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2007-09-17	* nix-env: allow ~/.nix-defexpr to be a directory. If it is, then the	Eelco Dolstra	6	-78/+66
	Nix expressions in that directory are combined into an attribute set {file1 = import file1; file2 = import file2; ...}, i.e. each Nix expression is an attribute with the file name as the attribute name. Also recurses into directories. * nix-env: removed the "--import" (-I) option which set the ~/.nix-defexpr symlink. * nix-channel: don't use "nix-env --import", instead symlink ~/.nix-defexpr/channels. So finally nix-channel --update doesn't override any default Nix expressions but combines with them. This means that you can have (say) a local Nixpkgs SVN tree and use it as a default for nix-env: $ ln -s .../path-to-nixpkgs-tree ~/.nix-defexpr/nixpkgs_svn and be subscribed to channels (including Nixpkgs) at the same time. (If there is any ambiguity, the -A flag can be used to disambiguate, e.g. "nix-env -i -A nixpkgs_svn.pan".)
2007-09-11	* Test the impureEnvVars feature.	Eelco Dolstra	3	-0/+6

2007-09-04	* nix-push / generate-patches: bzip the manifest.	Eelco Dolstra	5	-2/+17

2007-09-02	explanation what happens when passing true / false and null values to ↵	Marc Weber	1	-0/+4
	derivation builders added
2007-08-30	* Create the Nix daemon socket in a separate directory	Eelco Dolstra	2	-4/+10
	(/nix/var/nix/daemon-socket). This allows access to the Nix daemon to be restricted by setting the mode/ownership on that directory as desired, e.g. $ chmod 770 /nix/var/nix/daemon-socket $ chown root.wheel /nix/var/nix/daemon-socket to allow only users in the wheel group to use Nix. Setting the ownership on a socket is much trickier, since the socket must be deleted and recreated every time the daemon is started (which would require additional Nix configuration file directives to specify the mode/ownership, and wouldn't support arbitrary ACLs), some BSD variants appear to ignore permissions on sockets, and it's not clear whether the umask is respected on every platform when creating sockets.
2007-08-28	* When there are multiple substituters, make sure to release the	Eelco Dolstra	1	-0/+5
	lock on the output path after trying each. Otherwise the pathIsLockedByMe() test gets confused.
2007-08-28	* Fix a race condition with parallel builds where multiple	Eelco Dolstra	3	-10/+96
	fixed-output derivations or substitutions try to build the same store path at the same time. Locking generally catches this, but not between multiple goals in the same process. This happened especially often (actually, only) in the build farm with fetchurl downloads of the same file being executed on multiple machines and then copied back to the main machine where they would clobber each other (NIXBF-13). Solution: if a goal notices that the output path is already locked, then go to sleep until another goal finishes (hopefully the one locking the path) and try again.
2007-08-28	* Doh! Broken test.	Eelco Dolstra	1	-3/+3

2007-08-28	* PathLocks::lockPaths: don't allow reacquiring a lock we already	Eelco Dolstra	2	-5/+5
	hold.
2007-08-28	* Test case to show that parallel builds of different fixed-output	Eelco Dolstra	3	-1/+28
	derivations that produce the same output path don't work properly wrt locking. This happens a lot in the build farm when fetchurl derivations downloading the same file on different platforms are executed in parallel and then copied back to the main machine.
2007-08-22	* nix-channel: supports users who don't have write permission to the	Eelco Dolstra	1	-12/+21
	manifests directory. In that case, we don't do a nix-pull, so the user gets pure source deployment. The directory /nix/var/nix/gcroots/per-user/$USER should be writable. (It's created automatically if /nix/var/nix/gcroots/per-user is writable, e.g. if it has 1777 permission.)
2007-08-18	primop functions listToAttrs (+test), __isAttrs, __trace added	Marc Weber	3	-0/+62
	new configuration style proposal in lib/default-unstable.nix
2007-08-15	* Show errors in nix-prefetch-url.	Eelco Dolstra	3	-4/+5

