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2007-11-29	* Troubleshooting entry about running out of locks.	Eelco Dolstra	1	-1/+43

2007-11-21	* New primop `readFile' to get the contents of a file as a string.	Eelco Dolstra	4	-0/+23

2007-11-16	* Flag `--no-build-hook' to disable distributed builds.	Eelco Dolstra	9	-6/+23
	* queryDeriver in daemon mode: don't barf if the other side returns an empty string (which means there is no deriver).
2007-11-16	* nix-store --import: add a flag --require-signature.	Eelco Dolstra	1	-2/+7

2007-11-15	* nix-build: pass --argstr to nix-instantiate.	Eelco Dolstra	1	-3/+3

2007-11-15	* Doh!	Eelco Dolstra	1	-1/+2

2007-11-15	* Don't need gc.hh.	Eelco Dolstra	2	-7/+2

2007-11-15	* Add build-remote.pl to the Nix distribution.	Eelco Dolstra	2	-1/+211

2007-11-15	Added possibility to specify garbage collection levels for store paths; so ↵	Michael Raskin	2	-4/+21
	packages can share intermediate results of compilation and GC will collect it automatically while never touching tarballs, for example.
2007-11-05	* nix-prefetch-url: don't fail if /tmp/nix-prefetch-url-<pid> exists,	Eelco Dolstra	1	-4/+23
	instead use a counter just like we do for temporary build directories.
2007-11-01	* A rule to make a PDF version of the manual.	Eelco Dolstra	2	-0/+9

2007-11-01	* Documented some of the more obscure derivation attributes (including	Eelco Dolstra	3	-14/+250
	fixed-output derivations).
2007-10-31	* Documented multi-user Nix.	Eelco Dolstra	5	-46/+274

2007-10-29	(no commit message)	Eelco Dolstra	4	-1/+133

2007-10-29	* Make the `--prebuilt-only' / `-b' option work not just for queries	Eelco Dolstra	3	-17/+24
	but installations/upgrades as well. So `nix-env -ub \*' will upgrade only those packages for which a substitute is available (or to be precise, it will upgrade each package to the highest version for which a substitute is available).
2007-10-29	* Depend on bash instead of sh (since we use a few bashisms).	Eelco Dolstra	1	-1/+1

2007-10-29	* On FreeBSD, sys/mount.h needs sys/param.h.	Eelco Dolstra	2	-3/+12

2007-10-27	* Detect whether chroot / bind-mount support is available.	Eelco Dolstra	2	-4/+26

2007-10-27	* Delete the chroot directory automatically.	Eelco Dolstra	5	-19/+80
	* Removed some debug messages.
2007-10-27	* Support for doing builds in a chroot under Linux. The builder is	Eelco Dolstra	3	-16/+162
	executed in a chroot that contains just the Nix store, the temporary build directory, and a configurable set of additional directories (/dev and /proc by default). This allows a bit more purity enforcement: hidden build-time dependencies on directories such as /usr or /nix/var/nix/profiles are no longer possible. As an added benefit, accidental network downloads (cf. NIXPKGS-52) are prevented as well (because files such as /etc/resolv.conf are not available in the chroot). However the usefulness of chroots is diminished by the fact that many builders depend on /bin/sh, so you need /bin in the list of additional directories. (And then on non-NixOS you need /lib as well...)
2007-10-26	* "trace" primop: write the trace to standard error.	Eelco Dolstra	1	-6/+7

2007-10-24	(no commit message)	Eelco Dolstra	1	-0/+5

2007-10-23	* Improved introduction (actually copied mostly from the homepage).	Eelco Dolstra	1	-126/+312

2007-10-22	* Document the new primops in Nix 0.11.	Eelco Dolstra	1	-1/+164

2007-10-22	* Move list of built-in functions to a separate file.	Eelco Dolstra	3	-584/+592

2007-10-22	(no commit message)	Eelco Dolstra	1	-15/+14

2007-10-22	(no commit message)	Eelco Dolstra	1	-1/+1

2007-10-22	(no commit message)	Eelco Dolstra	2	-3/+1

2007-10-22	Added comment telling about setup-hook and propagatedBuildInputs	Marc Weber	1	-3/+12

2007-10-10	* Doh.	Eelco Dolstra	1	-1/+1

2007-10-10	* Doh! Don't change the permissions on /nix/store.	Eelco Dolstra	1	-9/+8

2007-10-10	* nix-store --optimise: flag "--dry-run" to just query what the disk	Eelco Dolstra	2	-18/+26
	savings would be.
2007-10-09	* New command `nix-store --optimise' to reduce Nix store disk space	Eelco Dolstra	5	-99/+188
	usage by finding identical files in the store and hard-linking them to each other. It typically reduces the size of the store by something like 25-35%. This is what the optimise-store.pl script did, but the new command is faster and more correct (it's safe wrt garbage collection and concurrent builds).
2007-10-09	* listToAttrs: the list now should consist of {name, value} attribute	Eelco Dolstra	1	-28/+29
	sets instead of {attr, value}. "name" is better than "attr" because the combination of the two forms the attribute.
2007-09-19	* Manpage for nix-copy-closure.	Eelco Dolstra	17	-25/+308

2007-09-18	* Ignore dangling symlinks in ~/.nix-defexpr.	Eelco Dolstra	1	-1/+6

2007-09-18	* Pass various options to the worker so that flags like -K or -j work	Eelco Dolstra	5	-7/+49
	in multi-user Nix (NIX-72). * Client/worker: exchange a protocol version number for future compatibility.
2007-09-18	* Remove garbage.	Eelco Dolstra	2	-2/+2

2007-09-17	* nix-env -qa: make the "-A" flag do the expected thing, namely follow	Eelco Dolstra	1	-78/+103
	the given attribute path (just as -A does with other option) (NIX-83). So you can now say $ nix-env -qa -A nixpkgs_unstable.gnome \* atk-1.12.4 esound-0.2.36 ... to see the packages in the "gnome" attribute in Nixpkgs. To print the attribute path, you should now use "--attr-path" / "-P" (running out of letters...).
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.)