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2006-10-04 * Explanation of toXML example.Eelco Dolstra1-8/+44
2006-10-04 * Use GIF callouts instead of PNG since the GIFs have transparency.Eelco Dolstra1-3/+7
2006-10-04 (no commit message)Eelco Dolstra1-5/+2
2006-10-04 * Style tweaks.Eelco Dolstra1-6/+12
2006-10-03 * An example of using toXML to pass structured information to aEelco Dolstra1-3/+76
builder and generate a Jetty configuration file with XSLT.
2006-10-03 * Document the built-in functions.Eelco Dolstra3-31/+502
2006-10-02 * Documented nix-hash.Eelco Dolstra5-4/+161
2006-10-02 * Manual.Eelco Dolstra2-44/+59
2006-10-02 * Document the new let.Eelco Dolstra2-42/+29
2006-10-02 * Manual updates (especially how nix-build makes testing packages muchEelco Dolstra5-81/+120
easier; no longer need a helper expression).
2006-10-02 * Manual.Eelco Dolstra1-1/+17
2006-09-29 * One-click installs.Eelco Dolstra1-1/+31
2006-09-29 * Document nix-install-package and the nixpkg file format.Eelco Dolstra5-31/+237
2006-09-29 * Manual.Eelco Dolstra4-6/+70
2006-09-29 * Manual updates, some style improvements.Eelco Dolstra6-52/+74
2006-09-28 * Manual updates.Eelco Dolstra6-11/+110
* Documented nix-{pack,unpack}-closure.
2006-09-27 * Release notes.Eelco Dolstra1-84/+131
2006-09-27 * Release notes.Eelco Dolstra2-42/+100
2006-09-26 * Release notes.Eelco Dolstra1-1/+2
2006-09-12 * "Too many links" error.Eelco Dolstra1-0/+40
2006-09-06 * Release notes.Eelco Dolstra1-8/+29
2006-08-23 * Allow --arg in nix-env as well, example:Eelco Dolstra1-10/+17
$ nix-env -qa --system-filter \* --arg system '"powerpc-darwin"' to override the system from the default value (__currentSystem in all-packages.nix).
2006-08-22 * Release notes.Eelco Dolstra1-13/+132
2006-08-21 * Convert to DocBook 5.Eelco Dolstra23-299/+364
* Use Jing for RelaxNG validation, xmllint seems buggy.
2006-08-01 * Ugh. Darwin's chmod insists that flags come before the modeEelco Dolstra1-1/+1
specification.
2006-07-25 * Doh.Eelco Dolstra1-1/+1
2006-07-25 * Support the --attr / -A flag in nix-env as well. So now we can do,Eelco Dolstra1-0/+3
e.g., $ nix-env -i -A subversion xorg.xorgserver The main advantage over using symbolic names is that using attribute names is unambiguous and much, much faster.
2006-07-20 * Call find-runtime-roots.pl from the garbage collector to preventEelco Dolstra1-0/+3
running applications etc. from being garbage collected.
2006-06-14 (no commit message)Eelco Dolstra1-0/+3
2006-05-31 * For fixed-output derivations, pass the environment variables listedEelco Dolstra1-0/+2
in the attribute variable `impureEnvVars' from the caller to the builder.
2006-05-08 (no commit message)Eelco Dolstra2-1/+9
2006-03-15 * Update copyright.Eelco Dolstra1-0/+1
2006-02-16 * Allow the size of the GC reserved file to be specified in nix.confEelco Dolstra1-0/+20
through the new `gc-reserved-space' option.
2006-02-10 * Document that nix-instantiate can read from stdin.Eelco Dolstra1-0/+4
2005-12-24 * Documentation fixes.Eelco Dolstra1-1/+1
2005-12-15 * Begin release notes.Eelco Dolstra1-0/+50
2005-12-13 * Change `referer' to `referrer' throughout. In particular, theEelco Dolstra2-10/+10
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).
2005-10-18 * Oops, that should be Berkeley DB 4.3. Reported by Gerco Ballintijn.Eelco Dolstra1-1/+1
2005-10-06 * Document `nix-env --compare-versions'.Eelco Dolstra1-10/+69
2005-09-28 * Use "source" instead of ".".Eelco Dolstra1-4/+4
2005-09-22 * Merge release notes.Eelco Dolstra1-0/+35
2005-09-16 * Updated release notes.Eelco Dolstra1-1/+19
2005-09-16 * svn:ignores.Eelco Dolstra1-1/+1
* Add missing file to dist.
2005-09-16 * Include the release notes in the manual.Eelco Dolstra1-0/+5
2005-09-15 * Force release notes in ASCII, not UTF-8.Eelco Dolstra1-1/+1
2005-09-15 * Check for w3m.Eelco Dolstra1-2/+3
2005-09-14 * Remove dead code.Eelco Dolstra1-6/+0
2005-09-14 * Release notes in Docbook; ASCII release notes (i.e., the `NEWS'Eelco Dolstra5-5/+581
file) is now generated from that using `w3m' and some XSL hackery.
2005-08-01 * channels -> channels-v3, catamaran -> nix.cs.uu.nl.Eelco Dolstra3-10/+9
2005-07-13 * nix-build: default to `./default.nix' if no paths are specified.Eelco Dolstra2-1/+5
So when using Nix as a build tool, you can just say `nix-build' and it will build the top-level derivation defined in `default.nix'.