2007-08-14	* Hopefully this fixes the test on FreeBSD.	Eelco Dolstra	2	-3/+3

2007-08-14	* Fix the tests.	Eelco Dolstra	1	-1/+2

2007-08-13	* A test for the nix-worker.	Eelco Dolstra	4	-2/+24

2007-08-13	* Fix the tests.	Eelco Dolstra	12	-63/+67

2007-08-13	* Bump the Nix database schema version number; delete the substitutes	Eelco Dolstra	2	-5/+33
	table.
2007-08-13	* Backwards compatibility.	Eelco Dolstra	1	-2/+2

2007-08-12	* Get rid of the substitutes database table (NIX-47). Instead, if we	Eelco Dolstra	24	-469/+357
	need any info on substitutable paths, we just call the substituters (such as download-using-manifests.pl) directly. This means that it's no longer necessary for nix-pull to register substitutes or for nix-channel to clear them, which makes those operations much faster (NIX-95). Also, we don't have to worry about keeping nix-pull manifests (in /nix/var/nix/manifests) and the database in sync with each other. The downside is that there is some overhead in calling an external program to get the substitutes info. For instance, "nix-env -qas" takes a bit longer. Abolishing the substitutes table also makes the logic in local-store.cc simpler, as we don't need to store info for invalid paths. On the downside, you cannot do things like "nix-store -qR" on a substitutable but invalid path (but nobody did that anyway). * Never catch interrupts (the Interrupted exception).
2007-08-10	* nix-pull: support bzipped manifests: when doing a nix-pull on $url,	Eelco Dolstra	1	-8/+32
	try $url.bz2 first.
2007-08-10	* Enable nix-prefetch-url caching in nix-channel.	Eelco Dolstra	2	-3/+9

2007-08-10	* Don't rely on /dev/stdin.	Eelco Dolstra	1	-1/+2

2007-08-09	* nix-pull: using nix-prefetch-url (so that we get caching for free),	Eelco Dolstra	2	-10/+11
	and store the manifests in the Nix store. (So now /nix/var/nix/manifests/ just contains symlinks to the store and is searched for GC roots.)
2007-08-09	* nix-prefetch-url: support caching. If the environment variable	Eelco Dolstra	3	-13/+58
	NIX_DOWNLOAD_CACHE is set, then nix-prefetch-url will store the hash and timestamp of downloaded files in the directory $NIX_DOWNLOAD_CACHE. This allows it to figure out if the file is still in the Nix store.
2007-08-07	* Use the new patched version of the aterm library.	Eelco Dolstra	1	-3/+3

2007-08-07	* Don't allocate input files on the stack.	Eelco Dolstra	1	-14/+2

2007-08-06	* Optionally warn about packages that give an assertion failure.	Eelco Dolstra	1	-1/+1

2007-07-05	* Properly keep packages during upgrades.	Eelco Dolstra	1	-1/+4

2007-06-12	* Support queryDeriver() in multi-user installations.	Eelco Dolstra	10	-16/+42

2007-06-11	* Distribute bzip2 1.0.4.	Eelco Dolstra	1	-3/+3

2007-06-11	* Check against creation of GC roots in the store. Those roots don't	Eelco Dolstra	2	-3/+7
	work, because findRoots() stops when it encounters a symlink to the store. And of course the store is supposed to be read-only.
2007-06-04	* Remove debug statement.	Eelco Dolstra	1	-1/+0

2007-06-02	change default NIX_HASH_ALGO	Armijn Hemel	1	-1/+1

2007-05-16	(no commit message)	Eelco Dolstra	3	-44/+80

2007-05-16	* New builtin function "isFunction". You're not supposed to use it	Eelco Dolstra	3	-2/+15
	;-) * Channels: fix channels that are plain lists of derivations (like strategoxt-unstable) instead of functions (like nixpkgs-unstable). This fixes the error message "error: the left-hand side of the function call is neither a function nor a primop (built-in operation) but a list".
2007-05-15	* Allow empty argument lists in function definitions (e.g., `{}:	Eelco Dolstra	3	-0/+3
	bla'). Also allow trailing commas (`{x, y,}: ...') as a unintented consequence. Hopefully the reduce/reduce conflict won't cause any problems.
2007-05-14	* Typo (reported by Marc Weber).	Eelco Dolstra	1	-1/+1

