Commit graph

44 commits

Author SHA1 Message Date
Alexander Bantyev 2384d36083
A setting to follow XDG Base Directory standard
XDG Base Directory is a standard for locations for storing various
files. Nix has a few files which seem to fit in the standard, but
currently use a custom location directly in the user's ~, polluting
it:

- ~/.nix-profile
- ~/.nix-defexpr
- ~/.nix-channels

This commit adds a config option (use-xdg-base-directories) to follow
the XDG spec and instead use the following locations:

- $XDG_STATE_HOME/nix/profile
- $XDG_STATE_HOME/nix/defexpr
- $XDG_STATE_HOME/nix/channels

If $XDG_STATE_HOME is not set, it is assumed to be ~/.local/state.

Co-authored-by: Théophane Hufschmitt <7226587+thufschmitt@users.noreply.github.com>
Co-authored-by: Tim Fenney <kodekata@gmail.com>
Co-authored-by: pasqui23 <pasqui23@users.noreply.github.com>
Co-authored-by: Artturin <Artturin@artturin.com>
Co-authored-by: John Ericson <Ericson2314@Yahoo.com>
2023-02-10 20:14:06 +04:00
Ana Hobden 8ebdbeb257 Add fish suport to installer
Before this patch, installing Nix using the Fish shell did not
work because Fish wasn't configured to add Nix to the PATH. Some
options in #1512 offered workarounds, but they typically involve
extra plugins or packages.

This patch adds native, out-of-the-box support for the Fish shell.

Note that Fish supports a `conf.d` directory, which is intended
for exactly use cases like this: software projects distributing
shell snippets. This patch takes advantage of it. The installer
doesn't append any Nix loader behavior to any Fish config file.
Because of that, the uninstall process is smooth and a reinstall
obliterates the existing nix.fish files that we place instead of
bothering the user with a backup / manual removal.

Both single-user and multi-user cases are covered. It has been
tested on Ubuntu, and a Mac with MacPorts, homebrew, and the
Fish installer pkg.

Closes #1512

Co-authored-by: Graham Christensen <graham@grahamc.com>
2022-09-13 12:56:16 -04:00
Nicolas Mattia 44b7d104b4 Document usage of MANPATH in nix-profile.sh
While trying to figure out how `nix-env`/`nix profile` work I had a hard
time understand how man pages were being installed.

Took me quite some time to figure this out, thought it might be useful
to others too!
2022-02-21 13:35:55 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra ec9dd9a5ae
Provide a default value for NIX_PATH 2019-11-22 22:08:51 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra 1c3ccba0f5
Remove $NIX_USER_PROFILE_DIR
This is not used anywhere.
2019-11-22 16:27:48 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra c9159f86cc
nix-env: Create ~/.nix-defexpr automatically 2019-10-09 23:35:02 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra 61a6176aca
nix-profile.sh: Remove coreutils dependency 2019-10-09 23:35:02 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra 9348f9291e
nix-env: Create ~/.nix-profile automatically 2019-10-09 23:35:01 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra 26762ceb86
nix-profile.sh: Don't create .nix-channels
This is already done by the installer, so no need to do it again.
2019-10-09 23:35:01 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra 5a303093dc
Remove world-writability from per-user directories
'nix-daemon' now creates subdirectories for users when they first
connect.

Fixes #509 (CVE-2019-17365).
Should also fix #3127.
2019-10-09 23:34:48 +02:00
Matthew Bauer 7c20ee448f Sync NIX_PROFILES between single-user and multi-user modes
When we are in single user mode, we still want to have access to
profiles. This way things in Nixpkgs that rely on them getting set
accurately are done in both cases. The point where I hit this is with
using aspell which looks in NIX_PROFILES:

https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/blob/master/pkgs/development/libraries/aspell/default.nix

