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-rw-r--r--doc/manual/command-ref/conf-file.xml37
-rw-r--r--doc/manual/command-ref/nix-channel.xml17
-rw-r--r--doc/manual/command-ref/nix-copy-closure.xml18
-rw-r--r--doc/manual/command-ref/nix-env.xml4
-rw-r--r--doc/manual/command-ref/nix-generate-patches.xml44
-rw-r--r--doc/manual/command-ref/nix-install-package.xml4
-rw-r--r--doc/manual/command-ref/nix-pull.xml54
-rw-r--r--doc/manual/command-ref/nix-push.xml19
-rw-r--r--doc/manual/command-ref/nix-store.xml76
-rw-r--r--doc/manual/command-ref/opt-common-syn.xml1
-rw-r--r--doc/manual/command-ref/opt-common.xml55
-rw-r--r--doc/manual/command-ref/utilities.xml4
-rw-r--r--doc/manual/local.mk16
-rw-r--r--doc/signing.txt24
14 files changed, 11 insertions, 362 deletions
diff --git a/doc/manual/command-ref/conf-file.xml b/doc/manual/command-ref/conf-file.xml
index acddd63e1..4c8f3d9d3 100644
--- a/doc/manual/command-ref/conf-file.xml
+++ b/doc/manual/command-ref/conf-file.xml
@@ -306,21 +306,6 @@ flag, e.g. <literal>--option gc-keep-outputs false</literal>.</para>
</varlistentry>
- <varlistentry><term><literal>build-cache-failure</literal></term>
-
- <listitem><para>If set to <literal>true</literal>, Nix will
- “cache” build failures, meaning that it will remember (in its
- database) that a derivation previously failed. If you then try to
- build the derivation again, Nix will immediately fail rather than
- perform the build again. Failures in fixed-output derivations
- (such as <function>fetchurl</function> calls) are never cached.
- The “failed” status of a derivation can be cleared using
- <command>nix-store --clear-failed-paths</command>. By default,
- failure caching is disabled.</para></listitem>
-
- </varlistentry>
-
-
<varlistentry><term><literal>build-keep-log</literal></term>
<listitem><para>If set to <literal>true</literal> (the default),
@@ -421,16 +406,6 @@ flag, e.g. <literal>--option gc-keep-outputs false</literal>.</para>
</varlistentry>
- <varlistentry><term><literal>binary-cache-secret-key-file</literal></term>
-
- <listitem><para>Path of the file containing the secret key to be
- used for signing binary caches. This file can be generated using
- <command>nix-store
- --generate-binary-cache-key</command>.</para></listitem>
-
- </varlistentry>
-
-
<varlistentry><term><literal>binary-caches-parallel-connections</literal></term>
<listitem><para>The maximum number of parallel HTTP connections
@@ -450,18 +425,6 @@ flag, e.g. <literal>--option gc-keep-outputs false</literal>.</para>
</varlistentry>
- <varlistentry><term><literal>force-manifest</literal></term>
-
- <listitem><para>If this option is set to <literal>false</literal>
- (default) and a Nix channel provides both a manifest and a binary
- cache, only the binary cache will be used. If set to
- <literal>true</literal>, the manifest will be fetched as well.
- This is useful if you want to use binary patches (which are
- currently not supported by binary caches).</para></listitem>
-
- </varlistentry>
-
-
<varlistentry><term><literal>system</literal></term>
<listitem><para>This option specifies the canonical Nix system
diff --git a/doc/manual/command-ref/nix-channel.xml b/doc/manual/command-ref/nix-channel.xml
index a6f4a2720..0a1f2a8b7 100644
--- a/doc/manual/command-ref/nix-channel.xml
+++ b/doc/manual/command-ref/nix-channel.xml
@@ -73,11 +73,10 @@ condition="manual">See also <xref linkend="sec-channels"
<listitem><para>Downloads the Nix expressions of all subscribed
channels (or only those included in
- <replaceable>names</replaceable> if specified), makes them the
+ <replaceable>names</replaceable> if specified) and makes them the
default for <command>nix-env</command> operations (by symlinking
- them from the directory <filename>~/.nix-defexpr</filename>), and
- performs a <command>nix-pull</command> on the manifests of all
- channels to make pre-built binaries available.</para></listitem>
+ them from the directory
+ <filename>~/.nix-defexpr</filename>).</para></listitem>
</varlistentry>
@@ -187,16 +186,6 @@ following files:</para>
</varlistentry>
- <varlistentry><term><filename>MANIFEST.bz2</filename></term>
-
- <listitem><para>(Deprecated in favour of binary caches.) A
- manifest as created by <command>nix-push</command>. Only used if
- <filename>binary-cache-url</filename> is not present or if the
- <filename>nix.conf</filename> option
- <option>force-manifest</option> is set.</para></listitem>
-
- </varlistentry>
-
</variablelist>
</refsection>
diff --git a/doc/manual/command-ref/nix-copy-closure.xml b/doc/manual/command-ref/nix-copy-closure.xml
index 5848b84a0..97e261ae9 100644
--- a/doc/manual/command-ref/nix-copy-closure.xml
+++ b/doc/manual/command-ref/nix-copy-closure.xml
@@ -22,7 +22,6 @@
<arg choice='plain'><option>--to</option></arg>
<arg choice='plain'><option>--from</option></arg>
</group>
- <arg><option>--sign</option></arg>
<arg><option>--gzip</option></arg>
<!--
<arg><option>- -show-progress</option></arg>
@@ -87,23 +86,6 @@ those paths. If this bothers you, use
</varlistentry>
- <varlistentry><term><option>--sign</option></term>
-
- <listitem><para>Let the sending machine cryptographically sign the
- dump of each path with the key in
- <filename><replaceable>sysconfdir</replaceable>/nix/signing-key.sec</filename>.
