* Removed the `id' attribute hack.

* Formalise the notion of fixed-output derivations, i.e., derivations
  for which a cryptographic hash of the output is known in advance.
  Changes to such derivations should not propagate upwards through the
  dependency graph.  Previously this was done by specifying the hash
  component of the output path through the `id' attribute, but this is
  insecure since you can lie about it (i.e., you can specify any hash
  and then produce a completely different output).  Now the
  responsibility for checking the output is moved from the builder to
  Nix itself.

  A fixed-output derivation can be created by specifying the
  `outputHash' and `outputHashAlgo' attributes, the latter taking
  values `md5', `sha1', and `sha256', and the former specifying the
  actual hash in hexadecimal or in base-32 (auto-detected by looking
  at the length of the attribute value).  MD5 is included for
  compatibility but should be considered deprecated.

* Removed the `drvPath' pseudo-attribute in derivation results.  It's
  no longer necessary.

* Cleaned up the support for multiple output paths in derivation store
  expressions.  Each output now has a unique identifier (e.g., `out',
  `devel', `docs').  Previously there was no way to tell output paths
  apart at the store expression level.

* `nix-hash' now has a flag `--base32' to specify that the hash should
  be printed in base-32 notation.

* `fetchurl' accepts parameters `sha256' and `sha1' in addition to
  `md5'.

* `nix-prefetch-url' now prints out a SHA-1 hash in base-32.  (TODO: a
  flag to specify the hash.)

1 files changed, 6 insertions, 3 deletions

diff --git a/src/libutil/hash.hh b/src/libutil/hash.hh
index 0c9d7b9cb9..398b174216 100644
--- a/src/libutil/hash.hh
+++ b/src/libutil/hash.hh
@@ -58,18 +58,21 @@ Hash parseHash32(HashType ht, const string & s);
 bool isHash(const string & s);
 
 /* Compute the hash of the given string. */
-Hash hashString(const string & s, HashType ht);
+Hash hashString(HashType ht, const string & s);
 
 /* Compute the hash of the given file. */
-Hash hashFile(const Path & path, HashType ht);
+Hash hashFile(HashType ht, const Path & path);
 
 /* Compute the hash of the given path.  The hash is defined as
    md5(dump(path)). */
-Hash hashPath(const Path & path, HashType ht);
+Hash hashPath(HashType ht, const Path & path);
 
 /* Compress a hash to the specified number of bytes by cyclically
    XORing bytes together. */
 Hash compressHash(const Hash & hash, unsigned int newSize);
 
+/* Parse a string representing a hash type. */
+HashType parseHashType(const string & s);
+
 
 #endif /* !__HASH_H */