derivation(s) we're interested, e.g.,
$ nix-instantiate ./all-packages.nix --attr xlibs.libX11
List elements can also be selected:
$ nix-instantiate ./build-for-release.nix --attr 0.subversion
This allows a non-ambiguous specification of a derivation. Of
course, this should also be added to nix-env and nix-build.
creates a new process group but also a new session. New sessions
have no controlling tty, so child processes like ssh cannot open
/dev/tty (which is bad).
intended). This ensures that any ssh child processes to remote
machines are also killed, and thus the Nix process on the remote
machine also exits. Without this, the remote Nix process will
continue until it exists or until its stdout buffer gets full and it
locks up. (Partially fixes NIX-35.)
useful way to transfer the closure of a store path to another
machine.
These commands provide functionality previously possible through
`nix-push --copy'. However, they are much more convenient in many
situations (though possibly less efficient).
Example:
$ nix-pack-closure /nix/store/hj232g1r...-subversion-1.3.0 > svn.closure
(on another machine:)
$ nix-unpack-closure < svn.closure
Note that Subversion is added to the store, but not installed into a
user environment. One should do `nix-env -i
/nix/store/hj232g1r...-subversion-1.3.0' for that.
Another example: copy the application Azureus to the machine
`scratchy' through ssh:
$ nix-pack-closure $(which azureus) | ssh scratchy nix-unpack-closure
deletes a path even if it is reachable from a root. However, it
won't delete a path that still has referrers (since that would
violate store invariants).
Don't try this at home. It's a useful hack for recovering from
certain situations in a somewhat clean way (e.g., holes in closures
due to disk corruption).
nix-store query options `--referer' and `--referer-closure' have
been changed to `--referrer' and `--referrer-closure' (but the old
ones are still accepted for compatibility).
mapping. The referer table is replaced by a referrer table (note
spelling fix) that stores each referrer separately. That is,
instead of having
referer[P] = {Q_1, Q_2, Q_3, ...}
we store
referer[(P, Q_1)] = ""
referer[(P, Q_2)] = ""
referer[(P, Q_3)] = ""
...
To find the referrers of P, we enumerate over the keys with a value
lexicographically greater than P. This requires the referrer table
to be stored as a B-Tree rather than a hash table.
(The tuples (P, Q) are stored as P + null-byte + Q.)
Old Nix databases are upgraded automatically to the new schema.
Nix is properly shut down when it receives those signals. In
particular this ensures that killing the garbage collector doesn't
cause a subsequent database recovery.
Eelco Dolstra