- If the user on the target machine does not have direct access to
- the Nix store (i.e., if the target machine has a multi-user Nix
- installation), then the target machine will check the dump against
- <filename><replaceable>sysconfdir</replaceable>/nix/signing-key.pub</filename>
- before unpacking it in its Nix store. This allows secure sharing
- of store paths between untrusted users on two machines, provided
- that there is a trust relation between the Nix installations on
- both machines (namely, they have matching public/secret
- keys).</para></listitem>
-
- </varlistentry>
-
<varlistentry><term><option>--gzip</option></term>
<listitem><para>Enable compression of the SSH
diff --git a/doc/manual/command-ref/nix-env.xml b/doc/manual/command-ref/nix-env.xml
index e9a5f0e09..2ed4a5d9f 100644
--- a/doc/manual/command-ref/nix-env.xml
+++ b/doc/manual/command-ref/nix-env.xml
@@ -367,6 +367,10 @@ number of possible ways:
linkend="rsec-nix-store-realise">realised</link> and
installed.</para></listitem>
+ <listitem><para>By default all outputs are installed for each derivation.
+ That can be reduced by setting <literal>meta.outputsToInstall</literal>.
+ </para></listitem> <!-- TODO: link nixpkgs docs on the ability to override those. -->
+
</itemizedlist>
</para>
diff --git a/doc/manual/command-ref/nix-generate-patches.xml b/doc/manual/command-ref/nix-generate-patches.xml
deleted file mode 100644
index 70bec432d..000000000
--- a/doc/manual/command-ref/nix-generate-patches.xml
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,44 +0,0 @@
-<refentry xmlns="http://docbook.org/ns/docbook"
- xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink"
- xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XInclude"
- version="5.0"
- xml:id="sec-nix-generate-patches">
-
-<refmeta>
- <refentrytitle>nix-generate-patches</refentrytitle>
- <manvolnum>1</manvolnum>
- <refmiscinfo class="source">Nix</refmiscinfo>
- <refmiscinfo class="version"><xi:include href="../version.txt" parse="text"/></refmiscinfo>
-</refmeta>
-
-<refnamediv>
- <refname>nix-generate-patches</refname>
- <refpurpose>generates binary patches between NAR files</refpurpose>
-</refnamediv>
-
-<refsynopsisdiv>
- <cmdsynopsis>
- <command>nix-generate-patches</command>
- <arg choice='plain'><replaceable>NAR-DIR</replaceable></arg>
- <arg choice='plain'><replaceable>PATCH-DIR</replaceable></arg>
- <arg choice='plain'><replaceable>PATCH-URI</replaceable></arg>
- <arg choice='plain'><replaceable>OLD-MANIFEST</replaceable></arg>
- <arg choice='plain'><replaceable>NEW-MANIFEST</replaceable></arg>
- </cmdsynopsis>
-</refsynopsisdiv>
-
-
-<refsection><title>Description</title>
-
-<para>The command <command>nix-generate-patches</command> generates
-binary patches between NAR files listed in OLD-MANIFEST and NEW-MANIFEST.
-The patches are written to the directory PATCH-DIR, and the prefix
-PATCH-URI is used to generate URIs for the patches. The patches are
-added to NEW-MANIFEST. All NARs are required to exist in NAR-DIR.
