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Eelco Dolstra
91e60868bd Use BackedStringView
(cherry picked from commit 1fe8f54bd3)
2024-01-19 10:14:17 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra
8bb4cb0565 Print a more helpful message if the daemon crashes
Instead of

   error: unexpected end-of-file

you now get

   error: Nix daemon disconnected unexpectedly (maybe it crashed?)

(cherry picked from commit a3cf27ca47)
2024-01-19 10:14:12 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra
f1788c425b Merge pull request #9810 from NixOS/backport-9804-to-2.19-maintenance
[Backport 2.19-maintenance] Fix crash when NAR is missing from binary cache
2024-01-19 09:40:07 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra
fdf5313e7e copyStorePath(): Bail out early if the store path already exists
In rare cases (e.g. when using allowSubstitutes = false), it's
possible that we simultaneously have a DerivationGoal *and* a
SubstitutionGoal building the same path. So if a DerivationGoal
already built the path while the SubstitutionGoal was waiting for a
download slot, it saves us a superfluous download to exit early.

(cherry picked from commit dca0a80240)
2024-01-19 08:39:09 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
cc94ea5a17 LocalStore::addToStore(): Ignore exceptions from parseDump()
In the "discard" case (i.e. when the store path already exists
locally), when we call parseDump() from a Finally and it throws an
exception (e.g. if the download of the NAR fails), Nix crashes:

   terminate called after throwing an instance of 'nix::SubstituteGone'
     what():  error: file 'nar/06br3254rx4gz4cvjzxlv028jrx80zg5i4jr62vjmn416dqihgr7.nar.xz' does not exist in binary cache 'http://localhost'
   Aborted (core dumped)

(cherry picked from commit a18d8d688a)
2024-01-19 08:39:09 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
3cb2740721 Show what goal is waiting for a build slot
(cherry picked from commit ab786e22f1)
2024-01-19 08:39:09 +00:00
John Ericson
dc09e6193b Merge pull request #9739 from shlevy/ifd-buildStore-2.19
(Backport #9661) Build IFD in the build store when using eval-store.
2024-01-11 10:06:09 -05:00
Shea Levy
2e4239f9e3 Merge branch '2.19-maintenance' into ifd-buildStore-2.19 2024-01-11 07:21:51 -05:00
Shea Levy
e7c2b35827 Build IFD in the build store when using eval-store.
Previously, IFDs would be built within the eval store, even though one
is typically using `--eval-store` precisely to *avoid* local builds.

Because the resulting Nix expression must be copied back to the eval
store in order to be imported, this requires the eval store to trust
the build store's signatures.

(cherry picked from commit c3942ef85f)
2024-01-11 06:34:27 -05:00
Shea Levy
be208d8e78 remote-store test: Break out IFD expression into a separate file
(cherry picked from commit 9cb287657b)
2024-01-11 06:30:02 -05:00
github-actions[bot]
958ecd81a8 fix an old lost direct (#9718)
this part must have been moved quite a while ago, but apparently so far
no one noticed

(cherry picked from commit 6db805b3d1)

Co-authored-by: Valentin Gagarin <valentin.gagarin@tweag.io>
2024-01-08 20:57:50 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra
8ef5c1cc06 Merge pull request #9691 from NixOS/backport-9687-to-2.19-maintenance
[Backport 2.19-maintenance] withFramedSink(): Receive interrupts on the stderr thread
2024-01-08 13:27:42 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra
6af94c431b Make some more threads receive interrupts
Shouldn't hurt to do this. In particular, this should speed up
shutting down the PathSubstitutionGoal thread if it's copying from a
remote store.

(cherry picked from commit 295a2ff8bd)
2024-01-04 16:06:41 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
4b38ebb009 withFramedSink(): Receive interrupts on the stderr thread
Otherwise Nix deadlocks when Ctrl-C is received in withFramedSink():
the parent thread will wait forever for the stderr thread to shut
down.

Fixes the hang reported in https://github.com/NixOS/nix/issues/7245#issuecomment-1770560923.

(cherry picked from commit 24e70489e5)
2024-01-04 16:06:41 +00:00
Robert Hensing
b38e5a665e Merge pull request #9609 from NixOS/backport-9547-to-2.19-maintenance
[Backport 2.19-maintenance] `allowed-uris`: match whole schemes without slashes #9547
2023-12-14 00:38:30 +01:00
Robert Hensing
01cf57703a Revert "Add nix::isASCII*, locale-independent"
This reverts commit 79eb2920bb.

Not used at this time.

(cherry picked from commit 0b87ba50c0)
2023-12-13 21:09:33 +01:00
Robert Hensing
ebdb6926fd isValidSchemeName: Use regex
As requested by Eelco Dolstra. I think it used to be simpler.

(cherry picked from commit 4eaeda6604)
2023-12-13 21:09:31 +01:00
Robert Hensing
598b0e2317 schemeRegex -> schemeNameRegex
Scheme could be understood to include the typical `:` separator.

(cherry picked from commit 2e451a663e)
2023-12-13 21:09:22 +01:00
Robert Hensing
ffb6246650 allowed-uris: Match whole schemes also when scheme is not followed by slashes
(cherry picked from commit a05bc9eb92)
2023-12-13 21:09:20 +01:00
Robert Hensing
2116ee2454 isValidSchemeName: Add function
(cherry picked from commit d3a85b6834)
2023-12-13 21:08:13 +01:00
Robert Hensing
772a8efff4 Add nix::isASCII*, locale-independent
(cherry picked from commit 79eb2920bb)
2023-12-13 21:07:54 +01:00
Robert Hensing
4795569bf7 isAllowedURI: Format
(cherry picked from commit 1fa958dda1)
2023-12-13 21:07:54 +01:00
Robert Hensing
ec5e4041ba isAllowedURI: Remove incorrect note
(cherry picked from commit 6cbba914a7)
2023-12-13 21:07:54 +01:00
Robert Hensing
90c7904abf isAllowedURI: Extract function and test
(cherry picked from commit 91ba7b2307)
2023-12-13 21:07:50 +01:00
John Ericson
2b0ce229aa Merge pull request #9599 from NixOS/backport-9593-to-2.19-maintenance
[Backport 2.19-maintenance] Fix query parsing for path-like flakes
2023-12-12 15:00:53 -05:00
Fabian Möller
1e92097ce3 Add test cases for flake urls with fragments
(cherry picked from commit 994f1b5c0d)
2023-12-12 18:08:08 +00:00
Fabian Möller
f72b0b5b00 Fix query parsing for path-like flakes
(cherry picked from commit f45d2ee2b7)
2023-12-12 18:08:08 +00:00
Robert Hensing
ae451e2247 Merge pull request #9595 from NixOS/backport-9588-to-2.19-maintenance
[Backport 2.19-maintenance] Give `Store::queryDerivationOutputMap` and `evalStore` argument
2023-12-11 18:13:58 +01:00
Robert Hensing
0fad9ad5b7 Merge pull request #9594 from obsidiansystems/backport-9563-to-2.19-maintenance
[Backport 2.19-maintenance] [PARTIAL] Give `Derivation::tryResolve` an `evalStore` argument
2023-12-11 17:30:53 +01:00
John Ericson
5fc116a620 Give Store::queryDerivationOutputMap and evalStore argument
Picking up where https://github.com/NixOS/nix/pull/9563 left off.

(cherry picked from commit 5f30c8acc7)
2023-12-11 16:16:40 +00:00
John Ericson
e6a03920ad Give Derivation::tryResolve an evalStore argument
*N.B. Backport is modified not to change any call sites / behavior.*

This is needed for building CA deriations with a src store / dest store
split. In particular it is needed for Hydra.

https://github.com/NixOS/hydra/issues/838 currently puts realizations,
and thus build outputs, in the local store, but it should not.

(cherry picked with modifications from commit 96dd757b0c)
2023-12-11 10:42:06 -05:00
John Ericson
43d55dd15f Merge pull request #9544 from NixOS/backport-9542-to-2.19-maintenance
[Backport 2.19-maintenance] Add missing `-pthread` for test support libraries
2023-12-05 19:26:08 -05:00
John Ericson
45cde5a343 Add missing -pthread for test support libraries
This is good in general (see how the other libraries also have long had
it, since 49fe9592a4) but in particular
needed to fix the NetBSD build.

(cherry picked from commit b23273f6a2)
2023-12-05 23:44:44 +00:00
Valentin Gagarin
aaeab00401 fix up release note
(cherry picked from commit 2ece9d5b92)
2023-12-04 16:56:46 +01:00
Valentin Gagarin
9c42b2c954 reword description for the fetch-tree experimental feature
without knowing a lot of context, it's not clear who "we" are in that
text. I'm also strongly opposed to adding procedural notes into
a reference manual; it just won't age well.

this change leaves a factual description of the experimental feature and
its purpose.

(cherry picked from commit 3c6244b55e)
2023-12-04 16:56:46 +01:00
Robert Hensing
175d598674 Merge pull request #9516 from NixOS/2.19-flatten-tests
[Backport 2.19-maintanence] Move tests to separate directories, and document
2023-12-01 19:31:45 +01:00
John Ericson
a61e42adb5 Move tests to separate directories, and document
Today, with the tests inside a `tests` intermingled with the
corresponding library's source code, we have a few problems:

- We have to be careful that wildcards don't end up with tests being
  built as part of Nix proper, or test headers being installed as part
  of Nix proper.

- Tests in libraries but not executables is not right:

  - It means each executable runs the previous unit tests again, because
    it needs the libraries.

  - It doesn't work right on Windows, which doesn't want you to load a
    DLL just for the side global variable . It could be made to work
    with the dlopen equivalent, but that's gross!

This reorg solves these problems.

There is a remaining problem which is that sibbling headers (like
`hash.hh` the test header vs `hash.hh` the main `libnixutil` header) end
up shadowing each other. This PR doesn't solve that. That is left as
future work for a future PR.

Co-authored-by: Valentin Gagarin <valentin.gagarin@tweag.io>

(cherry picked from commit 91b6833686)
2023-12-01 11:37:01 -05:00
Eelco Dolstra
5e265bc140 Merge pull request #9513 from NixOS/2.19-nixpkgs-bumps
[Backport 2.19-maintainence] nixpkgs bumps
2023-12-01 17:10:25 +01:00
Robert Hensing
5656f8c8c7 flake.lock: Update
Flake lock file updates:

• Updated input 'nixpkgs':
    'github:NixOS/nixpkgs/decdf666c833a325cb4417041a90681499e06a41' (2023-11-18)
  → 'github:NixOS/nixpkgs/9ba29e2346bc542e9909d1021e8fd7d4b3f64db0' (2023-11-23)

(cherry picked from commit c5d49ec7ab)
2023-12-01 11:01:20 -05:00
Robert Hensing
f01baf5f06 flake.nix: Update nixpkgs: release-23.05 -> nixos-23.05-small
Flake lock file updates:

• Updated input 'nixpkgs':
    'github:NixOS/nixpkgs/9eb24edd6a0027fed010ccfe300a9734d029983c' (2023-11-01)
  → 'github:NixOS/nixpkgs/decdf666c833a325cb4417041a90681499e06a41' (2023-11-18)

(cherry picked from commit fe4f573d49)
2023-12-01 11:00:01 -05:00
Eelco Dolstra
94a7f91236 Bump version 2023-11-29 17:18:00 +01:00
John Ericson
50f8f1c8bc Merge pull request #9473 from NixOS/backport-9462-to-2.19-maintenance
[Backport 2.19-maintenance] libexpr: add missing dependency on 'flake/call-flake.nix.gen.hh'
2023-11-27 17:02:47 -05:00
Robert Hensing
28f0322307 libexpr/local.mk: Make eval compile deps regular
Dependency is now entirely through the eval.cc rule.
All gen.hh deps are now there.

(cherry picked from commit 68c48756fe)
2023-11-27 16:26:12 +00:00
Sergei Trofimovich
94b2401138 libexpr: add missing dependency on 'flake/call-flake.nix.gen.hh'
Without the change build for `eval.o` fails occasionally as:

    $ make src/libexpr/eval.o
      GEN    Makefile.config
      GEN    src/libexpr/primops/derivation.nix.gen.hh
      GEN    src/libexpr/fetchurl.nix.gen.hh
      GEN    src/libexpr/parser-tab.cc
      GEN    src/libexpr/lexer-tab.cc
    src/libexpr/lexer.l:314: warning, -s option given but default rule can be matched
      CXX    src/libexpr/eval.o
    src/libexpr/eval.cc:519:18: fatal error: flake/call-flake.nix.gen.hh: No such file or directory
      519 |         #include "flake/call-flake.nix.gen.hh"
          |                  ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
    compilation terminated.
    make: *** [mk/patterns.mk:3: src/libexpr/eval.o] Error 1

Noticed in https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/pull/269439

(cherry picked from commit 75134b7513)
2023-11-27 16:26:12 +00:00
Robert Hensing
9a8b6ea118 Merge pull request #9472 from NixOS/backport-9459-to-2.19-maintenance
[Backport 2.19-maintenance] add path based redirects
2023-11-27 15:15:57 +01:00
Valentin Gagarin
6dfb06d4a3 add path based redirects
up to now, those were managed outside of this repo, which as
unsurprisingly a real hassle to deal with if one wanted to prevent URLs
from breaking when moving pages around. this change removes a large part
of the friction involved in moving content in the Nix manual.

possible next steps for further automation:
- check for content that moved and warn if it's not reachable from
  links that were valid prior to a change
- create redirect rules automatically based on this information

(cherry picked from commit 2b7016cc56)
2023-11-27 13:29:03 +00:00
Valentin Gagarin
92f3598a16 add deprecation warnings in documentation
this is hacky, but can serve as a stopgap until we can do it
programmatically.

(cherry picked from commit 7e08bdefcc)
2023-11-27 14:08:16 +01:00
Moritz Angermann
819eda4615 nix flake update add deprecation warnings.
This builds on #8817, to add additional UX help for people with existing
muscle memory (or shell history) with --update-input and tries to gently
guide them towards the newly evolved CLI UI.

Co-authored-by: Cole Helbling <cole.e.helbling@outlook.com>
(cherry picked from commit af00298587)
2023-11-27 14:07:26 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra
33bacbe220 Merge pull request #9437 from NixOS/backport-9431-to-2.19-maintenance
[Backport 2.19-maintenance] Add missing `-lrapidcheck` fixing build with shared lib
2023-11-22 11:45:57 +01:00
John Ericson
914309c35d Add missing -lrapidcheck fixing build with shared lib
https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/pull/269064 makes rapidcheck be build
as a shared lib, but that broke Nix because the `-lrapidcheck` was
missing. This fixes that (and doesn't break Nix what the library is a
static archive as today).

(cherry picked from commit 46131567da)
2023-11-22 04:48:14 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
c27f9777f8 Bump version 2023-11-21 17:30:26 +01:00
Théophane Hufschmitt
455aca36e4 Merge pull request #9426 from NixOS/backport-9425-to-2.19-maintenance
[Backport 2.19-maintenance] Fix "unbound variable" errors in bash
2023-11-21 15:30:20 +01:00
Felix Uhl
e011d94813 Fix "unbound variable" errors in bash
Fixes #9414

(cherry picked from commit 64827360be)
2023-11-21 14:12:50 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
2a1d549af4 Merge pull request #9409 from NixOS/backport-9408-to-2.19-maintenance
[Backport 2.19-maintenance] Fix bad_format_string error when builder stdout contains %
2023-11-20 17:41:03 +01:00
roblabla
a5c6ba3edc Fix bad_format_string error when builder stdout contains %
(cherry picked from commit e2b6821ca0)
2023-11-20 16:22:58 +00:00
Théophane Hufschmitt
911828a655 Merge pull request #9407 from NixOS/backport-9390-to-2.19-maintenance
[Backport 2.19-maintenance] fetchTree: clarify docs for shallow flag
2023-11-20 15:38:29 +01:00
DavHau
2778b218c3 fetchTree: clarify docs for shallow flag
(cherry picked from commit 796a7eb92d)
2023-11-20 14:16:08 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
4cc65f3dd5 Bump version 2023-11-20 15:06:04 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra
5b99c823ef Mark official release 2023-11-20 14:09:49 +01:00
1771 changed files with 43804 additions and 69160 deletions

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AfterStruct: true
AfterClass: true
AfterFunction: true
AfterUnion: true
SplitEmptyRecord: false
PointerAlignment: Middle
FixNamespaceComments: false
SortIncludes: Never
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SpaceAfterCStyleCast: true
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BitFieldColonSpacing: None
AllowShortFunctionsOnASingleLine: Empty
AlwaysBreakTemplateDeclarations: Yes
BinPackParameters: false
BreakConstructorInitializers: BeforeComma
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BreakBeforeBinaryOperators: NonAssignment
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root = true
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# 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
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[*.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}]
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# This file
.github/CODEOWNERS @edolstra
# Documentation of built-in functions
src/libexpr/primops.cc @roberth @fricklerhandwerk
# Documentation of settings
src/libexpr/eval-settings.hh @fricklerhandwerk
src/libstore/globals.hh @fricklerhandwerk
# Documentation
doc/manual @fricklerhandwerk
maintainers/*.md @fricklerhandwerk
src/**/*.md @fricklerhandwerk
# Public documentation
/doc @fricklerhandwerk
*.md @fricklerhandwerk
# Libstore layer
/src/libstore @ericson2314
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labels: feature
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## Checklist
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- [ ] checked [latest Nix manual] \([source])
- [ ] checked [open feature issues and pull requests] for possible duplicates
[latest Nix manual]: https://nixos.org/manual/nix/unstable/
[source]: https://github.com/NixOS/nix/tree/master/doc/manual/source
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[latest Nix manual]: https://nixos.org/manual/nix/unstable/
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Even if you've contributed to open source before, take a moment to read it,
so you understand the process and the expectations.
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# Priorities
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).

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@@ -1,43 +1,23 @@
"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"
- doc/manual/*
- src/nix/**/*.md
"store":
- changed-files:
- any-glob-to-any-file: "src/libstore/store-api.*"
- any-glob-to-any-file: "src/libstore/*-store.*"
- src/libstore/store-api.*
- src/libstore/*-store.*
"fetching":
- changed-files:
- any-glob-to-any-file: "src/libfetchers/**/*"
- src/libfetchers/**/*
"repl":
- changed-files:
- any-glob-to-any-file: "src/libcmd/repl.*"
- any-glob-to-any-file: "src/nix/repl.*"
- src/libcmd/repl.*
- src/nix/repl.*
"new-cli":
- changed-files:
- any-glob-to-any-file: "src/nix/**/*"
- 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/**/*"
# Unit tests
- src/*/tests/**/*
# Functional and integration tests
- tests/functional/**/*

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name: Backport
on:
pull_request_target:
types: [closed, labeled]
permissions:
contents: read
jobs:
backport:
name: Backport Pull Request
permissions:
# for zeebe-io/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-latest
steps:
- uses: actions/checkout@v4
with:
ref: ${{ github.event.pull_request.head.sha }}
# required to find all branches
fetch-depth: 0
- name: Create backport PRs
# should be kept in sync with `version`
uses: zeebe-io/backport-action@v2.1.1
with:
# Config README: https://github.com/zeebe-io/backport-action#backport-action
github_token: ${{ secrets.GITHUB_TOKEN }}
github_workspace: ${{ github.workspace }}
pull_description: |-
Automatic backport to `${target_branch}`, triggered by a label in #${pull_number}.
# should be kept in sync with `uses`
version: v0.0.5

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@@ -20,48 +20,19 @@ jobs:
- uses: actions/checkout@v4
with:
fetch-depth: 0
- uses: cachix/install-nix-action@v30
- uses: cachix/install-nix-action@v23
with:
# The sandbox would otherwise be disabled by default on Darwin
extra_nix_config: |
sandbox = true
max-jobs = 1
extra_nix_config: "sandbox = true"
- run: echo CACHIX_NAME="$(echo $GITHUB_REPOSITORY-install-tests | tr "[A-Z]/" "[a-z]-")" >> $GITHUB_ENV
- uses: cachix/cachix-action@v15
- uses: cachix/cachix-action@v12
if: needs.check_secrets.outputs.cachix == 'true'
with:
name: '${{ env.CACHIX_NAME }}'
signingKey: '${{ secrets.CACHIX_SIGNING_KEY }}'
authToken: '${{ secrets.CACHIX_AUTH_TOKEN }}'
- if: matrix.os == 'ubuntu-latest'
run: |
free -h
swapon --show
swap=$(swapon --show --noheadings | head -n 1 | awk '{print $1}')
echo "Found swap: $swap"
sudo swapoff $swap
# resize it (fallocate)
sudo fallocate -l 10G $swap
sudo mkswap $swap
sudo swapon $swap
free -h
(
while sleep 60; do
free -h
done
) &
- run: nix --experimental-features 'nix-command flakes' flake check -L
- run: nix --experimental-features 'nix-command flakes' flake show --all-systems --json
# Steps to test CI automation in your own fork.
# Cachix:
# 1. Sign-up for https://www.cachix.org/
# 2. Create a cache for $githubuser-nix-install-tests
# 3. Create a cachix auth token and save it in https://github.com/$githubuser/nix/settings/secrets/actions in "Repository secrets" as CACHIX_AUTH_TOKEN
# Dockerhub:
# 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/$githubuser/nix/settings/secrets/actions)
# 3. Create an access token in https://hub.docker.com/settings/security and store it as DOCKERHUB_TOKEN in "Repository secrets" of your fork
check_secrets:
permissions:
contents: none
@@ -91,15 +62,14 @@ jobs:
with:
fetch-depth: 0
- run: echo CACHIX_NAME="$(echo $GITHUB_REPOSITORY-install-tests | tr "[A-Z]/" "[a-z]-")" >> $GITHUB_ENV
- uses: cachix/install-nix-action@v30
- uses: cachix/install-nix-action@v23
with:
install_url: https://releases.nixos.org/nix/nix-2.20.3/install
- uses: cachix/cachix-action@v15
install_url: https://releases.nixos.org/nix/nix-2.13.3/install
- uses: cachix/cachix-action@v12
with:
name: '${{ env.CACHIX_NAME }}'
signingKey: '${{ secrets.CACHIX_SIGNING_KEY }}'
authToken: '${{ secrets.CACHIX_AUTH_TOKEN }}'
cachixArgs: '-v'
- id: prepare-installer
run: scripts/prepare-installer-for-github-actions
@@ -114,7 +84,7 @@ jobs:
steps:
- uses: actions/checkout@v4
- run: echo CACHIX_NAME="$(echo $GITHUB_REPOSITORY-install-tests | tr "[A-Z]/" "[a-z]-")" >> $GITHUB_ENV
- uses: cachix/install-nix-action@v30
- uses: cachix/install-nix-action@v23
with:
install_url: '${{needs.installer.outputs.installerURL}}'
install_options: "--tarball-url-prefix https://${{ env.CACHIX_NAME }}.cachix.org/serve"
@@ -130,7 +100,7 @@ jobs:
- run: exec bash -c "nix-channel --update && nix-env -iA nixpkgs.hello && hello"
docker_push_image:
needs: [check_secrets, tests, vm_tests]
needs: [check_secrets, tests]
permissions:
contents: read
packages: write
@@ -144,12 +114,12 @@ jobs:
- uses: actions/checkout@v4
with:
fetch-depth: 0
- uses: cachix/install-nix-action@v30
- uses: cachix/install-nix-action@v23
with:
install_url: https://releases.nixos.org/nix/nix-2.20.3/install
install_url: https://releases.nixos.org/nix/nix-2.13.3/install
- run: echo CACHIX_NAME="$(echo $GITHUB_REPOSITORY-install-tests | tr "[A-Z]/" "[a-z]-")" >> $GITHUB_ENV
- run: echo NIX_VERSION="$(nix --experimental-features 'nix-command flakes' eval .\#nix.version | tr -d \")" >> $GITHUB_ENV
- uses: cachix/cachix-action@v15
- run: echo NIX_VERSION="$(nix --experimental-features 'nix-command flakes' eval .\#default.version | tr -d \")" >> $GITHUB_ENV
- uses: cachix/cachix-action@v12
if: needs.check_secrets.outputs.cachix == 'true'
with:
name: '${{ env.CACHIX_NAME }}'
@@ -157,8 +127,8 @@ jobs:
authToken: '${{ secrets.CACHIX_AUTH_TOKEN }}'
- run: nix --experimental-features 'nix-command flakes' build .#dockerImage -L
- run: docker load -i ./result/image.tar.gz
- run: docker tag nix:$NIX_VERSION ${{ secrets.DOCKERHUB_USERNAME }}/nix:$NIX_VERSION
- run: docker tag nix:$NIX_VERSION ${{ secrets.DOCKERHUB_USERNAME }}/nix:master
- run: docker tag nix:$NIX_VERSION nixos/nix:$NIX_VERSION
- run: docker tag nix:$NIX_VERSION nixos/nix:master
# We'll deploy the newly built image to both Docker Hub and Github Container Registry.
#
# Push to Docker Hub first
@@ -167,8 +137,8 @@ jobs:
with:
username: ${{ secrets.DOCKERHUB_USERNAME }}
password: ${{ secrets.DOCKERHUB_TOKEN }}
- run: docker push ${{ secrets.DOCKERHUB_USERNAME }}/nix:$NIX_VERSION
- run: docker push ${{ secrets.DOCKERHUB_USERNAME }}/nix:master
- run: docker push nixos/nix:$NIX_VERSION
- run: docker push nixos/nix:master
# Push to GitHub Container Registry as well
- name: Login to GitHub Container Registry
uses: docker/login-action@v3
@@ -183,43 +153,6 @@ jobs:
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 $IMAGE_ID:$NIX_VERSION
docker push $IMAGE_ID:master
vm_tests:
runs-on: ubuntu-22.04
steps:
- uses: actions/checkout@v4
- uses: DeterminateSystems/nix-installer-action@main
- uses: DeterminateSystems/magic-nix-cache-action@main
- run: |
nix build -L \
.#hydraJobs.tests.functional_user \
.#hydraJobs.tests.githubFlakes \
.#hydraJobs.tests.nix-docker \
.#hydraJobs.tests.tarballFlakes \
;
flake_regressions:
needs: vm_tests
runs-on: ubuntu-22.04
steps:
- name: Checkout nix
uses: actions/checkout@v4
- name: Checkout flake-regressions
uses: actions/checkout@v4
with:
repository: NixOS/flake-regressions
path: flake-regressions
- name: Checkout flake-regressions-data
uses: actions/checkout@v4
with:
repository: NixOS/flake-regressions-data
path: flake-regressions/tests
- uses: DeterminateSystems/nix-installer-action@main
- uses: DeterminateSystems/magic-nix-cache-action@main
- run: nix build -L --out-link ./new-nix && PATH=$(pwd)/new-nix/bin:$PATH MAX_FLAKES=25 flake-regressions/eval-all.sh

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name: Hydra status
permissions: read-all
on:
schedule:
- cron: "12,42 * * * *"
workflow_dispatch:
jobs:
check_hydra_status:
name: Check Hydra status
if: github.repository_owner == 'NixOS'
runs-on: ubuntu-latest
steps:
- uses: actions/checkout@v4
with:
fetch-depth: 0
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@@ -18,7 +18,7 @@ jobs:
runs-on: ubuntu-latest
if: github.repository_owner == 'NixOS'
steps:
- uses: actions/labeler@v5
- uses: actions/labeler@v4
with:
repo-token: ${{ secrets.GITHUB_TOKEN }}
sync-labels: false

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@@ -10,9 +10,6 @@ perl/Makefile.config
/stamp-h1
/svn-revision
/libtool
/config/config.*
# Default meson build dir
/build
# /doc/manual/
/doc/manual/*.1
@@ -23,17 +20,13 @@ perl/Makefile.config
/doc/manual/conf-file.json
/doc/manual/language.json
/doc/manual/xp-features.json
/doc/manual/source/SUMMARY.md
/doc/manual/source/SUMMARY-rl-next.md
/doc/manual/source/store/types/*
!/doc/manual/source/store/types/index.md.in
/doc/manual/source/command-ref/new-cli
/doc/manual/source/command-ref/conf-file.md
/doc/manual/source/command-ref/experimental-features-shortlist.md
/doc/manual/source/contributing/experimental-feature-descriptions.md
/doc/manual/source/language/builtins.md
/doc/manual/source/language/builtin-constants.md
/doc/manual/source/release-notes/rl-next.md
/doc/manual/src/SUMMARY.md
/doc/manual/src/command-ref/new-cli
/doc/manual/src/command-ref/conf-file.md
/doc/manual/src/command-ref/experimental-features-shortlist.md
/doc/manual/src/contributing/experimental-feature-descriptions.md
/doc/manual/src/language/builtins.md
/doc/manual/src/language/builtin-constants.md
# /scripts/
/scripts/nix-profile.sh
@@ -48,27 +41,18 @@ perl/Makefile.config
/src/libexpr/parser-tab.hh
/src/libexpr/parser-tab.output
/src/libexpr/nix.tbl
/src/libexpr/tests
/src/libexpr-tests/libnixexpr-tests
# /src/libfetchers
/src/libfetchers-tests/libnixfetchers-tests
# /src/libflake
/src/libflake-tests/libnixflake-tests
/tests/unit/libexpr/libnixexpr-tests
# /src/libstore/
*.gen.*
/src/libstore/tests
/src/libstore-tests/libnixstore-tests
/tests/unit/libstore/libnixstore-tests
# /src/libutil/
/src/libutil/tests
/src/libutil-tests/libnixutil-tests
/tests/unit/libutil/libnixutil-tests
/src/nix/nix
/src/nix/generated-doc
/src/nix/doc
# /src/nix-env/
/src/nix-env/nix-env
@@ -97,13 +81,15 @@ perl/Makefile.config
# /tests/functional/
/tests/functional/test-tmp
/tests/functional/common/subst-vars.sh
/tests/functional/common/vars-and-functions.sh
/tests/functional/result*
/tests/functional/restricted-innocent
/tests/functional/shell
/tests/functional/shell.drv
/tests/functional/config.nix
/tests/functional/ca/config.nix
/tests/functional/dyn-drv/config.nix
/tests/functional/repl-result-out
/tests/functional/debugger-test-out
/tests/functional/test-libstoreconsumer/test-libstoreconsumer
# /tests/functional/lang/
@@ -120,6 +106,8 @@ perl/Makefile.config
/misc/systemd/nix-daemon.conf
/misc/upstart/nix-daemon.conf
/src/resolve-system-dependencies/resolve-system-dependencies
outputs/
*.a
@@ -145,21 +133,14 @@ GTAGS
# auto-generated compilation database
compile_commands.json
*.compile_commands.json
nix-rust/target
result
result-*
# IDE
.vscode/
.idea/
.pre-commit-config.yaml
# clangd and possibly more
.cache/
# Mac OS
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@@ -1,99 +0,0 @@
queue_rules:
- name: default
# all required tests need to go here
merge_conditions:
- check-success=tests (macos-latest)
- check-success=tests (ubuntu-latest)
- check-success=vm_tests
merge_method: rebase
batch_size: 5
pull_request_rules:
- name: merge using the merge queue
conditions:
- base~=master|.+-maintenance
- label~=merge-queue|dependencies
actions:
queue: {}
# The rules below will first create backport pull requests and put those in a merge queue.
- name: backport patches to 2.18
conditions:
- label=backport 2.18-maintenance
actions:
backport:
branches:
- 2.18-maintenance
labels:
- merge-queue
- name: backport patches to 2.19
conditions:
- label=backport 2.19-maintenance
actions:
backport:
branches:
- 2.19-maintenance
labels:
- merge-queue
- name: backport patches to 2.20
conditions:
- label=backport 2.20-maintenance
actions:
backport:
branches:
- 2.20-maintenance
labels:
- merge-queue
- name: backport patches to 2.21
conditions:
- label=backport 2.21-maintenance
actions:
backport:
branches:
- 2.21-maintenance
labels:
- merge-queue
- name: backport patches to 2.22
conditions:
- label=backport 2.22-maintenance
actions:
backport:
branches:
- 2.22-maintenance
labels:
- merge-queue
- name: backport patches to 2.23
conditions:
- label=backport 2.23-maintenance
actions:
backport:
branches:
- 2.23-maintenance
labels:
- merge-queue
- name: backport patches to 2.24
conditions:
- label=backport 2.24-maintenance
actions:
backport:
branches:
- "2.24-maintenance"
labels:
- merge-queue
- name: backport patches to 2.25
conditions:
- label=backport 2.25-maintenance
actions:
backport:
branches:
- "2.25-maintenance"
labels:
- merge-queue

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external-sources=true
source-path=SCRIPTDIR
# Hack for scripts in e.g. tests/functional/ca
source-path=SCRIPTDIR/..

