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2006-02-10	* Enable the --attr in nix-build as well (and add -A as an alias).	Eelco Dolstra	2	-7/+16
	Example: $ nix-build ./all-packages.nix -A xlibs.libX11 So finally it's easy to perform a test build of a Nix expression!
2006-02-10	* In nix-instantiate, allow us to specify a "path" to the	Eelco Dolstra	3	-31/+87
	derivation(s) we're interested, e.g., $ nix-instantiate ./all-packages.nix --attr xlibs.libX11 List elements can also be selected: $ nix-instantiate ./build-for-release.nix --attr 0.subversion This allows a non-ambiguous specification of a derivation. Of course, this should also be added to nix-env and nix-build.
2006-02-10	* Document that nix-instantiate can read from stdin.	Eelco Dolstra	1	-0/+4

2006-02-10	* Make --parse-only work when not reading from stdin.	Eelco Dolstra	1	-2/+4

2006-02-10	* Cleanup: use the code shared with nix-env.	Eelco Dolstra	1	-64/+15

2006-02-08	* When querying all derivations, filter out syntactically equal derivations.	Eelco Dolstra	1	-12/+36

2006-02-08	* When evaluating, automatically call functions with default arguments.	Eelco Dolstra	1	-4/+23

2006-02-08	* Test-driven development, woohoo! nix-env should work on functions,	Eelco Dolstra	1	-2/+8
	provided that all arguments have defaults.
2006-02-08	* Oops, fix breakage.	Eelco Dolstra	1	-0/+2

2006-02-08	* Tests for nix-env, finally!	Eelco Dolstra	5	-1/+108

2006-02-08	* Refactoring: move derivation evaluation to libexpr.	Eelco Dolstra	4	-187/+209

2006-02-07	* Don't install nix.conf (so it won't be overriden when you upgrade an RPM).	Eelco Dolstra	1	-0/+1

2006-02-03	* Use setsid instead of setpgrp in child processes. This not only	Eelco Dolstra	1	-6/+8
	creates a new process group but also a new session. New sessions have no controlling tty, so child processes like ssh cannot open /dev/tty (which is bad).
2006-02-02	* When killing a build hook, kill the entire process group (as	Eelco Dolstra	1	-0/+1
	intended). This ensures that any ssh child processes to remote machines are also killed, and thus the Nix process on the remote machine also exits. Without this, the remote Nix process will continue until it exists or until its stdout buffer gets full and it locks up. (Partially fixes NIX-35.)
2006-02-01	* Print a better error message when writing the patched file (e.g.,	Eelco Dolstra	1	-2/+21
	"No space left on device" instead of "Success"). Reported by Karina Olmos.
2006-02-01	* Doh.	Eelco Dolstra	1	-1/+1

2006-02-01	* bsdiff updated to 4.3. This makes Nix depend on libbz2.	Eelco Dolstra	15	-527/+471

2006-02-01	* The "S" bit should be based on the output path, not the derivation path.	Eelco Dolstra	1	-1/+1

2006-02-01	* Use Berkeley DB 4.4.20.	Eelco Dolstra	2	-88/+3

2006-02-01	* Add @bindir@.	Eelco Dolstra	1	-1/+1

2006-01-26	* Don't force a build of derivations.	Eelco Dolstra	1	-2/+1

2006-01-26	* Oops, the "I" bit in "nix-env -qas" was broken. Reported by Nicolae Vintila.	Eelco Dolstra	1	-1/+1

2006-01-19	* Don't show cycles, they're not very useful.	Eelco Dolstra	1	-2/+4

2006-01-12	* New tools nix-pack-closure and nix-unpack-closure. These provide a	Eelco Dolstra	3	-2/+152
	useful way to transfer the closure of a store path to another machine. These commands provide functionality previously possible through `nix-push --copy'. However, they are much more convenient in many situations (though possibly less efficient). Example: $ nix-pack-closure /nix/store/hj232g1r...-subversion-1.3.0 > svn.closure (on another machine:) $ nix-unpack-closure < svn.closure Note that Subversion is added to the store, but not installed into a user environment. One should do `nix-env -i /nix/store/hj232g1r...-subversion-1.3.0' for that. Another example: copy the application Azureus to the machine `scratchy' through ssh: $ nix-pack-closure $(which azureus) \| ssh scratchy nix-unpack-closure
2006-01-09	* dirOf: return "/", not "", for paths in the root directory. Fixes NIX-26.	Eelco Dolstra	2	-3/+3

