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2006-11-30 * Refactoring. There is now an abstract interface class StoreAPIEelco Dolstra17-338/+458
containing functions that operate on the Nix store. One implementation is LocalStore, which operates on the Nix store directly. The next step, to enable secure multi-user Nix, is to create a different implementation RemoteStore that talks to a privileged daemon process that uses LocalStore to perform the actual operations.
2006-11-30 * Benchmarking Unix domain sockets.Eelco Dolstra3-0/+121
2006-11-30 * Troubleshooting information on fixing a b0rked Berkeley DB database.Eelco Dolstra3-13/+45
2006-11-29 * Don't spam.Eelco Dolstra1-0/+2
2006-11-29 * Example script to set permissions for setuid operation.Roy van den Broek2-1/+10
2006-11-29 * Remove --enable-setuid, --with-nix-user and --with-nix-group.Eelco Dolstra4-61/+53
Rather, setuid support is now always compiled in (at least on platforms that have the setresuid system call, e.g., Linux and FreeBSD), but it must enabled by chowning/chmodding the Nix binaries.
2006-11-24 * Doh! Path sizes need to be computed recursively of course.Eelco Dolstra3-6/+28
(NIX-70)
2006-11-24 * Dead files.Eelco Dolstra2-12/+0
2006-11-18 * Show more progress.Eelco Dolstra1-1/+3
2006-11-18 * Turn off synchronisation between C and C++ I/O functions. ThisEelco Dolstra2-1/+3
gives a huge speedup in operations that read or write from standard input/output. (So libstdc++'s I/O isn't that bad, you just have to call std::ios::sync_with_stdio(false).) For instance, `nix-store --register-substitutes' went from 1.4 seconds to 0.1 seconds on a certain input. Another victory for Valgrind.
2006-11-14 * Grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr...Eelco Dolstra1-1/+1
2006-11-14 * Doh!Eelco Dolstra1-1/+1
2006-11-14 * Doh.Eelco Dolstra1-1/+1
2006-11-14 * Use the patched ATerm library.Eelco Dolstra3-892/+5
2006-11-14 * Push.Eelco Dolstra1-1/+2
2006-11-13 * Remove the undocumented `noscan' feature. It's no longer necessaryEelco Dolstra1-15/+12
now that reference scanning is sufficiently streamy.
2006-11-13 * Magic attribute `exportReferencesGraph' that allows the referencesEelco Dolstra3-21/+65
graph to be passed to a builder. This attribute should be a list of pairs [name1 path1 name2 path2 ...]. The references graph of each `pathN' will be stored in a text file `nameN' in the temporary build directory. The text files have the format used by `nix-store --register-validity'. However, the deriver fields are left empty. `exportReferencesGraph' is useful for builders that want to do something with the closure of a store path. Examples: the builders that make initrds and ISO images for NixOS. `exportReferencesGraph' is entirely pure. It's necessary because otherwise the only way for a builder to get this information would be to call `nix-store' directly, which is not allowed (though unfortunately possible).
2006-11-13 * Option `--reregister' in `nix-store --register-validity'. We needEelco Dolstra2-8/+22
this in the NixOS installer (or in the buildfarm) to ensure that the cryptographic hash of the path contents still matches the actual contents.
2006-11-13 * Don't use the result of `uname -p' on x86_64 as it gives wackyEelco Dolstra1-0/+3
results on some machines. (NIX-69)
2006-11-07 * Fix the locking patch for Berkeley DB 4.5.Eelco Dolstra1-1/+1
2006-11-03 * Fix importing of derivation outputs.Eelco Dolstra1-2/+9
2006-10-31 * Oops, `nix-build --no-out-link' was broken.Eelco Dolstra1-1/+1
2006-10-30 * Release notes.Eelco Dolstra1-0/+14
2006-10-30 * readFile: don't overflow the stack on large files.Eelco Dolstra1-1/+15
2006-10-28 * Don't use EPSV.Eelco Dolstra1-1/+1
2006-10-28 * `nix-store --read-log / -l PATH' shows the build log of PATH, ifEelco Dolstra5-4/+60
available. For instance, $ nix-store -l $(which svn) | less lets you read the build log of the Subversion instance in your profile. * `nix-store -qb': if applied to a non-derivation, take the deriver.