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2.26.0
2.19.3

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@@ -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

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@@ -27,8 +27,6 @@ Check out the [security policy](https://github.com/NixOS/nix/security/policy).
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.
@@ -41,9 +39,9 @@ Check out the [security policy](https://github.com/NixOS/nix/security/policy).
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.
3. Check the [Nix reference manual](https://nixos.org/manual/nix/unstable/contributing/hacking.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).
For contributions to the command line interface, please check the [CLI guidelines](https://nixos.org/manual/nix/unstable/contributing/cli-guideline.html).
4. Make your change!
@@ -52,20 +50,6 @@ Check out the [security policy](https://github.com/NixOS/nix/security/policy).
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.
@@ -79,22 +63,22 @@ Check out the [security policy](https://github.com/NixOS/nix/security/policy).
- 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)
- [ ] User documentation in the [manual](..doc/manual/src)
- [ ] 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)
- [ ] New feature or incompatible change: updated [release notes](./doc/manual/src/release-notes/rl-next.md)
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://nixos.org/manual/nix.
The underlying source files are located in [`doc/manual/source`](./doc/manual/source).
The underlying source files are located in [`doc/manual/src`](./doc/manual/src).
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).
For larger changes see the [Nix reference manual](https://nixos.org/manual/nix/unstable/contributing/hacking.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.
The appropriate channels to do so can be found on the [NixOS Community](https://nixos.org/community/) page.

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doc/manual/source/development/building.md

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@@ -0,0 +1,60 @@
-include Makefile.config
clean-files += Makefile.config
ifeq ($(ENABLE_BUILD), yes)
makefiles = \
mk/precompiled-headers.mk \
local.mk \
src/libutil/local.mk \
src/libstore/local.mk \
src/libfetchers/local.mk \
src/libmain/local.mk \
src/libexpr/local.mk \
src/libcmd/local.mk \
src/nix/local.mk \
src/resolve-system-dependencies/local.mk \
scripts/local.mk \
misc/bash/local.mk \
misc/fish/local.mk \
misc/zsh/local.mk \
misc/systemd/local.mk \
misc/launchd/local.mk \
misc/upstart/local.mk \
doc/manual/local.mk \
doc/internal-api/local.mk
endif
ifeq ($(ENABLE_BUILD)_$(ENABLE_TESTS), yes_yes)
makefiles += \
tests/unit/libutil/local.mk \
tests/unit/libutil-support/local.mk \
tests/unit/libstore/local.mk \
tests/unit/libstore-support/local.mk \
tests/unit/libexpr/local.mk \
tests/unit/libexpr-support/local.mk
endif
ifeq ($(ENABLE_TESTS), yes)
makefiles += \
tests/functional/local.mk \
tests/functional/ca/local.mk \
tests/functional/dyn-drv/local.mk \
tests/functional/test-libstoreconsumer/local.mk \
tests/functional/plugins/local.mk
else
makefiles += \
mk/disable-tests.mk
endif
OPTIMIZE = 1
ifeq ($(OPTIMIZE), 1)
GLOBAL_CXXFLAGS += -O3 $(CXXLTO)
GLOBAL_LDFLAGS += $(CXXLTO)
else
GLOBAL_CXXFLAGS += -O0 -U_FORTIFY_SOURCE
endif
include mk/lib.mk
GLOBAL_CXXFLAGS += -g -Wall -include config.h -std=c++2a -I src

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AR = @AR@
BDW_GC_LIBS = @BDW_GC_LIBS@
BOOST_LDFLAGS = @BOOST_LDFLAGS@
BUILD_SHARED_LIBS = @BUILD_SHARED_LIBS@
CC = @CC@
CFLAGS = @CFLAGS@
CXX = @CXX@
CXXFLAGS = @CXXFLAGS@
CXXLTO = @CXXLTO@
EDITLINE_LIBS = @EDITLINE_LIBS@
ENABLE_S3 = @ENABLE_S3@
GTEST_LIBS = @GTEST_LIBS@
HAVE_LIBCPUID = @HAVE_LIBCPUID@
HAVE_SECCOMP = @HAVE_SECCOMP@
HOST_OS = @host_os@
LDFLAGS = @LDFLAGS@
LIBARCHIVE_LIBS = @LIBARCHIVE_LIBS@
LIBBROTLI_LIBS = @LIBBROTLI_LIBS@
LIBCURL_LIBS = @LIBCURL_LIBS@
LIBSECCOMP_LIBS = @LIBSECCOMP_LIBS@
LOWDOWN_LIBS = @LOWDOWN_LIBS@
OPENSSL_LIBS = @OPENSSL_LIBS@
PACKAGE_NAME = @PACKAGE_NAME@
PACKAGE_VERSION = @PACKAGE_VERSION@
RAPIDCHECK_HEADERS = @RAPIDCHECK_HEADERS@
SHELL = @bash@
SODIUM_LIBS = @SODIUM_LIBS@
SQLITE3_LIBS = @SQLITE3_LIBS@
bash = @bash@
bindir = @bindir@
checkbindir = @checkbindir@
checklibdir = @checklibdir@
datadir = @datadir@
datarootdir = @datarootdir@
doc_generate = @doc_generate@
docdir = @docdir@
embedded_sandbox_shell = @embedded_sandbox_shell@
exec_prefix = @exec_prefix@
includedir = @includedir@
libdir = @libdir@
libexecdir = @libexecdir@
localstatedir = @localstatedir@
lsof = @lsof@
mandir = @mandir@
pkglibdir = $(libdir)/$(PACKAGE_NAME)
prefix = @prefix@
sandbox_shell = @sandbox_shell@
storedir = @storedir@
sysconfdir = @sysconfdir@
system = @system@
ENABLE_BUILD = @ENABLE_BUILD@
ENABLE_TESTS = @ENABLE_TESTS@
INSTALL_UNIT_TESTS = @INSTALL_UNIT_TESTS@
internal_api_docs = @internal_api_docs@

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# 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)
[![Test](https://github.com/NixOS/nix/workflows/Test/badge.svg)](https://github.com/NixOS/nix/actions)
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)
management reliable and reproducible. Please refer to the [Nix manual](https://nixos.org/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).
Full reference documentation can be found in the [Nix manual](https://nixos.org/nix/manual).
## Building and developing
## 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).
See our [Hacking guide](https://nixos.org/manual/nix/unstable/contributing/hacking.html) in our manual for instruction on how to
set up a development environment and build Nix from source.
## Contributing
Check the [contributing guide](./CONTRIBUTING.md) if you want to get involved with developing Nix.
## Additional resources
## 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](https://matrix.to/#/#nix:nixos.org)
- [Nix manual](https://nixos.org/nix/manual)
- [Nix jobsets on hydra.nixos.org](https://hydra.nixos.org/project/nix)
- [NixOS Discourse](https://discourse.nixos.org/)
- [Matrix - #nix:nixos.org](https://matrix.to/#/#nix:nixos.org)
## License

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diff --git a/darwin_stop_world.c b/darwin_stop_world.c
index 0468aaec..b348d869 100644
--- a/darwin_stop_world.c
+++ b/darwin_stop_world.c
@@ -356,6 +356,7 @@ GC_INNER void GC_push_all_stacks(void)
int nthreads = 0;
word total_size = 0;
mach_msg_type_number_t listcount = (mach_msg_type_number_t)THREAD_TABLE_SZ;
+ size_t stack_limit;
if (!EXPECT(GC_thr_initialized, TRUE))
GC_thr_init();
@@ -411,6 +412,19 @@ GC_INNER void GC_push_all_stacks(void)
GC_push_all_stack_sections(lo, hi, p->traced_stack_sect);
}
if (altstack_lo) {
+ // When a thread goes into a coroutine, we lose its original sp until
+ // control flow returns to the thread.
+ // While in the coroutine, the sp points outside the thread stack,
+ // so we can detect this and push the entire thread stack instead,
+ // as an approximation.
+ // We assume that the coroutine has similarly added its entire stack.
+ // This could be made accurate by cooperating with the application
+ // via new functions and/or callbacks.
+ stack_limit = pthread_get_stacksize_np(p->id);
+ if (altstack_lo >= altstack_hi || altstack_lo < altstack_hi - stack_limit) { // sp outside stack
+ altstack_lo = altstack_hi - stack_limit;
+ }
+
total_size += altstack_hi - altstack_lo;
GC_push_all_stack(altstack_lo, altstack_hi);
}
diff --git a/include/gc.h b/include/gc.h
index edab6c22..f2c61282 100644
--- a/include/gc.h
+++ b/include/gc.h
@@ -2172,6 +2172,11 @@ GC_API void GC_CALL GC_win32_free_heap(void);
(*GC_amiga_allocwrapper_do)(a,GC_malloc_atomic_ignore_off_page)
#endif /* _AMIGA && !GC_AMIGA_MAKINGLIB */
+#if !__APPLE__
+/* Patch doesn't work on apple */
+#define NIX_BOEHM_PATCH_VERSION 1
+#endif
+
#ifdef __cplusplus
} /* extern "C" */
#endif
diff --git a/pthread_stop_world.c b/pthread_stop_world.c
index b5d71e62..aed7b0bf 100644
--- a/pthread_stop_world.c
+++ b/pthread_stop_world.c
@@ -768,6 +768,8 @@ STATIC void GC_restart_handler(int sig)
/* world is stopped. Should not fail if it isn't. */
GC_INNER void GC_push_all_stacks(void)
{
+ size_t stack_limit;
+ pthread_attr_t pattr;
GC_bool found_me = FALSE;
size_t nthreads = 0;
int i;
@@ -851,6 +853,37 @@ GC_INNER void GC_push_all_stacks(void)
hi = p->altstack + p->altstack_size;
/* FIXME: Need to scan the normal stack too, but how ? */
/* FIXME: Assume stack grows down */
+ } else {
+#ifdef HAVE_PTHREAD_ATTR_GET_NP
+ if (!pthread_attr_init(&pattr)
+ || !pthread_attr_get_np(p->id, &pattr))
+#else /* HAVE_PTHREAD_GETATTR_NP */
+ if (pthread_getattr_np(p->id, &pattr))
+#endif
+ {
+ ABORT("GC_push_all_stacks: pthread_getattr_np failed!");
+ }
+ if (pthread_attr_getstacksize(&pattr, &stack_limit)) {
+ ABORT("GC_push_all_stacks: pthread_attr_getstacksize failed!");
+ }
+ if (pthread_attr_destroy(&pattr)) {
+ ABORT("GC_push_all_stacks: pthread_attr_destroy failed!");
+ }
+ // When a thread goes into a coroutine, we lose its original sp until
+ // control flow returns to the thread.
+ // While in the coroutine, the sp points outside the thread stack,
+ // so we can detect this and push the entire thread stack instead,
+ // as an approximation.
+ // We assume that the coroutine has similarly added its entire stack.
+ // This could be made accurate by cooperating with the application
+ // via new functions and/or callbacks.
+ #ifndef STACK_GROWS_UP
+ if (lo >= hi || lo < hi - stack_limit) { // sp outside stack
+ lo = hi - stack_limit;
+ }
+ #else
+ #error "STACK_GROWS_UP not supported in boost_coroutine2 (as of june 2021), so we don't support it in Nix."
+ #endif
}
GC_push_all_stack_sections(lo, hi, traced_stack_sect);
# ifdef STACK_GROWS_UP

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#!/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:

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AC_INIT([nix],[m4_esyscmd(bash -c "echo -n $(cat ./.version)$VERSION_SUFFIX")])
AC_CONFIG_MACRO_DIRS([m4])
AC_CONFIG_SRCDIR(README.md)
AC_CONFIG_AUX_DIR(config)
AC_PROG_SED
# Construct a Nix system name (like "i686-linux"):
# https://www.gnu.org/software/autoconf/manual/html_node/Canonicalizing.html#index-AC_005fCANONICAL_005fHOST-1
# The inital value is produced by the `config/config.guess` script:
# upstream: https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/config.git/tree/config.guess
# It has the following form, which is not documented anywhere:
# <cpu>-<vendor>-<os>[<version>][-<abi>]
# If `./configure` is passed any of the `--host`, `--build`, `--target` options, the value comes from `config/config.sub` instead:
# upstream: https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/config.git/tree/config.sub
AC_CANONICAL_HOST
AC_MSG_CHECKING([for the canonical Nix system name])
AC_ARG_WITH(system, AS_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";;
armv6|armv7)
machine_name="${host_cpu}l";;
*)
machine_name="$host_cpu";;
esac
case "$host_os" in
linux-gnu*|linux-musl*)
# For backward compatibility, strip the `-gnu' part.
system="$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.@:>@*$//g'`";;
esac])
AC_MSG_RESULT($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" = '${prefix}/var' && localstatedir=/nix/var
AC_PROG_CC
AC_PROG_CXX
AC_PROG_CPP
AC_CHECK_TOOL([AR], [ar])
# Use 64-bit file system calls so that we can support files > 2 GiB.
AC_SYS_LARGEFILE
# Solaris-specific stuff.
AC_STRUCT_DIRENT_D_TYPE
case "$host_os" in
solaris*)
# Solaris requires -lsocket -lnsl for network functions
LDFLAGS="-lsocket -lnsl $LDFLAGS"
;;
esac
ENSURE_NO_GCC_BUG_80431
# 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 pipe2])
# 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++)
AC_DEFUN([NEED_PROG],
[
AC_PATH_PROG($1, $2)
if test -z "$$1"; then
AC_MSG_ERROR([$2 is required])
fi
])
NEED_PROG(bash, bash)
AC_PATH_PROG(flex, flex, false)
AC_PATH_PROG(bison, bison, false)
AC_PATH_PROG(dot, dot)
AC_PATH_PROG(lsof, lsof, lsof)
NEED_PROG(jq, jq)
AC_SUBST(coreutils, [$(dirname $(type -p cat))])
AC_ARG_WITH(store-dir, AS_HELP_STRING([--with-store-dir=PATH],[path of the Nix store (defaults to /nix/store)]),
storedir=$withval, storedir='/nix/store')
AC_SUBST(storedir)
# Look for boost, a required dependency.
# Note that AX_BOOST_BASE only exports *CPP* BOOST_CPPFLAGS, no CXX flags,
# and CPPFLAGS are not passed to the C++ compiler automatically.
# Thus we append the returned CPPFLAGS to the CXXFLAGS here.
AX_BOOST_BASE([1.66], [CXXFLAGS="$BOOST_CPPFLAGS $CXXFLAGS"], [AC_MSG_ERROR([Nix requires boost.])])
# For unknown reasons, setting this directly in the ACTION-IF-FOUND above
# ends up with LDFLAGS being empty, so we set it afterwards.
LDFLAGS="$BOOST_LDFLAGS $LDFLAGS"
# On some platforms, new-style atomics need a helper library
AC_MSG_CHECKING(whether -latomic is needed)
AC_LINK_IFELSE([AC_LANG_SOURCE([[
#include <stdint.h>
uint64_t v;
int main() {
return (int)__atomic_load_n(&v, __ATOMIC_ACQUIRE);
}]])], GCC_ATOMIC_BUILTINS_NEED_LIBATOMIC=no, GCC_ATOMIC_BUILTINS_NEED_LIBATOMIC=yes)
AC_MSG_RESULT($GCC_ATOMIC_BUILTINS_NEED_LIBATOMIC)
if test "x$GCC_ATOMIC_BUILTINS_NEED_LIBATOMIC" = xyes; then
LDFLAGS="-latomic $LDFLAGS"
fi
# Running the functional tests without building Nix is useful for testing
# different pre-built versions of Nix against each other.
AC_ARG_ENABLE(build, AS_HELP_STRING([--disable-build],[Do not build nix]),
ENABLE_BUILD=$enableval, ENABLE_BUILD=yes)
AC_SUBST(ENABLE_BUILD)
# Building without tests is useful for bootstrapping with a smaller footprint
# or running the tests in a separate derivation. Otherwise, we do compile and
# run them.
AC_ARG_ENABLE(tests, AS_HELP_STRING([--disable-tests],[Do not build the tests]),
ENABLE_TESTS=$enableval, ENABLE_TESTS=yes)
AC_SUBST(ENABLE_TESTS)
AC_ARG_ENABLE(install-unit-tests, AS_HELP_STRING([--enable-install-unit-tests],[Install the unit tests for running later (default no)]),
INSTALL_UNIT_TESTS=$enableval, INSTALL_UNIT_TESTS=no)
AC_SUBST(INSTALL_UNIT_TESTS)
AC_ARG_WITH(check-bin-dir, AS_HELP_STRING([--with-check-bin-dir=PATH],[path to install unit tests for running later (defaults to $libexecdir/nix)]),
checkbindir=$withval, checkbindir=$libexecdir/nix)
AC_SUBST(checkbindir)
AC_ARG_WITH(check-lib-dir, AS_HELP_STRING([--with-check-lib-dir=PATH],[path to install unit tests for running later (defaults to $libdir)]),
checklibdir=$withval, checklibdir=$libdir)
AC_SUBST(checklibdir)
# Building without API docs is the default as Nix' C++ interfaces are internal and unstable.
AC_ARG_ENABLE(internal_api_docs, AS_HELP_STRING([--enable-internal-api-docs],[Build API docs for Nix's internal unstable C++ interfaces]),
internal_api_docs=$enableval, internal_api_docs=no)
AC_SUBST(internal_api_docs)
# LTO is currently broken with clang for unknown reasons; ld segfaults in the llvm plugin
AC_ARG_ENABLE(lto, AS_HELP_STRING([--enable-lto],[Enable LTO (only supported with GCC) [default=no]]),
lto=$enableval, lto=no)
if test "$lto" = yes; then
if $CXX --version | grep -q GCC; then
AC_SUBST(CXXLTO, [-flto=jobserver])
else
echo "error: LTO is only supported with GCC at the moment" >&2
exit 1
fi
else
AC_SUBST(CXXLTO, [""])
fi
PKG_PROG_PKG_CONFIG
AC_ARG_ENABLE(shared, AS_HELP_STRING([--enable-shared],[Build shared libraries for Nix [default=yes]]),
shared=$enableval, shared=yes)
if test "$shared" = yes; then
AC_SUBST(BUILD_SHARED_LIBS, 1, [Whether to build shared libraries.])
else
AC_SUBST(BUILD_SHARED_LIBS, 0, [Whether to build shared libraries.])
PKG_CONFIG="$PKG_CONFIG --static"
fi
# Look for OpenSSL, a required dependency. FIXME: this is only (maybe)
# used by S3BinaryCacheStore.
PKG_CHECK_MODULES([OPENSSL], [libcrypto >= 1.1.1], [CXXFLAGS="$OPENSSL_CFLAGS $CXXFLAGS"])
# Look for libarchive.
PKG_CHECK_MODULES([LIBARCHIVE], [libarchive >= 3.1.2], [CXXFLAGS="$LIBARCHIVE_CFLAGS $CXXFLAGS"])
# Workaround until https://github.com/libarchive/libarchive/issues/1446 is fixed
if test "$shared" != yes; then
LIBARCHIVE_LIBS+=' -lz'
fi
# 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 $CXXFLAGS"])
# Look for editline, a required dependency.
# The the libeditline.pc file was added only in libeditline >= 1.15.2,
# see https://github.com/troglobit/editline/commit/0a8f2ef4203c3a4a4726b9dd1336869cd0da8607,
# but e.g. Ubuntu 16.04 has an older version, so we fall back to searching for
# editline.h when the pkg-config approach fails.
PKG_CHECK_MODULES([EDITLINE], [libeditline], [CXXFLAGS="$EDITLINE_CFLAGS $CXXFLAGS"], [
AC_CHECK_HEADERS([editline.h], [true],
[AC_MSG_ERROR([Nix requires libeditline; it was found neither via pkg-config nor its normal header.])])
AC_SEARCH_LIBS([readline read_history], [editline], [],
[AC_MSG_ERROR([Nix requires libeditline; it was not found via pkg-config, but via its header, but required functions do not work. Maybe it is too old? >= 1.14 is required.])])
])
# Look for libsodium.
PKG_CHECK_MODULES([SODIUM], [libsodium], [CXXFLAGS="$SODIUM_CFLAGS $CXXFLAGS"])
# Look for libbrotli{enc,dec}.
PKG_CHECK_MODULES([LIBBROTLI], [libbrotlienc libbrotlidec], [CXXFLAGS="$LIBBROTLI_CFLAGS $CXXFLAGS"])
# Look for libcpuid.
have_libcpuid=
if test "$machine_name" = "x86_64"; then
AC_ARG_ENABLE([cpuid],
AS_HELP_STRING([--disable-cpuid], [Do not determine microarchitecture levels with libcpuid (relevant to x86_64 only)]))
if test "x$enable_cpuid" != "xno"; then
PKG_CHECK_MODULES([LIBCPUID], [libcpuid],
[CXXFLAGS="$LIBCPUID_CFLAGS $CXXFLAGS"
have_libcpuid=1
AC_DEFINE([HAVE_LIBCPUID], [1], [Use libcpuid])]
)
fi
fi
AC_SUBST(HAVE_LIBCPUID, [$have_libcpuid])
# Look for libseccomp, required for Linux sandboxing.
case "$host_os" in
linux*)
AC_ARG_ENABLE([seccomp-sandboxing],
AS_HELP_STRING([--disable-seccomp-sandboxing],[Don't build support for seccomp sandboxing (only recommended if your arch doesn't support libseccomp yet!)
]))
if test "x$enable_seccomp_sandboxing" != "xno"; then
PKG_CHECK_MODULES([LIBSECCOMP], [libseccomp],
[CXXFLAGS="$LIBSECCOMP_CFLAGS $CXXFLAGS"])
have_seccomp=1
AC_DEFINE([HAVE_SECCOMP], [1], [Whether seccomp is available and should be used for sandboxing.])
else
have_seccomp=
fi
;;
*)
have_seccomp=
;;
esac
AC_SUBST(HAVE_SECCOMP, [$have_seccomp])
# Look for aws-cpp-sdk-s3.
AC_LANG_PUSH(C++)
AC_CHECK_HEADERS([aws/s3/S3Client.h],
[AC_DEFINE([ENABLE_S3], [1], [Whether to enable S3 support via aws-sdk-cpp.]) enable_s3=1],
[AC_DEFINE([ENABLE_S3], [0], [Whether to enable S3 support via aws-sdk-cpp.]) enable_s3=])
AC_SUBST(ENABLE_S3, [$enable_s3])
AC_LANG_POP(C++)
if test -n "$enable_s3"; then
declare -a aws_version_tokens=($(printf '#include <aws/core/VersionConfig.h>\nAWS_SDK_VERSION_STRING' | $CPP $CPPFLAGS - | grep -v '^#.*' | sed 's/"//g' | tr '.' ' '))
AC_DEFINE_UNQUOTED([AWS_VERSION_MAJOR], ${aws_version_tokens@<:@0@:>@}, [Major version of aws-sdk-cpp.])
AC_DEFINE_UNQUOTED([AWS_VERSION_MINOR], ${aws_version_tokens@<:@1@:>@}, [Minor version of aws-sdk-cpp.])
AC_DEFINE_UNQUOTED([AWS_VERSION_PATCH], ${aws_version_tokens@<:@2@:>@}, [Patch version of aws-sdk-cpp.])
fi
# Whether to use the Boehm garbage collector.
AC_ARG_ENABLE(gc, AS_HELP_STRING([--enable-gc],[enable garbage collection in the Nix expression evaluator (requires Boehm GC) [default=yes]]),
gc=$enableval, gc=yes)
if test "$gc" = yes; then
PKG_CHECK_MODULES([BDW_GC], [bdw-gc])
CXXFLAGS="$BDW_GC_CFLAGS $CXXFLAGS"
AC_DEFINE(HAVE_BOEHMGC, 1, [Whether to use the Boehm garbage collector.])
fi
if test "$ENABLE_TESTS" = yes; then
# Look for gtest.
PKG_CHECK_MODULES([GTEST], [gtest_main])
# Look for rapidcheck.
AC_ARG_VAR([RAPIDCHECK_HEADERS], [include path of gtest headers shipped by RAPIDCHECK])
# No pkg-config yet, https://github.com/emil-e/rapidcheck/issues/302
AC_LANG_PUSH(C++)
AC_SUBST(RAPIDCHECK_HEADERS)
[CXXFLAGS="-I $RAPIDCHECK_HEADERS $CXXFLAGS"]
[LIBS="-lrapidcheck -lgtest $LIBS"]
AC_CHECK_HEADERS([rapidcheck/gtest.h], [], [], [#include <gtest/gtest.h>])
dnl AC_CHECK_LIB doesn't work for C++ libs with mangled symbols
AC_LINK_IFELSE([
AC_LANG_PROGRAM([[
#include <gtest/gtest.h>
#include <rapidcheck/gtest.h>
]], [[
return RUN_ALL_TESTS();
]])
],
[],
[AC_MSG_ERROR([librapidcheck is not found.])])
AC_LANG_POP(C++)
fi
# Look for nlohmann/json.
PKG_CHECK_MODULES([NLOHMANN_JSON], [nlohmann_json >= 3.9])
# documentation generation switch
AC_ARG_ENABLE(doc-gen, AS_HELP_STRING([--disable-doc-gen],[disable documentation generation]),
doc_generate=$enableval, doc_generate=yes)
AC_SUBST(doc_generate)
# Look for lowdown library.
PKG_CHECK_MODULES([LOWDOWN], [lowdown >= 0.9.0], [CXXFLAGS="$LOWDOWN_CFLAGS $CXXFLAGS"])
# Setuid installations.
AC_CHECK_FUNCS([setresuid setreuid lchown])
# Nice to have, but not essential.
AC_CHECK_FUNCS([strsignal posix_fallocate sysconf])
AC_ARG_WITH(sandbox-shell, AS_HELP_STRING([--with-sandbox-shell=PATH],[path of a statically-linked shell to use as /bin/sh in sandboxes]),
sandbox_shell=$withval)
AC_SUBST(sandbox_shell)
if test ${cross_compiling:-no} = no && ! test -z ${sandbox_shell+x}; then
AC_MSG_CHECKING([whether sandbox-shell has the standalone feature])
# busybox shell sometimes allows executing other busybox applets,
# even if they are not in the path, breaking our sandbox
if PATH= $sandbox_shell -c "busybox" 2>&1 | grep -qv "not found"; then
AC_MSG_RESULT(enabled)
AC_MSG_ERROR([Please disable busybox FEATURE_SH_STANDALONE])
else
AC_MSG_RESULT(disabled)
fi
fi
AC_ARG_ENABLE(embedded-sandbox-shell, AS_HELP_STRING([--enable-embedded-sandbox-shell],[include the sandbox shell in the Nix binary [default=no]]),
embedded_sandbox_shell=$enableval, embedded_sandbox_shell=no)
AC_SUBST(embedded_sandbox_shell)
if test "$embedded_sandbox_shell" = yes; then
AC_DEFINE(HAVE_EMBEDDED_SANDBOX_SHELL, 1, [Include the sandbox shell in the Nix binary.])
fi
# Expand all variables in config.status.
test "$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_HEADERS([config.h])
AC_CONFIG_FILES([])
AC_OUTPUT

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@@ -12,9 +12,7 @@ PROJECT_NAME = "Nix"
# could be handy for archiving the generated documentation or if some version
# control system is used.
PROJECT_NUMBER = @PROJECT_NUMBER@
OUTPUT_DIRECTORY = @OUTPUT_DIRECTORY@
PROJECT_NUMBER = @PACKAGE_VERSION@
# Using the PROJECT_BRIEF tag one can provide an optional one line description
# for a project that appears at the top of each page and should give viewer a
@@ -38,28 +36,27 @@ GENERATE_LATEX = NO
# so they can expand variables despite configure variables.
INPUT = \
@src@/libcmd \
@src@/libexpr \
@src@/libexpr/flake \
@src@/libexpr-tests \
@src@/libexpr-tests/value \
@src@/libexpr-test-support/tests \
@src@/libexpr-test-support/tests/value \
@src@/libexpr/value \
@src@/libfetchers \
@src@/libmain \
@src@/libstore \
@src@/libstore/build \
@src@/libstore/builtins \
@src@/libstore-tests \
@src@/libstore-test-support/tests \
@src@/libutil \
@src@/libutil/args \
@src@/libutil-tests \
@src@/libutil-test-support/tests \
@src@/nix \
@src@/nix-env \
@src@/nix-store
src/libcmd \
src/libexpr \
src/libexpr/flake \
tests/unit/libexpr \
tests/unit/libexpr/value \
tests/unit/libexpr/test \
tests/unit/libexpr/test/value \
src/libexpr/value \
src/libfetchers \
src/libmain \
src/libstore \
src/libstore/build \
src/libstore/builtins \
tests/unit/libstore \
tests/unit/libstore/test \
src/libutil \
tests/unit/libutil \
tests/unit/libutil/test \
src/nix \
src/nix-env \
src/nix-store
# If the MACRO_EXPANSION tag is set to YES, doxygen will expand all macro names
# in the source code. If set to NO, only conditional compilation will be
@@ -84,9 +81,7 @@ EXPAND_ONLY_PREDEF = YES
# RECURSIVE has no effect here.
# This tag requires that the tag SEARCH_INCLUDES is set to YES.
INCLUDE_PATH = \
@BUILD_ROOT@/src/libexpr/libnixexpr.so.p \
@BUILD_ROOT@/src/nix/nix.p \
INCLUDE_PATH = @RAPIDCHECK_HEADERS@
# If the MACRO_EXPANSION and EXPAND_ONLY_PREDEF tags are set to YES then this
# tag can be used to specify a list of macro names that should be expanded. The
@@ -99,18 +94,4 @@ EXPAND_AS_DEFINED = \
DECLARE_COMMON_SERIALISER \
DECLARE_WORKER_SERIALISER \
DECLARE_SERVE_SERIALISER \
LENGTH_PREFIXED_PROTO_HELPER \
LENGTH_PREFIXED_PROTO_HELPER_X \
WORKER_USE_LENGTH_PREFIX_SERIALISER \
WORKER_USE_LENGTH_PREFIX_SERIALISER_COMMA \
SERVE_USE_LENGTH_PREFIX_SERIALISER \
SERVE_USE_LENGTH_PREFIX_SERIALISER_COMMA \
COMMON_METHODS \
JSON_IMPL \
MakeBinOp
PREDEFINED = DOXYGEN_SKIP
WARN_IF_UNDOCUMENTED = NO
WARN_IF_INCOMPLETE_DOC = NO
QUIET = YES
LENGTH_PREFIXED_PROTO_HELPER

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@@ -0,0 +1,19 @@
.PHONY: internal-api-html
ifeq ($(internal_api_docs), yes)
$(docdir)/internal-api/html/index.html $(docdir)/internal-api/latex: $(d)/doxygen.cfg
mkdir -p $(docdir)/internal-api
{ cat $< ; echo "OUTPUT_DIRECTORY=$(docdir)/internal-api" ; } | doxygen -
# Generate the HTML API docs for Nix's unstable internal interfaces.
internal-api-html: $(docdir)/internal-api/html/index.html
else
# Make a nicer error message
internal-api-html:
@echo "Internal API docs are disabled. Configure with '--enable-internal-api-docs', or avoid calling 'make internal-api-html'."
@exit 1
endif

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../../.version

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@@ -0,0 +1,30 @@
# redirect rules for paths (server-side) to prevent link rot.
# see ./redirects.js for redirects based on URL fragments (client-side)
#
# concrete user story this supports:
# - user finds URL to the manual for Nix x.y
# - Nix x.z (z > y) is the most recent release
# - updating the version in the URL will show the right thing
#
# format documentation:
# - https://docs.netlify.com/routing/redirects/#syntax-for-the-redirects-file
# - https://docs.netlify.com/routing/redirects/redirect-options/
#
# conventions:
# - always force (<CODE>!) since this allows re-using file names
# - group related paths to ease readability
# - always append new redirects to the end of the file
# - redirects that should have been there but are missing can be inserted where they belong
/expressions/expression-language /language/ 301!
/expressions/language-values /language/values 301!
/expressions/language-constructs /language/constructs 301!
/expressions/language-operators /language/operators 301!
/expressions/* /language/:splat 301!
/package-management/basic-package-mgmt /command-ref/nix-env 301!
/package-management/channels* /command-ref/nix-channel 301!
/package-management/s3-substituter* /command-ref/new-cli/nix3-help-stores#s3-binary-cache-store 301!

