
+    compresses a lot slower and is not supported by Nix prior to
+    version 1.2.</para></listitem>
+
+  </varlistentry>
+
+  <varlistentry><term><option>--none</option></term>
+
+    <listitem><para>Do not compress NARs.</para></listitem>
+
+  </varlistentry>
+
+  <varlistentry><term><option>--force</option></term>
+
+    <listitem><para>Overwrite <filename>.narinfo</filename> files if
+    they already exist.</para></listitem>
+
+  </varlistentry>
+
+  <varlistentry><term><option>--link</option></term>
+
+    <listitem><para>By default, NARs are generated in the Nix store
+    and then copied to <replaceable>dest-dir</replaceable>.  If this
+    option is given, hard links are used instead.  This only works if
+    <replaceable>dest-dir</replaceable> is on the same filesystem as
+    the Nix store.</para></listitem>
+
+  </varlistentry>
+
+  <varlistentry><term><option>--manifest</option></term>
+
+    <listitem><para>Force the generation of a manifest suitable for
+    use by <command>nix-pull</command>.  The manifest is stored as
+    <filename><replaceable>dest-dir</replaceable>/MANIFEST</filename>.</para></listitem>
+
+  </varlistentry>
+
+  <varlistentry><term><option>--manifest-path</option> <replaceable>filename</replaceable></term>
+
+    <listitem><para>Like <option>--manifest</option>, but store the
+    manifest in <replaceable>filename</replaceable>.</para></listitem>
+
+  </varlistentry>
+
+  <varlistentry><term><option>--url-prefix</option> <replaceable>url</replaceable></term>
+
+    <listitem><para>Manifests are expected to contain the absolute
+    URLs of NARs.  For generating these URLs, the prefix
+    <replaceable>url</replaceable> is used.  It defaults to
+    <uri>file://<replaceable>dest-dir</replaceable></uri>.</para></listitem>
+
+  </varlistentry>
+
+  <varlistentry><term><option>--key-file</option> <replaceable>path</replaceable></term>
+
+    <listitem><para>Sign the binary cache using the secret key stored
+    in <replaceable>path</replaceable>. This secret key must have been
+    created using <command
+    linkend="rsec-nix-store-generate-binary-cache-key">nix-store
+    --generate-binary-cache-key</command>. Users of this binary cache
+    should add the corresponding public key to the option
+    <option>binary-cache-public-keys</option> in
+    <filename>nix.conf</filename>.</para></listitem>
+
+  </varlistentry>
+
+</variablelist>
+
+</refsection>
+
+
+<refsection><title>Examples</title>
+
+<para>To add the closure of Thunderbird to a binary cache:
+
+<screen>
+$ nix-push --dest /tmp/cache $(nix-build -A thunderbird)
+</screen>
+
+Assuming that <filename>/tmp/cache</filename> is exported by a web
+server as <uri>http://example.org/cache</uri>, you can then use this
+cache on another machine to speed up the installation of Thunderbird:
+
+<screen>
+$ nix-build -A thunderbird --option binary-caches http://example.org/cache
+</screen>
+
+Alternatively, you could add <literal>binary-caches =
+http://example.org/cache</literal> to
+<filename>nix.conf</filename>.</para>
+
+<para>To also include build-time dependencies (such as source
+tarballs):
+
+<screen>
+$ nix-push --dest /tmp/cache $(nix-instantiate -A thunderbird)
+</screen>
+
+</para>
+
+<para>To generate a manifest suitable for <command>nix-pull</command>:
+
+<screen>
+$ nix-push --dest /tmp/cache $(nix-build -A thunderbird) --manifest
+</screen>
+
+On another machine you can then do:
+
+<screen>
+$ nix-pull http://example.org/cache
+</screen>
+
+to cause the binaries to be used by subsequent Nix operations.</para>
+
+<para>To generate a signed binary cache, you must first generate a key
+pair, in this example called <literal>cache.example.org-1</literal>,
+storing the secret key in <filename>./sk</filename> and the public key
+in <filename>./pk</filename>:
+
+<screen>
+$ nix-store --generate-binary-cache-key cache.example.org-1 sk pk
+
+$ cat sk
+cache.example.org-1:jcMRQYFo8pQKzTtimpQLIPeHkMYZjfhB24hGfwF+u9PuX8H8FO7q564+X3G/JDlqqIqGar3OXRRwS9N3Wh3vbw==
+
+$ cat pk
+cache.example.org-1:7l/B/BTu6ueuPl9xvyQ5aqiKhmq9zl0UcEvTd1od728=
+</screen>
+
+You can then generate a binary cache signed with the secret key:
+
+<screen>
+$ nix-push --dest /tmp/cache --key-file ./sk $(type -p firefox)
+</screen>
+
+Users who wish to verify the integrity of binaries downloaded from
+your cache would add the following to their
+<filename>nix.conf</filename>:
+
+<programlisting>
+binary-caches = http://cache.example.org
+signed-binary-caches = *
+binary-cache-public-keys = cache.example.org-1:7l/B/BTu6ueuPl9xvyQ5aqiKhmq9zl0UcEvTd1od728=
+</programlisting>
+
+Nix will then ignore any binary that has a missing, incorrect or
+unrecognised signature.</para>
+
+</refsection>
+
+
+<refsection><title>Binary cache format and operation</title>
+
+<para>A binary cache with URL <replaceable>url</replaceable> only
+denotes a valid binary cache if the file
+<uri><replaceable>url</replaceable>/nix-cache-info</uri> exists.  If
+this file does not exist (or cannot be downloaded), the cache is
+ignored.  If it does exist, it must be a text file containing cache
+properties.  Here’s an example:
+
+<screen>
+StoreDir: /nix/store
+WantMassQuery: 1
+Priority: 10
+</screen>
+
+The properties that are currently supported are:
+
+<variablelist>
+
+  <varlistentry><term><literal>StoreDir</literal></term>
+
+    <listitem><para>The path of the Nix store to which this binary
+    cache applies.  Binaries are not relocatable — a binary built for
+    <filename>/nix/store</filename> won’t generally work in
+    <filename>/home/alice/store</filename> — so to prevent binaries
+    from being used in a wrong store, a binary cache is only used if
+    its <literal>StoreDir</literal> matches the local Nix
+    configuration.  The default is
+    <filename>/nix/store</filename>.</para></listitem>
+
+  </varlistentry>
+
+  <varlistentry><term><literal>WantMassQuery</literal></term>
+
+    <listitem><para>Query operations such as <command>nix-env
+    -qas</command> can cause thousands of cache queries, and thus
+    thousands of HTTP requests, to determine which packages are
+    available in binary form.  While these requests are small, not
+    every server may appreciate a potential onslaught of queries.  If
+    <literal>WantMassQuery</literal> is set to <literal>0</literal>
+    (default), “mass queries” such as <command>nix-env -qas</command>
+    will skip this cache.  Thus a package may appear not to have a
+    binary substitute.  However, the binary will still be used when
+    you actually install the package.  If
+    <literal>WantMassQuery</literal> is set to <literal>1</literal>,
+    mass queries will use this cache.</para></listitem>
+
+  </varlistentry>
+
+  <varlistentry><term><literal>Priority</literal></term>
+
+    <listitem><para>Each binary cache has a priority (defaulting to
+    50).  Binary caches are checked for binaries in order of ascending
+    priority; thus a higher number denotes a lower priority.  The
+    binary cache <uri>https://cache.nixos.org</uri> has priority
+    40.</para></listitem>
+
+  </varlistentry>
+
+</variablelist>
+
+</para>
+
+<para>Every time Nix needs to build some store path
+<replaceable>p</replaceable>, it will check each configured binary
+cache to see if it has a NAR file for <replaceable>p</replaceable>,
+until it finds one.  If no cache has a NAR, Nix will fall back to
+building the path from source (if applicable).  To see if a cache with
+URL <replaceable>url</replaceable> has a binary for
+<replaceable>p</replaceable>, Nix fetches
+<replaceable>url/h</replaceable>, where <replaceable>h</replaceable>
+is the hash part of <replaceable>p</replaceable>.  Thus, if we have a
+cache <uri>https://cache.nixos.org</uri> and we want to obtain the
+store path
+<screen>
+/nix/store/a8922c0h87iilxzzvwn2hmv8x210aqb9-glibc-2.7
+</screen>
+then Nix will attempt to fetch
+<screen>
+https://cache.nixos.org/a8922c0h87iilxzzvwn2hmv8x210aqb9.narinfo
+</screen>
+(Commands such as <command>nix-env -qas</command> will issue an HTTP
+HEAD request, since it only needs to know if the
+<filename>.narinfo</filename> file exists.)  The
+<filename>.narinfo</filename> file is a simple text file that looks
+like this:
+
+<screen>
+StorePath: /nix/store/a8922c0h87iilxzzvwn2hmv8x210aqb9-glibc-2.7
+URL: nar/0zzjpdz46mdn74v09m053yczlz4am038g8r74iy8w43gx8801h70.nar.bz2
+Compression: bzip2
+FileHash: sha256:0zzjpdz46mdn74v09m053yczlz4am038g8r74iy8w43gx8801h70
+FileSize: 24473768
+NarHash: sha256:0s491y1h9hxj5ghiizlxk7ax6jwbha00zwn7lpyd5xg5bhf60vzg
+NarSize: 109521136
+References: 2ma2k0ys8knh4an48n28vigcmc2z8773-linux-headers-2.6.23.16 ...
+Deriver: 7akyyc87ka32xwmqza9dvyg5pwx3j212-glibc-2.7.drv
+Sig: cache.example.org-1:WepnSp2UT0odDpR3NRjPVhJBHmdBgSBSTbHpdh4SCz92nGXwFY82bkPEmISoC0hGqBXDXEmB6y3Ohgna3mMgDg==
+</screen>
+
+The fields are as follows:
+
+<variablelist>
+
+  <varlistentry><term><literal>StorePath</literal></term>
+
+    <listitem><para>The full store path, including the name part
+    (e.g., <literal>glibc-2.7</literal>).  It must match the
+    requested store path.</para></listitem>
+
+  </varlistentry>
+
+  <varlistentry><term><literal>URL</literal></term>
+
+    <listitem><para>The URL of the NAR, relative to the binary cache
+    URL.</para></listitem>
+
+  </varlistentry>
+
+  <varlistentry><term><literal>Compression</literal></term>
+
+    <listitem><para>The compression method; either
+    <literal>xz</literal> or
+    <literal>bzip2</literal>.</para></listitem>
+
+  </varlistentry>
+
+  <varlistentry><term><literal>FileHash</literal></term>
+
+    <listitem><para>The SHA-256 hash of the compressed
+    NAR.</para></listitem>
+
+  </varlistentry>
+
+  <varlistentry><term><literal>FileSize</literal></term>
+
+    <listitem><para>The size of the compressed NAR.</para></listitem>
+
+  </varlistentry>
+
+  <varlistentry><term><literal>NarHash</literal></term>
+
+    <listitem><para>The SHA-256 hash of the uncompressed NAR.  This is
+    equal to the hash of the store path as returned by
+    <command>nix-store -q --hash
+    <replaceable>p</replaceable></command>.</para></listitem>
+
+  </varlistentry>
+
+  <varlistentry><term><literal>NarSize</literal></term>
+
+    <listitem><para>The size of the uncompressed NAR.</para></listitem>
+
+  </varlistentry>
+
+  <varlistentry><term><literal>References</literal></term>
+
+    <listitem><para>The references of the store path, without the Nix
+    store prefix.</para></listitem>
+
+  </varlistentry>
+
+  <varlistentry><term><literal>Deriver</literal></term>
+
+    <listitem><para>The deriver of the store path, without the Nix
+    store prefix.  This field is optional.</para></listitem>
+
+  </varlistentry>
+
+  <varlistentry><term><literal>System</literal></term>
+
+    <listitem><para>The Nix platform type of this binary, if known.
+    This field is optional.</para></listitem>
+
+  </varlistentry>
+
+  <varlistentry><term><literal>Sig</literal></term>
+
+    <listitem><para>A signature of the the form
+    <literal><replaceable>key-name</replaceable>:<replaceable>sig</replaceable></literal>,
+    where <replaceable>key-name</replaceable> is the symbolic name of
+    the key pair used to sign and verify the cache
+    (e.g. <literal>cache.example.org-1</literal>), and
+    <replaceable>sig</replaceable> is the actual signature, computed
+    over the <varname>StorePath</varname>, <varname>NarHash</varname>,
+    <varname>NarSize</varname> and <varname>References</varname>
+    fields using the <link
+    xlink:href="http://ed25519.cr.yp.to/">Ed25519 public-key signature
+    system</link>.</para></listitem>
+
+  </varlistentry>
+
+</variablelist>
+
+</para>
+
+<para>Thus, in our example, after recursively ensuring that the
+references exist (e.g.,
+<filename>/nix/store/2ma2k0ys8knh4an48n28vigcmc2z8773-linux-headers-2.6.23.16</filename>),
+Nix will fetch <screen>
+https://cache.nixos.org/nar/0zzjpdz46mdn74v09m053yczlz4am038g8r74iy8w43gx8801h70.nar.bz2
+</screen> and decompress and unpack it to
+<filename>/nix/store/a8922c0h87iilxzzvwn2hmv8x210aqb9-glibc-2.7</filename>.</para>
+
+</refsection>
+
+
+</refentry>

