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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).
2007-10-27	* Delete the chroot directory automatically.	Eelco Dolstra	1	-0/+3
	* Removed some debug messages.
2007-10-24	(no commit message)	Eelco Dolstra	1	-0/+5

2007-10-23	* Improved introduction (actually copied mostly from the homepage).	Eelco Dolstra	1	-126/+312

2007-10-22	* Document the new primops in Nix 0.11.	Eelco Dolstra	1	-1/+164

2007-10-22	* Move list of built-in functions to a separate file.	Eelco Dolstra	3	-584/+592

2007-10-22	(no commit message)	Eelco Dolstra	1	-15/+14

2007-10-22	Added comment telling about setup-hook and propagatedBuildInputs	Marc Weber	1	-3/+12

2007-09-19	* Manpage for nix-copy-closure.	Eelco Dolstra	17	-25/+308

2007-09-17	* nix-env: allow ~/.nix-defexpr to be a directory. If it is, then the	Eelco Dolstra	1	-43/+4
	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".)
2007-09-02	explanation what happens when passing true / false and null values to ↵	Marc Weber	1	-0/+4
	derivation builders added
2007-08-12	* Get rid of the substitutes database table (NIX-47). Instead, if we	Eelco Dolstra	1	-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).
2007-06-02	change default NIX_HASH_ALGO	Armijn Hemel	1	-1/+1

2007-05-16	(no commit message)	Eelco Dolstra	3	-44/+80

2007-05-01	* nix-env -i: instead of breaking package ties by version, break them	Eelco Dolstra	1	-0/+6
	by priority and version install. That is, if there are multiple packages with the same name, then pick the package with the highest priority, and only use the version if there are multiple packages with the same priority. This makes it possible to mark specific versions/variant in Nixpkgs more or less desirable than others. A typical example would be a beta version of some package (e.g., "gcc-4.2.0rc1") which should not be installed even though it is the highest version, except when it is explicitly selected (e.g., "nix-env -i gcc-4.2.0rc1"). * Idem for nix-env -u, only the semantics are a bit trickier since we also need to take into account the priority of the currently installed package (we never upgrade to a lower priority, unless --always is given).