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2013-08-26 Fix typos, especially those that end up in the Nix manualIvan Kozik1-1/+1
2013-08-23 Manual: Don't use actual hashes of Nix dependenciesEelco Dolstra1-2/+2
These cause an unnecessary runtime dependency :-)
2013-06-13 TypoEelco Dolstra1-1/+1
2012-11-20 nix-store -r: Add ‘--ignore-unknown’ flagEelco Dolstra1-1/+8
This flag causes paths that do not have a known substitute to be quietly ignored. This is mostly useful for Charon, allowing it to speed up deployment by letting a machine use substitutes for all substitutable paths, instead of uploading them. The latter is frequently faster, e.g. if the target machine has a fast Internet connection while the source machine is on a slow ADSL line.
2012-10-12 TypoEelco Dolstra1-2/+2
Reported by Shea.
2012-10-04 Manual: Don't use a store path that actually existsEelco Dolstra1-4/+4
http://hydra.nixos.org/build/3124130
2012-10-03 Document ‘--repair’Eelco Dolstra1-4/+13
2012-10-02 nix-store --verify: Add an option ‘--repair’ to repair all ↵Eelco Dolstra1-1/+12
missing/corrupt paths Also, return a non-zero exit code if errors remain after verifying/repairing.
2012-10-02 Add operation ‘nix-store --repair-path’Eelco Dolstra1-0/+46
This operation allows fixing corrupted or accidentally deleted store paths by redownloading them using substituters, if available. Since the corrupted path cannot be replaced atomically, there is a very small time window (one system call) during which neither the old (corrupted) nor the new (repaired) contents are available. So repairing should be used with some care on critical packages like Glibc.
2012-05-10 Document "nix-store --add"Eelco Dolstra1-0/+34
2012-05-09 Document some nix-store subcommandsEelco Dolstra1-0/+154
2012-04-14 nix-channel improvementsEelco Dolstra1-2/+3
"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).
2012-04-06 Include environment variables in the manpagesEelco Dolstra1-1/+10
2012-04-06 Include common options in the manpages using some XInclude hackeryEelco Dolstra1-2/+7
2012-03-26 Remove the --max-links GC optionEelco Dolstra1-11/+0
We don't need this anymore now that current filesystems support more than 32,000 files in a directory.
2010-11-17 * Add an operation `nix-store -q --size'.Eelco Dolstra1-3/+16
2010-04-25 Fixing a typo in the nix-store manual, that could confuse a bit too much ↵Lluís Batlle i Rossell1-1/+1
(--delete/--gc)
2009-11-23 * A command `nix-store --query --roots <paths>' to find the garbageEelco Dolstra1-1/+22
collector roots that point (directly or indirectly) to the given paths.
2009-11-20 * Remove the --use-atime / --max-atime garbage collector flags. ManyEelco Dolstra1-45/+0
(Linux) machines no longer maintain the atime because it's too expensive, and on the machines where --use-atime is useful (like the buildfarm), reading the atimes on the entire Nix store takes way too much time to make it practical.
2009-07-14 * Remove the redundant <sections> around refentries.Eelco Dolstra1-1/+2
2008-11-19 * Updated the manual.Eelco Dolstra1-2/+133
2007-12-31 * Documented a bunch of nix-store commands.Eelco Dolstra1-0/+174
2007-09-19 * Manpage for nix-copy-closure.Eelco Dolstra1-1/+9
2007-08-12 * Get rid of the substitutes database table (NIX-47). Instead, if weEelco Dolstra1-30/+0
need any info on substitutable paths, we just call the substituters (such as download-using-manifests.pl) directly. This means that it's no longer necessary for nix-pull to register substitutes or for nix-channel to clear them, which makes those operations much faster (NIX-95). Also, we don't have to worry about keeping nix-pull manifests (in /nix/var/nix/manifests) and the database in sync with each other. The downside is that there is some overhead in calling an external program to get the substitutes info. For instance, "nix-env -qas" takes a bit longer. Abolishing the substitutes table also makes the logic in local-store.cc simpler, as we don't need to store info for invalid paths. On the downside, you cannot do things like "nix-store -qR" on a substitutable but invalid path (but nobody did that anyway). * Never catch interrupts (the Interrupted exception).
2007-02-05 * Compatibility with docbook5-xsl.Eelco Dolstra1-1/+1
2006-11-30 * Troubleshooting information on fixing a b0rked Berkeley DB database.Eelco Dolstra1-1/+1
2006-10-05 * Document nix-store --delete.Eelco Dolstra1-2/+55
2006-10-05 * Work around a weird bug in the manpage generation.Eelco Dolstra1-2/+1
2006-10-05 * Documented nix-store --dump / --restore.Eelco Dolstra1-2/+74
2006-10-02 * Documented nix-hash.Eelco Dolstra1-0/+3
2006-08-21 * Convert to DocBook 5.Eelco Dolstra1-11/+12
* Use Jing for RelaxNG validation, xmllint seems buggy.
2005-12-13 * Change `referer' to `referrer' throughout. In particular, theEelco Dolstra1-9/+9
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).
2005-05-09 * Crazy: don't use real hashes of real components in examples, sinceEelco Dolstra1-4/+4
they cause Nix builds to have unnecessary retained dependences (e.g., on Subversion).
2005-04-10 * Manual updates.Eelco Dolstra1-3/+6
2005-04-09 * Document nix-channel.Eelco Dolstra1-5/+9
2005-04-08 * Lots of manual updates, in particular the new `nix-store --query'Eelco Dolstra1-78/+204
options were documented, as well as the Nix configuration file.
2005-04-07 * More doc updates.Eelco Dolstra1-4/+24
2005-04-07 * More manual updates.Eelco Dolstra1-25/+61
2005-04-07 * Build hook documentation.Eelco Dolstra1-286/+190
* nix-store options.
2005-04-07 * GC docs.Eelco Dolstra1-102/+90
2005-04-05 * Manual updates.Eelco Dolstra1-2/+2
2005-04-05 * Some GC documentation.Eelco Dolstra1-30/+50
2005-03-17 * Manual updates.Eelco Dolstra1-102/+119
2005-03-16 * Documented common environment variables.Eelco Dolstra1-7/+2
2005-03-15 * Some more updates.Eelco Dolstra1-1/+1
2005-03-15 * XInclude all the way.Eelco Dolstra1-2/+2
2004-10-18 * Instead of &mdash; use the actual Unicode character. By the way, toEelco Dolstra1-4/+4
edit the manual, you should have something like (modify-coding-system-alist 'file "\\.xml\\>" 'utf-8) in your ~/.emacs.
2004-08-25 * `--min-age' flag in nix-store and nix-collect-garbage to only deleteEelco Dolstra1-0/+12
unreachable paths that haven't been used for N hours. For instance, `nix-collect-garbage --min-age 168' only deletes paths that haven't been accessed in the last week. This is useful for instance in the build farm where many derivations can be shared between consecutive builds, and we wouldn't want a garbage collect to throw them all away. We could of course register them as roots, but then we'd to unregister them at some point, which would be a pain to manage. The `--min-age' flag gives us a sort of MRU caching scheme. BUG: this really shouldn't be in gc.cc since that violates mechanism/policy separation.
2004-08-25 * `nix-collect-garbage' now actually performs a garbage collection, itEelco Dolstra1-12/+58
doesn't just print the set of paths that should be deleted. So there is no more need to pipe the result into `nix-store --delete' (which doesn't even exist anymore).
2004-02-02 * Sort `nix-env -q' output by derivation name.Eelco Dolstra1-19/+2
* `--version' flag for all commands. * Manual updates.