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+<refentry xmlns="http://docbook.org/ns/docbook"
+      xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink"
+      xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XInclude"
+      version="5.0"
+      xml:id="sec-nix-shell">
+
+<refmeta>
+  <refentrytitle>nix-shell</refentrytitle>
+  <manvolnum>1</manvolnum>
+  <refmiscinfo class="source">Nix</refmiscinfo>
+  <refmiscinfo class="version"><xi:include href="../version.txt" parse="text"/></refmiscinfo>
+</refmeta>
+
+<refnamediv>
+  <refname>nix-shell</refname>
+  <refpurpose>start an interactive shell based on a Nix expression</refpurpose>
+</refnamediv>
+
+<refsynopsisdiv>
+  <cmdsynopsis>
+    <command>nix-shell</command>
+    <arg><option>--arg</option> <replaceable>name</replaceable> <replaceable>value</replaceable></arg>
+    <arg><option>--argstr</option> <replaceable>name</replaceable> <replaceable>value</replaceable></arg>
+    <arg>
+      <group choice='req'>
+        <arg choice='plain'><option>--attr</option></arg>
+        <arg choice='plain'><option>-A</option></arg>
+      </group>
+      <replaceable>attrPath</replaceable>
+    </arg>
+    <arg><option>--command</option> <replaceable>cmd</replaceable></arg>
+    <arg><option>--run</option> <replaceable>cmd</replaceable></arg>
+    <arg><option>--exclude</option> <replaceable>regexp</replaceable></arg>
+    <arg><option>--pure</option></arg>
+    <group choice='req'>
+      <group choice='plain'>
+        <group>
+          <arg choice='plain'><option>--packages</option></arg>
+          <arg choice='plain'><option>-p</option></arg>
+        </group>
+        <replaceable>packages</replaceable>
+      </group>
+      <arg><replaceable>path</replaceable></arg>
+    </group>
+  </cmdsynopsis>
+</refsynopsisdiv>
+
+<refsection><title>Description</title>
+
+<para>The command <command>nix-shell</command> will build the
+dependencies of the specified derivation, but not the derivation
+itself.  It will then start an interactive shell in which all
+environment variables defined by the derivation
+<replaceable>path</replaceable> have been set to their corresponding
+values, and the script <literal>$stdenv/setup</literal> has been
+sourced.  This is useful for reproducing the environment of a
+derivation for development.</para>
+
+<para>If <replaceable>path</replaceable> is not given,
+<command>nix-shell</command> defaults to
+<filename>shell.nix</filename> if it exists, and
+<filename>default.nix</filename> otherwise.</para>
+
+<para>If <replaceable>path</replaceable> starts with
+<literal>http://</literal> or <literal>https://</literal>, it is
+interpreted as the URL of a tarball that will be downloaded and
+unpacked to a temporary location. The tarball must include a single
+top-level directory containing at least a file named
+<filename>default.nix</filename>.</para>
+
+<para>If the derivation defines the variable
+<varname>shellHook</varname>, it will be evaluated after
+<literal>$stdenv/setup</literal> has been sourced.  Since this hook is
+not executed by regular Nix builds, it allows you to perform
+initialisation specific to <command>nix-shell</command>.  For example,
+the derivation attribute
+
+<programlisting>
+shellHook =
+  ''
+    echo "Hello shell"
+  '';
+</programlisting>
+
+will cause <command>nix-shell</command> to print <literal>Hello shell</literal>.</para>
+
+</refsection>
+
+
+<refsection><title>Options</title>
+
+<para>All options not listed here are passed to <command>nix-store
+--realise</command>, except for <option>--arg</option> and
+<option>--attr</option> / <option>-A</option> which are passed to
+<command>nix-instantiate</command>.  <phrase condition="manual">See
+also <xref linkend="sec-common-options" />.</phrase></para>
+
+<variablelist>
+
+  <varlistentry><term><option>--command</option> <replaceable>cmd</replaceable></term>
+
+    <listitem><para>In the environment of the derivation, run the
+    shell command <replaceable>cmd</replaceable>. This command is
+    executed in an interactive shell. (Use <option>--run</option> to
+    use a non-interactive shell instead.) However, a call to
+    <literal>exit</literal> is implicitly added to the command, so the
+    shell will exit after running the command. To prevent this, add
+    <literal>return</literal> at the end; e.g. <literal>--command
+    "echo Hello; return"</literal> will print <literal>Hello</literal>
+    and then drop you into the interactive shell. This can be useful
+    for doing any additional initialisation.</para></listitem>
+
+  </varlistentry>
+
+  <varlistentry><term><option>--run</option> <replaceable>cmd</replaceable></term>
+
+    <listitem><para>Like <option>--command</option>, but executes the
+    command in a non-interactive shell. This means (among other
+    things) that if you hit Ctrl-C while the command is running, the
+    shell exits.</para></listitem>
+
+  </varlistentry>
+
+  <varlistentry><term><option>--exclude</option> <replaceable>regexp</replaceable></term>
+
+    <listitem><para>Do not build any dependencies whose store path
+    matches the regular expression <replaceable>regexp</replaceable>.
+    This option may be specified multiple times.</para></listitem>
+
+  </varlistentry>
+
+  <varlistentry><term><option>--pure</option></term>
+
+    <listitem><para>If this flag is specified, the environment is
+    almost entirely cleared before the interactive shell is started,
+    so you get an environment that more closely corresponds to the
+    “real” Nix build.  A few variables, in particular
+    <envar>HOME</envar>, <envar>USER</envar> and
+    <envar>DISPLAY</envar>, are retained.  Note that
+    <filename>~/.bashrc</filename> and (depending on your Bash
+    installation) <filename>/etc/bashrc</filename> are still sourced,
+    so any variables set there will affect the interactive
+    shell.</para></listitem>
+
+  </varlistentry>
+
+  <varlistentry><term><option>--packages</option> / <option>-p</option></term>
+
+    <listitem><para>Set up an environment in which the specified
+    packages are present.  The command line arguments are interpreted
+    as attribute names inside the Nix Packages collection.  Thus,
+    <literal>nix-shell -p libjpeg openjdk</literal> will start a shell
+    in which the packages denoted by the attribute names
+    <varname>libjpeg</varname> and <varname>openjdk</varname> are
+    present.</para></listitem>
+
+  </varlistentry>
+
+  <varlistentry><term><option>-i</option> <replaceable>interpreter</replaceable></term>
+
+    <listitem><para>The chained script interpreter to be invoked by
+    <command>nix-shell</command>. Only applicable in
+    <literal>#!</literal>-scripts (described <link
+    linkend="ssec-nix-shell-shebang">below</link>).</para>
+
+    </listitem></varlistentry>
+
+</variablelist>
+
+<para>The following common options are supported:</para>
+
+<variablelist condition="manpage">
+  <xi:include href="opt-common.xml#xmlns(db=http://docbook.org/ns/docbook)xpointer(//db:variablelist[@xml:id='opt-common']/*)" />
+</variablelist>
+
+</refsection>
+
+
+<refsection><title>Environment variables</title>
+
+<variablelist>
+
+  <varlistentry><term><envar>NIX_BUILD_SHELL</envar></term>
+    
+    <listitem><para>Shell used to start the interactive environment. 
+    Defaults to the <command>bash</command> found in <envar>PATH</envar>.</para></listitem>
+
+  </varlistentry>
+
+</variablelist>
+
+</refsection>
+
+
+<refsection><title>Examples</title>
+
+<para>To build the dependencies of the package Pan, and start an
+interactive shell in which to build it:
+
+<screen>
+$ nix-shell '&lt;nixpkgs>' -A pan
+[nix-shell]$ unpackPhase
+[nix-shell]$ cd pan-*
+[nix-shell]$ configurePhase
+[nix-shell]$ buildPhase
+[nix-shell]$ ./pan/gui/pan
+</screen>
+
+To clear the environment first, and do some additional automatic
+initialisation of the interactive shell:
+
+<screen>
+$ nix-shell '&lt;nixpkgs>' -A pan --pure \
+    --command 'export NIX_DEBUG=1; export NIX_CORES=8; return'
+</screen>
+
+Nix expressions can also be given on the command line.  For instance,
+the following starts a shell containing the packages
+<literal>sqlite</literal> and <literal>libX11</literal>:
+
+<screen>
+$ nix-shell -E 'with import &lt;nixpkgs> { }; runCommand "dummy" { buildInputs = [ sqlite xorg.libX11 ]; } ""'
+</screen>
+
+A shorter way to do the same is:
+
+<screen>
+$ nix-shell -p sqlite xorg.libX11
+[nix-shell]$ echo $NIX_LDFLAGS
+… -L/nix/store/j1zg5v…-sqlite-3.8.0.2/lib -L/nix/store/0gmcz9…-libX11-1.6.1/lib …
+</screen>
+
+The <command>-p</command> flag looks up Nixpkgs in the Nix search
+path. You can override it by passing <option>-I</option> or setting
+<envar>NIX_PATH</envar>. For example, the following gives you a shell
+containing the Pan package from a specific revision of Nixpkgs:
+
+<screen>
+$ nix-shell -p pan -I nixpkgs=https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs-channels/archive/8a3eea054838b55aca962c3fbde9c83c102b8bf2.tar.gz
+
+[nix-shell:~]$ pan --version
+Pan 0.139
+</screen>
+
+</para>
+
+</refsection>
+
+
+<refsection xml:id="ssec-nix-shell-shebang"><title>Use as a <literal>#!</literal>-interpreter</title>
+
+<para>You can use <command>nix-shell</command> as a script interpreter
+to allow scripts written in arbitrary languages to obtain their own
+dependencies via Nix. This is done by starting the script with the
+following lines:
+
+<programlisting>
+#! /usr/bin/env nix-shell
+#! nix-shell -i <replaceable>real-interpreter</replaceable> -p <replaceable>packages</replaceable>
+</programlisting>
+
+where <replaceable>real-interpreter</replaceable> is the “real” script
+interpreter that will be invoked by <command>nix-shell</command> after
+it has obtained the dependencies and initialised the environment, and
+<replaceable>packages</replaceable> are the attribute names of the
+dependencies in Nixpkgs.</para>
+
+<para>The lines starting with <literal>#! nix-shell</literal> specify
+<command>nix-shell</command> options (see above). Note that you cannot
+write <literal>#1 /usr/bin/env nix-shell -i ...</literal> because
+many operating systems only allow one argument in
+<literal>#!</literal> lines.</para>
+
+<para>For example, here is a Python script that depends on Python and
+the <literal>prettytable</literal> package:
+
+<programlisting>
+#! /usr/bin/env nix-shell
+#! nix-shell -i python -p python pythonPackages.prettytable
+
+import prettytable
+
+# Print a simple table.
+t = prettytable.PrettyTable(["N", "N^2"])
+for n in range(1, 10): t.add_row([n, n * n])
+print t
+</programlisting>
+
+</para>
+
+<para>Similarly, the following is a Perl script that specifies that it
+requires Perl and the <literal>HTML::TokeParser::Simple</literal> and
+<literal>LWP</literal> packages:
+
+<programlisting>
+#! /usr/bin/env nix-shell
+#! nix-shell -i perl -p perl perlPackages.HTMLTokeParserSimple perlPackages.LWP
+
+use HTML::TokeParser::Simple;
+
+# Fetch nixos.org and print all hrefs.
+my $p = HTML::TokeParser::Simple->new(url => 'http://nixos.org/');
+
+while (my $token = $p->get_tag("a")) {
+    my $href = $token->get_attr("href");
+    print "$href\n" if $href;
+}
+</programlisting>
+
+</para>
+
+<para>Finally, the following Haskell script uses a specific branch of
+Nixpkgs/NixOS (the 14.12 stable branch):
+
+<programlisting><![CDATA[
+#! /usr/bin/env nix-shell
+#! nix-shell -i runghc -p haskellPackages.ghc haskellPackages.HTTP haskellPackages.tagsoup
+#! nix-shell -I nixpkgs=https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs-channels/archive/nixos-14.12.tar.gz
+
+import Network.HTTP
+import Text.HTML.TagSoup
+
+-- Fetch nixos.org and print all hrefs.
+main = do
+  resp <- Network.HTTP.simpleHTTP (getRequest "http://nixos.org/")
+  body <- getResponseBody resp
+  let tags = filter (isTagOpenName "a") $ parseTags body
+  let tags' = map (fromAttrib "href") tags
+  mapM_ putStrLn $ filter (/= "") tags'
+]]></programlisting>
+
+If you want to be even more precise, you can specify a specific
+revision of Nixpkgs:
+
+<programlisting>
+#! nix-shell -I nixpkgs=https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs-channels/archive/0672315759b3e15e2121365f067c1c8c56bb4722.tar.gz
+</programlisting>
+
+</para>
+
+<para>The examples above all used <option>-p</option> to get
+dependencies from Nixpkgs. You can also use a Nix expression to build
+your own dependencies. For example, the Python example could have been
+written as:
+
+<programlisting>
+#! /usr/bin/env nix-shell
+#! nix-shell deps.nix -i python
+</programlisting>
+
+where the file <filename>deps.nix</filename> in the same directory
+as the <literal>#!</literal>-script contains:
+
+<programlisting>
+with import &lt;nixpkgs> {};
+
+runCommand "dummy" { buildInputs = [ python pythonPackages.prettytable ]; } ""
+</programlisting>
+
+</para>
+
+</refsection>
+
+
+<refsection condition="manpage"><title>Environment variables</title>
+
+<variablelist>
+  <xi:include href="env-common.xml#xmlns(db=http://docbook.org/ns/docbook)xpointer(//db:variablelist[@xml:id='env-common']/*)" />
+</variablelist>
+
+</refsection>
+
+
+</refentry>

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+<nop xmlns="http://docbook.org/ns/docbook">
+  
+<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>--cores</option>
+  <replaceable>number</replaceable>
+</arg>
+<arg>
+  <option>--max-silent-time</option>
+  <replaceable>number</replaceable>
+</arg>
+<arg>
+  <option>--timeout</option>
+  <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>
+<arg><option>--log-type</option> <replaceable>type</replaceable></arg>
+<arg><option>--show-trace</option></arg>
+<arg>
+  <option>-I</option>
+  <replaceable>path</replaceable>
+</arg>
+<arg>
+  <option>--option</option>
+  <replaceable>name</replaceable>
+  <replaceable>value</replaceable>
+</arg>
+<sbr />
+
+</nop>

