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2007-02-21 * Don't use $SHELL.Eelco Dolstra3-10/+2
2007-02-20 * Start of `nix-store --export' operation for serialising a storeEelco Dolstra6-0/+50
path. This is like `nix-store --dump', only it also dumps the meta-information of the store path (references, deriver). Will add a `--sign' flag later to add a cryptographic signature, which we will use for exchanging store paths between build farm machines in a secure manner.
2007-02-20 * Temporary notes on how we're going to use OpenSSL.Eelco Dolstra1-0/+24
2007-02-20 * Close the file - just in case.Eelco Dolstra1-0/+3
2007-02-06 * Fix 64-bit compiler warnings.Eelco Dolstra2-4/+4
2007-02-05 * Compatibility with docbook5-xsl.Eelco Dolstra7-7/+8
2007-02-02 * nix-env now maintains meta info (from the `meta' derivationEelco Dolstra6-16/+105
attribute) about installed packages in user environments. Thus, an operation like `nix-env -q --description' shows useful information not only on available packages but also on installed packages. * nix-env now passes the entire manifest as an argument to the Nix expression of the user environment builder (not just a list of paths), so that in particular the user environment builder has access to the meta attributes. * New operation `--set-flag' in nix-env to change meta info of installed packages. This will be useful to pass per-package policies to the user environment builder (e.g., how to resolve collision or whether to disable a package (NIX-80)) or upgrade policies in nix-env (e.g., that a package should be "masked", that is, left untouched by upgrade actions). Example: $ nix-env --set-flag enabled false ghc-6.4
2007-01-29 * Doh!Eelco Dolstra1-2/+0
2007-01-29 * computeStorePathForText: take the references into account whenEelco Dolstra5-6/+18
computing the store path (NIX-77). This is an important security property in multi-user Nix stores. Note that this changes the store paths of derivations (since the derivation aterms are added using addTextToStore), but not most outputs (unless they use builtins.toFile).
2007-01-29 * Don't capitalise the primop functions.Eelco Dolstra1-76/+81
2007-01-29 * Organise primops.cc a bit better.Eelco Dolstra1-321/+376
2007-01-29 New primitives:Eelco Dolstra8-6/+88
* `sub' to subtract two numbers. * `stringLength' to get the length of a string. * `substring' to get a substring of a string. These should be enough to allow most string operations to be expressed.
2007-01-29 * filterSource: pass strings to the predicate function instead ofEelco Dolstra1-1/+1
paths. Paths can have unexpected semantics.
2007-01-24 * Nasty: Glibc clears the TMPDIR environment variable in setuidEelco Dolstra1-1/+8
programs, so if a builder uses TMPDIR, then it will fail when executed through nix-setuid-helper. In fact Glibc clears a whole bunch of variables (see sysdeps/generic/unsecvars.h in the Glibc sources), but only TMPDIR should matter in practice. As a workaround, we reinitialise TMPDIR from NIX_BUILD_TOP.
2007-01-23 * exportReferencesGraph: work on paths within store paths as well.Eelco Dolstra1-2/+10
2007-01-23 * New kind of manifest object: "localPath", which denotes that a storeEelco Dolstra8-22/+73
path can be created by copying it from another location in the file system. This is useful in the NixOS installation.
2007-01-23 * Successors have been gone for ages.Eelco Dolstra8-32/+15
2007-01-22 * nix-prefetch-url: change the default hash to SHA-256 (in base-32).Eelco Dolstra1-1/+1
2007-01-15 * Handle multiple indirect symlinks when loading a Nix expression.Eelco Dolstra3-7/+22
2007-01-15 * builtins.filterSource: pass the type of the file ("regular",Eelco Dolstra3-2/+23
"directory", "symlink") as the second argument to the filter predicate.
2007-01-14 * `nix-store --verify': revive checking the referrers table. This isEelco Dolstra1-42/+56
important to get garbage collection to work if there is any inconsistency in the database (because the referrer table is used to determine whether it is safe to delete a path). * `nix-store --verify': show some progress.
2007-01-14 * Make the garbage collector more resilient to certain consistencyEelco Dolstra3-4/+10
errors: in-use paths now cause a warning, not a fatal error.
