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2009-11-23	* A command `nix-store --query --roots <paths>' to find the garbage	Eelco Dolstra	1	-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. Many	Eelco Dolstra	1	-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.
2009-11-06	* Remove support for old (before Nix 0.12pre12020) databases.	Eelco Dolstra	1	-7/+0

2009-11-05	* Various updates.	Eelco Dolstra	6	-142/+62

2009-11-04	* Manual updates.	Eelco Dolstra	2	-2/+30

2009-09-25	(no commit message)	Eelco Dolstra	3	-3/+5

2009-09-18	* Use xmllint (>= 2.7.4) for RelaxNG validation instead of Jing.	Eelco Dolstra	1	-6/+2

2009-07-14	* Remove the redundant <sections> around refentries.	Eelco Dolstra	16	-68/+44

2009-07-10	* Leave out the collaborators / revision history page.	Eelco Dolstra	1	-1/+5

2009-07-10	(no commit message)	Eelco Dolstra	1	-1/+1

2009-06-30	* Don't show trace information by default (`--show-trace' to enable).	Eelco Dolstra	2	-0/+9
	NixOS evaluation errors in particular look intimidating and generally aren't very useful. Ideally the builtins.throw messages should be self-contained.
2009-06-13	* Canonicalise timestamps in the Nix store to 1 (1970-01-01 00:00:01	Eelco Dolstra	1	-1/+1
	UTC) rather than 0 (00:00:00). 1 is a better choice because some programs use 0 as a special value. For instance, the Template Toolkit uses a timestamp of 0 to denote the non-existence of a file, so it barfs on files in the Nix store (see template-toolkit-nix-store.patch in Nixpkgs). Similarly, Maya 2008 fails to load script directories with a timestamp of 0 and can't be patched because it's closed source. This will also shut up those "implausibly old time stamp" GNU tar warnings.
2009-05-26	(no commit message)	Eelco Dolstra	1	-0/+27

2009-05-07	* Don't have a bugs section in the manual. Bugs should be kept in the	Eelco Dolstra	1	-1/+1
	bug tracker.
2009-04-14	* Remove references to __XXX primops.	Eelco Dolstra	2	-14/+4

2009-04-14	* Release notes.	Eelco Dolstra	1	-0/+60

2009-03-28	* Simplify communication with the hook a bit (don't use file	Eelco Dolstra	1	-37/+14
	descriptors 3/4, just use stdin/stderr).
2009-02-05	documentation for previous commit	Marc Weber	1	-0/+30

2008-11-29	* Install the release notes.	Eelco Dolstra	1	-0/+4

2008-11-20	(no commit message)	Eelco Dolstra	1	-1/+2

2008-11-19	* Patterns.	Eelco Dolstra	1	-31/+73

2008-11-19	(no commit message)	Eelco Dolstra	2	-1/+62

2008-11-19	* Updated the manual.	Eelco Dolstra	2	-3/+134

2008-11-19	* Documented some of the sharing mechanisms.	Eelco Dolstra	7	-5/+144

2008-11-19	* Install documentation in $(docdir) (i.e. share/doc/nix).	Eelco Dolstra	1	-6/+6

2008-11-19	* Remove references to Berkeley DB, including most of the	Eelco Dolstra	4	-143/+17
	troubleshooting section. W00t.
2008-11-19	* Release notes.	Eelco Dolstra	1	-18/+138

2008-11-18	* Get rid of nix-pack-closure / nix-unpack-closure, they're redundant.	Eelco Dolstra	5	-133/+7

2008-08-05	* Moved some stuff to the Nixpkgs manual.	Eelco Dolstra	2	-162/+22
	* Updated the release notes.
2008-07-11	* Generalised the dependencyClosure primop to builtins.genericClosure,	Eelco Dolstra	1	-2/+7
	which is hopefully more useful. * New primops: length, mul, div.
2008-07-01	* Export the nix-env derivation name parsing and version comparison	Eelco Dolstra	1	-0/+6
	logic through the `parseDrvName' and `compareVersions' primops. This will allow expressions to easily check whether some dependency is a specific needed version or falls in some version range. See tests/lang/eval-okay-versions.nix for examples.
2008-06-11	* Updated some URLs.	Eelco Dolstra	4	-17/+19

2008-06-09	* Updated some URLs (did this a long time ago but forgot to	Eelco Dolstra	4	-34/+30
	commit...).
2008-01-29	* nix-store --dump-db / --load-db to dump/load the Nix DB.	Eelco Dolstra	1	-0/+13
	* nix-store --register-validity: option to supply the content hash of each path. * Removed compatibility with Nix <= 0.7 stores.
2007-12-31	(no commit message)	Eelco Dolstra	1	-4/+5

2007-12-31	* More documentation.	Eelco Dolstra	5	-21/+212

2007-12-31	* Documented a bunch of nix-store commands.	Eelco Dolstra	1	-0/+174

2007-12-31	(no commit message)	Eelco Dolstra	1	-89/+89

2007-12-31	(no commit message)	Eelco Dolstra	1	-9/+8

2007-12-31	* More release notes.	Eelco Dolstra	1	-0/+44

2007-12-30	* Documented indented string literals.	Eelco Dolstra	3	-43/+193
	* Release notes.
2007-12-04	* component -> package.	Eelco Dolstra	8	-98/+97

2007-11-30	* Added a new kind of multi-line string literal delimited by two	Eelco Dolstra	1	-0/+4
	single quotes. Example (from NixOS): job = '' start on network-interfaces start script rm -f /var/run/opengl-driver ${if videoDriver == "nvidia" then "ln -sf ${nvidiaDrivers} /var/run/opengl-driver" else if cfg.driSupport then "ln -sf ${mesa} /var/run/opengl-driver" else "" } rm -f /var/log/slim.log end script ''; This style has two big advantages: - \, ' and " aren't special, only '' and ${. So you get a lot less escaping in shell scripts / configuration files in Nixpkgs/NixOS. The delimiter '' is rare in scripts (and can usually be written as ""). ${ is also fairly rare. Other delimiters such as <<...>>, {{...}} and <\|...\|> were also considered but this one appears to have the fewest drawbacks (thanks Martin). - Indentation is intelligently stripped so that multi-line strings can follow the nesting structure of the containing Nix expression. E.g. in the example above 6 spaces are stripped from the start of each line. This prevents unnecessary indentation in generated files (which sometimes even breaks things). See tests/lang/eval-okay-ind-string.nix for some examples.
2007-11-29	* Troubleshooting entry about running out of locks.	Eelco Dolstra	1	-1/+43

2007-11-21	* New primop `readFile' to get the contents of a file as a string.	Eelco Dolstra	1	-0/+9

2007-11-01	* A rule to make a PDF version of the manual.	Eelco Dolstra	1	-0/+8

2007-11-01	* Documented some of the more obscure derivation attributes (including	Eelco Dolstra	3	-14/+250
	fixed-output derivations).
2007-10-31	* Documented multi-user Nix.	Eelco Dolstra	4	-46/+271

2007-10-29	(no commit message)	Eelco Dolstra	3	-0/+132

2007-10-29	* Make the `--prebuilt-only' / `-b' option work not just for queries	Eelco Dolstra	1	-1/+2
	but installations/upgrades as well. So `nix-env -ub \*' will upgrade only those packages for which a substitute is available (or to be precise, it will upgrade each package to the highest version for which a substitute is available).