-Patches are generated between succeeding versions of packages with
-the same name.</para>
-
-</refsection>
-
-
-</refentry>
diff --git a/doc/manual/command-ref/nix-install-package.xml b/doc/manual/command-ref/nix-install-package.xml
index f7802a95d..e17166caa 100644
--- a/doc/manual/command-ref/nix-install-package.xml
+++ b/doc/manual/command-ref/nix-install-package.xml
@@ -146,9 +146,7 @@ The elements are as follows:
<varlistentry><term><replaceable>manifestURL</replaceable></term>
- <listitem><para>The manifest to be pulled by
- <command>nix-pull</command>. The manifest must contain
- <replaceable>outPath</replaceable>.</para></listitem>
+ <listitem><para>Obsolete.</para></listitem>
</varlistentry>
diff --git a/doc/manual/command-ref/nix-pull.xml b/doc/manual/command-ref/nix-pull.xml
deleted file mode 100644
index eb471677b..000000000
--- a/doc/manual/command-ref/nix-pull.xml
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,54 +0,0 @@
-<refentry xmlns="http://docbook.org/ns/docbook"
- xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink"
- xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XInclude"
- version="5.0"
- xml:id="sec-nix-pull">
-
-<refmeta>
- <refentrytitle>nix-pull</refentrytitle>
- <manvolnum>1</manvolnum>
- <refmiscinfo class="source">Nix</refmiscinfo>
- <refmiscinfo class="version"><xi:include href="../version.txt" parse="text"/></refmiscinfo>
-</refmeta>
-
-<refnamediv>
- <refname>nix-pull</refname>
- <refpurpose>register availability of pre-built binaries (deprecated)</refpurpose>
-</refnamediv>
-
-<refsynopsisdiv>
- <cmdsynopsis>
- <command>nix-pull</command>
- <arg choice='plain'><replaceable>url</replaceable></arg>
- </cmdsynopsis>
-</refsynopsisdiv>
-
-
-<refsection><title>Description</title>
-
-<note><para>This command and the use of manifests is deprecated. It is
-better to use binary caches.</para></note>
-
-<para>The command <command>nix-pull</command> obtains a list of
-pre-built store paths from the URL <replaceable>url</replaceable>, and
-for each of these store paths, registers a substitute derivation that
-downloads and unpacks it into the Nix store. This is used to speed up
-installations: if you attempt to install something that has already
-been built and stored into the network cache, Nix can transparently
-re-use the pre-built store paths.</para>
-
-<para>The file at <replaceable>url</replaceable> must be compatible
-with the files created by <replaceable>nix-push</replaceable>.</para>
-
-</refsection>
-
-
-<refsection><title>Examples</title>
-
-<screen>
-$ nix-pull https://nixos.org/releases/nixpkgs/nixpkgs-15.05pre54468.69858d7/MANIFEST</screen>
-
-</refsection>
-
-
-</refentry>
diff --git a/doc/manual/command-ref/nix-push.xml b/doc/manual/command-ref/nix-push.xml
index b8156b455..0749824a0 100644
--- a/doc/manual/command-ref/nix-push.xml
+++ b/doc/manual/command-ref/nix-push.xml
@@ -73,8 +73,7 @@ automatically.</para>
<listitem><para>Optionally, a single <emphasis>manifest</emphasis>
file is created that contains the same metadata as the
<filename>.narinfo</filename> files. This is for compatibility with
- Nix versions prior to 1.2 (see <command>nix-pull</command> for
- details).</para></listitem>
+ Nix versions prior to 1.2.</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>A file named <option>nix-cache-info</option> is
placed in the destination directory. The existence of this file
@@ -135,7 +134,7 @@ automatically.</para>
<varlistentry><term><option>--manifest</option></term>
<listitem><para>Force the generation of a manifest suitable for
- use by <command>nix-pull</command>. The manifest is stored as
+ use by old versions of Nix. The manifest is stored as
<filename><replaceable>dest-dir</replaceable>/MANIFEST</filename>.</para></listitem>
</varlistentry>
@@ -203,20 +202,6 @@ $ nix-push --dest /tmp/cache $(nix-instantiate -A thunderbird)
</para>
-<para>To generate a manifest suitable for <command>nix-pull</command>:
-
-<screen>
-$ nix-push --dest /tmp/cache $(nix-build -A thunderbird) --manifest
-</screen>
-
-On another machine you can then do:
-
-<screen>
-$ nix-pull http://example.org/cache
-</screen>
-