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+<chapter xmlns="http://docbook.org/ns/docbook" xml:id="sec-common-options">
+
+<title>Common Options</title>
+
+
+<para>Most Nix commands accept the following command-line options:</para>
+
+<variablelist xml:id="opt-common">
+
+<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></term>
+  <term><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>“Errors only”: only print messages
+    explaining why the Nix invocation failed.</para></listitem>
+    </varlistentry>
+
+    <varlistentry><term>1</term>
+    <listitem><para>“Informational”: print
+    <emphasis>useful</emphasis> messages about what Nix is doing.
+    This is the default.</para></listitem>
+    </varlistentry>
+
+    <varlistentry><term>2</term>
+    <listitem><para>“Talkative”: print more informational
+    messages.</para></listitem>
+    </varlistentry>
+
+    <varlistentry><term>3</term>
+    <listitem><para>“Chatty”: print even more
+    informational messages.</para></listitem>
+    </varlistentry>
+
+    <varlistentry><term>4</term>
+    <listitem><para>“Debug”: print debug
+    information.</para></listitem>
+    </varlistentry>
+
+    <varlistentry><term>5</term>
+    <listitem><para>“Vomit”: print vast amounts of debug
+    information.</para></listitem>
+    </varlistentry>
+
+  </variablelist>
+
+  </listitem>
+
+</varlistentry>
+
+
+<varlistentry><term><option>--no-build-output</option></term>
+  <term><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 xml:id="opt-max-jobs"><term><option>--max-jobs</option></term>
+  <term><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
+  specified by the <link
+  linkend='conf-build-max-jobs'><literal>build-max-jobs</literal></link>
+  configuration setting, which itself defaults to
+  <literal>1</literal>.  A higher value is useful on SMP systems or to
+  exploit I/O latency.</para></listitem>
+
+</varlistentry>
+
+
+<varlistentry xml:id="opt-cores"><term><option>--cores</option></term>
+
+  <listitem><para>Sets the value of the <envar>NIX_BUILD_CORES</envar>
+  environment variable in the invocation of builders.  Builders can
+  use this variable at their discretion to control the maximum amount
+  of parallelism.  For instance, in Nixpkgs, if the derivation
+  attribute <varname>enableParallelBuilding</varname> is set to
+  <literal>true</literal>, the builder passes the
+  <option>-j<replaceable>N</replaceable></option> flag to GNU Make.
+  It defaults to the value of the <link
+  linkend='conf-build-cores'><literal>build-cores</literal></link>
+  configuration setting, if set, or <literal>1</literal> otherwise.
+  The value <literal>0</literal> means that the builder should use all
+  available CPU cores in the system.</para></listitem>
+
+</varlistentry>
+
+
+<varlistentry xml:id="opt-max-silent-time"><term><option>--max-silent-time</option></term>
+
+  <listitem><para>Sets the maximum number of seconds that a builder
+  can go without producing any data on standard output or standard
+  error.  The default is specified by the <link
+  linkend='conf-build-max-silent-time'><literal>build-max-silent-time</literal></link>
+  configuration setting.  <literal>0</literal> means no
+  time-out.</para></listitem>
+
+</varlistentry>
+
+<varlistentry xml:id="opt-timeout"><term><option>--timeout</option></term>
+
+  <listitem><para>Sets the maximum number of seconds that a builder
+  can run.  The default is specified by the <link
+  linkend='conf-build-timeout'><literal>build-timeout</literal></link>
+  configuration setting.  <literal>0</literal> means no
+  timeout.</para></listitem>
+
+</varlistentry>
+
+<varlistentry><term><option>--keep-going</option></term>
+  <term><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></term>
+  <term><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 build a derivation for which
+  substitutes are known for each output path, but realising the output
+  paths through the substitutes fails, fall back on building 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,
+  installation from binaries falls back on installation from source.
+  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>
+
+
+<varlistentry xml:id="opt-log-type"><term><option>--log-type</option>
+<replaceable>type</replaceable></term>
+
+  <listitem>
+
+  <para>This option determines how the output written to standard
+  error is formatted.  Nix’s diagnostic messages are typically
+  <emphasis>nested</emphasis>.  For instance, when tracing Nix
+  expression evaluation (<command>nix-env -vvvvv</command>, messages
+  from subexpressions are nested inside their parent expressions.  Nix
+  builder output is also often nested.  For instance, the Nix Packages
+  generic builder nests the various build tasks (unpack, configure,
+  compile, etc.), and the GNU Make in <literal>stdenv-linux</literal>
+  has been patched to provide nesting for recursive Make
+  invocations.</para>
+
+  <para><replaceable>type</replaceable> can be one of the
+  following:
+
+  <variablelist>
+
+    <varlistentry><term><literal>pretty</literal></term>
+
+      <listitem><para>Pretty-print the output, indicating different
+      nesting levels using spaces.  This is the
+      default.</para></listitem>
+
+    </varlistentry>
+
+    <varlistentry><term><literal>escapes</literal></term>
+
+      <listitem><para>Indicate nesting using escape codes that can be
+      interpreted by the <command>nix-log2xml</command> tool in the
+      Nix source distribution.  The resulting XML file can be fed into
+      the <command>log2html.xsl</command> stylesheet to create an HTML
+      file that can be browsed interactively, using JavaScript to
+      expand and collapse parts of the output.</para></listitem>
+
+    </varlistentry>
+
+    <varlistentry><term><literal>flat</literal></term>
+
+      <listitem><para>Remove all nesting.</para></listitem>
+
+    </varlistentry>
+
+  </variablelist>
+
+  </para>
+
+  </listitem>
+
+</varlistentry>
+
+
+<varlistentry><term><option>--arg</option> <replaceable>name</replaceable> <replaceable>value</replaceable></term>
+
+  <listitem><para>This option is accepted by
+  <command>nix-env</command>, <command>nix-instantiate</command> and
+  <command>nix-build</command>.  When evaluating Nix expressions, the
+  expression evaluator will automatically try to call functions that
+  it encounters.  It can automatically call functions for which every
+  argument has a <link linkend='ss-functions'>default value</link>
+  (e.g., <literal>{ <replaceable>argName</replaceable> ?
+  <replaceable>defaultValue</replaceable> }:
+  <replaceable>...</replaceable></literal>).  With
+  <option>--arg</option>, you can also call functions that have
+  arguments without a default value (or override a default value).
+  That is, if the evaluator encounters a function with an argument
+  named <replaceable>name</replaceable>, it will call it with value
+  <replaceable>value</replaceable>.</para>
+
+  <para>For instance, the file
+  <literal>pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix</literal> in Nixpkgs is
+  actually a function:
+
+<programlisting>
+{ # The system (e.g., `i686-linux') for which to build the packages.
+  system ? builtins.currentSystem
+  <replaceable>...</replaceable>
+}: <replaceable>...</replaceable></programlisting>
+
+  So if you call this Nix expression (e.g., when you do
+  <literal>nix-env -i <replaceable>pkgname</replaceable></literal>),
+  the function will be called automatically using the value <link
+  linkend='builtin-currentSystem'><literal>builtins.currentSystem</literal></link>
+  for the <literal>system</literal> argument.  You can override this
+  using <option>--arg</option>, e.g., <literal>nix-env -i
+  <replaceable>pkgname</replaceable> --arg system
+  \"i686-freebsd\"</literal>.  (Note that since the argument is a Nix
+  string literal, you have to escape the quotes.)</para></listitem>
+
+</varlistentry>
+
+
+<varlistentry><term><option>--argstr</option> <replaceable>name</replaceable> <replaceable>value</replaceable></term>
+
+  <listitem><para>This option is like <option>--arg</option>, only the
+  value is not a Nix expression but a string.  So instead of
+  <literal>--arg system \"i686-linux\"</literal> (the outer quotes are
+  to keep the shell happy) you can say <literal>--argstr system
+  i686-linux</literal>.</para></listitem>
+
+</varlistentry>
+
+
+<varlistentry xml:id="opt-attr"><term><option>--attr</option> / <option>-A</option>
+<replaceable>attrPath</replaceable></term>
+
+  <listitem><para>Select an attribute from the top-level Nix
+  expression being evaluated.  (<command>nix-env</command>,
+  <command>nix-instantiate</command>, <command>nix-build</command> and
+  <command>nix-shell</command> only.)  The <emphasis>attribute
+  path</emphasis> <replaceable>attrPath</replaceable> is a sequence of
+  attribute names separated by dots.  For instance, given a top-level
+  Nix expression <replaceable>e</replaceable>, the attribute path
+  <literal>xorg.xorgserver</literal> would cause the expression
+  <literal><replaceable>e</replaceable>.xorg.xorgserver</literal> to
+  be used.  See <link
+  linkend='refsec-nix-env-install-examples'><command>nix-env
+  --install</command></link> for some concrete examples.</para>
+
+  <para>In addition to attribute names, you can also specify array
+  indices.  For instance, the attribute path
+  <literal>foo.3.bar</literal> selects the <literal>bar</literal>
+  attribute of the fourth element of the array in the
+  <literal>foo</literal> attribute of the top-level
+  expression.</para></listitem>
+
+</varlistentry>
+
+
+<varlistentry><term><option>--expr</option> / <option>-E</option></term>
+
+  <listitem><para>Interpret the command line arguments as a list of
+  Nix expressions to be parsed and evaluated, rather than as a list
+  of file names of Nix expressions.
+  (<command>nix-instantiate</command>, <command>nix-build</command>
+  and <command>nix-shell</command> only.)</para></listitem>
+
+</varlistentry>
+
+<varlistentry><term><option>--show-trace</option></term>
+
+  <listitem><para>Causes Nix to print out a stack trace in case of Nix
+  expression evaluation errors.</para></listitem>
+
+</varlistentry>
+
+
+<varlistentry xml:id="opt-I"><term><option>-I</option> <replaceable>path</replaceable></term>
+
+  <listitem><para>Add a path to the Nix expression search path.  This
+  option may be given multiple times.  See the <envar
+  linkend="env-NIX_PATH">NIX_PATH</envar> environment variable for
+  information on the semantics of the Nix search path.  Paths added
+  through <option>-I</option> take precedence over
+  <envar>NIX_PATH</envar>.</para></listitem>
+
+</varlistentry>
+
+
+<varlistentry><term><option>--option</option> <replaceable>name</replaceable> <replaceable>value</replaceable></term>
+
+  <listitem><para>Set the Nix configuration option
+  <replaceable>name</replaceable> to <replaceable>value</replaceable>.
+  This overrides settings in the Nix configuration file (see
+  <citerefentry><refentrytitle>nix.conf</refentrytitle><manvolnum>5</manvolnum></citerefentry>).</para></listitem>
+
+</varlistentry>
+
+
+<varlistentry><term><option>--repair</option></term>
+
+  <listitem><para>Fix corrupted or missing store paths by
+  redownloading or rebuilding them.  Note that this is slow because it
+  requires computing a cryptographic hash of the contents of every
+  path in the closure of the build.  Also note the warning under
+  <command>nix-store --repair-path</command>.</para></listitem>
+
+</varlistentry>
+
+
+</variablelist>
+
+
+</chapter>

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+<nop xmlns="http://docbook.org/ns/docbook">
+  
+  <arg>
+    <group choice='req'>
+      <arg choice='plain'><option>--prebuilt-only</option></arg>
+      <arg choice='plain'><option>-b</option></arg>
+    </group>
+  </arg>
+  
+  <arg>
+    <group choice='req'>
+      <arg choice='plain'><option>--attr</option></arg>
+      <arg choice='plain'><option>-A</option></arg>
+    </group>
+  </arg>
+
+  <arg><option>--from-expression</option></arg>
+  <arg><option>-E</option></arg>
+    
+  <arg><option>--from-profile</option> <replaceable>path</replaceable></arg>
+
+</nop>

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+      xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink"
+      xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XInclude"
+      version="5.0"
+      xml:id='ch-utilities'>
+
+<title>Utilities</title>
+
+<para>This section lists utilities that you can use when you
+work with Nix.</para>
+
+<xi:include href="nix-channel.xml" />
+<xi:include href="nix-collect-garbage.xml" />
+<xi:include href="nix-copy-closure.xml" />
+<xi:include href="nix-daemon.xml" />
+<!--
+<xi:include href="nix-generate-patches.xml" />
+-->
+<xi:include href="nix-hash.xml" />
+<xi:include href="nix-install-package.xml" />
+<xi:include href="nix-instantiate.xml" />
+<xi:include href="nix-prefetch-url.xml" />
+<xi:include href="nix-pull.xml" />
+<xi:include href="nix-push.xml" />
+
+</chapter>

