diff --git a/doc/manual/command-ref/env-common.xml b/doc/manual/command-ref/env-common.xml index a83aeaf2e57576648da447250abffa242cce628b..361d3e2b0330ca5c38eafce8df8637c7072ca72f 100644 --- a/doc/manual/command-ref/env-common.xml +++ b/doc/manual/command-ref/env-common.xml @@ -154,6 +154,8 @@ $ mount -o bind /mnt/otherdisk/nix /nix</screen> <literal>daemon</literal> if you want to use the Nix daemon to execute Nix operations. This is necessary in <link linkend="ssec-multi-user">multi-user Nix installations</link>. + If the Nix daemon's Unix socket is at some non-standard path, + this variable should be set to <literal>unix://path/to/socket</literal>. Otherwise, it should be left unset.</para></listitem> </varlistentry> diff --git a/src/libstore/store-api.hh b/src/libstore/store-api.hh index c0e735cd314c44364105339210dc6b7ea768129d..b21d3dd8a93b1c666ed1a1b39bfda2e93d320caa 100644 --- a/src/libstore/store-api.hh +++ b/src/libstore/store-api.hh @@ -705,6 +705,9 @@ void removeTempRoots(); * ‘daemon’: The Nix store accessed via a Unix domain socket connection to nix-daemon. + * ‘unix://<path>’: The Nix store accessed via a Unix domain socket + connection to nix-daemon, with the socket located at <path>. + * ‘auto’ or ‘’: Equivalent to ‘local’ or ‘daemon’ depending on whether the user has write access to the local Nix store/database.