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| author | Shea Levy <shea@shealevy.com> | 2014-02-04 09:17:59 -0500 |
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| committer | Eelco Dolstra <eelco.dolstra@logicblox.com> | 2014-02-07 18:03:38 +0100 |
| commit | 0c3e8a616e8e243ee45c78491fe86f50230d82b9 (patch) | |
| tree | 0e5c7248af0162401231e9d84a958de0601ce1b4 /doc | |
| parent | 0432bc52ea21bb7b60477965054362f7414c569f (diff) | |
nix-instantiate: Add a --no-readonly-mode flag
This allows running nix-instantiate --eval-only without performing the
evaluation in readonly mode, letting features like import from
derivation and automatic substitution of builtins.storePath paths work.
Signed-off-by: Shea Levy <shea@shealevy.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'doc')
| -rw-r--r-- | doc/manual/nix-instantiate.xml | 12 |
1 files changed, 12 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/doc/manual/nix-instantiate.xml b/doc/manual/nix-instantiate.xml index 618b61f15..9488bb733 100644 --- a/doc/manual/nix-instantiate.xml +++ b/doc/manual/nix-instantiate.xml @@ -35,6 +35,7 @@ <arg choice='plain'> <option>--eval-only</option> <arg><option>--strict</option></arg> + <arg><option>--no-readonly-mode</option></arg> </arg> <arg choice='plain'><option>--find-file</option></arg> </group> @@ -140,6 +141,17 @@ policies.</para> </varlistentry> + <varlistentry><term><option>--no-readonly-mode</option></term> + + <listitem><para>When used with <option>--eval-only</option>, + perform evaluation in read/write mode so nix language features + that require it will still work (at the cost of needing to do + instantiation of every evaluated derivation).</para> + + </listitem> + + </varlistentry> + </variablelist> <variablelist condition="manpage"> |