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2012-07-01 Fix xz compressionEelco Dolstra1-3/+3
2012-07-01 Allow both bzip2 and xz compressionEelco Dolstra1-5/+13
2012-06-29 Use XZ compression in binary cachesEelco Dolstra2-5/+7
XZ compresses significantly better than bzip2. Here are the compression ratios and execution times (using 4 cores in parallel) on my /var/run/current-system (3.1 GiB): bzip2: total compressed size 849.56 MiB, 30.8% [2m08] xz -6: total compressed size 641.84 MiB, 23.4% [6m53] xz -7: total compressed size 621.82 MiB, 22.6% [7m19] xz -8: total compressed size 599.33 MiB, 21.8% [7m18] xz -9: total compressed size 588.18 MiB, 21.4% [7m40] Note that compression takes much longer. More importantly, however, decompression is much faster: bzip2: 1m47.274s xz -6: 0m55.446s xz -7: 0m54.119s xz -8: 0m52.388s xz -9: 0m51.842s The only downside to using -9 is that decompression takes a fair amount (~65 MB) of memory.
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.
2012-04-26 Don't use the build hook for unpacking channelsEelco Dolstra1-0/+2
2012-04-14 If the (redirected) channel URL contains a version number, use itEelco Dolstra2-3/+3
2012-04-14 Remove unnecessary "system" argumentEelco Dolstra2-4/+5
2012-04-14 nix-channel improvementsEelco Dolstra2-32/+6
"nix-channel --add" now accepts a second argument: the channel name. This allows channels to have a nicer name than (say) nixpkgs_unstable. If no name is given, it defaults to the last component of the URL (with "-unstable" or "-stable" removed). Also, channels are now stored in a profile (/nix/var/nix/profiles/per-user/$USER/channels). One advantage of this is that it allows rollbacks (e.g. if "nix-channel --update" gives an undesirable update).
2012-01-04 * currentOutput -> outputName. "current" implies some temporalEelco Dolstra1-1/+1
aspect.
2012-01-04 * Export the original input attributes of the derivation inEelco Dolstra1-1/+4
‘drvAttrs’. This will simplify the implementation of functions such as ‘overrideDerivation’ in Nixpkgs, which need to filter out any added attributes such as outPath.
2012-01-04 * Simplify the implementation of "derivation" a bit: lift out theEelco Dolstra1-18/+11
common attribution so that they're evaluated only once, etc. Note that the default output is now the first element of the "outputs" attribute, rather than the first element of the sorted list of outputs. This seems more user-friendly.
2012-01-03 * Drop the inefficient "Path" suffix in output attribute names.Eelco Dolstra1-4/+4
2012-01-03 * Move the implementation of the ‘derivation’ primop into a separateEelco Dolstra2-1/+32
file.
2012-01-03 * Forgot to add.Eelco Dolstra1-0/+13
2012-01-03 * Add a test for nix-channel.Eelco Dolstra6-57/+45
* Refactor the nix-channel unpacker a bit.
2012-01-03 * Refactoring: Get rid of a few subdirectories in corepkgs/, and someEelco Dolstra8-46/+46
other simplifications. * Use <nix/...> to locate the corepkgs. This allows them to be overriden through $NIX_PATH. * Use bash's pipefail option in the NAR builder so that we don't need to create a temporary file.
2011-11-05 * Fix the broken reference to bunzip2 in the channel unpack script.Eelco Dolstra1-1/+1
2011-10-10 * Install NixManifest.pm, NixConfig.pm and GeneratePatches.pm underEelco Dolstra1-1/+1
the Nix:: namespace.
2010-11-17 * nix-push: no need to compute the NAR hash, since the Nix databaseEelco Dolstra1-2/+0
already has it (`nix-store -q --hash').
2010-08-04 * Allow derivations to hint that they should not be built remotelyEelco Dolstra1-0/+4
using the build hook mechanism, by setting the derivation attribute "preferLocalBuild" to true. This has a few use cases: - The user environment builder. Since it just creates a bunch of symlinks without much computation, there is no reason to do it remotely. In fact, doing it remotely requires the entire closure of the user environment to be copied to the remote machine, which is extremely wasteful. - `fetchurl'. Performing the download on a remote machine and then copying it to the local machine involves twice as much network traffic as performing the download locally, and doesn't save any CPU cycles on the local machine.
2010-05-07 * Sync with the trunk.Eelco Dolstra1-1/+9
2010-05-05 buildenv: Special-case Python's `site.py' and `site.pyc'.Ludovic Courtès1-0/+2
* corepkgs/buildenv/builder.pl.in (createLinks): Skip `site.py' and `site.pyc' files.
2010-05-03 buildenv: Special-case Python's `easy-install.pth' files.Ludovic Courtès1-1/+7
* corepkgs/buildenv/builder.pl.in (createLinks): Skip `easy-install.pth' files. Comment the hack.
2010-04-21 * Store user environment manifests as a Nix expression inEelco Dolstra1-1/+1
$out/manifest.nix rather than as an ATerm. (Hm, I thought I committed this two days ago...)
2010-02-02 * Ugly hack to make `nix-channel' work on Cygwin.Eelco Dolstra1-0/+3
2009-03-03 * Allow the channel to declare a name for itself.Eelco Dolstra1-0/+6
2007-09-17 * nix-env: allow ~/.nix-defexpr to be a directory. If it is, then theEelco Dolstra1-10/+3
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".)
2007-05-16 * New builtin function "isFunction". You're not supposed to use itEelco Dolstra1-1/+1
;-) * Channels: fix channels that are plain lists of derivations (like strategoxt-unstable) instead of functions (like nixpkgs-unstable). This fixes the error message "error: the left-hand side of the function call is neither a function nor a primop (built-in operation) but a list".