-to cause the binaries to be used by subsequent Nix operations.</para>
-
<para>To generate a signed binary cache, you must first generate a key
pair, in this example called <literal>cache.example.org-1</literal>,
storing the secret key in <filename>./sk</filename> and the public key
diff --git a/doc/manual/command-ref/nix-store.xml b/doc/manual/command-ref/nix-store.xml
index 58a331179..340f61210 100644
--- a/doc/manual/command-ref/nix-store.xml
+++ b/doc/manual/command-ref/nix-store.xml
@@ -1350,82 +1350,6 @@ export _args; _args='-e /nix/store/9krlzvny65gdc8s7kpb6lkx8cd02c25c-default-buil
<!--######################################################################-->
-<refsection><title>Operation <option>--query-failed-paths</option></title>
-
-<refsection>
- <title>Synopsis</title>
- <cmdsynopsis>
- <command>nix-store</command>
- <arg choice='plain'><option>--query-failed-paths</option></arg>
- </cmdsynopsis>
-</refsection>
-
-<refsection><title>Description</title>
-
-<para>If build failure caching is enabled through the
-<literal>build-cache-failure</literal> configuration option, the
-operation <option>--query-failed-paths</option> will print out all
-store paths that have failed to build.</para>
-
-</refsection>
-
-<refsection><title>Example</title>
-
-<screen>
-$ nix-store --query-failed-paths
-/nix/store/000zi5dcla86l92jn1g997jb06sidm7x-perl-PerlMagick-6.59
-/nix/store/0011iy7sfwbc1qj5a1f6ifjnbcdail8a-haskell-gitit-ghc7.0.4-0.8.1
-/nix/store/001c0yn1hkh86gprvrb46cxnz3pki7q3-gamin-0.1.10
-<replaceable>…</replaceable>
-</screen>
-
-</refsection>
-
-</refsection>
-
-
-<!--######################################################################-->
-
-<refsection><title>Operation <option>--clear-failed-paths</option></title>
-
-<refsection>
- <title>Synopsis</title>
- <cmdsynopsis>
- <command>nix-store</command>
- <arg choice='plain'><option>--clear-failed-paths</option></arg>
- <arg choice='plain' rep='repeat'><replaceable>paths</replaceable></arg>
- </cmdsynopsis>
-</refsection>
-
-<refsection><title>Description</title>
-
-<para>If build failure caching is enabled through the
-<literal>build-cache-failure</literal> configuration option, the
-operation <option>--clear-failed-paths</option> clears the “failed”
-state of the given store paths, allowing them to be built again. This
-is useful if the failure was actually transient (e.g. because the disk
-was full).</para>
-
-<para>If a path denotes a derivation, its output paths are cleared.
-You can provide the argument <literal>*</literal> to clear all store
-paths.</para>
-
-</refsection>
-
-<refsection><title>Example</title>
-
-<screen>
-$ nix-store --clear-failed-paths /nix/store/000zi5dcla86l92jn1g997jb06sidm7x-perl-PerlMagick-6.59
-$ nix-store --clear-failed-paths *
-</screen>
-
-</refsection>
-
-</refsection>
-
-
-<!--######################################################################-->
-
<refsection xml:id='rsec-nix-store-generate-binary-cache-key'><title>Operation <option>--generate-binary-cache-key</option></title>
<refsection>
diff --git a/doc/manual/command-ref/opt-common-syn.xml b/doc/manual/command-ref/opt-common-syn.xml
index d65f4009e..5b7936393 100644
--- a/doc/manual/command-ref/opt-common-syn.xml
+++ b/doc/manual/command-ref/opt-common-syn.xml
@@ -31,7 +31,6 @@
<arg><option>-K</option></arg>
<arg><option>--fallback</option></arg>
<arg><option>--readonly-mode</option></arg>
-<arg><option>--log-type</option> <replaceable>type</replaceable></arg>
<arg><option>--show-trace</option></arg>
<arg>
<option>-I</option>
diff --git a/doc/manual/command-ref/opt-common.xml b/doc/manual/command-ref/opt-common.xml
index c7e8ae1ed..bc26a9061 100644
--- a/doc/manual/command-ref/opt-common.xml
+++ b/doc/manual/command-ref/opt-common.xml
@@ -201,61 +201,6 @@
</varlistentry>
-<varlistentry xml:id="opt-log-type"><term><option>--log-type</option>
-<replaceable>type</replaceable></term>
-
- <listitem>
-
- <para>This option determines how the output written to standard
- error is formatted. Nix’s diagnostic messages are typically
- <emphasis>nested</emphasis>. For instance, when tracing Nix
- expression evaluation (<command>nix-env -vvvvv</command>, messages