Before this patch, NIX_PROFILES was never set in single user mode!
This corrects that.
2019-05-15 22:04:39 -04:00
Eelco Dolstra b6eb8a2d7e
nix-profile: Add all channels to $NIX_PATH
Fixes #2709.
2019-05-15 14:30:09 +02:00
Shea Levy e58a71442a
nix.sh: Be set -u compliant. 2019-02-14 13:24:16 -05:00
Iavael ebc42f8b59
Fix manpath detection
Checking for MANPATH without quotes always returns true, so that it breaks bash-completion for man pages on modern systems without MANPATH environment variable.
2018-01-15 00:43:39 +03:00
Frederik Rietdijk ab8ba71205 Do not export ASPELL_CONF
This does not belong in Nix. Setting this env var is already done by the aspell derivation found in Nixpkgs.
2017-12-29 13:45:54 +01:00
Jörg Thalheim 542fe0d8f3 nix-profile.sh: remove sbin from PATH
sbin is a symlink to bin. 
profiles only contains packages, which have this symlink. 
It is a subset of bin.

related to https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/pull/25550
2017-05-07 07:41:19 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra fb2dd32100 SSL_CERT_FILE -> NIX_SSL_CERT_FILE
This prevents collisions with the "native" OpenSSL, in particular on
OS X.

Fixes #921.
2016-10-13 17:09:10 +02:00
Alexey Shmalko eef754813f Set $MANPATH (#1005)
Currently, man has issues finding man pages for Nix-installed
application (also, `nix-env --help` doesn't work). The issue is caused
by custom `$MANPATH` set by my system. That makes man use it instead of
searching in default location.

Either of next lines workaround the issue:
```sh
unset MANPATH

export MANPATH=$HOME/.nix-profile/share/man:$MANPATH
```

This patch adds the later line to the `nix-profile.sh` if user has
`MANPATH` set. (Not clearing `MANPATH` as that would be disrespect of
user's preferences.)

As a side-effect, host's man might find man pages installed by Nix.
2016-07-29 12:00:11 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra c9ff3747db nix-profile.sh: Don't pollute the environment 2016-05-31 13:07:10 +02:00
Wout Mertens af4fb6ef61 Bring nix-profile.sh in line with NixOS
Use the same logic as NixOS' profile and environment setup. Closes #414
2016-04-10 23:45:52 +02:00
Peter Simons 92063851b1 nix-profile.sh.in: find ca-bundle.pem on openSUSE Tumbleweed machines 2016-02-16 10:15:05 +01:00
Peter Simons bd42510e49 nix-profile.sh.in: quote use of $HOME in shell arguments
All other places in the script do this already, so let's be consistent.
2016-02-12 13:24:25 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra e012c126db Revert "add the manpath to the installer"
This reverts commit 76f985b92d. We
shouldn't mess with $MANPATH, because on some "man" implementations
(like NixOS'), the default value on $MANPATH is derived from $PATH. So
if you set $MANPATH, you lose the default locations.
2015-07-01 13:04:15 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra bf8cc4e9b6 Update cacert locations 2015-06-08 11:40:35 +02:00
Michael Merickel 76f985b92d add the manpath to the installer 2015-04-12 20:30:47 -04:00
Eelco Dolstra 2f16946064 Always use https to fetch the Nixpkgs channel 2014-12-10 11:35:56 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra 39fe52f7ac Fix bad comment 2014-12-10 11:35:05 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra 50ed345fad nix-profile.sh: Set $SSL_CERT_FILE 2014-07-29 17:11:54 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra d761009e3c Add ~/.nix-profile/sbin to $PATH
Fixes #112.
2014-02-26 15:24:48 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra bf0ad8aabc nix-profile.sh: Add the Nixpkgs channel to $NIX_PATH 2014-01-15 14:34:49 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra a9a8baaccb Use a shorter Nixpkgs channel URL 2012-11-09 13:33:35 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra aac14222f5 nix-profile.sh: Revert to single-user version
Commit 6a214f3e06 copied most of the Nix
shell initialisation code from NixOS to nix-profile.sh; however, that
code assumes a multi-user install and is Linux-specific (e.g. it calls
the "stat" command).  So go back to the simple single-user version.

