Missing manpage for nix-env and others

noamraph · April 6, 2024, 7:46pm

Hi,

I don’t see to have a manpage for nix-env, and other nix commands, such as nix-store and nix-shell:

❯ nix-env --help
No manual entry for nix-env

However, I do have manpages for “nix3” commands:

❯ man -w nix3-repl
/nix/store/iwgkck1d64s5f26ngln540hpf06g28py-nix-2.20.1/share/man/man1/nix3-repl.1.gz

I installed the man-pages and man-db packages, but it doesn’t help.

I’m using Nix as a package manager, with nixpkgs-unstable.

Am I missing some package? If so, which one?

Thanks!

abathur · April 6, 2024, 10:59pm

github.com/NixOS/nix

Restore manual pages

NixOS:master ← alois31:restore-manual-pages

opened 06:09PM - 09 Feb 24 UTC

alois31

+18 -11

Commit d536c57e878a04f795c1ef8ee3232a47035da2cf inadvertedly broke build and ins…tallation of all non-autogenerated manual pages (in particular, all the ones documenting the stable CLI), by moving the definition of the man-pages variable in doc/manual/local.mk after its usage in mk/lib.mk. Move including the former earlier so that the correct order is restored. # Motivation Documentation is important. There should not be regressions. # Context Regression caused by https://github.com/NixOS/nix/pull/5145. # Priorities and Process Add :+1: to [pull requests you find important](https://github.com/NixOS/nix/pulls?q=is%3Aopen+sort%3Areactions-%2B1-desc). The Nix maintainer team uses a [GitHub project board](https://github.com/orgs/NixOS/projects/19) to [schedule and track reviews](https://github.com/NixOS/nix/tree/master/maintainers#project-board-protocol).

noamraph · April 7, 2024, 4:54pm

Thanks!

My conclusion: if you want to learn Nix, use the latest nixos channel, and not nixpkgs-unstable, which is really unstable. For other newbies, those are the commands that helped me:

nix-channel --remove nixpkgs
nix-channel --add https://nixos.org/channels/nixos-23.11 nixos
nix-channel --update
nix-env -iA nixos.nix