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2023-04-02Add more API docs to `experimental-features.hh`John Ericson
2023-04-02Rework a few things with the experimental features listJohn Ericson
- Use struct not `std::pair`, designated initializers - Use `constexpr` array that we can index by enum tag - It no longer segfaults; not sure why.
2023-04-02Merge remote-tracking branch 'upstream/master' into list-experimental-featuresJohn Ericson
2023-03-31Ensure all headers have `#pragma once` and are in API docsJohn Ericson
`///@file` makes them show up in the internal API dos. A tiny few were missing `#pragma once`.
2023-03-31Extend internal API docs, part 2John Ericson
Picking up from #8111. Co-authored-by: Eelco Dolstra <edolstra@gmail.com>
2023-03-27Documentation: list experimental features in manualNoah Snelson
Lists all current experimental features in the `nix.conf` manual.
2023-01-03`unsafeDiscardReferences`Naïm Favier
Adds a new boolean structured attribute `outputChecks.<output>.unsafeDiscardReferences` which disables scanning an output for runtime references. __structuredAttrs = true; outputChecks.out.unsafeDiscardReferences = true; This is useful when creating filesystem images containing their own embedded Nix store: they are self-contained blobs of data with no runtime dependencies. Setting this attribute requires the experimental feature `discard-references` to be enabled.
2022-11-18Separate cgroup support from auto-uid-allocationEelco Dolstra
The new experimental feature 'cgroups' enables the use of cgroups for all builds. This allows better containment and enables setting resource limits and getting some build stats.
2022-11-10Remove the SystemdCgroup featureEelco Dolstra
2022-11-03Merge remote-tracking branch 'origin/master' into auto-uid-allocationEelco Dolstra
2022-05-20repl: add repl-flake experimental feature for gatingTom Bereknyei
2022-05-03nix profile: Support overriding outputsEelco Dolstra
2022-04-20Add custom to_json and from_json functions for ExperimentalFeatureYorick van Pelt
nix show-config --json was serializing experimental features as ints. nlohmann::json will automatically use these definitions to serialize and deserialize ExperimentalFeatures. Strictly, we don't use the from_json instance yet, it's provided for completeness and hopefully future use.
2022-04-08Error: Remove unused sname() methodEelco Dolstra
2022-03-31Add support for impure derivationsEelco Dolstra
Impure derivations are derivations that can produce a different result every time they're built. Example: stdenv.mkDerivation { name = "impure"; __impure = true; # marks this derivation as impure outputHashAlgo = "sha256"; outputHashMode = "recursive"; buildCommand = "date > $out"; }; Some important characteristics: * This requires the 'impure-derivations' experimental feature. * Impure derivations are not "cached". Thus, running "nix-build" on the example above multiple times will cause a rebuild every time. * They are implemented similar to CA derivations, i.e. the output is moved to a content-addressed path in the store. The difference is that we don't register a realisation in the Nix database. * Pure derivations are not allowed to depend on impure derivations. In the future fixed-output derivations will be allowed to depend on impure derivations, thus forming an "impurity barrier" in the dependency graph. * When sandboxing is enabled, impure derivations can access the network in the same way as fixed-output derivations. In relaxed sandboxing mode, they can access the local filesystem.
2022-03-24Add experimental feature 'fetch-closure'Eelco Dolstra
2022-02-28Merge remote-tracking branch 'upstream/master' into auto-uid-allocationJohn Ericson
2021-10-26Make experimental-features a proper typeregnat
Rather than having them plain strings scattered through the whole codebase, create an enum containing all the known experimental features. This means that - Nix can now `warn` when an unkwown experimental feature is passed (making it much nicer to spot typos and spot deprecated features) - It’s now easy to remove a feature altogether (once the feature isn’t experimental anymore or is dropped) by just removing the field for the enum and letting the compiler point us to all the now invalid usages of it.