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+<section xmlns="http://docbook.org/ns/docbook"
+      xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink"
+      xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XInclude"
+      version="5.0"
+      xml:id="sec-advanced-attributes">
+
+<title>Advanced Attributes</title>
+
+<para>Derivations can declare some infrequently used optional
+attributes.</para>
+
+<variablelist>
+
+  <varlistentry><term><varname>allowedReferences</varname></term>
+
+    <listitem><para>The optional attribute
+    <varname>allowedReferences</varname> specifies a list of legal
+    references (dependencies) of the output of the builder.  For
+    example,
+
+<programlisting>
+allowedReferences = [];
+</programlisting>
+
+    enforces that the output of a derivation cannot have any runtime
+    dependencies on its inputs.  To allow an output to have a runtime
+    dependency on itself, use <literal>"out"</literal> as a list item.
+    This is used in NixOS to check that generated files such as
+    initial ramdisks for booting Linux don’t have accidental
+    dependencies on other paths in the Nix store.</para></listitem>
+
+  </varlistentry>
+
+
+  <varlistentry><term><varname>allowedRequisites</varname></term>
+
+    <listitem><para>This attribute is similar to
+    <varname>allowedReferences</varname>, but it specifies the legal
+    requisites of the whole closure, so all the dependencies
+    recursively.  For example,
+
+<programlisting>
+allowedRequisites = [ foobar ];
+</programlisting>
+
+    enforces that the output of a derivation cannot have any other
+    runtime dependency than <varname>foobar</varname>, and in addition
+    it enforces that <varname>foobar</varname> itself doesn't
+    introduce any other dependency itself.</para></listitem>
+
+  </varlistentry>
+
+
+  <varlistentry><term><varname>exportReferencesGraph</varname></term>
+
+    <listitem><para>This attribute allows builders access to the
+    references graph of their inputs.  The attribute is a list of
+    inputs in the Nix store whose references graph the builder needs
+    to know.  The value of this attribute should be a list of pairs
+    <literal>[ <replaceable>name1</replaceable>
+    <replaceable>path1</replaceable> <replaceable>name2</replaceable>
+    <replaceable>path2</replaceable> <replaceable>...</replaceable>
+    ]</literal>.  The references graph of each
+    <replaceable>pathN</replaceable> will be stored in a text file
+    <replaceable>nameN</replaceable> in the temporary build directory.
+    The text files have the format used by <command>nix-store
+    --register-validity</command> (with the deriver fields left
+    empty).  For example, when the following derivation is built:
+
+<programlisting>
+derivation {
+  ...
+  exportReferencesGraph = [ "libfoo-graph" libfoo ];
+};
+</programlisting>
+
+    the references graph of <literal>libfoo</literal> is placed in the
+    file <filename>libfoo-graph</filename> in the temporary build
+    directory.</para>
+
+    <para><varname>exportReferencesGraph</varname> is useful for
+    builders that want to do something with the closure of a store
+    path.  Examples include the builders in NixOS that generate the
+    initial ramdisk for booting Linux (a <command>cpio</command>
+    archive containing the closure of the boot script) and the
+    ISO-9660 image for the installation CD (which is populated with a
+    Nix store containing the closure of a bootable NixOS
+    configuration).</para></listitem>
+
+  </varlistentry>
+
+
+  <varlistentry><term><varname>impureEnvVars</varname></term>
+
+    <listitem><para>This attribute allows you to specify a list of
+    environment variables that should be passed from the environment
+    of the calling user to the builder.  Usually, the environment is
+    cleared completely when the builder is executed, but with this
+    attribute you can allow specific environment variables to be
+    passed unmodified.  For example, <function>fetchurl</function> in
+    Nixpkgs has the line
+
+<programlisting>
+impureEnvVars = [ "http_proxy" "https_proxy" <replaceable>...</replaceable> ];
+</programlisting>
+
+    to make it use the proxy server configuration specified by the
+    user in the environment variables <envar>http_proxy</envar> and
+    friends.</para>
+
+    <para>This attribute is only allowed in <link
+    linkend="fixed-output-drvs">fixed-output derivations</link>, where
+    impurities such as these are okay since (the hash of) the output
+    is known in advance.  It is ignored for all other
+    derivations.</para></listitem>
+
+  </varlistentry>
+
+
+  <varlistentry xml:id="fixed-output-drvs">
+    <term><varname>outputHash</varname></term>
+    <term><varname>outputHashAlgo</varname></term>
+    <term><varname>outputHashMode</varname></term>
+
+    <listitem><para>These attributes declare that the derivation is a
+    so-called <emphasis>fixed-output derivation</emphasis>, which
+    means that a cryptographic hash of the output is already known in
+    advance.  When the build of a fixed-output derivation finishes,
+    Nix computes the cryptographic hash of the output and compares it
+    to the hash declared with these attributes.  If there is a
+    mismatch, the build fails.</para>
+
+    <para>The rationale for fixed-output derivations is derivations
+    such as those produced by the <function>fetchurl</function>
+    function.  This function downloads a file from a given URL.  To
+    ensure that the downloaded file has not been modified, the caller
+    must also specify a cryptographic hash of the file.  For example,
+
+<programlisting>
+fetchurl {
+  url = http://ftp.gnu.org/pub/gnu/hello/hello-2.1.1.tar.gz;
+  md5 = "70c9ccf9fac07f762c24f2df2290784d";
+}
+</programlisting>
+
+    It sometimes happens that the URL of the file changes, e.g.,
+    because servers are reorganised or no longer available.  We then
+    must update the call to <function>fetchurl</function>, e.g.,
+
+<programlisting>
+fetchurl {
+  url = ftp://ftp.nluug.nl/pub/gnu/hello/hello-2.1.1.tar.gz;
+  md5 = "70c9ccf9fac07f762c24f2df2290784d";
+}
+</programlisting>
+
+    If a <function>fetchurl</function> derivation was treated like a
+    normal derivation, the output paths of the derivation and
+    <emphasis>all derivations depending on it</emphasis> would change.
+    For instance, if we were to change the URL of the Glibc source
+    distribution in Nixpkgs (a package on which almost all other
+    packages depend) massive rebuilds would be needed.  This is
+    unfortunate for a change which we know cannot have a real effect
+    as it propagates upwards through the dependency graph.</para>
+
+    <para>For fixed-output derivations, on the other hand, the name of
+    the output path only depends on the <varname>outputHash*</varname>
+    and <varname>name</varname> attributes, while all other attributes
+    are ignored for the purpose of computing the output path.  (The
+    <varname>name</varname> attribute is included because it is part
+    of the path.)</para>
+
+    <para>As an example, here is the (simplified) Nix expression for
+    <varname>fetchurl</varname>:
+
+<programlisting>
+{ stdenv, curl }: # The <command>curl</command> program is used for downloading.
+
+{ url, md5 }:
+
+stdenv.mkDerivation {
+  name = baseNameOf (toString url);
+  builder = ./builder.sh;
+  buildInputs = [ curl ];
+
+  # This is a fixed-output derivation; the output must be a regular
+  # file with MD5 hash <varname>md5</varname>.
+  outputHashMode = "flat";
+  outputHashAlgo = "md5";
+  outputHash = md5;
+
+  inherit url;
+}
+</programlisting>
+
+    </para>
+
+    <para>The <varname>outputHashAlgo</varname> attribute specifies
+    the hash algorithm used to compute the hash.  It can currently be
+    <literal>"md5"</literal>, <literal>"sha1"</literal> or
+    <literal>"sha256"</literal>.</para>
+
+    <para>The <varname>outputHashMode</varname> attribute determines
+    how the hash is computed.  It must be one of the following two
+    values:
+
+    <variablelist>
+
+      <varlistentry><term><literal>"flat"</literal></term>
+
+        <listitem><para>The output must be a non-executable regular
+        file.  If it isn’t, the build fails.  The hash is simply
+        computed over the contents of that file (so it’s equal to what
+        Unix commands like <command>md5sum</command> or
+        <command>sha1sum</command> produce).</para>
+
+        <para>This is the default.</para></listitem>
+
+      </varlistentry>
+
+      <varlistentry><term><literal>"recursive"</literal></term>
+
+        <listitem><para>The hash is computed over the NAR archive dump
+        of the output (i.e., the result of <link
+        linkend="refsec-nix-store-dump"><command>nix-store
+        --dump</command></link>).  In this case, the output can be
+        anything, including a directory tree.</para></listitem>
+
+      </varlistentry>
+
+    </variablelist>
+
+    </para>
+
+    <para>The <varname>outputHash</varname> attribute, finally, must
+    be a string containing the hash in either hexadecimal or base-32
+    notation.  (See the <link
+    linkend="sec-nix-hash"><command>nix-hash</command> command</link>
+    for information about converting to and from base-32
+    notation.)</para></listitem>
+
+  </varlistentry>
+
+
+  <varlistentry><term><varname>passAsFile</varname></term>
+
+    <listitem><para>A list of names of attributes that should be
+    passed via files rather than environment variables.  For example,
+    if you have
+
+    <programlisting>
+passAsFile = ["big"];
+big = "a very long string";
+    </programlisting>
+
+    then when the builder runs, the environment variable
+    <envar>bigPath</envar> will contain the absolute path to a
+    temporary file containing <literal>a very long
+    string</literal>. That is, for any attribute
+    <replaceable>x</replaceable> listed in
+    <varname>passAsFile</varname>, Nix will pass an environment
+    variable <envar><replaceable>x</replaceable>Path</envar> holding
+    the path of the file containing the value of attribute
+    <replaceable>x</replaceable>. This is useful when you need to pass
+    large strings to a builder, since most operating systems impose a
+    limit on the size of the environment (typically, a few hundred
+    kilobyte).</para></listitem>
+
+  </varlistentry>
+
+
+  <varlistentry><term><varname>preferLocalBuild</varname></term>
+
+    <listitem><para>If this attribute is set to
+    <literal>true</literal>, it has two effects.  First, the
+    derivation will always be built, not substituted, even if a
+    substitute is available.  Second, if <link
+    linkend="chap-distributed-builds">distributed building is
+    enabled</link>, then, if possible, the derivaton will be built
+    locally instead of forwarded to a remote machine.  This is
+    appropriate for trivial builders where the cost of doing a
+    download or remote build would exceed the cost of building
+    locally.</para></listitem>
+
+  </varlistentry>
+
+</variablelist>
+
+</section>

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+<section xmlns="http://docbook.org/ns/docbook"
+      xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink"
+      xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XInclude"
+      version="5.0"
+      xml:id='sec-arguments'>
+
+<title>Arguments and Variables</title>
+
+<example xml:id='ex-hello-composition'>
+
+<title>Composing GNU Hello
+(<filename>all-packages.nix</filename>)</title>
+<programlisting>
+...
+
+rec { <co xml:id='ex-hello-composition-co-1' />
+
+  hello = import ../applications/misc/hello/ex-1 <co xml:id='ex-hello-composition-co-2' /> { <co xml:id='ex-hello-composition-co-3' />
+    inherit fetchurl stdenv perl;
+  };
+
+  perl = import ../development/interpreters/perl { <co xml:id='ex-hello-composition-co-4' />
+    inherit fetchurl stdenv;
+  };
+
+  fetchurl = import ../build-support/fetchurl {
+    inherit stdenv; ...
+  };
+
+  stdenv = ...;
+
+}
+</programlisting>
+</example>
+
+<para>The Nix expression in <xref linkend='ex-hello-nix' /> is a
+function; it is missing some arguments that have to be filled in
+somewhere.  In the Nix Packages collection this is done in the file
+<filename>pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix</filename>, where all
+Nix expressions for packages are imported and called with the
+appropriate arguments.  <xref linkend='ex-hello-composition' /> shows
+some fragments of
+<filename>all-packages.nix</filename>.</para>
+
+<calloutlist>
+
+  <callout arearefs='ex-hello-composition-co-1'>
+
+    <para>This file defines a set of attributes, all of which are
+    concrete derivations (i.e., not functions).  In fact, we define a
+    <emphasis>mutually recursive</emphasis> set of attributes.  That
+    is, the attributes can refer to each other.  This is precisely
+    what we want since we want to <quote>plug</quote> the
+    various packages into each other.</para>
+
+  </callout>
+
+  <callout arearefs='ex-hello-composition-co-2'>
+
+    <para>Here we <emphasis>import</emphasis> the Nix expression for
+    GNU Hello.  The import operation just loads and returns the
+    specified Nix expression. In fact, we could just have put the
+    contents of <xref linkend='ex-hello-nix' /> in
+    <filename>all-packages.nix</filename> at this point.  That
+    would be completely equivalent, but it would make the file rather
+    bulky.</para>
+
+    <para>Note that we refer to
+    <filename>../applications/misc/hello/ex-1</filename>, not
+    <filename>../applications/misc/hello/ex-1/default.nix</filename>.
+    When you try to import a directory, Nix automatically appends
+    <filename>/default.nix</filename> to the file name.</para>
+
+  </callout>
+
+  <callout arearefs='ex-hello-composition-co-3'>
+
+    <para>This is where the actual composition takes place.  Here we
+    <emphasis>call</emphasis> the function imported from
+    <filename>../applications/misc/hello/ex-1</filename> with a set
+    containing the things that the function expects, namely
+    <varname>fetchurl</varname>, <varname>stdenv</varname>, and
+    <varname>perl</varname>.  We use inherit again to use the
+    attributes defined in the surrounding scope (we could also have
+    written <literal>fetchurl = fetchurl;</literal>, etc.).</para>
+
+    <para>The result of this function call is an actual derivation
+    that can be built by Nix (since when we fill in the arguments of
+    the function, what we get is its body, which is the call to
+    <varname>stdenv.mkDerivation</varname> in <xref
+    linkend='ex-hello-nix' />).</para>
+
+    <note><para>Nixpkgs has a convenience function
+    <function>callPackage</function> that imports and calls a
+    function, filling in any missing arguments by passing the
+    corresponding attribute from the Nixpkgs set, like this:
+
+<programlisting>
+hello = callPackage ../applications/misc/hello/ex-1 { };
+</programlisting>
+
+    If necessary, you can set or override arguments:
+
+<programlisting>
+hello = callPackage ../applications/misc/hello/ex-1 { stdenv = myStdenv; };
+</programlisting>
+
+    </para></note>
+
+  </callout>
+
+  <callout arearefs='ex-hello-composition-co-4'>
+
+    <para>Likewise, we have to instantiate Perl,
+    <varname>fetchurl</varname>, and the standard environment.</para>
+
+  </callout>
+
+</calloutlist>
+
+</section>

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+<section xmlns="http://docbook.org/ns/docbook"
+      xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink"
+      xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XInclude"
+      version="5.0"
+      xml:id='sec-build-script'>
+
+<title>Build Script</title>
+
+<example xml:id='ex-hello-builder'><title>Build script for GNU Hello
+(<filename>builder.sh</filename>)</title>
+<programlisting>
+source $stdenv/setup <co xml:id='ex-hello-builder-co-1' />
+
+PATH=$perl/bin:$PATH <co xml:id='ex-hello-builder-co-2' />
+
+tar xvfz $src <co xml:id='ex-hello-builder-co-3' />
+cd hello-*
+./configure --prefix=$out <co xml:id='ex-hello-builder-co-4' />
+make <co xml:id='ex-hello-builder-co-5' />
+make install</programlisting>
+</example>
+
+<para><xref linkend='ex-hello-builder' /> shows the builder referenced
+from Hello's Nix expression (stored in
+<filename>pkgs/applications/misc/hello/ex-1/builder.sh</filename>).
+The builder can actually be made a lot shorter by using the
+<emphasis>generic builder</emphasis> functions provided by
+<varname>stdenv</varname>, but here we write out the build steps to
+elucidate what a builder does.  It performs the following
+steps:</para>
+
+<calloutlist>
+
+  <callout arearefs='ex-hello-builder-co-1'>
+
+    <para>When Nix runs a builder, it initially completely clears the
+    environment (except for the attributes declared in the
+    derivation).  For instance, the <envar>PATH</envar> variable is
+    empty<footnote><para>Actually, it's initialised to
+    <filename>/path-not-set</filename> to prevent Bash from setting it
+    to a default value.</para></footnote>.  This is done to prevent
+    undeclared inputs from being used in the build process.  If for
+    example the <envar>PATH</envar> contained
+    <filename>/usr/bin</filename>, then you might accidentally use
+    <filename>/usr/bin/gcc</filename>.</para>
+
+    <para>So the first step is to set up the environment.  This is
+    done by calling the <filename>setup</filename> script of the
+    standard environment.  The environment variable
+    <envar>stdenv</envar> points to the location of the standard
+    environment being used.  (It wasn't specified explicitly as an
+    attribute in <xref linkend='ex-hello-nix' />, but
+    <varname>mkDerivation</varname> adds it automatically.)</para>
+
+  </callout>
+
+  <callout arearefs='ex-hello-builder-co-2'>
+
+    <para>Since Hello needs Perl, we have to make sure that Perl is in
+    the <envar>PATH</envar>.  The <envar>perl</envar> environment
+    variable points to the location of the Perl package (since it
+    was passed in as an attribute to the derivation), so
+    <filename><replaceable>$perl</replaceable>/bin</filename> is the
+    directory containing the Perl interpreter.</para>
+
+  </callout>
+
+  <callout arearefs='ex-hello-builder-co-3'>
+
+    <para>Now we have to unpack the sources.  The
+    <varname>src</varname> attribute was bound to the result of
+    fetching the Hello source tarball from the network, so the
+    <envar>src</envar> environment variable points to the location in
+    the Nix store to which the tarball was downloaded.  After
+    unpacking, we <command>cd</command> to the resulting source
+    directory.</para>
+
+    <para>The whole build is performed in a temporary directory
+    created in <varname>/tmp</varname>, by the way.  This directory is
+    removed after the builder finishes, so there is no need to clean
+    up the sources afterwards.  Also, the temporary directory is
+    always newly created, so you don't have to worry about files from
+    previous builds interfering with the current build.</para>
+
+  </callout>
+
+  <callout arearefs='ex-hello-builder-co-4'>
+
+    <para>GNU Hello is a typical Autoconf-based package, so we first
+    have to run its <filename>configure</filename> script.  In Nix
+    every package is stored in a separate location in the Nix store,
+    for instance
+    <filename>/nix/store/9a54ba97fb71b65fda531012d0443ce2-hello-2.1.1</filename>.
+    Nix computes this path by cryptographically hashing all attributes
+    of the derivation.  The path is passed to the builder through the
+    <envar>out</envar> environment variable.  So here we give
+    <filename>configure</filename> the parameter
+    <literal>--prefix=$out</literal> to cause Hello to be installed in
+    the expected location.</para>
+
+  </callout>
+
+  <callout arearefs='ex-hello-builder-co-5'>
+
+    <para>Finally we build Hello (<literal>make</literal>) and install
+    it into the location specified by <envar>out</envar>
+    (<literal>make install</literal>).</para>
+
+  </callout>
+
+</calloutlist>
+
+<para>If you are wondering about the absence of error checking on the
+result of various commands called in the builder: this is because the
+shell script is evaluated with Bash's <option>-e</option> option,
+which causes the script to be aborted if any command fails without an
+error check.</para>
+
+</section>

