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| author | Eelco Dolstra <edolstra@gmail.com> | 2020-10-21 14:26:45 +0200 |
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| committer | GitHub <noreply@github.com> | 2020-10-21 14:26:45 +0200 |
| commit | ecfebde6ffbf8fa3184a74cb685ec340ee87291a (patch) | |
| tree | 03f389bde3c5f626dd4636bdb5859fb9995802c8 /doc | |
| parent | bdf2bcc989348fdcf223c9e2a383618454453eb2 (diff) | |
| parent | 461cf2b85601e4510bff303e454059d80b9df8c0 (diff) | |
Merge pull request #4166 from kampka/nix-conf-env
Add NIX_CONFIG env var for applying nix.conf overrides
Diffstat (limited to 'doc')
| -rw-r--r-- | doc/manual/src/command-ref/conf-file-prefix.md | 3 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | doc/manual/src/command-ref/env-common.md | 5 |
2 files changed, 8 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/doc/manual/src/command-ref/conf-file-prefix.md b/doc/manual/src/command-ref/conf-file-prefix.md index 9987393d2..d38456788 100644 --- a/doc/manual/src/command-ref/conf-file-prefix.md +++ b/doc/manual/src/command-ref/conf-file-prefix.md @@ -19,6 +19,9 @@ By default Nix reads settings from the following places: and `XDG_CONFIG_HOME`. If these are unset, it will look in `$HOME/.config/nix.conf`. + - If `NIX_OPTIONS` is set, its contents is treated as the contents of + a configuration file. + The configuration files consist of `name = value` pairs, one per line. Other files can be included with a line like `include diff --git a/doc/manual/src/command-ref/env-common.md b/doc/manual/src/command-ref/env-common.md index 03016dba7..27e730fc8 100644 --- a/doc/manual/src/command-ref/env-common.md +++ b/doc/manual/src/command-ref/env-common.md @@ -81,6 +81,11 @@ Most Nix commands interpret the following environment variables: Overrides the location of the system Nix configuration directory (default `prefix/etc/nix`). + - `NIX_OPTIONS` + Applies settings from Nix configuration from the environment. + The content is treated as if it was read from a Nix configuration file. + Settings are separated by the newline character. + - `NIX_USER_CONF_FILES` Overrides the location of the user Nix configuration files to load from (defaults to the XDG spec locations). The variable is treated |