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2012-06-23 In chroot builds, use a private network namespaceEelco Dolstra1-6/+31
On Linux it's possible to run a process in its own network namespace, meaning that it gets its own set of network interfaces, disjunct from the rest of the system. We use this to completely remove network access to chroot builds, except that they get a private loopback interface. This means that: - Builders cannot connect to the outside network or to other processes on the same machine, except processes within the same build. - Vice versa, other processes cannot connect to processes in a chroot build, and open ports/connections do not show up in "netstat". - If two concurrent builders try to listen on the same port (e.g. as part of a test), they no longer conflict with each other. This was inspired by the "PrivateNetwork" flag in systemd.
2012-06-18 Support socket-based, on-demand activation of the Nix daemon with systemdEelco Dolstra1-30/+46
Systemd can start the Nix daemon on demand when the Nix daemon socket is first accessed. This is signalled through the LISTEN_FDS environment variable, so all we need to do is check for that and then use file descriptor 3 as the listen socket instead of creating one ourselves.
2012-05-31 Add Emacs to the disk imageEelco Dolstra1-1/+1
2012-05-31 fixes to nix-worker systemd service descriptor: - remove commented-out lines ↵Michel Alexandre Salim2-3/+1
- register the file for distribution in Makefile.am
2012-05-31 On systems with SystemD, install the service descriptor for nix-worker, and ↵Michel Alexandre Salim2-0/+28
enable and start it
2012-05-31 Major spec update: - Fix license field - Split into subpackages - Update ↵Michel Alexandre Salim1-46/+149
build dependencies - Configure users and groups for multi-user mode - Fix installation location of Perl modules
2012-05-31 Update nix profile: - incorporate NixOS's configuration so that nix is ↵Michel Alexandre Salim2-8/+47
usable by normal users - install as a data file, not a program file
2012-05-31 - only enable deprecated spec sections when building on systems with older ↵Michel Alexandre Salim1-6/+12
RPM versions - move tests to dedicated %check section - use standard build macros
2012-05-31 - replace %define with %globalMichel Alexandre Salim1-5/+5
2012-05-30 Compress build logs on the fly using bzip2Eelco Dolstra2-11/+45
2012-05-30 "nix-store -l": support compressed logsEelco Dolstra2-9/+34
2012-05-29 Reserve some disk space for the garbage collectorEelco Dolstra9-11/+35
We can't open a SQLite database if the disk is full. Since this prevents the garbage collector from running when it's most needed, we reserve some dummy space that we can free just before doing a garbage collection. This actually revives some old code from the Berkeley DB days. Fixes #27.
2012-05-29 Add option ‘build-keep-log’ to enable/disable writing of build logsEelco Dolstra3-1/+36
Fixes #26.
2012-05-24 Clean up the installation section; document the generic binary tarballsEelco Dolstra1-96/+148
2012-05-22 Fix owner/group in tar invocationEelco Dolstra1-1/+1
2012-05-22 Generate binary tarballs for installing NixEelco Dolstra2-1/+68
For several platforms we don't currently have "native" Nix packages (e.g. Mac OS X and FreeBSD). This provides the next best thing: a tarball containing the closure of Nix, plus a simple script "nix-finish-install" that initialises the Nix database, registers the paths in the closure as valid, and runs "nix-env -i /path/to/nix" to initialise the user profile. The tarball must be unpacked in the root directory. It creates /nix/store/... and /usr/bin/nix-finish-install. Typical installation is as follows: $ cd / $ tar xvf /path/to/nix-1.1pre1234_abcdef-x86_64-linux.tar.bz2 $ nix-finish-install (if necessary add ~/.nix-profile/etc/profile.d/nix.sh to the shell login scripts) After this, /usr/bin/nix-finish-install can be deleted, if desired. The downside to the binary tarball is that it's pretty big (~55 MiB for x86_64-linux).
2012-05-22 Remove $FONTCONFIG_FILE hack from nix-profile.shEelco Dolstra1-7/+0
It's no longer needed because Nixpkgs' fontconfig uses /etc/fonts/fonts.conf as a default, just like other distributions.
2012-05-21 Add an experimental nix-make fileEelco Dolstra1-0/+169
To use it, just do (e.g.) "nix-build build.nix -A nix_env".