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+<section xmlns="http://docbook.org/ns/docbook"
+      xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink"
+      xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XInclude"
+      version="5.0"
+      xml:id='sec-builder-syntax'>
+
+<title>Builder Syntax</title>
+
+<example xml:id='ex-hello-builder'><title>Build script for GNU Hello
+(<filename>builder.sh</filename>)</title>
+<programlisting>
+source $stdenv/setup <co xml:id='ex-hello-builder-co-1' />
+
+PATH=$perl/bin:$PATH <co xml:id='ex-hello-builder-co-2' />
+
+tar xvfz $src <co xml:id='ex-hello-builder-co-3' />
+cd hello-*
+./configure --prefix=$out <co xml:id='ex-hello-builder-co-4' />
+make <co xml:id='ex-hello-builder-co-5' />
+make install</programlisting>
+</example>
+
+<para><xref linkend='ex-hello-builder' /> shows the builder referenced
+from Hello's Nix expression (stored in
+<filename>pkgs/applications/misc/hello/ex-1/builder.sh</filename>).
+The builder can actually be made a lot shorter by using the
+<emphasis>generic builder</emphasis> functions provided by
+<varname>stdenv</varname>, but here we write out the build steps to
+elucidate what a builder does.  It performs the following
+steps:</para>
+
+<calloutlist>
+
+  <callout arearefs='ex-hello-builder-co-1'>
+
+    <para>When Nix runs a builder, it initially completely clears the
+    environment (except for the attributes declared in the
+    derivation).  For instance, the <envar>PATH</envar> variable is
+    empty<footnote><para>Actually, it's initialised to
+    <filename>/path-not-set</filename> to prevent Bash from setting it
+    to a default value.</para></footnote>.  This is done to prevent
+    undeclared inputs from being used in the build process.  If for
+    example the <envar>PATH</envar> contained
+    <filename>/usr/bin</filename>, then you might accidentally use
+    <filename>/usr/bin/gcc</filename>.</para>
+
+    <para>So the first step is to set up the environment.  This is
+    done by calling the <filename>setup</filename> script of the
+    standard environment.  The environment variable
+    <envar>stdenv</envar> points to the location of the standard
+    environment being used.  (It wasn't specified explicitly as an
+    attribute in <xref linkend='ex-hello-nix' />, but
+    <varname>mkDerivation</varname> adds it automatically.)</para>
+
+  </callout>
+
+  <callout arearefs='ex-hello-builder-co-2'>
+
+    <para>Since Hello needs Perl, we have to make sure that Perl is in
+    the <envar>PATH</envar>.  The <envar>perl</envar> environment
+    variable points to the location of the Perl package (since it
+    was passed in as an attribute to the derivation), so
+    <filename><replaceable>$perl</replaceable>/bin</filename> is the
+    directory containing the Perl interpreter.</para>
+
+  </callout>
+
+  <callout arearefs='ex-hello-builder-co-3'>
+
+    <para>Now we have to unpack the sources.  The
+    <varname>src</varname> attribute was bound to the result of
+    fetching the Hello source tarball from the network, so the
+    <envar>src</envar> environment variable points to the location in
+    the Nix store to which the tarball was downloaded.  After
+    unpacking, we <command>cd</command> to the resulting source
+    directory.</para>
+
+    <para>The whole build is performed in a temporary directory
+    created in <varname>/tmp</varname>, by the way.  This directory is
+    removed after the builder finishes, so there is no need to clean
+    up the sources afterwards.  Also, the temporary directory is
+    always newly created, so you don't have to worry about files from
+    previous builds interfering with the current build.</para>
+
+  </callout>
+
+  <callout arearefs='ex-hello-builder-co-4'>
+
+    <para>GNU Hello is a typical Autoconf-based package, so we first
+    have to run its <filename>configure</filename> script.  In Nix
+    every package is stored in a separate location in the Nix store,
+    for instance
+    <filename>/nix/store/9a54ba97fb71b65fda531012d0443ce2-hello-2.1.1</filename>.
+    Nix computes this path by cryptographically hashing all attributes
+    of the derivation.  The path is passed to the builder through the
+    <envar>out</envar> environment variable.  So here we give
+    <filename>configure</filename> the parameter
+    <literal>--prefix=$out</literal> to cause Hello to be installed in
+    the expected location.</para>
+
+  </callout>
+
+  <callout arearefs='ex-hello-builder-co-5'>
+
+    <para>Finally we build Hello (<literal>make</literal>) and install
+    it into the location specified by <envar>out</envar>
+    (<literal>make install</literal>).</para>
+
+  </callout>
+
+</calloutlist>
+
+<para>If you are wondering about the absence of error checking on the
+result of various commands called in the builder: this is because the
+shell script is evaluated with Bash's <option>-e</option> option,
+which causes the script to be aborted if any command fails without an
+error check.</para>
+
+</section>

doc/manual/expressions/debug-build.xml

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+<section xmlns="http://docbook.org/ns/docbook"
+      xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink"
+      xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XInclude"
+      version="5.0"
+      xml:id="sec-debug-build">
+
+<title>Debugging Build Failures</title>
+
+<para>At the beginning of each phase of the build (such as unpacking,
+building or installing), the set of all shell variables is written to
+the file <filename>env-vars</filename> at the top-level build
+directory.  This is useful for debugging: it allows you to recreate
+the environment in which a build was performed.  For instance, if a
+build fails, then assuming you used the <option>-K</option> flag, you
+can go to the output directory and <quote>switch</quote> to the
+environment of the builder:
+
+<screen>
+$ nix-build -K ./foo.nix
+... fails, keeping build directory `/tmp/nix-1234-0'
+
+$ cd /tmp/nix-1234-0
+
+$ source env-vars
+
+<lineannotation>(edit some files...)</lineannotation>
+
+$ make
+
+<lineannotation>(execution continues with the same GCC, make, etc.)</lineannotation></screen>
+
+</para>
+
+</section>

doc/manual/expressions/derivations.xml

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+<section xmlns="http://docbook.org/ns/docbook"
+      xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink"
+      xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XInclude"
+      version="5.0"
+      xml:id="ssec-derivation">
+
+<title>Derivations</title>
+
+<para>The most important built-in function is
+<function>derivation</function>, which is used to describe a single
+derivation (a build action).  It takes as input a set, the attributes
+of which specify the inputs of the build.</para>
+
+<itemizedlist>
+
+  <listitem xml:id="attr-system"><para>There must be an attribute named
+  <varname>system</varname> whose value must be a string specifying a
+  Nix platform identifier, such as <literal>"i686-linux"</literal> or
+  <literal>"powerpc-darwin"</literal><footnote><para>To figure out
+  your platform identifier, look at the line <quote>Checking for the
+  canonical Nix system name</quote> in the output of Nix's
+  <filename>configure</filename> script.</para></footnote> The build
+  can only be performed on a machine and operating system matching the
+  platform identifier.  (Nix can automatically forward builds for
+  other platforms by forwarding them to other machines; see <xref
+  linkend='chap-distributed-builds' />.)</para></listitem>
+
+  <listitem><para>There must be an attribute named
+  <varname>name</varname> whose value must be a string.  This is used
+  as a symbolic name for the package by <command>nix-env</command>,
+  and it is appended to the output paths of the
+  derivation.</para></listitem>
+
+  <listitem><para>There must be an attribute named
+  <varname>builder</varname> that identifies the program that is
+  executed to perform the build.  It can be either a derivation or a
+  source (a local file reference, e.g.,
+  <filename>./builder.sh</filename>).</para></listitem>
+
+  <listitem><para>Every attribute is passed as an environment variable
+  to the builder.  Attribute values are translated to environment
+  variables as follows:
+
+    <itemizedlist>
+
+      <listitem><para>Strings and integers are just passed
+      verbatim.</para></listitem>
+
+      <listitem><para>A <emphasis>path</emphasis> (e.g.,
+      <filename>../foo/sources.tar</filename>) causes the referenced
+      file to be copied to the store; its location in the store is put
+      in the environment variable.  The idea is that all sources
+      should reside in the Nix store, since all inputs to a derivation
+      should reside in the Nix store.</para></listitem>
+
+      <listitem><para>A <emphasis>derivation</emphasis> causes that
+      derivation to be built prior to the present derivation; its
+      default output path is put in the environment
+      variable.</para></listitem>
+
+      <listitem><para>Lists of the previous types are also allowed.
+      They are simply concatenated, separated by
+      spaces.</para></listitem>
+
+      <listitem><para><literal>true</literal> is passed as the string
+      <literal>1</literal>, <literal>false</literal> and
+      <literal>null</literal> are passed as an empty string.
+      </para></listitem>
+    </itemizedlist>
+
+  </para></listitem>
+
+  <listitem><para>The optional attribute <varname>args</varname>
+  specifies command-line arguments to be passed to the builder.  It
+  should be a list.</para></listitem>
+
+  <listitem><para>The optional attribute <varname>outputs</varname>
+  specifies a list of symbolic outputs of the derivation.  By default,
+  a derivation produces a single output path, denoted as
+  <literal>out</literal>.  However, derivations can produce multiple
+  output paths.  This is useful because it allows outputs to be
+  downloaded or garbage-collected separately.  For instance, imagine a
+  library package that provides a dynamic library, header files, and
+  documentation.  A program that links against the library doesn’t
+  need the header files and documentation at runtime, and it doesn’t
+  need the documentation at build time.  Thus, the library package
+  could specify:
+<programlisting>
+outputs = [ "lib" "headers" "doc" ];
+</programlisting>
+  This will cause Nix to pass environment variables
+  <literal>lib</literal>, <literal>headers</literal> and
+  <literal>doc</literal> to the builder containing the intended store
+  paths of each output.  The builder would typically do something like
+<programlisting>
+./configure --libdir=$lib/lib --includedir=$headers/include --docdir=$doc/share/doc
+</programlisting>
+  for an Autoconf-style package.  You can refer to each output of a
+  derivation by selecting it as an attribute, e.g.
+<programlisting>
+buildInputs = [ pkg.lib pkg.headers ];
+</programlisting>
+  The first element of <varname>output</varname> determines the
+  <emphasis>default output</emphasis>.  Thus, you could also write
+<programlisting>
+buildInputs = [ pkg pkg.headers ];
+</programlisting>
+  since <literal>pkg</literal> is equivalent to
+  <literal>pkg.lib</literal>.</para></listitem>
+
+</itemizedlist>
+
+<para>The function <function>mkDerivation</function> in the Nixpkgs
+standard environment is a wrapper around
+<function>derivation</function> that adds a default value for
+<varname>system</varname> and always uses Bash as the builder, to
+which the supplied builder is passed as a command-line argument.  See
+the Nixpkgs manual for details.</para>
+
+<para>The builder is executed as follows:
+
+<itemizedlist>
+
+  <listitem><para>A temporary directory is created under the directory
+  specified by <envar>TMPDIR</envar> (default
+  <filename>/tmp</filename>) where the build will take place.  The
+  current directory is changed to this directory.</para></listitem>
+
+  <listitem><para>The environment is cleared and set to the derivation
+  attributes, as specified above.</para></listitem>
+
+  <listitem><para>In addition, the following variables are set:
+
+  <itemizedlist>
+
+    <listitem><para><envar>NIX_BUILD_TOP</envar> contains the path of
+    the temporary directory for this build.</para></listitem>
+
+    <listitem><para>Also, <envar>TMPDIR</envar>,
+    <envar>TEMPDIR</envar>, <envar>TMP</envar>, <envar>TEMP</envar>
+    are set to point to the temporary directory.  This is to prevent
+    the builder from accidentally writing temporary files anywhere
+    else.  Doing so might cause interference by other
+    processes.</para></listitem>
+
+    <listitem><para><envar>PATH</envar> is set to
+    <filename>/path-not-set</filename> to prevent shells from
+    initialising it to their built-in default value.</para></listitem>
+
+    <listitem><para><envar>HOME</envar> is set to
+    <filename>/homeless-shelter</filename> to prevent programs from
+    using <filename>/etc/passwd</filename> or the like to find the
+    user's home directory, which could cause impurity.  Usually, when
+    <envar>HOME</envar> is set, it is used as the location of the home
+    directory, even if it points to a non-existent
+    path.</para></listitem>
+
+    <listitem><para><envar>NIX_STORE</envar> is set to the path of the
+    top-level Nix store directory (typically,
+    <filename>/nix/store</filename>).</para></listitem>
+
+    <listitem><para>For each output declared in
+    <varname>outputs</varname>, the corresponding environment variable
+    is set to point to the intended path in the Nix store for that
+    output.  Each output path is a concatenation of the cryptographic
+    hash of all build inputs, the <varname>name</varname> attribute
+    and the output name.  (The output name is omitted if it’s
+    <literal>out</literal>.)</para></listitem>
+
+  </itemizedlist>
+
+  </para></listitem>
+
+  <listitem><para>If an output path already exists, it is removed.
+  Also, locks are acquired to prevent multiple Nix instances from
+  performing the same build at the same time.</para></listitem>
+
+  <listitem><para>A log of the combined standard output and error is
+  written to <filename>/nix/var/log/nix</filename>.</para></listitem>
+
+  <listitem><para>The builder is executed with the arguments specified
+  by the attribute <varname>args</varname>.  If it exits with exit
+  code 0, it is considered to have succeeded.</para></listitem>
+
+  <listitem><para>The temporary directory is removed (unless the
+  <option>-K</option> option was specified).</para></listitem>
+
+  <listitem><para>If the build was successful, Nix scans each output
+  path for references to input paths by looking for the hash parts of
+  the input paths.  Since these are potential runtime dependencies,
+  Nix registers them as dependencies of the output
+  paths.</para></listitem>
+
+  <listitem><para>After the build, Nix sets the last-modified
+  timestamp on all files in the build result to 1 (00:00:01 1/1/1970
+  UTC), sets the group to the default group, and sets the mode of the
+  file to 0444 or 0555 (i.e., read-only, with execute permission
+  enabled if the file was originally executable).  Note that possible
+  <literal>setuid</literal> and <literal>setgid</literal> bits are
+  cleared.  Setuid and setgid programs are not currently supported by
+  Nix.  This is because the Nix archives used in deployment have no
+  concept of ownership information, and because it makes the build
+  result dependent on the user performing the build.</para></listitem>
+
+</itemizedlist>
+
+</para>
+
+<xi:include href="advanced-attributes.xml" />
+
+</section>

