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authorB. Watson <yalhcru@gmail.com>2016-11-14 15:07:59 -0500
committerWilly Sudiarto Raharjo <willysr@slackbuilds.org>2016-11-15 21:41:38 +0700
commitffa11a2d65d9fba8041b5575913dc9a426b352d5 (patch)
tree96280d418fb179badb76cdd8540fc33b139399ee /system/nix
parentbb4f52d0b027ee0d254c907db053cdcf10c1b11e (diff)
system/nix: Fix README.
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diff --git a/system/nix/README b/system/nix/README
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@@ -1,46 +1,48 @@
nix (functional package manager)
-Nix is a purely functional package manager. This means that it treats packages
-like values in purely functional programming languages such as Haskell -- they
-are built by functions that don't have side-effects, and they never change
-after they have been built. Nix stores packages in the Nix store, usually the
-directory /nix/store, where each package has its own unique subdirectory such
-as
+Nix is a purely functional package manager. This means that it treats
+packages like values in purely functional programming languages such as
+Haskell -- they are built by functions that don't have side-effects,
+and they never change after they have been built. Nix stores packages
+in the Nix store, usually the directory /nix/store, where each package
+has its own unique subdirectory such as
- /nix/store/b6gvzjyb2pg0kjfwrjmg1vfhh54ad73z-firefox-33.1/
+ /nix/store/b6gvzjyb2pg0kjfwrjmg1vfhh54ad73z-firefox-33.1/
where b6gvzjyb2pg0... is a unique identifier for the package that captures all
its dependencies (it's a cryptographic hash of the package's build dependency
graph).
-Nix may be run in single or multi-user mode (which requires the nix-daemon). To
-have the nix daemon start and stop with your host, add to /etc/rc.d/rc.local:
+Nix may be run in single or multi-user mode (which requires the
+nix-daemon). To have the nix daemon start and stop with your host,
+add to /etc/rc.d/rc.local:
- if [ -x /etc/rc.d/rc.nix ]; then
- /etc/rc.d/rc.nix start
- fi
+ if [ -x /etc/rc.d/rc.nix ]; then
+ /etc/rc.d/rc.nix start
+ fi
and to /etc/rc.d/rc.local_shutdown (creating it if needed):
- if [ -x /etc/rc.d/rc.nix ]; then
- /etc/rc.d/rc.nix stop
- fi
+ if [ -x /etc/rc.d/rc.nix ]; then
+ /etc/rc.d/rc.nix stop
+ fi
-The daemon requires users for building the nix packages, which should be added
-under the 'nixbld' group.
+The daemon requires users for building the nix packages, which should
+be added under the 'nixbld' group.
- groupadd -g 314 nixbld
- for n in $(seq 1 10); do useradd -c "Nix build user $n" \
- -d /var/empty -g nixbld -G nixbld -M -N -r -s "$(which nologin)" \
- nixbld$n; done
+ groupadd -g 314 nixbld
+ for n in $(seq 1 10); do useradd -c "Nix build user $n" \
+ -d /var/empty -g nixbld -G nixbld -M -N -r -s "$(which nologin)" \
+ nixbld$n; done
-Restricting access to the daemon is acheived by setting file permissions for
-the daemon's socket's folder.
+Restricting access to the daemon is acheived by setting file permissions
+for the daemon's socket's folder.
- chgrp nix-users /nix/var/nix/daemon-socket
- chmod ug=rwx,o= /nix/var/nix/daemon-socket
+ chgrp nix-users /nix/var/nix/daemon-socket
+ chmod ug=rwx,o= /nix/var/nix/daemon-socket
-Correct permissions must also be set for the following profile directories to give users access.
+Correct permissions must also be set for the following profile directories
+to give users access.
- /nix/var/nix/profiles
- /var/nix/profiles
+ /nix/var/nix/profiles
+ /var/nix/profiles