nix3-derivation-add(1)

    Warning
    This program is experimental (../../contributing/experimental-features.md#xp-feature-nix-command) and its interface is subject to change.

Name

nix derivation add - Add a store derivation

Synopsis

nix derivation add [option…]

Note: this command’s interface is based heavily around installables (./nix.md#installables) , which you may want to read about first (nix --help).

Description

This command reads from standard input a JSON representation of a store derivation (../../glossary.md#gloss-store-derivation) to which an installable (./nix.md#installables) evaluates.

Store derivations are used internally by Nix. They are store paths with extension .drv that represent the build-time dependency graph to which a Nix expression evaluates.

The JSON format is documented under the derivation show (./nix3-derivation-show.md) command.

Options

•   --dry-run (#opt-dry-run) Show what this command would do without doing it.

Logging-related options:

•   --debug (#opt-debug) Set the logging verbosity level to ‘debug’.

•   --log-format (#opt-log-format) format Set the format of log output; one of raw, internal-json, bar, bar-with-logs, multiline or multiline-with-logs.

•   --print-build-logs (#opt-print-build-logs) / -L Print full build logs on standard error.

•   --quiet (#opt-quiet) Decrease the logging verbosity level.

•   --verbose (#opt-verbose) / -v Increase the logging verbosity level.

Miscellaneous global options:

•   --help (#opt-help) Show usage information.

•   --offline (#opt-offline) Disable substituters and consider all previously downloaded files up-to-date.

•   --option (#opt-option) name value Set the Lix configuration setting name to value (overriding nix.conf).

•   --refresh (#opt-refresh) Consider all previously downloaded files out-of-date.

•   --version (#opt-version) Show version information.

    Note

    See man nix.conf (../../command-ref/conf-file.md#command-line-flags) for overriding configuration settings with command line flags.