doc/manual/expressions/expression-language.xml

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+<chapter xmlns="http://docbook.org/ns/docbook"
+      xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink"
+      xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XInclude"
+      version="5.0"
+      xml:id="ch-expression-language">
+
+<title>Nix Expression Language</title>
+
+<para>The Nix expression language is a pure, lazy, functional
+language.  Purity means that operations in the language don't have
+side-effects (for instance, there is no variable assignment).
+Laziness means that arguments to functions are evaluated only when
+they are needed.  Functional means that functions are
+<quote>normal</quote> values that can be passed around and manipulated
+in interesting ways.  The language is not a full-featured, general
+purpose language.  Its main job is to describe packages,
+compositions of packages, and the variability within
+packages.</para>
+
+<para>This section presents the various features of the
+language.</para>
+
+<xi:include href="language-values.xml" />
+<xi:include href="language-constructs.xml" />
+<xi:include href="language-operators.xml" />
+<xi:include href="derivations.xml" />
+<xi:include href="builtins.xml" />
+
+
+</chapter>

doc/manual/expressions/expression-syntax.xml

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+<section xmlns="http://docbook.org/ns/docbook"
+      xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink"
+      xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XInclude"
+      version="5.0"
+      xml:id='sec-expression-syntax'>
+
+<title>Expression Syntax</title>
+
+<example xml:id='ex-hello-nix'><title>Nix expression for GNU Hello
+(<filename>default.nix</filename>)</title>
+<programlisting>
+{ stdenv, fetchurl, perl }: <co xml:id='ex-hello-nix-co-1' />
+
+stdenv.mkDerivation { <co xml:id='ex-hello-nix-co-2' />
+  name = "hello-2.1.1"; <co xml:id='ex-hello-nix-co-3' />
+  builder = ./builder.sh; <co xml:id='ex-hello-nix-co-4' />
+  src = fetchurl { <co xml:id='ex-hello-nix-co-5' />
+    url = ftp://ftp.nluug.nl/pub/gnu/hello/hello-2.1.1.tar.gz;
+    md5 = "70c9ccf9fac07f762c24f2df2290784d";
+  };
+  inherit perl; <co xml:id='ex-hello-nix-co-6' />
+}</programlisting>
+</example>
+
+<para><xref linkend='ex-hello-nix' /> shows a Nix expression for GNU
+Hello.  It's actually already in the Nix Packages collection in
+<filename>pkgs/applications/misc/hello/ex-1/default.nix</filename>.
+It is customary to place each package in a separate directory and call
+the single Nix expression in that directory
+<filename>default.nix</filename>.  The file has the following elements
+(referenced from the figure by number):
+
+<calloutlist>
+
+  <callout arearefs='ex-hello-nix-co-1'>
+
+    <para>This states that the expression is a
+    <emphasis>function</emphasis> that expects to be called with three
+    arguments: <varname>stdenv</varname>, <varname>fetchurl</varname>,
+    and <varname>perl</varname>.  They are needed to build Hello, but
+    we don't know how to build them here; that's why they are function
+    arguments.  <varname>stdenv</varname> is a package that is used
+    by almost all Nix Packages packages; it provides a
+    <quote>standard</quote> environment consisting of the things you
+    would expect in a basic Unix environment: a C/C++ compiler (GCC,
+    to be precise), the Bash shell, fundamental Unix tools such as
+    <command>cp</command>, <command>grep</command>,
+    <command>tar</command>, etc.  <varname>fetchurl</varname> is a
+    function that downloads files.  <varname>perl</varname> is the
+    Perl interpreter.</para>
+
+    <para>Nix functions generally have the form <literal>{ x, y, ...,
+    z }: e</literal> where <varname>x</varname>, <varname>y</varname>,
+    etc. are the names of the expected arguments, and where
+    <replaceable>e</replaceable> is the body of the function.  So
+    here, the entire remainder of the file is the body of the
+    function; when given the required arguments, the body should
+    describe how to build an instance of the Hello package.</para>
+
+  </callout>
+
+  <callout arearefs='ex-hello-nix-co-2'>
+
+    <para>So we have to build a package.  Building something from
+    other stuff is called a <emphasis>derivation</emphasis> in Nix (as
+    opposed to sources, which are built by humans instead of
+    computers).  We perform a derivation by calling
+    <varname>stdenv.mkDerivation</varname>.
+    <varname>mkDerivation</varname> is a function provided by
+    <varname>stdenv</varname> that builds a package from a set of
+    <emphasis>attributes</emphasis>.  A set is just a list of
+    key/value pairs where each key is a string and each value is an
+    arbitrary Nix expression.  They take the general form <literal>{
+    <replaceable>name1</replaceable> =
+    <replaceable>expr1</replaceable>; <replaceable>...</replaceable>
+    <replaceable>nameN</replaceable> =
+    <replaceable>exprN</replaceable>; }</literal>.</para>
+
+  </callout>
+
+  <callout arearefs='ex-hello-nix-co-3'>
+
+    <para>The attribute <varname>name</varname> specifies the symbolic
+    name and version of the package.  Nix doesn't really care about
+    these things, but they are used by for instance <command>nix-env
+    -q</command> to show a <quote>human-readable</quote> name for
+    packages.  This attribute is required by
+    <varname>mkDerivation</varname>.</para>
+
+  </callout>
+
+  <callout arearefs='ex-hello-nix-co-4'>
+
+    <para>The attribute <varname>builder</varname> specifies the
+    builder.  This attribute can sometimes be omitted, in which case
+    <varname>mkDerivation</varname> will fill in a default builder
+    (which does a <literal>configure; make; make install</literal>, in
+    essence).  Hello is sufficiently simple that the default builder
+    would suffice, but in this case, we will show an actual builder
+    for educational purposes.  The value
+    <command>./builder.sh</command> refers to the shell script shown
+    in <xref linkend='ex-hello-builder' />, discussed below.</para>
+
+  </callout>
+
+  <callout arearefs='ex-hello-nix-co-5'>
+
+    <para>The builder has to know what the sources of the package
+    are.  Here, the attribute <varname>src</varname> is bound to the
+    result of a call to the <command>fetchurl</command> function.
+    Given a URL and an MD5 hash of the expected contents of the file
+    at that URL, this function builds a derivation that downloads the
+    file and checks its hash.  So the sources are a dependency that
+    like all other dependencies is built before Hello itself is
+    built.</para>
+
+    <para>Instead of <varname>src</varname> any other name could have
+    been used, and in fact there can be any number of sources (bound
+    to different attributes).  However, <varname>src</varname> is
+    customary, and it's also expected by the default builder (which we
+    don't use in this example).</para>
+
+  </callout>
+
+  <callout arearefs='ex-hello-nix-co-6'>
+
+    <para>Since the derivation requires Perl, we have to pass the
+    value of the <varname>perl</varname> function argument to the
+    builder.  All attributes in the set are actually passed as
+    environment variables to the builder, so declaring an attribute
+
+    <programlisting>
+perl = perl;</programlisting>
+
+    will do the trick: it binds an attribute <varname>perl</varname>
+    to the function argument which also happens to be called
+    <varname>perl</varname>.  However, it looks a bit silly, so there
+    is a shorter syntax.  The <literal>inherit</literal> keyword
+    causes the specified attributes to be bound to whatever variables
+    with the same name happen to be in scope.</para>
+
+  </callout>
+
+</calloutlist>
+
+</para>
+
+</section>

doc/manual/expressions/generic-builder.xml

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+<section xmlns="http://docbook.org/ns/docbook"
+      xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink"
+      xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XInclude"
+      version="5.0"
+      xml:id='sec-generic-builder'>
+
+<title>Generic Builder Syntax</title>
+
+<para>Recall from <xref linkend='ex-hello-builder' /> that the builder
+looked something like this:
+
+<programlisting>
+PATH=$perl/bin:$PATH
+tar xvfz $src
+cd hello-*
+./configure --prefix=$out
+make
+make install</programlisting>
+
+The builders for almost all Unix packages look like this — set up some
+environment variables, unpack the sources, configure, build, and
+install.  For this reason the standard environment provides some Bash
+functions that automate the build process.  A builder using the
+generic build facilities in shown in <xref linkend='ex-hello-builder2'
+/>.</para>
+
+<example xml:id='ex-hello-builder2'><title>Build script using the generic
+build functions</title>
+<programlisting>
+buildInputs="$perl" <co xml:id='ex-hello-builder2-co-1' />
+
+source $stdenv/setup <co xml:id='ex-hello-builder2-co-2' />
+
+genericBuild <co xml:id='ex-hello-builder2-co-3' /></programlisting>
+</example>
+
+<calloutlist>
+
+  <callout arearefs='ex-hello-builder2-co-1'>
+
+    <para>The <envar>buildInputs</envar> variable tells
+    <filename>setup</filename> to use the indicated packages as
+    <quote>inputs</quote>.  This means that if a package provides a
+    <filename>bin</filename> subdirectory, it's added to
+    <envar>PATH</envar>; if it has a <filename>include</filename>
+    subdirectory, it's added to GCC's header search path; and so
+    on.<footnote><para>How does it work? <filename>setup</filename>
+    tries to source the file
+    <filename><replaceable>pkg</replaceable>/nix-support/setup-hook</filename>
+    of all dependencies.  These “setup hooks” can then set up whatever
+    environment variables they want; for instance, the setup hook for
+    Perl sets the <envar>PERL5LIB</envar> environment variable to
+    contain the <filename>lib/site_perl</filename> directories of all
+    inputs.</para></footnote>
+    </para>
+
+  </callout>
+
+  <callout arearefs='ex-hello-builder2-co-2'>
+
+    <para>The function <function>genericBuild</function> is defined in
+    the file <literal>$stdenv/setup</literal>.</para>
+
+  </callout>
+
+  <callout arearefs='ex-hello-builder2-co-3'>
+
+    <para>The final step calls the shell function
+    <function>genericBuild</function>, which performs the steps that
+    were done explicitly in <xref linkend='ex-hello-builder' />.  The
+    generic builder is smart enough to figure out whether to unpack
+    the sources using <command>gzip</command>,
+    <command>bzip2</command>, etc.  It can be customised in many ways;
+    see the Nixpkgs manual for details.</para>
+
+  </callout>
+
+</calloutlist>
+
+<para>Discerning readers will note that the
+<envar>buildInputs</envar> could just as well have been set in the Nix
+expression, like this:
+
+<programlisting>
+  buildInputs = [ perl ];</programlisting>
+
+The <varname>perl</varname> attribute can then be removed, and the
+builder becomes even shorter:
+
+<programlisting>
+source $stdenv/setup
+genericBuild</programlisting>
+
+In fact, <varname>mkDerivation</varname> provides a default builder
+that looks exactly like that, so it is actually possible to omit the
+builder for Hello entirely.</para>
+
+</section>

