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2012-05-29 Add option ‘build-keep-log’ to enable/disable writing of build logsEelco Dolstra2-0/+32
Fixes #26.
2012-05-24 Clean up the installation section; document the generic binary tarballsEelco Dolstra1-96/+148
2012-05-11 Set release dateEelco Dolstra1-1/+1
2012-05-11 Manual updatesEelco Dolstra6-75/+132
2012-05-11 CSS tweaksEelco Dolstra1-69/+32
2012-05-10 Document "nix-build --run-env"Eelco Dolstra1-1/+50
2012-05-10 Document "nix-store --add"Eelco Dolstra1-0/+34
2012-05-09 Document some nix-store subcommandsEelco Dolstra3-1/+170
2012-05-09 Document $NIX_PATH / -IEelco Dolstra3-13/+66
2012-05-09 Update the release notesEelco Dolstra1-12/+82
2012-05-07 nix-channel --update: allow updating only the specified channelsEelco Dolstra1-7/+8
2012-04-30 * Add an option ‘build-use-substitutes’, which can be set to ‘false’Eelco Dolstra1-0/+9
to disable use of substitutes; i.e., force building from source. Fixes Nix/221.
2012-04-30 Support mandatory system features in the build hookEelco Dolstra1-3/+14
Mandatory features are features that MUST be present in a derivation's requiredSystemFeatures attribute. One application is performance testing, where we have a dedicated machine to run performance tests (and nothing else). Then we would add the label "perf" to the machine's mandatory features and to the performance testing derivations.
2012-04-30 Update the documentation of build-remote.plEelco Dolstra3-96/+62
2012-04-17 nix-instantiate: default to "default.nix" if no arguments are givenEelco Dolstra1-2/+3
2012-04-17 Added utility command ‘nix-instantiate --find-file’ to look up a file in ↵Eelco Dolstra1-0/+14
Nix's search path
2012-04-14 nix-channel improvementsEelco Dolstra2-17/+36
"nix-channel --add" now accepts a second argument: the channel name. This allows channels to have a nicer name than (say) nixpkgs_unstable. If no name is given, it defaults to the last component of the URL (with "-unstable" or "-stable" removed). Also, channels are now stored in a profile (/nix/var/nix/profiles/per-user/$USER/channels). One advantage of this is that it allows rollbacks (e.g. if "nix-channel --update" gives an undesirable update).
2012-04-13 Add the '--show-progress' flag to nix-copy-closureShea Levy1-0/+8
2012-04-08 Nix is on github nowShea Levy1-4/+4
2012-04-06 Fix building from the tarballEelco Dolstra1-1/+1
2012-04-06 Documentation fixEelco Dolstra1-5/+3
2012-04-06 Include environment variables in the manpagesEelco Dolstra5-2/+37
2012-04-06 Include common options in the manpages using some XInclude hackeryEelco Dolstra6-25/+54
2012-04-06 Update affiliationEelco Dolstra1-2/+1
2012-04-06 Add a missing DocBook source file to the tarballEelco Dolstra1-1/+1
Reported on IRC by Adrian Siekierka.
2012-03-26 Remove the --max-links GC optionEelco Dolstra1-11/+0
We don't need this anymore now that current filesystems support more than 32,000 files in a directory.
2012-03-18 Drop the externals directoryEelco Dolstra1-17/+30
Nix now requires SQLite and bzip2 to be pre-installed. SQLite is detected using pkg-config. We required DBD::SQLite anyway, so depending on SQLite is not a big problem. The --with-bzip2, --with-openssl and --with-sqlite flags are gone.
2012-01-17 * Added a command ‘nix-store --print-env $drvpath’ that prints out theEelco Dolstra1-0/+4
environment of the given derivation in a format that can be sourced by the shell, e.g. $ eval "$(nix-store --print-env $(nix-instantiate /etc/nixos/nixpkgs -A pkg))" $ NIX_BUILD_TOP=/tmp $ source $stdenv/setup This is especially useful to reproduce the environment used to build a package outside of its builder for development purposes. TODO: add a nix-build option to do the above and fetch the dependencies of the derivation as well.
