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2014-07-04 Add builtin function ‘fromJSON’Eelco Dolstra1-0/+17
Fixes #294.
2014-07-03 Manual: html -> xhtmlEelco Dolstra1-3/+3
2014-06-27 Add `--json` argument to `nix-instantiate`Paul Colomiets1-0/+9
2014-05-26 Rephrase @ operator descriptionAdam Szkoda1-4/+3
2014-05-21 nix-store -l: Fetch build logs from the InternetEelco Dolstra2-89/+108
If a build log is not available locally, then ‘nix-store -l’ will now try to download it from the servers listed in the ‘log-servers’ option in nix.conf. For instance, if you have: log-servers = http://hydra.nixos.org/log then it will try to get logs from http://hydra.nixos.org/log/<base name of the store path>. So you can do things like: $ nix-store -l $(which xterm) and get a log even if xterm wasn't built locally.
2014-05-13 fix typoCharles Strahan1-1/+1
2014-05-02 Simplify multi-user installation instructionsEelco Dolstra1-49/+12
2014-04-28 doc fix: swap 'import' and 'export'Charles Strahan1-2/+2
2014-04-25 trunk -> masterEelco Dolstra1-2/+2
2014-04-15 nix-env: Minor change to '--delete-generations Nd' semanticsRicardo M. Correia2-3/+5
The option '--delete-generations Nd' deletes all generations older than N days. However, most likely the user does not want to delete the generation that was active N days ago. For example, say that you have these 3 generations: 1: <30 days ago> 2: <15 days ago> 3: <1 hour ago> If you do --delete-generations 7d (say, as part of a cron job), most likely you still want to keep generation 2, i.e. the generation that was active 7 days ago (and for most of the past 7 days, in fact). This patch fixes this issue. Note that this also affects 'nix-collect-garbage --delete-older-than Nd'. Thanks to @roconnor for noticing the issue!
2014-04-11 Bump dateEelco Dolstra1-2/+2
2014-04-10 Don't barf when installing as rootEelco Dolstra1-1/+1
2014-04-09 Add docbook icons to the distributionEelco Dolstra17-2/+2
Grmbl...
2014-04-08 Simplify quick start sectionEelco Dolstra1-46/+11
2014-04-08 Remove redundant stuffEelco Dolstra1-64/+0
2014-04-08 Update installation instructionsEelco Dolstra1-22/+32
2014-04-07 Update release notesEelco Dolstra1-1/+12
2014-04-04 Update release notesEelco Dolstra1-0/+14
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