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@@ -1,6 +1,5 @@
[book]
title = "Nix Reference Manual"
src = "source"
[output.html]
additional-css = ["custom.css"]
@@ -8,21 +7,9 @@ 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"
# 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]
command = "jq --from-file doc/manual/anchors.jq"
[output.linkcheck]
# no Internet during the build (in the sandbox)

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@@ -1,25 +1,3 @@
:root {
--sidebar-width: 23em;
}
h1.menu-title::before {
content: "";
background-image: url("./favicon.svg");
padding: 1.25em;
background-position: center center;
background-size: 2em;
background-repeat: no-repeat;
}
.menu-bar {
padding: 0.5em 0em;
}
.sidebar .sidebar-scrollbox {
padding: 1em;
}
h1:not(:first-of-type) {
margin-top: 1.3em;
}

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@@ -0,0 +1,31 @@
let
inherit (builtins) concatStringsSep attrValues mapAttrs;
inherit (import ./utils.nix) optionalString squash;
in
builtinsInfo:
let
showBuiltin = name: { doc, type, impure-only }:
let
type' = optionalString (type != null) " (${type})";
impureNotice = optionalString impure-only ''
> **Note**
>
> Not available in [pure evaluation mode](@docroot@/command-ref/conf-file.md#conf-pure-eval).
'';
in
squash ''
<dt id="builtins-${name}">
<a href="#builtins-${name}"><code>${name}</code></a>${type'}
</dt>
<dd>
${doc}
${impureNotice}
</dd>
'';
in
concatStringsSep "\n" (attrValues (mapAttrs showBuiltin builtinsInfo))

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@@ -1,45 +1,28 @@
let
inherit (builtins) concatStringsSep attrValues mapAttrs;
inherit (import <nix/utils.nix>) optionalString squash;
inherit (import ./utils.nix) optionalString squash;
in
builtinsInfo:
let
showBuiltin = name: { doc, type ? null, args ? [ ], experimental-feature ? null, impure-only ? false }:
showBuiltin = name: { doc, args, arity, experimental-feature }:
let
type' = optionalString (type != null) " (${type})";
experimentalNotice = optionalString (experimental-feature != null) ''
> **Note**
>
> This function is only available if the [`${experimental-feature}` experimental feature](@docroot@/development/experimental-features.md#xp-feature-${experimental-feature}) is enabled.
>
> For example, include the following in [`nix.conf`](@docroot@/command-ref/conf-file.md):
>
> ```
> extra-experimental-features = ${experimental-feature}
> ```
'';
impureNotice = optionalString impure-only ''
> **Note**
>
> Not available in [pure evaluation mode](@docroot@/command-ref/conf-file.md#conf-pure-eval).
This function is only available if the [${experimental-feature}](@docroot@/contributing/experimental-features.md#xp-feature-${experimental-feature}) experimental feature is enabled.
'';
in
squash ''
<dt id="builtins-${name}">
<a href="#builtins-${name}"><code>${name}${listArgs args}</code></a>${type'}
<a href="#builtins-${name}"><code>${name} ${listArgs args}</code></a>
</dt>
<dd>
${experimentalNotice}
${doc}
${impureNotice}
${experimentalNotice}
</dd>
'';
listArgs = args: concatStringsSep "" (map (s: " <var>${s}</var>") args);
listArgs = args: concatStringsSep " " (map (s: "<var>${s}</var>") args);
in
concatStringsSep "\n" (attrValues (mapAttrs showBuiltin builtinsInfo))

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

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@@ -1,29 +1,9 @@
let
inherit (builtins)
attrNames
attrValues
concatMap
concatStringsSep
fromJSON
groupBy
length
lessThan
listToAttrs
mapAttrs
match
replaceStrings
sort
;
inherit (import <nix/utils.nix>)
attrsToList
concatStrings
filterAttrs
optionalString
squash
trim
unique
;
showStoreDocs = import <nix/generate-store-info.nix>;
attrNames attrValues fromJSON listToAttrs mapAttrs groupBy
concatStringsSep concatMap length lessThan replaceStrings sort;
inherit (import <nix/utils.nix>) attrsToList concatStrings optionalString filterAttrs trim squash unique;
showStoreDocs = import ./generate-store-info.nix;
in
inlineHTML: commandDump:
@@ -38,7 +18,7 @@ let
result = ''
> **Warning** \
> This program is
> [**experimental**](@docroot@/development/experimental-features.md#xp-feature-nix-command)
> [**experimental**](@docroot@/contributing/experimental-features.md#xp-feature-nix-command)
> and its interface is subject to change.
# Name
@@ -51,7 +31,7 @@ let
${maybeSubcommands}
${maybeProse}
${maybeStoreDocs}
${maybeOptions}
'';
@@ -91,56 +71,25 @@ let
* [`${command} ${name}`](./${appendName filename name}.md) - ${subcmd.description}
'';
maybeProse =
# FIXME: this is a horrible hack to keep `nix help-stores` working.
let
help-stores = ''
${index}
# FIXME: this is a hack.
# store parameters should not be part of command documentation to begin
# with, but instead be rendered on separate pages.
maybeStoreDocs = optionalString (details ? doc)
(replaceStrings [ "@stores@" ] [ (showStoreDocs inlineHTML commandInfo.stores) ] details.doc);
${allStores}
'';
index = replaceStrings
[ "@store-types@" "./local-store.md" "./local-daemon-store.md" ]
[ storesOverview "#local-store" "#local-daemon-store" ]
details.doc;
storesOverview =
let
showEntry = store:
"- [${store.name}](#${store.slug})";
in
concatStringsSep "\n" (map showEntry storesList) + "\n";
allStores = concatStringsSep "\n" (attrValues storePages);
storePages = listToAttrs
(map (s: { name = s.filename; value = s.page; }) storesList);
storesList = showStoreDocs {
storeInfo = commandInfo.stores;
inherit inlineHTML;
};
hasInfix = infix: content:
builtins.stringLength content != builtins.stringLength (replaceStrings [ infix ] [ "" ] content);
in
optionalString (details ? doc) (
# An alternate implementation with builtins.match stack overflowed on some systems.
if hasInfix "@store-types@" details.doc
then help-stores
else details.doc
);
maybeOptions = let
allVisibleOptions = filterAttrs
(_: o: ! o.hiddenCategory)
(details.flags // toplevel.flags);
in optionalString (allVisibleOptions != {}) ''
# Options
maybeOptions =
let
allVisibleOptions = filterAttrs
(_: o: ! o.hiddenCategory)
(details.flags // toplevel.flags);
in
optionalString (allVisibleOptions != { }) ''
# Options
${showOptions inlineHTML allVisibleOptions}
${showOptions inlineHTML allVisibleOptions}
> **Note**
>
> See [`man nix.conf`](@docroot@/command-ref/conf-file.md#command-line-flags) for overriding configuration settings with command line flags.
'';
> **Note**
>
> See [`man nix.conf`](@docroot@/command-ref/conf-file.md#command-line-flags) for overriding configuration settings with command line flags.
'';
showOptions = inlineHTML: allOptions:
let
@@ -148,7 +97,7 @@ let
${optionalString (cat != "") "## ${cat}"}
${concatStringsSep "\n" (attrValues (mapAttrs showOption opts))}
'';
'';
showOption = name: option:
let
result = trim ''

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@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
let
inherit (builtins) attrValues concatStringsSep isAttrs isBool mapAttrs;
inherit (import <nix/utils.nix>) concatStrings indent optionalString squash;
inherit (import ./utils.nix) concatStrings indent optionalString squash;
in
# `inlineHTML` is a hack to accommodate inconsistent output from `lowdown`
@@ -20,10 +20,10 @@ let
else "`${setting}`";
# separate body to cleanly handle indentation
body = ''
${experimentalFeatureNote}
${description}
${experimentalFeatureNote}
**Default:** ${showDefault documentDefault defaultValue}
${showAliases aliases}
@@ -31,19 +31,18 @@ let
experimentalFeatureNote = optionalString (experimentalFeature != null) ''
> **Warning**
>
> This setting is part of an
> [experimental feature](@docroot@/development/experimental-features.md).
>
> To change this setting, make sure the
> [`${experimentalFeature}` experimental feature](@docroot@/development/experimental-features.md#xp-feature-${experimentalFeature})
> is enabled.
> For example, include the following in [`nix.conf`](@docroot@/command-ref/conf-file.md):
>
> ```
> extra-experimental-features = ${experimentalFeature}
> ${setting} = ...
> ```
> [experimental feature](@docroot@/contributing/experimental-features.md).
To change this setting, you need to make sure the corresponding experimental feature,
[`${experimentalFeature}`](@docroot@/contributing/experimental-features.md#xp-feature-${experimentalFeature}),
is enabled.
For example, include the following in [`nix.conf`](#):
```
extra-experimental-features = ${experimentalFeature}
${setting} = ...
```
'';
showDefault = documentDefault: defaultValue:

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@@ -1,57 +1,45 @@
let
inherit (builtins) attrNames listToAttrs concatStringsSep readFile replaceStrings;
inherit (import <nix/utils.nix>) optionalString filterAttrs trim squash toLower unique indent;
showSettings = import <nix/generate-settings.nix>;
inherit (builtins) attrValues mapAttrs;
inherit (import ./utils.nix) concatStrings optionalString;
showSettings = import ./generate-settings.nix;
in
{
# data structure describing all stores and their parameters
storeInfo,
# whether to add inline HTML tags
# `lowdown` does not eat those for one of the output modes
inlineHTML,
}:
inlineHTML: storesInfo:
let
showStore = { name, slug }: { settings, doc, experimentalFeature }:
showStore = name: { settings, doc, experimentalFeature }:
let
result = squash ''
# ${name}
${experimentalFeatureNote}
result = ''
## ${name}
${doc}
${doc}
## Settings
${experimentalFeatureNote}
${showSettings { prefix = "store-${slug}"; inherit inlineHTML; } settings}
'';
### Settings
experimentalFeatureNote = optionalString (experimentalFeature != null) ''
> **Warning**
>
> This store is part of an
> [experimental feature](@docroot@/development/experimental-features.md).
>
> To use this store, make sure the
> [`${experimentalFeature}` experimental feature](@docroot@/development/experimental-features.md#xp-feature-${experimentalFeature})
> is enabled.
> For example, include the following in [`nix.conf`](@docroot@/command-ref/conf-file.md):
>
> ```
> extra-experimental-features = ${experimentalFeature}
> ```
'';
in result;
${showSettings { prefix = "store-${slug}"; inherit inlineHTML; } settings}
'';
storesList = map
(name: rec {
inherit name;
slug = replaceStrings [ " " ] [ "-" ] (toLower name);
filename = "${slug}.md";
page = showStore { inherit name slug; } storeInfo.${name};
})
(attrNames storeInfo);
# markdown doesn't like spaces in URLs
slug = builtins.replaceStrings [ " " ] [ "-" ] name;
in storesList
experimentalFeatureNote = optionalString (experimentalFeature != null) ''
> **Warning**
> This store is part of an
> [experimental feature](@docroot@/contributing/experimental-features.md).
To use this store, you need to make sure the corresponding experimental feature,
[`${experimentalFeature}`](@docroot@/contributing/experimental-features.md#xp-feature-${experimentalFeature}),
is enabled.
For example, include the following in [`nix.conf`](#):
```
extra-experimental-features = ${experimentalFeature}
```
'';
in result;
in concatStrings (attrValues (mapAttrs showStore storesInfo))

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@@ -1,39 +0,0 @@
let
inherit (builtins) attrNames listToAttrs concatStringsSep readFile replaceStrings;
showSettings = import <nix/generate-settings.nix>;
showStoreDocs = import <nix/generate-store-info.nix>;
in
storeInfo:
let
storesList = showStoreDocs {
inherit storeInfo;
inlineHTML = true;
};
index =
let
showEntry = store:
"- [${store.name}](./${store.filename})";
in
concatStringsSep "\n" (map showEntry storesList);
"index.md" = replaceStrings
[ "@store-types@" ] [ index ]
(readFile ./source/store/types/index.md.in);
tableOfContents =
let
showEntry = store:
" - [${store.name}](store/types/${store.filename})";
in
concatStringsSep "\n" (map showEntry storesList) + "\n";
"SUMMARY.md" = tableOfContents;
storePages = listToAttrs
(map (s: { name = s.filename; value = s.page; }) storesList);
in
storePages // { inherit "index.md" "SUMMARY.md"; }

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

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@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
with builtins;
with import <nix/utils.nix>;
with import ./utils.nix;
let
showExperimentalFeature = name: doc:
@@ -8,6 +8,4 @@ let
${doc}
'';
in
xps: (concatStringsSep "\n" (attrValues (mapAttrs showExperimentalFeature xps)))
in xps: (concatStringsSep "\n" (attrValues (mapAttrs showExperimentalFeature xps)))

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@@ -0,0 +1,199 @@
ifeq ($(doc_generate),yes)
MANUAL_SRCS := \
$(call rwildcard, $(d)/src, *.md) \
$(call rwildcard, $(d)/src, */*.md)
man-pages := $(foreach n, \
nix-env.1 nix-store.1 \
nix-build.1 nix-shell.1 nix-instantiate.1 \
nix-collect-garbage.1 \
nix-prefetch-url.1 nix-channel.1 \
nix-hash.1 nix-copy-closure.1 \
nix.conf.5 nix-daemon.8 \
nix-profiles.5 \
, $(d)/$(n))
# man pages for subcommands
# convert from `$(d)/src/command-ref/nix-{1}/{2}.md` to `$(d)/nix-{1}-{2}.1`
# FIXME: unify with how nix3-cli man pages are generated
man-pages += $(foreach subcommand, \
$(filter-out %opt-common.md %env-common.md, $(wildcard $(d)/src/command-ref/nix-*/*.md)), \
$(d)/$(subst /,-,$(subst $(d)/src/command-ref/,,$(subst .md,.1,$(subcommand)))))
clean-files += $(d)/*.1 $(d)/*.5 $(d)/*.8
# Provide a dummy environment for nix, so that it will not access files outside the macOS sandbox.
# Set cores to 0 because otherwise nix show-config resolves the cores based on the current machine
dummy-env = env -i \
HOME=/dummy \
NIX_CONF_DIR=/dummy \
NIX_SSL_CERT_FILE=/dummy/no-ca-bundle.crt \
NIX_STATE_DIR=/dummy \
NIX_CONFIG='cores = 0'
nix-eval = $(dummy-env) $(bindir)/nix eval --experimental-features nix-command -I nix=doc/manual --store dummy:// --impure --raw
# re-implement mdBook's include directive to make it usable for terminal output and for proper @docroot@ substitution
define process-includes
while read -r line; do \
set -euo pipefail; \
filename="$$(dirname $(1))/$$(sed 's/{{#include \(.*\)}}/\1/'<<< $$line)"; \
test -f "$$filename" || ( echo "#include-d file '$$filename' does not exist." >&2; exit 1; ); \
matchline="$$(sed 's|/|\\/|g' <<< $$line)"; \
sed -i "/$$matchline/r $$filename" $(2); \
sed -i "s/$$matchline//" $(2); \
done < <(grep '{{#include' $(1))
endef
$(d)/nix-env-%.1: $(d)/src/command-ref/nix-env/%.md
@printf "Title: %s\n\n" "$(subst nix-env-,nix-env --,$$(basename "$@" .1))" > $^.tmp
$(render-subcommand)
$(d)/nix-store-%.1: $(d)/src/command-ref/nix-store/%.md
@printf -- 'Title: %s\n\n' "$(subst nix-store-,nix-store --,$$(basename "$@" .1))" > $^.tmp
$(render-subcommand)
# FIXME: there surely is some more deduplication to be achieved here with even darker Make magic
define render-subcommand
@cat $^ >> $^.tmp
@$(call process-includes,$^,$^.tmp)
$(trace-gen) lowdown -sT man --nroff-nolinks -M section=1 $^.tmp -o $@
@# fix up `lowdown`'s automatic escaping of `--`
@# https://github.com/kristapsdz/lowdown/blob/edca6ce6d5336efb147321a43c47a698de41bb7c/entity.c#L202
@sed -i 's/\e\[u2013\]/--/' $@
@rm $^.tmp
endef
$(d)/%.1: $(d)/src/command-ref/%.md
@printf "Title: %s\n\n" "$$(basename $@ .1)" > $^.tmp
@cat $^ >> $^.tmp
@$(call process-includes,$^,$^.tmp)
$(trace-gen) lowdown -sT man --nroff-nolinks -M section=1 $^.tmp -o $@
@rm $^.tmp
$(d)/%.8: $(d)/src/command-ref/%.md
@printf "Title: %s\n\n" "$$(basename $@ .8)" > $^.tmp
@cat $^ >> $^.tmp
$(trace-gen) lowdown -sT man --nroff-nolinks -M section=8 $^.tmp -o $@
@rm $^.tmp
$(d)/nix.conf.5: $(d)/src/command-ref/conf-file.md
@printf "Title: %s\n\n" "$$(basename $@ .5)" > $^.tmp
@cat $^ >> $^.tmp
@$(call process-includes,$^,$^.tmp)
$(trace-gen) lowdown -sT man --nroff-nolinks -M section=5 $^.tmp -o $@
@rm $^.tmp
$(d)/nix-profiles.5: $(d)/src/command-ref/files/profiles.md
@printf "Title: %s\n\n" "$$(basename $@ .5)" > $^.tmp
@cat $^ >> $^.tmp
$(trace-gen) lowdown -sT man --nroff-nolinks -M section=5 $^.tmp -o $@
@rm $^.tmp
$(d)/src/SUMMARY.md: $(d)/src/SUMMARY.md.in $(d)/src/command-ref/new-cli $(d)/src/contributing/experimental-feature-descriptions.md
@cp $< $@
@$(call process-includes,$@,$@)
$(d)/src/command-ref/new-cli: $(d)/nix.json $(d)/utils.nix $(d)/generate-manpage.nix $(d)/generate-settings.nix $(d)/generate-store-info.nix $(bindir)/nix
@rm -rf $@ $@.tmp
$(trace-gen) $(nix-eval) --write-to $@.tmp --expr 'import doc/manual/generate-manpage.nix true (builtins.readFile $<)'
@mv $@.tmp $@
$(d)/src/command-ref/conf-file.md: $(d)/conf-file.json $(d)/utils.nix $(d)/generate-settings.nix $(d)/src/command-ref/conf-file-prefix.md $(d)/src/command-ref/experimental-features-shortlist.md $(bindir)/nix
@cat doc/manual/src/command-ref/conf-file-prefix.md > $@.tmp
$(trace-gen) $(nix-eval) --expr 'import doc/manual/generate-settings.nix { prefix = "conf"; } (builtins.fromJSON (builtins.readFile $<))' >> $@.tmp;
@mv $@.tmp $@
$(d)/nix.json: $(bindir)/nix
$(trace-gen) $(dummy-env) $(bindir)/nix __dump-cli > $@.tmp
@mv $@.tmp $@
$(d)/conf-file.json: $(bindir)/nix
$(trace-gen) $(dummy-env) $(bindir)/nix show-config --json --experimental-features nix-command > $@.tmp
@mv $@.tmp $@
$(d)/src/contributing/experimental-feature-descriptions.md: $(d)/xp-features.json $(d)/utils.nix $(d)/generate-xp-features.nix $(bindir)/nix
@rm -rf $@ $@.tmp
$(trace-gen) $(nix-eval) --write-to $@.tmp --expr 'import doc/manual/generate-xp-features.nix (builtins.fromJSON (builtins.readFile $<))'
@mv $@.tmp $@
$(d)/src/command-ref/experimental-features-shortlist.md: $(d)/xp-features.json $(d)/utils.nix $(d)/generate-xp-features-shortlist.nix $(bindir)/nix
@rm -rf $@ $@.tmp
$(trace-gen) $(nix-eval) --write-to $@.tmp --expr 'import doc/manual/generate-xp-features-shortlist.nix (builtins.fromJSON (builtins.readFile $<))'
@mv $@.tmp $@
$(d)/xp-features.json: $(bindir)/nix
$(trace-gen) $(dummy-env) $(bindir)/nix __dump-xp-features > $@.tmp
@mv $@.tmp $@
$(d)/src/language/builtins.md: $(d)/language.json $(d)/generate-builtins.nix $(d)/src/language/builtins-prefix.md $(bindir)/nix
@cat doc/manual/src/language/builtins-prefix.md > $@.tmp
$(trace-gen) $(nix-eval) --expr 'import doc/manual/generate-builtins.nix (builtins.fromJSON (builtins.readFile $<)).builtins' >> $@.tmp;
@cat doc/manual/src/language/builtins-suffix.md >> $@.tmp
@mv $@.tmp $@
$(d)/src/language/builtin-constants.md: $(d)/language.json $(d)/generate-builtin-constants.nix $(d)/src/language/builtin-constants-prefix.md $(bindir)/nix
@cat doc/manual/src/language/builtin-constants-prefix.md > $@.tmp
$(trace-gen) $(nix-eval) --expr 'import doc/manual/generate-builtin-constants.nix (builtins.fromJSON (builtins.readFile $<)).constants' >> $@.tmp;
@cat doc/manual/src/language/builtin-constants-suffix.md >> $@.tmp
@mv $@.tmp $@
$(d)/language.json: $(bindir)/nix
$(trace-gen) $(dummy-env) $(bindir)/nix __dump-language > $@.tmp
@mv $@.tmp $@
# Generate the HTML manual.
.PHONY: manual-html
manual-html: $(docdir)/manual/index.html
install: $(docdir)/manual/index.html
# Generate 'nix' manpages.
install: $(mandir)/man1/nix3-manpages
man: doc/manual/generated/man1/nix3-manpages
all: doc/manual/generated/man1/nix3-manpages
# FIXME: unify with how the other man pages are generated.
# this one works differently and does not use any of the amenities provided by `/mk/lib.mk`.
$(mandir)/man1/nix3-manpages: doc/manual/generated/man1/nix3-manpages
@mkdir -p $(DESTDIR)$$(dirname $@)
$(trace-install) install -m 0644 $$(dirname $<)/* $(DESTDIR)$$(dirname $@)
doc/manual/generated/man1/nix3-manpages: $(d)/src/command-ref/new-cli
@mkdir -p $(DESTDIR)$$(dirname $@)
$(trace-gen) for i in doc/manual/src/command-ref/new-cli/*.md; do \
name=$$(basename $$i .md); \
tmpFile=$$(mktemp); \
if [[ $$name = SUMMARY ]]; then continue; fi; \
printf "Title: %s\n\n" "$$name" > $$tmpFile; \
cat $$i >> $$tmpFile; \
lowdown -sT man --nroff-nolinks -M section=1 $$tmpFile -o $(DESTDIR)$$(dirname $@)/$$name.1; \
rm $$tmpFile; \
done
@touch $@
# the `! -name 'contributing.md'` filter excludes the one place where
# `@docroot@` is to be preserved for documenting the mechanism
# FIXME: maybe contributing guides should live right next to the code
# instead of in the manual
$(docdir)/manual/index.html: $(MANUAL_SRCS) $(d)/book.toml $(d)/anchors.jq $(d)/custom.css $(d)/src/SUMMARY.md $(d)/src/command-ref/new-cli $(d)/src/contributing/experimental-feature-descriptions.md $(d)/src/command-ref/conf-file.md $(d)/src/language/builtins.md $(d)/src/language/builtin-constants.md
$(trace-gen) \
tmp="$$(mktemp -d)"; \
cp -r doc/manual "$$tmp"; \
find "$$tmp" -name '*.md' | while read -r file; do \
$(call process-includes,$$file,$$file); \
done; \
find "$$tmp" -name '*.md' ! -name 'documentation.md' | while read -r file; do \
docroot="$$(realpath --relative-to="$$(dirname "$$file")" $$tmp/manual/src)"; \
sed -i "s,@docroot@,$$docroot,g" "$$file"; \
done; \
set -euo pipefail; \
RUST_LOG=warn mdbook build "$$tmp/manual" -d $(DESTDIR)$(docdir)/manual.tmp 2>&1 \
| { grep -Fv "because fragment resolution isn't implemented" || :; }; \
rm -rf "$$tmp/manual"
@rm -rf $(DESTDIR)$(docdir)/manual
@mv $(DESTDIR)$(docdir)/manual.tmp/html $(DESTDIR)$(docdir)/manual
@rm -rf $(DESTDIR)$(docdir)/manual.tmp
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@@ -1,357 +0,0 @@
project('nix-manual',
version : files('.version'),
meson_version : '>= 1.1',
license : 'LGPL-2.1-or-later',
)
nix = find_program('nix', native : true)
mdbook = find_program('mdbook', native : true)
bash = find_program('bash', native : true)
pymod = import('python')
python = pymod.find_installation('python3')
nix_env_for_docs = {
'HOME': '/dummy',
'NIX_CONF_DIR': '/dummy',
'NIX_SSL_CERT_FILE': '/dummy/no-ca-bundle.crt',
'NIX_STATE_DIR': '/dummy',
'NIX_CONFIG': 'cores = 0',
}
nix_for_docs = [nix, '--experimental-features', 'nix-command']
nix_eval_for_docs_common = nix_for_docs + [
'eval',
'-I', 'nix=' + meson.current_source_dir(),
'--store', 'dummy://',
'--impure',
]
nix_eval_for_docs = nix_eval_for_docs_common + '--raw'
conf_file_json = custom_target(
command : nix_for_docs + ['config', 'show', '--json'],
capture : true,
output : 'conf-file.json',
env : nix_env_for_docs,
)
language_json = custom_target(
command: [nix, '__dump-language'],
output : 'language.json',
capture : true,
env : nix_env_for_docs,
)
nix3_cli_json = custom_target(
command : [nix, '__dump-cli'],
capture : true,
output : 'nix.json',
env : nix_env_for_docs,
)
generate_manual_deps = files(
'generate-deps.py',
)
# Generates types
subdir('source/store')
# Generates builtins.md and builtin-constants.md.
subdir('source/language')
# Generates new-cli pages, experimental-features-shortlist.md, and conf-file.md.
subdir('source/command-ref')
# Generates experimental-feature-descriptions.md.
subdir('source/development')
# Generates rl-next-generated.md.
subdir('source/release-notes')
subdir('source')
# Hacky way to figure out if `nix` is an `ExternalProgram` or
# `Exectuable`. Only the latter can occur in custom target input lists.
if nix.full_path().startswith(meson.build_root())
nix_input = nix
else
nix_input = []
endif
manual = custom_target(
'manual',
command : [
bash,
'-euo', 'pipefail',
'-c',
'''
@0@ @INPUT0@ @CURRENT_SOURCE_DIR@ > @DEPFILE@
@0@ @INPUT1@ summary @2@ < @CURRENT_SOURCE_DIR@/source/SUMMARY.md.in > @2@/source/SUMMARY.md
rsync -r --include='*.md' @CURRENT_SOURCE_DIR@/ @2@/
(cd @2@; RUST_LOG=warn @1@ build -d @2@ 3>&2 2>&1 1>&3) | { grep -Fv "because fragment resolution isn't implemented" || :; } 3>&2 2>&1 1>&3
rm -rf @2@/manual
mv @2@/html @2@/manual
find @2@/manual -iname meson.build -delete
'''.format(
python.full_path(),
mdbook.full_path(),
meson.current_build_dir(),
),
],
input : [
generate_manual_deps,
'substitute.py',
'book.toml',
'anchors.jq',
'custom.css',
nix3_cli_files,
experimental_features_shortlist_md,
experimental_feature_descriptions_md,
types_dir,
conf_file_md,
builtins_md,
rl_next_generated,
summary_rl_next,
nix_input,
],
output : [
'manual',
'markdown',
],
depfile : 'manual.d',
env : {
'RUST_LOG': 'info',
'MDBOOK_SUBSTITUTE_SEARCH': meson.current_build_dir() / 'source',
},
)
manual_html = manual[0]
manual_md = manual[1]
install_subdir(
manual_html.full_path(),
install_dir : get_option('datadir') / 'doc/nix',
)
nix_nested_manpages = [
[ 'nix-env',
[
'delete-generations',
'install',
'list-generations',
'query',
'rollback',
'set-flag',
'set',
'switch-generation',
'switch-profile',
'uninstall',
'upgrade',
],
],
[ 'nix-store',
[
'add-fixed',
'add',
'delete',
'dump-db',
'dump',
'export',
'gc',
'generate-binary-cache-key',
'import',
'load-db',
'optimise',
'print-env',
'query',
'read-log',
'realise',
'repair-path',
'restore',
'serve',
'verify',
'verify-path',
],
],
]
foreach command : nix_nested_manpages
foreach page : command[1]
title = command[0] + ' --' + page
section = '1'
custom_target(
command : [
bash,
files('./render-manpage.sh'),
'--out-no-smarty',
title,
section,
'@INPUT0@/command-ref' / command[0] / (page + '.md'),
'@OUTPUT0@',
],
input : [
manual_md,
nix_input,
],
output : command[0] + '-' + page + '.1',
install : true,
install_dir : get_option('mandir') / 'man1',
)
endforeach
endforeach
nix3_manpages = [
'nix3-build',
'nix3-bundle',
'nix3-config',
'nix3-config-check',
'nix3-config-show',
'nix3-copy',
'nix3-daemon',
'nix3-derivation-add',
'nix3-derivation',
'nix3-derivation-show',
'nix3-develop',
'nix3-edit',
'nix3-env-shell',
'nix3-eval',
'nix3-flake-archive',
'nix3-flake-check',
'nix3-flake-clone',
'nix3-flake-info',
'nix3-flake-init',
'nix3-flake-lock',
'nix3-flake',
'nix3-flake-metadata',
'nix3-flake-new',
'nix3-flake-prefetch',
'nix3-flake-show',
'nix3-flake-update',
'nix3-fmt',
'nix3-hash-file',
'nix3-hash',
'nix3-hash-convert',
'nix3-hash-path',
'nix3-hash-to-base16',
'nix3-hash-to-base32',
'nix3-hash-to-base64',
'nix3-hash-to-sri',
'nix3-help',
'nix3-help-stores',
'nix3-key-convert-secret-to-public',
'nix3-key-generate-secret',
'nix3-key',
'nix3-log',
'nix3-nar-cat',
'nix3-nar-dump-path',
'nix3-nar-ls',
'nix3-nar-pack',
'nix3-nar',
'nix3-path-info',
'nix3-print-dev-env',
'nix3-profile-diff-closures',
'nix3-profile-history',
'nix3-profile-install',
'nix3-profile-list',
'nix3-profile',
'nix3-profile-remove',
'nix3-profile-rollback',
'nix3-profile-upgrade',
'nix3-profile-wipe-history',
'nix3-realisation-info',
'nix3-realisation',
'nix3-registry-add',
'nix3-registry-list',
'nix3-registry',
'nix3-registry-pin',
'nix3-registry-remove',
'nix3-repl',
'nix3-run',
'nix3-search',
'nix3-store-add',
'nix3-store-add-file',
'nix3-store-add-path',
'nix3-store-cat',
'nix3-store-copy-log',
'nix3-store-copy-sigs',
'nix3-store-delete',
'nix3-store-diff-closures',
'nix3-store-dump-path',
'nix3-store-gc',
'nix3-store-info',
'nix3-store-ls',
'nix3-store-make-content-addressed',
'nix3-store',
'nix3-store-optimise',
'nix3-store-path-from-hash-part',
'nix3-store-ping',
'nix3-store-prefetch-file',
'nix3-store-repair',
'nix3-store-sign',
'nix3-store-verify',
'nix3-upgrade-nix',
'nix3-why-depends',
'nix',
]
foreach page : nix3_manpages
section = '1'
custom_target(
command : [
bash,
'@INPUT0@',
page,
section,
'@INPUT1@/command-ref/new-cli/@0@.md'.format(page),
'@OUTPUT@',
],
input : [
files('./render-manpage.sh'),
manual_md,
nix_input,
],
output : page + '.1',
install : true,
install_dir : get_option('mandir') / 'man1',
)
endforeach
nix_manpages = [
[ 'nix-env', 1 ],
[ 'nix-store', 1 ],
[ 'nix-build', 1 ],
[ 'nix-shell', 1 ],
[ 'nix-instantiate', 1 ],
[ 'nix-collect-garbage', 1 ],
[ 'nix-prefetch-url', 1 ],
[ 'nix-channel', 1 ],
[ 'nix-hash', 1 ],
[ 'nix-copy-closure', 1 ],
[ 'nix.conf', 5, conf_file_md.full_path() ],
[ 'nix-daemon', 8 ],
[ 'nix-profiles', 5, 'files/profiles.md' ],
]
foreach entry : nix_manpages
title = entry[0]
# nix.conf.5 and nix-profiles.5 are based off of conf-file.md and files/profiles.md,
# rather than a stem identical to its mdbook source.
# Therefore we use an optional third element of this array to override the name pattern
md_file = entry.get(2, title + '.md')
section = entry[1].to_string()
md_file_resolved = join_paths('@INPUT1@/command-ref/', md_file)
custom_target(
command : [
bash,
'@INPUT0@',
title,
section,
md_file_resolved,
'@OUTPUT@',
],
input : [
files('./render-manpage.sh'),
manual_md,
entry.get(3, []),
nix_input,
],
output : '@0@.@1@'.format(entry[0], entry[1]),
install : true,
install_dir : get_option('mandir') / 'man@0@'.format(entry[1]),
)
endforeach