2007-05-07	* Create the database directory if it doesn't exist.	Eelco Dolstra	1	-0/+9

2007-05-02	* Set the right priorities when recovering from a directory	Eelco Dolstra	1	-1/+1
	collision.
2007-05-02	(no commit message)	Eelco Dolstra	1	-1/+0

2007-05-01	* Give unpacked channels more sensible names than 0, 1, ... They now	Eelco Dolstra	5	-20/+43
	get the basename of the channel URL (e.g., nixpkgs-unstable). The top-level Nix expression of the channel is now an attribute set, the attributes of which are the individual channels (e.g., {nixpkgs_unstable = ...; strategoxt_unstable = ...}). This makes attribute paths ("nix-env -qaA" and "nix-env -iA") more sensible, e.g., "nix-env -iA nixpkgs_unstable.subversion".
2007-05-01	* nix-env -i: instead of breaking package ties by version, break them	Eelco Dolstra	4	-13/+54
	by priority and version install. That is, if there are multiple packages with the same name, then pick the package with the highest priority, and only use the version if there are multiple packages with the same priority. This makes it possible to mark specific versions/variant in Nixpkgs more or less desirable than others. A typical example would be a beta version of some package (e.g., "gcc-4.2.0rc1") which should not be installed even though it is the highest version, except when it is explicitly selected (e.g., "nix-env -i gcc-4.2.0rc1"). * Idem for nix-env -u, only the semantics are a bit trickier since we also need to take into account the priority of the currently installed package (we never upgrade to a lower priority, unless --always is given).
2007-05-01	* Set a terminate() handler to ensure that we leave the BDB	Eelco Dolstra	6	-8/+55
	environment cleanly even when an exception is thrown from a destructor. We still crash, but we don't take all other Nix processes with us.
2007-05-01	* Make --verify more interruptable.	Eelco Dolstra	1	-0/+1

2007-05-01	* `nix-env -q --xml --meta' to show all meta attributes.	Eelco Dolstra	3	-3/+19

2007-04-30	* Doh.	Eelco Dolstra	1	-1/+1

2007-04-27	* Package flag "keep" that prevents a package from being removed from	Eelco Dolstra	2	-3/+8
	a user environment by an install or upgrade action. This is particularly useful if you have a version installed that you don't want to upgrade (e.g., because the newer versions are broken). Example: $ nix-env -u zapping --dry-run (dry run; not doing anything) upgrading `zapping-0.9.6' to `zapping-0.10cvs6' $ nix-env --set-flag keep true zapping $ nix-env -u zapping --dry-run (dry run; not doing anything) However, "-e" will still uninstall the package. (Maybe we should require the keep flag to be explicitly set to false before it can be uninstalled.)
2007-04-27	* Package conflict resolution through priority levels. If there is a	Eelco Dolstra	3	-20/+48
	user environment collission between two packages due to overlapping file names, then a package with a higher priority will overwrite the symlinks of a package with a lower priority. E.g., $ nix-env --set-flag priority 5 gcc $ nix-env --set-flag priority 10 binutils gives gcc a higher priority than binutils (higher number = lower priority).
2007-04-27	* Allow conflicting packages to be kept in a user environment, and	Eelco Dolstra	2	-3/+11
	allow switching between them (NIX-80). Example: two versions of Pan: $ nix-env -q pan pan-0.128 pan-0.14.2.91 $ readlink $(which pan) /nix/store/l38jrbilw269drpjkx7kinhrxj6fjh59-pan-0.14.2.91/bin/pan At most one of them can be active any given time. Assuming than 0.14.2.91 is active, you can active 0.128 as follows: $ nix-env --set-flag active false pan-0.14.2.91 $ nix-env --set-flag active true pan-0.128 $ readlink $(which pan) /nix/store/nziqwnlzy7xl385kglxhg75pfl5i936n-pan-0.128/bin/pan More flags to follow.