doc/manual/expressions/language-constructs.xml

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+<section xmlns="http://docbook.org/ns/docbook"
+      xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink"
+      xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XInclude"
+      version="5.0"
+      xml:id="sec-constructs">
+
+<title>Language Constructs</title>
+
+<simplesect><title>Recursive sets</title>
+
+<para>Recursive sets are just normal sets, but the attributes can
+refer to each other.  For example,
+
+<programlisting>
+rec {
+  x = y;
+  y = 123;
+}.x
+</programlisting>
+
+evaluates to <literal>123</literal>.  Note that without
+<literal>rec</literal> the binding <literal>x = y;</literal> would
+refer to the variable <varname>y</varname> in the surrounding scope,
+if one exists, and would be invalid if no such variable exists.  That
+is, in a normal (non-recursive) set, attributes are not added to the
+lexical scope; in a recursive set, they are.</para>
+
+<para>Recursive sets of course introduce the danger of infinite
+recursion.  For example,
+
+<programlisting>
+rec {
+  x = y;
+  y = x;
+}.x</programlisting>
+
+does not terminate<footnote><para>Actually, Nix detects infinite
+recursion in this case and aborts (<quote>infinite recursion
+encountered</quote>).</para></footnote>.</para>
+
+</simplesect>
+
+
+<simplesect><title>Let-expressions</title>
+
+<para>A let-expression allows you define local variables for an
+expression.  For instance,
+
+<programlisting>
+let
+  x = "foo";
+  y = "bar";
+in x + y</programlisting>
+
+evaluates to <literal>"foobar"</literal>.
+
+</para>
+
+</simplesect>
+
+
+<simplesect><title>Inheriting attributes</title>
+
+<para>When defining a set it is often convenient to copy variables
+from the surrounding lexical scope (e.g., when you want to propagate
+attributes).  This can be shortened using the
+<literal>inherit</literal> keyword.  For instance,
+
+<programlisting>
+let x = 123; in
+{ inherit x;
+  y = 456;
+}</programlisting>
+
+evaluates to <literal>{ x = 123; y = 456; }</literal>.  (Note that
+this works because <varname>x</varname> is added to the lexical scope
+by the <literal>let</literal> construct.)  It is also possible to
+inherit attributes from another set.  For instance, in this fragment
+from <filename>all-packages.nix</filename>,
+
+<programlisting>
+  graphviz = (import ../tools/graphics/graphviz) {
+    inherit fetchurl stdenv libpng libjpeg expat x11 yacc;
+    inherit (xlibs) libXaw;
+  };
+
+  xlibs = {
+    libX11 = ...;
+    libXaw = ...;
+    ...
+  }
+
+  libpng = ...;
+  libjpg = ...;
+  ...</programlisting>
+
+the set used in the function call to the function defined in
+<filename>../tools/graphics/graphviz</filename> inherits a number of
+variables from the surrounding scope (<varname>fetchurl</varname>
+... <varname>yacc</varname>), but also inherits
+<varname>libXaw</varname> (the X Athena Widgets) from the
+<varname>xlibs</varname> (X11 client-side libraries) set.</para>
+
+</simplesect>
+
+
+<simplesect xml:id="ss-functions"><title>Functions</title>
+
+<para>Functions have the following form:
+
+<programlisting>
+<replaceable>pattern</replaceable>: <replaceable>body</replaceable></programlisting>
+
+The pattern specifies what the argument of the function must look
+like, and binds variables in the body to (parts of) the
+argument.  There are three kinds of patterns:</para>
+
+<itemizedlist>
+
+
+  <listitem><para>If a pattern is a single identifier, then the
+  function matches any argument.  Example:
+
+  <programlisting>
+let negate = x: !x;
+    concat = x: y: x + y;
+in if negate true then concat "foo" "bar" else ""</programlisting>
+
+  Note that <function>concat</function> is a function that takes one
+  argument and returns a function that takes another argument.  This
+  allows partial parameterisation (i.e., only filling some of the
+  arguments of a function); e.g.,
+
+  <programlisting>
+map (concat "foo") [ "bar" "bla" "abc" ]</programlisting>
+
+  evaluates to <literal>[ "foobar" "foobla"
+  "fooabc" ]</literal>.</para></listitem>
+
+
+  <listitem><para>A <emphasis>set pattern</emphasis> of the form
+  <literal>{ name1, name2, …, nameN }</literal> matches a set
+  containing the listed attributes, and binds the values of those
+  attributes to variables in the function body.  For example, the
+  function
+
+<programlisting>
+{ x, y, z }: z + y + x</programlisting>
+
+  can only be called with a set containing exactly the attributes
+  <varname>x</varname>, <varname>y</varname> and
+  <varname>z</varname>.  No other attributes are allowed.  If you want
+  to allow additional arguments, you can use an ellipsis
+  (<literal>...</literal>):
+
+<programlisting>
+{ x, y, z, ... }: z + y + x</programlisting>
+
+  This works on any set that contains at least the three named
+  attributes.</para>
+
+  <para>It is possible to provide <emphasis>default values</emphasis>
+  for attributes, in which case they are allowed to be missing.  A
+  default value is specified by writing
+  <literal><replaceable>name</replaceable> ?
+  <replaceable>e</replaceable></literal>, where
+  <replaceable>e</replaceable> is an arbitrary expression.  For example,
+
+<programlisting>
+{ x, y ? "foo", z ? "bar" }: z + y + x</programlisting>
+
+  specifies a function that only requires an attribute named
+  <varname>x</varname>, but optionally accepts <varname>y</varname>
+  and <varname>z</varname>.</para></listitem>
+
+
+  <listitem><para>An <literal>@</literal>-pattern provides a means of referring
+  to the whole value being matched:
+
+<programlisting>
+args@{ x, y, z, ... }: z + y + x + args.a</programlisting>
+
+  Here <varname>args</varname> is bound to the entire argument, which
+  is further matched against the pattern <literal>{ x, y, z,
+  ... }</literal>.</para></listitem>
+
+
+</itemizedlist>
+
+<para>Note that functions do not have names.  If you want to give them
+a name, you can bind them to an attribute, e.g.,
+
+<programlisting>
+let concat = { x, y }: x + y;
+in concat { x = "foo"; y = "bar"; }</programlisting>
+
+</para>
+
+<para>A set that has a <literal>__functor</literal> attribute whose value
+is callable (i.e. is itself a function or a set with a
+<literal>__functor</literal> attribute whose value is callable) can be
+applied as if it were a function, with the set itself passed in first
+, e.g.,
+
+<programlisting>
+let add = { __functor = self: x: x + self.x; };
+    inc = add // { x = 1; };
+in inc 1
+</programlisting>
+
+evaluates to <literal>2</literal>. This can be used to attach metadata to a
+function without the caller needing to treat it specially, or to implement
+a form of object-oriented programming, for example.
+
+</para>
+
+</simplesect>
+
+
+<simplesect><title>Conditionals</title>
+
+<para>Conditionals look like this:
+
+<programlisting>
+if <replaceable>e1</replaceable> then <replaceable>e2</replaceable> else <replaceable>e3</replaceable></programlisting>
+
+where <replaceable>e1</replaceable> is an expression that should
+evaluate to a Boolean value (<literal>true</literal> or
+<literal>false</literal>).</para>
+
+</simplesect>
+
+
+<simplesect><title>Assertions</title>
+
+<para>Assertions are generally used to check that certain requirements
+on or between features and dependencies hold.  They look like this:
+
+<programlisting>
+assert <replaceable>e1</replaceable>; <replaceable>e2</replaceable></programlisting>
+
+where <replaceable>e1</replaceable> is an expression that should
+evaluate to a Boolean value.  If it evaluates to
+<literal>true</literal>, <replaceable>e2</replaceable> is returned;
+otherwise expression evaluation is aborted and a backtrace is printed.</para>
+
+<example xml:id='ex-subversion-nix'><title>Nix expression for Subversion</title>
+<programlisting>
+{ localServer ? false
+, httpServer ? false
+, sslSupport ? false
+, pythonBindings ? false
+, javaSwigBindings ? false
+, javahlBindings ? false
+, stdenv, fetchurl
+, openssl ? null, httpd ? null, db4 ? null, expat, swig ? null, j2sdk ? null
+}:
+
+assert localServer -> db4 != null; <co xml:id='ex-subversion-nix-co-1' />
+assert httpServer -> httpd != null &amp;&amp; httpd.expat == expat; <co xml:id='ex-subversion-nix-co-2' />
+assert sslSupport -> openssl != null &amp;&amp; (httpServer -> httpd.openssl == openssl); <co xml:id='ex-subversion-nix-co-3' />
+assert pythonBindings -> swig != null &amp;&amp; swig.pythonSupport;
+assert javaSwigBindings -> swig != null &amp;&amp; swig.javaSupport;
+assert javahlBindings -> j2sdk != null;
+
+stdenv.mkDerivation {
+  name = "subversion-1.1.1";
+  ...
+  openssl = if sslSupport then openssl else null; <co xml:id='ex-subversion-nix-co-4' />
+  ...
+}</programlisting>
+</example>
+
+<para><xref linkend='ex-subversion-nix' /> show how assertions are
+used in the Nix expression for Subversion.</para>
+
+<calloutlist>
+
+  <callout arearefs='ex-subversion-nix-co-1'>
+    <para>This assertion states that if Subversion is to have support
+    for local repositories, then Berkeley DB is needed.  So if the
+    Subversion function is called with the
+    <varname>localServer</varname> argument set to
+    <literal>true</literal> but the <varname>db4</varname> argument
+    set to <literal>null</literal>, then the evaluation fails.</para>
+  </callout>
+
+  <callout arearefs='ex-subversion-nix-co-2'>
+    <para>This is a more subtle condition: if Subversion is built with
+    Apache (<literal>httpServer</literal>) support, then the Expat
+    library (an XML library) used by Subversion should be same as the
+    one used by Apache.  This is because in this configuration
+    Subversion code ends up being linked with Apache code, and if the
+    Expat libraries do not match, a build- or runtime link error or
+    incompatibility might occur.</para>
+  </callout>
+
+  <callout arearefs='ex-subversion-nix-co-3'>
+    <para>This assertion says that in order for Subversion to have SSL
+    support (so that it can access <literal>https</literal> URLs), an
+    OpenSSL library must be passed.  Additionally, it says that
+    <emphasis>if</emphasis> Apache support is enabled, then Apache's
+    OpenSSL should match Subversion's.  (Note that if Apache support
+    is not enabled, we don't care about Apache's OpenSSL.)</para>
+  </callout>
+
+  <callout arearefs='ex-subversion-nix-co-4'>
+    <para>The conditional here is not really related to assertions,
+    but is worth pointing out: it ensures that if SSL support is
+    disabled, then the Subversion derivation is not dependent on
+    OpenSSL, even if a non-<literal>null</literal> value was passed.
+    This prevents an unnecessary rebuild of Subversion if OpenSSL
+    changes.</para>
+  </callout>
+
+</calloutlist>
+
+</simplesect>
+
+
+
+<simplesect><title>With-expressions</title>
+
+<para>A <emphasis>with-expression</emphasis>,
+
+<programlisting>
+with <replaceable>e1</replaceable>; <replaceable>e2</replaceable></programlisting>
+
+introduces the set <replaceable>e1</replaceable> into the lexical
+scope of the expression <replaceable>e2</replaceable>.  For instance,
+
+<programlisting>
+let as = { x = "foo"; y = "bar"; };
+in with as; x + y</programlisting>
+
+evaluates to <literal>"foobar"</literal> since the
+<literal>with</literal> adds the <varname>x</varname> and
+<varname>y</varname> attributes of <varname>as</varname> to the
+lexical scope in the expression <literal>x + y</literal>.  The most
+common use of <literal>with</literal> is in conjunction with the
+<function>import</function> function.  E.g.,
+
+<programlisting>
+with (import ./definitions.nix); ...</programlisting>
+
+makes all attributes defined in the file
+<filename>definitions.nix</filename> available as if they were defined
+locally in a <literal>rec</literal>-expression.</para>
+
+</simplesect>
+
+
+<simplesect><title>Comments</title>
+
+<para>Comments can be single-line, started with a <literal>#</literal>
+character, or inline/multi-line, enclosed within <literal>/*
+... */</literal>.</para>
+
+</simplesect>
+
+
+</section>

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+<section xmlns="http://docbook.org/ns/docbook"
+      xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink"
+      xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XInclude"
+      version="5.0"
+      xml:id="sec-language-operators">
+
+<title>Operators</title>
+
+<para><xref linkend='table-operators' /> lists the operators in the
+Nix expression language, in order of precedence (from strongest to
+weakest binding).</para>
+
+<table xml:id='table-operators'>
+  <title>Operators</title>
+  <tgroup cols='3'>
+    <thead>
+      <row>
+        <entry>Syntax</entry>
+        <entry>Associativity</entry>
+        <entry>Description</entry>
+      </row>
+    </thead>
+    <tbody>
+      <row>
+        <entry><replaceable>e</replaceable> <literal>.</literal>
+        <replaceable>attrpath</replaceable>
+        [ <literal>or</literal> <replaceable>def</replaceable> ]
+        </entry>
+        <entry>none</entry>
+        <entry>Select attribute denoted by the attribute path
+        <replaceable>attrpath</replaceable> from set
+        <replaceable>e</replaceable>.  (An attribute path is a
+        dot-separated list of attribute names.)  If the attribute
+        doesn’t exist, return <replaceable>def</replaceable> if
+        provided, otherwise abort evaluation.</entry>
+      </row>
+      <row>
+        <entry><replaceable>e1</replaceable> <replaceable>e2</replaceable></entry>
+        <entry>left</entry>
+        <entry>Call function <replaceable>e1</replaceable> with
+        argument <replaceable>e2</replaceable>.</entry>
+      </row>
+      <row>
+        <entry><replaceable>e</replaceable> <literal>?</literal>
+        <replaceable>attrpath</replaceable></entry>
+        <entry>none</entry>
+        <entry>Test whether set <replaceable>e</replaceable> contains
+        the attribute denoted by <replaceable>attrpath</replaceable>;
+        return <literal>true</literal> or
+        <literal>false</literal>.</entry>
+      </row>
+      <row>
+        <entry><replaceable>e1</replaceable> <literal>++</literal> <replaceable>e2</replaceable></entry>
+        <entry>right</entry>
+        <entry>List concatenation.</entry>
+      </row>
+      <row>
+        <entry><replaceable>e1</replaceable> <literal>+</literal> <replaceable>e2</replaceable></entry>
+        <entry>left</entry>
+        <entry>String or path concatenation.</entry>
+      </row>
+      <row>
+        <entry><literal>!</literal> <replaceable>e</replaceable></entry>
+        <entry>left</entry>
+        <entry>Boolean negation.</entry>
+      </row>
+      <row>
+        <entry><replaceable>e1</replaceable> <literal>//</literal>
+        <replaceable>e2</replaceable></entry>
+        <entry>right</entry>
+        <entry>Return a set consisting of the attributes in
+        <replaceable>e1</replaceable> and
+        <replaceable>e2</replaceable> (with the latter taking
+        precedence over the former in case of equally named
+        attributes).</entry>
+      </row>
+      <row>
+        <entry><replaceable>e1</replaceable> <literal>==</literal>
+        <replaceable>e2</replaceable></entry>
+        <entry>none</entry>
+        <entry>Equality.</entry>
+      </row>
+      <row>
+        <entry><replaceable>e1</replaceable> <literal>!=</literal>
+        <replaceable>e2</replaceable></entry>
+        <entry>none</entry>
+        <entry>Inequality.</entry>
+      </row>
+      <row>
+        <entry><replaceable>e1</replaceable> <literal>&amp;&amp;</literal>
+        <replaceable>e2</replaceable></entry>
+        <entry>left</entry>
+        <entry>Logical AND.</entry>
+      </row>
+      <row>
+        <entry><replaceable>e1</replaceable> <literal>||</literal>
+        <replaceable>e2</replaceable></entry>
+        <entry>left</entry>
+        <entry>Logical OR.</entry>
+      </row>
+      <row>
+        <entry><replaceable>e1</replaceable> <literal>-></literal>
+        <replaceable>e2</replaceable></entry>
+        <entry>none</entry>
+        <entry>Logical implication (equivalent to
+        <literal>!<replaceable>e1</replaceable> ||
+        <replaceable>e2</replaceable></literal>).</entry>
+      </row>
+    </tbody>
+  </tgroup>
+</table>
+
+</section>