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@@ -1,71 +0,0 @@
{ lib
, mkMesonDerivation
, meson
, ninja
, lowdown
, mdbook
, mdbook-linkcheck
, jq
, python3
, rsync
, nix-cli
# Configuration Options
, version
}:
let
inherit (lib) fileset;
in
mkMesonDerivation (finalAttrs: {
pname = "nix-manual";
inherit version;
workDir = ./.;
fileset = fileset.difference
(fileset.unions [
../../.version
# Too many different types of files to filter for now
../../doc/manual
./.
])
# Do a blacklist instead
../../doc/manual/package.nix;
# TODO the man pages should probably be separate
outputs = [ "out" "man" ];
# Hack for sake of the dev shell
passthru.externalNativeBuildInputs = [
meson
ninja
(lib.getBin lowdown)
mdbook
mdbook-linkcheck
jq
python3
rsync
];
nativeBuildInputs = finalAttrs.passthru.externalNativeBuildInputs ++ [
nix-cli
];
preConfigure =
''
chmod u+w ./.version
echo ${finalAttrs.version} > ./.version
'';
postInstall = ''
mkdir -p ''$out/nix-support
echo "doc manual ''$out/share/doc/nix/manual" >> ''$out/nix-support/hydra-build-products
'';
meta = {
platforms = lib.platforms.all;
};
})

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@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
// redirect rules for URL fragments (client-side) to prevent link rot.
// this must be done on the client side, as web servers do not see the fragment part of the URL.
// it will only work with JavaScript enabled in the browser, but this is the best we can do here.
// see source/_redirects for path redirects (server-side)
// see ./_redirects for path redirects (client-side)
// redirects are declared as follows:
// each entry has as its key a path matching the requested URL path, relative to the mdBook document root.
@@ -14,15 +14,15 @@
const redirects = {
"index.html": {
"part-advanced-topics": "advanced-topics/index.html",
"part-advanced-topics": "advanced-topics/advanced-topics.html",
"chap-tuning-cores-and-jobs": "advanced-topics/cores-vs-jobs.html",
"chap-diff-hook": "advanced-topics/diff-hook.html",
"check-dirs-are-unregistered": "advanced-topics/diff-hook.html#check-dirs-are-unregistered",
"chap-distributed-builds": "command-ref/conf-file.html#conf-builders",
"chap-distributed-builds": "advanced-topics/distributed-builds.html",
"chap-post-build-hook": "advanced-topics/post-build-hook.html",
"chap-post-build-hook-caveats": "advanced-topics/post-build-hook.html#implementation-caveats",
"chap-writing-nix-expressions": "language/index.html",
"part-command-ref": "command-ref/index.html",
"part-command-ref": "command-ref/command-ref.html",
"conf-allow-import-from-derivation": "command-ref/conf-file.html#conf-allow-import-from-derivation",
"conf-allow-new-privileges": "command-ref/conf-file.html#conf-allow-new-privileges",
"conf-allowed-uris": "command-ref/conf-file.html#conf-allowed-uris",
@@ -143,7 +143,7 @@ const redirects = {
"opt-timeout": "command-ref/opt-common.html#opt-timeout",
"sec-common-options": "command-ref/opt-common.html",
"ch-utilities": "command-ref/utilities.html",
"chap-hacking": "development/building.html",
"chap-hacking": "contributing/hacking.html",
"adv-attr-allowSubstitutes": "language/advanced-attributes.html#adv-attr-allowSubstitutes",
"adv-attr-allowedReferences": "language/advanced-attributes.html#adv-attr-allowedReferences",
"adv-attr-allowedRequisites": "language/advanced-attributes.html#adv-attr-allowedRequisites",
@@ -238,12 +238,12 @@ const redirects = {
"attr-system": "language/derivations.html#attr-system",
"ssec-derivation": "language/derivations.html",
"ch-expression-language": "language/index.html",
"sec-constructs": "language/syntax.html",
"sect-let-language": "language/syntax.html#let-expressions",
"ss-functions": "language/syntax.html#functions",
"sec-constructs": "language/constructs.html",
"sect-let-language": "language/constructs.html#let-language",
"ss-functions": "language/constructs.html#functions",
"sec-language-operators": "language/operators.html",
"table-operators": "language/operators.html",
"ssec-values": "language/types.html",
"ssec-values": "language/values.html",
"gloss-closure": "glossary.html#gloss-closure",
"gloss-derivation": "glossary.html#gloss-derivation",
"gloss-deriver": "glossary.html#gloss-deriver",
@@ -261,7 +261,7 @@ const redirects = {
"sec-installer-proxy-settings": "installation/env-variables.html#proxy-environment-variables",
"sec-nix-ssl-cert-file": "installation/env-variables.html#nix_ssl_cert_file",
"sec-nix-ssl-cert-file-with-nix-daemon-and-macos": "installation/env-variables.html#nix_ssl_cert_file-with-macos-and-the-nix-daemon",
"chap-installation": "installation/index.html",
"chap-installation": "installation/installation.html",
"ch-installing-binary": "installation/installing-binary.html",
"sect-macos-installation": "installation/installing-binary.html#macos-installation",
"sect-macos-installation-change-store-prefix": "installation/installing-binary.html#macos-installation",
@@ -285,19 +285,19 @@ const redirects = {
"ch-basic-package-mgmt": "package-management/basic-package-mgmt.html",
"ssec-binary-cache-substituter": "package-management/binary-cache-substituter.html",
"sec-channels": "command-ref/nix-channel.html",
"ssec-copy-closure": "command-ref/nix-copy-closure.html",
"ssec-copy-closure": "package-management/copy-closure.html",
"sec-garbage-collection": "package-management/garbage-collection.html",
"ssec-gc-roots": "package-management/garbage-collector-roots.html",
"chap-package-management": "package-management/index.html",
"chap-package-management": "package-management/package-management.html",
"sec-profiles": "package-management/profiles.html",
"ssec-s3-substituter": "store/types/s3-substituter.html",
"ssec-s3-substituter-anonymous-reads": "store/types/s3-substituter.html#anonymous-reads-to-your-s3-compatible-binary-cache",
"ssec-s3-substituter-authenticated-reads": "store/types/s3-substituter.html#authenticated-reads-to-your-s3-binary-cache",
"ssec-s3-substituter-authenticated-writes": "store/types/s3-substituter.html#authenticated-writes-to-your-s3-compatible-binary-cache",
"ssec-s3-substituter": "package-management/s3-substituter.html",
"ssec-s3-substituter-anonymous-reads": "package-management/s3-substituter.html#anonymous-reads-to-your-s3-compatible-binary-cache",
"ssec-s3-substituter-authenticated-reads": "package-management/s3-substituter.html#authenticated-reads-to-your-s3-binary-cache",
"ssec-s3-substituter-authenticated-writes": "package-management/s3-substituter.html#authenticated-writes-to-your-s3-compatible-binary-cache",
"sec-sharing-packages": "package-management/sharing-packages.html",
"ssec-ssh-substituter": "package-management/ssh-substituter.html",
"chap-quick-start": "quick-start.html",
"sec-relnotes": "release-notes/index.html",
"sec-relnotes": "release-notes/release-notes.html",
"ch-relnotes-0.10.1": "release-notes/rl-0.10.1.html",
"ch-relnotes-0.10": "release-notes/rl-0.10.html",
"ssec-relnotes-0.11": "release-notes/rl-0.11.html",
@@ -335,23 +335,18 @@ const redirects = {
"ssec-relnotes-2.2": "release-notes/rl-2.2.html",
"ssec-relnotes-2.3": "release-notes/rl-2.3.html",
},
"language/types.html": {
"language/values.html": {
"simple-values": "#primitives",
"lists": "#list",
"strings": "#string",
"attribute-sets": "#attribute-set",
"type-number": "#type-int",
},
"language/syntax.html": {
"scoping-rules": "scoping.html",
"string-literal": "string-literals.html",
},
"installation/installing-binary.html": {
"linux": "uninstall.html#linux",
"macos": "uninstall.html#macos",
"uninstalling": "uninstall.html",
},
"development/building.html": {
"contributing/hacking.html": {
"nix-with-flakes": "#building-nix-with-flakes",
"classic-nix": "#building-nix",
"running-tests": "testing.html#running-tests",
@@ -362,17 +357,8 @@ const redirects = {
"installer-tests": "testing.html#installer-tests",
"one-time-setup": "testing.html#one-time-setup",
"using-the-ci-generated-installer-for-manual-testing": "testing.html#using-the-ci-generated-installer-for-manual-testing",
"characterization-testing": "testing.html#characterisation-testing-unit",
"add-a-release-note": "contributing.html#add-a-release-note",
"add-an-entry": "contributing.html#add-an-entry",
"build-process": "contributing.html#build-process",
"reverting": "contributing.html#reverting",
"branches": "contributing.html#branches",
},
"glossary.html": {
"gloss-local-store": "store/types/local-store.html",
"gloss-chroot-store": "store/types/local-store.html",
},
"characterization-testing": "#characterisation-testing-unit",
}
};
// the following code matches the current page's URL against the set of redirects.

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

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@@ -1,25 +0,0 @@
#!/usr/bin/env bash
set -euo pipefail
lowdown_args=
if [ "$1" = --out-no-smarty ]; then
lowdown_args=--out-no-smarty
shift
fi
[ "$#" = 4 ] || {
echo "wrong number of args passed" >&2
exit 1
}
title="$1"
section="$2"
infile="$3"
outfile="$4"
(
printf "Title: %s\n\n" "$title"
cat "$infile"
) | lowdown -sT man --nroff-nolinks $lowdown_args -M section="$section" -o "$outfile"

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@@ -0,0 +1,7 @@
---
synopsis: Option `allowed-uris` can now match whole schemes in URIs without slashes
prs: 9547
---
If a scheme, such as `github:` is specified in the `allowed-uris` option, all URIs starting with `github:` are allowed.
Previously this only worked for schemes whose URIs used the `://` syntax.

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@@ -1,2 +0,0 @@
organization: NixOS
repository: nix

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@@ -1,18 +0,0 @@
---
synopsis: "`nix copy` supports `--profile` and `--out-link`"
prs: [11657]
---
The `nix copy` command now has flags `--profile` and `--out-link`, similar to `nix build`. `--profile` makes a profile point to the
top-level store path, while `--out-link` create symlinks to the top-level store paths.
For example, when updating the local NixOS system profile from a NixOS system closure on a remote machine, instead of
```
# nix copy --from ssh://server $path
# nix build --profile /nix/var/nix/profiles/system $path
```
you can now do
```
# nix copy --from ssh://server --profile /nix/var/nix/profiles/system $path
```
The advantage is that this avoids a time window where *path* is not a garbage collector root, and so could be deleted by a concurrent `nix store gc` process.

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@@ -1,54 +0,0 @@
# redirect rules for paths (server-side) to prevent link rot.
# see ../redirects.js for redirects based on URL fragments (client-side)
#
# concrete user story this supports:
# - user finds URL to the manual for Nix x.y
# - Nix x.z (z > y) is the most recent release
# - updating the version in the URL will show the right thing
#
# format documentation:
# - https://docs.netlify.com/routing/redirects/#syntax-for-the-redirects-file
# - https://docs.netlify.com/routing/redirects/redirect-options/
#
# conventions:
# - always force (<CODE>!) since this allows re-using file names
# - group related paths to ease readability
# - keep in alphabetical/wildcards-last order, which will reduce version control conflicts
# - redirects that should have been there but are missing can be inserted where they belong
/advanced-topics/advanced-topics /advanced-topics 301!
/command-ref/command-ref /command-ref 301!
/contributing/contributing /development 301!
/contributing /development 301!
/contributing/hacking /development/building 301!
/contributing/testing /development/testing 301!
/contributing/documentation /development/documentation 301!
/contributing/experimental-features /development/experimental-features 301!
/contributing/cli-guideline /development/cli-guideline 301!
/contributing/json-guideline /development/json-guideline 301!
/contributing/cxx /development/cxx 301!
/expressions/expression-language /language/ 301!
/expressions/language-constructs /language/constructs 301!
/expressions/language-operators /language/operators 301!
/expressions/language-values /language/values 301!
/expressions/* /language/:splat 301!
/language/values /language/types 301!
/language/constructs /language/syntax 301!
/language/builtin-constants /language/builtins 301!
/installation/installation /installation 301!
/package-management/basic-package-mgmt /command-ref/nix-env 301!
/package-management/channels /command-ref/nix-channel 301!
/package-management/package-management /package-management 301!
/package-management/s3-substituter /store/types/s3-binary-cache-store 301!
/protocols/protocols /protocols 301!
/json/* /protocols/json/:splat 301!
/release-notes/release-notes /release-notes 301!
/package-management/copy-closure /command-ref/nix-copy-closure 301!

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@@ -1,108 +0,0 @@
# Remote Builds
A local Nix installation can forward Nix builds to other machines,
this allows multiple builds to be performed in parallel.
Remote builds also allow Nix to perform multi-platform builds in a
semi-transparent way. For example, if you perform a build for a
`x86_64-darwin` on an `i686-linux` machine, Nix can automatically
forward the build to a `x86_64-darwin` machine, if one is available.
## Requirements
For a local machine to forward a build to a remote machine, the remote machine must:
- Have Nix installed
- Be running an SSH server, e.g. `sshd`
- Be accessible via SSH from the local machine over the network
- Have the local machine's public SSH key in `/etc/ssh/authorized_keys.d/<username>`
- Have the username of the SSH user in the `trusted-users` setting in `nix.conf`
## Testing
To test connecting to a remote Nix instance (in this case `mac`), run:
```console
nix store info --store ssh://username@mac
```
To specify an SSH identity file as part of the remote store URI add a
query paramater, e.g.
```console
nix store info --store ssh://username@mac?ssh-key=/home/alice/my-key
```
Since builds should be non-interactive, the key should not have a
passphrase. Alternatively, you can load identities ahead of time into
`ssh-agent` or `gpg-agent`.
In a multi-user installation (default), builds are executed by the Nix
Daemon. The Nix Daemon cannot prompt for a passphrase via the terminal
or `ssh-agent`, so the SSH key must not have a passphrase.
In addition, the Nix Daemon's user (typically root) needs to have SSH
access to the remote builder.
Access can be verified by running `sudo su`, and then validating SSH
access, e.g. by running `ssh mac`. SSH identity files for root users
are usually stored in `/root/.ssh/` (Linux) or `/var/root/.ssh` (MacOS).
If you get the error
```console
bash: nix: command not found
error: cannot connect to 'mac'
```
then you need to ensure that the `PATH` of non-interactive login shells
contains Nix.
The [list of remote build machines](@docroot@/command-ref/conf-file.md#conf-builders) can be specified on the command line or in the Nix configuration file.
For example, the following command allows you to build a derivation for `x86_64-darwin` on a Linux machine:
```console
uname
```
```console
Linux
```
```console
nix build --impure \
--expr '(with import <nixpkgs> { system = "x86_64-darwin"; }; runCommand "foo" {} "uname > $out")' \
--builders 'ssh://mac x86_64-darwin'
```
```console
[1/0/1 built, 0.0 MiB DL] building foo on ssh://mac
```
```console
cat ./result
```
```console
Darwin
```
It is possible to specify multiple build machines separated by a semicolon or a newline, e.g.
```console
--builders 'ssh://mac x86_64-darwin ; ssh://beastie x86_64-freebsd'
```
Remote build machines can also be configured in [`nix.conf`](@docroot@/command-ref/conf-file.md), e.g.
builders = ssh://mac x86_64-darwin ; ssh://beastie x86_64-freebsd
After making changes to `nix.conf`, restart the Nix daemon for changes to take effect.
Finally, remote build machines can be configured in a separate configuration
file included in `builders` via the syntax `@/path/to/file`. For example,
builders = @/etc/nix/machines
causes the list of machines in `/etc/nix/machines` to be included.
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# C API
Nix provides a C API with the intent of [_becoming_](https://github.com/NixOS/nix/milestone/52) a stable API, which it is currently not.
It is in development.
See:
- C API documentation for a recent build of master
- [Getting Started]
- [Index]
- [Matrix Room *Nix Bindings*](https://matrix.to/#/#nix-bindings:nixos.org) for discussion and questions.
- [Stabilisation Milestone](https://github.com/NixOS/nix/milestone/52)
- [Other C API PRs and issues](https://github.com/NixOS/nix/labels/c%20api)
- [Contributing C API Documentation](development/documentation.md#c-api-documentation), including how to build it locally.
[Getting Started]: https://hydra.nixos.org/job/nix/master/external-api-docs/latest/download-by-type/doc/external-api-docs
[Index]: https://hydra.nixos.org/job/nix/master/external-api-docs/latest/download-by-type/doc/external-api-docs/globals.html

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xp_features_json = custom_target(
command : [nix, '__dump-xp-features'],
capture : true,
output : 'xp-features.json',
)
experimental_features_shortlist_md = custom_target(
command : nix_eval_for_docs + [
'--expr',
'import @INPUT0@ (builtins.fromJSON (builtins.readFile ./@INPUT1@))',
],
input : [
'../../generate-xp-features-shortlist.nix',
xp_features_json,
],
output : 'experimental-features-shortlist.md',
capture : true,
env : nix_env_for_docs,
)
nix3_cli_files = custom_target(
command : [
python.full_path(),
'@INPUT0@',
'@OUTPUT@',
'--'
] + nix_eval_for_docs + [
'--expr',
'import @INPUT1@ true (builtins.readFile ./@INPUT2@)',
],
input : [
'../../remove_before_wrapper.py',
'../../generate-manpage.nix',
nix3_cli_json,
],
output : 'new-cli',
env : nix_env_for_docs,
)
conf_file_md_body = custom_target(
command : [
nix_eval_for_docs,
'--expr',
'import @INPUT0@ { prefix = "conf"; } (builtins.fromJSON (builtins.readFile ./@INPUT1@))',
],
capture : true,
input : [
'../../generate-settings.nix',
conf_file_json,
],
output : 'conf-file.body.md',
env : nix_env_for_docs,
)
conf_file_md = custom_target(
command : [ 'cat', '@INPUT0@', '@INPUT1@' ],
capture : true,
input : [
'conf-file-prefix.md',
conf_file_md_body,
],
output : 'conf-file.md',
)

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# Name
`nix-copy-closure` - copy store objects to or from a remote machine via SSH
# Synopsis
`nix-copy-closure`
[`--to` | `--from` ]
[`--gzip`]
[`--include-outputs`]
[`--use-substitutes` | `-s`]
[`-v`]
[_user_@]_machine_[:_port_] _paths_
# Description
Given _paths_ from one machine, `nix-copy-closure` computes the [closure](@docroot@/glossary.md#gloss-closure) of those paths (i.e. all their dependencies in the Nix store), and copies [store objects](@docroot@/glossary.md#gloss-store-object) in that closure to another machine via SSH.
It doesnt copy store objects that are already present on the other machine.
> **Note**
>
> While the Nix store to use on the local machine can be specified on the command line with the [`--store`](@docroot@/command-ref/conf-file.md#conf-store) option, the Nix store to be accessed on the remote machine can only be [configured statically](@docroot@/command-ref/conf-file.md#configuration-file) on that remote machine.
Since `nix-copy-closure` calls `ssh`, you may need to authenticate with the remote machine.
In fact, you may be asked for authentication _twice_ because `nix-copy-closure` 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.
When using public key authentication, you can avoid typing the passphrase with `ssh-agent`.
# Options
- `--to`
Copy the closure of _paths_ from a Nix store accessible from the local machine to the Nix store on the remote _machine_.
This is the default behavior.
- `--from`
Copy the closure of _paths_ from the Nix store on the remote _machine_ to the local machine's specified Nix store.
- `--gzip`
Enable compression of the SSH connection.
- `--include-outputs`
Also copy the outputs of [store derivation]s included in the closure.
[store derivation]: @docroot@/glossary.md#gloss-store-derivation
- `--use-substitutes` / `-s`
Attempt to download missing store objects on the target from [substituters](@docroot@/command-ref/conf-file.md#conf-substituters).
Any store objects 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 `cache.nixos.org` (the default binary cache server) is fast.
{{#include ./opt-common.md}}
# Environment variables
- `NIX_SSHOPTS`
Additional options to be passed to `ssh` on the command line.
{{#include ./env-common.md}}
# Examples
> **Example**
>
> Copy GNU Hello with all its dependencies to a remote machine:
>
> ```shell-session
> $ storePath="$(nix-build '<nixpkgs>' -I nixpkgs=channel:nixpkgs-unstable -A hello --no-out-link)"
> $ nix-copy-closure --to alice@itchy.example.org "$storePath"
> copying 5 paths...
> copying path '/nix/store/nrwkk6ak3rgkrxbqhsscb01jpzmslf2r-xgcc-13.2.0-libgcc' to 'ssh://alice@itchy.example.org'...
> copying path '/nix/store/gm61h1y42pqyl6178g90x8zm22n6pyy5-libunistring-1.1' to 'ssh://alice@itchy.example.org'...
> copying path '/nix/store/ddfzjdykw67s20c35i7a6624by3iz5jv-libidn2-2.3.7' to 'ssh://alice@itchy.example.org'...
> copying path '/nix/store/apab5i73dqa09wx0q27b6fbhd1r18ihl-glibc-2.39-31' to 'ssh://alice@itchy.example.org'...
> copying path '/nix/store/g1n2vryg06amvcc1avb2mcq36faly0mh-hello-2.12.1' to 'ssh://alice@itchy.example.org'...
> ```
> **Example**
>
> Copy GNU Hello from a remote machine using a known store path, and run it:
>
> ```shell-session
> $ storePath="$(nix-instantiate --eval '<nixpkgs>' -I nixpkgs=channel:nixpkgs-unstable -A hello.outPath | tr -d '"')"
> $ nix-copy-closure --from alice@itchy.example.org "$storePath"
> $ "$storePath"/bin/hello
> Hello, world!
> ```