2006-01-08	* Resolve all symlink components in the location of the temporary	Eelco Dolstra	2	-4/+25
	build directory (TMPDIR, i.e., /tmp). Fixes NIX-26.
2005-12-25	* More GCC 2.95 compatibility.	Eelco Dolstra	1	-1/+1

2005-12-25	* Hack around a GCC 2.95 bug.	Eelco Dolstra	1	-2/+2

2005-12-24	* GCC 2.95 compatibility.	Eelco Dolstra	1	-1/+1

2005-12-24	* Documentation fixes.	Eelco Dolstra	2	-3/+3

2005-12-23	* Added a flag `--ignore-liveness' to `nix-store --delete'. It	Eelco Dolstra	3	-6/+12
	deletes a path even if it is reachable from a root. However, it won't delete a path that still has referrers (since that would violate store invariants). Don't try this at home. It's a useful hack for recovering from certain situations in a somewhat clean way (e.g., holes in closures due to disk corruption).
2005-12-23	* Revived the old "nix-store --delete" operation that deletes the	Eelco Dolstra	4	-11/+45
	specified paths from the Nix store. However, this operation is safe: it refuses to delete anything that the garbage collector wouldn't delete.
2005-12-15	* Begin release notes.	Eelco Dolstra	1	-0/+50

2005-12-15	* `nix-store --gc' prints out the number of bytes freed on stdout	Eelco Dolstra	7	-11/+45
	(even when it is interrupted by a signal).
2005-12-15	* Typo.	Eelco Dolstra	1	-1/+1

2005-12-15	* Split the database upgrade into multiple transactions to prevent	Eelco Dolstra	1	-2/+11
	Berkeley DB from running out of locks.
2005-12-15	* Doh!	Eelco Dolstra	1	-1/+1

2005-12-13	* Change `referer' to `referrer' throughout. In particular, the	Eelco Dolstra	11	-68/+69
	nix-store query options `--referer' and `--referer-closure' have been changed to `--referrer' and `--referrer-closure' (but the old ones are still accepted for compatibility).
2005-12-12	* Automatically delete the old referers table.	Eelco Dolstra	3	-5/+31

2005-12-12	* Fix NIX-23: quadratic complexity in maintaining the referers	Eelco Dolstra	4	-40/+107
	mapping. The referer table is replaced by a referrer table (note spelling fix) that stores each referrer separately. That is, instead of having referer[P] = {Q_1, Q_2, Q_3, ...} we store referer[(P, Q_1)] = "" referer[(P, Q_2)] = "" referer[(P, Q_3)] = "" ... To find the referrers of P, we enumerate over the keys with a value lexicographically greater than P. This requires the referrer table to be stored as a B-Tree rather than a hash table. (The tuples (P, Q) are stored as P + null-byte + Q.) Old Nix databases are upgraded automatically to the new schema.
2005-12-11	* Add a test to demonstrate the quadratic complexity of referrer	Eelco Dolstra	2	-1/+16
	(de)registration, in particular garbage collection (NIX-23).
2005-12-09	* Use Berkeley DB 4.4's process registry feature to recover from	Eelco Dolstra	2	-102/+56
	crashed Nix instances, and toss out our own recovery code.
2005-12-08	* Apply the patch.	Eelco Dolstra	1	-0/+1

2005-12-08	* A patch to make the DB_REGISTER feature work when debug info is not on.	Eelco Dolstra	1	-0/+84

2005-12-06	* Require Berkeley DB 4.4.	Eelco Dolstra	2	-4/+6
	* Checkpoint after an upgrade.
2005-11-17	* FreeBSD compatibility fix.	Eelco Dolstra	1	-1/+2

2005-11-17	* "Fix" the test, since we cannot feasibly support the intended semantics.	Eelco Dolstra	1	-1/+1

2005-11-16	* Did something useful while waiting at IAD: reference scanning is now	Eelco Dolstra	5	-31/+52
	much faster.
2005-11-04	* Install signal handlers for SIGTERM and SIGHUP. This ensures that	Eelco Dolstra	1	-0/+4
	Nix is properly shut down when it receives those signals. In particular this ensures that killing the garbage collector doesn't cause a subsequent database recovery.
2005-11-04	* Memoise checkVarDefs since internally produced terms (i.e., not the	Eelco Dolstra	1	-9/+24
	result of parsing) can have very heavy sharing, causing exponential complexity if we naively recurse into them. ATerms are graphs, not trees!