2007-05-02 * Set the right priorities when recovering from a directoryEelco Dolstra1-1/+1
collision.
2007-05-01 * Give unpacked channels more sensible names than 0, 1, ... They nowEelco Dolstra1-9/+20
get the basename of the channel URL (e.g., nixpkgs-unstable). The top-level Nix expression of the channel is now an attribute set, the attributes of which are the individual channels (e.g., {nixpkgs_unstable = ...; strategoxt_unstable = ...}). This makes attribute paths ("nix-env -qaA" and "nix-env -iA") more sensible, e.g., "nix-env -iA nixpkgs_unstable.subversion".
2007-04-27 * Package conflict resolution through priority levels. If there is aEelco Dolstra2-19/+45
user environment collission between two packages due to overlapping file names, then a package with a higher priority will overwrite the symlinks of a package with a lower priority. E.g., $ nix-env --set-flag priority 5 gcc $ nix-env --set-flag priority 10 binutils gives gcc a higher priority than binutils (higher number = lower priority).
2007-04-27 * Allow conflicting packages to be kept in a user environment, andEelco Dolstra2-3/+11
allow switching between them (NIX-80). Example: two versions of Pan: $ nix-env -q pan pan-0.128 pan-0.14.2.91 $ readlink $(which pan) /nix/store/l38jrbilw269drpjkx7kinhrxj6fjh59-pan-0.14.2.91/bin/pan At most one of them can be active any given time. Assuming than 0.14.2.91 is active, you can active 0.128 as follows: $ nix-env --set-flag active false pan-0.14.2.91 $ nix-env --set-flag active true pan-0.128 $ readlink $(which pan) /nix/store/nziqwnlzy7xl385kglxhg75pfl5i936n-pan-0.128/bin/pan More flags to follow.
2006-09-25 * Use "propagated-user-env-packages", not "propagated-build-inputs"Eelco Dolstra1-1/+1
for packages that should be propagated to the user environment.
2006-09-25 * Propagated packages now have lower priority; they are symlinkedEelco Dolstra1-14/+39
*after* the packages that have been explicitly installed, and collisions are ignored.
2006-08-22 * Revert unintentional commit.Eelco Dolstra1-1/+1
2006-08-16 * `nix-instantiate --{eval|parse}-only --xml': print an XMLEelco Dolstra1-1/+1
representation instead of an ATerm. * Indent XML output.
2006-08-07 * In nar.nix, path -> storePath, otherwise we get a collision betweenEelco Dolstra2-4/+6
environment variable names on Cygwin (where they are case insensitive).
2006-05-12 * Support for srcdir != builddir (NIX-41).Eelco Dolstra3-3/+3
2005-07-22 * Adhockery.Eelco Dolstra1-0/+1
2005-05-01 * Be quiet when untarring a channel file.Eelco Dolstra1-1/+1
2005-04-07 * Get rid of fetchurl, we don't need it anymore.Eelco Dolstra4-40/+1
2005-04-07 * `nix-store --add-fixed' to preload the outputs of fixed-outputEelco Dolstra1-7/+1
derivations. This is mostly to simplify the implementation of nix-prefetch-{url, svn}, which now work properly in setuid installations. * Enforce valid store names in `nix-store --add / --add-fixed'.
2005-03-15 * Purify all corepkgs builders.Eelco Dolstra3-15/+8
2005-03-15 * Use SHA-256 for nix-push.Eelco Dolstra2-5/+4
2005-03-14 * Set NAR name to content hash; previous nix-push names were notEelco Dolstra1-1/+3
unique. * Drop `hashAlgo' attribute in manifests; prefix hashes with the hash algorithm instead.
2005-03-07 * Automatically add propagated build inputs to user environments.Eelco Dolstra1-1/+15
Maybe this is a bad idea.
2005-01-25 * Really fix the substitute mechanism, i.e., ensure the closureEelco Dolstra4-21/+4
invariant by registering references through the manifest. * Added a test for nix-pull.
2005-01-17 * Removed the `id' attribute hack.Eelco Dolstra2-9/+18
* Formalise the notion of fixed-output derivations, i.e., derivations for which a cryptographic hash of the output is known in advance. Changes to such derivations should not propagate upwards through the dependency graph. Previously this was done by specifying the hash component of the output path through the `id' attribute, but this is insecure since you can lie about it (i.e., you can specify any hash and then produce a completely different output). Now the responsibility for checking the output is moved from the builder to Nix itself. A fixed-output derivation can be created by specifying the `outputHash' and `outputHashAlgo' attributes, the latter taking values `md5', `sha1', and `sha256', and the former specifying the actual hash in hexadecimal or in base-32 (auto-detected by looking at the length of the attribute value). MD5 is included for compatibility but should be considered deprecated. * Removed the `drvPath' pseudo-attribute in derivation results. It's no longer necessary. * Cleaned up the support for multiple output paths in derivation store expressions. Each output now has a unique identifier (e.g., `out', `devel', `docs'). Previously there was no way to tell output paths apart at the store expression level. * `nix-hash' now has a flag `--base32' to specify that the hash should be printed in base-32 notation. * `fetchurl' accepts parameters `sha256' and `sha1' in addition to `md5'. * `nix-prefetch-url' now prints out a SHA-1 hash in base-32. (TODO: a flag to specify the hash.)
2004-12-20 * Place manifests in /nix/var/nix/manifests.Eelco Dolstra5-271/+1
* Use the new patch downloader.
2004-12-13 * Include the size of the bzipped archive (necessary for computing theEelco Dolstra1-4/+8
cheapest download path), as well as the hash of the contents of the path (necessary for checking patch applicability).