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2014-04-04 Document that we require a C++11 compilerEelco Dolstra1-0/+4
2014-03-30 nix-collect-garbage: Add --delete-older-than optionRicardo M. Correia1-6/+12
2014-03-30 nix-env: Add support for --delete-generations 15dRicardo M. Correia1-3/+7
It will delete all generations older than the specified number of days.
2014-03-12 Document nix-env -q --jsonEelco Dolstra1-0/+8
2014-03-12 Generate release notes againEelco Dolstra2-8/+31
2014-03-12 Update release notes for 1.7Eelco Dolstra1-45/+247
2014-03-11 Fix typosEelco Dolstra2-3/+3
2014-03-11 Document null dynamic attrsShea Levy2-1/+15
2014-02-28 TypoEelco Dolstra1-1/+1
2014-02-26 Also provide an option for setting the curl connection timeoutEelco Dolstra1-0/+14
2014-02-26 Document dynamic attributesShea Levy2-4/+23
Signed-off-by: Shea Levy <shea@shealevy.com>
2014-02-19 nix-shell: Add --packages flagEelco Dolstra1-2/+30
This allows you to easily set up a build environment containing the specified packages from Nixpkgs. For example: $ nix-shell -p sqlite xorg.libX11 hello will start a shell in which the given packages are present.
2014-02-19 nix-instantiate: Rename --eval-only to --eval, --parse-only to --parseEelco Dolstra1-15/+15
2014-02-19 nix-instantiate: Add a flag --expr / -E to read expressions from the command ↵Eelco Dolstra4-86/+126
line This is basically a shortcut for ‘echo 'expr...' | nix-instantiate -’. Also supported by nix-build and nix-shell.
2014-02-19 Move manpages aroundEelco Dolstra1-4/+4
2014-02-17 nix-store --gc --max-freed: Support a unit specifierEelco Dolstra1-2/+6
E.g. "--max-freed 10G" means "free ten gigabytes".
2014-02-17 nix-shell: Execute shellHook if it existsEelco Dolstra1-0/+16
Since normal builds don't execute shellHook, this allows nix-shell specific customisation. Suggested by Domen.
2014-02-12 Document current meaning of preferLocalBuildEelco Dolstra1-5/+8
Closes #208.
2014-02-10 Binary tarball: Automatically create /nixEelco Dolstra1-15/+14
The tarball can now be unpacked anywhere. The installation script uses "sudo" to create /nix if it doesn't exist. It also fetches the nixpkgs-unstable channel.
2014-02-10 nix-shell: Use shell.nix as the default expression if it existsEelco Dolstra1-6/+12
2014-02-07 Rename --no-readonly-mode --read-write-modeShea Levy1-2/+2
Signed-off-by: Shea Levy <shea@shealevy.com>
2014-02-07 nix-instantiate: Add a --no-readonly-mode flagShea Levy1-0/+12
This allows running nix-instantiate --eval-only without performing the evaluation in readonly mode, letting features like import from derivation and automatic substitution of builtins.storePath paths work. Signed-off-by: Shea Levy <shea@shealevy.com>
2014-02-01 Only run "git ls-files" when doing "make check"Eelco Dolstra1-1/+1
2014-02-01 More "make dist" fixesEelco Dolstra1-1/+3
2014-02-01 Fix "make dist"Eelco Dolstra1-0/+5
2014-02-01 Remove AutomakefilesEelco Dolstra1-117/+0
2014-02-01 Update Makefile variable namesEelco Dolstra1-4/+4
2014-02-01 Build/install manualEelco Dolstra1-0/+79
2014-01-13 Document nullsEelco Dolstra1-0/+3
2013-11-19 Add a toJSON primopEelco Dolstra2-0/+17
2013-11-14 Remove nix-setuid-helperEelco Dolstra2-76/+18
AFAIK, nobody uses it, it's not maintained, and it has no tests.
2013-10-28 Update release notes, set version for 1.6.1 releaseEelco Dolstra1-1/+6
2013-10-24 Undocument obsolete form of "let"Eelco Dolstra1-8/+2
2013-10-24 Doc fixEelco Dolstra1-2/+2
2013-10-24 Rename "attribute sets" to "sets"Eelco Dolstra3-100/+99
We don't have any other kind of sets so calling them attribute sets is unnecessarily verbose.
2013-10-24 Manual: Fix broken URLsEelco Dolstra2-3/+3
Fixes #172.
2013-10-24 Document typeOfEelco Dolstra1-0/+13
2013-10-24 Document NIX_SHOW_STATS and NIX_COUNT_CALLSEelco Dolstra1-0/+18
2013-10-17 Fold two stack trace messages in derivationsEelco Dolstra1-2/+3
Combined with the previous changes, stack traces involving derivations are now much less verbose, since something like while evaluating the builtin function `getAttr': while evaluating the builtin function `derivationStrict': while instantiating the derivation named `gtk+-2.24.20' at `/home/eelco/Dev/nixpkgs/pkgs/development/libraries/gtk+/2.x.nix:11:3': while evaluating the derivation attribute `propagatedNativeBuildInputs' at `/home/eelco/Dev/nixpkgs/pkgs/stdenv/generic/default.nix:78:17': while evaluating the attribute `outPath' at `/nix/store/212ngf4ph63mp6p1np2bapkfikpakfv7-nix-1.6/share/nix/corepkgs/derivation.nix:18:9': ... now reads while evaluating the attribute `propagatedNativeBuildInputs' of the derivation `gtk+-2.24.20' at `/home/eelco/Dev/nixpkgs/pkgs/development/libraries/gtk+/2.x.nix:11:3': ...
2013-10-17 Nix 1.6.1 release notesEelco Dolstra1-0/+60
2013-10-17 two typosgoblin1-2/+2
2013-09-10 Version was called 1.6, not 1.6.0Eelco Dolstra1-1/+1
2013-09-10 Update release notesEelco Dolstra1-1/+37
2013-09-06 typoDomen Kožar1-1/+1
2013-09-03 nix-env -i: Add a flag ‘--remove-all’ / ‘-r’Eelco Dolstra1-0/+14
This is equivalent to running ‘nix-env -e '*'’ first, except that it happens in a single transaction. Thus, ‘nix-env -i pkgs...’ replaces the profile with the specified set of packages. The main motivation is to support declarative package management (similar to environment.systemPackages in NixOS). That is, if you have a specification ‘profile.nix’ like this: with import <nixpkgs> {}; [ thunderbird geeqie ... ] then after any change to ‘profile.nix’, you can run: $ nix-env -f profile.nix -ir to update the profile to match the specification. (Without the ‘-r’ flag, if you remove a package from ‘profile.nix’, it won't be removed from the actual profile.) Suggested by @zefhemel.
2013-09-02 Manual: Make '' a bit clearerEelco Dolstra1-6/+6
Issue #162.
2013-09-02 Fix manual errorEelco Dolstra1-1/+1
Reported by Matija Šuklje. Fixes #163.
2013-09-02 Update the release notesEelco Dolstra1-0/+52
2013-09-02 Add an option to limit the log output of buildersEelco Dolstra1-0/+15
This is mostly useful for Hydra to deal with builders that get stuck in an infinite loop writing data to stdout/stderr.
2013-08-26 Fix nix-shell commandIvan Kozik1-1/+1