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# Name
`nix-env` - manipulate or query Nix user environments
# Synopsis
`nix-env` *operation* [*options*] [*arguments…*]
[`--option` *name* *value*]
[`--arg` *name* *value*]
[`--argstr` *name* *value*]
[{`--file` | `-f`} *path*]
[{`--profile` | `-p`} *path*]
[`--system-filter` *system*]
[`--dry-run`]
# Description
The command `nix-env` is used to manipulate Nix user environments. User
environments are sets of software packages available to a user at some
point in time. In other words, they are a synthesised view of the
programs available in the Nix store. There may be many user
environments: different users can have different environments, and
individual users can switch between different environments.
`nix-env` takes exactly one *operation* flag which indicates the
subcommand to be performed. The following operations are available:
- [`--install`](./nix-env/install.md)
- [`--upgrade`](./nix-env/upgrade.md)
- [`--uninstall`](./nix-env/uninstall.md)
- [`--set`](./nix-env/set.md)
- [`--set-flag`](./nix-env/set-flag.md)
- [`--query`](./nix-env/query.md)
- [`--switch-profile`](./nix-env/switch-profile.md)
- [`--list-generations`](./nix-env/list-generations.md)
- [`--delete-generations`](./nix-env/delete-generations.md)
- [`--switch-generation`](./nix-env/switch-generation.md)
- [`--rollback`](./nix-env/rollback.md)
These pages can be viewed offline:
- `man nix-env-<operation>`.
Example: `man nix-env-install`
- `nix-env --help --<operation>`
Example: `nix-env --help --install`
# Package sources
`nix-env` can obtain packages from multiple sources:
- An attribute set of derivations from:
- The [default Nix expression](@docroot@/command-ref/files/default-nix-expression.md) (by default)
- A Nix file, specified via `--file`
- A [profile](@docroot@/command-ref/files/profiles.md), specified via `--from-profile`
- A Nix expression that is a function which takes default expression as argument, specified via `--from-expression`
- A [store path](@docroot@/store/store-path.md)
# Selectors
Several operations, such as [`nix-env --query`](./nix-env/query.md) and [`nix-env --install`](./nix-env/install.md), take a list of *arguments* that specify the packages on which to operate.
Packages are identified based on a `name` part and a `version` part of a [symbolic derivation name](@docroot@/language/derivations.md#attr-name):
- `name`: Everything up to but not including the first dash (`-`) that is *not* followed by a letter.
- `version`: The rest, excluding the separating dash.
> **Example**
>
> `nix-env` parses the symbolic derivation name `apache-httpd-2.0.48` as:
>
> ```json
> {
> "name": "apache-httpd",
> "version": "2.0.48"
> }
> ```
> **Example**
>
> `nix-env` parses the symbolic derivation name `firefox.*` as:
>
> ```json
> {
> "name": "firefox.*",
> "version": ""
> }
> ```
The `name` parts of the *arguments* to `nix-env` are treated as extended regular expressions and matched against the `name` parts of derivation names in the package source.
The match is case-sensitive.
The regular expression can optionally be followed by a dash (`-`) and a version number; if omitted, any version of the package will match.
For details on regular expressions, see [**regex**(7)](https://linux.die.net/man/7/regex).
> **Example**
>
> Common patterns for finding package names with `nix-env`:
>
> - `firefox`
>
> Matches the package name `firefox` and any version.
>
> - `firefox-32.0`
>
> Matches the package name `firefox` and version `32.0`.
>
> - `gtk\\+`
>
> Matches the package name `gtk+`.
> The `+` character must be escaped using a backslash (`\`) to prevent it from being interpreted as a quantifier, and the backslash must be escaped in turn with another backslash to ensure that the shell passes it on.
>
> - `.\*`
>
> Matches any package name.
> This is the default for most commands.
>
> - `'.*zip.*'`
>
> Matches any package name containing the string `zip`.
> Note the dots: `'*zip*'` does not work, because in a regular expression, the character `*` is interpreted as a quantifier.
>
> - `'.*(firefox|chromium).*'`
>
> Matches any package name containing the strings `firefox` or `chromium`.
# Files
`nix-env` operates on the following files.
{{#include ./files/default-nix-expression.md}}
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# Name
`nix-env --install` - add packages to user environment
# Synopsis
`nix-env` {`--install` | `-i`} *args…*
[{`--prebuilt-only` | `-b`}]
[{`--attr` | `-A`}]
[`--from-expression`] [`-E`]
[`--from-profile` *path*]
[`--preserve-installed` | `-P`]
[`--remove-all` | `-r`]
# Description
The `--install` operation creates a new user environment.
It is based on the current generation of the active [profile](@docroot@/command-ref/files/profiles.md), to which a set of [store paths] described by *args* is added.
[store paths]: @docroot@/store/store-path.md
The arguments *args* map to store paths in a number of possible ways:
- By default, *args* is a set of [derivation] names denoting derivations in the [default Nix expression].
These are [realised], and the resulting output paths are installed.
Currently installed derivations with a name equal to the name of a derivation being added are removed unless the option `--preserve-installed` is specified.
[derivation]: @docroot@/glossary.md#gloss-derivation
[default Nix expression]: @docroot@/command-ref/files/default-nix-expression.md
[realised]: @docroot@/glossary.md#gloss-realise
If there are multiple derivations matching a name in *args* that
have the same name (e.g., `gcc-3.3.6` and `gcc-4.1.1`), then the
derivation with the highest *priority* is used. A derivation can
define a priority by declaring the `meta.priority` attribute. This
attribute should be a number, with a higher value denoting a lower
priority. The default priority is `5`.
If there are multiple matching derivations with the same priority,
then the derivation with the highest version will be installed.
You can force the installation of multiple derivations with the same
name by being specific about the versions. For instance, `nix-env --install
gcc-3.3.6 gcc-4.1.1` will install both version of GCC (and will
probably cause a user environment conflict\!).
- If [`--attr`](#opt-attr) / `-A` is specified, the arguments are *attribute paths* that select attributes from the [default Nix expression].
This is faster than using derivation names and unambiguous.
Show the attribute paths of available packages with [`nix-env --query`](./query.md):
```console
nix-env --query --available --attr-path
```
- If `--from-profile` *path* is given, *args* is a set of names
denoting installed [store paths] in the profile *path*. This is an
easy way to copy user environment elements from one profile to
another.
- If `--from-expression` is given, *args* are [Nix language functions](@docroot@/language/syntax.md#functions) that are called with the [default Nix expression] as their single argument.
The derivations returned by those function calls are installed.
This allows derivations to be specified in an unambiguous way, which is necessary if there are multiple derivations with the same name.
- If *args* are [store derivations](@docroot@/glossary.md#gloss-store-derivation), then these are [realised], and the resulting output paths are installed.
- If *args* are [store paths] that are not store derivations, then these are [realised] and installed.
- By default all [outputs](@docroot@/language/derivations.md#attr-outputs) are installed for each [derivation].
This can be overridden by adding a `meta.outputsToInstall` attribute on the derivation listing a subset of the output names.
Example:
The file `example.nix` defines a derivation with two outputs `foo` and `bar`, each containing a file.
```nix
# example.nix
let
pkgs = import <nixpkgs> {};
command = ''
${pkgs.coreutils}/bin/mkdir -p $foo $bar
echo foo > $foo/foo-file
echo bar > $bar/bar-file
'';
in
derivation {
name = "example";
builder = "${pkgs.bash}/bin/bash";
args = [ "-c" command ];
outputs = [ "foo" "bar" ];
system = builtins.currentSystem;
}
```
Installing from this Nix expression will make files from both outputs appear in the current profile.
```console
$ nix-env --install --file example.nix
installing 'example'
$ ls ~/.nix-profile
foo-file
bar-file
manifest.nix
```
Adding `meta.outputsToInstall` to that derivation will make `nix-env` only install files from the specified outputs.
```nix
# example-outputs.nix
import ./example.nix // { meta.outputsToInstall = [ "bar" ]; }
```
```console
$ nix-env --install --file example-outputs.nix
installing 'example'
$ ls ~/.nix-profile
bar-file
manifest.nix
```
# Options
- `--prebuilt-only` / `-b`
Use only derivations for which a substitute is registered, i.e.,
there is a pre-built binary available that can be downloaded in lieu
of building the derivation. Thus, no packages will be built from
source.
- `--preserve-installed` / `-P`
Do not remove derivations with a name matching one of the
derivations being installed. Usually, trying to have two versions of
the same package installed in the same generation of a profile will
lead to an error in building the generation, due to file name
clashes between the two versions. However, this is not the case for
all packages.
- `--remove-all` / `-r`
Remove all previously installed packages first. This is equivalent
to running `nix-env --uninstall '.*'` first, except that everything happens
in a single transaction.
{{#include ./opt-common.md}}
{{#include ../opt-common.md}}
{{#include ./env-common.md}}
{{#include ../env-common.md}}
# Examples
To install a package using a specific attribute path from the active Nix expression:
```console
$ nix-env --install --attr gcc40mips
installing `gcc-4.0.2'
$ nix-env --install --attr xorg.xorgserver
installing `xorg-server-1.2.0'
```
To install a specific version of `gcc` using the derivation name:
```console
$ nix-env --install gcc-3.3.2
installing `gcc-3.3.2'
uninstalling `gcc-3.1'
```
Using attribute path for selecting a package is preferred,
as it is much faster and there will not be multiple matches.
Note the previously installed version is removed, since
`--preserve-installed` was not specified.
To install an arbitrary version:
```console
$ nix-env --install gcc
installing `gcc-3.3.2'
```
To install all derivations in the Nix expression `foo.nix`:
```console
$ nix-env --file ~/foo.nix --install '.*'
```
To copy the store path with symbolic name `gcc` from another profile:
```console
$ nix-env --install --from-profile /nix/var/nix/profiles/foo gcc
```
To install a specific [store derivation] (typically created by
`nix-instantiate`):
```console
$ nix-env --install /nix/store/fibjb1bfbpm5mrsxc4mh2d8n37sxh91i-gcc-3.4.3.drv
```
To install a specific output path:
```console
$ nix-env --install /nix/store/y3cgx0xj1p4iv9x0pnnmdhr8iyg741vk-gcc-3.4.3
```
To install from a Nix expression specified on the command-line:
```console
$ nix-env --file ./foo.nix --install --expr \
'f: (f {system = "i686-linux";}).subversionWithJava'
```
I.e., this evaluates to `(f: (f {system =
"i686-linux";}).subversionWithJava) (import ./foo.nix)`, thus selecting
the `subversionWithJava` attribute from the set returned by calling the
function defined in `./foo.nix`.
A dry-run tells you which paths will be downloaded or built from source:
```console
$ nix-env --file '<nixpkgs>' --install --attr hello --dry-run
(dry run; not doing anything)
installing hello-2.10
this path will be fetched (0.04 MiB download, 0.19 MiB unpacked):
/nix/store/wkhdf9jinag5750mqlax6z2zbwhqb76n-hello-2.10
...
```
To install Firefox from the latest revision in the Nixpkgs/NixOS 14.12
channel:
```console
$ nix-env --file https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/archive/nixos-14.12.tar.gz --install --attr firefox
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# Options
The following options are allowed for all `nix-env` operations, but may not always have an effect.
- `--file` / `-f` *path*
Specifies the Nix expression (designated below as the *active Nix
expression*) used by the `--install`, `--upgrade`, and `--query
--available` operations to obtain derivations. The default is
`~/.nix-defexpr`.
If the argument starts with `http://` or `https://`, 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 `default.nix`.
- `--profile` / `-p` *path*
Specifies the profile to be used by those operations that operate on
a profile (designated below as the *active profile*). A profile is a
sequence of user environments called *generations*, one of which is
the *current generation*.
- `--dry-run`
For the `--install`, `--upgrade`, `--uninstall`,
`--switch-generation`, `--delete-generations` and `--rollback`
operations, this flag will cause `nix-env` to print what *would* be
done if this flag had not been specified, without actually doing it.
`--dry-run` also prints out which paths will be
[substituted](@docroot@/glossary.md) (i.e., downloaded) and which paths
will be built from source (because no substitute is available).
- `--system-filter` *system*
By default, operations such as `--query --available` show derivations matching any platform. This option
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# Name
`nix-instantiate` - instantiate store derivations from Nix expressions
# Synopsis
`nix-instantiate`
[`--parse` | `--eval` [`--strict`] [`--json`] [`--xml`] ]
[`--read-write-mode`]
[`--arg` *name* *value*]
[{`--attr`| `-A`} *attrPath*]
[`--add-root` *path*]
[`--expr` | `-E`]
*files…*
`nix-instantiate` `--find-file` *files…*
# Description
The command `nix-instantiate` produces [store derivation]s from (high-level) Nix expressions.
It evaluates the Nix expressions in each of *files* (which defaults to
*./default.nix*). 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.
[store derivation]: @docroot@/glossary.md#gloss-store-derivation
If *files* is the character `-`, then a Nix expression will be read from
standard input.
# Options
- `--add-root` *path*
See the [corresponding option](nix-store.md) in `nix-store`.
- `--parse`
Just parse the input files, and print their abstract syntax trees on
standard output as a Nix expression.
- `--eval`
Just parse and evaluate the input files, and print the resulting
values on standard output. No instantiation of store derivations
takes place.
> **Warning**
>
> This option produces output which can be parsed as a Nix expression which
> will produce a different result than the input expression when evaluated.
> For example, these two Nix expressions print the same result despite
> having different meaning:
>
> ```console
> $ nix-instantiate --eval --expr '{ a = {}; }'
> { a = <CODE>; }
> $ nix-instantiate --eval --expr '{ a = <CODE>; }'
> { a = <CODE>; }
> ```
>
> For human-readable output, `nix eval` (experimental) is more informative:
>
> ```console
> $ nix-instantiate --eval --expr 'a: a'
> <LAMBDA>
> $ nix eval --expr 'a: a'
> «lambda @ «string»:1:1»
> ```
>
> For machine-readable output, the `--xml` option produces unambiguous
> output:
>
> ```console
> $ nix-instantiate --eval --xml --expr '{ foo = <CODE>; }'
> <?xml version='1.0' encoding='utf-8'?>
> <expr>
> <attrs>
> <attr column="3" line="1" name="foo">
> <unevaluated />
> </attr>
> </attrs>
> </expr>
> ```
- `--find-file`
Look up the given files in Nixs search path (as specified by the
`NIX_PATH` environment variable). If found, print the corresponding
absolute paths on standard output. For instance, if `NIX_PATH` is
`nixpkgs=/home/alice/nixpkgs`, then `nix-instantiate --find-file
nixpkgs/default.nix` will print `/home/alice/nixpkgs/default.nix`.
- `--strict`
When used with `--eval`, recursively evaluate list elements and
attributes. Normally, such sub-expressions are left unevaluated
(since the Nix language is lazy).
> **Warning**
>
> This option can cause non-termination, because lazy data
> structures can be infinitely large.
- `--json`
When used with `--eval`, print the resulting value as an JSON
representation of the abstract syntax tree rather than as a Nix expression.
- `--xml`
When used with `--eval`, print the resulting value as an XML
representation of the abstract syntax tree rather than as a Nix expression.
The schema is the same as that used by the [`toXML`
built-in](../language/builtins.md).
- `--read-write-mode`
When used with `--eval`, 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). If
this option is not enabled, there may be uninstantiated store paths
in the final output.
{{#include ./opt-common.md}}
{{#include ./env-common.md}}
# Examples
Instantiate [store derivation]s from a Nix expression, and build them using `nix-store`:
```console
$ nix-instantiate test.nix (instantiate)
/nix/store/cigxbmvy6dzix98dxxh9b6shg7ar5bvs-perl-BerkeleyDB-0.26.drv
$ nix-store --realise $(nix-instantiate test.nix) (build)
...
/nix/store/qhqk4n8ci095g3sdp93x7rgwyh9rdvgk-perl-BerkeleyDB-0.26 (output path)
$ ls -l /nix/store/qhqk4n8ci095g3sdp93x7rgwyh9rdvgk-perl-BerkeleyDB-0.26
dr-xr-xr-x 2 eelco users 4096 1970-01-01 01:00 lib
...
```
You can also give a Nix expression on the command line:
```console
$ nix-instantiate --expr 'with import <nixpkgs> { }; hello'
/nix/store/j8s4zyv75a724q38cb0r87rlczaiag4y-hello-2.8.drv
```
This is equivalent to:
```console
$ nix-instantiate '<nixpkgs>' --attr hello
```
Parsing and evaluating Nix expressions:
```console
$ nix-instantiate --parse --expr '1 + 2'
1 + 2
```
```console
$ nix-instantiate --eval --expr '1 + 2'
3
```
```console
$ nix-instantiate --eval --xml --expr '1 + 2'
<?xml version='1.0' encoding='utf-8'?>
<expr>
<int value="3" />
</expr>
```
The difference between non-strict and strict evaluation:
```console
$ nix-instantiate --eval --xml --expr '{ x = {}; }'
<?xml version='1.0' encoding='utf-8'?>
<expr>
<attrs>
<attr column="3" line="1" name="x">
<unevaluated />
</attr>
</attrs>
</expr>
$ nix-instantiate --eval --xml --strict --expr '{ x = {}; }'
<?xml version='1.0' encoding='utf-8'?>
<expr>
<attrs>
<attr column="3" line="1" name="x">
<attrs>
</attrs>
</attr>
</attrs>
</expr>
```

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# Name
`nix-store --export` - export store paths to a [Nix Archive]
## Synopsis
`nix-store` `--export` *paths…*
## Description
The operation `--export` writes a serialisation of the given [store objects](@docroot@/glossary.md#gloss-store-object) to standard output in a format that can be imported into another [Nix store](@docroot@/store/index.md) with [`nix-store --import`](./import.md).
> **Warning**
>
> This command *does not* produce a [closure](@docroot@/glossary.md#gloss-closure) of the specified store paths.
> Trying to import a store object that refers to store paths not available in the target Nix store will fail.
>
> Use [`nix-store --query`](@docroot@/command-ref/nix-store/query.md) to obtain the closure of a store path.
This command is different from [`nix-store --dump`](./dump.md), which produces a [Nix archive](@docroot@/glossary.md#gloss-nar) that *does not* contain the set of [references](@docroot@/glossary.md#gloss-reference) of a given store path.
> **Note**
>
> For efficient transfer of closures to remote machines over SSH, use [`nix-copy-closure`](@docroot@/command-ref/nix-copy-closure.md).
[Nix Archive]: @docroot@/store/file-system-object/content-address.md#serial-nix-archive
{{#include ./opt-common.md}}
{{#include ../opt-common.md}}
{{#include ../env-common.md}}
# Examples
> **Example**
>
> Deploy GNU Hello to an airgapped machine via USB stick.
>
> Write the closure to the block device on a machine with internet connection:
>
> ```shell-session
> [alice@itchy]$ storePath=$(nix-build '<nixpkgs>' -I nixpkgs=channel:nixpkgs-unstable -A hello --no-out-link)
> [alice@itchy]$ nix-store --export $(nix-store --query --requisites $storePath) | sudo dd of=/dev/usb
> ```
>
> Read the closure from the block device on the machine without internet connection:
>
> ```shell-session
> [bob@scratchy]$ hello=$(sudo dd if=/dev/usb | nix-store --import | tail -1)
> [bob@scratchy]$ $hello/bin/hello
> Hello, world!
> ```

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# Name
`nix-store --import` - import [Nix Archive] into the store
[Nix Archive]: @docroot@/store/file-system-object/content-address.md#serial-nix-archive
# Synopsis
`nix-store` `--import`
# Description
The operation `--import` reads a serialisation of a set of [store objects](@docroot@/glossary.md#gloss-store-object) produced by [`nix-store --export`](./export.md) from standard input, and adds those store objects to the specified [Nix store](@docroot@/store/index.md).
Paths that already exist in the target Nix store are ignored.
If a path [refers](@docroot@/glossary.md#gloss-reference) to another path that doesnt exist in the target Nix store, the import fails.
> **Note**
>
> For efficient transfer of closures to remote machines over SSH, use [`nix-copy-closure`](@docroot@/command-ref/nix-copy-closure.md).
{{#include ./opt-common.md}}
{{#include ../opt-common.md}}
{{#include ../env-common.md}}
# Examples
> **Example**
>
> Given a closure of GNU Hello as a file:
>
> ```shell-session
> $ storePath="$(nix-build '<nixpkgs>' -I nixpkgs=channel:nixpkgs-unstable -A hello --no-out-link)"
> $ nix-store --export $(nix-store --query --requisites $storePath) > hello.closure
> ```
>
> Import the closure into a [remote SSH store](@docroot@/store/types/ssh-store.md) using the [`--store`](@docroot@/command-ref/conf-file.md#conf-store) option:
>
> ```console
> $ nix-store --import --store ssh://alice@itchy.example.org < hello.closure
> ```

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# Name
`nix-store --query` - display information about store paths
# Synopsis
`nix-store` {`--query` | `-q`}
{`--outputs` | `--requisites` | `-R` | `--references` | `--referrers` |
`--referrers-closure` | `--deriver` | `-d` | `--valid-derivers` |
`--graph` | `--tree` | `--binding` *name* | `-b` *name* | `--hash` |
`--size` | `--roots`}
[`--use-output`] [`-u`] [`--force-realise`] [`-f`]
*paths…*
# Description
The operation `--query` displays various bits of information about the
store paths . The queries are described below. At most one query can be
specified. The default query is `--outputs`.
The paths *paths* may also be symlinks from outside of the Nix store, to
the Nix store. In that case, the query is applied to the target of the
symlink.
# Common query options
- `--use-output` / `-u`
For each argument to the query that is a [store derivation], apply the
query to the output path of the derivation instead.
- `--force-realise` / `-f`
Realise each argument to the query first (see [`nix-store --realise`](./realise.md)).
[store derivation]: @docroot@/glossary.md#gloss-store-derivation
# Queries
- `--outputs`
Prints out the [output paths] of the store
derivations *paths*. These are the paths that will be produced when
the derivation is built.
[output paths]: @docroot@/glossary.md#gloss-output-path
- `--requisites` / `-R`
Prints out the [closure] of the store path *paths*.
[closure]: @docroot@/glossary.md#gloss-closure
This query has one option:
- `--include-outputs`
Also include the existing output paths of [store derivation]s,
and their closures.
This query can be used to implement various kinds of deployment. A
*source deployment* is obtained by distributing the closure of a
store derivation. A *binary deployment* is obtained by distributing
the closure of an output path. A *cache deployment* (combined
source/binary deployment, including binaries of build-time-only
dependencies) is obtained by distributing the closure of a store
derivation and specifying the option `--include-outputs`.
- `--references`
Prints the set of [references] of the store paths
*paths*, that is, their immediate dependencies. (For *all*
dependencies, use `--requisites`.)
[references]: @docroot@/glossary.md#gloss-reference
- `--referrers`
Prints the set of *referrers* of the store paths *paths*, that is,
the store paths currently existing in the Nix store that refer to
one of *paths*. Note that contrary to the references, the set of
referrers is not constant; it can change as store paths are added or
removed.
- `--referrers-closure`
Prints the closure of the set of store paths *paths* under the
referrers relation; that is, all store paths that directly or
indirectly refer to one of *paths*. These are all the path currently
in the Nix store that are dependent on *paths*.
- `--deriver` / `-d`
Prints the [deriver] that was used to build the store paths *paths*. If
the path has no deriver (e.g., if it is a source file), or if the
deriver is not known (e.g., in the case of a binary-only
deployment), the string `unknown-deriver` is printed.
The returned deriver is not guaranteed to exist in the local store, for
example when *paths* were substituted from a binary cache.
Use `--valid-derivers` instead to obtain valid paths only.
[deriver]: @docroot@/glossary.md#gloss-deriver
- `--valid-derivers`
Prints a set of derivation files (`.drv`) which are supposed produce
said paths when realized. Might print nothing, for example for source paths
or paths substituted from a binary cache.
- `--graph`
Prints the references graph of the store paths *paths* in the format
of the `dot` tool of AT\&T's [Graphviz
package](http://www.graphviz.org/). This can be used to visualise
dependency graphs. To obtain a build-time dependency graph, apply
this to a store derivation. To obtain a runtime dependency graph,
apply it to an output path.
- `--tree`
Prints the references graph of the store paths *paths* as a nested
ASCII tree. References are ordered by descending closure size; this
tends to flatten the tree, making it more readable. The query only
recurses into a store path when it is first encountered; this
prevents a blowup of the tree representation of the graph.
- `--graphml`
Prints the references graph of the store paths *paths* in the
[GraphML](http://graphml.graphdrawing.org/) file format. This can be
used to visualise dependency graphs. To obtain a build-time
dependency graph, apply this to a [store derivation]. To obtain a
runtime dependency graph, apply it to an output path.
- `--binding` *name* / `-b` *name*
Prints the value of the attribute *name* (i.e., environment
variable) of the [store derivation]s *paths*. It is an error for a
derivation to not have the specified attribute.
- `--hash`
Prints the SHA-256 hash of the contents of the store paths *paths*
(that is, the hash of the output of `nix-store --dump` on the given
paths). Since the hash is stored in the Nix database, this is a fast
operation.
- `--size`
Prints the size in bytes of the contents of the store paths *paths*
— to be precise, the size of the output of `nix-store --dump` on
the given paths. Note that the actual disk space required by the
store paths may be higher, especially on filesystems with large
cluster sizes.
- `--roots`
Prints the garbage collector roots that point, directly or
indirectly, at the store paths *paths*.
{{#include ./opt-common.md}}
{{#include ../opt-common.md}}
{{#include ../env-common.md}}
# Examples
Print the closure (runtime dependencies) of the `svn` program in the
current user environment:
```console
$ nix-store --query --requisites $(which svn)
/nix/store/5mbglq5ldqld8sj57273aljwkfvj22mc-subversion-1.1.4
/nix/store/9lz9yc6zgmc0vlqmn2ipcpkjlmbi51vv-glibc-2.3.4
...
```
Print the build-time dependencies of `svn`:
```console
$ nix-store --query --requisites $(nix-store --query --deriver $(which svn))
/nix/store/02iizgn86m42q905rddvg4ja975bk2i4-grep-2.5.1.tar.bz2.drv
/nix/store/07a2bzxmzwz5hp58nf03pahrv2ygwgs3-gcc-wrapper.sh
/nix/store/0ma7c9wsbaxahwwl04gbw3fcd806ski4-glibc-2.3.4.drv
... lots of other paths ...
```
The difference with the previous example is that we ask the closure of
the derivation (`-qd`), not the closure of the output path that contains
`svn`.
Show the build-time dependencies as a tree:
```console
$ nix-store --query --tree $(nix-store --query --deriver $(which svn))
/nix/store/7i5082kfb6yjbqdbiwdhhza0am2xvh6c-subversion-1.1.4.drv
+---/nix/store/d8afh10z72n8l1cr5w42366abiblgn54-builder.sh
+---/nix/store/fmzxmpjx2lh849ph0l36snfj9zdibw67-bash-3.0.drv
| +---/nix/store/570hmhmx3v57605cqg9yfvvyh0nnb8k8-bash
| +---/nix/store/p3srsbd8dx44v2pg6nbnszab5mcwx03v-builder.sh
...
```
Show all paths that depend on the same OpenSSL library as `svn`:
```console
$ nix-store --query --referrers $(nix-store --query --binding openssl $(nix-store --query --deriver $(which svn)))
/nix/store/23ny9l9wixx21632y2wi4p585qhva1q8-sylpheed-1.0.0
/nix/store/5mbglq5ldqld8sj57273aljwkfvj22mc-subversion-1.1.4
/nix/store/dpmvp969yhdqs7lm2r1a3gng7pyq6vy4-subversion-1.1.3
/nix/store/l51240xqsgg8a7yrbqdx1rfzyv6l26fx-lynx-2.8.5
```
Show all paths that directly or indirectly depend on the Glibc (C
library) used by `svn`:
```console
$ nix-store --query --referrers-closure $(ldd $(which svn) | grep /libc.so | awk '{print $3}')
/nix/store/034a6h4vpz9kds5r6kzb9lhh81mscw43-libgnomeprintui-2.8.2
/nix/store/15l3yi0d45prm7a82pcrknxdh6nzmxza-gawk-3.1.4
...
```
Note that `ldd` is a command that prints out the dynamic libraries used
by an ELF executable.
Make a picture of the runtime dependency graph of the current user
environment:
```console
$ nix-store --query --graph ~/.nix-profile | dot -Tps > graph.ps
$ gv graph.ps
```
Show every garbage collector root that points to a store path that
depends on `svn`:
```console
$ nix-store --query --roots $(which svn)
/nix/var/nix/profiles/default-81-link
/nix/var/nix/profiles/default-82-link
/home/eelco/.local/state/nix/profiles/profile-97-link
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# Contributing
## Add a release note
`doc/manual/rl-next` contains release notes entries for all unreleased changes.
User-visible changes should come with a release note.
### Add an entry
Here's what a complete entry looks like. The file name is not incorporated in the document.
```
---
synopsis: Basically a title
issues: 1234
prs: 1238
---
Here's one or more paragraphs that describe the change.
- It's markdown
- Add references to the manual using @docroot@
```
Significant changes should add the following header, which moves them to the top.
```
significance: significant
```
<!-- Keep an eye on https://codeberg.org/fgaz/changelog-d/issues/1 -->
See also the [format documentation](https://github.com/haskell/cabal/blob/master/CONTRIBUTING.md#changelog).
### Build process
Releases have a precomputed `rl-MAJOR.MINOR.md`, and no `rl-next.md`.
## Branches
- [`master`](https://github.com/NixOS/nix/commits/master)
The main development branch. All changes are approved and merged here.
When developing a change, create a branch based on the latest `master`.
Maintainers try to [keep it in a release-worthy state](#reverting).
- [`maintenance-*.*`](https://github.com/NixOS/nix/branches/all?query=maintenance)
These branches are the subject of backports only, and are
also [kept](#reverting) in a release-worthy state.
See [`maintainers/backporting.md`](https://github.com/NixOS/nix/blob/master/maintainers/backporting.md)
- [`latest-release`](https://github.com/NixOS/nix/tree/latest-release)
The latest patch release of the latest minor version.
See [`maintainers/release-process.md`](https://github.com/NixOS/nix/blob/master/maintainers/release-process.md)
- [`backport-*-to-*`](https://github.com/NixOS/nix/branches/all?query=backport)
Generally branches created by the backport action.
See [`maintainers/backporting.md`](https://github.com/NixOS/nix/blob/master/maintainers/backporting.md)
- [_other_](https://github.com/NixOS/nix/branches/all)
Branches that do not conform to the above patterns should be feature branches.
## Reverting
If a change turns out to be merged by mistake, or contain a regression, it may be reverted.
A revert is not a rejection of the contribution, but merely part of an effective development process.
It makes sure that development keeps running smoothly, with minimal uncertainty, and less overhead.
If maintainers have to worry too much about avoiding reverts, they would not be able to merge as much.
By embracing reverts as a good part of the development process, everyone wins.
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# Debugging Nix
This section shows how to build and debug Nix with debug symbols enabled.
## Building Nix with Debug Symbols
In the development shell, set the `mesonBuildType` environment variable to `debug` before configuring the build:
```console
[nix-shell]$ export mesonBuildType=debugoptimized
```
Then, proceed to build Nix as described in [Building Nix](./building.md).
This will build Nix with debug symbols, which are essential for effective debugging.
## Debugging the Nix Binary
Obtain your preferred debugger within the development shell:
```console
[nix-shell]$ nix-shell -p gdb
```
On macOS, use `lldb`:
```console
[nix-shell]$ nix-shell -p lldb
```
### Launching the Debugger
To debug the Nix binary, run:
```console
[nix-shell]$ gdb --args ../outputs/out/bin/nix
```
On macOS, use `lldb`:
```console
[nix-shell]$ lldb -- ../outputs/out/bin/nix
```
### Using the Debugger
Inside the debugger, you can set breakpoints, run the program, and inspect variables.
```gdb
(gdb) break main
(gdb) run <arguments>
```
Refer to the [GDB Documentation](https://www.gnu.org/software/gdb/documentation/) for comprehensive usage instructions.
On macOS, use `lldb`:
```lldb
(lldb) breakpoint set --name main
(lldb) process launch -- <arguments>
```
Refer to the [LLDB Tutorial](https://lldb.llvm.org/use/tutorial.html) for comprehensive usage instructions.

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# JSON guideline
Nix consumes and produces JSON in a variety of contexts.
These guidelines ensure consistent practices for all our JSON interfaces, for ease of use, and so that experience in one part carries over to another.
## Extensibility
The schema of JSON input and output should allow for backwards compatible extension.
This section explains how to achieve this.
Two definitions are helpful here, because while JSON only defines one "key-value" object type, we use it to cover two use cases:
- **dictionary**: a map from names to value that all have the same type.
In C++ this would be a `std::map` with string keys.
- **record**: a fixed set of attributes each with their own type.
In C++, this would be represented by a `struct`.
It is best not to mix these use cases, as that may lead to incompatibilities when the schema changes.
For example, adding a record field to a dictionary breaks consumers that assume all JSON object fields to have the same meaning and type, and dictionary items with a colliding name can not be represented anymore.
This leads to the following guidelines:
- The top-level (root) value must be a record.
Otherwise, one can not change the structure of a command's output.
- The value of a dictionary item must be a record.
Otherwise, the item type can not be extended.
- List items should be records.
Otherwise, one can not change the structure of the list items.
If the order of the items does not matter, and each item has a unique key that is a string, consider representing the list as a dictionary instead.
If the order of the items needs to be preserved, return a list of records.
- Streaming JSON should return records.
An example of a streaming JSON format is [JSON lines](https://jsonlines.org/), where each line represents a JSON value.
These JSON values can be considered top-level values or list items, and they must be records.
### Examples
This is bad, because all keys must be assumed to be store types:
```json
{
"local": { ... },
"remote": { ... },
"http": { ... }
}
```
This is good, because the it is extensible at the root, and is somewhat self-documenting:
```json
{
"storeTypes": { "local": { ... }, ... },
"pluginSupport": true
}
```
While the dictionary of store types seems like a very complete response at first, a use case may arise that warrants returning additional information.
For example, the presence of plugin support may be crucial information for a client to proceed when their desired store type is missing.
The following representation is bad because it is not extensible:
```json
{ "outputs": [ "out" "bin" ] }
```
However, simply converting everything to records is not enough, because the order of outputs must be preserved:
```json
{ "outputs": { "bin": {}, "out": {} } }
```
The first item is the default output. Deriving this information from the outputs ordering is not great, but this is how Nix currently happens to work.
While it is possible for a JSON parser to preserve the order of fields, we can not rely on this capability to be present in all JSON libraries.
This representation is extensible and preserves the ordering:
```json
{ "outputs": [ { "outputName": "out" }, { "outputName": "bin" } ] }
```
## Self-describing values
As described in the previous section, it's crucial that schemas can be extended with new fields without breaking compatibility.
However, that should *not* mean we use the presence/absence of fields to indicate optional information *within* a version of the schema.
Instead, always include the field, and use `null` to indicate the "nothing" case.
### Examples
Here are two JSON objects:
```json
{
"foo": {}
}
```
```json
{
"foo": {},
"bar": {}
}
```
Since they differ in which fields they contain, they should *not* both be valid values of the same schema.
At most, they can match two different schemas where the second (with `foo` and `bar`) is considered a newer version of the first (with just `foo`).
Within each version, all fields are mandatory (always `foo`, and always `foo` and `bar`).
Only *between* each version, `bar` gets added as a new mandatory field.
Here are another two JSON objects:
```json
{ "foo": null }
```
```json
{ "foo": { "bar": 1 } }
```
Since they both contain a `foo` field, they could be valid values of the same schema.
The schema would have `foo` has an optional field, which is either `null` or an object where `bar` is an integer.