- from subexpressions are nested inside their parent expressions. Nix
- builder output is also often nested. For instance, the Nix Packages
- generic builder nests the various build tasks (unpack, configure,
- compile, etc.), and the GNU Make in <literal>stdenv-linux</literal>
- has been patched to provide nesting for recursive Make
- invocations.</para>
-
- <para><replaceable>type</replaceable> can be one of the
- following:
-
- <variablelist>
-
- <varlistentry><term><literal>pretty</literal></term>
-
- <listitem><para>Pretty-print the output, indicating different
- nesting levels using spaces. This is the
- default.</para></listitem>
-
- </varlistentry>
-
- <varlistentry><term><literal>escapes</literal></term>
-
- <listitem><para>Indicate nesting using escape codes that can be
- interpreted by the <command>nix-log2xml</command> tool in the
- Nix source distribution. The resulting XML file can be fed into
- the <command>log2html.xsl</command> stylesheet to create an HTML
- file that can be browsed interactively, using JavaScript to
- expand and collapse parts of the output.</para></listitem>
-
- </varlistentry>
-
- <varlistentry><term><literal>flat</literal></term>
-
- <listitem><para>Remove all nesting.</para></listitem>
-
- </varlistentry>
-
- </variablelist>
-
- </para>
-
- </listitem>
-
-</varlistentry>
-
-
<varlistentry><term><option>--arg</option> <replaceable>name</replaceable> <replaceable>value</replaceable></term>
<listitem><para>This option is accepted by
diff --git a/doc/manual/command-ref/utilities.xml b/doc/manual/command-ref/utilities.xml
index be2fe6e2d..25e457e4e 100644
--- a/doc/manual/command-ref/utilities.xml
+++ b/doc/manual/command-ref/utilities.xml
@@ -13,14 +13,10 @@ work with Nix.</para>
<xi:include href="nix-collect-garbage.xml" />
<xi:include href="nix-copy-closure.xml" />
<xi:include href="nix-daemon.xml" />
-<!--
-<xi:include href="nix-generate-patches.xml" />
--->
<xi:include href="nix-hash.xml" />
<xi:include href="nix-install-package.xml" />
<xi:include href="nix-instantiate.xml" />
<xi:include href="nix-prefetch-url.xml" />
-<xi:include href="nix-pull.xml" />
<xi:include href="nix-push.xml" />
</chapter>
diff --git a/doc/manual/local.mk b/doc/manual/local.mk
index 3d7e7fed9..52f2884ab 100644
--- a/doc/manual/local.mk
+++ b/doc/manual/local.mk
@@ -39,7 +39,7 @@ dist-files += $(d)/manual.xmli $(d)/version.txt $(d)/manual.is-valid
# Generate man pages.
man-pages := $(foreach n, \
nix-env.1 nix-build.1 nix-shell.1 nix-store.1 nix-instantiate.1 \
- nix-collect-garbage.1 nix-push.1 nix-pull.1 \
+ nix-collect-garbage.1 nix-push.1 \
nix-prefetch-url.1 nix-channel.1 \
nix-install-package.1 nix-hash.1 nix-copy-closure.1 \
nix.conf.5 nix-daemon.8, \
@@ -76,17 +76,3 @@ all: $(d)/manual.html
clean-files += $(d)/manual.html
dist-files += $(d)/manual.html
-
-
-# Generate the PDF manual.
-$(d)/manual.pdf: $(d)/manual.xml $(MANUAL_SRCS) $(d)/manual.is-valid
- $(trace-gen) if test "$(dblatex)" != ""; then \
- cd doc/manual && $(XSLTPROC) --xinclude --stringparam profile.condition manual \
- $(docbookxsl)/profiling/profile.xsl manual.xml | \
- $(dblatex) -o $(notdir $@) $(dblatex_opts) -; \
- else \
- echo "Please install dblatex and rerun configure."; \
- exit 1; \
- fi
-
-clean-files += $(d)/manual.pdf
diff --git a/doc/signing.txt b/doc/signing.txt
deleted file mode 100644
index 7403cac47..000000000
--- a/doc/signing.txt
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,24 +0,0 @@
-Generate a private key:
-
-$ (umask 277 && openssl genrsa -out /etc/nix/signing-key.sec 2048)
-
-The private key should be kept secret (only readable to the Nix daemon
-user).
-
-
-Generate the corresponding public key:
-
-$ openssl rsa -in /etc/nix/signing-key.sec -pubout > /etc/nix/signing-key.pub
-
-The public key should be copied to all machines to which you want to
-export store paths.
-
-
-Signing:
-
-$ nix-hash --type sha256 --flat svn.nar | openssl rsautl -sign -inkey mykey.sec > svn.nar.sign
-
-
-Verifying a signature:
-
-$ test "$(nix-hash --type sha256 --flat svn.nar)" = "$(openssl rsautl -verify -inkey mykey.pub -pubin -in svn.nar.sign)"