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2004-08-20	* Setuid support for sharing a Nix installation between multiple	Eelco Dolstra	1	-7/+10
	users. If the configure flag `--enable-setuid' is used, the Nix programs nix-env, nix-store, etc. are installed with the setuid bit turned on so that they are executed as the user and group specified by `--with-nix-user=USER' and `--with-nix-group=GROUP', respectively (with defaults `nix' and `nix'). The setuid programs drop all special privileges if they are executed by a user who is not a member of the Nix group. The setuid feature is a quick hack to enable sharing of a Nix installation between users who trust each other. It is not generally secure, since any user in the Nix group can modify (by building an appropriate derivation) any object in the store, and for instance inject trojans into binaries used by other users. The setuid programs are owned by root, not the Nix user. This is because on Unix normal users cannot change the real uid, only the effective uid. Many programs don't work properly when the real uid differs from the effective uid. For instance, Perl will turn on taint mode. However, the setuid programs drop all root privileges immediately, changing all uids and gids to the Nix user and group.
2004-07-30	* Doh!	Eelco Dolstra	1	-1/+1

2004-07-30	* Use ATerm 2.2.	Eelco Dolstra	1	-1/+1
	* Include bootstrap.sh in dist.
2004-06-04	* A Nix mode for Emacs.	Eelco Dolstra	1	-1/+1

2004-05-04	* Allow the location of the store etc. to be specified using	Eelco Dolstra	1	-1/+1
	environment variables. * Started adding some automatic tests. * Do a `make check' when building RPMs.
2004-04-22	* Look for GC roots in @localstatedir@/nix/gcroots.	Eelco Dolstra	1	-1/+5

2004-04-22	* Don't create $(localstatedir)/nix/profiles if --disable-init-state	Eelco Dolstra	1	-0/+1
	is specified.
2004-04-21	* Do initialise state (the DB etc.) when doing a `make install',	Eelco Dolstra	1	-0/+13
	unless `--disable-init-state' is passed to configure.
2004-02-16	* Allow linking against an external Berkeley DB / ATerm library.	Eelco Dolstra	1	-1/+0

2004-01-22	* Explicitly compute the release name.	Eelco Dolstra	1	-0/+3

2004-01-02	* Generate RPM spec file.	Eelco Dolstra	1	-2/+6

2004-01-02	* Add $prefix/store to the RPM.	Eelco Dolstra	1	-1/+1
	* Allow extra flags to be passed to RPM.
2003-12-30	* RPM spec file.	Eelco Dolstra	1	-1/+4
	* Respect DESTDIR variable.
2003-10-20	* Finished refactoring the tree.	Eelco Dolstra	1	-1/+1

2003-09-11	* Removed references to char_traits so that boost/format also works on	Eelco Dolstra	1	-2/+2
	GCC 2.95.
2003-08-12	* Generate man pages from the manual.	Eelco Dolstra	1	-1/+1

2003-07-23	* Incorporated Berkeley DB and ATerm into the source tree.	Eelco Dolstra	1	-1/+3
	* `make dist'.
2003-07-10	* Get `nix-push' working again. It now uses Nix/Fix to create Nix	Eelco Dolstra	1	-1/+1
	archives (using the package in corepkgs/nar). * queryPathByHash -> expandHash, and it takes an argument specifying the target path (which may be empty). * Install the core Fix packages in $prefix/share/fix. TODO: bootstrap Nix and install Nix as a Fix package.
2003-04-09	* We no longer use nix-populate standalone, rather we use it as a	Eelco Dolstra	1	-1/+1
	build action for `system' packages (like system.fix) that have dependencies on all packages we want to activate. So the command sequence to switch to a new activation configuration of the system would be: $ fix -i .../fixdescriptors/system.fix ... system.fix -> 89cf4713b37cc66989304abeb9ea189f $ nix-switch 89cf4713b37cc66989304abeb9ea189f * A nix-profile.sh script that can be included in .bashrc.
2003-04-04	* Autoconf / Automake configuration and building.	Eelco Dolstra	1	-0/+1