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experimental_feature_descriptions_md = custom_target(
command : nix_eval_for_docs + [
'--expr',
'import @INPUT0@ (builtins.fromJSON (builtins.readFile @INPUT1@))',
],
input : [
'../../generate-xp-features.nix',
xp_features_json,
],
capture : true,
output : 'experimental-feature-descriptions.md',
)

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# Installing a Binary Distribution
> **Updating to macOS 15 Sequoia**
>
> If you recently updated to macOS 15 Sequoia and are getting
> ```console
> error: the user '_nixbld1' in the group 'nixbld' does not exist
> ```
> when running Nix commands, refer to GitHub issue [NixOS/nix#10892](https://github.com/NixOS/nix/issues/10892) for instructions to fix your installation without reinstalling.
To install the latest version Nix, run the following command:
```console
$ curl -L https://nixos.org/nix/install | sh
```
This performs the default type of installation for your platform:
- [Multi-user](#multi-user-installation):
- Linux with systemd and without SELinux
- macOS
- [Single-user](#single-user-installation):
- Linux without systemd
- Linux with SELinux
We recommend the multi-user installation if it supports your platform and you can authenticate with `sudo`.
The installer can configured with various command line arguments and environment variables.
To show available command line flags:
```console
$ curl -L https://nixos.org/nix/install | sh -s -- --help
```
To check what it does and how it can be customised further, [download and edit the second-stage installation script](#installing-from-a-binary-tarball).
# Installing a pinned Nix version from a URL
Version-specific installation URLs for all Nix versions since 1.11.16 can be found at [releases.nixos.org](https://releases.nixos.org/?prefix=nix/).
The directory for each version contains the corresponding SHA-256 hash.
All installation scripts are invoked the same way:
```console
$ export VERSION=2.19.2
$ curl -L https://releases.nixos.org/nix/nix-$VERSION/install | sh
```
# Multi User Installation
The multi-user Nix installation creates system users and a system service for the Nix daemon.
Supported systems:
- Linux running systemd, with SELinux disabled
- macOS
To explicitly instruct the installer to perform a multi-user installation on your system:
```console
$ bash <(curl -L https://nixos.org/nix/install) --daemon
```
You can run this under your usual user account or `root`.
The script will invoke `sudo` as needed.
# Single User Installation
To explicitly select a single-user installation on your system:
```console
$ bash <(curl -L https://nixos.org/nix/install) --no-daemon
```
In a single-user installation, `/nix` is owned by the invoking user.
The script will invoke `sudo` to create `/nix` if it doesnt already exist.
If you dont have `sudo`, manually create `/nix` as `root`:
```console
$ su root
# mkdir /nix
# chown alice /nix
```
# Installing from a binary tarball
You can also download a binary tarball that contains Nix and all its dependencies:
- Choose a [version](https://releases.nixos.org/?prefix=nix/) and [system type](../development/building.md#platforms)
- Download and unpack the tarball
- Run the installer
> **Example**
>
> ```console
> $ pushd $(mktemp -d)
> $ export VERSION=2.19.2
> $ export SYSTEM=x86_64-linux
> $ curl -LO https://releases.nixos.org/nix/nix-$VERSION/nix-$VERSION-$SYSTEM.tar.xz
> $ tar xfj nix-$VERSION-$SYSTEM.tar.xz
> $ cd nix-$VERSION-$SYSTEM
> $ ./install
> $ popd
> ```
The installer can be customised with the environment variables declared in the file named `install-multi-user`.
## Native packages for Linux distributions
The Nix community maintains installers for some Linux distributions in their native packaging format(https://nix-community.github.io/nix-installers/).
# macOS Installation
<!-- anchors to catch existing links -->
[]{#sect-macos-installation-change-store-prefix}[]{#sect-macos-installation-encrypted-volume}[]{#sect-macos-installation-symlink}[]{#sect-macos-installation-recommended-notes}
We believe we have ironed out how to cleanly support the read-only root file system
on modern macOS. New installs will do this automatically.
This section previously detailed the situation, options, and trade-offs,
but it now only outlines what the installer does. You don't need to know
this to run the installer, but it may help if you run into trouble:
- create a new APFS volume for your Nix store
- update `/etc/synthetic.conf` to direct macOS to create a "synthetic"
empty root directory to mount your volume
- specify mount options for the volume in `/etc/fstab`
- `rw`: read-write
- `noauto`: prevent the system from auto-mounting the volume (so the
LaunchDaemon mentioned below can control mounting it, and to avoid
masking problems with that mounting service).
- `nobrowse`: prevent the Nix Store volume from showing up on your
desktop; also keeps Spotlight from spending resources to index
this volume
<!-- TODO:
- `suid`: honor setuid? surely not? ...
- `owners`: honor file ownership on the volume
For now I'll avoid pretending to understand suid/owners more
than I do. There've been some vague reports of file-ownership
and permission issues, particularly in cloud/VM/headless setups.
My pet theory is that this has something to do with these setups
not having a token that gets delegated to initial/admin accounts
on macOS. See scripts/create-darwin-volume.sh for a little more.
In any case, by Dec 4 2021, it _seems_ like some combination of
suid, owners, and calling diskutil enableOwnership have stopped
new reports from coming in. But I hesitate to celebrate because we
haven't really named and catalogued the behavior, understood what
we're fixing, and validated that all 3 components are essential.
-->
- if you have FileVault enabled
- generate an encryption password
- put it in your system Keychain
- use it to encrypt the volume
- create a system LaunchDaemon to mount this volume early enough in the
boot process to avoid problems loading or restoring any programs that
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# Uninstalling Nix
## Multi User
Removing a [multi-user installation](./installing-binary.md#multi-user-installation) depends on the operating system.
### Linux
If you are on Linux with systemd:
1. Remove the Nix daemon service:
```console
sudo systemctl stop nix-daemon.service
sudo systemctl disable nix-daemon.socket nix-daemon.service
sudo systemctl daemon-reload
```
Remove files created by Nix:
```console
sudo rm -rf /etc/nix /etc/profile.d/nix.sh /etc/tmpfiles.d/nix-daemon.conf /nix ~root/.nix-channels ~root/.nix-defexpr ~root/.nix-profile ~root/.cache/nix
```
Remove build users and their group:
```console
for i in $(seq 1 32); do
sudo userdel nixbld$i
done
sudo groupdel nixbld
```
There may also be references to Nix in
- `/etc/bash.bashrc`
- `/etc/bashrc`
- `/etc/profile`
- `/etc/zsh/zshrc`
- `/etc/zshrc`
which you may remove.
### macOS
> **Updating to macOS 15 Sequoia**
>
> If you recently updated to macOS 15 Sequoia and are getting
> ```console
> error: the user '_nixbld1' in the group 'nixbld' does not exist
> ```
> when running Nix commands, refer to GitHub issue [NixOS/nix#10892](https://github.com/NixOS/nix/issues/10892) for instructions to fix your installation without reinstalling.
1. If system-wide shell initialisation files haven't been altered since installing Nix, use the backups made by the installer:
```console
sudo mv /etc/zshrc.backup-before-nix /etc/zshrc
sudo mv /etc/bashrc.backup-before-nix /etc/bashrc
sudo mv /etc/bash.bashrc.backup-before-nix /etc/bash.bashrc
```
Otherwise, edit `/etc/zshrc`, `/etc/bashrc`, and `/etc/bash.bashrc` to remove the lines sourcing `nix-daemon.sh`, which should look like this:
```bash
# Nix
if [ -e '/nix/var/nix/profiles/default/etc/profile.d/nix-daemon.sh' ]; then
. '/nix/var/nix/profiles/default/etc/profile.d/nix-daemon.sh'
fi
# End Nix
```
2. Stop and remove the Nix daemon services:
```console
sudo launchctl unload /Library/LaunchDaemons/org.nixos.nix-daemon.plist
sudo rm /Library/LaunchDaemons/org.nixos.nix-daemon.plist
sudo launchctl unload /Library/LaunchDaemons/org.nixos.darwin-store.plist
sudo rm /Library/LaunchDaemons/org.nixos.darwin-store.plist
```
This stops the Nix daemon and prevents it from being started next time you boot the system.
3. Remove the `nixbld` group and the `_nixbuildN` users:
```console
sudo dscl . -delete /Groups/nixbld
for u in $(sudo dscl . -list /Users | grep _nixbld); do sudo dscl . -delete /Users/$u; done
```
This will remove all the build users that no longer serve a purpose.
4. Edit fstab using `sudo vifs` to remove the line mounting the Nix Store volume on `/nix`, which looks like
```
UUID=<uuid> /nix apfs rw,noauto,nobrowse,suid,owners
```
or
```
LABEL=Nix\040Store /nix apfs rw,nobrowse
```
by setting the cursor on the respective line using the arrow keys, and pressing `dd`, and then `:wq` to save the file.
This will prevent automatic mounting of the Nix Store volume.
5. Edit `/etc/synthetic.conf` to remove the `nix` line.
If this is the only line in the file you can remove it entirely:
```bash
if [ -f /etc/synthetic.conf ]; then
if [ "$(cat /etc/synthetic.conf)" = "nix" ]; then
sudo rm /etc/synthetic.conf
else
sudo vi /etc/synthetic.conf
fi
fi
```
This will prevent the creation of the empty `/nix` directory.
6. Remove the files Nix added to your system, except for the store:
```console
sudo rm -rf /etc/nix /var/root/.nix-profile /var/root/.nix-defexpr /var/root/.nix-channels ~/.nix-profile ~/.nix-defexpr ~/.nix-channels
```
7. Remove the Nix Store volume:
```console
sudo diskutil apfs deleteVolume /nix
```
This will remove the Nix Store volume and everything that was added to the store.
If the output indicates that the command couldn't remove the volume, you should make sure you don't have an _unmounted_ Nix Store volume.
Look for a "Nix Store" volume in the output of the following command:
```console
diskutil list
```
If you _do_ find a "Nix Store" volume, delete it by running `diskutil apfs deleteVolume` with the store volume's `diskXsY` identifier.
If you get an error that the volume is in use by the kernel, reboot and immediately delete the volume before starting any other process.
> **Note**
>
> After you complete the steps here, you will still have an empty `/nix` directory.
> This is an expected sign of a successful uninstall.
> The empty `/nix` directory will disappear the next time you reboot.
>
> You do not have to reboot to finish uninstalling Nix.
> The uninstall is complete.
> macOS (Catalina+) directly controls root directories, and its read-only root will prevent you from manually deleting the empty `/nix` mountpoint.
## Single User
To remove a [single-user installation](./installing-binary.md#single-user-installation) of Nix, run:
```console
$ rm -rf /nix ~/.nix-channels ~/.nix-defexpr ~/.nix-profile
```
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# Upgrading Nix
> **Note**
>
> These upgrade instructions apply where Nix was installed following the [installation instructions in this manual](./index.md).
Check which Nix version will be installed, for example from one of the [release channels](http://channels.nixos.org/) such as `nixpkgs-unstable`:
```console
$ nix-shell -p nix -I nixpkgs=channel:nixpkgs-unstable --run "nix --version"
nix (Nix) 2.18.1
```
> **Warning**
>
> Writing to the [local store](@docroot@/store/types/local-store.md) with a newer version of Nix, for example by building derivations with [`nix-build`](@docroot@/command-ref/nix-build.md) or [`nix-store --realise`](@docroot@/command-ref/nix-store/realise.md), may change the database schema!
> Reverting to an older version of Nix may therefore require purging the store database before it can be used.
## Linux multi-user
```console
$ sudo su
# nix-env --install --file '<nixpkgs>' --attr nix cacert -I nixpkgs=channel:nixpkgs-unstable
# systemctl daemon-reload
# systemctl restart nix-daemon
```
## macOS multi-user
```console
$ sudo nix-env --install --file '<nixpkgs>' --attr nix cacert -I nixpkgs=channel:nixpkgs-unstable
$ sudo launchctl remove org.nixos.nix-daemon
$ sudo launchctl load /Library/LaunchDaemons/org.nixos.nix-daemon.plist
```
## Single-user all platforms
```console
$ nix-env --install --file '<nixpkgs>' --attr nix cacert -I nixpkgs=channel:nixpkgs-unstable
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# Identifiers
An *identifier* is an [ASCII](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ASCII) character sequence that:
- Starts with a letter (`a-z`, `A-Z`) or underscore (`_`)
- Can contain any number of:
- Letters (`a-z`, `A-Z`)
- Digits (`0-9`)
- Underscores (`_`)
- Apostrophes (`'`)
- Hyphens (`-`)
- Is not one of the [keywords](#keywords)
> **Syntax**
>
> *identifier* ~ `[A-Za-z_][A-Za-z0-9_'-]*`
# Names
A *name* can be written as an [identifier](#identifier) or a [string literal](./string-literals.md).
> **Syntax**
>
> *name* → *identifier* | *string*
Names are used in [attribute sets](./syntax.md#attrs-literal), [`let` bindings](./syntax.md#let-expressions), and [`inherit`](./syntax.md#inheriting-attributes).
Two names are the same if they represent the same sequence of characters, regardless of whether they are written as identifiers or strings.
# Keywords
These keywords are reserved and cannot be used as [identifiers](#identifiers):
- [`assert`](./syntax.md#assertions)
- [`else`][if]
- [`if`][if]
- [`in`][let]
- [`inherit`](./syntax.md#inheriting-attributes)
- [`let`][let]
- [`or`](./operators.md#attribute-selection) (see note)
- [`rec`](./syntax.md#recursive-sets)
- [`then`][if]
- [`with`](./syntax.md#with-expressions)
[if]: ./syntax.md#conditionals
[let]: ./syntax.md#let-expressions
> **Note**
>
> The Nix language evaluator currently allows `or` to be used as a name in some contexts, for backwards compatibility reasons.
> Users are advised not to rely on this.
>
> There are long-standing issues with how `or` is parsed as a name, which can't be resolved without making a breaking change to the language.

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builtins_md = custom_target(
command : [
python.full_path(),
'@INPUT0@',
'@OUTPUT@',
'--'
] + nix_eval_for_docs + [
'--expr',
'(builtins.readFile @INPUT3@) + import @INPUT1@ (builtins.fromJSON (builtins.readFile ./@INPUT2@)) + (builtins.readFile @INPUT4@)',
],
input : [
'../../remove_before_wrapper.py',
'../../generate-builtins.nix',
language_json,
'builtins-prefix.md',
'builtins-suffix.md'
],
output : 'builtins.md',
env : nix_env_for_docs,
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# Scoping rules
A *scope* in the Nix language is a dictionary keyed by [name](./identifiers.md#names), mapping each name to an expression and a *definition type*.
The definition type is either *explicit* or *implicit*.
Each entry in this dictionary is a *definition*.
Explicit definitions are created by the following expressions:
- [let-expressions](syntax.md#let-expressions)
- [recursive attribute set literals](syntax.md#recursive-sets) (`rec`)
- [function literals](syntax.md#functions)
Implicit definitions are only created by [with-expressions](./syntax.md#with-expressions).
Every expression is *enclosed* by a scope.
The outermost expression is enclosed by the [built-in, global scope](./builtins.md), which contains only explicit definitions.
The expressions listed above *extend* their enclosing scope by adding new definitions, or replacing existing ones with the same name.
An explicit definition can replace a definition of any type; an implicit definition can only replace another implicit definition.
Each of the above expressions defines which of its subexpressions are enclosed by the extended scope.
In all other cases, the same scope that encloses an expression is the enclosing scope for its subexpressions.
The Nix language is [statically scoped](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scope_(computer_science)#Lexical_scope);
the value of a variable is determined only by the variable's enclosing scope, and not by the dynamic context in which the variable is evaluated.
> **Note**
>
> Expressions entered into the [Nix REPL](@docroot@/command-ref/new-cli/nix3-repl.md) are enclosed by a scope that can be extended by command line arguments or previous REPL commands.
> These ways of extending scope are not, strictly speaking, part of the Nix language.

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# String context
> **Note**
>
> This is an advanced topic.
> The Nix language is designed to be used without the programmer consciously dealing with string contexts or even knowing what they are.
A string in the Nix language is not just a sequence of characters like strings in other languages.
It is actually a pair of a sequence of characters and a *string context*.
The string context is an (unordered) set of *string context elements*.
The purpose of string contexts is to collect non-string values attached to strings via
[string concatenation](./operators.md#string-concatenation),
[string interpolation](./string-interpolation.md),
and similar operations.
The idea is that a user can combine together values to create a build instructions for derivations without manually keeping track of where they come from.
Then the Nix language implicitly does that bookkeeping to efficiently obtain the closure of derivation inputs.
> **Note**
>
> String contexts are *not* explicitly manipulated in idiomatic Nix language code.
String context elements come in different forms:
- [deriving path]{#string-context-element-derived-path}
A string context element of this type is a [deriving path](@docroot@/glossary.md#gloss-deriving-path).
They can be either of type [constant](#string-context-constant) or [output](#string-context-output), which correspond to the types of deriving paths.
- [Constant string context elements]{#string-context-constant}
> **Example**
>
> [`builtins.storePath`] creates a string with a single constant string context element:
>
> ```nix
> builtins.getContext (builtins.storePath "/nix/store/wkhdf9jinag5750mqlax6z2zbwhqb76n-hello-2.10")
> ```
> evaluates to
> ```nix
> {
> "/nix/store/wkhdf9jinag5750mqlax6z2zbwhqb76n-hello-2.10" = {
> path = true;
> };
> }
> ```
[deriving path]: @docroot@/glossary.md#gloss-deriving-path
[store path]: @docroot@/glossary.md#gloss-store-path
[`builtins.storePath`]: ./builtins.md#builtins-storePath
- [Output string context elements]{#string-context-output}
> **Example**
>
> The behavior of string contexts are best demonstrated with a built-in function that is still experimental: [`builtins.outputOf`].
> This example will *not* work with stable Nix!
>
> ```nix
> builtins.getContext
> (builtins.outputOf
> (builtins.storePath "/nix/store/fvchh9cvcr7kdla6n860hshchsba305w-hello-2.12.drv")
> "out")
> ```
> evaluates to
> ```nix
> {
> "/nix/store/fvchh9cvcr7kdla6n860hshchsba305w-hello-2.12.drv" = {
> outputs = [ "out" ];
> };
> }
> ```
[`builtins.outputOf`]: ./builtins.md#builtins-outputOf
- [*derivation deep*]{#string-context-element-derivation-deep}
*derivation deep* is an advanced feature intended to be used with the
[`exportReferencesGraph` derivation attribute](./advanced-attributes.html#adv-attr-exportReferencesGraph).
A *derivation deep* string context element is a derivation path, and refers to both its outputs and the entire build closure of that derivation:
all its outputs, all the other derivations the given derivation depends on, and all the outputs of those.
> **Example**
>
> The best way to illustrate *derivation deep* string contexts is with [`builtins.addDrvOutputDependencies`].
> Take a regular constant string context element pointing to a derivation, and transform it into a "Derivation deep" string context element.
>
> ```nix
> builtins.getContext
> (builtins.addDrvOutputDependencies
> (builtins.storePath "/nix/store/fvchh9cvcr7kdla6n860hshchsba305w-hello-2.12.drv"))
> ```
> evaluates to
> ```nix
> {
> "/nix/store/fvchh9cvcr7kdla6n860hshchsba305w-hello-2.12.drv" = {
> allOutputs = true;
> };
> }
> ```
[`builtins.addDrvOutputDependencies`]: ./builtins.md#builtins-addDrvOutputDependencies
[`builtins.unsafeDiscardOutputDependency`]: ./builtins.md#builtins-unsafeDiscardOutputDependency
## Inspecting string contexts
Most basically, [`builtins.hasContext`] will tell whether a string has a non-empty context.
When more granular information is needed, [`builtins.getContext`] can be used.
It creates an [attribute set] representing the string context, which can be inspected as usual.
[`builtins.hasContext`]: ./builtins.md#builtins-hasContext
[`builtins.getContext`]: ./builtins.md#builtins-getContext
[attribute set]: ./types.md#attribute-set
## Clearing string contexts
[`buitins.unsafeDiscardStringContext`](./builtins.md#builtins-unsafeDiscardStringContext) will make a copy of a string, but with an empty string context.
The returned string can be used in more ways, e.g. by operators that require the string context to be empty.
The requirement to explicitly discard the string context in such use cases helps ensure that string context elements are not lost by mistake.
The "unsafe" marker is only there to remind that Nix normally guarantees that dependencies are tracked, whereas the returned string has lost them.
## Constructing string contexts
[`builtins.appendContext`] will create a copy of a string, but with additional string context elements.
The context is specified explicitly by an [attribute set] in the format that [`builtins.hasContext`] produces.
A string with arbitrary contexts can be made like this:
1. Create a string with the desired string context elements.
(The contents of the string do not matter.)
2. Dump its context with [`builtins.getContext`].
3. Combine it with a base string and repeated [`builtins.appendContext`] calls.
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# String literals
A *string literal* represents a [string](types.md#type-string) value.
> **Syntax**
>
> *expression* → *string*
>
> *string* → `"` ( *string_char*\* [*interpolation_element*][string interpolation] )* *string_char*\* `"`
>
> *string* → `''` ( *indented_string_char*\* [*interpolation_element*][string interpolation] )* *indented_string_char*\* `''`
>
> *string* → *uri*
>
> *string_char* ~ `[^"$\\]|\$(?!\{)|\\.`
>
> *indented_string_char* ~ `[^$']|\$\$|\$(?!\{)|''[$']|''\\.|'(?!')`
>
> *uri* ~ `[A-Za-z][+\-.0-9A-Za-z]*:[!$%&'*+,\-./0-9:=?@A-Z_a-z~]+`
Strings can be written in three ways.
The most common way is to enclose the string between double quotes, e.g., `"foo bar"`.
Strings can span multiple lines.
The results of other expressions can be included into a string by enclosing them in `${ }`, a feature known as [string interpolation].
[string interpolation]: ./string-interpolation.md
The following must be escaped to represent them within a string, by prefixing with a backslash (`\`):
- Double quote (`"`)
> **Example**
>
> ```nix
> "\""
> ```
>
> "\""
- Backslash (`\`)
> **Example**
>
> ```nix
> "\\"
> ```
>
> "\\"
- Dollar sign followed by an opening curly bracket (`${`) "dollar-curly"
> **Example**
>
> ```nix
> "\${"
> ```
>
> "\${"
The newline, carriage return, and tab characters can be written as `\n`, `\r` and `\t`, respectively.
A "double-dollar-curly" (`$${`) can be written literally.
> **Example**
>
> ```nix
> "$${"
> ```
>
> "$\${"
String values are output on the terminal with Nix-specific escaping.
Strings written to files will contain the characters encoded by the escaping.
The second way to write string literals is as an *indented string*, which is enclosed between pairs of *double single-quotes* (`''`), like so:
```nix
''
This is the first line.
This is the second line.
This is the third line.
''
```
This kind of string literal intelligently strips indentation from
the start of each line. To be precise, it strips from each line a
number of spaces equal to the minimal indentation of the string as a
whole (disregarding the indentation of empty lines). For instance,
the first and second line are indented two spaces, while the third
line is indented four spaces. Thus, two spaces are stripped from
each line, so the resulting string is
```nix
"This is the first line.\nThis is the second line.\n This is the third line.\n"
```
> **Note**
>
> Whitespace and newline following the opening `''` is ignored if there is no non-whitespace text on the initial line.
> **Warning**
>
> Prefixed tab characters are not stripped.
>
> > **Example**
> >
> > The following indented string is prefixed with tabs:
> >
> > <pre><code class="nohighlight">''
> > all:
> > @echo hello
> > ''
> > </code></pre>
> >
> > "\tall:\n\t\t@echo hello\n"
Indented strings support [string interpolation].
The following must be escaped to represent them in an indented string:
- `$` is escaped by prefixing it with two single quotes (`''`)
> **Example**
>
> ```nix
> ''
> ''$
> ''
> ```
>
> "$\n"
- `''` is escaped by prefixing it with one single quote (`'`)
> **Example**
>
> ```nix
> ''
> '''
> ''
> ```
>
> "''\n"
These special characters are escaped as follows:
- Linefeed (`\n`): `''\n`
- Carriage return (`\r`): `''\r`
- Tab (`\t`): `''\t`
`''\` escapes any other character.
A "dollar-curly" (`${`) can be written as follows:
> **Example**
>
> ```nix
> ''
> echo ''${PATH}
> ''
> ```
>
> "echo ${PATH}\n"
> **Note**
>
> This differs from the syntax for escaping a dollar-curly within double quotes (`"\${"`). Be aware of which one is needed at a given moment.
A "double-dollar-curly" (`$${`) can be written literally.
> **Example**
>
> ```nix
> ''
> $${
> ''
> ```
>
> "$\${\n"
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 `''` is much less common than `"`.
Example:
```nix
stdenv.mkDerivation {
...
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 ""}
'';
...
}
```
Finally, as a convenience, *URIs* as defined in appendix B of
[RFC 2396](http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2396.txt) can be written *as
is*, without quotes. For instance, the string
`"http://example.org/foo.tar.bz2"` can also be written as
`http://example.org/foo.tar.bz2`.

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# Data Types
Every value in the Nix language has one of the following types:
* [Integer](#type-int)
* [Float](#type-float)
* [Boolean](#type-bool)
* [String](#type-string)
* [Path](#type-path)
* [Null](#type-null)
* [Attribute set](#type-attrs)
* [List](#type-list)
* [Function](#type-function)
* [External](#type-external)
## Primitives
### Integer {#type-int}
An _integer_ in the Nix language is a signed 64-bit integer.
Non-negative integers can be expressed as [integer literals](syntax.md#number-literal).
Negative integers are created with the [arithmetic negation operator](./operators.md#arithmetic).
The function [`builtins.isInt`](builtins.md#builtins-isInt) can be used to determine if a value is an integer.
### Float {#type-float}
A _float_ in the Nix language is a 64-bit [IEEE 754](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IEEE_754) floating-point number.
Most non-negative floats can be expressed as [float literals](syntax.md#number-literal).
Negative floats are created with the [arithmetic negation operator](./operators.md#arithmetic).
The function [`builtins.isFloat`](builtins.md#builtins-isFloat) can be used to determine if a value is a float.
### Boolean {#type-bool}
A _boolean_ in the Nix language is one of _true_ or _false_.
<!-- TODO: mention the top-level environment -->
These values are available as attributes of [`builtins`](builtins.md#builtins-builtins) as [`builtins.true`](builtins.md#builtins-true) and [`builtins.false`](builtins.md#builtins-false).
The function [`builtins.isBool`](builtins.md#builtins-isBool) can be used to determine if a value is a boolean.
### String {#type-string}
A _string_ in the Nix language is an immutable, finite-length sequence of bytes, along with a [string context](string-context.md).
Nix does not assume or support working natively with character encodings.
String values without string context can be expressed as [string literals](string-literals.md).
The function [`builtins.isString`](builtins.md#builtins-isString) can be used to determine if a value is a string.
### Path {#type-path}
A _path_ in the Nix language is an immutable, finite-length sequence of bytes starting with `/`, representing a POSIX-style, canonical file system path.
Path values are distinct from string values, even if they contain the same sequence of bytes.
Operations that produce paths will simplify the result as the standard C function [`realpath`] would, except that there is no symbolic link resolution.
[`realpath`]: https://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/functions/realpath.html
Paths are suitable for referring to local files, and are often preferable over strings.
- Path values do not contain trailing or duplicate slashes, `.`, or `..`.
- Relative path literals are automatically resolved relative to their [base directory].
- Tooling can recognize path literals and provide additional features, such as autocompletion, refactoring automation and jump-to-file.
[base directory]: @docroot@/glossary.md#gloss-base-directory
A file is not required to exist at a given path in order for that path value to be valid, but a path that is converted to a string with [string interpolation] or [string-and-path concatenation] must resolve to a readable file or directory which will be copied into the Nix store.
For instance, evaluating `"${./foo.txt}"` will cause `foo.txt` from the same directory to be copied into the Nix store and result in the string `"/nix/store/<hash>-foo.txt"`.
Operations such as [`import`] can also expect a path to resolve to a readable file or directory.
[string interpolation]: string-interpolation.md#interpolated-expression
[string-and-path concatenation]: operators.md#string-and-path-concatenation
[`import`]: builtins.md#builtins-import
> **Note**
>
> The Nix language assumes that all input files will remain _unchanged_ while evaluating a Nix expression.
> For example, assume you used a file path in an interpolated string during a `nix repl` session.
> Later in the same session, after having changed the file contents, evaluating the interpolated string with the file path again might not return a new [store path], since Nix might not re-read the file contents.
> Use `:r` to reset the repl as needed.
[store path]: @docroot@/store/store-path.md
Path values can be expressed as [path literals](syntax.md#path-literal).
The function [`builtins.isPath`](builtins.md#builtins-isPath) can be used to determine if a value is a path.
### Null {#type-null}
There is a single value of type _null_ in the Nix language.
<!-- TODO: mention the top-level environment -->
This value is available as an attribute on the [`builtins`](builtins.md#builtins-builtins) attribute set as [`builtins.null`](builtins.md#builtins-null).
## Compound values
### Attribute set {#type-attrs}
<!-- TODO(@rhendric, #10970): fill this out -->
An attribute set can be constructed with an [attribute set literal](syntax.md#attrs-literal).
The function [`builtins.isAttrs`](builtins.md#builtins-isAttrs) can be used to determine if a value is an attribute set.
### List {#type-list}
<!-- TODO(@rhendric, #10970): fill this out -->
A list can be constructed with a [list literal](syntax.md#list-literal).
The function [`builtins.isList`](builtins.md#builtins-isList) can be used to determine if a value is a list.
## Function {#type-function}
<!-- TODO(@rhendric, #10970): fill this out -->
A function can be constructed with a [function expression](syntax.md#functions).
The function [`builtins.isFunction`](builtins.md#builtins-isFunction) can be used to determine if a value is a function.
## External {#type-external}
An _external_ value is an opaque value created by a Nix [plugin](../command-ref/conf-file.md#conf-plugin-files).
Such a value can be substituted in Nix expressions but only created and used by plugin code.

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# Variables
A *variable* is an [identifier](identifiers.md) used as an expression.
> **Syntax**
>
> *expression* → *identifier*
A variable must have the same name as a definition in the [scope](./scope.md) that encloses it.
The value of a variable is the value of the corresponding expression in the enclosing scope.

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summary_rl_next = custom_target(
command : [
bash,
'-euo', 'pipefail',
'-c',
'''
if [ -e "@INPUT@" ]; then
echo ' - [Upcoming release](release-notes/rl-next.md)'
fi
''',
],
input : [
rl_next_generated,
],
capture: true,
output : 'SUMMARY-rl-next.md',
)

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# Derivation JSON Format
> **Warning**
>
> This JSON format is currently
> [**experimental**](@docroot@/development/experimental-features.md#xp-feature-nix-command)
> and subject to change.
The JSON serialization of a
[derivations](@docroot@/glossary.md#gloss-store-derivation)
is a JSON object with the following fields:
* `name`:
The name of the derivation.
This is used when calculating the store paths of the derivation's outputs.
* `outputs`:
Information about the output paths of the derivation.
This is a JSON object with one member per output, where the key is the output name and the value is a JSON object with these fields:
* `path`:
The output path, if it is known in advanced.
Otherwise, `null`.
* `method`:
For an output which will be [content addresed], a string representing the [method](@docroot@/store/store-object/content-address.md) of content addressing that is chosen.
Valid method strings are:
- [`flat`](@docroot@/store/store-object/content-address.md#method-flat)
- [`nar`](@docroot@/store/store-object/content-address.md#method-nix-archive)
- [`text`](@docroot@/store/store-object/content-address.md#method-text)
- [`git`](@docroot@/store/store-object/content-address.md#method-git)
Otherwise, `null`.
* `hashAlgo`:
For an output which will be [content addresed], the name of the hash algorithm used.
Valid algorithm strings are:
- `md5`
- `sha1`
- `sha256`
- `sha512`
* `hash`:
For fixed-output derivations, the expected content hash in base-16.
> **Example**
>
> ```json
> "outputs": {
> "out": {
> "path": "/nix/store/2543j7c6jn75blc3drf4g5vhb1rhdq29-source",
> "method": "nar",
> "hashAlgo": "sha256",
> "hash": "6fc80dcc62179dbc12fc0b5881275898f93444833d21b89dfe5f7fbcbb1d0d62"
> }
> }
> ```
* `inputSrcs`:
A list of store paths on which this derivation depends.
* `inputDrvs`:
A JSON object specifying the derivations on which this derivation depends, and what outputs of those derivations.
> **Example**
>
> ```json
> "inputDrvs": {
> "/nix/store/6lkh5yi7nlb7l6dr8fljlli5zfd9hq58-curl-7.73.0.drv": ["dev"],
> "/nix/store/fn3kgnfzl5dzym26j8g907gq3kbm8bfh-unzip-6.0.drv": ["out"]
> }
> ```
specifies that this derivation depends on the `dev` output of `curl`, and the `out` output of `unzip`.
* `system`:
The system type on which this derivation is to be built
(e.g. `x86_64-linux`).
* `builder`:
The absolute path of the program to be executed to run the build.