2012-01-13 * nix-build: put the temporary derivation symlink in a temporaryEelco Dolstra2-24/+16
directory rather than the current directory. * nix-build: --drv-link now implies --add-drv-link.
2011-12-30 * Follow our own coding conventions.Eelco Dolstra3-65/+61
2011-12-30 * Remove a redundant dot (Nicolas Pierron).Eelco Dolstra1-1/+1
2011-12-30 * Fix doc error.Eelco Dolstra1-1/+1
2011-12-01 doc/manual/nix-env.xml: fixed "nix-env -qaA" typoPeter Simons1-1/+1
2011-12-01 doc/manual/nix-env.xml: stripped trailing whitespacePeter Simons1-100/+100
2011-11-23 (no commit message)Eelco Dolstra1-1/+1
2011-11-23 * Document the --include-outputs option.Eelco Dolstra1-9/+18
2011-11-23 * Add bzip2 and xz support to nix-copy-closure.Eelco Dolstra1-3/+8
2011-11-03 (no commit message)Eelco Dolstra1-1/+1
2011-11-03 * The Nix configuration file is usually /etc/nix/nix.conf.Eelco Dolstra1-1/+1
2011-11-02 * Fix permission on /nix/store in the manual for multi-user installsEelco Dolstra1-1/+1
(reported by Silvio Frischknecht).
2011-09-06 * Added a command ‘nix-store --verify-paths PATHS’ to check whetherEelco Dolstra1-0/+4
the contents of any of the given store paths have been modified. E.g. $ nix-store --verify-path $(nix-store -qR /var/run/current-system) path `/nix/store/m2smyiwbxidlprfxfz4rjlvz2c3mg58y-etc' was modified! expected hash `fc87e271c5fdf179b47939b08ad13440493805584b35e3014109d04d8436e7b8', got `20f1a47281b3c0cbe299ce47ad5ca7340b20ab34246426915fce0ee9116483aa' All paths are checked; the exit code is 1 if any path has been modified, 0 otherwise.
2011-08-06 * Add a Nix expression search path feature. Paths between angleEelco Dolstra1-0/+4
brackets, e.g. import <nixpkgs/pkgs/lib> are resolved by looking them up relative to the elements listed in the search path. This allows us to get rid of hacks like import "${builtins.getEnv "NIXPKGS_ALL"}/pkgs/lib" The search path can be specified through the ‘-I’ command-line flag and through the colon-separated ‘NIX_PATH’ environment variable, e.g., $ nix-build -I /etc/nixos ... If a file is not found in the search path, an error message is lazily thrown.
2011-07-13 * Allow a default value in attribute selection by writingEelco Dolstra1-0/+4
x.y.z or default (as originally proposed in https://mail.cs.uu.nl/pipermail/nix-dev/2009-September/002989.html). For instance, an expression like stdenv.lib.attrByPath ["features" "ckSched"] false args can now be written as args.features.ckSched or false
2011-06-30 doc: Fix typo.Ludovic Courtès1-0/+2
2011-06-30 Add support for the `build-timeout' and `--timeout' options.Ludovic Courtès4-0/+41
2011-03-15 * Fix a bug in the documentation (reported by Olexiy Buyanskyy,Eelco Dolstra1-1/+1
Nix/215).
2010-11-17 * Add an operation `nix-store -q --size'.Eelco Dolstra1-3/+16
2010-11-16 * Sync with the trunk.Eelco Dolstra4-1/+40
2010-10-29 * Document Boehm GC support.Eelco Dolstra3-0/+39
2010-10-06 nix manual: fix 'install' -> 'uninstall' in garbage collection section of ↵Rob Vermaas1-1/+1
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