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| author | Eelco Dolstra <e.dolstra@tudelft.nl> | 2005-07-13 17:39:10 +0000 |
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| committer | Eelco Dolstra <e.dolstra@tudelft.nl> | 2005-07-13 17:39:10 +0000 |
| commit | a5ceb5bc0b2d7fd796cb49e29d45bf568dc0df2f (patch) | |
| tree | de5311006e3664c797e060d7953537a045555392 /doc/manual | |
| parent | d4879b4dfe05708eb174129141299fb343ceb946 (diff) | |
* nix-build: default to `./default.nix' if no paths are specified.
So when using Nix as a build tool, you can just say `nix-build' and
it will build the top-level derivation defined in `default.nix'.
Diffstat (limited to 'doc/manual')
| -rw-r--r-- | doc/manual/nix-build.xml | 4 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | doc/manual/package-management.xml | 2 |
2 files changed, 5 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/doc/manual/nix-build.xml b/doc/manual/nix-build.xml index 447ef126b..0462401bc 100644 --- a/doc/manual/nix-build.xml +++ b/doc/manual/nix-build.xml @@ -25,6 +25,10 @@ to multiple derivations, multiple sequentially numbered symlinks are created (<filename>result</filename>, <filename>result-2</filename>, and so on).</para> +<para>If no <replaceable>paths</replaceable> are specified, then +<command>nix-build</command> will use <filename>default.nix</filename> +in the current directory, if it exists.</para> + <note><para><command>nix-build</command> is essentially a wrapper around <link linkend="sec-nix-instantiate"><command>nix-instantiate</command></link> diff --git a/doc/manual/package-management.xml b/doc/manual/package-management.xml index 7620531c0..d225b41ee 100644 --- a/doc/manual/package-management.xml +++ b/doc/manual/package-management.xml @@ -176,7 +176,7 @@ set.</para></footnote></para> <sect1 id="sec-profiles"><title>Profiles</title> <para>Profiles and user environments are Nix’s mechanism for -implementing the ability to allow differens users to have different +implementing the ability to allow different users to have different configurations, and to do atomic upgrades and rollbacks. To understand how they work, it’s useful to know a bit about how Nix works. In Nix, components are stored in unique locations in the |