Typically this is the `bash` shell
(e.g. `/nix/store/r3j288vpmczbl500w6zz89gyfa4nr0b1-bash-4.4-p23/bin/bash`).
* `args`:
The command-line arguments passed to the `builder`.
* `env`:
The environment passed to the `builder`.

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# Store object info JSON format
> **Warning**
>
> This JSON format is currently
> [**experimental**](@docroot@/development/experimental-features.md#xp-feature-nix-command)
> and subject to change.
Info about a [store object].
* `path`:
[Store path][store path] to the given store object.
* `narHash`:
Hash of the [file system object] part of the store object when serialized as a [Nix Archive].
* `narSize`:
Size of the [file system object] part of the store object when serialized as a [Nix Archive].
* `references`:
An array of [store paths][store path], possibly including this one.
* `ca`:
If the store object is [content-addressed],
this is the content address of this store object's file system object, used to compute its store path.
Otherwise (i.e. if it is [input-addressed]), this is `null`.
[store path]: @docroot@/store/store-path.md
[file system object]: @docroot@/store/file-system-object.md
[Nix Archive]: @docroot@/store/file-system-object/content-address.md#serial-nix-archive
## Impure fields
These are not intrinsic properties of the store object.
In other words, the same store object residing in different store could have different values for these properties.
* `deriver`:
If known, the path to the [derivation] from which this store object was produced.
Otherwise `null`.
[derivation]: @docroot@/glossary.md#gloss-store-derivation
* `registrationTime` (optional):
If known, when this derivation was added to the store.
Otherwise `null`.
* `ultimate`:
Whether this store object is trusted because we built it ourselves, rather than substituted a build product from elsewhere.
* `signatures`:
Signatures claiming that this store object is what it claims to be.
Not relevant for [content-addressed] store objects,
but useful for [input-addressed] store objects.
[content-addressed]: @docroot@/store/store-object/content-address.md
[input-addressed]: @docroot@/glossary.md#gloss-input-addressed-store-object
### `.narinfo` extra fields
This meta data is specific to the "binary cache" family of Nix store types.
This information is not intrinsic to the store object, but about how it is stored.
* `url`:
Where to download a compressed archive of the file system objects of this store object.
* `compression`:
The compression format that the archive is in.
* `fileHash`:
A digest for the compressed archive itself, as opposed to the data contained within.
* `fileSize`:
The size of the compressed archive itself.
## Computed closure fields
These fields are not stored at all, but computed by traversing the other fields across all the store objects in a [closure].
* `closureSize`:
The total size of the compressed archive itself for this object, and the compressed archive of every object in this object's [closure].
### `.narinfo` extra fields
* `closureSize`:
The total size of this store object and every other object in its [closure].
[closure]: @docroot@/glossary.md#gloss-closure

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# Nix Archive (NAR) format
This is the complete specification of the [Nix Archive] format.
The Nix Archive format closely follows the abstract specification of a [file system object] tree,
because it is designed to serialize exactly that data structure.
[Nix Archive]: @docroot@/store/file-system-object/content-address.md#nix-archive
[file system object]: @docroot@/store/file-system-object.md
The format of this specification is close to [Extended BackusNaur form](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extended_Backus%E2%80%93Naur_form), with the exception of the `str(..)` function / parameterized rule, which length-prefixes and pads strings.
This makes the resulting binary format easier to parse.
Regular users do *not* need to know this information.
But for those interested in exactly how Nix works, e.g. if they are reimplementing it, this information can be useful.
```ebnf
nar = str("nix-archive-1"), nar-obj;
nar-obj = str("("), nar-obj-inner, str(")");
nar-obj-inner
= str("type"), str("regular") regular
| str("type"), str("symlink") symlink
| str("type"), str("directory") directory
;
regular = [ str("executable"), str("") ], str("contents"), str(contents);
symlink = str("target"), str(target);
(* side condition: directory entries must be ordered by their names *)
directory = { directory-entry };
directory-entry = str("entry"), str("("), str("name"), str(name), str("node"), nar-obj, str(")");
```
The `str` function / parameterized rule is defined as follows:
- `str(s)` = `int(|s|), pad(s);`
- `int(n)` = the 64-bit little endian representation of the number `n`
- `pad(s)` = the byte sequence `s`, padded with 0s to a multiple of 8 byte

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# Complete Store Path Calculation
This is the complete specification for how [store path]s are calculated.
The format of this specification is close to [Extended BackusNaur form](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extended_Backus%E2%80%93Naur_form), but must deviate for a few things such as hash functions which we treat as bidirectional for specification purposes.
Regular users do *not* need to know this information --- store paths can be treated as black boxes computed from the properties of the store objects they refer to.
But for those interested in exactly how Nix works, e.g. if they are reimplementing it, this information can be useful.
[store path](@docroot@/store/store-path.md)
## Store path proper
```ebnf
store-path = store-dir "/" digest "-" name
```
where
- `name` = the name of the store object.
- `store-dir` = the [store directory](@docroot@/store/store-path.md#store-directory)
- `digest` = base-32 representation of the first 160 bits of a [SHA-256] hash of `fingerprint`
This the hash part of the store name
## Fingerprint
- ```ebnf
fingerprint = type ":" sha256 ":" inner-digest ":" store ":" name
```
Note that it includes the location of the store as well as the name to make sure that changes to either of those are reflected in the hash
(e.g. you won't get `/nix/store/<digest>-name1` and `/nix/store/<digest>-name2`, or `/gnu/store/<digest>-name1`, with equal hash parts).
- `type` = one of:
- ```ebnf
| "text" { ":" store-path }
```
This is for the
["Text"](@docroot@/store/store-object/content-address.md#method-text)
method of content addressing store objects.
The optional trailing store paths are the references of the store object.
- ```ebnf
| "source" { ":" store-path } [ ":self" ]
```
This is for the
["Nix Archive"](@docroot@/store/store-object/content-address.md#method-nix-archive)
method of content addressing store objects,
if the hash algorithm is [SHA-256].
Just like in the "Text" case, we can have the store objects referenced by their paths.
Additionally, we can have an optional `:self` label to denote self reference.
- ```ebnf
| "output:" id
```
For either the outputs built from derivations,
or content-addressed store objects that are not using one of the two above cases.
To be explicit about the latter, that is currently these methods:
- ["Flat"](@docroot@/store/store-object/content-address.md#method-flat)
- ["Git"](@docroot@/store/store-object/content-address.md#method-git)
- ["Nix Archive"](@docroot@/store/store-object/content-address.md#method-nix-archive) if the hash algorithm is not [SHA-256].
`id` is the name of the output (usually, "out").
For content-addressed store objects, `id`, is always "out".
- `inner-digest` = base-16 representation of a SHA-256 hash of `inner-fingerprint`
## Inner fingerprint
- `inner-fingerprint` = one of the following based on `type`:
- if `type` = `"text:" ...`:
the string written to the resulting store path.
- if `type` = `"source:" ...`:
the hash of the [Nix Archive (NAR)] serialization of the [file system object](@docroot@/store/file-system-object.md) of the store object.
- if `type` = `"output:" id`:
- For input-addressed derivation outputs:
the [ATerm](@docroot@/protocols/derivation-aterm.md) serialization of the derivation modulo fixed output derivations.
- For content-addressed store paths:
```ebnf
"fixed:out:" rec algo ":" hash ":"
```
where
- `rec` = one of:
- ```ebnf
| ""
```
(empty string) for hashes of the flat (single file) serialization
- ```ebnf
| "r:"
```
hashes of the for [Nix Archive (NAR)] (arbitrary file system object) serialization
- ```ebnf
| "git:"
```
hashes of the [Git blob/tree](https://git-scm.com/book/en/v2/Git-Internals-Git-Objects) [Merkel tree](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Merkle_tree) format
- ```ebnf
algo = "md5" | "sha1" | "sha256"
```
- `hash` = base-16 representation of the path or flat hash of the contents of the path (or expected contents of the path for fixed-output derivations).
Note that `id` = `"out"`, regardless of the name part of the store path.
Also note that NAR + SHA-256 must not use this case, and instead must use the `type` = `"source:" ...` case.
[Nix Archive (NAR)]: @docroot@/store/file-system-object/content-address.md#serial-nix-archive
[SHA-256]: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/SHA-256
### Historical Note
The `type` = `"source:" ...` and `type` = `"output:out"` grammars technically overlap in purpose,
in that both can represent data hashed by its SHA-256 NAR serialization.
The original reason for this way of computing names was to prevent name collisions (for security).
For instance, the thinking was that it shouldn't be feasible to come up with a derivation whose output path collides with the path for a copied source.
The former would have an `inner-fingerprint` starting with `output:out:`, while the latter would have an `inner-fingerprint` starting with `source:`.
Since `64519cfd657d024ae6e2bb74cb21ad21b886fd2a` (2008), however, it was decided that separating derivation-produced vs manually-hashed content-addressed data like this was not useful.
Now, data that is content-addressed with SHA-256 + NAR-serialization always uses the `source:...` construction, regardless of how it was produced (manually or by derivation).
This allows freely switching between using [fixed-output derivations](@docroot@/glossary.md#gloss-fixed-output-derivation) for fetching, and fetching out-of-band and then manually adding.
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# Quick Start
This chapter is for impatient people who don't like reading documentation.
For more in-depth information you are kindly referred to subsequent chapters.
1. Install Nix:
```console
$ curl -L https://nixos.org/nix/install | sh
```
The install script will use `sudo`, so make sure you have sufficient rights.
For other installation methods, see the detailed [installation instructions](installation/index.md).
1. Run software without installing it permanently:
```console
$ nix-shell --packages cowsay lolcat
```
This downloads the specified packages with all their dependencies, and drops you into a Bash shell where the commands provided by those packages are present.
This will not affect your normal environment:
```console
[nix-shell:~]$ cowsay Hello, Nix! | lolcat
```
Exiting the shell will make the programs disappear again:
```console
[nix-shell:~]$ exit
$ lolcat
lolcat: command not found
```
1. Search for more packages on [search.nixos.org](https://search.nixos.org/) to try them out.
1. Free up storage space:
```console
$ nix-collect-garbage
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# Nix Release Notes
The Nix release cycle is calendar-based as follows:
Nix has a release cycle of roughly 6 weeks.
Notable changes and additions are announced in the release notes for each version.
The supported Nix versions are:
- The latest release
- The version used in the stable NixOS release, which is announced in the [NixOS release notes](https://nixos.org/manual/nixos/stable/release-notes.html#ch-release-notes).
Bugfixes and security issues are backported to every supported version.
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rl_next_generated = custom_target(
command : [
'bash',
'-euo',
'pipefail',
'-c',
'''
if type -p build-release-notes > /dev/null; then
build-release-notes --change-authors @CURRENT_SOURCE_DIR@/../../change-authors.yml @CURRENT_SOURCE_DIR@/../../rl-next
elif type -p changelog-d > /dev/null; then
changelog-d @CURRENT_SOURCE_DIR@/../../rl-next
fi
@0@ @INPUT0@ @CURRENT_SOURCE_DIR@/../../rl-next > @DEPFILE@
'''.format(
python.full_path(),
),
],
input : [
generate_manual_deps,
],
output : 'rl-next.md',
capture : true,
depfile : 'rl-next.d',
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# Release 2.20.0 (2024-01-29)
- Option `allowed-uris` can now match whole schemes in URIs without slashes [#9547](https://github.com/NixOS/nix/pull/9547)
If a scheme, such as `github:` is specified in the `allowed-uris` option, all URIs starting with `github:` are allowed.
Previously this only worked for schemes whose URIs used the `://` syntax.
- Include cgroup stats when building through the daemon [#9598](https://github.com/NixOS/nix/pull/9598)
Nix now also reports cgroup statistics when building through the Nix daemon and when doing remote builds using `ssh-ng`,
if both sides of the connection are using Nix 2.20 or newer.
- Disallow empty search regex in `nix search` [#9481](https://github.com/NixOS/nix/pull/9481)
[`nix search`](@docroot@/command-ref/new-cli/nix3-search.md) now requires a search regex to be passed. To show all packages, use `^`.
- Add new `eval-system` setting [#4093](https://github.com/NixOS/nix/pull/4093)
Add a new `eval-system` option.
Unlike `system`, it just overrides the value of `builtins.currentSystem`.
This is more useful than overriding `system`, because you can build these derivations on remote builders which can work on the given system.
In contrast, `system` also affects scheduling which will cause Nix to build those derivations locally even if that doesn't make sense.
`eval-system` only takes effect if it is non-empty.
If empty (the default) `system` is used as before, so there is no breakage.
- Import-from-derivation builds the derivation in the build store [#9661](https://github.com/NixOS/nix/pull/9661)
When using `--eval-store`, `import`ing from a derivation will now result in the derivation being built on the build store, i.e. the store specified in the `store` Nix option.
Because the resulting Nix expression must be copied back to the evaluation store in order to be imported, this requires the evaluation store to trust the build store's signatures.
- Mounted SSH Store [#7890](https://github.com/NixOS/nix/issues/7890) [#7912](https://github.com/NixOS/nix/pull/7912)
Introduced the store [`mounted-ssh-ng://`](@docroot@/command-ref/new-cli/nix3-help-stores.md).
This store allows full access to a Nix store on a remote machine and additionally requires that the store be mounted in the local filesystem.
- Rename `nix show-config` to `nix config show` [#7672](https://github.com/NixOS/nix/issues/7672) [#9477](https://github.com/NixOS/nix/pull/9477)
`nix show-config` was renamed to `nix config show`, and `nix doctor` was renamed to `nix config check`, to be more consistent with the rest of the command line interface.
- Add command `nix hash convert` [#9452](https://github.com/NixOS/nix/pull/9452)
This replaces the old `nix hash to-*` commands, which are still available but will emit a deprecation warning. Please convert as follows:
- `nix hash to-base16 $hash1 $hash2`: Use `nix hash convert --to base16 $hash1 $hash2` instead.
- `nix hash to-base32 $hash1 $hash2`: Use `nix hash convert --to nix32 $hash1 $hash2` instead.
- `nix hash to-base64 $hash1 $hash2`: Use `nix hash convert --to base64 $hash1 $hash2` instead.
- `nix hash to-sri $hash1 $hash2`: : Use `nix hash convert --to sri $hash1 $hash2` or even just `nix hash convert $hash1 $hash2` instead.
- Rename hash format `base32` to `nix32` [#9452](https://github.com/NixOS/nix/pull/9452)
Hash format `base32` was renamed to `nix32` since it used a special Nix-specific character set for
[Base32](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Base32).
- `nix profile` now allows referring to elements by human-readable names [#8678](https://github.com/NixOS/nix/pull/8678)
[`nix profile`](@docroot@/command-ref/new-cli/nix3-profile.md) now uses names to refer to installed packages when running [`list`](@docroot@/command-ref/new-cli/nix3-profile-list.md), [`remove`](@docroot@/command-ref/new-cli/nix3-profile-remove.md) or [`upgrade`](@docroot@/command-ref/new-cli/nix3-profile-upgrade.md) as opposed to indices. Profile element names are generated when a package is installed and remain the same until the package is removed.
**Warning**: The `manifest.nix` file used to record the contents of profiles has changed. Nix will automatically upgrade profiles to the new version when you modify the profile. After that, the profile can no longer be used by older versions of Nix.
- Give `nix store add` a `--hash-algo` flag [#9809](https://github.com/NixOS/nix/pull/9809)
Adds a missing feature that was present in the old CLI, and matches our
plans to have similar flags for `nix hash convert` and `nix hash path`.
- Coercion errors include the failing value
The `error: cannot coerce a <TYPE> to a string` message now includes the value
which caused the error.
Before:
```
error: cannot coerce a set to a string
```
After:
```
error: cannot coerce a set to a string: { aesSupport = «thunk»;
avx2Support = «thunk»; avx512Support = «thunk»; avxSupport = «thunk»;
canExecute = «thunk»; config = «thunk»; darwinArch = «thunk»; darwinMinVersion
= «thunk»; darwinMinVersionVariable = «thunk»; darwinPlatform = «thunk»; «84
attributes elided»}
```
- Type errors include the failing value
In errors like `value is an integer while a list was expected`, the message now
includes the failing value.
Before:
```
error: value is a set while a string was expected
```
After:
```
error: expected a string but found a set: { ghc810 = «thunk»;
ghc8102Binary = «thunk»; ghc8107 = «thunk»; ghc8107Binary = «thunk»;
ghc865Binary = «thunk»; ghc90 = «thunk»; ghc902 = «thunk»; ghc92 = «thunk»;
ghc924Binary = «thunk»; ghc925 = «thunk»; «17 attributes elided»}
```
- Source locations are printed more consistently in errors [#561](https://github.com/NixOS/nix/issues/561) [#9555](https://github.com/NixOS/nix/pull/9555)
Source location information is now included in error messages more
consistently. Given this code:
```nix
let
attr = {foo = "bar";};
key = {};
in
attr.${key}
```
Previously, Nix would show this unhelpful message when attempting to evaluate
it:
```
error:
… while evaluating an attribute name
error: value is a set while a string was expected
```
Now, the error message displays where the problematic value was found:
```
error:
… while evaluating an attribute name
at bad.nix:4:11:
3| key = {};
4| in attr.${key}
| ^
5|
error: expected a string but found a set
```
- Some stack overflow segfaults are fixed [#9616](https://github.com/NixOS/nix/issues/9616) [#9617](https://github.com/NixOS/nix/pull/9617)
The number of nested function calls has been restricted, to detect and report
infinite function call recursions. The default maximum call depth is 10,000 and
can be set with [the `max-call-depth`
option](@docroot@/command-ref/conf-file.md#conf-max-call-depth).
This replaces the `stack overflow (possible infinite recursion)` message.
- Better error reporting for `with` expressions [#9658](https://github.com/NixOS/nix/pull/9658)
`with` expressions using non-attrset values to resolve variables are now reported with proper positions, e.g.
```
nix-repl> with 1; a
error:
… while evaluating the first subexpression of a with expression
at «string»:1:1:
1| with 1; a
| ^
error: expected a set but found an integer
```
- Functions are printed with more detail [#7145](https://github.com/NixOS/nix/issues/7145) [#9606](https://github.com/NixOS/nix/pull/9606)
`nix repl`, `nix eval`, `builtins.trace`, and most other places values are
printed will now include function names and source location information:
```
$ nix repl nixpkgs
nix-repl> builtins.map
«primop map»
nix-repl> builtins.map lib.id
«partially applied primop map»
nix-repl> builtins.trace lib.id "my-value"
trace: «lambda id @ /nix/store/8rrzq23h2zq7sv5l2vhw44kls5w0f654-source/lib/trivial.nix:26:5»
"my-value"
```
- Flake operations like `nix develop` will no longer fail when run in a Git
repository where the `flake.lock` file is `.gitignore`d
[#8854](https://github.com/NixOS/nix/issues/8854)
[#9324](https://github.com/NixOS/nix/pull/9324)
- Nix commands will now respect Ctrl-C
[#7145](https://github.com/NixOS/nix/issues/7145)
[#6995](https://github.com/NixOS/nix/pull/6995)
[#9687](https://github.com/NixOS/nix/pull/9687)
Previously, many Nix commands would hang indefinitely if Ctrl-C was pressed
while performing various operations (including `nix develop`, `nix flake
update`, and so on). With several fixes to Nix's signal handlers, Nix
commands will now exit quickly after Ctrl-C is pressed.
- `nix copy` to a `ssh-ng` store now needs `--substitute-on-destination` (a.k.a. `-s`)
in order to substitute paths on the remote store instead of copying them.
The behavior is consistent with `nix copy` to a different kind of remote store.
Previously this behavior was controlled by the
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# Release 2.21.0 (2024-03-11)
- Fix a fixed-output derivation sandbox escape (CVE-2024-27297)
Cooperating Nix derivations could send file descriptors to files in the Nix
store to each other via Unix domain sockets in the abstract namespace. This
allowed one derivation to modify the output of the other derivation, after Nix
has registered the path as "valid" and immutable in the Nix database.
In particular, this allowed the output of fixed-output derivations to be
modified from their expected content.
This isn't the case any more.
- CLI options `--arg-from-file` and `--arg-from-stdin` [#10122](https://github.com/NixOS/nix/pull/10122)
The new CLI option `--arg-from-file` *name* *path* passes the contents
of file *path* as a string value via the function argument *name* to a
Nix expression. Similarly, the new option `--arg-from-stdin` *name*
reads the contents of the string from standard input.
- Concise error printing in `nix repl` [#9928](https://github.com/NixOS/nix/pull/9928)
Previously, if an element of a list or attribute set threw an error while
evaluating, `nix repl` would print the entire error (including source location
information) inline. This output was clumsy and difficult to parse:
```
nix-repl> { err = builtins.throw "uh oh!"; }
{ err = «error:
… while calling the 'throw' builtin
at «string»:1:9:
1| { err = builtins.throw "uh oh!"; }
| ^
error: uh oh!»; }
```
Now, only the error message is displayed, making the output much more readable.
```
nix-repl> { err = builtins.throw "uh oh!"; }
{ err = «error: uh oh!»; }
```
However, if the whole expression being evaluated throws an error, source
locations and (if applicable) a stack trace are printed, just like you'd expect:
```
nix-repl> builtins.throw "uh oh!"
error:
… while calling the 'throw' builtin
at «string»:1:1:
1| builtins.throw "uh oh!"
| ^
error: uh oh!
```
- `--debugger` can now access bindings from `let` expressions [#8827](https://github.com/NixOS/nix/issues/8827) [#9918](https://github.com/NixOS/nix/pull/9918)
Breakpoints and errors in the bindings of a `let` expression can now access
those bindings in the debugger. Previously, only the body of `let` expressions
could access those bindings.
- Enter the `--debugger` when `builtins.trace` is called if `debugger-on-trace` is set [#9914](https://github.com/NixOS/nix/pull/9914)
If the `debugger-on-trace` option is set and `--debugger` is given,
`builtins.trace` calls will behave similarly to `builtins.break` and will enter
the debug REPL. This is useful for determining where warnings are being emitted
from.
- Debugger prints source position information [#9913](https://github.com/NixOS/nix/pull/9913)
The `--debugger` now prints source location information, instead of the
pointers of source location information. Before:
```
nix-repl> :bt
0: while evaluating the attribute 'python311.pythonForBuild.pkgs'
0x600001522598
```
After:
```
0: while evaluating the attribute 'python311.pythonForBuild.pkgs'
/nix/store/hg65h51xnp74ikahns9hyf3py5mlbbqq-source/overrides/default.nix:132:27
131|
132| bootstrappingBase = pkgs.${self.python.pythonAttr}.pythonForBuild.pkgs;
| ^
133| in
```
- The `--debugger` will start more reliably in `let` expressions and function calls [#6649](https://github.com/NixOS/nix/issues/6649) [#9917](https://github.com/NixOS/nix/pull/9917)
Previously, if you attempted to evaluate this file with the debugger:
```nix
let
a = builtins.trace "before inner break" (
builtins.break "hello"
);
b = builtins.trace "before outer break" (
builtins.break a
);
in
b
```
Nix would correctly enter the debugger at `builtins.break a`, but if you asked
it to `:continue`, it would skip over the `builtins.break "hello"` expression
entirely.
Now, Nix will correctly enter the debugger at both breakpoints.
- Nested debuggers are no longer supported [#9920](https://github.com/NixOS/nix/pull/9920)
Previously, evaluating an expression that throws an error in the debugger would
enter a second, nested debugger:
```
nix-repl> builtins.throw "what"
error: what
Starting REPL to allow you to inspect the current state of the evaluator.
Welcome to Nix 2.18.1. Type :? for help.
nix-repl>
```
Now, it just prints the error message like `nix repl`:
```
nix-repl> builtins.throw "what"
error:
… while calling the 'throw' builtin
at «string»:1:1:
1| builtins.throw "what"
| ^
error: what
```
- Consistent order of function arguments in printed expressions [#9874](https://github.com/NixOS/nix/pull/9874)
Function arguments are now printed in lexicographic order rather than the internal, creation-time based symbol order.
- Fix duplicate attribute error positions for `inherit` [#9874](https://github.com/NixOS/nix/pull/9874)
When an `inherit` caused a duplicate attribute error the position of the error was not reported correctly, placing the error with the inherit itself or at the start of the bindings block instead of the offending attribute name.
- `inherit (x) ...` evaluates `x` only once [#9847](https://github.com/NixOS/nix/pull/9847)
`inherit (x) a b ...` now evaluates the expression `x` only once for all inherited attributes rather than once for each inherited attribute.
This does not usually have a measurable impact, but side-effects (such as `builtins.trace`) would be duplicated and expensive expressions (such as derivations) could cause a measurable slowdown.
- Store paths are allowed to start with `.` [#912](https://github.com/NixOS/nix/issues/912) [#9091](https://github.com/NixOS/nix/pull/9091) [#9095](https://github.com/NixOS/nix/pull/9095) [#9120](https://github.com/NixOS/nix/pull/9120) [#9121](https://github.com/NixOS/nix/pull/9121) [#9122](https://github.com/NixOS/nix/pull/9122) [#9130](https://github.com/NixOS/nix/pull/9130) [#9219](https://github.com/NixOS/nix/pull/9219) [#9224](https://github.com/NixOS/nix/pull/9224) [#9867](https://github.com/NixOS/nix/pull/9867)
Leading periods were allowed by accident in Nix 2.4. The Nix team has considered this to be a bug, but this behavior has since been relied on by users, leading to unnecessary difficulties.
From now on, leading periods are supported. The names `.` and `..` are disallowed, as well as those starting with `.-` or `..-`.
Nix versions that denied leading periods are documented [in the issue](https://github.com/NixOS/nix/issues/912#issuecomment-1919583286).
- `nix repl` pretty-prints values [#9931](https://github.com/NixOS/nix/pull/9931)
`nix repl` will now pretty-print values:
```
{
attrs = {
a = {
b = {
c = { };
};
};
};
list = [ 1 ];
list' = [
1
2
3
];
}
```
- Introduction of `--regex` and `--all` in `nix profile remove` and `nix profile upgrade` [#10166](https://github.com/NixOS/nix/pull/10166)
Previously the command-line arguments for `nix profile remove` and `nix profile upgrade` matched the package entries using regular expression.
For instance:
```
nix profile remove '.*vim.*'
```
This would remove all packages that contain `vim` in their name.
In most cases, only singular package names were used to remove and upgrade packages. Mixing this with regular expressions sometimes lead to unintended behavior. For instance, `python3.1` could match `python311`.
To avoid unintended behavior, the arguments are now only matching exact names.
Matching using regular expressions is still possible by using the new `--regex` flag:
```
nix profile remove --regex '.*vim.*'
```
One of the most useful cases for using regular expressions was to upgrade all packages. This was previously accomplished by:
```
nix profile upgrade '.*'
```
With the introduction of the `--all` flag, this now becomes more straightforward:
```
nix profile upgrade --all
```
- Visual clutter in `--debugger` is reduced [#9919](https://github.com/NixOS/nix/pull/9919)
Before:
```
info: breakpoint reached
Starting REPL to allow you to inspect the current state of the evaluator.
Welcome to Nix 2.20.0pre20231222_dirty. Type :? for help.
nix-repl> :continue
error: uh oh
Starting REPL to allow you to inspect the current state of the evaluator.
Welcome to Nix 2.20.0pre20231222_dirty. Type :? for help.
nix-repl>
```
After:
```
info: breakpoint reached
Nix 2.20.0pre20231222_dirty debugger
Type :? for help.
nix-repl> :continue
error: uh oh
nix-repl>
```
- Cycle detection in `nix repl` is simpler and more reliable [#8672](https://github.com/NixOS/nix/issues/8672) [#9926](https://github.com/NixOS/nix/pull/9926)
The cycle detection in `nix repl`, `nix eval`, `builtins.trace`, and everywhere
else values are printed is now simpler and matches the cycle detection in
`nix-instantiate --eval` output.
Before:
```
nix eval --expr 'let self = { inherit self; }; in self'
{ self = { self = «repeated»; }; }
```
After:
```
{ self = «repeated»; }
```
- In the debugger, `while evaluating the attribute` errors now include position information [#9915](https://github.com/NixOS/nix/pull/9915)
Before:
```
0: while evaluating the attribute 'python311.pythonForBuild.pkgs'
0x600001522598
```
After:
```
0: while evaluating the attribute 'python311.pythonForBuild.pkgs'
/nix/store/hg65h51xnp74ikahns9hyf3py5mlbbqq-source/overrides/default.nix:132:27
131|
132| bootstrappingBase = pkgs.${self.python.pythonAttr}.pythonForBuild.pkgs;
| ^
133| in
```
- Stack size is increased on macOS [#9860](https://github.com/NixOS/nix/pull/9860)
Previously, Nix would set the stack size to 64MiB on Linux, but would leave the
stack size set to the default (approximately 8KiB) on macOS. Now, the stack
size is correctly set to 64MiB on macOS as well, which should reduce stack
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# Release 2.22.0 (2024-04-23)
### Significant changes
- Remove experimental repl-flake [#10103](https://github.com/NixOS/nix/issues/10103) [#10299](https://github.com/NixOS/nix/pull/10299)
The `repl-flake` experimental feature has been removed. The `nix repl` command now works like the rest of the new CLI in that `nix repl {path}` now tries to load a flake at `{path}` (or fails if the `flakes` experimental feature isn't enabled).
### Other changes
- `nix eval` prints derivations as `.drv` paths [#10200](https://github.com/NixOS/nix/pull/10200)
`nix eval` will now print derivations as their `.drv` paths, rather than as
attribute sets. This makes commands like `nix eval nixpkgs#bash` terminate
instead of infinitely looping into recursive self-referential attributes:
```ShellSession
$ nix eval nixpkgs#bash
«derivation /nix/store/m32cbgbd598f4w299g0hwyv7gbw6rqcg-bash-5.2p26.drv»
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# Release 2.23.0 (2024-06-03)
- New builtin: `builtins.warn` [#306026](https://github.com/NixOS/nix/issues/306026) [#10592](https://github.com/NixOS/nix/pull/10592)
`builtins.warn` behaves like `builtins.trace "warning: ${msg}"`, has an accurate log level, and is controlled by the options
[`debugger-on-trace`](@docroot@/command-ref/conf-file.md#conf-debugger-on-trace),
[`debugger-on-warn`](@docroot@/command-ref/conf-file.md#conf-debugger-on-warn) and
[`abort-on-warn`](@docroot@/command-ref/conf-file.md#conf-abort-on-warn).
- Make `nix build --keep-going` consistent with `nix-build --keep-going`
This means that if e.g. multiple fixed-output derivations fail to
build, all hash mismatches are displayed.
- Modify `nix derivation {add,show}` JSON format [#9866](https://github.com/NixOS/nix/issues/9866) [#10722](https://github.com/NixOS/nix/pull/10722)
The JSON format for derivations has been slightly revised to better conform to our [JSON guidelines](@docroot@/development/cli-guideline.md#returning-future-proof-json).
In particular, the hash algorithm and content addressing method of content-addresed derivation outputs are now separated into two fields `hashAlgo` and `method`,
rather than one field with an arcane `:`-separated format.
This JSON format is only used by the experimental `nix derivation` family of commands, at this time.
Future revisions are expected as the JSON format is still not entirely in compliance even after these changes.
- Warn on unknown settings anywhere in the command line [#10701](https://github.com/NixOS/nix/pull/10701)
All `nix` commands will now properly warn when an unknown option is specified anywhere in the command line.
Before:
```console
$ nix-instantiate --option foobar baz --expr '{}'
warning: unknown setting 'foobar'
$ nix-instantiate '{}' --option foobar baz --expr
$ nix eval --expr '{}' --option foobar baz
{ }
```
After:
```console
$ nix-instantiate --option foobar baz --expr '{}'
warning: unknown setting 'foobar'
$ nix-instantiate '{}' --option foobar baz --expr
warning: unknown setting 'foobar'
$ nix eval --expr '{}' --option foobar baz
warning: unknown setting 'foobar'
{ }
```
- `nix env shell` is the new `nix shell`, and `nix shell` remains an accepted alias [#10504](https://github.com/NixOS/nix/issues/10504) [#10807](https://github.com/NixOS/nix/pull/10807)
This is part of an effort to bring more structure to the CLI subcommands.
`nix env` will be about the process environment.
Future commands may include `nix env run` and `nix env print-env`.
It is also somewhat analogous to the [planned](https://github.com/NixOS/nix/issues/10504) `nix dev shell` (currently `nix develop`), which is less about environment variables, and more about running a development shell, which is a more powerful command, but also requires more setup.
- Flake operations that expect derivations now print the failing value and its type [#10778](https://github.com/NixOS/nix/pull/10778)
In errors like `flake output attribute 'nixosConfigurations.yuki.config' is not a derivation or path`, the message now includes the failing value and type.
Before:
```