2006-10-26 * Typo reported by Arie Middelkoop.Eelco Dolstra2-3/+4
* Left out close-quote in example.
2006-10-23 * Some better error messages.Eelco Dolstra2-5/+12
2006-10-19 * Require Perl 5.8.0 or newer. I mean, it *is* more than four yearsEelco Dolstra1-1/+9
old...
2006-10-19 * Checks for allowedReferences and some other features.Eelco Dolstra4-2/+100
* Use nix-build in a test.
2006-10-19 * Better message.Eelco Dolstra1-1/+1
2006-10-19 * toFile: maintain the references.Eelco Dolstra1-10/+4
2006-10-19 * nix-build: check the exit status of `nix-store -r'.Eelco Dolstra1-4/+6
2006-10-19 * Special derivation attribute `allowedReferences' that causes Nix toEelco Dolstra1-0/+31
check that the references of the output of a derivation are in the specified set. For instance, allowedReferences = []; specifies that the output cannot have any references. (This is useful, for instance, for the generation of bootstrap binaries for stdenv-linux, which must not have any references for purity). It could also be used to guard against undesired runtime dependencies, e.g., {gcc, dynlib}: derivation { ... allowedReferences = [dynlib]; } says that the output can refer to the path of `dynlib' but not `gcc'. A `forbiddedReferences' attribute would be more useful for this, though.
2006-10-17 * Backwards compatibility hack for user environments made by Nix <= 0.10.Eelco Dolstra1-0/+7
2006-10-17 * Backwards compatibility with old user environment manifests.Eelco Dolstra2-4/+8
2006-10-17 * Print out the offending path.Eelco Dolstra1-2/+3
2006-10-17 * An awful backwards compatibility hack.Eelco Dolstra1-0/+24
2006-10-17 * baseNameOf: paths don't have to be absolute.Eelco Dolstra1-1/+1
2006-10-17 * Maintain the references for the user environment properly.Eelco Dolstra1-1/+1
2006-10-17 * Another test.Eelco Dolstra1-0/+1
2006-10-17 * Fix the tests wrt the AST changes, i.e., Str(s) -> Str(s, []), andEelco Dolstra19-22/+22
the semantic changes.
2006-10-17 * toPath: should be the identity on paths.Eelco Dolstra1-3/+1
2006-10-17 * dirOf: return a path if the argument is a path.Eelco Dolstra1-2/+6
2006-10-17 * toString: don't copy paths. So toString can be used to passEelco Dolstra1-3/+4
non-store paths to a builder.
2006-10-17 * Do the path check on the normal form.Eelco Dolstra1-2/+5
2006-10-17 * Don't generate an empty drvPath attribute in the manifest.Eelco Dolstra1-6/+6
2006-10-16 * Big cleanup of the semantics of paths, strings, contexts, stringEelco Dolstra17-391/+326
concatenation and string coercion. This was a big mess (see e.g. NIX-67). Contexts are now folded into strings, so that they don't cause evaluation errors when they're not expected. The semantics of paths has been clarified (see nixexpr-ast.def). toString() and coerceToString() have been merged. Semantic change: paths are now copied to the store when they're in a concatenation (and in most other situations - that's the formalisation of the meaning of a path). So "foo " + ./bla evaluates to "foo /nix/store/hash...-bla", not "foo /path/to/current-dir/bla". This prevents accidental impurities, and is more consistent with the treatment of derivation outputs, e.g., `"foo " + bla' where `bla' is a derivation. (Here `bla' would be replaced by the output path of `bla'.)
2006-10-13 * Fix version.Eelco Dolstra1-1/+1
2006-10-13 * Use Berkeley DB 4.5.Eelco Dolstra2-9/+10