2007-01-14 * Don't forget the .flags files.Eelco Dolstra1-1/+1
2007-01-14 * Option --argstr for passing string arguments easily. (NIX-75)Eelco Dolstra11-28/+88
2007-01-14 * Doh.Eelco Dolstra1-0/+2
2007-01-13 * nix-pack-closure: store the top-level store paths in the closure.Eelco Dolstra5-1/+39
* nix-unpack-closure: extract the top-level paths from the closure and print them on stdout. This allows them to be installed, e.g., "nix-env -i $(nix-unpack-closure)". (NIX-64)
2007-01-13 * Allow multiple --attr / -A arguments in nix-build / nix-instantiateEelco Dolstra1-15/+20
(NIX-74).
2007-01-13 * Removed chroot support.Eelco Dolstra4-22/+0
2007-01-13 * Canonicalise ASTs in `nix-instantiate --eval': remove positionEelco Dolstra7-5/+49
info, sort attribute sets.
2007-01-13 * Memoize strict evaluation.Eelco Dolstra2-13/+29
2007-01-13 * printTermAsXML: treat derivations specially; emit an elementEelco Dolstra1-11/+55
<derivation outPath=... drvPath=...> attrs </derivation>. Only emit the attributes of any specific derivation only. This prevents exponententially large XML output due to the absense of sharing.
2007-01-13 * Make printing an expression as XML interruptible.Eelco Dolstra2-0/+7
2007-01-13 * Cleanup.Eelco Dolstra6-16/+16
2007-01-11 (no commit message)Eelco Dolstra1-1/+2
2007-01-11 * Install generate-patches into libexec.Eelco Dolstra1-0/+1
2007-01-08 * Reject patches that are larger than a certain fraction of the full archiveEelco Dolstra1-4/+13
(currently 60%). Large patches aren't very economical.
2007-01-08 * Huge speedup in patch propagation (20 minutes or so to 3 seconds).Eelco Dolstra1-8/+15
2006-12-29 * Another great success.Eelco Dolstra1-1/+0
2006-12-29 * Testing 1 2 3.Eelco Dolstra1-0/+1
2006-12-15 * Handle weird cases when the server redirects us while setting a cookie.Eelco Dolstra1-1/+1
2006-12-13 * Remove debug message.Eelco Dolstra1-1/+0
2006-12-12 * New primop builtins.filterSource, which can be used to filter filesEelco Dolstra19-68/+143
from a source directory. All files for which a predicate function returns true are copied to the store. Typical example is to leave out the .svn directory: stdenv.mkDerivation { ... src = builtins.filterSource (path: baseNameOf (toString path) != ".svn") ./source-dir; # as opposed to # src = ./source-dir; } This is important because the .svn directory influences the hash in a rather unpredictable and variable way.
2006-12-12 * In dumpPath(): pass a function object that allows files to beEelco Dolstra2-14/+28
selectively in/excluded from the dump.
2006-12-12 * Push.Eelco Dolstra1-1/+1
2006-12-12 * New operation `nix-env --set' which sets a user environment to aEelco Dolstra3-0/+31
single derivation specified by the argument. This is useful when we want to have a profile for a single derivation, such as a server configuration. Then we can just say (e.g.) $ nix-env -p /.../server-profile -f server.nix --set -A server We can't do queries or upgrades on such a profile, but we can do rollbacks. The advantage over -i is that we don't have to worry about other packages having been installed in the profile previously; --set gets rid of them.
2006-12-12 * New built-in function `builtins.attrNames' that returns theEelco Dolstra4-0/+51
names of the attributes in an attribute set.
2006-12-09 (no commit message)Eelco Dolstra1-0/+3
2006-12-09 * Use lchown() instead of chown() in canonicalisePathMetaData(). ThisEelco Dolstra1-8/+38
matters when running as root, since then we don't use the setuid helper (which already used lchown()). * Also check for an obscure security problem on platforms that don't have lchown. Then we can't change the ownership of symlinks, which doesn't matter *except* when the containing directory is writable by the owner (which is the case with the top-level Nix store directory).
2006-12-09 * Use deletePathWrapped() in more places.Eelco Dolstra3-22/+31
2006-12-08 * Goal cancellation inside the waitForInput() loop needs to be handledEelco Dolstra1-38/+85
very carefully, since it can invalidate iterators into the `children' map.