error: flake output attribute 'nixosConfigurations.yuki.config' is not a derivation or path
````
After:
```
error: expected flake output attribute 'nixosConfigurations.yuki.config' to be a derivation or path but found a set: { appstream = «thunk»; assertions = «thunk»; boot = { bcache = «thunk»; binfmt = «thunk»; binfmtMiscRegistrations = «thunk»; blacklistedKernelModules = «thunk»; bootMount = «thunk»; bootspec = «thunk»; cleanTmpDir = «thunk»; consoleLogLevel = «thunk»; «43 attributes elided» }; «48 attributes elided» }
```
- `fetchTree` now fetches Git repositories shallowly by default [#10028](https://github.com/NixOS/nix/pull/10028)
`builtins.fetchTree` now clones Git repositories shallowly by default, which reduces network traffic and disk usage significantly in many cases.
Previously, the default behavior was to clone the full history of a specific tag or branch (e.g. `ref`) and only afterwards extract the files of one specific revision.
From now on, the `ref` and `allRefs` arguments will be ignored, except if shallow cloning is disabled by setting `shallow = false`.
The defaults for `builtins.fetchGit` remain unchanged. Here, shallow cloning has to be enabled manually by passing `shallow = true`.
- Store object info JSON format now uses `null` rather than omitting fields [#9995](https://github.com/NixOS/nix/pull/9995)
The [store object info JSON format](@docroot@/protocols/json/store-object-info.md), used for e.g. `nix path-info`, no longer omits fields to indicate absent information, but instead includes the fields with a `null` value.
For example, `"ca": null` is used to indicate a store object that isn't content-addressed rather than omitting the `ca` field entirely.
This makes records of this sort more self-describing, and easier to consume programmatically.
We will follow this design principle going forward;
the [JSON guidelines](@docroot@/development/json-guideline.md) in the contributing section have been updated accordingly.
- Large path warnings [#10661](https://github.com/NixOS/nix/pull/10661)
Nix can now warn when evaluation of a Nix expression causes a large
path to be copied to the Nix store. The threshold for this warning can
be configured using [the `warn-large-path-threshold`
setting](@docroot@/command-ref/conf-file.md#conf-warn-large-path-threshold),
e.g. `--warn-large-path-threshold 100M` will warn about paths larger
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# Release 2.24.0 (2024-07-31)
### Significant changes
- Harden user sandboxing
The build directory has been hardened against interference with the outside world by nesting it inside another directory owned by (and only readable by) the daemon user.
This is a low severity security fix, [CVE-2024-38531](https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2024-38531).
Credit: [**@alois31**](https://github.com/alois31), [**Linus Heckemann (@lheckemann)**](https://github.com/lheckemann)
Co-authors: [**@edolstra**](https://github.com/edolstra)
- `nix-shell <directory>` looks for `shell.nix` [#496](https://github.com/NixOS/nix/issues/496) [#2279](https://github.com/NixOS/nix/issues/2279) [#4529](https://github.com/NixOS/nix/issues/4529) [#5431](https://github.com/NixOS/nix/issues/5431) [#11053](https://github.com/NixOS/nix/issues/11053) [#11057](https://github.com/NixOS/nix/pull/11057)
`nix-shell $x` now looks for `$x/shell.nix` when `$x` resolves to a directory.
Although this might be seen as a breaking change, its primarily interactive usage makes it a minor issue.
This adjustment addresses a commonly reported problem.
This also applies to `nix-shell` shebang scripts. Consider the following example:
```shell
#!/usr/bin/env nix-shell
#!nix-shell -i bash
```
This will now load `shell.nix` from the script's directory, if it exists; `default.nix` otherwise.
The old behavior can be opted into by setting the option [`nix-shell-always-looks-for-shell-nix`](@docroot@/command-ref/conf-file.md#conf-nix-shell-always-looks-for-shell-nix) to `false`.
Author: [**Robert Hensing (@roberth)**](https://github.com/roberth)
- `nix-repl`'s `:doc` shows documentation comments [#3904](https://github.com/NixOS/nix/issues/3904) [#10771](https://github.com/NixOS/nix/issues/10771) [#1652](https://github.com/NixOS/nix/pull/1652) [#9054](https://github.com/NixOS/nix/pull/9054) [#11072](https://github.com/NixOS/nix/pull/11072)
`nix repl` has a `:doc` command that previously only rendered documentation for internally defined functions.
This feature has been extended to also render function documentation comments, in accordance with [RFC 145].
Example:
```
nix-repl> :doc lib.toFunction
Function toFunction
… defined at /home/user/h/nixpkgs/lib/trivial.nix:1072:5
Turns any non-callable values into constant functions. Returns
callable values as is.
Inputs
v
: Any value
Examples
:::{.example}
## lib.trivial.toFunction usage example
| nix-repl> lib.toFunction 1 2
| 1
|
| nix-repl> lib.toFunction (x: x + 1) 2
| 3
:::
```
Known limitations:
- It does not render documentation for "formals", such as `{ /** the value to return */ x, ... }: x`.
- Some extensions to markdown are not yet supported, as you can see in the example above.
We'd like to acknowledge [Yingchi Long (@inclyc)](https://github.com/inclyc) for proposing a proof of concept for this functionality in [#9054](https://github.com/NixOS/nix/pull/9054), as well as [@sternenseemann](https://github.com/sternenseemann) and [Johannes Kirschbauer (@hsjobeki)](https://github.com/hsjobeki) for their contributions, proposals, and their work on [RFC 145].
Author: [**Robert Hensing (@roberth)**](https://github.com/roberth)
[RFC 145]: https://github.com/NixOS/rfcs/pull/145
### Other changes
- Solve `cached failure of attribute X` [#9165](https://github.com/NixOS/nix/issues/9165) [#10513](https://github.com/NixOS/nix/issues/10513) [#10564](https://github.com/NixOS/nix/pull/10564)
This eliminates all "cached failure of attribute X" messages by forcing evaluation of the original value when needed to show the exception to the user. This enhancement improves error reporting by providing the underlying message and stack trace.
Author: [**Eelco Dolstra (@edolstra)**](https://github.com/edolstra)
- Run the flake regressions test suite [#10603](https://github.com/NixOS/nix/pull/10603)
This update introduces a GitHub action to run a subset of the [flake regressions test suite](https://github.com/NixOS/flake-regressions), which includes 259 flakes with their expected evaluation results. Currently, the action runs the first 25 flakes due to the full test suite's extensive runtime. A manually triggered action may be implemented later to run the entire test suite.
Author: [**Eelco Dolstra (@edolstra)**](https://github.com/edolstra)
- Support unit prefixes in configuration settings [#10668](https://github.com/NixOS/nix/pull/10668)
Configuration settings in Nix now support unit prefixes, allowing for more intuitive and readable configurations. For example, you can now specify [`--min-free 1G`](@docroot@/command-ref/opt-common.md#opt-min-free) to set the minimum free space to 1 gigabyte.
This enhancement was extracted from [#7851](https://github.com/NixOS/nix/pull/7851) and is also useful for PR [#10661](https://github.com/NixOS/nix/pull/10661).
Author: [**Eelco Dolstra (@edolstra)**](https://github.com/edolstra)
- `nix build`: show all FOD errors with `--keep-going` [#10734](https://github.com/NixOS/nix/pull/10734)
The [`nix build`](@docroot@/command-ref/new-cli/nix3-build.md) command has been updated to improve the behavior of the [`--keep-going`] flag. Now, when `--keep-going` is used, all hash-mismatch errors of failing fixed-output derivations (FODs) are displayed, similar to the behavior for other build failures. This enhancement ensures that all relevant build errors are shown, making it easier for users to update multiple derivations at once or to diagnose and fix issues.
Author: [**Jörg Thalheim (@Mic92)**](https://github.com/Mic92), [**Maximilian Bosch (@Ma27)**](https://github.com/Ma27)
[`--keep-going`](@docroot@/command-ref/opt-common.md#opt-keep-going)
- Build with Meson [#2503](https://github.com/NixOS/nix/issues/2503) [#10378](https://github.com/NixOS/nix/pull/10378) [#10855](https://github.com/NixOS/nix/pull/10855) [#10904](https://github.com/NixOS/nix/pull/10904) [#10908](https://github.com/NixOS/nix/pull/10908) [#10914](https://github.com/NixOS/nix/pull/10914) [#10933](https://github.com/NixOS/nix/pull/10933) [#10936](https://github.com/NixOS/nix/pull/10936) [#10954](https://github.com/NixOS/nix/pull/10954) [#10955](https://github.com/NixOS/nix/pull/10955) [#10963](https://github.com/NixOS/nix/pull/10963) [#10967](https://github.com/NixOS/nix/pull/10967) [#10973](https://github.com/NixOS/nix/pull/10973) [#11034](https://github.com/NixOS/nix/pull/11034) [#11054](https://github.com/NixOS/nix/pull/11054) [#11055](https://github.com/NixOS/nix/pull/11055) [#11060](https://github.com/NixOS/nix/pull/11060) [#11064](https://github.com/NixOS/nix/pull/11064) [#11155](https://github.com/NixOS/nix/pull/11155)
These changes aim to replace the use of autotools and `make` with Meson for building various components of Nix. Additionally, each library is built in its own derivation, leveraging Meson's "subprojects" feature to allow a single development shell for building all libraries while also supporting separate builds. This approach aims to improve productivity and build modularity, compared to both make and a monolithic Meson-based derivation.
Special thanks to everyone who has contributed to the Meson port, particularly [**@p01arst0rm**](https://github.com/p01arst0rm) and [**@Qyriad**](https://github.com/Qyriad).
Authors: [**John Ericson (@Ericson2314)**](https://github.com/Ericson2314), [**Tom Bereknyei**](https://github.com/tomberek), [**Théophane Hufschmitt (@thufschmitt)**](https://github.com/thufschmitt), [**Valentin Gagarin (@fricklerhandwerk)**](https://github.com/fricklerhandwerk), [**Robert Hensing (@roberth)**](https://github.com/roberth)
Co-authors: [**@p01arst0rm**](https://github.com/p01arst0rm), [**@Qyriad**](https://github.com/Qyriad)
- Evaluation cache: fix cache regressions [#10570](https://github.com/NixOS/nix/issues/10570) [#11086](https://github.com/NixOS/nix/pull/11086)
This update addresses two bugs in the evaluation cache system:
1. Regression in #10570: The evaluation cache was not being persisted in `nix develop`.
2. Nix could sometimes try to commit the evaluation cache SQLite transaction without there being an active transaction, resulting in non-error errors being printed.
Author: [**Lexi Mattick (@kognise)**](https://github.com/kognise)
- Introduce `libnixflake` [#9063](https://github.com/NixOS/nix/pull/9063)
A new library, `libnixflake`, has been introduced to better separate the Flakes layer within Nix. This change refactors the codebase to encapsulate Flakes-specific functionality within its own library.
See the commits in the pull request for detailed changes, with the only significant code modifications happening in the initial commit.
This change was alluded to in [RFC 134](https://github.com/nixos/rfcs/blob/master/rfcs/0134-nix-store-layer.md) and is a step towards a more modular and maintainable codebase.
Author: [**John Ericson (@Ericson2314)**](https://github.com/Ericson2314)
- CLI options `--arg-from-file` and `--arg-from-stdin` [#9913](https://github.com/NixOS/nix/pull/9913)
- The `--debugger` now prints source location information, instead of the
pointers of source location information. Before:
```
nix-repl> :bt
0: while evaluating the attribute 'python311.pythonForBuild.pkgs'
0x600001522598
```
After:
```
0: while evaluating the attribute 'python311.pythonForBuild.pkgs'
/nix/store/hg65h51xnp74ikahns9hyf3py5mlbbqq-source/overrides/default.nix:132:27
131|
132| bootstrappingBase = pkgs.${self.python.pythonAttr}.pythonForBuild.pkgs;
| ^
133| in
```
- Stop vendoring `toml11`
We don't apply any patches to it, and vendoring it locks users into
bugs (it hasn't been updated since its introduction in late 2021).
Author: [**Winter (@winterqt)**](https://github.com/winterqt)
- Rename hash format `base32` to `nix32` [#8678](https://github.com/NixOS/nix/pull/8678)
Hash format `base32` was renamed to `nix32` since it used a special nix-specific character set for
[Base32](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Base32).
**Deprecation**: Use `nix32` instead of `base32` as `toHashFormat`
For the builtin `convertHash`, the `toHashFormat` parameter now accepts the same hash formats as the `--to`/`--from`
parameters of the `nix hash conert` command: `"base16"`, `"nix32"`, `"base64"`, and `"sri"`. The former `"base32"` value
remains as a deprecated alias for `"nix32"`. Please convert your code from:
```nix
builtins.convertHash { inherit hash hashAlgo; toHashFormat = "base32";}
```
to
```nix
builtins.convertHash { inherit hash hashAlgo; toHashFormat = "nix32";}
```
- Add `pipe-operators` experimental feature [#11131](https://github.com/NixOS/nix/pull/11131)
This is a draft implementation of [RFC 0148](https://github.com/NixOS/rfcs/pull/148).
The `pipe-operators` experimental feature adds [`<|` and `|>` operators][pipe operators] to the Nix language.
*a* `|>` *b* is equivalent to the function application *b* *a*, and
*a* `<|` *b* is equivalent to the function application *a* *b*.
For example:
```
nix-repl> 1 |> builtins.add 2 |> builtins.mul 3
9
nix-repl> builtins.add 1 <| builtins.mul 2 <| 3
7
```
`<|` and `|>` are right and left associative, respectively, and have lower precedence than any other operator.
These properties may change in future releases.
See [the RFC](https://github.com/NixOS/rfcs/pull/148) for more examples and rationale.
[pipe operators]: @docroot@/language/operators.md#pipe-operators
- `nix-shell` shebang uses relative path [#4232](https://github.com/NixOS/nix/issues/4232) [#5088](https://github.com/NixOS/nix/pull/5088) [#11058](https://github.com/NixOS/nix/pull/11058)
<!-- unfortunately no link target for the specific syntax -->
Relative [path](@docroot@/language/types.md#type-path) literals in `nix-shell` shebang scripts' options are now resolved relative to the [script's location](@docroot@/glossary.md?highlight=base%20directory#gloss-base-directory).
Previously they were resolved relative to the current working directory.
For example, consider the following script in `~/myproject/say-hi`:
```shell
#!/usr/bin/env nix-shell
#!nix-shell --expr 'import ./shell.nix'
#!nix-shell --arg toolset './greeting-tools.nix'
#!nix-shell -i bash
hello
```
Older versions of `nix-shell` would resolve `shell.nix` relative to the current working directory, such as the user's home directory in this example:
```console
[hostname:~]$ ./myproject/say-hi
error:
… while calling the 'import' builtin
at «string»:1:2:
1| (import ./shell.nix)
| ^
error: path '/home/user/shell.nix' does not exist
```
Since this release, `nix-shell` resolves `shell.nix` relative to the script's location, and `~/myproject/shell.nix` is used.
```console
$ ./myproject/say-hi
Hello, world!
```
**Opt-out**
This is technically a breaking change, so we have added an option so you can adapt independently of your Nix update.
The old behavior can be opted into by setting the option [`nix-shell-shebang-arguments-relative-to-script`](@docroot@/command-ref/conf-file.md#conf-nix-shell-shebang-arguments-relative-to-script) to `false`.
This option will be removed in a future release.
Author: [**Robert Hensing (@roberth)**](https://github.com/roberth)
- Improve handling of tarballs that don't consist of a single top-level directory [#11195](https://github.com/NixOS/nix/pull/11195)
In previous Nix releases, the tarball fetcher (used by `builtins.fetchTarball`) erroneously merged top-level directories into a single directory, and silently discarded top-level files that are not directories. This is no longer the case. The new behaviour is that *only* if the tarball consists of a single directory, the top-level path component of the files in the tarball is removed (similar to `tar`'s `--strip-components=1`).
Author: [**Eelco Dolstra (@edolstra)**](https://github.com/edolstra)
- Setting to warn about large paths [#10778](https://github.com/NixOS/nix/pull/10778)
Nix can now warn when evaluation of a Nix expression causes a large
path to be copied to the Nix store. The threshold for this warning can
be configured using the `warn-large-path-threshold` setting,
e.g. `--warn-large-path-threshold 100M`.
# Contributors
This release was made possible by the following 43 contributors:
- Andreas Rammhold [**(@andir)**](https://github.com/andir)
- Andrew Marshall [**(@amarshall)**](https://github.com/amarshall)
- Brian McKenna [**(@puffnfresh)**](https://github.com/puffnfresh)
- Cameron [**(@SkamDart)**](https://github.com/SkamDart)
- Cole Helbling [**(@cole-h)**](https://github.com/cole-h)
- Corbin Simpson [**(@MostAwesomeDude)**](https://github.com/MostAwesomeDude)
- Eelco Dolstra [**(@edolstra)**](https://github.com/edolstra)
- Emily [**(@emilazy)**](https://github.com/emilazy)
- Enno Richter [**(@elohmeier)**](https://github.com/elohmeier)
- Farid Zakaria [**(@fzakaria)**](https://github.com/fzakaria)
- HaeNoe [**(@haenoe)**](https://github.com/haenoe)
- Hamir Mahal [**(@hamirmahal)**](https://github.com/hamirmahal)
- Harmen [**(@alicebob)**](https://github.com/alicebob)
- Ivan Trubach [**(@tie)**](https://github.com/tie)
- Jared Baur [**(@jmbaur)**](https://github.com/jmbaur)
- John Ericson [**(@Ericson2314)**](https://github.com/Ericson2314)
- Jonathan De Troye [**(@detroyejr)**](https://github.com/detroyejr)
- Jörg Thalheim [**(@Mic92)**](https://github.com/Mic92)
- Klemens Nanni [**(@klemensn)**](https://github.com/klemensn)
- Las Safin [**(@L-as)**](https://github.com/L-as)
- Lexi Mattick [**(@kognise)**](https://github.com/kognise)
- Matthew Bauer [**(@matthewbauer)**](https://github.com/matthewbauer)
- Max “Goldstein” Siling [**(@GoldsteinE)**](https://github.com/GoldsteinE)
- Mingye Wang [**(@Artoria2e5)**](https://github.com/Artoria2e5)
- Philip Taron [**(@philiptaron)**](https://github.com/philiptaron)
- Pierre Bourdon [**(@delroth)**](https://github.com/delroth)
- Pino Toscano [**(@pinotree)**](https://github.com/pinotree)
- RTUnreal [**(@RTUnreal)**](https://github.com/RTUnreal)
- Robert Hensing [**(@roberth)**](https://github.com/roberth)
- Romain Neil [**(@romain-neil)**](https://github.com/romain-neil)
- Ryan Hendrickson [**(@rhendric)**](https://github.com/rhendric)
- Sergei Trofimovich [**(@trofi)**](https://github.com/trofi)
- Shogo Takata [**(@pineapplehunter)**](https://github.com/pineapplehunter)
- Siddhant Kumar [**(@siddhantk232)**](https://github.com/siddhantk232)
- Silvan Mosberger [**(@infinisil)**](https://github.com/infinisil)
- Théophane Hufschmitt [**(@thufschmitt)**](https://github.com/thufschmitt)
- Valentin Gagarin [**(@fricklerhandwerk)**](https://github.com/fricklerhandwerk)
- Winter [**(@winterqt)**](https://github.com/winterqt)
- jade [**(@lf-)**](https://github.com/lf-)
- kirillrdy [**(@kirillrdy)**](https://github.com/kirillrdy)
- pennae [**(@pennae)**](https://github.com/pennae)
- poweredbypie [**(@poweredbypie)**](https://github.com/poweredbypie)
- tomberek [**(@tomberek)**](https://github.com/tomberek)

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# Release 2.25.0 (2024-11-07)
- New environment variables to override XDG locations [#11351](https://github.com/NixOS/nix/pull/11351)
Added new environment variables:
- `NIX_CACHE_HOME`
- `NIX_CONFIG_HOME`
- `NIX_DATA_HOME`
- `NIX_STATE_HOME`
Each, if defined, takes precedence over the corresponding [XDG environment variable](@docroot@/command-ref/env-common.md#xdg-base-directories).
This provides more fine-grained control over where Nix looks for files. It allows having a stand-alone Nix environment that only uses files in a specific directory and that doesn't interfere with the user environment.
- Define integer overflow in the Nix language as an error [#10968](https://github.com/NixOS/nix/issues/10968) [#11188](https://github.com/NixOS/nix/pull/11188)
Previously, integer overflow in the Nix language invoked C++ level signed overflow, which manifested as wrapping around on overflow. It now looks like this:
```
$ nix eval --expr '9223372036854775807 + 1'
error: integer overflow in adding 9223372036854775807 + 1
```
Some other overflows were fixed:
- `builtins.fromJSON` of values greater than the maximum representable value in a signed 64-bit integer will generate an error.
- `nixConfig` in flakes will no longer accept negative values for configuration options.
- The `build-hook` setting no longer has a useful default when using `libnixstore` as a library [#11178](https://github.com/NixOS/nix/pull/11178)
*This is an obscure issue that only affects usage of the `libnixstore` library outside of the Nix executable. It is unrelated to the `post-build-hook` settings, which is often used for pushing to a cache.*
As part the ongoing [rewrite of the build system](https://github.com/NixOS/nix/issues/2503) to use [Meson](https://mesonbuild.com/), we are also switching to packaging individual Nix components separately (and building them in separate derivations).
This means that when building `libnixstore` we do not know where the Nix binaries will be installed --- `libnixstore` doesn't know about downstream consumers like the Nix binaries at all.
This has a small adverse affect on remote building --- the `build-remote` executable that is specified from the [`build-hook`](@docroot@/command-ref/conf-file.md#conf-build-hook) setting will not be gotten from the (presumed) installation location, but instead looked up on the `PATH`.
This means that other applications linking `libnixstore` that wish to use remote building must arrange for the `nix` command to be on the PATH (or manually overriding `build-hook`) in order for that to work.
Long term we don't envision this being a downside, because we plan to [get rid of `build-remote` and the build hook setting entirely](https://github.com/NixOS/nix/issues/1221).
There should simply be no need to have an extra, intermediate layer of remote-procedure-calling when we want to connect to a remote builder.
The build hook protocol did in principle support custom ways of remote building, but that can also be accomplished with a custom service for the ssh or daemon/ssh-ng protocols, or with a custom [store type](@docroot@/store/types/index.md) i.e. `Store` subclass. <!-- we normally don't mention classes, but consider that this release note is about a library use case -->
The Perl bindings no longer expose `getBinDir` either, since the underlying C++ libraries those bindings wrap no longer know the location of installed binaries as described above.
- Wrap filesystem exceptions more correctly [#11378](https://github.com/NixOS/nix/pull/11378)
With the switch to `std::filesystem` in different places, Nix started to throw `std::filesystem::filesystem_error` in many places instead of its own exceptions.
As a result, Nix no longer generated error traces when (for example) listing a non-existing directory. It could also lead to crashes inside the Nix REPL.
This version catches these types of exception correctly and wraps them into Nix's own exception type.
Author: [**@Mic92**](https://github.com/Mic92)
- Add setting `fsync-store-paths` [#1218](https://github.com/NixOS/nix/issues/1218) [#7126](https://github.com/NixOS/nix/pull/7126)
Nix now has a setting `fsync-store-paths` that ensures that new store paths are durably written to disk before they are registered as "valid" in Nix's database. This can prevent Nix store corruption if the system crashes or there is a power loss. This setting defaults to `false`.
Author: [**@squalus**](https://github.com/squalus)
- Removing the default argument passed to the `nix fmt` formatter [#11438](https://github.com/NixOS/nix/pull/11438)
The underlying formatter no longer receives the "." default argument when `nix fmt` is called with no arguments.
This change was necessary as the formatter wasn't able to distinguish between
a user wanting to format the current folder with `nix fmt .` or the generic
`nix fmt`.
The default behavior is now the responsibility of the formatter itself, and
allows tools such as `treefmt` to format the whole tree instead of only the
current directory and below.
Author: [**@zimbatm**](https://github.com/zimbatm)
- `<nix/fetchurl.nix>` uses TLS verification [#11585](https://github.com/NixOS/nix/pull/11585)
Previously `<nix/fetchurl.nix>` did not do TLS verification. This was because the Nix sandbox in the past did not have access to TLS certificates, and Nix checks the hash of the fetched file anyway. However, this can expose authentication data from `netrc` and URLs to man-in-the-middle attackers. In addition, Nix now in some cases (such as when using impure derivations) does *not* check the hash. Therefore we have now enabled TLS verification. This means that downloads by `<nix/fetchurl.nix>` will now fail if you're fetching from a HTTPS server that does not have a valid certificate.
`<nix/fetchurl.nix>` is also known as the builtin derivation builder `builtin:fetchurl`. It's not to be confused with the evaluation-time function `builtins.fetchurl`, which was not affected by this issue.
# Contributors
This release was made possible by the following 58 contributors:
- 1444 [**(@0x5a4)**](https://github.com/0x5a4)
- Adrian Hesketh [**(@a-h)**](https://github.com/a-h)
- Aleksana [**(@Aleksanaa)**](https://github.com/Aleksanaa)
- Alyssa Ross [**(@alyssais)**](https://github.com/alyssais)
- Andrew Marshall [**(@amarshall)**](https://github.com/amarshall)
- Artemis Tosini [**(@artemist)**](https://github.com/artemist)
- Artturin [**(@Artturin)**](https://github.com/Artturin)
- Bjørn Forsman [**(@bjornfor)**](https://github.com/bjornfor)
- Brian McGee [**(@brianmcgee)**](https://github.com/brianmcgee)
- Brian McKenna [**(@puffnfresh)**](https://github.com/puffnfresh)
- Bryan Honof [**(@bryanhonof)**](https://github.com/bryanhonof)
- Cole Helbling [**(@cole-h)**](https://github.com/cole-h)
- Eelco Dolstra [**(@edolstra)**](https://github.com/edolstra)
- Eman Resu [**(@llakala)**](https://github.com/llakala)
- Emery Hemingway [**(@ehmry)**](https://github.com/ehmry)
- Emil Petersen [**(@leetemil)**](https://github.com/leetemil)
- Emily [**(@emilazy)**](https://github.com/emilazy)
- Geoffrey Thomas [**(@geofft)**](https://github.com/geofft)
- Gerg-L [**(@Gerg-L)**](https://github.com/Gerg-L)
- Ivan Tkachev
- Jacek Galowicz [**(@tfc)**](https://github.com/tfc)
- Jan Hrcek [**(@jhrcek)**](https://github.com/jhrcek)
- Jason Yundt [**(@Jayman2000)**](https://github.com/Jayman2000)
- Jeremy Kerfs [**(@jkerfs)**](https://github.com/jkerfs)
- Jeremy Kolb [**(@kjeremy)**](https://github.com/kjeremy)
- John Ericson [**(@Ericson2314)**](https://github.com/Ericson2314)
- Jonas Chevalier [**(@zimbatm)**](https://github.com/zimbatm)
- Jordan Justen [**(@jljusten)**](https://github.com/jljusten)
- Josh Heinrichs [**(@joshheinrichs-shopify)**](https://github.com/joshheinrichs-shopify)
- Jörg Thalheim [**(@Mic92)**](https://github.com/Mic92)
- Kevin Cox [**(@kevincox)**](https://github.com/kevincox)
- Michael Gallagher [**(@mjgallag)**](https://github.com/mjgallag)
- Michael [**(@michaelvanstraten)**](https://github.com/michaelvanstraten)
- Nikodem Rabuliński [**(@nrabulinski)**](https://github.com/nrabulinski)
- Noam Yorav-Raphael [**(@noamraph)**](https://github.com/noamraph)
- Onni Hakala [**(@onnimonni)**](https://github.com/onnimonni)
- Parker Hoyes [**(@parkerhoyes)**](https://github.com/parkerhoyes)
- Philipp Otterbein
- Pol Dellaiera [**(@drupol)**](https://github.com/drupol)
- Robert Hensing [**(@roberth)**](https://github.com/roberth)
- Ryan Hendrickson [**(@rhendric)**](https://github.com/rhendric)
- Sandro [**(@SuperSandro2000)**](https://github.com/SuperSandro2000)
- Seggy Umboh [**(@secobarbital)**](https://github.com/secobarbital)
- Sergei Zimmerman [**(@xokdvium)**](https://github.com/xokdvium)
- Shivaraj B H [**(@shivaraj-bh)**](https://github.com/shivaraj-bh)
- Siddhant Kumar [**(@siddhantk232)**](https://github.com/siddhantk232)
- Tim [**(@Jaculabilis)**](https://github.com/Jaculabilis)
- Tom Bereknyei
- Travis A. Everett [**(@abathur)**](https://github.com/abathur)
- Valentin Gagarin [**(@fricklerhandwerk)**](https://github.com/fricklerhandwerk)
- Vinayak Kaushik [**(@VinayakKaushikDH)**](https://github.com/VinayakKaushikDH)
- Yann Hamdaoui [**(@yannham)**](https://github.com/yannham)
- Yuriy Taraday [**(@YorikSar)**](https://github.com/YorikSar)
- bryango [**(@bryango)**](https://github.com/bryango)
- emhamm [**(@emhamm)**](https://github.com/emhamm)
- jade [**(@lf-)**](https://github.com/lf-)
- kenji [**(@a-kenji)**](https://github.com/a-kenji)
- pennae [**(@pennae)**](https://github.com/pennae)
- puckipedia [**(@puckipedia)**](https://github.com/puckipedia)
- squalus [**(@squalus)**](https://github.com/squalus)
- tomberek [**(@tomberek)**](https://github.com/tomberek)

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# Content-Addressing File System Objects
For many operations, Nix needs to calculate [a content addresses](@docroot@/glossary.md#gloss-content-address) of [a file system object][file system object] (FSO).
Usually this is needed as part of
[content addressing store objects](../store-object/content-address.md),
since store objects always have a root file system object.
But some command-line utilities also just work on "raw" file system objects, not part of any store object.
Every content addressing scheme Nix uses ultimately involves feeding data into a [hash function](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hash_function), and getting back an opaque fixed-size digest which is deemed a content address.
The various *methods* of content addressing thus differ in how abstract data (in this case, a file system object and its descendants) are fed into the hash function.
## Serialising File System Objects { #serial }
The simplest method is to serialise the entire file system object tree into a single binary string, and then hash that binary string, yielding the content address.
In this section we describe the currently-supported methods of serialising file system objects.
### Flat { #serial-flat }
A single file object can just be hashed by its contents.
This is not enough information to encode the fact that the file system object is a file,
but if we *already* know that the FSO is a single non-executable file by other means, it is sufficient.
Because the hashed data is just the raw file, as is, this choice is good for compatibility with other systems.
For example, Unix commands like `sha256sum` or `sha1sum` will produce hashes for single files that match this.
### Nix Archive (NAR) { #serial-nix-archive }
For the other cases of [file system objects][file system object], especially directories with arbitrary descendants, we need a more complex serialisation format.
Examples of such serialisations are the ZIP and TAR file formats.
However, for our purposes these formats have two problems:
- They do not have a canonical serialisation, meaning that given an FSO, there can
be many different serialisations.
For instance, TAR files can have variable amounts of padding between archive members;
and some archive formats leave the order of directory entries undefined.
This would be bad because we use serialisation to compute cryptographic hashes over file system objects, and for those hashes to be useful as a content address or for integrity checking, uniqueness is crucial.
Otherwise, correct hashes would report false mismatches, and the store would fail to find the content.
- They store more information than we have in our notion of FSOs, such as time stamps.
This can cause FSOs that Nix should consider equal to hash to different values on different machines, just because the dates differ.
- As a practical consideration, the TAR format is the only truly universal format in the Unix environment.
It has many problems, such as an inability to deal with long file names and files larger than 2^33 bytes.
Current implementations such as GNU Tar work around these limitations in various ways.
For these reasons, Nix has its very own archive format—the Nix Archive (NAR) format,
which is carefully designed to avoid the problems described above.
The exact specification of the Nix Archive format is in `protocols/nix-archive.md`
## Content addressing File System Objects beyond a single serialisation pass
Serialising the entire tree and then hashing that binary string is not the only option for content addressing, however.
Another technique is that of a [Merkle graph](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Merkle_tree), where previously computed hashes are included in subsequent byte strings to be hashed.
In particular, the Merkle graphs can match the original graph structure of file system objects:
we can first hash (serialised) child file system objects, and then hash parent objects using the hashes of their children in the serialisation (to be hashed) of the parent file system objects.
Currently, there is one such Merkle DAG content addressing method supported.
### Git ([experimental][xp-feature-git-hashing]) { #git }
> **Warning**
>
> This method is part of the [`git-hashing`][xp-feature-git-hashing] experimental feature.
Git's file system model is very close to Nix's, and so Git's content addressing method is a pretty good fit.
Just as with regular Git, files and symlinks are hashed as git "blobs", and directories are hashed as git "trees".
However, one difference between Nix's and Git's file system model needs special treatment.
Plain files, executable files, and symlinks are not differentiated as distinctly addressable objects, but by their context: by the directory entry that refers to them.
That means so long as the root object is a directory, there is no problem:
every non-directory object is owned by a parent directory, and the entry that refers to it provides the missing information.
However, if the root object is not a directory, then we have no way of knowing which one of an executable file, non-executable file, or symlink it is supposed to be.
In response to this, we have decided to treat a bare file as non-executable file.
This is similar to do what we do with [flat serialisation](#serial-flat), which also lacks this information.
To avoid an address collision, attempts to hash a bare executable file or symlink will result in an error (just as would happen for flat serialisation also).
Thus, Git can encode some, but not all of Nix's "File System Objects", and this sort of content-addressing is likewise partial.
In the future, we may support a Git-like hash for such file system objects, or we may adopt another Merkle DAG format which is capable of representing all Nix file system objects.
[file system object]: ../file-system-object.md
[store object]: ../store-object.md
[xp-feature-git-hashing]: @docroot@/development/experimental-features.md#xp-feature-git-hashing

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