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+<section xmlns="http://docbook.org/ns/docbook"
+      xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink"
+      xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XInclude"
+      version="5.0"
+      xml:id='ssec-values'>
+
+<title>Values</title>
+
+
+<simplesect><title>Simple Values</title>
+
+<para>Nix has the following basic data types:
+
+<itemizedlist>
+
+  <listitem>
+
+    <para><emphasis>Strings</emphasis> can be written in three
+    ways.</para>
+
+    <para>The most common way is to enclose the string between double
+    quotes, e.g., <literal>"foo bar"</literal>.  Strings can span
+    multiple lines.  The special characters <literal>"</literal> and
+    <literal>\</literal> and the character sequence
+    <literal>${</literal> must be escaped by prefixing them with a
+    backslash (<literal>\</literal>).  Newlines, carriage returns and
+    tabs can be written as <literal>\n</literal>,
+    <literal>\r</literal> and <literal>\t</literal>,
+    respectively.</para>
+
+    <para>You can include the result of an expression into a string by
+    enclosing it in
+    <literal>${<replaceable>...</replaceable>}</literal>, a feature
+    known as <emphasis>antiquotation</emphasis>.  The enclosed
+    expression must evaluate to something that can be coerced into a
+    string (meaning that it must be a string, a path, or a
+    derivation).  For instance, rather than writing
+
+<programlisting>
+"--with-freetype2-library=" + freetype + "/lib"</programlisting>
+
+    (where <varname>freetype</varname> is a derivation), you can
+    instead write the more natural
+
+<programlisting>
+"--with-freetype2-library=${freetype}/lib"</programlisting>
+
+    The latter is automatically translated to the former.  A more
+    complicated example (from the Nix expression for <link
+    xlink:href='http://www.trolltech.com/products/qt'>Qt</link>):
+
+<programlisting>
+configureFlags = "
+  -system-zlib -system-libpng -system-libjpeg
+  ${if openglSupport then "-dlopen-opengl
+    -L${mesa}/lib -I${mesa}/include
+    -L${libXmu}/lib -I${libXmu}/include" else ""}
+  ${if threadSupport then "-thread" else "-no-thread"}
+";</programlisting>
+
+    Note that Nix expressions and strings can be arbitrarily nested;
+    in this case the outer string contains various antiquotations that
+    themselves contain strings (e.g., <literal>"-thread"</literal>),
+    some of which in turn contain expressions (e.g.,
+    <literal>${mesa}</literal>).</para>
+
+    <para>The second way to write string literals is as an
+    <emphasis>indented string</emphasis>, which is enclosed between
+    pairs of <emphasis>double single-quotes</emphasis>, like so:
+
+<programlisting>
+''
+  This is the first line.
+  This is the second line.
+    This is the third line.
+''</programlisting>
+
+    This kind of string literal intelligently strips indentation from
+    the start of each line.  To be precise, it strips from each line a
+    number of spaces equal to the minimal indentation of the string as
+    a whole (disregarding the indentation of empty lines).  For
+    instance, the first and second line are indented two space, while
+    the third line is indented four spaces.  Thus, two spaces are
+    stripped from each line, so the resulting string is
+
+<programlisting>
+"This is the first line.\nThis is the second line.\n  This is the third line.\n"</programlisting>
+
+    </para>
+
+    <para>Note that the whitespace and newline following the opening
+    <literal>''</literal> is ignored if there is no non-whitespace
+    text on the initial line.</para>
+
+    <para>Antiquotation
+    (<literal>${<replaceable>expr</replaceable>}</literal>) is
+    supported in indented strings.</para>
+
+    <para>Since <literal>${</literal> and <literal>''</literal> have
+    special meaning in indented strings, you need a way to quote them.
+    <literal>${</literal> can be escaped by prefixing it with
+    <literal>''</literal> (that is, two single quotes), i.e.,
+    <literal>''${</literal>.  <literal>''</literal> can be escaped by
+    prefixing it with <literal>'</literal>, i.e.,
+    <literal>'''</literal>.  Finally, linefeed, carriage-return and
+    tab characters can be written as <literal>''\n</literal>,
+    <literal>''\r</literal>, <literal>''\t</literal>.</para>
+
+    <para>Indented strings are primarily useful in that they allow
+    multi-line string literals to follow the indentation of the
+    enclosing Nix expression, and that less escaping is typically
+    necessary for strings representing languages such as shell scripts
+    and configuration files because <literal>''</literal> is much less
+    common than <literal>"</literal>.  Example:
+
+<programlisting>
+stdenv.mkDerivation {
+  <replaceable>...</replaceable>
+  postInstall =
+    ''
+      mkdir $out/bin $out/etc
+      cp foo $out/bin
+      echo "Hello World" > $out/etc/foo.conf
+      ${if enableBar then "cp bar $out/bin" else ""}
+    '';
+  <replaceable>...</replaceable>
+}
+</programlisting>
+
+    </para>
+
+    <para>Finally, as a convenience, <emphasis>URIs</emphasis> as
+    defined in appendix B of <link
+    xlink:href='http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2396.txt'>RFC 2396</link>
+    can be written <emphasis>as is</emphasis>, without quotes.  For
+    instance, the string
+    <literal>"http://example.org/foo.tar.bz2"</literal>
+    can also be written as
+    <literal>http://example.org/foo.tar.bz2</literal>.</para>
+
+  </listitem>
+
+  <listitem><para><emphasis>Integers</emphasis>, e.g.,
+  <literal>123</literal>.</para></listitem>
+
+  <listitem><para><emphasis>Paths</emphasis>, e.g.,
+  <filename>/bin/sh</filename> or <filename>./builder.sh</filename>.
+  A path must contain at least one slash to be recognised as such; for
+  instance, <filename>builder.sh</filename> is not a
+  path<footnote><para>It's parsed as an expression that selects the
+  attribute <varname>sh</varname> from the variable
+  <varname>builder</varname>.</para></footnote>.  If the file name is
+  relative, i.e., if it does not begin with a slash, it is made
+  absolute at parse time relative to the directory of the Nix
+  expression that contained it.  For instance, if a Nix expression in
+  <filename>/foo/bar/bla.nix</filename> refers to
+  <filename>../xyzzy/fnord.nix</filename>, the absolute path is
+  <filename>/foo/xyzzy/fnord.nix</filename>.</para>
+
+  <para>If the first component of a path is a <literal>~</literal>,
+  it is interpreted as if the rest of the path were relative to the
+  user's home directory. e.g. <filename>~/foo</filename> would be
+  equivalent to <filename>/home/edolstra/foo</filename> for a user
+  whose home directory is <filename>/home/edolstra</filename>.
+  </para></listitem>
+
+  <listitem><para><emphasis>Booleans</emphasis> with values
+  <literal>true</literal> and
+  <literal>false</literal>.</para></listitem>
+
+  <listitem><para>The null value, denoted as
+  <literal>null</literal>.</para></listitem>
+
+</itemizedlist>
+
+</para>
+
+</simplesect>
+
+
+<simplesect><title>Lists</title>
+
+<para>Lists are formed by enclosing a whitespace-separated list of
+values between square brackets.  For example,
+
+<programlisting>
+[ 123 ./foo.nix "abc" (f { x = y; }) ]</programlisting>
+
+defines a list of four elements, the last being the result of a call
+to the function <varname>f</varname>.  Note that function calls have
+to be enclosed in parentheses.  If they had been omitted, e.g.,
+
+<programlisting>
+[ 123 ./foo.nix "abc" f { x = y; } ]</programlisting>
+
+the result would be a list of five elements, the fourth one being a
+function and the fifth being a set.</para>
+
+<para>Note that lists are only lazy in values, and they are strict in length.
+</para>
+
+</simplesect>
+
+
+<simplesect><title>Sets</title>
+
+<para>Sets are really the core of the language, since ultimately the
+Nix language is all about creating derivations, which are really just
+sets of attributes to be passed to build scripts.</para>
+
+<para>Sets are just a list of name/value pairs (called
+<emphasis>attributes</emphasis>) enclosed in curly brackets, where
+each value is an arbitrary expression terminated by a semicolon.  For
+example:
+
+<programlisting>
+{ x = 123;
+  text = "Hello";
+  y = f { bla = 456; };
+}</programlisting>
+
+This defines a set with attributes named <varname>x</varname>,
+<varname>text</varname>, <varname>y</varname>.  The order of the
+attributes is irrelevant.  An attribute name may only occur
+once.</para>
+
+<para>Attributes can be selected from a set using the
+<literal>.</literal> operator.  For instance,
+
+<programlisting>
+{ a = "Foo"; b = "Bar"; }.a</programlisting>
+
+evaluates to <literal>"Foo"</literal>.  It is possible to provide a
+default value in an attribute selection using the
+<literal>or</literal> keyword.  For example,
+
+<programlisting>
+{ a = "Foo"; b = "Bar"; }.c or "Xyzzy"</programlisting>
+
+will evaluate to <literal>"Xyzzy"</literal> because there is no
+<varname>c</varname> attribute in the set.</para>
+
+<para>You can use arbitrary double-quoted strings as attribute
+names:
+
+<programlisting>
+{ "foo ${bar}" = 123; "nix-1.0" = 456; }."foo ${bar}"
+</programlisting>
+
+This will evaluate to <literal>123</literal> (Assuming
+<literal>bar</literal> is antiquotable). In the case where an
+attribute name is just a single antiquotation, the quotes can be
+dropped:
+
+<programlisting>
+{ foo = 123; }.${bar} or 456 </programlisting>
+
+This will evaluate to <literal>123</literal> if
+<literal>bar</literal> evaluates to <literal>"foo"</literal> when
+coerced to a string and <literal>456</literal> otherwise (again
+assuming <literal>bar</literal> is antiquotable).</para>
+
+<para>In the special case where an attribute name inside of a set declaration
+evaluates to <literal>null</literal> (which is normally an error, as
+<literal>null</literal> is not antiquotable), that attribute is simply not
+added to the set:
+
+<programlisting>
+{ ${if foo then "bar" else null} = true; }</programlisting>
+
+This will evaluate to <literal>{}</literal> if <literal>foo</literal>
+evaluates to <literal>false</literal>.</para>
+
+
+</simplesect>
+
+
+</section>

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+<section xmlns="http://docbook.org/ns/docbook"
+      xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink"
+      xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XInclude"
+      version="5.0"
+      xml:id='sec-building-simple'>
+
+<title>Building and Testing</title>
+
+<para>You can now try to build Hello.  Of course, you could do
+<literal>nix-env -i hello</literal>, but you may not want to install a
+possibly broken package just yet.  The best way to test the package is by
+using the command <command linkend="sec-nix-build">nix-build</command>,
+which builds a Nix expression and creates a symlink named
+<filename>result</filename> in the current directory:
+
+<screen>
+$ nix-build -A hello
+building path `/nix/store/632d2b22514d...-hello-2.1.1'
+hello-2.1.1/
+hello-2.1.1/intl/
+hello-2.1.1/intl/ChangeLog
+<replaceable>...</replaceable>
+
+$ ls -l result
+lrwxrwxrwx ... 2006-09-29 10:43 result -> /nix/store/632d2b22514d...-hello-2.1.1
+
+$ ./result/bin/hello
+Hello, world!</screen>
+
+The <link linkend='opt-attr'><option>-A</option></link> option selects
+the <literal>hello</literal> attribute.  This is faster than using the
+symbolic package name specified by the <literal>name</literal>
+attribute (which also happens to be <literal>hello</literal>) and is
+unambiguous (there can be multiple packages with the symbolic name
+<literal>hello</literal>, but there can be only one attribute in a set
+named <literal>hello</literal>).</para>
+
+<para><command>nix-build</command> registers the
+<filename>./result</filename> symlink as a garbage collection root, so
+unless and until you delete the <filename>./result</filename> symlink,
+the output of the build will be safely kept on your system.  You can
+use <command>nix-build</command>’s <option
+linkend='opt-out-link'>-o</option> switch to give the symlink another
+name.</para>
+
+<para>Nix has a transactional semantics.  Once a build finishes
+successfully, Nix makes a note of this in its database: it registers
+that the path denoted by <envar>out</envar> is now
+<quote>valid</quote>.  If you try to build the derivation again, Nix
+will see that the path is already valid and finish immediately.  If a
+build fails, either because it returns a non-zero exit code, because
+Nix or the builder are killed, or because the machine crashes, then
+the output paths will not be registered as valid.  If you try to build
+the derivation again, Nix will remove the output paths if they exist
+(e.g., because the builder died half-way through <literal>make
+install</literal>) and try again.  Note that there is no
+<quote>negative caching</quote>: Nix doesn't remember that a build
+failed, and so a failed build can always be repeated.  This is because
+Nix cannot distinguish between permanent failures (e.g., a compiler
+error due to a syntax error in the source) and transient failures
+(e.g., a disk full condition).</para>
+
+<para>Nix also performs locking.  If you run multiple Nix builds
+simultaneously, and they try to build the same derivation, the first
+Nix instance that gets there will perform the build, while the others
+block (or perform other derivations if available) until the build
+finishes:
+
+<screen>
+$ nix-build -A hello
+waiting for lock on `/nix/store/0h5b7hp8d4hqfrw8igvx97x1xawrjnac-hello-2.1.1x'</screen>
+
+So it is always safe to run multiple instances of Nix in parallel
+(which isn’t the case with, say, <command>make</command>).</para>
+
+<para>If you have a system with multiple CPUs, you may want to have
+Nix build different derivations in parallel (insofar as possible).
+Just pass the option <link linkend='opt-max-jobs'><option>-j
+<replaceable>N</replaceable></option></link>, where
+<replaceable>N</replaceable> is the maximum number of jobs to be run
+in parallel, or set.  Typically this should be the number of
+CPUs.</para>
+
+<xi:include href="debug-build.xml" />
+
+</section>

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+<chapter xmlns="http://docbook.org/ns/docbook"
+      xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink"
+      xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XInclude"
+      version="5.0"
+      xml:id="ch-simple-expression">
+
+<title>A Simple Nix Expression</title>
+
+<para>This section shows how to add and test the <link
+xlink:href='http://www.gnu.org/software/hello/hello.html'>GNU Hello
+package</link> to the Nix Packages collection.  Hello is a program
+that prints out the text <quote>Hello, world!</quote>.</para>
+
+<para>To add a package to the Nix Packages collection, you generally
+need to do three things:
+
+<orderedlist>
+
+  <listitem><para>Write a Nix expression for the package.  This is a
+  file that describes all the inputs involved in building the package,
+  such as dependencies, sources, and so on.</para></listitem>
+
+  <listitem><para>Write a <emphasis>builder</emphasis>.  This is a
+  shell script<footnote><para>In fact, it can be written in any
+  language, but typically it's a <command>bash</command> shell
+  script.</para></footnote> that actually builds the package from
+  the inputs.</para></listitem>
+
+  <listitem><para>Add the package to the file
+  <filename>pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix</filename>.  The Nix
+  expression written in the first step is a
+  <emphasis>function</emphasis>; it requires other packages in order
+  to build it.  In this step you put it all together, i.e., you call
+  the function with the right arguments to build the actual
+  package.</para></listitem>
+
+</orderedlist>
+
+</para>
+
+<xi:include href="expression-syntax.xml" />
+<xi:include href="build-script.xml" />
+<xi:include href="arguments-variables.xml" />
+<xi:include href="simple-building-testing.xml" />
+<xi:include href="generic-builder.xml" />
+
+</chapter>