Fixes #49.
2012-09-13 17:48:19 -04:00
Eelco Dolstra 2605f4f4e6 nix-profile.sh: Don't set NIX_REMOTE on single user installations
Commit 6a214f3e06 reused the NixOS
environment initialisation for nix-profile.sh, but this is
inappropriate on systems that don't have multi-user support enabled.
2012-07-25 17:06:09 -04:00
Eelco Dolstra 477b0fbeca Subscribe to the Nixpkgs rather than NixOS channel 2012-07-25 16:56:56 -04:00
Michel Alexandre Salim 6a214f3e06 Update nix profile: - incorporate NixOS's configuration so that nix is usable by normal users - install as a data file, not a program file 2012-05-31 08:59:36 -04:00
Eelco Dolstra 591aab7e21 Remove $FONTCONFIG_FILE hack from nix-profile.sh
It's no longer needed because Nixpkgs' fontconfig uses
/etc/fonts/fonts.conf as a default, just like other distributions.
2012-05-22 14:00:08 -04:00
Eelco Dolstra 6bbff48079 2008-11-20 17:22:42 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra 9811815429 * Write messages to stderr, not stdout. 2006-03-10 09:41:28 +00:00
Armijn Hemel 15ff877438 add @coreutils@ to correctly use coreutils to create a profile. This is needed
for NixOS, where we might not know our PATH in advance.
2005-10-11 17:30:57 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra 66e94d3275 * Improvements to profiles. Generations are now per-profile, e.g.,
default -> default-94-link
  default-82-link -> /nix/store/cc4480...
  default-83-link -> /nix/store/caeec8...
  ...
  default-94-link -> /nix/store/2896ca...
  experimental -> experimental-2-link
  experimental-1-link -> /nix/store/cc4480...
  experimental-2-link -> /nix/store/a3148f...

* `--profile' / `-p' -> `--switch-profile' / `-S'
* `--link' / `-l' -> `--profile' / `-p'
* The default profile is stored in $prefix/var/nix/profiles.
  $prefix/var/nix/links is gone.  Profiles can be stored anywhere.
* The current profile is now referenced from ~/.nix-profile, not
  ~/.nix-userenv.
* The roots to the garbage collector now have extension `.gcroot', not
  `.id'.
2004-02-06 10:30:20 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra f899e8ce4d * Test whether the symlink, not its target, exists. 2004-01-16 15:17:36 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra f83c5e3e5f * Implemented Eelco V.'s `-p' command to switch profiles. It switches
the symlink ~/.nix-userenv to the given argument (which defaults to
  .../links/current).  /etc/profile.d/nix-profile creates this symlink
  if it doesn't exist yet.  Example use:

  $ nix-env -l my_profile -i foo.nix subversion quake
  $ nix-env -p my_profile

  I don't like the term "profile".  Let's deprecate it :-)
2004-01-05 11:18:59 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra ce5fd1cc12 * Do not set LD_LIBRARY_PATH; it breaks many things. E.g., SuSE's ssh
dynamically links against libdb4 (?!), due to LD_LIBRARY_PATH it picks 
  up our libdb4 instead of SuSE's libdb4, but our libdb4 uses another 
  glibc so loading barfs.

  Instead, all packages should use rpaths to store library locations in
  executables/libraries.  The disadvantage is that overriding rpaths is 
  harder.  (It is possible by invoking the dynamic linker directly, e.g., 
  `/lib/ld-linux.so.2 --ignore-path LIST program args...' to ignore the 
  rpath for the libraries in LIST).  It would be better to use DT_RUNPATH, 
  which is consulted by the dynamic linker *after* LD_LIBRARY_PATH but 
  *before* ld.so.cache and the system directories.
2003-07-28 16:07:01 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra 9c620e4afa * Generate the scripts so that we can substitute the prefix
etc. correctly.
* Fixed nix-switch.
2003-07-13 18:58:03 +00:00
Renamed from scripts/nix-profile.sh (Browse further)