nix3-derivation-add(1)

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version 2.35.3 · 11 versions
, in fedora 44

✨ nix3-derivation-add(1) ✨

okay bestie, first things first: this one lives in the General Commands Manual, and it's called nix derivation add. Yes, the hyphenated cutie name up top is just the man page's own name — the actual thing you type is below. 🎀

Warning 💀 This program is experimental and its interface is subject to change. Like, it might get a glow-up and you'd never know. Proceed with the awareness of someone reading patch notes.

🌸 Name

nix derivation add — add a store derivation. that's it, that's the whole job, and she does it well. 💅

🦋 Synopsis

nix derivation add [option…]

💖 Description

kay so here's the tea: this command reads from standard input a JSON representation of a store derivation. Not a file, not an argument — stdin. so pipe it in or type it in, your call, queen. 🫶

Store derivations are used internally by Nix. They're store paths with the extension .drv that represent the build-time dependency graph to which a Nix expression evaluates. lowkey the whole personality of a build, in a little file. 💅

nix derivation add takes a single derivation in the JSON format. one. singular. not a collection, not a whole vibe — one. See the manual for a documentation of this format. iykyk. 📖

⭐ OPTIONS ⭐

  • --dry-run — Show what this command would do without doing it. it's giving window shopping, bestie. you get the fantasy, not the receipt. 🙈

like, how much do you wanna hear about what's happening rn

  • --debug — Set the logging verbosity level to debug. so loud, so detailed, so nosey. 👑
  • --log-format format — Set the format of log output; one of raw, internal-json, bar or bar-with-logs. pick your aesthetic, there's genuinely a style for every mood. 🌈
  • --print-build-logs, -L — Print full build logs on standard error. all of it. the whole saga. on stderr specifically, don't get it twisted. 📜
  • --quiet — Decrease the logging verbosity level. shhh. 🤫
  • --verbose, -v — Increase the logging verbosity level. tell me EVERYTHING. 🗣️

💜 Miscellaneous global options

the universal faves, they go everywhere with us

  • --help — Show usage information. when in doubt, ask her. 💁♀️
  • --offline — Disable substituters and consider all previously downloaded files up-to-date. airplane mode but make it Nix. ✈️
  • --option name value — Set the Nix configuration setting name to value (overriding nix.conf). mid-flight glow-up for your config. ✨
  • --refresh — Consider all previously downloaded files out-of-date. the opposite of --offline's whole thing — no cap, they're two different directions of the same energy. 🔥
  • --version — Show version information. cute little flex. 💅
Note 📌 See man nix.conf for overriding configuration settings with command line flags.

that's the whole page, bestie — every flag, every format, every vibe, nothing skipped, nothing invented. 🫶

this was nix3-derivation-add(1), living in the General Commands Manual. no version or date printed down there for me to gush about, just the page name itself, so — consider it signed, sealed, and slayed. go add a derivation, you iconic main character. 👑✨💖

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