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2014-08-27Restructuring the Nix manualMikey Ariel
2014-08-23Document the "out" usage in allowedReferencesGergely Risko
2014-05-26Rephrase @ operator descriptionAdam Szkoda
2014-03-11Fix typosEelco Dolstra
2014-03-11Document null dynamic attrsShea Levy
2014-02-26Document dynamic attributesShea Levy
Signed-off-by: Shea Levy <shea@shealevy.com>
2014-02-12Document current meaning of preferLocalBuildEelco Dolstra
Closes #208.
2014-01-13Document nullsEelco Dolstra
2013-10-24Undocument obsolete form of "let"Eelco Dolstra
2013-10-24Rename "attribute sets" to "sets"Eelco Dolstra
We don't have any other kind of sets so calling them attribute sets is unnecessarily verbose.
2013-10-24Manual: Fix broken URLsEelco Dolstra
Fixes #172.
2013-10-17two typosgoblin
2013-09-06typoDomen Kožar
2013-09-02Manual: Make '' a bit clearerEelco Dolstra
Issue #162.
2013-08-26Fix typos, especially those that end up in the Nix manualIvan Kozik
2012-12-04Document multiple output supportEelco Dolstra
2012-05-11Manual updatesEelco Dolstra
2012-04-30Update the documentation of build-remote.plEelco Dolstra
2011-12-30* Follow our own coding conventions.Eelco Dolstra
2011-12-30* Remove a redundant dot (Nicolas Pierron).Eelco Dolstra
2009-07-10(no commit message)Eelco Dolstra
2009-06-13* Canonicalise timestamps in the Nix store to 1 (1970-01-01 00:00:01Eelco Dolstra
UTC) rather than 0 (00:00:00). 1 is a better choice because some programs use 0 as a special value. For instance, the Template Toolkit uses a timestamp of 0 to denote the non-existence of a file, so it barfs on files in the Nix store (see template-toolkit-nix-store.patch in Nixpkgs). Similarly, Maya 2008 fails to load script directories with a timestamp of 0 and can't be patched because it's closed source. This will also shut up those "implausibly old time stamp" GNU tar warnings.
2008-11-19* Patterns.Eelco Dolstra
2008-08-05* Moved some stuff to the Nixpkgs manual.Eelco Dolstra
* Updated the release notes.
2008-06-09* Updated some URLs (did this a long time ago but forgot toEelco Dolstra
commit...).
2007-12-30* Documented indented string literals.Eelco Dolstra
* Release notes.
2007-12-04* component -> package.Eelco Dolstra
2007-11-01* Documented some of the more obscure derivation attributes (includingEelco Dolstra
fixed-output derivations).
2007-10-22* Move list of built-in functions to a separate file.Eelco Dolstra
2007-10-22(no commit message)Eelco Dolstra
2007-10-22Added comment telling about setup-hook and propagatedBuildInputsMarc Weber
2007-09-02explanation what happens when passing true / false and null values to ↵Marc Weber
derivation builders added
2006-12-12* New built-in function `builtins.attrNames' that returns theEelco Dolstra
names of the attributes in an attribute set.
2006-10-26* Typo reported by Arie Middelkoop.Eelco Dolstra
* Left out close-quote in example.
2006-10-11* Removed URIs from the evaluator (NIX-66). They are now just anotherEelco Dolstra
kind of notation for strings.
2006-10-05* Documented nix-instantiate --xml, --strict.Eelco Dolstra
* Added an example to the nix-build section.
2006-10-05* Documented --attr / -A.Eelco Dolstra
2006-10-05* Document --arg.Eelco Dolstra
2006-10-04* Strings.Eelco Dolstra
2006-10-04* Explanation of toXML example.Eelco Dolstra
2006-10-04(no commit message)Eelco Dolstra
2006-10-03* An example of using toXML to pass structured information to aEelco Dolstra
builder and generate a Jetty configuration file with XSLT.
2006-10-03* Document the built-in functions.Eelco Dolstra
2006-10-02* Document the new let.Eelco Dolstra
2006-10-02* Manual updates (especially how nix-build makes testing packages muchEelco Dolstra
easier; no longer need a helper expression).
2006-09-29* Manual updates, some style improvements.Eelco Dolstra
2006-09-27* Release notes.Eelco Dolstra
2006-08-21* Convert to DocBook 5.Eelco Dolstra
* Use Jing for RelaxNG validation, xmllint seems buggy.
2005-09-28* Use "source" instead of ".".Eelco Dolstra
2005-09-14* Release notes in Docbook; ASCII release notes (i.e., the `NEWS'Eelco Dolstra
file) is now generated from that using `w3m' and some XSL hackery.