2012-05-12 Bump version numberEelco Dolstra1-1/+1
2012-05-11 Fix the install checkEelco Dolstra1-14/+3
2012-05-11 Set release dateEelco Dolstra1-1/+1
2012-05-11 Manual updatesEelco Dolstra6-75/+132
2012-05-11 CSS tweaksEelco Dolstra1-69/+32
2012-05-11 Use perl.libPrefix to (hopefully) fix the Cygwin buildEelco Dolstra1-6/+6
http://hydra.nixos.org/build/2602599
2012-05-10 Build Ubuntu 12.04 packagesEelco Dolstra1-0/+2
2012-05-10 Document "nix-build --run-env"Eelco Dolstra1-1/+50
2012-05-10 Support building with the Perl XS bindings disabledEelco Dolstra5-12/+92
Since the Perl bindings require shared libraries, this is required on platforms such as Cygwin where we do a static build.
2012-05-10 Document "nix-store --add"Eelco Dolstra1-0/+34
2012-05-10 Remove an obsolete hackEelco Dolstra1-3/+0
2012-05-09 Disable building in chroot for Nix's corepkgsEelco Dolstra3-0/+10
The dependencies of the corepkgs are not necessarily in the chroot (or in the Nix store), so don't build them in a chroot.
2012-05-09 Document some nix-store subcommandsEelco Dolstra3-1/+170
2012-05-09 Document $NIX_PATH / -IEelco Dolstra3-13/+66
2012-05-09 Update the release notesEelco Dolstra1-12/+82
2012-05-08 Remove obsolete files (moved to release tree)Eelco Dolstra4-157/+0
2012-05-07 nix-channel --update: allow updating only the specified channelsEelco Dolstra2-10/+14
2012-05-07 Now *really* prevent accumulation of old manifestsEelco Dolstra1-2/+4
2012-05-04 Fix some 32-bit buildsEelco Dolstra1-1/+2
Perl on some 32-bit systems needs -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64. See also commit 02f1363e19b7df7cccc3523805bbf4fafe429529.
2012-05-04 Drop the Perl-specific CFLAGSEelco Dolstra1-2/+1
This fixes the Darwin build (http://hydra.nixos.org/build/2517380). Hopefully it doesn't break other builds.
2012-05-04 Don't build for old Debian/Ubuntu releases that don't have a sufficiently ↵Eelco Dolstra1-4/+0
new SQLite
2012-05-04 Don't build for old Fedora releases that don't have a sufficiently new SQLiteEelco Dolstra1-4/+0
2012-05-04 Require SQLite >= 3.6.19Eelco Dolstra1-1/+1
Nix needs SQLite's foreign key constraint feature, which was introduced in 3.6.19. Without it, the database won't be cleaned up correctly when paths are deleted. See e.g. http://hydra.nixos.org/build/2494142.
2012-05-01 Use mkpath instead of make_pathEelco Dolstra1-2/+2
Perl <= 5.10 doesn't have make_path. See e.g. http://hydra.nixos.org/build/2493981.
2012-05-01 Do "make installcheck" for RPM buildsEelco Dolstra1-0/+1
2012-05-01 Do "make installcheck" for Debian buildsEelco Dolstra1-0/+4
2012-04-30 * Add an option ‘build-use-substitutes’, which can be set to ‘false’Eelco Dolstra6-4/+23
to disable use of substitutes; i.e., force building from source. Fixes Nix/221.
2012-04-30 Support mandatory system features in the build hookEelco Dolstra2-7/+22
Mandatory features are features that MUST be present in a derivation's requiredSystemFeatures attribute. One application is performance testing, where we have a dedicated machine to run performance tests (and nothing else). Then we would add the label "perf" to the machine's mandatory features and to the performance testing derivations.
2012-04-30 Update the documentation of build-remote.plEelco Dolstra3-96/+62
2012-04-30 Handle EPERM when creating a hard link for the chrootEelco Dolstra1-2/+5
There is a race condition when doing parallel builds with chroots and the immutable bit enabled. One process may call makeImmutable() before the other has called link(), in which case link() will fail with EPERM. We could retry or wrap the operation in a lock, but since this condition is rare and I'm lazy, we just use the existing copy fallback. Fixes #9.
2012-04-26 Don't use the build hook for unpacking channelsEelco Dolstra1-0/+2
2012-04-24 Fix a warning in the build hook about $progressViewerEelco Dolstra1-1/+1